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... attempt to establish the importance of GSK3 in the acute regulation of glucose transport in terms of its regulatory control of GS in muscle and fat cells we have investigated the effects of Li andthe ... elements implicated in the regulation of GSK3 and GS To further understand the effects of Li and SB-415286 on cell signalling events we assessed their effects and that of insulin on p70S6K, PKB, ... activity To establish the importance of GSK3 inhibition on GS activity we monitored the effects of insulin, Li, SB-415286 and wortmannin (a PI3K inhibitor) on the incorporation of Ó FEBS 2003 GSK-3 and...
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... is the multipath gain coefficient, Tk is the delay ofthe k th cluster, Tl ,k is the delay ofthe l th path within a cluster relative tothe first path, X represents the lognormal shadowing and ... to derive the CF ofthe MAI in fading channels A new form of numerical approximation for the CF of a lognormal variable is used to derive the CF ofthe total interference Throughout chapter and ... of ease of evaluation and significance Firstly, the most common, mostly understood and perhaps the easiest measure is the signal to noise ratio (SNR) Often it is defined at the output ofthe receiver...
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... choosing the configuration ofthe mobile manipulator The orientation ofthe torch should lie on the tangent plane ofthe welding trajectory at the welding point The orientation ofthe torch should ... the distance from the projection ofthe manipulator torch tip on the x-y plane tothe center C of platform, φ w is the heading angle in the horizontal plane ofthe welding torch, and φ C is the ... According tothe above conditions, in the configuration ofthe manipulator, the torch orientation is fixed on the tilt of 45 degrees with respect tothe link direction ofthe 4th-link The link...
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... affect the angle and speed that a light pulse can travel This effect is the refractive index profile ofthe material, which is calculated as the ratio ofthe speed of light in a vacuum tothe speed ... impurities and carefully graded the index of refraction ofthe fiber core to enhance VCSEL transmission By carefully controlling the refractive index profile, DMD is reduced andthe several modes of ... making up much ofthe installed base, the IEEE is exploring ways to run 10 Gigabit Ethernet over 300 meters of 62.5µm fiber with the use of a singlemode laser source The proposed standard, however,...
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... recently, the Src family kinases (SFKs) andthe PTP-BL phosphatase were proposed to be mediators ofthe phosphorylation state ofthe cytoplasmic domain of ephrin B1 whereby the SFKs may create the ... with 75 lM ofthe GST-PDZ protein (s) protein We set out to address this question by use ofthe SH2 domain of Grb4 andthe PDZ domain ofthe RGS3 protein We titrated the SH2 protein into the fluoresceinlabeled ... example, the typical NOE contact between the aCH proton of Ala327 andthe NH proton of Ile329, andthe consecutive HN-HN NOEs from Lys329 to Tyr331, existed in all the peptides independent of phosphorylation...
... algorithm tothe context vectors, we should obtain the two expected clusters Each ofthe two clusters corresponds to one ofthe senses of palm, andthe words closest tothe geometric centers ofthe ... dissimilarities among the top 30 associations to palm are all in the upper half ofthe scale and not very distinct The two expected clusters for palm, one relating to its hand andthe other to its tree ... necessary to detect the regularities in the patterns For this purpose we applied the SVD to each ofthe matrices, thereby reducing their number of columns tothe three main dimensions This number of...
... important consequences in the rationale of handling and studying IBs The development of methods to control and monitor the process of aggregation allows for the production of aggregated proteins ... shifts toward the free version of r32, leading to induction ofthe stress response Nevertheless, the nature and variability ofthe recombinant protein stress response suggests a far more complex and ... Curtis-Fiske et al were able to identify native a-helices ofthe N-terminal 185 residues ofthe functional domain ofthe HA2 subunit ofthe influenza virus hemagglutinin protein andto detect conformational...