... benefit of diagrams— exactly like rocket trajectories theywere; and the gist of it— so far as it had any gist— was that the blood of puppies and kittens and the sap of sunflowers and the juice of ... time, and scratched a little and chirrawked meditatively, and then one pecked at and pecked over a hive of the doctor’s bees, and after that they set off ina gawky, jerky, feathery, fitful sort of ... rankness of growth the attainment of his long sought goal. The next morning healighted at Urshot station, and in the bag in his hand he carried, sealed inthree tins, a supply of the Food of the Gods...
... Tsuda11Department of Life Science, Graduate School of Science, Himeji Institute of Technology, Kamigori, Akoh-Gun, Hyogo, Japan;2Department of Neurochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, ... arecomposed of rod- and cone-arrestins, both of which areexpressed exclusively in photoreceptor cells in the retina and pineal organs and are thought to play a role in theregulation of photo-signal ... the originof the visual and nonvisualarrestins of vertebrateMasashi Nakagawa1, Hidefumi Orii1, Norihiro Yoshida2, Eri Jojima3, Takeo Horie1, Reiko Yoshida1,Tatsuya Haga3and...
... Entropy, and the Originof LifeWalter L. Bradley1.introductionDarwin’s theory of evolution and the development of the Second Law of Thermodynamics by Clausius, Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Gibbs ... similarto that of the theory of evolution in the life sciences. What is intriguingis that the predictions of one seem to contradict the predictions of theother. The Second Law of Thermodynamics ... the use of information, to survive and exist ina nonequilibrium state, resisting the pull toward equilibrium that is de-scribed by the Second Law of Thermodynamics. For them, the origin of life...
... occurs at the I step [33].The originof both the J–I and I–P phases, withhalf-times of 7.4 ± 0.6 ms and 42 ± 3 ms, has oftenbeen attributed to the reduction of the PQ pool. Someauthors have ... contributions and kinet-ics of the three main components of the FI traces.Deconvolution of the traces with the sum of threeexponential rises provided an excellent fit betweensimulated and experimental ... plastoquinone; PS, photosystem; QA and QB, primary and secondary quinone acceptors of photosystem II; t1 ⁄ 2 O–J, t1 ⁄ 2 J–I and t1 ⁄ 2 I–P, half-times of O–J, J–I and I–P phases, respectively.4770...
... Kawauchi3 and Kazuyoshi Tsutsui11 Laboratory of Brain Science, Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan2 Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of ... evolutionary originand divergence of these two groups, by identifying novel RFamide peptides from the brain of sea lamprey, one of only two extant groups of the oldest lineage of ver-tebrates, ... regulation of locomotor activity. In mammals, in situ hybridizationreveals that the nucleus of the solitary tract and dorsalhorn of the spinal cord express the highest levels of themRNA of NPFF,...
... promoters.Analysis of venom gland PLA2 cDNAs is currentlyunderway to determine which of these genes are expressed.The presence in the neurotoxic snake of two ammodytinI1 isoforms (In and Ia) andof several ... ammo-dytins I1 and I2 and ammodytin L genes of V. am. ammo-dytes, the VP7 and VP8 genes of V. palaestinae,andthePLA2 genes of Crotalinae snakes (Trimeresurus flavoviridis)were also of similar length ... sequences of V. a. zin-nikeri and neurotoxic V. a. aspis (DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank accessionno.s AY152843 and AF548351) and that of vaspin chain B, from thesequences of V. a. zinnikeri and neurotoxic...
... three states, of indifference, of pleasure, and of pain. Every one of these I can perceive without any sort of idea of its relation to anything else. Caius is afflicted with a fit of the colic; ... large, are yet capable of raising ideas of the sublime, because they are considered as objects of terror. As serpents and poisonous animals of almost all kinds. And to things of great dimensions, ... state of an astonished mind, to express the effect of either of simple fear or of astonishment; the word attonitus (thunder-struck) is equally expressive of the alliance of these ideas; and...
... ligand–protein complexes of PAH and TH (Eur. J. Biochem. 270) 1069 Modeled ligand-protein complexes elucidate the originof substratespecificity and provide insight into catalytic mechanisms of ... moiety of tyrosineFig. 3. Placement of BH4in the catalytic site of PAH and TH. Distance-energy diagrams obtained after docking BH4into the active sites of PAH (A) and TH (B). Total energies of ... iron and re-establish TH activity.Ó FEBS 2003 Modeled ligand–protein complexes of PAH and TH (Eur. J. Biochem. 270) 1073 The energetically most favorable placement of tyrosine inPAHặBH4and...
... examinations of plant and animal populations, alleles atgroups of linked and unlinked genes are often found to be out of Hardy–Weinberg equilibrium. The non-random association of alleles at ... goal of thesechapters is to describe the overall framework of species change and demon-strate the intimacy of nature and crop evolution. In the second half of the book, I focus on when and ... crops weredomesticated and the types of changes associated with their domestication.Chapters 6 and 7 give an overview of the emergence and diffusion of agri-culture, and the ways species were...
... already developed a sound of his own on his debut 45, a cover of ‘Walk Don’t Run’ that swallowed dust behind that of The John Barry Seven - an Oh Boy! house band - and the original by The Ventures. ... the loftiest plateaux of pop in the teeth of adult disapproval of the noise, gibberish and loutish excesses of the rock ‘n’ roll epidem-ic from across the Atlantic of which Berry was part. ... prehistory is as steeped in the likes of Val Doonican, Herman’s Hermits and the most vacuous of chart pop as with Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry and Bob Dylan - and is at least as intriguing as a fully...
... hair. If ox-ens and horses and lions had hands, and could paint with their hands, and pro-duce works of art just as men do, horses would paint the forms ofgods likehorses, and oxen like oxen. ... the question of how best to understand the ancient Greek ceremony of libation within its religious context. What kind of an offering was libation, and to whom, in anyone, was it offered? How ... protector of strangers hikesios and xenios, and as god of allGreeks panhellenios.”33In other words, in the view of its adherents, practiced reli-gion may belong to the sphere of, and have...