... Fifty-five percent ofthe total land mass of Ukraine, an area larger than Germany, was transferred from state ownership into the hands of individuals In both Ukraine and Russia, land privatization drew ... way They include Adil Baizhumanov, Laina and Sarah Bay-Cheng, Jarrett Barrios and Doug Hattaway, Fr Robert Bowers, Elizabeth Cohen, and Elaine Goldenberg Thanks are also due to the Allina family ... parameters and causally proximate political mechanisms explains the Max Spoor, “Agrarian Transition in Former Soviet Central Asia: A Comparative Study of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan,”...
... a slight increase of clonal variation starting at to years of age as well as a steady decrease of environmental variation was observed, thus resulting in an increase in clonal repeatability The ... combined: means and standard errors, F-criteria and probability of fixed effects and variance components and standard errors for random effects as percent ofthe total random variation Estimates ... for the same trait measured at an early age and at a later age Because of sampling errors and mathematical approximation, some genotypic correlations exceeded ˘1 In these cases, they were assumed...
... (2b), andthe fact that the sire of is base animal Hence in individual A1 can be maternal or paternal with probability 0.5 The dam of animal is no base animal So it is clear that A1 is the paternal ... For illustration, let us consider animal in Table I in [1] and Table I of this paper Animal has a marker genotype A1 A1 and is offspring of animal (sire, A1 A2 ) and animal (dam, A1 A2 ) It is ... proposal [10] therefore combines a special case ofthe condensing algorithm with gamete identification by parental origin Assuming the QTL inthe middle ofa certain marker interval and rounding the...
... focusing action arises because ofthe vectorial changes inthe xy-plane velocity v (i.e k xy ) ofthe SPP traversing across the thin layer above the cavity, ina manner akin to the focusing ofa ... bound) from the surface rather than propagating away Inside the metal (i = 2), on the other hand, k z ofthe SPP will v possess a negative imaginary part (see Eqn and 7), which suggests that the E2 ... than that attainable with a cavity-less semiinfinite Au slab It thus follows from the Au slab dispersion shown in Figure 18b that the thin Au layer between the embedded nano-cavity andthe metal...
... at Laboratory of Optical Imaging and Photodynamic Therapy inthe National Cancer Centre, namely Dr Patricia Thong, Ms Ramaswamy Bhuvaneswari, Mr William Chin and Ms Lucky Sasidharan, and also to ... thicknesses are indicated inthe graph Data are calculated based on the EM theory ofa 3-layers stratified system Dielectric constants of Au are evaluated using the experimental data obtained by ... 12 A schematic sketch ofthe cavity system considered in this chapter The distance ofthe center ofthe cavity to the surface is h The major and minor axis ofthe cavity are ˆ denoted as a and...
... domain name “candyland.” It turned out that the first applicant for the candyland.com domain name was not Hasbro, the toy manufacturer who marketed the Candyland game, but instead was the operator ... registering of Internet domain names A domain name is an alphanumeric string of characters that identifies a unique address on the Web The domain name is included inthe address ofa Universal Resource ... ways that are inappropriate and potentially damaging to the market place A recent example that tends to support such a concern can be found ina case involving America On-Line (AOL), a major Internet...
... domain name “candyland.” It turned out that the first applicant for the candyland.com domain name was not Hasbro, the toy manufacturer who marketed the Candyland game, but instead was the operator ... registering of Internet domain names A domain name is an alphanumeric string of characters that identifies a unique address on the Web The domain name is included inthe address ofa Universal Resource ... ways that are inappropriate and potentially damaging to the market place A recent example that tends to support such a concern can be found ina case involving America On-Line (AOL), a major Internet...
... and design, acquisition of data, and interpretation of data, was involved in drafting the manuscript, and revising it critically for important intellectual content All authors have read and approved ... data; was involved in drafting the manuscript and revising it critically for important intellectual content NM contributed to the acquisition of data and interpretation of data and was involved in ... international humanitarian assistance, particularly information gathering and travel for international staff, were a reality for aid organizations[60,61] Community-led monitoring of human rights violations...
... which are normal inthe mammalian small intestine Moreover, only one intestine is present in zebrafish, unlike the cecum, small and large intestines in mammalian and chicks The intestine inthe adult ... somatostatine and pancreatic polypeptide play a negative role in pancreatic endocrine and exocrine secretions Ghrelin cells may play a paracrine role in regulating insulin secretion (Prado et al., ... regulation through the function of two distinct tissues: the exocrine pancreas and endocrine pancreas The exocrine pancreas has two components: acinar cells and ductal epithelial Acinar cells can...
... the medications needed to treat the major causes of death and mortality affecting the population, and ensures that the medicines are available inthe quantities and at the time that they are needed ... 93 Intellectual PropertyRightsin CAFTA-DR and Pharmaceuticals in Costa Rica Data Protection, New Chemical Entities, and Patent Linkages after CAFTA-DR One way to illustrate the impact ofthe ... 90 Intellectual PropertyRightsin CAFTA-DR and Pharmaceuticals in Costa Rica Intellectual Property Regulations for Pharmaceuticals in International Trade Treaties Costa Rica’s regulatory framework...
... Publication bias may be always a possible limitation of combining data from various sources as ina meta-analysis The idea of adjusting the results of meta-analyses for publication bias and imputing "fictional" ... Tanaka K, Miura N, Satokata I, et al Analysis ofa human DNA excision repair gene involved in group A xeroderma pigmentosum and containing a zinc-finger domain Nature 1990; 348: 73-6 65 Sarasin ... bind damaged DNA, and because RPA and XPA directly interact inthe absence of DNA, the RPA-XPA complex has been implicated as a key component inthe earliest stage of damage recognition [41] There...
... priorities ofthe New Zealand Aid Programme is sexual and reproductive health Further, due to the financial crisis, a range of international donors active inthe Pacific and which support SRHR, have announced ... existing demand for family planning services Best available data suggests that between 11% and as much as 46% of this demand is currently unmet Family planning plays an important role in human and ... diseases Sexual and reproductive health care includes preventing and treating sexually transmitted infections, including HIV and AIDS In addition, reproductive health care can bring patients into...
... process of gathering the data in this regard does not and cannot warrant the authenticity and accuracy ofthe data This does not necessarily mean that the data are therefore inauthentic and inaccurate ... poverty hearings were held at the behest ofthe SAHRC, CGE and SANGOCO, we not know who conducted these hearings and what training they had From the standpoint ofthe reliability ofthe research instrument ... And then the Declaration states in Article 5: All human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent and interrelated The international community must treat human rights globally in a...
... regulatory networks during developmental stages andthe changes of these networks in disease and after application ofa variety of therapeutic strategies Critically, 2172 the noninvasive imaging approach ... monitoring the therapeutic potential of miRNAs in cancer Bioimaging of microRNA biogenesis The molecular mechanisms involved in miRNA generation are complex, and at least several processing steps in ... by the miRNA function, mRNA destabilization (F) Reporter-gene frame imaging of miRNA targets The 3¢-UTR of an miRNA target containing the seed region of miRNA can be isolated and transferred into...
... mutagenesis (mCtBP2 .A5 8E.F, GACCTGGCCACTGTGGAATTCTGTGATGCACAG; mCtBP2 .A5 8E.R, CTGTGCATCACAGAATTCCACAGT GGCCAGGTC; mCtBP2.V72R.F, GAAATCCATGAGA AGCGGTTGAATGAAGCTGTG; and mCtBP2.V72R.R, CACAGCTTCATTCAACCGCTTCTCATGGATTTC) ... mice carrying a Val-to-Gly point mutation inthe GATA2 N-terminal zinc finger that ablates the interaction with cofactors ofthe Friend of GATA (FOG) family have been generated These mutant mice ... cleft inthe CtBP N-terminal region Point mutation ofthe only invariant residue inthe CtBP-interacting domain is sufficient to abolish the HIC1–CtBP interaction Having established that the interaction...
... has immediate access (a Level fair value measurement) is the best indicator ofthe fair value ofa financial asset or financial liability and, if one is available, is used Therefore, determining ... a quoted price in an active market for an identical asset or a liability that the entity can access at the measurement date The standard refers to a ‘valuation approach’ as a broad category of ... When the outcome ofthe valuation model is a range of estimates, the probabilities ofthe estimates within the range are determined and applied to arrive at a single estimate of fair value In our...
... Primer location Amplified band (bp) P553 P554 P557 P558 GTGATTCTCTGCTAGATGTTG GGCACTCGAACAGTCATATTG ATTAAGGAGCTTCGGGAGATG CTCTTATACCCAATGCTGCTG First pair GCCTTTGAGTCCATCACTAAC CCAGTGTCTTGGCAGGAATC ... spectra (inset in D) corresponding to the 7-DHP standard (inset in D and inset in C) The product was at the limits of detectability inthe control sample with the reaction stopped at time (A) andin ... was isolated at the Albany Medical College and stored at )80 °C The skin and internal organs were harvested from female C57BL/6 mice aged weeks at telogen and anagen stages ofthe hair cycle as...
... origin ofthe data We did not separately estimate uncertainty in commercial input data and industrial input data Tables A- 27 and A- 28 show our estimates ofthe range of uncertainty in commercial/industrial ... of their rated capacity) Most analyses of imaging energy and paper use begin with the total amount of paper used and then allocate this total based on professional judgment and anecdotal data ... management enabled rate (SPM) of displays Stock of inkjet printers and faxes Active power of servers and faxes Low power requirement of mainframes and laser printers Usage of inkjet printers and...
... residues acting as the general acid and base on the catalysis by a- sarcin [19,20], rendered proteins with no detectable activity against ApA [20] Cleavage of ApA by a- sarcin is a low-specificity reaction ... a- sarcin against ribosomes might differ in some details from that against dinucleotides [18,19] The behaviour of a- sarcin against ApA as a function of pH, altogether with the characterization of ... plays an important role inthe rRNA catalytic cleavage by a- sarcin, which would not be simply related to the bearing positive charge Both mutant variants of a- sarcin cleave ApA, with slight variation...