... Chemical structureof alginate2.1 Structural Features 9Fig. 2.4. Structureof pullulanThe polysaccharide possesses hydroxyl groups at position 2, 3 and 4 of differentreactivity (Fig. 2.4). The structure ... solution of acetic acid. Chitin containing about 40% of GlcNAc moieties is insoluble while thesoluble polysaccharide is named chitosan [38].Fig. 2.10. Structureof chitin consisting of N-acetylglucosamin ... permissionfrom [27], copyright Wiley VCH)10 2 Structureof PolysaccharidesFig. 2.5. Structures of amylopectin (left) and amylose (right) and schematic representation of thebranching patternextractable...
... fortimes of observation of up to t ∼ 2.105cycles. For large shaking amplitudes7The amplitude of shaking A is also parametrised in terms of free volume, as the intensity was.46 Structureof vibrated ... extension b is the projection of theradius of gyration of the bridge on the x-y plane. A colour version of this figuremay be found in the colour plates section.terms of its arc length s. (For complex ... 4.3 Definition of the angle and the base extension b of a bridge. The mainaxis makes an angle with the z-axis; the base extension b is the projection of the radius of gyration of the bridge...
... bond will equal an average of the short-term interest rates that people expect to occur over the life of the long-term bond.•Buyers of bonds do not prefer bonds of one maturity over another; ... Pearson Canada Inc.6 - 1Chapter 6The Risk and Term Structureof Interest Rates Copyright 2011 Pearson Canada Inc.6 - 8Term Structureof Interest Rates•Bonds with identical risk, liquidity, ... average of short-term interest rates expected to occur over the life of the long-term bond plus a liquidity premium that responds to supply and demand conditions for that bond.•Bonds of different...
... 15The Structureof Central Banking and the Bank of Canada Copyright 2011 Pearson Canada Inc.15 - 4Formal Structureof the Bank of Canada I•Responsibility for the operation of the Bank ... rests with a Board of Directors, which consists of fifteen members:•the governor (currently Mark Carney, who is the chief executive officer and chairman of the Board of Directors) •the ... Inc.15 - 12Bank of Canada Independence IIFactors making Bank of Canada dependent1. Joint responsibility system (since 1967 when the Bank of Canada Act was amended)2. Minister of Finance can...
... Small-Scale Structureof Space and Time. The union of the two mostsignificant developments of 20th-century physics—general relativity and quan-tum theory—is one of the greatest challenges of contemporary ... properties of the geometry of space in the vicinity of black holes that are predicted by general relativity.• The measurement of the dragging of inertial frames due to the rotation of Earth at ... some of the importantachievements of the past decade illustrates this point:• The confirmation of the existence of gravitational waves by the observedshortening of the orbital period of a...
... 33). Of 36 clauses, 35 are in the declarative mood, which is one of the typical features of a narrative. The mood pattern of the text is represented in Table 3. The meaning and structureof ... the cohesive harmony of the text; to a summary of the context of situation of the text in terms of the three contextual parameters: field, tenor and mode. 2. The Context of the Chosen Text ... III : Number of clause complex in the whole text (1), (2), (3) : Number of clause in the whole text 1, 2, 3 : Number of clause within a clause complex The meaning and structureof a science...
... crystal structureof TaLcc1 does not have a chloride attached tothe T2 copper, as observed in the crystal structureof MaL. The unique fea-ture of TaLcc1 and MaL as compared with other laccases structures ... crystal structures of laccases from fungi andbacteria are available, but ascomycete types of fungal laccases (asco-lac-cases) have been rather unexplored, and to date only the crystal structure of ... FEBS 2283crystal structures. In our near-atomic crystal structure of rMaL, His98 exists in its oxidized form, possiblybecause of the oxidative stress [33]. The oxidation of the His residues...
... complex (observed structure factorsFpepo) with an apo structureof importin-a (70–529)(observed structure factors Fapoo). This structure is describedin ref. [42]. The structure factors ... reservoir consisted of 500 lL of 0.7 m sodium citrate,10 mm dithiothreitol and 70 mm Hepes at pH 7.4. Dropsconsisted of 0.75 l L of importin-a (70-529) at 18 mgÆmL)1,0.75 lL of CLIC4 NLS peptide ... Indicative of thetightness of the fit, there are a large number (30) of atom-to-atom van der Waals’ contacts between theTyr205 side chain and importin-a (Table 2). The num-bers of contacts...
... conformationaround the active site of ApeSOD is independent of the presence of a metal cofactor.Figure 3D shows the superimposition of the activesite structures of apo, Mn-bound and Fe-bound Ape-SODs. ... (Fig. 3A). Three of the ligands,OD2 of Asp165, NE2 of His79 and NE2 of His169,formed an equatorial plane. The other protein ligand,NE2 of His31, bound to the metal, in the company of a water oxygen, ... in the presence of either Fe or Mn. These types of SODs are referredas to cambialistic SODs. In addition to the tertiarystructures of metal-specific SODs [4], crystal structures of several cambialistic...
... proportion of whiteandAsiangraduateswithineachcategory of number of yearsworkedwasnotashighasthat of otherracegroupsatthetime of thesurvey(Table8).Table8:Number of yearsworkedbythoseinmanagement,byraceNumber of yearsworkedAsian ... 7,5Sector of employmentTherole of thepublicsectorasanemployeris of particularinterest.Itisthefirstsector of employmentforalargeproportion of graduatesirrespective of field of study,raceandgender.ThisisespeciallytrueforAfricangraduateswhomakeup ... whoselabourmarketoutcomesarecomparativelypoor(thisisnotuniquetoSouthAfrica).Thelargemajority of thesegraduatesareAfrican.Hence,tosomeextent,itwouldbeexpectedthattheseinstitutionswouldshowlowerlevels of successwithregardtotheemployability of theirgraduates.However,thereareunexplaineddifferencesaswell.Irrespective of field of study,raceorgender,studentsfromHWUsseemtohavemoresuccessinthelabourmarket.Apossibleexplanation of thesedifferencesmaylieinthedifferingquality of educationintheseinstitutions,whetherperceivedorreal.Differences...
... results of Sections 6and 7 we provide a detailed proof of the Asymptotics Theorem.ROUGH EINSTEIN METRICS1205Proof. For simplicity we only provide the proof of the identity (42). Thederivation of ... given a detailed proof of the theorem by relying heav-ily on a result, which we have called the Asymptotics Theorem, concerningthe geometric properties of the causal structureof appropriately ... estimates for the second derivatives of the higher frequencies of G do in fact divergebadly.1218 SERGIU KLAINERMAN AND IGOR RODNIANSKIProof. The proof of (82) and (83) is straightforward....
... 24.30Content of the asymmetric unitNumber of nonhydrogen atoms 7081 12 516Number of protein molecules 2 4Number of water molecules 804 181Number of glycerol molecules 2 –Number of sodium ions ... chain of this residue is pushed out of the catalytic pocket upon phytate binding. Here,PhyK mimics the phytate-bound structureof AppA,even in the absence of sulfate ions. The side chain of the ... radiation damage [33].In order to determine the structureof the complex of aninactive PhyK mutant with its substrate phytase, the refined structure of the wild-type enzyme was used for molecularreplacement...
... of banks; and so on. Moreover, the level of competition and contestability of the sector to the benefit of consumers can be deemed suboptimal, given the barriers to entry (and exit), lack of ... determinants of the cost of leverage and are found to be important in influencing the size of financial intermediary balance sheets". The introduction of the Euro, as well as the build-up of macro-economic ... is a risk of increased home bias and retrenchment of banks behind national borders going forward. A number of specific examples have emerged where, partly because of the absence of any meaningful...
... release of two Cd(II) ions from thea-domain, without a significant change in the poly-peptide structure. Further addition of NO resulted in acomplete loss of protein structure. DTNB has often ... determination of the spatial structureof the N-terminal domain con-taining the Cd(II)3-CysS9cluster was thus precluded.For a more detailed discussion of the dynamics of theprotein structure ... cluster structure raises the possibility of a cooperative binding of the metal ions. Cooperative binding has beenreported but is not always found, being dependent onthe type of metal, the type of...
... ccp4 suite of programs [39] was used for scaling. Structure deter-mination for hACMSD was performed by means of the molecular replacement technique, using the coordi-nates of a monomer of PfACMSD ... struc-ture-based rational design of enzyme inhibitors withpotential medical interest.Results and DiscussionOverall quality of the modelThe three-dimensional structureof hACMSD in com-plex with ... 0.124Multiplicity 2.6Completeness (%) 94Number of protein atoms 2635Number of solvent molecules 216Number of DHAP ⁄ Zn atoms 10 ⁄ 1Number of glycerol atoms 6R-factor (%) 19.3R-free (%)...