... [21–25], and DGD° values inthepresenceof these osmolytes are given in Table However, DGD° values of RNase-A inthepresenceof alanine, serine, lysine, b-alanine, taurine and dimethylglycine have ... efficiency inthepresenceof this group of osmolytes Interestingly, there is a linear relationship between DDGD° and Dlog(kcat ⁄ Km) inthepresenceof methylamines and sugar However, the slopes ofthe ... have therefore measured the thermodynamic parameters of RNase-A inthepresenceof these amino acids and amino acid derivatives, and values of DGD°, measured in triplicate, are given in Table The...
... Model Constraints G ( q, q, t ) = ω (q) ⋅ q = Are constraints ofthe above form nonintegrable/nonholonomic? (integrability) Do constraints ofthe above form “restrict the set of configurations ... found given a fine enough grained search Asymptotic optimality: if a solution path exists, the planner generates the solution with the minimal number of reversals (changes of sign of linear velocity) ... Constraints Set of k < n independent kinematic constraints G ( q, q ) = ( G1 ( q, q ) , , G k ( q, q ) ) = ( 0, ,0) Definition – Gq = G (q,⋅) − Subset of tangent space defined by...
... charts, andthe training of teachers in each treatment school on worm prevention Health education stressed the importance of hand washing to avoid ingesting roundworm and whipworm larvae, wearing ... These results are largely robust to including the proportion of Group pupils inthe surrounding area as the explanatory variable, rather than the total number of Group pupils inthe surrounding ... treatment in 1998 This was partly because of confusion inthe field about pupil age, and partly because inthe early stages ofthe program several ofthe Kenya Ministry of Health nurses administered...
... ST (17) The problem of main interest in this study is the joint optimization ofthe WCM and bias estimator to improve the performance of parameter estimation by minimizing the constrained biased ... system are the inter-element spacing ofthe transmitter and receiver (in units of wavelengths), respectively Let the weighted matrix M = I and g = inthe case ofthe weighted norm constraint, and T ... noted that the terms inthe left hand ofthe first two constraint inequalities in (26) are quadratic functions of D, and hence these inequalities are not LMIs The Proposition below can give the LMI...
... this point is a function ofthe destination index m Increasing the NSD while keeping NR constant is therefore in favor of protocol A1 If the number of relays increases, the relation between l and ... complex baseband, sample them, and store the samples until the end ofthe first phase Inthe second phase, they retransmit scaled and rotated version of their received samples to the destinations ... phase noise They differ inthe direction in which the single-hop links are measured and thus the required effort to estimate all channel coefficients inthe network We used the MSE ofthe channel...
... The class of problems 1.1 appears in many nonlinear phenomena, for instance, inthe theory of quasiregular and quasiconformal mappings 1–3 , inthe generalized reaction-diffusion theory , inthe ... result of Yang and Xu and to complement other works see, e.g., 8–20 and references therein for more general nonlinearities inthe terms f and g which include the cases considered by them The principal ... this, the inequality 1.4 is a consequence of a result in This completes the proof of Theorem 1.1 Appendix Proof of Lemma 2.4 The proof of item iv is an immediate consequence of Lemma 2.3 i The...
... fusion toxin (C3 FT), a chimeric protein consisting ofthe Clostridium limosum toxin C3 andthe N-terminal adaptor domain of Clostridium botulinum C2I, which interacts with the binding/transport ... promoting the stabilisation ofthe growth cone and thus, shifting the balance inthe dynamics of growth cones in favour of axonal elongation Further work using an in vivo model is warranted to gain ... These were surplus animals from the animal breeding program belonging to the Faculty of Veterinary Science ofthe University of Freiburg The animals were housed and handled in accordance to the...
... as the main author RSUY was involved in reviewing the literature and proof reading ofthe manuscript RSUY has approved the final manuscript SSB is the senior author and was responsible for final ... radial head The reduction was achieved in supination and immobilisation ofthe elbow in flexion and supination gave a favourable final outcome Inthepresenceof major distracting injuries like ... in a position of hyperextension and supination [4] Typical clinical presentation is a maintenance of flexion and extension ofthe elbow following the injury but loss of supination and pronation...
... tested The study adds the fluoroquinolones ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin and norfloxacin to the list of antibiotics which significantly reduce MICs inthepresenceof diclofenac Furthermore, this is the ... showing reductions in MICs andin CFU/ml recovered from infected animals when diclofenac is administered in combination with the protein synthesis-inhibiting aminoglycosides streptomycin and ... changes in ciprofloxacin accumulation inthepresenceof diclofenac, and perhaps salicylate, may not be the direct cause of altered susceptibility to ciprofloxacin and other fluoroquinolones It is important...
... particularly motivated by the vaccine for seasonal in uenza (flu) epidemic and luxury goods In Chapter 2, we study thein uenza (flu) vaccine supply chain inthe USA Thein uenza vaccine inthe USA is produced ... main findings and discuss about the ideas for future research in Chapter 19 CHAPTER Consumption Externality and Yield Uncertainty intheIn uenza Vaccine Supply Chain: Interventions in Demand and ... vaccine to the market while individuals decide whether or not to get vaccinated in a rational and self-interested manner based on the availability ofthe vaccine, severity ofthe infection, and...
... areas of information18: The checklist has been created based on the following: the framework ofthe Steering Committee Report ofthe Business Reporting Research Project ofthe Financial Accounting ... context of Chairman/CEO duality the Code proposes the appointment of a “lead independent director to request the calling of board meetings or the inclusion of new business on the agenda; to coordinate ... report disclosure and alternative ways of presenting corporate information The annual report is one ofthe main sources of corporate information andthe main source of data17 inthe voluntary disclosure...
... bluff cylinder interaction, andthepresenceofthe downstream cylinder has little effect in altering the beat frequencies inthe combined wave current flow With an offset of 0.6 D inthe downstream ... understand the problem Temporal and spatial descriptions of flow field inthe vicinity and wake of two interacting cylinders have been systematically captured through the use of PIV and point measurements ... downstream cylinder location away from the centreline ofthe upstream cylinder location, thepresenceofthe downstream cylinder will enhance the asymmetric features ofthe wake flow velocities and temporal...
... Fundamentally, the flow interaction between the bluff column ofthe SPAR and one ofthe columns ofthe TAD can be represented by two interacting cylinders in waves and currents The upstream cylinder would ... while the downstream cylinder is a slender cylinder The area of interest is inthe flow characteristics around andinthe wake of a bluff upstream cylinder, where the focus is on thepresenceof ... currents on a cylinder When currents and waves coexist, thepresenceof one flow would interfere with the kinematics ofthe other To quantify the dominance of either currents or waves inthe wave current...
... Frame of Reference) Figure C1 PIV images of a single cylinder in combined waves and currents flow T = 0.7 s, C = 50 mm/s, at time increments of T / 10 Figure C2 PIV images of a single cylinder in ... mm/s, at time increments of T / 10 Figure C4 PIV images of a single cylinder in wave only flow T = 0.7 s, at time increments of T / 10 Figure C5 PIV images of a single cylinder in currents only ... mm/s, at time increments of T/10 Figure C6 PIV images of a single cylinder in currents only flow C = 75 mm/s, at time increments of T/10 Figure C7 PIV images of a single cylinder in currents only...
... time intervals of T’ (First 24T’ s of run Downstream cylinder spacing at x = ½ D, y = 0.6 D) Figure H2 Iso surface plots of wave and currents run, C= 75 mm/s, T=0.7s, at time intervals of T’ ... of run Downstream cylinder spacing at x = ½ D, y = 0.6 D) Figure H3 Iso surface plots of wave and currents run, C=100mm/s, T=0.7s, at time intervals of T’ (First 24T’ s of run Downstream cylinder ... surface plots of wave and currents run, C =50mm/s, T =0.7s, at time intervals of T’ (At Stable Beating Downstream cylinder spacing at x = ½ D, y = 0.6 D) Figure H6 Iso surface plots of wave and currents...
... self-financing portfolio if and only if certain integral equations ofthe first kind (the “hedging equations”) have solutions Furthermore, the integral operators appearing in these equations (the “hedging ... apply part ofthe present theorem We now turn to the issue of so called “martingale modelling”, and remark that one ofthe main morals ofthe martingale approach to arbitragefree pricing of derivative ... that the existence of a martingale measure implies absence of arbitrage, and we end the section by investigating existence and uniqueness of martingale measures We make the following standing...
... respectively retained inthe centre ofthe interhelical linker and at the C-terminus of micelle-associated VpUcyt Position of VpUcyt relative to the micelle NMR signal intensities of individual VpUcyt ... chains ofthe Ser53 and Ser57 inthe interhelical linker, forming a highly conserved phosphorylation motif, are visualized in ball -and- stick format In contrast to the well-defined helices andthe ... loop, there was considerable fuzziness inthe interhelical linker region Likewise, the relative position of helix andthe tight loop was poorly defined according to the relatively high rmsd of the...
... resulted in a decrease, of up to two-fold, inthe kp of plasmin Considering the recently described reversible nature ofthe plasmin inhibition by oleic acid [3] andthe changes ofthe kinetic parameters ... identify the site of action ofthe fatty acids inthe plasmin molecule, the amidolytic activity of two truncated plasmin variants was examined (Fig 8) Miniplasmin (des-kringle 1-4 plasmin) contains the ... catalytic action of plasmin inthepresenceof stearate The p-nitroaniline (P) released inthe course of hydrolysis of 40 lM Spectrozyme-PL by 20 nM plasmin inthepresenceof 115 lM stearate is...
... partitioning ofthe protein into an aggregated state The effect of copper binding on the secondary structure was determined using CD inthe far UV To prepare proteins without Cu2+, part of each protein ... copper binding could still allow domain swapping to occur It is of interest that a N-terminally truncated prion protein, lacking the copper binding domain is capable of domain swapping and forms ... high affinity copper binding protein, and (b) that amyloid fibril formation of this protein is diminished inpresenceof Cu2+ ions Another interesting finding is that copper binding gets less strong...