... design of an antenna to track a signal from a satellite Displacement also plays an important role in calculating load to design airborne and spaceborne vehicles, like aircraft and rockets Strain ... Load-Carrying Capacity of Members Load-carrying capacity is the basis to classify structural members into bar, beam, shaft, and frame elements A bar member resists only an external axial load ... functional Total formulation Washizu method Stresses, strains, and displacements Force, deformation, and deflection Washizu functional Primary Variables Variational Functional Indeterminate structures...
... Southern Sierra Nevada Sequioa National Park San Jacinto Mountains Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas: Grand Canyon, Arizona Camp Navajo, Arizona Santa Rita Mtns Arizona Rincon Mtns., Arizona U.S./ Mexico ... southwest Montana Blue Mtns., Washington and Oregon California Shasta Trinity National Forest Whiskeytown National Recreation Area Lassen National Forest Lassen National Park Plumas National Forest ... Effects of Burning Season in Chaparral and Grasslands Chaparral Extensive chaparral shrublands are found in nondesert areas of central and southern California and historically Farris, K.; Zack,...
... multivariate analysis treating observations at each year of age (2 to 10) as a different trait are given in Figure Most notable again is the similarity in estimates of the total variance for all analyses ... covariance models are available, but usually involve more parameters Acommon model, available in standard statistical analyses packages, is the so-called “ante-dependence” model [15] A more parsimonious ... (a) A3 r1 A3 r1 A3 r1 A3 r1 A3 r2 A3 r2 A3 r2 A3 r2 A3 r2 A4 r1 A4 r1 A4 r1 A4 r2 A4 r2 A4 r2 A4 r2 A4 r2 A4 r3 A4 r3 Model (c) Table III continued Parametric correlation structure 579 580 K Meyer Figure Estimates...
... plant auxin receptors and of the resulting ionic currents Additionally, Haberlach et al have shown that the balance of cytokinin and auxin was an important factor in maintaining or eliminat- Page ... Gibberella zeae Moniliophthora pemiciosa Phytophthora infestans Phytophthora megakarya Phytophthora parasitica Phytophthora sojae Pythium aphanidermatum GenBank accession number (NLP type) CAG75986••II ... internal hydrostatic pressure of the cell then extends the walls In the interaction between M perniciosa and T cacao, it has been suggested an auxin-inducing phase that causes malformation and an auxin-depleting...
... approach which subjects a large number of projects to a sketch appraisal, before subjecting a smaller number to a more complete appraisal A sketch appraisal could encompass a qualitative and quantitative ... These are: • An economic appraisal; • An Exchequer flows appraisal; and • A financial appraisal The discussion in this and subsequent sections is in terms of the appraisal of projects Programme appraisal ... consideration of options falling outside an Agency’s remit might arise In the first instance, a preliminary appraisal or planning process may already have occurred that has considered a large range of...
... was then used for the generation of recombinant bacmid IFI30 F ClaBamHI: 5'- ACGTATCGATACTTGGATCCTGGGTACCCTAGAGAAATGA-3’ IFI30 R NotI: 5'- ACTTGCGGCCGCTGCCTGGGAAATAAG-3' 28 Step Conditions ... and nearly all low-grade tumours eventually progress to high-grade malignancy (Schwartzbaum et al., 2006) Glioblastoma multiforme, anaplastic astrocytoma and higher grade oligodendrogliomas are ... astrocytoma grades I, II [astrocytoma], III [anaplastic astrocytoma] and IV [glioblastoma or GM]), oligodendrogliomas, ependymomas and mixed gliomas Gliomas constitute 77% of the primary malignant brain...
... c a l constants ma y n o t h a v e translations We s p e a k therefore of t h e d a t a b a s e constituting a "partially specified model" for the meaning representation language C o m p u t a ... a m e an "individual" concept - a particular kind of NIKL concept that is defined to have at most one m e m b e r N - a r y functions are treated as a N + I ary predicates A predicate of N arguments, ... extensions the database stores can be axiomatized in terms of the ones that are m o r e basic in the application domain This prepares the w a y for the simplification transformation itself, w...
... character attributes are better than others as the basis fora breakdown Attributes with character values can more naturally be the basis fora breakdown since they have a small set of legal values ... to appear in the knowledge representation The axioms are formulated in such a way as to allow breakdowns On parts of the value field ofa character attribute, and on ranges of values fora numeric ... sub-class are also recorded by ENHANCE In order for TEXT to answer questions about the information available about an entity, it must have access to the actual database information associated...
... variant of the translation approach has a somewhat lower error rate, but is still outperformed by the ME approach Summary In this paper, we have investigated two approaches for natural language ... The architecture of the ME approach is summarized in Figure For our approach, we determine the corresponding formal target language concept for each word ofa natural language input Therefore, ... well as flat concepts (Levin and Pieraccini, 1995) are the most prominent Since we regard NLU as a special case ofa translation problem, we have chosen a flat 12 concept-based target language as...
... and 5-CTGAGGGAAGCAAG AATGGA-3, OXI1 (At3g25250): 5-GACGAGATTATC AGATTTTACGC-3 and 5-AACTGGTGAAGCGGAAG AGAC-3, PTI1-4 (At2g47060): 5-CCCCAAAGAAAATG AGTTGCT-3 and 5-GCATCATTTCCTGGAGGAAAG-3 Acknowledgement ... Journal compilation ª 2011 FEBS 1135 PTI1-4, acommon target of OXI1 and MAPKs C Forzani et al 34 Takahashi F, Yoshida R, Ichimura K, Mizoguchi T, Seo S, Yonezawa M, Maruyama K, Yamaguchi-Shinozaki ... Matsuoka D, Nanmori T, Sato K, Fukami Y, Kikkawa U & Yasuda T (2002) Activation of AtMEK1, an Arabidopsis mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase, in vitro and in vivo: analysis of active mutants expressed...
... [49,50] Standard procedures were used for the preparation and ligation of DNA fragments, for the transformation of Escherichia coli and for the isolation of plasmid DNA from bacterial cells [51] ... This strain, as expected, was respiratory-deficient because of the absence of the catalytic subunit ISP (Table 1) Figure 3A shows that a band of ΔQCR9 ΔISP ΔBCS1 approximately 500 kDa was also found ... core structure V Zara et al 41 Fernandez-Vizarra E, Bugiani M, Goffrini P, Carrara F, Farina L, Procopio E, Donati A, Uziel G, Ferrero I & Zeviani M (2007) Impaired complex III assembly associated...
... reasonably easy to maintain and access A database management system should provide a structured query language (SQL) capability SQL provides an application-level standard method for data exchange ... data • Prevent duplication of hardware/software • Provide maintenance and support for hardware/software • Provide user training Past Practices Organizational Barriers Organizational barriers appear ... fully relational database management systems, with a GUI in place for the client function and assume an active process of ensuring that appropriate data are made available across management activities...
... families database Nucleic Acids Res 30, 276–280 Handa N, Terada T, Kamewari Y, Hamana H, Tame JRH, Park S-Y, Kinoshita K, Ota M, Nakamura H, Kuramitsu S et al (2003) Crystal structureof the conserved ... regions ofa Ramachandran plot Asp14 is the only BcZBP residue that adopts an energetically unfavorable main chain conformation through which a close approach of the side chain to the active site ... case of LpxC (Glu78), Asp in the cases of MshB and BcZBP (Asp14 for BcZBP and Asp15 for MshB) It is believed that this residue could act as a general base catalyst activating the zinc-bound water...
... sulfate Absorption spectra in the visible range are a 10-fold magnification of original spectra (D) Absorption spectra of the aciddenatured K13N mutant (spectrum a) , of the K13N mutant after ms of ... 2006 FEBS 5349 Anion-modulated structureof cyt c A- state F Sinibaldi et al Fig Thermal stability of the A- state of cytochrome c as a function of sulfate concentration Sulfate concentration: s, 10 ... c upon addition of increasing amounts of sulfate and selenate; the divalent anions stabilize the A- state at significantly lower concentrations than those needed for stabilization by monovalent...
... interfaces within neuronal nAChR subunit combinations (compare Fig 2A C) So far, a- conotoxins selectively targeting mammalian a3 b2 (a- MII, a- GIC) a6 b2 (a- MII, a- PIA), a3 b4 (a- AuIB) and a7 (a- ImI) ... investigation and understanding of their structure- activity relationships, may start to provide a rational way to develop additional pharmacological tools for the elucidation of nAChR structure and ... release in the rat striatum (A) Nicotine acts at somatodendritic nAChR in the substantia nigra pars compacta and at presynaptic nAChR in the striatum (B) a- Conotoxin MII was one of the first antagonists...
... non-pharmacological management of pain in palliative care Approaches to pain management in patients who have cancer Drug management The analgesic ladder Immobilization Rehabilitation – modification ... clear cut For example, a man with widespread peripheral vascular disease who has a gangrenous leg may be a good candidate for an above-knee amputation Poor general health status may mean that he ... Plasma concentration after a single dose ofa drug Repeat dosing before half life reached Repeat dosing of analgesia at intervals much greater than half life Pain-free administration of intramuscular...
... nurses As Diana Mason notes: “Older adults account for almost half of all days of hospitalization, 69% of home care, and 83% of skilled nursing facility care” (American Journal of Nursing, August ... clinicians aware of the challenges of being a physician today are Wayne and Mary Sotile.They have 20 Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and NursingPractice Table 1-1 Causes of Burnout Inadequate ... promotes emotional detachment as the platform for rational clinical decision-making but that recognizes identification with patients as the basis for real empathy The former is almost always achieved...
... backbone w angle restraints were obtained from analysis of dNa/daN ratios [38] The w angle restraint was set to )30° ± 110° for dNa/ daN ratios less than 1, and to 120° ± 100° for dNa/daN ratios ... antimicrobial activity [2,10] For example, Fimland et al [42] have shown that interchange of large domains of different type IIa bacteriocins, such as pediocin PA-1, sakacin P, and curvacin A, ... Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, CanBiocin Ltd (Edmonton, AB), and the Canada Research Chair in Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry References...
... CGTases; yellow, acarviose transferase; pink, maltogenic a- amylase; blue, a- amylases from Bacillus and actinomycetes; light blue, a- amylases from fungi and yeast; green, maltotetraohydrolases and ... Thermonanaerobacterium thermosulfurigenes EM1 J Mol Biol 256, 611–622 Harata, K., Haga, K., Nakamura, A. , Aoyagi, M & Yamane, K (1996) X-Ray structureof cyclodextrin glucanotransferase from alkalophilic ... the a- amylase family, this module has been recognized in enzymes having six of the almost 30 specificities: a- amylase, maltotetraohydrolase, maltopentaohydrolase, maltogenic a- amylase, CGTase, and...