... NumberNTC National Training CenterO&M Operation and MaintenanceOMA Operation and Maintenance, ArmyOMAR Operation and Maintenance, Army ReserveOMNG Operation and Maintenance, National GuardOPTEMPO ... have typically focused onthe spare parts portion of Op-eration and Maintenance (O&M) accounts, because good maintenance laborhour data are lacking. The lack of labor data, as well as the ... discusses the data limitations and mitigatingfactors that hinder conclusive studies on age and M1 maintenance costs, ana-lyzes the available data, and pinpoints gaps in the Army’s data capture andbusiness...
... EPARegional ConsiderationsUsing a regional model ofthe U.S. agricultural sector, Lewandrowski et al. examined the potential for carbon sequestration at various carbon prices. At a carbon price of ... million tons from grassland). Figure 4 shows the regional breakout ofthe potential carbon dioxide equivalent sequestered through afforestation on cropland and pastureland and through soil management ... emissions or sequester carbon. USDA has not yet done this analysis, so we are unable to make a direct comparison ofthe magnitude ofthe net revenue from the offsets market and the estimated...
... 1. Activityof proteinase K as a function ofthe concentration of trifluoroethanol. Activityof proteinase K was determined withN-succinyl-Ala-Ala-Ala-p-nitroanilide as substrate at 25 °Casdescribed ... differences in the changes of the tertiary and secondary structures are reflected in the activity of RNase A, its activity towards cCMP was measured as a function ofthe concentration of trifluoroethanol ... however, an appreciable effect onthe tertiaryand secondary structure was found only at higherconcentrations ofthe solvent [13]. At low concentrations of trifluoroethanol, the propagation of helical...
... 2008,78:307–315.391. Tamura H, Takasaki A, Miwa I, Taniguchi K, Maekawa R, Asada H, Taketani T,Matsuoka A, Yamagata Y, Shimamura K, et al: Oxidative stress impairsoocyte quality and melatonin protects ... REVIE W Open Access The effects of oxidative stress on femalereproduction: a reviewAshok Agarwal*, Anamar Aponte-Mellado, Beena J Premkumar, Amani Shaman and Sajal GuptaAbstractOxidative stress ... Harada T, Taniguchi F, Izawa M, Ohama Y, Takenaka Y, Tagashira Y, Ikeda A, Watanabe A, Iwabe T, Terakawa N: Apoptosis and endometriosis.Front Biosci 2007, 12:3140–3151.111. Yamaguchi K, Mandai...
... in the ISA-SP: the cities of Botucatu andCampinas; an area encompassing the cities of Itapecerica da Serra, Embu, andTaboão da Serra; and the District of Bu-tantã, in the city of São Paulo ... level of schoolin the District of Butantã and city of Campinas. Despite the differences, allthese areas have a standard of living thatis higher than the national average (13). Sampling for ISA-SP ... presentedHRQOL that was affected by mentalhealth and role-emotional. The damagingeffect of mental status was profound,and the fact that mental condition signif-icantly affects bodily pain was notewor-thy...
... Figure 3B is a plot ofthe TH depen-dence onthe cooling rate of 0.1 mm nfeAFP8. The THvalue decayed exponentially with increasing coolingrate, and reached a plateau at a rate of approximately0.10 ... Journal compilation ª 2007 FEBSEffect of annealing time of an ice crystal onthe activity of type III antifreeze proteinManabu Takamichi1,2, Yoshiyuki Nishimiya1, Ai Miura1and Sakae Tsuda1,21 ... located in the surface of an ice crystal at temper-atures below the melting point ofthe solution [1].Interaction ofa substantial number of AFPs with the ice surface modifies the shape of the...
... president ofthe National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter ofthe National Academy of Sciences, as a parallelorganization of outstanding ... Management AgencyINEEL Idaho National Engineering and Environmental LaboratoryNASA National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNIST National Institute of Standards and TechnologyNOAA National ... Committee con-sisting of members ofthe National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit,...
... performance measures used as a basic for rewarding managers. For example, bonus is calculated based on percentage of after-tax profits ofthe previous year, percentage of after tax profits after adjustment ... higher than his basic salary. In these cases, the success of these companies was based onthe fact that monetary incentive has played an important role in encouraging the board of management on ... ofa variable pay plan because managers and accountants will receive bonus only if the company has profit. The purpose of accounting-based bonus is to motivate them to improve profits and act...
... savings banks, rather than to an individual savings bank.In addition to the detailed borrower/bank matched data set, we also use a banklevel data set that includes the savings banks and as a ... react particularlystrongly to the removal of guarantees.We analyze the changes in the structure of liabilities using the same sample of banklevel observations for savings banks and the control ... feel we can establish a causal relationship between the removal of guarantees and the reduction in risk taking of savings banks, consistent with significant moral hazard effects of public guarantees.Public...
... 1999; accepted for publication 15 November 1999Abstract The early-stage growth rate ofa silicon island ona Si(111) surface at the center ofthe interaction between a sample and the tip ofa scanning ... island formation, the kinetics of there is only a probability of producing a nan-island growth — that is, island height as a function of the duration of tip–sample interaction — was* Corresponding ... through the transfer of individual silicon atoms. Such a mecha-nism is consistent with the fact that the amount of silicon gathered into the island was controlledwell by the bias voltage of the...
... have been focused onthe b-isoform. A detailed molecular analysis ofthe export process revealedthat IL-1b does not make use of an unconventionalpathway of translocation into the lumen ofthe ... IL-1b consistently acts at an early phase of inflam-mation whereas HMGB1 functions as a late mediator of inflammation (see above). These results have been taken toindicate that lysosomal exocytosis ... signallingmolecules upon unconventional release into the extracellularspace? The answers to these questions are of exceptionalinterest as the cargo proteins secreted by unconventionalmeans are factors whose...
... in the last year, whether they have a regular place for sick and health care, whether they have a regular bedtime and whether they wear a seat belt. The parental health behaviours are parental ... investigated by comparison with the 1991 National Census data of mothers with infants under one year of age who were resident in the county of Avon. In general, the ALSPAC sample performed reasonably ... a smoker at 5 dates during the gestation and the first five years ofthe sample child’s life.10 Finally, we have information onthe housing conditions ofthe home the child at the same dates....
... emulsion (Kitayama Labes, Ina, Japan). At 8 weeksafter the immunization, the antiserum was recovered andsubjected to a titration assay. For affinity purification of the antibody against STAT 5A_ DE18, ... thataggregation of STAT 5A_ DE18 suppresses the tran-scriptional activityof STAT 5A. DiscussionWe isolated a novel STAT 5A splicing variant from the mouse brainstem. The STAT 5A_ DE18 variantlacked the transactivation ... activity of full-length signal transducer and activator of transcription 5A Yoshihisa Watanabe1, Masaya Ikegawa2, Yoshihisa Naruse3and Masaki Tanaka11 Department of Cell Biology, Research...
... lackingheliquinomycin was added to the reaction mixture. The final con-centrations of heliquinomycin added to the reaction mixture areindicated at the top. The DNA helicase activity was measured as the activity ... displacement activityof replication protein A (RPA), and onthe RNA priming and DNA poly-merization activities ofthe DNA polymerase -a/ primasecomplex. The results indicated that, among all the enzymes ... and an average ofthe values was plotted together witherror bars. (B) Effect of increasing concentrations of heliquinomycin on the DNA polymerization activityofthe DNA polymerase -a/ prim-ase....
... formation of apoptosomes,responsible for the activation of caspases, leading tonuclear condensation and the formation of apoptoticbodies. However, the release of cyto-c from mitochon-dria promotes ... mitochondria (m) and, in thiscase, the addition of magnesium after a 5-min incuba-tion of mitochondria increased to 35% the release of cyto-c compared with isotonic mitochondria (the additional ... differential effect on both the additional release of endogenouscyto-c and onthe increased rate of NADH oxidation, depending on whether it is added before or after the mitochondria. At the same time,magnesium...