... achieved by development of a more effective vaccine construct and/ or vaccine administration Of note inthe latter context isthe present finding that concomitant administration of M2e-MAP and a ... respiratory virus challenge, as the lethality ofthe infection is determined bythe level of virus replication inthe lung but not the nose The contrasting finding by Tompkins et al [9] that T cells ... transudated into extravascular spaces of airway tissues and, inthe case of IgG, transudated further into the airway lumen or, inthe case of IgA and IgM, became transported through the epithelial...
... program in Botswana maintains the hegemony andthe gap between the poor andthe rich, the major and minority groups In order to redress poverty the adult education program needs to be aware ofthe ... culture and value systemofthe dominant group Since competence in English is a pre-requisite for participation inthe national political and economic system, the majority of citizens in Botswana ... the learners to be confident to participate inthe discussions and activities of their education and economy This involves the teaching of local languages, Setswana and English By involving the...
... and decisionmaking through research and analysis RAND ® is a registered trademark The views expressed in this report are those ofthe authors and not reflect the official policy or position of ... any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from RAND Published 2003 by RAND 1700 Main Street, P.O ... the way the United States does That is one interpretation of both the crude Chinese nuclear threats over the Taiwan crisis and Chinese views ofthe U.S bombing ofthe Chinese embassy in Yugoslavia...
... expressed inthe adult human brain [54] They fall into two classes, depending on the number of microtubule-binding repeats Three isoforms have three repeats each andthe other three isoforms have ... sequence, the polypeptide chain is expected to be rather stiff, having a persistence length of » 5±10 residues as reported for prothymosin a [7] andthe ®bronectin-binding protein [8] In other parts of ... that the caseins are ofthe all b strand type, but that condensation into b sheets is inhibited by certain ofthe conserved features ofthe primary structure, allowing the proteins to retain an...
... the total number of men and e1 the proportion ofthe workers inthe lth category of labor services, one may write the index ofthe total labor input inthe form: L = —+—+ H N — Thus, to eliminate ... support for such a hypothesis, partly because of lack of relevant data They used the education ofthe total labor force in a state for the measurement ofthe quality ofthe labor force of individual ... orby weights derived from income -by- education data.' At the simplest level, the issue ofthe quality of labor isthe issue ofthe measurement of labor input in constant prices and a question of...
... the order ofthe sum of two functions is not greater than the larger ofthe orders ofthe two summands, and if the orders ofthe summands andofthe sum are all equal, then 21 the type ofthe ... my advisor Dr George Csordas for his patience, enthusiasm, and support throughout the years of my studies The completion of this dissertation is mainly due to the willingness of Dr Csordas in generously ... about the order and type of ϕ(x) In Theorem 71, we establish a related result (Theorem 71), based in part on the Borel-Carath´odory Inequality (Theorem 69) To this end, we first establish e an inequality...
... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, andthe scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies andthe Institute of Medicine ... Academy of Engineering The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 bythe National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions inthe examination of ... at the department level by sex and race or ethnicity and include the numbers of students majoring in science and engineering disciplines; the numbers of students graduating with bachelor’s or...
... Since a functioning zinc-binding domain may be present inthe Ab sequence of C99, we hypothesized that zinc may affect the oligomerization state of C101-3FLAG Therefore, the molecular mass of ... quantitated data is shown in graphical form under each panel strategy for the prevention of AD An initial step in discovering c-secretase inhibitors isthe development of assays that monitor c-secretase ... suggested by other methods previously [30] andby inhibitor binding assays [31,32] A restrospective analysis ofthe work by Li et al [21] also indicates an imperfect relationship between activity and...
... measure the rate of protein synthesis, cells were incubated with 10 lCiÆmL)1 [35S]methionine during the last 15 min, solubilized in 0.3 M NaOH and incorporation of radioactivity into protein determined ... capping the F-actin barbed ends [39], hsp25 results in a reorganization ofthe actin filament system, playing a role inthe migration of endothelial cells andin recovery of cells from wounding ... within the linear response ofthe individual antiserum to the protein All rabbit antisera were isolated from crude serum by affinity chromatography with the corresponding peptide using the SulfoLink...
... trkA and was carried out by determining relative levels of trkA-IR inthe parietal and piriform cortexes The expression of trkA has been shown to be up-regulated by NGF inthe parietal and piriform ... brain The localization indicated bythe trkA antibodies correlates with the developmental expression of NGF andthe formation ofthe neuronal and glial pathways All the data on trkA expression in ... P42, and adult ×400 expression increased with age and was found in similar locations to that in brains of other kinds of murine and rat TrkA immunoreactivities were observed in newborn rat piriform...
... protected acorns during winter The insulating role of leaf litter along a winter season in a Q faginea stand inthe Zaragoza province was monitored to check its insulation capability MATERIALS AND METHODS ... approach In our study we performed a thermal analysis instead of a differential thermal analysis and for temperature measurements two-wires PT100 sensors were used instead of thermistors These modifications ... the ones recorded by us, it can be observed that minimum temperatures Figure Typical freezing and exotherm profiles for the four species studied (in increasing order of frost resistance) Exotherms...
... important roles either during the initiation phase of arthritis orinthe perpetuation and exacerbation ofthe disease after the onset, or they might simply maintain immunity to CII and perpetuate ... disease independently of B and T cells during the effector phase of arthritis This is not an unexpected finding because CAIA is induced in naive mice by preformed anti-CII antibodies Interestingly, ... of antibody-mediated disease into a chronic disease course, suggesting the importance of other cellular mediators inthe pathogenesis of arthritis However, experiments to understand the factor(s)...