... underscoring the importance of introducing fixed effects into the present count regressions. Then again, in the case that determinants interrelate with the number of bank failures—meaning that the strict ... out insolvent depository institutions the sharp increase in bankruptcies of banks at the end ofthe 1980s was followed by an equally dramatic decrease at the beginning ofthe 1990s.Table 4 ofthe ... restructuring ofthe industryor they mark the occurrence of a more profound instability in financial intermediation.Furthermore, variables designating e.g. the duration of a crisis are uninformative...
... Properties ofthe iron-binding site ofthe N-terminal lobe of human and bovine lactotransferrins. Importance ofthe glycanmoiety and ofthe non–covalent interactions between the N- andC-terminal ... Archimedesweg, Leiden, the NetherlandsLactoferrin (LF) is an iron-binding glycoprotein of the innate host defence system. To elucidate theroleof N-linkedglycosylation in protection of LF against proteolysis, ... 484–487.23. Brines, R.D. & Brock, J.H. (1983) The effect of trypsin and chy-motrypsin on thein vitro antimicrobial and iron-binding proper-ties of lactoferrin inhuman milk and bovine colostrum....
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... designed on the basis of side-chain packing criteriafrom a modelled structure ofthe enzyme resulted in restor-ation ofthe energy of activation to the levels ofthe nativeenzyme and in an increased ... flexibility limits the exploitation ofthe fullpotential of protein engineering inthe redesign of psychro-philic enzyme properties [15]. In particular, the effects of local flexibility in psychrophilic ... respectively. By introducing an Ala residue inthe place of Gly it is expected that the conformational flexibility of the main chain can be constrained with a minimum perturba-tion ofthe local structure,...
... antigen in itself [7,20]. Atleast for these antibodies, theroleofthe VLdomainmight be to increase the affinity by supporting the VHdomain. The phenomenon may also be observed in the chain ... Although the Fv was designed based on HyHEL-10, it is not clearwhether or not H39 is dominantly tuning the VH⁄ VLinteraction of other Fvs, including HyHEL-10. In addition, the effect ofthe H39 ... clarify the effect ofthe interface mutations on the antigen-binding affinity. To investigate systematically thisunsought relationship between the antigen-bindingaffinity of Fv and the VH⁄ VLinteraction...
... example, inthe case of questionQ209: “Who invented the paper clip ?”, the expected answer type is PERSON and so is the subject ofthe verb invented , lexicalized as the nominalization inventor. ... mountain; (b) lava IS-PART of vol-cano, and moreover it is a part coming from the inside; and (c) fragments of lava have all the prop-erties of lava, the following question semantic TheRoleof ... “Where did the ukulele originate ?”, the expected answer type isLOCATION. Inthe paragraph the ukulele intro-duced from Portugal into the Hawaiian islands”contains two named entities ofthe category...
... their brand attitude, may suggest an interesting implication for the new brand advertising strategy. Instead of focusing on the content ofthe message which only emphasizes the benefits of ... gift giving is instrumental in maintaining social ties and serves as a mean of symbolic communication in social relationship. Most ofthe researches before and after the appearance of Sherry’s ... described in details the stages ofthe whole gift-exchange processes, researchers have examined the influence of many variables within these stages. This model divides gifting activities into...
... school. Conley (2001) finds that a doubling of net worth results in an 8.3% increase inthe probability of attending college. Further, when net worth is included inthe model, Black youth are ... youth. Youth savings. Youth were asked in 2002 whether they had a savings or bank account in their name. If they had an account, they were also asked whether they were saving some of this money ... ―very concerned‖ about the cost of college, compared to 19% of high-income parents. Further, they find that 71% of low-income youth say they are very concerned about the cost of college (ACSFA,...
... that the increase of Glc6P inthe presence of S4048 was caused by the inhibition of Glc6P hydro-lysis inthe absence of detectable changes in glucosephosphorylation.S4048 causes inactivation of ... glu-cokinase and hexokinase I in distinct pools [3,24], orby the involvement of mechanisms, additional toGlc6P, in mediating the effects of glucokinase over-expression. As glucokinase binds ... control of glycolysis and glycogen synthesis by glucokinase overexpres-sion. The validity of S4048 for testing theroleof Glc6P was supported byits lack of effect on glucokinase binding and...
... documents and find that the fea-ture vectors corresponding to some of these docu-ments (particularly the short ones) have all zeroes in them. In other words, none ofthe bigrams from the training set ... cap-turing two different situations, one in which the author himself likes the movie, and inthe other, the author’s cousin likes the movie. The over-generalization resulting from these “stemmed” ... available.612 Proceedings ofthe COLING/ACL 2006 Main Conference Poster Sessions, pages 611–618,Sydney, July 2006.c2006 Association for Computational LinguisticsExamining theRoleof Linguistic Knowledge...
... tightbinding affinity was demonstrated towards lauric acid,resulting inthe synthesis of mainly x-1 hydroxylatedlauric acid, suggesting a roleinthe lipid oxidativemetabolism. Interestingly, the ... occurring in the soil. Furthermore, branched chain fatty acids make up80% ofthe fatty acid content ofthe Bacillus sp. mem-branes and when the hydroxylation of these substrateswas studied in ... enzymes. The FUM6 protein (CYP505B1) inter-venes in one ofthe first steps in fumonisin synthesis byhydroxylation ofthe polyketide-amino acid at C-14and C-15 (Fig. 3). Fum6 deletion mutants of F....
... the transaction from the vantage point of firm A, the floating-rate payer. The cost of synthetic floating-rate financing is determined by the cost of servicing fixed-rate debt plus the net cost of ... to the desire on the part of firms to hedge cash flows against the effects of interest rate volatility. The timing ofthe appearance of interest rate swaps, coming as it did during a pe-riod of ... argue, trading in interest rate swaps has helped to complete forward markets and to lower the cost to firms of managing their exposure to interest rate risk. The Role for Hedging inthe Theory of Corporate...
... rapidly, causing the unfolding of one of the I27 modules inthe chain. Unfolding then extends the over-all length ofthe protein, relaxing the pulling force to a lowvalue. As the slack inthe length ... stretching a polyprotein re-sults in a well-defined series of step increases in length, mark-ing the unfolding and extension ofthe individual modules in the chain.[37] The size ofthe observed steps ... b-strands ofthe I27 protein during the main unfold-ing barrier.[39]To further validate this view and gain insight into the roleof solvent hydrogen bonds in protein unfolding, werepeated these...
... dur-ing lipid raft isolation. Moreover, these studies haveprovided some insights into the significance of the localization ofthe P2X7receptors in lipid rafts regard-ing the regulation of intracellular ... (glycero-)sphingolipids. In addition the fatty acid chains ofthe phospholipids composingthese rigid domains are generally more saturated thanthose inthe lipids ofthe surrounding membrane. In fact, this ... muscarinic receptors, endo-thelin receptors, rhodopsin) are located in lipid rafts[65–70] where they are in close proximity to theirtransducing GTP-binding protein (Gs, Gi, Go, Gq andtransducin...