... take place at the N-terminalregion of P40, as a bacterial signal peptide had beenpredicted [23–25]. Such signal peptides are normallycleaved off by a bacterial type I signal peptidase(SPase). ... of the gene product of MPN 142. Cleavage into P40 and P90 takes place after amino acid454. The N-terminus of the mature P40 starts with amino acid 26.The molecular mass of about 36 000 Da of ... pathogenic bac-terium [1,2], characterized by a small genome of 816kbp [3], the lack ofa bacterial cell wall and a parasiticlifestyle [4].Some species of the genus mycoplasma, e.g. Myco-plasma genitalium,...
... cerevisiaeMAP kinase cascades typically composed of three tiers of protein kinases, a MAP kinase (MAPK), a MAPK kinase(MAPKK) and a MAPKK kinase (MAPKKK), arecommon signalling modules in eukaryotic ... et al. [19]. Among them, two recent remark-able developments are that of Kholodenko et al. [14]based on stationary experimental data, and that of Sontag et al. [15] based on time-series experimentaldata. ... method that can beapplicable to time-series experimental data withoutparameter perturbations and that can make use only of the qualitative information without relying on meas-ured absolute values....
... synthesized at about 9508C under anŽ.ArrH atmosphere on a large area ofa 111 Si substrate without supplying any gaseous or liquid Si sources. The Si2Ž.substrate, deposited with a layer of Ni ca. ... point of view, it is specu-lated that a- SiNWs may have potential applicationssuch as for portable rechargeable batteries of highcapacity which is closely related to the surface ef-fects. In fact, ... shows a low-magnifica-tion cross-sectional SEM image. It is visible that a layer of a- SiNWs with a thickness of ca. 20 mmwere grown on the substrate. EDS analysis betweenthe Si substrate and a- SiNW...
... speculatedthat the a- SiNWs may have potential applications suchas rechargeable battery of high capacity with portablesize, which is closely related to the surface eects. Infact, it was recently ... growth at an ambient pressure of about 200 Torr. After cooling down toroom temperature, a thin layer of gray-colored depositwas found on the surface of the substrate. An Am-ray FEG-1910 scanning ... revealed that the lithium batteryusing SiNWs as electrode materials showed a capacityas high as 8 times than that of the ordinary one [12].Fig. 4. (a) Low and (b) magniÿed cross-sectional SEM...
... experimental data on thelength of GaAs nanowires grown by MBE on theGaAs(1 11)B surface activated by Au drops within the tem-perature range of 460–600 °C. It is seen that the averagegrowth rate of ... considerably smaller than the radii of wires and of two-dimensional islands on the surface, we can assum ethat probability e1is proportional to the total perimeter of wires per unit surface area ... T. Takebe, M. Fujii, T. Yamamoto, K. Fujita, T. Watanabe, J. Appl.Phys. 81 (1997) 7273.[32] S. Koshiba, Y. Nakamura, M. Tsuchiya, H. Noge, H. Kano, Y.Nagamune, T. Noda, H. Sakaki, J. Appl....
... sensors, Anal. Chim. Acta 475 (2003) 1–15.[4] D.S. Sutar, N. Padma, D.K. Aswal, S.K. Deshpande, S.K. Gupta, J.V. Yakhmi, Prepa-ration of nanofibrous polyaniline films and their application as ammonia ... 2(b). The mean thickness of the films was about4 m for unirradiated polyaniline and about 8 m for samples irra-diated for about 30 min. The larger thicknesses of the irradiatedsamples are consistent ... using adhesive tape.2.4. CharacterizationFor the solvents reported here, argon gas was passed through a bubbler containing neat liquid samples and then over the sensor.The concentration of vapors...
... aboutreproductive health matters based on literature review.The questionnaire was translated to Kiswahili as a lan-guage familiar to most Tanzanians. Data was gatheredby an anonymous questionnaire.The ... evaluation ofa school-based adolescent sexualheath intervention in rural Tanzania: MEMA kwa Vijana programme.Health Educ Res 2006, 22:500-512.18. Todd J, Changalucha J, Ross D, Mosha F, Obasi ... AccessEvaluation ofa reproductive health awarenessprogram for adolescence in urban Tanzania -A quasi-experimental pre-test post-test researchFrida Madeni†, Shigeko Horiuchi*†and Mariko Iida†AbstractBackground:...
... completelycircumvent a broad array of safety-critical systems. Over a range of experiments, both in the lab and in road tests, wedemonstrate the ability to adversarially control a wide range of automotive ... Stefan SavageDepartment of Computer Science and EngineeringUniversity of California San DiegoLa Jolla, California 92093–0404Email: {s,dlmccoy,brian,d8anders,hovav,savage}@cs.ucsd.eduAbstract—Modern ... transformation has driven major advance-ments in efficiency and safety, it has also introduced a range of new potential risks. In this paper we experimentally evaluatethese issues on a modern automobile...
... Igarashi, Masahisa Wada, Ritsuko Hori and Masahiro SamejimaDepartment of Biomaterials Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, JapanCellulose degradation ... advantages: (1) A maxpro-vides a measure of the surface area of crystalline cellu-lose available as a substrate of cellulase. It is reportedthat cellulose Ibfrom Halocynthia has a greater hydro-phobic ... Nishiyama Y, Okano T & Sugiyama J(1998) Molecular imaging of Halocynthia papillosa cellu-lose. J Struc Biol 124, 42–50.31 Hayashi N, Sugiyama J, Okano T & Ishihara M (1997)The enzymatic...
... courtesy of the University of Bath, England, showedthat the stress-strain profile of the unadulterated PU foamsample and that of the PPy-coated PU foams sample weresimilar showing regions of elastic ... important tothe preservation of normal user patterns of care and main-tenance of clothing.In the torso integration, the raw pilot test data indicatesthat foam sensors can provide detectable ... garmentcaused little alteration in the visual or tactile properties of the garment. The largest sensors, the scapula pressure pads, caused the only visible change to the appearance of the garment,...
... in compliance with the guidelines of the Fed-eration of European Laboratory Animal Science Associa-tion (FELASA) and approval was granted by theInstitutional Animal Care Committee of the University ... Marshall LF, Marshall SB, Klauber MR, Van Berkum Clark M, EisenbergH, Jane JA, Luerssen TG, Marmarou A, Foulkes MA: The diagnosis of head injury requires a classification based on computedaxial ... Mertsola J, Jafari H, Olsen KD, Hansen EJ,Yoshinaga M, Ohkawara S, Nariuchi H, McCracken Jr, G.H.: Tumornecrosis factor alpha / cachectin and interleukin 1 beta initi-ate meningeal inflammation....
... articleExperimental and analytical validation ofa modular acetabular prosthesis in total hip arthroplastyFrancisco Romero1, Farid Amirouche1,2, Luke Aram1 and Mark H Gonzalez*1,2Address: ... through a Data Acqui-sition Card (DAQCard -A1 -16E-4, National Instruments,Austin, TX) to a laptop computer. Using data analysis soft-ware (Lab-View, National Instruments, Austin, TX), a pro-gram ... objective of the present study was to validate a FEmodel of modular acetabular prosthesis with data col-lected experimentally. The model is preliminary and gives a reasonable approximation of values...
... various TX and RX antennas placed nearthe human are characterized. The frequency- and distance-dependent characteristics ofa UWB channel are analyzed inthis paper, where an NLOS channel is ... on-body.spread, RMS delay spread, and maximum delay spread arethree multipath channel parameters that can be determinedfrom the power delay profile [20]. Mean delay spread is theaverage delay weighted ... propagation but alsoextends to include LOS and NLOS channel measurement,using a TX antenna placed on the human body and a separate RX antenna located externally. Section 2 introduces EURASIP...
... related to VANETapplications, as well as basic research at the physical linkand network layers in vehicular communications, there isan important lack of real evaluation analysis. Many VANETsolutions ... the AnaVANET software.AnaVANET is a Java application which traces all datapackets transmitted or for warded by mobile routers. It thusdetects packet losses and can generate both end-to-end andper-hop ... 140Any interface3G or managedAlways 3G11b managedis available11b managedis availableTime (seconds)Throughput (kbps)11b ad hoc is availableFigure 17: Throughputs of three TCP streams...