... meaning (i.e., it is equally valid to say that the music projects the meaning ofthe image or the image projects the meaning ofthe music), then the multimedia example has passed the similarity ... the music alters meaning ofa particular aspect of the film” (1988, p. 109). Marshall and Cohen also acknowledge the important role played by temporal characteristics ofthe sound and image, ... relationships inherent inthe association of one musical tone with another. Patterns of tension and release provide a sense of organization and meaning to the musical sound, apart from any extramusical...
... in nature to a data manager which fails to freedata, but is easier to detect and prevent.• Data manager changes data. A malicious data manager may change the value of its data on each cacherefresh. ... requested. The Mach kernel can only handle integralmultiples ofthe system page size in any one call and partial pages are discarded.Since the data manager may have external constraints on the consistency ... data within an adequate period of time, the data may then be paged out to the default pager. In this way, the kernel is protected from starvation by errant data managers.Because the interface...
... China Statistics Yearbook, China Financial Yearbook and People’s Bank of ChinaStatistics Quarterly bulletin.B. Developmentof direct financing and indirect financing marketsproviding financing ... capital flow, monetarysystem, financial markets, financial institution, and financial coordination andsupervision. In China, institution building inthe financial sector takes place against the backdrop ... 67.8Sources: Almanac of China’s Finance and Banking and China Statistical Year BookV. An Outlook of Institutional Reforms inthe Coming Years In light ofthe opportunities and challenges posed by China’s...
... Horse-radish peroxidase-conjugated antibody against caspase-3(#610325) was from BD Pharmigen, and antibody againstb-actin (A5 441) was from Sigma.Statistical analysisAll data are expressed as the ... synthesis inthe endoplasmic retic-ulum, apparently because ofthe formation ofa pool of oversaturated inter-mediates, represents the key initiating event inthe mechanism of saturatedfatty ... indicatingincreased incorporation of palmitate (16:0) into the TAG pool only inthe presence of oleate [18]. The above results raise two main questions: (a) what isthe cause of TAG synthesis inhibition, and...
... in determining a) the efficacy of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy ofthe vaccine strain administered6 MMWR April 26, 1996not a factor in determining whether the reaction is ... because ofthe potential ad-verse reactions associated with the use ofthe vaccine in these persons. In the United States, the use of BCG vaccination is rarely indicated. BCGvaccination is not ... andDrug Administration is considering another vaccine, which is produced by ConnaughtLaboratories, Inc., for licensure inthe United States. This vaccine was transferred from a strain that was maintained...
... largerbanks in making small business loans. Loan officers at small banks cantake into account a wide variety of factors in reviewing applications forsmall business loans, including the character of ... McNulty, and James A. Verbrugge. 2002. “Do SmallBanks Have an Advantage in Lending? An Examination of Risk-AdjustedYields in Small Business Lending at Large and Small Banks,” unpublishedworking paper, ... complicated by the factthat loans are reported at the bank rather than branch level. When a small bank is acquired by a much larger bank and converted to a branch, any change in smallbusiness...
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... control was maintained ina standard incubator with 21% O2. The normoxia data are the same as shown in Fig. 1 and are included here for comparison. Expression of miR-2 7a and miR-27b at the indicated ... Red O on day 6 of differentiation (A) . The amount of OilRed O was quantified after extraction with isopropanol. The data shown in (B) are mean value ± standard errors ofthe mean of an experi-ment ... polyclonal rabbit anti-PPARc, anti-C ⁄ EBPa,anti-C ⁄ EBPb (Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA,USA), and anti-PPARa (Zymed Laboratories, South SanFrancisco, CA, USA), and mouse monoclonal anti-b-actin(Sigma...
... mean ofthe time in business is 2 years for the entire sample). Most of these dot coms are concentrating on how to gain customer base, grab market share, and reach the critical mass instead of ... make profit. It is more reasonable to assume that these specific firms are trying to maximize their sales instead ofthe traditional assumption of profit maximization. Therefore, sales isa ... critical data such as IT capital were not available. • The financial data is not for the entire financial year (12 months). Although some kind of projection might be used to get a whole-year...
... Renata Piccoli, forcritical reading the manuscript and helpful suggestions;and to Dr Valeria Cafaro, Aurora Bracale, AntonellaAntignani and Sonia Di Gaetano for preparing some of the RNase variants ... through rotation ofthe RNase around its major axis (rotationangle ‘r’) and variation ofthe inclination (inclination angle ‘i’) withrespect to the plane ofthe membrane (parallel to the xy plane).Cter ... residuesAsp38 and Glu111. In RNase-AA-GG the ‘basic sur-face’ is more similar to that of BS-RNase because of the removal ofthe four carboxylates. The ‘basic sur-face’ ofthe mutant HHP-RNase is...
... 1631 The roleof N-glycosylation inthe stability, trafficking andGABA-uptake of GABA-transporter 1Terminal N-glycans facilitate efficient GABA-uptake activity of the GABA transporterGuoqiang Cai1,2, ... areinvolved in regulating the GABA translocation of GAT1, but not in binding of GAT1 to GABA.Transport of GABA by GAT1 across the cell mem-brane is driven by an electrochemical gradient of Na+and ... oligosaccharide side-chainsare important for the GABA transport activity.1-Deoxymannojirimycin inhibits the GABA-uptake of GAT1 In order to gain further insight into theroleof the terminal structures...
... Hypophosphatasia and the role of alkaline phosphatase in skeletal mineralization.Endocrine Rev 15, 439–461.K. Komaru et al. Novel aggregate formation of an alkaline phosphatase frame-shift mutantFEBS ... Lafferty MA, Slaughter C,Raducha M & Harris H (1986) Isolation and characteri-zation ofa cDNA encoding a human liver ⁄ bone ⁄ kid-ney-type alkaline phosphatase. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA83, ... circulating alkalinephosphatase is physiologically important. Intravenousinfusions of plasma from Paget disease or purifiedalkaline phosphatase to hypophosphatasia patientsfailed to improve clinical...
... proposed for the mechanism of antitumouraction of BS-RNase is based on the ability ofthe proteinto resist the neutralizing action ofthe cytosolic RNaseinhibitor, a resistance due to the dimeric ... sulfhydryls.These results indicate that the intersubunit disulfide bonds of BS-RNase have a key roleinthe mechanism of antitumour action ofthe enzyme.Materials and methodsMaterialsIodoacetic acid ... Arole for the intersubunit disulfides of seminal RNase in the mechanism of its antitumor actionAurora Bracale1,*, Francesco Castaldi1,*, Lucio Nitsch2and Giuseppe D’Alessio11Dipartimento...
... Choice Analysis and identifies the determinants ofthe probability of an enterprise declaring itself profitable, on the basis of a projection of discriminating variables along two orthogonal axis: ... into the statistical information included inthe database; that is, some cluesfor further, more focused analysis. First, this graph demonstrates that whatever the occasionally missing answers, the ... appears as a strong inertial component inthe credit-demand equation. This canbe interpreted as an indication that a disproportionate share ofthe demand for bank credit is coming from already indebted...