and a half percent the bottom line is that
Tài liệu More power to the bottom line pptx
Ngày tải lên :
17/01/2014, 11:20
... preemptive
troubleshooting is critical in maintaining
customer satisfaction.
Missing the sec-
ond half of a fa-
vorite television
program may be an-
noying for cable
viewers, but failing
to complete a 911
call can have ... happy and
reducing churn is critical for operators.
And an effective power distribution plat-
form can produce immediate results.
Power to the people
MSOs have traditionally used AC pow-
er at ... voice and
video services. A crit-
ical element to its ul-
timate success re-
sides in the perfor-
mance of CMTS
units. Designed to
handle the opera-
tional, management
and service demands
of today’s...
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SAVINGS BANKS AND THE DOUBLE BOTTOM-LINE: A profitable and accessible model of finance doc
Ngày tải lên :
06/03/2014, 10:20
... postal savings bank, although in
some cases this will be a department of the national post rather
than a separately established bank.
■ A variation of this is a separately established savings bank ... state banks with a specific savings
mandate that are common throughout East Asia and some parts
of Latin America.
Clearly the regional characterisations of these different models are
somewhat arbitrary ... opportunities and wellbeing hampered by a lack of access.
That participation has been made immeasurably easier by the staff of
WSBI’s Joint Office, particularly Angela Arevalo, Mark Bienstman and
Catherine...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: Thermostability of manganese- and iron-superoxide dismutases from Escherichia coli is determined by the characteristic position of a glutamine residue pdf
Ngày tải lên :
21/02/2014, 01:21
... mutants) and per-manganese metal basis (manganese
superoxide dismutase mutants).
Table 2. Metal contents of mutant superoxide dismutases. Metal con-
tent was measured by atomic absorbance and is ... residues.
Further analysis of these and other mutant SODs is
currently underway.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We are indebted to G. Peplow, F. Yamakura and T. Matsumoto for the
analyses of iron and manganese in ... program
CE [35] while mutational analyses were carried out using
the CARA and ENCAD algorithms included in the
GENEMINE
program.
Bacterial strains and vectors
The mutagenesis and expression phagemid,...
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Báo cáo khoa học: A region within the C-terminal domain of Ure2p is shown to interact with the molecular chaperone Ssa1p by the use of cross-linkers and mass spectrometry doc
Ngày tải lên :
15/03/2014, 00:20
... mode. An external calibration was
performed using standard peptide solution Cal Mix1 and
Cal Mix2 (Applied Biosystems) and an additional internal
calibration was performed during mass spectra analysis
using ... Ure2p incubated with Ssa1p
treated with BS2G are seen in lanes 1 and 8, 4 and 11 and 6 and
13, respectively. Similar samples treated with BS3 are seen in
lanes 2 and 9, 5 and 12 and 7 and 14, respectively. ... peptides. The list
of light and heavy precursor masses was further used either
to analyze the MS ⁄ MS spectra acquired in the data-depen-
dent acquisition analysis or to build an inclusion list with
the...
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Báo cáo Y học: Nuclear proteins that bind to metal response element a (MREa) in the Wilson disease gene promoter are Ku autoantigens and the Ku-80 subunit is necessary for basal transcription of the WD gene ppt
Ngày tải lên :
17/03/2014, 23:20
... and
characterized the MREa-binding activity, which consisted
of two polypeptides of approximately 70 and 82 kDa.
N-terminal and internal amino acid sequencing and immuno
analyses revealed that ... also
observed another band of 82 kDa when the MREa-protein
band from the EMSA was excised from the native gel and
resolved by SDS/PAGE (unpublished data). We purified
the MREa-binding proteins using the avidin–biotin ... Luciferase activity for each construct was normalized to b-gal
activity, and the relative increases were calculated as the ratio of normalized activity in MREa/mutant transfected cells to that in...
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Retrieval of the source location and mechanical descriptors of a hysteretically-damped solid occupying a half space by full wave inversion of the the response signal on its boundary doc
Ngày tải lên :
18/03/2014, 01:21
... these tables reveal are that:
a) the retrieval errors of the various constitutive parameters are far from negligible, even for a
discordance of a single parameter that is as small as 10%;
b) the ... and it is this imprecision
which leads to a retrieval error in the other parameter(s). In fact, it was observed that parameter
discordance was the cause of the occasional occurrence, during the ... 1) and the w
n
are the weights
associated with the chosen quadrature scheme.
In fact, we evaluated the rectangular, trapezoidal, Simpson and various Matlab functions, and
finally settled for the...
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The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit research organization providing objective analysis and effective solutions that address the challenges facing the public and private sectors around the world. potx
Ngày tải lên :
22/03/2014, 09:20
... state’s
Medicaid waiver by requiring that state laws and state Medicaid contracts mandate
communication and information-sharing regarding maternal and child health care
services across physical and behavioral ... FOUR
Barriers and Issues Faced by Local Providers and Program Staff
Ongoing discussions between the project team and the learning collaborative revealed that
many local maternal and child health care programs ... challenging among organizations that
are a significant distance apart (e.g., the distance between cities such as Clairton and
Oakland).
• There are also problems linking and coordinating with...
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Reserve Recruiting and the College Market - Is a New Educational Benefit Needed doc
Ngày tải lên :
23/03/2014, 02:20
... while maintaining the variability in the original
variables. More specifically, a principal component is a linear
combination of the original standardized (
µ
= 0,
σ
= 1) variables (in
this case, ... case, the four ASVAB components listed above) that maximizes the
variance of that combination and has a zero covariance with all prior
principal components. We take the first principal component as ... that has
changed over time. The Reserves, like the Active Duty forces, draws the
bulk of its enlistees from Categories IIIA and IIIB, and we argue here
and in later sections that it is the demand...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Total chemical synthesis and NMR characterization of the glycopeptide tx5a, a heavily post-translationally modified conotoxin, reveals that the glycan structure is a-D-Gal-(1fi3)-a-D-GalNAc pot
Ngày tải lên :
23/03/2014, 13:20
... illustrating the NOEs observed between the
amino acids side chains of residues Thr10 and Ala12 and the carbohy-
drate moieties of GalNAc (GN) and Gal (G). The individual amino
acids Thr10, A la12 are ... synthesis and NMR characterization of the glycopeptide
tx 5a, a heavily post-translationally modified conotoxin, reveals that
the glycan structure is a-
D
-Gal-(1fi3) -a-
D
-GalNAc
James Kang
1,
*, ... further
investigation.
Specifically, what is the actual structure of the glycan
moiety in the native tx 5a peptide? Our NMR data indicates
an a-
D
-Gal-(1fi3) -a-
D
-GalNAc-Thrstructureforthisgly-
can, and a renewed...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Protein kinase Ch activity is involved in the 2,3,7,8tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin-induced signal transduction pathway leading to apoptosis in L-MAT, a human lymphoblastic T-cell line potx
Ngày tải lên :
23/03/2014, 13:20
... min at
37 °C in 95% air and 5% CO
2
, followed by treatment with TCDD
for 3 h. Then, a caspase-3 activation assay was performed for the
evaluation of apoptosis. Data are presented as average values ... Recent advances in understanding
the mechanisms of TCDD immunotoxicity. Int Immuno-
pharmacol 2, 277–291.
2 Kamath AB, Camacho I, Nagarkatti PS & Nagarkatti
M (1999) Role of Fas–Fas ligand interactions ... [7]. Ghaffari-Tabrizi et al.
and others have demonstrated that the transfection of
constitutively active PKCh A4 08E activates both JNK1
and its upstream activating kinase, SEK1 ⁄ MKK4, in
a T-cell-specific...
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Báo cáo khoa học: A hydrophobic segment within the C-terminal domain is essential for both client-binding and dimer formation of the HSP90-family molecular chaperone pptx
Ngày tải lên :
23/03/2014, 20:22
... the bacterial two-hybrid system. We also thank Mr T.
Kobayakawa (Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan) for the technical
assistance. This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific
Research ... pKT25
kan
.The
DNA fragments encoding tentative middle domain and
C-terminal one of human GRP94 were amplified by PCR
andtheninsertedinanXbaI/BamHI site of both
pUT18C
amp
and pKT25
kan
. The DNA fragment ... domain is associated with
the C-terminal domain in an antiparallel fashion [20,37]. It
has also been reported that purified HSP90, GRP94 and
HtpG self-oligomerize at elevated temperatures and that
this...
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Turnover: The Real Bottom Line
Ngày tải lên :
21/08/2012, 17:48
... far reaching consequences and, at the extreme, may lead to jeopardy of the
organization's objectives. There may be a brain drain that negatively affects innovation and causes major delays ... the
human relations area as well as others.
Excessive turnover is driven by and is the natural and inevitable result of poor management. Overall,
organizations fail because of managerial incompetency. ... communication skills, lack of
foresight, and a narrowly focused view of the management job are some of the reasons why managers fail in the
human relations area as well as others.
2. Managerial...
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