... brought in by traders and friendly scouts floated hither-thither rumors of mysterious remarks,
of secret councils, of a collecting of arms and powder, and a sharpening of knives and hatchets, even ... the Miamis, and the Wyandots of Indiana.
Several thousands of miles had the Bloody Belt traveled, when in March, of 1763, it was caught and stopped
by Ensign Holmes, the young commander at old ... territory disputed by Virginia and Pennsylvania. It was under command of Lord
Dunmore himself, governor of Virginia for the king of England.
The Division of Southern and Eastern Virginia, fifteen...
... between human AChE
and BChE
The T variants ofhuman AChE andhuman BChE are
composed of a catalytic domain of approximately 500
residues, followed by small C-terminal t peptides of 40
and 41 residues, ... letters
(A and B), whereas the small t peptides are designated
by lower case letters (a and b), so that the wild-type
AChE and BChE are Aa and Bb, and the chimeras are
Ab and Ba. Comparisons of wild-type ... by mutation of the aromatic residues to
leucines [3–6].
However, the major function of the t peptides is that
they allow the assembly of tetramers of AChE
T
[7] and
of BChE
T
[8] and their association...
... and to characterize the non-
linear mechanical behaviour of this layer.
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Figure 1.2: Schematic view of the cross-section of the upper part of the human skin showing the
epidermis and ... collagen, elastin and minute quantities of reticulin and a supp orting matrix or
ground substance. Collagen comprises about 75% of the fat free dry weight and 18-30%
of the volume of dermis (Ebling ... consisting of one layer
representing the dermis and the epidermis. The influence of superficial skin hydration and
the influence of the size of the aperture diameter on the mechanical response of the...