... influence the sensitivity of acid-fast smears include the amount of acid-fast bacilli present in the specimen, the experience ofthe reader, the stain used, the number of fields examined, the type of ... addition ofthe Superoxol, the strength ofthe catalase reaction is determined by measuring the height ofthe bubbles, characteristic ofthe catalase reaction, in the tube If the height ofthe bubbles ... reacted with the genus specific probes for a sensitivity of 100% and 61 ofthe 238 strains were identified to the species level The other 177 strains were outside ofthe detection range ofthe LiPa...
... However, in the thesis, the researcher wants to find out the attitudes, as well as the cultural awareness in teaching and learning spoken English ofthe teachers and the students of 10 th grade ... overcome in the teaching and learning of speaking skills? I.5 Methods ofthe study To realize the aims ofthe study, both qualitative and quantitative methods will be used The data collected for the ... unsettle the good language learners when they expect it least, making evident the limitations of their hard-won communicative competence, challenging their ability to make sense ofthe world around them.”...
... responsibility for the application of this information The Portland Cement Association DISCLAIMS any and all RESPONSIBILITY and LIABILITY for the accuracy ofthe application ofthe information contained ... Condition of Existing Bridges in the U.S MATERIAL USAGE AND CONDITION OF EXISTING BRIDGES IN THE U.S ABSTRACT Data on the market share ofthe four major bridge construction materials used in the US ... state then collects the inspection reports for all bridges in the state and submits them annually to the FHWA, where they are entered into the National Bridge Inventory (NBI) database The NBI...
... food A total of 5% ofthe consumers have not consumed or considered to consume organic food A total of 29% ofthe consumers in the Transkei did not know In the Ciskei, 35.6% ofthe consumers ... its identity in the face of others, and therefore creates a feeling of "belonging" (Buruiana 2003) 17 10 Factors affecting the consumer awareness of organic products The results ofthe logistic ... confidence ofthe product and is an indication ofthe trust ofthe organic label 12 Conclusion This paper has established the growing importance of organic products in the food system ofthe Eastern...
... over 30 The excess of ATP ensured that none ofthe reactions were rate-limited by ATP concentration The levels of incorporation of 32P into the peptide were used to calculate the kinetics of phosphorylation ... structure The two groups of peaks at 6.85 and 7.15 p.p.m correspond to the aromatic resonances ofthe seven tyrosines in the protein, and the inset 2D expansion ofthe 1H-1H COSY shows that the seven ... investigate the effect ofthe phosphotyrosine product on the ability of Lck to phosphorylate tyrosine substrates The radioactivity-incorporation assay was performed for peptide 1N in the presence of either...
... tributaries ofthe Mekong drain the uplands of Lao PDR, which contribute 35% ofthe runoff Other major tributaries rise in Thailand and Cambodia, which each contribute 18% ofthe runoff There are ... analysis ofthe impacts of various human activities in the Mekong Basin Rather, it examines activities only insofar as they might influence the likelihood of establishment and the impacts of introduced ... poldering of certain areas Drastic changes in the nature of floodplain habitats together with the loss of floodplain area may result in the disappearance of many ofthe species that depend on these...
... Other than jeopardizing the health and quality oflifeofthe residents, there were little evidence of flagrant violation of other human rights articles unlike the other cases reviewed below The ... in the Third World are: the murder of Wilson Pinheiro and Francisco “Chico” Mendes in the Amazon rain forest, the massacre of Father Nery Lito Satur and several others in the Philippines, and the ... hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other members ofthe Movement for the Survival ofthe Ogoni People (MOSOP) in November 1995 in Nigeria The subsequent detention, torture, and repression of other...
... demonstrated that these caveolae functioned in the uptake and hydrolysis of cholesteryl ester from HDL The involvement of SR-B1 in this uptake was indicated by the inhibition ofthe uptake by the SR-BI ... contamination ofthe plasma membrane fraction may be the source ofthe small amounts of TGN38, but it is unlikely that the closed VHD-caveolae fraction is Golgi ⁄ microsomal membrane, for the following ... in the VHD-caveolae with the same relation to caveolin-1 as in the HD-caveolae and LD-caveolae; (c) the VHD-caveolae contained almost a third ofthe plasma membrane caveolin, and the majority of...
... the O9 atom, lies at the base ofthe binding pocket formed by the backbone atoms of Asn175 [12,18] (Fig 4) Although site-directed mutations cannot change the nature ofthe backbone, we nevertheless ... in the presence of a fixed concentration of CTP of 0.154 mm, it was not possible to saturate the enzyme, and only an estimate ofthe kcat ⁄ Km for Neu5Ac could be made from the gradient ofthe ... treatment ofthe D211A mutant increased the activity by more than four-fold Increasing the concentration of Mg2+ had little effect on the D209A mutant These differences perhaps reflect the nature of the...
... Howwere the Guidelinesdeveloped? The Guidelines are the culmination of a 2-year effort in which the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part ofthe National Institutes of ... professional makes a diagnosis of an EGID after finding high levels of immune cells called eosinophils in a biopsy from the GI tract The symptoms of these disorders depend on which part ofthe ... eczema) is a disease ofthe skin Symptoms include scaly, itchy rashes and blistering, weeping, or peeling ofthe skin The causes ofthe disease are unclear There may be a problem in the skin’s ability...
... Bourdieu, the essence of this system does not lie in the fact that there is a gift and a counter-gift, but in the lapse of time between the two, the size and value of each ofthe gifts, the persons ... areas The fact that the material of many of these campaigns has not been fully published means that there is unequal data for the different parts ofthe site Similarly, the quality ofthe data ... considered a landmark in the research of Mycenaean pottery in the Levant Not only did these discoveries establish the presence of Mycenaean pottery in the northern Levant, the amounts of that pottery...
... practice the tuning ofthe machines, they should be able to get the required quality and productivity The fear of failure or of spoiling the costly machines make the management think of taking the ... their marks and the way in which they answer in the interviews, but grumble them as not up to the mark when they start working in the industry The colleges give lot of information to the students ... very crucial, as the success of a product in the market, the economy ofthe company, etc., depend on the quality ofthe process A good process aims at highest productivity with the required quality...
... more recently the share ofthe industry in the value added, indicators of employment and wages, etc The share of forestry in the creation of GNP in the Czech Republic is based on the natural conditions, ... related activities The position of forestry within the national economy is expressed by means of macroeconomic indicators the most important of which are indicators ofthe creation of gross national ... functions of forests – their hitherto development and prediction of future prospects In these intentions the paper will discuss some dynamic series of forest production and their trends including official...
... over years The probability of gene origin was calculated from the genetic contributions ofthe founders ofthe current population [2, 3, 13, 15] A founder is defined as an parents in the file This ... male offspring and each female with a female offspring to the next generation, 2) standardize the family size minimizing the variance and 3) increase the generation intervals, that is, lengthen the ... breeding policy would be that which would calculate the effective number of founders and the inbreeding coefficient ofthe hypothetical offspring of each possible populating couple In this way, those...
... contained all cases of co-morbid depression and anxiety (n = 37), all cases of depression alone (n = 172), and the majority of cases of anxiety alone (n = 362) The remaining third of anxiety cases ... either on the hazard ratios for psychiatric disorder or on the hazard ratios for the categories with valid values The only exception was for the model adjusting for alcohol consumption where the ... increase the risk of death from cardiovascular disease or cancer [7,35] Third, it is possible that the effects observed relate not to the psychiatric disorders but to the effects of their treatment,...
... high level till the end ofthe cell cycle The TR activity was higher in the presence of selenite than in the presence of selenate (Figure 7A) Similarly the TR activity increased in the strains SeIV ... divide at the 30th hour (Figure 6D) The initial TR activity in both wild type and resistant strains was the same at the beginning ofthe cell cycle (about mU × mg-1) During the growth phase ofthe ... involved in the mechanisms of selenium tolerance [34] Here, we studied the response ofthe wild type ofthe green alga Scenedesmus quadricauda and its three selected strains to the presence of selenite...
... hantaviruses segment 2of SWSVgenerated by the Bayesian method, under the best-fit GTR+I+Γ model of evolution, based on the L-genomic Phylogenetic tree and other Phylogenetic tree generated by the Bayesian ... Bayesian method, under the best-fit GTR+I+Γ model of evolution, based on the L-genomic segment of SWSV and other well-characterized hantaviruses The phylogenetic positions of SWSV variants from ... housed at the Museum of Southwestern Biology That is, while these tissues were not collected for the purposes of our current and past studies, their ready accessibility has facilitated the rapid...
... k=1,2 The algorithm consists of four parts: the generation ofthe index matrix N, the determination of matrix L, the calculation ofthe condensed gametic relationship matrix G∗ , and finally, the ... (7a) (7b) where Ns(i),k is the index ofthe kth MQTL-allele (k = 1, 2) ofthe sire s(i) and Nd(i), j is the index ofthe jth MQTL-allele ( j = 1, 2) ofthe dam d(i) of Dependencies in gametic ... 0 r 1−r where the first matrix ofthe product is the matrix with the probabilities of descent for the marker alleles and the second is the matrix with the recombination rate r = 0.1...