... accumulating school savings may have effects apart from financing school. Conley (2001) finds that a doubling of net worth results in an 8.3% increase inthe probability of attending college. Further, ... Destin, 2009). Charles, Roscigno, and Torres (2007) is the only study ofthe seven to examine the relationship between parent school savings and college attendance. They find that having savings ... None ofthe existing research examines the effect of youth savings on college attendance, and only one study examines the relationship between parent school savings and college attendance. Theoretical...
... suggested by the lack of coincidence of the changes in relative fluorescence intensity and in k and by the hysteresis ofthe reversibility process(Fig. 4). At the end ofthe transition, the intrinsic ... that of the wild-type; however, the integrity ofthe calcium bind-ing site formed by Asp287 and Glu53 is essential forinteraction with the cation in 7.9 m GdmCl.An interesting finding ofthe ... observed for the wild-type,indicating the involvement of Glu53 and Asp287 in the interaction with the cation (Fig. 1E,F). The regain of aromatic chirality at 295 nm andinthe 260–270 nmregion for...
... for the central roleof ADAM10 and confirming thatTACE has a minor roleinthe a-secretase cleavage of APP in human cells.During the course ofthe present study it was reportedusing an RNA interference ... critically involved in blood pressure regulation due to its action in generatingangiotensin II andin inactivating bradykinin [1]. The enzyme also has a roleinthe development of vascularpathology and ... acid-basedmetalloprotease inhibitors [14] inthe presence or absence of APMA. Inthe majority of cases there was little differencebetween the effect of inhibitors on the constitutive shedding of ACE andthe APMA-induced...
... providedfurther insight into the molecular mechanism driving the formation ofthe covalent C115–fosfomycin adduct. Aconservative exchange of K22 to arginine maintains fosfo-mycin binding, while ... in fosfomycinbinding, andin view ofthe multitude of interactions, it wasassumed that deletion of a single interaction would not leadto a complete loss of fosfomycin binding. Therefore it ... form ofthe protein. The results obtained with the K22V/R120K doublemutant protein point toward a central roleof arginine 120 in the conformational process occurring during catalysis.Therefore,...
... UniversityRegional Learning Alliance – workforce development and training/collaborations with business and industry; meeting the training and education needs of businesses within 60 mile radius in Northern Allegheny ... Programs and InitiativesBusiness accelerators and/ or entrepreneurial initiativesLinking teaching and research to business opportunitiesCollaboration with local business and industrySmall Business ... substanceStimulate intellectual growth and individual productive capacityEnsure a stable supply of knowledge and skills in high need areasIncrease the size, diversity of skills and productivity ofthe labor...
... recruiting large enterprises with tax breaks, financial incentives, and other induce-ments. Instead, they are relying on building businesses from the groundup and supporting the growth of existing ... well. They include constraints on the supply of labor and otherinputs, upward pressure on wages and rents, congestion of infrastruc-ture, and (if fiscal incentives are provided to the locating ... recruiting large firms with tax incentives and otherinducements is to focus on the small business sector. Perhaps the great-est generator of interest in entrepreneurship and small business is the widely...
... domain is one of the few ACPs in which valine replaces isoleucine (I) orleucine (L) inthe conserved sequence. To determinewhether DptF is the putative partner of DptE, weexpressed dptF using ... dptF using the pQTev vector in E. coli and purified the resulting ACP as an N-terminal His7 fusionprotein (Fig. 3) with a yield of 9.5 mgặL)1 of culture. The identity ofthe protein was proven ... [37].Interestingly, inthe case ofthe lipopeptide surfactin,neither an acyl CoASH ligase-like domain nor an ACPcould be identified within the biosynthetic gene clusterusing bioinformatic tools...
... OS-fitness ofthe clone, the ratio ofthe specicabsorbance inthe presence of 10 lgặmL)1HEL to that in the absence of HEL was taken as an index.To analyze the effect ofthe type of each FR2 ... antigen in itself [7,20]. Atleast for these antibodies, theroleofthe VLdomainmight be to increase the affinity by supporting the VHdomain. The phenomenon may also be observed in the chain ... correlation between the antigen-binding affinity andthe VH⁄ VLinteraction, especially inthe presence of aset of particular VLresidues. The effect ofthe H39 mutation on the wild-type variable...
... & Lynch, K. (1999).Offeringahand to pragmatic understanding: Theroleof speech and gesture in comprehension and memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 40,577–592.Lansing, C. R., & McConkie, ... gestures and facial cues seeking the most infor-mative cue according to the content ofthe lecture. The results of the questionnaire revealed that the majority of those whoreported they paid ... minimal reference to the outline duringrecording. The first part ofthe lecture covered definitions of terms and a brief history of ceramics, which tended to be done in narrative form. Most of...
... of roles and statuses, not inthe feeling-state of one or another type of personality (p.6-7) Whereas sociological ambivalence in conceptualized as resulting from conflicting social roles ... This finding is just reverse ofthe finding of Belk (1973). Ruth, Brunel, Otnes (1999) classified categories of gift-giving into public occasion (i.e., Christmas, Chinese New Year), individual ... (1973) examined the frequency of all gift-giving occasions in the U.S and found that the most popular occasion is birthday (35 percent) andthe second one is Christmas (29 percent). The other...
... mainly individuals and small businesses, the traditional target client group of savings banks. By capturing and channelling more of the remittances into the financial system and intermediating ... out of the savings banks movement, have done a Bringing the Hidden Giants to the Footlight: theRoleof Savings and Retail Banks in Increasing the Level of Access to Financial ServicesChris ... for disbursing of loans and collecting loan repayments. Another promising track for savings banks is to invest their savings deposits in microfinance institutions by specialising in wholesale...
... documents and find that the fea-ture vectors corresponding to some of these docu-ments (particularly the short ones) have all zeroes in them. In other words, none ofthe bigrams from the training ... one in which the author himself likes the movie, andinthe other, the author’s cousin likes the movie. The over-generalization resulting from these “stemmed” re-lations renders dependency information ... extracting objective materials and re-moving them from the reviews is not effective in terms of improving performance. To determine the reason, we examine the n-grams andthe depen-dency relations...
... bridging the A’ and G b-strands ofthe I27 protein during the main unfold-ing barrier.[39]To further validate this view and gain insight into the roleof solvent hydrogen bonds in protein unfolding, ... rapidly, causing the unfolding of one of the I27 modules inthe chain. Unfolding then extends the over-all length ofthe protein, relaxing the pulling force to a lowvalue. As the slack inthe length ... Snapshot ofthe b-strands A’ and G ofthe I27 proteinshowing the protein backbone only for simplicity. C) Snapshot ofthe b-strands A’ and G ofthe I27 protein showing 4 D2O molecules bridging the protein...
... (glycero-)sphingolipids. In addition the fatty acid chains ofthe phospholipids composingthese rigid domains are generally more saturated thanthose inthe lipids ofthe surrounding membrane. In fact, this ... cluster in response to extracellular stimuli andthe size of the domains containing those clusters has been estimated. In summary, multiple lines of evidence have helped toargue in favour ofthe ... carefully.Isolation of lipid rafts ⁄ caveolae is very often the firststep inthe biochemical analysis oftheroleof thesedomains in cellular signalling. After disruption of cells,lipid rafts...