... publication of easily accessible and free -of- charge abstracts of European standards with a clear indication of changes made whenever standards are revised. The Commission will, and the Member ... to finance and, at the same time, provide important leverage for the capital available for lending. As part of its overall proposal on the post-2013 Multiannual Financial Framework, the Commission ... market access strategies and participation in trade fairs (Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the...
... four years whichexplains the fact that the available data dates back to 1996. A cross-country comparison ofthe innovation indicators can help identify national strengths,and areas of weaknesses ... which the relevantstatistical data is available, to compare the performances ofthe European Union with those of the United States and Japan. The scoreboard is designed to capture the main drivers ... firstintroduced. It may take time for the benefits of change and innovation to be appreciated. The media are important as a source of information on progress in research and innovation: theyalso draw attention...
... North American studiesall causesrespiratorycardiovascularall causesrespiratorycardiovascularall causesrespiratorycardiovascularall causesrespiratorycardiovascularNote: There were ... critical interface between the environment and the human body. An average person takes about 10 million breaths a year, and toxic substances in air can easily reach the lung and other organs ... peer-reviewed European studies was there-fore conducted to obtain summary estimates for certain air pollutants and health effects. The data for these analyses came froma database of time-series...
... regional and district level medical staff and their partners in the region of Kolda and Fatick. c. Capacity building aimed at mainstreaming ARH activities is continuing. A national training of ... Population Training and Research (CEFOREP) plan for the scale-up of adolescent health programs with funding fromthe AWARE Project in Burkina Faso and Mali. e. The Mauritanian Ministry of ... other Francophone African countries a. A national strategic plan for ARH was developed in Guinea with technical assistance from FRONTIERS. Guinean MOH staff at the highest level played a strong...
... protein sequence. Angle, the calculated angle between the helix axis and the plane ofa model membrane. ASA, accessible surface area. +, the peptide has an adequate mean surface accessibility‡ ... 87–111.13 Iwanaga S, Okada M, Isawa H, Morita A, Yuda M &Chinzei Y (2003) Identification and characterization of novel salivary thrombin inhibitors fromthe ixodidaetick, Haemaphysalis longicornis. ... inhibitor of leu-kocyte elastase – and some of its putative physiologicalactivities. In this regard, the proinflammatory effects of fragments generated from extracellular matrix deg-radation by elastase...
... Chordata (Pallu-sia nigra, Microcosmus gamus, Molgula occidentalisand Pyura vittata); 11 species of Cnidaria (Bartholo-mea annulata, Budonosoma granulifera, Cassiopeaxamachana, Condylactys ... magnifica Phylum Annelida, Class Polychaeta, SubclassPalpata, Order Canalipalpata, Suborder Sabellida, Family Sabellidae,Genus Sabellastarte [14] The ‘tentacle crown’ and the ‘body’ parts of ... gigantea, Gorgonia ventalina,Lebrunia danae, Palythoa caribaeorum, Physalia phy-salis, Plexaura homomalla, Stichodactyla helianthus andZoanthus pulchellus); two species of Annelida (Sabellas-tarte...
... cerevisiaeMAP kinase cascades typically composed of three tiers of protein kinases, a MAP kinase (MAPK), a MAPK kinase(MAPKK) and a MAPKK kinase (MAPKKK), arecommon signalling modules in eukaryotic cells ... chosenn parameter perturbations. All these approaches arebased on parameter perturbation experiments whichare, however, not always achievable in many practicalcases.In this paper, we therefore ... experimental data containing (partially) cor-rect dynamic pattern changes then we can infer the (partial) interaction structure ofthe underlying cellularnetwork by integrating the analysis results...
... purification of the recombinant enzymeIn order to c onstruct an expression vector for Cl -idh,twooligonucleotides (sense, 5Â -A AAAACATATGGCAAGCAAATCGACCATCATCTACAC-3Â, and antisense, 5Â-AAAAAGGATCCCGGCTGAAAACCGGGCTGCATTA-3Â)were ... sequenceswere obtained with the programALIGNcontained within the CLUSTALWprogram provided by DNA Data Bank of Japan(DDBJ). The sequence data was analyzed usingGENETYXsoftware package (Software Development, ... 3.6-fold greater t hanthat of malate and 21-fold greater t han that ofthe sum of citrate and isocitrate. I n addition,14CO2-labeling indicatedthat oxaloacetate was one ofthe first stable products...
... racemicmixtures of certain amino acids with side chains containingpolar groups. The side-chain selectivity ofthe acetyl-acceptor wasprobed, assayingL-aspartate andD-aspartate,L -a- amin-oadipic acid,L-leucine, ... OAT from B. stearothermophilus andT. neapolitana, radioactive studies have indicated that thereis a covalent acetylation ofthe enzyme during catalysis [25].By analogy with other N-terminal ... acetylglutamate synthase (ARGA), the acetylgroup can be recycled, thus feeding the first step of the pathway. Some OATs are bifunctional, being capable of forming N-acetylglutamate from acetyl-CoA and...
... conditions[4,18,19]. The optimal pH for the purified cellulase from the larval gut of P. hilaris against CMC was also 5.5. This isreasonable for the physiological function of cellulase activityin larval guts as ... glucose, because thereare few other potential mechanisms for eliminating it.ThemolecularmassofP. hilaris cellulase deduced from its DNA sequence is 36.0 kDa. The apparent molecularmass ofthe purified ... hilaris cellulase was, however,estimated to be 47 kDa from its mobility on SDS/PAGE.N-Terminal amino-acid sequencing analysis indicated thatthematureproteinofP. hilaris cellulase was a truncatedform,...
... To evaluate spatial and temporal associations, the data wereanalyzed as pairs of cases; spatial linkage was defined based in location within the sameelectoral ward. Temporal linkage was an overlap ... Alterations of Nutritional Status in Childhood AcuteLeukemia 277Alejandra Maldonado-Alcázar, Juan Carlos Núñez-Enríquez, CarlosAlberto Garc a- Ruiz, Arturo Fajardo-Gutierrez and Juan ManuelMej a- AranguréContentsVI ... viruses asymptomatically, with only a few of them developing a re‐lated-neoplasia. On the other hand, the retroviruses are also good candidates, as theyalready have been implicated in leukemias....
... nucleotide-binding activity of tissue transglutaminase andits regulation of transamidating activity. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci.USA 99, 2743–2747.56. Nakamura, A. , Okagaki, T., Takagi, T., Nakashima, K., Yazawa, ... and5Â-ATAGTCGACTTAAACGACAATAACTTG-3Â.Next, the resulting DNA fragment was inserted into BamHI andSalI of pET-24d vector (Novagen), which was modified byattaching a His6tag at the N-terminus ofthe ... thatan acyl-transfer reaction identical to that of mammalianTGases is executed in the catalytic reaction of PpTGase.Compared with those of human TGase 2, an additionalregion exists at the amino...
... the health, education, and well-being of children and adolescents including the following: The American Academy of Pediatrics, The American Foundation for AIDS Research, The American Medical ... Medical Association, The American Psychological Association, The American Public Health Association, The Institute of Medicine, The Society for Adolescent Medicine, The National Education Association ... physical and emotional well-being across the lifespan. Although abstinence-only education programs claim to promote morality, it is a sad fact that these programs are ultimately immoral because they...
... of all the b Na-ScTxs from all the a Na-ScTxs. Thea Na-ScTxs have identities ofthe order of 50% among themselves, the same being true for all the b Na-ScTxs (data not shown). However, when the ... toxins are capable of discriminating betweenNa+-channel isoforms ofthe same organism (e.g. the ratbrain isoform rNaV1.1 is 10-fold more sensitive to the action of thea Na-ScTx Lqq5 than the ... than the cardiac isoform rNaV1.5[67]). However, when the overall charge of both the toxinsand the channels are considered together, a plausibleexplanation comes from analysis ofthe other regioninvolved...