... forces One advantage of solving for motion through numerical integration of equations of motion rather than applying conditions of equilibrium in a static or quasistatic formulation is that there ... During the simulation, accelerations are producedby forces acting in combination: multiple muscle forces, gravity, and ground reaction forces, for example To determine the accelerations producedby ... minimizes some objective function such as the aggregate deviation from a given motion Each of these choices has the potential to affect the performance ofthe simulation and thus may also affect the...
... which forms the fruit and incloses the seed The stamens andthe pistil are the essential organs of a flower, because they, and they only, are needed in the formation of seeds The pollen from the ... are the lungs ofplantsThe food taken in bytheroots has to pass through the stem to the leaves to be acted upon bythe air, before it becomes sap and is fit to be used forthe growth ofthe ... great office oftherootsof all plants is the taking in of food from the soil Thick or fleshy roots, such as the radish, are stocks of food prepared forthe future growth ofthe plant, or for the...
... division The latter encompasses the region identified by Vartanian and Goel (2004), and has been related with the assessment ofthe relevance of motivational and emotional information andthe regulation ... Regarding the results ofthe three studies, we shall consider only the contrasts performed between the conditions of positively and negatively valued stimuli Kawabata and Zeki (2004) and Vartanian and ... prominent For these reasons, the remainder ofthe present work we will concentrate onthe studies by Kawabata and Zeki (2004), Vartanian and Goel (2004) and CelaConde et al (2004) Summary ofthe neuroimaging...
... techniques bearing in mind the likely costs and benefits of a measure andthe principles of precaution and prevention” These considerations include the information published bythe Commission ... characteristics ofthe installation concerned, its geographical location andthe local environmental conditions In all circumstances, the conditions ofthe permit must include provisions onthe minimisation ... relevant for determining BAT and BAT-based permit conditions This information includes the consumption and emission levels considered achievable by using the technique, some idea ofthe costs and the...
... reduced, andthe carrier gas flow rate and sampling depth are adjusted, so that the ions are sampled from a region ofthe plasma where the ionization is carefully controlled Thus, ionization ofthe ... operation Removal of carbon The presence of high levels of organic solvent in the sample aerosol can lead to deposition of carbon (soot) onthe sampling cone, eventually leading to clogging ofthe ... water solvent and so another source of oxygen is required For this second group of organic solvents, the oxygen for carbon decomposition is provided by addition of a small percentage of oxygen directly...
... in the areas of protein- lipid interactions and channel functions and who provided the committee with an initial assessment of a subset ofthe proposal submissions The goal ofthe second RFP for ... Allocation of Supercomputing Time fortheStudyof Molecular Dynamics, Second Round Committee on Proposal Evaluation for Allocation of Supercomputing Time fortheStudyof Molecular Dynamics, Second ... letter describes the work and transmits the final report ofthe Committee on Proposal Evaluation for Allocation of Supercomputing Time fortheStudyof Molecular Dynamics, Second Round The committee...
... The conservator must quickly formulate a conservation strategy for preventive conservation, and apply all necessary controls before, during, and at the end ofthe process of restoration 2.7 Forecasting ... education in the field of cultural heritage, based onthe directions and recommendations given in the Professional Guidelines ofthe European Confederation of ConservatorRestorers Organisation (ECCO) ... Diagnosis of previous modifications or restorations 2.6 Assistance to the conservator/restorer 2.7 Forecasting and optimisation ofthe short- and long-term destiny in the present conservation conditions...
... K) ofthe insulating medium and (iii) the reciprocal ofthe separation, t, between the plates The relation is given by' ·' C = Kfj 1.3 t If the area ofthe plates andthe separation between them ... layer of proteins and other ions that are negatively charged The quantity of adsorbed anions in turn depends onthe size and number of particles present in unit volume of latex and hence onthe ... procedures in the field are not uncommon Third, many are ignorant ofthe fact that the DRC is a variable properly of latex and it varies depending onthe season, weather, soil conditions, clone of the...
... Here one creates a series of mutants for both proteins By measuring the Kd values for combinations of mutants, one can assess whether the influence of mutation X in protein A onthe complex formation ... mutagenesis to derive information for docking, one considers as candidates only the residues that are onthe surface ofthe partner proteins The general idea then is that mutation of an interface residue ... assessment of which residues ofthe labeled molecule are perturbed bythe formation ofthe complex One then repeats this procedure with the second molecule labeled Under the assumption that the perturbed...
... − X.) For both linear and nonlinear difference equations, we obtain, by use of our method, a bound ofthe solution ofthe difference equation under consideration Moreover, in the case of nonlinear ... equations, we use a constructive technique, which allows us to obtain a region, depending onthe initial conditions andthe parameters ofthe equations, where the solution ofthe difference equation ... order to study partial difference equations of three and four variables The aim of this paper is to present the generalization of this functional-analytic method forthestudyof linear and nonlinear...
... more books on traveling and learn more vocabulary on different aspects Standing before one of my historical vestiges, how can I tell my tourists about the history of my country andthe courageous ... television and radio Whenever I find a new word whose pronunciation I not know I should look it up in the “Every man’s English Pronouncing Dictionary” by Daniel Jones, a very precious dictionary for ... so one of my ways of improving my English is to read books on a variety of subjects: science, sociology, anthropology, geology, entomology, political science and so on If I read books on one...
... II, onthe other hand, separates strains onthe basis of intrastrain variance in phenotype The third component, represented by height ofthe spheres above the plane, is largely a function of stochastic ... inspection and interpretation of their data One advantage of ordination techniques over clustering techniques is that they make no assumption about the presence of clusters in the data Clusters, if ... Strains and cluster together and are more similar to strains and 10 than the other strains Strains and 10 share the fact that they are segregating one l A allele and three A alleles Forthe remaining...
... Reorganization of HCV receptor, cell adhesion and tight junction protein localization in 3-D Huh7 aggregates Reorganization of HCV receptor, cell adhesion and tight junction protein localization in ... staining of this marker was apparent in distinct areas of 3-D Huh7 aggregates (Fig 3) Taken together, these data demonstrate that the expression and distribution of cell adhesion and TJ proteins, ... model for investigating HCV entry, particularly the interaction, organization, and stoichiometry of HCV receptors and TJ proteins Additional analyses to determine the extent of differentiation and...
... Reorganization of HCV receptor, cell adhesion and tight junction protein localization in 3-D Huh7 aggregates Reorganization of HCV receptor, cell adhesion and tight junction protein localization in ... staining of this marker was apparent in distinct areas of 3-D Huh7 aggregates (Fig 3) Taken together, these data demonstrate that the expression and distribution of cell adhesion and TJ proteins, ... model for investigating HCV entry, particularly the interaction, organization, and stoichiometry of HCV receptors and TJ proteins Additional analyses to determine the extent of differentiation and...
... suitable for a specific kind of experimental model Here, we focus onthe development of each of these models forthestudyof human retroviral infection, i.e., with HIV-1 and HTLV-1 The comparison of ... receptors on B cells, which then interact with corresponding ligands on CD4+ T cells, allowing for either viral entry andthe expression of viral proteins or the productive infection of susceptible ... studyof retroviral infection The identification of HIV-1 as the causative agent of AIDS was followed only a year later bythe recruitment of chimpanzees forthe purpose of in vivo research into the...
... hybridization to other viral amplicons or the majority ofthe human amplicons, demonstrating the specificity ofthe immunoprecipitation and hybridization Following induction of viral gene expression and ... Additional File 14 Table listing the identity ofthe PCR primers used forthe production ofthe amplicons, their exact coordinates onthe genomes, the sizes ofthe probes generated andthe success ... to amplicons of other viruses, only two (proviral LTR and nef) ofthe 11 spotted regions ofthe HIV-1 genome hybridized to the DNA sample The G/C content ofthe entire coding region of HIV is...
... reaction Kd is defined bythe law of mass action: ratio ofthe concentrations ofthe free receptor [R] andthe free ligand [L], to the concentration ofthe complex [RL] The concentrations ofthe ... autocorrelation function (ACF) or the cross-correlation function (CCF) Onthe other hand, the fluctuation correlation function requires the calculation ofthe intensity time average before calculating the ... profile ofthe excitation light and CEF (r) is the collection efficiency function that characterizes the spatial filtering effect ofthe pinhole onthe point spread function (PSF) The PSF ofthe optical...
... 1.9 Rationales and specific aims ofthestudy 1.9.1 Rationales ofthestudy 1.9.2 Specific aims ofthestudy 54 54 57 Chapter Evaluation ofthe immune responses induced by immunization with different ... responses through the modulation of T cell activation threshold The differential expression ofsome TGF-β related genes have further validated the induction ofthe TGF-β1 signaling pathway andthe ... than the spent waste (Platts-Mills TAE et al., 1992) Der p protein is encoded by two exons The first exon encodes for a signal peptide and part ofthe mature proteinThe second exon codes for the...
... the structural components ofthe lung and have shown that, rather than being a passive bystander in the inflammatory process, these components can have a profound influence onthe nature ofthe ... maturation ofthe dendritic cells and antigen presentation to T cells TSLP and IL-33 producedbythe epithelial cells induce the polarization ofthe immune response to a Th2-type response Th2 CD4 ... in the severity of their responses and many patients were responsive to more than one triggering factor The most common form of asthma andthe focus of most ofthe research in the field is allergic...
... determine the degree of tumour progression in HCC Staging is based onthe size, number and distribution ofthe primary lesion and also onthe presence of vascular invasion, lymph node involvement and ... gene (Wilkins et al., 1996) Consequently, when only the transcriptome is analyzed, information onprotein isoforms is lost In addition, since only a subset ofprotein isoforms may be immunogenic ... death and inflammation, reparative liver regeneration is initiated This involves the enhancement of cellular division andthe differentiation and multiplication of liver stem cells The regeneration...