... rings The mean weight ofthe 24 bronchial rings was 91 ± mg The mean resting force and the mean normalizedresponse to carbachol were 0.83 ± 0.05 g and 14 ± gr/gr of tissue, without significant differences ... messenger (i.e cAMP) production, and certainly involve the activation of other components downstream ofthe receptor, while the β2-AR may perform functions other than adenylyl cyclase activation ... salbutamol were significantly (P < 0.01) shifted to the left ofthe concentration-response curve of challenged rings (Fig 6) Discussion The major findings ofthe present study can be summarized as...
... the Golden Gate Bridge and to the south for several miles Being a weekday, there were few people on the beach Only the soft sounds of birds in the sky and the water hitting the beach filled the ... Like the Giordano family, the Costellino family was into prostitution, drugs, and the numbers rackets They operated solely in Manhattan and the Bronx and were looking to expand into Giordano territory ... disconnection ofthe second NYC number within ten days ofthe initial contact and would cost them 25 percent ofthe original cost of $100,000 Payment would be made upon completion ofthe job and instructions...
... In these models one typically thinks ofthe sites of Zd as cells which can be of two types (for instance B and A or infected and susceptible) Cells can change their type to the type of one of their ... therefore on the movement of all the other particles In the present case we can take πB = πA , which has the great advantage that the path of ρ does not depend on the paths ofthe other particles ... coincides with any B-particle during [0, s] Therefore, changing the paths of any ofthe particles which start in S u, v, u + 2C5 κ(t) has no influence on the types of any ofthe other particles...
... which there grow abnormally Of such is the crushing predominance of one single tyrannous form ofthe Family, of Country, and ofthe narrow morality which serves them The poor creature is proud of ... urging them to it; you would have thought they were setting out for the Olympian games It was the same with the young men on the other side ofthe Rhine, and there as here, they were escorted by their ... neither musician, theologian, or metaphysician He trusted to the word of Academicians, and only made exceptions in favour of Beethoven, who was Flemish, and Goethe, citizen of a free city and...
... sphingomyelinase-catalyzed ceramide production and subsequent activation ofthe PKCf [15] Bafilomycin A1 (an inhibitor of vacuolar-type H+-ATPases) and the anion channel blocker 4,4¢-diisothiocyanostilbene-2,2¢-disulfonic ... stretch-activated ion channels, cholesterol-enriched microdomains ofthe plasma membrane (caveolae), intracellular organelles, ligandindependent activation of growth factor- and cytokine receptors and autocrine ... (1996) The stimulation of Na ⁄ K ⁄ 2Cl cotransport and of system AS for neutral amino acid transport is a mechanism for cell volume increase during the cell cycle FASEB J 10, 920–926 18 Berman E,...
... synaptic transmission A recent study based on single channel recordings and the use of a-conotoxins MII and AuIB further dissected and correlated the combinatorial and functional heterogeneity ofthe ... membrane transport and targeting of nAChRs [9] The subunit composition of different nAChRs determines the pharmacological and physiological properties ofthe channel In situ hybridization and ... subunits, and was not reliably expressed in combination with b4 subunits, an a6/a3 chimera consisting ofthe extracellular ligand-binding domain ofthe a6 subunit and the transmembrane and intracellular...
... meant a loss of all means of continuing to learn the language from their Russian friends Two hundred English arrived from Guetersloh in their place, and then the departure ofthe French began The ... field of fire for the sentries Owing to the sandy nature ofthe soil, which had all the dirt-causing propensities of coal dust and none ofthe advantages of clean sand, we had to be constantly ... much of a noise and gained the embankment along the top of which ran the road, without causing any suspicion Here I had a breather and then continued my crawl upwards I reached the top ofthe bank...
... mation in the PoS tags and by the need to balance depth of analysis against the size ofthe derivation space On the Susanne corpus, the geometric mean ofthe number of analyses for a sentence of length ... version ofthe XLE parser to the publically available version of Collins’ parser One fifth of DepBank is held out to optimize the speed and accuracy ofthe three systems They conclude from the results ... both the systemspecific nature of some ofthe annotation in DepBank and the scoring reported We, therefore, extend DepBank with a set of grammatical relations derived from our own system output and...
... means they have more time and money on their hands than at any other stage of their lives It is not surprising, therefore, that they spend their consumption dollar differently Retailers and manufacturers ... ten years of age Proximity was the strongest predictor of contact, and British grandparents see more ofthe children of their daughters than their sons (Clarke 2003) The benefits ofan ageing ... the duration of healthy life To what extent can we stave off the adverse effects of ageing? The public is often gullible about claims ofan ‘elixir of life’ that can halt the ageing process The...
... the susceptibility of E coli model membranes to the action of AP1 An important determinant ofthe susceptibility of membranes to a-AMPs is the packing characteristics ofthe individual membrane ... membranes, and, on the basis of these combined data, it is suggested that the peptide functions as an anionic membrane-interactive a-AMP These data also suggest that the antimicrobial activity of ... cm)1 The presence of AP1 caused no apparent shift in the temperature range of these phase transitions but, over this temperature range, induced a signicant decrease in the membrane uidity of E...
... highlight these two points: the value ofthe MBA, and the motives for choosing a particular type of MBA program The Value ofthe MBA To understand what motivates students to enrol in an MBA program, ... Journal of Value - Based Management; 14(3), 247-257 Bubna-Litic, D & Benn, S (2003) THE MBA at the crossroads: Design issues for the future Journal ofthe Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, ... question the value ofthe degree even in the face of continuing program expansion (Pfeffer & Fong, 2004) In light of these criticisms, the present research set out to examine the experiences of North...
... have a profound effect on the detoxification process Because ofthe low affinity of these orphan nuclear receptors (in the range of 1–10 · 10)6 M) and their relatively broad spectrum of ligand specificity, ... nature and the mechanism ofthe reactions involved in the local formation of androstenol is thus of major importance Acknowledgements This work has been supported by a grant from the Canadian Institutes ... 17a-OH-preg and DHEA The lack of androstadienol synthesis in the presence of lM of ketoconazole (C), an inhibitor of cytochrome Fig Thin layer chromatography showing the transformation of pregnenolone,...
... body in vacuum This can be thought of as a model for the motion ofthe ocean or a star The free surface moves with the velocity ofthe liquid and the pressure vanishes on the free surface This ... used the local projection of a tensor onto the tangent space ofthe boundary The paper is organized as follows In Section we reformulate the problem in the Lagrangian coordinates and give the ... we also transform the vector field to the Lagrangian frame and express the operators and identities there; see Lemma 2.5 The estimates in Theorem 2.4 will be derived in the Lagrangian frame since...
... was the first clergyman that had ever been a member of it It consisted of artists and other gentlemen, [86] an equal number of each Cole and Durand and Ingham and Inman and Chapman and Bryant and ... time-hallowed prayers, some ofthe Litanies [82] that have echoed in the ear of all the ages from the early Christian time The churches of Rome and England and Germany have some of these; and in a service-book, ... by the Chevalier Bunsen, there are others, prayers of Basil and of Jerome and Augustine, and ofthe old German time There are beautiful things in them, especially in the old German prayers there...
... Russian language capability The second group had knowledge ofthe discipline, but not the Russian language The third group had the Russian language capability but no expertise in the substance And ... substance And the fourth group had neither knowledge ofthe Russian language nor ofthe discipline ofthe test materials The summary results of this experiment showed that in the case ofthe first ... The Magnitude ofthe Translation Problem Our most immediate concern is with the translation ofthe Russian scientific and technical press for the benefit ofthe American scientific...
... in the year on the x-axis that works in investment banking in the first January after graduation, the fourth January, the seventh January, and the tenth January The Making ofan Investment Banker ... in any analysis where I use the Wharton career data 2610 The Journal of Finance with the 2-year return on the S&P 500 as of June ofthe year of graduation The graph shows that the fraction of ... to Stanford Neither of these results 2618 The Journal of Finance is statistically different from zero nor from the higher and more precise estimates in the rest ofthe table Columns and of Panel...
... understanding ofthe ISA, and definitions The entire text ofan ISA, therefore, is relevant to an understanding ofthe objectives stated in an ISA and the proper application ofthe requirements ofan ISA ... achieve the objectives ofthe ISAs and thereby, the overall objectives ofthe auditor • 14 The nature, timing and extent of audit procedures used to meet the requirements ofthe ISAs and gather ... Because ofthe significance ofthe premise to the conduct ofan audit, the auditor is required to obtain the agreement of management and, where appropriate, those charged with governance that they...
... extract and 20 lgÆmL)1 gentamicin (Centafarm Services, EttenLeur, the Netherlands) The human small cell lung cancer (GLC4) cell line and GLC4 cell line transfected the human multidrug resistance ... NIM811 and PSC833 induce an increase in cytosolic [Ca2+] and production of ROS The discrepancy in the effects of PSC833 between GLC4 cells and isolated mitochondria versus the consistency in the ... according to the Newman–Keuls multiple comparison test A B Fig Effects of different concentrations of CsA and its analogs on the Ca2+-dependent induction of opening ofthe MPTP The data are representative...
... brilliants ofan unusual size, and had not the arms emblazoned upon the door of his chair, in spite ofthe dust and dirt, betrayed a noble rank The arms were those ofthe Ostermann family, and ... woman, and she trembled when thinking ofthe poison, the dagger, the throttling hands, and flaying sword, which had constantly beset the throne of Russian, and in a manner had been the means ... precisely the man whom all had desired for their emperor And, standing in the centre of these halls, they read to Biron the testament ofthe deceased Empress Anna: that testament designated Ivan, the...
... aspect is the nature and role of metadata in the humanities In the next section the role of metadata in the humanities and thethe ways in which they can facilitate and enhance the application of text ... as the repositories from the analogue era used to be All kinds of coordination bodies and action plans exist to further the field of Digital Humanities, among which The Alliance of Digital Humanities ... suitability of items for training purposes Exchange mechanisms for best practices e.g., of building and updating training data, the 13 ofthe Digital Humanities for the further shaping of that part of the...