... said: the great masses of humanity are using the Law destructively, or partially so, and the scales are balanced against them. Here and there, among the masses, we find an occasional outstanding ... as the beasts ofthe field, the birds ofthe air and the fish ofthe sea are bountifully supplied. For any man, no matter what his station in life, to take the stand that it is the destiny of ... that I had met my deliverer, and at the close ofthe performance was overjoyed at his invitation to accompany him to a nearby café. I noticed that the attention of those in the café was drawn...
... lineages of mitochondrial DNA exist among the San (‘Bushmen’) of southern Africa and the Biaka Pygmies ofthe modern Central African Republic. About 100,000 yearsago, some of these anatomically ... enteredMediterranean trade. Their raids extended at least as far southwards as LakeChad. The Garamantian state peaked during the second and third centuries adwhen the Roman colonies were also most ... truly historical sense emerged; learningconsisted ofa gigantic catalogue of names and attributes; and the law was notcodified. The state was a mass of individual of cials, tasks, and institutions;unlike...
... that I prepared for my new home; and what added to my unhappiness, was the fact that my brother William was purchased by the same family. My father, by his nature, as well as by the habit of ... She was sold to Georgia. brought a charge of theft against any of his slaves, he was browbeaten by the master, who assured him that his slaves had enough of every thing at home, and had no ... secrets of slavery are concealed like those ofthe Inquisition. My master was, to my knowledge, the father of eleven slaves. But did the mothers dare to tell who was the father of their children?...
... contrabandist of the American war, and at every trip she made she carried away a number of women and children. Meanwhile wewaited for the arrival ofthe American man -of- war which was to put the ... me of the reply ofthe local commandant ofthe army at Mostar when one ofthe consuls remonstrated at the authorities having taken no action in a case of peculiarly brutal assassination in the ... American journals of Mr. Morris and myself. As the result of these intrigues the order to the admiral was recalled. In March a corvette, the Canandaigua, came for a short stay, but the manner of the...
... disseminated, a start was made on applying systems for the storage and sharing of experience and knowl-edge, with the active participation of the majority ofthe workers. The company set the strategic ... satisfactionwith their work. The results are valued on a Likert scale of 1to 7 for the different items. Over the last few years, the averagesatisfaction index—calculated as the average ofthe values givento ... the participation of all the members ofthe organiza-tion.* Implementation ofa KM strategy is developedthrough several phases. The process starts withdissemination ofthe ideas to all ofthe organiza-tion...
... functionality ofthe ADO Recordset's GetRows( ) method. The sample code contains an event handler and a method: Go Button.Click Sets up the sample by creating a DataTable containing the Orders table ... the rows and columns in the table. The number of columns in the array is set to hold either all ofthe columns in the table or the subset of columns defined by the optional string array of column ... = Math.Min(nRows, rowCount); // Create an object array to hold the data in the table. Array a = Array.CreateInstance(typeof(object), nRows, nCols); // Iterate over the collection of...
... by a set of predicted hazard rates. Impact assessment requires quantification ofthe impact ofa change in hazard rates. But we may treat the calculations done so far as representing a baseline ... locations, and that factors such as the nature and level of air pollution, as well as the health status ofthe population may determine the extent of that variability (2,27,34,35). Analyses of effect ... equal the size ofthe population at the start of 2000; but the temporal pattern ofthe deaths depends will differ if the hazards are changed, and the total number of life years will change....
... because ofthe absence ofthe catalyticsubunit ISP (Table 1). Figure 3A shows that a band of approximately 500 kDa was also found in this mutantstrain when the mitochondrial membranes were ana-lyzed ... dimerization ofthe bc1complex atthis stage (i.e. just after the addition of ISP and Qcr10p).On the other hand, in the transition from the 500 kDaband to the 670 kDa band, a structural rearrangement of ... were of analytical grade.Yeast strains and growth media The genotypes and sources ofthe S. cerevisiae strains aredescribed in Table 2. The ISP deletion strain wasprepared in accordance with the...
... Institute of BioAgricultural Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC2 Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC3 Department of Biochemistry, University of Minnesota College of ... structure-based analysis of staphylococcal nuclease. Proteins: Structure, Functionand Genetics 27, 171–183.15 Flanagan JM, Kataoka M, Fujisawa T & EngelmanDM (1993) Mutations can cause large changes ... reportedthat multiple mutations can cause large changes in the average conformation of denatured proteins. Here weshow that a specific single mutation or removal of a specific fragment can cause large...
... higher value almost 2.5-fold higher than the native cold adapted enzyme (Table 1). The mutantG26 1A/ Y26 9A exhibits an E a almost the same as in the caseofthenativeenzyme(Table1).Thermal inactivation ... gene encoding alkaline phosphatasefrom the Antarctic strain TAB5 [16]. Based on the crystalstructure (at 2.4 A ˚)ofanEscherichia coli alkaline phospha-tase variant with a 28% amino-acid sequence ... from the AntarcticTable 1. Enzymatic and thermodynamic parameters ofthe psychrophilic alkaline phosphatase and mutants. Reported values were determined at10 °C. The kcatvalues were calculated...
... the papacy and ofthe monastic orders and the emergence ofa feudal civilization out ofthe chaos ofthe Dark Ages, the constant preoccupation of architecture was to evolve from the basilica type ... the above phases of Western art; one under the influence of Mohammedan civilization, another in the Brahman and Buddhist architecture of India, and the third in China and Japan. The first of these ... support, and hence the nature ofthe structural design. A comparison, for example, ofthe plans of the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak (Fig. 11, h) and ofthe Basilica of Constantine (Fig. 58) shows at...
... b-strand 3 and a- helix 3 ofthe barrel, and a C-terminal, domain C, folded as an antiparallel b-sheet[17–23]. Acarbose is a pseudotetrasaccharide inhibitor of a- amylase, that acts like a transition-state ... fromSigma. Maltodextrin of average DP18 (2.9 kDa) wasfrom Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories (Okayama,Japan). Reduction ofthe DP18-maltodextrin to the corresponding alcohol was performed as earlier ... lMdecreasing to 37.3 lMby addition of acar-bose. A 0is the AMY1 absorbance without acarbose, A is the absorbance measured at the above acarbose concentrations.(B) Reciprocal plot ofthe difference...
... 2002 Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) for assistance in the chemicalsynthesis of inhibitor analogues. We thank Dr Yuch-Cheng Jean of the Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and ... 13129–13137.12. Yamakawa, Y. & Omori-Satoh, T. (1992) Primary structure of the antihemorrhagic factor in serum ofthe Japanese Habu: a snakevenom metalloproteinase inhibitor with a double-headed cystatindomain. ... shchiou@gate.sinica.edu.twand A. H J. Wang, Institute of Biological Chemistry, AcademiaSinica, Nankang, Taipei, Taiwan.Fax: +886 227882043, E-mail: ahjwang@gate.sinica.edu.twAbbreviations:...
... till their hands and legs swell up and they can hardly walk? What about the tears and pain of their mothers? Or are they all expendable as long as you get that cool gadget on time?This is how the ... a Dictator A Short and Snappy GuideBecome an Atheist A Short and Snappy GuideMind Candies for a Lousy Day A Short and Snappy GuideGet to the Point! A Short and Snappy GuideHe can be contacted ... international companies take advantage of that. They don’t go to third world countries to improve diplomatic and cultural relations; they go there because there are no proper labor rules and...