... contributed to the interpretation of findings and writing ofthe paper; VMM collaborated on the design ofthe original survey study and contributed to the interpretation of findings and writing ofthe paper; ... evidence ofthe differential effects of gender and sexual orientation minority status on the receipt of mental health and substance abuse treatment, beyond the influence ofthe presence of a diagnosable ... encourages the seeking of professional help for problems that are assumed to derive from individual distress, or fromthe internalization ofthe stigma ascribed to homosexuality by some [58] Further, the...
... edu i is the education level ofthe leader of firm t expit is the years of experience ofthe leader of firm i in the year t 3.4 Regression Analysis Taking into account that the firms’ profits are ... initialasseti is the initial asset ofthe founder for firm i when established assetit is the total asset of firm i in the year t laborit is the amount of employees of firm i in the year t 43 In the meantime, ... alter the regression output much The board chairman master most ofthe shares; 38.57% of them own the firm independently (own 100% shares) Then, for the incentive reason, managers (CEOs and other...
... level of health and possession of western or Chinese medicine insurance coverage patterns of OTC and medical service use as dependent variables Dependent variables were classified as ‘OTC use only’ ... medicine community pharmacists might be the only point of contact when they had minor aliments Therefore, there is a need in promoting and extending the roles ofthe western medicine community pharmacists ... integrate pharmacists in the primary care system [20] The role of medical professionals is a dominant factor in defining, controlling and scoping the work ofthe allied health professionals [21,22]...
... agency ofthe Department of Agriculture The first is the threat of fire and fuel This year, forest fires have burned more than three million hectares of land That is almost two times as much as the ... starts to accelerate in the second half of this century, as many scientists expect, the area of warm air will be much larger during the summer than it is now The impact on the jet stream will be ... SATISFACTION Over the years, the development of different theories of management and different approached to organization has affected the way we view motivation In the 19th century, the writer Federick...
... overview ofthe study in which the rationale for the research, the research problem, the purposes, the research questions, the scope ofthe study, the research method, the significance ofthe study, ... terms of: (1) The height ofthe bulk ofthe tongue in the mouth (2) The front/back position ofthe tongue in the mouth (3) The degree of lip-rounding (4) The length of vowels (Roach, 1998: 13-14) ... have the habit of pronounce a new-formed word according to the pronunciation ofthe root one For example, they tend to pronounce the sounds of Exhibition like the sound of Exhibit With the help of...
... elucidation of specific biosynthetic enzymes, and the identification of end-products The complete genetic makeup of an organism has been generated in the plant sciences as well Because ofthe success of ... example, the flow of precursors into the disrupted pathway often results in the accumulation of one or more intermediates upstream ofthe blocked step This is because elevated concentrations ofthe ... All of these data are then used in the second step to reconstruct the biochemical reaction networks that underlie the cellular function of interest When such data are put into the format of a...
... Environment ofthe Commission on the strategic direction ofthe CAFE programme The approaches to answering the questions were rather complex The procedure for preparing the report Health aspects of air ... further example ofthe role of WHO in providing impartial, evidencebased advice to policy-makers that will allow for an effective improvement in the health and quality of life ofthe citizens of ... The designations employed and the presentation ofthe material in this publication not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part ofthe World Health Organization concerning the...
... maximise the accuracy of a nearestneighbour classifier based on these vectors During learning, the prototypes are shifted gradually towards members oftheclass they represent and away from members of ... v e c t o r s : Another lesson of Tab is that the effect ofthe composition ofthe feature vectors can vary depending both on the task and on the size ofthe feature vector The dramatic fall in ... (because of this) are especially frequent in texts from law and science, both of which tend to contain texts of argumentative types The frequency of infinitives of auxiliaries reflects both the use...
... hevamine, the oxygen atom ofthe N-acetyl group ofthe )1 sugar is positioned close to the C1 atom ofthe )1 sugar, and is hydrogen bonded to Tyr183 Asp125 makes a hydrogen bond to the nitrogen atom of ... substrate binding, as the Km value ofthe Tyr183Phe mutant hardly differs from that ofthe wild-type enzyme (Table 4), the Kcat value of this mutant has dropped by 80% (Table 4) Fromthe structural ... methionine residue resulting fromthe cloning procedure has apparently been cleaved off during the maturation ofthe enzyme Enzyme activity studies The lysozyme activities ofthe various hevamine variants...
... fall, so that only the tops ofthe trees and the peaks ofthe church steeples and the rising smoke fromthe houses defined the limits which separated the reality ofthe world from its reflection ... when the first cold storm ofthe world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love fromthe eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love? The ... suggestions; to Prof Feuling, the eminent philologist, ofthe University of Wisconsin, for his literal version ofthe extracts fromthe "Deutsche Theologie," which preserve the quaintness ofthe original,...
... necessity The most powerful of these Rajput chiefs was the Prince of Mewâr who had particularly attracted the attention ofthe Emperor by his support ofthe rebels The control of Mewâr rested upon the ... places, but declares at the bottom of page 135, "The reign of Akbar is one ofthe most important in the history of India; it is one ofthe most important in the history ofthe world"); Mountstuart ... devote themselves to his service, and, under the leadership of their own princes, proved themselves to be the best and truest soldiers ofthe imperial army, even far from their home in the farthest...
... CONTENTS THE BLUEBIRD THE BLUEBIRD (poem) 13 THE ROBIN 15 THE FLICKER 21 THE PHŒBE 28 THE COMING OF PHŒBE (poem) 31 THE COWBIRD 33 THE CHIPPING SPARROW 36 THE CHEWINK 39 THE BROWN THRASHER 42 THE HOUSE ... my hat and out darted one ofthe birds; then I lifted the hat fromthe other One ofthe females then rushed, apparently with notes of joy and congratulation, to one ofthe males, who gave her a ... carry the head as if it were riveted to the body Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow They move the head forward with the movement of the...
... analyzed because it inhibited the production of TNF-a by itself, i.e in the absence of Iris (data not shown) From these results, we conclude that the interaction site responsible for the anti-inflammatory ... ⁄ Pi The effect of these samples on cytokine production by PBMCs activated by LPS was then assessed as described above Prediction of interaction sites The prediction of binding sites fromthe ... order to dissect the mode of action of Iris, we purified large amounts ofthe protein expressed in a baculovirus system We first investigated the ability of Iris to suppress production of TNF-a by PBMC...
... inhibition ofthe PKC a, b1, b2, c, d, e and f isoform enzyme activity in the presence ofthe PKI55 protein and the derived peptides 5, and 9, all tested at a concentration of lM The data are the mean ... peptides The level of PKC a, b1, b2 and f isoforms was also studied Results Synthesis of peptides derived from PKI55 and their inhibitory effect on rat brain PKC A series of peptides was synthesized ... peptides derived fromthe amino acid sequence ofthe PKI55 protein to be used as pharmacological tools The effects ofthe peptides in vitro were studied on recombinant PKCs to identify their inhibitory...
... ‘nested PCR’, using the first PCR product as template To make useofthe BamHI site in the vector and the XbaI site in the EhMGL1 gene, the product ofthe nested PCR was replaced with the corresponding ... Despite the heterogeneity ofthe EhMGL1 preparation used in the previous study [13], the kinetic constants of EhMGL1 in the present study largely agreed with the previous data, except that the relative ... degradation ofthe 35 kDa band excised fromthe SDS ⁄ PAGE gel, and postulated that the truncation was caused by a fortuitous initiation of translation at Met45 due to the similarity ofthe nucleotide...
... complexes, the assembly ensures the transfer of electrons from different sources to oxygen by the respiratory chain complexes and the coupling of proton uptake fromthe matrix compartment [28] The nature ... divergent from that ofthe other classes [34] As redoxal was superior to all the other compounds tested here in inhibiting fungi DHODH, it can be considered an attractive lead for the synthesis of molecules ... At 30 °C, the oxidation ofthe substrate DHO with the quinone cosubstrate was coupled to the reduction ofthe chromogen 2,6-dichloroindophenol The Km of DHO was determined by varying the concentration...
... and the first transmembrane domain (Fig 1B) Protein expression To verify that the constructs produce proteins ofthe expected masses, we attached the V5 epitope to the C terminus ofthe CRFR1 isoforms ... structure of constructs used for functional assays (C) The structure of constructs used for Western blotting In general the majority of our isoforms were translated into proteins (Fig 2) with the predicted ... (Fig 2) The molecular mass (including tag) of these isoforms is listed in Table Thus, the mRNA fromthe alternatively spliced CRFR1 forms is translated into final protein products, which are the subject...
... to the instructions ofthe kit from Ambion (Austin, TX, USA) The cDNA mix was synthesized from poly(A)+ mRNA using M-MLV reverse transcriptase The cDNA was joined with the adaptor provided by the ... is fromthe a-ScTXs, the second is fromthe b-ScTXs Birtoxin is the shortest The depressant and the long-chain excitatory are in the last two lines The right columns indicate percentage of similarities ... to the a-ScTxs (data not shown) However, due to the uniqueness of its sequence, it branches independently ofthe other a-ScTxs Figure also shows that the core ofthe three disulfide bridges of...
... distantly to the members of both the eukaryotic Hr and MHr subfamilies (Fig 5) The highest similarity between members ofthe haemerythrin family and McHr was observed with the Hr alpha chain of Lingula ... conserved iron ligands: the three histidines and the first glutamate ⁄ glutamine ofthe motif When using multiple clustalx [9] alignments ofthe MCA0715-encoded protein with members ofthe Hr (Fig 4A) ... for members ofthe haemerythrin family and it is located in the central region of these proteins We therefore named the MCA0715-encoded protein Methylococcus capsulatus haemerythrin (McHr) The...