and anthropological studies of hpai cmu 2008

... we set in 2003 of achieving in the medium term a payout ratio of one third of net income attributable to equity holders of Holcim Ltd. 2 2007 results©2008 Holcim Ltd/Switzerland Europe: Rise ... state of the market and the good market positioning of our Group companies. Orascom Cement, a joint venture partner of Holcim at Egyptian Cement, was taken over by Lafarge at the beginning of 2008. ... percent of one of China's most important cement manu- facturers. We are also the biggest shareholder of this dynamically expanding group. 7 2007 results©2008 Holcim Ltd/Switzerland Sustainable

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... subsequent formation of (new) H-bonds [C=O … H–O] between the proton acceptor oxygen atom (with lone pair of electrons) of the C=O group of DMF and the proton of the OH group of 1-alkanols. The ... of the ketone (cyclohexanone) and the proton of the hydroxyl group of the alkanol. H R O – – – O– … Volumetric and Thermodynamic Studies 106 Furthermore, the addition of ... concentrations, and this has been interpreted to arise from the presence of strong or weak interactions. The extent of deviation depends upon the nature of the constituents and composition of the

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... http://arthritis-research.com/content/8/6/R182 Page 1 of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Vol 8 No 6 Research article Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised trials and cohort studies of mycophenolate mofetil in lupus ... remission of lupus nephritis in systemic lupus erythematosus. Evidence about its use was sought from full publications and abstracts of randomised trials and cohort studies by using a variety of search ... (quality of reporting of meta-analyses) and MOOSE (meta-analysis of observational studies in epidemiol- ogy) guidelines were followed where applicable [19,20]. Stud- ies of any design and in any

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... found that, overall, 71% of all studies of hospital volume and 69% of studies of physician volume reported sta-tistically significant associations between higher volume and better outcomes The ... influence of any learning curve on the observed outcomes We report the results of these analyses and addi-tional exploratory analyses of both the PROWESS and ADDRESS databases We discuss the results of ... analy-ses in the context of their implication on the design and con-duct of future clinical trials in patients with severe sepsis Materials and methods Both PROWESS and ADDRESS were randomized double-blind

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... Purification and characterization of Lrp mutants ……… …97 4.1 Purification and characterization of Lrp truncation mutants …… 97 4.1.1 Materials and Methods 97 Mutation of Lrp and purification of truncation ... mutant of Lrp ……… 109 4.2.1 Materials and Methods 109 Mutation and purification of S110E and V148R Lrp…… 109 Characterization of V148R Lrp……… 109 Activity of V148R Lrp……… 112 4.2.2 Results and Discussion ... Purification and characterization of Selenomethionine Lrp…24 2.1.2 Results and Discussion 25 2.2 Purification and characterization of PapI ……… …….43 2.2.1 Materials and Methods 43 Purification of PapI………

Ngày tải lên: 14/11/2014, 06:09

... Adaxial and abaxial surfaces of A officinalis fresh and dried leaves 66 Figure 3.3: Determination of salt gland density in A officinalis leaves 67 Figure 3.4: Salt gland structure from A officinalis ... Estimation of ions in xylem sap of A officinalis 71 Figure 3.6: Estimation of ions in leaf secretions of A officinalis 74 Figure 3.7: Percentage of hormones estimated from different tissues of field-grown ... corresponds to ~6% of world’s total land area (Munns and Tester, 2008) Soil salinity has been one of the major problems in efficient land usage for agriculture and affects crop yield worldwide Of the 1500

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:13

... supervisors, Prof Chong Tow Chong and Prof Ho Seng-Tiong, for their continuous support of my Ph D study and research I would especially like to thank Prof Ho, for the patient guidance, encouragement, and ... Performance Study and Optimization of EUPT 5.1 Analytical Analysis of Switching Gain in EUPT 95 5.2 Switching Speed and Figure of Merit of EUPT .98 5.3 Dynamic Switching of EUPT Simulated ... Switching Studies and Development of an Efficient Effective Semiconductor 2Beam Interaction Model with 4-Level Like Rate Equations 3.1 Static Switching Studies of Absorption Manipulation of Optical

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:14

... 7Table of contents Acknowledgements ii List of publications and conference presentations iv Table of contents vii Summary xi List of tables xiii List of figures xv List of symbols and ... data of α-amyrin and β-amyrin Table 5.3 Absolute and analytical recovery of α-amyrin and β-amyrin 163 Table 5.5 Pharmacokinetic parameters of α-amyrin and β-amyrin 167 Trang 15List of figures ... known as Aryuveda) TCM and Aryuveda have been practiced for thousands of years, and their remedies usually comprise of mixtures of plant and/or animal parts The combination of different components

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 08:25

... adjustment of salt content and pH, extraction time of 40 min, desorption time of 15 min in 75 µl of acetonitrile) 81 Figure 2.10 Plot of HPLC peak... in the growth of graphene islands ... alkylation and arylation of these brominated sheets suggest the possibility of a broad range of condensation and coupling reactions on the surface of graphene sheets, leading to the production of new ... Hande and Suresh Valiyaveettil. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2010, 20, 1233 - 1242. 7. Synthesis and property studies of linear and kinked poly(pyreneethynylene)s. Jhinuk Gupta, Sajini Vadukumpully and

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:48

... ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL STUDIES OF BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES LIM FONG YIN B.SC.(HONS) NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS ... UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2008 Acknowledgements The present thesis is the collection of the studies conducted under the guidance of my Ph.D. advisor Prof. Weizhu Bao from the National University of Singapore. ... phenomena of interacting manybody system. Plenty of theoretical studies on cold dilute atomic gases were carried out and a number of labs were set up to study the properties of BECs. The quantity of

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:51

... characterization of numerous complexes of the human HPRT and several bacterial and protozoan HPRTs have been undertaken [13–17] The structure of human HPRT can be divided into two domains: a core domain and ... domain is mainly built up by residues from the C-terminus and consists of a two-stranded anti-parallel b-sheet composed of b2 and b9 and an a-helix from the C-terminus (Fig 1A) The two subunits ... the base of bound GMP is stacked between Val143 and Phe194 N1, N2 and O6 of the nucleotide form hydrogen bonds to main chain atoms, whereas the side chain of Lys173 interacts with both O6 and N7...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 01:20

... A-chain and B-chain of nPS, and in the case of His37, the v1 torsion angle changes from 63.34° to )67.80° and )52.11° for the A-chain and B-chain of nPS, respectively The imidazole ring of His34 ... we report the results of the structural studies of the pantoate-bound form of the N-terminal domain of E coli PS (nPS) The structure and substrate-binding interactions of E coli nPS have been ... specific residues of nPS as a function of substrate(s) The resonances of free nPS are shown in red, those of nPS bound to D-pantoate are shown in blue, and those of nPS bound to D-pantoate and ATP are...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 09:20

... possible dimeric structures of LPL, the head-tohead and the head-to-tail models, the studies of the chimeric proteins of hepatic lipase and LPL and the tandem repeat approach of LPL [21,34] support ... of hydrogen, modification of bonds, potentials of forcefield, and fixation of heavy atom, backbone, and Ca, were performed for molecular mechanics calculations and then the energy minimization of ... of primary-sequence similarity with pancreatic lipase, and the conservation of most of the disulfide bonds between LPL and PL suggests a similar tertiary structure For the two dimeric models of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 15:20

... calculated from the ratio of the rate constants kon and koff as follows: Ka ẳ kon koff 2ị Association constants (Ka) of CRP with the three investigated sequences of DNA lacF, galF and ICAPF are summarized ... nuclear magnetic resonance study of the cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP): assignments of the NH protons of histidine and tryptophan residues and the effect of binding of cAMP to CRP Biochem J 107, ... DNA and cAMP i.e free CRP, CRP(cAMP)2 and CRP(cAMP)4 In the presence of % 100 lm cAMP, the protein becomes activated by the formation of a CRP(cAMP)2 complex and it is then able to recognize and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... Rao and Dr J Josse for critical review of the manuscript, and Professor W Loffelhardt (University of Vienna, Austria) for ¨ his assistance in N-terminal protein sequencing and some MALDI-TOF MS ... molecular mass of 19 216 Da and a pI of 4.69, in good agreement with MALDI-TOF MS (Fig 1A) and chromatofocusing data, respectively The other three N-terminal sequences determined in this work, of Anabaena ... UÆmg)1 protein and recovery levels of 20– 30% In all cases, the analysis by SDS ⁄ PAGE and native PAGE of purified preparations showed only one protein band of 20–22 kDa (Figs and 2; supplementary...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:20

... In IB-367 and BM-1, the presence of strong daN(i,i + 1) and weak (or absence of) dMN(i,i + 1) and dbN(i,i + 1) NOE connectivities in the Gly3–Arg8 and Cys14– Gly16 regions of IB-367 and in the ... Arg1 and Arg17, and in the turn in the presence of Arg8 and Arg10 (see Figs and 4) Our conformational studies showed that BM-1 formed a twisted b-sheet structure, similar to that of native PG-1 and ... activity of the peptides A better understanding of the mode of action of these peptides is crucial for the development of a new generation of antibiotics It is known that, in the absence of both...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... concentration of XAIP (b) and with lM concentration of chitinase enzyme (c) for h, and (B) in the absence of any protein (a), with 100 lM concentration of XAIP (b) and with 100 lM concentration of chitinase ... internal space of the TIM barrel considerably Of the three observed cis peptides, two (Gly33–Phe34 and Trp253–Asp254) are found at the ends of b-strands b2 and b8, respectively These are part of the ... interactions between residues of a7 and those of GH10 because of steric hindrance On the other hand, it has been shown by solution studies that XAIP inhibits the activity of a-amylase in a : 1.2 molar...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20

... are expanded upon As women age, osteoporosis and fecal incontinence limit the quality of life of many of our patients Understanding management strategies is a goal of this edition One of the ... the lack of desire for sexual activity and/ or a deficiency or absence of sexual thought and fantasies, and sexual aversion disorder, defined as the fear and avoidance of sexual thought and situations ... to the treatment of FSD involves identification of women who have the problem, identification and treatment of causes of pain, identification of the class of sexual dysfunction, and treatment tailored...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 10:20

... mechanism of the AspB-catalyzed reaction and pKa values of potential acid and base catalysts by pH-rate studies From the ascending limb of the pH-rate prole of AspB, a residue with a pKa of 7.1 ... obtained from grafit software Kinetics of reversible inhibition of AspB, T141A and H188A by 3-nitropropionate and D-malate The reversible inhibition of AspB and the T141A and H188A mutants was ... pH-rate and inhibition studies to further illuminate the mechanistic role of certain residues The results obtained in these studies are interpreted and related to the mechanisms of AspA and other...

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