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Effect of Nitrapyrin on the Inhibition of Nitrification in Some Paddy Soils of China
Nitrification-denitrification is an important mechanism of N loss in paddy soils. How to prevent such loss is a matter of primary importance (1–4). The present article deals with the effect of Nitrapyrin (2-ch...
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Chemical Equilibria of Sulfides as Studied with a Hydrogen Sulfide Sensor
Owing to its theoretical and practical significance, the subject of sulfides in paddy soils has attracted much attention to many soil scientists(l,2) For the determination of sulfides in soils, chemical method...
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The Clinical Pharmacology of SQ 31,000 (CS 514) in Healthy Subjects
Atherosclerosis, with the attendant consequences of coronary heart disease and stroke, is the major cause of death in the United States and most developed countries. Elevated serum cholesterol and, in particul...
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Characterization of Developmentally Regulated Molecules of Leishmania
Parasitic protozoa of the genus Leishmania have a relatively simple developmental life cycle. The flagellated promastigotes multiply within the alimentary tract of the sandfly vector. In the mammalian host, proma...
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Breathing During Exercise: Demands, Regulation, Limitations
In humans alveolar ventilation (VA) is adjusted almost perfectly to the metabolic demands of mild and moderate exercise. For example, in exercise transitions and in the steady state, PaCO2 rarely deviates by more...
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The Role of Abscisic Acid in Chilling Resistance
There is growing evidence which indicates that the naturally occurring plant growth regulator, ABA, is involved in stress adaptation. This is principally based on the positive correlation between the accumulat...
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An Examination of the Structure and Functions of the Bovine Vacuolar ATPase Using Antisense Oligonucleotides
The V-ATPase (V-ATPase) is a multimeric proton pump responsible for the acidification of endosomes, the trans-Golgi network (TGN), lysosomes, and secretory granules (Forgac, 1989). This acidification is widely...
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The Roles of Chemical Transformation, Loop Closure, Tunnel Function and Metal Ion Activation in the Tryptophan Synthase Mechanism
An overview of the recent results derived from X-ray crystallography, physical biochemical methods, rapid kinetic techniques and site-directed mutagenesis that have shaped current understanding of tryptophan s...
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Functional role of the mobile stretch Gly36-Val37-Gly38 of porcine cytosolic aspartate aminotransferase
According to X-ray studies of porcine cytosolic aspartate aminotransferase, Val37 and Gly38, which are part of a flexible loop, are shown to interact directly with bound substrate. Gly36 is not adjacent to sub...
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Marker-Assisted Genetic Analysis of Winter Hardiness in Barley
A linkage map of barley was developed from 100 doubled haploid lines derived from a winter (Dicktoo) x spring (Morex) barley cross. Based on this map, quantitative trait locus (QTL) analyses were conducted to ...
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Enhanced Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Steam-Exploded Douglas Fir Wood by Alkali-Oxygen Post-treatment
Good enzymatic hydrolysis of steam-exploded Douglas fir wood (SEDW) cannot be achieved owing to the very high lignin content (>40%) that remains associated with this substrate. Thus, in this study, we investig...
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Poster Summaries
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Mechanism of Regulation of Nitrogen Fixation By NifLA in Pseudomonas stutzeri A1501
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Prediction of Protein Subcellular Localizations Using Moment Descriptors and Support Vector Machine
As more and more genomes have been discovered in recent years, it is an urgent need to develop a reliable method to predict protein subcellular localization for further function exploration. However many well-...
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Statistical Estimate for the Size of the Protein Structural Vocabulary
The concept of structural clusters defining the vocabulary of protein structure is one of the central concepts in the modern theory of protein folding. Typically clusters are found by a variation of the K-mean...
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Using Decision Templates to Predict Subcellular Localization of Protein
Theoretical and computational methods for the prediction of protein subcellular localization have been proposed and are develo** continuously. Many representations of protein sequence are proposed but a new ...
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A Feature Selection Algorithm Based on Graph Theory and Random Forests for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction
Protein secondary structure prediction problem is one of the widely studied problems in bioinformatics. Predicting the secondary structure of a protein is an important step for determining its tertiary structu...
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NEURONgrid: A Toolkit for Generating Parameter-Space Maps Using NEURON in a Grid Environment
Neuroscience research increasingly involves the exploration of computational models of neurons and neural networks. To ensure systematic model exploration, it is often desirable to conduct a parameter-space an...
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An Integrated Approach to Agricultural Crop Classification Using SPOT5 HRV Images
An integrated method that incorporates the advantages of per-parcel and perpixel approaches as well as spectral and spatial characteristics was proposed for crop classification of a typical agricultural area i...
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Using Multi-scale Glide Zoom Window Feature Extraction Approach to Predict Protein Homo-oligomer Types
The concept of multi-scale glide zoom window was proposed and a novel approach of multi-scale glide zoom window feature extraction was used for predicting protein homo-oligomers. Based on the concept of multi-...
