NOVEL ACTINOBACTERIAL DIVERSITY IN KAZAKHSTAN DESERTS SOILS AS A SOURCE OF NEW DRUG LEADS

a fundamental study of "histiriographic metafiction", and "literary genres", as introduced in "new historical philosophy", and tracing them in the works of julian barnes.

abstract a fundamental study of “historio-graphic metafiction” and “literary genres”, as introduced in “new historical philosophy”, and tracing them in the works of julian barnes having studied the two novels, the porcupine and arthur & george, by julian barnes, the researcher has applied linda hutcheon’s historio-graphic metafictional theories to them. the thesis is divided into five cha...

Natural products: a continuing source of novel drug leads.

BACKGROUND Nature has been a source of medicinal products for millennia, with many useful drugs developed from plant sources. Following discovery of the penicillins, drug discovery from microbial sources occurred and diving techniques in the 1970s opened the seas. Combinatorial chemistry (late 1980s), shifted the focus of drug discovery efforts from Nature to the laboratory bench. SCOPE OF RE...

Actinobacterial Spatial Diversity in Moonmilk

Marta Maciejewska1, Magdalena Całusińska2, Luc Cornet3, Delphine Adam1, Igor S. Pessi1, Sandrine 5 Malchair4, Philippe Delfosse2, Denis Baurain3, Hazel H. Barton5, Monique Carnol4, and Sébastien 6 Rigali1* 7 8 1 InBioS Centre for Protein Engineering, Institut de Chimie B6a, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium 9 2Environmental Research and Innovation Department, Luxembourg Institute of Science a...

Pastoralists as Optimal Foragers? Reoccupation and Site Selection in the Deserts of Post-Soviet Kazakhstan

This study explores the drivers of site selection amongst livestock owners under conditions of increasing animal numbers following a low point in the 1990s. Our major goal was to understand whether livestock owners are acting as 'optimal foragers,' targeting areas of highest forage availability as they colonise previously empty areas. The results presented here suggest that they do not. Initial...

Use of worn-out automobile tires as a source of zinc for corn plants in calcareous soils