The aquatic sex pheromone splendipherin (GLVSSIGKALGGLLADVVKSKGQPA-OH) of the male green tree frog Litoria splendida moves across the surface of water to reach the female. Surface pressure and X-ray reflectometry measurements confirm that splendipherin is a surface-active molecule, and are consistent with it having an ordered structure, whereby the hydrophilic portion of the peptide interacts w...

Abstract Portfolio performance measures using holdings data are panel regressions. The returns of a fund’s stocks regressed on its lagged portfolio weights. Stock fixed effects isolate average from time-series predictive ability. Control variables condition for fund the characteristics held. long-term drives some classical measures, while ability others. A “buy-and-hold drift,” where weights in...

هدف: هدف پژوهش حاضر، تبیین الگوی برنامه درسی سواد رسانه‌ای در دوره ابتدایی نظام آموزش و پرورش است.مواد روش‌ها: رویکرد حاکم بر کیفی با استفاده از روش نظریه داده بنیاد انجام شده است. شرکت‌کنندگان این پژوهش، متخصصان صاحب‌نظران حوزه رسانه هستند که نمونه‌گیری هدفمند، 15 نفر آنان مصاحبه شد. ابزار گردآوری داده‌ها، نیمه‌ساختارمند بود تعداد محقق به اشباع نظری رسید.بحث نتیجه‌گیری: برای تجزیه تحلیل داده‌ه...

Application of extremophilic plant growth promoting bacteria (PGPB) and their enzymes in bioremediation have been received increasing interest due to eco-friendly nature effectiveness for bio treatment diverse industrial micro pollutants. In this work, the azo-dye decolorization potential halophilic PGPB Halomonas desertis G11 was evaluated optimized using central composite experimental design ...

Light is a major environmental signal for entrainment of the circadian clock, but little is known about the intracellular phototransduction pathway triggered by light activation of the photoreceptive molecule(s) responsible for the phase shift of the clock in vertebrates. The chicken pineal gland and retina contain the autonomous circadian oscillators together with the photic entrainment pathwa...

On the basis of sequence similarities to the yeast PMR1 and hSPCA gene, the rat alternatively spliced mRNA has been suggested to be a Golgi secretory pathway Ca2+-ATPase (SPCA). Data in this report lend further support for this hypothesis in that sucrose gradient fractionation of rat liver microsomes resulted in SPCA comigrating with the Golgi calcium binding protein CALNUC, which was well reso...

The objective of this study was to identify the most promising nutritional mode of growth for enhanced biomass and lipid productivity in a set of twenty microalgal strains, grown under photoautotrophic and mixotrophic/heterotrophic conditions using 2% glucose as carbon source. These included four cyanobacterial strains (Cyanosarcina, Phormidium, Nostoc and Anabaena) and sixteen green algae belo...

A variety of neurotransmitters, gastrointestinal hormones, and metabolic signals are known to potentiate insulin secretion through GPCRs. We show here that beta cell-specific inactivation of the genes encoding the G protein alpha-subunits Galphaq and Galpha11 resulted in impaired glucose tolerance and insulin secretion in mice. Interestingly, the defects observed in Galphaq/Galpha11-deficient b...

Financial innovation in recent decades has expanded portfolio choice. We investigate how greater choice affects investors’ savings and asset returns. establish a channel by which increases savings—by enabling them to earn the aggregate risk premium or take speculative positions. In equilibrium, customization (access risky assets beyond market portfolio) reduces risk-free rate. Participation but...