We describe an application of computer modeling to the study of the kinetics of virus capsid (protein shell) assembly. We examine two proposed models of the source of nucleation-limited growth, an observed growth pattern in which initiation of new capsids occurs signi cantly more slowly than subunit addition onto initiated capsids. We apply an abstract computer model of capsid assembly, based o...

Fine structure of ground electron state Fe4+ impurity ion in a natural amethyst crystal was studied by broadband paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy the frequency range 34–500 GHz. It is established that energy levels scheme consists quasi-doublet Sz = ± 2, S z= 1 and singlet Sz=0 with zero-field energies 4.9 GHz, 435.2 45.4 GHz 584 respectively. Parameters effective spin Hamiltonian describing...

Required Readings: Raich, J.W. and G. Mora. 2005. Estimating root plus rhizosphere contributions to soil respiration in annual croplands. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 69:634–639. Cheng, W., D.W. Johnson and S. Fu. 2003. Rhizosphere effects on decomposition: Controls of plant species, phenology, and fertilization. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 67:1418–1427. Collins, H.P., R.L. Blevins, L.G. Bundy, D.R. Christe...

The lifetimes of B + and B 0 mesons have been measured using a sample of 150,000 hadronic Z 0 decays collected by the SLD experiment at the SLC between 1993 and 1995. The analysis identiies the semileptonic decays of B mesons with high p; p t leptons and reconstructs the B meson decay length and charge by v ertexing the lepton with a partially reconstructed D meson. This method results in a sam...

Multivariate linear discriminant function analysis on maximal exercise treadmill and angiographic data from 500 men with definite angina, 584 men with probable angina and 267 men with nonspecific chest pain identified independent predictors of presence and extent of coronary disease. We used the discriminant function to develop a clinical risk index and a clinical and exercise risk index for ea...

This study compares four nasalance measures computed as ratios between the amplitude of signals recorded with accelerometers and microphones. Two new measures based on RMS amplitude differences between the nasal signal and either the vocal folds vibration signal (LND) or the oral acoustic signal (OND) are introduced. Measures were compared on a total of 584 utterances produced by four native Fr...

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Plasma factor VIIII synthesis and control as revealed by canine organ transplantation. Am J Physiol. 1971;220:1147-1154. 8. Ko S, Tanaka I, Kanechiro H, et al. Preclinical experiment of auxiliary partial orthotopic liver transplantation as a curative treatment for hemophilia. Liver Transplantation. 2005;11:579-584. 9. Jacquemin M, Neyrinck A, Hermanns MI, et al. FVIII production by human lung m...