Plant BZR1-BAM transcription factors contain a β-amylase (BAM)-like domain, characteristic of proteins involved in starch breakdown. The enzyme-derived domains appear to be noncatalytic, but they determine the function of the two Arabidopsis thaliana BZR1-BAM isoforms (BAM7 and BAM8) during transcriptional initiation. Removal or swapping of the BAM domains demonstrates that the BAM7 BAM domain ...

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) the term that Gartner, Inc. introduced to define systems that provide real-time access to critical business performance indicators in order to improve the speed and effectiveness of business operations. Despite the emphasis of BAM on the provision of low-latency views on enterprise performance, the literature on BAM also indicates the technical feasibility of ...

Identifying factors that regulate the balance between stem cell self-renewal and differentiation into specialized cells is key to understanding tissue homeostasis and regeneration. Long before the identification of the four factors sufficient to define stemness, a single gene named bag of marbles (bam) was shown to be necessary and sufficient to control the transition from stem cell to differen...

The anticryptococcal activity of murine bronchoalveolar macrophages (BAM) and their synergy with fluconazole (FCZ) was studied. BAM cultured with tissue culture medium for 48 to 72 h were fungicidal (24 to 39%) in a 3-h killing assay. However, net killing of Cryptococcus neoformans did not continue when culture time was extended to 24 h, although BAM were fungistatic (88 to 98%). Treatment with...

Construction of the urinary bladder de novo using tissue engineering technologies is the "holy grail" of reconstructive urology. The search for the ideal biomaterial for urinary bladder reconstruction has been ongoing for decades. One of the most promising biomaterials for this purpose seems to be bladder acellular matrix (BAM). In this review we determine the most important factors, which may ...

This paper contains two main parts. First, we give an overview of photogrammetric and remote sensing techniques in applications related to disaster management procedures. Remotely sensed data potentially provides valuable seismicity-related data in terms of both assessing the potential of risk and defining the state of vulnerability. The paper illustrates the use of advanced remote sensing tech...

The publication of this issue of PrehospitalandDisasterMedicine coincides with the centennial of the 1906 Great San Francisco Earthquake. The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake does not rank with the larger earthquakes in world history and is not even the largest earthquake in US history. In fact, readers of this journal will recall many recent earthquakes that produced exponentially greater health ...