One of the major issues banks are faced with in providing Internet Banking (IB) services is the adoption of these services by the customers. This study seeks answer to the question that whether bank customers’ awareness of the services and advantages of IB is effective in reducing the negative effect of customers’ perceived risk on their intention of IB adoption. To this end, the two constructs...

An immersed boundary (IB) method is applied to study the effect of blade–row gap in a low-speed single-stage compressor. The advantage using an IB that rotor/stator interface can be eliminated and, thus, interaction considered at extremely small gap. was modified internal-flow problems, and adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) technique, together with wall model, used facilitate simulations for high ...

The aac(6')-Ib gene is the most prevalent gene that encodes aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes and confers resistance to tobramycin, kanamycin, and amikacin. The aac(6')-Ib-cr variant gene can induce resistance against aminoglycoside and fluoroquinolone simultaneously. Two main methods, sequence analysis and the restriction enzyme method, can detect the aac(6')-Ib-cr variant in clinical strains. ...

The detection of autoantibodies to epidermal or basement membrane zone proteins by immunoblot (IB) is useful for the diagnosis and the classification of autoimmune bullous diseases (AIBD). IB using human skin extracts is actually the reference method but A431 cell line is proposed as easier alternate antigen source. We explored the performances of “A431 IB” in comparison with the reference tech...

For many biological applications of molecular dynamics (MD) the importance of good sampling in conformational space makes it necessary to eliminate the fastest motions from the system in order to increase the time step. An accurate knowledge of these motions is a necessary prerequisite for such efforts. It is known that harmonic vibrations of bond lengths and bond angles produce the highest fre...

BACKGROUND In our previous study, we detected decreased expression of phospho-Smad1/5/8 and its upstream signaling molecule, bone morphogenetic protein receptor IB subunit (BMPR-IB), in certain glioblastoma tissues, unlike normal brain tissues. In order to clarify the functional roles and mechanism of BMPR-IB in the development of glioblastoma, we studied the effects of BMPR-IB overexpression o...

Θ-Problem: the interplay of microwave spectroscopy and quantum chemistry to explore soft degree freedom around a carbonyl bond methyl internal rotation.

Phospholipase A2 (PLA2) comprises a diverse family of lipolytic enzymes which hydrolyzes the sn-2 fatty acid ester bond of glycerophospholipids to produce free fatty acids and lysophspholipids. Low molecular-weight (13—18-kDa) secretory PLA2s (sPLA2s) have several common characteristics including the presence of six to eight disulfide bridges and are classified into 10 different groups. To date...

Abstract Lower temperatures delayed development of systemic symptoms by Cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) in two different plant hosts. However, lower temperature exposure increased CaMV nucleic acid levels leaves systemically-infected turnips. Furthermore, altered the formation aggregates formed major inclusion body (IB) protein, P6. Finally, architecture actin cytoskeleton. These data may sugge...