The structural funds are used to promote economic development as part of European Union Cohesion Policy. Previously the main beneficiary countries were in southern Europe and on the periphery. For 2007-13, the funds are being increased, and directed towards the EU's new Member States. The Commission has been working with national health ministries, and regions, to develop expertise in applicati...

Community coalitions have the potential to enhance a community's capacity to engage in effective problem solving for a range of community concerns. Although numerous studies have documented correlations between member engagement and coalition processes and structural characteristics, fewer have examined associations between coalition factors and community capacity outcomes. The current study us...

This paper aims to estimate a dynamic non-linear model with statedependent mean and volatility for the real GDP growth series of several EMU member countries. We test the existence of a structural breakpoint at the starting point of the monetary union. We reject the null of parameter constancy for the Markov-switching model for only eight countries. Given the small length of the subsample after...

The bleomycin (BLM) family of glycopeptide-derived antitumor antibiotics consists of BLMs, tallysomycins (TLMs), phleomycins (PLMs), and zorbamycin (ZBM). The self-resistant elements BlmB and TlmB, discovered from the BLM- and TLM-producing organisms Streptomyces verticillus ATCC15003 and Streptoalloteichus hindustanus E465-94 ATCC31158, respectively, are N-acetyltransferases that provide resis...

Glycocyamine kinase (GK), a member of the phosphagen kinase family, catalyzes the Mg(2+)-dependent reversible phosphoryl group transfer of the N-phosphoryl group of phosphoglycocyamine to ADP to yield glycocyamine and ATP. This reaction helps to maintain the energy homeostasis of the cell in some multicelullar organisms that encounter high and variable energy turnover. GK from the marine worm N...

The Na(+)/glucose cotransporter (SGLT1) is the archetype of membrane proteins that use the electrochemical Na(+) gradient to drive uphill transport of a substrate. The crystal structure recently obtained for vSGLT strongly suggests that SGLT1 adopts the inverted repeat fold of the LeuT structural family for which several crystal structures are now available. What is largely missing is an accura...

In this study we gain insight into the structural and functional characterization of the Aeropyrum pernix oligopeptide-binding protein (OppA(Ap)) previously identified from the extracellular medium of an Aeropyrum pernix cell culture at late stationary phase. OppA(Ap) showed an N-terminal Q32 in a pyroglutamate form and C-terminal processing at the level of a threonine-rich region probably invo...

introduction: health care professionals especially clinicians, undergo lots of job stress (js). emotional intelligence (ei) is among the variables that appear to be associated with stress. it is also included among the ways adopted by the individuals in order to resist js in the workplace. thus, this study aims to investigate the relationship between ei and js in the faculty members of esfahan ...

this study has been conducted with the aim of surveying the barriers and challenges of research in universities from the perspective of faculty members (islamic azad and payam-e nour, razi, medical sciences) in kermanshah done. questionnaire being used in this research is barriers and challenges from the perspective of research at universities retrieved from master thesis, it was based on liker...

The discovery of a new and unusual member of the chemokine family illustrates the importance of chemoattractant diversity in the regulation of leukocyte movement through the body. The chemokines are now divisible into four clearly defined subgroups on the basis of structural and functional properties.