Our objective was to obtain Equine Arteritis Virus M protein in prokaryotic system to test it as immunogen. LP02/C Equine Arteritis Virus cDNA was used as template to obtain and clone this protein. Equine Arteritis M protein was cloned in the expression vector pQE30 and the recombinant plasmid pQE30/M was transformed in Escherichia Coli M15 cells. The OD600 values of the IPTG-induced M15-pQE30/...

This paper investigates the incentives to commit price or retain price flexibility in a model in which exporting firms face different degrees of exchange rate uncertainty. The result shows that introducing exchange rate uncertainty can lead to the endogenous emergence of an unique leader-follower equilibrium; which firm emerges as price leader depends on the substitutability of products, the ma...

Stratospheric dryness J. Lelieveld, C. Brühl, P. Jöckel, B. Steil, P. J. Crutzen, H. Fischer, M. A. Giorgetta, P. Hoor, M. G. Lawrence, M. Milz, R. Sausen, G. P. Stiller, and H. Tost Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, J.J. Becherweg 27, 55128 Mainz, Germany Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093-0221, USA Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstrasse 53, 20146 Hamb...

The degradation of signal in silicon sensors is studied under conditions expected at the CERN High-Luminosity LHC. 200 �m thick n-type silicon sensors are irradiated with protons of different energies to fluences of up to 3 · 10(15) neq/cm(2). Pulsed red laser light with a wavelength of 672 nm is used to generate electron-hole pairs in the sensors. The induced signals are used to determine the ...

1 Department of Cancer Biology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee. 2 Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee. Current address for W. Pao: Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffman-La Roche Ltd., Basel, Switzerland. Corresponding Author: William Pao, 2220 Pierce Avenue 777 PRB, Nashville, TN 37232. Phone: 615-343-9454; F...