Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine crisis management practices among gambling-related hospitality business stakeholders (GBSs) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Design/methodology/approach An online survey was administered a sample GBSs resulting in 64 completed surveys. explored COVID-19 using three-phase framework: preparedness (prior experience and respons...

gbss protein, that is the product of waxy gene (wx) is one of the major enzyme in starch biosynthesis that controls the proportion of amylose to amylopechtine and its absence leads to production of starch with low amylose and higher amylopechtine content, called waxy starch.wx-a1, wx-b1, wx-d1 are three locuses in bread wheat (triticum aestivum) genome that encodes gbss protein and waxy starch ...

Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) affect human physiology and pathology by modulating more than 500 proteins. GAG-protein interactions are generally assumed to be ionic and nonspecific, but specific interactions do exist. Here, we present a simple method to identify the GAG-binding site (GBS) on proteins that in turn helps predict high specific GAG-protein systems. Contrary to contemporary thinking, we...

Giant barrel sponges (GBSs) belong to a cryptic species complex (Xestospongia spp.) and are found on tropical reefs worldwide. Over their range, including most of the Caribbean, GBSs have cylindrical shape, with variation in height, diameter surface complexity. However, off southwest coast Barbados, mostly exhibit clam shape or tub interspersed few that normal morphotype, suggesting this is not...

In addition to the exclusively granule-bound starch synthase GBSSI, starch granules also bind significant proportions of other starch biosynthetic enzymes, particularly starch synthases (SS) SSI and SSIIa, and starch branching enzyme (BE) BEIIb. Whether this association is a functional aspect of starch biosynthesis, or results from non-specific entrapment during amylopectin crystallization, is ...

Amyloplasts, a subtype of plastid, are found in nonphotosynthetic tissues responsible for starch synthesis and storage. When tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) Bright Yellow-2 cells are cultured in the presence of cytokinin instead of auxin, their plastids differentiate from proplastids to amyloplasts. In this program, it is well known that the expression of nucleus-encoded starch biosynthesis genes, ...

Local distinguishability of sets generalized Bell states (GBSs) is investigated. We first clarify the conditions such that a set GBSs can be locally transformed to certain type GBS easily distinguishable within local operations and one-way classical communication. then show that, if space dimension $d$ prime, these are necessary sufficient for in $\mathbb{C}^d \otimes \mathbb{C}^d$ distinguisha...

Tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) has proven to be a popular technique for performing voxel-wise statistical analysis that aims to improve sensitivity and interpretability of analysis of multi-subject diffusion imaging studies in white matter. With the advent of advanced diffusion MRI models - e.g., the neurite orientation dispersion density imaging (NODDI), it is of interest to analyze mic...

Excised grains of wheat (Triticum aestivum) varieties HD 2285 (relatively tolerant) and HD 2329 (susceptible type) were incubated for 1 hr at 15 degrees, 25 degrees, 35 degrees and 45 degrees C. In an another treatment, excised grains were incubated for 1 hr at increasing temperature (15 degrees, 25 degrees, 35 degrees and 45 degrees C) continuously, thus exposing the grains to gradual rise in ...

We have isolated cDNA clones to two isoforms of granule-bound starch synthase (GBSS) from pea embryos and potato tubers. The sequences of both isoforms are related to that of glycogen synthase from E. coli and one, GBSSI, is very similar to the waxy protein of maize and other species. In pea, GBSSII carries a novel 203-amino-acid domain at its N-terminus. Genes encoding both proteins are expres...