Bacillus subtilis is a Gram-positive bacterium with a relatively large number of protein phosphatases. Previous studies have shown that some Ser/Thr phosphatases play an important role in the life cycle of this bacterium [Losick and Stragier (1992) Nature (London) 355, 601-604; Yang, Kang, Brody and Price (1996) Genes Dev. 10, 2265-2275]. In this paper, we report the biochemical properties of a...

In this paper we discuss the properties of a recently introduced coupling scheme for spatially extended systems based on local spatially averaged coupling signals [see Z. Tasev et al., Int. J. Bifurcation Chaos Appl. Sci. Eng. (to be published); and L. Junge et al., Int. J. Bifurcation Chaos Appl. Sci. Eng. 9, 2265 (1999)]. Using the Ginzburg-Landau model, we performed an extensive numerical ex...

Armadillo-like (Arm) proteins are characterized by a series of repeats of 42-45 amino acid residues (aa), originally described in the Drosophila protein Armadillo (Riggleman et al., 1989). These Arm repeats have meanwhile been detected in a wide variety of proteins in a number of organisms, even including plants (Lo and Frasch, 1998; Peifer et al., 1994; Vithalani et al., 1998; Wang et al., 199...

In the context of the dispersive model for non-perturbative corrections, we extend the leading renormalon subtraction to NNLO for the thrust distribution in e + e annihilation. Within this framework, using a NNLL+NNLO perturbative description and including bottom-quark mass effects to NLO, we analyse data in the centre-of-mass energy range sqrts=14-206 GeV in view of a simultaneous determinatio...

Advances in technology provides the potential to innovate sustainability building construction industry. Drawing on literature and expert reviews, this research discloses of 14 specific technologies waste minimisation, energy saving, efficiency improvement for sustainable develops a conceptual framework engaging life cycle (the planning, construction, use operation, demolition phases) actors as...

Aim . To compare survival at a 30-year follow-up in the populations of Russia and USA. Material methods From Russian studies 1975-1982, 14728 men 6140 women aged 18-71 years were included, with until 2017 (501016 person-years follow-up). In addition, 2265 2345 from US population (The Third National Health Nutrition Examination Survey) compared survey data 1988-1994, mortality 2019 (115523 Kapla...