The fourth component of complement, C4, was isolated from bovine plasma in high yield, by using simple purification techniques. The protein, like human component C4, is a beta-globulin with a mol.wt. of about 200 000 and consists of three polypeptide chains, alpha, beta and gamma, with apparent mol. wts. of 98 000, 82 000 and 32 000 respectively. The chains of C4 have been separated by methods ...

A rigid, helical macrocycle that contains two copper(I) ions has been synthesized through subcomponent self-assembly. Although it does not obey the "rule of coordinative saturation", this macrocycle could be prepared through subcomponent substitution starting from a tri(copper(I)) helicate, in a reaction in which copper(I) was ejected. The macrocycle was observed to readily participate in a seq...

The competency of Safety Practitioners has given rise to a number of competency frameworks of varying levels of complexity, (HSE/IET/BCS, 2007, Rail Safety & Standards Board, AEA Technology, 2003). To date the focus has been on the content and structure of these frameworks, with respect to the criteria that must be satisfied to substantiate competency claims. Here we do not attempt to provide a...

BACKGROUND Several studies have demonstrated anomalous asymmetry of the 100-msec latency auditory-evoked field (M100) in schizophrenia. Recent evidence suggests this may be a compound component, however. Our study examines the localization of two M100 subcomponents in patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder. METHODS Magnetoencephalographic recordings of auditory-evoked fields...

To establish an electrophysiological marker of binocular vision, visual evoked potentials were recorded in normal observers for whom interocular refraction differences were induced with converging lenses under five dioptre conditions. Patterns of binocular interaction were categorized (facilitation, averaging or suppression) by comparing monocular and binocular responses. Quantitative and conti...

The conventional multiple component image compression approach separates the input 21 image into several components, each of which is predicted and encoded independently. 22 This approach creates redundancy because the prediction methods as well as the resid23 ual subcomponents must be transmitted. In this paper, we propose a new multiple24 component predictive coding framework. First, we separ...

The sequences of amino acid residues 38--51 of the A-chain, and residues 42--90 of the C-chain, of human subcomponent C1q are given. These results, along with previously published sequence data [Reid (1974) Biochem.J. 141, 189--203; Reid (1977) Biochem.J. 161, 247--251; Reid & Thompson (1978) Biochem.J. 173, 863--868] allow the presentation, and comparison with each other, of the complete amino...

In two studies, the authors examined whether people who are high in emotional intelligence (EI) make more accurate forecasts about their own affective responses to future events. All participants completed a performance measure of EI (the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test) as well as a self-report measure of EI. Affective forecasting ability was assessed using a longitudinal desi...