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Functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the brain Unlike push-pull cannula, microdialysis and in vivo voltammetry, fMRS is a non-invasive method for studying dynamics of biochemistry in an activated brain. It is done without exposing subjects to ionizing radiation like it is done in positron emission tomography (...
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Functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the brain To overcome this limitation, mathematical and kinetic modeling is used. Many brain areas are not suitable for fMRS studies because they are too small (like small nuclei in brainstem) or too close to bone tissue, CSF or extracranial lipids, which could cause inhomo...
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Functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the brain The H fMRS studies highlighted the important role of lactate in this process and significantly contributed to the research in brain energy metabolism during brain activation. It confirmed the hypothesis that lactate increases during sustained visual stimulation an...
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Functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the brain C MRSs have been crucial in recognizing that the awake nonstimulated (resting) human brain is highly active using 70%–80% of its energy for glucose oxidation to support signaling within cortical networks which is suggested to be necessary for consciousness. This f...
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Functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the brain This approach has been proposed as an alternative to the BOLD fMRI technique and used to detect visual response to photic stimulation, motor activation by finger tapping and activations in language areas during speech processing. Recently "functional real-time sin...
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Functional magnetic resonance spectroscopy of the brain fMRS overcomes this limitation and has been used to study pain-induced (cold-pressure, heat, dental pain) neurotransmitter level changes in the anterior cingulate cortex, anterior insular cortex and left insular cortex. These fMRS studies are valuable because they...
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C16H22Cl2N2O The molecular formula CHClNO may refer to:
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Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by De Gruyter. The journal was established in 1963 as "Clinical chemistry"/"Klinische Chemie". In 1991 it was renamed to "European Journal of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry". In 1998 it obtained its ...
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Kibble–Zurek mechanism The (KZM) describes the non-equilibrium dynamics and the formation of topological defects in a system which is driven through a continuous phase transition at finite rate. It is named after Tom W. B. Kibble, who pioneered the study of domain structure formation in the early universe, and Wojciech...
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Kibble–Zurek mechanism It was debated for quite a while if magnetic monopoles might be residuals of defects in the symmetry-broken Higgs field. Up to now, defects like this have not been observed within the event horizon of the visible universe. This is one of the main reasons (beside the isotropy of the cosmic backgro...
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Kibble–Zurek mechanism This implies that fluctuations between both phases will become arbitrarily large. Not only the spatial correlation lengths diverge for those critical phenomena, but fluctuations between both phases also become arbitrarily slow in time, described by the divergence of the relaxation time. If a syst...
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Kibble–Zurek mechanism Consider a system that undergoes a continuous phase transition at the critical value formula_1 of a control parameter. The theory of critical phenomena states that, as the control parameter is tuned closer and closer to its critical value, the correlation length formula_2 and the relaxation time ...
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Kibble–Zurek mechanism The correlation length at this time provides a length scale for coherent domains, formula_14 The size of the domains in the broken-symmetry phase is set by formula_15. The density of defects immediately follows if formula_16 is the dimension of the system, using formula_17 The generally applies t...
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Kibble–Zurek mechanism A special feature of Kosterlitz–Thouless transitions is the exponential divergence of correlation times and length (instead of algebraic ones). This serves a transcendental equation which can be solved numerically. The figure shows a comparison of the Kibble–Zurek scaling with algebraic and expon...
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Seleninic acid A seleninic acid is an organoselenium compound and an oxoacid with the general formula RSeOH, where R ≠ H. It is a member of the family of organoselenium oxoacids, which also includes selenenic acids and selenonic acids, which are RSeOH and RSeOH, respectively. The parent member of this family of compoun...
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Silvia Braslavsky Silvia Elsa Braslavsky (born April 5, 1942 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine chemist. She is the daughter of educationist and biochemist Lázaro Braslavsky, and the sister of Cecilia Braslavsky, educationist and erstwhile director of the International Bureau of Education of UNESCO. She has two daughters...
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Silvia Braslavsky Since 2006 she is a corresponding member of CONICET and is a member of the international scientific advisory committee of INQUIMAE (Institute for Chemistry of Materials, Environment and Energy). Currently, she is chair and main organiser of the 16th International Conference on Photobiology, to be held...
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Dimethoxybenzaldehyde may refer to:
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Mass spectrometric immunoassay (MSIA) is a rapid method is used to detect and/ or quantify antigens and or antibody analytes. This method uses an analyte affinity (either through antigens or antibodies) isolation to extract targeted molecules and internal standards from biological fluid in preparation for matrix assist...
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Mass spectrometric immunoassay This assay was patented in 2006 by Randall Nelson, Peter Williams and Jennifer Reeve Krone. The idea first came about with the development of ELISA and RIA. An earlier patent method suggested tagging antigens or antibodies with stable isotopes or long-lived radioactive elements . But limi...
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Mass spectrometric immunoassay Analytes are bound to the frit based on their affinities and all other nonspecific molecules are rinsed away. The specific targets are then eluted on to a mass spectrometer target plate with a MALDI matrix. However, proteins may be digested prior to ms analysis. A MALDI-TOF-MS later follo...
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Mass spectrometric immunoassay MSIA has also been applied to clinical samples and have been proven to be a unique assay for clinically relevant proteins. Successfully assaying toxins, drugs and other pathogens are important to the environment as well as the human body. MSIA can be used for a range of biomedical and env...
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Nb.BbvCI is a nicking endonuclease used to cut one strand of double-stranded DNA. It has been successfully used to incorporate fluorochrome-labeled nucleotides into specific spots of a DNA sequence via nick translation.
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V. M. Goldschmidt Award The is an award given by the Geochemical Society at the V. M. Goldschmidt Conference for achievements in the fields of geochemistry and cosmochemistry. The award in honor of Victor Moritz Goldschmidt, a pioneer in both those fields.
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C11H14FNO The molecular formula CHFNO (molar mass: 195.233 g/mol) may refer to:
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A. Hari Reddi (born October 20, 1942) is a Distinguished Professor and holder of the Lawrence J. Ellison Endowed Chair in Musculoskeletal Molecular Biology at the University of California, Davis. He was previously the Virginia M. and William A. Percy Chair and Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Professor of Biological C...
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A. Hari Reddi Reddi and colleagues were the first to identify BMPs as pleiotropic regulators, acting in a concentration dependent manner. They demonstrated first that BMPs bind the extracellular matrix, are present at the apical ectodermal ridge in the developing limb bud, are chemotactic for human monocytes, and have ...
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A. Hari Reddi , DuRaine, G.D., Reddi, A.H., Articular Cartilage, 2nd Edition. (Hardback), CRC Press, 2017.
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European Polymer Journal is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal, established in 1965 and published by Elsevier. The journal is publishing both original research and review papers on topic of the physics and chemistry of polymers. In 2006, it launched the polymer nanotechnology section. Prof. G. Julius Vancso, fr...
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Lipidology is the scientific study of lipids. Compared to other biomedical fields, lipidology was originally less popular since the constant handling of oils, smears, and greases was unappealing and separation was difficult. The field became more popular following the advent of chromatography which allowed lipids to be...
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Applied Catalysis A: General is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering catalytic science and its applications. It is published by Elsevier and its editors-in-chief are C.T. Au, H. Kung, J.M. Lopez Nieto, S.H. Moon, W. Ueda, and J.C. Vedrine. The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the "Journal Citat...
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Grain Boundary Sliding is a material deformation mechanism where grains slide against each other. This occurs in polycrystalline material under external stress at high homologous temperature (above ~0.4) and low strain rate. Homologous temperature describes the operating temperature relative to the melting temperature ...
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Grain Boundary Sliding For example, when a uniaxial tensile stress is applied on a sample, grains move to accommodate the elongation and the number of grains along the direction of applied stress increases. Lifshitz sliding only occurs with Nabarro-Herring and Coble creep. The sliding motion is accommodated by the diff...
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Grain Boundary Sliding Small precipitates located at grain boundaries can pin grain boundaries and prevent grains from sliding against each other. However, not all precipitates are desirable at boundaries. Large precipitates may have the opposite effect on grain boundary pinning as it allows more gaps or vacancies betw...
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Extension Poly(A) Test The extension Poly(A) Test (ePAT) describes a method to determine the poly(A) tail lengths of mRNA molecules. It was developed and described by A. Jänicke et al. in 2012. The method consists of three separate steps: in the first step, the poly-adenylated RNA is hybridised to a DNA oligonucleotide...
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Ketone enolate A ketone enolate is an enolate formed from a ketone by reaction with a strong base, such as lithium diisopropylamide, or with a Lewis acid such as dibutylboron trifluoromethanesulfonate and a weak base such as "N","N"-diisopropylethylamine. In the latter case, the base takes the hydrogen ion from the alp...
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C12H10O6 The molecular formula CHO (molar mass: 250.20 g/mol, exact mass: 250.047738 u) may refer to:
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Enzyme promiscuity is the ability of an enzyme to catalyse a fortuitous side reaction in addition to its main reaction. Although enzymes are remarkably specific catalysts, they can often perform side reactions in addition to their main, native catalytic activity. These promiscuous activities are usually slow relative t...
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Enzyme promiscuity Several theoretical models exist to predict the order of duplication and specialisation events, but the actual process is more intertwined and fuzzy (§ "Reconstructed enzymes" below). On one hand, gene amplification results in an increase in enzyme concentration, and potentially freedom from a restri...
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Enzyme promiscuity The phosphotriesterase (PTE) from "Pseudomonas diminuta" was evolved to become an arylesterase (P–O to C–O hydrolase) in eighteen rounds gaining a 10 shift in specificity (ratio of K), however most of the change occurred in the initial rounds, where the unselected vestigial PTE activity was retained ...
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Enzyme promiscuity First proposed in 1963 by Linus Pauling and Emile Zuckerkandl, ancestral reconstruction is the inference and synthesis of a gene from the ancestral form of a group of genes, which has had a recent revival thanks to improved inference techniques and low-cost artificial gene synthesis, resulting in sev...
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Enzyme promiscuity In light of the large number of paralogous fungal α-glucosidase genes with a number of specific maltose-like (maltose, turanose, maltotriose, maltulose and sucrose) and isomaltose-like (isomaltose and palatinose) substrates, a study reconstructed all key ancestors and found that the last common ances...
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Enzyme promiscuity coli" protein (using a pooled set of plasmids of the ASKA collection). The mechanisms by which the noncognate ORF could rescue the knockout can be grouped into eight categories: isozyme overexpression (homologues), substrate ambiguity, transport ambiguity (scavenging), catalytic promiscuity, metaboli...
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Enzyme promiscuity Examples of these are enzymes for primary and secondary metabolism in plants (§ "Plant secondary metabolism" below). Other factors can come into play, for example the glycerophosphodiesterase ("gpdQ") from "Enterobacter aerogenes" shows different values for its promiscuous activities depending on the...
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Enzyme promiscuity However, the main activity of the enzyme is a result not only of selection towards a high catalytic rate towards a particular substrate to produce a particular product, but also to avoid the production of toxic or unnecessary products. For example, if a tRNA syntheses loaded an incorrect amino acid o...
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Enzyme promiscuity For example, for restriction endonucleases incorrect activity (star activity) is often lethal for the organism, but a small amount allows new functions to evolve against new pathogens. Plants produce a large number of secondary metabolites thanks to enzymes that, unlike those involved in primary meta...
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Enzyme promiscuity Whereas promiscuity is mainly studied in terms of standard enzyme kinetics, drug binding and subsequent reaction is a promiscuous activity as the enzyme catalyses an inactivating reaction towards a novel substrate it did not evolve to catalyse. This could be because of the demonstration that there ar...
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C18H14O9 The molecular formula CHO (molar mass: 374.29 g/mol, exact mass: 374.063782 u) may refer to:
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RiAFP refers to an antifreeze protein (AFP) produced by the "Rhagium inquisitor" longhorned beetle. It is a type V antifreeze protein with a molecular weight of 12.8 kDa; this type of AFP is noted for its hyperactivity. "R. inquisitor" is a freeze-avoidant species, meaning that, due to its AFP, "R. inquisitor" prevents...
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RiAFP In physical chemistry terms, the AFPs adsorbed onto the exposed ice crystal force the growth of the ice crystal in a convex fashion as the temperature drops, which elevates the ice vapour pressure at the nucleation sites. Ice vapour pressure continues to increase until it reaches equilibrium with the surrounding ...
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RiAFP This strategy provides an obvious survival benefit to these beetles, who are endemic to cold climates, such as Scandinavia, Siberia, and Alaska. The primary structure of (the sequence may be found here) determined by Mass Spectroscopy, Edman degradation and by constructing a partial cDNA sequence and PCR have sho...
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RiAFP On the basis of these observations, it has been predicted that the need for insect AFPs came about after insect evolutionary divergence, much like the evolution of fish AFPs; thus, different AFPs most likely evolved in parallel from adaptations to cold (environmental) stress. As a result, homology modelling with ...
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Flavaspidic acid Molecular Weight: 446.4902 g/mol Molecular Formula: CHO may refer to:
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Warren Roper (chemist) Warren Richard Roper FRS FRSNZ FNZIC (born 1938) is a New Zealand chemist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Auckland. Roper was educated at Nelson College from 1952 to 1956, and was dux in his final year. He then studied chemistry at the University of Canterbury, and undertook his PhD u...
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PTFE fiber is a chemically resistant material. It is used in woven form in certain pump packings as well as in nonwoven form in hot gas bag filters for industries with corrosive exhausts. Because PTFE is relatively insoluble and has a very high melting point, PTFE fibers can not be fashioned from conventional melt or s...
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Pit water Pit water, mine water or mining water is water that collects in a mine and which has to be brought to the surface by water management methods in order to enable the mine to continue working. Although all water that enters pit workings originates from atmospheric precipitation, the miner distinguishes between ...
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Newbery–Vautin chlorination process The is a process to extract gold from its ore using chlorination developed by James Cosmo Newbery and Claude Vautin. The process of extracting gold from ores by absorption of the precious metal in chlorine gas, from which it is reduced to a metallic state, is not a very new discovery...
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Newbery–Vautin chlorination process Therefore, where delicate chemical operations were necessary for success, practice generally failed from want of knowledge on the part of the operator, and many times extensive plants have been pronounced useless from this cause alone. Hence it is not to be wondered that processes re...
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Newbery–Vautin chlorination process On the opposite side of the barrel there is a valve connected with an air pump, through which air to about the pressure of four atmospheres is pumped in, to liquefy the chlorine gas that is generated, after which the valve is screwed down. The barrel is then set revolving at about te...
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Newbery–Vautin chlorination process The solution running from the filter is continually tested, and when found free from gold, the stream of water is stopped, as is also the vacuum pump. The filter is then tipped up into a truck below, and the tailings run out to the waste heap. The process of washing and filtration oc...
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Newbery–Vautin chlorination process This roasting applies equally to the Vautin process as to any others. So on this head there is no alteration. One of the most important advantages is not a chemical one, but is the rapidity with which the charge can be treated. In the older styles of treatment the time varied from th...
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Newbery–Vautin chlorination process Again, the short time the ore is in contact with the chlorine does not allow of the formation of hydrochloric acid, which has a tendency to precipitate the gold from its soluble form in the water before being withdrawn from the chlorinator. Previously, when the ore was very fine or c...
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Newbery–Vautin chlorination process In passing through the charcoal, the chloride of gold is decomposed and all fine gold particles are taken up by the charcoal, so that it is coated by what appears to be a purple film. Should copper be associated with the gold, the water, after running through the charcoal filter, is ...
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Newbery–Vautin chlorination process Quicksilver being so thick in substance, it will not find its way readily in and out of a microscopically fine spongy body or through very fine flaws in grains of silica, whereas chlorine gas or a solution of liquefied chlorine does this, and absorbs the gold far more readily. There ...
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Newbery–Vautin chlorination process Before Newbery and Vautin leave a purchaser to deal himself with their process, they get large samples of his ore to their works and there experiment continually until a practically perfect result is obtained; then any one with a moderate amount of knowledge can work with the formula...
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Rule of mixtures In materials science, a general rule of mixtures is a weighted mean used to predict various properties of a composite material made up of continuous and unidirectional fibers. It provides a theoretical upper- and lower-bound on properties such as the elastic modulus, mass density, ultimate tensile stre...
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Rule of mixtures Noting stress to be a force per unit area, a force balance gives that where formula_14 is the volume fraction of the fibers in the composite (and formula_15 is the volume fraction of the matrix). If it is assumed that the composite material behaves as a linear-elastic material, i.e., abiding Hooke's la...
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Nitrate ester A nitrate ester is the organic functional group with the formula RONO, where R stands for any organic residue. They are the esters of nitric acid and alcohols. A well-known example is nitroglycerin, which is not a "nitro" compound, despite its name. Nitrate esters are typically prepared by condensation of...
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Nitrate ester The nitrate esters isosorbide dinitrate (Isordil) and isosorbide mononitrate (Imdur, Ismo, Monoket, Mononitron) are converted in the body to nitric oxide, a potent natural vasodilator. In medicine, these esters are used as a medicine for angina pectoris (ischemic heart disease). Acetyl nitrate is a nitrat...
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Archaeal transcription factor B (ATFB or TFB) is a protein family of extrinsic transcription factors that guide the initiation of RNA transcription in organisms that fall under the domain of Archaea. It is homologous to eukaryotic TFIIB and, more distantly, to bacterial sigma factor. Like these proteins, it is involved...
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Archaeal transcription factor B While the N-terminal domain mediates the RNAP interactions, the C-terminal domain mediates interactions with complex formed of the TATA box and TBP, a DNA sequence and polypeptide involved with translation initiation. The degree of conservation of TFB's sequence throughout Archaea ranges...
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Archaeal transcription factor B The C-terminal domain specifically may be what influences the direction of the preinitiation complex. Since TFB binds the RNAP and TFB binds the TBP-TATA complex, TBP connects the two. TFB is recruited by another translation factor, TBP, after it recognizes the TATA box and bends the DNA...
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Silver perrhenate is a chemical compound with the formula AgReO. This compound is isostructural with the mineral scheelite (CaWO). reacts with trimethylsilyl chloride to give the silyl "ester" (CH)SiOReO.
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Silver dichromate is a chemical compound with the formula AgCrO. It is insoluble in water and decomposes when treated with hot water. Its anion has a charge of -2. Related complexes are used as oxidants in organic chemistry. For instance, tetrakis(pyridine)silver dichromate, [Ag(py)][CrO], is used to convert benzylic a...
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C20H22N2O2 The molecular formula CHNO may refer to:
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Spin canting Some antiferromagnetic materials exhibit a non-zero magnetic moment at a temperature near absolute zero. This effect is ascribed to spin canting, a phenomenon through which spins are tilted by a small angle about their axis rather than being exactly co-parallel. is due to two factors contrasting each other...
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Boron phosphate is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula BPO. The simplest way of producing it is the reaction of phosphoric acid and boric acid. It is a white infusible solid that evaporates above 1450 °C. is synthesized from phosphoric acid and boric acid at a temperature range from 80 °C to 1200 °C. The re...
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Trillion-dollar coin The trillion-dollar coin is a concept that emerged during the United States debt-ceiling crisis in 2011, as a proposed way to bypass any necessity for the United States Congress to raise the country's borrowing limit, through the minting of very high-value platinum coins. The concept gained more ma...
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Trillion-dollar coin All circulating, bullion and numismatic operating expenses and capital investments incurred for the Mint's operations and programs are paid out of the PEF. By law, all funds in the PEF are available without fiscal year limitation. Revenues determined to be in excess of the amount required by the PE...
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Trillion-dollar coin 5112(k) as originally enacted by Public Law 104-208 in 1996: The Secretary may mint and issue bullion and proof platinum coins in accordance with such specifications, designs, varieties, quantities, denominations, and inscriptions as the Secretary, in the Secretary's discretion, may prescribe from ...
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Trillion-dollar coin The idea for the Treasury Department to mint a coin and send it to the Federal Reserve in order to pay off the debt was first popularized by Populist Party presidential candidate Bo Gritz in 1992. As a standard part of his stump speeches, he would hold up a five-inch example coin. The specific conc...
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Trillion-dollar coin " His endorsement attracted considerable media attention. Former Mint director Diehl was widely cited in the media debunking criticisms of the coin and its basis in law. Congressman Jerry Nadler endorsed the idea and it was featured in the international press by January 4, 2013. "Beowulf" would lat...
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Trillion-dollar coin " Another journalist, Felix Salmon, wrote that the concept "would effectively mark the demise of the three-branch system of government, by allowing the executive branch to simply steamroller the rights and privileges of the legislative branch". Salmon went on to explain that he does not agree with ...
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Trillion-dollar coin On January 7, 2013, Republican congressman Greg Walden announced he would introduce a bill to close the platinum coin loophole. Rep. Walden said that the intention is to "take the proposal off the table". New York representative Jerry Nadler opposed the bill, and said that the idea remains a valid ...
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Trillion-dollar coin " The paper added that "if the public trusts that the increase in the monetary base QE creates is only temporary, then they will not expect rapid inflation in the near future. These expectations collectively influence actual pricing behavior and, in turn, actual inflation." The Federal Reserve coul...
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Trillion-dollar coin Ip suggested that any such imposition could be avoided if the additional trillion in coinage were issued directly to the public (in more useful smaller denominations) instead of deposited with the Fed. In May 2010 there was $40.4 billion in coin in circulation and about another $900 billion in bank...
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Born equation The can be used for estimating the electrostatic component of Gibbs free energy of solvation of an ion. It is an electrostatic model that treats the solvent as a continuous dielectric medium (it is thus one member of a class of methods known as continuum solvation methods). It was derived by Max Born. whe...
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Johann Frederik Eijkman Johan Fredrik Eykman or (19 January 1851 – 7 January 1915) was a Dutch chemist. He is one of the eight children of Christiaan Eijkman, the headmaster of a local school, and Johanna Alida Pool. His brother Christiaan Eijkman (1858–1930) was a physician and professor of physiology whose demonstrat...
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Diboron tetrachloride is a chemical compound with the formula BCl. It is a colorless liquid. The electrical discharge procedure of boron trichloride can be divided into three steps: The modern synthesis involves dechlorination of boron trichloride using copper. It can also be formed by the electrical discharge procedur...
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Anna Volkova Anna Feodorovna Volkova (, d. 1876), was a Russian chemist working predominantly with amides. During the late 1860s, she was educated in chemistry through public lectures at St. Petersburg University. She was the first woman to graduate as a chemist (1870), the first woman member of the Russian Chemical So...
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Nadezhda Ziber-Shumova Nadezhda Olimpievna Ziber-Shumova (Russian Надежда Олимпиевна Зибер-Шумова; also Nadine, Nadina, Natalja, N., Sieber, Siber, Ziber-Šumova; born 18 May 1854 or 7 May 1856 in Samara, Russian Empire – died 16 May 1916/17) was a Russian physician and chemist. She was co-founder of the Imperial Instit...
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Rosette sampler A rosette sampler is a device used for water sampling in deep water (such as the Great Lakes or oceans) in order to investigate about its quality. A rosette sampler is made of an assembly of 12 to 36 sampling bottles. Each bottle is a volume that range from a minimum value of 1.2 L to a maximum value of...
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European coil coating association The European Coil Coating Association (ECCA) is an international non-profit association dedicated to the diffusion of the use of coil and/or sheet coated metal. The objectives of the European Coil Coating Association are described in the association's statutes and rules of procedure: T...
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European coil coating association ECCA is also nationally represented in France, Germany, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, and Nordic Countries.
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Thorium Energy Alliance (TEA) is a non-governmental, non-profit 501(c)3, educational organization based in the United States, which seeks to promote energy security of the world through the use of thorium as a fuel source. The potential for the use of thorium was studied extensively during the 1950s and 60s, and now wo...
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Thorium Energy Alliance Hence, nuclear energy is seen as an important option for power generation in many countries. Present generation nuclear reactors are all uranium based, fueled with either freshly mined uranium or recycled plutonium and uranium as the fissile material. There are concerns about a continued supply ...
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Thorium Energy Alliance Hence, it can be recovered as a by-product of other mining activities. Already, large quantities of thorium recovered from rare-earth element operations have been stockpiled in many countries. Thorium is fertile material, and essentially all thorium can be used in a nuclear reactor. Thorium is n...
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Thorium Energy Alliance TEA through its activities reaches out to scientists, engineers, government official, policymakers, and lawmakers to sensitize about the advantages of using thorium as a fuel. TEA has conducted a number of publicity campaigns and social media based outreach activities. TEA has emphasized the res...
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Thorium Energy Alliance TEA proposes to leverage education and training activities by: TEA plans to engage politicians through round-table discussions and provide them with expert opinion, white papers, executive summaries and talking points to demonstrate thorium technology. There is a major initiative to engage the p...
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Base calling is the process of assigning nucleobases to chromatogram peaks. One computer program for accomplishing this job is Phred base-calling, which is a widely used basecalling software program by both academic and commercial DNA sequencing laboratories because of its high base calling accuracy.
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