The prophage of bacteriophage P1 is a unit copy plasmid, stable in Escherichia coli during cell division due to its partition system. The active P1 partition system consists of two genes, parA and parB, and a cis-site, parS. ParS contains all of...
The tick has ability to transmit a greater variety of infectious agents to humans and other animal species than any other blood-feeding arthropod. Feeding over a period of days induces specific host hemostatic, inflammatory, and immune responses....
When immigrants arrive in their new host country, they find themselves surrounded by a completely different culture, and they must go through a renegotiation process in which they have to decide how much of their own culture to maintain and how...
Given the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, the need to find alternative treatments for pathogenic microbes, and the obvious medical potential of bacteriophages, we designed a study to display evidence that phage therapy is a viable...
The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the use of marriage as a literary device in William Trevor's short fiction. Trevor has continually questioned the essence of matrimony in moral and psychological terms, attempting to define marriage and...
Minor histocompatibility (H) antigens are typically identified as barriers to transplantation in graft exchange experiments between major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-matched hosts (Bailey 1975; Snell and Bunker 1960). This approach has allowed...
Catalonia (Spain) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements; Catalonia (Spain) -- Politics and government
The topic of research in this paper, "The future of nationalities and regions in an integrating Europe: The Case of Catalonia", involves all aspects of Catalan life in order to develop and understand their particular and separate nationality. With...
Pathological gambling is a severe, crippling, epidemic in our modern society. Pathological gambling has been linked with a host of personality disorders. The present study will examine the relationship between pathological gambling and the Big...
During the development of potential protein or antibody therapeutics in a pharmaceutical environment, the use of animal models as test subjects is a necessary requirement. The dosing of mice, rats, and primates is essential to drug development...
Democracy--Morocco; Islam and politics--Morocco; Morocco--Politics and government--21st century
In most Arabs and Muslims countries, the 1990`s witnessed a vibrant movement by individuals and groups that advocate through non-government organizations (NGO) good governance, transparency and the rule of law. NGOs can be defined as non-civilians...
Baseball -- United States; Depressions -- 1929; United States -- History -- 1919-1933; United States -- History -- 1933-1945
A host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with little return, only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment. FDR's words revealed the magnitude of suffering that the...
