The stylized facts of the resource curse

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The stylized facts of the resource curse Although some countries have well harnessed their resource wealth to expand their economies faster, most of them have experienced bad macroeconomic performance. A useful starting point...

THE BIOSYNTHESIS OF TERPENES IN PLANTS

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The place of terpenes in plant metabolism The number of molecules synthesized by plants is arduous to appreciate; some studies mention 100,000 to 1,000,000 representatives, most of them being linked to the secondary...

Causes and consequences of plasmid loss

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Microscopy Microscopy is one of the first equipment used to study single-cell properties and population heterogeneities. Light, atomic force and fluorescence microscopies are all adapted to analyze single-cell properties during fermentation at different...

MICROBIAL PROCESSES INVOLVED IN THE NITROGEN CONVERSION AND N2O EMISSIONS

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Denitrification pathways Denitrification is initially nominated to describe one phenomenon (e.g. nitrogen loss in N cycle) and was recognized by Kluyver as an anaerobic respiration process. Denitrifying bacteria in the water systems involve...

Pharmaceutically active compounds 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Pharmaceutically active compounds General information on pharmaceutically active compounds Pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs), a group of chemicals including analgesics, anti- convulsants, anti-depressants, anti-inflammatories, hormones, antibiotics, etc., are used to maintain the healthy conditions...

MODELING RECEPTOR-LIGAND INTERACTIONS FOR THE EXTRINSIC APOPTOSIS PATHWAY

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Apoptosis: an important pathway in systems biology and medicine Apoptosis comprises a set of chemical reactions through which cells can be eliminated when exposed to intracellular or extracellular stress signaling events (Renault and...

EFFECTS OF ANTIOXIDANT SUPPLEMENTATION ON HYPOACTIVITY-INDUCED

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Intermuscular adipose tissue accumulation The loss of strength associated with muscle deconditioning is higher than the rate of atrophy, indicating that other factors are involved in muscle weakness. Indeed, a longitudinal 5-years study...

Central role of the colonic barrier

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » The junctions of the epithelial barrier In order to fulfill the intestinal barrier challenge, IECs are held together by three intracellular adhesion complexes, Tight Junctions (TJ), Desmosomes and adherens junctions (AJs) (Figure 6)....

EFFECT OF OPERATING PARAMETERS ON PROCESS EFFICIENCY

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Membrane bioreactor (MBR) Membrane filtration Membrane filtration, widely used in chemical and biotechnology processes, is already established as a valuable means of filtering and cleaning wastewater. Membrane filtration denotes the separation process in...

The Boolean and arithmetic proportions as parallelograms

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Models with analogical proportions In this section, we will describe models that have made explicit use of analogical proportions. Solving geometric problems The ANALOGY program of Thomas Evans [Eva64] is one of the...