The potential for information technology penetration in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is very high compared to other regions. Unfortunately, productivity levels the area are also deficient. This study investigates importance of influencing effect foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor (TFP) dynamics. focus 25 countries SSA. Information measured with mobile phone and internet penetration, wh...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an important opportunistic pathogen of man, exploits numerous factors for initial attachment to the host, an event required to establish bacterial infection. In this paper, we rigorously explore the role of two major bacterial adhesins, type IV pili (Tfp) and flagella, in bacterial adherence to distinct host receptors at the apical (AP) and basolateral (BL) surfaces of p...

This paper documents the total factor productivity (TFP) growth path from 1998 to 2013 using both the aggregate data and the firm-level data of China. We find that the TFP growth is positive from 1998 to 2011 and then turn to flat and even negative. And careful comparison between the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private firms reveals that the slowing down of TFP growth of the SOEs is the ...

The obligate human pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae is the sole aetiologic agent of the sexually transmitted infection, gonorrhea. Required for gonococcal infection, Type IV pili (Tfp) mediate many functions including adherence, twitching motility, defense against neutrophil killing, and natural transformation. Critical for immune escape, the gonococcal Tfp undergoes antigenic variation, a recomb...

We have reported in the preceding paper that the treatment of plateau phase mouse EMT6 tumour cells with a combination of hyperthermia (HT; 44°C) and trifluoperazine (TFP; 30,ugml-1; an inhibitor of calmodulin) greatly enhances the cytotoxicity of the antitumour drug belomycin (BLM). The cytotoxic action of BLM is thought to arise from the induction of DNA damage in a manner which reflects chro...

BACKGROUND In Gram-negative bacteria, type IV pili (TFP) have long been known to play important roles in such diverse biological phenomena as surface adhesion, motility, and DNA transfer, with significant consequences for pathogenicity. More recently it became apparent that Gram-positive bacteria also express type IV pili; however, little is known about the diversity and abundance of these stru...

Objectives:Objective measures of morbidity will be required to establish the radial artery (RA) as a viable long term alternative to saphenous vein. The RA is the dominant arterial supply to the thenar musculature. We hypothesised that RA harvest should decrease O2 saturation and thenar muscle power. Methods: RA was harvested from non-dominant (ND) limbs only (left n ˆ 58, right n ˆ 21). Oximet...

This study assesses five common explanations for the large decline in U.S. total factor productivity (TFP) during the Great Depression: changes in capacity utilization, factor input quality, and production composition; labor hoarding; and increasing returns to scale. The study finds that these factors explain less than onethird of the 18 percent TFP decline between 1929 and 1933. The rest of th...

Relatively few selective substrate and inhibitor probes have been identified for human UDP-glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs). This work investigated the selectivity of trifluoperazine (TFP), as a substrate, and amitriptyline, androsterone, canrenoic acid, hecogenin, phenylbutazone, quinidine, quinine, and sulfinpyrazone, as inhibitors, for human UGTs. Selectivity was assessed using UGTs 1A1, 1A3,...