The Knowledge-based economy stands in focus for much of European policy and is also a policy issue within the OECD. The discourse on the coming of the knowledge (based) society and/or the knowledge (based) economy – with roots in the 1980s may be looked upon as a transformation of the still older discussions on the post industrial society (cf. eg. the foreword in Bell, 1973/76). Common proposit...

Inactivation of p53 is needed during adenovirus type 5 DNA replication. E1B55K, an adenovirus early protein, has been reported to interact with p53 and inhibit p53 transactivation. Previous studies have shown that adeno-associated virus (AAV) type 2 could reduce the transforming potential of adenovirus by rescuing p53 from adenovirus-mediated degradation, but the details are not clear yet. We d...

Powerful, flexible and cost-effective analyses of maritime systems can be conducted in an appropriate way with distributed simulations. Co-simulation components require interoperability like specified by the IEC TC/65/290/DC to insure information exchange and synchronization. Therefore this paper describes a way to insure the interoperability of co-simulations of maritime systems. Userand techn...

Human pharmaceutical active ingredients that are orally or parenterally administered may be metabolised in the body and after excretion may be further transformed in the receiving environmental compartments. The optimal outcome from an environmental point of view-complete mineralisation-is rarely observed. Small molecule pharmaceuticals are commonly not readily biodegradable according to Organi...

An efficient and reproducible protocol for Agrobacteriummediated transformation of an agronomically useful Oryza sativa variety, Pusa Basmati1 (IET10364) has been standardized. Although several reporters have been claimed the Agrobacteriummediated transformation but here we studied the effect of acetosyringone and age of callus on transformation frequency for scutellumderived callus of Pusa bas...

Since ten years, the multifractal analysis represents an original tool in signal and especially image processing. The multifractal methods in texture analysis are becoming efficient due to multifractal modelling and powerful methods in estimation of irregularities functions (exponent of Hölder) and multifractal spectrum. In this respect, we propose a multifractal approach for textural character...

This article provides tools for characterizing the extent of cross-section correlation in panel data when we do not know a priori how many and which series are correlated. Our tests are based on the probability integral transformation of the ordered correlations. We first split the transformed correlations by their size into two groups, then evaluate the variance ratio of the two subsamples. Th...

The chloropesticide toxaphene (Camphechlor, Melipax) has been used in high quantities since 1945 . Toxaphene has been classified as a persistent organohalogen pollutant (POP) and belongs to the “dirty dozen” . Due to its heavy use in the 1960s and 1970s, several environmental compartments were significantly contaminated with toxaphene. For instance, concentrations in polluted areas could exceed...

Plant regeneration in lucerne (Medicago sativa) is highly genotype dependent and inspite of considerable information on in vitro regeneration in this species the Indian genotypes have not been investigated so far. A system of recurrent somatic embryogenesis (RSE) was established for the first time in Indian accessions of lucerne and utilized for Agrobacterium mediated genetic transformation. Se...

To facilitate predictions of the transport and fate of contaminants at future coal conversion facilities, rates of microbial transformation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons were measured in stream water and sediment samples collected in the vicinity of a coal-coking treated wastewater discharge from November 1977 through August 1979. Six radiolabeled polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons were inc...