This study of automotive transaction relationships in the U.S.A. and Japan offers abta which indicate that transaction costs do not necessarily increase with an increase in reiation-specijk investments. We empirically examine the conditions under which transactors can simultaneously achieve the twin benejits of high asset specificity and low transaction costs. This is possible because the dtffe...

When Jack van Lint was appointed as full professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology at the age of 26 he combined a PhD in number theory with a very open scientific mind. It took a sabbatical visit to Bell Laboratories in 1966 to make him understand that a new and fascinating field of applied mathematics was emerging: discrete mathematics. It fascinated and inspired him for the rest of ...

Since its initiation in the early 1980s, research into cognitive aspects of survey methods (CASM) has made considerable progress in illuminating the cognitive and communicative processes underlying survey responding. This article reviews key themes and developments, notes strengths and shortcomings and places the contributions to this special issue in this context. Copyright # 2007 John Wiley &...

death disease is condition of a person who will die of a disease. jurisprudents have been disagreed regarding influence of this condition on his certainties. some of the jurisprudents have regarded certainties as testament, but some of other jurisprudents have not believed in this limitations and considered person's freedom at the time of his/her sickness like his/her freedom at the time o...

Both the amino-terminal and carboxyl-terminal domains of IGF binding protein (IGFBP)-3 are believed to contribute to high-affinity IGF binding. To investigate cooperativity in IGF binding by these domains, we expressed IGFBP-3 fragments 1-88 (NBP-3) and 185-264 (CBP-3) as FLAG and hexahistidine-tagged fusion proteins, respectively. IGF-I and IGF-II bound to NBP-3 poorly and to CBP-3 with modera...

The major light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b-binding protein (Lhcb1,2) of photosystem II is inserted into the thylakoid via the signal recognition particle dependent pathway. However, the mechanism by which the protein enters the membrane is at this time unknown. In order to define some topographical restrictions for this process, we constructed several recombinant derivatives of Lhcb1 carrying h...

Hairy root culture is a potential alternative to conventional mammalian cell culture to produce recombinant proteins due to its ease in protein recovery, low costs and absence of potentially human pathogenic contaminants. The current study focussed to develop a new platform of a hairy root culture system from Nicotiana tabacum for the production of recombinant human EPO (rhEPO), which is regula...

data collected confirmed the RNA-Seq results. ChIP-Seq methods are being optimized to identify the direct targets of OpaR. Select targets were confirmed direct targets via in vitro electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) with purified hexahistidine tagged OpaR. A previously published position specific weighted matrix (PSWM) will be utilized to assist in identification of possible OpaR bind...