Enzyme I (EI) is the first component in the bacterial phosphotransferase system, a signal transduction pathway in which phosphoryl transfer through a series of bimolecular protein-protein interactions is coupled to sugar transport across the membrane. EI is a multidomain, 128-kDa homodimer that has been shown to exist in two conformational states related to one another by two large (50-90°) rig...

BACKGROUND There has been considerable interest in Emotional Intelligence (EI) in undergraduate medical education, with respect to student selection and admissions, health and well-being and academic performance. EI is a significant component of the physician-patient relationship. The emotional well-being of the physician is, therefore, a significant component in patient care. The aim is to exa...

A comprehensive assessment of the determinants of effective population size (N(e)) requires estimates of variance in lifetime reproductive success and past changes in census numbers. For natural populations, such information can be best obtained by combining longitudinal data on individual life histories and genetic marker-based inferences of demographic history. Independent estimates of the va...

This paper studies a maintenance policy for a system composed of two components, which are subject to continuous deterioration and consequently stochastic failure. The failure of each component results in the failure of the system. The components are inspected periodically and their deterioration degrees are monitored. The components can be maintained using different maintenance actions (repair...

Objective: New nurses may be vulnerable to bullying as they often lack confidence or do not have the skills or maturity to communicate their needs or those of their patients. Increasing emotional intelligence particularly in at-risk nursing students may be one way to foster resiliency. This exploratory cross sectional study aimed to exam the overall level and specific components of emotional in...

Background. We investigated the prevalence, symptoms, and QOL impact of esophageal (EI), gastric (GI), and duodenal mucosal injury (DI) individually between low-dose aspirin (LDA) users and nonusers to reveal the clinical features of LDA-related mucosal injury. Methods. Data were extracted from the records of subjects who underwent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy at our department between Apri...

states are written in the form (s; fqe1 1 ; : : : ; qek k g), where each ei is 1 or + (when the constructor is 0, the component state is omitted). A concrete state a = (s; [r1; :::; rz]) is represented by an abstract state A = (s; fqe1 1 ; :::; qek k g) if the following conditions are satisfied: – ei = + if qi occurs in [r1; : : : ; rz] two or more times; – ei = 1 or ei = + if qi occurs in [r1;...

A simple hypergraph H=(X, E), with order |X| and size m=|E|, consists of a vertex-set V(H)=X and an edge-set E(H)=E, where E X and |E| 2 for each edge E in E. H is linear if no two edges intersect in more than one vertex, and H is h-uniform, or is an h-hypergraph, if |E|=h for each E in E. The number of edges containing a vertex x is its degree dH(x). Two vertices u, v of H are in the same comp...