The presence of Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Europe is on the rise, yet they concentrate specific regions. Traditional spatial explanations this clustering refer to co-location foreign and local firms same or related sectors (‘industry agglomeration’). Nonetheless, investors may also favour locations with a ethnic communities (‘country-of-origin We investigate combined role both ...

A series of 9 lactonic lipopeptide biosurfactants was isolated from Bacillus licheniformis IM 1307 as representatives of the lichenysin group and we propose to name them lichenysins G. They were recovered from the culture medium as complex mixtures of molecules having different peptide sequences and different structures of beta-hydroxy fatty acids. Their separation was achieved by a reversed-ph...

The MultiTag method (Sunyaev et al., Anal. Chem. 2003 15, 1307-1315) employs multiple error-tolerant searches with peptide sequence tags (Mann and Wilm, Anal. Chem. 1994, 66, 4390-4399) for the identification of proteins from organisms with unsequenced genomes. Here we demonstrate that the error-tolerant capabilities of MultiTag increased the number of peptide alignments and improved the confid...

Plasmid pFR400. a derivative of the vector plasmid pPHU231 containing the structural genes of the peri­ plasmic nitrate reductase (nap genes) of Rhodobacter sphaeroides DSM 158 (F. Reyes et al., Molec. Microbiol. 19, 1307-1318 [1996]) was transferred by conjugative mating to a streptomycin-resistant strain of the nitrate reductase-negative nonsulfur purple bacterium Rho­ dospirillum rubrum SI. ...

We studied prospectively 1381 patients undergoing extradural anaesthesia for total hip or total knee replacement, to determine if extradural anaesthesia can be performed reliably in patients who have had previous lumbar spine surgery. Fifty-two of the 57 patients (91.2%) who had undergone lumbar spine surgery received a successful extradural anaesthetic, and 1307 of 1324 patients without previo...

Negative ion detachment in bichromatic laser field is considered within the adiabatic theory. The latter represents a recent modification of the famous Keldysh model for multiphoton ionization [L. V. Keldysh, Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz. 47, 1945 (1964) [Sov. Phys.-JETP 20, 1307 (1965)]] which makes it quantitatively reliable. We calculate angular differential detachment rates, partial rates for partic...