RATIONALE Mixing models are a common method for quantifying the contribution of prey sources to the diet of an individual using stable isotope analysis; however, these models rely upon a known trophic discrimination factor (hereafter, TDF) that results from fractionation between prey and animal tissues. Quantifying TDFs in captive animals is ideal, because diet is controlled and the proportiona...

PspA is an important pneumococcal vaccine candidate that is capable of inducing protection in different animal models. Because of its structural diversity, a PspA-based vaccine should contain at least one fragment from each of the two major families (1 and 2) in order to elicit broader protection. In the present work, we have tested the potential of PspA hybrids containing fused portions of fam...

This article presents a thorough evaluation of target date funds (TDFs) for the period 2010–2020. TDFs have grown enormously in assets, reaching $1.4 trillion at end 2019, and account approximately 24% all assets 401(k) accounts. We report on results style analysis that determines their effective asset allocation. It examines both constant regressions resulting Sharpe ratios, which reflect over...

Since Target Date Funds (TDFs) became one of the default investment strategies for the 401(k) defined contribution (DC) beneficiaries, they have developed rapidly. Usually they are structured according to the principle “young people should invest more in equities”. Is this really a good recommendation for DC beneficiaries to manage their investment risk? The present paper relies on dynamic asse...

Late leaf spot is a serious disease of peanut caused by the imperfect fungus, Phaeoisariopsis personata. Wild diploid species, Arachis diogoi. is reported to be highly resistant to this disease and asymptomatic. The objective of this study is to investigate the molecular responses of the wild peanut challenged with the late leaf spot pathogen using cDNA-AFLP and 2D proteomic study. A total of 2...

Restriction fragments of chloroplast (cp)DNA from mustard leaves were cloned in E. coli using pBR 322 as the vehicle. Cloned fragments containing the structural sequences for two polypeptides of 56,000 and 35,000 daltons were selected by a mRNA hybridization-translation procedure. The cloned mustard genes are structurally related to chloroplast genes from maize. They hybridize to the maize mRNA...

The dengue virus type 2 genomic RNA was amplified by reverse transcription-PCR and cloned as four cDNA fragments. We could not assemble these four fragments into full-length cDNA in Escherichia coli. The full-length dengue virus cDNA was constructed by homologous recombination in yeast, either as part of a yeast artificial chromosome or in a yeast-E. coli shuttle vector. Full-length cDNA clones...

this article shows that persian fragments are derived via a'-movement of the remnant plus tp deletion. evidence like case-matching, binding effects, and scope and bound pronouns show that persian fragments result from the application of deletion rule. but prior to this application, fragments are extracted out of the ellipsis site and moved to the left periphery of the sentence. evidence li...

Demographic changes increase the necessity to base pension system more and on second third pillars, namely occupational private plans; this paper deals with Target Date Funds (TDFs), which are a typical investment opportunity for planners. TDFs usually identified decreasing fraction of wealth invested in equity (a so-called glide path) as retirement comes closer, i.e. is riskily younger saver i...