Mutants in Paramecium tetraurelia, unable to generate action potentials, have been isolated as cells which show no backward swimming in response to ionic stimulation. These "pawn" mutants belong to at least three complementation groups designated pwA, pwB, and pwC. We have found that microinjection of cytoplasm from a wild-type donor into a pawn recipient of any of the three complementation gro...

In this article 4 we introduce a blockage-detection method, which manages to detect a large set of blockage positions in pawn endgames, with practically no additional overhead. By examining different elements of the pawn structure, the method checks whether the Pawns form a blockage which prevents the King from penetrating into the opponent’s camp. It then checks several criteria to find out wh...

Heat-sensitive Pawn (ts Pawns) of Paramecium aurelia behaved normally when grown at 23 degrees but failed to avoid strong stimuli at 35 degrees . Four of the five ts Pawn lines tested were found to be allelic at a locus known also to carry temperature-independent Pawn mutations. The fifth ts Pawn line complemented all the conditional and unconditional Pawn mutants of the two known loci. This re...

indoor radon concentration (irc) is among the emerging environmental and health issues in republic of korea. due to lack of epidemiological studies and insufficient public awareness about radon, effective parameter ranking system is required to establish protocols for future field sampling and settlement construction. this research propose the irc parameter ranking system based on field measure...

Utilizing the proprietary data of a company operating 10 pawnshops throughout Kentucky and Ohio, and exploiting the randomized variation of the Economic Stimulus Payments of 2008, this paper studies the effect of positive liquidity shocks on pawn loan utilization. We uncover a statistically significant 67% decrease in pawn loan utilization in the week following receipt of ESP checks. However, i...

The genetic dissection of a simple avoidance reaction behavior in Paramecium tetraurelia has shown that ion channels are a critical molecular element in signal transduction. Pawn mutants, for example, were originally selected for their inability to swim backward, a trait that has since been shown to result from the loss of a voltage-dependent calcium current. The several genes defined by this p...

Pawn mutants of Paramecium tetraurelia lack a depolarization-activated Ca(2+) current and do not swim backward. Using the method of microinjection and sorting a genomic library, we have cloned a DNA fragment that complements pawn-B (pwB/pwB). The minimal complementing fragment is a 798-bp open reading frame (ORF) that restores the Ca(2+) current and the backward swimming when expressed. This OR...

This paper attempts to explore the demographic factors towards one of the dominant pawn brokers in Malaysia named Ar-Rahnu that has led the growth of Islamic pawn broking system comprehensively. Specifically, this study examines the demographic elements in capturing the customer acceptance towards Islamic pawn broking offered by Maidam in the state of Terengganu. A total of 330 self-administere...

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