Glycerol-induced development of catalytically active conformation of Crotalus adamanteus L-amino acid oxidase in vitro.

The reconstitutable apoprotein of Crotalus adamanteus L-amino acid oxidase was prepared using hydrophobic interaction chromatography. After reconstitution with flavin adenine dinucleotide, the resulting protein was inactive, with a perturbed conformation of the flavin binding site. Subsequently, a series of cosolvent-dependent compact intermediates was identified. The nearly complete activation of the reconstituted apoprotein and the restoration of its native flavin binding site was achieved in the presence of 50% glycerol. We provide evidence that in addition to a merely stabilizing effect of glycerol on native proteins, glycerol can also have a restorative effect on their compact equilibrium intermediates, and we suggest the hydrophobic effect as a dominating force in this in vitro-assisted restorative process.

On formality of Sasakian manifolds

We investigate some topological properties, in particular formality, of compact Sasakian manifolds. Answering some questions raised by Boyer and Galicki, we prove that all higher (than three) Massey products on any compact Sasakian manifold vanish. Hence, higher Massey products do obstruct Sasakian structures. Using this, we produce a method of constructing simply connected K-contact non-Sasakian manifolds. On the other hand, for every n > 3, we exhibit the first examples of simply connected compact Sasakian manifolds of dimension 2n + 1 that are non-formal. They are non-formal because they have a non-zero triple Massey product. We also prove that arithmetic lattices in some simple Lie groups cannot be the fundamental group of a compact Sasakian manifold.

Anwendungen von Fuzzy Logic im Controlling

Die wesentliche Aufgabe des Controllings besteht darin, dem Management aufbereitete Informationen zur Verfügung zu stellen. Die zu verarbeitenden Informationen liegen allerdings nicht immer in der gewünschten Genauigkeit vor. Trotz dieser Unschärfe muss eine Beschreibung stattfinden, um eine Entscheidungsfindung zu realsieren. Eine Möglichkeit ist der hier vorgestellte wissensbasierte Ansatz der Fuzzy Logic. Anhand von drei Controllinginstrumenten wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit das Anwendungspotential der Fuzzy Logic im Controlling bewertet.

Economic development and international migration in comparative perspective /

Cover title.

Bark beetles and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytoidea): with special references to species occurring in North Carolina,

Bibliography: p. [162]-167.

American Indian and Alaska Native Agricultural Conference : February 7-8, 1979, Albuquerque, New Mexico /

Report prepared by Ovid Bay, J. C. Massey, and Lauren L. Fuller.

A history of England, during the reign of George the Third.

Mode of access: Internet.

A concise history of the Eastern penitentiary of Pennsylvania,

Mode of access: Internet.

Canadian.

No more published.

--esques,

Mode of access: Internet.

Guidelines for the installation of MSHA accepted ground wire monitors /

"July 1996."

Meanderings '95 : Illinois/Mississippi River.

Funded by National Science Foundation ; awarded to Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

Meanderings '95 : rivers of the United States.

A collection of writings by high school students whose teachers and school participated in the Rivers Curriculum Project from September 1994 until June 1995.