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Police Unions, Industrial Strategies and Political Influence: Some Recent History
No full textABSTRACTThis article examines an area of Australian industrial relations that has received little attention in the academic literature on employment-- police unionism. The article addresses two main issues. Firstly, it provides an examination of the changing nature of police work and management practices. Secondly, it evaluates the distinctive character of strategies developed by police unions and the legitimacy of their political role. The overview concludes that in an environment where the majority of unions are struggling to maintain membership and develop strategies that deal effectively with increasingly strict legislative constraints, police unions have been remarkably successful.<br/
Cloning and expression of the levanase gene in Alcaligenes eutrophus H16 enables the strain to hydrolyze sucrose
No full textFriehs K, Lafferty RM. Cloning and expression of the levanase gene in Alcaligenes eutrophus H16 enables the strain to hydrolyze sucrose. Journal of Biotechnology. 1989;10(3-4):285-291.Genetic engineering methods were used to enhance the substrate spectrum of Alcaligenes eutrophus H16, a poly-[beta]-hydroxybutyric acid (PHB) producer. Using parts of the vector pMMB33 and a 2.5 kb DNA fragment of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome a plasmid was constructed bearing the gene for levanase, an enzyme able to hydrolyze various saccharides. After transfer of the levanase gene by triparental conjugation, the gene, controlled by its own Bacillus subtilis promoter, is expressed in Alcaligenes eutrophus H16 and enables the strain to hydrolyze sucrose. However, growth on sucrose is limited; i.e. the sucrose is not transported efficiently into the cell and/or the levanase is not secreted into the medium
1ST MEASUREMENT OF GAMMA(D(S)(+)-]MU+NU)/GAMMA(D(S)(+)-]PHI-PI+)
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ACOSTA D, ATHANAS M, MASEK G, PAAR H, BEAN A, GRONBERG J, KUTSCHKE R, MENARY S, MORRISON RJ, NAKANISHI S, NELSON HN, NELSON TK, RICHMAN JD, RYD A, TAJIMA H, SCHMIDT D, SPERKA D, WITHERELL MS, PROCARIO M, YANG S, BALEST R, CHO K, DAOUDI M, FORD WT, JOHNSON DR, LINGEL K, LOHNER M, RANKIN P, SMITH JG, ALEXANDER JP, BEBEK C, BERKELMAN K, BESSON D, BROWDER TE, CASSEL DG, CHO HA, COFFMAN DM, DRELL PS, EHRLICH R, GALIK RS, GARCIASCIVERES M, GEISER B, GITTELMAN B, GRAY SW, HARTILL DL, HELTSLEY BK, JONES CD, JONES SL, KANDASWAMY J, KATAYAMA N, KIM PC, KREINICK DL, LUDWIG GS, MASUI J, MEVISSEN J, MISTRY NB, NG CR, NORDBERG E, OGG M, PATTERSON JR, PETERSON D, RILEY D, SALMAN S, SAPPER M, WORDEN H, WURTHWEIN F, AVERY P, FREYBERGER A, RODRIGUEZ J, STEPHENS R, YELTON J, CINABRO D, HENDERSON S, KINOSHITA K, LIU T, SAULNIER M, SHEN F, WILSON R, YAMAMOTO H, ONG B, SELEN M, SADOFF AJ, AMMAR R, BALL S, BARINGER P, COPPAGE D, COPTY N, DAVIS R, HANCOCK N, KELLY M, KWAK N, LAM H, KUBOTA Y, LATTERY M, NELSON JK, PATTON S, PERTICONE D, POLING R, SAVINOV V, SCHRENK S, WANG R, ALAM MS, KIM IJ, NEMATI B, ONEILL JJ, SEVERINI H, SUN CR, ZOELLER MM, CRAWFORD G, DAUBENMIER CM, FULTON R, FUJINO D, GAN KK, HONSCHEID K, KAGAN H, KASS R, LEE J, MALCHOW R, MORROW F, SKOVPEN Y, SUNG M, WHITE C, WHITMORE J, WILSON P, BUTLER F, FU X, KALBFLEISCH G, LAMBRECHT M, ROSS WR, SKUBIC P, SNOW J, WANG PL, WOOD M, BORTOLETTO D, BROWN DN, FAST J, MCILWAIN RL, MIAO T, MILLER DH, MODESITT M, SCHAFFNER SF, SHIBATA EI, SHIPSEY IPJ, WANG PN, BATTLE M, ERNST J, KROHA H, ROBERTS S, SPARKS K, THORNDIKE EH, WANG CH, DOMINICK J, SANGHERA S, SHELKOV V, SKWARNICKI T, STROYNOWSKI R, VOLOBOUEV I, ZADOROZHNY P, ARTUSO M, HE D, GOLDBERG M, HORWITZ N, KENNETT R, MONETI GC, MUHEIM F, MUKHIN Y, PLAYFER S, ROZEN Y, STONE S, THULASIDAS M, VASSEUR G, ZHU G, BARTELT J, CSORNA SE, EGYED Z, JAIN V, SHELDON P, AKERIB DS, BARISH B, CHADHA M, CHAN S, COWEN DF, EIGEN G, MILLER JS, OGRADY C, URHEIM J, WEINSTEIN A
Roles and mechanisms of parasitism in aquatic microbial communities
No full textNext Generation Sequencing technologies are increasingly revealing that microbial taxa likely to be parasites or symbionts are probably much more prevalent and diverse than previously thought. Every well studied free-living species has parasites; parasites themselves can be parasitized. As a rule of thumb, there is an estimated 4 parasitic species for any given host, and the better a host is studied the more parasites are known to infect it. Therefore, parasites and other symbionts should represent a very large number of species and may far outnumber those with 'free-living' lifestyles. Paradoxically, free-living hosts, which form the bulk of our knowledge of biology, may be a minority! Microbial parasites typically are characterized by their small size, short generation time, and high rates of reproduction, with simple life cycle occurring generally within a single host. They are diverse and ubiquitous in the environment, comprising viruses, prokaryotes and eukaryotes. This Frontiers Research Topic sought to provide a broad overview but concise, comprehensive, well referenced and up-to-date state of the art for everyone involved with microbial parasites in aquatic microbial ecology
Dalitz plot analyses of B-0 -> (D-DK+)-K-0 and B+-> (D)over-bar(-)D(0)K(+) decays
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J. D. Brannan letter to Warren G. Harding, January 24, 1921
No full textIn this letter dated January 24, 1921 (the author mistakenly writes 1920), J. D. Brannan at Harvard University Law School to President-elect Warren G. Harding in regards to his choices for cabinet appointments. Brannan recommends Senator Elihu Root for Secretary of State, Charles Evans Hughes for Attorney General, Senator John W. Weeks for Secretary of the Treasury or Secretary of the Navy, and General Leonard Wood for Secretary of War, and includes qualifications for each. After discussing tensions among the government and organized labor leaders, he does not specify an appointment for Secretary of Labor, but includes Herbert Hoover as a qualified candidate.
This letter is part of the Warren G. Harding Papers (MSS 345). This collection includes correspondence, business records, and other materials documenting Harding’s business career as owner and editor-in-chief of The Daily Marion Star, as well as the various stages of his political career. A significant portion of the collection, and what’s available on Ohio Memory, highlights his 1920 presidential campaign, spanning just before publicly announcing his candidacy to handily defeating Ohio Governor James M. Cox in the election. Correspondents include both Ohio and national businessmen, political figures, and ordinary citizens writing with questions, support, congratulatory notes, and campaign advice. Some of the most interesting insights into the tumultuous political climate in the U.S., the extreme factionalism within the Republican Party in Ohio, and Harding’s campaign strategies are described in letters between Harding and his campaign manager, Harry M. Daugherty. Some of the topics addressed include women’s suffrage, Prohibition, the League of Nations, African American representation and issues, and lingering peace negotiations following World War I
Rare Decays at LHCb
No full textWe review recent results from the LHCb experiment on studies of particle decays that are forbidden or rare in the Standard Model. The studies include searches for lepton flavour violating decays of the lepton and the and mesons, and of and meson decays that would be mediated by Majorana neutrinos. Results are also presented for the rare processes and , , transitions, and
Cloning and phenotypic expression in Escherichia coli of a Bacillus subtilis gene fragment coding for sucrose hydrolysis
No full textFriehs K, Schörgendorfer K, Schwab H, Lafferty RM. Cloning and phenotypic expression in Escherichia coli of a Bacillus subtilis gene fragment coding for sucrose hydrolysis. Journal of Biotechnology. 1986;3(5-6):333-341.A DNA fragment from Bacillus subtilis strain Marburg coding for the synthesis of an enzyme catalyzing sucrose hydrolysis was cloned in Escherichia coli and detected using simple direct selection of transformants growing on sucrose. Three different clones were obtained each having a 2.5 kb EcoRI-Pstl fragment in common which was shown to be sufficient to mediate growth on sucrose. This fragment was not identical with known cloned gene fragments of B. subtilis coding for the sucrose hydrolyzing enzymes sucrase and levansucrase. It could be shown that the 2.5 kb fragment codes for a third sucrose hydrolyzing enzyme, namely for levanase. In the case of E. coli this enzyme was found to be mainly intracellular; however, a small quantity was also excreted into the periplasmic space
The deuteron spin-dependent structure function g(1)(d) and its first moment
No full textAlexakhin VY, Alexandrov Y, Alexeev GD, et al. The deuteron spin-dependent structure function g(1)(d) and its first moment. Phys.Lett. B. 2007;647(1):8-17.We present a measurement of the deuteron spin-dependent structure function g(1)(d) based on the data collected by the COMPASS experiment at CERN during the years 2002-2004. The data provide an accurate evaluation for Gamma(d)(1), the first moment of g(1)(d) (x), and for the matrix element of the singlet axial current, a(0). The results of QCD fits in the next to leading order (NLO) on all g(1) deep inelastic scattering data are also presented. They provide two solutions with the gluon spin distribution function Delta G positive or negative, which describe the data equally well. In both cases, at Q(2) = 3 (GeV/c)(2) the first moment of Delta G(x) is found to be of the order of 0.2-0.3 in absolute value. (c) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
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