Culture profile

Roberts, L. M., 8c Roberts, D. D. (2007). Testing the limits of antidiscrimination law The business, legal, and ethical ramifications of cultural profiling at work. Duke Journal of Gender Law Policy, 14, 369-405. 

Ankrah, N., Proverbs, D. and Debrah, Y (2007) A cultural profile of construction project organisations in the UK. In D. Boyd (ed.). Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ARCOM Conference, pp. 169-79. Association of Researchers in Construction Management, Belfast. 

While constmcting the focns gronp agenda, it was important to cover both positive and negative perceptions of the cnltnre. Conseqnently, based on the results of the two hospitals in this stndy, the most favonrable and most nnfavourable items were derived from their own snrvey data (a total of fonr items). The safety culture profiles of both hospitals were very similar and therefore the same items were presented to the staff members of each hospital in order to allow comparisons... 

A new generation of antiinflammatory agents having immunosuppressive activity has been developed. The appearance of preclinical and clinical reports suggest that these are near entry to the pharmaceutical market. For example, tenidap (CP-66,248) (12) has been demonstrated to inhibit IL-1 production from human peripheral blood monocytes in culture (55). Clinically, IL-1 in synovial fluids of arthritic patients was reduced following treatment with tenidap. Patients with rheumatoid or osteoarthritis, when treated with tenidap, showed clinical improvement (57,58). In addition to its immunological effects, tenidap also has an antiinflammatory profile similar to the classical NSAIDs (59). Other synthetic inhibitors of IL-1 production are SKF 86002 (20) andE-5110 (21) (55). 

Water leaves the field either as surface mnoff, carrying pesticides dissolved in the water or sorbed to soil particles suspended in water, or as water draining through the soil profile, carrying dissolved pesticides to deeper depths. The distribution of water between drainage and mnoff is dependent on the amount of water appHed to the field, the physical and chemical properties of the soil, and the cultural practices imposed on the field. These factors also impact the retention and transformation processes affecting the pesticide. 

Feeding trials would only be performed on selected organisms, perhaps on just one organism that appears suitable for production. There is no point performing such expensive trials until the characteristics of the organism in culture and chemical profiles (i.e. the operations in 3), 4) and 5)) have been carried out... 

Fig. 2. Time profiles of Tc content in T. chinensis suspension cultures elicited with methyl jasmonate (MJA), 2-Hydroxyethoxyethyl jasmonate (HEEJA), 2-hydroxyethyl jasmonate (HEJA), D-Glucosyl jasmonate (GJA) and 2,3-dihydroxypropyl jasmonate (DHPJA). One hundred pAf of each elicitor was added to the cultures in IpL of ethanol per ImL of culture medium on day 7 of cultivation. Data are the means of three flasks and vertical bars show standard deviations.

Figure 6. Dionex HPAEC profiles following 48 hour digestion of 1.25% PGA by 0.1 RGU each of 4 different EPGs inhibited by cv cannelino cultured cell PGIP. A and B) F. moniliforme EPG glycoforms, C) deglycosylated S. cerevicae expiressed EPG, D) S. cerevicae expressed EPG.

Figure 6A-C. High-performance anion-exchange chromatography elution profile of isolated modified hairy regions without addition of enzymes (A), with Biopectinase OS (B) and with rhamnogalacturonase-containing culture filtrate from an A. awamori multicopy transformant (C). /xC ftCoulomb- Data taken from Ref. 6.

To ensure microbial strains are viable and pure a suite of morphological, biochemical, and cytochemical tests are used to confirm characteristics specific to their taxons. A number of commercially available rapid identification kits are also employed for some common genera. In addition to these taxon specific tests, many of the cultures are tested for their fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) profiles using the commercial MIDI system. The FAME profiles can be compared to the MIDI database for species identification/confirmation purposes. The Biolog system, which yields a metabolic fingerprint of an organism, is another alternative for rapid identification. 

In the dialyzed batch start-up phase and the subsequent continuous operation a substantial increase in viable cell density and monoclonal antibody (MAb) titer was observed compared to a conventional suspension culture. The raw data, profiles of the viable cell density, viability and monoclonal antibody titer during the batch start-up and the continuous operation with a dialysis flow rate of 5 L/d are shown in Figures 17.6 and 17.7. The raw data are also available in tabular form in the corresponding input file for the FORTRAN program on data smoothing for short cut methods provided with the enclosed CD. 

The conservation of cultural heritage is a particular field where the use of nondestructive characterization methods is mandatory, considering the uniqueness of the objects under study. Even in cases where sampling of tiny volumes is allowed, non-destructive testing offers the possibility of applying complementary techniques to obtain more information on one specific sample. In this section we focus on the application of the described profiling technique to study paintings. The... 

Watanabe N, Ando K, Yoshida S, et al. Gene expression profile analysis of rheumatoid synovial fibroblast cultures revealing the overexpression of genes responsible for tumor-like growth of rheumatoid synovium. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2002 294(5) 1121-1129. 

Fungicidal activity was determined by the disc method and zones of inhibition were recorded by measuring the diameter (mm) of the inhibition zone. Yeast cultures (S. cerevisiae) showed growth inhibition (clear area surrounding disc) by sediment extracts from all stations when compared to control discs. HPLC analysis of sediment extracts showed more than 20 components in the migration profile of each station. Of these components, a fraction demonstrated to possess cytolytic activity in the crude extract (Ve = 24 ml) was present in all stations when compared to the migration profile of the active fraction (Figure 2). 

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