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An MTA is needed to document the transfer of the requested material, to stipulate the rights of both parties, to protect both parties from potential legal risks, and to help prevent the double-granting of IP. In recent years, there has been a growing trend for academic institutions and for-profit entities to establish MTAs for the above-stated reasons
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When TJU is the Recipient, TJU verifies the funding source of the research project in which the material will be used, because all materials that TJU receives through an MTA are limited to academic use. Academic use is defined as research that is not funded by a for-profit entity. A Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) subcontract from a commercial entity is considered non-academic use and special approval is required from the material Provider. If the Provider prefers to use its own template MTA, TJU will review the terms of the Provider's MTA, propose modifications, if any, and work with the Provider so that the MTA is mutually agreeable.
In some cases, the Provider is not the Owner of the material, meaning that the material was first created by a third party Owner institution, and the Provider institution only has the right to distribute the material. In such cases, the Provider may refer the Recipient to the Owner. It is then up to the Owner to establish an MTA with the Recipient, and the Provider may request to establish a simplified (Simple Letter) MTA with the Recipient in which the Provider does not claim ownership to the material.
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Since then, most States have passed laws which allow trucks to exceed the maximum gross vehicle weight limit by an additional 400 lbs (white States) Other States have a 400 lb weight allowance which is granted by enforcement personnel (light blue States). Four States have legislation pending at this time (green States) and another four States have not adopted the weight exemption.
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These reasons are why the Yale University School of Medicine's Child Study Center developed the Child Family Traumatic Stress Intervention treatment, known as CFTSI. Working in partnership with Safe Horizon's Child Advocacy Centers for the past four years, Yale University has been able to adapt Child Family Traumatic Stress Intervention treatment with child victims and their caregivers at Safe Horizon's Child Advocacy Centers. Through CFTSI, children are brought together with their parents or caregivers so the whole family can learn how to recognize and deal with trauma symptoms.
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All eyes were on Canberra Monday as Australia's ruling Labor party met for a leadership vote. After a week of confrontation, Prime Minister Julia Gillard squared off against former leader Kevin Rudd in their second battle in as many years.
The stakes were high as Labor clings to office only with support from others. Any rocking of that equilibrium could trigger an election.
Enda Curran and James Glynn live blogged this from Parliament.
The front lawn grounds surrounding parliament house are buzzing to the sound of TV network satellite trucks and correspondents. The beaming arc lights are brightening up what is otherwise a very dark morning in the nation's capital. Labor MPs are lining up to tell television viewers that Labor will unite after the vote and move forward. That will be easier said than done given the acrimony of recent days as it became clear Gillard and Rudd were set for a face off.
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Tertiary Contacts Distant from the Active Site Prime a Ribozyme for Catalysis Cell, Volume 126, Issue 2, 28 July 2006, Pages 309-320 Monika Martick and William G. Scott Summary Minimal hammerhead ribozymes have been characterized extensively by static and time-resolved crystallography as well as numerous biochemical analyses, leading to mutually contradictory mechanistic explanations for catalysis. We present the 2.2 Å resolution crystal structure of a full-length Schistosoma mansoni hammerhead ribozyme that permits us to explain the structural basis for its 1000-fold catalytic enhancement. The full-length hammerhead structure reveals how tertiary interactions occurring remotely from the active site prime this ribozyme for catalysis. G-12 and G-8 are positioned consistent with their previously suggested roles in acid-base catalysis, the nucleophile is aligned with a scissile phosphate positioned proximal to the A-9 phosphate, and previously unexplained roles of other conserved nucleotides become apparent within the context of a distinctly new fold that nonetheless accommodates the previous structural studies. These interactions permit us to explain the previously irreconcilable sets of experimental results in a unified, consistent, and unambiguous manner. Summary | Full Text | PDF (815 kb) |
The Structural Basis of Hammerhead Ribozyme Self-Cleavage Cell, Volume 92, Issue 5, 6 March 1998, Pages 665-673 James B Murray, Daniel P Terwey, Lara Maloney, Alexander Karpeisky, Nassim Usman, Leonid Beigelman and William G Scott Summary We have captured an 8.7 Å conformational change that takes place in the cleavage site of the hammerhead ribozyme during self-cleavage, using X-ray crystallography combined with physical and chemical trapping techniques. This rearrangement brings the hammerhead ribozyme from the ground state into a conformation that is poised to form the transition state geometry required for hammerhead RNA self-cleavage. Use of a 5′-C-methylated ribose adjacent to the cleavage site permits this ordinarily transient conformational change to be kinetically trapped and observed crystallographically after initiating the hammerhead ribozyme reaction in the crystal. Cleavage of the corresponding unmodified hammerhead ribozyme in the crystal under otherwise identical conditions is faster than in solution, indicating that we have indeed trapped a catalytically relevant intermediate form of this RNA enzyme. Summary | Full Text | PDF (4344 kb) |
Steric Interference Modification of the Hammerhead Ribozyme Chemistry & Biology, Volume 9, Issue 9, 1 September 2002, Pages 1009-1016 Kenneth F Blount, Neena L Grover, Victor Mokler, Leo Beigelman and Olke C Uhlenbeck Summary Although the structure of the hammerhead ribozyme is well characterized, many questions remain about its catalytic mechanism. Extensive evidence suggests the necessity of a conformational change en route to the transition state. We report a steric interference modification approach for investigating this change. By placing large 2′ modifications at residues insensitive to structurally conservative 2′-deoxy modifications, we hoped to discover structural effects distal to the site of modification. Of twenty residues tested, six were identified where the addition of 2′ bulk inhibits cleavage, even though these bulky modifications could be accommodated in the crystal structure without steric clash. It is proposed that these 2′-modifications inhibit cleavage by preventing formation of the alternate, active conformation. Since these 2′ effects are present in both domain I and domain II of the hammerhead, the entire catalytic core must undergo conformational changes during catalysis. Summary | Full Text | PDF (313 kb) |
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Biophysical Journal, Volume 89, Issue 5, 2939-2949, 1 November 2005
Adam W. Van Wynsberghe* and Qiang Cui*, †, ,
* Graduate Program in Biophysics and University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
† Department of Chemistry and Theoretical Chemistry Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
More than two decades of different types of mode analyses has shown that these techniques can be useful in describing large-scale motions in protein systems. A number of mode analyses are available and include quasiharmonics, classical normal mode, block normal mode, and the elastic network model. Each of these methods has been validated for protein systems and this variety allows researchers to choose the technique that gives the best compromise between computational cost and the level of detail in the calculation. These same techniques have not been systematically tested for nucleic acid systems, however. Given the differences in interactions and structural features between nucleic acid and protein systems, the validity of these techniques in the protein regime cannot be directly translated into validity in the nucleic acid realm. In this work, we investigate the usefulness of the above mode analyses as applied to two RNA systems, i.e., the hammerhead ribozyme and a guanine riboswitch. We show that classical normal-mode analysis can match the magnitude and direction of residue fluctuations from the more detailed, anharmonic technique, quasiharmonic analysis of a molecular dynamics trajectory. The block normal-mode approximation is shown to hold in the nucleic acid systems studied. Only the mode analysis at the lowest level of detail, the elastic network model, produced mixed results in our calculations. We present data that suggest that the elastic network model, with the popular parameterization, is not best suited for systems that do not have a close packed structure; this observation also hints at why the elastic network model has been found to be valid for many globular protein systems. The different behaviors of block normal-mode analysis and the elastic network model, which invoke similar degrees of coarse-graining to the dynamics but use different potentials, suggest the importance of applying a heterogeneous potential function in a robust analysis of the dynamics of biomolecules, especially those that are not closely packed. In addition to these comparisons, we briefly discuss insights into the conformational space available to the hammerhead ribozyme.


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Terry Jenner, born on 8 September 1944 at Mount Lawley, Perth, had a brief tryst with international cricket representing Australia from 1970 to 1975, but in his post-retirement days became a respected and well-travelled leg spin coach.
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In the obligatory "hype-up-any-newcomer-who-shows-signs-of-competence" article following Tuesday's preseason game, the Charlotte Observer's Tom Sorensen wrote, "Every time (Kemba) Walker had the ball you sat up a little straighter and stopped talking with the people next to you, because you knew something was going to happen and it probably was going to be good." Judging by the turnout, I'm surprised Sorensen had anyone sitting next to him.
In front of dozens of fans at Time Warner Arena, a mix of Bobcats and random strangers dressed as Bobcats defeated the Atlanta Hawks, 79-77. The game and its implications were very much like those of the movie Eraserhead: low-budget, nightmarish, and probably meaningless. For me, the four most most "wow" moments of the night were as follows:
- Early in the telecast when announcer Steve Martin proclaimed that the players made out much better in the current labor deal than they did back in 1999. If that's the case, then I pray he has a law degree so I can recommend him to my wife should we ever divorce.
- Taylor Griffin. That's right, in the tradition of Bill Simmons, Charlotte now has its very own Frank Stallone! (side note: what's the deal with the Griffin family naming conventions—do all the kids rock the double last name? Is there a third brother called "Anderson" and a sister named "Hernandez"?)
- The fleshy appearance of Gana Diop. We'd all heard that he's 25 pounds overweight. Upon seeing him, my first thought was, "What about the other arm?" Dude is waaay more than 25 pounds overweight. He was a frightening, shambling, spectral sight out there—Bigfoot but with not as high a field goal percentage. Still, I credit him for lasting 18 minutes and—um, swallowing—7 boards…especially in light of Melvin Ely, who apparently dehydrated while flying a plane—huh?? How does one do that? Was it some pre-WWI plane for which he had to manually crank the propellers himself?
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Re: Educators struggle to combat dropout rate disparities (January 14, 2013)
Here is what we know from decades of educational research:
A large percentage of minority students live in poverty.
Those who live in poverty have a hard time in school.
Those who live in poverty have inadequate nutrition, poor health care and little access to books. Each of these factors is associated with low school performance.
We can take a huge step forward by protecting students from some of the effects of poverty and we can do it immediately: invest more in school food programs, health care (e.g. more school nurses, basic dental and vision care) and school libraries and librarians.
Instead we are investing in higher standards and more tests. There is no research evidence showing that this will help students.
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This space explores issues in public education policy, and it advocates for a commitment to and a re-examination of the democratic purposes of schools. If there is some urgency in the message, it is due to the current reform efforts that are based on a radical re-invention of education, now spearheaded by a psychometric blitzkrieg of "metastasizing testing" aimed at dismantling a public education system that took almost 200 years to build. JH August, 2005
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