PROSTHETIC GROUP

non-amino acid portions of certain protein molecules. The key part of the prosthetic group may be either organic (such as a vitamin) or inorganic (such as a metal) and is usually required for biological activity, especially when the prosthetic group is complexed with an enzyme.

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books on: Prosthetic Group  - 204 results

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Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture
Book by Alison Landsberg; Columbia University Press, 2004
Subjects: Community Life--United States, Mass Media--Political Aspects--United States, Mass Media--Social Aspects--United States, Memory--Social Aspects--United States, Memory--Social Aspects--United States--History--Case Studies, Political Culture--United States, Popular Culture--United States, United States--Civilization--1970-, United States--Politics And Government--1989-, United States--Social Conditions--1980-
...analysis makes clear, the prosthetic memories that these people acquire break down essentialized group identities. Of course there...and by whom. This form of prosthetic imagining also has a darker...and it re- quired taking on prosthetic memories that made a person...
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Prosthetic Culture: Photography, Memory and Identity
Book by Celia Lury; Routledge, 1998
...proliferation of parts in postplural society or prosthetic culture does not straightforwardly lead...individual and society and nature . 25 In prosthetic culture, then, 23 As Rabinow notes...effort to produce false sincerity among a group of people is a binding covenant, a commitment...
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U.S. Health Policy Groups: Institutional Profiles
Book by Craig Ramsay; Greenwood Press, 1995
Subjects: Medical Policy--United States--Citizen Participation, Medical Policy--United States--Societies, Etc
...Centers ARC . In the meantime, in 1954, a group of agencies that provided vocational rehabilitation...employment services began to meet. This group incorporated as the National Association...provision of artificial limbs and other prosthetic devices, for civilians. The act was...
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The Monkey's Paw: New Chronicles from Peru
Book by Robin Kirk; University of Massachusetts Press, 1997
Subjects: Peru--Politics And Government--1980-, Peru--Social Conditions--1968-, Sendero Luminoso (Guerrilla Group)
...recovered, he and his family flew to Sweden, where he was fitted for a prosthetic arm. The case was shifted to another lawyer who worked with a different human rights group. Yet the new lawyer seemed unwilling to pursue the case aggressively...
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Social Identities: Multidisciplinary Approaches
Book by Gary Taylor, Steve Spencer; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Group Identity, Identity (Philosophical Concept)--Social Aspects
...decisively what is projected here is a prosthetic utopia, which offers the possibility...Lury, 1998:3). The subjects of prosthetic utopia must be highly flexible and open...appearance. As Celia Lury has argued, prosthetic technologies encourage experimental...
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journal articles on: Prosthetic Group  - 330 results

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The Prosthetic Imagination: Frank Hurley and the Ross Smith Flight
Journal article by Robert Dixon; Journal of Australian Studies, 2000
Subjects: Aeronautics, Military--History, Aeronautics--History, Hurley, Frank--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Imperialism--Australia, War and literature--Analysis, War and society--Analysis
...images are intimate group portraits of soldiers...technology which Ive termed prosthetic modernity. They also...survive it, then the prosthetic imagination of the Ross...the third world. The Prosthetic Imagination: Frank...postcolonial discussion group; and to Graeme Powell...
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Missing Stories: An Oral History of Ethnic and Minority Groups in Utah
Journal article by Robert M. Zecker; The Oral History Review, Vol. 28, 2001
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Missing Stories: An Oral History Of Ethnic And Minority Groups In Utah (Book)--Reviews
...Ethnic And Minority Groups In Utah by Robert M...ETHNIC AND MINORITY GROUPS IN UTAH. By Leslie...Important distinctions in group experiences based on...immigrant and minority-group oral histories have...of opportunity, but prosthetic devices. "Most of...ethnic" but "minority groups" in Utah, and it is...
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Section Iii: Programs for Special Groups
Journal article; Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 56, 1993
Subjects: Employee benefits, Federal employees, Funding, Health insurance, Pension plans, Railroads, Retirement benefits, United States, Veterans
...furnished according to priority groups within the resources available...drug dependence treatment; prosthetic appliances; modifications...provide health insurance, group life insurance, paid sick...benefits under the CSRS. The group life and health insurance programs...governments to their employees. Group life and health insurance plans...
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Genetic Interaction between the Escherichia Coli Acpt Phosphopantetheinyl Transferase and the Yejm Inner Membrane Protein
Journal article by Nicholas R. de Lay, John E. Cronan; Genetics, Vol. 178, 2008
Subjects: Bacteria, Bacterial Proteins, Bacteriology, E coli, Escherichia coli Proteins, HSP40 Heat-Shock Proteins, Microbiology, Mutation, Proteins, Transferases (Other Substituted Phosphate Groups), YejM protein, E coli, phosphopantetheinyl transferase
...Lambalot et al. 1996). Attachment of this prosthetic group ismandatory because the thiol group of the phosphopantetheinyl moiety carries...that contains an additional palmitoyl group (C.Michael Reynolds, personal communication...gene replacement. In contrast, two groups reported that yejM is not an essential...
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Postmodernism, Resistance, and Cyberspace: Making Rhetorical Spaces for Feminist Mothers on the Web
Journal article by Amy Koerber; Women's Studies in Communication, Vol. 24, 2001
Subjects: Electronic discussion groups--Demographic aspects, Feminists--Communication systems, Mothers--Communication systems
...instance, the "hip talk" discussion group on "hipmama.com" includes a lengthy...exclusively for changes that individuals or groups effect in the offline world that presumably...Creating community in an e-mail fan group. Southern Communication Journal 65 (1...
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magazine articles on: Prosthetic Group  - 159 results

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Francis Tuttle's Orthotic and Prosthetic Technician Program
Magazine article by Hope J. Gibbs; Techniques, Vol. 80, May 2005
Subjects: Curricula, Educational services, Francis Tuttle Vocational-Technical-Oklahoma City OK, Orthopedics, Prostheses, Vocational education, Vocational schools
...Medical Center; Scott Sabolich Prosthetic and Research Center; Beverly...This is an impressive group of support for this special...says Young. "The demand for prosthetic and orthotic devices is expected...for certified orthotic and prosthetic practitioners and technicians...
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Waiting for an Arm and a Leg the Next Generation of Artificial Limbs--fused Directly to Human Bone and Commanded by the Brain--promises Effortless, Natural Motion. It Can't Come Soon Enough for the Newest Group of Prosthetics Wearers: U.s. Soliders
Magazine article by Suzanne Satalinemichael Stroh; Popular Science, Vol. 269, July 2006
Subjects: Biomedical research, Military personnel, Prostheses
...Soon Enough for the Newest Group of Prosthetics Wearers: U...open a blocky claw. It was a prosthetic born out of a previous war...also integrated into the prosthetic, to give the wearer a boost...six choppy long steps, her prosthetic leg flapping forward. Out...
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How Much Will Congress Relax the Self-referral Law?
Magazine article by Michael Pretzer; Medical Economics, Vol. 72, July 10, 1995
Subjects: American Group Practice Association, American Medical Association, Bills, Compliance, Conflicts of interest, Health Care Financing Administration, Health care policy, Medicare, Patients, Physicians, Referrals, Reforms, United States
...officer of the Medical Group Management Association...attorney, explained at the groups self-referral session...exception for some types of groups, such as those in rural...prosthetics, orthotics, and prosthetic devices, and supplies...occupational therapy, and prosthetic and orthotic services...ownership, such as when a group practice and a hospital...
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Shining a Little Light on the Self-referral Ban
Magazine article by Michael Pretzer; Medical Economics, Vol. 75, March 23, 1998
Subjects: Bans, Conflicts of interest, Exceptions, Federal regulation, Group medical practice, Physicians, Referrals, United States
...and equipment, orthotics, prosthetic devices, and outpatient...on the regs definition of group practice, because several...exceptions are available only to groups. To HCFA-and to those...are no longer counted as group members. That makes it easier for groups-especially small onesto...qualifies as a bona fide group, its eligible for two big exceptions. One, the groups doctors may refer patients...
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Sunni, Shiite?... Anyone? Anyone?
Magazine article by Robert Dreyfuss, Dave Gilson; Mother Jones, Vol. 32, March 2007
Subjects: Armed forces, Domestic violence, Iraq War-2003, Kurds, Leadership, Minority & ethnic groups, Politics, Prime ministers, Terrorism
...of fatal terrorist attacks around the world by jihadist groups, and the number of people killed in those attacks, increased...traumatic stress disorder or PTSD-related symptoms. A prosthetic limb can cost as much as $100,000. 22 Army soldiers...
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newspaper articles on: Prosthetic Group  - 297 results

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'I Don't Think I'll Ever Walk Again' Amputee Unable to Use Prosthetic Limb after Attack in Home
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), July 4, 2011
Subjects: Implants, Artificial, Prostheses and implants, Prosthesis
...sustained beating after his prosthetic limb came off in the struggle...to be fitted with another prosthetic limb and have intense physio...involved in an altercation with a group of people in the centre of...after letting them in. His prosthetic limb came off and he claims...
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Tilly Is Finally Set to Get Her Hands; JUST WEEKS TO GO UNTIL PROSTHETIC LIMBS ARE FITTED Five Tilly a Hand a Chronicle Appeal
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), September 10, 2008
Subjects: Implants, Artificial, Prostheses and implants, Prosthesis
...Hands; JUST WEEKS TO GO UNTIL PROSTHETIC LIMBS ARE FITTED Five Tilly...to buy her myo-electric prosthetic hands which are unavailable...year, after Tilly contracted group B meningococcal septicaemia...towards being fitted with her prosthetic hands PICTURE: IAIN BUIST...
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Veteran Getsnew Showerthanks Tolocal Group
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 10, 2008
...Getsnew Showerthanks Tolocal Group. Veterans have always had...Algonquin-based nonprofit group that looks out for local veterans...situation. The family-run group is helmed by president and...past, has covered costs of prosthetic limbs, child care, prescription...
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GMU Student Aids Iraqi Children; Group Funds Medical Care
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 17, 2008
Subjects: Health care industry
...WASHINGTON TIMES A nonprofit group started by a George Mason University...Fairfax County, started the group in high school after meeting...Miss al-Khalaf, 19. The group raised more than $75,000...event with the help of two prosthetic legs that she received through...Speakers at the event said the groups mission also is vital to the...
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Putting the Focus on Helping out Young Tilly; PHOTOGRAPHIC GROUP AIMS TO AID BRAVE MENINGITIS SUFFERER
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), May 5, 2009
Subjects: Meningitis
...Young Tilly; PHOTOGRAPHIC GROUP AIMS TO AID BRAVE MENINGITIS...NEIL MOKAY A NEW photographic group wants to inspire more people...Focused community photographic group in Derwentside, County Durham...with a pair of pounds 23,000 prosthetic hands in January after the...
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encyclopedia articles on: Prosthetic Group  - 3 results

 
 
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Prosthetic Group
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PROSTHETIC GROUP non-amino acid portions of certain protein molecules. The key part of the prosthetic group may be either organic (such as...biological activity, especially when the prosthetic group is complexed with an enzyme...
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Enzyme
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...will react with only a small group of closely related chemical compounds...bound to the protein are called prosthetic groups . The region on the enzyme molecule...is known as the active site. Prosthetic groups necessary for catalysis are usually...
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Protein
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PROTEIN any of the group of highly complex organic compounds found in all living cells...organic and inorganic groupings, certain of which are called prosthetic groups . Conjugated proteins include glycoproteins , which contain carbohydrates...


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