ACTIVITY OF BDELLOVIBRIO HIT LOCUS PROTEINS, BD0108 AND BD0109, LINKS TYPE IVA PILUS EXTRUSION/RETRACTION STATUS TO PREY-INDEPENDENT GROWTH SIGNALLING.

Activity of Bdellovibrio hit locus proteins, Bd0108 and Bd0109, links Type IVa pilus extrusion/retraction status to prey-independent growth signalling.

Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus are facultatively predatory bacteria that grow within gram-negative prey, using pili to invade their periplasmic niche.They also grow prey-independently on organic nutrients after undergoing a reversible switch.The nature of the growth switching mechanism has been elusive, but several independent reports suggested mutatio

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Detecting Social Innovation Agency; Methodological reflections on units of analysis in dispersed transformation processes

Considering that Toner it is important for the social innovation research field to confront its methodological challenges, this contribution addresses the challenge of choosing appropriate units of analysis.Invoking insights from actor-network theory, it is demonstrated that this challenge is pervasive: the agency in social innovation processes is

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Business Models and Profitability of Energy Storage

Summary: Rapid growth of intermittent renewable power generation makes the identification of investment opportunities in energy storage and the establishment of their profitability indispensable.Here we first present a conceptual framework to characterize business models of energy storage and systematically differentiate Longsleeve T-Shirt investme

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