Ageing well studies of its global and multidomain and construct among multi ethnic singaporean seniors

... Fast ageing population and its impact 1.2 Singapore and successful ageing 1.3 History on the construct of successful ageing 1.4 Multidimensional construct of successful ageing 1.5 Global construct ... multidimensional and global constructs of successful ageing among community-dwelling older adults aged 65 and above Although it is predicted that both multi...

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... RECONMMENDATIONS 15 7 PUBLICATIONS 15 9 ACHIEVEMENT 16 1 REFERENCES 16 2 iv SUMMARY A combined experimental and numerical study on vortex breakdown structure and its dynamic behavior in a confined cylindrical ... LC1 state at Re = 2760 and Λ = 1. 704, and (b) an LC2 state at Re = 2750 and Λ = 1. 780, (each state is asymptotically stable) 81 xii Fig 5 .12 Varia...

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... the analysis of the flow dynamics, as well as allowing still image to be captured via a frame grabber card in a PC For some cases, a high resolution still digital camera was also used to obtain ... the data was sampled and acquired over about 20 minutes, Re is nominally constant For those cases with fixed Reynolds number and varying Λ, rotation rate of the top disk was re-adj...

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... experimental results Table presents the values and locations of three local maxima and minima of ψ and η at H/R = 2.5 and Re = 2494 with constant rotating speed The finite differential results ... rotating end 34 CHAPTER NUMERICAL SIMULATION METHOD Two kinds of rotating motions were considered: a constant rotation only and a constant rotation with a superimposed sinusoi...

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... in a low aspect ratio container? This part of the investigation aims to see if an S-shape vortex structure or a spiraltype vortex breakdown can be also produced in a low aspect ratio container ... vortex breakdown, with the upstream and smaller bubble eventually disappears In contrast, the shrinking downstream bubble resulted in the formation of a helical ins...

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... visualization can capture the oscillating frequency of the flow as shown above, hot-film was chosen in the following study as it has an added advantage, particularly in the vicinity of Hopf and ... bifurcations, the same strategy as in the numerical work of Marques et al (2002) was adopted in this study, i.e., once a desired state was obtained at a particular point in (Λ...

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... spatial discretization, utilizing a Galerkin-Fourier expansion in the azimuthal coordinate θ and Chebyshev collocation in r and z The radial dependence of the variables is approximated by a Chebyshev ... equations (Mercader, Net and Falqués 1991) In this study, the aspect ratio Λ was fixed at 2.5 and variations in Re, A and ωf were considered 96 spectral modes in...

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... was set at 2600 and below with the modulation amplitude A varying from 0.005 to 0.04, and the aspect ratio Λ was maintained at a constant value of 2.5 throughout Note that all flow visualization ... bifurcation is at Re = 271 0, and the second and third occur at Re = 3044 and 3122 Of course, the Hopf frequencies vary with parameters (Re and Λ, as well as A and ωf), but...

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... useful in applications where unsteady vortex breakdown is prevalent, such as the tail buffeting problem 156 CHAPTER CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 8. 2 Recommendations A confined cylindrical container ... Mechanics, Vol 599, No 3, pp441-464, 20 08 Y.D Cui, T.T Lim and H.M Tsai, “Blowing and suction effects on vortex breakdown in an enclosed cylindrical container...

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... imagine the old knight, only half aware of the sunshine of the evening, the noise of the streets, the looks of the crowd, the great minster rising half-finished in the midst of the town by the ... and daughters -in- law, forming a hierarchy attending to the business of factory or counting-house under the orders of the father of the family, an...

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... understand which factors are predictive of good fluency The distribution of fluency scores in the dataset is rather skewed, with the majority of the sentences rated as being of average fluency as ... assess the content of the sentence compared to a human gold-standard Yet, the assessments of the two aspects were often the same—readability /fluency o...

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... amplification with primers 5¢-GCGGAGCTCATGGCCAC AAGCGCATCAGC-3¢ and 5¢-GTGGTGGTGGTGGTGG TGGAAATGGGTTTTTCCGTTCTGC-3¢ (His-tag underlined) or 5¢-TGGAGCCACCCGCAGTTCGAAAAAGAA GCTGGAGATGATCGTGCT-3¢ (Strep-tag ... template Primers were designed as follows: PSAG with a C-terminal hexa-histidine tag (PSI -G- HisTerm), 5¢-GCGGAGCTCAT GGCCACAAGCGCATCAGC-3¢ and 5¢-GCGGCATGCT CAGTGGTGGTGGTGGTGGTGTCCAA...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 21:20

... structure of dNK has previously been determined in complexes with substrates and a feedback inhibitor [12,13] It has a structure similar to that of the human dGK and dCK and belongs to a structural ... specificity of dNK Earlier crystallographic studies of substrates dT and dC and on the structure of the feedback inhibitor complex with dTTP, as well as mutat...

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... DUA (C) C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 CH3 C¼O C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 10 2.83 71. 54 67. 51 109. 41 147. 01 – 10 2.97 55.02 78.24 79.04 77. 41 63. 91 25.27 17 7.79 65. 61 74.58 73.04 82.89 76 .11 10 4.25 72.60 ... oligosaccharides from the chondroitin sulfates 1H-NMR and 13 C-NMR studies of reduced disaccharides and tetrasaccharides Eur J Biochem 268, 11 81 11 8...

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... activity of the peptides A better understanding of the mode of action of these peptides is crucial for the development of a new generation of antibiotics It is known that, in the absence of both ... at the two spatial tips of the molecule, at the N-terminus with Arg1 and in the turn in the presence of Arg7 and Arg9 (see Figs and 4) The shorter analo...

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