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... phasor (or 1.5 times greater than that ofthe peakvalue phasor), while the phase angle is the same for both quantities • 6.2 DYNAMIC EQUATIONS OFTHE INDUCTION MOTOR Thedynamic T -model ofthe ... equals the peak value ofthe corresponding phase quantities On the other hand, if the product of magnitudes, V^, and 4, of stator voltage and current vectors, v^ and ig, is to equal the apparent ... sum ofthe stator leakage inductance and magnetizing inductance is called the stator inductance and denoted by L^ Analogously, the rotor inductance, L^ is defined as the sum ofthe rotor leakage...
... model has been augmented with a table that contains each ~-expression and the ima6e of its denotation in the current stage ofthedynamicmodel When the domain ofthe ~-expression expands, the correct ... not the property that is the denotation of "talk" is in the set of properties that John has THE FIRST MECHANISM - EXTERNAL MANAGEMENT The mechanism that evaluates a formula with respect to amodel ... denotational relationship is maintained by expanding the image in the table using the ~-expression, and then finding the corresponding element in themodel If the element in themodel that was the...
... percentage stance times of and a gait symmetry variable of approximately 0.5 A shift in either of these variables would indicate a shift away from balanced, symmetric gait For the statistical analyses ... Briefly, each video frame (grayscale) was subtracted from an image without a rat in the arena and then thresholded to obtain a binomial image The centroid ofthe animal was obtained for frames containing ... Kinematic and dynamic gait compensations in a rat modelof lumbar radiculopathy and the effects of tumor necrosis factor-alpha antagonism Kyle D Allen1,2, Mohammed F Shamji1,3, Brian A Mata2,...
... birth are the same factors that determine the overall health ofa baby in utero Another measure of infant health is the Apgar score, named in honour of Virginia Apgar, an American doctor who first ... demographic and health and surveys from Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe which showed that tetanus immunization of pregnant mothers improves survival chances of infants by inducing health care ... high rates of tetanus vaccination in low-income countries Dow et al.(1999) report tetanus vaccination rates ofthe same orders of magnitude for Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe over the period...
... wave breaking on a natural beach To verify the accuracy ofthe numerical model on the simulation ofthe wave transformation on a natural beach, existing experimental data on the wave dynamics in ... wave dynamics in the near shore area and in the vicinity of coastal structures. It has been found that the numerical model can satisfactorily simulate the wave transformation, ... suitable for a practical application. On the other hand, based on results of Nadaoka et al [9], Ting and Kirby [15‐17], it can be estimated that in the surf zone, the time scale ...
... Materials and methods All mathematical analysis and numerical tting were performed using the software package Mathematica 7.0 (Wolfram Research, Inc Champaign, IL, USA) The substrate in the calorimetric ... and off rate At a xed k2, a change in this ratio may be interpreted as a change in the afnity ofthe enzyme for the substrate Hence, we can assess relationships of this afnity parameter and the ... examples of how the analysis ofthe kinetic parameters may elucidate certain aspects ofthe activity of Cel 7A First, we consider changes in the ratio k1S0 k3 This reects the ratio ofthe on rate...
... separated to expose the zygoma and squamosal bone A burr hole of 1.5 × mm was made using a mm micro-drill rostal to the anterior junction ofthe zygoma and the squamosal bone The dura mater was ... Transplantation Seven days after the induction of focal cerebral ischemia, animals were anesthetized with an intra-peritoneal injection of 400 mg/kg chloral hydrate (Pharmaceutical Plant of Tiantan ... (B-i), along the meninge (B-ii), areas near the ventricular lining and vascular wall near the hippocampus (B-iv) of transplanted rats Scale bars: 75 μm Sun et al Journal of Translational Medicine...
... to improve the capacity of their own employees or of those who will pay them to provide an educational programme of some sort A variant ofthe self-learn model can be found as part ofthe third ... plan the initiative After the creation ofa charitable trust in the United Kingdom, some of these colleagues became trustees, and others became members of an international advisory group or a ... are shown in Table A fee of USD 50 will be charged for the academic transcript, although a similar amount will be charged in future before the start ofthe course (by means of an automated Page...
... properties, validity and reliability, ofthe TAAQOL were satisfactory [26] Overall physical and overall mental HRQoL were assessed by aggregation of all TAAQoL scale scores according to the algorithm ... analyzed and interpreted data and revised the manuscript All authors read and approved the manuscript Additional material 12 13 14 15 Additional file Predictive modelof Health-related Quality of life ... directions of associations, but not confirming causality Fourth, using summary scores of HRQoL as a dependent variable had the advantage of its density and distribution A disadvantage is the loss of...
... stress-coping model Based on the model, other life events, disease characteristics, disease-related events, and demographic characteristics are linked to the appraisal of demands and goals Furthermore, all ... Garcia-Marcos L, Carvajal Uruena I, Escribano Montaner A, fernadez Benitez M, de la Garcia Rubia S, Tauler Toro E, Perez Fernandez V, Barcina Sancez C: Seasons and other factors affecting the quality ... multivariate associations A path analysis was conducted to test the fit of our data on the specified model (Figure 3) A good fit is indicated by a non-significant chi squared statistic, a Comparative...
... to 32 g The animal experiments were performed in compliance with the guidelines ofthe Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Association (FELASA) and approval was granted by the Institutional ... 4°C Thereafter, the supernatants were aliquoted and stored at -70°C until analysis The concentrations of total protein in the brain extracts were measured by Bradford assay (Bio Rad Laboratories, ... industrialized countries [1,2] The neuropathological sequelae of brain injury are mediated in large part by a profound host-mediated intracranial inflammatory response [3-5] The pro-inflammatory...
... phase of EAE, histological spinal cord analysis was performed in animals treated from the appearance ofthe first clinical signs At the end of treatment, animals were anesthetized, transcardially ... EAE animals Diazoxide treatment diminishes the astrocytic reactivity and area of activated microglia/macrophage in the effector phase of EAE To assess the consequences of diazoxide administration ... the data; and NV, JFEP and MP wrote the manuscript MJR and NM participated in the design ofthe study and helped draft the manuscript All authors have read and approved the final version of the...
... when a node completes its data transmission, it obtains another Backoff value via the Backoff procedure before it starts another round of data transmission If the Backoff value obtained from the ... denotes a natural number The detailed proof is available in Appendix B From (18), the value of k approaches a constant value as the number of nodes increases Figure uses the network environment parameters ... average that participate in a collision must be used for the analysis Thus, we set the value of M in (9) to be a value that approaches infinity, and then check whether k approaches a constant value...
... Bontis and Simon Taggar Amodelofthe impact of mission statements on firm performance Table I A comparison of sample and population characteristics Management Decision 39/1 [2001] 19±35 Characteristic ... analysts and managers pay the most attention (Venkatraman, 1989) They are also among the ones most frequently used in academic assessments of performance (e.g Brush and VanderWerf, 1991) A mean measure ... that the shared variance between any two constructs should be less than the variance extracted by either ofthe individual constructs In other words, values along the diagonal ofthe correlation...