... challenges of integration, and shape the conditions that will be conducive to more sustainable companies operating in a more sustainable economy 24 Supply chain management and sustainable packaging ... demand as a critical factor, suggesting that leading companies see sustainability issues playing a larger role in shaping consumer perceptions, influencing purchasing decisions and creating a ... or a lack of understanding of what full integration really entails While sustainability has clearly become part and parcel of how many businesses operate, it has yet to permeate all elements of...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 21:20
... that of a programme of spinal manual physiotherapy in the treatment of non-specific low back pain of less than Q1 During the baseline assessment, the following question was asked: Because of ... based upon a broad amalgam of experiences e.g Assessment of general health status or overall change in condition Usual activities (spanning a range of functional tasks) Patient-identified single ... Minns Lowe C, Croft PR: Comparison of physical treatments versus a brief pain management programme for back pain in primary care: a randomised clinical trial in physiotherapy practice Lancet 2005,...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
PHYTOCHEMICALS – A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE OF THEIR ROLE IN NUTRITION AND HEALTH potx
... examples of hydrolysable tannins include theaflavins (from tea), daidezein, genistein and glycitein (Fig 5) Tanninrich medicinal plants are used as healing agents in a number of diseases In Ayurveda, ... Present in Vernonanthura Patens with Antifungal Bioactivity and Potential as Antineoplastic 503 Patricia Isabel Manzano Santana, Mario Silva Osorio, Olov Sterner and Esther Lilia Peralta Garc a Chapter ... (+)-tubocurarine, the antibiotics sanguinafine and berberine, the anticancer agent vinblastine, the antiarrythmic ajmaline, the pupil dilator atropine, and the sedative scopolamine Other important alkaloids...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo sinh học: "A global analysis of genetic interactions in Caenorhabditis elegans" doc
... towards a global analysis of genetic interactions in C elegans Our approach is called systematic genetic interaction analysis (SGI) and relies on targeting one gene by RNAi in a strain that carries ... experiments in at least three independent replicates in a blind fashion Finally, we used a global analysis of our data to identify interacting gene pairs in an unbiased fashion Using SGI analysis, we ... data files Additional data are available with this paper online Additional data file is a table listing average growth scores for each query-target pair tested in the SGI analysis Additional data...
Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:21
Báo cáo y học: "De-escalation as part of a global strategy of empiric antibiotherapy management. A retrospective study in a medico-surgical intensive care unit" pdf
... beta-lactamase or producing a cephalosporinase; and nfGNB resistant to piperacillintazobactam, ceftazidime, or imipenem-cilastatin or producing an extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (Pseudomonas aeruginosa ... statistical analysis JC, RJ and CA gathered and analyzed the data JM, JC, SM and CA drafted the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that ... to assess the application of a de-escalation strategy on empirical antibiotics management We particularly analyzed the clinical impact of this attitude in terms of re-escalation, recurrent infection...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21
Báo cáo y học: "A global view of gene expression in lithium and zinc treated sea urchin embryos: new components of gene regulatory network" pot
... whereas nodal and its antagonist lefty are upregulated (see Q-PCR data in Table 2) This finding appears to contradict a recent finding that Nodal signaling, in the absence of vegetal signaling, ... Genomes pathway database [26] The results indicate a statistically significant differential regulation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase and transforming growth factor-β pathway in zinc-treated ... components of the sea urchin endomesoderm GRN Examples include SpGataE and SpGataC (orthologs of Gata4/Gata5/Gata6 and Gata1/Gata2/ Gata3, respectively), SpFoxA (ortholog of FoxA1 [HNF3b], which in Xenopus...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21
Báo cáo y học: "Whole-genome analysis of mRNA decay in Plasmodium falciparum reveals a global lengthening of mRNA half-life during the intra-erythrocytic development cycle" pptx
... scanner and images analyzed using Axon GenePix software (Molecular Devices, Union City, CA, USA) Microarray data were stored using NOMAD database software [32] All microarray data are available at ... 5'-RACE inner primer; 5'-TGACCAAAAAGATTTTACTGAA-3' for the PF13_0116 5'-RACE outer primer; 5'AAAACTTTCCAAACTTTCACAA-3' for the PF13_0116 5'RACE inner primer Herculase (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA, ... Additional data files The following additional data are available with the online version of this paper Additional date file provides the complete dataset, containing initial ratio (A0 ), final ratio...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:22
Building trust in regulation a global study of operator regulator relationships
... inancial performance by regulated entities. At one end of the spectrum is robust inancial reporting that companies already perform for the inancial markets and shareholders, under strong national and international sets of accounting principles and rules, by a large body of professionals who know how to do it. Certainly robust, ... example, blame regulatory uncertainty on insufficient resources at their disposal but also point to inaccurate or inadequate information submitted by operators Past operator behavior can play a ... The range of issues faced by any regulator in a networked industry is likely to be similar in any country: market analysis, dominance, accounting separation, retail and wholesale pricing and merger...
Ngày tải lên: 06/12/2015, 23:03
Cambridge.University.Press.The.Crisis.of.Literature.in.the.1790s.Print.Culture.and.the.Public.Sphere.Nov.1999.pdf
... within the social and economic practices of commercial individualism had eroded traditional bases of authorial distinction Romantic literature has almost always been read (as indeed many of the authors ... less rational than that of, say, the Birmingham Lunar Society?’.25 What was at stake was a struggle over the availability of a foundational value system within which the democratic potential of ... recognized as being singularly dependent on technical advances in the print industry.22 In Letters on Education (1790), Catherine Macaulay argued that the ‘advantages of printing, by rendering easy...
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00
Báo cáo y học: "Excess circulating angiopoietin-2 is a strong predictor of mortality in critically ill medical patients"
... model In a large trauma cohort study [22], Ang2 correlated with mortality in a univariate analysis In a surgical population with ARDS, Ang-2 predicted death with a similar discriminatory ability as ... (ITBVI) and extravascular lung water index (EVLWI), based on a transpulmonary thermodilution technique [30,31] All relevant laboratory and medical data, including APACHE II [32] and SOFA scores ... obtained at the time of enrollment Detailed patients' characteristics, including demographic, clinical and laboratory parameters, are shown in Table Controls Twenty-nine age- and gender-matched...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31
Báo cáo y học: "A severe coarctation of aorta in a 52-year-old male: a case report"
... 2004:1866 Campbell M Natural history of coarctation of the aorta Br Heart J 1970, 32:633-640 Jenkins NP, Ward AR Coarctation of the aorta: natural history and outcome after surgical treatment QJM ... of surgical repair of coarctation of the aorta in patients older than 50 years Ann Thorac Surg 2001; 72: 2060– 2064 Discussion Aortic coarctation is a congenital vascular lesion typically diagnosed ... trends, and epidemiology of coarctation of the aorta in a population-based study Int J Cardiol 1999, 68:197-202 Cevik S, Izgi C, Cevik C Asymptomatic severe aortic coarctation in an 80-year-old man...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40
Introduction to The Crisis of Literature in the 1790s
... say that the discourse of the London Corresponding Society was any less rational than that of, say, the Birmingham Lunar Society?’.25 What was at stake was a struggle over the availability of ... deploying an Enlightenment/Romantic binary which reads ‘reason’ as the basis for radical engagement and ‘imagination’ as a justification for a retreat from politics into a Burkean conservatism ... Preface to The Lyrical Ballads they reinterpreted existing ideas about literature in private rather than public terms, relating them to the play of the imagination rather than the exercise of reason...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 10:20
A comparative study of insults in vietnamese and american english
... being female 3.3 DATA ANALYSIS METHODS First, all the Vietnamese data and the American data were tabulated separately Second, the trends in each group of data for each social factor of age, as ... need treating with great care in both cultures can be found in situations 4, 5, and (the hearer was commented as naïve, as rabit and as having an opulent social life after having two dinners at her/his ... occur leading to the producing of unintentional insults For language learning and using, in order to effectively interact in inter-cultural interactions, language learners and users must have such...
Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:16
A discourse analysis of advertisements in english and vietnamese on the internet
... the aim was to convince maintained the audience's attention them to buy a product at a nearest shop for example Vietnamese ads Another communication function is metalingual one When analyzing ads ... (expressing emotional states: a cry, a sign: emphasis on addresser) 3.Conative (influencing behaviour: ordering, begging, emphasis on addressee) 4.Phatic (e.g Hello! establishing or maintaining social ... similarity was found is the application of ellipsis in parallel were also found in Vietnamese ads on the internet structures to ensure the beat and rhythm of the syntagm in the ads in As in Metalingual...
Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:29
A discourse analysis of advertisements in terms of persuasion strategies in english and vietnamese
... evaluative similarities between EAs and VAs adjectives appear in all six persuasive strategies “Make messages In terms of the layout features, both EAs and VAs have more persuasive”, “Increase, ... commonly in both EAs percentage in EAs than in VAs The third similarity involves and VAs (19.6% in EAs and 21.5% in EAs) and no Headlines found hyperbole It only appears in persuasive strategy “Make ... evaluative adjectives are main parts In the Headline, the similarity is that the headlines for not the same in two kinds of data They account for a higher persuasive strategy “Add incentives” are used...
Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:29
A contrastive analysis of requests in english and vietnamese = so sánh lời đề nghị trong tiếng anh và tiếng việt luận văn tốt nghiệp đại học
... command, and consisting of a main clause and sometimes one or more subordinate clauses” Nguyễn Lân, a Vietnamese grammarian, has also given out a full definition of the sentence saying that “Many ... combined to show a clear sense about actions, states or characteristics of things are called a sentence (quoted by Đỗ Thị Kim Liên, 1998, p.100) According to Vinagradov, a Russian grammarian professor, ... politeness is associated with situations in which one “speaks or behaves in a way that is socially and culturally acceptable and pleasant to the hearer” From these definitions, Lakoff (1975) approaches...
Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:40
A contrative analysis of exclamation in english and vietnamese
... statement that imparts information, it may also have the power of a threating act By making this statement, the teacher may also have performed a threating act Similarly, when one friend tells another ... as and exclamation or as a declaration From the above things about general speech acts we want to study a small scale that is exclamative mood which is involved in the fifth kinds of speech act ... with What In exclamation formed with What, we use a/ an with singular countable nouns after what and there is note that a/ an can not be used in exclamation with uncountable noun What + a/ an + (Adj)...
Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:40
A discourse analysis of presuppositions in the declaration of independence made by president ho chi minh = phân tích diễn ngôn các tiền giả định trong tuyên ngôn độc lập của chủ tịch hồ chí minh
... the war between two factions: the Allies including Britain, France, America and Russia, and the Fascism including Japan, Germany and Italy The Fascists were very reactionary, combative and cruel ... we break off all relations of a colonial character with France; (42) We repeal all the international obligation that France has so far subscribed to on behalf of Vietnam and we abolish all the ... standing in the border At that time, the conflict between Britain-France-America and Russia might lead Britain and America to make concessions with France and allow France to come back to Indochina...
Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41
A contranstive analysis of consonants in english and vietnamese
... Classification of the consonants of Vietnamese in terms of place of articulation, manner of articulation, and voicing: Labial Apical Dorsa Radia Glotta l Noisy k ŋ l Aspirate th Un- Stop t Vs aspira V t ... consonants 1.1 Articulators and places of articulation Figure 1: Articulators and places of articulation Articulators: Involved the movable parts of the mouth Tip of tongue Blade of tongue Back of ... Nasal sonant Fricative Noisy l Palata al c ɲ Dent l Side sonant d H l Figure 21: Classification of Vietnamese consonants in terms of place, manner of articulation, and voicing Number of coda available...
Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 16:45