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... investment in many countries of Sub Saharan Africa[82] Indeed, it has been appreciated for many years that the global availability and marketing of cheap vegetable oils and fats is leading to increasing ... 48(7):1247-1257 Ramachandran G, Santha T, Garg R, Baskaran D, Iliayas SA, Venkatesan P, Fathima R, Narayanan PR: Vitamin A levels in sputum-positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients in comparison with ... shown an association between usage and changes in fat deposition All ART trials that have included objective body shape evaluation have consistently found an increased risk of abdominal fat in HIV...

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... Park, Singapore) as described [15,25] mo 166 HTLV-1 TAX IR CTTRACAAACATGGGGAGGAAAT mo 013 B2M OF TAGAGGTTCCCAGGCCACTA mo 014 B2M OR ACCATGTAGCCTATGCGTGT mo 015 B2M IF ACAAGGAGCTCCAGAAGCAA mo 016 ... groups and was treated as a categorical variable The STROBE guidelines were followed to report the findings in this article [54] Additional material Additional file Univariate analysis of factors associated ... knowledge about an ancient infection Lancet Infect Dis 2007, 7:266-281 Sagawa K, Mochizuki M, Masuoka K, Katagiri K, Katayama T, Maeda T, Tanimoto A, Sugita S, Watanabe T, Itoh K: Immunopathological...

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... suggested plague No transmission occurred and Mr B finally recovered on 12th January 1912 The last pandemic of plague started in China, 1894, and spread to many parts of the world including India where ... the Black Sea and the Americas contained plague-infected rats which lead to enzootic rat-flea plague cycles All of these outbreaks are particularly well documented and have been described as “unique ... results here also compare favourably with the Rminor values of 0.9 for Mukden in 1946 and 1.1 for Madagascar in 1957 [3] Finally, there was insufficient data to provide any statistical comparison with...

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... drafting the article and provided statistical expertise FL contributed to study conception and design, to analysis and interpretation of data, and to drafting the article and obtained funding and ... and design and to analysis and interpretation of data and provided statistical expertise FP contributed to the acquisition of data NB and JL contributed to analysis and interpretation of data ... each strata and calculated the area under the receiver operator characteristic curve (AUC) It is generally accepted that an AUC of at least 0.7 is acceptable, at least 0.8 is good, and at least...

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... bear in their mind that language and culture are integral and can‟t be separated from each other To learn a language means to learn a culture Therefore, in order to master the English language, ... Vietnamese informants use it while 4% EN informants are inclined to use it Acquaintance: Similarities:  When the communicative partner is an acquaintance, both Vietnamese and English informants are ... something that represents a threat to another individuals’ expectations regarding self-image, it is described as a facethreatening act.” Expressing annoyance, are FTAs since they reveal one‟s negative...

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... and how to cope with their listening problems in the class Without interest and variation in teaching and learning in general and in teaching and learning listening comprehension in particular, ... helping them to interpret what is heard and anticipate what will come next and includes listening for the main idea, predicting, drawing inferences and summarizing O‟Malley and Chamot (1989) categorize ... which challenges and guides them to handle the information and messages in the passage, and follow-up getting reflection on the language of the passage such as sound, grammar and vocabulary In short,...

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... Speech acts and conversational interaction CUP Goddard, A and Patterson, L.M (2000) Language and Gender London and New York: Routledge Green, G.M (1989) Pragmatics and Natural Language Understanding ... parts: Part was for getting general information on the informants, including nationality, age, gender, occupation and acquisition of foreign languages Part can be considered as the main part of ... also restrained to verbal aspects of the act of expressing annoyance only No matter how important non-verbal aspects such as paralanguage and extra-language are, they are excluded within the study...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:46

... green areas Plants and large public green areas often play a significant role in establishing the image of a city and providing a place where large gathering and social activities can be carried ... Farms of Brassica species, orchids, ornamental plants, tobacco and sugar cane with an area of less than 6000 as well as plantations dominated by rubber and coconut are also the managed secondary ... in rural areas The blocky and angular buildings are always replacing the soft shapes of trees, shrubs and grass with asphalt, brick, concrete and glass Basically, buildings and plants are competitors...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:10

... cheese as dry as a bone 31 as dry as dust 32 as dry as paper 33 as easy / simple as ABC as flat as a board 34 as flat as a fluke / flounder as flat as a pancake 35 as gentle as a lamb 36 as hard as ... cold as ice 26 as common as dirt / muck 27 as cross as a bear with a sore head 28 as dead as a doornail as dead as mutton 29 as dead as the dodo as deaf as a post 30 as different as chalk and/ from ... as (a) stone as hard as flint 37 as hard as iron / rock as hard as nails 38 as hard as steel 39 as heavy as lead 40 as helpless as a (newborn) babe 41 as innocent as a (new-born) babe 42 as light...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2016, 20:23

... difficulties in applying financial aid and gaining study visas Nine of seventeen participants said that the difficulty in applying financial aid due to high competition and lack of relevant information ... consideration in choosing Taiwan as Taiwan who were trained in the US or UK study destination She said, Many Taiwanese companies have cooperation with Vietnam I could find a job in Taiwanese companies in ... free-market enterprises and integrating commitment; and most academics are not into international economy but following the involved in research; and 5) Graduates are socialist orientation with controls...

Ngày tải lên: 28/07/2017, 21:41

... updated in any dictionary 4.3.1.2 Culture difference Understanding culture is integral to learning and understanding a language Culture may be defined as "what" a society does and thinks, and language ... American language in common and American articles in particular, one must be able to find out the subject and the main verb In this case, subject and main verb are together at the beginning of ... Illustration of the articles Photographs, pictures, maps, graphs, and drawings are an important supplement to an article in general, and to a critical article in particular In paying attention to different...

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... P700 in cyanobacteria and algae: an instance of unusual genetic-variability Biochim Biophys Acta 766, 310–316 ´ Balme, A. , Hervas, M., Campos, L .A. , Sancho, J., De la Rosa, M .A & Navarro, J .A (2002) ... interaction of plastocyanin with photosystem I in Anabaena [15], and is highly conserved in cyanobacterial plastocyanins Mutagenesis, expression, purification and characterization of the plastocyanins ... is that primitive cyanobacteria at the time of chloroplast origin had poorly defined interactions between Cyt f and plastocyanin and/ or plastocyanin and photosystem I, and subsequently the nature...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:21

... turn may foster educational engagement Greater engagement may lead to better academic preparation and achievement This attitudinal and behavioral effect of having savings could be as important as ... controlling for such things as race, academic achievement, and parent’s education According to ACSFA (2006), youth are college qualified if they have taken advanced math classes, such as Algebra and ... in this sample, and 453 in the combined (certain and uncertain) sample.5 Variables In this section, variables of interest and control variables are described All except the outcome variable are...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... calmodulin-dependent kinase kinase-b (CAMKK-b) and AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), leading to autophagy through repression of mTOR [18] The elevated Ca2+-mediated autophagy occurs via a signaling ... et al The crosstalk between autophagy and apoptosis Fig Regulation between autophagy and apoptosis Induction of autophagy requires the activity of Beclin and its interacting partner, a class ... namely the Atg 12 pathway and the microtubuleassociated protein light chain (LC3)–phosphatidylethanolamine pathway Bcl-2 ⁄ Bcl-xL can bind to Beclin and inhibit autophagy Atg5 is cleaved by calpains...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... earlier ordinal has the same cardinality as κ The finite cardinals are 0, 1, 2, ; and ω is the smallest in nite cardinal; (iii) the cardinality of a set A, written |A| , is that (unique) cardinal κ ... of a compact element in a lattice and that of a compact subset of a topological space Algebraic lattices originated with Komatu and Nachbin in the 1940s and Băchi in the early 1950’s; the original ... a ∧ b = inf {a, b} Suppose that L is a lattice by the first definition and ≤ is defined as in (A) From a a = a follows a ≤ a If a ≤ b and b ≤ a then a = a ∧ b and b = b ∧ a; hence a = b Also if a...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 14:57

... detected between VEGF -A levels in serum and plasma, arguing against a major role of platelets as a source of VEGF -A [8] In our study, VEGF -A and sFlt-1 serum levels were approximately and 10-fold ... diagnostic research, setting the stage for a future and planned validating study [31], as well as to gain insights about the time-course of sFlt-1 and VEGFA release during the very initial phase ... VEGF -A in patients with hematological malignancies and chemotherapy-related FN, to gain insights about both potential roles of sFlt-1 in patients with febrile neutropenia and sepsis, as a biomarker...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... detected between VEGF -A levels in serum and plasma, arguing against a major role of platelets as a source of VEGF -A [8] In our study, VEGF -A and sFlt-1 serum levels were approximately and 10-fold ... diagnostic research, setting the stage for a future and planned validating study [31], as well as to gain insights about the time-course of sFlt-1 and VEGFA release during the very initial phase ... VEGF -A in patients with hematological malignancies and chemotherapy-related FN, to gain insights about both potential roles of sFlt-1 in patients with febrile neutropenia and sepsis, as a biomarker...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... increasing in [0, 1/2] Note that h(0) = H (a, b) < P (a, b) and h(1/2) = A( a, b) > P (a, b) Therefore, it is natural to ask what are the greatest value a and least value b in (0, 1/2) such that the ... double inequality aA (a, b) + (1 - a) H (a, b) < P (a, b) < bA (a, b) + (1 - b)H (a, b) holds for all a, b >0 with a ≠ b if and only if a ≤ 2/π and b ≥ 5/6; Liu and Meng [5] proved that the inequalities ... mean bound for the Seiffert mean P (a, b) Very recently, Wang and Chu [8] found the greatest value a and the least value b such that the double inequality Aa (a, b)H1 -a( a, b) < P (a, b) < Ab (a, ...

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