addresses at the opening session

... the other hand, mathematical/statistical treatment can be a great help in palaeoecological studies At about this time Sokal and Sneath were developing their work on biological statistics at the ... study of the ostracods of the Skagerrak (1941) in which he gives information on temperature, salinity and substrate and makes some attempt to relate the nature of the shell form to the substrate With ... branch near its base The setal pore of the former seems to occupy on margin of the sieve plate, whereas that of the latter emerges from the central area of the sieve The nature of the stout seta of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 03:16

... produced from the lower temperature tobacco smoke are healthier, in general They argue that burning of cigarettes between inhalations and the chemicals the difference in risk is due to the better ... smoking and an increase in the risk of death, while others found no association with the risk of death from breast cancer Smokers may be at increased risk for metastasis (the spread of cancer) Two ... associated with breast cancer risk, women can control their exposure to these potential risk factors There are also many other health benefits to be gained by decreasing or eliminating either of these...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... "which" (3) The water in the beaker with which the chlorine combines will the poisonous The analyzer takes "beaker" instead of"water" as antecedent of "which" The corrector may know that chlorine ... "Multisliced decorated trees" (16) have been introduced as a data structure for the explicit factorization of decorated trees However, there remains to develop a full implementation of the associated parallel ... an attractive alternative to interactive CAT systems like ITS, which require a specialist to assist the system during the translation process As a matter of fact, this principle i~ a sophisticated...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... Monte Carlo model of the population dynamics in the two populations in relation to the spatial configuration of nectar and host-plant patches showed that the spatial configuration of larval and ... the plantation) The number of larvae in quadrats were correlated to host plant height We conclude that the Southern Festoon’s microhabitat preference depends on the openness of the area and the ... migration corridors for Clouded Apollo and provide habitat patches in the riparian meadows The appropriate density of habitat patches and existence of migration corridors create appropriate landscape...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... typically focuses on the band’s feminist lyrical content rather than the intricate sample-based grooves that they construct in the studio They concluded that their music may not reflect the pristine ... essays on sampling – that samplers ‘place authenticity and creativity in crisis, not just because of the issue of theft, but through the increasingly automated nature of their mechanisms’ (Goodwin ... were gathered from Matmos member M C Schmidt; the eye surgery patient’s identity is likewise revealed, but the plastic surgery patient remains anonymous (Haynes 2001: 26–9; Matmos 2001) The precision...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... Queensland's patient database, and 118 MS patients listed on a database at the Gold Coast Hospital, Queensland, Australia were asked to participate Of the 418 individuals invited to participate, 130 ... with moderate MS Perhaps in persons with mild MS, the physical limitations of the disease are minimal and therefore irrespective of exercise status the impact of the disease on QoL in the physical ... has a greater impact on the individual The MFIS has been suggested as a useful measure of fatigue in MS research and clinical practice [30] Data analysis Data was analysed using the statistical...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... physiotherapist (PT) assessed the patients when they felt at their best with their regular treatment, i.e both anti-PD medication and STN stimulation One leg stance and sharpened Romberg were then ... water) The second test session was then repeated with the individual tests in the same order Clinical performance tests The PT (MHN) assessed the patient with clinical performance tests, and the ... vibratory stimulation compared with balance perturbations methods that use physical movements, e.g., translation or inclination of the supporting surface, is that the stimulus effect is isolated...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... Queensland's patient database, and 118 MS patients listed on a database at the Gold Coast Hospital, Queensland, Australia were asked to participate Of the 418 individuals invited to participate, 130 ... with moderate MS Perhaps in persons with mild MS, the physical limitations of the disease are minimal and therefore irrespective of exercise status the impact of the disease on QoL in the physical ... has a greater impact on the individual The MFIS has been suggested as a useful measure of fatigue in MS research and clinical practice [30] Data analysis Data was analysed using the statistical...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... inappropriate milling operations The weather pattern (temperature and humidity) in Mekong River Delta is unique The rice is grown and harvested in both wet and dry seasons Weather conditions at around ... days reduced the head rice recovery by up to 50% of the head rice yield at the expected maturity The head rice yield followed the opposite trend to rice grain cracking, indicating that the presence ... 70 m2) at harvesting dates according to the treatments from days before to days after maturity date (MD) with five replications for each treatment (Figure 1) Cutting and threshing operations...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... Estimation 29 where (0, ) is the horizontal acceleration at the ground surface, (ℎ, ) is the acceleration at depth ℎ (evaluated through linear interpolation); ( , ) is the acceleration at the ... conservation, the excitation of coda waves in the crust means that direct waves (particularly direct shear waves that dominate peak ground motions) that propagate along the minimum travel-time path ... order to isolate the local site effects, the transfer function of seismic waves in soil layers has to be estimated by calculating the spectral ratio between the motion at the surface and the underlying...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 09:20

... Estimation 29 where (0, ) is the horizontal acceleration at the ground surface, (ℎ, ) is the acceleration at depth ℎ (evaluated through linear interpolation); ( , ) is the acceleration at the ... conservation, the excitation of coda waves in the crust means that direct waves (particularly direct shear waves that dominate peak ground motions) that propagate along the minimum travel-time path ... order to isolate the local site effects, the transfer function of seismic waves in soil layers has to be estimated by calculating the spectral ratio between the motion at the surface and the underlying...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 16:20

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21

... facilitate the entry of LABS into the stomata of P halepensis Mill when the surface tension is low The greater value of accumulation coefficient (Aww2min) of LABS in the cuticular waxes gests in the ... nearly all the rest was in the washing solution (table I) The LABS proportion found in the washing solution of LABS-sea water plants was seven times greater than that of the LABS-distilled water plants ... LABS-distilled water Moreover, the accumulation coefficient (Aww2min) was 166 for the epicuticular waxes in the presence of sea water and 82 with distilled water More than 95% of the incorporated radioactivity...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... and the attached underground system After coppicing, several "stubs" (the base of the cut shoots) remain on the stump The "stump" is the underground part of the stool remaining attached to the ... that combines cutting the shoot at 50 cm and horizontally knocking off the remaining part of the shoot where it is attached to the stump with the flat end of an axe or sledge hammer to detach the ... sprouts began to appear only at the beginning of the1 986 growing season At the end of each of the first growing seaimportance of sprouting was estimated by measuring the space the new stools occupied...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:22

... defined at 95°C for min, followed by 35 cycles of denaturing at 95°C for 45s, annealing at 59°C for 35 s and extension at 72°C for min, and followed by the final extension at 72°C for 10 The primers ... methylation was not detected in normal cervical cells These researches demonstrated us that FHIT and PTEN in Hela cells and FHIT and CHFR in Siha cells might have the other regulation pathways ... quantitatively assess the status of demethylation Hela and Siha cells were transfected with siRNA and treated with 1.0 μM 5az-dC (Sigma) respectively, and harvested at 72 h after incubation Genomic...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21

... Rectal coliform populations in pigs enced the enteric microflora at the locations investigated Further, the diversity of the coliform flora in rectum matched that of the coliforms at the ileo-ceacal ... surgery period Therefore, the results obtained suggest that neither the surgery itself and the somewhat altered conditions achieved at the ileo-caecal ostium, nor the parenteral treatment with oxytetracycline ... twice daily at 7:30 am and 3:30 pm The pigs were fed at a level of 4% of the mean live weight of the group Water was available ad libitum The health status of the animals was inspected at least...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... prompt mobilization, incorporation, and differentiation to the sites of injury have suggested that EPCs could serve as endothelial reparative reserve of the damaged vascular endothelium [1-3] ... Representative panel showing the analysis gate used to exclude platelets and debris (B) The gate used to exclude CD45-positive hematopoietic cells (C, D) Representative panels showing the EPCs ... evaluation HGF data are reported as relative fold-increases, calculated using the absolute values (T0 = 2.9 ± 0.3 ng/ml) All the data were analysed by ANOVA, and the values reported are the means...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... nuclei with green chromatin Early apoptotic cells have shrunken green nuclei with chromatin condensation, whereas necrotic or late apoptotic cells had normal/condensed nuclei that were brightly stained ... treated with media alone (control) and various concentrations of CSE; a) control, b) CSE (0.2%), c) CSE (0.5%), d) CSE (1.0%), e) CSE (2.5%), f) CSE (5.0%) for 24 hr CSE at higher concentrations ... effects of cigarette smoke on oxidative stress and proinflammatory cytokine release in primary human airway epithelial cells and in a variety of transformed alveolar epithelial cells Respir Res 2006,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... glutathione status and the amount of 4-HNE is formed IL-8 and IL-6 are important in the recruitment and activation of inflammatory cells The induction of these proinflammatory mediators is regulated ... acid were added The reaction mixture was vortexed and incubated at 45°C for 60 After centrifugation at 15000 g for 10 min, the absorbance of the supernatant was determined at 586 nm The levels of ... 10 at room temperature The cells were permeabilized with 0.1% Triton X-100 The wash step was repeated and the cells were blocked with 10% normal goat serum for hr The cells were then incubated...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... respiratory failure were excluded from the study Atorvastatin was chosen for this study because of its superiority over two other statins (simvastatin and pravastatin) in the inhibition of atherosclerosis ... creatine phosphokinase (CPK) in either group, except for one patient in the placebo group (Table 5) There was no need for atorvastatin discontinuation in any of the patients Mean value of the ... During the treatment period, SLE flare (SLEDAI increase ≥ 3) was observed in two patients from the atorvastatin group and in one from the placebo group In two atorvastatin group patients, the SLEDAI...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:22