... such as: age of caregiver; education and literacy level of caregiver; distance of house to the clinic; size of family; and status of parents (alive/dead) Isaakidis et al Journal of the International ... resistant and one possibly resistant to tenofovir Six out of 22 children had developed a profile of extensive resistance, explained by the presence of the K65R mutation in four children and Q151 ... http://www.jiasociety.org/content/13/1/11 Page of 10 Figure Flow chart of HIV-positive children on ART the medium term Ninety -three percent of children in our HIV-programmes were alive and in care at the end of the observation...
... number of immiscible phases that are considered into study: singlephase flow and multiphase flow A singlephase flow is the one in which the entire flow is composed of same fluid whereas a multiphase ... fraction of dispersed phase K - ratio of dispersed phase viscosity to continuous phase viscosity – maximum packing fraction of dispersed phase – oil holdup at inversion point µ - dynamic viscosity of ... Table of Contents Abstract vii List of Tables viii List of Figures ix List of Symbols xiii Introduction 1.1 Multiphase flow-General 1.2 Background of the study 1.3 Problems associated with multiphase...
... bottom section of the column at using single aeration 83 Profiles of the Reynolds stresses component for the bottom section of the column at using double aeration 84 Profiles of the Reynolds ... of the column at using tetra aeration 86 Profiles of the Reynolds stresses component for the middle section of the column at q = 10.4 m/s using different aeration 87 xii List of Tables LIST OF ... Fig 3.3.1.1 x List of figures number of orifice = Fig.3.4 b Fig 4.1 a Fig 4.1 b The field of view for three testing zones at z = 0.065 m in a partially aerated column 41 Effect of glucose concentration...
... coordinates of the launching point For many problems the launching point is taken at the origin In this case xo = and yo = Note: In this analysis of projectile motion we neglect the effects of (4-8) ... determine the coordinates of particle P to be xPA and xPB , respectively xPA = xPB + xBA Here xBA is the coordinate of B with respect to A d d d We take derivatives of the above equation: xPA ... A and B determine the position vector of particle P to be r r rPA and rPB , respectively r r r rPA = rPB + rBA We take the time derivative of both sides of the equation r r r d r d r d r r r...
... set of steady-state multiphase variables could be expressed in terms ofbalanced sets of phasors For example, the phasors representing an unbalanced three- phase set can be expressed in terms of ... Open-Circuited Stator Phase For the purpose of analyzing an open-circuited stator phase, which is equivalent to single -phase operation, let us consider the stator circuits of a three- phase, wye-connected ... impedance of the start winding larger than that of the run winding The asymmetry of the stator windings causes the winding currents to be 359 SINGLE -PHASE INDUCTION MACHINES out ofphase when the phases...
... system, the sequence ofthree cuts (preparatory, establishment, and removal) starts from the windward strip (Table 3) With a time lag ofthree to four years, the sequence ofthree cuts is initiated ... A few years later, another sequence ofthree cuts will be initiated on further leeward adjacent strips At the end of the first period – for a given set ofthree adjacent strips – the removal ... Optimal aggregation pattern of two-cut system Figure 7Figure 5: Optimal aggregation pattern of three- cut system Fig Optimal aggregation pattern of two-cut system (a), and three- cut system (b) method...
... Kellgren-Lawrence grades of or higher were included More than 70% of patients had a Kellgren-Lawrence score of or None of the control individuals had ever exhibited any signs or symptoms of arthritis or ... ethnical committees of the Medical School of Nanjing University, and single nucleotide Page of (page number not for citation purposes) polymorphism (SNP) Research Center of RIKEN, and informed ... Association of the C/T polymorphism of the TXNDC3 gene with knee osteoarthritis in Chinese and Japanese populations Groups compared CC versus others TT versus others All genotypesa C allele versus...
... distribution and pathogenicity of CSFV, by directly comparing the in vivo effects ofthree virulence variants of the virus; ii) to investigate the applicability of various diagnostic procedures ... the spread ofthree virulence variants of the virus in 64 animals, this study was performed in order to examine the tissue distribution of CSFV in the natural host, to obtain data of comparative ... tonsils ofthree animals at PIDs 3, and and from the ileocoecal lymph node of one pig at PID and mesenteric lymph node of one animal at PID http://www.actavetscand.com/content/50/1/34 The results of...
... cut-off value 15 for strain of –6.5 % a sensitivity of 23 % and specificity of 87 % was calculated for the detection of infarcted segments (AUC 0.6, confidence interval 0.53 – 0.64) A 111 cut-off ... cut-off value of –10.34% resulted in a sensitivity of 54 % and specificity of 59 % (see Table 6) The intra- and inter-observer variation of our data is congruent with the data of Jarnert et al ... comparison to adjacent and non-infarcted segments with a sensitivity of 80% and a specificity of 70% (AUC 0.8) with a cut-off value of less than 1.95 cm/s Poor agreement between VVI and TDI measurements...
... 42 APPENDIX 2: RANKING OF THE IMPORTANCE OF REWARDS .43 v List of Tables Table Title Page TABLE 1: SAMPLE OF COMPANIES INVESTIGATED TABLE 2: SAMPLE OF INTERVIEWEES TABLE ... evaluated through a series of criteria such as volume, coverage (number of outlets visited per day), productivity (numbers of outlets sold to over number of outlets visited), number of new outlets opened, ... valuations of both sales managers versus sales reps and SOEs versus JVs Opinions about the importance of each reward were then classified as high, medium, and low according to the ranking of the...
... of the Z-source inverter for the proposed UPS Fig Block diagram of the inner loop Fig Block diagram of the outer loop Fig TABLE II PARAMETERS OF THE SIMULATION MODEL Simplified block diagram of ... supply systems provide protection,” IEEE Ind Electron Mag., vol 1, no 1, pp 28–38, Spring 2007 [7] P K Jain, J R Espinoza, and H Jin, “Performance of a single- stage UPS system for single -phase ... the bandwidth of the inner loop (fi ) From the practical engineering point of view, it can be approximately selected as the natural frequency of the inner loop (fni ) in the range of 10f0 to fs...
... TVA-II group As the polypeptide superposition of Fig places the three catalytic residues of CDase (Fig 1) within less than ˚ A of the positions of those of TVA-II, and as the active centers closely ... the three invariant catalytic residues (Fig 1) All a-helices and b-strands are labeled Fig B-factor plots of the main chains of the two molecules of CDase in the asymmetric unit The averages of ... factor of 18.8% and an Rfree of 22.3% with over 90% of the residues in the most favored region of a Ramachandran plot (Table 2) The resulting model is depicted in Fig The Ca backbones of the...
... triton X-100, 1.4 U of glutathione reductase and 50–100 lg of recombinant protein, was incubated at 30 °C for After of equilibration, the reaction was initiated by the addition of the peroxide substrate ... Analysis of GPXle1- and GPXha2-catalyzed reduction of t-butyl hydroperoxide (100 lM) with different concentrations of GSH (A) and thioredoxin (B) The reciprocal apparent maximum velocities of GPXle1 ... representation Each value (± SEM) is representative ofthree experiments GPX and TPX activities are expressed as nmol of NADPH oxidized per per mg of protein, and GSH concentrations are expressed...
... presence of a lysine (Lys48) engaging Asp78, one of the iron ligands, in a salt bridge interaction [25] For investigation of the physiological basis of the coexistence of two Dps proteins within a single ... increased formation of reactive oxygen species as a result of the photosynthetic transport of electrons, such that, besides photosystems I and II, which are the main targets of photodamage, other ... role of DpsA-Te relative to the previously studied Dps-Te [23] Results Sequence analysis of T elongatus DpsA The DpsA-Te sequence was compared with those of the Dps family members of known three- dimensional...
... configuration of the oxyanion-hole at the amide Fig Alignment of amino acid sequences of 3FTx of Bf and other related species Single- letter codes of amino acids are used, conserved residues are reversed ... proteins of Bungarus fasciatus I.-H Tsai et al Fig Ca2+-binding affinity of two Pro31PLAs (Bf Va and VI) and a K31-PLA (Bf-X-1) The initial rate of hydrolysis of mM diC16PC in the presence of mM ... and mass of the PLA and 3FTx were predicted from the cDNA sequences, matched with those of the purified KBf venom proteins as well as PLA and 3FTx isoforms reported for pooled Bf venom The three...
... to create assets Job security: The very fact of closure of Lehman and lay-offs by GM, Microsoft and IBM in 2008 only questions the very hypothesis of job security as it exists in salaried jobs ... “Money is not the cause of all evil, lack of it is” Well if you believe in that, read on After you have chosen your profession whether it is banking, advertising, manufacturing, software, or something ... understood the power of its eight bar logo and its brand name Coke understood the power of its ingredients The Disney Company understands the value of Mickey Mouse P&G is never tired of telling people...
... to reduce their risk of cancer Three- quarters of the UK public will be aware of the main lifestyle choices they can make to reduce their risk of getting cancer • The number of smokers will fall ... development of all three national screening programmes for breast, bowel and cervical cancer, which have saved tens of thousands of lives • In the 1960s we first tested mammography as a way of diagnosing ... scale of the cancer problem and the impact it has on the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year We have made huge steps forward in improving survival and in preventing thousands of...
... 1)m1 m2 m3 + m1 m2 + m2 m3 + m1 m3 max{mi } 338 KUO-CHANG CHEN Proof of Main Theorems We begin with the proof of Theorem 1: Proof of Theorem Assume m3 = 1, M = m1 + m2 + Let F (m1 , m2 ), G(m1 , ... class of the ˜ ˜ projection αφ of αφ in V \ Δ over t ∈ [0, 1] is one of the two generators for ˜ \ Δ) The left side of Figure depicts the path α over t ∈ [0, 1] ˜ ˜φ π1 (S A solution x of (1) ... variational methods on the existence of certain types of solutions to the planar three- body problem with various choices of masses There is a natural way of classifying orbits by their topological...