american society of civil engineers journal of construction engineering and management

... segments of the private construction sector look poised to expand this year, and a strong number of firms finally appear confident enough about market conditions to attempt to charge more for construction ... segments — retail, warehousing and lodging; private office; and manufacturing — between 23 and 26 percent of firms expect growth in 2013, while 32 to 34 percent of respondents expect these segments ... reading of -14 percent. Worst of all were expectations for the “other transportation” market — airport and transit construction primarily — with only 16 percent expecting a rise in 2013 and 34...

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... pathogenesis and neurotoxicity in AD (Fig. 2). Conclusion The discovery of a brain-specific MT isoform, GIF, in 1991, sparked considerable interest in understanding the role of all MTs in the brain, and ... investigate and understand the physiological roles of GIF within the brain. Further studies are required to determine the function of GIF within the normal, injured and neurodegenerative brain, and to ... or neurodegenerative disease. Synthesis and secretion of GIF in the brain Cellular and temporal localization of GIF synthesis Whilst the MT1 and MT2 isoforms are ubiquitously synthesized throughout...

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... salt-induced A-state of ferri- cytochrome c is characterized by a variety of high- spin and low-spin states (where high and low stand for the S ẳ 5 2 and S ẳ 1 2 spin states of the heme iron, ... 2. Near-UV (A) and Soret (B) CD spectra of acid-denatured cytochrome c in the presence of 0.02 M sulfate () and 0.02 M sel- enate ( ặặ ặặ). The spectra of the native (-ặ-ặ-) and of the dena- tured ... slight increase of the absorbance band centered at 528 nm and by a blue-shift of the CT band from 618 to 616 nm (spectrum b of Fig. 8A). The slow phase is instead characterized by a marked enhancement of...

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... the b-propeller and b-sandwich domains involve contacts of IV and V blades and b-strands (1–6) from the internal b-sheet of the b-sand- wich domain. The last four amino acids of the native sequence ... b-sandwich architec- ture and is composed of two six-stranded antiparallel b-sheets. In both b-sheets the sixth strand is located between strands 1 and 2. Although the antiparallel pat- tern of ... level of 99.9%. Other parameters were also obtained: hydrodynamic radius of 16.78 A ˚ , average radius of 34.02 A ˚ and ratio of the shortest to the longest axis of 0.628. Kinetic parameters of...

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... grandparent, grandchild, aunt, uncle, niece and nephew; half sister and half brother. Third-degree relatives: great grandparent, great grandchild, great aunt, great uncle, first cousin, grand ... contact. In the context of this guideline: All affected relatives must be on the same side of the family and be blood relatives of the woman and each other. In cases of bilateral breast cancer, ... nephew and grand niece. 1.1 Approaches to care for all women The provision of information is a very important aspect of helping women understand their risk level for breast cancer, and also...

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... distribution of the loan portfolio, both in terms of number of borrowers and outstanding loans (ii) analysis of overdues (iii) the average effective rate of interest, the average cost of funds and ... model and the MFI model greater resources be devoted to professional inputs both in the formation of SHGs and JLGs as also in the imparting of skill development and training and generally in handholding ... one hand, there was a huge unsatisfied demand for microfinance credit and on the other, there was a limitation on the capacity of not-for-profit entities to meet this demand. When for-profit...

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... allow investiga- tion of the impact of single factors and their interplay, such as Ca 2+ and ROS. Therefore, we exposed isola- ted rat brain mitochondria to H ⁄ R and ⁄ or Ca 2+ and determined H 2 O 2 concentration, ... resulted in a decrease of 0.29 0.19 nmolặmg )1 of mitochondrial protein. The combination of 3.5 lm Ca 2+ and H ⁄ R led to the substantial decrease in GSH of 1.27 0.15 nmolặmg )1 of mitochondrial ... membrane and subsequently to the impairment of mitochondria upon ischemia⁄ reper- Fig. 5. Influence of Ca 2+ increase in combination with H ⁄ Rand extramitochondrial NADH on respiration of brain...

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... rice left. (không phải là: There is not much of rice left.) A lot of - lots of Không có sự khác nhau nhiều giữa a lot of và lots of. A lot of và lots of đều mang tính chất thân mật, suồng sã, ... credit cards. A large amount of, a great deal of , a large number of Cách diễn đạt này mang tính tương đối trang trọng. Sau A large amount of và a great deal of là danh từ không đếm được. ... Không có sự khác nhau nhiều giữa a lot of và lots of. A lot of và lots of đều mang tính chất thân mật, suồng sã, đứng trước danh từ không đếm được, danh...

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... specialty, address, and place of work. These reports are tallied and published as theSurveyofPhysicians[13].Thenumberofmedical doctors in our baseline year of 2008, stratified by sex and age, was established ... supply of doctors stratified by sex and age (2008) Predictions: Future supply of doctors stratified by sex and age Deceased doctors Figure 7 Repeated addition of new doctors and subtraction ... reported for persons of the same sex and age category in the Complete L ife Table (Figure 6) [15]. 6. The number of new medical doct ors joining the profession was added, and the number of medical doc- tors...

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... was dissolved with 8 ul of RNA (ssDNA) Ligation Buffer and 12 ul of H 2 O after dried at room temperature for 5 min. 20 ul of 40% PEG-6000 and 1 ul of ligase were added and incubated at 16°C overnight. ... Transcriptase (TakaRa, Japan) and 1 ul (25 mM) of external antisense primer. The first round PCR was carried using 10 ul of the synthesized cDNA and an external set of forward and reverse primers with ... human and swine HEV isolates. The genomic organization consisted of 5' untranslated region (5'UTR) of 25 nt (1–25), ORF-1 of 5127 nt (26–5152), ORF-2 of 1983 nt (5190–7172), ORF-3 of 372...

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... HFS before BTX treatment and difference of HFS-36 before and after treatment Correlation of HFS-36 subscale and severity of HFS Difference of HFS-36 before and after treatment Subscales Item number ... subscales of emotional well- being, stigma and cognition. It may hint that HFS annoyed females more than males. Table 3: Correlation of HFS-36 subscale and severity of HFS before BTX treatment and ... VT, MH and SF) of SF- 36 both before and after BTX treatment. This result was similar to Tan's report. In table 5, half items of HFS-36 with greater mean differ- ence of scores before and after...

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... Factors and Quality of life in Children and Adolescents with Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators. American Journal of Cardiology 2004, 93:582-587. 52. Ternstedt BM, Wall K: Quality of life 20 and ... health-related quality of life in children with ESRD: performance of the generic and ESRD-specific instrument of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL). American Journal of Kidney Diseases ... age range of children and adolescents from 2 to 18 years of age. The development, refinement and validation of the original instrument and linguistic validation to a number of Eur- opean and other...

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... domains of the D- 39S (diabetes control and energy and mobility) and RAND-12 PHC than psychological domains of the D-39S (social burden, anxiety and worry, and sexual functioning) and RAND-12 ... a stand- ard error of measurement (SEM) which accounts for relia- bility of the DQOL and standard deviation of patients under the investigation. SEM was estimated by a standard deviation of the ... and Chyng-Chuang Hwang 4 Address: 1 Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, College of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, 2 Department of Health Policy and...

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