... provide information on a wide range of potentially relevant issues) and allows easy administration of general instructions in any language It has the inherent advantage of determining and rating ... spending points on physical problems (Mean spending points = 4.1) and weight related concerns (Mean Spending Points = 3.8) while those from the lower income groups spent most points on financial ... disturbances and financial worries were scored the worst in the LSEC (Mean Score = 0.6, 1.8 and 1.8 respectively) Subjects from the high and middle income groups spent the highest number of spending...
... 81.7 and Oxford Knee score 21 The patient will continue to have regular clinical and radiological implant surveillance Figure Fluoroscopic image of the left knee showing the introducing cannula and ... medial pain and swelling in the left knee A bone scan showed increased activity in the medial femoral condyle indicating possible localised osteolysis, and there was some low-grade uptake in the ... unable to find any data in the literature pertaining to the use of bone cements in the context of osteolytic cysts in knee arthroplasty, however these analogues have been successfully used in the...
... 750 800 Annealing Temperature (°C) Figure Annealing temperature dependence of integrated intensity of QDs and InGaAs QW (a), peak energy of GS and ES1 of QDs (b), FWHM of GS and ES1 of QDs (c) ... normalized intensity (c) of the as-grown sample Solid lines in (a) are the fitting by varshni relation for bulk material and dashed lines in (c) are the fitting of quenching of intensity according to ... histogram of aspect ratio (1 μm × μm) (b) of the as-grown sample Dashed lines in (a) present the Gaussian fitting of PL peak Inset of (a) gives sketch of sample structure and inset of (b) gives...
... mapping of E into E∗ This problem is connected with the fixed point problem for nonlinear mappings, the problem of finding a zero point ofan accretive operator and so on For the problem of finding ... convergence ofan iterative sequence monotone and F(T) = VI(C,A), where I is the identity mapping of H and F(T) is the set of fixed points of T; see [11] In the case of C = H = RN , for finding a zero point ... Approximating fixed points of nonexpansive mappings in Banach spaces, Mathematica Japonica 48 (1998), no 1, 1–9 [25] H K Xu, Inequalities in Banach spaces with applications, Nonlinear Analysis...
... autors thank H.J Van Praag and F Weissen for supplying beech seedlings, and F Toussaint and A.M Defrenne for the maintenance of plant culture They thank also M Burlett and F Willm for help in gas ... accumulation of K + , and may be of organic osmoticum, in the guard cell vacuole It is likely that such effect is the result of Al-induced deficiency in Ca The major finding of this study is an Al × ... reduction in Ca, Mg and P concentrations was reported in roots and shoots of European beech [5, 6, 39] In contrast, K amounts in leaf tissues were found to increase with increasing Al concentration in...
... princes of the fast declining kingdom to air their desires and grievances According to Andaya, a number of articles in Al-Imam clearly reflected the resentment felt in Riau towards changes in ... some distinctions being slight variations of another Orientalism can mean an academic tradition of study, teaching and writing about the Orient” as well as “a corporate institution for dealing with ... example pointed out by Kikuchi however is an instance of Orientalism in reverse In this case, Soetsu has discovered an element in Japanese art that is deemed ‘authentic’ and ‘purely Japanese’ and hence...
... and off in the following manner to generate the PWh4 waveforms of the rectifier AC-side phase , voltages vjl, vi,, and vi, , d3vl: I v d and s, s, is ON when is ON and S, is OFF when is OFF and ... term of the n -th harmonic component of i,, Though the AC components are also contained in the output signal of the integrator, they can be made small by the integral action of the integrator and ... waveforms of u-phase input rectifier and currents i, and il, to the P W M nonlinearload, respectively It can be seen that the current i, has a nearly sinusoidal waveform in compliance with the sinusoidal...
... biomechanical characteristics of intact and two Association for the Study of Internal Fixation (ASIF) techniques for repair ofan oblique fracture involving the distal (inferior) diaphysis ofan ... Another advantage of this loading fixture design was that the same potting of the ends could be used to test a specimen in all three modes of loading: axial compression, torsion and bending In ... addition the bending fixtures were capable of applying uniform 4-point bending moment in any transverse plane over the entire length of the instrumented specimen with no point of load application...
... 47(4):392-396 Babincova M, Altanerova V, Altaner C, Cicmanec P, Babinec P: In vivo heating of magnetic nanoparticles in alternating magnetic field Med Phys 2004, 31(8):2219-2221 Wang J, Zhang K, Zhu ... Nili Jin and Dr Lin Liu (Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University) for help in measuring the transepithelial electrical resistance and Allison ... migration of the SWISS 3T3 fibroblasts into the SIS membrane somehow changed the localization of the pores in the SIS, possibly plugging some of the pores, resulting in the steep drop in permeability...
... audience The findings of this study complement the original findings of Benoit and Drew’s quantitative study assessing the appropriateness and effectiveness of image repair strategies inan interpersonal ... in terms of its financial problems The company reacted proactively when Alan Mulally, Ford’s CEO and Bill Ford, Ford’s Chairman “quickly refinanced the 37 company and created a line of credit ... level of confidentiality in the final reporting of the study results Procedures In order to better understand the importance of the audience in determining the appropriateness and effectiveness of...
... a number of safety-related conditions including hospitalized infections, myocardial infarction, stroke, gastrointestinal perforation, gastrointestinal bleeding, and fractures [5-14] In validation ... written informed consent VARA contains demographic, clinical and RA-specific information including disease activity scores (DAS), as assessed by physicians using the DAS28 [23] and the Clinical ... Ethnicity Caucasian, not Hispanic Non-Caucasian Hispanic Black, not Hispanic American Indian or Pacific Islander RA Drug Initiated Abatacept (5%) (3%) Adalimumab 74 (38%) 74 (24%) Etanercept 60 (31%)...
... or caffeine usage Subjects in the present study ingested 39 mg of p-synephrine and 528 mg of caffeine the day before testing followed by ingestion ofan additional 13 mg p-synephrine and 176 ... after capsule ingestion Three analyses of the data were performed using x analysis of variance (ANOVA) For the first data analysis, treatment and time were the independent factors using all 23 subjects ... contained C 193 aurantium extract (AdvantraZ®, 6% p-synephrine yielding 13 mg p-synephrine), 176 mg caffeine in the form of guarana extract, and 55.5 mg of green tea extract with small amounts of...
... Vietnam national University, Hanoi College of Foreign Languages Department of Postgraduate Studies A study oFAn alternative approach to teaching essay writing to TOEFL learners (Nghiên cứu ... pháp dạy viết Luận cho học viên chứng ToefL) By: Nguyen Thi Chung Mien Supervisor: Do Ba Quy, MA Hanoi, 2005 ...
... organizations of cause and effect essay: block and chain In block organization, all the causes are discussed as in a block and the all the results are mentioned in another block In chain organization, ... (Lin 2004), Lin proposed four major types of essay such as: Making an argument (MA); Agreeing and disagreeing (AD); Stating a preference (PR); and Giving an explanation (EX) that learners can ... ease in arranging and controlling main and supporting ideas This means one paragraph for the Introduction, three for the Body and one for the Conclusion In summary, logical division, cause and...
... (Kuhn, 1970) point of view In view of the above investigation, integration is tentatively interpreted as an act or a process of joining or combining something with something else The integrated approach ... different types of integration within the framework of Integrated Assessment Modelling (IAM) These are integrations of disciplines, of models, of scales, of issues, and of stakeholders Scrase and Sheate ... assistance cannot be appreciated in words and from those who, by any chance, I forgot to mention First of all I would like to thank prof dr.ir Herman Wind and his wife - Joke The interviews prof Wind...
... mother of success”, therefore, they will be never successful if they never taste the feeling of losing In summary, parents are the very important and necessary teachers at the beginning of life ... learn many things from books They learn many subjects so with each subjects they can learn the good things Moreover, through books they can learn from their teachers Many learners are directly influenced ... parents are old and experienced people They know many things in life and what they know they want their kids can know Moreover, they work, travel a lot so they meet the difficulty time in their life,...
... everything from making sure she wore gloves when handling any of the papers, to using copiers that were in public places (which did not contain any cameras), rather than in private In anticipation ... or extortion of city officials They originally started in Queens and, over a short period, expanded into Brooklyn, Staten Island, and Long Island Though much smaller than the Costellino family, ... dungarees, and sneakers Before dropping the car off, he phoned ahead to an old military acquaintance about purchasing some merchandise for his business Parking the car out of sight of the store...
... groupwork in language teaching in general and in teaching writing in particular the definitions of groupwork, the uses of groupwork in language teaching and in teaching writing, its advantages and ... popularized and shared with anybody who is interested in CHAPTER 2: WRITING WHAT IS WRITING? In teaching a language, writing is considered one of the four language skills (speaking, listening, reading and ... procedure of my action research with the following main steps: defining the problem, observing class, conducting a survey using questionnaires, collecting data and analyzing data, and giving out...
... enhance class morale and aid learning 2.2 Language Testing Language testing is one of the forms of testing and it is also one form of measurements Its importance in English learning is reviewed as: ... materials and teaching/ learning conditions and suitability of set-up training objectives Testing and Teaching Testing and teaching are closely related because it is impossible to work in either field ... those of his students Testing and Learning Testing is a tool to “pinpoint strengths and weaknesses in the learned abilities of the student” (Henning, 1987: 1) That is, through testing, learners can...