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... human condition and userfriendly to the experimentalist Animal models that may be of great benefit to the study of the mechanisms involved in the development of COPD were described The importance ... to be done in this field and that the importance of having robust animal models of the disease that are generally available is paramount In conclusion, the meeting was very successful and provided ... administration of the antioxidant N-acetylcysteine This clearly demonstrates that emphysema-induced changes in lung function can be demonstrated in the rat, and informal discussions at the meeting...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... acquisition of data, data analysis and interpretation, manuscript writing; ISTB: design of the study, acquisition of data, data analysis and interpretation; AJH: preparation of ASM cell lines and ... saline- and in ovalbumin-challenged animals (B) Treatment with YIGSR increased pulmonary expression of sm-MHC, both in saline- and in ovalbumin-challenged animals Representative blots of sm-MHC and ... Department of Molecular Pharmacology, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands 2Department of Physiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Authors’ contributions BGJD: design of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... performance strongly depends on the mixture type Selection of a type for surface layers has to consider a multitude of factors including traffic, climate, condition of existing surface, and economics ... Sekar and B Sundarakannan, “Utilization of Waste Polymers for Flexible Pavement and Easy Disposal of Waste Polymers”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Solid Waste Management, ... could withstand adverse soaking conditions under water for longer duration 7.2.1 Advantages of Wet Process: • This Process can be utilized for recycling of any type, size, shape of waste material...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2016, 21:17

... English and Vietnamese, there are a variety of equivalent question words or groups of words for forming and contrasting questions than just one possibility of one-to-one equivalent question words, ... questions require answers while exclamative sentences don’t  Questions in which there is no options in the predicative Questions of this type often contain question words or groups of question ... types of questions: Questions that function as a request for information and questions used for a variety of speaking purposes (Thiêm, 2004) This paper mainly focuses on the semantics of questions...

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2013, 09:28

... Methods in Education: An Introduction Boston: Allyn and Bacon 36 Williams, J.(2004) Tutoring and revision: Second language writers in the writing center Journal of Second Language Writing, 13, ... lot of grammatical errors The second most common errors (22.38%) are those of Mechanics, which require students’ only mechanic utilization of the language; thus, naturally errors of mechanics ... Table of Raw data Table of Descriptive Statistics Table of frequency Table of Final Scores of Two Groups Table of the Number of Errors of Two Groups Table of Scores of Fluency Table of Scores of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 18:19

... woman’s life or in cases of rape.38 Illegal abortions are punishable by one to four years imprisonment for the person who performs the abortion (with the consent of the pregnant woman)39, and one ... art 124 41 Consideration of reports submitted by States parties under article 18 of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, Combined initial, second, third, ... quality health care and treat conditions related to pregnancy and childbirth constitutes a violation of women’s rights to equality and nondiscrimination Further, where certain groups of women, in this...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... Journal compilation ª 2010 FEBS 1391 Animal models of Alzheimer’s disease O Philipson et al Transgenic animal models Models devoid of any disease-causing APP mutations Animal models expressing ... develop animal models of AD, and also contributed significantly to the understanding of molecular pathogenesis Today a wide range of animal models are available for mechanistic, therapeutic and functional ... promoter Thus none of the transgenic models fully mimic the genetics of familial AD By combining genetic lesions one can accelerate Ab aggregation and lower the cost of research One can also confer certain...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 09:20

... view of the G20 summit (Section 3) Section concludes on the role of the African Development Bank Update on the Outlook Economic Prospects 2.1 In light of this fast evolving context, all projections ... to allow them to meet increased demand from Regional Member Countries Financial Regulation, Supervision, and Surveillance 3.3 Since the beginning of 2009, the governance and regulation of financial ... the Impact of the Financial Crisis on African Economies Meeting of the Committee of Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Dar Es-Salaam, Tanzania March 11, 2009 1 Introduction 1.1 When...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20

... other herb Effects of Tobacco upon Animal Life To the organs of smell and taste in their natural condition, it is one of the most disgusting and loathsome of all the products of the vegetable kingdom.[1] ... remain uncleansed from its defilements? How long shall transgressors be called upon to listen, with a spirit of conviction and repentance, to sermons on the great duties of Christian self-denial_, ... weakness of the mental faculties; peevishness and irritability of temper; instability of purpose; seasons of great depression of the spirits; long fits of unbroken melancholy and despondency, and,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... the contributions of animal models to bridge this gap and add to our growing understanding of CCM pathophysiology Conservation of CCM genes The genes responsible for CCM are very well conserved ... generally not considered in the category of animal models of disease, one can view the field of human genetics as probing a vast natural mutagenesis screen involving billions of individual organisms ... CCM genes in animal models this gap is being CCM animal models bridged Animal models have demonstrated the central importance of endothelial cell–cell interactions in the pathogenesis of CCM vascular...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... to grant land concessions, but both national, provincial and district branches of the government can allocate land for plantations development without consolidating this information in any one ... from their lands because of land and forest concessions Economic concessions include industrial tree plantations of mainly rubber, pine, acacia, oil palm, teak, coconut and eucalyptus, and agroindustrial ... reports of manipulation, exaggeration of benefits, and forced coercion of villages to hand over land to plantation companies While theoretically the previous forestry law stipulated that only "degraded...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... Traditional conversion is the type of conversion commonly and traditionally used by the public E.g.: hand (v) Yellow (v) B Occasional conversion Occasional conversion is the individual use of conversion ... understanding about definitions of conversion, and phenomenon of conversion - Chapter II: The effectiveness of conversion in daily conversations helps readers understand clearer the effectiveness of ... a slight change of pronunciation or spelling The most important kinds of alteration are (1) voicing of final consonants, and (2) shift of stress 23 (1) Voicing of final consonants (noun-verb)...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 00:20

... SECTION IV Of Population and Wealth SECTION V Of National Defence and Conquest SECTION VI Of Civil Liberty SECTION VII Of the History of Arts SECTION VIII Of the History of Literature PART IV OF ... OF CONSEQUENCES THAT RESULT FROM THE ADVANCEMENT OF CIVIL AND COMMERCIAL ARTS SECTION I Of the Separation of Arts and Professions SECTION II Of the Subordination consequent to the Separation of ... Arts and Professions SECTION III Of the Manners of Polished and Commercial Nations SECTION IV The same subject continued ***** PART V OF THE DECLINE OF NATIONS SECTION I Of supposed National...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20

... superabundant effects are repressed afterwards by want of room and nourishment, which is common to animals and plants, and among animals by becoming the prey of others The effects of this check on man ... criterion of a permanent increase of population—Great frugality of living one of the causes of the famines of China and Indostan—Evil tendency of one of the clauses in Mr Pitt's Poor Bill—Only one ... assistance will purchase a smaller quantity of provisions than before and consequently more of them must be driven to ask for support Secondly, the quantity of provisions consumed in workhouses upon...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 12:20

... with 13 communes and town: Nam Phong, Tan Phong, Dong Phong, Xuan Phong, Thu Phong, Bac Phong, Binh Thanh, Thung Nai, and the town of Cao Phong 2.3.1.3 Economic development of Cao Phong district ... communes: Dung Phong, Nam Phong, Dong Phong, Tay Phong, Tan Phong, Bac Phong, Thu Phong, and the town of Cao Phong) and the Da river area (Binh Thanh and Thung Nai communes) Cao Phong climate is ... resources and environment Concurrently, regional community benefit 10 materially and spiritually from tourism and conservation achievements that” 1.2 Conditions and principles of community tourism...

Ngày tải lên: 20/04/2014, 17:13

... mutation, Oligodendrocyte mutation Germline mutation, Oligodendrocyte mutation Germline mutation or Conditional KO Germline mutations RCAS GFAP-conditional KO Nestin-conditional KO Nestin-conditional ... Germline mutations Conditional KO Conditional KO Conditional KO Germline mutation, RCAS Germline mutation, RCAS Germline mutation, RCAS RCAS RCAS, Conditional KO Astrocyte targeted mutation, Adenovirus ... corresponding cell cultures have revealed widespread changes gene expression once a tumor is subjected to in vitro growth conditions [9] As well, while many of these models involve implantation of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... can be conducted to reconstruct the AC coefficients and get a semantically good reconstruction [11] Two conclusions can be made First, energy concentration is not systematically a good criterion ... equivocation function This can be demonstrated using a proof by contradiction If the statement above was false, then an extra prediction block would yield additional compression of P2 based on P1 ... give an overview of stateof-the-art selective encryption algorithms We introduce selective encryption in a close link to Shannon’s work on information theory in Section 1.2 Evaluation criteria of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... an acceptable reconstruction can be achieved from any of the descriptions, and such that reconstruction quality is enhanced with every description received An issue of concern is the amount of ... vector space of dimension N, N coefficients suffice to reconstruct the original signal The redundancy permits, on the one hand, reduction of quantization noise [188], and, on the other hand, recovery ... decomposition procedure can be repeated recursively on one or more of the subbands to yield multiple levels of decomposition of lower and lower resolution The most commonly used multidimensional DWT...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... flight conditions, in the case of motor vehicles they cannot actually be separated To consider them one by one is important only insofar it allows one to understand how the various components of the ... sum of the drag of all its parts, and any change to one of them causes a change in the drag of all others However, it is a common practice to obtain the drag of a body as the sum of the drag of ... generation of lift, and a reduction of lift always causes a reduction of the overall aerodynamic drag 21.3.3 Shape drag Shape drag is what remains of the drag if the contributions due to friction and...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 19:20