and can a robot be human

... Land and Conflict:, A Handbook for Humanitarians: September Draft 2009 Land and Conflict: A Handbook for Humanitarians Draft September 2009 2 Land and Conflict:, A Handbook for Humanitarians: ... humanitarian actors The Handbook may also be useful for Government, bilateral aid agency staff, national and international land professionals and civil society By involving humanitarians and land ... Jacobson, Dara 3 Land and Conflict:, A Handbook for Humanitarians: September Draft 2009 Katz, Sarah King, Antony Lamba, Patrick Mac Auslan, Reuben Mc Carthy, Syprose Ogola, Kate Norton, Sara...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... planar graph game on n vertices, Avoider can play at least 3n − 26 edges while keeping his graph planar Motivation and History Positional games consist of a board, which is a finite set X, and a ... that determine a non-planar graph Maker/Breaker and Avoider/Enforcer games are perfect information games without the possibility of a draw, i.e exactly one of the players has a winning strategy ... most one special edge leaving it Suppose that Enforcer chooses two edges, first uv and later uw, with u v and u w Then uv cannot be special because uw was available with w already active in ij...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 15:22

... optimal MET call behaviour amongst staff For example, the attitude of the MET call team on their arrival may have a substantial effect on the culture of the clinical area If the team is negative and ... Quality in qualitative research: Criteria for authors and assessors in the submission and assessment of qualitative research articles for the Medical Journal of Australia Medical Journal of Australia ... Canada 5Southern Health Quality Unit, Monash Medical Centre Clayton Clayton Road, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia 6Monash Medical Centre Intensive Care Unit, Clayton Road, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... take a lot of effort and time before these robots could be made to work safely (for both human and the robots) in an unstructured area The current research approach in humanoid could broadly be ... classified into three areas, (1) mechanical design and hardware, (2) walking control and (3) artificial intelligence CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Mechanical Design and Hardware In the area ... walk Bipedal walking control has been the focus for many researchers And many approaches to achieve stable walking had been considered, and they could generally be classified into five main categories...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 10:25

... tasks can be dated back to the era of ancient Greek and Egyptian with their automata More recently, Leonardo da Vinci, a talented and famous Italian artist and engineer in the Renaissance, has ... example, aluminum alloy[41], sheet metal [7] and magnesium alloy [4] Being light, strong and easy to fabricate are a few features that make aluminum alloy the favorite material in many humanoid robots ... commercial robots such as ASIMO, Qrio, HOAP, HRP, and H7 However, it is still far away from the final goal that aims at making humanoid robot a companion of human in factory, outdoor, at home...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 10:25

... (5¢-GAT AAAACCACACCTGTAGTAGCTG-3¢) and MCAD 116 5A G (5¢-CCTGTAGAAAGACTAATGAGGGATG CC-3¢) (mutagenic substitutions are shown in bold), and the antisense primer (5¢-GTAACGCCAGGGTTTTCCCA GTCAC-3¢) ... impact greatly on the catalytic activity, as the kcat and the ETF interaction are relatively unaffected This mutation seems to affect mainly the initial folding and stability of the tetramer, and ... disease-causing mutation and comparison with the normal enzyme Eur J Biochem 246, 548–556 15 Ikeda Y, Okamura-Ikeda K & Tanaka K (1985) Purification and characterization of short-chain, mediumchain,...

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Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20

... QuickChange method (Stratagene, La Jolla, CA, USA) The primer sequences were as follows: 5¢-GG GGT GTT ATG GTT TCC CAT CGA TCT GAA GAA ACT GAA GAC (G376E) and 5¢-CCA TTC TTG AAC GTT TTA AAC GGT GAT ... Functional Genomics) for running many of the analytical ultracentrifugation samples, A Padovani for making the W56F variant and J A Kornblatt for encouragement and advice Financial support was provided ... 157 and 376 are space-filled 98 Analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) was used to examine the quaternary structure of the variants Wild-type enolase and the G157D variant had the same sedimentation...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

... immunoprecipitated PCSK9 from cells and media, and analyzed samples by SDS ⁄ PAGE fractionation followed by phosphorimaging (Fig 5) Lanes and and and represent immunoprecipitated PCSK9 from media and total ... the prodomain, the common naturally occurring A5 3V variation that has no significant effect on plasma cholesterol levels and the R46L variation, a naturally occurring variant associated with hypocholesterolemia ... (Burlington, Canada) and the goat anti-(C-terminal PCSK9) IgG used for immunoblotting from Imgenex (San Diego, CA, USA) Secondary anti-mouse and anti- (rabbit HRP) IgG were from Amersham (Piscataway,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

... (5¢-GAC AAATACTCTGAAGTACTCAAAGATGCCCAG-3¢), SK TM-1R (5¢-CTGGGCATCTTTGAGTACTTCAGAGTA TTGTC-3¢), SKTM-K70T (5¢-AAAGATGCACAGGAG Muscular actin was purified from acetone powder of chicken pectoralis ... K70T; and lane 5, mutant Tm E180G migrated with an apparent molecular mass of 36 kDa and slightly slower migration was observed for the mutant K70T Mutations A6 3V and K70T are located at the ... preparations, and Dr R E Larson, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirao ˜ Preto, USP, for careful reading of the manuscript This work was ` supported by Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa Estado de Sao Paulo...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20

... Cloning and characterization of Na+ channel b1B (Eur J Biochem 270) 4763 reaction (RT-PCR) and RACE-PCR Marathon-ReadyTM human adrenal gland and fetal brain cDNA libraries were purchased from ... to 218 was used as a human b1 subunit specific probe The single stranded antisense b1 specific probe was labeled and purified as described above A kb human b-actin cDNA fragment was used as the control ... kit (Ambion, Austin, TX, USA), in the presence of antisense primer SB1-20 (5¢-TC AAACCACACCCCGAGAAA-3¢) and [32P]dATP[aP] (3000 CiÆmmol)1; Amersham Pharmacia Biotech.), following the manufacturer’s...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 23:20

... of human AChE, mouse AChE and Torpedo californica AChE 4sugO€17/455/481/486 BChED (Rec BChE), human BChE [18], human AChE [44], mouse AChE [38] and T californica AChE (Torca AChE) [45] were aligned ... kDa molecular mass range In contrast, the puri®ed plasma BChE showed a faint band at 170 kDa (nonreducible dimer) and a major broad band at 85 kDa (monomer) under reducing conditions (Fig 2A) ... Lazar, A. , Kronman, C., Barak, D., Ariel, N., Sha€erman, A. , Silman, I & Sussman, J.L (2000) Structures of recombinant native and E202Q mutant human acetylcholinesterase complexed with the snake-venom...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... whereas antiparallel G4 structures, such as basket and chair forms, show two positive bands at approximately 295 and 240 nm and a negative band at approximately 260 nm These spectral features are ... to three averaged scans taken at 20 °C and is baseline corrected for signal contribution due to the buffer give a positive band at approximately 263 nm and a negative band at approximately 240 ... was maintained at D220–330 in the range 0.2–0.8, and the CD data represent three averaged scans taken at an experimental temperature (25–90 °C) All CD spectra are baselinecorrected for signal...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... of haptoglobin receptors in human hepatoma cells Biochim Biophys Acta 1136, 143–149 20 Oshiro S, Yajima Y, Kawamura K, Kubota M, Yokofujita J, Nishibe Y, Takahama M & Nakajima H (1992) Catabolism ... and C1R (A) , and between HPT2 and C1R (B) Conserved residues are shaded in grey; Cys residues are highlighted in yellow Above the sequence alignment, red, green and magenta bars indicate a- and ... immediate clearance of free Hb, acts as an antioxidant agent [37] An additional activity of HPT is related to its ability to suppress heat-induced and oxidative stress-induced unfolding and precipitation...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... References Yasuoka S, Onishi T, Kawano S, Tsuchihashi S, Ogawara M, Masuda K, Yamaoka K, Takahashi M & Sano T (1997) Purification, characterization, and localization of a novel trypsin-like protease found ... found in the human airway Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 16, 300–308 Yamaoka K, Masuda K, Ogawa H, Takagi K, Umemoto N & Yasuoka S (1998) Cloning and characterization of the cDNA for human airway trypsin-like ... Graham PT, Fink J, Knight DA, Bakker AJ, McWilliam AS, Thompson PJ & Stewart GA (2002) Activation of protease-activated receptor (PAR) -1, PAR-2, and PAR-4 stimulates IL-6, IL-8, and prostaglandin...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 11:20

... vectors and Dual LuciferaseÒ Reporter Assay System were obtained from Promega Corporation, Madison, WI, USA Taq DNA polymerase, T4 DNA ligase and calf intestinal alkaline phosphatase were obtained from ... serving as a control Thereafter, firefly and renilla luciferase activity was assayed and results are expressed as mean relative luciferase activity, in arbritary units (RLU) ± SEM (n ¼ 6) (D) As a complementary ... prostaglandin and leukotriene synthesis in glomerular immune injury J Laboratory Clin Med 134, 478–482 Ushikubi, F., Aiba, Y., Nakamura, K., Namba, T., Hirata, M., Mazda, O., Katsura, Y & Narumiya,...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 09:20

... The mandibles of a mantis are strong and sharp enough to cut human flesh 2 Các bạn di chuột vào cụm từ để biết chức cụm câu: The mandibles of a mantis are strong and sharp enough to cut human ... *The mandibles of a mantis are strong and sharp enough to cut human flesh Hình thức ngữ pháp, cấu trúc : “adj/adv + enough + to V” – đủ …để làm Chúng ta quan sát câu sau Các bạn di chuột ... Ví dụ “If I have enough money I will buy a motorbike.” – Nếu có đủ tiền, mua xe máy - “The mandibles of a mantis are” – Hàm bọ ng a “mandibles”- hàm (sâu bọ), danh từ số nhiều từ “mandible” , động...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 21:21

... these animals arrive from almost every part of England, from the Lowlands and the HigWands of Scotland, from Wales and from Ireland, from Denmark and from Holland [There are also] bacon and salt ... Bangladesh (Lindenbaum), Amazonia (Johnson and Baksh, Good, Ross), Paraguay (Hawkes), Canadian sub-arctic (Winterhalder), Southeast Asia and Africa (Franke), Mexico (Pelto), Costa Rica (Edelman), ... peasantry was virtually prostrate, to intensify pre-famine trends in land clearance and cattle rearing The result was that bet'Neen 1851 and 1910, land in pasturage (including grass, meadow, and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 16:29

... ganglia right basal ganglia, corona radiata, external capsule frontal-parietal, thalamus A1 2 31 M 297 35 hemorrhagic right parietal lobe A1 3 55 M 480 14 hemorrhagic right basal ganglia A1 4 44 F 627 ... temporal, basal ganglia, corona radiata, thalamus A5 61 F 458 43 ischemic right frontaltemporal, insula A6 78 F 831 16 ischemic right temporal, basal ganglia A7 63 F 934 42 ischemic right basal ganglia ... initially presented with minimal pain Robotassisted training may have helped pass a threshold of spontaneous arm use where ADL tasks involving arm and hand are performed at home, thus leading to additional...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... colon, breast and lung cancer tissues detected using quantitative analysis Cancer Sci 2007, 98:315-320 Nagasaki K, Manabe T, Hanzawa H, Maass N, Tsukada T, Yamaguchi K: Identification of a novel ... separated by 12% SDS-PAGE, transferred to nitrocellulose membranes and reacted with a primary rabbit antibody against cleaved caspase-9 or with a primary mouse antibody against cleaved caspase-8, ... replicates were processed for analysis Total RNA (1.5 μg) was amplified with an Amino Allyl MessageAmp aRNA kit (Ambion); 54 to 88 μg of amplified RNA (aRNA) was obtained The mean RNA size was 1,500...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20