and depth specificity of the vascular response

... CENTRIFUGE AND NUMERICAL MODELLING OF THE SEISMIC RESPONSE OF PILE GROUPS IN SOFT CLAYS ZHANG LEI (M Eng., SDU; B Eng., CQU) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ... (2013) and Others at the National University of Singapore Initial earthquake geotechnical research at the National University of Singapore (NUS) involves studying the seismic response of soft soil ... predictions for the maximum pile bending moments along the piles as well as the acceleration response at both the free-field ground surface and the raft top The numerical simulations were then extended...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:16

... understanding and will be the focus and repeating theme throughout the text A sound understanding of cardiac physiology begins with basic understanding of cardiac anatomy and of the physiology of ... contraction and instantaneous atrial volume) The pressure of the point at the bottom right corner of the loop is the pressure in the ventricle at the end of the cardiac cycle and is called the end-diastolic ... as the pressure of the left upper corner of the loop; the significance of this pressure will be discussed in detail below Moving to the bottom of the loop, we can reason that the pressure of the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20

... planting of spruce on the very boundaries of its ecovalence and the climate change (weather course) over the recent years The weather course affects the condition of forest stands in the individual ... causes of the decline of spruce stands in five selected regions of the Czech Republic – from FAVZ to FAVZ in nutrient-rich and acidic sites With respect to the size of the paper and to the fact ... stands 3–37 years, Norway spruce at the boundary of its ecovalence The decline has been recorded in the last years The visual symptom of the injury in all the analyzed stands is yellowing of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

... action of DTC is reflected in the accelerated process of thymus gland and spleen size reversion, restoration of the total number of cells of these two lymphatic organs, the percentage of CD4+ ... Results The effects of DTC with zinc ions interaction on the total number of thymocytes and splenocytes and weight of the thymus and spleen in restrained mice As reported in Table 1, the total ... number of thymocytes and splenocytes and the weight ratio of thymus and spleen of restrained mice markedly decreased as early as 24 h following the exposure to stress The suppressive effect of acute...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21

... the room and to stand in front of the six plates covered by the red lids (the same used in the real food (RF) and photograph (PH) conditions) indicated by the yellow arrow on the right side of ... samples (AN and BN) into quartiles and selected the first (25% with the lowest scores on the ITC-SOPI) and the fourth (25% with the highest scores) A simple effect of the degree of presence on the STAI-S ... second hypothesis, we found an effect of subjects' degree of presence experienced in the VR condition on their level of perceived anxiety (STAI-S and VASA): the higher the sense of presence, the higher...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... beetle and its associated fungus However, the nature and the origin of the chemical elicitor responsible for the stimulation of the parenchyma cells is not clear In a previous paper, we reported the ... Raffa and Berryman (1982a), Schuck (1982) and Delorme and Lieutier (1990) noted an increase of the total monoterpene content of phloem and sapwood in the induced reactions of P contorta, Abies grandis ... not to define the qualitative re- sponse of these species but rather to compare the terpene composition of responding tissues with that of unwounded tissues of the same tree Although there is a...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:22

... high and constant level of c-Myc Also, the contribution of Ras/Raf/ERK prevented the rapid degradation of c-Myc by phosphorylation of the serine 62 residue in the N-terminal of cMyc [24] They ... represents the analysis of 10,000 events The histograms present typical results and the percentage of cells in G0/G1, S and G2/M phases are shown as the average of duplicated measurements Page of 12 ... protein itself and also downregulated the phosphorylation (activation) of ERK1/2 The results of these blot analyses reveal that the effect of the TGF1 signal can be mitogenic when c-Myc and phosphoERK1/2...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... an estimate of oxygen consumption from the speed and slope of the treadmill and the weight of the subject protocols and assumed a ventilatory equivalent of 27L of ventilation per L of VO2 using ... tests The reproducibility of the exercise response in relation to the different NAEPPII scores is given in Table There was no relationship between the NAEPII score and the severity of the response ... Scores There was no significant difference in the HR, % of predicted maximum at and minutes on the day of the highest percent fall in FEV of 82.0% ± 5.0 and 87.4% ± 5.0 in adults, and 82.4% ± 5.1 and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... projects to the lateral hypothalamus to mediate the activation of sympathetic component of the ANS [36]; projections to the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus are involved in the activation of the parasympathetic ... tubules of the kidneys Implications of the stress response on the body Everyday interactions with the environment inevitably expose the body to a wide range of stressful stimuli The stress response ... at the hypothalamus, pituitary gland or gonads There are close relations with the sustained activity of the end-product of the HPA axis and suppressed steroid sex and growth hormones [57] The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... one TSS and ending at the second TSS If the standard deviation of this new window was less than the cutoff of 10, we kept the site with the higher frequency of ESTs as the TSS and removed the second ... and broad initiation patterns directly correspond to the strength of location biases of the promoter elements that define them With the exception of the INR, there were fewer occurrences of the ... transcript isoforms for CycG are annotated for these genes Whereas some of the TSSs of CycG and quick-to-court are close to each other and combined in cluster groups, all of the TSSs of Rtnl1 are...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 21:20

... functioning of the field and is the condition of its and this amounts to the same thing the question of functioning, or, the field’s degree of autonomy (in relation, first, to the social demands of the ... institutions and dispositions, of the sum of the previous strategies of that agent and his competitors, strategies which themselves depend on the structure of the field through the intermediary of the ... terms of the time devoted to research) and in their nature (and especially in the degree of risk involved) on the amount of actual and potential recognition-capital which they possess, and on their...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2016, 09:34

... mentioned The men, especially the husband and the grandfather, sip alcohol and tell their family members what they see and hear or remind them of right or wrong things in life The others also ... denoting the objects covered by the scope of the notion expressed in the word, and the significative function is the function of expressing the content of the respective notion The function of rendering ... difficult The oldest or the husband of the family sits at the head of the table and others sit in descending order according to age or wherever they like The meal starts when everyone has their own...

Ngày tải lên: 15/04/2013, 15:11

... “Introduction” states the rationale of the study, Semantics can be simply defined as the study of meaning It defines the aims, objectives and the significance, presents the is central to the study of communication ... review of the research Chapter 3: “Methodology and Procedures” mentions the method and procedures of the research Chapter 4: “Findings and Discussions” is the main frame of need to understand semantics ... element of the meaning of a word; a description of the characteristic feature of what the word refers to E.g the sense of “grasshopper” is “an insect which can jump high the study, which describes and...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:21

... recognition of the field And the findings of semantic aspects often borrow the WDBs for not only conveying the denotative as well as analysis of pragmatic aspects of these kinds of words will ... understand their cases of Secondly, English considers the WDB “owl” as the symbol meaning, it is important to consider them in their collocations From of “wisdom” on the basis of their experience and ... pragmatic features of the WDBs The finding of the pragmatic features of the WDBs leads both teachers and learners of study may be in one way or another beneficial to the language English and Vietnamese...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:30

... II The hood domain is mainly built up by residues from the C-terminus and consists of a two-stranded anti-parallel b-sheet composed of b2 and b9 and an a-helix from the C-terminus (Fig 1A) The ... Lys173 interacts with both O6 and N7 (Fig 1C) The 2¢OH of the ribose is hydrogen bonded to the main chain and the side chain of Asp142 (Fig 1C) Both hydroxyl groups of the ribose are involved in ... Asp142, 2¢ and 3¢OH of the ribose and three water molecules with ˚ coordination distances of approximately 2.4 A The phosphate of the GMP is hydrogen bonded to main chain and side chain atoms of amino...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 01:20

... position at the present day The present theories of the transmission of light and sound; of the production of winds, and sun-spots, and of the method of development and dissemination of heat, are ... except in the direction of other spheres These theories throw new light upon the character and extent of the atmosphere of the moon and planets, and the consequent availability of those and other ... intimate and inherent nature of those forces? Do they, or either of them, belong to the domain of the supernatural? Are they the products of some supreme force, or forces, heretofore unappreciated? The...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 01:20

... regards as the equivalent of thc npper part of t h e Portland Beds of southern England If, with ARKELL (1946, pp 24-28), we place the Portland Beds in the upper part of the Lower Volgian, they, the ... whorls of Tollia pnyeri Bitween 360 and 370 m, on the same flank of the moontain, the writer found similar doggers and platy-weathering sandstones, which contained occasional exarnples of Surifes and ... but further than this I am not prepared to go The dip of the rocks exposed in the 17all~gsides is often vcry nearly 1v Stratigraphy and Anr~noniteFauna of East Greenland 13 the same as the gradient...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 20:20

... cause of offence In these habits we resemble the Aborigines of our country They load their huge pipes with the dried leaves of this plant, and when lighted, they breathe the dark cloud of smoke ... men void of understanding; capable of soothing the sorrows of the afflicted, of healing the wounds of the spirit, and assuaging the anguish of a broken heart But how it fulfils these desirable indications, ... form or other, either to ease the pains of dyspepsia, to allay the horrors of tedium vitæ, or to drown the anguish of a guilty conscience And may not many of these patients say to those of the Faculty,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... component to the model of the choice of the length of stay The decision depends on the value of the unobservable taste We can now construct the probability of observing a series of stay decisions ... using the maximum of the expected value of the two coin flips—$0.50— rather than the expected value of the maximum—$0.75.) This approximation resulted in a model that the computer hardware and software ... Comparing the Dynamic Retention Model and the Annualized Cost of Leaving Family of Models 15 The key difference from the DRM is that the ACOL is computing the maximum of the expected values rather...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 23:20