... effect of depression on the mental aspect of QoL went through the mediator of pain, and over 72% of the effect was direct When depression was the mediator, depressive symptoms accentuated the negative ... zero The Sobel test [24] determined whether pain carried the influence of depression to QoL These criteria were also applied to test the mediating effect of depression A series of four regression ... > 0.05) The result of Sobel test offered further evidence for the partial mediating effect of depression to the pain-QoL association (z = -4.045, p < 0.001) (Figure 2) Chronic Pain Grade classificationb...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
... exposure to all types of students in other university, NEU students are the perfect entity to take the research The study illustrates the effects of music cover and NEU students’ behaviors towards the ... made the song newer, brings the song back to the listener with the whole new style and the performance is completely like remaining the life for the song The cover music in Vietnam is the kind of ... has Vietnamese lyric based on the melody of the song of other country Therefore, some people think the melody is stolen For that result, they don’t like this music There are some familiar faces,...
Ngày tải lên: 21/04/2013, 20:53
EFFECTS OF SPILLED AND STRANDED OILS ON SEAWATER INFILTRATION AND MACROBENTHIC COMMUNITY IN TIDAL FLATS
... 2004 Concentration of hopane, non-biodegradable constituents in the oil, in the sediment was determined to estimate washout and biodegradation of the spilled oil Total number of bacteria in sediment ... in the C simulator Fig shows population density of macrobenthos in the C simulator In the C simulator before day 0, total population density of macrobenthos ranged from 225 to 525 m-2, and the ... as a biomarker Fig.7 shows vertical profiles of the oil concentrations in the sediments in the O simulator The oil concentration in the surface sediments decreased from 0.9 in day down to 0.5...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40
A computational study to investigate the effects of insulation and EGR in a diesel engine
... is larger than the other cases thus, the amount of burnt fuel in this case is more than the others Because of shortage of oxygen in the charge of cylinder in the EGR case, amount of burnt fuel ... fuel consumption (BSFC) of the IDI engine to increase and the total engine efficiency to decrease compared to that of a DI diesel engine Because of these disadvantages of the IDI diesel engines, ... are two centers of soot production visible in the contour plots, one has attached itself to the glow plug channel opposing wall and the other spreads itself to the whole area of the glow plug channel...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11
An investigation into the effects of brainstorming and giving a text as model on phan dinh phung high school student's attitude and writing ability
... writing, they have the luxury of selecting and arranging only the most promising ideas The aims of this activity are to introduce and arouse the learners interest to the topic to help them want to ... points they would like to cross off and others they would like to expand on According to Walters (1983) ways of organizing brainstorming comprises pyramid brainstorming, from to individual to the ... Brainstorming Chart 3: The experimental groups opinion about the effects of brainstorming Chart 4: The experimental group view on the use of brainstorming Table 8: The reasons of approval of the...
Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:08
Tài liệu The Effects of Education and Health on Wages and Productivity ppt
... reduces the productivity of the rest of the team, so the lost productivity exceeds the wage of the absent individual Pauly et al observe that the costs of absenteeism due to illness are likely to ... requiring their remaining employees to pick up the slack This effectively passes the costs of the illness onto the other employees who are required to work harder or longer hours to meet the shortfall ... of human capital are likely to increase standards of living As part of its report on the potential benefits of the NRA, the Commission was asked to estimate the potential future benefits to the...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: A comparative analysis of the time-dependent antiproliferative effects of daunorubicin and WP631 pdf
... aimed to verify that the relatively low uptake of WP631 was at the origin of the low apoptosis, and whether longer periods of treatment could cause significant apoptosis in the presence of this ... and apoptosis, for example p53, not contribute to the sensitivity of solid tumors, which often are p53–/– [19], to antitumor drugs However, this does not appear to apply to cells of hematological ... whether the time-dependent survival curves in presence of the drugs (Fig 2) were merely due to a slower absorption of WP631 Two approaches were used, which take advantage of the fluorescence of...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 23:20
Memory performance in healthy elderly without Alzheimer’s disease: effects of time and apolipoprotein-E pptx
... factor, in which visuospatial and tests of reasoning were the main contributors These included the Rosen Drawing Test [45], matching and recognition components of the Benton Visual Retention Test ... Mayeux et al / Neurobiology of Aging 22 (2001) 683– 689 tors (Table 1): (1) A memory factor, where the seven subtests of the Selective Reminding Test [7] were the main contributors (2) A visuospatial/cognitive ... Test [4] and the Identities and Oddities of the Mattis Dementia Rating Scale [37] (3) A language factor, where language measures were the main contributors The Boston Naming Test [32], the Controlled...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Inter-flavin electron transfer in cytochrome P450 reductase – effects of solvent and pH identify hidden complexity in mechanism potx
... synopsis of the gathered results is used to support the hypothesis that the blue di-sq is kinetically less exposed at elevated pH The protonation state of the N5 in the avin sq may depend on the solution ... in the stopped-ow experiments cannot be assigned to the deprotonation of the blue sq species The crystal structure of CPR does not show any protonatable residues close enough to the avin-N5 to ... m the slope We chose to t this to a linear rather than to an exponential function, because the number of data points required for the resolution of the two fast phases excluded the use of the...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Dissociation/association properties of a dodecameric cyclomaltodextrinase Effects of pH and salt concentration on the oligomeric state pot
... the dimeric form On the other hand, if the pH of the enzyme solution was elevated to 7.0 after dissociation at pH 6.0, the reverse was observed The peak corresponding to the dimeric form of the ... within the range of 5.07.0; thus, modifying the structure of CDase I-5 by protonation and deprotonation might allow these residues to interact with the charged groups of other residues The isoelectric ... T540 to the adjacent monomer, of which G538 forms a hydrogen bond to the carbonyl oxygen of M51 Two residues at the N-terminus (H49 and H89) of a subunit were located close to the C-domain of the...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20
Aesthetic issues in spatial composition: effects of position and direction on framing single objects pot
... trials, we asked them to find the position that they found least aesthetically pleasing to provide data anchoring the other end of the aesthetic scale Method Participants All of the participants ... be a bias toward placing the object at or near the center of the frame and that, if it were off-center, there would be a bias for the object to face into the frame Because the rest of the conditions ... to produce the most pleasing aesthetic effect The other way of characterizing the facing bias is to say that the direction the object faces is opposite the direction from the frame’s center to...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20
EFFECTS OF TARIFFS AND SANITARY BARRIERS ON HIGH- AND LOW-VALUE POULTRY TRADE potx
... million tons in 2002 Thus, trade now accounts for about 10% of world consumption The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effects of sanitary barriers to poultry trade in the context of the ... compared to the previous scenario This helps the US and the EU increase their sales of low-value poultry to China, due to the substitution effect, and allows both countries to offset some of their ... the existing trade patterns In particular, we analyze the case where Brazil becomes an exporter of low-value poultry to Russia and the ROWM region Given the growth of the Brazilian sector into...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Epoxidation of benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-dihydrodiol by human CYP1A1 in reconstituted membranes Effects of charge and nonbilayer phase propensity of the membrane pot
... strongly affect the stereoselectivity of epoxidation The presence of the anionic lipid PtdSer increased the formation of DE2 twice as much as that of DE1 Even the relatively small portion of the negatively ... metabolism the stimulation by the incorporation of Ole2PtdEtn was less but also pronounced (fourfold to Fig Effect of phospholipids on the total epoxidation (A) and the ratio of diolepoxide-2 to diolepoxide-1 ... demonstrated by the ratio of the formation rates of the two diol-epoxides, DE2 and DE1 These differ only in the conformation of the 9,10-epoxy-group, anti in DE2 and syn in DE1 The respective...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: The oxidative effect of bacterial lipopolysaccharide on native and cross-linked human hemoglobin as a function of the structure of the lipopolysaccharide A comparison of the effects of smooth and rough lipopolysaccharide ppt
... dissociation of the Hb into dimers, then the observed rates of oxidation caused by each of the LPSs studied should be similar to each other, i.e simply that of the rate of oxidation of dimers The increase ... measure of the rate of oxidation of oxyHb RESULTS The effect of pH on the auto-oxidation of cross-linked Hb was studied The rate of decrease of the concentration of oxyHb increased as the pH was ... in the absence and presence of EDTA, on the oxidation of Hb A0 The mean ± SD of three independent experiments is shown Other conditions as in Fig Our studies of the effect of the structure of the...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20
Applied Physiology Including the Effects of Alcohol and Narcotics potx
... to the brain over the nerves The eye tells of sight, the ear of sounds, the nose of odors, the mouth of tastes, and the skin of feelings All these messages go to the back part of the brain They ... keep the nerves and blood tubes of the skin from being hurt =125 The nails.= The top scales of epithelium at the ends of the fingers become matted together to make the nails The nails keep the ... liver change the food to blood; the cells of the heart pump the blood to feed all the cells of the body; the red blood cells carry air for the cells to breathe; and the cells of the skin and...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20
Statute Prevents State Agencies From Considering Community Benefits When Granting Tax‑Exempt Status, While the Effects of Purchases and Consolidations on Prices of Care Are Uncertain ppt
... determine whether the changes in prices resulted from the acquisition of another facility or were due to other factors, such as increased cost to provide services Because the new owners applied their ... separate from the other facilities that are part of the same nonprofit organization The organizations indicated on Schedule H that they use the same charity care policy at all of the hospitals they own ... understand what they consider as costs of uncompensated care and how they calculate the costs To the extent possible, examine whether the purchases of nonprofit hospitals and the consolidations of community...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20
Effects of compost and phosphate amendments on arsenic mobility in soils and arsenic uptake by the hyper
... pH of the CCA soil was probably due to the similar pH of the soil and each of the amendments The application of the neutral pH amendments increased pH of the acidic ASC soil at first However, there ... fractions ($ 80% of total As) On the other hand, in the CCA, soil As was mainly present in the stable Fe–As and Ca– As fractions ($ 80% of the total As) (Fig 1) Phosphate rock and the two composts ... significantly increased the amount of As leached from the soil Nevertheless, in the presence of Chinese brake ferns, phosphate showed the biggest decrease in As leaching as compared to the other treatments...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:07
Báo cáo khoa học: Mutual effects of proton and sodium chloride on oxygenation of liganded human hemoglobin Oxygen affinities of the a and b subunits potx
... and the quantum yield of BR, c The latter value is defined as the ratio of the number of O2, which succeed in escaping into the surrounding medium after photodissociation, to the number of the ... The time course and the yield of the geminate phase are both sensitive to the immediate environment of the heme, and to the dynamics of structural changes in the protein Hence, the analysis of ... around the ligand-binding site of liganded hemoglobin The conformation of Val(E11) in the a and b subunits relative to the heme plane is quite dependent on the nature of the anions and the pD of the...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20
The Importance of Water and Water Quality in Brewing pptx
... sulphate, and those of Pilsen (the home of clear lagers – are soft waters Water and Taint Water is a common source of Taints in beer Typically, water is the source of the majority of taints associated ... brands • SAB Ltd is the South African operation of SABMiller plc and currently produces 25.9-million hectolitres of beer per annum and 14-million hl of other beverages through its soft drinks division, ... associated with sulfate ions In the presence of sulfate, sodium creates an unpleasant harshness, so the rule of thumb is that the more sulfate in the water, the less sodium there should be (and vice...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 00:20