... studies In this case, the methods are used in delineating hinterlands (in uential areas) for major cities in northeast China Delineation of hinterlands is an important task for regional planning ... same nearest store constitute the proximal area for that store In ArcGIS, it is implemented by utilizing the near tool in ArcToolbox The tool is available by invoking Analysis Tools > Proximity ... 4.1 Constructing Thiessen polygons for five points Breaking point d1x d2x Store (S2) Store (S1) X d12 FIGURE 4.2 Breaking point by Reilly’s law between two stores Consider two stores, stores and...
... resolution of the paresthesia Intraoperative lipoma showing the median nerve within the Figure intermuscular photo Intraoperative photo showing the median nerve within the intermuscular lipoma Page ... corresponding to compression in the region of the pronator teres (pronator syndrome) Conservative treatment (anti-inflammatory medication and a diurnal long-arm splint) for one month did not result in ... tumours originating from adipose cells occurring in subcutaneous tissues, intermuscular, intramuscular or paraosteal localizations [9] Lipomas of more than cm diameter (Giant lipoma) are infrequent...
... Vang Danh coal mining sub-area The vast mining sites of Vang Danh, Vietmindo and Nam Mau coal companies to the NE of Uong Bi Town The extent and output of coal mining are increasing for both open ... of low mountain topography, composed of volcanosedimentary rocks of Binh Lieu formation This is where originate most of streams flowing into the Sinh River and Vang Danh stream in Thuong Yen ... priority area, priority is given to rice cultivation to ensure food supply to the population, fruit trees and vegetable growing to serve tourists in Yen Tu during the spring festivals and the population...
... that rainfall in dry season can decrease whereas rainfall in rainy season can increase and annual rainfall can increase in all research areas under the emission scenarios from highest (A1FI), to ... Can Tho relative to the baseline period (1980 - 1999) under the emission scenarios from medium to high Annual rainfall and rainfall in rainy season can increase whereas rainfall in dry season can ... value in increasing level, followed by Quy Nhon and Can Tho This is quite compatible with the temperature happening in the past (increasing level declined southwards) In addition, temperatures in...
... His107 imidazole ring and the planes of the two ring systems intersect at an angle of $ 30, Tyr190 and His107 interact by a common aromatic stacking interaction To gain insight into the role of ... kinetic studies on a series of mutants at this position to delineate the contribution of the hydroxyl moiety (Tyr190 to Phe), aromatic stacking (Tyr190 to Ile), and interior side chain packing ... aromaticHis interaction in barnase stabilizes the protonated His, increasing its pKa value and, therefore, increasing the nucleophilicity of active site Cys A similar interaction was found between the indole...
... factors attributable to the overall financial services industry and to specific sectors within the financial services industry, such as the banking, securities, and insurance sectors Within each ... market prices for use in testing certain fair value measurements.10/ Fair Value Measurements for Financial Instruments Certain financial instruments, including certain investments in debt and equity ... factors, in turn, might have resulted in excess or obsolete inventory or inventory with carrying amounts in excess of market values To audit estimates used by issuers in assessing or measuring...
... (1995) TNF-induced intracellular signaling leading to gene induction or to cytotoxicity by necrosis or by apoptosis J In amm 47, 67–75 Fausto N (2000) Liver regeneration J Hepatol 32, 19–31 Link CD, ... regions containing Sp1 or AP-2a binding elements in the KCTD10 promoter, and representative ChIP-PCR results were shown in Fig The chromatin fragment containing Sp1- or AP-2a-binding sites in the KCTD10 ... 5¢-flanking region contained the functional promoter; within it, the region from )108 to +30 is essential for the promoter activity Using tfsearch and matinspector programs, multiple potential binding...
... (1998) Binding of urokinase-type plasminogen activator-plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 complex to the endocytosis receptors alpha2-macroglobulin receptor low-density lipoprotein receptor-related ... 2-macroglobulinproteinase complexes, plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1-plasminogen activator complexes, and receptorassociated protein bind to a region of the alpha 2macroglobulin receptor containing ... A-chain, it seems likely that both the growth factor domain and the kringle contribute to the binding, but putative endocytosis receptor-binding residues in the kringle remain unknown The involvement...
... temperature ranging from 20°C to 55°C Confined areas on the Si wafer were defined by photolithography using the AZ5214 photoresist This photoresist was used as the masking material for SiNW formation ... Square-shaped windows in the photoresist having a surface area ranging from × μm to 400 × 400 μm were used in our experiments SiNWs were characterized by FE-SEM using a JSM7401F microscope (JEOL, Tokyo, ... the confined areas to etch by MACE (b) The patterned wafer is then immersed into the MACE solution, and SiNWs are selectively formed in the resist windows, as illustrated in (c) In (d), a top-view...
... very interesting and quite reasonable In this paper, we consider the problem of finding zeros of maximal monotone operators by hybrid proximal point method To be more precise, we introduce two kinds ... references therein In this paper, motivated by the research work going on in this direction, we continue to consider the problem of finding a zero of the maximal monotone operator T The iterative ... mapping T is said to be monotone if x − y, u − v ≥ 0, ∀ x, u , y, v ∈ G T 2.4 T is said to be maximal monotone if its graph is not properly contained in the one of any other monotone operator...
... responsible in building areas The system has been designed and created with current CAD tools (widespread used in this area) in mind, in order to minimize the learning curve for the final users and to ... used the system to verify the setting out of pillars in the building This process has to be completed in order to guarantee that the pillars belonging to the building are constructed in the right ... development incorporating not only AR features, but also configurable graphic windows oriented to AR content This interface allows users to show, to hide and to modify layers included in the original...
... matchings in Γ correspond to (max) matchings in the the electronic journal of combinatorics DS8 double covering graph of −Γ [Question Does this lead to a definition of maximum matchings in signed ... hull in RE of incidence vectors of negation sets (or “balancing [edge] sets”) in Σ Finding a minimum-weight negation set in Σ corresponds to a maximum cut problem, whence PBS (Σ) is a linear ... frustration index l(Σ) and the generating function of switchings Σµ by |E− (Σµ )| The technique is to the electronic journal of combinatorics DS8 11 solve a Chinese postman (T -join) problem in the toroidal...
... cm away from the ligament of Treitz was led from a small abdominal incision to outside the abdominal cavity and also cut off with an automated stapler An automated stapler was inserted from the ... able to maintain blood flow, we were unable to resolve the weak point But we sought to improve this technique, we identified double stapling method for esophagojejunostomy with no overlapping ... easy way of conducting anastomosis between the esophagus and digestive tract following total or proximal gastrectomy by the hemi-double stapling technique using EEA™ OrVilTM1 [1] In this technique...
... trend toward correlation with joint stiffness is a new and most interesting finding, as there is, to date, very little information of this kind originating from longitudinal studies However, from ... severity of symptoms, including worsening of pain at 24 months Competing interests JFB, GAC, and JMM declare that they have financial competing interests as employees of and/or holders of stocks and/or ... bad) and to rate the pain they were experiencing that day (patient pain score: = no pain; 100 = most severe pain) Finally, the SF-36, a generic quality-of-life instrument, was administered to the...
... subclavian artery in order to minimize potential postoperative neurological symptoms related to myelum ischemia The postoperative period was uneventful except for fever up to 38°C for days; no ... Associates, Flagstaff, AZ, USA) starting at the origin of the brachiocephalic trunk and ending in the descending thoracic aorta, was inserted and resulting in a complete Figure Angiography after ... 4F sheath was introduced Through a 4F Cobra-catheter (Cook Medical, Bloomington IN, USA) a microcatheter (Miraflex, Cook Medical, Bloomington IN, USA) was navigated with the tip in the proximal...
... COPD history, n (%) Inhaled short-acting b agonists Inhaled corticosteroids Inhaled short-acting anticholinergics 549 (41) 570 (42) 189 (33) 192 (32) 360 (47) 378 (50) Inhaled long-acting b2-agonists ... model) This model is able to Page of 10 handle missing data points by taking into account all available data from scheduled visits of the treatment period and the correlation in repeated measurements ... and during the course of the studies, about 60% of the patients continued to receive ICS, while 60% continued to receive short-acting anticholinergics (Table 1) no or little difference in the...
... digital search index) collecting all suffixes of a string For a compact representation, all chains of unary nodes are collapsed into a single arc, so that the resulting structure is linear in the length ... length of the string Whereas a string of L characters may contain Θ(L2) distinct substrings, the O(L) substrings terminating at branching nodes of the suffix tree are enough to represent the ... aw will be injected into the trie to mark that locus, and a suffix link will be issued from ν to μ With dummy nodes in place, the restriction in the above construction is levied, in the sense...
... latrine coverage was increased from 78% in 2007 to 82% in 2009 in urban areas and from 67% to 71% in rural areas (see Table 4), however, coverage declined to 62% in urban areas and to 48% in rural ... HMIS indicator for health services utilization, The data from EWAR, which includes statistics from international NGOs, indicated that there were a total of 754,852 consultations in 15 townships in ... general clinic attendance fell from 3.17% in 2007 to 1.63% in 2009 In contrast, the mortality percentage among malaria inpatients (case fatality rate among malaria inpatients) increased, rising from...
... important tool for defining the buffering of excess H+ among the various proton acceptor sites in solution As shown in Table 2, by defining the partitioning of H+ buffering among the different proton ... the partitioning of H+ buffering among the different proton acceptor sites of a triprotic acid-containing solution As shown in Table 2, by defining the partitioning of H+ buffering among the ... were to have a mechanistic role in determining the equilibrium pH, it must so by imparting a fixed macroscopic charge to the solution which will in turn cause the [H+] to attain a given value in...