aspects of structure and measurement techniques

... equivalence of the factor structure across race– ethnic and age groups in 20 cross-validation studies Assessment of equivalence, or measurement invariance, is important because if the measurement structure ... SRMR, and RMSEA, Hu and Bentler (1998, 1999) recommended using cutoff values “close to” 95, 08, and 06, respectively Results Factor Structure of the WHI Sleep Items Six different factor structures ... items), use of sleeping medications (1 item), and daytime dysfunction (2 items).10 Seven of these 18 items correspond to of the 10 WHI sleep items, and of the items correspond to of the WHIIRS...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... features of negation in both English and Vietnamese 12 - Studying negation in terms of its structures and semantics and finding out the similarities and differences between English and Vietnamese ... can operate at given places in structures System System operates over the domains of units: there are systems of sentences, of clauses, of groups, of words, and of morphemes Basing on the source ... examines an opinion of negative interface by giving the overview of negation in English and Vietnamese and the preview of syntax and semantics theory The overview of classification of negation mentioned...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:53

... interactions within the protein structure Functional selection of randomized libraries provides a general, sensitive and efficient probe of these interactions The use of selection techniques with CMs has ... complementation rate of library In this library, the sequences of helix (itself) and helices and (together) were each functional in a context where C- and N-terminal halves of the protein, respectively, ... randomized helices with the wild type template A sequential strategy of randomizing helix first and then randomizing helices and of an active variant from the first library (or vice versa), might...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20

... analysis of the DNA of different Conus species has already revealed a large number of a-conotoxin sequences [45] and the identification of further specific nAChR ligands is likely The advantage of a ... consisting of the extracellular ligand-binding domain of the a6 subunit and the transmembrane and intracellular domains of the a3 subunit was used in this study PIA selectively blocks rat and human ... determination of the subunit composition of the nAChRs involved has been hindered by the lack of selective ligands and imperfect correlations between the characteristics of native and heterologously...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20

... objects and maintain retroactive control of a process In this sense, Fundamentals of Instrumentation and Measurement instruments and systems of measurement constitute the “tools” of measurement and ... (conventional) true value of the measurand” A systematic error is “the component of the error of measurement which, in the course of a number of measurements of the same measurand, remains constant ... this the accuracy of measurement, or “the closeness of agreement between the result of a measurement and the (conventional) true value of the measurand” and the experimental standard deviation,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:10

... comprising Zea m and Cyn d 1, a second consisting of Lol p 3, Dag g 3, Lol p 1, Phl p 1, Ory s and Tri a and a third cluster including Lol p 2, Hol l 1, Phl p and Pha a Although Phl p and Phl p are ... reduced allergenic activity Disruption of the native structure of respiratory allergens allows for the maintenance of important T cell epitopes of a given allergen and simultaneously preserves sequences ... amounts of virus and by expression for various periods Aliquots of the culture supernatants and cell pellets were analyzed by SDS ⁄ PAGE and immunoblotting with a rabbit anti-Phl p antiserum and...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20

... contract First of all, like other types of contract, to be valid, an implied contract also includes offer and acceptance, consideration, capacity and intention Furthermore, Supply of Goods and Services ... is no contract and nothing signed Therefore, KCC restaurant can win and Albert has to pay for the cost of the food B The impact of different types of contract There are some types of contracts ... contract They are: offer and acceptance, consideration, capacity and intention Offer & Acceptance “An offer is a definite to be bound on specific terms” (BPP, p59, 2010) An offer can be brought...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 23:10

... Commanding General U.S Army Medical Research and Materiel Command Professor of Surgery F Edward Hébert School of Medicine Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, Maryland ... Medical Aspects of Chemical and Biological Warfare (1997) Military Medical Ethics Part II Principles of Medical Command and Support Military Medicine in Peace and War Part III Disease and the ... proposal and established the Subcommittee on Noxious Gases under the chairmanship of the director of the Bureau of Mines, and to include ordnance and medical officers from both the army and the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/04/2014, 09:50

... organized the continuation of the research unit after the DFG funding as well as Prof Kasper, Prof Kind, Prof Nirschl, and Prof Elsner Prof Nirschl, Prof Kind, Prof Wilhelm, and Prof Elsner contributed ... number of rows Noise Number of coil turns Number of discretization points in ˛ direction Number of averages Number of nuclear spins Set of indexes (first index) or number of slices Set of indexes ... implementation of new applications In the complex field of engineering, standard NMR methods and hardware are often not available and solid fundamentals are required to make best use of the technique...

Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2014, 18:32

... **Chi-square test; SD = standard deviation; DF = degrees of freedom Pinto et al Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011, 9:65 http://www.hqlo.com/content/9/1/65 Page of Table EQ-5D and modified Barthel ... similar rate of complaints in this domain This finding may be due to our caregiver population, composed of caregivers of stroke and CHF patients, who also suffer frequently of anxiety and depression ... drafting IM participated in the acquisition of data for EQ-5D and mBI, and database management JLBP participated in the acquisition of data for NIHSS and mBI, and database management TGF, JCS, DFM,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... Treatment and disposal of solid and liquid wastes; Ÿ Closure of the mining operation after exhaustion of the economic ore reserve and completion of rehabilitation; and Environmental Aspects of Phosphate ... conditions of the ore and surrounding rock, and the presence of overlying aquifers Methods in widespread use include variations of room and pillar, longwall, cut and fill, and open stope techniques ... to access and recover the resource; and Ÿ The development of more efficient mining and processing methods and techniques can extend current resource life, and help to recover, recycle and reuse...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20

... Treatment and disposal of solid and liquid wastes; Ÿ Closure of the mining operation after exhaustion of the economic ore reserve and completion of rehabilitation; and Environmental Aspects of Phosphate ... conditions of the ore and surrounding rock, and the presence of overlying aquifers Methods in widespread use include variations of room and pillar, longwall, cut and fill, and open stope techniques ... to access and recover the resource; and Ÿ The development of more efficient mining and processing methods and techniques can extend current resource life, and help to recover, recycle and reuse...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 02:20

... switch-off of the faulty charger and monitoring of the irregularity; and DC undervoltage is followed by switch-off of the faulty charger and monitoring of the irregularity 13.6.3 Surveillance of ... is followed by switch-off of the charging device and monitoring of the irregularity Mains overvoltage is also followed by switch-off of the charging device and monitoring of the irregularity If ... overvoltage is followed by switch-off of the charging device and monitoring of the irregularity, and DC undervoltage is followed by (in the case of low DC voltage) monitoring of the irregularity When...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 07:20

... coefficient of 0.88 beginning of the season, the predawn potential was about -0.5 MPa water for both sprouts and standards and it reached minimum values (-2.6, -2.8 MPa for sprouts and standards, ... consisted of measuring in the field the water uptake of sampled trees, which represented the averages of the size classes A plastic tank was attached around the stem and filled with water The bark and ... Marshall D.C (1958) Measurement of sap flow in conifers by heat transport Plant Physiol 33, 385-396 Miller R.D., Vavrina C.A & Christensen T.W (1980) Measurement of sap flow and transpiration in...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:21

... understand the role of TP in the development of pathology and in disease-specific populations including RA, cerebral palsy and TPTD Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Foot and ... be approxi- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 2009, 2:24 Figure Audit of placement of intramuscular electrode Audit of placement of intramuscular ... function of the muscles of the lower leg in relation to movements of the tarsus Acta Orthop Scand Suppl 1978, 172:1-196 Gray EG, Basmajian JV: Electromyography and cinematography of leg and foot...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... Oren Microbiological Aspects of Biofilms and Drinking Water Steven L Percival, James T Walker, and Paul R Hunter © 2000 by CRC Press LLC Microbiological Aspects of BIOFILMS and DRINKING WATER STEVEN ... presence of agrochemicals and faecal contamination Because of these various sources of pollution, the microbiological and chemical quality of lowland water is variable and can often be very poor Such ... that flocculation and sedimentation alone removed 99.9% of poliovirus and 99.7% of bacteriophage T4 Rao et al.9 also reported that 98% of poliovirus, 95% of rotavirus, and 97% of hepatitis A were...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:21

... Public Water Supplies in England and Wales 1911–1998, Number of Outbreaks in 10-Year Periods 10-Year Period 1911–1920 Number of Cases and Deaths Number of Outbreaks Site of Contamination Source Distribution ... Microbiological Aspects of Biofilms and Drinking Water TABLE 3.4 Waterborne Disease from Private Supplies in England and Wales from 1941–1998 and Various Communicable Disease Reports 10-Year Period Number of ... 30 Tuesday, April 11, 2000 12:02 PM 30 Microbiological Aspects of Biofilms and Drinking Water TABLE 3.1 Estimates of Morbidity and Mortality of Water-Related Diseases Disease Morbidity (Episodes/Year,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:21

... literature in terms of DLVO theory developed and named for Derjaguin and Landau53 and Verwey and Overbeek54 to explain the stability of lyophobic colloids, representative of bacterial cells, and the surface ... generally has a high content of EPS consisting of between 50 and 90% of the matrix.73 An understanding of the physical and chemical characteristics of the biofilm matrix and its relationship to the ... effect of shear stress on biofilm loss rate, Biotechnol Bioeng., 24, 501 53 Derjaguin, B V and Landau, L., 1941, Theory of the stability of strongly charged lyophobic sols and of adhesion of strongly...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:21

... Water • • • • Discolouration of water Taste and odour effects Growth of invertebrates Corrosion and pitting Control of the biofilm becomes one of the main objectives of good potable water distribution ... quality of the treatment plant effluent and in the structure and chemical composition of the pipe wall Within potable water biofilms a large diversity of microorganisms are generally found, most of ... Butterfield, P., and Abernathy, C., 1999, Development and structure of drinking water biofilms and techniques for their study, J Appl Microbiol Symp Suppl., 85, 1S 38 Costerton, J W., Lewandowski, Z.,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:21

... 10:43 AM 156 Microbiological Aspects of Biofilms and Drinking Water time across a range of samples and environments and are understood by microbiologists and a wide range of water treatment specialists ... related to the ATP extracted and, thus, the number of microbial cells present The measurement of ATP extracted from adhered cells18 offers the advantages of being both rapid and simple to perform Blackburn ... Methods of Sampling Biofilms in Potable Water 161 Hose Clip O-Ring Stud Polyethylen Pipe BIOFILM 10mm FIGURE 9.4 Cross section of the pipe of the NCIMB biofilm generator Courtesy of Hopton, J.W and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:21