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... visual objects” (Bar & Neta, 2006) by confronting the participants with the images of car exteriors spanning a long period of time The specific usage of historic views of design-oriented objects ... class represented first by the VW Beetle and then the subsequent VW Golf (Rabbit) generations, or the standard limousine class of Mercedes-Benz (represented inter alia by the ‘‘stroke-8”, ‘‘W123”, ... University of Vienna, Austria, we recruited a variety of persons for Study 4, all from the Bamberg area, Germany, and many of them were not students The high correlation of curvature ratings between both...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... multidisciplinary long- term lifestyle therapy Variable Obese Girls Obese Boys Baseline Age (y) Height (m) Body Mass (kg) BMI (kg/m2) FFM (kg) Fat mass (kg) Short -term Long- term Baseline Short -term Long- term ... followed by Tukey post-hoc test, p £0.05 a vs baseline; b vs short- term; c vs girls BMI- Body Mass Index; FFM: Free Fat Mass Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of ... measurements followed by Tukey post-hoc test, p £0.05 a vs baseline; b vs short -term; c vs girls Legend: BDI = Beck Depression Inventory; STAI (Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory); BSQ = Body Shape...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... groups of living organisms (e.g meso- and microfauna, soil fungi and bacteria), for different kinds of soil analyses, essays relating to carbon cycle, migration of labeled com- • • degradations; ... and between the trophic levels of element cycles under different abiotic effects; the input-output element balance of ecosystems; • the efficiency of organic matter binding, and energy flow ... 9/1976 of the National Environmental Protection Office The 65 hectares of protected forest are today part of the National Park of B kk Mountain region The ’Síkfõkút Project’ lies along a latitude of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:22

... This study, based on the comparison of HRQoL data obtained from a sizeable, multicentre, long- term follow up of ICU survivors and a large cohort of inhabitants living in the uptake areas of the hospitals, ... for Public Health, County Council of Östergötland, Sweden (In Swedish) 2000 Brooks R: EuroQol: the current state of play Health Policy 1996, 37:53-72 10 van Agt HM, Essink-Bot ML, Krabbe PF, Bonsel ... relatively long follow-up time (36 months) In these three aspects it is probably the most sizeable study for this group of general ICU patients seen yet, which supports the value of the findings...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... Number of clients (scaled by the annual number of ® rm clients) lost during the previous year (loss ­ ; gain + ) B6 NB6i Company i has a Big Six auditor or a Non-Big Six auditor Binary variable B6 NB6i ... cannot be ensured by means of private contracts (Acemoglu, 1994) Impact of renewable long- term audit mandates 439 The following description is based on: Flower and Lefebvre (1994); Block and Jorissen ... auditor Binary variable B6 NB6i in case of a Big Six auditor, else B6 NB6i TENUREij Length of the auditor client relationship The number of years that audit irm j has been engaged by client i MANDATEi...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:44

... year before the end of combination therapy and three times at the end of the combination therapy His HBV DNA was below the detection limit after the withdrawal of prednisolone therapy (a total of ... renal disease Chronic HBV and HCV infection had been diagnosed at the beginning of hemodialysis on the basis of serological tests His HBV surface antigen (HBsAg) test had been positive since his ... interference of viral replication between HBV and HCV has been described in several reports [5,6] In our patient, HBV DNA was initially detectable (5.9 × 105 copies/mL to 4.1 × 10 copies/mL), but became...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:21

... introduce bias The hypothesized mechanisms by which cutting might affect long- term reproductive morbidity are shown in Figure The higher levels of BV in cut women might be 650 because of the removal of ... also been associated with low birthweight and pre -term deliveries (Kurki et al 1992), although treatment of BV has not been shown to reduce the rate of pre -term babies in low- risk or asymptomatic ... no pp 643±653 august 2001 L Morison et al Long- term consequences of FGC in The Gambia Table (a) Odds ratio (OR) for comparison of morbidity variables between cut and uncut women (excluding endogenous...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 16:20

... negative business-cycle shocks, being unemployed or earning a lower wage should be less of a negative signal Thus theory is ambiguous about how long- lasting the e¤ects of graduating in a bad economy ... if more jobs had been available but instead went back to school for a graduate degree The degree may help mitigate earnings losses but the worker would probably not be brought back to the same ... in that for both national and state the probability of a library card increases slightly (by 1.4 to percentage points, compared to a base probability of 0.75) In addition AFQT score is 0.02 points...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 03:20

... the frame-byframe quantization provides 2.02 dB of ASD at 700 bits/s For the unvoiced sections, the best results are obtained with r = 20 bits/vector: we obtain 1.82 dB of ASD at 620.7 bits/s (the ... the dB transparency bound for bit rates above kbits/s, which is consistent with the results of [18] With the considered configuration, the LT coding technique is limited to about 1.1 dB of ASD, ... each of them, the following conditions were verified for both voiced and unvoiced sections: (i) the bit rate was lower than 600 bits/s; (ii) the ASD was between 1.8 dB and 2.2 dB; (iii) the ASD absolute...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 16:20

... probably as follows: the membrane of pits, allowing inter-vessel connections, may release slight air bubbles as soon as the tension of the liquid column overcomes the threshold allowed by membrane ... yellowing and probably no nutrient remobilization occurred before shedding: petioles were probably embolized, but only a very small loss of conductivity was detected on current year twigs (Barigah, ... Ectomycorrhizal symbioses may improve water status of saplings [49] and probably also trees under drought, by means of increased absorbing surface, of ecient conduction through mycelial strands, of enhanced...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... are not affected by rituximab (Table 2) Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Long- term effects of rituximab treatment To evaluate long- term effects of rituximab, we divided the ... memory B cells were probably caused by a reduction of postgerminal center Bm5 (CD38+IgD-) in PB One of the explanations for this may be a normal development of immature B cells in BM and an inability ... Figure Long- term changes in the immunoglobulin expression of B cells following rituximab treatment Isolated bone marrow mononuclear cells were stained immunoglobulin expression of B cells following...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... with alemtuzumab was considered, but preference was given to rituximab because of the less severe compromise of the cellular immune system by rituximab, and because of the possibility that autoimmune ... leucocyte Course of Course of hemoglobin, leucocyte and thrombocyte numbers under therapy with chlorambucil, fludarabine, cyclophosphamide and rituximab 375 and 600 mg/m2 Page of (page number not for ... Rituximab therapy of patients with B- cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia Blood 2001, 98(5):1326-1331 Srock S, Schriever F, Neubauer A, Herold M, Huhn D: Long- term treatment with rituximab is feasible...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... entry of ALV subgroups B, D and ALVE, while TVB*S3 permits viral entry of subgroup B and D but not E The TVB*R allele produces truncated receptors that not allow entry of any ALV [31,32] Resistance ... have lower body weights (Fig 5B) but this does not exclude the possibility that the presence of some specific integrations has a direct effect on body weight Next we plotted the body weight of ... Correlation between number -of- integrations, ALVE mRNA expression levels and body weight in F9 birds from the advanced Correlation between number -of- integrations, ALVE mRNA expression levels and body...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Ethics Committee of Basle (EKBB) Written informed consent was obtained from every patient Biochemical measurements Blood samples were obtained ... (eGFR) by the Cockcroft-Gault formula [29], NYHA functional class, and serial measurements of BNP and NT-proBNP as continuous variables Comparison of time course of BNP and NT-proBNP levels between ... decline of NT-proBNP levels was observed at 48 hours, followed by stable NT-proBNP levels during the remaining hospitalization Di Somma and colleagues [34] found a decrease of NT-proBNP of 18.8%...

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Ngày tải lên: 13/11/2014, 10:16

... notions of dry combustion and wet combustion in the context of spontaneous combustion of solids Dry combustion is related to fires originating from stacking of hot, dry sheets of fiber insulation boards ... vapour and moisture flow into a total flow; a combined flow has been adopted by Zhang and Datta (2004) for both low and high temperature drying The combined approach has also been shown to produce ... investigation of spontaneous combustion of wood (Bowes 1984, Blomqvist and Persson 2003, Wang et al 2006) This is because an investigation on chemisorption may be plausible from a chemical viewpoint, but...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:14

... considering dry wood because the strong attraction of water to the solid matrix (Janssens, 1993) may cause it to take a longer time before the balance can be established It probably will be faster for ... limited, the flow of volatiles and vapour strictly in the longitudinal direction, since wood has a large permeability along grain, of which the ratio of axial to transverse permeability for softwoods ... equations assuming the equilibrium approach, because of the discrepancy between the actual rate of evaporation and the assumption of instantaneous equilibrium Besides, the rate of evaporation Rev formulated...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:14

... porosity of preburn wood is determined by the degree of preburn When modelling preborn wood in this study, a factor of has been applied onto the porosity of green wood to derive the porosity of preburn ... the aforesaid problems It has been proposed that if fluid obeys the Boussinesq’s approximation, the flow field will indeed be governed by the Darcy-Oberbeck-Boussinesq model for flow through a porous ... represented by the term u ⋅∇u However, Beck (1972) found   that the inclusion of this term u ⋅∇u may lead to inconsistencies between boundary conditions and governing equations, even though this term...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:14

... function of size r of the wood slab However, this method can be cumbersome because of the lengthy experimental iteration process to determine the kinetic parameters, involving first the evaluation of ... natural inflow of atmospheric air, as shown in Figure 4.7 These wood slabs were allowed to burn until they achieved an average of 50% reduction in weight The degree of preburn β in wood slabs is expressed ... Pre-burn wood had been conditioned to achieve an average moisture content of 6.6% Figure 4.7 Pre-burning of green wood Figure 4.8 Preburn sample 4.2.3 Determination of minimum heat flux To determine...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:14

... to ab Substituting t0 = ab into Equation (5.1) yields q= ( 1b ) ln ab + ( 1b ) ln (1 + abt ) (5.2) If abt is >>1, a plot of q vs ln t should be a straight line, with a slope of At each b isothermal ... Elovich kinetics, the rate of oxygen uptake with respect to time can be described as q= ( 1b ) ln ab + ( 1b ) ln (t + t ) (5.1) where q is the amount of oxygen adsorbed; a and b are Elovich constants ... activation energy distribution for oxygen adsorption on carbons, by the use of an approximation technique suggested by Suuberg (1983), to determine the activation energy distribution of surface complexes...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:14