... distribution ofthe actors geographically is shown below in Table 3.1 The most obvious feature of Table 3.1 is the dominance of California in firms that have gone public andthe other actors in the startup ... imposed by the SEC under the Securities Act of 1933 One ofthe primary objectives ofthe Securities Act of 1933 is to require companies making a public offering of their securities to publicly ... to obtain the name ofthe lead investment banker, but when this was found to be infeasible we considered identifying the lead banker’s location by selecting the investment bank’s branch office...
... the thumb and forefinger with grip force> N), andthe downward acceleration ofthe object is m/s greater than the downward acceleration ofthe thumb A slip occurs when the object is in a stable ... the role of feedback under motor uncertainty, such as is more typical in real-world situations We added random delays to the hand motion before the onset of movement and before the onset ofthe ... (ADC) on thethe microcontroller, streamed to PC software Position sensors were attached to the thumb and forefinger, the wrist andthe base ofthe object, to enable accurate Saunders and Vijayakumar...
... affect both the studies of biological characters in one given species, andthe studies of hybridization These errors could be reduced in size only by means ofthe comparison ofthe distribution of ... 37 families forthe morphological analysis The hybridization rate was calculated by means ofthe comparison ofthe RAPD marker frequencies of a subsampling of these progenies andofthe adult population ... hybridization and morphology ofthe hybrid forms in oaks is imporThe tant to understand the evolution of these taxa andof their genetic resources Practi- cal consequences concern both the research on the...
... by multiplying the assayed concentration by the volume of urine voided The average rate of excretion was subsequently calculated by dividing the total amount of aMT6s excreted by the length of ... in a plastic bottle At the end ofthe sleep period, participants voided urine into the bottle and marked the final level of urine on the bottle with a permanent marker (The volume of urine produced ... sleep begins in the late evening and lowest when sleep begins in the middle ofthe day In the current study, both sleep duration and subjective sleep quality varied depending on the time of sleep...
... from Belgium, Sweden, the Netherlands, and New Zealand Appraisal ofthe guideline We asked the panel members to read the ESHRE guideline forthe diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis and to ... eGLIA and participated in the telephone conference andthe revision ofthe manuscript RH participated in the design ofthe study andthe revision ofthe manuscript JB participated in the design of ... Discussion The aim of this study was to investigate the implementability ofthe ESHRE guideline forthe diagnosis and treatment of endometriosis with the aid ofthe eGLIA tool In general, the appraisers...
... and CL3 and group IIb consisted of CL4, Ca5 and Ca218 (Table 2, Fig 3) PVM Idaho strain and PVM isolates detected in potato samples from PEI probably have the same origin and both group IIa and ... sprouts and tubers) Up to 800 leaves or 400 sprouts could be combined for reliable detection of PVM RNA by RT-PCR Up to 200 to 400 dormant tubers could be combined to achieve reliable detection of ... using the Bootstrap Neighbour-Joining (N-J) methods (random number generator seed: 111, number of bootstrap trails: 1000) in the Phylip formatted Clustal W (V1.82) The trees were visualized and the...
... within-sire basis, combining the individual value andthe full-sib mean, assuming heritability value of 0.4 in both lines Selection of males combined the within-sire full-sister mean andthe deviation of ... desirable criteria, as proposed by Ibe and Hill [20] and Besbes et al [8] 2.2.2 Phenotypic trends, line effects andthe effect ofthe genotype at the NA locus The phenotypic variability and yearly ... because the other generations exhibited either very few birds, or no bird, of each homozygous genotype at the NA locus 2.2.3 Coefcient of inbreeding In the rst generation, the coefcient of inbreeding...
... components and yield of KMYB on types of soil On a single-crop farmland, the density, season andthe interaction between density and season affected the productivity ofthe KMYB 1, the most suitable ... preserving by wet sand on the cement ground (CT1) had the highest efficiency andthe lowest rate of diseases 1.5 The results of building cultivation model of KMYB1 taro variety on types of land Yield of ... including: single-crop land and lowland in the river bank Therefore, the study of growth and development of taro some selected local varieties then finding out the promise one to study the technical measures...
... allow the cycle to begin again Cytochrome P450s are involved in the biotransformation of drugs, the bioconversion of xenobiotics, the metabolism of chemical carcinogens, the biosynthesis of physiologically ... (http://www.chemie.de/news/e/pdf/news_chemie.de_56388.pdf) In the US, bio-based pharmaceuticals account forthe largest share ofthe biotechnology market followed by bio-ethanol, other bio-based chemicals, and bio-diesel.2 Other major players ... Pham and all the current and former members of Prof Huimin Zhao’s and Prof Zhi Li’s laboratory for their wonderful friendship andfor making my Ph.D life interesting and wonderful Lastly but most...
... University of Singapore, and kept in the animal unit before and after the experiments Before each injection, the animals were anesthetized by intraperitoneal (i.p.) injection of sodium pentobarbital ... lipid for gene delivery for other organs ofthe body is not common because ofthe instability ofthe preparations, heterogeneity and poor targeting Cationic polymers like polylysine, PEI and oligopeptides ... 2002; Kost and Condreay, 2002) After systemic delivery, baculoviruses are inactivated easily by serum complement (Hofmann and Strauss, 1998) The CNS, protected by the blood-brain barrier (BBB), is...
... age, the light regimes, andthe duration of exposure The distribution pattern ofthe compounds within the plant organs was not influenced by the treatments Based on the chemical composition ofthe ... Nevertheless, all the three hypotheses assume a trade-off between growth andthe biosynthesis of secondary metabolites (Coley et al., 1985) In the literature, a number of studies report on the ... several hypotheses, such as the carbon-nutrient balance hypothesis (CNB) (Bryant et al., 1983), the growth-differentiation balance hypothesis (GDB) (Herms and Mattson, 1992), andthe protein...
... learners can make the best ofthe book but also enable teachers to 19 apply the best methods Therefore, in this thesis, the writer assesses the book whether it is suitable forthe learners or not ... teachers and students not like about the book There are a number of similarities and differences in teachers and students’ views about the drawbacks ofthe book Both the teachers and students share the ... should be made to the material to meet the students’ needs and interests? The significance ofthe thesis The results ofthe thesis will provide useful information not only forthe researcher, the...
... of two chitosans with FA of 0.65 and 0.30 The relative intensities ofthe a b- anomers correspond to the equilibrium ratio between the two anomers, which is 60 : 40 at pH 45 [39] The a- and b- anomer ... known random distribution of A- and D-units are useful substrates for obtaining deeper insight into the mode of action of ChiB, including its processive character The catalytic mechanism of ChiB requires ... the glycon side ofthe catalytic centre The observation of longer oligomers early during the reaction may seem to contrast with the putative exo-activity ofthe enzyme, but can be explained by...
... estimated by deducting the sum ofthe cumulative amount of carbon in effluent from the start of experiment andthe amount of carbon in the solid sample ofthe solubilization reactor from the total ... Carbon (%) 80% 100% Figure Carbon mass balance Contribution of biofilm and biofilter on improvement of mineralization SS concentrations in effluent decreased by installing biofilm inside the ... 33 % to 47 % and almost negligible accumulation of carbon occurred Therefore, large carbon accumulation in Run was probably due to the occurrence of anaerobic condition in the solubilization tank...
... cares about negative numbers For example with s = 5, the numbers 16 to 31 stand for themselves, but numbers to 15 stand for ;32 to ;16 The numbers to 15 could have been described in less than bits, ... individual bits in a byte, and by extension, in a string In the same vein the function byte2nibs splits a byte in two four-bit nibbles The standard function rem is used to calculate the remainder ... only between the type ofthe parameters andthe result, but also between the two parameters The type a ! b ! c is to be read as a ! (b ! c), which stresses the fact that a function may also be...
... for staining and interpretation by the Kabul-based reference laboratory (German Medical Services, Darwaze Lahori, Kabul), andthe last for cases of loss ⁄ breakage At the time ofthe study, there ... 0.05) The study was approved by the Ethical Review Board ofthe Ministry of Public Health, Afghanistan, andthe ª 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Institutional Review Boards ofthe Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ... some aspects of TB screening are being done well, but also indicates a number of gaps, ª 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd principally the lack of any diagnosis for 23.8% of patients with TB-suggestive...
... from the intersection ofthe two word alignments, and then continuously add new links between backbone and hypothesis if and only if both ofthe two words ofthe new link are unaligned and this ... in the hypothesis is assigned with a rank-based score of 1/ (1 + r ) , where r is the rank ofthe hypothesis And we assign the same weights to each system For selecting the backbone, only the ... position in the backbone and then reorder the null-aligned hypothesis words to match the nulls on the backbone side Reordering null-aligned words varies based to the word alignment method in the pre-...
... for each analysis The number of different motifs was set to 10 andthe width ofthe motifs was set to 10 All other options were set at a variety of arguably sensible settings The results of these ... Then we computed the neighbour distances between consecutive random points andthe average By random shuffling 1000 times, we set the P value as the fraction of times for which the random averages ... 26 The number of miRNA genes studied in four plant species bThe number of predicted clusters c The number of miRNA genes located in clusters d The average number of miRNA genes in a cluster for...