... blood flow and effects from other neighboring cells and matrix The biophysical aspects of the endothelium through which the leukocytes transmigrate, in addition to the biophysical aspects of the leukocytes ... throughout the body of the cell, and the substrate at the basal surface of the ECs Interestingly, forces acting at one surface may be propagated internally or even to other surfaces of the cell, or they ... In (A), the force acting on the EC (black arrow) has components both in the direction of shear stress and in the direction of pulling by leukocytes In (B), the force on the EC is in the direction...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20
... 336 and 340 were seen on the lower strand FoxA binding resulted in protection of the guanines at positions 347 and 351 on the upper strand, and protection at position 352 on the lower strand These ... Nevertheless, it is unknown what rules determine their activity In particular, it is unknown to what extent DNA accessibility to transcription factors and the sequence in which the transcription factors ... nontreated and hormone-treated Rat-1 fibroblasts were not observed on either DNA strand Moreover, there was no difference between the Rat-1 samples and the untreated FTO-2B hepatoma cells After the addition...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20
Breaking the Bonds between Al-Qa’ida and Its Affiliate Organizations ppt
... its brand With these understandings in mind, the United States and its allies should take a number of steps that capitalize on the differences in interests between al-Qa’ida on the one hand and ... Because there is also a wedge between the way alQa’ida and many others in the Muslim world approach the issue of democracy, the United States and its allies should call attention to this, and contrast ... jihadists spent time together in Pakistan or Sudan, or fought alongside each other in Afghanistan in the 1980s, Chechnya and the Balkans in the 1990s, and Iraq and other theaters after 9/11 has...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Editorial The Interplay between Compression and Security for Image and Video Communication and Adaptation over Networks" potx
... tool They proposed and compare two such schemes, based on arithmetic coding and turbo coding, respectively We present this special issue believing that the interplay between compression and encryption ... compression and encryption In their paper “Multimedia encryption with joint randomized entropy coding and rotation in partitioned bitstream,” Xie and Kuo propose a framework that couples randomized ... randomized entropy coding and bitstream rotation in order to improve the security They show that their scheme makes known and chosen plaintext attacks extremely difficult The last paper by Magli...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo y học: "Low self-esteem and psychiatric patients: Part II – The relationship between self-esteem and demographic factors and psychosocial stressors in psychiatric patients" ppt
... control the variances related to the other factors and to measure interaction between the factors ANCOVA is an extension of ANOVA that allows the removal of additional sources of variation from the ... Among these factors, the factors of presence of psychiatric disorder and age had the strongest effect with both the JF scale (p < 0.001) and Rosenberg scale (p < 0.001) On the basis of their ... It measures the strength and indicates the direction of the relationship [54] Results Correlation between Self-Esteem Scales In the current study, the correlation coefficient between the two self-esteem...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23
Báo cáo y học: " Factors that may mediate the relationship between physical activity and the risk for developing knee osteoarthritis" pot
... activity and the risk for developing knee OA Recommendation Details There is evidence to indicate the importance of investigating the role of the following factors when examining the relationship between ... examining the effect of age and sex on the relationship between physical activity and risk for developing knee OA Table (continued) Arthritis Research & Therapy Other studies that have examined the ... between obesity and knee OA and found that joint alignment mediated the effect of obesity on knee OA These studies not only highlight the effect of knee alignment on the development and progression...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:22
báo cáo khoa học:" Factors affecting the relationship between psychological status and quality of life in COPD patients" potx
... performed the statistical analysis and interpreted the results; EB prepared the first draft of the paper; EB and JG-A had full access to all of the data in the study and take responsibility for the ... and six-minute walk test Detailed information about the methods and sources of the questionnaires and the standardisation of the tests used in the PAC-COPD study has been previously published [14,16] ... reduces the possibility that the results could be attributed to factors other than psychological factors A clinically relevant finding of this study is the greater association between anxiety and...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21
Báo cáo y học: "Regular mosaic pattern development: A study of the interplay between lateral inhibition, apoptosis and differential adhesion" doc
... regulates Pn(σ) The length of the common border between σ and ρ is lρ, σ, which is the count of all 8-connected lattice sites between and ρ, and σ, g(x) = , f (x) = x and n(σ) returns the set of cells ... point (the centroid of the cell's lattice sites) of each primary cell Let D be the set of distances between the center of each Voronoi cell and its vertices, then the VRI is the ratio of the mean ... probability 0.5 Otherwise the state change − ΔH is accepted with probability e T , where T is the temperature, representing the agitation of the cells [21] The CPM is used to create the random input...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21
Báo cáo y học: "The complex interplay between delirium, sepsis and sedation" pptx
... arousal, or is there a fundamental change in the pathophysiology of the acute brain dysfunction with this transition? These questions remain unanswered at present The paper by Pandharipande and colleagues ... layer of complexity to understanding acute brain dysfunction in these patients As noted by Pandharipande and colleagues [1], there is some evidence that benzodiazepines and alpha-2 adrenoceptor agonists ... advance in our understanding of the complex Page of interconnections between acute brain dysfunction, sedation, and sepsis However, we need further progress in our understanding of the complex pathophysiology...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22
The relationship between default risk and interest rates: An empirical study research insight
... slow the economy Therefore, we may conjecture that the relationship between default risk and interest rates is sensitive to some measure of where the economy is in the business cycle and/ or other ... over the change in the 10-year Treasury bond yield, the change in slope (defined as the difference between 10-year and 2-year Treasury bond yields), the convexity, the change in leverage, the ... BBB and maturities ranging from intermediate to long-term They find the relation between credit spreads and interest rates (level and slope) differ based on the maturity, credit ratings, and the...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 11:21
Contributions of Various Noncovalent Bonds to the Interaction between an Amide and S-Containing Molecules
... general statement about the relative strengths of SHãããO and NHãããS On the other hand, it would be fair to claim that the CHãããO H-bond is weaker than either of the other two Note, however, that ... from the NHãããS H-bond Rather than the CS antibond, the SS s* orbital is the recipient of charge in the next minimum m, this time extracted from both the N lone pair and the CO p* orbital An Nlp ... CHãããO The pattern changes when the H of the SH group is replaced by a second methyl group in CH3SCH3 The enhancement of the S atoms proton-accepting ability strengthens the NHãããS H-bond to the...
Ngày tải lên: 16/12/2012, 15:21
the relationship between cnsumer acceptability and descriptive sensory attributes in cheddar cheese
... three-digit random numbers and served under identical conditions to the trained descriptive testing Consumers ranked the three cheeses in their order of preference, and then evaluated them using ... compared with the other cheeses (7- and 12-month) The 12-month-ripened cheese had the lowest mean score of liking of 5.75, which is categorized as between “like slightly” and “neither like nor ... AGED 7, AND 12 MONTHS acid, diacetyl and methional In the aroma attribute terms used in the descriptive analysis, these can be described as “free fatty acid,” “buttery” and “sulfur” aromas The principal...
Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2013, 21:06
A STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CEO COMPENSATION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN THE US AIRLINE INDUSTRY 2002 2006
... performance and thus stock price decreases is not conducive to stockholder theory and implies that in agency theory there is a conflict of interest between the CEO and the shareholders they represent Other ... in the null and alternative forms Statistical analysis allows the researcher to either accept or reject the null hypotheses The null and alternative hypotheses for this study are: H01 (null) There ... stockholder theory and agency theory as the foundation for its approach and consequently is limited by the theory itself According to Veliyath and Bishop (1995), agency theory predicts that there is...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2013, 11:44
THE RELATION BETWEEN TREASURY YIELDS AND CORPORATE BOND YIELD SPREADS pot
... changes in the level and the slope I measure the level of the Treasury term structure with the three-month Treasury bill yield, denoted YT,104, t , and measure the slope with the spread between the ... relation between yield spreads and the slope of the Treasury term structure is weaker, and the thirty-year yield no longer summarizes the relevant information in the term structure The hypothesis ... rating and maturity band The x ~4! test of equality of bs, i, m,1 and bs, i, m,2 across the three sectors is reported in the final column of Table II The x test does not reject the hypothesis...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20
The Challenge for Indian MBA: Bridging the gap between Philip Kotler and Countryside India potx
... companies from the rest of the pack They are in a position to view their marketing mix in the form of 4+1P and 1R, and thereby customize their offerings to the rural market Further, to ensure ... wells, handpumps and ponds For the first in the history of advertising - these were branded Special stickers were put on the handpumps, the walls of the wells were lined with advertising tiles and ... is the application of the marketing concepts and not the concepts themselves that need to be looked at Often, in the rural marketplace it is the application of these concepts which differs the...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21
the relationship between corporate culture and the use of management accounting innovations in vietnamese companies a study of techcombank
... reason, the research focuses on understanding the value of the corporate culture, in particular, understanding the relationship between the corporate culture and the innovation of management accounting ... company Therefore, this research aims to: i Systematize the basic issues of corporate culture and the management accounting innovation ii Understand what is the relationship between the corporate ... receive the enthusiastic supports from all managers, chief accountant and other accounting staff who are involved in the survey conducted in this thesis Although the relationship between me and those...
Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Bridging the gap between in silico and cell-based analysis of the nuclear factor-jB signaling pathway by in vitro studies of IKK2 ppt
... binding GST-IjBa in the presence and absence of ATP, and the value of a indicates whether the binding of one substrate (ATP) affects the afnity of the enzyme for the other substrate (GST-IjBa) [59] ... wells and the plates left to incubate for 15 The plates were inverted to remove the detergent after the 15 incubation period and the wells were washed twice with wash buffer by inverting the plates ... vitro and in silico analysis of the data The plot shows nuclear NF-jB oscillation in the original model and in the updated model with newly measured kr1, ka1 and kd1 for IKKIjBa complex (D) In the...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:20
EUROPEAN COMPETITION LAW ANNUAL 2005: The Interaction between Competition Law and Intellectual Property Law doc
... of the organization and the licensing practice of the pool.55 Surprisingly enough, however, at this level the Commission tends to ignore the link between the exclusivity and standardization, and ... on the combination of the principles that, on the one hand, the market of reference for the territorial exercise of national intellectual property is the entire Internal Market, and, on the other, ... of the exclusive rights that both the partners contributions to and the results of the R&D cooperation (the so-called background and the foreground knowledge) may be identied, delimited, and...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Probing the interface between factor Xa and tissue factor in the quaternary complex tissue factor–factor VIIa–factor Xa–tissue factor pathway inhibitor pptx
... spectra and in the rest of the mutants the probe was not significantly affected by the sTF–FVIIa complex formation As the purpose of our study was to map the interaction between FXa and sTF in the ... sTF and the effect of the modified sTF–FVIIa complex on FX activation In another study [17], these authors also examined the interaction between FXa and sTF–FVII in a similar way by observing the ... with sTF in the quaternary complex Residues E99 and L104 are located in the TF1 domain, and T197 is situated in the N-terminal portion of the TF2 domain, i.e close to the TF1 domain at the level...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 03:20