... grain boundaries before they can form inthe interior ofthe grain Also, the interplanar spacing is altered inthe vicinity ofthe actual dislocation, giving rise to what is termed strain field of ... alter the interplanar spacing, creating strain fields and thereby volume changes in magnetic domains While dislocation strain fields contribute tothe redistribution of strain within a grain, they ... 8 Introduction 1.2.2 Magnetic Moment of a Sample of N Atoms In a simple paramagnet, the atoms not interact with each other, and the ˆ only contributions tothe Hamiltonian H come from their interaction...
... Examine theevolvingroleof IT managers, including the CIO In general, the findings ofthe survey were consistent across regions, company size, industry and roles (All regions represented inthe ... clients, bringing together business insight, advanced research and technology to give them a distinct advantage in today’s rapidly changing environment Through our integrated approach to business ... detailed approach to staying on top of risk issues, communicating those concerns to employees, and incorporating IT risk management into every area of their enterprise In answer tothe question,...
... isolation (including older people from minority ethnic groups) How does the effectiveness of interventions depend on the characteristics of those delivering the intervention, the involvement of older ... life All the activities are intended as starting points; they should be tailored to meet the needs ofthe participants, as opposed tothe activities dictating the group The organisation of themes ... voluntary sector What action should they take? • Involve occupational therapists inthe design and development of locally relevant training schemes for those working with older people Training schemes...
... reduce the complexity ofthe hierarchical structure and reduce the number of levels inthe hierarchy This paper considers the tasks of identifying the syntactic structure of text chunking and ... 4.1 Text Chunking Text chunking involves producing nonoverlapping segments of low-level noun groups The system uses the clause information to construct the hierarchical structure of text chunks, ... has poor accuracy Inthe text chunking task the number of observation symbol relies on the number of part -of- speech tags contained in training data Figure plots the relationship of micro-average...
... task force on theroleofthe auditor and moved to convene investors and other financial reporting stakeholders to examine theroleofthe auditor and the value ofthe audit On June 21 the PCAOB ... difficult to resolve in isolation The “what, whys, and hows” related to changing theroleofthe auditor has to be considered within the context ofthe overall financial reporting system, including the ... that the auditor’s role had to be considered within the context ofthe broader corporate financial reporting framework, including the roles of management (preparers), the audit committee, investors,...
... be occurring with regards tothe binding of UK4VL to CL The effect of point mutations of specific arginine residues in CDR3 of IS4VH upon CL binding is shown in Fig The low binding of IS4VH/IS4VL ... binding site In fact, we have previously shown that introduction ofthe Ser29 to glycine mutation in addition tothe Arg27a to serine mutation inthe light chain of B3VL/B3VH leads to a further ... Arg27a to serine led to a reduction in binding to DNA [37] Inthe present study the same change has been shown to reduce binding to CL, supporting the conclusion of Cocca The presence of UK4VL...
... messenger ceramide and the anti-apoptotic properties ofthe sphingomyelinase inhibitor amitryptiline respectively the end-point apoptosis induction and reduction in cardiomyocytes which to our knowledge ... conforms with the principles outlined inthe Declaration of Helsinki In addition, approval was granted by the Ethics Committee ofthe Faculty of Medicine ofthe Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen, ... tothe staining according tothe manufacturer’s recommendation (Epitomics, Inc., Burlingame, CA, USA) The described chemicals were purchased from Biochrom, Berlin Germany In brief, the cryosections...
... attempts, the ‘hands-off’ intervals between interruption of chest compressions and the delivery ofthe countershock should be limited to only a few seconds [8,20] In all of these areas of concern, evolving ... CPR techniques has come center-stage in resuscitation research efforts [8] In addition to evaluating the concept of markedly abbreviating the time taken to provide effective training for the masses ... dramatic, in terms of both life-saving and ICU resources In summary, the use of AEDs by the average person may be considered one ofthe greatest advances in critical care medicine during the past...
... handsets inthe limited period of months to year and only paid for call charge Fromthe segment of high income customer at the beginning, S-Telecom had to switch to low and average income customer ... According tothe development of Telecommunication inthe world, mobile phone will play theroleof entertainment channel Therefore, there are two groups of customer in Vietnamese market The first ... associated with receiving, storing and disseminating inputs tothe product, such as material handling, warehousing, inventory control, vehicle scheduling, and returns to suppliers Product of S-Telecom...
... elections Due tothe remarkable durability of electoral autocracies, there has been considerable scholarly interest in studying theroleof electoral fraud inthe preserving the dominance of autocratic ... receptive tothe likelihood of a mass challenge by the opposition inthe aftermath of electoral cheating Due tothe centralized nature of decision-making inthe party, the dictator cannot be stopped from ... autocrats from stealing elections but not others? My paper illustrates how extent of power-sharing inthe autocratic party determines the decision to either refrain from ballot-rigging or try to...
... along the chain of events fromthe origin ofthe wastewater tothe consumption ofthe produce (e.g the farm -to- fork approach ofthe HAPPC method in food safety); • the design of a combination of ... by the discharge of toxic mine waste In Papua New Guinea for example, companies discharge millions of tons of contaminated mine waste into rivers fromthe Ok Tedi, Porgera and Tolukuma mines (Christmann ... living inthe Kibera slums on the outskirts of Nairobi The term “flying toilet” originated in Kibera The flying toilet is a polythene bag that people used to dispose of faeces These bags of waste...
... divided the factors considered into pre-medical school factors, medical school factors and residency training factors [24] We will adopt a similar division for the types of predictors ofthe willingness ... time of writing, these students are not yet working out inthe field, however, it is not possible to examine the residency training factors Rural background Inthe United States of America, Rabinowitz ... another finding from previous research, namely that personal links to rural areas can be an important determining factor inthe willingness toworkin rural areas [23] When the parents live in a...
... neuronal-glial units If our hypothesis is correct, it may be possible to further improve the symptoms by suppressing the production of proinflammatory cytokines and, thereby, restoring the normal astroglial ... signal -to- noise ratio) inthe glutamatergic transmission As a consequence, the information taken into the brain will be less distinct In addition, activation of astroglial networks, with induction of ... ([Glu]ec in normal (IL)-1β, and ILSchematic in thefactor-α (TNF-α),) interleukinbraincytokines Figure (right)1 tumor necrosis presence of regulation of extracellular (left), and drawing of cellularthe...
... and magazines reading, we can find out what we need to know: a job inthe situations vacant column, an object we want to buy inthe advertising page, a missing relative inthe finding missing relative ... style we learn a lot of interesting things Thanks to newspapers and magazines, our mind and point of view are consolidated and enriched When reading them we can train our reasoning power Thirdly, ... and magazines supply us with a variety of news every day They keep us informed ofthe political situation ofthe world By reading newspapers and magazines we can know what is happening in our country...
... Interleukin-2 IL-2Rα Interleukin-2 receptor alpha IL-4 Interleukin-4 IL-5 Interleukin-5 IL-6 Interleukin-6 IL-8 Interleukin-8 IL-10 Interleukin-10 IL-1β Interleukin-1 beta IL -12 Interleukin -12 IL-13 Interleukin-13 ... certain chemokines and cytokines as their substrates As such, the gelatinases have the ability to have varying affects on the biological properties of cytokines and chemokines, ranging from potentiation ... TGF-β-binding protein (30) MMP-2 cleaves the proinflammatory molecule monocyte chemoattractant 12 protein (MCP-3) into a truncated anti-inflammatory molecule which helps inthe dampening ofthe inflammatory...
... (Akoulitchev et al., 2000) CDK protein levels remain stable during the cell cycle, in sharp contrast to their activating proteins, the cyclins The oscillatory expression of most cyclin proteins during ... chromatin resulting in either gene activation or repression For instance, the appearance of histone acetyltransferases, including cAMP-responsive element binding (CREB) protein-binding protein ... inhibitory proteins, known as CDK inhibitors (CKIs), which bind to CDK alone or tothe CDK-cyclin complex and repress CDK activity Two distinct families of CDK inhibitors, the INK4 family and the...
... due tothe bulkiness and low energy density of biomass feedstocks Another major cost component is the cost of buying the biomass resources, which includes the price ofthe feedstocks and the ... milling, wood factories and paper mills The third key factor included in our sensitivity analysis is the cost ofthe biomass itself The cost ofthe biomass feedstocks tothe power plant includes ... rolein contributing to higher total costs Not surprisingly, the results also indicate that the total cost of co-firing biomass decreases continuously as the available supply of biomass feedstocks...
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