... of inorganic arsenic In the second row they were given 500 μg of MMAs In the third row they were given 500 μg of DMAs Their urine was collected over a 14 day period and the number of μmoles of ... parameters were changed in any ofthe 12 model experiments shown in Figure Note that the scales on the y axes differ in the different panels of Figure The model predictions ofthe time courses of excretion ... competing methylation pathways the full details ofthe biochemistry will be included In Section IIIA, we compared the predictions ofthe model (with no changes of parameters) to the multiple dose experiments...
... the fuel cell relies on the ambient relative humidity and water production in the cathode for the humidification ofthe membrane; (x.) the circulating ambient air facilitates the cooling ofthe ... well as the amount of liquid water present to the amount of water undergoing phase change In the present work, the procedure of Berning and Djilali [15] was used to account for the magnitude of phase ... rupture ofthe membrane Thermal management is also essential for the control ofthe water evaporation or condensation rates [1-3] The need for improved lifetime of air-breathing proton exchange...
... still withthe lower brine depth starts producing earlier than that of greater thickness, but the productivity diminishes rapidly after turning the heaters off On the other hand, the still withthe ... during the period with no heat input (termed as nocturnal production in the outdoor tests) These values are the initial value ofthe production line in the figures This may be due to the large thermal ... depth) The objective of this work is to investigate the effect of brine depth on the productivity and efficiency of solar still under laboratory conditions Table shows a summary of some ofthe studies...
... across the orifice plate, to measure the pressure difference inside the inlet pipe and the atmosphere The coefficient of discharge ofthe orifice is determined experimentally to be 0.603 Simple software ... emissions at the expense of increase in smoke, CO and unburned HC emissions The aim ofthe current study is to investigate the effect of EGR on performance parameters and exhaust emissions of an indirect ... result of EGR use Therefore, the torque output was deteriorated The torque loss of JBD blends was lower than that of DF, at all EGR rates This is expected due to the extra oxygen amount of biodiesel...
... houses are grown up a lot.Morever, the growth of economy has given a lot of advantages by making people richer, healther, and freer to enjoy their lives.I always pride of my city whenever I talk about...
... are of other race, mother is white (not father), mother is Hispanic (not father), mother is of other race (not father), mother is foreign-born (not father), father is foreign-born (not mother), ... to the intersection ofthe supports ofthe propensity score of treated and controls Imposing the common support condition in the estimation ofthe propensity score may improve the quality ofthe ... parents are of “other” race/ethnicity - Mother = white, Father = non-white - Mother = black, Father = non-black - Mother = Hispanic, Father = non-Hispanic - Mother = other, Father = other Parents’...
... of ferrites Ni1-xCoxFe2O4, hence it was the increasing of HC The increasing of HC proved that the soft magnetic property of ferrite NiFe2O4 changed to the hard magnetic property of ferrite CoFe2O4 ... (3) where B2θ is the full width half maximum (rad), λ the wavelength ofthe X-ray, θ the angle between the incident and diffracted beams (degree) and d the particle size ofthe sample (nm) (in ... materials, the second term can take part of several tens percent of HC and the last one whereas can only reach several hundreds of gauss Thus, the increasing of Co-concentration led to the increasing of...
... - - the forward.looking center list (Cf) and the backward-looking center (the Cb) Cf is a partially ordered list of centering candidates; the Cb, at the head of Cf, is the current center of attention ... utterance, one of three operations are possible: * The Cb retains both its position at the head of Cf and its status as the Cb; therefore it continues as the center in the next utterance • The Cb retains ... r~asons depends on the variance between what the text predicts and what the speaker would like to assert about the order of items in Cf These hypotheses arise from the following chain of assumptions:...
... Both the slight shift ofthe emission maximum to a shorter wavelength and the strong increase ofthe fluorescence signal indicate changes ofthe tertiary structure ofthe RNase A molecule Furthermore, ... Quantification ofthe proteolytic susceptibility of RNase A To gain further insight into the changes ofthe proteolytic susceptibility of RNase A as a function of trifluoroethanol concentration, the proteolytic ... in the content of secondary structure only after the disruption ofthe native tertiary structure of RNase A (Figs 2–4) Interestingly, the preservation ofthe tertiary structure coincides with the...
... duties in the company All of them are utility maximizes; therefore, there is no ground to believe that they will act on the interest ofthe company On the other hand, it is not easy to mediate these ... For owners, they should be especially aware ofthe importance of motivation because only if they understand the importance of it, then can they implement incentive policy to motivate their employees ... horizon interests of shareholders and managers with respect ofthe firm” The shareholders are theoretically interested in the cash flow ofthe company until they are no longer holding the company’s...
... 4,610.17 Thechangeof agricultural land has happened in the areas with available infrastructure, near main roads, in the gateway areas ofthe city, especially in the areas ... urbanization in Ho Chi Minh City. 2. The study area Ho Chi Minh City has a very favorable geographical location in the centre ofthe rich Southern region with many resources. The city has the common ... useful to consider the historical development of a region. This study uses the Landsat TM and ETM+ to extract the built‐up land in the city and evaluate thechangeof agricultural ...
... one ofthe limitations ofthe contingency tests The proxy for the managers' accounting decisions in those tests, the effect of an accounting procedure change on bonus earnings in the year ofthe ... firms with no such changeThe Sign and Wilcoxon Ranked-Sign tests are used to evaluate whether the mean number of changes per firm differ for firms with and without a bonus plan changeThe test ... awards However, the effect of a procedure change on the accounting numbers is only publicly disclosed for the year ofthechange This proxy therefore fails to control for the effect of accounting...
... during the decay process ofthe PL centers (blueshift ofthe PL), a short time annealing causes the recovery ofthe PL centers (re-redshift ofthe PL) This leads to the spectral shift and the peak ... since the blueshift ofthe PL accompanies the decrease ofthe nc-Si size (Fig 2b–d) However, due to the coexistence of two PL centers, the explanation of spectral change is much more complicated The ... but the former increases less than the latter (Fig 7) This causes the difference in the growth rates of these two states decreasing with increasing temperatures Therefore, the degree ofthe redshift...
... tuberculosis were excluded because ofthe uncertainty ofthe course ofthe disease; patients with massive haemoptysis and severe anaemia were excluded because of their requirement for blood transfusion ... classification of chest lesions was made following the guidelines ofthe National Tuberculosis Association ofthe USA (1961) All the chest radiological assessments were done by one ofthe chest physicians ... blinded regarding the contents ofthe capsules The supplements were distributed sequentially according to the code number ofthe packets Symptoms of gastrointestinal upset, such as loss of appetite,...
... activity The effect ofthe HAMP domain on the CHD of Rv1319c was much less pronounced, supporting the earlier notion of a distinct individuality ofthe interactions of HAMPdomains within a particular ... partially interacted withthe hydrophilic surfaces ofthe HAMP helices Finally, we wished to characterize the effect ofthe HAMP domains in the context ofthe membranous holoenzymes Therefore we attempted ... large difference in substrate affinity between the isoforms and the known differences of metal-cofactor affinity of mammalian AC isoforms [16] prompted us to investigate the metal-cofactor dependence...
... similar, too.2 Therefore, it would be better to look at whether assessors tend to find the same SCUs (information “nuggets”) in different summaries on the same topic, and whether they annotate them consistently ... manually-annotated summaries from the same topic, and then we compared the resulting “autoPyramid” score withthe score from the original manual annotation for that summary Ideally, the autoPyramid score ... If the autoPyramid score is higher than the manual Pyramid score, it means that either (1) the assessor missed relevant strings in this summary, but found them in other summaries; or (2) the...
... a function ofthe initial hardness ofthe peened metal {Fig 8} The fatigue properties of' b and k were estimated from the hardness ofthe peened material at the weld toe at a depth of 200 ~m: ... dependent upon the ultimate strength (Su), higher strength steels will have higher values of Kfmax for the same weld shape In addition, Kfmax depends upon the shape ofthe weld and the type of loading ... pocket or deep notch, the size ofthe initiated crack length (ai) may be taken as the dimension ofthe defect Thus, the fatigue crack propagation life {Np} may be calculated taking the defect size...
... likely changes the firm’s ratio ofthe expected future cash flows to the covariance of these cash flows withthe sum of all the cash flows in the market They show that this effect can go in either ... positive and significant with three ofthe four measures of cost of equity, which suggests that audit quality is associated withthe cost of equity 10 The results ofthe last part of this study, which ... capital The cost of capital for clients of Second-Tier audit firms is compared to the cost of capital of Big-audit firms in terms ofthe expected effect ofthe level of audit quality provided on the...
... stance and the increased range of motion during stance, are affected by changes that occur further up in the kinetic chain at the hip joint The Page of increase in the range of motion ofthe ankle ... the area ofthe leg most likely affected by ischemia since the blood must travel farther to reach the lower part ofthe leg The abnormal biomechanical parameters at the ankle, including the decreased ... utilizing the same kinematic and kinetic biomechanical measures to assess the impact of pharmacological treatment of PAD patients Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the impact of...