... has facilitated the availability of different indirect laryngoscopes The major advantage of these devices is that direct vision of the glottis is available With the objective of pointing out ... guide channel for the endotracheal tube could face the challenge of advancing the tube into the trachea The tip of the tracheal tube must pass through an acute angle to enter the larynx and has ... simulate the precise conditions in an outof-hospital patient; on the other hand, one advantage of manikin studies is that they allow for strict standardisation of study conditions Therefore, the simulation...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20
... underscoring the importance of the interactions between the Tyr OH and the side chains of Asn174 and Asp148 in TEV protease (Fig 4A) The importance of these interactions is further supported by the results ... determinants A comparison of the natural cleavage sites for the two enzymes, together with the results of kinetic analyses reported here, indicate that the residues in the P3 and P4 positions of the substrate ... effects of the mutations Hence, the results are consistent with the predicted role for these residues (based on crystal structure) in the interaction with substrate The loss of activity of the mutants...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20
Tài liệu A COMPARISON OF THE TEXTUAL STRUCTURES OF ARABIC AND ENGLISH WRITTEN TEXTS pdf
... hand, and on the other by the attitude of the speaker towards the message and the addressee "Thus into the domain of the organization of utterance pertains all that is connected with the processual ... kind of perspective The conditions of the act of communication are determined by the general character and regularities of the linear materialization and linear perception of utterance on the ... basic hypotheses, the second of which can conveniently be elaborated in terms of Ong's list of the characteristics of an orally-based language The two hypotheses and their respective sub-hypotheses...
Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20
Comparison of the obstetric anesthesia activity index with total delivery numbers as a single denominator of workload demand in Israeli maternity units doc
... Senior Lecturer of Anesthesia and Director of the Obstetric Anesthesia Unit at Shaarei Zedek Medical Center He is the current Chair of the Israel Association of Obstetric Anesthesia His main ... 3) There was no clear relationship between the anesthesia workforce allocation to the labor ward and the obstetric anesthesia workload as measured by the OAAI (Figure 4) Figure Correlation of ... experience of personnel Accordingly, the OAAI is not a measure of the total activity of the obstetric anesthesia services Based on these limitations, it is important to appreciate that although the...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20
The Tyranny Of The Dark By Hamlin Garland doc
... Tyranny of the Dark “THERE WAS IN HIS LOOK AN EXPRESSION OF ACKNOWLEDGED KINSHIP“ The Tyranny of the Dark The red went out of the sky The golden eagle of cloud flew home over the illimitable seas of ... HAND ON THE RAILING“ THE TYRANNY OF THE DARK BY HAMLIN GARLAND AUTHOR OF THE CAPTAIN OF THE GRAY-HORSE TROOP“ “HESPER“ THE LIGHT OF THE STAR“ ETC ETC LONDON AND NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS ... roar cut off the ribald music and the clamor of the engines precisely as the bank shut away the visible town, leaving the little row of pretty cottages in the ward of the mountains and the martial,...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo khoa học: The oxidative effect of bacterial lipopolysaccharide on native and cross-linked human hemoglobin as a function of the structure of the lipopolysaccharide A comparison of the effects of smooth and rough lipopolysaccharide ppt
... measure of the rate of oxidation of oxyHb RESULTS The effect of pH on the auto-oxidation of cross-linked Hb was studied The rate of decrease of the concentration of oxyHb increased as the pH was ... absence of EDTA In contrast to the results with the LPSs of E coli, EDTA decreased the rate of oxidation However, the rate of oxidation mediated by the smooth LPS was less affected by the presence of ... minnesota In the presence of EDTA, the oxidative effect of the rough E coli LPS approaches that of the smooth S minnesota LPS The results of experiments, in which the oxidation of Hb A0 by the four...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20
Research " THE RATE OF RETURN TO EDUCATION AND THE GENDER EARNINGS DIFFERENTIAL : A COMPARISON OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE REPULIC OF IRELAND " ppt
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Classification of ATP-dependent proteases Lon and comparison of the active sites of their proteolytic domains pdf
... analysis of the amino acid sequences of the majority of the currently known Lon proteases The results of site-directed mutagenesis of E coli Lon protease and insights from the crystal structure of ... due to the proximity of the negative charge of the side chain of Glu706 from the neighboring subunit The mutation of these residues might interfere with the oligomerization required for the proteolytic ... Successful determination of the crystal structure of the proteolytic domain of E coli Lon [30] allowed us to explain the loss of proteolytic activity of the mutants at these sites [25] These three residues...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20
comparison of the met and guggenheim museum new york
... above the capitals At the uppermost section of the entablature there is another cornice that outlines the roof of the entire building (picture 16) The main component of the faỗade is flanked by the ... the end of the exhibition, find himself on the ground floor, near the exit By doing this, the viewer is made to experience the entire building, from the top ramp, to the bottom and perceive the ... intrigues and appeals to the aesthetic side of the viewer Both Museum's are products of their environment and accomplish the aesthetic effect that the art works inside them possess If the Met is considered...
Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:00
Báo cáo khoa học: The structural comparison of the bacterial PepX and human DPP-IV reveals sites for the design of inhibitors of PepX activity pot
... lactis The results are presented in Table and Fig 4A For the cluster of lowest energy, both the position and the conformation of the ligand are close to those observed in the 3D structure of the ... into the active site of the human DPP-IV; 3, docked into the active site of the crystalline structure of PepX from L lactis; and 4, docked into the active site of the modeled structure of PepX ... group of the ligand and the NH2 of Asn470 (equivalent to Asn710 in DPP-IV) Another potential bond can be proposed between the OH atom of Tyr380 and the carbonyl group of the ligand Finally, the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20
THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF AGEING POPULATIONS (A COMPARISON OF THE EU,US AND JAPAN) ppt
... in the share of the over 65s in the populations of the EU15, US and Japan will inevitably occur due to the fact that the post-war baby-boom generations in the latter areas will be reaching the ... that the rate of dissaving is very similar to that predicted by a life-cycle model of household behaviour” 20 Box 2: Theories of Saving and the Dominance of the Life Cycle Paradigm THEORIES OF ... expenditures would have the effect of breaching the 60% rule and would have to be financed either on the revenue or the expenditure side of the budget Since the bulk of the increase in government...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo "Eliminating on the divergences of the photon self - energy diagram in (2+1) dimensional quantum electrodynamics " pot
... coincided if the gauge invariance of theory is considered carefully step by step in these calculations When c1 = c2 ; α = , the expressions obtained e2 by the Pauli-Villars and the dimensional ... equivalent) such that the function ∆(p; m) in the momentum representation falls off sufficiently fast in the region of large |p| On the base of Pauli-Villars regularization we calculate the polarization ... piece of the vacuum polarization tensor and, consequently, the photon mass The same reasoning applies when, using Pauli-Villars regularization, we calculate the anomalous magnetic moment of the...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 13:20
BANKING of The Mystery BY MURRAY N. ROTHBARD pot
... were the subjects of a blizzard of fawning media stories and biographies With the bursting of the high-tech bubble in the late 1990s, the image of the Fed as the deft and all-seeing helmsman of the ... being and was accepted as essential to the operation of the market economy As in the case of his exposition of the theory, Rothbard’s treatment of the history of the Fed is fundamentally at odds with ... Rothbard’s presentation of the basic principles of money-andbanking theory in the first eleven chapters of the book guides the reader in unraveling the mystery of how the central bank operates...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Comparison of the inward- and outward-open homology models and ligand binding of human P-glycoprotein potx
... color, the more exposed the residue) of the disks drawn behind some of the residues to denote the difference in their solvent exposure as a result of the presence of the ligand; the ligand solvent ... molecule B The receptor exposure is shown by the size and intensity (the darker the color, the more exposed the residue) of the disks drawn behind some of the residues to denote the difference in their ... their solvent exposure as a result of the presence of the ligand; the ligand solvent exposure is shown by smudges drawn behind some of the ligand atoms to denote the extent of solvent exposure Symbols:...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:21
Báo cáo khoa học: Inactivation of phosphorylase is a major component of the mechanism by which insulin stimulates hepatic glycogen synthesis doc
... with the partial inactivation of GSK-3 by insulin The rates of glycogen synthesis in the combined presence of GSK-3 inhibitors and insulin were the same as with insulin alone, despite the further ... by inactivation of phosphorylase To determine the role of inactivation of phosphorylase in the stimulation of glycogen synthesis by insulin, we determined the combined effects of insulin and various ... glycogen synthase (assayed in the absence of Glc6P) In the absence of insulin or CP-91149, the relation between the rate of glycogen synthesis and the activity of glycogen synthase was sigmoidal...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20
Estimating the Internal Rate of Return on an MBA: A Comparison of the Return from Top-Ranked & Second-Tier Programs potx
... pre-MBA income will be one of the determinants of his/her incremental income The other, the post-MBA income, is a function of the school, the candidate, and the state of the economy (GDP growth ... such as the median incomes of students by school before and after the MBA and the program’s cost (tuition and fees) A final aspect of the rankings, the percentage of students that have a job offer ... degree is the additional salary that results from the degree, while the cost of the investment is the foregone income and associated tuition and fees The internal rate of return (IRR) on the MBA...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo Y học: A comparison of the urea-induced unfolding of apo¯avodoxin and ¯avodoxin from Desulfovibrio vulgaris potx
... increases the slope in the transition region of the unfolding curve for apo¯avodoxin but it has no effect on the slope of the curve for ¯avodoxin Furthermore, the slope of the curve for the holoprotein ... plots of the logarithm of the equilibrium constant (Kapp) for the unfolding of apo¯avodoxin calculated at 2.94 M (j) and 3.43 M (d) urea vs the logarithm of the mean activity of NaCl (ln a) the ... on the ionic composition of the solution The change in protein ¯uorescence as a function of the concentration of urea is consistent with a two-state model of unfolding, as are the kinetics of the...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 15:20
evaluation and comparison of management strategies by data envelopment analysis with an application to mutual funds
... whom they report Furthermore, separating the potential of strategies from the variations in their implementation clarifies the performance of management By controlling for the effect of the strategy ... applications of game theory to economics One of the benefits for the mathematical theory of games is a difficulty for strategic management: Perhaps the most important aspect of the theory of games as ... of the University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The University of Texas at Austin May 2006 UMI Number: 3245797 UMI Microform...
Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:55
báo cáo hóa học:" Comparison of the effects of vitamin D products in a psoriasis plaque test and a murine psoriasis xenograft model" docx
... the back of the animals The split human keratome biopsies were then grafted onto the back of the animals The grafts were protected by a bandage during the following two weeks All the transplantation ... we tested the compounds topically and compared the results to the findings from the plaque test The effect on the biomarkers showed the same trends as observed in the plaque test study The epidermal ... [15-17] However, these studies compared the biomarker profiles before and after treatment with the calcipotriol ointment and they did not assess the effects of the vehicle on the biomarker responses...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20
báo cáo hóa học: " Comparison of the discriminative ability of a generic and a condition-specific OHRQoL measure in adolescents with and without normative need for orthodontic treatment" potx
... information about wider effects of oral health on daily living The main advantage of generic measures is that they allow comparison of various domains of quality of life for the condition being studied, ... treatment These findings differed according to the indicator used to assess the impacts of oral conditions on participants' quality of life (the overall score or the prevalence of oral impacts) or the ... adolescent reported an impact on any of the performances, the frequency of the impact (scale from to 3) and the severity of its effect on daily life (scale from Page of (page number not for citation...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20