... to submitting my thesis I am also grateful to Prof Xie Min, Dr Chai Kah Hin, and Prof Tan Kay Chuan and IEEE Engineering Management Section Singapore Chapter for involving me in IEEM and ICMIT ... design can be both tangible and intangible It can involve artifacts and other things including communication, environment and behaviors Whichever form it takes it must be consistent, easy to use and ... Liu Shubin, Dr Han Dongling, Markus Hartono and my housemates Ms Mu Shifeng, Ms Wang Yue, Ms Liu Chen, Ms Jiang Yixin, Li Juxin and Wang Qiang My life would not be so happy and meaningful in the...
... ran the simulations, produced the output tables and figures, and drafted the manuscript, JG conceived of the study and participated in its design and coordination and edited the manuscript, and ... spending includes a "subsistence" component λ that is independent of income and determined by household populations H Savings are collected in a national savings pool and used to finance investment ... South Africa, including: national accounts; the 2000 Income and Expenditure Survey; the 2002 Labour Force Survey; and the South African Standard Industrial Database [8] The income and expenditure...
... Services: They include three agents: SSA, TEA, and ASA The first agent, SSA, maintains a database of information about ABs This information is used for encrypting and decrypting sensitive data and metadata ... protocols: issuing identity to an entity, and verifying identity of an entity Before issuing an identity, IdP chooses a public integer n and a pseudo random C Approach We propose anapproachfor entity-centric ... It receives audit information from ABs, and records this information into a file for analysis by authorized entities3 (e.g., AB owners, or auditors) Get decryption information and host’s trust...
... was examined by MAR-FISH, and the results are shown in Figs and Lower initial pH conditions increased anaerobic acetate uptake by Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ in the second and third ... black, and combined together The black area of the combined image around each cell was quantified Image handling was performed on Adobe Photoshop (Adobe, USA) For each analysis, more than 25 microscopic ... described by Andreasen and Nielsen(1997) and Lee et al (1999) The cover slip was immersed in Hypercoat Emulsion LM1(Amersham Bioscience Inc.) at 43oC for sec, and dried The cover slip was placed in the...
... calling page stores values in the Session objectfor use in the search page, telling it what record source to use, as well as other information used for searching for the specific record and ... with the properties set forth in Table 8.11 Table 8.11 Label, TextBox, DataGrid, and Command Button Controls Property Settings for the Calling FormObject Property Setting DOCUMENT bgColor buttonface ... form, with the properties set forth in Table 8.10 Table 8.10 Label, TextBox, and Command Button Controls Property Settings for the Calling FormObject Property Setting DOCUMENT bgColor buttonface...
... 10.15; and at 10.10 we were all scrambling into our pyjamas In winter our disrobing was hasty; in summer it was an affair of leisure, and deshabille roamings to and fro in the aisle, and gossip ... Discipline and training have given him some veneer of generalised similarities Beneath these, Tommy Atkins is simply the man in the street any man in any street; and if you look out of your window in ... slang and of colloquialisms which I culled in the bathroom, sitting comfortably in my bath and communing with my neighbour in the next bath I remember one morning making the acquaintance of an...
... lottos, available credit, and more gambling casinos and video lottery terminals assured that such hype sustained itself High-ranking call girls and their pimps, and porno stars and their producers, ... and Antonio Negri’s Empire (2000), are in danger of being apolitically transformed into Bruno Latourian “ANTs” (pun intended) that form “the ‘cosmos’ of unruly entities that can impinge on any ... through fandom, sports, spectacular events, Internet dating, and so on These interactive and cybernetic machines—not only the video camera and computer, but also the audiovisual recording and playback...
... amount of the arsenic in marine organisms is in organic forms such as arsenosugars in algae, and arsenobetaine and arsenocholine in fish, mollusks, and crustaceans (Maeda, 1994; Francesconi et al., ... in any significant quantity Research on heavy metal hyperaccumulating plants indicates that some organic and amino acids (histine and proline) and polyhydroxy phenolic compounds may also be involved ... the plant This paper summarizes the results from these studies Experimental 2.1 Reagents and standards The inorganic arsenic standard and other individual stock solutions of internal standards...
... the low-index surfaces of nanocrystals andin facilitating the formation of nanocubes and nanorods While the secondary growth of small particles inan Y Wang, H Yang / Chemical Engineering Journal ... The combination of changing the concentrations of capping agents and subtle variation in temperature between about 280 and 310 ◦ C could results in the formation of iron oxide nanorods and possibly ... Oleylamine and 1,2-hexadecanediol are required co-surfactants in controlling the formation of nanorods of iron oxide The different solubility of precursors, reactive intermediates and nanoparticles...
... They saw how grown up she had become and that it was time for her to find a husband and, in a way, marry another Gregor He was the hindrance of the family's happiness, even after he died "With the ... from his family, and he was much more wise because of it He had gotten used to his change and actually enjoyed being a bug " He especially liked hanging from the ceiling" (p 100) And all the talk ... the mask of a giant insect in which they had created Hissister was making a change of her own also Early in his metamorphosis "Gregor would stretch his legs and try to get comfortable" (p 71)...
... Compliance with Laws and Regulations Obtaining an Understanding of the Legal and Regulatory Framework 22 As part of obtaining an understanding of the entity and its environment in accordance with ... alia, includes accounting and financial reporting policies and compliance with applicable legal and regulatory standards 13 At the same time, as discussed in paragraphs and of the Standard on Internal ... responsibility for designing, implementing, maintaining and documenting internal control Standard on Internal Audit (SIA) 17 14 Paragraph of the Standard on Internal Audit (SIA) 13, “Enterprise Risk Management”,...
... the standardized resting boxes and the human landing catch for sampling malaria vectors and other mosquitoes in urban Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Malar J 2009, 8:197 Castro MC, Tsuruta A, Kanamori ... girl and she asks what you want You explain that you need to go inside to look for breeding places and she might tell you just wait So you stand there waiting for minutes Then a boy comes and ... office unannounced in the morning The investigator did not pre-inform the CORPs nor did he reveal his role and independent status at any time before or during the visit Both the investigator and the...
... with mouse anti-MUC1 monoclonal (Fig lanes 1, and 3) and rabbit anti-MUC2 (lanes 4, and 6), rabbit anti-MUC5AC (lanes 7, and 9) and rabbit antiMUC5B (lanes 10, 11 and 12) polyclonal antibodies ... gel and transferred to nitrocellulose membrane Following overnight blocking, the membranes were incubated for h with mouse anti-MUC1 monoclonal (lanes 1, and 3) and rabbit anti-MUC2 (lanes 4, and ... 6), rabbit anti-MUC5AC (lanes 7, and 9) and rabbit anti-MUC5B (lanes 10, 11 and 12) polyclonal antibodies Membranes were then incubated for h with HRPO linked goat anti-mouse and goat anti-rabbit...
... reconstruction algorithm SW, MH, SP, and FJ participated in the data analysis andin the writing of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare ... the → → point X to the scattering point → , and ρ x is the denx → sity at the point x (zero in air) In liver SIRT, the attenuation is almost homogeneous, and the linear integration → ∧ in Equation ... performance, specific effects of bremsstrahlung resulting from the high-energy X-rays, such as collimator penetration-scattering and backscattering in the camera, were not corrected for, and an...
... FATIGUE AND FRACTURE INAN AIRCRAFT ENGINE PYLON by R.J.H Wanhill and A Oldersma This paper has been prepared in the format required for the International Conference "Engineering Against Fatigue", ... the right wing inan outboard and rearward direction The #3 engine hit the #4 engine, causing this engine and its pylon also to separate from the wing Both engines and pylons fell into a lake ... accident involved many organisations, including Boeing, Pratt and Whitney, El Al, airworthiness authorities from Israel, the Netherlands and USA, accident investigation boards from the UK and USA,...
... Water transfer in plants In: Heat and Mass Transfer in the Biosphere Part Transfer Processes in Plant Environment (de Vries D.A & Afgan N.H., eds.), John Wiley & Sons, New York, pp 369-394 g Landsber ... versus absorption) This transformation allows those interested in water proportion balance of drainage basins to version as a subrnodel use this simplified Discussion and Conclusions This model ... resistance of the transpirational pathway (Fig 3) It is possible to determine the parameters (2 resistances and capacitance) of the equivalent circuit having the same transfer function (= transpiration...
... and fluctuating cognition and the Shortly following her evaluation, the akinesia and rigidity worsened, and a frontal syndrome developed An L-dopa Figure non-injected computed tomography brain ... imaging (MRI) with gadolinium injection highlighted a diffuse tumorrelated infiltration involving both lobes, the putamen, the pallidum, the substantia nigra and the brainstem, corresponding ... fluid-attenuatedand the substantia nigra (Long arrow) Axial fluid-attenuated inversion recovery MRI image demonstrating tumor-related infiltration involving both temporal lobes (Short arrow), and the substantia...
... Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions VL, EK and TJA were all involved in managing the case andin preparing the report manuscript ... protein and its efficacy against humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy Anticancer Res 2004, 24:2665-74 Carvalho EM, Da Fonseca Porto A: Epidemiological and clinical interaction between HTLV-1 and ... malignancy The peptide binds to the PTH receptor and increases both calcium levels (through bony resorption and calcium reabsorption in the kidney) and the production of pro-inflammotory cytokines,...
... r = 79 for the depressed mood and worrying factor; r = 86 for the depressed mood and somatic/information processing factor; and r = 78 for the worrying and somatic/information processing factor ... Depressive and anxiety symptoms often co-occur resulting in a debate about common and distinct features of depression and anxiety Methods An exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and a bifactor modelling approach ... statistics and standard errors [11] The purpose of the present study was to analyse common and distinct features of depression and anxiety symptoms in adolescents using self-report data from the Mood and...
... activities and outcomes HIV activities began with HIV counseling and testing in Kinkala in March 2005 andin Mindouli in February 2006 All HIV activities were transferred from Kinkala to Mindouli in ... than sulphadiazine and pyrimethamine for treatment of cerebral toxoplasmosis) Clinical consultations were performed by both doctors and nurses Monitoring was performed on a clinical and immunological ... malnutrition and maternal and infant health Staff were also unfamiliar and uncomfortable with HIV management and there was a fear that HIV care, through its perceived complexity and time demands on...