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... glycosides and is cultivated in the Netherlands for extraction of glycosides or, more rarely, collected from natural habitats The Grecian foxglove is cultivated in the Netherlands and France The leaves ... information, namely the nucleus, the plastids, and the mitochondria The genomes of these three compartments differ greatly in size and thus in number of heritable traits The nucleus (size of the ... regulators and phytohormones are the basis for the exploitation of this technique Depending on the explant and the culture conditions cells either preserve their state of biochemical and morphological...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 12:49

... of the DMF and the acidic condition of the reaction mixture The effects of pH on nitrification and denitrification rates were examined in batch-type tests For the tests, sludge obtained from the ... 6.5), and resuspended in 50 mM MOPS buffer The reaction mixture containing 870 μL of sludge, 120 μL of 50 mM CTC, and 10 μL of the substrate mixture (0.05% for peptone and yeast extract and mM for ... effluent SS and pH When the loading rate increased during Phase 2, the filtration time increased to more than 20 At around the 170th day, the filtration time spiked, and the effluent SS and pH also...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... set up in the section, and locate the position of the neutral axis (Cambridge) 12.4 The horizontal cross-section of the cast-iron standard of a vertical dnlling machme has the form shown The line ... 12.3 The single rope of a cantilever crane supports a load of 200 kN and passes over two pulleys and then vertically down the axis of the crane to the hoisting apparatus The section AB of the ... hollow rectangle The outside dimensions are 37.5 cm and 75 cm and the material is 2.5 cm thick all round, and the longer dimension is in the direction AB Calculate the maximum tensile and compressive...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 11:27

... e-mail brandreview@ wiley.com Trademarks: Wiley, the Wiley Publishing logo, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, A Reference for the Rest of Us!, The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and Easy ... brush for shoes and clothes Chapter 2: Equipping Yourself 25 26 Part I: Getting Your Hands Dirty: Cleaning Basics When purchasing mops, brooms, and other long-handled tools make sure that the handle ... products and new equipment The surfaces in your home and the fibres used to make your clothes have moved onwards And the time you have to clean has shrunk I am a consumer journalist and have...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 08:03

... shapes the categories in which other identities develop, and mothers and grandmothers have the ultimate power of defining both gender and shame This gives older women enormous moral power and provides ... having tried to lead the prisoners in singing the anthem of the Popular Unity coalition, whose election the right wing and the military never forgave Ayress and countless others—perhaps up to ... Among them were Margarita Durán, her father, her sister, and a fifteen-year-old neighbor Their captors took them first to the Chilean air force barracks in El Bosque on the outskirts of the city, then...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 12:02

... is the doubly selective channel characterizing the link between the transmitter and the rth receive antenna, and v(r) (t) is the baseband equivalent additive noise at the rth receive antenna The ... impact on the MSE performance This is not due to the choice of D, but rather due to the modeling error On the other hand, the MSE channel estimation is significantly reduced by increasing the number ... have order L = L and Q = Q The SLE coefficients as well as the SDFE coefficients are computed as explained in [1] for the MMSE-SLE, and in [2] for the MMSE-SDFE The BEM resolution of the timevarying...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... inside the ellipsoid The chromaticities of the pixels located outside the ellipsoid but inside the cone (formed by the ellipsoid and the origin) resemble the chromaticity of the background The brightness ... Figure 11: The results of the advantage of STCBM, where the red color means the shadow, the green color means the highlight, and the blue color means the foreground, (a) original images, (b) the results ... placed above the doll at the 590th frame, the foreground regions at the 670th frame remain the same as those at the 590th frame, as shown in Figure 11(b) The foreground regions under our hand become...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... rxns with ligands that are essential for the living system • Metal ligands are formed with sulfhydryl groups, as well as amino, phosphate, imidazole, and hydroxyl groups of enzymes and essential ... concentrations can be 2.6 g/kg • The rat and gray kangaroo of Western Australia have evolved resistance – In vivo defluorination w/ glutathione – Other kangaroos from areas w/o these plants are not tolerant ... (one), and abdominal colic (one) BLLs ranged from 16 ug/dL to 259 ug/dL (median: 67 ug/dL) • Seven patients required hospitalization for 48 hours or longer (range: 2-18 days) Three of these received...

Ngày tải lên: 09/07/2014, 08:21

... clique; otherwise wci is odd if and only if i is odd For these odd permutations, interchange the entries containing bn−2 and bn so that they become even Together with the even permutations in W , they ... that the result holds for n = For n ≥ 4, the result follows from Theorem 3.1 k k Case II For all k, there exist αk , βk such that Tαk βk = ∅ and Tij = ∅ for all i = αk k k If Tαk = Sn for some ... prove the case of equality of Theorem 1.2 It is feasible, by using GAP [7], to establish Theorem 1.2 for n = 2, 3, 5, 6, For n ≥ 8, we shall deduce Theorem 1.2 from the more general Theorem 2.1 The...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 15:22

... to the theoretical background and conceptualization of the study, collected the original data, and supervised the analyses in the current project AG contributed to the theoretical background and ... evaluations and performance reviews The three items in the ‘Staffing Resources’ cluster represent themes relating to competing demands on time, finances, and energy of staff and the challenges ... also provided with the three examples of EBPs and the associated handouts described above to provide them with easily accessible information about common types of EBPs and their features Statements...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... assay response was half the response for the semi-homogeneous format suggesting only half the quantity of NA binds to the surface in the homogenous format - that is, for the same concentration ... as the targets are widely spaced on the particles again In summary, the sensor response is dependent both on the mass of the particle and the stiffness of the connection between the particle and ... affected by i) the coupled mass of the particle, ii) the proximal contact area between the particle and the sensor surface and iii) the available capture area on the particle and binding dynamics...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... participated in the design of the study, the statistical analysis plan and the interpretation of the data MT conceived of ths study and participated in its coordination All authors read and approve the final ... studies have assessed the cost of bipolar disorder [15]: two in France focusing on manic episodes [20,21], one in the Netherlands [22] and another in the United Kingdom [23], these last two focusing ... setting and information was collected in a case report form designed for this purpose The study was evaluated and approved by the ethics committee of Hospital Clínico San Carlos de Madrid and carried...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... have contributed to the clinical ADF resistance Nevertheless, the case is scholarly for a couple of aspects: On the one hand it shows that there is a definite need for HBV-therapy also in paediatric ... interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions VS performed the bioinformatical work, analyzed the clinical data, performed parts of the cloning and analyzed ... analyzed the sequencing data SZ established and performed PCRs and was involved in sequencing RLT was involved in cloning and sequencing OS supervised the study, designed the experiments and wrote the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... Mr Zhang Yanyuan and Madam Lin Aiping, my grandmother Madam Qu Juying, my late grandfather Mr Lin Yunhu and all my relatives for their continuous and infinite love, support and encouragement ... concentrations (Fu and Wang 2011) Furthermore, selective adsorption also provides the possibility to recover the targeted species for reuse, eliminating the need for their ultimate disposal and thus conserving ... 2005) These electrodes can detect metal ions with high sensitivity and selectivity; and therefore receive considerable attention due to their potential for easy detection and quantification of the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 17:52

... benefit on the host” They are part of the commensal microflora in animals and humans and they can be found in the oral, genital and gastrointestinal tracts They have also been conferred the GRAS ... helping hand whenever I need it I would like to thank my parents and brothers for their love, faith and support Thank you for always believing in me and encouraging me to go a little further, dream ... attributes of a chemotherapeutic drug and an immunotherapeutic agent) that gives rise to its anti-tumor properties The aim of the study is therefore to evaluate both the immunological and nonimmunological...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:16

... position of the band, there is a band-width (see Fig 2.3) The polygon generated for representing the band will be within the boundary of the band Therefore, if the maximum band-width of the band is ... between the cloud data and the surface model, (2) shape error between the surface model and the STL model, and (3) shape error between the STL model and the layerbased RP model This will make the ... between the cloud data and the STL model, and (2) shape error between the STL model and the layer-based RP model Still, the control of the final shape error is not straightforward In the third...

Ngày tải lên: 26/09/2015, 11:07

... sites on the adsorbent, respectively, while b1 and b2 are the affinity coefficients for the both sites in the isotherm (L/mg) The adsorption capacity of the adsorbent is therefore given by the sum ... the magnetic field of the radio frequency (RF) coil The stable plasma of about 7000 K is then generated as the result of the inelastic collisions created between the neutral argon atoms and the ... topic of research In order to meet the upgrading regulations and standards, and manage the heavy metal waste more properly and efficiently, great efforts therefore have been devoted to develop...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 10:12

... Yee for their help and advice throughout the research; to Ms TAN Xiaolan, Ms LEE Leng Leng and Mr S.G Chandrasegaran for their assistance and guidance on experiment set-up, sample analysis and ... purchase; and to fellow research students for their companionship and assistance Finally I would like to thank my parents for their great support throughout my study and my closest friends for their ... pollution problem is affecting human health and development With population increase and urbanization, the problem is becoming severer One of the strategies to face the problem is to look for alternative...

Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2015, 17:15

... deficit for the first time since 2004 The import increase was due to the demand expansion for the material and equipment, which served the expansion of manufacturing activities for domestic and export ... freer, the responsibility for compensation and land clearance has shifted from the foreign partner to the Vietnamese side, and foreign-invested enterprises were allowed to mortgage their land use ... investment and saving), whereas the second problem arises from the foreign exchange gap (the difference between imports and exports) 3. 2The Effect of FDI on Output and Growth One of the most important...

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2012, 16:51

... Iago and asks him who initiated a recent fight Othello addresses Iago from the position of strength and power and he therefore uses the explicit performative ‘I charge thee’ Iago understands ... with the flax of the blade, first upon the left shoulder, next upon the right shoulder and finally upon the top of the head while saying I dub thee once I dub thee twice I dub thee Knight.1 The ... Introduction This thesis deals with the theory of speech acts and the issue of indirectness in English It sums up and comments on theoretical definitions and assumptions concerning the theory of speech...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 10:37