... company's profit and hence, survival Adjusting the price has a profound impact on the marketing strategy, and depending on the price elasticity of the product, often it will affect the demand and sales ... owners understand the importance of marketing but they can’t distinguish between marketing and advertising Marketing has vast boundaries and advertising is just a part of it All forms of marketing ... partners, and society at large Marketing is communicating the value of a product, service or brand to customers, for the purpose of promoting or selling that product, service, or brand II Importance of...
... from varieties of rocks properties It is fibrous form of silicate of magnesium and calcium containing iron and aluminum and other minerals It is acid proof, flame proof and rust proof Its particles ... acid and acetic anhydride in the presence of sulfuric acid Acetate Fiber Characteristics Luxurious feel and appearance Wide range of colors and lusters Excellent drapability and softness ... one of the cheapest natural fibres and is second only to cotton in amount produced and variety fibres are composed primarily of the plant cellulose and lignin Properties Jute is a long, soft,...
... the proof for part a of Theorem 1.2 by showing the following lemma 8 Journal of Inequalities and Applications Lemma 1.3 For any integer n ≥ 1, and for all x1 , , xn with each xk ∈ a, b and all ... minimum of h p in S subject to the constraint p1 · · · pn occurs on the boundary of S, where some of the pk must be zero At the minimum, say po , we are back to the case of n − or less, and by ... admissible q, t, and x1 1.30 Journal of Inequalities and Applications For any fixed q, t, and x1 , suppose we obtain θ2 q, t, x1 2f x − θσ − qtx1 −f x − θσ θ∈ 0,1/ 1−q tx1 −1 1.31 and suppose
... miscarriages, and livedo reticularis Materials and Methods We focused on the secondary prevention of stroke with APS, and compared single antiplatelet therapy and a combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation ... antibody (10 males and 10 females, mean age 48 years), who were hospitalized between October 2002 and November 2004 They consisted of 13 with primary antiphospholipid syndrome and with SLE-related ... combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy group showed an INR before the recurrence of 2.0, so the possibility of inadequate treatment can not be ruled out Table Baseline characteristics of...
... The accuracy of the result depends on the definitionof the nodes The definitionof a good mesh is crucial to find the optimum between the smallest number of nodes and the accuracy of the results ... efficiency of the whole installation: the separation between the panels, temperature and air velocity of incoming solar radiation and temperatures of solid elements, the heat transfer coefficients of ... boundary condition is set 4.3 Case (a) and (b) comparison The objective is the comparisonof the temperature in the external face of the building in both cases, a and b The mentioned difference is...
... are many kinds of language: language of music, language of science, language of art, etc And they are used to communicate Speech (and words) is the fastest and simplest method of communication ... communication let us come to the study of the ways of greeting and a comparisonbetween Vietnamese and English greetings Chapter 2: General Introduction To Greeting Definitionof greeting When you see a ... aims of providing users of English a system of greeting and ways of greeting so that they can use greeting actively and correctly in certain contexts By comparing the greeting of Vietnamese and...
... FREQUENCY OF VERB USE AND NOUN USE AND THE RATIO OF VERB USE AND NOUN USE IN COLEC AND LOCNESS 157 TABLE THE PERCENTAGES OF VERB USE AND NOUN USE OF 25 VERBS IN COLEC, LOCNESS AND GSL ... similarities and disparities between the written English of a group of non-native speakers (NNSs) and that of a group of native speakers (NSs) It is hoped that the identification of similarity and difference ... similarities and disparities between the learner English and the NS English in the aspect of the width and depth of verbs? (By the width of verbs, I mean the size of vocabulary in verbs By the depth of...
... place of residence in total hip replacement Scand J Soc Med 1982, 10:95-99 Standing Committee of the Hospitals of the E.U: Waiting lists and waiting times in health care Managing demand and supply ... instrument of health-related quality of life: properties and applications Ann Med 2001, 33:328-336 Sintonen H: The 15-D Measure of Health Related Quality of Life II Feasibility and Validity of its ... of the participants (including patients and population controls) were from capital area A total of 75 (28%) participants were from other urban area and 48 (18%) from rural area A comparison between...
... difference between parent report of students and patients and might be interpreted mistakenly Given non-significant differences between parent proxy Page of reports and significant differences between ... interpretation of the data and the revising of the manuscript JW contributed to statistical analysis, interpretation of the data and the revising of the manuscript FM is one of the original authors of the ... Jozefiak et al Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:136 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/136 Page of Table Outpatients and students matched by age, sex and levels of emotional and behavioural...
... we use m = n = (4) The values of CWCF range between (no amplitude correlation between X and Y) and (X and Y are totally correlated in amplitude) The application of these methods on EEG signals ... P Morucci, H Grandjean, and R Favretto, “External recording and processing of fast electrical activity of the uterus in human parturition,” Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, vol ... case of WLCC-phase correlation—(Figure 3(c)) In the labor contraction we notice the opposite (between 40 s and 80 s): large areas of significance with CWCF and smaller ones with WLCC The comparison...
... Field performance of cuttings and seedlings of E Globulus 839 Table III Comparisonof means (and associated F-test) between cuttings and seedlings and variances values for Family and Family × Method ... root systems between cuttings and seedlings of E globulus have been reported for this species by Sasse and Sands [25] and Sasse and Sands [27] These authors reported more deformities and less radial ... progeny, 840 M.J Gaspar et al Table IV Comparisonof means (and associated F-test) between cuttings and seedlings and variances values for family and clones (and associated LTR test) in the open...
... of humus form in the presence of mull-forming species, the spatial pattern of this improvement was not described The question of the existence and strength of spatial correlations between stand ... white squares and mixed stand ones by black points; for pure and mixed stands, the centres of gravity of ellipsoids are equal to the mean of the sample coordinates; PS = pure beech stand; MS = mixed ... thick OL andOF horizons, a low pHH20 at cm and a high percentage of organic carbon at cm (negative part); from (ii) samples with a thin OL and OF, a high pHH20 at cm and low percentage of organic...
... ultrastructure, and leaf characteristics of high- and low-light plants andof sun and shade leaves Photosynth Res 2, 115-141 light E.M (1986) Correlation of activity and amount of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate ... a lower rate of C0 uptake and an appressed/non-appressed membrane ratio of about In the present study, a tion was found between negative correla- N P and the ratio of the length of appressed ... membranes (Fig 2A) andbetween the ratio of the length of appressed to non-appressed thylakoid membranes and photon fluence rate (Fig 2B) This suggests that, in the canopy, acclimation of the thylakoid...
... reproducible and uniform properties The great variability between individual trees, as well as within andbetween stands, indicates that there is large potential for more efficient and optimized forest and ... stress value ofand MPa However, despite the two different ways of loading, the length over the constant stands), an moment area and the measurements of the curvature over a length of m were the ... studs (three fast-grown and one slow-grown) failed owing to handling or during measurements of E = logs (TL) from fast-grown stands (FG) and thinning stand (ThL)] in terms of the measured mean values...
... average between the measurements of the radiologists and the average of the measurements of the radiotherapists Figure represents the measurements of the radiologists andof the radiotherapists and ... discriminating between tumor and atelectasia; Due to the number of uncertainties andof phenomena related to the tumor, the definitionof gross tumor volume 3) use of different tomographic windows and partial ... radiotherapists and Measurements ofBland-Altman method the radiologists and Measurements of the radiotherapists and the radiologists and the graph by the Bland-Altman method Some peculiarities of Hospital...
... systematic and random uncertainty should be given different weight in the formation of margins between the CTV and the PTV In the present work we used the weight factor 2.5 for the systematic errors and ... 1a involves a registration between a CT and MR study Errors in this registration directly affect the spatial accuracy of the target definition Registrations between MR and CT for prostate patients ... deformation of the prostate during radiotherapy leads to drift in the relation between the centre of mass for the markers and centre of mass for the contoured prostate This uncertainty is in the order of...
... where asj and adj are genetic values of the sire and dam of individual j, and mij is the Mendelian sampling effect of individual j assumed to be independent of the genetic values of the sire and dam ... properties, Bias and MSE, of Bayesian andof EBLUP estimates showed the same pattern over the range of simulated scenarios The bias and MSE of Bayesian estimates were often less than of EBLUP estimates, ... correlations between true and estimated contrasts of CG effects The insensitivity of rank correlations between true and estimated contrasts of fixed CG effects to missing PI [4,7] and to phenotypic...
... fragments of 9.0, 5.5, and 6.6 kb containing the E pair genes of the juvenile, adult, and fetal sets, respectively (Rando et al, 1989) On the other hand, restriction patterns of mouflons with Hb M and ... BM, and Hb M) and, as a comparison, from six sheep (2 Hb A, Hb AB, and Hb B) DNA samples were digested with Hind III, Ba!n HI, and Eco RI and probed with plasmid pG16Ec3Bm2 (containing the 5’ of ... both number and length of restriction fragments and show no intermediates (Di Gregorio et al, 1987; Rando et al, 1989) Some authors (Bunch et al, 1976; Bunch and Nadler, 1980; Bunch and Nguyen,...
... Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research 2011, 30:30 http://www.jeccr.com/content/30/1/30 PCR Amplification and sequencing The two codons of KRAS (12 and 13) and two exons of EGFR (19 and ... http://www.jeccr.com/content/30/1/30 Table Comparisonof EGFR and KRAS status between primary and metastatic tumors in NSCLC patients EGFR mutation status Case No KRAS mutation status Page of mutations (60%, 55% and 48%, respectively; ... the end of the first and third months of therapy, and then every months Objective tumor response and its duration were assessed according to the RECIST criteria Page of [27], and all responses were...
... results, and previous antibiotic treatment has great impact on these values Souweine and coworkers [23] showed that the standard cutoff values of BAL and PSB would have to be lowered to 103 cfu/ml and ... found the threshold of 105 cfu/ml to have a sensitivity of 81%, specificity of 65%, positive predictive value of 55% and negative predictive value of 55% In that study different cutoff values were ... P aeruginosa and Acinetobacter spp We found different levels of sensitivity (81%, 65%, 26%) and specificity (23%, 48%, 78%) for qualitative and quantitative (cutoffs 105 cfu/ml and 106 cfu/ml)...