designing and conducting mixed methods studies to generate evidence for nursing

Design, fabrication, and characterization of a solenoidsystem to generate magnetic field for an ECR proton source

Design, fabrication, and characterization of a solenoidsystem to generate magnetic field for an ECR proton source

Ngày tải lên : 22/12/2013, 08:58
... jacket, and amp-turns (NI) The optimum values of NI for the side and middle solenoid coils were obtained to be 12950 and 8250 respectively Based on these parameters, the total length of the conductor ... adiabatic invariance for mirror reflection, and high magnetic field mode of operation to successfully generate and confine plasma Design of the electromagnet The magnetic field required to satisfy the ... jacket (electromagnet) for shielding the fringing magnetic field and to reduce the power consumption The use of jacket is to provide a return path for the magnetic field lines and thereby shield the...
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Computational modeling of cell signaling dynamics  hypothesis management and parameter estimation methods applied to the akt pathway

Computational modeling of cell signaling dynamics hypothesis management and parameter estimation methods applied to the akt pathway

Ngày tải lên : 09/09/2015, 10:18
... SBToolbox2 toolkit (Schmidt and Jirstrand, 2006) to perform in silico simulation Models were available in TextBC format, which contains model states, model variables and model reactions information ... input) and Aktp308 (used as model observable) Immunoblotting experiments to measure total Akt and Aktp308 were performed according to (Lim and Clément, 2007) Immunodetection of PIP3 level and confocal ... a factor node εe,i,j to a parameter node ki if and only if ki appears in the equation for εe,i,j For each factor node, a factor graph has a joint table (or joint probability distribution) to describe...
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Designing and conducting health systems research projects

Designing and conducting health systems research projects

Ngày tải lên : 21/12/2016, 10:40
... of clinics according to number of patients treated for malaria in one month Number of patients to 19 20 to 39 40 to 59 60 to 79 80 to 99 100 to 119 120 to 139 140 to 159 Total Number of clinics ... this example, the total responses for ‘yes’, ‘no’ and ‘don’t know’ for the question ‘Was the stay in hospital appropriate?’ is equal to the total study cases The total responses for the question, ... Female Total ill not ill total Before using it, check the cross-tabulation for the following: • The grand total in the table should correspond to the number of subjects in the sample • Column and...
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A Fun Way to Generate Ideas for Comparison Paragraphs.doc

A Fun Way to Generate Ideas for Comparison Paragraphs.doc

Ngày tải lên : 06/09/2013, 05:10
... the pieces of paper and put them into a hat Go to each group, and ask one member to take two pieces These are the nouns that must be compared To help students form their topic sentences, write ... small groups, in order to generate as many points and supporting sentences as possible Conclusion Usually, these paragraphs are so good that you may want to copy them all to share with the entire ... " and are similar in many ways." Tell the students to simply fill in the blanks with the two nouns they randomly selected Depending on the size of the class, I usually ask students to this...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Learning to Rank Definitions to Generate Quizzes for Interactive Information Presentation" doc

Báo cáo khoa học: "Learning to Rank Definitions to Generate Quizzes for Interactive Information Presentation" doc

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 03:20
... ranking of definitions S stands for a system utterance and U for a user utterance Approach Since it is difficult to know in advance what characteristics are important for quiz-style ranking, we ... values and words/semantic categories related to government or creation lead to easy hints, whereas semantic categories, such as birth and others (corresponding to the person in ‘a person from Tokyo’), ... Yuji Matsumoto 2002 Extracting important sentences with support vector machines In Proc 19th COLING, pages 342–348 Satoru Ikehara, Satoshi Shirai, Akio Yokoo, and Hiromi Nakaiwa 1991 Toward an...
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Báo cáo y học: "Cardiac surgery in a patient with retroperitoneal fibrosis and heart valvulopathy, both due to pergolide medication for Parkinson''''s disease" pps

Báo cáo y học: "Cardiac surgery in a patient with retroperitoneal fibrosis and heart valvulopathy, both due to pergolide medication for Parkinson''''s disease" pps

Ngày tải lên : 10/08/2014, 10:20
... Surgery 2009, 4:65 golide and cabergoline have high "affinity" for the 5-HT2B serotonin receptors, which are expressed in heart valves and might mediate mitogenesis and, in turn, the proliferation ... pulmonary edema and ever worsening symptomatology throughout the past months His symptoms included exerciseinduced dyspnea and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspea (NYHA III) From his past medical history we ... double (aortic and mitral) valve replacement combined with ascending aorta replacement Haemodialysis was performed in the afternoon before the scheduled operation and every other day postoperatively...
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Báo cáo y học: " Mental health first aid for Indigenous Australians: using Delphi consensus studies to develop guidelines for culturally appropriate responses to mental health problems" pot

Báo cáo y học: " Mental health first aid for Indigenous Australians: using Delphi consensus studies to develop guidelines for culturally appropriate responses to mental health problems" pot

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 17:20
... OATSIH, Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health: A National Strategic Framework for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' Mental Health and Social and Emotional Well Being ... members whose dedication to this research has been outstanding We hope this research has done justice to your passion and commitment to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people of Australia ... online forums, information brochures, leaflets or hand-outs from service providers or information centres, medical journals and online databases for any written information about how to assist...
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New horizons europes small and medium sized companies look to emerging markets for growth

New horizons europes small and medium sized companies look to emerging markets for growth

Ngày tải lên : 06/12/2015, 23:09
... “We wanted to be prepared to not have to lose these clients and to be able to maintain our positive client relationships and to take them into these foreign markets.” All this leads to an important ... speed and flexibility, but also in terms of their relative informality, closeness to customers and ability to identify smaller niches l Speed and flexibility Nearly half (48%) of firms polled for ... makes it hard for them to be nimble and fast.” Apréndelo, a Spanish web marketing firm that specialises in the education sector, has been expanding into Brazil and Mexico, using its size to out-compete...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Alternative substrates for wild-type and L109A E. coli CTP synthases Kinetic evidence for a constricted ammonia tunnel doc

Báo cáo khoa học: Alternative substrates for wild-type and L109A E. coli CTP synthases Kinetic evidence for a constricted ammonia tunnel doc

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 13:20
... the Gln-OH stock solution at C and add this solution directly to the assay cocktail to initiate the reaction At 37 C, the observed rst order rate constant for cyclization of Gln-OH to form 2-pyrrolidone-5-carboxylate ... CTPS, and saturating concentrations of UTP (1 mM) and ATP (1 mM) in a total volume of mL Enzyme and nucleotides were preincubated together for 2.5 at 37 C followed by addition of substrate to initiate ... 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and 100 mM; and CTPS concentrations were 20 lgặmL)1 for wild-type and 2024 lgặmL)1 for L109A For assays of Gln- or Gln analogue-dependent CTP formation, concentrations...
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Báo cáo y học: "Do synovial biopsies help to support evidence for involvement of innate immunity in the immunopathology of Behçet’s disease" pot

Báo cáo y học: "Do synovial biopsies help to support evidence for involvement of innate immunity in the immunopathology of Behçet’s disease" pot

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 14:20
... naïve T cells and cytokines in sterile SF in order to relate these observations to immunological patterns that have already been described in tissues that are exposed to exogenous factors, or more ... inflammatory diseases in order to obtain greater insight into the immune-related etiology of BD and to develop more specific, molecular based immunotherapies Examples may include targeting cytokines ... in early BD and interacts with adaptive immunity, as reflected by the presence of perforin, presumably secreted by CD3+ T cells It might therefore be of interest to conduct further studies of...
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Báo cáo y học: "Hyperuricemia and cardiovascular disease: how strong is the evidence for a causal link" docx

Báo cáo y học: "Hyperuricemia and cardiovascular disease: how strong is the evidence for a causal link" docx

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 14:22
... study [22] The degree to which epidemiological studies can control for potential confounders is variable, but most studies would examine the role of diuretics, dietary factors, and alcohol intake ... transient ischemic attack [30] Finally, Lazzeri and colleagues found serum urate to be a significant and independent predictor of total mortality and inhospital mortality in a retrospective cohort ... urate and cognitive dysfunction in older adults [33] To explore the potential for a therapeutic intervention, low (100 mg/day) and standard (300 mg/day) doses of allopurinol were administered to...
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Báo cáo y học: " Phylogenetic analyses of the polyprotein coding sequences of serotype O foot-and-mouth disease viruses in East Africa: evidence for interserotypic recombination" pps

Báo cáo y học: " Phylogenetic analyses of the polyprotein coding sequences of serotype O foot-and-mouth disease viruses in East Africa: evidence for interserotypic recombination" pps

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 04:20
... isolates, laboratory work and manuscript proof reading CM Field work, laboratory studies, manuscript proof reading CA Field work, manuscript proof reading PN Laboratory studies and generated sequence ... related to other O serotype viruses In order to establish possible recombination events further analyses were performed using similarity and bootscan plots (see Figure and 7) The similarity and bootscan ... dGTP, dTTP) and 1.5 mM MgCl2 Following the activation of AmpliTaq gold DNA polymerase at 95°C for min, reaction mixtures were denatured at 95°C for 15 s followed by 60°C for to allow for primer...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence studies of conformational changes induced by cyclic AMP and DNA binding to cyclic AMP receptor protein from Escherichia coli ppt

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence studies of conformational changes induced by cyclic AMP and DNA binding to cyclic AMP receptor protein from Escherichia coli ppt

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 23:20
... uorescence and acceptor absorption, and j2 is the orientation factor and accounts for relative orientation of the donor emission and acceptor absorption transition dipole Generally, j2 is assumed to ... strand was added, and the mixture was heated for at 96 C and slowly cooled to room temperature The double-stranded DNA was stored at )20 C in experimental buffer Protein purication The tryptophans ... to be equal to 2/3, which is the value for donors and acceptors that randomized by rotational diffusion before energy transfer Fluorescence anisotropy decay measurements The W13F and W85A CRP...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Functional studies of crustacean hyperglycemic hormones (CHHs) of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus – the expression and release of CHH in eyestalk and pericardial organ in response to environmental stress pot

Báo cáo khoa học: Functional studies of crustacean hyperglycemic hormones (CHHs) of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus – the expression and release of CHH in eyestalk and pericardial organ in response to environmental stress pot

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 06:20
... at 94 °C for 30 s, 52 °C for 30 s, and 72 °C for min; three cycles at 94 °C for 30 s, 50 °C for 30 s, and 72 °C for min; 24 cycles at 94 °C for 30 s, 55 °C for 30 s, and 72 °C for min, and a final ... denaturation at 94 °C for min, 30 cycles at 94 °C for 30 s, 60 °C for 30 s, and 72 °C for min, and a final extension at 72 °C for The PCR product was electrophoresed on 1% agarose gel, and the band was excised, ... Wales, Bangor, UK) for amino acid analysis of neuropeptides, and M M Ford for comments on the manuscript We also wish to thank to Dr S Moore for SALDI (Ciphergen) and Mr M Prescott for ESI MS analyses...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Kinetic studies and molecular modelling attribute a crucial role in the specificity and stereoselectivity of penicillin acylase to the pair ArgA145-ArgB263 pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: Kinetic studies and molecular modelling attribute a crucial role in the specificity and stereoselectivity of penicillin acylase to the pair ArgA145-ArgB263 pdf

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 16:20
... [19] give evidence of polar environment around ArgB263 It consists of O atoms of the main chain CO groups of LeuB387 and TrpB240, Od1 atom of AsnB241 and Oc atom of SerB386 and is expected to stabilize ... catalysed hydrolysis of PhAc-Asp and PhAc-Glu [13] and our data for PhAc-pAB, PhAc-mAB and PhAcoAB (Table 2) imply that the COOH group has to be positioned as in NIPAB for effective catalysis The ... constants for PA catalysed hydrolysis of PG and PhAc-NH2 are determined at the same reaction conditions and are used as reference values b Data for iso-NIPAB from Ref [42] c Literature data for this...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Using Focus to Generate Complex and Simple Sentences" pot

Báo cáo khoa học: "Using Focus to Generate Complex and Simple Sentences" pot

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 19:21
... provides the basis for McKeown's and Appelt's and emphasizes the development of a formalism and grammar for generation that allows for the use of functional information Both McKeown and Appelt make ... proved too timeconsuming (McKeown, 1982) and efforts have been made to alter the algorithm to improve efficiency (Appelt, 1983) Efficiency continues to be a problem and a functional grammar generator ... information such as focus and protagonist are treated in the same manner as syntactic and grammatical information such as subject and NP By using functional information, input to the generator...
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more straw bale building a complete guide to designing and building with straw - chris magwood

more straw bale building a complete guide to designing and building with straw - chris magwood

Ngày tải lên : 04/06/2014, 13:11
... grown and harvested annually — unlike forests that take upward of 40 years to re -generate and rarely return to their former levels of production Straw needs little processing to be used for building, ... bricks are simple to use and time tested Closely related to cob, adobe and earth bricks are also mixtures of sand/clay soils and natural fibers, but the mixture is put into forms and either sun ... lot of effort to move, load, and stack, and they make a big mess Settle in advance all issues of labor and cleanup If you have a crew on hand to load and unload a truck, it will save time and may...
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Báo cáo sinh học: "Safety and pharmacokinetics of recombinant human hepatocyte growth factor (rh-HGF) in patients with fulminant hepatitis: a phase I/II clinical trial, following preclinical studies to ensure safety" ppt

Báo cáo sinh học: "Safety and pharmacokinetics of recombinant human hepatocyte growth factor (rh-HGF) in patients with fulminant hepatitis: a phase I/II clinical trial, following preclinical studies to ensure safety" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 19:20
... essential for efficient liver regeneration and repair [14,15] Conversely, HGF exerts protective and anti-apoptotic functions toward hepatocytes in vitro [16-18] and in vivo [19-21], and is able to prevent ... survival rates were 53.7% in FHA and 24.4% in FHSA, and 11.5% in LOHF in Japan [4] Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) was first purified as a potent mitogen for hepatocytes from the plasma of patients ... its mitogenic and anti-apoptotic activities We have worked to develop translational medicine protocols for recombinant human HGF (rh-HGF), and have performed an investigator-initiated International...
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