development in preparative processing and evaluation methods

... Printed on acid-free paper springer.com Preface Interest in time series analysis and image processing has been growing very rapidly in recent years Input from different scientific disciplines and ... differentiate direct and indirect interactions and the directionality of interactions in both the linear and the nonlinear case Acknowledgement We like to thank Dr Reinhard Bauer and his group, Institute ... sensitive in this sense (minus sign in Table 1.1) The remaining multivariate analysis techniques are in general able to distinguish between direct and indirect interactions Thus, the GCI, PDC, and...

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... years (2005-2015): • Program for Medium and Small Water Systems in dispersed areas in highlands and mountains aiming at satisfying local water demand and reducing poverty; • Program for Large Multipurpose ... concrete processing is carried out at night and in the early morning Cement content is reduced, while fine ash and puzzolan is added Water is blended with ice It is always built a thin impervious reinforced ... very complicated and difficult during dam construction in Vietnam, because flow discharge in rainy season is about 50÷80 times higher than in dry season No large dam can be finished in only one dry...

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... attribute cuisine in a restaurant domain has values such as “French” or “Italian” A user utterance instantiating a constraint on cuisine, e.g., “I’m interested in Chinese food”, results in a set of ... constructing intensional summaries takes as input the focal information R, and consists of the following steps: • Rank attributes in context C, using one of two ranking methods (Sec 2.1); Type RefSing ... Kensington and Piccadilly Circus I know of 35 restaurants in London serving Indian food There are medium-priced restaurants in Mayfair and inexpensive ones in Soho There are also expensive ones in...

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... costs and returns in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries The final section examines recent policy developments and issues surrounding patent lifetime and generic competition in this industry ... approval involves undertaking successive trials of increasing size and complexity Joseph A DiMasi, “Success Rates for New Drugs Entering Clinical Testing in the United States,” 58 Clinical Pharmacology ... actions can have a significant influence on the rate of innovation in particular industries Among the key industrial policies influencing the innovative process in pharmaceuticals are the public...

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... Advertising, Publishing, Printing and Packaging (SETA) MERSETA Manufacturing, Engineering and Related Services Education and Training Authority MQA Mining Qualifications Authority (SETA) MSE Micro and ... Trade and Industry ESETA Energy Sector Education and Training Authority ETDP SETA Education and Training and Development Practices Sector Education and Training Authority FASSET Financial and Accounting ... Accounting Services Sector Education and Training Authority FET Further Education and Training FIETA Forest Industries Education and Training Authority FOODBEV Food and Beverages Manufacturing Industry...

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... Curriculum Development in Nursing Process and Innovations Education for nurses and allied health professionals is being radically overhauled both in the UK and overseas Curriculum Development in Nursing ... hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication ... nursing in a way which is in harmony with the scientific Changing to this kind of curriculum demands much time Curriculum development in nursing 16 approach of the discipline (problemsolving in...

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... hospitals in urban-rural areas and by Han (H) and minorities (M) Proportion of use of clinics and hospitals by minorities and Han in nine provinces in China Location of Zhiduo county in People’s ... Anja Lahtinen examines the effects of the Chinese Western Region Development Strategy on provincial development in Qinghai, highlighting the need for increased opportunities in continuing and vocational ... related to minorities and their development: minority region development and ethnic mobility and urbanisation The first theme examines regional development among minorities and in minority regions...

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... crosslinking to be performed on intact cells (3,11) Formaldehyde crosslinks primary amino groups such as those on lysines and the bases adenine, guanine and cytosine Protein–protein and protein–DNA ... splicing events To this end, the intron in pGInt was interrupted with the rat FGFR2 exon IIIb and its flanking intronic splicing silencers, the upstream intronic splicing silencer (UISS) and the ... leads to the binding of factors involved in RNA processing and in other nuclear events (2–4) These findings suggest that one significant role of the phosphoCTD is to spatially and functionally...

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... zier and Splines in Image Processing e and Machine Vision Sambhunath Biswas • Brian C Lovell B´ zier and Splines in Image e Processing and Machine Vision Sambhunath Biswas Indian Statistical Institute ... application in image processing and machine vision, and this justifies the title of the book In writing this book, therefore, we introduce the Bernstein polynomial at the very beginning, since its ... discussed in this chapter for approximating a set of data points in the 32 Bernstein Polynomial and B´zier-Bernstein Spline e discrete domain are clear and explicit, and provide insight to handle...

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... higher in cocultures using DC that had an increased duration of peptide loading, indicating that 24 h of peptide loading provided DC with higher amounts of HLA-A2-peptide ligand, resulting in better ... detected using medium that did not contain CCL19 in the lower chamber and random cell chemokinesis was determined by adding CCL19 to both the upper and the lower chambers × 105 DC were added in the ... 1:100) was performed in 0.25% saponin in PBS for 30 at room temperature Before being resuspended in PBS with 1% FCS, the cells were washed in 0.1% saponin in PBS once again The MART-1/Melan-A...

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... for correct folding and intracellular transport of viral glyco- proteins, as shown for instances for influenza hemagglutinin [19] In order to investigate the importance of the individual N-glycosylation ... incubated twice for 15 at 4°C with mg/ml sulfo-Nhydroxysuccinimidobiotin (Pierce) by adding ml of the biotinylating reagent After biotinylation, cells were washed twice with cold PBS containing ... transported to the cell surface and remain mannose-rich Materials and methods N-glycans play not only an important role in folding and intracellular transport of viral glycoproteins but also are known...

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... protein 2) Protein kinase family protein IQD10 (IQ-domain 10); calmodulin binding RIC2 (ROP-INTERACTIVE CRIB MOTIF-CONTAINING PROTEIN 2) Protein kinase family protein Rho GTPase activating protein, ... domain-containing protein / MATH domain-containing protein Nodulin MtN3 family protein GCN5-related N-acetyltransferase (GNAT) family protein Hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein family protein Unknown ... Glycine-rich protein GLP10 (GERMIN-LIKE PROTEIN 10); manganese ion binding / metal ion binding / nutrient reservoir AGP4 (ARABINOGALACTAN-PROTEIN 4) FLA15 (FASCICLIN-LIKE ARABINOGALACTAN PROTEIN...

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... details, reviewing the literature and drafting the manuscript AC was involved in reviewing the literature and proofreading the manuscript VA approved the final manuscript Consent Written informed consent ... planning In fact, it allows a combination of both anatomical and biological co-registered images acquired in the same session, with a dual gain in diagnostic accuracy Staging is crucial in the ... bilateral and (c) mesenteric pathologic lymph nodes Competing interests Authors' contributions The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests EP is the senior author and was involved in...

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... other Image Processing: Image processing is a form of computer imaging where the application involves a human being in the visual loop [68] In other words, the images are to be examined and acted ... growing attentions in manufacturing lines due to safety and economical reasons [8] An efficient diagnostic system can maintain tools in good condition and prevent severe failures by detecting and ... objects and background 26 CHAPTER Vision-Servo System for Automated Cell Injection Recent developments in nuclear reprogramming and intracytoplasmic sperm injection reflect an increasing need...

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... fifty years of interest in the topic, including its frequent re-imaginings and reinventing in popular media, it is not surprising that commercial giants such as Google (Google, 2012) and Nokia (Nokia, ... human-computer interaction as we know it, especially in application areas such as assembly and construction, maintenance and inspection, navigation and pathfinding, as well as tourism and entertainment ... presenting virtual information in the same context and physical location as the object that the information is associated with, thereby making the information more engaging and easier to understand...

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... MONITORING AND EVALUATION (M&E) AND INFORMATION SYSTEM (IS) SUPPORTING M&E IN ODA PROJECTS 2.1 Overview of Monitoring & Evaluation 2.1.1 Definitions and role of M&E Monitoring As indicated in the ... referred in the thesis is in formal, organizational computer-based information system setting on accepted and fixed definitions of data and procedures for collecting, storing, processing, disseminating ... in Viet Nam MCST Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism IS Information System IT Information Technology M&E Monitoring & Evaluation MPI Ministry of Planning and Investment MOF Ministry of Finance...

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... commonly in the companies In Finland, Honko and Virtanen (1975), Virtanen (1984), and most recently Keloharju and Puttonen (1995) have surveyed the investment evaluation criteria and planning horizon ... of discounted cash flow analysis INVESTMENT EVALUATION METHODS AND methods has developed during the last three decades, and how the current situation in Finland compares with other countries ... would be interesting to study in more detail what is exactly the standard of tools used in Finnish companies and what can be done to promote more advanced methods leading to best outcomes in the...

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... Infectious Diseases Institute in Two clinical algorithms to monitor for viral failure (VF) in 496 Ugandans on ART at the Infectious Diseases Institute in Kampala, Uganda ment peak value; and WHO immunologic ... Bates M, Quinn TC: Response to antiretroviral therapy in HIV-infected patients attending a public, urban clinic in Kampala, Uganda Clin Infect Dis 2006, 42:252-59 Kitahata MM, Reed SD, Dillingham ... Onwujekwe DI, Audu RA, Araoyinbo ID, Onyewuche JI, Salu OB, Adedoyin JA, Musa AZ: Management of HIV-1 infection with a combination of nevirapine, stavudine, and lamivudine: a preliminary report on the...

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