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... particular to Wanda Heath and Ros English, for their outstanding help in organizing the conference We are also grateful to Prof Ravi Agarwal and the publishers of the journal “Fixed Point Theory and Applications” ... came from the Commission on Development and Exchanges (CDE) of the International Mathematical Union (IMU) We thank Prof Herbert Clemens, Secretary of the CDE, and also the Executive Committee of ... 2 Editorial was attended by 36 people from 14 different countries and five of the six inhabitable continents; this comprises almost all mathematicians who are currently...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... understanding of each step in the derivation requires an understanding and recall of some results from classical mechanics and electromagnetic theory, it is not at all difficult to understand qualitatively ... absorption coefficient at wavelength λ is α(λ) and has the same value throughout the gas, and it the thickness of the gas layer is t, Iλ(λ) and Iλ(c) are related by I λ ( λ ) = I λ ( c) exp − α ( ... Boltzmann’s equation and plot a straight-line graph whose slope and intercept will give us the excitation temperature and the column density of  W  the atoms We can go further and make use of Saha’s...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:22

... astronomy and chemistry Montroll and Shlesinger (1982), Metzler and Klafter (2000), Liu and Chen (1994), Strobl (1997), Boldyrev and Gwinn (2003), Bendler (1984), Freeman and Chisham (2005), Metzler and ... Gou¨ezel (2007), Guivarc’h and Le Page (2008), Zweim¨ uller (2003) 2.10 Embedding of Banach spaces Ledoux and Talagrand (1991), Friedland and Gu´edon (2010) 2.11 Geology and Geophysics Painter et ... of Time Series Wiley and Sons Anderssen, R S., S A Husain, and R J Loy (2004, August) The Kohlrausch function: properties and applications Australian New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics...

Ngày tải lên: 12/11/2015, 01:33

... Symmetries and Invariance Principles (2005) Last/Brandt: Marked Point Processes on the Real Line (1995) Leadbetter/Lindgren/Rootzén: Extremes and Related Properties of Random Sequences and Processes ... Properties of Random Sequences and Processes (1983) Molchanov: Theory and Random Sets (2005) Nualart: The Malliavin Calculus and Related Topics (2nd ed 2006) Rachev/Rüschendorf: Mass Transportation Problems ... and Point Processes (1987) Shedler: Regeneration and Networks of Queues (1986) Silvestrov: Limit Theorems for Randomly Stopped Stochastic Processes (2004) Thorisson: Coupling, Stationarity, and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/11/2015, 04:33

... ®nding that was similar to US and Swedish populations (Frank & Hursti, 1999) Education is likely to enhance the access and exposures to various stimuli, events and issues, and thereby it can perhaps ... neophobia scores of subjects (Swedish mothers and fathers) were signi®cantly correlated with the number of foods that a subject had never eaten, and Raudenbush and Frank (1999) observed lower familiarity ... observations from DenÈ È È mark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden In H L Meiselman, Dimensions of the meal The science, culture, business, and art of eating (pp 191±201) Maryland: Aspen Raudenbush, B., &...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2013, 21:06

... PLCs and related products Upon completion of Basics of PLCs you should be able to: • • Convert numbers from decimal to binary, BCD, and hexadecimal • Identify typical discrete and analog inputs and ... positioning, and weighing (SIWAREX MS) CPU 221 comes with discrete inputs and discrete outputs and does not accept expansion modules CPU 222 comes with discrete inputs and discrete outputs and accepts ... Diagram, and Function Block Diagram), high-level languages (Structured Text and Sequential Function Chart), and engineering tools (S7 Structured Control Language, S7-Graph, S7-PLCSIM, S7HiGraph, and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2013, 21:26

... noise is assumed to be additive This is a rather realistic assumption, standard in factor analysis and signal processing, and allows for a simple formulation of the noisy model Thus, the noisy ... observations x Denoting by z a nongaussian random variable, and by n a gaussian noise variable of variance , we should be able to express the relation between E fG(z )g and E fG(z + n)g in simple algebraic ... holds with = ~, where is a matrix that incorporates the mixing of the real ICs and the covariance structure of the noise, and the number of the independent components in ~ is equal to the number of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/01/2014, 11:20

... reproductive age HYPERANDROGENISM The primary androgen produced by the ovaries is androstenedione, and the primary androgen from adrenal glands is dehydroepiandrostene sulfate (DHEAS) Androgen production ... a-reductase), an even more potent androgen than testosterone The sebaceous glands are very sensitive to androgens, and oily skin and acne are early signs of hyperandrogenism The hair follicle is ... responsive CHAPTER 29 INFERTILITY AND RELATED ISSUES 787 to androgens, and hirsutism is a further response to increasing androgenicity Finally, with marked androgenicity, signs of masculinization...

Ngày tải lên: 10/02/2014, 14:37

... are widely distributed in AD, neuron loss is much more limited and better correlated with neurofibrillary tangles in selected cortical and hippocampal layers; this has led to a longstanding debate ... curcumin and related species (curcuminoids) and metabolites might afford Regulating Alzheimer Pathogenesis greater protection than vitamin E by controlling inflammation and oxidative damage and promoting ... Target for Alzheimer Disease and Related Disorders Grundke-Iqbal, I (Staten Island, N.Y.); Tatebayashi, Y (Saitama); Lee, M.H.; Li, L (Beijing); Iqbal, K (Staten Island, N.Y.) 183 Learning Deficits...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 17:20

... honour outstanding scientists and clinicians, Toshiharu Nagatsu, Yoshikuni Mizuno, Japan (Award of the WFN Research Group on Parkinsonism and Related Disorders), Saskia Biskup, Germany and Andrew ... in the alpha- and beta frequency bands For instance, in parkinsonian monkeys and patients, oscillatory bursting typically emerges in both the 3–8 Hz band, and a power spectral band around 10 ... excellence and made the congress so successful This was YOUR congress and which many of you influenced by letting us know your wishes and expectations New concepts, formats and innovations, the active and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 17:20

... focus on the roles of ANGPTL2 and ANGPTL6 ⁄ AGF in obesity and related metabolic diseases, and discuss whether these ANGPTLs could be targets for the prevention and treatment of these conditions ... ANGPTL2 and ANGPTL6 ⁄ AGF in obesity and related metabolic diseases The expression of ANGPTL2 and ANGPTL6 ⁄ AGF is induced in obese conditions ANGPTL2 induces chronic adipose tissue inflammation and ... energy expenditure and thereby antagonizing related metabolic diseases [14] Furthermore, we recently reported that ANGPTL2 causes inflammation of adipose tissue in obesity and related insulin resistance...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20

... 12.14 Screens, wall hangings and sedan chairs 12.15 Carriages and cars 12.16 Conclusion Reference 13 Materials and techniques: past and present Marion Kite, Roy Thomson and Aline Angus 13.1 Past ... References 15 Furs and furriery: history, techniques and conservation Marion Kite 15.1 History of fur use 15.1.1 Introduction 15.1.2 Background and history 15.1.3 Husbandry and harvesting 15.1.4 ... Technologists and Chemists and of the International Union of Leather Technologists and Chemists’ Societies He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Leather Technologists and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 17:20

... cycle A study by Zohdy et al [95] related MetS and androgen deficiency with ED in 158 obese men and showed that, with increasing BMI, the frequency of hypogonadism and ED was increased, whereas TT ... endothelium dysfunction and ED [130,131], the concept of androgen deficiency reinforces the important role of androgens in vascular health and erectile function Summary and conclusions Visceral ... endothelial dysfunction and microvascular disease and reduced androgen levels; (b) the insult on the endothelium resulting in endothelial injury and reduced NO synthase activity and NO production,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 06:20

... Results Antimicrobial effects of HNr and related peptides and nonpeptides H4-(86–100) and HNr (Fig 1) were tested for their bactericidal activity against Gram-negative and Grampositive bacteria (Table ... potencies of H4-(86–100), HNr and related peptides and nonpeptides in E coli were compared with those of the cationic peptides protegrin and LL-37 (Table 2) Among the various HN -related FEBS Journal 275 ... of H4-(86–100) and some related compounds were also assessed by the radial diffusion assay (Fig 5) In this test, H4-(86–100) was equipotent with HNr and compound 3, and about 4.2 and > 8.5 times...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 14:20

... three linear Markov chains We generalize Jelinek and Mercer’s original recursive mixing scheme (Jelinek and Mercer, 1981) and form a lattice to handle the situation where the context is a mixture ... the data and the parameters can’t be stored in a single machine, so we have to resort to distributed computing The topic of large scale distributed language models is relatively new, and existing ... approach by Brants et al (2007) follows a standard MapReduce paradigm (Dean and Ghemawat, 2004): the corpus is first divided and loaded into a number of clients, and n-gram counts are collected at each...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

... successful, and well respected in her community At home, she and her husband especially enjoyed spending time with their six grandchildren There, Helen could put numbers and finances and tax forms ... family and friends There are individual volumes on reading disorders, attention deficit and disruptive behavior disorders, and dementia—all of these are related to our abilities to learn and integrate ... psychological disorders, including mental and emotional disorders, problems related to alcohol and drug abuse, and some diseases that cause both emotional and physical symptoms Psychological disorders...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20

... respectively; and my family—my wife Wei, our kids, our parents Donna and Robert and Pei and Robert, and my sibs Anne, Beth, and Mikhael, whose contributions of friendship, love, understanding of ... patients and asking questions to gather information about a patient’s behavior and appearance, ambulation and movement, mood and affect, speech, thought processes and content, insight and judgment, and ... neurosurgeons, psychiatrists (and others examining disorders of the brain) order and read brain PET scans, demand is greatest for those pertaining to dementia and related disorders This demand is driven by...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20

... article is to review and evaluate the available epidemiological evidence about the association between dietary exposure to preformed nitrosamine and related food intake and gastric and oesophageal ... intake and GC and OC, showing a positive association in of studies of GC and in of studies on OC However, there are a large number of case-control studies presenting results on meat intake and GC and ... cancer risk due to N-nitrosamine and cured meat intake is considered insufficient for GC and possible for OC[8] A previous review of dietary nitrates, nitrites and NOC and risk of nasopharynx, oesophagus,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21

... activation and cell death [19] Classification of scaffolds and its limitations The functions of the above four closely related categories of signaling regulatory proteins show significant similarities and ... scaffolds and adaptors are sometimes used interchangeably [1,4], the distinction between docking and adaptor is somewhat arbitrary [6], and docking proteins may also be termed adaptors and scaffolds ... as MyD88 scaffold and adaptor [3], linker for activated T cells (LAT) scaffold [3] and docking protein [6], GAB docking protein [6] and scaffold [4], mAKAP anchor protein [7] and scaffold [4],...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 22:21

... properties of TBBT, and a number of related benzotriazoles and benzimidazoles, at the NTPase/helicase sites of HCV and the related viruses Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) and WNV, as well as ... released strand and to the nonunwound substrate were cut out and 32 P radioactivity counted Alternatively, the films were scanned and the radioactivity associated with the released strand and with ... as described by Hames and Rickwood [33] Kinetic parameters were determined by nonlinear-regression analysis using ENZFITTER (BioSoft) and SIGMA PLOT (Jandel Corp.) ATPase and helicase assays Fig...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:20