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... which influence the sensitivity of acid-fast smears include the amount of acid-fast bacilli present in the specimen, the experience of the reader, the stain used, the number of fields examined, the ... were obtained in a study comparing the manual version of the MGIT to the agar method using the second-line drugs ofloxacin, kanamycin, ethionamide, and capreomycin (Martin et al., 2008) In both ... 2007) Resistance to INH results from mutations in genes whose products are involved in the activation and binding of INH including the katG, the inhA, the ahpC-oxyR, ahpC and ndh genes, while...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 00:20

... contribution of other factors involved in speaking 1.3 Cultural factors in the teaching and learning of speaking skills in classrooms 1.3.1 What cultural factors influence on the teaching and the learning ... part of learned behavior shared with others The concept include a group’s way of thinking, feeling, and acting, and fixed patterns for doing certain things According to Thompson (1990:132), the ... effectively However, in the thesis, the researcher wants to find out the attitudes, as well as the cultural awareness in teaching and learning spoken English of the teachers and the students of 10 th grade...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:00

... parallels that of Reference The main purpose for creating and maintaining the NBI is to monitor the condition of bridges carrying public highways Therefore, for funding and reporting purposes, the FHWA ... Bridge Inventory (NBI) as of December 2003 The NBI is maintained by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Tables and figures present information on both the number and deck area of existing ... 20011 The National Bridge Inventory Following the tragic collapse of the Sliver Bridge in December 1967, Congress passed legislation that required each state to inspect and maintain an inventory of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 20:15

... are marked increases in the future demand of all organic products This augurs well for the growth of the organic industry in the Eastern Cape and in South Africa in general The findings of this ... maintain its identity in the face of others, and therefore creates a feeling of "belonging" (Buruiana 2003) 17 10 Factors affecting the consumer awareness of organic products The results of the ... a long way in influencing the target market and marketing approach to drive the demand of organics The second LDF identified the person responsible for shopping and the location of the consumer...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

... Role of electrostatic interactions in SH2 domain recognition: salt dependence of tyrosyl-phosphorylated peptide binding to the tandem SH2 domain of the Syk kinase and the single SH2 domain of the ... groups of peaks at 6.85 and 7.15 p.p.m correspond to the aromatic resonances of the seven tyrosines in the protein, and the inset 2D expansion of the 1H-1H COSY shows that the seven are indistinguishable ... located on the intact protein Therefore, determination of the kinetics of phosphorylation of these peptides allows the order of phosphorylation of the six TCRf ITAM tyrosines, by the PTK Lck,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:20

... The Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species in the Mekong Basin and Policies for Their Control The Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species in the Mekong Basin ... Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species in the Mekong Basin and Policies for Their Control xi The Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species in the Mekong Basin and Policies ... 37 FISOFT/DIAS/INDEX.HTM SHOWING SPECIES INTRODUCED INTO COUNTRIES OF THE MEKONG BASIN vi The Impacts of Introductions and Stocking of Exotic Species in the Mekong Basin and Policies for Their...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 08:48

... Satur and several others in the Philippines, and the public hanging of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other members of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) in November 1995 in Nigeria ... justice and the need for international codification of norms pertaining to the rights of all people to clean air, water, and a safe and sound environment capable of sustaining life are offered in the ... waste dumping, natural resource exploitation, and the consequent degradation of the means of subsistence of indigenous people The roles of the state and MNCs in suppressing the rights of communal...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... referring to all of them as caveolae, was demonstrated by their content of both caveolin-1 and caveolin-2 The coexistence of caveolin-1 and caveolin-2 in all three caveolae subclasses is in line ... (Fig 2G), but increased in response to insulin in both the LD-caveolae and HD-caveolae, with the increase being particularly pronounced in the LD-caveolae (Fig 4C) The presence of the triacylglycerol-hydrolysing ... of indicated protein or EZ-Link-sulfo-NHS-LC-biotin labelling by SDS ⁄ PAGE and immunoblotting or avidin-labelled HRP, respectively The amounts of indicated proteins are expressed in arbitrary...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 13:20

... important in the literature and have roles assigned [12–18,20]: *, CTP-binding residue of the P-loop; (*), CTP-binding residue; ^, Neu5Ac-binding residue; #, Neu5Ac-binding residue forming part of the ... al [14] in the related enzyme, L-CKS, because mutation would interfere with both Neu5Ac binding as well as playing a role in the re-orientation of Mg2+ binding during the re-opening of the active ... concentrations in the presence or absence of 0.2 mm dithiothreitol Effect of Mg2+ concentration The effect of an increase in the concentration of Mg2+ was determined by measuring the rate of the reaction in...

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Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 15:20

... disease of the skin Symptoms include scaly, itchy rashes and blistering, weeping, or peeling of the skin The causes of the disease are unclear There may be a problem in the skin’s ability to maintain ... How were the Guidelines developed? The Guidelines are the culmination of a 2-year effort in which the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of ... is an inflammation of the colon and small intestine Enteropathy is a disease of the intestine Epinephrine (adrenaline) is a hormone that increases heart rate, tightens the blood vessels, and opens...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20

... between the coastal plain and valleys on the one hand and the uplands and Transjordan on the other.31 During the Late Bronze Age, Egyptian influence was much stronger in the coastal plain and the ... along the upper Euphrates In the south, there is a clustering of sites in the valley of the Jordan river and its branches, including sites in Transjordan Another grouping of sites leads from the ... shows that, in all areas, they are located both on the coast and in the interior An exception to this is the Italian mainland, where all sites are located in the vicinity of the coast.56 Interior...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:13

... Carding Combing Draw frames Speed frames Ring frames Winding Rotor spinning Ply-winding Doubling and twisting Warping Sizing Weaving Soft package winding of yarn for wet processing Scouring Yarn ... keeping, material flow, material handling, packing and storing, human productivity, team working, information gathering and maintaining records, maintaining the discipline while working relating ... weaving by the weave, the picks per inch and count, and in wet processing by the different shades, finishes, etc, in knitting by the course and wales per inch and the knitting pattern and in garment...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 17:20

... product (GNP) and forestry’s share in it, more recently the share of the industry in the value added, indicators of employment and wages, etc The share of forestry in the creation of GNP in the Czech ... results of the management of business entities in forestry are presented in Table The development of trading incomes is also illustrated in Figs and The above figures show that the average income of ... functions of forests – their hitherto development and prediction of future prospects In these intentions the paper will discuss some dynamic series of forest production and their trends including official...

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Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... to the next generation, 2) standardize the family size minimizing the variance and 3) increase the generation intervals, that is, lengthen the reproductive life of the animals (o, k 2), 3.2 Inbreeding ... 16) The evolution of the average coefficient of inbreeding was observed over year of birth and summarized by the linear regression over years The probability of gene origin was calculated from the ... number of founders and the inbreeding coefficient of the hypothetical offspring of each possible populating couple In this way, those couples which would maximize this effective founder number and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... more) contained all cases of co-morbid depression and anxiety (n = 37), all cases of depression alone (n = 172), and the majority of cases of anxiety alone (n = 362) The remaining third of anxiety ... undertaken to compare the effects of psychiatric disorder on adult mortality risk, first including and then excluding this missing category We identified 22 cases of schizophrenia in the sample All ... mortality, and the inclusion of all potential confounders and mediators only led to a modest reduction in the effect Sensitivity analyses which excluded the missing category from each of the confounders...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... which are involved in maintaining the cell redox potential [15] Most of the selenoproteins are found as animal proteins They have not been found in yeast and land plants Surprisingly, they have ... to an increase of a selenomethionine (29% of SeMet in the case of selenate and 41% of SeMet in the case of selenite) The increasing toxicity was also accompanied by an increase in thioredoxin reductase ... decrease of Se accumulation [33] In Chlorella zofingiensis the accumulation of boiling-stable proteins and the increased activities of the antioxidant enzymes suggested that these compounds were involved...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:20

... of Eurasian common shrews and other soricine shrew species more recently trapped in these same sites in Finland would be extremely valuable, in providing insights into the evolutionary rate of ... 0.2% and 0-2.6% in Zala Moreover, there was strong conservation of the encoded proteins with ≤ 3.1% variation at the amino acid level among SWSV strains from Finland, Hungary and Switzerland An ... from Finland and Hungary, respectively (Table 1) Prevalence of SWSV infection was as high as 77.8% (7 of 9) in Oulun Lääni, Finland, and as low as 6.3% (3 of 48) in Zala, Hungary Analysis of the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... received the first MQTL-allele of its sire and therefore SQ2 = If there is a i one in the first or second row of the first column of Qi the place of this allele in i is the number of that row containing ... unrealistic in the light of the markers transmitted These animals can easily be combined with the former group by maintaining the original transition probabilities in the Qi matrices without rounding and ... [10] therefore combines a special case of the condensing algorithm with gamete identification by parental origin Assuming the QTL in the middle of a certain marker interval and rounding the QTL-transition...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22