... Prestressed Concrete B 117-97 Standard Practice for Operating Salt Spray (Fog) Apparatus C 1077-00 Standard Practice for Laboratories Testing Concrete and Concrete Aggregates for Use in Construction and ... specification provides specific performance criteria for materials for unbonded singlestrand tendons and detailed recommendations for fabrication and installation of unbonded singlestrand tendons ... Jack calibration Stressing jacks and gages shall be individually identified and calibrated to known standards at intervals not exceeding months Calibration certificates for each jack and gage...
... present a random ant-like unicast routing (RAUR) algorithm and provide performance comparison with other routing algorithms We also conduct an approximated mathematical analysisfor the RAUR to analyze ... Hawaii International Conference on System Siences (HICSS ’00), p 223, January 2000 [2] C Intanagonwiwat, R Govindan, and D Estrin, “Directed diffusion: a scalable and robust communication paradigm ... sections Since RAUR is a single- path routing protocol, hence we compare it with DSR and AODV which are also singlepath routing protocol to evaluate its performance The simulation was conducted...
... recruitment of mononuclear cells: exacerbation by inflammatory cytokines and amelioration by antioxidants Cardiovasc Toxicol 2004, 4:287-302 Gomez-Vera J, de Alarcon A, Jimenez-Mejias ME, Acosta ... of Factin in primary astrocytes, and variation in glycemic conditions caused a polarization of F-actin (figure 4A2 ) leading to disassembly (figure 4A2 and 4A3 ) in a dosedependent manner Similarly, ... oxidation reaction in mitochondria, which may trigger caspase activity leading to apoptosis and cell death [34,38,60] It has been reported that apoptoticmediated stress-activation may occur by...
... 0.02–0.15 mM concentration range, in which the activity was a linear function of the substrate concentration The standard error for kinetic values was below 20% Active site titration The active amount ... [24] Based on clinical studies, the resistant Gag mutations may occur early in PR inhibitor therapy, soon after the appearance of one (or a few) critical PR mutations, therefore we have characterized ... background (peptides and 1, and 2, and 3), the Ala to Val mutation at P2, seen in resistance, increased the specificity constant by two to tenfold As the Ala to Val mutation had a varying effect...
... transcriptase polymerase chain reactions (RT-PCR) using the forward primer 5’-ata ctc gag ggg tac ctt cgt cat act ccg tat ttg ata agg aac a- 3’ and the reverse primer 5’-aga att cgc ata gat ctt ... (Moscow, Russia) This construct is a circular bacterial DNA which contains genes coding for ampicillin and neomycin resistance, allowing selection in respective bacteria and after transfection ... drug screening methods andfor the quantification of toxicodynamic and toxicokinetic effects Application of the MCC for the analysis of nanoparticleinduced effects After confirmation of the biocompatibility...
... files/determinant 89.pdf [6] A Lascoux, Yang-Baxter graphs, Jack and Macdonald polynomials, Ann Comb 5, 397–424 (2001) [7] I G Macdonald, Symmetric Functions and Hall Polynomials, 2nd edition, Clarendon ... Oxford, 1995 [8] E Opdam, Harmonic analysisfor certain representations of graded Hecke algebras, Acta Math 175, 75–121 (1995) the electronic journal of combinatorics 16 (2009), #R70 22 AA bijective ... GΛ as the set of good Λ-configurations ˜ b b b ab 5 a 6 6 aa 8 ab ab 8 ˜ Figure 4: Here are two bad Λ-configurations mapped onto each others by the involution Empty cells implicitly contain a label...
... 50:27572765 Iwamoto T, Ikari K, Inoue E, Toyama Y, Hara M, Yamanaka H, Tomatsu T, Momohara S, Kamatani N: Failure to confirm association between PDCD1 polymorphisms and rheumatoid arthritis in a Japanese ... to below 0.8, and this may represent a study limitation Despite its association with RA in Caucasian populations, an association of the ITGAV gene with RA patients in the Japanese was not observed ... Migliorini P, Balsa A, Westhovens R, Barrera P, Alves H, et al.: The ITGAV rs3738919 -C allele is associated with rheumatoid arthritis in the European Caucasian population: a family-based study Arthritis...
... study, analysis of data or manuscript preparation Authors' contributions FR performed blood collection, data acquisition, statistics, and created graphics and partially wrote the manuscript HB and ... clinical value, was chosen for reasons of technical feasibility of the device A second generation POCT will test anti-MCV and RF-IgM, the only laboratory classification criterion for RA to date A ... device Lateral-flow immunochromatographic assay (LFIA) was manufactured as double antigen direct sandwich assay Devices (DCN, Carlsbad, CA, USA) for testing of up to 10 μl of biological samples...
... the concentration of creatinine in serum (SCr), measured or calculated creatinine clearance (CCr), and blood uric acid (UA) (Loghman-Adham, 1997) In clinical practice, these parameters are commonly ... classical parameters and tubular parameters In spite of some contradictory evidence, classical renal parameters definitely are not ideal early biological effects, especially under occupational ... modest lead levels caused damage, which can usually be defined as normal by current clinical standards The subclinical alternation in function and structure of human organs was hardly detected in...
... and considers the residual tar and char, which were simulated and validated for biomass air gasification preferably Using that biomass gasification model, wood chips as a biomass material (Table ... the convective heat transfer and heat conduction between the rare air and tube wall in evacuated tube (2) Ignore the contact thermal resistance between the absorber plate and the evaporation section ... reach saturation, and the solar collection efficiency therefore will remain ultimately unchanged In addition, an increase in solar irradiance will cause the absorption chiller to produce a greater...
... important approaches including home assessment and modification, and education regarding safe integration back home while encouraging gradual increase in mobility and independence, warrant consideration ... Ashburn et al Campbell et al Campbell et al Clemson et al Orwig et al Lin et al Liu-Ambrose et al Robertson et al Sherrington et al Suttanon et al Yang et al Allocation concealment Performance ... calculated For continuous outcomes, if means andstandard deviations for differences on outcome measures collected at baseline and at follow up were not available, the meta-analyses of continuous...
... by which combined single- molecule force and fluorescence measurements can probe biomolecular interactions (a) An optical trap; (b) dual optical traps; (c) an atomic force microscope (AFM) Labeling ... problems as widespread as protein folding, ligand-receptor interactions, mechanically controlled signal transduction, the mechanics of DNA and RNA, and motor-protein mechanisms Detecting responses on ... MA, Holmes KC: Structural mechanism of muscle contraction Annu Rev Biochem 1999, 68:687-728 32 Blackman MJ, Corrie JET, Croney JC, Kelly G, Eccleston JF, Jameson DM: Structural and biochemical...
... information When a user accesses a cloud application, however, or an on- premises application accesses a cloud service, an on- premises identity usually won’t work And what about an application ... Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP) stack-based applications as well as new architectures such as MapReduce and the Google File System, which provide a means to scale applications across thousands ... creation, access to multiIJCNS S ELUDIORA ple-user accounts, firewall configuration, remote access, etc • Is two-factor authentication used to manage critical components within the infrastructure,...
... Second-law analysisand optimization forcombined Brayton and inverse Brayton cycles Int J Ambient Energy, 2007, 28(1): 15-26 [8] Alabdoadaim M A, Agnew B, Alaktiwi A Examination of the performance ... the performance of an unconventional combination of Rankine, Brayton and inverse Brayton cycles Proc IMechE, Part A: Part A, J Power and Energy, 2006, 220 (A4 ): 305-313 [10] Alabdoadaim M A, Agnew ... diagram for the combined cycle Exergy analysisand optimization The following assumptions are made for simplicity and manipulating analytical expressions: The working fluid has constant specific...
... which is considered clinically significant [35] In addition, separate analyses for endometrial and ovarian cancer survivors can be conducted: 150 patients are sufficient to detect a half standard ... Life; IOM: American Institute of Medicine; MAR: Missing At Random; NCCS: National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship; OOG-CCCS: Organization Oncologic Gynecology of the Comprehensive Cancer Center ... a cancer Survivorship Care Plan on gynecological cancer patient and health care provider reported outcomes (ROGY Care): study protocolfora pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial Trials...
... interpretation and stringency are subject to user discretion 1.6 Linkages with the Corporate Accounting Standard The Corporate Accounting Standard provides standards and guidance for companies and ... the performance standard. 3 A performance standard can provide a consistent way to address additionality fora number of similar project activities and avoids having to identify individual baseline ... procedures are conceptually linked to the project- specific and performance standard approaches for dealing with additionality, as outlined in Chapter (section 2.14) Any choice about which procedure...
... disclose and correct violations More information on US EPA's Small Business and AudiUSelf-Disclosure Policies are available by contacting U.S EPA's Enforcement and Compliance Docket and Information Center ... facilities, incinerators, landfills, thermal treatment facilities, and chemical, physical, biological treatment facilities) Administrative and technical standards are applied to a particular facility ... Audit Protocol contains a section alerting the auditor to typical issues addressed in state and local regulations concerning a given topic area (e.g., RCRA and used oil) From a practical standpoint,...
... or database format 7.0 DATA MANAGEMENT AND ANALYSIS, AND REPORTING 7.1 Data Management andAnalysis The manufacturer, FTO, and NSF each have distinct responsibilities for managing and analyzing ... verification testing; Data reduction, analysis, and reporting; January 2004 Page ii Performance and cost factor (labor, chemicals, energy) verification; and Report preparation and information transfer ... any necessary data quality indicator calculations These include: precision, relative percent deviation, standard deviation, accuracy, and completeness; Outline of the frequency, format, and content...
... random choices of keys and nodes, and says that such a random choice is unlikely to produce an unbalanced distribution A similar model is applied to analyze standard hashing Standard hash functions ... since each participant need provide capacity only for the average load, not for that participant’s peak load Dabek et al describe a realization of this idea that uses Chord to map data blocks onto ... To accelerate lookups, Chord maintains additional routing information This additional information is not essential for correctness, which is achieved as long as each node knows its correct successor...
... publication 5761 Mammalian DNA single- strand break repair J L Parsons et al References Caldecott KW (2001) Mammalian DNA single- strand break repair: an X-ra(y)ted affair Bioessays 23, 447– 455 Wallace ... such a mechanism by acting as a nick sensor anda docking platform for formation of a multiprotein complex capable of repairing various strand breaks [16] Consequently, to fulfil these functions, ... Caldecott KW, Cass CE & Weinfeld M (2004) Biophysical characterization of human XRCC1 and its binding to damaged and undamaged DNA Biochemistry 43, 16505–16514 Parsons JL, Dianova II, Allinson...