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... and predict the effects of visuals on reading comprehension, among them, the theory of mental models (Johnson-Laird [20]), the transmediation theory (Siegel [21]), the repetition hypothesis (Gyselinck ... The translation task would evaluate the effects of pictures on students’ understanding of the texts and the questionnaire was used to assess student viewpoints on the effects of pictures on their ... performance On the contrary, the impact of pictures diminishes when they not reflect the linguistic complexities of the text The effect of pictures on reading comprehension largely depends on the quality...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... reproduction has been noted, but this may be due to effects of contaminants on the female of the species, rather than the male Moreover, the mechanisms of action by which some of the effects occur ... survival of this species (Jenssen,2006) The impacts of contaminants on the Svalbard polar bear population are inconclusive but there are suggestions of contaminant-related population level effects ... collections they considered that the proportion of intersex individuals peaked during the period 1946 -1959 The genetic sex of these frogs was not confirmed, but it was believed that the ones with...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20

... boundary conditions, and the resulting grid was adopted as the boundary condition for one further focused calculation The protein molecules occupied 90% of the box in the final calculations The molecular ... compilation ª 2008 FEBS 1595 Effects of salt on Vibrio endonucleases L Niiranen et al Table Thermodynamic parameters of the thermal unfolding of VsEndA and VcEndA as a function of NaCl concentration ... salt concentration than VcEndA to be able to function optimally Effects of mutations The point mutations are not in the immediate vicinity of the active site situated at the bottom of the positively...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

... work, we explored the effects of the surface-to-volume ratio on the sensitivity of a microsensor We further examined the effects of each individual dimension on the sensitivity of a microsensor ... microwire sensors with their lengths and widths kept constant This was done to study the effects of the PPy thicknesses on the sensitivity responses of the microwires The thicknesses of the PPy layers ... calculated from the known volume (i.e., the volume of the chamber) and the density of air at room temperature The concentration of the methanol was calculated from the ratio between the mass of methanol...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 16:48

... in the regulation of gait One common way to study effects of cognition on gait is by examining the effect of a secondary cognitive task on the control of locomotion The dual-task methodology ... http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/5/1/13 formed the same Stroop conditions while walking on a treadmill for minutes The Stroop test consisted of three conditions: 1) A baseline condition (STROOP-BASE), consisting of ... condition; INCO = incongruent Stroop condition; MOVE = movement related Stroop condition Error bars represent standard errors the effects of dual-tasking and not to the order of presentation of...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... amplifier The speaker (Focal JM Lab Chorus 705V) fit snugly in the upper part of the box and the animal enclosure in the lower section The diaphragm of the speaker was 16 cm above the floor of the ... contributed to the writing JMW contributed to data collection LK contributed to the interpretation of the results HS conceived of the study, participated in the design and drafted the manuscript ... of ROS, and in this case of reduced levels of ROS, the administration (in addition to the furosemide) of anti-oxidant drugs which counteract the ROS does not provide further protection [10] On...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... attained of cycles of the former is only one unit less than that of the latter Conclusions 3.3 Effect of Li + ion on the behaviour of positive electrodes An examination was also made of the effects of ... Number of i 50 60 70 cyclea Fig Relationship between the coefficient of utilization of the positive active material and the n u m b e r of cycles on the condition of the electrolyte containing ... Table In view of the above-mentioned effective action of AS on the positive electrode and the important action of graphite on the improvement of the active-material utilization during the initial...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 20:21

... predevaluation behavior of the accounts Furthermore, an attempt will be made to isolate the effects of devaluation alone by standardizing for the effects of other exogenous variables 11 The Equations The ... in the residuals test, the improvement is consistent with the predictions of the monetary approach that devaluation will produce a stock adjustment of the money supply On the other hand, there ... patterns of the average residuals of the non-1967 devaluations are essentially the same as the patterns when the 10 1967 devaluations are included T h e conclusions of the paper are therefore...

Ngày tải lên: 23/07/2014, 15:28

... vulnerable, population of patients Chemotherapy-induced cognitive decline in the absence of radiation The best data on the cognitive effects of chemotherapy alone have come from studies of children with ... high doses of chemotherapy is clearly demonstrated by Noble and colleagues [1], yet these proposed studies not take into consideration the possible effects of high-dose chemotherapy on either CNS ... are planned that further reduce the dose of craniospinal radiation to 1,800 cGy, virtually no attention has been paid to the possible contribution of the chemotherapy to the cognitive decline...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:21

... for the creation of a fat body and eggs Kula (1988) mentions similar results in the increased consumption of food in the creation of a fat body in females of Lochmaea caprae (L.) Differences of ... evaluation Results Effects on a nutritive plant A basic condition of the rapid increase in the nitrogen content in birch leaves was demonstrated by the analysis of its level in the dry matter of leaves ... nutrition of nitrogen according to conclusions on stress impacts (Kaňová, Kula 2004b, 2005) Changed nutrition or stress could affect the quality aspects of food, e.g the production of secondary...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... with the single sugar concentrations, the total sugar concentration, the nitrogen and quercitol concentrations and C:N ratios of the bark and the defoliation as the predictor variables, were conducted ... it can be concluded that the decrease in frost hardiness of the RD trees was not due to a reduction in the concentrations of these sugar compounds In contrast, the concentrations of raffinose ... values of relative conductivity (RC; %) of the incubation solution and the duration of bark tissue incubation (h) during the investigation period The slope is a relative measure of freezing injury,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... Montes et al increases the illumination on the stems and in the case of Q faginea this produces an intense sprouting from the stem, instead of the reoccupation of openings through the horizontal ... using the transformation L(d) of Ripley’s function K(d) Solid lines: K function value for the real distribution of the trees; grey lines: 90% confidence interval boundaries of L(d) of a Poisson ... tree j, and n the number of trees in a circular area of radius d The K value is compared to the expected value of a Poisson distribution obtained through 99 simulations of the Poisson process [25]...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:22

... been conducted to assess the effects of fertilization or liming on different parts of the forest ecosystem In this context, information is available about the concentration of nutrients in the ... cycle of the forest ecosystem Further observations should give us more information about developments during the coming years The response of the ground vegetation plants is a function of their ... vegetation response between the beech and oak stands Acknowledgements: This study was conducted with the support of the “Division Nature et Forêts” of the Walloon Region and the European Commission...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... time DISCUSSION Since the trees recovered from all inoculations it may be hypothesized that the length of the reaction zone was proportional to the duration of the struggle between the tree and ... consider the observed variations in the tree defence reactions to be a consequence of variation of stored carbo- sibly a longer (table II) or a more = hydrates These conclusions agree with the ... 1992) The success or failure of each attack depends on the outcome of the struggle between the bark beetle and its associated fungi, and the intensity of the defence reaction at the site of attack...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:22

... the number of pulses observed during the bleeding period Pulse duration was the time between the beginning of the ascending phase of the peak and the end of the descending phase of the peak The ... episodic prolactin secretion and on dopamine concentration, the comparison of values was done by oneway analysis of variance (ANOVA) Finally, to test the existence of an interaction between MTX and ... amplitudes of prolactin peaks, their frequency and the pulse duration The program also calculates the mean half-life of the hormone The absolute pulse amplitude was defined as the difference between the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... Distribution of the codon usage index, ENC, and GC content at synonymous third codon positions (GC3%) The curve shows the expected codon usage of GC compositional constraints alone account for codon ... case, the codon usage variation might be one of factors to drive HBV evolution The effect of mutation pressure on codon usage of HBV To analyze if the evolution of HBV is shaped by mutation pressure ... a the synonymous codon usage pattern of human cell was calculated based on the data of the synonymous codon usage frequencies of human cell The codon usage bias of HBV suggests that some synonymous...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... hypertension in the pig can be prevented with a combination of the nonpeptide mixed endothelin receptor antagonist bosentan and the COX inhibitor diclofenac They found that the combination of bosentan ... The present study was therefore conducted to determine whether COX inhibition is upregulated early after the onset of severe sepsis, and if so whether COX inhibition prevents the occurrence of ... ulceration In addition, the lack of inhibitory effect on platelet function, which occurs with the use of COX-2 selective compounds, may decrease the incidence of bleeding complications [17,19] In the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... proportional to the concentration of rat TNFα in the sample A standard curve was obtained by plotting the concentrations of rat TNF-α standards versus their absorbences The TNF-α concentration of the ... citation purposes) of the laser penetration depth of about 1–2 mm, IMBF reflects the blood flow in the whole gut wall In contrast, FCD reflects only the perfusion of the capillaries of the focused ... of 50 pg/ml Thus, the inflammatory response is not a result of preparations before the start of the experiment (insertion of catheters, laparotomy, among other factors) The dopexamine infusion...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 02:24

Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2015, 05:00

... depth: these are more extensive in the region of the jet-grouted pile (section AA) than around the control pile (section BB) The CPT programme allowed these variations in ground conditions to ... average penetration depth for reaction pile driving EFFECTS OF TIME ON CAPACITY OF PILES DRIVEN IN SAND 233 around ten months of their installation The make-up and test histories of the CLAROM piles ... driving allow another way of checking potential variations between the reaction piles Fig 10 presents the plots for the test to failure on R6 along with the proof load tests on R3, R4 and R5...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2015, 10:38