effects of nonlinearities on the resonator performance

... superior performance of the bulk mode resonators, in the last chapter of the thesis, some further studies are conducted Firstly, the effect of etch holes on the quality factor of the resonator is investigated ... Effects of nonlinearities on the resonator performance So far, the mathematical model of micromechanical resonators has been constructed In this section, we will look into two major effects of ... nonlinearities on the resonator performance It is shown that nonlinearities not only destabilize the resonant frequencies, but also limit the maximum storable energy of the resonator Based on the theoretical...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:13

... by the internal audit division of the same audit firm while in the other condition, they were told that another international audit firm provided these services The final manipulation concerned the ... receive any one of the eight versions in the first experimental case together with any one of the eight versions in the second experimental case This resulted in 64 different versions of the instrument ... received the attention not only of the profession but also regulators and stock exchanges around the world Levitt’s (1998 and 2000a) criticisms of the failure of the auditing profession in the US...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:49

... practices of data dissemination, I chose the topic of my thesis: “Evaluation on the satisfaction of GSO's statisticians on the quality of data dissemination on the GSO's website” The result of the ... Department of Information Management Thesis Evaluation on the satisfaction of GSO’s statisticians on the quality of data dissemination on the GSO’s website Than Van Hung March, 2013 Evaluation on the ... I completed the thesis "Evaluation on the satisfaction of GSO's statisticians on the quality of data dissemination on the GSO's website " Then, I would like to thank the leaders of the General...

Ngày tải lên: 20/07/2015, 21:04

... based on the concept of “versioning”, we have to study the relationship between quality and price of data The concept of versioning (“degrade the quality of the product offered to the consumers ... the data consumer, the data provider charges for the query The price of the query should reflect the quality of the query result The quality of the query result is affected by (1) the amount of ... Chapter 3 Cleaning Data:  Conditioning Uncertain Data Figure 1.1: The big picture of the contributions of this thesis straints rather than treating them as add-ons We define the conditioning problem in...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:24

... review focuses on the effect of teaching syntax Therefore the conclusions of the 16 reviews that focus on syntax are presented below Author, date Table 3.8: Summary of conclusions of the one systematic ... account of the results of research into the question The aim of the review is to shed conclusive light on the effect (or otherwise) of grammar teaching on writing by to 16 year-olds in English The ... evaluations of ‘other’ designs Sixteen out of the 24 reviews explored the teaching of ‘syntax’ Of these 16, 12 provided a conclusion about the effect of syntax teaching on the accuracy and quality of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 05:20

... from the 21 The exact day of the month is censored in the version of the data that has already been released to me Only an indicator for the day of the week is available 22 23 ER admissions account ... face considerably higher levels of pollution To get a sense of the impact of these higher levels of pollution, I approximate the proportional effect of higher pollution levels in low SES areas on ... pollution and health, making it difficult to identify the effect of pollution on health.11 To understand the empirical implications of such actions for estimating the effect of pollution on hospitalizations...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... corpus in the initial version of the online text prediction application Currently, a demonstration version of the application is running for ComPoli-users We hope to collect questions from these ... will type only brief fragments of text: the length of the question they want to submit This means that there is potentially a large deviation in the effectiveness of the text prediction algorithm ... although the means of the two result samples are close to each other, the distribution the scores for the individual questions is different The histograms of both distributions (Figures and 5) confirm...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

... clients of Second-Tier audit firms is compared to the cost of capital of Big-audit firms in terms of the expected effect of the level of audit quality provided on the cost of capital The cost of capital ... components: one component is the cost of debt, and the second component is the cost of equity The results show that clients of Second-Tier audit firms incur cost of debt that is higher than the ... assumptions Two measures of auditor concentration are commonly used These are the concentration ratio and the Hirschman-Herfindahl Index (HHI) The concentration ratio is the percentage of total...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:15

... estimates of the burden of the condition/disease on those affected http://www.hqlo.com/content/5/1/67 nificant contribution to the overall impact of a disease or condition The "spillover" effect of ... women and the range of effects of violence on their lives would be a welcome addition to the sparse literature on outcomes of IPV Conclusion In conclusion, IPV has substantial effects on women's ... from the inclusion and exclusion of domains in instruments We report here on the results of focus groups of abused women discussing the health and quality of life effects of IPV, and a review of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... hypersecretion [13] The results of the present study confirm these data and add new information concerning the clinically used cys-LT1 receptor antagonist montelukast While the administration of montelukast ... on a cholinergic mechanism or the generation of histamine In contrast, accumulating evidence supports the notion that the pulmonary effects of PAF could be mediated by the secondary release of ... levels The addition of montelukast (10 µM) to the culture medium had no significant effect on the secretion levels (95 ± 6%) Combination of PAF (100 µM) and montelukast (10 µM) completely blocked the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... take place as a result of the following thermal osteonecrosis of the underlying bone [2, 10] Both of these complications are unique to hip resurfacing procedures and neither occurred in stemmed ... Based on a single surgeon’s experience with metal -on- metal HRA, the purpose of this study was: (1) to report our clinical results of a group of consecutive metal -on- metal HRA cases for which bone ... implant fixation type, and the size of the femoral component were each defined as explanatory variables These explanatory variables of age, gender, body mass index, T-score, and the size of the femoral...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... estimates of the burden of the condition/disease on those affected http://www.hqlo.com/content/5/1/67 nificant contribution to the overall impact of a disease or condition The "spillover" effect of ... women and the range of effects of violence on their lives would be a welcome addition to the sparse literature on outcomes of IPV Conclusion In conclusion, IPV has substantial effects on women's ... from the inclusion and exclusion of domains in instruments We report here on the results of focus groups of abused women discussing the health and quality of life effects of IPV, and a review of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... consists of functional and symptomatic scales The functional scales consist of the general health condition, physical function, mental function, psychological function and the social function ... education program should be included as part of the patients’ treatment program with the aim of reducing the symptoms of cancer and improving the quality of life Conclusions The results of this ... questionnaire evaluates four functional aspects and four sets of common symptoms in patients suffering from cancer It consists of mental conception of the body, sexual function, sexual function...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... mention that the outcome of our experiments was most likely influenced by the stage of the estrus cycle of the dogs from which the oocytes were collected; the positive effect of β-ME on IVM of ... supplementing the culture medium with various serum [25,29], gonadotrophin [15] or steroid hormone [15] The present study investigated the effect of βME or EGF supplementation on the base of the stages of ... Supplementation of β-ME in TCM-199 (Experiment 1) In this experiment, whether β-ME promotes completion of nuclear maturation in canine oocytes was evaluated The concentrations of β-ME tested were 0.0 (control),...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:20

... However, the taxol concentration used was critical for the level of cytokine production; μg/ml of taxol induced only marginal production of these cytokines These results suggest that taxol enhances the ... Quantitation of DC viability To measure the viability of DCs, we analyzed the DC population using cell size-based flow cytometric analysis The population of viable DCs in the dot plot was gated and confirmed ... basic rationale for the use of taxol in DC immunotherapy and insights into the development of combinational DC therapies with other anticancer drugs that not harm the viability or activity of DCs...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... representative of the best and the worst qualities were chosen The selection of plots was based on an assessment of the general aspect of the plot and the size and physiognomy of holm oaks Table ... Gualba, in the southwestern sector of the Montseny Massif (40 km from Barcelona, Spain), Arbúcies, in the northern sector of the Montseny Massif (90 km from Barcelona), and Susqueda, in the southwestern ... (Di are one In this study we analyze the effect of site and thinning management on the structural heterogeneity of holm oak forests at the end of the cutting cycle The initial response of holm...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... reported, there are few data on the effect of GM-CSF In addition there are no data on the effect of their combination on liver regeneration These two factors are thought to be mitogens and their ... two factors [15,16] Aim of the present study is to compare the effect of the administration of EPO and GM-CSF alone or in combination on the acceleration of liver regeneration in rats after major ... experimental interest and fueled the exploration of additional actions of the hormone [20,21] It is a member of the class I cytokines family and is considered a pleiotropic hormone The EPO-specific receptor...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:21

... Depression % Number of symptoms Number of outpatient visit Number of hospitalizations Number of medications Quality of life scores Physical functioning Role functioning Energy/Fatigue Social functioning ... are proportional to the number of observations in each group unbalanced distributions of background confounders may bias the estimated exposure effects To account for this, conventional matching ... initial information of QOL change for women in the HAART era In summary, we evaluated the effects of HAART on QOL among women in the WIHS HAART did not show any long-term effect on QOL changes,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... consists of functional and symptomatic scales The functional scales consist of the general health condition, physical function, mental function, psychological function and the social function ... education program should be included as part of the patients’ treatment program with the aim of reducing the symptoms of cancer and improving the quality of life Conclusions The results of this ... questionnaire evaluates four functional aspects and four sets of common symptoms in patients suffering from cancer It consists of mental conception of the body, sexual function, sexual function...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... indicating that the inhibition of the ECM contraction might be due to decreased synthesis at the cellular level The synthesis of collagen is a hallmark of the strict regulation of MFs by a complex ... (Leiden, The Netherlands) (NCR 2006-09284 EU-0155) and the University of Mainz The authors declare that the study design, the collection and the interpretation of the data, and the presentation of ... supports the hypothesis that the fibroblast-to-MF transition may be affected by TNF-α Studies in the past revealed that the contractile function of the MFs is linked to the expression of α-SMA...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22