... assembly by binding to a high affinity site on tubulin Colchicine binding occurs in a nearly irreversible manner and exerts a conformational change in tubulin, as well as in colchicine itself ... allows washing and removing medium traces that could interfere with the subsequent action of trypsin Trypsinize attached cells in the flask using 1X Trypsin-EDTA and let stand for minutes at ... Enzymatic and mechanical procedures Culture initiation Culture harvesting and metaphases Banding techniques Freezing of viable cells The way of determining the time of harvest, colchicine use and exposure...
... defect in an aluminum casting at 100× magnification Fig Gas porosity in aluminium casting at 1000× magnification RecentTrendsin Processing and Degradation of Aluminium Alloys 3.3 Shrinkage Shrinkage ... usually contain Fe and other alloying elements 20 RecentTrendsin Processing and Degradation of Aluminium Alloys and/ or impurities In the aluminium alloys besides the alloying elements, transition ... it is gradually making in- roads into traditional investment casting applications and also in novel materials production 10 RecentTrendsin Processing and Degradation of Aluminium Alloys Fig Cross-section...
... as anodising, conversion coating and organic coatings (barrier and inhibitor combinations) It will examine recent advances in inhibitor design such as building in multifunctionality and touch ... heat treating, quenching, and aging practices, and they are applied principally to alloys containing copper, magnesium, or zinc By measuring the potentials of grain boundaries and grain bodies ... of strain localization due to the formation and development of slip lines and slip bands as well as shear banding and twinning processes In the last decade the methods of intensive strain have...
... correlates initially from a full model with all variables in the left column in the Table economic transitioning which is occurring in China During this period in China there was a rapid increase in ... time spent watching TV/video tapes Since 2000, time spent doing homework, and extracurricular cultural activity including reading, writing and drawing was added to the CHNS Since 2004, new questions ... annual income in Chinese currency (RMB) was obtained by dividing family annual income by household size The per capita family annual income in each survey was inflated to values in 2009 by adjusting...
... reclaimed land framework containing a landfill for incinerated waste from the Singapore mainland The western third of the island, however, includes a mature intertidal reef flat fringed by mangrove ... 2004) A recent special issue of the Marine Pollution Bulletin has provided two papers examining trendsin seagrass in Southeast Asia Short et al (2014) describes declines in seagrass cover in 10 ... Marine Science Institute (TMSI), NUS She was a great source of knowledge regarding seagrass and field methods, and helped refine my thinking to a huge degree She was also invaluable in helping...
... we hope to enable interested scholars and practitioners to gain information in greater detail as it will be possible during the conference, andin this way to stimulate and inspirit the overall ... decisively shape the understanding and concretisation of the structuring principles Constitutional Principles in View of Varying Sectoral Provisions The principles set forth in Art 6(1) EU are valid ... Armin von Bogdandy understanding: principles are legal norms laying down essential elements of a legal order.2 The purpose of this study is above all to identify and clarify these principles, in...
... expect and deserve the best care, and nursing actions should be evaluated and developed So nurses must incorporate nursing research into their practice, appraising research, implementing findings and ... within developed countries is increasing and a body mass index (BMI) greater than 25 is associated with increased blood pressure and an increase in cardiac and stroke mortality About 46% of men and ... sensitive to inflammatory mediators such as bradykinin, histamine and prostaglandins (Spina 1996) A number of neuropeptides including substance P are released by sensory nerves and these have...
... Market and banking supervisors and regulators are in the process of stepping up their monitoring of the ETF market Work is underway nationally and internationally on assessing how recent innovations ... suspending redemptions or maintaining them and facing a liquidity shortfall at the bank level In short, risks increase if the bank considers the synthetic ETF structure as a stable and inexpensive ... disruptions In principle, ETFs offer on-demand liquidity to investors while they are in some cases based on much less liquid underlying assets Therefore, in the event of a market sell-off or an unwind in...
... data includes Ireland in money market, long-term and total net sales only (2) 37 countries reported in 2010:Q1; 40 in 2010:Q2, 2010:Q3 and 41 in 2010:Q4, 2011:Q1, 2011:Q2 Assets of reporting countries ... Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, S lovakia, S lovenia, S pain, S weden, S witzerland, Turkey and ... EFAMA International Statistical Release (2011:Q2) On a U.S dollar-denominated basis and taking into account funds of funds, investment fund assets worldwide increased 1.7 percent in the second...
... Finland Poland Portugal Romania Russia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom Asia and Pacific Australia China India Japan Korea, Rep of New Zealand Pakistan Philippines ... 100,950 Poland Portugal Romania Russia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom Asia and Pacific Australia China India Japan Korea, Rep of New Zealand Pakistan Philippines Taiwan ... 1,034,541 Poland Portugal Romania Russia Slovakia3 Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom Asia and Pacific Australia China India Japan Korea, Rep of New Zealand Pakistan Philippines...
... visualizing results, improving basic submodels, finding new, interdisciplinary applications, exploring new concepts, interpreting observations in a more generalized form, or even pushing the ... doing Computer Project Work, and Report Writing 6 Chapter However, it should be augmented later on by more independent work, e.g., deriving governing equations, obtaining data sets, plotting and ... complicated and interdisciplinary tasks, tomorrow’s engineers are facing (see NAS “The Engineers of 2020” at http:// national-academics.org) Also, an increasing number of engineering firms recruit...
... improving the modeling and control of robot-assisted therapy systems to aide them in adapting patients' movements to natural and functional activities such as walking, drinking, and pinching In ... called MULOS and a wrist robot The combined system focused on the shoulder and elbow and wrist pronation and supination Along with standard and custom clinical measures, they used an intrinsic motivation ... activity and recruitment in preexisting motor networks in unaffected regions and those surrounding the lesion site andin the cerebellum, and 3) a reduction the amount of activity in primary and secondary...
... pansharpening include improving geometric correction, enhancing certain features not visible in either of the single data alone, changing detection using temporal data sets and enhancing classification ... effectively spatial information (band I) and spectral information (bands H and S) [20] makes it very applicable in pan-sharpening There are different models of IHS transform, differing in the method ... smoothing filter and interpolation with unsharp masking have the potential to be used to interpolate remote sensing images Note that interpolation does not increase the high-frequency detail information...
... Advances in Wavelet Theoryand Their Applications in Engineering, Physics and Technology (a) (b) Fig The original license plate candidate image is shown in (a) and prominent edges in the LP candidate ... image (a) and image (b) shows prominent edges (a) (b) Fig The original license plate candidate image is shown in (a) and prominent edges in the LP candidate are shown in (b) using single level ... divided into four parts These are input image normalization, edges enhancement using filters, edges finding and linking to rectangles using connected component analysis (CCA) and plate candidate finding...
... cost Maintenance cost includes labor and materials for airframes and engines Included in ownership cost are insurance, depreciation, and amortization for both operating leases (rentals) and capital ... American Airlines (AA), Continental Airlines (CO), Delta Airlines (DL), Northwest Airlines (NW), Southwest Airlines (WN), Trans World Airlines (TW), United Airlines (UA), and US Airways (US) In addition, ... altitude, and routing, by different operators 3.4.1.2 Engines The reductions in fuel consumption mainly originate from significant improvements in aircraft engine and aerodynamic technologies in the...
... as intervention was conducted During this stage 10 individuals were included, who had some schooling, which allowed them to gain a better understanding of the concepts used in training on GAP and ... bioconcentration potential and high persistency The use and manufacturing of DDT and HCH were forbidden in many countries including Japan in all over the world in the first half in 1970's In Japan, the use ... 2002 China 2002 China 2005 China 2005 China 2005 China 2005 China 2005 China Lhasa River 2005 China Lhasa River 2005 China 2006 2006 Huairou Reservoir (Beijing) Huairou Reservoir (Beijing) References...
... following factors (Fig 3): (1) the area of the drain; (2) the effect of lateral earth pressure; (3) possible folding, bending and crimping of the drain, and (4) Infiltration of fine particles into ... macro-fabric The sand blanket system is used to expel water away from the drains and provide a sound working mat for erecting the drain installation rigs Before installing PVDs, surface soil and vegetation ... can be graded and a sand blanket placed and compacted Field instrumentation for monitoring and evaluating embankments is vital to examine and control any geotechnical problems Instrumentation...
... time point in the presence of FBS and a significant difference (p < 0.05) at the hour and day time points in the absence of serum At the protein level, FRZB was present in both injured and uninjured ... staining for FRZB protein (red) in (c) uninjured and (d) injured explants at the day time point Haematoxylin was used as a nuclear counterstain (e,f) Larger magnifications of the boxed areas in ... immunohistochemistry (h) Haematoxylin-eosin and (i) safranin O stainings of an explant with a relatively high degree of osteoarthritis (modified Mankin score 5) (j-m) Immunostaining for β catenin in parallel, non-consecutive...