example of an approved consent form for a study

... 3.6 Set An 2I − Tn −1 for all n 1, 2, , N, it is well known that {An }N are all nonexpansive n mappings and Fix An Fix Tn as a consequence of 10, Theorem Then we have An A 1 xn − An xn ≤ ... 96-2221-E-230-003 10 Journal of Inequalities and Applications References H K Xu and R G Ori, An implicit iteration process for nonexpansive mappings,” Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization, vol 22, ... Let E be a Banach space Recall the norm of E is said to be Gateaux differentiable and E is said to be smooth if lim t→0 x ty − x t 2.1 Journal of Inequalities and Applications exists for each x,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... target area speech Motion and Audio and Vision Speech Animation localization gestures task task task Mobile platform Speakers Camera/s Microphone/s Animated head and arms Figure 2-1: Example of ... presents a caster-wheel platform design for a social robot that can navigate a home environment seamlessly and able to perform other task Figure 1-2: Various modes of locomation for social robots ... robots also known as Human Robot Interaction (HRI) Examples of social robotic task include personal assistant, companion robot and handicap aid as seen in Figure 1-1 Figure 1-1: Role of Social Robots...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 10:26

... ratios: at a : Fe2+ ⁄ protein ratio, the resonances of Arg20, Asp22 and Asp23 disappeared, and the resonance of Leu21 shifted At a : ratio, the resonances of residues 19 and 44 also disappeared, ... ⁄ iron ratio were again those of Arg20, Leu21, Asp22 and Asp23 At a : ratio, the above resonances disappeared completely, together with those of the amides of residues 29, 30 and 31 At a : protein ... observed disappearance of the resonances of residues 23 and 27 at a 0.5 : Lu3+ ⁄ CyaY ratio The resonances of residues 18, 19, 22, 24, 25, 28, 29, 44 and 105 shifted gradually, and were bleached up...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 16:20

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2012, 17:20

... basic research appeared to conclude what was already intuitively thought about low back pain and increased weight Body mass index Before an in-depth discussion of low back pain and obesity can ... The relation of spinal x-ray to low back pain and physical activity among 60 year old men and women Spine 1985, 10:445-451 Lean ME, Han TS, Seidell JC: Impairment of health and quality of life ... degeneration in an urban population Ann Rheum Dis 1958, 17:388-397 Magora A, Schwartz A: Relation between the low back pain syndrome and x-ray findings I: Degenerative osteoarthritis Scand J Rehabil...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... “The rate of convergence of the augmented Lagrangian method for nonlinear semidefinite programming,” Mathematical Programming, 2008 D Noll, “Local convergence of an augmented Lagrangian method for ... Recently, Sun et al 2007 considered the rate of convergence of the classical augmented Lagrangian method and Noll 2007 investigated the convergence properties of a class of nonlinear Lagrangian methods ... i form an orthonormal basis of Kerg x ii If x is a feasible point of 1.1 and Θσ has a local minimum at x, then x is the local solution to 1.1 Furthermore, if f, h, g are differentiable at x and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 18:20

... German, French, Spanish and Italian [2] The English and German versions of the IDES ankle series are available under http://www.memdoc.org, the translations into French, Spanish and Italian are ... β-angle (lateral view: angle between the longitudinal axis of the tibia and the articulating surface of the tibial component) and γ-angle (lateral view: angle between a line drawn through the anterior ... documentation, patient assessment, assistance in manuscript composition EA - statistician, complete data management and analysis MP senior foot and ankle specialist surgeon, main contribution for...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... right hepatic artery [2] Intrahepatic HAPs account for only about 20% of all HAPs and are often a complication of percutaneous procedures such as transhepatic cholangiography, transhepatic catheter ... and anatomic variations such as an anomalous or replaced hepatic artery [6], and can be used in simultaneous diagnosis and treatment The recent extended utilization of high-resolution vascular ... artery embolization J Vasc Intervent Radiol 1995, 6(5):793-798 10 Yamakado K, Nakatsuka A, Tanaka N, Takano K, Matsumura K, Takeda K: Transcatheter arterial embolization of ruptured pseudoaneurysms...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20

... investigations and assisted in the literature search, writing and editing of the manuscript All authors have reviewed and approved the final manuscript 16 Rasim ZM, Alzahrani MA, Sigman HH, Meakins ... sac was partly resected, leaving sufficient material to facilitate a peritoneal closure of the abdominal cavity In order to reach an adaptation of both lateralized anterior rectus sheaths, a ... the information, performed the literature search and prepared the manuscript JC assisted with the surgery, was involved in all investigations and assisted in providing a critical appraisal and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... important Designing a structure that fit a company’s need is a large challenge Each structure has advantages and disadvantages, and managers have to be ready and willing to redesign the organization ... the authority possessed by managers at each level decrease, as does their area of responsibility A flat of organization has fewer managers and hierarchical levels than a tall organization, so a ... relationships among roles in an organization - Administrative acts, decisions and rules should be formulated and put in writing Bureaucracy has several advantages It is fair and equitable, and it can promote...

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2015, 08:55

... can sustain or enhance class morale and aid learning 2.2 Language Testing Language testing is one of the forms of testing and it is also one form of measurements Its importance in English learning ... Claphan, C., Wall, D (1995) Language Test Construction and Evaluation Cambridge: Cambridge University Press American Psychological Association (1985) Standards for educational and psychological ... Random factors Figure 2.2 Factors that affect language test scores We can infer from the figure that a score in a language test is indicated by communicative language ability Also, the language...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:05

... accuracy of camera Some suppositions: Moving direction of the camera and boundary are parallel The oil color and the light are stable Some features of camera: The maximum dimensions of camera window ... volume and pressure change have some break points This problem is caused by electrical noises of amplifier and A- D converter in measuring pressure and light noises and mechanical noises of drainage ... stress and no drainage is allowed during application of the deviator stress This test is generally performed on undisturbed saturated samples of fine grained soils (clay, silt and peat) to measure...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2013, 06:15

... change.5 Before people began farming or otherwise transforming huge areas of land, human-scale landscapes consisted of patches of forests, meadows, flood plains, grasslands, and so on The patches ... formed a special case of the science of biogeography—the study of where animals and plants are, where they are not, and why.9 MacArthur and Wilson argued that the number of species on an island ... the arid lands west of the 100th meridian, then best to leave control of pasture in a community’s common range and water in the hands of acequias a system of communal management of water by associations...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 17:20

... synthesis for 12 h at 37 °C Each amino acid was present at a concentration of 10 lM (lanes and 2), 30 lM (lanes and 4), 300 lM (lanes and 6) or mM (lanes and 8) Mobilities of molecular mass markers ... carlsbergensis, no data available for E coli; b value for Lupinus luteus and bovine, no data available for E coli; c value for Paracoccus denitrificans, no data available for E coli d value for Bacillus subtilis, ... 64–81 Kato, K., Matsunaga, C., Igarashi, T., Kim, H.-H., Odaka, A. , Shimada, I & Arata, Y (1991) Complete assignment of the methionyl carbonyl carbon resonances in switch-variant anti-dansyl antibodies...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20

... Selection of a word and acceptor to start an entire derivation Monolingual Relational Models We can characterize the language models used for analysis and generation in the transfer system as quantitative ... Performance To evaluate the relative performance of the two translators, 200 utterances were chosen at random from a previously unseen test sample of ATIS utterances having no overlap with samples ... domain and test data, and using similar a u t o m a t a for analysis in the transfer system and transduction in the transducer system Another justification is that it was not necessary to make difficult...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21

... manner than GAPDH Inhibition of LDH and ADH is competitive for ATP, ADP and AMP, whereas inhibition of GAPDH by ATP, ADP and AMP appeared to be mixed However, the high dissociation constants for ... inhibition of the lactococcal dehydrogenases and ADH of yeast and horse liver as a function of the ATP and ADP pool Criterion for all data points chosen: [ATP] > [ADP] (A) Dehydrogenases from Lactococcus ... intervals for the competitive inhibition kinetics (Eqn 2) of LDH and ADH and the mixed inhibition kinetics (Eqn 3) of GAPDH with ATP, ADP, AMP and cofactor product (NAD for LDH and ADH, and NADH for...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... resonance of 4,4-dimethyl-4-silapentane-1-sulfonic acid used as an internal standard Distance restraints and structure calculations An initial survey of distance constraints was performed on a series ... Gehrmann J, Loughnan ML, Thomas L, Adams DA, Atkins A, Palant E, Craik DJ, Adams DJ, 2602 Alewood PF et al (2001) Two new classes of conopeptides inhibit the alpha1-adrenoceptor and noradrenaline ... Comparison of 3D structure of mr3e (M-1 branch conotoxin) and mr 3a (M-2 branch conotoxin) (A, B) Backbone conformation of mr3e and mr 3a (C,D) Surface representation of mr3e and mr 3a Blue regions are...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 09:20

... titer values of each data pair against the mean of the pair, we quantified the degree Figure titers base countedplot automatically counted titers versus manually Scatterscale of for each sample ... complement treatment (Table 1) Table indicated that the means and variability of the automatic and manual count were very similar Discussion The data presented here demonstrate agreement and equivalence ... CO2 for days to allow for plaque formation Conventional staining and plaque determination for RSV neutralization Cells infected on transparent plates were fixed with a 50%:50% methanol:ethanol...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... Contact and demographic information on farms in the Waitaki TLA was obtained from the AgriBase™ database, a national database of farm ownership, location and management in New Zealand owned and maintained ... reporting safety performance as their main reason for taking part in this study Reasons for participation As part of the initial participant questionnaire, participants were asked their reason for participating ... Written Consent from Farm Owners and Workers All farm owners and workers who verbally agreed to participate were sent information and consent forms The information forms provided detailed information...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... titer values of each data pair against the mean of the pair, we quantified the degree Figure titers base countedplot automatically counted titers versus manually Scatterscale of for each sample ... complement treatment (Table 1) Table indicated that the means and variability of the automatic and manual count were very similar Discussion The data presented here demonstrate agreement and equivalence ... CO2 for days to allow for plaque formation Conventional staining and plaque determination for RSV neutralization Cells infected on transparent plates were fixed with a 50%:50% methanol:ethanol...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20