... urban consumers in
South Africa have smartphones than any
other country. For instance, 75 percent of
urban South Africans own smartphones,
compared with 20 percent of consumers
in Japan. ... Germany and
Japan) are conducting activities weekly
on their devices. To do these activities,
emerging-market consumers are much
more often downloading free apps than
paid apps. And they ...
Emerging markets lead the growth of
many consumer technologies, but these
markets are not uniform in consumers’
device purchase and use.
The data is in andthe findings are clear: The movement
to...
... type. You can see this type
correspondence in Table 9.3
, shown earlier.
You can get the database type for a column using the GetDataTypeName() method of
your DataReader object. For example: ... the type ofthe database column. If you
don't know the type of a column, you can get it using Visual Studio .NET's Server
Explorer. For example, Figure 9.1
shows the details ofthe ... how to get the .NET type and database type
of a column using C#. You get the .NET type used to represent a column using the
GetFieldType() method ofyour DataReader object. For example:
Console.WriteLine("ProductID...
... string of binary data.
SqlBoolean An integer with either a 1 or 0 value.
SqlByte An 8-bit unsigned integer value between 0 and 2
8
- 1 (255).
SqlDateTime A date and time between 12:00:00 AM January ... the Get* methods andthe standard C# types. I showed you the Get* methods
earlier only because they work with non-SQL Server databases.
Table 9.6
shows the Sql* types andthe values that may ... convert between SQL Server types andthe standard C#
types, which the Get* methods have to do.
Tip If you are using SQL Server, always use the GetSql* methods and Sql* types rather
than the Get*...
... of these changes occurred at frame-
work 3 ofthe heavy chain (Asp74Asn) and 3 ofthe light
chain. Two ofthe changes (Thr152Ile and Ser197Gly)
occurred at frameworks 1 and 3, respectively, and ... To the best of our knowledge, this is
the first report ofthe generation of a human recom-
binant antibody fragment capable of neutralizing the
toxic effects ofthe whole venom from a deadly animal.
Results
Human ... for
the selection of human antibodies through the creation
of large repertoires in vitro [10]. This process begins
with the cloning and expression of cDNAs encoding
the variable regions of the...
... the study design, statistical analysis and helped to
draft the manuscript; CMT participated in the study
design anddata collection; KL helped to draft the manu-
script and took part in the theoretical ... differ significantly between the
two samples and raises the question of whether these sim-
ilarities remain or not in other different cultures. The
demonstration of cultural invariance ofthe core ... Access
Research
Development and validation ofthe Brazilian version ofthe
Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire (AAQ): Anexampleof merging
classical psychometric theory andthe Rasch measurement model
Eduardo...
... the study design, statistical analysis and helped to
draft the manuscript; CMT participated in the study
design anddata collection; KL helped to draft the manu-
script and took part in the theoretical ... differ significantly between the
two samples and raises the question of whether these sim-
ilarities remain or not in other different cultures. The
demonstration of cultural invariance ofthe core ... item and subscale correlations and internal relia-
bility. No missing values were found in any ofthe 44
items in the Brazilian sample. The analysis ofthe pooled
international data indicated the...
... worthy and highly respected
Lieutenant-Governor Major General Ross for the correctness of their statement, and for the situation of the
Island. They have the approval of their fellow-subjects andof ... encouraged the writer to visit the island himself, promising him
introductions and access to all the official documents and newspapers ofthe time. Through the courtesy of the
Greffier andthe Librarian ... had the right of stopping the private
issue of notes, and pointed to theexampleof England, where only £5 notes were permitted in the country, and
these under a heavy tax, while only the Bank of...
... stearothermophilus mutants. The kinetic parameters of
the wild-type enzymes andthe various mutants from the
two organisms (B. stearothermophilus [47] and T. brucei) are
summarized in Table 6. With ... the T. brucei and T. cruzi proteins. These K
d
values actually
represent the ligand affinities for a nonactive conformation
of the enzyme in the absence of substrate and cofactor.
Molecular ... resolved. The stereochemistry
of the structure is generally quite satisfactory, with more
than 99% ofthe residues showing torsion angles in the
favourable regions ofthe Ramachandran diagram...
... (analogues of
6 and 7), whereas the two remaining analogues would
inhibit both trypsin and chymotrypsin simultaneously
and independently. Jaulent and Leatherbarrow [11]
reported the synthesis and kinetic ... positions 5 ⁄ 6 and 19 ⁄ 20 to release fragments
with Ser6 and Lys19 at their N- and C-termini, respec-
tively. The cleavage is followed by resynthesis of
the peptide bond between Lys5 and Ser20 to ... experimental proteinases and remained intact in
the presence ofthe other enzyme. Consequently, the
hypothesis that the inhibitory activity ofthe permu-
tants in the presence of both enzymes could...
... dynamics of Av17 and macrophages
and allow refining ofthe mathematical model that
we currently have.
A mathematical model goes hand in hand with
experimental models. It is a caricature of reality, and
its ... transient ERK and
strong and sustained p38 activation.
Changing the Av17 stimulus shows that both
ERK and p38 control the amplitude of IL-10
The density ofthe parasite population, and hence the
concentration ... of p38 in the feedback
mechanism.
Understanding the process behind IL-10 regulation
and macrophage deactivation could open the door to
understanding the role of ERK in macrophage fate.
Av17 and...
... south of
the Greenland-Scotland ridge. At α = α
c
≡ 1.7 a thresh-
old associated with a drastic AMOC increase of more than
10 Sv and a northward shift of deep water formation north
of the Greenland-Scotland ... for the lowered CH
4
and
N
2
O atmospheric CO
2
concentration), the ICE-5G ice-sheet
reconstruction (Peltier, 2004) and changes in land-sea mask
consistent withthe latter, andan increase of ... changes (black). The gray rectangle indicates the duration ofthe oceanic
subsurface warming. Within this rectangle, (A) shows the phase of ice shelf breaking and (B) indicates the period of...
... design
and wrote the manuscript. TT, IM and DEG carried out the
data analysis. MK participated in the study design and crit-
ically reviewed the manuscript, and all authors read and
approved the ... treatment and
psychosocial care services. In addition, participants with
Table 2: Means and standard deviations of trait anxiety and coping strategies ofthe participants of two types of diabetes ... 70% of items included in any scale
were included in the study.
Results
The total mean and standard deviation of trait anxiety in
two types of diabetes was 46.98 ± 6.14. The mean of trait
anxiety...