force lift diagrams as an aid for predicting the operational behavior of spring loaded pressure relief valves

The Art of Public Speaking cylinder, piston, water, and fire, is the steam−engine in its most elementary form. For a steam−engine may be defined as an apparatus for doing work by means of heat applied to water; and since raising such a weight as the pisto

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Báo cáo y học: "Capnography as an aid in localizing the phrenic nerve in brachial plexus surgery. Technical note" potx

Ngày tải lên : 10/08/2014, 10:20

... contraction was judged by the surgical assistant with his hand placed over the patient's draped epigastrium Both the neuroanesthetist and the surgical assistant were blinded as to when the bipolar ... capnographic wave form was observed The changes in waveform were monitored by the neuroanesthetist as the stimulating current was gradually increased Simultaneously, the presence of diaphragmatic ... 2/3rd of the superior surface of the clavicle The platysma was incised and the supraclavicular pad of fat was dissected sharply under the microscope away from the carotid sheath and the subclavian...

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Báo cáo y học: "Correspondence in relation to the case report "Capnography as an aid in localizing the phrenic nerve in brachial plexus surgery. Technical note." published in May issue of Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury" potx

Ngày tải lên : 10/08/2014, 10:20

... localization: effects of cutaneous electrode placement and duration of stimulus on motor response Anesthesiology 2004, 100:1526-1530 Raj PP, Andres JD, Grossi P, et al.: Aids to localization of peripheral ... here is very important They have not mentioned anything about the ventilator rate and tidal volume setting in their particular case in relation to capnogram recording Hypocarbia can result from several ... possibility in the case report Even nothing was mentioned about occurrence of hiccup, which is usually seen in case of phrenic nerve stimulation [5] This is a possibility in case of electrical...

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Báo cáo y học: "Response to comments on "Capnography as an aid in localizing the phrenic nerve in brachial plexus surgery. Technical note"" docx

Ngày tải lên : 10/08/2014, 10:20

... Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2008, 3:21 http://www.jbppni.com/content/3/1/21 With increase in the amplitude of current, there is further increase in the force of diaphragmatic ... hope the response addresses the concerns of the reader Thanking you Hemant Bhagat, Anil Agarwal, Manish S Sharma Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests They ... any grants nor they have any vested interests in the equipment described References Akcali DT, Ozkose Z, Yardim S: Do we need bispectral index monitoring during total intravenous anesthesia for...

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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "old hardiness as a factor for assessing the potential distribution of the Japanese pine sawyer Monochamus alternatus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in China" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 07/08/2014, 16:20

... itself and also the wilt disease If the range of the disease outbreak goes beyond the beetle’s range in northern regions, there are likely to be other vector species to transmit the disease Therefore, ... vectors in the field, in theory the disease is likely to extend farther and even exceed the distribution range of the beetle The beetle is one of the most important vectors of the disease in China, ... higher than that of the 5th instar larvae, but there was no significant difference between the SCPs of the 4th and 5th instar larvae The mean SCP of the 5th instar larvae (−15.7 ± 0.5 ◦ C) was the lowest,...

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Báo cáo y học: "Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging for predicting the clinical outcome of comatose survivors after cardiac arrest: a cohort study" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 20:21

... scans were performed within h after the event, and the scans were read as normal for 15 patients The CT scans of the other five patients were interpreted as having brain edema, and they had an ... optimal cutoffs for the mean ADC and the percent ADC values in the grey matter structures were derived from the ROC curve analysis (Table 5) The areas under the ROC curve were greater than 0.9 for ADC ... allows quantitative assessment of the severity of brain damage by means of measuring the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) [9-12] The patterns and extent of brain injury seen in DWI are associated...

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Competitiveness as an Engine for Economic Growth: Implications for Saudi Arabia doc

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 19:20

... distribution of wealth as interest groups seek a bigger share of the pie seek a bigger share of the pie •• Companies are the central actors in the Companies are the central actors in the economy ... Government is the central actor in the Government is the central actor in the economy as the owner and distributor of economy as the owner and distributor of resource wealth resource wealth – Resource ... sophistication and foster entrepreneurship and the development of SMEs • Pursue a comprehensive policy for cluster development • Expand information, openness, and transparency throughout the economy...

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báo cáo hóa học: " Intention as an indicator for subjective need: A new pathway in need assessment" doc

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 00:20

... while the goodness -of- fit of the model decreased Thus, for reasons of stability and efficiency there are good reasons for disregarding other covariates and suppressor effects and to rely primarily ... powerful tool for need assessment and the prediction of service use Theories and results of health and social psychology from the last decades [16-18] pointed to these relevant determinants (e.g ... the assessment of subjective need of the target population gives the basis for realistically planning and organizing public health services and for optimizing the supply Competing interests The...

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Báo cáo y học: "Using internet enabled mobile devices and social networking technologies to promote exercise as an intervention for young first episode psychosis patients" docx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 15:22

... comprised of 30 minutes of alternating distances of walking and running, starting off with small distances of walking and running, and slowly building up to either running a distance of kilometres ... participants like or dislike the running program and the use of the social networking technologies, whether any members of the group influenced their participation in the program, participants’ ... eases people into the running program The idea of the program is not to rush into running long distances from the start Rather, the guiding philosophy of the program is to transform a person from...

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Báo cáo y học: "A new parameter using serum lactate dehydrogenase and alanine aminotransferase level is useful for predicting the prognosis of patients at an early stage of acute liver injury: A retrospective study" potx

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 13:20

... difference of their normal ranges On the other hand, the value of ALT-LDH index distinctly increases when the serum LDH decreases close to the normal range For the enrolled patients, this index was calculated ... calculated for the first days from their admission, comparing the changes in serum ALT activity during the same period According to the normal range of our assay system, the median of the serum LDH was ... that of the MELD score was 0.777 (Table 2) In past reports evaluating the predictive efficacy of the MELD score for ALF, the cut-off line was set between 30 and 35 As shown in Table 3, the MELD...

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The use of the Internet tool as an assistance for first-year non-major students at Namdinh University of Technology Education in basic English self-study

Ngày tải lên : 04/08/2015, 09:41

... is from the survey questionnaire and the two tests‟ scores Significance of the study The data collected from the study can be analyzed and interpreted in terms of using websites and web-based activities ... listen and read a transcript or get instant feedback on what they have done (vi) Learners can access authentic websites They can plan out their own use of web-based materials in their own time Then ... has little or no control over the allocation of the treatments or other factors being studied The key difference is the lack of random assignment Another unique element is use of time series analysis,...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "An API for Measuring the Relatedness of Words in Wikipedia" docx

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 12:20

... computer and keyboard in the English Wikipedia provides multilingual support for the English, German, French and Italian Wikipedias and can be easily extended to other languages4 Software Architecture ... create and access the encyclopedia page objects and compute the relatedness scores The information ﬂow of the API is summarized by the sequence diagram in Figure The higher input/output layer the ... GermaNet data and computing semantic relatedness In Comp Vol to Proc of ACL-05, pp 5–8 Hirst, G & D St-Onge (1998) Lexical chains as representations of context for the detection and correction of...

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Báo cáo khoa học: 2-Pyrimidinone as a probe for studying the EcoRII DNA methyltransferase–substrate interaction docx

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 15:20

... methylation of either strand (II) or the 2P-containing strand (IIm) (Tables and 3) According to the thermodynamic and conformational analysis of the 2P-containing duplexes, the substitution of 2P for ... optical features of the 2P analog, rather than to a marked distortion of the DNA conformation 20 3Â-CGGTTGG-AMCGAGA-5Â Conformation of the 2P-containing DNA To answer the question of whether 2P substitution ... for 30 The observed level of methylation of duplex IIIm was low There was a linear increase of methylation with the increase of the enzyme concentration This effect may be due to the arrest of...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Homoadenosylcobalamins as probes for exploring the active sites of coenzyme B12-dependent diol dehydratase and ethanolamine ammonia-lyase docx

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 21:20

... activity and binding afﬁnity for the enzyme It was demonstrated that the adenine ring and the ribosyl moiety of the adenosyl group are required for tight binding to the apoenzyme and for transmitting ... AdoCbl or its analogue, and a change of the absorbance at 340 nm was recorded kinact was calculated from a change in the slope of a tangent to the time course curve of the reaction thus obtained ... Based on the predicted molecular masses, e1%,280 was calculated to be 5.81 and 6.21 for the former and latter enzymes, respectively [57] Other analytical procedures The concentrations of organocobalamins...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Anti- and pro-oxidant effects of quercetin in copper-induced low density lipoprotein oxidation Quercetin as an effective antioxidant against pro-oxidant effects of urate potx

Ngày tải lên : 23/03/2014, 12:20

... addition of quercetin, an increase in the decay rate of the transient absorption of • UH– accompanied by a growth of the transient absorp• tion of the semireduced quercetin ( QH–) demonstrating the ... antioxidant Antioxidant properties of ﬂavonoids have been widely studied within the last 20 past years A peculiar attention has been paid to the antioxidant effect of ﬂavonoids towards the oxidation ... phase when alone but completely abolishes the pro-oxidant effect of 10 lM urate Time courses of carotenoids and urate consumption The consumption of carotenoids was measured as an index of the...

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Stock repurchases as an earnings management mechanism the impact of financing constraints

Ngày tải lên : 12/06/2014, 19:36

... quarterly analyst earnings consensus and LOGANALYSTt as the logarithmic transformation of the number of analysts covering the firm before the earnings release date As shown in panel A of Table ... targets so we define LOGANALYSTt as the logarithmic transformation—defined as log (1 + x) for variable x of the number of analysts covering the firm before the earnings release date 2.2.6 Additional ... measures the number of times the firm meets/beats quarterly analyst earnings consensus LOGANALYSTt is the logarithmic transformation—defined as log (1 + x) for variable x of the number of analysts...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Development and application of a biomarker assay for determining the pharmacodynamic activity of an antagonist candidate biotherapeutic antibody to IL21R in whole blood" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 16:20

... isolation was performed as described above for the human blood assay The pilot work for the assay was performed on the Human Immune TLDA (ABI), which contains assays measuring the levels of 96 different ... TLDA designed for the monkey studies If the assay for the human gene was capable of measuring the monkey transcript, the human assay was retained on the custom TLDA for monkey studies For genes that ... "inventoried" assays available from ABI, and are described in Table cDNA synthesis, preparation of samples for TLDA assay and measurements of RNA concentration were performed as described for the human assay...

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Holcim has strengthened its balance sheet and earning power and positioned itself as an attractive group in the international capital markets

Ngày tải lên : 30/07/2014, 17:22

... approved the takeover was accounted for as an associated company of nearly 100% of Cementos Hispania S.A by the Group for a purchase price of EUR 190 million .The new company with its cement On January ... 83 113 Purchase of financial assets, intangible and other assets 36 (2,153) (1,014) Disposal of financial assets, intangible and other assets 36 874 572 (2,402) (1,734) Dividends paid on ordinary ... (+1.3%) and therefore proved much more stable than the US dollar An overview of the movements of the most important Group currencies against the Swiss franc can be found in the “Notes to the Consolidated...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "The stylomastoid artery as an anatomical landmark to the facial nerve during parotid surgery: a clinico-anatomic study" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 04:21

... and the angle of the mandible allowed a fast and safe identification of the facial nerve and may be of significant help during surgery around the parotid region Pather and Osman [1] evaluated the ... follows the anterior contour of the ear then curves gently behind the auricle, and extends anteriorly at least two of the "patient's fingerbreadths" beneath the lower border of the mandible The parotid ... obtained from all of the patients for publication of these cases and any accompanying images References The data in this study supports the use of the SMA as a reliable landmark for the facial nerve...

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báo cáo khoa học: " The buccal minor salivary glands as starting point for a metastasizing adenocarcinoma – report of a case" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 20:20

... and was positive for cytokeratin 20, a primary adenocarcinoma of the lung was unlikely and the tumour was finally attributed to the minor salivary glands as site of origin Due to the extent of ... filaments, which are confined to epithelia and indicate the tissue of origin in malignant transformation and metastasis [12] They may also be useful in the determination of the primary site While CK 5/6 ... metastasis by a lung primary had to be excluded The thyroid transcription factor (TTF-1) is a specific marker of the thyroid gland and the epithelia of the lung, regulating the expression of...

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