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... of kerotene and sugar and manufactured at room temperature offers an environmentally friendly ‘unique selling proposition’ And finally the issue of superbugs and bacterial resistance and a possible ... the role and value of biodiversity, and recognizes the dynamics and linkages between people, biodiversity and ecosystems Human activities have direct and indirect impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems, ... NGOs Potential performance indicators Wetland functions and associated socio-economic benefits in the Broads Explanation of visitor arrival functions Mean and median WTP for avoiding eutrophication...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 17:20

... structure of the THAP molecule and R stands for a trifluoromethyl group (–CF3) (b) Chemical structure of the PQ molecule THAP source was well out-gassed prior experiment and has been used several times ... negative and positive voltages applied to the sample, STS probes the local density of occupied and unoccupied states of the sample, respectively The data exhibit two clear peaks located at À0.89 V and ... metallic character This supports the observation made by Leandri et al based on a detailed analysis of the Si2p core levels and valence band of the surface [1] To address the issue of whether or...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:35

... similarity and define these gene clusters as X The clustering results Cs are then given by the proposed WDCM, k-means and SOM We compute and compare the values of Adjusted Rand Index between X and Cs ... clusters in both X and C The Adjusted Rand Index ARI(X,C) is defined as follows: ARI(X, C) = 2(ad − bc) (a + b)(b + d) + (a + c)(c + d) (4) The value of Adjusted Rand Index varies from to and higher ... BP and MF annotation ratios of the WDCM clusters (91.57% and 92.16%) are much higher than those of the SOM clusters (82.76% and 83.96%) On Bcell follicular lymphoma data test, although the CC and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:20

... transporter probe and with a GAPDH probe (cf Fig 2) Relative background transcription was calculated from the ratios of signals for transporter mRNA and GAPDH mRNA With OCT1, OCT2, and CAT4 both ... constructs were assembled by standard cloning methods and confirmed by DNA sequencing The backbone of pEBTet stems from pCEP-Pu [23] The Tn10-derived TetR open reading frame and the CMV-tetO2-tetO2 promoter ... unmodified TetR The original tetracycline repressor simply binds to a tandem of the type tetracycline operator (tetO2) operator and thus blocks transcription from the upstream cytomegalovirus (CMV)...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 09:21

... Knowledge Foundation and Pfizer Corporation to A.H., and L.K., and by grants from Pfizer Corporation to E.S References Xia W & Wolfe MS (2003) Intramembrane proteolysis by presenilin and presenilin-like ... produced contradictory results The first and most widely accepted model for PS topology is the eight-TM model (excluding HRVII and HRX) with both the N- and C-termini located in the cytosol [21,22] ... Other models that have been suggested include a six-TM model with cytosolic N- and C-termini [23], and a ‘seven-TM and one membrane-embedded’ model with an extracytosolic C-terminus [24] The eight-TM...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... measurement and capital standards Bank for International Settlements, Basel Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (2010): International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring ... information which can be used by the creditor to improve his credit and collection policy and hence, to improve cash flows and reduce bad debt loss Keywords: Credit Risk Analysis · Credit Default ... receivable management whose key tasks are to record and manage payments, to configure terms of payment and trading conditions, to induce collection procedures and to control loan securities, if available.1...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:21

... and MNN2 is the client IPerf reports the amount of transferred data and used bandwidth Additionally, the GPS patch appends location information (latitude and longitude) as well as the offset and ... 361, 489, 400 600 Time (seconds) 1000 −10 800 200 Bandwidth (Kbits/sec) −10 800 200 200 Bandwidth (Kbits/sec) 1200 Bandwidth (Kbits/sec) 1200 1000 Bandwidth (Kbits/sec) 1200 −5 Time (seconds) Average ... each trial considered in the segment, and a bold line shows the average bandwidth One can notice the two different bandwidth patterns obtained at corners and straight roads Communication performance...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... and nonskin databases [12, 21] and IBTD face database [22] These databases provide skin masks along with the original images We randomly selected 300 and 200 skin masks from the Compaq skin and ... color and its applications in image and video databases,” in Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VII, vol 3656, pp 458–466, San Jose, Calif, USA, January 1999 T S Jebara and A ... Defining skin clusters in color spaces and handling vector (color) images, especially in different imaging conditions, are complicated procedures On the other hand, handling scalar (grayscale) images...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... (P), Recall (R), and F1 (F1 is a harmonic mean between Recall and Precision) can then be used to evaluate the candidate summary Candidate summary A B C D 3.4 (b) Reference summary Candidate summary ... summarization methods and one is our summarization method For the first method, a number of keyframes is chosen randomly (between and 3) for each shot, then the keyframes are chosen randomly (random summary) ... between the reference summary and the candidate summary The reference summary has frames (from to 3) whereas the candidate summary presents frames (of A with D) (a), (b), and (c) represent the first...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... Schober and Lampe in their MSDD for a system employing both transmit and receive diversity [6] Similar ideas were also employed by Tarasak and Bhargava in a transmit-diversity only scenario [14], and ... terms n1 [k] and n2 [k], and (·)T denotes the transpose of a matrix The channel fading gains are assumed to be independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) zeromean complex Gaussian random variables, ... context of the problem at hand, the complete set of data is the (equivalent) transmitted pattern B and the channel gains g1 and g2 ; the sequence B is the desired data, and the channel gains are...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... viruses from the first genotype were H1N1 and H1N2 subtypes of swine viruses The majority of the viruses from the second and third genotypes were H3N2, H1N2 and H1N1 subtypes of swine viruses ... S2.3, S3.3, S4.3, S5.3 and S6.3), swine (S1.4, S2.4, S3.4, S4.4, S5.4 and S6.4) and equine swine (S1.5, S2.5, S3.5, S4.5, S5.5 and S6.5) influenza viruses in isolation places and isolation time were ... of type A influenza viruses, but also a candidate framework to generalize the history and explore the future of the viruses The human pandemics of H2N2 subtype in 1957 and H3N2 subtype in 1968...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... viruses from the first genotype were H1N1 and H1N2 subtypes of swine viruses The majority of the viruses from the second and third genotypes were H3N2, H1N2 and H1N1 subtypes of swine viruses ... S2.3, S3.3, S4.3, S5.3 and S6.3), swine (S1.4, S2.4, S3.4, S4.4, S5.4 and S6.4) and equine swine (S1.5, S2.5, S3.5, S4.5, S5.5 and S6.5) influenza viruses in isolation places and isolation time were ... of type A influenza viruses, but also a candidate framework to generalize the history and explore the future of the viruses The human pandemics of H2N2 subtype in 1957 and H3N2 subtype in 1968...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... Then the correct meaning and functions of English and Vietnamese modals and semi- modals are made out Students can learn the appropriate usages of modals and semi- modals and apply them in the right ... modals and semi- modals wrongly To find out students‟ difficulties, the first step is to understand the usages and meanings of English modals and semi- modals After understanding all the usages and ... modals and semi- modals, there are 327 sentences including modals and semi- modals There are 293 sentences having modals and semi- modals used correctly in meaning and 34 sentences with modals and...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:30

... UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES  MAI THI ̣ VÂN ANH “BE TO” AND “HAVE TO” + LEXICAL VERBS AND THEIR MODAL MEANINGS FROM FUNCTIONAL AND COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVES ... Application to the teaching and learning modals and semi- modals 38 3.4.1 Frequencies of Vietnamese students‟ errors in using modals and semi- modals 38 3.4.2 The causes to Vietnamese students‟ ... expressed by „be to‟ and „have to‟ 22 2.1.1 Conventional meanings of „be to” 22 2.1.2 Conventional meanings of “have to” 23 2.1.3 „Be to‟, „have to‟ and the semantic blend...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:30

... (KPIs), and set of tools and techniques (STTs) for Six Sigma implementation? (4) How CSFs, CTQs, KPIs, and STTs differ in manufacturing and service organizations? The chapter also focuses on ... methodology and tools and techniques but are not helpful in developing a model on how and why Six Sigma works There is also limited number of case studies in services and those published lack rigour and ... within three-sigma limits was deemed to be random and produced by common causes, and variation outside of the three-sigma limits was produced by special causes, indicating a process problem (Shewart,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:11

... Batang Sabut river -Provide proper, safe and sheltered berthing and mooring facilities for tourist boat operators 2a Zone Land form is narrow and steep and close to Marine Park centre where coral ... were complimented with hard and soft landscaping on both banks The river walkway is landscaped with steps to allow people to sit and enjoy the rustic scenery of Tekek and enjoy the sea view The ... boat access and mooring facilities at Sg Tekek Beautification of the rivers and the creation of landscaped river walk The river improvement works were complimented with hard and soft landscaping...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2013, 08:20

... and Optimization, London: Springer, 2005 A Lisnianski, and G Levitin, Multi-state System Reliability: Assessment, Optimization and Applications Singapore: World Scientific, 2003 R M Barton, and ... defined in (7) and (8), the universal generating function of the branches can be obtained, and then the universal generating function of the power system can be computed by (6) and (9) According ... systems’’ by Tan C.M and Raghavan N [Reliab Eng Syst Saf 2008; 93(8): 1138–50],” Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2009, Vol.94, No.3, pp.776-780 Y Liu, H.Z Huang, “Reliability and performance...

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:38

... knowledge resource we compared cases without/with random choice, which are denoted “w/o Random” and “w/ Random” in Table 1, respectively Table 1: Coverage and accuracy (%) for different question answering ... noticeably improved, and the coverage was comparable with that for the Nichigai dictionary On the other hand, in the case where random choice was performed, the Nichigai dictionary and the Webbased ... term X), and thus is expensive In view of this problem, we targeted Information Technology Engineers Examinations4, which are biannual (spring and autumn) examinations necessary for candidates...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

... small), and quantitative variables were compared using the (nonparametric) Wilcoxon test and the Kruskal and Wallis test The associations between the ordinal variables (age and wealth score) and ... protocol, collected and analysed the data and drafted the article DN and NR revised the study protocol, collected the data and revised the article MNN revised the study protocol and the article MGS ... mode of transmission, its treatment, the link between TB and AIDS, and the primary care received Distance between the patient’s residence and the closest health facility was divided into three...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... (10 ng) and the antigenic peptide (SRFQPSQSSTYSQPG), and gave a complete negative reaction towards the same amount of CatD (10 ng) Values are mean ± SD, n ¼ (Insertion: 10 ng CatE and CatD and ng ... proteinases, CatE and CatD, and can therefore be used to investigate the involvement of these enzymes in antigen processing and presentation Experimental procedures Enzymes and chemicals CatD ... keratinocytes and DCs, and fivefold of the pellet volume for B cells) and centrifugation at 100 000 g for with a Beckman TL100 ultracentrifuge Lysosomal material was released into the supernatant, and endosomes...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 09:20