game mechanics and dynamics in greater depth

... Mechanics and Meaning in Architecture This page intentionally left blank Mechanics and Meaning in Architecture Lance La Vine M IN NE SO TA University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis ... mechanics and meaning Architecture's Loss of a Distinct Technological Voice 17 The rise of engineering in the building professions; architectural incorporation of engineering constructs; a case in point; ... they, in and of themselves, provide an inclusive and satisfying definition of the role of technology in architectural design Architectural drawings increase the scope of this definition by linking...

Ngày tải lên: 29/04/2014, 15:43

... left) and the CT images showed an increase in poorly aerated areas (reaching 15% of the region of interest); non-aerated areas remained close to zero Such findings suggest an alternative interpretation ... end-expiratory and endinspiratory poorly aerated and non-aerated areas [12] Similarly, the tidal hyperinflation was obtained by the difference between end-inspiratory and end-expiratory hyperinflated ... re-aerated during inspiration CT-scan morphological analyses and respiratory mechanics during PEEP titration The reduction of PEEP from 16 cmH2O to ZEEP resulted in a decrease in the hyperinflated...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... of RIα showing an N-terminal dimerization/docking domain (D/D) (gray hashed box) connected by a linker to two tandem cAMP-binding domains, CNB-A and CNB-B in green The linker contains a PKA pseudosubstrate ... disordered linker region The proximal cAMPbinding domain is referred to as the cAMP binding A domain and the distal domain is the cAMP binding B domain The C-subunit on the other hand is a globular ... binding domains The mammalian RIα isoform is modular and extended proteins having a very similar domain organization with an N-terminal dimerization domain connected to two cAMP binding domains...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 08:35

... conductivity and strain hardening [12, 13] Currently, there Introduction is a considerable research effort in understanding and designing nanotwinned metals for future engineering applications Twins are ... studies indicate the ultrahigh strength of nanotwinned crystalline metals is related to nanotwin induced interface strengthening The increase in strength with decreasing grain size/twin spacing is ... the intersection of K1 and K2 is the shearing plane The two directions η1 and η2 , lying in K1 and K2 , are perpendicular to the line of intersection of K1 and K2 They are known as the twinning...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:03

... the binding ligands and the host protein The structural changes in some proteins regulate the interaction between ligands and protein through induced fit and allosteric effects [2,3] The “induced ... MAINTAINED, throughout NOT MAINTAINED; rather motions created, burying surface Motion at interface Parallel to plane of interface Perpendicular to interface (shear) Mainchain packing Constrained ... occurring predominantly by a hinge or a shear mechanism, or none of them In the smaller intra-domain protein motions, hinge and shear mechanism are also involved in the collective motion, when individual...

Ngày tải lên: 17/09/2015, 17:17

... in Viet Nam MCST Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism IS Information System IT Information Technology M&E Monitoring & Evaluation MPI Ministry of Planning and Investment MOF Ministry of Finance ... items in each sheet leading to difficulties in extracting needed information; - Untimely information aggregation and slowly information updating/disseminating; - Unskillfull M&E staff and unclear ... referred in the thesis is in formal, organizational computer-based information system setting on accepted and fixed definitions of data and procedures for collecting, storing, processing, disseminating...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2013, 16:01

... between stem frequency in Covo during year t and frequency change in MZEE between t and year u = t + i Initial frequency and dissemination in MZEE In studying the fate of all words in two English Usenet ... Correlations between initial frequency and dissemination over users and threads and a change in frequency for the 851 most common anglicisms in MZEE Finally, from the comparison of timespans in Table 3, ... of English inclusions in mixed-lingual data with an application to parsing Ph.D thesis, Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Eduardo...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 19:20

... Option because other options involve them in many other activities including harvesting, cutting roots and drying and collecting cassava chips The difference in margin is not big enough for them ... and global trading systems Priority agendas include development of a comprehensive strategy for agriculture, increasing public investment in the sector, encouraging and facilitating private involvement ... involvement in agriculture and agro-processing, expanding extension services and improving basic infrastructure Priorities for agricultural export development are improving and building up a regulatory...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

... Between and 12 a.m., blood was collected for HIV testing and for CD4 cell quantifying HIV status was determined using “Capillus HIV-1/HIV-2” (Trinity Biotech Plc., Wicklow, Ireland) and “Determine ... treatment [19] In that study the CD4 count increased in both the HIV infected and the HIV uninfected group receiving TB treatment; although at slowest rates and to lower levels in the HIV infected ... slightly increasing tendency during the observation period, which was interpreted as a positive effect of the TB treatment This finding is in line with results obtained from patients from Uganda...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... 10–30 glutamine residues in healthy individuals, whereas they are expanded to more than 40 repeats in patients In the polyQ diseases, inclusions containing polyQexpanded proteins are found in the ... ALS-linked SOD1 in vivo Conclusions and perspectives We reviewed the dynamics and toxicity of misfolded proteins (including polyQ-expanded proteins and ALSlinked SOD1) in living cells, with a particular ... sensitivity level using a dual-color system, and direct interaction between polyQ-expanded Huntingtin (Huntingtin-Q53) and the molecular chaperone CCT was detected using single-molecule FRET...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:22

... Hastings and Springer (1994); b and c, Blum (1989); d, Springer and Williams (1994); e, Blum (1989) and Springer and Williams (1994); f, Winterbottom (1986), Springer (1988) Blum (1989), and Springer ... 36 Wainwrightand Bellwood prominently in this field, including anatomical and mechanical studies of the muscle-skeleton systems involved in feeding (Tchernavin, 1953; Alexander, 1967; Gosline, ... Springer and Williams (1994); g, h, and i, Indo-Australian Archipelago (see text); j and k, Springer (1988) and Blum (1989); 1, Springer (1982); m and n, Blum (1989); o and p, Hastings and Springer...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:21

... the protein during the docking to the binding site on the ribosome or other ligands Strikingly, the second most flexible part of the protein (if one does not take into account the N-terminal region ... implicated in stop codon recognition [5–14] The role of the middle (M) domain will be described in detail below The C domain of eRF1 interacts with the C domain of eRF3 [15–18], and the binding of ... yeast eRF1 in vivo [3], and of Es coli RF2 both in vivo and in vitro [31,32] For instance, GAQ mutants of both RF1 and RF2 are four to five orders of magnitude less efficient in the termination reaction...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20

... Earnings Equations for Mexico Decomposition of Changes in Inequality in Earnings and Household Income in Mexico, 1984–94 Rural Effect in the Decomposition of Changes in Inequality in Earnings and ... or inequality measure can be explained by identifying changes in the means and inequality measures within those groups or income sources, and in their weights in the population or in total income ... Coefficient: Earnings and Equivalent Household Labor Income in Greater Buenos Aires, 1986–92 Decompositions of the Change in the Gini Coefficient: Earnings and Equivalent Household Labor Income in Greater...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20

... conceptually decomposing the system in single units, studying these units in isolation, and evaluating the whole as a linear combination of the units' properties (Lewontin and Levins 1987) A homogeneous, ... center, founded in 1984 Since its founding, SFI has devoted itself to creating a new kind of scientific research community, pursuing emerging science Operating as a small, visiting institution, ... gambit, this technology is in fact provoking great interest in the possibilities of simulating social, spatial, and evolutionary dynamics in human and primate societies in ways that have not previously...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... editing and outstanding production Finally, my thanks goes to Dr Robin Smith and his associates at Springer-Verlag for bringing this book to life Washington, D.C AYDIN TÖZEREN This page intentionally ... requires an in- depth understanding of the laws of motion and the complex interplay between mechanics and human body structure The main goal of this book is to present the principles of classical mechanics ... identified in the figure The vertebral disks are also instrumental in determining the curvature of the spinal column Most of the body weight lies in front of the vertebral column during standing, walking,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 18:20

... domains of the proteases Intermodular and intramodular flexibilities are thought to be essential in these movements Expression of recombinant intact C1r [4] and its domain combinations in insect ... comprising mainly the b-strands The loops between strands B and C, known as the ‘hypervariable loop‘, D and E, E and F, F and G, and G and H are particularly tolerant of longer insertions [19] In ... fold stability in mannose-binding lectin-associated serine protease (MASP)1 ⁄ CCP1, MASP2 CCP1 and CCP2, and C1s CCP2, whereas in C1r CCP1 and C1s CCP1, polar and hydrophobic interactions are...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... expanded in this stage and with it the capacity to think and reason in ways that are the prototypes of metaphorical thinking itself The expanding capacity to see things the way an increasing ... multi-levelled and intricate relations that ground us in our trajectories in space, in time, in society, and in culture, emphasizes the instantial nature of meaning-making and of consciousness itself The instantial ... grounded and intentionally sourced deictics are attractors of self-organizing semiotic-material dynamics and cross-couplings These cross-couplings, in constraining the interplay of fluctuating variables...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 15:20

... was struck in the head during the second inning of a game in Dresden, OH, on August 6, 1904 He continued to Beaning Fatalities 21 play, getting two hits and driving in the winning run In his hotel ... found 11 in 1905, 19 in 1906, 13 in 1907, 42 in 1908, 32 in 1909, 53 in 1910, 29 in 1911, 14 in 1912, 24 in 1913, 27 in 1914, and 20 in 1915.2 Subsequent studies confirmed what Dr Coughlin had discovered ... appearing in 127 games as a utility in elder for the Phillies and Reds during those two years His best season was with the 1913 Reds when he batted 241 in 94 games, hitting home runs and driving in...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 22:20

... there is a large time variation of TKE, and the  peaks  in turbulence  intensity  and suspended  sediment  concentration  coincide  with  incoming  waves.  Accordingly,  onshore  transport of TKE and suspended sediment by  incoming  ... may accompany an increase in the coefficient.  On  the  other  hand,  turbulence  length  scale,  and the  corresponding  turbulence  intensity  decrease  with  water  depth,   leading  to  a  decrease  in ... coordinates  in the  on‐ offshore  direction  at  the  point  under  consideration and the breaking point;  hm and hmb  are the corresponding mean water depths  at the respective points.   Fig. 3 shows the comparison between on‐...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 15:20

... for “moving inside” Silicon Valley, which is not a major concern of our study Death Merger and acquisition Moving inside Moving out Moving in Growth Birth Figure 1.2—Industry Dynamics in Silicon ... area, and Washington, D.C Boston and Washington also experienced a large increase in venture capital investment during the late 1990s, following the national trend However, the increases in Boston ... venture-backed businesses Since engineers in successful firms are in the best position to grasp and commercialize cutting-edge innovations, a high rate of spin-off helps open new markets and creates...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 23:20