... attachment to surfaces, structural stability and spatial arrangement of biofilm structure and serve as a protective barrier against desiccation and retards access of harmful substances such as antibiotics ... serve as a protective barrier against dehydration and enhance resistance of the biofilm to harmful substances such as antimicrobial agents, and bacteriophage The mechanism works in such a way that ... respiration or catabolic/anabiolic reactions (e.g., chlorine- releasing agents); • Disruption of replication (e.g., aminoacridines will intercalate between DNA base pairs and results replicative injury);...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:17
... intersecting features A and B, machining either one first may partially create the other If machining A has a larger material removal rate (e.g., an endmall cutter with a larger diameter) than machining ... constraints This chapter describes a process planning approach that integrates the tasks of routing and sequencing for obtaining a globally optimal process plan for a machined part (prismatic) A GA ... developed GA The job shop information (machines, tools, and all the cost indices) is described earlier and the required OPTs and their machine, tool, and TAD alternatives are shown in Table 9.2 and...
Ngày tải lên: 25/12/2013, 19:15
Báo cáo y học: " High recombination rates and hotspots in a Plasmodium falciparum genetic cross" docx
... microarray experiments, data analysis, and writing; NL, VG, SV, VN, MY, and RS, data analysis; MZ, data analysis and writing; JM and JL, MS typing; KH and TEW, genetic cross and writing; BH, DNA ... hybridizations, Dr Anton Persikov for advice and discussion on zinc finger proteins and their binding characteristics, and NIAID intramural editor Brenda Rae Marshall for assistance Author details Laboratory ... Philip Awadalla8, Thomas E Wellems1 and Xin-zhuan Su1* Abstract Background: The human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum survives pressures from the host immune system and antimalarial drugs...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:24
Vocabulary and writing in a 1st and 2nd language, processes and development
... to aspects of writing: means and standard deviations for the Danish data Problem solving: means and standard deviations for the Danish data Attention to aspects of writing: means and standard ... Vocabulary and Writing in a First and Second Language This page intentionally left blank Vocabulary and Writing in a First and Second Language Processes and Development Dorte Albrechtsen ... deviations for the English data Problem solving: means and standard deviations for the English data Assessment ratings: means and standard deviations for the Danish data and the English data Spearman...
Ngày tải lên: 31/07/2016, 13:40
A computational study to investigate the effects of insulation and EGR in a diesel engine
... [29] Arash Nemati, Shahram Khalilarya, Samad Jafarmadar, Hassan Khatamnejhad, Vahid Fathi Numerical parametric investigation of a gasoline fuelled partially-premixed compression-ignition engine International ... the shape of high temperature regions for baseline and adiabatic with EGR cases are the same Also at adiabatic case for 400°CA and 420°CA, these regions more spread out in the main chamber and ... pressure (Imep), and work done per cycle increased in adiabatic case The amount of BSFC at full and part loads are 18 % and 23 % lower respectively in adiabatic case than baseline and it is the...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11
New headway- rooms and objects in a house
... Cooker Washing machine Telephone Cupboard Cup Sofa • • • • • • • an armchair a fridge a television a coffee table a shelf a plant a stereo • • • • • • • a lamp a cooker a washing machine a telephone ... Starter Rooms in a house Living room = sitting room Bedroom Kitchen Dining room Bathroom Toilet Objects in the house Armchair Fridge Television Coffee table Bookshelf Plant Stereo Lamp Cooker ... a shelf a plant a stereo • • • • • • • a lamp a cooker a washing machine a telephone a cupboard a cup a sofa ...
Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2013, 13:10
A case-study in IVF - paternalism and autonomy in a ‘high-risk’ pregnancy
... pregnancy There was a significant further advance of her renal disease, necessitating the initiation of haemodialysis (a kidney machine) two years later, and a living, related donor renal transplant ... remaining remarkably stable The pregnancy was complicated at 20 weeks’ gestation by a right deep vein thrombosis, affecting the femoral and external iliac veins, and anti-coagulation with heparin ... IVF in women with renal transplants, but specialists were becoming increasingly reluctant to advise women with transplants against trying for a baby, as medical care for ‘high risk’ pregnancies...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20
Tài liệu SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN IN A CHANGING WORLD pdf
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 07:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Liars and Saviors in a Sentiment Annotated Corpus of Comments to Political debates" pdf
... Theresa Wilson, and Claire Cardie 2005 “Annotating expressions of opinions and emotions in language” In Language Resources and Evaluation, volume 39, 2-3 We are grateful to João Ramalho for his assistance ... Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Prague Krippendorff, Klaus 2004 Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology, 2nd Edition Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, California ... mentions are classifiable into syntacticsemantic categories; (vi) the opinionated sentences may be characterized according to their polarity and intensity; (vii) each opinionated sentence may have a...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 05:20
Coral Reef Fishes: Dynamics and Diversity in a Complex Ecosystem ppt
... for the appearance of many antipredator adaptations, including increased external ornamentation in gastropods (Vermeij, 1977), and infaunalization, boring, and cementation in bivalves and other ... land masses are Gondwanan fragments The break up of Gondwana extended over a period of about 80 Ma from an initial separation about 135 Ma to the final separation of South America and Africa in ... dashed lines indicate Atlantic sites Families: 1, Acanthoclinidae; 2, Acanthuridae; 3, Albulidae; 4, Antennariidae; 5, Aplodactylidae; 6, Aploacinidae; 7, Apogonidae; 8, Aulostomidae; 9, Balistidae;...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:21
Báo cáo khoa học: "Generating Usable Formats for Metadata and Annotations in a Large Meeting Corpus" pptx
... generation of annotation and metadata databases to enhance search and browsing of meeting recordings This goal can be achieved by providing plugand-play databases, which are much easier to access ... generates the global tab-separated files for each annotation The script also generates an SQL script that creates a relational annotation database and populates it with data from the tab-separated ... important information is spread in many places, and can be found as attributes of a meeting in the annotation files (e.g start time) or obtained by parsing file names (e.g audio channel, camera) The...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21
Socioeconomic position and health in a population of Brazilian elderly: the Bambuí Health and Aging Study (BHAS) pdf
... reliability of the data gathered, standardizing procedures and instruments, training of field-work and labo- ratory teams, and adjusting for several confounding variables Internal validity was assured ... (puntuación en el Cuestionario General de Salud, autovaloración del estado de salud y de la agudeza visual, grado de dificultad para caminar 300 metros, incapacidad para realizar las actividades ... appointment because of existing lines, and in obtaining medicines because of financial problems or any other problem (Table 4) ple, in China and India, higher income levels, particularly in urban...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20
School Crisis Guide: Help and Healing in a Time of Crisis pot
... activities Make mental health services available, including Employee Assistance Program, if applicable Practice active listening and acknowledge pain and anxiety as well as a healing process that has ... counseling; classroom lesson planning; and where to reassemble students and staff if the school building is unavailable ● Training and practicing Training needs, dates and types of training to ... students, families and staff? ● Provide regular information updates and maintain open communication with teachers, other staff and parents? ● Monitor rumors and maintain timely, accurate information?...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20
Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by smear microscopy and culture in a tertiary health care facility: Biology and Medicine docx
... being achieved Passive case finding is the mainstay of case finding in most developing countries This relies heavily on sputum examination by smear and culture, chest radiology and tuberculin ... (TB) laboratory investigations in tertiary healthcare facilities which have a large number of cases and financial constraints The present study aimed to re-evaluate the efficiency of smear microscopy ... of Science, Jazan University, Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia *Corresponding Author: kismail@jazanu.edu.sa, sayeedkhatib@hotmail.com Abstract Smear microscopy and culture forms the backbone of tuberculosis...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20
Effect of hydrogen peroxide on the destruction of organic contaminants synergism and inhibition in a con
... the reactor was taken using a sampling/drainage valve Sample filtration and analysis was performed immediately after collection 2.3 Analyses Analysis of 4-CBA was performed using an Agilent Series ... that the type of crystal phase of the catalyst was an important parameter Addition of hydrogen peroxide had no effect in systems utilizing anatase TiO2 , whereas it had a dramatic increase in ... M Saquib, M Muneer, Desalination 155 (2003) 255 [63] E.R Bandala, S Gelover, M.T Leal, C Arancibia-Bulnes, A Jimenez, C .A Estrada, Catal Today 76 (2002) 189 [64] A. E.H Machado, J .A de Miranda,...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:07
Geochemistry of inorganic arsenic and selenium in a tropical soil effect of reaction time, ph, and comp
... potential groundwater and surface water contamination by these contaminants Arsenic can exist in inorganic form, organic form, and gaseous state The oxidation states of As in the natural systems are ... metals and occurs in about 50 minerals (Kabata-Pendias and Pendias, 2001) It is present in four different oxidation states in aqueous and subsurface systems, namely )2, 0, +4, and +6 The fate and ... values of their parameters as well as the correlation of determinations (r2 ) Arsenate and Se(IV) adsorption increased significantly with increased adsorbate loading initially and then increased...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:25
Health-related quality of life of elderly living in nursing home and homes in a district of Iran: Implications for policy makers pdf
... 322 13 Kiani S, Bayanzadeh M, Tavallaee M and Hogg RS (2010) The Iranian population is graying: Are we ready? Arch Iranian Med 13(4), 333-339 14 Lasheras C, Patterson AM, Casado C and Fernandez ... physical health, total mental health and SF-36 score health, and total SF-36 were calculated using scoring Total physical Total mental Total SF-36 algorithms The association between variables was ... Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria 25, 3139 35 Yang C, Mark W, Rosenbergm B, Wuyi WC, Linsheng YC and Hairong L(2011) Aging, health and place in residential care facilities in Beijing, China Social...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20
Arctic Alpine Ecosystems and People in a Changing Environment pdf
... Inuvialuit, Athapaskans and Dene of northern Canada; the Kalaallit and Inughuit of Greenland; the Saami of Fennoscandia and Russia’s Kola peninsula; and the Chukchi, Even, Evenk, Nenets, Nivkhi and Yukaghir ... UV-radiation and the long-range transported contaminants in arctic and alpine regions are stress factors that challenge terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems The large natural variation in the physical parameters ... as seals, walrus, narwhals, beluga, fin and minke whales, and polar bear and land mammals such as caribou, reindeer and musk-ox; and fish such as salmon, Arctic char, northern pike and other species,...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20
THE IMPACT OF CULTURAL EVENTS ON THE CINEMA AND TOURISM IN A COMMUNITY, BUSAN pot
... growth of the cinema industry and organizations in Busan Busan started to support a cinema as an alternative industry to manufacturing Busan Film Commission (BFC) and Busan International Film Commission ... different categories: opening and closing, new current, a window on Asian cinema, Korean panorama, world cinema, wide angle, open cinema, retrospective and special cinema PIFF concentrates on Asian films ... PIFF and Busan Cultural and Tourism requesting data KNTO’s library Korean National Tourism Organization in Seoul has its own library Some of the data was researched at magazines, books, videos, and...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "User Expertise Modelling and Adaptivity in a Speech-based E-mail System" doc
... naturalness and appropriateness of each system utterance, as well as provide any other comments that they may have on adaptation and adaptive systems All interviewees agreed on one major theme, namely ... Adaptive Information Processing for Mobile Speech Interfaces, Geneva, Switzerland Kristiina Jokinen and Graham Wilcock 2001 Adaptivity and Response Generation in a Spoken Dialogue System In van Kuppevelt, ... Jokinen, Kari Kanto, Antti Kerminen and Jyrki Rissanen 2004 Evaluation of Adaptivity and User Expertise in a Speech- based E-mail System Procs of the COLING Satellite Workshop Robust and Adaptive...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 19:20