... that they not want to • Ex: The President was forced to resign To raise (v): /reɪz/ - Definition: to increase (to rise/ to go up) the amount or level of something - Ex: They raised their offer ... hidden Ex: The question of money always rears its ugly head in matters of business To move out (v): /muːv aʊt / Definition: take out, remove (cause to leave) Ex: The president said they would ... sum of money that somebody owes - Ex: I need to pay off all my debts before I leave the country Crisis(n): /’kraisis/ - Definition: a time of great danger, difficulty or confusion when problems...
Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2014, 09:53
... inflation” Reading comprehension What is the role of government and central banks in fighting inflation? When they see signs of inflation, they try to slow down the economy by increasing interest rates, ... rates increase, they tend to discourage business and consumer spending, leading to a reduction in jobs and a slow down in the economy Reading comprehension + How does inflation affect the world economy? ... lớn giá sản suất phân phối sản phẩm Speculators often limit the supply of products in the market and create much pressure on supermarkets In fact, there is a wide difference/spread in prices between...
Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 18:33
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Parvalbumin deficiency in fast-twitch muscles leads to increased ‘slow-twitch type’ mitochondria, but does not affect the expression of fiber specific proteins doc
... similar way [19] When comparing the MLC region of the 2D gels between TA from PV– ⁄ – and PV+ ⁄ + mice, the pattern is virtually identical with the exception of the lack of the PV spot in PV– ⁄ – mice ... levels of MLC3 and PV are much higher in TA than in SOL, the ratio of the two proteins in each of the two muscles seemed to be constant (Fig 2C) A high degree of homology between short segments of ... transcription of mitochondrial genes has been observed as the result of permanent activation of some components of Ca2+ signaling pathways [13,14,24] Based on this, we hypothesized that the prolongation of...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Reducing expression of NAD+ synthesizing enzyme NMNAT1 does not affect the rate of Wallerian degeneration ppt
... and the integrity of the loxP sites in the floxed clone after Cre-mediated deletion The PCR across the loxP sites confirmed the presence of both loxP sites in the targeted clone (Fig 1B) Furthermore, ... Cre offspring PCR was performed with primers Pr1 + Pr4 to demonstrate the correct deletion of the genomic region between the first and the third loxP site as shown by the 80-bp product formed The ... for each isoform by calculating the ratio between the expression of an individual NMNAT isoform and that of the reference gene (b-actin) in wild-type samples The arbitrary number of 100% was...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo y học: "Nifedipine decreases sVCAM-1 concentrations and oxidative stress in systemic sclerosis but does not affect the concentrations of vascular endothelial growth factor or its soluble receptor" potx
... well and then added 20 µl of acetic acid The absorbance of the reaction mixture was immediately read at 340 nm against a blank consisting of 200 µl of phosphate-buffered saline, 10 µl of 1.16 ... suggests that these drugs improve endothelium injury A decrease of sVCAM-1 by nifedipine was previously reported in SSc [24] The improvement of all these markers and the correlation between the values ... [17] The data reported herein confirm these results with a different design of the study (midterm effects) and extend the known beneficial effects of these drugs to a vascular marker (sVCAM) The...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23
How does coal affect the environment
... Search for the coal fact Begin with the letter C in the middle of the puzzle Multiply the 4s, beginning with 4x1 and find the box with the number The letter O will be used to fill in the next blank ... companies and others have become concerned about the air we breathe They want to make sure that the harmful chemicals that are released into the air when coal is burned not harm the environment ... or sediment, to settle to the bottom of the pond The water is pumped back to the treatment plant and used again Good mining practices protect and conserve water Over the past several years, scientists,...
Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2016, 15:19
How does the institutional environment affect the formation of political connections
... 20% of the total institutions in 2007 at the very best I use the sum of the number of laws, regulations and rules to measure the status quo of institutions The higher the number, the better the ... construct the database for the empirical analysis of this study The data of formal political connections were collected from the yearbooks of People’s Congress, the yearbook of CPPCC and the official ... Table shows the results regarding how the institutional status quo and the credibility of property rights institutions affect the formation of two forms of political connections Model is the baseline...
Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2015, 21:08
báo cáo hóa học: " How does asthma influence the daily life of children? Results of focus group interviews" pot
... sessions, alternately as the moderator or the observer In the first session of each group, the moderator introduced the topic of the sessions with a chapter of a children’s book of the Dutch Asthma Foundation ... insight in the influence of asthma on the child’s life, but also has the potential to improve the HRQL of the pediatric asthma patient, since the components of HRQL that are bothering the pediatric ... data analysis, the reviewers’ judgment on components of HRQL was not only based on the number of statements, but the level of impairment mentioned by the children, the importance of the component...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article How Equalization Techniques Affect the TCP Performance of MC-CDMA Systems in Correlated Fading Channels" pot
... and of the end-to-end aspects of each connection, such as the generation of the application-level traffic and the users’ TCP or UDP dynamics; at the corenetwork side, instead, the ULS takes care of ... for the fully loaded case, a reduction of the actual number of interferers implies an underestimate of the parameter 1/(Nu γ) in (12) towards the ORC scheme, thus emphasizing the effect of thermal ... considering the nth receiver, the information associated to different users experiments the same fading Due to the CDMA structure of the system, each user receives the information of all the users...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20
Blood on FTA™ Paper: Does Punch Location Affect the Quality of a Forensic DNA Profile?
... Title of Thesis/Dissertation: Blood on FTA™ Paper: Does Punch Location Affect the Quality of a Forensic DNA Profile? For the degree of Master of Science Choose your degree I certify that in the ... AFFECT THE QUALITY OF A FORENSIC DNA PROFILE? A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of Purdue University by Megan Elizabeth Carter In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of ... Profile quality for the majority of the samples showed a high incidence of stutter and the absence of non-template adenylation Of the three disc locations, the edge of the blood stain was ideal, due...
Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 12:30
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "HOW DO WE COUNT? THE PROBLEM OF TAGGING PHRASAL VERBS IN PARTS" docx
... of assuming a verbal tag in the third (The "choice" colunm is explained below.) The average performance of PARTS for this task is 89%, which is lower than the general average performance of the ... narrow-down close-down The first step in testing this hypothesis was to evaluate the current performance of PARTS in handling the phrasal verb construction To this a set of 94 pairs of Verb+Particle/Preposition ... adjectives This confirms my hypothesis that PARTS will have a problem solving the N/V ambiguity in cases where the lexical probability of the word points to a noun These are the very cases that should...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 21:20
Cloud Computing & Databases - How databases can meet the demands of cloud computing docx
... costs: One of the benefits of cloud databases is that they shift much of the low-level DBA functions to experts who are managing the databases in a centralized manner for all of the users However, ... Introduction The potential benefits of cloud computing are overwhelming However, attaining these benefits requires that each aspect of the cloud platform support the key design principles of the cloud ... black art because of the level of skill required The ability to partition data in an efficient and highperformance manner really separates the men from the boys in the world of DBAs Automating...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 14:20
How Does Size Affect Mutual Fund Behavior? potx
... the number of stocks held Therefore, we use the log of the f low of money into the fund instead of total growth in fund size We define log f low as the change in log TNA not attributable to the ... Ageit−1 is the log of the age of the fund according to CRSP log FAMTNAit−1 is the log of one plus total TNA held by all the other funds in the fund’s family, excluding fund i Expenseit−1 is the expense ... calculated at the end of year t−1 1/Sit−1 is the reciprocal of the number of stocks in the portfolio at the end of year t−1 The variables cap2it−1 through cap5it−1 are four indicator variables for the...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20
A study on the images of objects in English idioms, proverbs and sayings
... of the word which constitutes it Eg: “Don’t teach fish to swim” Vs “Out of the frying pan and in to the fire” - Very often the meaning of proverbs cannot be decoded from decomposing each of their ... whose main themes are: - The importance of objects in life - Valuable advice drawn from the objects idioms and proverbs - Criticism attitude through objects idioms and proverbs Method of the study ... meaning does not follow from the meaning of the individual words of which it is composed” In the English expression to kick the bucket, for example, a listener knowing only the meaning of kick...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 00:21
how m butterfly uses the art of illusion to foster stereotypes among its main characters
... from the East and from the West, we see that Asians are often portrayed as being either enraptured or suspicious of their Western counterparts This is an underlining theme in the play, and it affects ... similar to the original play, right up to the surrendering of Song's character What subsequently follows, however, is a complete turning of the tables To make matters even worse, the object of his ... way of transforming twenty years of his life into some form of reality.(Moy 1) Sometimes the term "she's pulling a Butterfly" is used among Asian woman to describe a submissive behavior of sorts...
Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:04
The Democracy of Objects ppt
... consequence of the two world schema, the question of the object, of what substances are, is subtly transformed into the question of how and whether we know objects The question of objects becomes the ... witnessing the birth of capitalism, the erosion of traditional authority in the form of monarchies and the Church, the Reformation, the rise of democracy, and the rise of the new sciences Questions of ... such as the subject or culture is the ground of all others As such, The Democracy of Objects attempts to think the being of objects unshackled from the gaze of humans in their being for-themselves...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20
Changing Places - How Communities Will Improve the Health of Boys of Color docx
... Latinos—are the canaries in the coal mine, signaling the danger ahead Imagine, for example, how much better off the nation would have been if we had recognized the gathering storm in the first wave of ... contribute to the poor health of young males of color We must look critically at both the health issues affecting them and at the societal influences that shape their health It is our hope that the ideas ... and how this fact affects us all But here’s the good news: the poor health and well-being outcomes that face young men of color are not like rare cancers, where the cause and the course of the...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 00:20
INTENSIVE LIFESTYLE CHANGES MAY AFFECT THE PROGRESSION OF PROSTATE CANCER docx
... decreased an average of 0.25 ng/ml or 4% of the baseline average in the experimental group but it showed an average increase of 0.38 ng/ml or 6% of the baseline average in the control group (F ... in low density protein cholesterol and weight Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death of men and women in the United States and either the primary or secondary cause of death of most ... decreased in the experimental group but increased in the control group Although these differences were statistically significant, the magnitude of these changes was relatively modest However, the direction...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20
Enhancing Agricultural Innovation: How to Go Beyond the Strengthening of Research Systems pptx
... reflect the views of the Executive Directors of The World Bank or the governments they represent The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work The boundaries, ... other sectors The question of how to take advantage of new knowledge has become just as urgent as the question of how to generate and diffuse new knowledge Fifth, the knowledge structure of the ... between the innovation system and its practices on the one hand and the changing demands imposed by the context on the other The checklist includes the following major issues: • Actors, the roles they...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20