... criteria of the microarray analysis profiles of the treatment groups cultured in the presence of glucosamine, both with and without IL-1β, clustered closely together on one branch of the hierarchical ... depiction of the effects of glucosamine on the biology of the chondrocyte We therefore selected doses of both IL-1 and glucosamine that provided robust responses in our bioassay (NO synthesis) ... whereby the cells from the large cultures were trypsinized, pooled and seeded into 20 flasks of 25 cm2 volume These flasks were then divided into four treatment groups to evaluate the effects of glucosamine...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23
... pollution of these waters could have harmful effects on the inside flora and fauna The Ebrié lagoon is one of the fish reserves of Abidjan That is why the public authorities are regularly analyzing these ... water, the expansion of which provokes the formation of micro air bubbles The particles, that are likely to decant, accumulate at the bottom of the truncated part and are then evacuated towards the ... this framework that the Ivorian Refining company gave us some samples of these waste waters The samples were taken from the outlet of the treating tank in which polluted waters from different sources...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10
The relative effects of merit pay, bonuses, and long term incenti on future job performance
... on the number of stocks and the current price of the company’s stock) Once vested, the award had the same market value as any other share of common stock from the organization Employees of the ... performance and the guidelines of the specified grids For the bonus pay plan, the company set targets, which were based on the pay band of the employee at the beginning of the year The company paid ... on the name of the pay form; however, when considering the effects associate with the type of reward, the name of the pay form conveys specific meaning with regard to the compensation that is offered...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2013, 11:44
Tài liệu The Effects of Childhood Stress on Health Across the Lifespan pptx
... in teach- The Effects of Childhood Stress on Health Across the Lifespan 11 ing children about safety and providing them with skills that may reduce their risk of abuse.18 However, the research ... of stress by themselves As a result, the stress response system gets activated for a prolonged amount of time This can lead to permanent changes in the development of the brain The negative effects ... development Papers summarizing the scientific literature can be found on-line at www.developingchild.net The Effects of Childhood Stress on Health Across the Lifespan The Effects of Toxic Stress on Adult...
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20
Tài liệu Quantification of the Health Effects of Exposure to Air Pollution: Report of a WHO Working Group pdf
... health outcomes using explicit weighting schemes The construction of these weights and the estimation of the summary indicators were beyond the scope of the Working Group discussion The choice of ... occurred by mid-year, the size e of the population at the start of the year was e=m+d/2 The probability s of surviving to the end of the year (conditional on being alive at the start) is s = (e ... to ascertain the effects of such situations (38,39) Interpretation of the coefficients from the existing cohort studies as reflecting the effects of longterm exposure depends on the assumption...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Template requirements and binding of hepatitis C virus NS5B polymerase during in vitro RNA synthesis from the 3¢-end of virus minus-strand RNA docx
... made on the basis of the structure of the 5¢UTR of the plus-RNA, the structure of the 3¢-end of the minusstrand RNA being at that time unavailable In the present study we investigated the involvement ... the 341 nt from the 3¢-end of the minus-strand RNA, complementary to the HCV 5¢UTR, folds into six stem loops With the exception of the short SL-A1 stem loop, the one closest to the 3¢-end, these ... that the deletions or the base changes did not alter the structure of the other domains of the (–)IRES RNA as determined by predicted secondary structure with RNA Draw software The structure of the...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 01:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Different modes of dipeptidyl peptidase IV (CD26) inhibition by oligopeptides derived from the N-terminus of HIV-1 Tat indicate at least two inhibitor binding sites doc
... atom of the side chain carboxylic group of Glu668 and between the carbonyl carbon atom of Pro of the substrate Ala-Pro-pNA and the Ser630 oxygen atom of the enzyme to hold the substrate inside the ... affect the type of inhibition and the Ki value of the oligopeptides Tat(1–9) and Trp2-Tat(1–9) On the other hand, corresponding to the fourfold difference of the Km values of the hydrolysis of both ... group of the enzyme A hydrophobic interaction of the side chain of Met1 of Tat(1–9) with the phenyl ring of the substrate Ala-Pro-pNA resulted in a fixation of the aromatic leaving group Rather...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20
Older Persons in Cambodia: A Profile from the 2004 Survey of Elderly pot
... questions about the value of money received and the value of food/clothes received during the past year The measure shown in the table indicates whether they received either money or food/clothes valued ... Look at the line corresponding to the number of persons on the list of older persons above The person to interview is circled Count down from the top of the list of older persons to find the ‘1st’, ... asked them to assess their economic status relative to others in their community, the second whether their income was sufficient to meet their expenses, the third how satisfied they were with their...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20
Accounting for Changes in Social Support Among Married Older Adults: Insights From the MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging pptx
... 439.1 Table summarizes the sociodemographic and psychological characteristics of the sample at the time of the first interview The majority of the sample was White (83%; the remainder was African ... of the effects were consistent with predictions The data pattern (see Table 1) showed that whereas men received the most emotional support from their wives, the women in the sample said they received ... (corresponding to the three types of support from each of the three providers), and results are discussed separately for each type of social interaction A summary of the analyses is shown in Table Emotional...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20
Cell Biology and Cancer under a contract from the National Institutes of Health doc
... cells from establishing themselves in inappropriate parts of the body, angiogenesis (the formation of blood vessels), and the role of the immune system in protecting the body from harm from within ... person) to the other members of their team As students move through the activity, encourage them to “tell” their stories to the rest of the team, using first person language and representing the person ... happens came from the work of Herman Muller, who noticed in 1927 that X-irradiation of fruit flies often resulted in mutant offspring Might the two known effects of X-rays, promotion of cancer and...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 00:20
Financial Frictions and Total Factor Productivity: Accounting for the Real Effects of Financial Crises pot
... because of the rate of growth of the price of tradable goods, which enters in the definition of the gross interest rate which governs the size of the wedge between the producer and user cost of intermediate ... overpredicts the magnitude of the changes From a deficit of about percent the current account to GDP ratio increased to a surplus of about percent in the data and about 10 percent in the model As the interest ... 1980s, the Mexican crisis of the first half of the 1990s and the East Asian and Russian crises of the late 1990s On average, more than 85 percent of the fall in output observed during these episodes...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20
Aesthetic Separation, Aesthetic Community: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art pptx
... ‘autonomy’ - of the play and its capacity of producing ethical effects in the minds of the spectators in the theatre and in their behaviours out of the theatre The ‘being apart’ of the stage was ... distribution of the sensible, which defines their way of being together and politics is about the transformation of the sensory fabric of the ‘being together’ So far it seems that the paradox of the ‘apart ... lies in the separation between the stage and the audience, between the performance of the bodies on the stage and the passivity of the spectators in the theatre What must take the place of the mimetic...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20
The Economic Effects of Restricted Access to Land in the West Bank ppt
... with the accuracy of the land registry The IPA gives the holder powers of act on behalf of the land owner in the use and transaction of the property and the facility to legalize the transaction The ... cutoff an important agricultural and tourist area from the rest of the West Bank 42 Lastly, all these constraints raise the cost of local food and reduce the competitiveness of the sector There ... Administration in the large area under its control and evaluates the effects of that system on the economic activity and the livelihood of the Palestinian residents of the area It then shows how the ensuing...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20
The Economic Effects of High Speed Rail Investment pot
... question is whether the sum of the discounted net social benefits during the life of the infrastructure justifies the investment cost The description of the costs and benefits of the HSR lines ... measured in the primary market consist of the cost savings in the conventional mode and the product of the value of time, the average time savings and the number of passengers shifting from the conventional ... affected by the introduction of the new mode of transport Many other markets in the economy are affected as their products are complements or substitutes of the primary markets The treatment of these...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20
101 Quick and Easy Ideas Taken from the Master Photographers of the Twentieth Century
... bare tree to the left The Rockies sit in the background, extending about a sixth of the way from the bottom of the frame Parts of the sky are the same shade of black and white as the snow-covered ... to the right of the center of the frame He also had the mountains reaching the top of the frame so that the sky was cut off when looking at the image from left to right Figure 2.3, a replica of ... miss the fact that the buildings on the right side of the image are much taller than those on the left Also of note are the converging lines of the image They make the buildings look as if they...
Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 21:44
Báo cáo khoa học: Nautilin-63, a novel acidic glycoprotein from the shell nacre of Nautilus macromphalus doc
... that they can be, directly or indirectly, implicated in the control of the crystal orientation [21] On the other hand, the b- and c-axes of the nacre tablets are oriented in parallel to the growing ... in account in the model Furthermore, from the dozen primary structures of nacre proteins that have been described so far, most of them correspond to proteins of the pearl oyster or the abalone ... inhibition of CaCO3 precipitation First, the effect of the nacre matrix started to occur above lg of the ASM and the delay of the reaction was dosedependent At approximately 50 lg of nacre ASM,...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:20
The Economic Effects of Restricted Access to Land in the West Bank pdf
... with the accuracy of the land registry The IPA gives the holder powers of act on behalf of the land owner in the use and transaction of the property and the facility to legalize the transaction The ... cutoff an important agricultural and tourist area from the rest of the West Bank 42 Lastly, all these constraints raise the cost of local food and reduce the competitiveness of the sector There ... Administration in the large area under its control and evaluates the effects of that system on the economic activity and the livelihood of the Palestinian residents of the area It then shows how the ensuing...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20
THE HEALTH EFFECTS OF AIR POLLUTION ON CHILDREN pot
... in terms of the types of cells and the overall structure of the alveolar region Figure shows a magnified view of the structure of the normal gas-exchange region of the lung It is called the gas-exchange ... all studies of its health effects find other pollutants present that may account for some of the effects Part of the problem is due to the nature of the data being collected The levels of particulate ... carbon monoxide from those of other pollutants In addition to carbon monoxide generated outside, there are also important indoor sources of the pollutant The most important of these are combustion...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20
PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRMS: Required Study on the Potential Effects of Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation doc
... tenure and the auditors’ desire to retain the clients About 55 percent of the other Tier firms24 and 65 percent of the other Fortune 1000 public companies25 were uncertain whether the risk of an audit ... projecting their responses to the population of these firms The presentation of this report focuses on the The 92 Tier firms with 10 or more public company clients represented about 90 percent of the ... with the client and the desire to retain the client Concerns about the potential effects of mandatory audit firm rotation include whether its intended benefits would outweigh the costs and the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20