icebergs in the north atlantic

... emptying into the sea, or in polar regions in the vicinity of melting ice Under suitable conditions, the normal propulsion energy of the ship is expended in generating and maintaining these internal ... the wave speed slows, the period remains the same, so the wavelength becomes shorter Since the energy in the waves remains the same, the shortening of wavelengths results in increased heights This ... than that of an ordinary wave crested by wind Therefore, the increase in height is also much greater The size of the wave depends upon the nature and intensity of the disturbance The height and destructiveness...

Ngày tải lên: 08/05/2016, 10:19

... to changes in individuals’ educational attainment, over time they can seek higher wages (either in their current job or elsewhere) Therefore, over the course of their working lives, a INTRODUCTION ... 1.0 points in MCS • Cancer: reduction of 3.6 points in PCS and points in MCS • Arthritis: reduction of 4.5 points in PCS and 1.5 points in MCS • Mental illness: reduction of 3.9 points in PCS ... person lives and the opportunities they have to apply and be rewarded for applying their skills The link between productivity and wages in theory The question of interest is the effects of education...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20

... by the geometry of the frame: the points at which the left quarter-line, the vertical midline and the right quarterline intersected the horizontal midline of the rectangle The centers of the ... horizontal midline until they found the most aesthetically pleasing position, at which point they clicked the mouse to record their preference In other blocks of trials, we asked them to find the position ... place it in the least aesthetically pleasing position for the center-facing, left-facing and right-facing images of the 16 objects used in Experiments and are combined in Figs and because there...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... and the county indigent program, as well as the efforts that hospitals make to collect bad debt, including whether they consider patients’ income b The criteria for determining bad debt, including ... August 2012 certain information from hospitals By collecting, tracking, and making this information available to the public, Health Planning increases the transparency of hospitals in California ... how parties involved in the transaction are complying with each condition placed by the attorney general when approving the transaction In addition to reviewing the compliance reports, the attorney...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20

... with plasmin inhibited subsequent chromatolysis, demonstrating that rmDNase1l3 Our finding that the serine protease inhibitor aprotinin and the inhibitor for the activation of the plasminogen system ... with h of incubation at 37 °C Chromatin degradation in the serum of a DNase1 KO mouse was accelerated by the addition of aprotinin and the specific inhibitor for the activation of the plasminogen ... aprotinin inhibited the promoting effect of plasmin on chromatin breakdown by rmDNase1, whereas the action of thrombin was only slightly inhibited (Fig 2C), which is most probably explained by the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 02:20

... mediated the painQoL link for the physical aspect (Model 4) When pain was the mediator, it accentuated the negative effects of depression on mental functioning The indirect effect of pain on the depression-QoL ... the negative effects of pain on physical QoL The indirect effect of depression on the pain-QoL link pathway was 0.08, indicating that about 75% of the effect of pain on QoL impacted through the ... allow us to infer causality Cautions should be exercised when interpreting and generalizing the current findings in other populations as the present sample consisted of mainly Chinese female...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... and pain [13] In this study, acupoints could be divided into local and distal points Local points were segmental urinary bladder points Local points on the governing vessel meridian in these ... destroyed axons in the spinal cord The faster this regrowth took place, the more axons might gain access to their original distal axonal sheathes because there was less scar tissue at the lesion Acupuncture ... Deahan Pharm Ltd Co., Korea) was administered during the surgical procedure Induction of spinal cord compression The skin incision was made at the dorsal midline from the 2nd to 5th lumbar vertebra...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 17:22

... species were out of their natural distribution area, although they have been planted in the area, in the past The relatively high survival of seedlings at the beginning of the growing season was possibly ... desiccation and freezing on plant survival Seedling survival of all species, at the beginning of the growing season (late April), were influenced by pre-planting desiccation and freezing treatments ... survive after outplanting, with the exception of a few plants of A pseudoplatanus Plant survival at the end of the growing season was lower compared to the beginning of the season, in all species (figure...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... wasa surpris) NSV ing finding The fact that in Q robur declines in ’ m ΔF/F of similar amplitude than in the other species were obtained with smaller increases in q means, in the frame of NSV ... periods of waterlogging In the present work, we intended to further document the disorders induced in for- photosynthesis by temporary waterlogging We addressed in particular the question as to ... efficiency - were obtained with a smaller increase in in the for- non-photochemical quenching DISCUSSION on the photosynthetic performance of leaves of the three species Seedlings from the three oak...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... of the TCD50 by the combination therapy depending on the timing of AD [10-13] Taken together in vivo and in vitro data support the hypothesis, that androgen withdrawal during irradiation increases ... of the tested PC cell lines Therefore, our working hypothesis was disproved: direct interaction of goserelin with PC cells during irradiation does not seem to explain the clinically observed increase ... expression of c-fos, but the combination of both treatments did not further increase the expression In contrast, in PC-3 the expression of c-fos was not increased by goserelin incubation and seemed...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... For the mice in the UTI group, the volume of their xenografted tumors gradually increased at a rate less than that of the mice in the control group (P < 0.05) For the mice in the TAX group, the ... enhance the invasion of tumors by increasing the expression of matrix metalloproteases (MMPs) in breast carcinoma and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) ... their substrates by digestion with 0.125% EDTA-free typsin, centrifuged for min, resuspended, and rinsed by centrifugation in PBS at 4°C The cell pellet was resuspended in 490 μL PBS containing...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21

... outcome in clinic Ulinastatin can bind to tumor cells through its N-terminal Domain I and exert its inhibitory effect on proteolytic activity of plasmin by binding to tumor cells through its C-terminal ... binding to integrin a5b1 [3,16] Therefore, uPA-uPAR and ERK can activate each other through different pathways and form a positive feedback loop, thereby maintaining high proliferating and invasive ... to its inhibitory effect on the translocation of protein kinase C from the cytoplasm to the membrane and consequent down-regulation of MEK/ERK/c-Jun pathway, thereby causing the decline in uPA...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21

... increased at the final 30 of 3.2 µg kg–1 min–1 epinephrine infusion (Fig 4) There was no significant increase in SAP at this epinephrine dose The SAP/PAP ratio was not changed with epinephrine infusions ... any further increase in CI with either dopamine or epinephrine infusions during hypoxia with arterial oxygen saturation between 45% and 50% [9] The difference in the effects of hypoxia on the responses ... significant increases in PVFI and THFI (Fig 3), with decreases in calculated MVRI, at a dose of 32 µg kg–1 min–1 dopamine The SAP/PAP ratio during 32 µg kg–1 min–1 dopamine, at both the initial and final...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... epinephrine intravenously every three minutes In the vasopressin/epinephrine group, patients received 40 units of arginine vasopressin (Pitressin; Goldshield Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Surrey, UK) intravenously ... higher in the vasopressin/epinephrine group (p < 0.01) The average values of initial and final MAP were significantly higher in the vasopressin/epinephrine group (p < 0.01) (Table 3) In multivariate ... arrest, 90 patients in the epinephrine group and 36 in the vasopressin/epinephrine group were discharged alive from the hospital Forty-seven discharged patients in the epinephrine group were with...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... tendinopathy is quite common in throwing sports and swimming, and may involve either the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor, or subscapularis tendons, with the supraspinatus being the ... origin at the MTJ and insertion at the OTJ At the origin, the collagen fibrils of the tendon protrude deep into the myofibroblasts, allowing forces generated by the contractile proteins of the ... [22,23] The rough ER and Golgi apparatus are vital in the production of proteoglycans and glycoproteins found in the ECM, with the protein being formed in the rough ER and the glycidic portion in the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 09:15

... concentration in seedlings grown in BA Thus, the application of BA maintained the juvenility of the caixin seedlings On the other hand, high concentrations of ABA (10 µM and 100 µM) inhibited the germination ... therefore inevitable, in order to protect the photosynthetic apparatus (Apel and Hirt, 2004) Another ROS source during photosynthesis is the continuous production of singlet oxygen in PSII, the ... used in order to depict the antioxidant profile of the system 19 According to Halliwell (1995), the factors to take into account during the testing of antioxidant capacity in in vivo systems include...

Ngày tải lên: 28/11/2015, 13:46

... research The study’s model was tested in a specific setting—Northern Cyprus, in the Mediterranean region The generalization of the model is suggested, with the replication of this study in other settings ... purchase-behavior and consider this information in their decision-making The findings of testing of the proposed model have implications for the success of marketing destinations In order to improve satisfaction ... examining the model fits of the overall measurement model that excludes the correlated indicator, one indicator was deleted because the model without this indicator produced better-fit indices The...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2016, 16:57

... for the reduction of infiltration rate The concentration of chlorophyll-a in the surface sediment in day 23 was higher than that before the oil spill In day 58, the infiltration rate in the O ... profiles of the oil concentrations in the sediments in the O simulator The oil concentration in the surface sediments decreased from 0.9 in day down to 0.5 l m-2 in 35 days, whereas they were less ... day-1 The restoration of the infiltration rate is consistent with that of macrobenthic population density as shown later on The increase in the infiltration rate is probably due to the decrease in...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... following table: Steps The experimental group Lead in: Introduction of the writing The control group Lead in: Introduction of the topic Carrying out brainstorming prewriting topic Carrying out giving ... Feeling about the interaction in brainstorming: The following chart shows students feeling about the interactions in brainstorming It presents percentages of respondents to question Chart 2: The ... school They come from different districts in Ha Tinh province They finished learning the first 11 units of English 11 They have just passed the final writing test of the first term and started their...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:08

... hemisphere, the temperature increases are greatest there For the NOx caps, temperature increases in the southern hemisphere (driven by the CH4 increases), but decreases in the northern hemisphere ... individually and combined in two ways These caps can lower ozone causing less warming, lower sulfate aerosols yielding more warming, lower OH and thus increase CH4 giving more warming, and finally, ... (due to the cooling effects of the O3 decreases exceeding the warming driven by the CH4 increases) For CO and VOC reductions, there are small decreases in temperature driven by the accompanying aerosol...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20