identifying and predicting the failure of valves

... gold-standard Yet, the assessments of the two aspects were often the same—readability/fluency of the sentence is important for understanding the sentence Only after the assessor has understood the ... better understand which factors are predictive of good fluency The distribution of fluency scores in the dataset is rather skewed, with the majority of the sentences rated as being of average fluency ... with the idea that these are qualities of the translations that are independent of each other Fluency was judged directly by the assessors, while adequacy was meant to assess the content of the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 02:20

... umbellatum These species used germination as a regeneration mechanism and both of them take advantage of the empty spaces to germinate and increase cover as well as the space they occupy [7] The beneficial ... variable (tables II and III) In the case of the seeds of Pinus sylvestris and Halimium alyssoides, temperature is also significant Finally, the interaction between the time and the temperature was ... effects of thermal shock on the seeds of these species have been widely studied [36] However, in this study, cutting and ploughing also had a significant positive effect on the germination of these...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21

... the first five days in the conservative survivors or the LT or death cases On the other hand, the transition of the ALT-LDH index during the same period differed between the two categories: the ... retrospectively the correlation between the serum ALT-LDH ratio of the patients suffering from acute liver injury and who had had the possibility of developing ALF and their outcomes, and evaluated the predictive ... struggle to cure the patients after fulfilling the ALF criteria Of course, a new strategy is required to prevent the progression of the disease The difficulty in predicting the prognosis of ALF is mainly...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... disorder Like the pervasive effects of culture, distortion of consciousness lies at the heart of both the individual experience of mental disorder and the effect of it on the embedding of the individual ... or the other of the teams, or separate counts of the number of bounce and areal passes During the game, a figure in a full gorilla suit appears, faces the camera, beats its breast, and walks off ... [11] Invoking the spirit of the Shannon-McMillan Theorem, essentially the zero-error limit of the Rate Distortion Theorem discussed in the Mathematical Appendix, allows definition of an adiabatically,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... consecutive years Three of the team of six reference sires (the three oldest sires in the team) were replaced every year in terminal sire breeds, and two (randomly chosen) of the team of three were replaced ... two years of PrP selection and then approximately halved every four years None of the 100 replicates for those scenarios targeting only the sires (i.e S1R and S1RW ) led to the loss of the VRQ ... the 15 years of PrP selection, for the first years of selection and for the last 10 years of selection When compared with the scenario where selection was only on the performance trait (NS), the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... volume of 0.1 ml) to 1.5 mm for the 0.3 ml volume, and a depth of 5.0 mm for ml of the vector preparation All of these depths were well beyond the diffusion limit of relevance to the adsorption of ... is the concentration of active virus at time t, VAO is the initial concentration of active virus, and Kd is the virus decay rate constant}, the half-life of the vector was in the 8–9 hr range The ... in the processes of the transduction pathways of MoMLV based retroviral vectors and lentivirally derived vectors During the transduction process, the rate of collision between the virions and the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22

... Bush, and Barack Obama and on those they chose to serve in their cabinets and in the Executive Office in the White House and to run regulatory agencies, including the Federal Reserve and the Securities ... leveraged (the ratio of the loan to the true value of the asset is very high) But the belief that the price of the bubble asset will rise even further leads to even laxer lending standards, magnifying ... branch to the supervision of c the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).7 The Three I’s—­deology, interests, and institutions—­ re imi a pediments to successful policy making and government...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 11:44

... limit on the supply of the tranches that were most in demand the AAA tranches—because the starting points of the rating models were predictions of the rate of default on the entire pool Had the rating ... concerned about the default risk of the banks as they were about the default risk of Fannie and Freddie As we discuss toward the end of the chapter (when we consider the ‘‘too big to fail’’ theory as ... with the analyses then on offer At the time, there were (understandably) only hypotheses that lacked evidence, and many of them, while equally plausible, contradicted each other Additionally, there...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2014, 16:26

... below the CEO—both to expand their knowledge of the company and CEO succession candidates, and to increase other top-level executives’ exposure to the thinking of the board and the board process The ... final responsibility for the functioning of the firm Most important, it sets the rules of the game for the CEO The job of the board is to hire, fire, and compensate the CEO, and to provide high-level ... Chairman of the Board It is common in U.S corporations for the CEO also to hold the position of Chairman of the Board The function of the Chairman is to run board meetings and oversee the process of...

Ngày tải lên: 02/01/2015, 17:33

... Most of them seemed too closed, to be friendly and warmhearted, and welcome us They told us everything they did in Vietnam and they thought about Vietnam in their travels Therefore, they helped ... about Vietnam tourism, what they hope and what they see? Then, teachers and students may know clearly about the fact of tourism in Vietnam It will help students have the right acknowledge about ... see, there is a vacation for the Western countries at this time Therefore, they spend more time and money for travelling, and for relaxing in some Southern Eastern Asian countries: Thailand,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2013, 15:42

... network There is a flow of resources within the network Points of Difference: • SN theorist (and early marketing researchers) seek to describe individual actors and their relations/patterns of connections ... buyers and sellers improve the likelihood of a transaction? – How does the value of information moderate the effect of social structure on relationship outcomes? • Typical Methods – Surveys and ... thought and practice? • • How does the marketing perspective compare to the sociological perspective? What are the three key perspectives of SNT that have influence marketing theory and practice?...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 20:15

... as the principle of the figurative synthesis, i.e., of the forms of intuition; space and time are themselves conceived as synthetic unities, and spontaneity, the absolute synthetic activity of the ... must be the transcendental synthesis of imagination This synthesis is an action of the understanding on the sensibility; and is its first application – and thereby the ground of all its other applications ... that “logic, then, has for its presupposition the science of appearing spirit, which contains and presents the necessity and, accordingly, the demonstration of the truth of the standpoint that...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... The new structuralist argument rests, therefore, on the contentions that the intermediation of the formal sector is not full and that informal sector resources, and not the other components of ... significant in the case of Kenya and Rwanda It is negative but not significant in the case of Zimbabwe, positive and statistically insignificant in the cases of Morocco and Tanzania We turn now to the subject ... restructure the debate on financial liberalization and to articulate the arguments against the financial liberalization theory It puts into focus some of the worries, criticisms and limitations of the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 05:15

... a member of WTO, the MFN status with the US would contribute significantly to the inflow of FDI The authors then used their estimate to simulate the effect of the BTA on the inflow of FDI into ... within the manufacturing, while during the early part of 1990s, the majority of FDI inflows were in oil and mining sector, by the end of the last century and early this century, light and heavy ... analysis, therefore it deserves some elaboration The source of information on the dependent variable is taken from the GSO and MPI The number of investment projects and the amount of FDI during...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 01:28

... test at the beginning of the school year The group of student was selected to be the target population of this research firstly because of the relative number of males and females in the group ... remember and the new words After some time, I usually forget the meaning and use of the words.” “If I see the words in the exercises many times, and the teacher explains the new words, then I can ... underline the new words in the reading text or write down the new words in a notebook Then I ask the teacher for the meaning and write down the meaning; sometimes look up the meaning of the new...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 00:23

... determine the roles of these DHSs on the transcription of Ig-b gene and on the maintenance of the active chromatin state Results Generation of DT40/Cre cells with a long deletion in one allele of the ... autoradiogram of the Southern hybridization Position of the probes, the size and position of restriction fragments hybridizable with the probe, and exon ⁄ introns are shown as in Fig 2A Positions of the ... in the Na channel gene and in the first intron of the Ig-b gene Furthermore, the acetylation status of H3 and H4 histones was examined [15] In the present study, 10 DT40-specific DHSs found in the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... only the reporter gene situated on the same side, relative to the boundary, of the construct However, when the combination of the PTS and the boundary is placed 3¢ to one of the reporter genes, the ... outside the region defined by the promoters of the two reporter genes (3¢ to one of them, Fig 4, bottom), the PTS is able to overcome the enhancer blocking effect of the boundary, and restricts the ... later than in the case of the histone gene cluster [10] This difference in the timing of somatic pairing perhaps reflects the difference between the complexities of the regulation of the two systems:...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 01:20

... the KpnI and XhoI sites in the vector and KpnI and SalI sites in the PCR2.1 clones of the promoter fragments All promoter constructs were sequenced to confirm their orientation and to verify their ... fgl2 mRNA The left side of the figure is the sequence ladder using the same primer and the pM166 clone as template Arrow indicates the nucleotide that is matched to the band present in the primer ... are indicated in the top of the panel Supershift, ss-Sp1 and ss-Sp3, were shown in presence of anti-Sp1 and anti-Sp3 Ig Cold and mutated competitors are indicated at the top of the figure probe...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20

... discussion of the thermotropic phase behavior of Myr2Gro-PGro and other members of the homologous series of linear saturated PGs, see Zhang et al [24] The addition of mol percent of one of the three ... decreases in the order GS14 > GS10 > GS12, as does the temperature and the relative magnitude of the new endotherm or endotherms induced by the addition of the peptide However, the magnitude of the effects ... conformation There is good evidence from studies of the interaction of GS and its analogs with bacterial cells that the destruction of the integrity of the lipid bilayer of the inner membrane is the primary...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:21