... medium to an OD600nm value of 0.25 and 100μl was added to each well of a 96-well microtiter plate Each sample was assayed in quadruplicate β-Galactosidase activity was induced by the addition of 100 ... recombinant yeast assay Materials and Methods Chemicals ρ-nonylphenol was obtained from Kanto Chemical Co Inc (Japan) 17β-estradiol, bisphenol A, and butylparaben were purchased from Sigma Chemical ... enhances activity of the ER as a ligand-induced transcription factor [17] Although the chemicals are different, Harris et al [20] reported that the estrogenic activity of phthalate esters as weakly...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 15:20
... medial para-patellar area To achieve optimal visualization of the anterior cruciate ligament, the patellar bone was displaced laterally and the knee was placed in full flexion The anterior stability ... substrate of fibril forming collagen, but it protects cartilage from oxidative damage by acting as a thiol antioxidant [27] The anti-OA roles that these amino acids play in articular cartilage have ... chondrocytes have Figure Representative photomicrographs of articular cartilage of the medial tibial plateau These photomicrographs were taken at 19 weeks after anterior plateau cruciate ligament transection...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20
Textile Application of the Color Sensitivity of a Dye Mixture
... SENSITIVITY OF DYE MIXTURES Prepared By Javaid Mughal, Mansoor Iqbal and Muhammad Naeem (A Team of Textile Scientists at PCSIR Lab Complex Karachi) E-mail: javaidtextile@hotmail.com mansoorprocessing@hotmail.com ... powders, evaporation of liquids, or the general degradation of quality with time Periodic color analysis of dye standards and comparision with data obtained from earlier analysis will indicate quality ... the reaction rate as well as the efficiency of fixation Different types of alkalis, such as caustic soda, soda ash, sodium silicate or a combination of these alkalis, are used in order to attain...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2015, 15:14
Báo cáo sinh học: " Research Article A Gaussian Mixture Approach to Blind Equalization of Block-Oriented Wireless Communications Frederic Lehmann (EURASIP Member)" doc
... Gaussian mixture- based equalization at Bd T = 10−2 Table 1: Saleh-Valenzuela model parameters 100 Parameter and units Intercluster arrival rate (1/s) Intercluster decay constant (s) Intracluster arrival ... cluster and ray delay In our simulations, the parameters of the Saleh-Valenzuela channel model are given in Table Therefore, assuming rectangular transmit and receive pulse shaping as well as perfect ... A A M Saleh and R A Valenzuela, A statistical model for indoor multipath propagation,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol 5, no 2, pp 128–137, 1987 EURASIP Journal on Advances...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Binary Mixtures of SH- and CH3-Terminated Self-Assembled Monolayers to Control the Average Spacing Between Aligned Gold Nanoparticles" doc
... Ontario Photonics Consortium (OPC), and CRC Program of the Government of Canada for their kind financial support and the Western Nanofabrication Facility for the availability of FIB and SEM We also ... SAMs was carried out in a vacuum-sealed glass reactor chamber, which contained the samples and a small glass vessel with 20 mg of the Au precursor The reactor was evacuated (pmin % 0.05 hPa) for ... SEM image analyses indicated that the average spacing between aligned Au NPs at a fixed dose can effectively be controlled by changing the v/v% ratio of SH-groups The average spacing decreased...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: " from the simple application of a mixture of to more gibberellins integrated explanations" pot
... quantifying GAs by enzymelinked irnmunosorbent assay (Fl. 5A) , effect of the treatments which create a rapid polar GAs Recently, using immunological analysis instead of bioassays, Doumas et al., (1989) ... demonstrated on year old cuttings of Douglas fir, 17 days after stem girdling, a drastic increase of some GAs, mainly a GA3-like peak, but no increase of less polar ones Only trees having received GA4/7 ... important for sexual differentiation (Durand and Durand, 1984) Thus quantitative as well as qualitative variations must be analyzed Curiously, little attention has been paid to CKs in relationship to...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20
The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System
... separate data area of these database systems means that they not need the segment cleaning mechanisms of the Sprite LFS to reclaim log space The space occupied by the log in a database system can ... simulates the actions of a cleaner until a threshold number of clean segments is available again In each run the simulator was allowed to run until the write cost stabilized and all coldstart variance ... the most up to date ‘‘truth’’ about the state of the data on disk The main difference is that database systems not use the log as the final repository for data: a separate data area is reserved...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05
The Duality of Memory and Communication in the Implementation of a Multiprocessor Operating System
... nature to a data manager which fails to free data, but is easier to detect and prevent • Data manager changes data A malicious data manager may change the value of its data on each cache refresh ... access to cached data than the data manager has permitted (e.g., a write fault on a page made read-only by a pager_data_lock call), the kernel issues a pager_data_unlock call The data manager is ... memory as a cache of secondary storage data pages The effect of this kind of caching on the performance of UNIX and its traditional suite of application programs is dramatic Compilation of a small...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05
List the components of a radio system
... – Advantages • Can carry up to three times the amount of data as TDMA • Transmissions are much harder to eavesdrop on • A would-be eavesdropper must also know the exact chip in which the transmission ... the signal • Attenuation – A loss of signal strength • Multipath distortion – As a radio signal is transmitted, the electromagnetic waves spread out 24 Signal Strength (continued) 25 Radio Frequency ... (continued) Antennas • Transmit or receive an RF signal Multiple Access • Only a limited number of frequencies are available for radio transmission – Conserving the use of frequencies is important • Conserving...
Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2012, 10:52
Cambridge.University.Press.Africans.The.History.of.a.Continent.Aug.2007.pdf
... contained a core of Afro-Mediterranean race and spoke an Afroasiatic language Egyptian civilisation displayed many cultural and political patterns later to appear elsewhere in the continent, although ... rainfall declined thereafter, Nilo-Saharan speakers may have carried this culture and later the exploitation of grain southward towards Lake Victoria, although there is as yet no archaeological ... contrast with the characteristically tall and slender Nilotic peoples whose languages belonged to a third, Nilo-Saharan family, which may have originated in the broad Saharan region at least as early...
Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39
Guest the meaning of a word
... (not, reversal) ex- (out of, former) pre- (before) re- (again, restore) un- (do the opposite of) ad- (to, toward) com-, con-, co- (with, together) en-, em- (in, into, to cover or contain) in- (into, ... (with, together) en-, em- (in, into, to cover or contain) in- (into, not) pro- (in favor of, before) sub- (under, beneath) ...
Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2012, 12:07
Báo cáo y học: "Pre-hospital intubation by anaesthesiologists in patients with severe trauma: an audit of a Norwegian helicopter emergency medical service"
... safety) Materials and methods Stavanger HEMS The Stavanger HEMS is part of the national HEMS system of Norway, and its primary areas of operation are the mixed urban and rural districts of Rogaland ... Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation Author details Department of Research and Development, Norwegian Air Ambulance Foundation, Drøbak, Norway 2Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Stavanger ... Science Data Service approved the collection and recording of the study data Statistics Data were recorded into a database designed with File Maker (FileMaker Inc., Santa Clara, CA, USA) We used Table...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 09:56
Báo cáo y học: " Implementation of a new emergency medical communication centre organization in Finland an evaluation, with performance indicators"
... of data that could allow for a structured evaluation of the organizational changes It is evident that a well-planned evaluation of changes in the organizations, before they are actually made, ... on performance Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2010, 54(6):689-695 Handbooks of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Ambulance and emergency care services: A handbook for drawing up an alarm procedure ... several databases Approximately 40% of all emergency calls during the period 2002-2005 were available from the municipality-based databases The rest of the data could not be gathered since it was...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02
Báo cáo y học: "The Impact of a Nationwide Antibiotic Restriction Program on Antibiotic Usage and Resistance against Nosocomial Pathogens in Turkey"
... non-parametric correlations A P value of less than 0.05 was regarded as significant Software package STATA 9.0 (USA) was used for the analysis Materials and Methods Results Hospital setting and antibiotic ... and resistance patterns of leading nosocomial pathogens (gram) and number of boxes were calculated from two databases, 1) Hospital pharmacy computer databases, and 2) International Medication System ... NARP was initiated in Turkey in February 2003 by a central regulation of Ministry of Health and was announced nation-wide via official newspaper of the state [11] This is a quasi-experimental...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00
Báo cáo y học: " Treatment of oroantral fistula with autologous bone graft and application of a non-reabsorbable membrane"
... Clinically significant oroantral communications a study of incidence and site Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 1994;23:19-21 Haas R, Watzak G, Baron M, Tepper G, Mailath G, Watzek G A preliminary study of ... characteristics of OAC/OAF; the apexes of tooth 26 were in extremely close approximation to the maxillary sinus, and an area of periapical rarefaction was evident (Fig 1) After the failure of the endodontic ... and clavulanic acid g The fixed partial prosthesis was removed and the contiguous mucosa appeared healthy A buccal full thickness flap was harvested and the presence of a small OAF was verified...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:48
Báo cáo y học: "Gain of a 500-fold sensitivity on an intravital MR Contrast Agent based on an endohedral Gadolinium-Cluster-Fullerene-Conjugate: A new chance in cancer diagnostics"
... use of heavy ions demands absolute reliability of new diagnostics and treatment planning for prostate and brain tumors By the fact that the rare earth metals trapped inside of the carbon cage are ... evaluation of Gd@C60[C(COOH)2]10 as a MRI contrast agent J Am Chem Soc 2003; 125: 5471-8 Okumura M, Mikawa M, Yokawa T, et al Evaluation of water-soluble metallofullerenes as MRI contrast agents ... relaxation times are unsatisfactory so far, because radiation induced necrosis [58], vital tumor tissue and cerebral metastases are nearly undistinguishable.[51] Additionally, preclinical data suggest...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:07
The Marketing Strategy of a multinational join stock company.doc
... companies such as Toshiba(Japanese), Mitsubishi(Japanese), Trane(American) and Sanyo(Japanese) Medical and technical equipment and machinery, mainly imported from the USA, Italy, Germany and Japan ... the basic characteristic about product, which was described by color, trademark, and the package of product Each of the products of a multinational join stock company has a separate trademark and ... 5D The Marketing Strategy of a multinational join stock company multinational join stock company has a certain advantage: a multinational join stock company has always kept its prices as competitive...
Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2012, 16:51
Báo cáo y học: "Comparison of a Two-Lead, Computerized, Resting ECG Signal Analysis Device, the MultiFunction-CardioGramsm or MCG (a.k.a. 3DMP), to Quantitative Coronary Angiography for the Detection of Relevant Coronary Artery Stenosis (70%)
... clinico-pathologic reference database of 40,000 patients accumulated over more than two decades The MCG reference database used in the computer-database comparative analysis of each patient’s data, was ... Scanlon PJ, Faxon DP, Audet AM, et al ACC/AHA guidelines for coronary angiography: executive summary and recommendations A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association ... boundary of 95% CI; NaN = not a number; Revasc = coronary revascularization in medical history n Combined Analysis Total USA Asia Germany female male < 65 years 65+ years Female, < 65 years Female,...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 10:58
Diary of a Serial Killer
... to death is a flushed goldfish and a very rare rump steak at an even rarer barbeque I don’t have many friends In fact I have none at all apart from Tania but I don’t need any All my friends are ... way of a goose quill dipped in ink and scratched across parchment with a scattering of sand to blot it, nor even that of a goldnibbed fountain pen and blotter Maybe now and again in biro on a ... a work of fiction Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead,...
Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 16:14
A study on some major factors affecting English learning of grade 6 ethnic minority students of a mountainous secondary school to help them learn better
... Personality characteristics Second language acquisition is defined as the learning and adopting of a language that is not your native language Once you have acquired a foreign language, you have mastered ... simplicity, ease or difficulty of learning, degree of important, elegance, social status, etc Attitudes towards a language may also show what people feel about the speakers of that language Language attitudes ... Community attitudes towards the language being learnt can have a profound impact on SLA where the community has a broadly negative view of the target language and its speakers, or a negative view of...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:04