... particularly when the time interval between the injury andthe operation is short Do not forget to insert a drain inthe vicinity ofthe repair In a minority of cases, if you feel that there is an increased ... Concerning penetrating injury ofthe pancreas; if a parenchymal injury is noted, it is important to determine the integrity ofthe main pancreatic duct keeping in mind the intra operative criteria introduced ... collateral vessels Taking into consideration the effort, the loss of time andthe additional loss of blood during the repair ofthe vein, it is worth considering ligation ofthe IVC inthe patient with...
... DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE ii PREFACE This thesis is submitted for the degree of Master of Engineering inthe Department of Mechanical Engineering, National ... deformation to the nanoparticles, indicative of both sliding and rolling taking place This shows that the loading conditions determine if ‘rolling’ (low loading) or ‘rolling and sliding’ (high loading) ... with the constraints ofthe MEMS silicon fabrication route However, the challenges facing such coatings are the high cost involved in solid coating, example diamond or carbon coating, andthe inability...
... operating inthe Microfinance sector 3.2 The need for a separate category of NBFCs operating inthe Microfinance sector arises for a number of reasons 3.3 First, the borrowers inthe Microfinance ... the amount ofthe loan However, the larger the loan, the larger the amount ofthe repayment installment, and a large installment may strain the repayment capacity ofthe borrower and result in ... 75% ofthe finance obtained by NBFCs operating in this sector is provided by banksand financial institutions including SIDBI As at 31st March 2010, the aggregate amount outstanding in respect of...
... Finally, the kernel informs the hardware physical map module ofthe new virtual to physical mapping With the exception ofthe hardware validation, all of these steps are implemented in a machine-independent ... surviving the introduction of new hardware architectures and was never able to efficiently support the large body of UNIX software used within the academic community [16] In addition, from the point ... Mach runs on the majority of workstations and mainframes within the Department of Computer Science, and supports projects in distributed computing and parallel processing such as the Camelot distributed...
... effect The language proficiency ofthethe success of a pair teacher work and group The teacher’s ability of organizing The hardship ofthe students work ? The cooperation ofthe students The language ... found the work ofthe students in group of three was ineffective Inthe time of five minutes they only discuss some information about that place.They must collect information from the other groups ... Reading a text and answering questions : Students can discuss questionsin pairs or groups and then read the text : or they can read the text silently, and then ask and answer questionsin pairs...
... Garcia-Amador, ‘Latin America andthe Law ofthe Sea’, in L M Alexander (ed.), The Law ofthe Sea: A New Geneva Conference Proceedings ofthe 6th Annual Conference ofthe Law ofthe Sea Institute, Kingston, ... Regionalism inthe pre-UNCLOS III law ofthe sea The law ofthe sea is inherently global The International Law Commission assumed as much in its codification ofthe subject inthe 1950s; andthe words ... protection ofthe marine environment in either the Arctic or the Antarctic Secondly, there is nothing inthe 1982 LOS Convention or in general international law to inhibit the making of such regional...
... structure of predicative propositions that express the meaning of being and that at the same time retain the inscription ofthe trace In analysing the said, Levinas brings to the fore the intrinsic binarism ... is the mark of everything that is present’.27 The ‘moving force’ ofthe showing of saying that brings beings into their own is owning or appropriation that yields the opening of a clearing in ... relations of possession, the realm of economy understood in terms of money, ownership and exchange The calling in question ofthe I, coextensive with the manifestation ofthe Other inthe face,...
... to the extremely important invention ofthe printing machine, the number of ancient writers' readers increased greatly andthe reading and studying ofthe Greek and Roman culture became an interest ... only " the revival of interest inthe ancient culture of Greece and Rome "but also "the discovery ofthe world and humanbeings" More than that, it implies "the awakening of man's mind and capacity, ... great problems of good and evil in both But inthe chronicles they are mostly linked with political themes - thequestionsofthe state and public life ofthe period described Inthe tragedies...
... tissue and gastrointestinal tract, as well as other sites, are known to reach the CNS to effect changes in feeding behavior and energy expenditure Thus, insulin, leptin and ghrelin, as well as other ... closely and rapidly with reciprocal changes inthe levels ofthe orexigenic and anorectic Signaling mediators inthe treatment of obesity neuropeptide expression inthe hypothalamus [22] Thus an increase ... entry of fatty acid into mitochondria Thus, the steady-state level of malonyl-CoA in these tissues is determined by the relative activities of ACC and malonyl-CoA decarboxylase Role ofthe AMP-dependent...
... Thus, integrin-dependent cell volume sensing and signaling integrates into the overall context of insulin signaling Similarly, sensing of glutamine-induced hepatocyte swelling by integrins feeds into ... Osmosensing and signaling in mammalian cell function F Schliess et al [7] On the other hand, hyperosmotic shrinkage prevents insulin-induced hepatocyte swelling and proteolysis inhibition, indicating ... swelling [12,13], insulin-induced hepatocyte swelling is registrated by the integrin system, leading to a Src-dependent activation ofthe p38-type MAPK and thereby inhibition of 5800 autophagic...
... "Tell ofthe Tablets," andthe "Great Tell," and, rising as they inthe centre ofthe site, they mark the position ofthe temples andthe other principal buildings ofthe city CHAPTER IV 51 An indication ... Memphite kings These facts, ofthe situation of Itht-taui, of their burial inthe southern an ex ofthe old necropolis of Memphis, andofthe fori of their tombs (the true Upper Egyptian and Thebian ... tell, then, Aha and Narmer were the first conquerors ofthe North, the unifiers ofthe kingdom, andthe originals ofthe legendary Mena In their time the kingdom's centre of gravity was still in the...
... at each phase ofthe cell cycle by various complexes of cell-cycle-related molecules, including cyclins, cyclin-dependent kinases, their inhibitors andthe retinoblastoma protein (RB), as well ... calorie intake induces expression of RMI1 and E2Fs in adipocytes, and these changes in expression are expected to increase a positive interaction between the molecules The increased expression of ... recruitment of preadipocytes [12], suggesting that these cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors are important inthe regulation of adipocyte number The S-phase kinase-associated protein (Skp)1–CullinF-box...
... hybridizes to the center ofthe input target RNA The asterisk indicates the input target RNA; the arrow indicates the digested product bands The amount of digested product obtained is indicated at the ... punctate perinuclear and cytoplasmic staining of other structures than appear following liposomal transfection The corresponding PO-ODN shows a similar pattern and intensity as the PS-ODN inthe ¯uorescent ... levels of either RNase H1 or H2 The discrepancy between thein vivo andin vitro measurements could be due to a compartmentalization of a component inthein vivo system On the other hand, we...
... in our knowledge ofthe biosynthesis of DIMs and PGLs, thein vivo functions of these FadD proteins in this pathway remain to be established and ⁄ or completed For instance, the involvement of ... interactions between FadD29 and PKS15 ⁄ on the one hand, and FadD26 andthe FasI system on the other hand Further investigations, including protein interaction studies and structural studies, will ... with NdeI and HindIII, and cloned between the NdeI and HindIII sites of pMV361e, a pMV361 derivative containing the pblaF* promoter instead ofthe original phsp60 promoter and carrying a Km resistance...
... in timing of diagnosis ofthe disease; and (4) disparities in access to care to treat the disease Although each of these issues is distinct, they are interconnected in creating and perpetuating ... in timing of diagnosis ofthe disease; and (4) disparities in access to care to treat the disease Although each of these issues is distinct, they are interconnected in creating and perpetuating ... quality and years of life as the two is providing health care to a growing and increascentral goals ofthe nation’s health care agenda These ingly diverse aging population By 2030, the segissues...
... These results are largely robust to including the proportion of Group pupils inthe surrounding area as the explanatory variable, rather than the total number of Group pupils inthe surrounding ... charts, andthe training of teachers in each treatment school on worm prevention Health education stressed the importance of hand washing to avoid ingesting roundworm and whipworm larvae, wearing ... treatment in 1998 This was partly because of confusion inthe field about pupil age, and partly because inthe early stages ofthe program several ofthe Kenya Ministry of Health nurses administered...
... HupK protein Thirty one amino acid residues inthe truncated HupK originated from the N-terminus, 37 aa from the C-terminus ofthe protein and 13 aa came from the multiple cloning site ofthe pK18mobsacB ... each other inthe hupK gene and its regulatory region One of them contained the hupK-hypC1DE genes (pBRKCDE), andthe other one contained only the hypC1DE genes (pBRCDE) The presence ofthe pleiotropic ... roseopersicina and to understand their physiological roles The determination ofthe specificity ofthe accessory proteins is a challenging exercise in this microorganism because ofthe presumed...
... kinds of relations appear as constraints inthe system, and on the order in which constraints are taken off the queue The results for systems consisting exclusively of one ofthe three kinds of ... 1987] and [Simmons, 1993]) p = number of parameters, c = number of constraints S = size ofthe system (the sum ofthe lengths of all ofthe constraints) * May not terminate if the system is inconsistent ... here, the term S in Table (the sum ofthe lengths of all ofthe constraints) is proportional to c (the number of constraints), since there are no more than three parameters in each constraint Hence,...
... world of objects, but in society andin minds More particularly, it happens inthe minds ofthe users, which are intrinsically integrated with the activities ofthe users Those cultural and material ... outlining the history ofthe World Wide Web It asks who invented the Web, what were the resources used in its invention, and what actually was invented inthe process Many ofthe details of this ... that there is a normal way of using the phone, and a corresponding standard interpretation ofthe meaning ofthe thing In some circumstances a telephone may be a perfect hammer; most ofthe time,...
... disciplinary ferment inthe field of international relations (IR), and new issues have stimulated new ways of understanding them The end ofthe Cold War andthe consequent decline inthe predominance ... and balance -of- power or interest-based explanations; they demand additional understandings of changing collective identities andthe role of culture in defining both identities and interests Issues ... globalization and democratization are also taking center stage While none of these issues is new, the IR discipline is taking increasing notice of them, and ways to understand and explain them are...