issues of postmodern thought as a critique of modern rationality

Báo cáo y học: " Self-reported sickness absence as a risk marker of future disability pension. Prospective findings from the DWECS/DREAM study 1990-2004"

Báo cáo y học: " Self-reported sickness absence as a risk marker of future disability pension. Prospective findings from the DWECS/DREAM study 1990-2004"

... Cochran-Armitage trend test was performed in order to test if a gradual increase in sickness absence was associated with increase in risk of disability pension The SAS procedure PROC GENMOD (SAS ... was stronger among men (OR=3.13) than among women (OR=2.19) (Table 2) Additional analysis treating days of sickness absence during 1990 as a continuous variable showed a clear trend of increase ... Sickness absence can be viewed as an integrated measure of physical, psychosocial, and social function and wellbeing [5-7] As such, sickness absence levels can reflect an increased risk of developing...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 10:03

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Dimensions of sensory quality: a critique

Dimensions of sensory quality: a critique

... more and more oxidized, it will turn from producing sensations like cardboard or paper, to tallowy and painty, and finally to a fishy character Each of these would be scaled as a separate variable ... unidimensional associative terms and that they are less well correlated with consumer opinion (Claassen & Lawless, 1992; Lawless & Claassen, 1993) QUALITY AS CONFORMANCE In the quality control of durable ... acceptance against descriptive panel attributes has a long history in sensory evaluation Given the new and more powerful techniques for multivariate data reduction and relation such as partial least...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2013, 21:07

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Stability and in vivo evaluation of pullulan acetate as a drug nanocarrier

Stability and in vivo evaluation of pullulan acetate as a drug nanocarrier

... with a UV detector at 232 nm The main pharmacokinetic parameters were calculated by DAS 1.0 (Anhui, China) program Bioavailability (BA) is a measurement of the rate and extent of a therapeutically ... (Mw = 200,000) was purchased from Hayashibara (Tokyo, Japan) Epirubicin·HCl (EPI·HCl) was purchased from Hisun Pharmaceutical Co (Zhejiang, China) Poly (vinyl alcohol) (PVA) with an average molecular weight ... and the acute toxicity of PANs was evaluated in mice Morever, EPI was loaded into PANs and its pharmacokinetics was also assessed in rats to compare to the free drug Methods Materials Pullulan...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2013, 21:38

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Evaluation of Dredged Sediment as a Silt and Clay Source for Artificial Tidal Flats

Evaluation of Dredged Sediment as a Silt and Clay Source for Artificial Tidal Flats

... chloride (PAC) as well as waste steel slag (WSS) (E5) A natural tidal flat (C3) at the same tidal level was chosen as a reference for monitoring benthic communities as well as physicochemical characteristics ... in artificial tidal flats in Japan, a growth test of R philippinarum was also carried out in DS mixtures MATERIALS AND METHODS Artificial tidal flats in real seashore Five artificial tidal flats ... 2009 Fig Location of the artificial and natural tidal flats in Tategami, Ago bay, Mie, Japan Table Sediment of artificial tidal flats in real seashore Run E1 E2 E3 E4 E5 Granulation of DS 1.5wt%...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

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Screening of PHA-Producing Bacteria Using Biodiesel- Derived Waste Glycerol as a Sole Carbon Source

Screening of PHA-Producing Bacteria Using Biodiesel- Derived Waste Glycerol as a Sole Carbon Source

... mL of sodium periodate were added Afterwards, 1.2 mL of acetylacetone solution was added and the mixture was placed in a water bath at 70ºC for An absorbance measurement was made at 410 nm against ... volume was transferred to a clean test tube, was evaporated and then mL of concentrated sulfuric acid was added The sample was boiled for 10 minutes An absorbance measurement was made at 235 nm ... research, it can be concluded that AIK7 isolate could be a good candidate as a PHA producer by using this low-grade waste glycerol as a sole carbon source REFERENCES Anderson A J and Dawes E A...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

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Novel design of a compacted micro-structured air-breathing PEM fuel cell as a power source for mobile phones

Novel design of a compacted micro-structured air-breathing PEM fuel cell as a power source for mobile phones

... 0) and condensation ( m phase < 0) is assumed Where m phase is mass transfer: for evaporation & & & & ( m phase = mevap ) and for condensation ( m phase = mcond ) (kg/s) So that the mass balance ... performance and design of air-breathing PEM fuel cells Litster and Djilali [1] developed a single-phase one-dimensional semi-analytical model of the membrane electrode assembly (MEA) of planar air-breathing ... water is the same as the gas phase temperature 2.2.2 Gas diffusion layers The physics of multiple phases through a porous medium is further complicated here with phase change and the sources and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

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Assessment of pretreatments and enzymatic hydrolysis of wheat straw as a sugar source for bioprocess industry

Assessment of pretreatments and enzymatic hydrolysis of wheat straw as a sugar source for bioprocess industry

... And such a whole suite of accessory enzymes is required for efficient xylan hydrolysis such as α-arabinofuranosidases and α-Larabinases that release arabinan [31], α-glucuronidases that release ... acetic acid Organic solvent such as acetone can be used to precipitate and separate the fractionated biomass The pretreatment has an advantage of operating at low temperature (50 °C) which capital ... feasible as great amounts of this valuable commodity would be wasted Besides lignin, miscellaneous components of wheat straw such as wax, pectin, and phenolic acids are also of great value and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

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Reading Theory as a Microcosm of the Four Skills

Reading Theory as a Microcosm of the Four Skills

... is in their emphasis It is my belief that in giving the L2 student both as much input and practice as they can reasonably manage, and a strong metalinguistic awareness, we, as teachers give the ... Ireland and Britain One of the most important initial tasks for any teacher is the task of knowing his clients The notion of needs analysis is absolutely central Even with as few details as we ... different constraints, at many different levels, on each occasion that they are called upon, they encourage a unique emphasis on particular combinations of strategies on each occasion In reading, the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 10:10

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Social Phobia as a Consequence of Brain Defects

Social Phobia as a Consequence of Brain Defects

... (accepting) accepting and negative and neutral expresssions: activation accompanied by in amygdala, evaluation of: hippocampus, Task performance: parahippocampal recognition of gyrus, medial type of emotion ... circuit (amygdala, hippocampus, insula, temporal lobe as well as anterior cingulate, medial, orbito, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortices) of social phobic patients are greater than those of controls ... physical signs with imbalances in autonomic neurotransmission In this formulation, the physical complaints typical of social phobia, are associated with rapid release of catecholamines (noradrenaline,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

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Social Phobia as a Consequence of Cognitive Biases

Social Phobia as a Consequence of Cognitive Biases

... way as if through the eyes of an observer Again, it is difficult to grasp the meaningfulness of this finding, let alone as evidence of a bias However that may be, this putative ‘‘bias’’ is assigned ... instance of a ‘‘category mistake.’’ According to Ryle (1949) this logical fallacy consists of treating the label for a class of events as if it were a member of that class From this vantage point ... of a small audience (6 other subjects) Each subject rated their own performance and that of the other participants Cognitive Biases 195 In both groups, self-appraisal was lower than appraisal...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

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Social Phobia as a Consequence of Inadequate Social Skills

Social Phobia as a Consequence of Inadequate Social Skills

... value of matching treatment with patients’ patterns of fear Based on extreme responses to a role-play and arationality ’ test, 39 patients were classified as either predominantly behavioral ... definitions aside, I shall now consider how the construct of social skills has been assessed in research Assessment of Social Skills of Social Phobic Individuals As the assessment of social skills had ... consider social phobia not as a breakdown in social ability but as emerging out of a pattern of meaningful actions that constitute a means to an end Although not necessarily abnormal in themselves,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

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Social Phobia as a Consequence of Individual History

Social Phobia as a Consequence of Individual History

... (shy, anxious) behavior by the teacher as well as peer assessment of social behavior (popularity, aggression, and isolation) at school At the age of no association was found between shy and anxious ... appeasement and avoidance of conflict typical of social phobic individuals Parental Alcoholism David et al (1995) found an association between parental alcoholism and phobia (both social and agoraphobia); ... variables such as maternal anxiety and an array of variables indexing temperament Nonetheless, it must be borne in mind that an even greater proportion of infants classified as anxiously attached...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

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Social Phobia as a Disorder of Social Anxiety

Social Phobia as a Disorder of Social Anxiety

... (mean age 12) on a social phobia and anxiety inventory for children (SPAI-C) and on a behavioral assessment task This included an interaction with a peer as well as reading aloud in front of an ... the validity of the measures devised to ascertain and quantify social anxiety, as this is most relevant to social phobia Examination of the validity both of the construct and of the methods assessing ... the Nature of Social Phobia? The Measurement of Social Anxiety As we have seen earlier, a variety of meanings are attached to the term anxiety (and fear) This implies that there could be substantive...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

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A contrastive analysis of encouraging as a speech act in english and vietnamese

A contrastive analysis of encouraging as a speech act in english and vietnamese

... STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM teachers and learners of English as well as other potential interactants In the past, a series of studies regarding different speech acts of international communication ... emergence of English as an international language in this century, there are a great number of the Vietnamese people who learn and speak English In fact, in learning English as a foreign language, ... describes and analyzes the syntactic and pragmatic features of 2.2.2.2 Classifications of speech acts directives in English and Vietnamese Searle (1975) has set up the following classification of Trương...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:31

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A study of the issues of teaching listening setions in tiếng anh 11 at high schools in nghe an

A study of the issues of teaching listening setions in tiếng anh 11 at high schools in nghe an

... passage Stress, rhythm and intonation: questions, statements and emphasis as well as sarcasm, endearment, insult, solicitation, praise and so on, can be comprehended via prosodic features of ... .53 4.2.1.6 Adaptation of the Textbook 55 a Frequency of Teachers Adaptation of the Listening Tasks 55 b Purposes of Teachers Adaptation 56 c Teachers Adaptation of Listening ... indicates four common methods of teaching second or foreign language listening which are grammar- translation method, grammar method, audio-lingual method and task-based method Grammar- translation...

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41

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Tài liệu Exporting the Results of a Query as a String docx

Tài liệu Exporting the Results of a Query as a String docx

... character or characters that separate rows The default value is the CARRIAGE RETURN character nullExpr A string that is substituted for null column values in the table The default value is an ... number of records in the table is specified, all records are converted without error columnDelimiter The character or characters that separate columns The default value is the TAB character rowDelimiter ... the table dt The DataTable to convert to a string numRows The number of rows in the table to convert If this number is negative, all rows in the table are converted If a number larger than the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 05:15

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A study of using english songs as a type of supplementary material in teaching listening for first year non major students of english at phuong dong university

A study of using english songs as a type of supplementary material in teaching listening for first year non major students of english at phuong dong university

... test was within fifteen minutes During the test, the teacher worked as a cassette player and examiner The marking was done with the same way of assessment and then was analyzed in turn The class ... for this task must have quite easy language and sung at a low speed such as ‘ whatever will be will be’ To carry out this task, teacher can omit some passage of the song word and then ask students ... years; teachers and researchers believe that motivation plays an important part in the process of acquiring an additional language because motivated students are usually those who participate actively...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 10:33

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Tài liệu Father’s Involvement as a Determinant of Child Health pptx

Tài liệu Father’s Involvement as a Determinant of Child Health pptx

... some of the factors accepted by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) as determinants of health (PHAC, 2003) PHAC has adopted a conceptual model of health determinants that includes: income and ... maternal race, age, adequacy of prenatal care and medical risks, and congenital malformations, birthweight, gestational age, and small-for-gestational age The study by Gaudino et al (1999) offers ... involvement, in addition to measures of the impacts of father’s absence, has been a necessary step towards a program of research that will uncover the effects of varying qualities and amounts of father’s...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 11:20

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