... performance database was designed to store the majority ofthe data collected by the LTPP program for easy and convenient dissemination and use The pavement performance database is a relational database ... Transportation Research Board (TRB) ofthe National Research Council, under the sponsorship ofthe Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and with the cooperation ofthe American Associationof State ... that Rada and Witczak evaluated a total of 271 test results and concluded that the primary variable that influence the MR responses of granular materials are (i) stress state; (ii) degree of saturation...
... contain substantial amounts ofthe PPII helical conformation (see below), these b- and jcasein ROA bands are therefore assigned to PPII structure The positive ROA bands in b- and j-casein at » ... alter the conformation signi®cantly The backscattered Raman and ROA spectra ofthe wild-type and mutant tau46 are shown as the top and bottom pairs, respectively, in Fig Both ROA spectra show a strong ... (FTDP-17) Tau46 corresponds to the 412-amino-acid isoform of human brain tau At neutral pH, the tau samples showed aggregation in the laser beam, with the aggregates falling to the bottom ofthe cell,...
... and reap the social, professional and financial benefits of their reputation and training • Dentists, though primarily focused on the dental anatomy and disease, are also expected to understand ... "primary care," and "portal of entry," and that this confusion is at least partially responsible forthe enthusiasm forthe primary care modelThe American Chiropractic Association, in fact, ... spine care model will facilitate integration ofthe chiropractic profession into the mainstream of healthcare Integration offers substantial advantages toward addressing professional values and...
... Setting A clear vision ofthe respective role of central and local efforts andofthe ways in which central government can facilitate and support local and regional efforts, are therefore essential ... are often substantial The availability of financial resources and lack of capacity to handle complex business management issues as well as a complicated and bureaucratic environment present major ... Harmony between local and national authorities; Management of regulatory processes; Initiation and preparation of legislation, particularly with regard to the SME sector andthe management of...
... semantic predicates, a list of scopal constraints, syntactic, prosodic and pragmatic information as well as tense and aspect and sortal information An example ofa VIT forthe sentence Montag ... since the parser has to simultaneously perform two tasks: Searching fora path to be analysed and analysing it as well If the analysis procedure is too liberal, it may already accept and analyse an ... length ofthe temporal interval an analysis spans; an analysis with a greater length is preferred The coverage of an analysis is the sum ofthe lengths ofthe component analyses it consists of Note...
... documents and metadata; 64 Presentation by Trajko Veljanoski, President ofthe Assembly ofthe Republic of Macedonia, and Jani Makraduli, Vice President ofthe Assembly ofthe Republic of Macedonia, at ... on the other end ofthe spectrum, many parliaments lack a strategic plan, an adequate ICT infrastructure, basic tools for Members of Parliament and staff, systems for managing documents and trained ... into the market place and tell people simply and clearly what they are trying to and why.” Conceptually, the market place may have changed, but the notion of democracy as a system that provides for...
... analysis and drafted the manuscript DC, GK and JVVZ participated in the design ofthestudyand helped with data analysis and drafting the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... another studyof 66 RA patients Table General and disease-related characteristics forthe RA patientsa Characteristics RA patient data General characteristics Age, years Females, % Body mass index ... percentage increase in diameter (FMD) after reactive hyperaemia was ± 6, andthe percentage increase in diameter after GTN was 23 ± Microvascular and macrovascular endothelial function for RA patients...
... midpoint ofthe values of ki plus the midpoint ofthe values of bi because values of ki are not available for certain tissues For scaling ofthe brain andthe epithelial tissues ofthe skin and gastrointestinal ... comparable to other data sets analysed, multiple data points fora species were replaced by a single data point calculated as the average value of body weight andthe average value of BMR forthe ... networks Nature 1999, 399:130-132 Banavar JR, Damuth J, Maritan A, Rinaldo A: Supply-demand balance and metabolic scaling Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2002, 99:10506-10509 Darveau C -A, Suarez RK, Andrews...
... that the recruitment of Atg1Atg13 to the PAS is mediated by a direct interaction between Atg17 and Atg13 (Kabeya et al., 2005) Furthermore, complex formation between Atg17-Atg29Atg31 and Atg1-Atg13 ... reactions in the formation of autophagosomes and thereby autophagy Atg16 forms a complex 26 Marianne Cowan, 2013 Chapter - Introduction with the Atg12-Atg5 conjugate and associates with autophagosomal ... Schematic representation ofthe endosomal system, autophagy andthe Cvt pathway in yeast Key trafficking pathways within the endosomal system, autophagy andthe Cvt pathway are indicated Tlg2 localises...
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... pattern of associations with sociodemographic factors and psychiatric morbidity is the same between these groups and any observed differences are ofa quantitative rather than a qualitative nature ... Epirus and Aetoloakarnania) due to the proximity with the University of Ioannina, b) all senior high schools in one randomly selected district ofthe Athens Greater Area (the district of Kallithea ... spectrum of suicidal ideation [28-30] Our main aim was to test theassociationbetween bullying behavior and early stages of suicidal ideation in a sample of Greek adolescents and to examine whether...
... The nature andthe length ofthe time interval betweeninflammationand new bone formation are unclear Animal models imply that new bone formation in AS is mainly due to 'response to an inflammation- based ... 10 No Baraliakos et al out evidence ofinflammation at BL These findings suggest both a link and some dissociation ofinflammationand radiographic damage There is no evidence fora major uncoupling ... activity was present in the anterior half ofthe VE only For analysis ofthe relationship between spinal inflammation at BL and radiographic progression after years, all individual VEs were examined...
... encompasses the region identified by Vartanian and Goel (2004), and has been related with the assessment ofthe relevance of motivational and emotional information andthe regulation of emotional ... former case, there is the advantage of studying reactions to real art andthe disadvantage that any two works of art differ from each other in several different respects, so that the actual factor ... difference betweenthestudy by Jacobsen et al (2006) andthe rest resides in the stimuli presented to the participants Vartanian and Goel (2004) and Kawabata and Zeki (2004) asked their participants...
... The first andthe third parameters are trigrams of T and B respectively The second andthe fourth are lexical generation probabilities Probabilities (1) and (2) can be calculated from POS tagged ... identifiers assigned to POS tags We used the approach of Katz (Katz.1987) for parameter smoothing, and build a trigram model to predict the probabilities of parameter (1) and (3) In the case that unknown ... Street Journal distributed with the Penn Treebank II, andthe definition of baseNP is the same as Ramshaw’s, Table summarizes the average performance on both baseNP tagging and POS tagging, each section...
... Centre for Structural and Functional Genomics) for running many ofthe analytical ultracentrifugation samples, A Padovani for making the W56F variant and J A Kornblatt for encouragement and advice ... phosphoenolpyruvate, and glycines 157 and 376 are space-filled 98 Analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) was used to examine the quaternary structure ofthe variants Wild-type enolase andthe G157D variant had ... in a change in the conformation of this loop Changes in the conformation ofthe backbone at this point and changes in the orientation of other side chains, as a result ofthe introduction of the...
... domain and PYP are activated by ligands; in FixL, oxygen binding at the heme binding PAS domain controls the activity ofa histidine kinase domain [12]; and in PYP, a local conformational change ... signaling loop had to be altered in the mAhR model, Arg206 and Thr210 of FixL are in equivalent structural positions as Arg333 and Thr337 in mAhR and Asp212 of FixL is replaced by the very similar ... model, although based on low sequence similarity, is capable of explaining all known experimental and theoretical data and therefore we believe it to be accurate enough to serve as a framework for...
... wave breaking on a natural beach To verify the accuracy ofthe numerical model on the simulation ofthe wave transformation on a natural beach, existing experimental data on the wave dynamics in ... suitable fora practical application. On the other hand, based on results of Nadaoka et al [9], Ting and Kirby [15‐17], it can be estimated that in the surf zone, the time scale ... dissipated when a new wave arrives and breaks. Thus, the time variation of TKE is relatively small, andthe combination of wave‐induced flow and undertow may transport TKE and suspended ...
... Materials and methods All mathematical analysis and numerical tting were performed using the software package Mathematica 7.0 (Wolfram Research, Inc Champaign, IL, USA) The substrate in the calorimetric ... and off rate At a xed k2, a change in this ratio may be interpreted as a change in the afnity ofthe enzyme forthe substrate Hence, we can assess relationships of this afnity parameter andthe ... approximations as the average area of randomly adsorbed enzymes will be larger than the footprint, and only a certain fraction ofthe enzyme will be adsorbed in the initial stages Nevertheless, the analysis...
... institutions Theassociation acts principally as a forum forthe exchange of ideas andthe formation of opinions However, it also shares the responsibility with the National Bank ofthe savings banks ... with the exception ofthe guarantee forthe livret A already mentioned In particular, therefore, French savings banks are subject neither to a liability forthe debts ofthe saving banks (“Anstaltslast”) ... (“Anstaltslast”) 10 nor a guaranty obligation (“Gewährträgerhaftung”)11 by the public authori- The National Associationofthe savings banks The National Association, as the second supreme body of the...
... reaction force’ of Newton’s third law forthe gravitational interaction betweenthe object andthe Earth is actually the force of attraction (to the object) acting at the centre ofthe Earth and ... to accelerate the body and is for this reason called the inertial mass ofthe body Now, if the accelerating force arises from a gravitational interaction betweenthe body and say the Earth, the ... made Newton is supposed to have compared the fall of an apple near the surface ofthe Earth andthe motion ofthe Moon around the Earth In seeking to apply the law of falling bodies to both the...