longitudinal studies of resin composite restoration in posterior teeth

... phthalates were detected predominantly in indoor air samples.93) The dominant path of phthalates intake was the ingestion of foodstuffs compared to inhalation of indoor air by children.94) n-Tetradecane ... can meet local needs in dealing with SHS.152) CONCLUSION Healthy indoor air is a fundamental right for people studying in schools, working in of ces and living in residences Indoor air quality ... combustion gases in residences and buildings CO is well-known to cause poisoning by CO-hemoglobin (Hb) formation, inhibiting oxygen utilization by internal organs NO2 sources in buildings include gas...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... Describing the ritual as it is performed today in Japan, the essay shows how continuity of ritual tradition is maintained in Zen even into the postwar era in which the Emperor’s role in maintaining ... Rekindling of a Tradition: Menzan Zuiho and the Reform of Japanese Soto Zen in the Tokugawa Era.’’ ALBERT WELTER is professor of religious studies at the University of Winnipeg, specializing in ... been initiated into the kinds of mindfulness that correspond to them When modern Protestants formulated their devastating critique of ritual as a way of engaging in religious practice, their intention,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 10:47

... terminated at the recommendation of the safety monitoring board because of a low likelihood of meeting the prospectively defined objective of demonstrating a significant reduction in the risk of ... failure [8] The presence of a sequence effect in low-risk patients only may suggest the difficulty of making the diagnosis of severe sepsis in this clinical setting The influence of protocol violations ... applicability of the study results to a more general severe sepsis population The use of severity scoring systems in clinical trials may require training and validation of the training to ensure...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... in the leaf litter and soil as well We thus combined searches of snails in and above the litter and obtained good general results, both in terms of the number of species and the homogeneity of ... quadrats (2 Q) We obtained 78% of the species at the Q stage in BN and 83% of the species with Q in JE1 (in comparison with Q in JE1) Four Q obviously seems better, but in the second study, JE2 ... confidence intervals are given BN Nb of boards 0 Fig Number (Nb) of land snail species obtained in three parks (JE, BN, LA) according to replication of the samples; the randomisation curves were obtained...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2014, 20:14

... during the cycles of freezing and thawing, which leads to the exposure of new Ca++-binding sites Binding of Ca++ to these sites caused inhibition of the antifreeze and chitinase activities of ... onset of SAR (Dong, 1998) It is also involved in the feedback regulation of SA biosynthesis during SAR (Cao et al., 1997) NPR1 is an ankyrin-repeat containing protein, a domain often involved in ... rearranged after freezing and thawing, which led to the exposure of new Ca++-binding sites Binding of Ca++ to these sites caused inhibition of the antifreeze and chitinase activities of these complexes...

Ngày tải lên: 13/11/2014, 09:25

... CAD Most of the associations have been replicated in independent studies, indicating that the findings are genuine novel 23 associations The main GWAS findings for CAD are summarized in Table ... and maintenance of caveolae is regulated by caveolin, the main protein component of caveolae Caveolin-1 is the most important member of the caveolin family It is the key component of the intracellular ... activity of the inhibitor in response to androgen, thus lead to increased risk of thrombosis and CAD[137] In 2012, a meta-analysis of two Chinese GWAS of CAD was conducted in a larger sample size of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:17

... protein molecules and their interactions with DNA in real-time reactions and the dynamics of their DNA-binding Therefore, my objective of finding the characteristics of protein binding to single ... HU bind to DNA non-cooperatively causing DNA bending (20) at low protein binding density While at high protein binding density, IHF can crosslink DNA causing DNA condensation in the presence of ... is an NAP constituting 7–10% of the total protein in Mtb (78) It consists of 205 amino acid residues and contains large amounts of alanine (23.78% of total amino acids) and lysine (18.93%), with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:25

... SIMULATION STUDIES OF THE GEOTHERMAL RESOURCE IN SINGAPORE HENDRIK TJIAWI B.Eng.(Hons.), NUS A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ... map of part of SE Asia 49 3.5 Mean annual rainfall in Singapore 50 3.6 Relief map of Singapore 51 3.7 Sea water depth around Singapore ... Logging 165 A.1 Core Logging of BH9 166 A.2 Core Logging of BH16 173 B Publications 180 B.1 Geothermal Desalination in Singapore ...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:28

... known hot springs in Singapore, i.e one at Sembawang and two at Pulau Tekong Those hot springs are part of the series of hot springs in the granite terrain of Malaysian Peninsula [57] Out of the three ... surface of the earth The worldwide installed capacity of geothermal plants in 2010 is shown in Figure 1.5, with total installed capacity of 10,898 MWe The top five countries in terms of installed ... coated cutter, with dry cutting The refining cut (smoothing and polishing of flat 28 surfaces) cannot be performed in the lab due to tool limitation in handling the thin sample (12 mm thick), and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:29

... A.1 Core Logging of BH9 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 A.2 Core Logging of BH16 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 ...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:29

... B.1 Geothermal Desalination in Singapore 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 B.2 Natural State Modeling of Singapore Geothermal Reservoir 190 191 192 193 194 195...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:30

... 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 B.4 Geothermal Power for Singapore 206 207 208 209 ...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:30

... acknowledged the “pioneering [of] cross-cultural productions: staging in Indian dance drama style stories of non-Indian origin” These were just a few efforts signifying the beginning of interculturalism ... Soo Pong “Singapore” The Dances of Asean Ed Tinggal, Zainal Abiddin Brunei Darussalam: Asia Printers, 1998 175 50 Chua Soo Pong “Singapore” The Dances of Asean Ed Tinggal, Zainal Abiddin Brunei ... Singapore: Ministry of Information and The Arts, 2000 12 57 Ministry of Information and The Arts “Chapter Three: “Benchmarking Cities” Renaissance City Report Singapore: Ministry of Information...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2015, 21:31

... Introduction The morbidity and incidences of allergic asthma particularly in children are increasing worldwide The role of interleukin-13 (IL-13) as one of the major players in the genetics of ... IL-4Rα is a 140-kd protein, consisting of an open reading frame of 825 amino acids, including a 25-amino-acid signal sequence [63, 67] Consequences of IL-13 overproduction include symptoms such ... particular antihistamines, inhibit SPT responses by interfering with mast cell and histamine responses 20 2.11 Reason and aims of doing this study Owing to preceding studies demonstrating that the region...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 14:23

... number of decayed teeth, lost teeth and teeth fillings of each individual in community This index is used by WHO to evaluate DT situation in countries, areas or in the whole world and to point out ... index and changed the rule of natural progress according to these’s indexes The result of DP control in the group of pupils was intervened, which contributed to explain the obtained results in ... Examined teeth of pupils (by bill of WHO) for assessement - Assessed eefficiency index and intervention index: Used efficiency index to assess some changed indexes (rate %) after intervention in...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 13:57

... • Boiling in 3% hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) for 1h to oxidize organic impurities • Rinsing with boiling water for 2h • Boiling in H2SO4 for 1h to remove ionic impurities • And finally the composite ... been made to evaluate the performance of composite membrane in water electrolysis process for the production of hydrogen The characterization studies of the Composite membrane are done by ion exchange ... to hold water and for the free flow of produced gases during electrolysis operation [18] The testing of the prepared MEA (fixed in single cell) is operated in electrolysis mode at atm pressure...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... organizational learning: Representing and maintaining knowledge in an experience base, in Proc Tenth Int Conf on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE98, 1998 44 T Dingsứyr, A lifecycle ... methods according to the subject of study; in software engineering it can be either a process to produce software or a software product In an article on research methods in software engineering [30] ... years of conferences like the International Conference on Software Engineering, The Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering Conference, the International Conference on Product Focused Software...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... self-sufficing art of painting Selection, therefore, which is the only practical kind of idealism, had begun as soon as painting was possessed of the power of representing objects in their relations of ... finding every moment something new, some charming piece of gilding, some sweet plumed head, some quaint little tree or town; making a journey of lazy discovery in a sort of world of Prince Charmings, ... ever in the dazzling, vague sheen of the Eternal Feminine Hence, one of the most distinctive features of mediổval love, an extraordinary sameness of intonation, making it difficult to distinguish...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 21:20

... asked to indicate how distressed they were by feelings of hopelessness, lack of interest, worrying, feeling blue, feeling lonely, blaming themselves, feeling trapped, crying easily, having a poor ... literature review Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 17, 124 –131 Rodin, J., & McAvay, G (1992) Determinants of change in perceived health in a longitudinal study of older adults Journal of Gerontology: Psychological ... support and incidence and course of chronic disease in the elderly Family Systems Medicine, 13, 39 – 68 Lang, F R (2000) Endings and continuity of social relationships: Maximizing intrinsic benefits...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

... DNA-binding domains involved in binding), or 1DR-short (as a dimer, but presumably with only one domain involved), or indeed when bound as a monomer to 1DR This suggests that binding to both inverted ... serve as an indicator of stoichiometry In the case of 1IR, the t resulted in a binding stoichiometry of : 1, i.e dimer binding The reactant concentrations were too high to obtain relevant information ... half of the inverted repeat of the operator sequence present in 1DR-short, it is likely that only one of two WH2 DNA-binding domains in RepA dimers is involved in binding This also makes sense...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20