... effect of depression on the mental aspect of QoL went through the mediator of pain, and over 72% of the effect was direct When depression was the mediator, depressive symptoms accentuated the negative ... effects of pain on physical QoL The indirect effect of depression on the pain-QoL link pathway was 0.08, indicating that about 75% of the effect of pain on QoL impacted through the mediator of depression, ... test each of these three-variable mediation chains The results of separate regression analyses showed none of the socio-demographic variables predicted QoL (all p > 0.05); they were therefore...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20
... types of students in other university, NEU students are the perfect entity to take the research The study illustrates the effects of music cover and NEU students’ behaviors towards the spread of the ... understand the lyrics of the original song and they make comparison, they mainly recognize that major of covered songs are not as good as the original ones Hence, they may look down on the musicians, ... newer, brings the song back to the listener with the whole new style and the performance is completely like remaining the life for the song The cover music in Vietnam is the kind of music, which...
Ngày tải lên: 21/04/2013, 20:53
EFFECTS OF SPILLED AND STRANDED OILS ON SEAWATER INFILTRATION AND MACROBENTHIC COMMUNITY IN TIDAL FLATS
... vertical profiles of the oil concentrations in the sediments in the O simulator The oil concentration in the surface sediments decreased from 0.9 in day down to 0.5 l m-2 in 35 days, whereas they were ... infiltration rate of seawater down to a third The accumulation of fuel oil C on the tidal flat sediment (Fig.7) is mainly responsible for the decrease in the filtration rate Also, the growth of benthic ... for the reduction of infiltration rate The concentration of chlorophyll-a in the surface sediment in day 23 was higher than that before the oil spill In day 58, the infiltration rate in the O...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40
A computational study to investigate the effects of insulation and EGR in a diesel engine
... by the observation of the main combustion chamber that the dense soot appears at almost the same time of the flame (at 380°ATDC of Conventional, in Figures 11a and 11c ) As the formation of the ... the others Because of shortage of oxygen in the charge of cylinder in the EGR case, amount of burnt fuel and consequently accumulated heat release are less than the others Figure 10 shows the ... respect to the two half of the bowl(don’t shown contours) At 420°CA, these eddies are larger than that of 400°CA and the eddy formed in right half of bowl is larger than that of left half of bowl...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11
An investigation into the effects of brainstorming and giving a text as model on phan dinh phung high school student's attitude and writing ability
... in Brainstorming Chart 3: The experimental groups opinion about the effects of brainstorming Chart 4: The experimental group view on the use of brainstorming Table 8: The reasons of approval of ... Rationale of the Study 1.2 Aims of the Study 1.3 Scope of the study 1.4 Methods of the Study 1.5 Design of the sSudy PART II: CONTENT CHAPTER I: THEORICAL BACKGROUND 1.1 Overview of Writing ... written at all The choice here depends on the out come desired, the complexity of brainstormed area, the size of the class and the dynamics within the group In summary, the author will use the first...
Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:08
Tài liệu The Effects of Education and Health on Wages and Productivity ppt
... in the labour force if they were to become employed The outline of the paper is as follows: the aims of the research and the analytical approach are described in this chapter; a review of the ... flow-on effect that reduces the productivity of the rest of the team, so the lost productivity exceeds the wage of the absent individual Pauly et al observe that the costs of absenteeism due to illness ... approximation of the effect on wages of an additional year of schooling in percentage terms.1 The larger the value of the coefficient, the less accurate it is as an approximation of the percentage...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: A comparative analysis of the time-dependent antiproliferative effects of daunorubicin and WP631 pdf
... USA) at the ÔServeis Cientifico-TecnicsÕ of the University of Barcelona, using the 488 nm line of an argon laser and standard optical emission filters Percentages of cells at each phase of the cell ... to verify that the relatively low uptake of WP631 was at the origin of the low apoptosis, and whether longer periods of treatment could cause significant apoptosis in the presence of this bisintercalator ... using the autofluorescence of the anthracycline as unique fluorophore in the microscopic assay WP631 accumulated progressively in the cell, and the nucleoli encircled by the fluorescence of WP631...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 23:20
Memory performance in healthy elderly without Alzheimer’s disease: effects of time and apolipoprotein-E pptx
... neither of these two groups over time was related to the presence of an APOE-4 allele It has been previously established that APOE variability is not associated with the rate of progression of ... clinical evidence of AD or QD Therefore, the observed effect of APOE-4 on memory over time can not be attributed to the onset of either AD or QD in these individuals In fact, the healthy elderly showed ... B, Smit JH, Geerlings MI, Lindeboom J 1997 The effects of intelligence and education on the development of dementia A test of the brain reserve hypothesis Psychol Med 27(6):1337– 44 [49] Schmechel...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Inter-flavin electron transfer in cytochrome P450 reductase – effects of solvent and pH identify hidden complexity in mechanism potx
... interested in the inter-avin ET reactions, so the pH dependence of the kinetic behaviour at 600 nm was analysed, reporting on the formation of the blue, neutral sq species of the FMN and the FAD cofactors ... NADPH In the following, a synopsis of the gathered results is used to support the hypothesis that the blue di-sq is kinetically less exposed at elevated pH The protonation state of the N5 in the avin ... H2O and D2O The symbols are the same as those in (B) Figure S5 presents the ratio of kfast and kslow in H2O and D2O as a function of the pH value (D) The pH dependence of the SKIEs for the up phase...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Dissociation/association properties of a dodecameric cyclomaltodextrinase Effects of pH and salt concentration on the oligomeric state pot
... lowered or the concentration of KCl was increased The results suggested that the effect of salts on the oligomeric state of CDase I-5 correlated with the dissociation of the dodecameric form of the ... L541 of a molecule is the major part contacting the adjacent b-strand from T50 to V54 of the other molecule in oligomerization H539 is in the center of that contact region The nitrogen (NE2) of the ... consisted of a hexamer of dimeric units, and that the formation of the supramolecular assembly resulted in an increase in the catalytic efciency compared with that of the dimeric unit of the enzyme...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20
Aesthetic issues in spatial composition: effects of position and direction on framing single objects pot
... Participants in the previous experiments might well have discerned the purpose of the studies from the nature of the displays they were shown or the nature of the adjustments they were allowed ... placing the object at or near the center of the frame and that, if it were off-center, there would be a bias for the object to face into the frame Because the rest of the conditions dictated the ... for the overall analyses of variance Given the close correspondence between the probability data and the BTL scale values, the middle range of most of the probabilities, the magnitude of the...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20
EFFECTS OF TARIFFS AND SANITARY BARRIERS ON HIGH- AND LOW-VALUE POULTRY TRADE potx
... each region The values of the calibrated import prices are also a function of the value of the elasticity of substitution between import sources ( σ in figure 1) The smaller the value of this elasticity, ... Then, the level of poultry production in the ROWE region is the sum of production in these exporting countries Poultry production for the ROWM region is obtained by subtracting the quantity of ... accounts for about 10% of world consumption The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effects of sanitary barriers to poultry trade in the context of the economic incentives and other trade policy...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Epoxidation of benzo[a]pyrene-7,8-dihydrodiol by human CYP1A1 in reconstituted membranes Effects of charge and nonbilayer phase propensity of the membrane pot
... strongly affect the stereoselectivity of epoxidation The presence of the anionic lipid PtdSer increased the formation of DE2 twice as much as that of DE1 Even the relatively small portion of the negatively ... demonstrated by the ratio of the formation rates of the two diol-epoxides, DE2 and DE1 These differ only in the conformation of the 9,10-epoxy-group, anti in DE2 and syn in DE1 The respective ... oxidation of the (+)-7,8-diol was less pronounced Effects of nonbilayer lipids on the metabolic rates of epoxidation We analyzed the effects of a typical member of the nonbilayer class of phospholipids,...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo khoa học: The oxidative effect of bacterial lipopolysaccharide on native and cross-linked human hemoglobin as a function of the structure of the lipopolysaccharide A comparison of the effects of smooth and rough lipopolysaccharide ppt
... measure of the rate of oxidation of oxyHb RESULTS The effect of pH on the auto-oxidation of cross-linked Hb was studied The rate of decrease of the concentration of oxyHb increased as the pH was ... in the absence and presence of EDTA, on the oxidation of Hb A0 The mean ± SD of three independent experiments is shown Other conditions as in Fig Our studies of the effect of the structure of the ... comparison of the effects of rough and smooth LPSs of E coli, both in the presence and absence of EDTA (Fig 1) The rate of oxidation was increased in the presence of the LPSs of both the smooth...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20
Applied Physiology Including the Effects of Alcohol and Narcotics potx
... amount of thinking [Illustration: =Regions of the head and action of the different parts of the brain. =] =140 The brain. = The nerves of the body go to the brain as well as to the spinal cord The brain ... the brain for only one kind of work =142 The senses.= The cells of the body send word to the brain over the nerves The eye tells of sight, the ear of sounds, the nose of odors, the mouth of tastes, ... beginning of the nerves of the body =141 The mind.= The mind is the real man It is the thinking part of himself It lives in the body and works by means of the cells of the brain If these cells...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20
Statute Prevents State Agencies From Considering Community Benefits When Granting Tax‑Exempt Status, While the Effects of Purchases and Consolidations on Prices of Care Are Uncertain ppt
... consider as costs of uncompensated care and how they calculate the costs To the extent possible, examine whether the purchases of nonprofit hospitals and the consolidations of community health ... combination of the two methods They then reduced these costs by any payments they received—such as Medi‑Cal reimbursements from the State or payments from the patient The remaining costs represent the ... with other hospitals that are part of the same organization The fourth hospital we reviewed operates under its own license, separate from the other facilities that are part of the same nonprofit...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20
Effects of compost and phosphate amendments on arsenic mobility in soils and arsenic uptake by the hyper
... pH of the CCA soil was probably due to the similar pH of the soil and each of the amendments The application of the neutral pH amendments increased pH of the acidic ASC soil at first However, there ... from CCA soil in the absence of the fern, but decreased in the presence of the fern For the ASC soil, both treatments reduced As leaching regardless of the presence of the fern The results indicate ... significantly increased the amount of As leached from the soil Nevertheless, in the presence of Chinese brake ferns, phosphate showed the biggest decrease in As leaching as compared to the other treatments...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:07
Báo cáo khoa học: Mutual effects of proton and sodium chloride on oxygenation of liganded human hemoglobin Oxygen affinities of the a and b subunits potx
... around the ligand-binding site of liganded hemoglobin The conformation of Val(E11) in the a and b subunits relative to the heme plane is quite dependent on the nature of the anions and the pD of the ... The time course and the yield of the geminate phase are both sensitive to the immediate environment of the heme, and to the dynamics of structural changes in the protein Hence, the analysis of ... experiment The approach is based on determination of the bimolecular association rate constant of O2 rebinding and the quantum yield of BR, c The latter value is defined as the ratio of the number of...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20
The Importance of Water and Water Quality in Brewing pptx
... sulphate, and those of Pilsen (the home of clear lagers – are soft waters Water and Taint Water is a common source of Taints in beer Typically, water is the source of the majority of taints associated ... associated with sulfate ions In the presence of sulfate, sodium creates an unpleasant harshness, so the rule of thumb is that the more sulfate in the water, the less sodium there should be (and vice ... Sterilise the wort Brewhouse Chemistry During mashing, the presence of minerals is critically important for a number of reasons: Calcium The calcium ion is by far the most influential mineral in the...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 00:20