measurement of mitochondrial oxygen consumption using a clark electrode

... waveforms of generated current i and capacitor voltage v by the circuit of Fig Gate signals to U and Y of the full-bridge inverter and V and X of the MERS are also shown Gate signals of MERS are shifted ... power supply and the coil Both these parts of energy pulsate and cause voltage fluctuations of the capacitors The capacitors must maintain the voltage within a range; therefore the capacitors must ... voltage rating reduction causes decreasing of the DC capacitors In general, the DC capacitors occupy large part of the power supply in volume The DC capacitors store energy as large as several...

Ngày tải lên: 15/10/2013, 16:12

... program was complete, the trapped volatiles were analyzed using sub-ambient GC/MS TGA Conditions TGA analysis was performed on several samples using a TA 2950 TGA with a platinum pan A nitrogen atmosphere ... additional characterizations of representative samples of pure polymorphs of are given in Table Combined DSC/XRPD data, suggested forms, and additional characterizations of representative samples of ... dicarboxylic acid of molecular weight of about 400 Representative sample preparation conditions of various forms of are given in Table Note that a common starting material for the preparation of these samples...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 03:20

... 2006) They used a natural language tagger which was trained on the output of ParaMor and Morfessor The goal was to mimic each algorithm since ParaMor is rule-based and there is no access to Morfessor’s ... the mathematical model and performed experiments on language data of the morphologically complex language Zulu We compared the performance on increasing training set sizes and analysed for each ... and agglutinating languages IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 17(5):956965 J Goldsmith 2001 Unsupervised learning of the morphology of a natural language Computational...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

... way in which people can access and make use of their assets Natural capital Natural capital is the quality and quantity of natural resources that are available to people and above all, the access ... interchangeable For example, natural capital may be the basis for financial capital (land as collateral that can be used to obtain a loan) Or natural capital might be linked to social capital In many societies, ... the impact that international legislation has had on them wealth, household asset base: human capital, social capital, natural resources, physical capital and financial capital G vulnerability...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... human alpha-lactalbumin by molecular dynamics simulation J Mol Biol 306, 329–347 Marchi M & Ballone P (1999) Adiabatic bias molecular dynamics: a method to navigate the conformational space of ... ligand affinity, specificity, and folding stability of an engineered lipocalin variant – a so-called ‘anticalin’ – using a molecular random approach Biophys Chem 96, 213–228 52 Lazaridis T & Karplus ... local free energy minima in a broad region of the conformational space close to the native state The approach is designed to provide a qualitative map of the free energy landscape, in a region of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 23:20

... Laboratory Animals, the Animal Welfare Act, and the CDC/NIH Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories Enzyme-linked Immunoabsorbant Assay A quantitative ELISA was performed to assess ... isotype has been associated with protection against influenza, even in the absence of neutralizing antibodies [16] and appears pivotal in anti-viral immunity [17] Intramuscular vaccination of rHA elicited ... results are highly significant and demonstrate that a multivalent vaccine against H5N1 appears to be a plausible strategy to combat the diversity of clades and subclades of H5N1 influenza Future...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... was used, and standard disinfection and draping carried out A distal Henry approach was carried out in the interval between the flexor carpi radialis tendon and the radial artery The distal part ... proximal part of the plate was placed under the main body of the pronator quadratus muscle The brachioradialis tendon was partially released from the radial aspect of the styloid; fibers that insert ... the volar plate, whereas the radial plate acts as a buttress plate holding the radial styloid fragments in place Figure Illustrated case (postoperative radiographs) The fracture is anatomically...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... maps QMI2 is our approach using the neurobiologybased saliency model All values are in units of mm Dataset Dataset1 Dataset2 Dataset3 Dataset4 Dataset5 Dataset6 Dataset7 Dataset8 Dataset9 Dataset10 ... neurobiologybased saliency model All values are in units of degrees Dataset Dataset1 Dataset2 Dataset3 Dataset4 Dataset5 Dataset6 Dataset7 Dataset8 Dataset9 Dataset10 Average Error NMI (0,0,2.75) ... Section 2.4 and for each candidate transformation parameter, the QMI-based similarity measure (6) is calculated The candidate transformation parameters that give the maximum value of QMI are used...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 16:20

... nonuniformly sampled data Both the mean value and the standard deviation of the relative error of estimation are about 1% and 10%, respectively Here again they are calculated by time averaging; this ... noting that in all illustrative synthetic examples of this paragraph, the parameters can be chosen arbitrarily The only essential thing to account for are realistic values of the volatility The ... been carried out: the mean sample path for 100 estimated trajectories of the volatility is reported in Figure The mean value and the standard deviation of its relative error of estimation are about...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... prove that all larger groups maintain the girth of twelve Table shows code sizes obtained using a random search Random searches may result in smaller codes as in Table However, obtaining smaller ... code It has a girth of ten and average girth of 14.6 It G Malema and M Liebelt Table 3: Code sizes of girths larger than twelve using a sequential search BER versus SNR 100 10−1 No of groups ... construct a wide range of codes, they have limited ability to produce codes with arbitrary girth, rate, and length We take advantage of the flexibility found in random search methods such as BF and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 20:20

... ultrasonic evaluation, each cartilage sample was divided in two along a sagittal plane using a diamond band saw (EXAKT BS300CL; Meiwa, Tokyo, Japan) One part was used for histological analysis and ... & Therapy Vol No Hattori et al Figure Schematic illustration of articular cartilage analysis and measurement methods of cartilage samples used in [13] A reflex echo of articular cartilage [13] ... Biomaterials 2004, 25:1545-1557 Hattori K, Mori K, Habata T, Takakura Y, Ikeuch K: Measurement of the mechanical condition of articular cartilage with an ultrasonic probe: quantitative evaluation using...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... have adapted a modification of Stimson's original method to reduce a purely lateral elbow dislocation Such an atraumatic and mechanically simple technique can prove very useful in a busy casualty ... radiographs All authors undertook the literature search and preparation of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Written informed consent was obtained from the patient ... of muscle relaxation and gravity Rollinson [2] modified this technique by hanging the affected arm over the side of the bed Also, instead of applying weights he used a supraclavicular brachial...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... stained with a crystal violet-formalin solution at day post infection and titers were calculated A BV-2 plaque assay; B RAW 264.7 plaque assay; and C TIB plaque assay [16], as well as the fact ... Figure Comparative graph of plaque assay results Comparative graph of plaque assay results BV-2 produced a titer of 3.1 × 108 pfu/mL The RAW 264.7 cell line produced a comparable viral titer of 1.93 ... replication in the BV-2 and RAW 264.7 cell lines was also comparatively analyzed using a single-step viral replication assay Briefly, BV-2 and RAW 264.7 cells at their exponential phase were harvested...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... Akiyama K, Oono Y, Muramatsu M, Hayashizaki Y, Kawai J, Carninci P, Itoh M, Ishii Y, Arakawa T, Shibata K, Shinagawa A, Shinozaki K: Functional annotation of a full-length Arabidopsis cDNA collection ... Production of hydroxy fatty acids in the seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana Biochem Soc T Biochem Soc T 2000, 28:947-950 Seki M, Narusaka M, Kamiya A, Ishida J, Satou M, Sakurai T, Nakajima M, Enju A, Akiyama ... and a web-based database Plant Physiol 2003, 132:681-697 Reed DW, Schafer UA, Covello PS: Characterization of the Brassica napus extraplastidial linoleate desaturase by expression in Saccharomyces...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 05:20

... arteriolar diameter Am J Physiol 1983, 245(6):H1031-H1038 Suwa N, Niwa T, Fukasuwa H, Sasaki Y: Estimation of intravascular blood pressure gradient by mathematical analysis of arterial casts Tohoku J ... sectional area of vessels is proportional to ΣR-2 As a consequence, the cross sectional area is: Illustrating example Egushi and Karino [31] measured blood viscosity as a function of shear rate using ... Newtonian law or by a power-law model In that case, Murray's law remains valid for a shear-thinning fluid like blood The optimal ratio between a parent vessel radius and daughter radii is the same...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... t of the HMM was assessed on simulated data based on parameters obtained in a survey of clinical mastitis cases Bayesian estimates of the parameters were obtained using the Gibbs sampler Finally, ... bulls, each cow was replaced by a daughter and mating was at random Breeding values for base animals were sampled from a normal distribution with null mean and additive variance of 0.15 or 0.25 Values ... replicated 10 times Simulated rather than real data were used because a negative diagnosis, even based on the absence of bacteria in cell culture, is not a guarantee of health and the opposite has...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... AATACATGATGAAACAcatATGAAAAAaa-aagcttttctacatattcgaggg-tttttttctgTTGGTGGa-tac TATTTAA-gaagtg AGTACATGATGAAACAcTTATAAAAaaaataagctttcTTACATGGTCTCGAGGgTTTTTCCAgctatagaaatacTATTTAAaggactA * ****** ... ctcgtgcattaagacaggctagtaTAAACGAGAAGAAGtatcctgctttgcaa TGAAACAATAGtatc-cgctaagaatttaagcaggcc tccacgcatggggattgctTGAAGAAaataggaagaaccg-gctgc TTCAACATGAAACAtcagtactatactgtcaactcctgtaggct PAR ctcctg-agtaagacagcctagtacAAATGAAAA ... ctcctg-agtaagacagcctagtacAAATGAAAA gAACCACActgctttacaataaaacaacggtacc-cactaagaattcaggcaggct MIK ctcatg-tgtacgacggccttatacaaaCAAGAAGAGCCATGCAgctttacaa TGAAACAactctacc-cactgagaatccag agact * * ** * * ***...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:21

... previous Saudi studies use either a quantitative approach (e.g., Alsaeed, 2006; Al-Abbas, 2009; Al-Moataz and Lakhal, 2012) or a qualitative approach (e.g., Al-Matari et al., 2012; Alshehri and Solomon, ... enhance the level of awareness and appreciation of good corporate governance practices among key internal and external stakeholders of corporate governance in Saudi Arabia 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract ... governance mechanisms, apart from a limited number of mechanisms relating to board characteristics and the general assembly of shareholders The literature suggests that Saudi Arabia is an important...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 22:03

... rate was 39% per annum With the invention of Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) read head in the early 1990s, the growth rate of areal density per annum increases at a phenomenal rate of 65% and at ... oxide-based hard ferromagnetic material [7] Hard magnetic material possesses large coercivity and remanent magnetization This layer is usually grown on top of an underlayer which acts as a seed layer ... velocity of mm/s as well as a maximum travel range of 100 mm The positions in HDD are in polar coordinates and the slider is attached to an actuator arm which also moves according to the magnitude and...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 12:14

... smaller annual rainfall than the 20-year average annual rainfall, the wet years have much larger annual rainfall than the 20-year average annual rainfall, and the normal years have approximately ... LV, Hiramatsu K, Harada M, Mori M (2009) Estimation of water levels in a main drainage canal in a flat low-lying agricultural area using artificial neural network models Agric Water Manag 96:1332–1338 ... 2008; Chang et al 2010; Katsifarakis and Petala 2006; Afshar 2012) The aim of this study was to design a reservoir operation model with interactive balancing of water releases and water storage,...

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