measurement setup and resonator characterization

... mode resonators 65 4.2 Resonator design and fabrication 67 4.3 Measurement setup and resonator characterization 69 4.4 Comparison between the bulk mode and flexural mode resonators ... comprehensively studied and compared the nonlinear properties of both flexural mode and bulk mode resonators including free-free beam resonators, clamped-clamped beam resonators and Lamé-mode resonators For ... fundamental-mode and a second-mode ff beam resonators Design details of the ff beam resonators are described in section 3.1.1, followed by fabrication and resonator characterization in section 3.1.2 and 3.1.3,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:13

... controls, prevent and detect fraud and financial statement errors and enhance audit effectiveness The results relating to a strong audit committee are mixed, with some impact on preventing and detecting ... Goodwin, Jean Lin Seow / Accounting and Finance 42 (2002) 195–223 an understanding of accounting, auditing and control issues (Cohen et al., 2000; Goodwin and Seow, 2000; Hughes, 1999; Lear, ... (Collier, 1993; Hughes, 1999) and strong channels of communication should exist with both the external and internal auditors (Cadbury, 1992; Deloitte and Touche, 1998) Goodwin and Seow (2000) found that...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:49

... provinces and cities and agencies, organizations and individuals; - Results of statistics survey, census under and not under the National Statistical Survey Program funded by the State budget and prescribed ... Office (GSO) of Vietnam and is the prerequisite for the survival and development GSO’s website Besides, the trend of globalization is growing intensively and extensively and globalization in statistics ... publication and transmission of statistical information to agencies, organizations and individuals using statistical information inside and outside the country via appropriate forms and mechanisms...

Ngày tải lên: 20/07/2015, 21:04

... Kushal et al., 2012; Li and Miklau, 2012; Bhargava and Sundaresan, 2003; Kushal et al., 2012; Birnbaum and Jaffe, 2007]), prices are prescribed unilaterally and not negotiable, and give access to ... goods and services between suppliers and consumers One crucial question for marketplaces, is how to define the price of goods, to be fair for both purchasers and sellers This is a longstanding ... together and it will be my precious memories forever Last but not least, my deepest love goes to my parents, Yongning Tang and Ling Jiang, and my wife Yanjia Yang They have always supported and encouraged...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:24

... Department of Education and Science (England and Wales) Department for Education and Employment (England and Wales) Postgraduate Certificate in Education Quality assurance Qualifications and Curriculum ... Ireland, Jamaica and other countries in the Caribbean, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK and the US; we will exclude Bangladesh, China, India, Malaysia, Pakistan and Singapore 1.3 Policy and ... McNeill, 1994; Roberts and Boggase, 1992; Rousseau and Poulson, 1985); one was a curriculum evaluation (Satterfield and Powers, 1996); and one a single subject ABACA design (Stone and Serwatka, 1982)...

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 05:20

... emergency and non-emergency hospital admissions and the only geographic identifier is the region 38 For ease of interpretation, all pollutants have been standardized to have a mean of zero and standard ... Notes: Standard errors in parenthesis Pollutants are normalized to have a mean of zero and standard deviation of one All columns contain seasonal and annual dummy variables, log of population and ... analysis17 and their sources for recognition.18 Pollutant O3 CO PM10 NO2 Emission Sources Automobiles and industrial sources, reacts in sunlight and heat Automobiles Directly emitted and formed...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... the four text types, speech and Twitter language resemble each other more than they resemble the other two, and Wikipedia and FAQ resemble each other more Twitter and Wikipedia data are the least ... questions and evaluating on the remaining questions) There is some variation among methods in the size and type of buffer used Most methods use character n-grams as buffer, because they are powerful and ... model and an algorithm that includes the full previous word as feature In addition to using the previously typed characters and/ or words in the buffer, word characteristics such as frequency and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

... (e.g., Carey and Simnett 2006), industry expertise level (e.g., Jensen and Payne 2005), audit tenure (e.g., Beck and Wu 2006; Ghosh and Moon 2005), and auditor’s reputation (e.g., Hay and Davis ... countries such as New Zealand, Malaysia, and Korea affect the competition for audit services Thavapalan et al (2002) examined the impact of the Price Waterhouse, and Coopers and Lybrand merger on audit ... change in revenues and property, plant, and equipment as additional explanatory variables to the Dechow and Dichev (2002) model The change in sales revenue and property, plant, and equipment are...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:15

... 14 15 16 Authors' contributions EW and LAM conceived of and designed the study MJ and KAT recruited subjects for and organized the focus groups EW analyzed and interpreted the data All authors ... from each woman including age, race, employment and marital status, and number of children, and the Women's Experience with Battering Scale (WEB[20]) and a modified version of the Conflict Tactics ... relationship and ranges in score from 10 to 60 where 20 or higher is indicative of battering The CTS measures frequency and severity of physical, emotional and sexual abuse in both current and former...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... care and use committee, and all animals received humane care according to the criteria outlined in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals [14] The animals were kept in a lightand ... Animals [14] The animals were kept in a lightand temperature controlled room and had free access to water and a rat standard diet (Altromin, Lage, Germany) http://www.occup-med.com/content/3/1/5 ... sides, respectively The pH was adjusted to 7.41 and a constant temperature of 37°C was maintained during the whole experiment Radiolabelling and measurement of airway glycoprotein secretion 50...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... femoral neck fracture and two for femoral component loosening These occurred in two female and three male patients In the multi-variable regression model, only T-score and body mass index showed ... (VAS) pain scores on regular days and on worst days, UCLA activity scores, complications, and failures were prospectively recorded for all patients Anteroposterior and lateral radiographs were also ... mass index, and the size of the femoral component were treated as numerical variables; T-score was treated as a categorical variable and grouped into three categories: T≥0, > T > -1.5, and T≤ -1.5;...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... 14 15 16 Authors' contributions EW and LAM conceived of and designed the study MJ and KAT recruited subjects for and organized the focus groups EW analyzed and interpreted the data All authors ... from each woman including age, race, employment and marital status, and number of children, and the Women's Experience with Battering Scale (WEB[20]) and a modified version of the Conflict Tactics ... relationship and ranges in score from 10 to 60 where 20 or higher is indicative of battering The CTS measures frequency and severity of physical, emotional and sexual abuse in both current and former...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... relationship between pain and activity limitation and participation restriction [12] A variety of intervention types such as psychological, behavioral and formats such as group, individual and telephone ... treatments, side effects in the patient’s breast and hand and worries about hair loss The score of each aspect is based on a scale of to 100 In functional and general aspects of life quality a higher ... Validity and reliability of its Persian (Farsi) script was assessed by Montazeri et al (1999) in Iran and it was introduced as a valid and reliable tool by the European organization for research and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... other mammalian IVM and embryo culture systems including cattle, pigs, rodents and humans [6,15,22] In the serum of both pigs and humans, EGF levels have been reported at ng/ml and 1.2-3.75 ng/ml, ... vesicle breakdown (GVBD), and to cause cumulus expansion in bovine and mouse COCs Consequently, this study investigates the effect of ovarian estrus stage on oocyte quality and supplementation of ... physiological saline solution (PSS) at 37oC and transported back to the laboratory within h Ovaries were removed from the tract and washed free from blood in fresh PSS, and then repeatedly slashed with...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:20

... gated and confirmed based on the expression of surface DC markers, CD11c and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecules For this, phycoerythrin-labeled antiCD11c antibody and fluorescein ... three independent experiments are presented (A) The optical density of each band was divided by that of the β-actin band, and the ratio at h was set at 100% (B) Fig NF-κB involvement in the taxol-induced ... RM Dendritic cells and the control of immunity Nature 1998, 392, 245-252 Blanco P, Palucka AK, Pascual V, Banchereau J Dendritic cells and cytokines in human inflammatory and autoimmune diseases...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... Rabinovitch-Vin, 1983; Quezel and Barbero, 1989; Pigott and Pigott, 1993), but also in the changes of stand structure and architecture of trees observed within the same stand It is therefore necessary ... significant differences in diameter, and only differed in the mean number of stems per stool between the stand of intense thinning and the stands of conservative thinning and old forest The stool equivalent ... site quality and thinning on the structural variables of the holm and stands The changes in site quality and management have different effects on the structural variables of the stands: several...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... contributions VI, LE and SV conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript NC, TA and DN conducted the experiments TT and FG participated ... were fasted for 12 hr before the procedure and the same care continued in the postoperative period Care and handling was in accordance with the National and European guidelines laboratory animal ... partial hepatectomy according to the methods described by Higgins and Anderson [17] The operations were performed between am and noon The resected liver was sampled for immunohistochemical study...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:21

... least one PI and at least one NNRTI; and (c) an abacavir or tenofovir containing regimen of three or more NRTIs in the absence of both PIs and NNRTIs Combinations of zidovudine (AZT) and stavudine ... Unlike in randomized trials, use of therapies in observational studies is not from random assignment and thus Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) 1.0 AIDS Research and Therapy ... score between HAART users and HAART naïve groups before and after propensity-score matchBoxplots of QOL summary score between HAART users and HAART naïve groups before and after propensity-score...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... relationship between pain and activity limitation and participation restriction [12] A variety of intervention types such as psychological, behavioral and formats such as group, individual and telephone ... treatments, side effects in the patient’s breast and hand and worries about hair loss The score of each aspect is based on a scale of to 100 In functional and general aspects of life quality a higher ... Validity and reliability of its Persian (Farsi) script was assessed by Montazeri et al (1999) in Iran and it was introduced as a valid and reliable tool by the European organization for research and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... Rheinland Pfalz (RLP 837.109.05 [4767]), and written informed consent was obtained from every participating patient Cell isolation and culture of human myofibroblasts All of the cultures and functional ... after 24, 48, 72, and 96 hours of culture and fresh medium was sub- sequently added to the cultures at these time points The synthesis of prostaglandins E2 (PGE2), F1A (PGF1A), and F2A (PGF2A) ... Mortsel, Belgium) Page of 16 Statistical analysis All experiments and measurements were performed at least in triplicate, and the number of measurements for each experiment is indicated in the figure...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22