minimizing a function of several variables

... of pH on the auto-oxidation of Hb A0 has been the subject of several studies Mansouri and Winterhalter [5] reported that the oxidation of the a chains of Hb A0 was 10 times faster than that of ... pH range from 5.3 to Tsuruga and Shikama [21] confirmed that the fast phase of oxidation was due to the a chains and the slow phase was due to the b chains Tsuruga et al found that the beta chain ... reaction of human oxyhemoglobin Biochim Biophys Acta 1337, 96–104 22 Tsuruga, M., Matsuoka, A. , Hachimori, A. , Sugawara, Y & Shikama, K (1998) The molecular mechanism of autoxidation for human...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20

... topographical features of a surface A miniature tip (radius of curvature is 5-10 nm40), usually made of silicon or silicon nitride, taps along a prescribed area of the surface being imaged.33 Attractive ... surface Data are taken across an area of the surface and averaged to give a more accurate representation of the properties for the entire film For a spectroscopic ellipsometers, a range of light ... by annealing to alleviate radial orientation and eliminate any remaining solvent Several variables can control the film thickness of the final product Extrand looked at some of the experimental...

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Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 12:23

... to this research They are: Ms Azira Amran, Mr Mahmood Sulaiman, Mrs Siti Zalaikhar, Mr Rozimi and Ms Mazalina Viscosity as a Function of Absolute Temperature 38 REFERENCES Fasina, O O & Colley, ... Malaya, NTC, Kuala Lumpur, 4–5 May 2009, 58–65 Magerramov, M A. , Abdulagatov, A I., Abdulagatov, I M & Azizov, N D (2007) Viscosity of tangerine and lemon juice as a function of temperature and ... Queiroz, A J D M., De Figueiredo, R M F., Da Silva, C L & Mata, M E R M C (2007) Rheological behaviour of honey from Serjania glabrata flowers, Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agricola e Ambiental,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 14:20

... revealing rather low intra-patient variability (CV of less than 10% for 95% of the data and CV of less than 5% for 80% of the data) Furthermore, the lack of randomization did not create a notable ... Critical Care Vol 11 No Dellinger et al Figure An example of a normal vibration response image A maximal energy image frame from a vibration response image recording of a healthy, 30-yearold, male ... different modes of MV Examples of still images of a mechanically ventilated patient on VC, PC, and PS are displayed in Figure 3, and videos of these recordings are available online as Additional files...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... was used as a template for PCR reactions using 5' primer MFIVCPL5' (5'-GATTTATAAATCATATG GCATATAATAAAGTGGGTACCACTACAACATTAG-3'), which adds an NdeI restriction site, methionine, and alkaline to ... 5'-TGTTAATGGATGTAATTCA TAACCCATC-3' Page 10 of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Retrovirology 2004, 1:38 KAN forward: 5'-ACTGAACCTGACCGTACACGCTCAGGCGCAATCAC-3' KAN reverse: 5'-CCAGCCATTACGCTCGTCAT-3' ... N-terminal of the protease and 3' primer MFIVCPL33' (5'-CTGAGATCTGAGCAAGCTTTTACATTACTAATCT AATATTAAATTTAACCATG TTATC-3'), which adds a stop codon and a Hind III restriction site to the C-terminus of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... distribution along the cephalocaudal axis A larger ratio suggested increased sound in the apical areas and a smaller ratio increased sound in the diaphragmatic areas Distribution was considered ... Dellinger RP, Jean S, Cinel I, Tay C, Rajanala S, Glickman YA, Parillo JE: Regional distribution of acoustic-based lung vibration as a function of mechanical ventilation mode Critical Care 2007, 11:R26 ... energy bar of the imaging display) Reasons for mechanical ventilation of these 35 patients are described in Table Chest radiography results revealed that 19 of these patients had bilateral disease,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... SER values calculated in this way reflect the impact of a repair modifier at a single dose or survival point [9-11] D0 and SF2 may also be estimated by fitting survival data as a function of dose ... survival data that are not adequately described by the linear quadratic equation, and in the evaluation of modifiers of the radiation response Since the framework chosen allows direct comparison of ... observation that δz was a significant parameter in all cases, and that the magnitude and direction of this effect varied according to cell line and confluence, suggests that this variable is an...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... final manuscript Additional data files The following additional data are available with the online version of this paper Additional data file is a table detailing the histopathological scores as ... triglycerides In addition, an enzymatic activity for the following proteins was measured: alanine aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase, aspartate aminotransferase, lactate dehydrogenase, and sorbitol ... USA) and serum was separated Clinical chemistry analysis was performed on all rats using a COBAS MIRA (Roche Diagnostics, Montclair, NJ, USA) using commercially available reagents from Equal...

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Ngày tải lên: 14/11/2014, 06:05

... described by a Lagrangian density that can be separated into a gauge term, a matter term, a Yukawa term and a Higgs term [30]: LSM = LMatter + LGauge + LYukawa + LHiggs The matter Lagrangian contains ... resonance decaying in a top-antitop pair, using ATLAS data at center -of- mass √ energy of s = TeV The latter analysis is repeated for ATLAS data col√ lected with s = TeV Performance studies of b-tagging ... α(x) is an arbitrary three2 component vector of functions of the space-time; β(x) is an arbitrary function of the space-time The Lagrangian can be made invariant over these transformations, by...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 22:04

... to thank all the staff at Dept of Physiology especially Dr.Prakash Hande and Dr Lina Lim for their guidance I am grateful to Ms Asha Rekha Das, Vasantha and Kamsitah for their administrative ... during my stay at the National University of Singapore In the end I am grateful to my family, especially my parents Mr and Mrs.Kalim Ahmad, my brothers Ashraf Kalim and Yousuf Jamal Ahmad and my sister ... form active enzymes following the induction of apoptosis (Donepudi and Grutter, 2002) One caspase can activate another caspase leading to the formation of a caspase cascade that amplifies the death...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:11

... mitochondrial translocation of Bax In addition, the relative lack of caspase activation and absence of downstream Bid cleavage provide additional evidence in favor of a mechanism for signaling Bax to ... mitochondria that is either parallel to or independent of death receptor and/or caspase activation A similar mechanism of caspase-independent conformational change of Bax on triggering apoptosis has ... Ceramide induces mitochondrial activation and apoptosis via a Bax-dependent pathway in human carcinoma cells Oncogene 2002;21:4009 –19 45 Sawada M, Nakashima S, Banno Y et al Ordering of ceramide...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:11

... function of activation of the apoptotic death pathway as evidenced by the significant increase in caspase activity, cleavage of the caspase-3 substrate PARP, and appearance of the sub-G1 fraction ... fluorimetric assays, and (C) poly(ADP ribose) polymerase cleavage was assessed by Western blot analysis D, DNA fragmentation was determined by propidium iodide staining and the appearance of sub-G1 fraction ... additional evidence that this was a function of NADPH oxidase activation, CEM cells were transfected transiently with a dominant negative mutant of Rac (RacN17), which inhibits NADPH oxidase-dependent...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:11

... battle field to commercial enterprises, the microstrip antenna is fast replacing many conventional antennas The advantages and disadvantages of the Microstrip Antenna are tabulated below: Advantages ... for arrays Compatible with Integrated Circuits Difficult to achieve polarization purity Simple arrays readily created Table 1.1: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Microstrip Antennas It is actually ... for far field radiated wave propagation The conducting patch may be of any arbitrary shape depending on the desired radiation characteristics This conducting patch is spaced a small fraction of...

Ngày tải lên: 26/09/2015, 10:43

... Descriptive Statistics (includes all cases) 178 Table A6 : Summary of Descriptive Statistics for AREs and CARs 179 Table A7 : ARE and CAR Means and Standard Deviations for No Rationale and Rationale Groups ... rationale vs no rationale categories 110 Figure 14: Comparison of average CARs of rationale vs no rationale categories 111 Figure 15: Comparison of average AREs by primary rationale and overall ... Listing of Companies in Final Sample by Categories of Book-toMarket Ratios 197 Table A2 5: ARE and CAR Means and Standard Deviations for Different Book-to-Market Ratio Categories 198 Table A2 6a: Longer-Term...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 16:58

... for covariates run separately against each DV (pg 42) Table Means and standard deviations for time-varying variables and dependent variables (pg 43) Table Means (S.D.) of emotion variables by ... less than 1% of available data for each variable and were excluded 38 from analyses Altogether the final data set for 229 participants contained 14,929 observation periods or an average of 65.2 ... Covariate items were concerned with variables that may confound ambulatory cardiovascular readings Interpretation of ambulatory BP and HR requires taking account of several time-varying factors...

Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2015, 22:48

... R3 and A ⊂ R3 , the distance from a to A is given by a − a d (a, A) = inf ′ a A Let A, B ⊂ R , the directed Hausdorff distance from A to B is defined by (see [7]) dH (A, B) = sup d (a, B) a A ... Principles of Mathematical Analysis, Third edition, McGraw-Hill, 1976 [20] G Xue and Y Ye, An efficient algorithm for minimizing a sum of Euclidean norms with applications, SIAM Journal on Optimization, ... Concluding remarks This paper proposed an approximate algorithm for solving a variant of problem of minimizing a sum of Euclidean norms with non-convex constraints The problem is to find an Euclidean shortest...

Ngày tải lên: 14/10/2015, 15:30

... Joseph and M H Kwack, Some classical theorems and families of normal maps in several complex variables, Complex Variables, 29 (1996), 343-362 [5] O Lehto and K I Virtanen, Boundary behaviour and ... normal meromorphic functions, Acta Math., 97 (1957), 47-65 [6] P N Mai, D D Thai and P N T Trang, Normal families of meromorphic mappings of several complex variables into PN (C), Nagoya Math ... situation (for example Lemma 3.14 is an adaptation of our Lemma 3.6) Basic notions 2.1 Meromorphic mappings Let A be a non-empty open subset of a domain D in Cn such that S = D − A is an analytic...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 14:09

... term of the n -th harmonic component of i,, Though the AC components are also contained in the output signal of the integrator, they can be made small by the integral action of the integrator and ... KataokaT 1996, nt-type PWM rectifier with active filtering function" , IEEJ SPC- 96 (107), 11-20 ( in Japanese) KataokaT, Murota 1, Fuse Y, Nakajima D and Nishikata S 1999, A Single-phase Voltage-Type ... sinusoidal waveform in compliance with the sinusoidal reference signal and , that the current i has a nearly rectangular waveform due to the existence of a smoothing reactor Fig3(b) shows the waveform...

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