nanotechnology as a tool for sustainability

... samples was created by a laboratory panel (n ¼ 9; females, males, aged 25 –41 years) trained to evaluate attributes selected in advance The attributes were evaluated on a 9-point scale that was ... Preliminary data analysis revealed no significant main effects and only one significant interaction of day and aroma on the pleasantness ratings of the young, implicating an increase in pleasantness ... Hedonic ratings In the pleasantness ratings, the aroma concentration had a similar effect on both age groups in the first tasting session: the heightened aroma sample was rated as less pleasant than...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2013, 21:06

... association of the variable heavy chain (VH) with protein A was used as a surrogate for direct stability measurements The VH domains in camelid heavy chain antibodies are most similar to the classical ... Remarkably, we have found that, at least in some circumstances, a quantitative correlation to biophysical data can be obtained from a statistical analysis of selected phage populations [16] We also ... denaturant as a selective pressure to The potential for obtaining quantitative biophysical information from phage-display was suggested by a new method called alanine shotgun scanning, which analyzes...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20

... final model Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) This statistical multivariate method is supervised It searches for the variables containing the greatest interclass variance and the smallest intraclass ... cell spectrum and spectral areas selected by genetic algorithm A smear of about · 105 cells was dried on an area of cm2 on the germanium surface as explained in Materials and methods Wavenumbers ... et al assigned the shoulders present at 1117 and 1020 cm)1 to RNA and DNA, respectively [18] Classification by LDA Classification by LDA on spectra reduced by PCA PCA was performed on the training...

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Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 00:20

... method was also described for determining the tree diameter at breast height (Bitterlich 1996) For testing the accuracy of the method the laser telemeter was used and then the measured diameter was ... of the angle gauge (b) b a (a) α borderline Table Average values and their differences Diameter measured optically with wedge prism Diameter measured with calliper Difference Standard deviation ... the distance when the blocks were on the borderline The distance was measured using the laser telemeter with half -a- meter scale The diameter was calculated and compared with the control measure...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... meal was mixed and then 15 g was removed with a spatula for disk samples and about g for extreme value samples and placed in a sample cup After the samples had been scanned under a near infrared ... developed and calibrated to replace classical wet-chemical methods for wood applications In addition, a few studies have used NIRS to assess physical and mechanical properties such as basic density, ... mean An RPD below cannot give a relevant prediction An RPD value of 2.0–3.0 is regarded as adequate for rough screening A value of above 3.0 is regarded as satisfactory for screening (for example...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:20

... performed in September 1998, with the aim of estimating the maximum annual impact of water stress in areas at different levels of landscape degradation a Istanbul Ankara Bursa Izmir Antalya Adana ... of at least 15 leaves per species each daytime was measured from different trees Leaves were cut off while within plastic bags, placed in zip-lock plastic sacks and kept in a thermal bag at about ... trees) in an area As an example, at equal vegetation covers, a forest will show more PhA than a shrub or grass vegetation so that NDVI will be much higher in the former than in the latter case [7,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... were applied and the required voltage measured The pulse height measured far away from the sample surface was used to define the basal resistance Then, the probe was approached towards an insulating ... has been created from the subtraction of frame A from frame J (Fig 1) Here green areas denote areas without any changes in height, red areas correspond to areas of increasing height and blue areas ... (E) Insets in (A) and (B) display a magnification of the area marked by the dashes with increased contrast, white scale bar indicates 3.5 μm Arrows mark different cell parts that changed during...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... controls at 575 nm was used as background The final Ca2+ amounts were calculated according to the manufacturer’sprotocol and are given in μg per μl of the sample A standard curve was prepared using ... of each sample was incubated with the reagents provided with the kit in a 96-well plate The amount of Ca 2+ was measured using the BioRad iMark Microplate Reader (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA) and ... cells as well as in the intracellular spaces between them The stigmatic surface is the main place for signal exchange between pollen and stigma Ca2+ ions are more abundant in the receptive stigmas...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... vascular defects abnormal vasculature o abnormal vascular dilation noted at E8.5 o vascular dilation was associated with an increased endothelial proliferation rate o in addition to the dilation, ... [14] In addition, MGD has adopted the Mouse Embryo Anatomy Nomenclature Database [15] and the Anatomical Dictionary for the Adult Mouse [16] for annotating data that include anatomical attributes, ... systematic nomenclature Mech Dev 1998, 74:111-120 Hayamizu TF, Magan M, Corradi JP, Kadin JA, Ringwald M: The Anatomical Dictionary for the Adult Mouse: a tool for annotating and integrating data...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:21

... other than final sales Among the measures that are often advocated as appropriate intermediate measures are attitudinal changes caused by advertising Those who advocate using an intermediate measure ... Investment-generating Locality Britain Canada CostaRica Ireland Jamaica Malaysia Scotland Singapore Thailand Promotionagency techniques used Investin Britain Bureau(IBB) InvestmentCanada CostaRicanInvestmentPromotion ... regional market Costa Rica and Jamaica, for example, both had preferential access to the United States market through the Caribbean Basin Initiative; Britain and Ireland both had preferential access...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 23:20

... research into how to overcome its barriers 1.3 Why team-teaching as a valuable means for professional development? The study of team-teaching as a viable alternative to traditional teaching as a ... teacher said: “ Other thing that was beneficial about it was that it was able to work with different teacher in the same classroom The class was easily controlled and there was time for us to ... then transcribed for data analysis The data transcripts consisted of 15 pages for field notes and 50 pages for interviews 2.6 Data analysis 25 Once the researcher had obtained all the data transcripts...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2015, 10:33

... tham khảo Bachman, L.F., Fundamental considerations in language testing, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990 Bolton, S., Evaluation de la compétence communicative en langue étrangère, Traduit ... to assess Readers' Prior Knowledge, The Teaching Teacher, 40(7), 1987, p.646-650 Lussier, D., Evaluer les apprentissages dans une approche communicative, Paris: Nathan, 1992 Scallon, G., L'évaluation ... de l'allemand par Bertrand, Paris: Hatier, 1987 Carroll, J.B., The Psychology of language testing, In A Davis (Ed.), Language Testing Syposium, A psycholinguistic perspective, London: Oxford...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2015, 10:32

... molecules and atoms, giving the plasma the ability to act as a whole rather than as a bunch of atoms Usually, plasma is generated by increasing the gas temperature or electromagnetic excitation of gas ... irradiation has, however, limitations, such as possible surface damage and lack of straightforwardness for industrial applications [17] 3.4.2 Plasma Treatment Molecules of matter in gaseous form have ... industry has also led to the increasing popularity of the biocatalysis It has a great advantage of being a more sustainable process as it utilizes naturally-available enzymes to promote grafting...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2016, 14:26

... those  measures  that  are  being  used  in the target areas as well as foreign countries,  such  as Indonesia,  China,  Bangladesh,  Germany,  Mexico,  Colombia,  USA.  Some  of  them are introduced as follows.  ... Table 7. Standardized score for costs of combinations  Measure  A1 +A2 .3  A1 +B1  A1 +B2  A1 +B1+B2  A2 .1 +A2 .3  A2 .1+B1  A2 .2 +A2 .3  A2 .2+B1  A2 .3+B1  A2 .3+B1+B2  Standardized cost  Standardized score ... doing so, the consensus on the problems and  their solutions can be reached. However, it is  noted that MCA is subjective in its nature. In  case  the  quantitative  data  are  available,  quantitative  analysis  (i.e.  numerical ...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... Figure Changes in the AC/TC ratio along Eagle Creek Fecal loading at Site was mildly increased in 2003 as compared to 2002 and the AC/TC ratio slightly depressed from last years average as a result ... sewage or animal feces Table Average bacterial ratios in surface water runoff sorted by land-use associated fecal sources Site Classification Average AC/TC Ratio (n) 102.6 (75) Average FC/FS Ratio ... SigmaStat, a program available from Systat Software Inc RESULTS Identification of predominant fecal sources in surface water In a multiyear study of a small watershed used as a supplemental potable...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

... Our MD came across an innovation in hair care in Italy, the hair brush package was designed open so that you could feel the bristles before purchase Back at base nothing happened as our marketing ... essential part of the organization (Hedlund and Nonaka, 1993) McCartney (1998) states that `the activities that give rise to innovation are basically R McAdam Knowledge and Process Management RESEARCH ... cycles, innovation streams, and ambidextrous organisations: organisational renewal through innovation streams and strategic change In Managing Strategic Innovation and Change, Tushman ML, Anderson...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 12:15

... Network Load Balancing provides a greater benefit than round robin DNS entries because Network Load Balancing automatically excludes servers that are unavailable You can enhance the availability for ... Server as LAN interfaces are persistent, and the data rate is determined by the LAN technology Public network segments that appear as demand-dial interfaces are nonpersistent, and the data rate ... servers make up a proxy array called proxyarray.msft Each of the servers in the array has a unique IP address, so you need to specify an A- type resource record for each server as follows: proxyarray.msft...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 18:15

... of applications that can take advantage of multicast transmissions RIP -for- IP version is an example of a protocol that can take advantage of multicast transmissions to update routing information ... information for unicast packets Unlike RIP -for- IP routers, OSPF routers maintain a map of the network in the link state database Updates to the network are reflected in the link state database ... subnets and hosts can be easily managed by RIP -for- IP version Specify auto-static routing with updates once a day at midnight To automatically update the routing information at a regular interval...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 18:15