Nonlinear vibration of micromechanical resonators
... Chapter Nonlinear vibration of micromechanical resonators 10 2.1 Linear model of micromechanical resonators 10 2.2 Nonlinear model of micromechanical resonators 13 2.2.1 Nonlinear ... resonator nonlinearities (i.e k3) 2.4 Summary In this chapter, we have introduced both linear and nonlinear equations of motion of micromechanical resonators Three key parameters of nonlinear resonators: ... linear equation of motion of micromechanical resonators Next, the nonlinear equation of motion will be introduced Detailed mathematical analysis will be provided to model mechanical nonlinearities,...
Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:13
... experience, whether the chairman of the board also holds the position of chief executive of cer, and other characteristics of the external auditors such as the offering of management advisory services ... a review of the relevant literature, the results of an earlier survey of investors, auditors and directors (Goodwin and Seow, 2000) and the listing requirements of the Stock Exchange of Singapore ... provision of internal audit services to the audit client The impact on audit independence of the provision of other services to an audit client has been the subject of intense debate (Briloff, 1987;...
Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:49
... philosophy of user-orientation plays a key role One of the decisive factors for the survival and development of the supplier of statistics is the satisfaction of customers on the quality of provided ... authorities and functions of announcement by the Director General of the General Statistics Office, ministers, heads of ministerial-level agencies, presidents of people's Committees of Central provinces ... philosophy of user-orientation plays a key role One of the decisive factors for the survival and development of the supplier of statistics is the satisfaction of customers on the quality of provided...
Ngày tải lên: 20/07/2015, 21:04
On the quality and price of data
... Data Models Probabilistic relational data models can be classified into two classes: tuple-level models and attribute-level models Granularity of uncertainty differs between the two classes of models ... other X-tuple The sum of probabilities of t1 ,t2 is 0.9, which means that it is possible that neither of them is actual The sum of probabilities of t3 ,t4 is 1, implying that one of them must be actual ... multiplication of probabilities of the selected subsets of children of distributional nodes Multiple outcomes may lead to the same possible world, therefore the probability of an XML document is the sum of...
Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:24
The effect of grammar teaching (syntax) in English on 5 to 16 year olds’ accuracy and quality in written composition potx
... University of York Alison Robinson, Department of Educational Studies, University of York Carole Torgerson, Department of Educational Studies, University of York Die Zhu, Department of Educational ... Department of Educational Studies at the University of York There are no conflicts of interest for any members of the group i LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CT DES DfEE PGCE QA QCA Controlled trial Department of ... evaluations of ‘other’ designs Sixteen out of the 24 reviews explored the teaching of ‘syntax’ Of these 16, 12 provided a conclusion about the effect of syntax teaching on the accuracy and quality of...
Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 05:20
AIR POLLUTION, HEALTH, AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS: THE EFFECT OF OUTDOOR AIR QUALITY ON CHILDHOOD ASTHMA pptx
... also explain some of the difference in asthma rates by SES Magnitude of Findings To get a sense of the magnitude of the main findings, I perform a basic cost-benefit analysis of California’s Low-Emission ... children face considerably higher levels of pollution To get a sense of the impact of these higher levels of pollution, I approximate the proportional effect of higher pollution levels in low SES ... announcement of smog alerts decreases asthma hospitalizations by roughly to percent This indicates the importance of accounting for the endogeneity of family behavior when measuring the causal effect of...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "The effect of domain and text type on text prediction quality" pptx
... different types of Dutch text: Wikipedia, Twitter data, transcriptions of conversational speech, and web pages of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) The Wikipedia corpus that we use is part of the Lassy ... type experiments in terms of percentages of saved keystrokes Prefix means: ‘use the previous characters of the current word as features’ Buffer 15 means ‘use a buffer of the previous 15 characters ... Histogram of text prediction scores for the Neuro−QA questions trained on Medical Wikipedia 20 40 60 80 percentage of keystrokes saved 20 40 60 80 percentage of keystrokes saved Figure 4: Histogram of...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20
the effect of accounting regulation on second-tier audit firms and their clients audit pricing and quality, cost of capital, and backdating of stock options
... firms is compared to the cost of capital of Big-audit firms in terms of the expected effect of the level of audit quality provided on the cost of capital The cost of capital is split into two ... set of hypotheses is stated as follows: H3a: Cost of debt for clients of Second-Tier audit firms is higher than cost of debt for clients of Big-audit firms H3b: Cost of equity for clients of Second-Tier ... clients of Second-Tier audit firms and the backdating of executive stock options (ESOs) It is expected that clients of Second-Tier audit firms exercise backdating of ESOs more often than clients of...
Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:15
Báo cáo hóa học: " Measuring the effect of intimate partner violence on health-related quality of life: a qualitative focus group study" pot
... effect of IPV on quality of life has been less studied Measures of quality of life are useful for understanding the subjective effect of health on individuals, including the perception of well-being ... report here on the results of focus groups of abused women discussing the health and quality of life effects of IPV, and a review of preference-based health related quality of life instruments designed ... understanding of the domains of health affected by IPV to accomplish two goals: (1) to inform the health ramifications of partner violence, and (2) to inform the measurement of the effect of IPV on...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo hóa học: "Effect of montelukast on platelet activating factor- and tachykinin induced mucus secretion in the rat" doc
... 10% of baseline Application of WEB 2086 (100 µM) led to a moderate suppression of baseline secretion (85 ± 5%) Co-administration of PAF (100 µM) and WEB 2086 (100 µM) abolished the increase of ... Tracheal secretory activity [% of baseline] 300 PAF 100 µM Tracheal secretory activity [% of baseline] Effect of WEB 2086 on PAF induced tracheal secretory activity The effect of the PAF receptor antagonist ... increase of mucus secretion up to 205 ± 49% of baseline levels The addition of montelukast (10 µM) to the culture medium had no significant effect on the secretion levels (95 ± 6%) Combination of PAF...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Risk factor analysis for early femoral failure in metal-on-metal hip resurfacing arthroplasty: the effect of bone density and body mass index" potx
... length of follow-up was 30±6 months In order to understand the causes of early femoral failure rate, a multivariable logistic regression model was generated in order to analyze the effects of bone ... regression models were tested by changing the types and thresholds of these variables in order to find the best regression model to predict the early femoral failures The final regression model determined ... T-score of 2.3 and a body mass index of 28 kg/m2, which was revised to a THA at two months post-operatively; the other case was in a female patient with a T-score of -2.1 and body mass index of 28...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Measuring the effect of intimate partner violence on health-related quality of life: a qualitative focus group study" potx
... effect of IPV on quality of life has been less studied Measures of quality of life are useful for understanding the subjective effect of health on individuals, including the perception of well-being ... report here on the results of focus groups of abused women discussing the health and quality of life effects of IPV, and a review of preference-based health related quality of life instruments designed ... understanding of the domains of health affected by IPV to accomplish two goals: (1) to inform the health ramifications of partner violence, and (2) to inform the measurement of the effect of IPV on...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20
báo cáo hóa học:" The effect of peer-led education on the life quality of mastectomy patients referred to breast cancer-clinics in Shiraz, Iran 2009" pot
... should be included as part of the patients’ treatment program with the aim of reducing the symptoms of cancer and improving the quality of life Conclusions The results of this study provide empirical ... (P.B.U.H) Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 5Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Shiraz-Iran ... quality of life research quality of life research 2000, 9:177-184 18 Till JE: Evaluation of support groups for women with breast cancer: Importance of the navigator role Health and Quality of Life...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Effect of β -mercaptoethanol or epidermal growth factor supplementation on in vitro maturation of canine oocytes collected from dogs with different stages of the estrus cycle" ppsx
... effect of βME or EGF supplementation on the base of the stages of the estrus cycle of the ovaries, and demonstrated that β-ME or EGF supplementation significantly increased maturation of canine ... stage A number of studies have demonstrated an effect of stage of the estrous cycle on the meiotic competence of canine oocytes matured in vitro Yamada et al [35] reported that 32% of preovulatory ... that the outcome of our experiments was most likely influenced by the stage of the estrus cycle of the dogs from which the oocytes were collected; the positive effect of β-ME on IVM of canine oocytes...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "The role of Bcl-xL and nuclear factor-kB in the effect of taxol on the viability of dendritic cells" ppsx
... role of taxol-treated DCs Although the expression of Bax was increased in TaxolDCs, the expression of Bax occurred later than that of Bcl-xL, which implies that the pro-apoptotic effects of Bax ... treatment of taxol, 48 h NF-κB is closely involved in the survival and maturation of DCs [11,17,20] To investigate further the mechanisms of taxol-induced changes, the viablity of TPCK, an inhibitor of ... enhanced cytokine production of DCs treated by taxol The TaxolDCs treated with μg/ml of taxol produced higher amounts of both cytokines than the ContDCs, at 24, 48 h of incubation time (Fig 2)...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Effect of site quality and thinning management on the structure of holm oak forests in northeast Spain" pot
... representative of the best and the worst qualities were chosen The selection of plots was based on an assessment of the general aspect of the plot and the size and physiognomy of holm oaks Table ... compared with the mature forest model with respect to the number of stems per stool, density, multispecific composition of the overstory and degree of development of the understory The results ... (including criteria of stem selection, intensity and age from last thinning), have been compared To evaluate the effect of thinning management, plots of different stands of the same area with...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21
Báo cáo khoa học: "The combined effect of erythropoietin and granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor on liver regeneration after major hepatectomy in rats" pot
... between the two factors [15,16] Aim of the present study is to compare the effect of the administration of EPO and GM-CSF alone or in combination on the acceleration of liver regeneration in rats after ... compared to baseline of the same timepoint † p < 0.01 compared to baseline of the same timepoint ‡ p < 0.01 compared to EPO group of the same timepoint p < 0.01 compared to EPO group of the same timepoint ... tissues outside of the hematopoietic system has provoked significant experimental interest and fueled the exploration of additional actions of the hormone [20,21] It is a member of the class I...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:21
Báo cáo y học: "Assessing the effect of HAART on change in quality of life among HIV-infected women." pdf
... ethnicity and education level c Model 3: Model + income, employment and health insurance d Model 4: Model 3+ CD4+ cell counts and viral load e Model 5: Model 4+ number of symptoms, outpatient visits, ... to Model 1, Model added time-varying socioeconomic variables of income, employment, and health insurance to Model 2, Model added time-varying CD4+ cell counts and viral load to Model 3, and Model ... ethnicity and education level c Model 3: Model + income, employment and health insurance d Model 4: Model 3+ CD4+ cell counts and viral load e Model 5: Model 4+ number of symptoms, outpatient visits,...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20
báo cáo khoa học:" The effect of peer-led education on the life quality of mastectomy patients referred to breast cancer-clinics in Shiraz, Iran 2009" pot
... should be included as part of the patients’ treatment program with the aim of reducing the symptoms of cancer and improving the quality of life Conclusions The results of this study provide empirical ... (P.B.U.H) Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran 5Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, Shiraz-Iran ... quality of life research quality of life research 2000, 9:177-184 18 Till JE: Evaluation of support groups for women with breast cancer: Importance of the navigator role Health and Quality of Life...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21
Báo cáo y học: " The effect of the pro-inflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor-alpha on human joint capsule myofibroblasts" ppsx
... of 16 Figure Cell viability and proliferative capacity of myofibroblasts upon tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α)treatment The effect of the cyCell viability and proliferative capacity of myofibroblasts ... http://arthritis-research.com/content/12/1/R4 Page of 16 Figure Expression of the myofibroblast marker alpha-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) hip joint and contracted elbow joint capsules Expression of the myofibroblast marker alpha-smooth ... merged images of the negative controls Scale bars are shown in the lower right corner of each panel (b) MFs of three different donors were exposed to 10 μg/mL diclofenac The expression of α-SMA (45...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22