... well-being among Chinese elderly with chronic physical illness Qigong has a long history with diverse schools in China A more detailed description of the history and origins of Qigong can be found ... measured by the Hong Kong Chinese Version World Health Organization Quality of Life: Abbreviated Version (WHOQOL-BREF[HK]) Questionnaire The questionnaire consists of 28 questions on a five-point ... physical, social, ethical, familial, and intellectual The ASSEI was found to be construct and content valid for the Hong Kong population Procedure All intervention and control group participants in this...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:21
... microlevel decisions that allocate programming resources both within and among F/OSS projects They comment on the impact of reputation and community norms, and on the economic rationale for “early ... Stone sans and Stone serif by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong Printed and bound in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Perspectives on free and ... F/OSS O’Mahony deals directly with this conflict, an issue exacerbated by the many F/OSS developers operating on a voluntary basis with nonstandard systems of rewards and sanctions O’Mahony identifies...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 15:25
Báo cáo hóa học: " The molecular dynamic simulation on impact and friction characters of nanofluids with many nanoparticles system" pot
... simulation on the essence characteristics of nanoparticle motions in enhanced lubrication and friction process, in order to explain the nature and mechanism of nanofluids in enhanced lubrication and ... nanoparticles with each particle diameter of nm and argon atoms as base liquid The motion states and interaction of nanoparticles at different time through impact and friction process could be obtained and ... get the moving state and variation trend of nanoparticles in shock and friction process Considering argon as the base fluid and modeling the interactions between copper atoms with L-J potential...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Clinical review: Influence of vasoactive and other therapies on intestinal and hepatic circulations in patients with septic shock" ppsx
... Association and International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation recommended (grade IIB) continuous vasopressin infusion in refractory septic shock [54] However, the effects of vasopressin on regional ... haemoglobin concentration and a lower gastric pHi Short-term infusion of µg/kg per dopexamine in 10 patients with septic shock increased both microvascular haemoglobin saturation and concentration, whereas ... Association and International Liaison on Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Advanced cardiovascular life support Pharmacology II: agents to optimize cardiac output and blood pressure Resuscitation 2000,...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "HLA-DR expression on monocytes and systemic inflammation in patients with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms" ppt
... on days and postsurgery in the non-survivors (p = 0.03 for both days) HLA-DR expression on monocytes On day one after surgery HLA-DR expression on monocytes was comparable in survivors and non-survivors, ... 10.0 on day 1, 7.8 versus 9.5 on day 3, 7.9 versus 9.4 on day and 12.6 and 10.0 on day in non-survivors and survivors, respectively All differences were non-significant Cytokine production IL-6 and ... higher on days one and three in non-survivors *p < 0.05 Figure aneurysm repair HLA-DR expression on monocytes after ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm repair The expression of HLA-DR on monocytes...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 02:24
Báo cáo y học: " Effect of oral beta-blocker on short and longterm mortality in patients with acute respiratory failure: results from the BASEL II-ICU study" ppt
... Switzerland Intensive Care Unit, Spital Thun-Simmental AG, Krankenhausstrasse 12, 3600 Thun, Switzerland Authors’ contributions MN made substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition ... patients (%) and mean (quartiles) dosage in mg continuation of beta-blocker therapy in patients with ADHF was demonstrated by Butler et al [20] and recently confirmed by Fonarow et al [21], Jondeau ... microcirculation particularly in the coronary bed, and was previously demonstrated to be associated with higher mortality in older patients [42] Patients with severe forms of hypertension and overt coronary...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21
FOCUS ON - phrasal ver bs with the particle off and the adverb right
... The handle of the coffee cup is broken off break off p.v When you break off relations or contact with someone, you decide to end relations or contact with that person The two countries broke off ... relations with each other I was so angry at my in-laws that I broke off alt contact with them dry off dry off & dries off drying off dried off dried off dry off p.v When something dries off or ... you've bitten off more than you can chew break off break off & breaks off breaking off broke off broken off break off p.v When something breaks off or someone breaks something off, a part or...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 12:20
Hydromagnetic convective flow past a vertical porous plate through a porous medium with suction and heat source
... boundary conditions are: ISSN 2076-2895 (Print), ISSN 2076-2909 (Online) ©2010 International Energy & Environment Foundation All rights reserved International Journal of Energy and Environment ... ) + εe iωt T1 ( y ) (10) Substituting equations (9) and (10) in equations (6) and (7) respectively, equating the harmonic and non harmonic terms and neglecting the coefficients of ε , we get ... (36) Using equations (15), (17), (29), (32), (35) and (36) in equation (9) and equations (16), (18), (30), (31), (33) and (34) in equation (10), the solutions for velocity and temperature of...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10
The effect of EGR rates on NOX and smoke emissions of an IDI diesel engine fuelled with Jatropha biodiesel blends
... high load condition; there is a trade -off between reduction in NOX emission and increase in smoke, CO and HC emissions [3-5] Pradeep & Sharma [3] investigated the effects of hot EGR along with JB100 ... Moreover, CO and HC emissions increased to high levels At full load condition, MME along with 15% EGR showed lowest NOX But, HC, smoke and CO emissions were high Due to that reason they concluded, ... Energy and Environment (IJEE), Volume 2, Issue 3, 2011, pp.477-490 481 Results and discussion The results and discussion based on the effect of EGR rates on engine performance and emission characteristics...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11
Accessing On-Chip and Off-Chip Peripherals
... proportional controller due to the inherently slower starting of integration process, but with elimination of the offset of the proportional control PI controller combines the properties of the P and ... Implementation Using On- Chip PWM 53 Fig 3.5 Block schematic of DAC implementation using on- chip PWM DAC finds lot of applications in motor speed control, light dimmer applications, controlling a SMPS and ... feature of these devices along with application note may be seen on the web URL of National Semiconductor [54] Some notable features are 48 ● ● ● ● ● ● Accessing On- Chip and Off- Chip Peripherals Operates...
Ngày tải lên: 03/10/2013, 01:20
Tài liệu THE THEORY OF MONEY AND CREDIT - New edition, enlarged with an essay on Monetary Reconstruction docx
... EDITION PREFACE TO SECOND GERMAN EDITION II 14 23 PART ONE THE NATURE OF MONEY THE FUNCTIONS OF MONEY CHAPTER I § The General Economic Conditions for the Use of Money The Origin of Money The 'Secondary' ... THEOR YOF MONEY AND CREDIT THE THEORY OF MONEY AND CREDIT New edition, enlarged with an essay on Monetary Reconstruction BY LUDWIG VON MISES Translated from the German by H E Batson New Haven: ... THE VARIOUS KINDS OF MONEY Money and Money-Substitutes The Peculiarities of Money-Substitutes Commodity Money, Credit Money, and Fiat Money The Commodity Money of the Past and of the Present CHAPTER...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu THE THEOR YOF MONEY AND CREDIT: New edition, enlarged with an essay on Monetary Reconstruction doc
... respondents and their matched controls on economic and financial indicators, gender attitudes, and reproductive health knowledge, behavior and negotiation While TRY participants and their controls ... similar control group of young women After controlling for girls’ education and parents’ education and occupation, researchers found that a significantly higher proportion of Better Life Options alumnae ... baseline and endline, though additional questions were added at endline to assess participants’ exposure to the program and perceptions TRY participants and their controls were questioned on basic...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases doc
... had done him so much mischief, I was obliged to feed him with bran and water only; but notwithstanding this, he continued drooping, and without appetite At times he was seized with convulsions, ... reputation as a surgeon and apothecary at Stourbridge, in Worcestershire "Consumptions are cured infallibly by weak decoction of Foxglove leaves in water, or wine and water, and drank for constant ... shavings, with pills of myrrh and white vitriol; and, if costive, a pill with calomel and aloes To these propositions I gave a ready assent 30th This day Dr Darwin saw her, and directed a continuation...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu Overview on Poultry Sector and HPAI Situation for Indonesia with Special Emphasis on the Island of Java - Background Paper doc
... integration) has two primary components and one or two contributing components Non-vertical integration (D-Type) has only one primary component and only one or two contributing components 10 ... 2003-2004, Indonesia passed the Presidential Regulation No 7/006 on National Commission on Avian Influenza and Pandemic Disease and the Presidential Instruction 1/2007 on Handling and Controlling ... necessary, concrete and efficient actions to handle and control the AI outbreak These actions are commissioned by the National Commission on Avian Influenza and Pandemic Disease and implemented...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20
Effectiveness of PRECEDE model for health education on changes and level of control of HbA1c, blood pressure, lipids, and body mass index in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus docx
... refused, and PCC were randomized in two arms: Precede Health Promotion Education (PHPE) and Conventional Health Promotion Education (CHPE) The participants at each PCC were randomized by selection ... found no randomized studies with a control group, which evaluated the effect of educational models on metabolic control objectives (HbA1c
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:21
Forecasting UK GDP growth, inflation and interest rates under structural change: a comparison of models with time-varying parameters potx
... algorithm with the conditional prior and posterior distributions described below D.5 Prior distributions and starting values Following Bernanke et al (2005) we centre our prior on the factors (and ... parameter set equal to 0.01 and 0.0001 respectively with degrees of freedom set equal to one E.9 Simulating the posterior distributions Conditional on a value for g1 and g2 the Metropolis algorithm ... Publications Group, Bank of England, Threadneedle Street, London, EC2R 8AH Telephone +44 (0)20 7601 4030 Fax +44 (0)20 7601 3298 email mapublications@bankofengland.co.uk © Bank of England 2012...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Segmented and unsegmented dialogue-act annotation with statistical dialogue models∗" ppt
... Section establishes the experimental framework and presents a summary of the results; Section 5, presents our conclusions and future research directions Annotation models The statistical annotation ... statistical models Manual annotation is the usual solution, although is very timeconsuming and there is a tendency for error (the annotation instructions are not usually easy to interpret and apply, and ... tagging and recognition of conversational speech Computational Linguistics, 26(3):1– 34 J M Bened´, A Varona, and E Lleida 2004 Dihana: ı Dialogue system for information access using spontaneous...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21
Báo cáo khoa học: Selecting cells with different Alzheimer’s disease c-secretase activity using FACS Differential effect of presenilin exon 9 deletion on c- and e-cleavage doc
... degradation [7,8,46–48] Immunoprecipitation of conditioned media from these cells with WO2 and 1E8 mAbs showed Ab secretion Immunoprecipitation with Ab C-terminal specific antibodies demonstrated ... for 72 h with various concentrations of inhibitor in a final dimethylsulfoxide concentration of 0.5% After 24 h the medium was replaced with fresh medium containing inhibitor Inhibition of c-secretase ... fluorescence at 1, and 10 lM on both APP and Notch substrates (Table 1) and did not affect Ab-secretion (data not shown) Effect of presenilin expression on fluorescence and Ab-secretion Presenilin is required...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo " Research on organizing spatial production of economic models for agro - fisheries and processing industry in Diem Dien Town, Thai Thuy District, Thai Binh " doc
... that rely on agricultural production makes up 6.9%, on aquaculture - 9.9%, on industrial production and construction - 3.8%, on commerce and service - 10%, and on handicraft - 4.4% In 2005, the rate ... natural land area, however, aquaculture production is still potential and its capability can be expanded further based on the potential of exploitation and utilization of tidal peak and medium zones ... The interaction between these two conditions created climate in this area that has a character of ocean monsoon with long cold winter The monitored data at different weather stations around the...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "A Combination of Active Learning and Semi-supervised Learning Starting with Positive and Unlabeled Examples for Word Sense Disambiguation: An Empirical Study on Japanese Web Search Query" pdf
... initial positive examples Wega Loft Wega AND TV Loft AND (Grocery ORStationery) Honda AND Keisuke Tsubaki AND Shiseido Honda Tsubaki Loft store name Honda personal name (football player) Tsubaki product ... between the curve with- EM and without-EM As a classifies to use the score for sampling examples in adaptation iterations, it is indifferent whether with- EM or without-EM Larger evaluation is the future ... examples Random sampling with EM, abbreviated as with- EM, is the variant approach where dmin in line 26 of figure is randomly selected without using confidence score Uncertainty sampling without...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20