... centered at s, s1 , e and their radii equal the distances between s and p1 , s1 and p1 (or p2 ), and e and p2 , respectively The only data points that can be closer to se (than p1 and p2 ) must fall ... query and K to the anonymizer, which removes the id of the user and transforms his location through cloaking The generated K -ASR is forwarded to the LBS which processes it and returns a set of candidates, ... parties A and B hold objects a and b, respectively They want to compute a function f (a, b) without A learning anything about B and vice versa They encrypt their objects using random keys and follow...
... women shake hands more often than older women In social situation, when two people meet, they shake hands When shaking hands English people shake hands for a few seconds, and they shake hands firmly ... your age, what would you say and do? a How you do? b Please to meet you. and lightly embrace him c Please to meet you. And shake his hand d Say nothing and shake hand When you meet a person for ... by kissing her hand 3.2.2 Handshake Shaking hands is one of the most popular greeting gestures in the world It has been with human for thousands of years Originally, men shook hands with each...
... concentrations: 40 and 80 mM (lanes and 3) for h MTs were also treated for the same period with a reducing agent (dithiothreitol) at 40 and 80 mM (lanes and 5) To reduce aggregation, MT samples were handled ... urchin, snail and oyster) have so far been elucidated [11–17] As in mammals and fish [18], echinoderm MTs contain two globular domains binding four and three bivalent ions [19] On the other hand, in ... Vergani et al right-handed b domain binds three bivalent metal ions The C-terminal a domain is left-handed and binds four bivalent ions Zinc is preferentially located in the b domain and cadmium in...
... feature: /p/ and /b/ (pin, bin) /θ/ and /ð/ (think, the) /f/ and /v/ (fast, vast) /t∫ / and /dȜ / (choke, joke) /∫ /and / Ȝ / (ship, vision) /k/ and /g/ (core, gore) /t/ and /d/ (to, do) /s/ and /z/ ... Listen and “hands up when you hear” First listening: Hands up when you hear the word beginning with /θ/ Second listening: Hands up when you hear the word beginning with /ð/ Third listening: Hands ... teeth the production of /p/, /b/, and /m/ and lips in the production of /f/, /v/ b, Lower lip and upper teeth – labiodental: /f/, /v/ Produce the words “fat” and “vat”, again paying attention...
... democratic (Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Austria), Christian democratic (Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland), or liberal Anglo-Saxon (Canada, Ireland, UK, US) political ... pressures through reduced social and health expenditures, and federal withdrawal from program responsibility through power devolution to the provinces Bashevkin [49,50] documents the Canadian, UK, and ... and US and to a lesser extent in Canada 9.1 Decline of the welfare state Teeple [11] sees increasing income and wealth inequalities and the weakening of social infrastructures within Canada and...
... Cay and Cat Island) were obtained as a generous gift from J Sanchez, SUNY, Buffalo, NY [1-14C]Arachidonic acid was from Amersham Pharmacia Biotech Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (HETE) and PG standards ... ether/acetic acid (3 : : 0.05, v/v/v) Incubation products and unlabelled authentic PG and HETE standards were visualized with an anisaldehyde spray reagent and brief heating at 90 °C [28] For product quantification, ... prepared and expressed in the baculovirus system The mutants were incubated with [1-14C]arachidonic acid in the presence of SnCl2 and the products were analysed by TLC (Figs and 3, and Table...
... (e.g DHPC, dihexanoylsn-glycero-phosphocholine and DMPC, dimyristoylsn-glycero-phosphocholine) and it has been established that a mixture of DMPC and DHPC produces disk-shaped bicelles [16–18] ... States and coworkers [28] The spectral widths in the two-dimensional experiments were 9000 Hz in both dimensions and typically the number of complex points collected in the x2 dimension was 4096 and ... points in the x2 dimension and to 4096 points in the x1 dimension prior to Fourier transformation NOESY experiments [29] were recorded with mixing times of 100, 150 and 300 ms and TOCSY experiments...
... operations in the region and throughout the Midwest (more than 40 million are in this production system in North America; USDA 2003) Fertilizer and pesticide applications for corn and soybeans followed ... soil carbon, soil nitrogen, and soil water content were measured in all systems In addition, seasonal total rainfall, energy inputs and returns, and economic inputs and returns were determined ... 6368, and 6553 kg per for the organic animal, organic legume, and conventional systems, respectively (Pimentel et al 2005) Overall, soybean yields from 1981 through 2001 were 2461, 2235, and 2546...
... g i n a PiG, and by the constraints i n t r o d u c e d via functional structures in LFG In a GPSG on the other hand, recurslon and the checking of the dependencies go hand in hand in a sense ... (Joshi and Levy,1981)) Thus L2 and L3 in some ways characterize the limiting cases of context-sensitlvlty that can be achieved by TAG's and TAG's with local constraints In (JoshI,Levy, and Takahashi,1975) ... Theoretical, and Computational Perseptives, (edso Dowry, O., Karttunen, L., and Zwicky, A.), Cambridge University Press, (to appear) constraints checked Thus in a TAG, lexical insertion goes hand in hand...
... pupper and plower) that result and solving for p0 = pupper, and then setting z = from setting z = and solving for p0 = plower (Here, as in Section 7.2.4, denotes the variate value from the standard ... intervals Confidence intervals using the method of Agresti and Coull The method recommended by Agresti and Coull (1998) and also by Brown, Cai and DasGupta (2001) (the methodology was originally developed ... the significance level, ; and the risk, First choose the level of significance and beta risk The sample size is determined by first choosing appropriate values of andand then following the directions...
... contained within k standard deviations of the mean as shown in the following table Percentage of observations contained between the mean and k standard deviations k, No of Standard Deviations Empircal ... pL: Open an EXCEL spreadsheet and put the starting value of 0.5 in the A1 cell Put =BINOMDIST(Nd -1, N, A1, TRUE) in B1, where Nd -1 = and N = 20 Open the Tools menu and click on GOAL SEEK The GOAL ... than CA, where and Z is the upper 100x(1- ) percentile of the standard normal distribution The test significance level is 100x(1- ) For a 90% significance level use Z = 1.282 and for a 95% test...
... STANDFLUX model The STANDFLUX model [13, 15] inte- grates three-dimensional information on stand structure and vertical information on stand microclimate to compute spatial light interception and ... (21 and 25 mm month for measured and predicted values) Very similar estimates c of E were obtained in June (13), July (28 and 29), September (8 and 7) and October (4 mm month for measured and ... dynamics and quantification of storage capacities at the tree and stand level [10] and on the improvement of was Alsheimer M., Köstner B., Tenhunen J.D., Canopy transpiration of Norway spruce stands...
... contributions AF and LC designed the study LC performed RapidArc and IMRT planning GN, AC and EV performed measurements and data analysis All contributed to writing, reviewing and approval of ... heart and healthy tissue Tables 1, and summarise numerical findings from DVH, delivery and pre-treatment dosimetry analyses Data are presented as averages over the investigated patients and errors ... patients) of the left and right lungs, heart and healthy tissue (total body volume in the CT Mean DVHs (averaged over the 10 patients) of the left and right lungs, heart and healthy tissue (total...
... Materials and methods Cell proliferation and cell death analyses PC12 cell proliferation upon stimulation with 50 and 100 ng/ml VEGF165 (R&D Systems) was assayed after 24 h, 48 h, and 72 h using ... cells from apoptosis through VEGF165 is likely also due to its short-lived and relatively small effect on ERK1/2 and Akt VEGF-induced neuroprotective signaling via VEGFR-2, NRP1 and the two above-mentioned ... VEGF and NGF activation kinetics was performed Our results on growth factor stimulated PC12 cells show that both the anti-apoptotic effect and the activation of ERK1/2 and Akt were transient and...
... Expression of RhoA and Rac1 in fibroblasts from BALF and bronchial biopsies from patients with SSc and mild asthma Figure Expression of RhoA and Rac1 in fibroblasts from BALF and bronchial biopsies ... from BALF and bronchial biopsies from patients with mild asthma and SSc Expression of fibronectin isoforms in fibroblasts from BALF and bronchial biopsies from patients with mild asthma and SSc ... biopsies Production of patients with SSc andfrom BALF and bronchial Production of SRp20 in fibroblasts from BALF and bronchial biopsies from patients with SSc and mild asthma Fibroblasts were harvested...
... accelerate hospital discharge and provide home-based care: an overview and cost analysis Pharmacoeconomics 2002, 20(8):537-52 Andersen R and Newman JF Societal and individual determinants of ... medical, nursing and therapy staff – who together, as a network, warrant integrated, expert and coherent treatment and care for stroke patients in all phases – i.e., acute, rehabilitation and chronic ... to costs, health effects, quality and organisation of care, and compared to three reference regions representing current standard care for stroke in the Netherlands [8] It is not known which specific...
... scaffolds, scaffold givenupper and itself primers, Click andusedfile(assembly and cumulative of honeygenotyped honey bee,forcontaining sequencesize andinthename,map of colA PDFandKosambithe a microsatellite-basedthethe ... (UDC) in the progeny of B and 0.804 in the progeny of V The probability of a single UDC was 0.011 and that of more than one UDC was 6.10-5 in the B progeny and 0.176 and 0.021, respectively, for ... are diploid and produced by sexual reproduction (fertilized oocytes) There is generally a single queen per colony and tens of thousands of sterile workers Males (drones) are haploid and develop...
... native gel electrophoresis as a low mobility band, and on SDS-PAGE as a higher mass band (Figure 6a) In both instances, the bands could be excised and digested with trypsin or endopeptidase LysC, ... lachrymal and parotid gland tissue [23], and the set of cDNAs and ESTs corresponding to this locus in GenBank are limited to these tissues The second is B6 gene 16/S7 gene 8, for which the S7 and B6 ... in urine (B6 genes 17 and 18), two are non-urinary (1 and 16) and two have never been detected experimentally (2 and 19; Figure 7) It has been suggested that signaling ligands may be transferred...
... mollusk, crustacean, flesh and offal of fish and other animals They can be feed on gains, nuts, seeds, fruits, algae, tender leaves and stems of aquatic plans (Nandlal and Pickering, 2005) Nevertheless, ... juveniles (case 1) was 62.4 g/inds and prawn stocked from post larvae (case 2) was 53.6 g/inds Survival rate and yield of prawn was 44.1% and 946 kg/ha in case and 42.8% and 679 kg/ha in case 2, respectively ... variable and matching method to measuring farmers‟ perceptions - Descriptive statistics: fixed and variable costs, revenue and profit - Cross – tabulation analysis: price and revenue, profit and revenue,…...
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