... airtight window frames were made from aluminum instead of iron or wood in those days Egyptian and Syrian forces launched coordinated attacks on Israeli forces in the Sinai and Golan Height in 1973 ... phthalates were detected predominantly in indoor air samples.93) The dominant path of phthalates intake was the ingestion of foodstuffs compared to inhalation of indoor air by children.94) n-Tetradecane ... can meet local needs in dealing with SHS.152) CONCLUSION Healthy indoor air is a fundamental right for people studying in schools, working inof ces and living in residences Indoor air quality...
... Describing the ritual as it is performed today in Japan, the essay shows how continuity of ritual tradition is maintained in Zen even into the postwar era in which the Emperor’s role in maintaining ... (shusan), or sutra reading (kankin) Just sit in meditation (taza) and attain the dropping off of mind and body (shinjin datsuraku).20 ¯ ¯ In the generations following Keizan Jokin (1268–1325), however, ... Rekindling of a Tradition: Menzan Zuiho and the Reform of Japanese Soto Zen in the Tokugawa Era.’’ ALBERT WELTER is professor of religious studies at the University of Winnipeg, specializing in...
... terminated at the recommendation of the safety monitoring board because of a low likelihood of meeting the prospectively defined objective of demonstrating a significant reduction in the risk of ... failure [8] The presence of a sequence effect in low-risk patients only may suggest the difficulty of making the diagnosis of severe sepsis in this clinical setting The influence of protocol violations ... applicability of the study results to a more general severe sepsis population The use of severity scoring systems in clinical trials may require training and validation of the training to ensure...
... in the leaf litter and soil as well We thus combined searches of snails in and above the litter and obtained good general results, both in terms of the number of species and the homogeneity of ... monitoring scheme A handbook for field and laboratory methods Finnish Environmental Institute Nordic Council of Ministers, Helsinki ´ Walden HW (1981) Communities and diversity of land mollusc in ... confidence intervals are given BN Nb of boards 0 Fig Number (Nb) of land snail species obtained in three parks (JE, BN, LA) according to replication of the samples; the randomisation curves were obtained...
... during the cycles of freezing and thawing, which leads to the exposure of new Ca++-binding sites Binding of Ca++ to these sites caused inhibition of the antifreeze and chitinase activities of ... onset of SAR (Dong, 1998) It is also involved in the feedback regulation of SA biosynthesis during SAR (Cao et al., 1997) NPR1 is an ankyrin-repeat containing protein, a domain often involved in ... rearranged after freezing and thawing, which led to the exposure of new Ca++-binding sites Binding of Ca++ to these sites caused inhibition of the antifreeze and chitinase activities of these complexes...
... CAD Most of the associations have been replicated in independent studies, indicating that the findings are genuine novel 23 associations The main GWAS findings for CAD are summarized in Table ... and maintenance of caveolae is regulated by caveolin, the main protein component of caveolae Caveolin-1 is the most important member of the caveolin family It is the key component of the intracellular ... activity of the inhibitor in response to androgen, thus lead to increased risk of thrombosis and CAD[137] In 2012, a meta-analysis of two Chinese GWAS of CAD was conducted in a larger sample size of...
... protein molecules and their interactions with DNA in real-time reactions and the dynamics of their DNA-binding Therefore, my objective of finding the characteristics of protein binding to single ... HU bind to DNA non-cooperatively causing DNA bending (20) at low protein binding density While at high protein binding density, IHF can crosslink DNA causing DNA condensation in the presence of ... is an NAP constituting 7–10% of the total protein in Mtb (78) It consists of 205 amino acid residues and contains large amounts of alanine (23.78% of total amino acids) and lysine (18.93%), with...
... SIMULATION STUDIESOF THE GEOTHERMAL RESOURCE IN SINGAPORE HENDRIK TJIAWI B.Eng.(Hons.), NUS A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING ... map of part of SE Asia 49 3.5 Mean annual rainfall in Singapore 50 3.6 Relief map of Singapore 51 3.7 Sea water depth around Singapore ... Logging 165 A.1 Core Logging of BH9 166 A.2 Core Logging of BH16 173 B Publications 180 B.1 Geothermal Desalination in Singapore ...
... known hot springs in Singapore, i.e one at Sembawang and two at Pulau Tekong Those hot springs are part of the series of hot springs in the granite terrain of Malaysian Peninsula [57] Out of the three ... surface of the earth The worldwide installed capacity of geothermal plants in 2010 is shown in Figure 1.5, with total installed capacity of 10,898 MWe The top five countries in terms of installed ... coated cutter, with dry cutting The refining cut (smoothing and polishing of flat 28 surfaces) cannot be performed in the lab due to tool limitation in handling the thin sample (12 mm thick), and...
... acknowledged the “pioneering [of] cross-cultural productions: staging in Indian dance drama style stories of non-Indian origin” These were just a few efforts signifying the beginning of interculturalism ... Soo Pong “Singapore” The Dances of Asean Ed Tinggal, Zainal Abiddin Brunei Darussalam: Asia Printers, 1998 175 50 Chua Soo Pong “Singapore” The Dances of Asean Ed Tinggal, Zainal Abiddin Brunei ... Singapore: Ministry of Information and The Arts, 2000 12 57 Ministry of Information and The Arts “Chapter Three: “Benchmarking Cities” Renaissance City Report Singapore: Ministry of Information...
... Introduction The morbidity and incidences of allergic asthma particularly in children are increasing worldwide The role of interleukin-13 (IL-13) as one of the major players in the genetics of ... IL-4Rα is a 140-kd protein, consisting of an open reading frame of 825 amino acids, including a 25-amino-acid signal sequence [63, 67] Consequences of IL-13 overproduction include symptoms such ... particular antihistamines, inhibit SPT responses by interfering with mast cell and histamine responses 20 2.11 Reason and aims of doing this study Owing to preceding studies demonstrating that the region...
... averaged 75% of the value of the lower rank (nearer the top of the list) with 25% of the value of the higher rank A final score was obtained by combining the results from each method in this way, ... 200 Number of genes 250 300 15 10 250 300 Figure dystrophy dataset A comparison of each method in 1v1 subsampling of a Duchenne muscular A comparison of each method in 1v1 subsampling of a Duchenne ... comparison of each method in 2v2 subsampling of a Duchenne muscular A comparison of each method in 2v2 subsampling of a Duchenne muscular dystrophy dataset The most positive results are clearly seen in...
... organizational learning: Representing and maintaining knowledge in an experience base, in Proc Tenth Int Conf on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE98, 1998 44 T Dingsứyr, A lifecycle ... methods according to the subject of study; in software engineering it can be either a process to produce software or a software product In an article on research methods in software engineering [30] ... years of conferences like the International Conference on Software Engineering, The Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering Conference, the International Conference on Product Focused Software...
... miles in 30 minutes Bicycling miles in 30 minutes Raking leaves for 30 minutes Dancing fast (social) for 30 minutes Walking miles in 30 minutes (15 min/mile) Water aerobics for 30 minutes Shoveling ... would include walking a 15-minute mile, weeding and hoeing a garden, carrying a load, cycling, skiing, tennis, and dancing High activity would include jogging a mile in 10 minutes, walking with ... for 15 minutes Swimming laps for 20 minutes Stairwalking for 15 minutes Basketball (playing a game) for 15–20 minutes Jumping rope for 15 minutes Running 11/2 miles in 15 minutes (15 min/mile)...
... the content of this report during the course of its preparation In early March 2006, I gained valuable insights into various aspects of evolving Air Force and Navy integration in joint warfare ... be thinking routinely in terms of integrated air operations with other services in the same battlespace For example, the new vision, instead of focusing on defense against massed waves of Soviet ... later in 1980 in TOPGUN large -force training exercises that featured Air Force participation; four F-14A sorties, including two arrested landings in USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), with VF-1 out of Miramar...
... policies relating to building layout and recreational spaces, catering (including vending machines) and the food and drink children bring into school, the taught curriculum (including PE), school ... ‘specific’ is used if the training will be in addition to staff’s basic training The term ‘relevant’ is used for training that could be part of basic professional training or in addition to it 1.1 Public ... active, in line with existing standards and guidance This includes policies relating to building layout and recreational spaces, catering (including vending machines) and the food and NICE clinical...
... self-sufficing art of painting Selection, therefore, which is the only practical kind of idealism, had begun as soon as painting was possessed of the power of representing objects in their relations of ... finding every moment something new, some charming piece of gilding, some sweet plumed head, some quaint little tree or town; making a journey of lazy discovery in a sort of world of Prince Charmings, ... ever in the dazzling, vague sheen of the Eternal Feminine Hence, one of the most distinctive features of mediổval love, an extraordinary sameness of intonation, making it difficult to distinguish...