... parents The importance of maintaining the first or home language Why is it important to be bilingual? Maintaining the first language in children under three Maintaining the first language in years ... understanding and use of English increases, they get pleasure in practising their own writing They can describe their drawings etc., and match written words in games They will often want to copy their ... assessed in their first language before assuming that the child has language delay Efforts should be made to interview parents in their home language to find out how well the child is using their...
Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20
... beginning with the early Church Fathers and culminating in the great Scholastics But, at last, its generative ideas—sin and salvation, nature and grace, unity, infinity, and kingdom—had done their ... too As long as sense was supposed to be the chief factor in knowledge, psychologists took a prime interest in the organs that were the windows of the mind, and in the details of their functioning; ... certainly seemed as though all human knowledge could be cast in the new mold; certainly as though nothing in any other mold could hope to jell And indeed, nothing much has jelled in any other...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:25
Báo cáo khoa học: Functionally distinct dopamine and octopamine transporters in the CNS of the cabbage looper moth* potx
... TrnOATexpressing cells was assessed in cells incubated in Na+-free saline or in cells mock-infected with virus expressing a-glucuronidase (GUS) protein (Fig 6) [3H]DA binding ể FEBS 2003 Monoamine transporters ... cocaine inhibition (IC50 ẳ 70 lM) These ndings fail to support the notion that the neuronal octopamine uptake system is the main insecticidal target of cocaine [13,38] This notion was based on the ... of 3.8 kb was assembled by joining the two RACE sequences at a region of overlap in the center of the original 612 bp sequence Two primers were then designed at the outer ends of the full sequence...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:22
molecular and cellular biology of neuroprotection in the cns - christian alzheimer
... requires binding of a coagonist to the so-called glycine-binding site of the NMDA receptor Very recently, the amino acid D-serine has been suggested to be an endogenous ligand for the glycine-binding ... potentially increasing excitotoxic damage Calcineurin has been convincingly demonstrated to be involved in neuronal cell death since pharmacological experiments using the calcineurin inhibitors ... space In summary, hypoxia/ischemia results in a secondary net increase in the extracellular glutamate concentration.77-79 As in the other above-mentioned acute CNS insults, this increase in extracellular...
Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 12:51
coats & schauberger - nature as teacher - new principles in the working of nature (1998)
... encompass such meanings as: - pertaining to the first age of the world, or of anything ancient; - pertaining to or existing from the earliest beginnings;- constituting the earliest beginning or ... are in the end but cries in the wilderness Moving as it does in the realm of the phenomenal, the mind is unable to perceive the nature of the thing as such and therefore, as Kant says, remains ... mistake their cultural and economic decline for a passing crisis and strive in vain to master the increasingly widespread misery, lies mainly in the intellectual deterioration of humanity Conforming...
Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 12:23
LONDON AND PARIS AS INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL CENTRES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY pot
... business elite,22 has been pervasive in Britain since the eighteenth century This point arises whether one considers the ‘weight’ of finance in the British economy or the position of the financial ... ones, bringing it into conflict with the provincial markets.25 A Financial Phoenix 23 However, the focus of the City remained international in the 1920s for there was the expectation that the global ... hostilities, the pressure remained, being exerted through the influence the government possessed as the largest single player in the London money and capital markets This was especially the case in the...
Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 00:20
Holcim has strengthened its balance sheet and earning power and positioned itself as an attractive group in the international capital markets
... the Philippines and underpin their separate assets available Although the Group has no the financial investments made since the last capital increase commitments toward these pension funds other ... non-operating assets Total The increase in financial income is mainly due to an impair- In 2004, other ordinary (expenses) income net also include ment loss recognized in 2003 for the Group’s investment ... expansion holding in Cemento de El Salvador The company, which was of the group of consolidated companies, as well as increases in included in the consolidated financial statements for the first the size...
Ngày tải lên: 30/07/2014, 17:22
Báo cáo y học: " Fetal bone as a foreign body in the urinary bladder: a case report" pot
... migrated into the bladder and was retained in the urinary bladder wall for years, as no such case has been reported in the literature It is thought that injury to the bladder wall occurred during ... penetrated into the bladder The perforation sealed itself on the vaginal side and the patient suffered symptoms due to the presence of the foreign body in the bladder wall The presence of bone in the ... cystostomy and injection of solvents Endoscopic retrieval is the treatment of choice Grasping instruments may be required including grasping forceps, stone basket, stone punch and other modified instruments...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo y học: "Pre- and post-bronchodilator lung function as predictors of mortality in the Lung Health Study" pot
... the study, drafting the manuscript, and interpreting the results ASB assisted in acquiring the data, drafting the manuscript, and interpreting the results All authors have read and approved the ... function measurements at these visits The rationale for using these visits was that the inclusion criteria limited the range of lung disease severity at baseline to mild and moderate COPD, whereas a ... categorized into categories ( < 25, 25-29, and >= 30 kg/m2), and was used as a continuous variable in the survival analyses All subjects were smokers at baseline, so smoking status was classified based...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo y học: " Bench-to-bedside review: The gut as an endocrine organ in the critically ill" pdf
... promise in accelerating gastric emptying in healthy individuals and ambulant patients [6] Incretin-based therapies are likely to find a place in the management of hyperglycaemia in the intensive ... satiation in postoperative patients [33] The suppression of ghrelin (that is, change from fasting concentration), however, was apparent because of elevated fasting levels While the increase in fasting ... stimulated during the interdigestive state, and the peak plasma motilin concentration coincides with the onset of frequent gastrointestinal antegrade contractions (that is, phase III of the migrating motor...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22
Sirtuin2 in the CNS expression, functional roles, action mechanism and mutation induced alteration of molecular cell biological properties
... regulation of myosin phosphorylation and actomyosin assembly, Rho kinase functions in coordinating the movement of glial membrane to enwrap the axon in the onset of myelination (Melendez-Vasquez et al., ... gila in the physiology of the brain and the adverse consequences of their dysfunction (Baumann and Pham-Dinh, 2001) There are four main glial cell Introduction types in the nervous system: astrocytes, ... Summary the context of brain aging, neurodegenerative diseases and dys- or demyelination as well as the exact role of hNter domain in relation to evolution xix Introduction CHAPTER INTRODUCTION Introduction...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:11
Journey as allegory of reading in the dramatic monologues of robert browning
... Browning and his critics not mention metonymy when discussing the Ring figure in the poem; instead they refer to the Ring as a metaphor, and none of them, including Browning himself, have examined ... all in the body of my thesis, it acts as a challenge by forcing it to dissect Browning’s poems in order to find aims other than ‘meaning’ in Browning’s poetry So far, I have outlined the field in ... worked well in that it encouraged symbiotic readings I was then led to look into yet other methods, including the historical and the biographical, as seen in the Alberti and the Vasari accounts...
Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:24
Distribution of secretory phopholipase group XIIA in the CNS and its role in lipid metabolism and cognition
... modified into eicosanoids via the action of cyclooxygenases, thereby releasing inflammatory regulators such as prostaglandins and leukotrienes (Dennis, 1994) On the other hand, phospholipids including ... acetylcholine, dopamine and norepinephrine During signal transduction, the movement of calcium ions into the axon terminals induces the docking of neurotransmitter filled vesicles onto the pre-synaptic ... and brainstem (Shirai and Ito, 2004) The significance of PLA2 in maintaining membrane lipid homeostasis of the brain is evident in all these studies However, the expression profile of the various...
Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 17:04
An investigation into nominalization in english and vietnamese newspapers as grammatical metaphor device in the functional grammar perspective
... using nominalization, the writer can foreground the information functioning as a Theme and background it functioning as Rheme As a Theme: (110) An increase in power tariffs in India is inevitable ... below the clause just happens to nominal group that function as a participant in the clause In English: (58) The prettiness of the drawings makes it easier to stomach the more upsetting things the ... its operation in in Functional Grammar In the clause, nominalization occurs in the process, in the modality, in the attribute and in the circumstance Nominalization works well in five of six...
Ngày tải lên: 14/05/2016, 18:40
báo cáo khoa học: " Whole-Organ analysis of calcium behaviour in the developing pistil of olive (Olea europaea L.) as a tool for the determination of key events in sexual plant " ppsx
... observed in the methylene blue-stained sections (Figure 5D and 5D’) In the style of the pistil at stage 4, the most intense labelling was located along the transmitting tissue, whereas the remaining ... The strong decrease of the Ca2+ pool in the pistil at the last stages of pistil development coincides with the degradation of the stigma tissues The decay of the stigma is the first step in the ... this stage, the main task of the flower bud is to complete the growth and maturation of anthers and the pistil Consequently, the intensity of the signalling events in the stigma of the flower...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21
USING BRAND AS AN EFFECTIVE WEAPON TO COMPETE IN THE MARKET: A CASE STUDY OF NHAT LINH COMPANY
... BRAND Line Extensions Line Extensions in existing in existing Product Class Product Class Stretching the Stretching the Brand Vertically Brand Vertically in existing in existing Product Class Product ... literature involving building and maintaining brand The chapter will also highlight the importance of branding in the marketplace 2.2 What is a Brand? There are many definitions of “brand” Following ... in order to take over the market shares of others The demand for the product is slowing down in big cities such as Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, but increasing in other provinces (Company report,...
Ngày tải lên: 13/04/2013, 10:29
A STUDY ON THE USE OF CLASSROOM DISCIPLINE AS MOTIVATION FOR SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION IN THE CONTEXT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEAC
... re-motivate their students in their learning process In all the cases, motivation referred to as the key factor in eliciting perfect performance from the learners As overused as the term may sound, ... it is the learners and the teachers who play the primary role in managing a disciplined atmosphere in the classroom In the light of Communicative Language Teaching, where the roles of the learners ... deals with the practical issues of second language acquisition in the classroom, therefore only the main theoretical aspects of linguistics shall be under discussion in the study The study seeks...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:06
Stringing in the Key of C#
... strings for easier parsing However, the more common and more difficult case involves breaking a single string into substrings, manipulating them separately, and then recombining them into a single, ... string into a set of substrings using the characters to be removed as delimiters The delimiter is not included in the substrings created, which has the effect of removing the character(s) The ... put the two substrings back together with the // character in the middle missing sOutput = String.Concat(sBefore, sAfter); } return sOutput; } } } Chapter 9: Stringing in the Key of C# The key...
Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2013, 21:20
Children security as part of the " living together with floods" strategy in the Mekong river delta, VietNam
... in the high inundated areas are not attending their schools The beginning and the end of the rainy season are the best time for mosquito reproduction resulting in mosquito-based diseases A recurrent ... but others were not trained There is no official swimming training in the school program in the Mekong River Delta It seems an irrational structure for children living in a floodplain as the Delta ... data showing high percentage of child deaths in the total the losses of life in the flood seasons in the MD Save the Children (2003) reported that the vast majority of the drowning deaths in recent...
Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 12:15