potential mechanisms for the development of an epidemic

... data and model fitting (n = 3) where C2 is the protein in the bulk, C10 is the concentration inside the gel, S and V1 are, respectively, the surface and the volume of film, V2 is the volume of the ... bulk, h is the massive exchange coefficient, Cs0 is the protein concentration on the surface of the film and finally ks is the desorption rate constant Substituting known values and by fitting the experimental ... up to 90% and, in the third day, about 96% of the cells have well-developed neurites Figure 6b reports the trend of neurite length in the time: already after 24 h, the mean length of the neurite...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... Sookanan S: Does pay-forperformance improve the quality of health care? Ann Intern Med 2006, 145:265-272 Profit J, Zupancic JA, Gould JB, Petersen LA: Implementing pay-forperformance in the neonatal ... summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of using composite indicators, regardless of field or purpose We will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of composite indicators focusing on their ... metrics of quality [16,17] In other words, performance in one aspect of care quality is not necessarily Page of 10 Table Advantages and disadvantages of composite indicators Advantage Disadvantage...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... Sookanan S: Does pay-forperformance improve the quality of health care? Ann Intern Med 2006, 145:265-272 Profit J, Zupancic JA, Gould JB, Petersen LA: Implementing pay-forperformance in the neonatal ... summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of using composite indicators, regardless of field or purpose We will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of composite indicators focusing on their ... metrics of quality [16,17] In other words, performance in one aspect of care quality is not necessarily Page of 10 Table Advantages and disadvantages of composite indicators Advantage Disadvantage...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... understanding of rules and principles and an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses, advantages and disadvantages, articulated in debate and otherwise claimed for each I report on this analysis of ... My exploration of gender and cultural differences will be directed towards the development of an understanding of the properties of the DRP instrument RQ6: Are there any gender and cultural differences ... friend and flatmate I also wish to thank Alan S Johnston for proofreading my thesis I would like to thank my two supervisors, Professor John Francis McKernan and Professor Patrick J O’Donnell for their...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 21:58

... director of the branch will responsible for approving the loan application form or not if the value of the loan does not exceed 500 million In case of an exceed, the director of the branch will ... safety of loans There always exists the companion of the bank in customers’ process of using loans • Step 1: This step consists of promoting products and receiving the loan application forms Then, ... has been enlarged, expanded the scope and form of lending to customers The orientation of the branch: expanding, strengthening and improving the operational efficiency of the office agency To attract...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2013, 11:20

... In these models one typically thinks of the sites of Zd as cells which can be of two types (for instance B and A or infected and susceptible) Cells can change their type to the type of one of their ... which proves the shape theorem without much of the development of [KSb] for (1.1) The precise form of the shape theorem here is as follows: Theorem Consider the model described in the abstract ... for awarding him a Tage Erlander Professorship for 2002 Further support for HK came from the NSF under Grant DMS9970943 and from Eurandom HK thanks Eurandom for appointing him as Eurandom Professor...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 06:20

... Project management is the manner of implementation, of expertise, paraphernalia, knowledge and modus operandi to an extensive range of activities for the fulfillment of prerequisite of the specific ... concept (either for the company or for the customer) It includes all activities from the development of an idea or a concept for a product, to the realization of the product during the production ... conferencing The duration of the interviews lasted between 50 to h The participants were given an explanation regarding the purpose of the feedback, the purpose of the conceptual model, some background of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... and the estimates for the inverse of the modified linearized operator lead to existence and estimates also for the inverse of the linearized operator Proving the estimates for the inverse of the ... used the local projection of a tensor onto the tangent space of the boundary The paper is organized as follows In Section we reformulate the problem in the Lagrangian coordinates and give the ... body in vacuum This can be thought of as a model for the motion of the ocean or a star The free surface moves with the velocity of the liquid and the pressure vanishes on the free surface This...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... was the first clergyman that had ever been a member of it It consisted of artists and other gentlemen, [86] an equal number of each Cole and Durand and Ingham and Inman and Chapman and Bryant and ... sense than his of the enormity of human slavery Before the first Abolitionist Society had been organized, he was one of the organizers of a committee for the discussion and advancement of emancipation ... time-hallowed prayers, some of the Litanies [82] that have echoed in the ear of all the ages from the early Christian time The churches of Rome and England and Germany have some of these; and in a service-book,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 02:20

... between the surface of the semiconductor and the analyte sensed The surface potential, and therefore the nature of the space charge double layer associated with the surface, depends on the chemistry ... of mainly two semiconductors, silicon and germanium The important physical properties of the transistors were related to the actual area and thickness of the active layer, and the final size and ... used for the evaluation of these sensors not involve any pH changes, since this can interfere with the measurement of the analyte ions These studies of the GaN surface indicate that the unique...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 13:05

... anti-(H-PsbP); lane 2, anti-(H-PsbQ); lane 3, anti(G-PsbQ); lane 4, anti-(R-PsbQ¢); lane 5, anti-(R-PsbV); lane 6, anti(R-PsbU); lane 7, anti-(C-PsbU) C caldarium (Fig 1B) reacted with anti-(R-PsbV) (lane ... [lane 5; anti(R-PsbV)] and cyanobacterial PsbU [lane 7; anti-(CPsbU)], but not with the antibody against red algal PsbU [lane 6; anti-(R-PsbU)] Immunoblot analysis using thylakoid membranes of ... plant species Among the extrinsic proteins, the 33 kDa protein (PsbO) which plays an important role in maintaining the stability and activity of the manganese cluster is present in all of the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 15:21

... interaction) and the Permanent Knowledge (kept during the whole conversation or for the most part of it) These two knowledges inform the rest of the modules about the situation of the conversation and ... XML Language that are responsible (among other factors) for the behaviour of the system during the dialogue The Describer also defines different "squeletons" for the rest of the modules of the ... change of language during the progress of any dialogue, our architecture must deal with the dynamic activation and deactivation of these resources for a particular language 228 Environment for...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:20

... especially in the growing and constantly changing society Therefore, the use of marketing tools to uncover the needs of individual customers can be seen that the initial success of the bank, then banks ... needs and the wants of using banking products The number of students specializing in finance and banking sectors is huge, and their quality is more and more improving VPBank can take advantage of ... understand the bank's website A website is an effective tool to meet the information needs of the customer at any time and anywhere The interface and layout of the website are logically arranged and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2014, 16:41

... agreed with the POMDP approximately 43% of the time for the stop decision The POMDP wanted to stop the exercise to let the user take a break far more often than the therapist wanted If the therapist ... decisions: 1) the distance to set the target, 2) the level to set the resistance, and 3) whether or not to stop the exercise The level of agreement by the therapist to the decisions made by the POMDP ... shoulder) and begins with a slight forward flexion of the shoulder, and extension of the elbow and wrist (Figure 1a) Weight is translated through the heel of the hand as it is pushed forward in the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... performed histological studies and contributed to analysis CSK and BSK analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript All authors have seen and approved the final version of the manuscript ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... alter the development of disease To further understand the immunological mechanisms of the acceleration of TMEVinduced demyelinating disease in poly IC-pretreated SJL mice, we first compared the ... cytometric analysis of the CNS infiltrating mononuclear cells indicated that the proportions of both the CD4+ and CD8+ T cells in TLR3KO-SJL mice were significantly higher than those of the NLM...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... presence of noise and interference In the following, we compare the performance of the SAIC approach using the RLS algorithm and that of the conventional QAM transmission scheme for low DIR values of ... arctan ⎝ π ci Eb /N0 (53) For 2ASK, 4ASK, and 8ASK, respectively, the values of bi and ci can be extracted from the analytical formulas for BEP given in (43), (44), and (45) For determining the ... have been noticed The superior performance of the proposed scheme is confirmed by the given closed-form analysis of the raw BEP Therefore, by exploiting the additional degrees of freedom gained...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20

... presence of noise and interference In the following, we compare the performance of the SAIC approach using the RLS algorithm and that of the conventional QAM transmission scheme for low DIR values of ... arctan ⎝ π ci Eb /N0 (53) For 2ASK, 4ASK, and 8ASK, respectively, the values of bi and ci can be extracted from the analytical formulas for BEP given in (43), (44), and (45) For determining the ... have been noticed The superior performance of the proposed scheme is confirmed by the given closed-form analysis of the raw BEP Therefore, by exploiting the additional degrees of freedom gained...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... lower mean escape latencies (time to find the submerged platform) of the handled animals during the acquisition of the task Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Annals of General ... Effects of handling on MR and GR immunoreactivity in the CA2 region of the hippocampus Effects of handling on MR and GR immunoreactivity in the CA2 region of the hippocampus Handling decreased the ... termination of the testing session and their brains were used for GR and MR immunocytochemistry Immunocytochemistry For the GR and MR immunocytochemistry the same animals were used, whereas for the BDNF...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... equal and omission of any of them did not alter the a value significantly The calculation of sensitivity (Sn) and specificity (Sp) at various cut-off levels for the two scales is shown in Table The ... conceived the study, gathered and managed the data, performed the genetic analysis, participated in the statistical analysis and wrote the paper KNF conceived the study, carried out the literature ... designing the study, analysing the data and writing the paper GB participated in designing the study, analysing the data and writing the paper All authors read and approved the final manuscript...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... PFS and PSM designed the study MAF performed the sample analysis and the statistical evaluation JLG consented the patients and reviewed the demographic data MAF, JLG, PFS and PSM wrote the manuscript ... manuscript CSL reviewed the manuscript All authors contributed to the revisions of the text and approved the final version of this manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing ... levels in anorexia nervosa: a potential biomarker for the severity of disease? Annals of General Psychiatry 2011 10:16 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: •...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21