... chloroform and then melatonin levels were measured by radioimmunoassay using a commercially available kit (ALPCO Diagnostics, Salem, NH) The sensitivity of the assay was 0.2 pg/ml Intra-Assay variability ... bold Animals in which the serum melatonin rhythm was damped are indicated in italic (Amp = amplitude) Mesor Rat # Rat # Rat # Rat # Rat # Rat # Rat # Rat # Rat # Rat # 10 Rat # 11 Rat # 12 Rat ... Circadian rhythms in physiology and behavior have been described in a wide variety of organisms ranging from bacteria to humans These rhythms are driven by circadian pacemakers that are capable of...
... the calibration temperatures • The calibration temperatures need to be suitably far apart to allow an accurate calculation of the slope given the ADC resolution Calibration temperatures around ... measured using the ADC and can be used uncalibrated for coarse temperature measurements For more precise temperature measurements, calibration is required to account for device parameter variation ... the applications operating range For applications which only need to know a certain temperature, such as a temperature limit, the best accuracy results can be achieved by calibrating at that temperature...
... recent years, advanced analytical methods have become available to assess the authenticity and quality of Vaccinium compositions for research purposes and standardization of commercial products for ... Analysis of botanicals and dietary supplements for antioxidant capacity: a review J AOAC Int 83: 950–956 Prior, R.L., Cao, G 1999 In vivo total antioxidant capacity: comparison of different analytical ... intensify the effects of barbiturates, causing excessive sedation 352 P.B Kaufman et al 14.3.1 Medical Risks in the Useof Kava Kava (Piper methysticum): A Case Study Kava kava is a herbal ingredient...
... cheap and generally reliable although occasionally agarose components can pass through the glass wool plug It is better to usea standard agarose rather than a low-melting-temperature agarose as ... clone Antisense strand (attB2) Sense strand (attB1) Add attB sites to PCR product Then treat PCR product with T4 DNA polymerase + dATP 5’GAC GAC GAC AAG ATX-targetsequence 3’ 5’GAC GAC GAC AAG3’AX-targetsequence ... frame is maintained 5’G GGG ACA AGT TTG TAC AAA AAA GCA GGC Recombine with Donor vector containing T-target sequence 3’ attP1 and attP2 sites Ensure the reading frame is maintained as shown for the...
... is often required for this type of analysis • Raw materials Raw materials are often analyzed before acceptance by a factory, or before use in a particular manufacturing process, to ensure that ... the reason for carrying out the analysis Information about the various analytical procedures available can be obtained from a number of different sources An analytical procedure may already be ... important criteria for this type of test are often the accuracy of the measurements and the useof an official method The government has recently carried out a survey of many of the official analytical...
... Qualitative data as an attractive nuisance: the problem of analysis Administrative Science Quarterly 24: 590–601 Nonaka I 1994 A dynamic theory of organizational knowledge creation Organization ... plants to head of ce Each machine team sets targets annually, and follows up performance regularly Benchmarking is made feasible, and plants who want to improve performance on a particular machine ... Aspiration and strategic ambitions Because each plant investigated was run as a profit centre and was normally measured (by corporate headquarters) on operating margin and/or return on operating capital,...
... Small-Scale Previously Disadvantaged Producers in the South African Organic Market: Adoption Model and Institutional Approach A Masters Dissertation.Michigan State University Departmentof Agricultural ... Transkei area Ntebe and Gcamnge are types of wild weed which are not be eaten and also associated with madness when consumed Vumbangweis a plant notfor human consumption but used for dandruff ... can be attributed to access of information by males compared to females Briz and Ward (2009) also found that males showed a slightly higher level of awareness than females Education was positively...
... determinant of banks’ internal capital targets and that banks’ capitalisation relative to an internal target is an important determinant of balance sheet growth, for three different measures of balance ... affect the bank’s capital management We develop this research further by estimating banks’ internal capital targets as a function of capital requirements, calculating a measure of bank capitalization ... an understanding of how capital requirements affect bank behaviour and in particular, capital management and lending practices.3 Our paper examines the evidence fora ‘bank capital channel’ and...
... of 639 for the final model in Table Measure of Takeoff Recall that we used an operational measure (achieving 2% penetration) to measure the year of takeoff because we did not have sales data for ... Year of Takeoff The literature contains many measures of takeoff Agarwal and Bayus (2002) define takeoff as the central partition between a pretakeoff and posttakeoff period, determined by a percentage ... data from a variety of sources including a search of secondary data over hundreds of A5 hours (Historical Statistics of Japan, Historical Statistics of Canada, Electrical Merchandising, Merchandising,...
... P1O 5¢-ATACCATGGACAAAACCCACAGTACAATG P1OH 5¢-CATATGCACAAAACCCACAGTAC P2O 5¢-TATGGATCCTTAATTAGAAACAAACTGTCTGA TAAAC P2OH 5¢-CTCGAGATTAGAAACAAACTGTCTGATAAACC P1Z 5¢-ATACCATGGCTGGAGAAGACTTTAAGATC P1ZH ... 5¢-CATATGACTGGAGACTTTAAGATC P2Z 5¢-TATGGATCCTCACCACCCAATTTCGGAAAG P2ZH 5¢-CTCGAGCCACCCAATTTCGGAAAGT Table Over-expression plasmids for Sno1p and Snz1p prepared in this study Symbols O, Z and ... the absorbance of the supernatant was read at 363 nm The absorbance of the reduced form of APAD (APADH) was linear over the 2–100 lM range of glutamate with a molar extinction coefficient of 8900...
... (Warning—Extremely flammable) 7.1.2 Alcohol, Ethanol (Warning—Flammable) D 97 – 05 8.5 After the specimen has cooled to allow the formation of paraffin wax crystals, take great care not to disturb the mass of ... Temperature Apparatus X1.7 Preparation of Apparatus X1.6.4 Mercury Manometer calibrated in 10-mm divisions with a distinguishing mark at 152 mm (equivalent to 20.3 kPa) X1.6.5 Automatic Vacuum ... either for revision of this standard or for additional standards and should be addressed to ASTM International Headquarters Your comments will receive careful consideration at a meeting of the...
... WikiCategoryGraph categoryTree = WikiCategoryGraphFactory.getCategoryGraphForLanguage(Language.EN); categoryTree.getCategoryGraph().score(new PageRank()); Figure 3: Java API sample usage phrase ... source Programmatic access to the encyclopedia makes also available in a straightforward manner the large amount of structured text in Wikipedia (e.g for building a language model), as well as its ... French and Italian Wikipedias and can be easily extended to other languages4 Software Architecture Wikipedia is freely available for download, and can be accessed using robust Open Source applications,...
... country A large part of it was used in building the railroads and the remainder was utilized as the raw material for the manufacture ofa great variety of iron and steel products that were used in all ... a rail and water line; the Illinois River was connected with Lake Michigan at Chicago; the St Mary's Falls Canal was built to aid the navigation of the Great Lakes, and many other waterways of ... the rapid growth of internal trade which followed the adoption of the "American System" caused a demand everywhere for more roads and canals and a widespread agitation in favor of government aid...
... relevant pharmacokinetics, chemical analysis, and analysis of biofluids are unique to this volume, and will be ofuse to pathologists and forensic scientists, as well as to clinicians Animal, human, ... 1998, 1264 papers were published about cocaine and only 17 about kava kava, an abused herb that is not without toxic side effects Unfortunately, the majority of the papers about kava kava were published ... plants Traditional physicians and scientists generally believe that, if a plant has any medicinal value at all, it is because it con- Page vi tains one "active" ingredient that must be isolated...
... d’Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Honduras Kenya Lao P.D.R Liberia Madagascar Mali Mauritania Mozambique Myanmar Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe ... Chile Arturo Aylwin A Contraloria General de la República Yemen Ahmad Mohamed Al-Eryani Central Auditing Organization for Control and Auditing Jordan Abed Kharabbsheh Audit Bureau Egypt Gawdat Ahmed ... Eleonora Mitrofanova Accounts Chamber Zambia F.M Siame, Gilbert Muyalwa Office of the Auditor General Korea Jong-Nam Lee Board of Audit and Inspection Gabon ´ Gilbert Ngoulakia, Lebondo Le-Mali Vincent...
... earlier, available management tools and techniques for each area, and input and outputs of each area (Jacobson et al., 2006) In this research, the authors attend to two areas of project management ... kind of manpower to apply various statistical and managerial methods or tools (Ahmed and Hassan, 2003; Ale Ebrahim et al., 2009b) SMEs shy away from formal projects and long-term initiatives and ... project management performance assessment (pmpa) model J Project Manage., 27(4): 378-388 Ramaprasad A, Prakash AN (2003).Emergent project management: How foreign managers can leverage local knowledge...