... determine the number of viable cells but does not provide information about the contribution of cytostatic or cytotoxic effects of the treatment under investigation Therefore, to gain insight into ... perifosine and the prototypic intravenously applicable ErPC3, in preclinical and clinical investigations is based on their ability to induce apoptosis in tumor cells and their ability to increase ... differences inthe sensitivity may be due to a distinct potential of the drugs to interfere with Akt signaling We therefore next examined treatment-induced changes inthelevels of phospho-serine 473...
... child) to 100 (indicating a child with superior functioning) Safety assessments Substance use monitoring In order to monitor for substance use, urine toxicology screens were obtained at the screening ... was monitored throughout the trial It was hypothesized that fluoxetine would be superior to placebo inthe amelioration of depressive symptomatology in this patient population Another hypothesis ... during the current depressive episode Youths with a clinically significant abnormal screening laboratory Youths who were actively suicidal, or if inthe investigator's judgment participation in...
... the text and the intention of the writer In this thesis, the text chosen is theshort story The Law of Life” by the famous American writer, Jack London Aims of the study The study attempts to ... utilize these results to apply in reality With respect to this intention, the study can have the following implications: First, the findings provide us with a useful tool to analyze a text in terms ... related to expansion The analytical method is resorted to when analyzing the text Design of the study The study is designed into parts Part A introduces the reasons for choosing the topic, the aims...
... patients had their postoperative radiographs compared tothe radiographic criteria listed inthe ‘Biomet Grading for the Oxford Knee Score Score to 19 Poor Score 20 to 29 Moderate Score 30 to 39 Good ... ignoring the presence of patellofemoral arthritis (if not clinically symptomatic) as suggested inthe new guidelines by the Oxford group The vast majority of those patients in our study reporting ... current interest in optimising the positioning of UKA to improve functional results, our study failed to demonstrated a correlation between the radiographic alignment of the prosthesis and the patients...
... social functioning domains; 2) associated with improvement in SAD symptomatology inthe long term as well as intheshort term; 3) and associated with low severity of SAD symptomatology, non-generalized ... of the study might have been too small to identify statistically significant changes inthe domains of the SF-36 or to detect potential baseline predictors of the SF-36 at the follow-ups Nevertheless, ... point (pot-treatment and 3- and 12-month follow-ups) on the eight domainscores of the SF-36 and the symptomatological measures of SAD Changes inthe total scores of each of the SAD symptomatology...
... release the inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) The disinhibition of dopamine-containing neurons inthe ventral tegmental area (VTA) allows them to release dopamine inthe ... with the findings that an increase in substance seeking is due to a paucity of DA D2 receptors [24,25] Therefore, if low D2 receptors equate to increased craving behavior then an increase in D2 ... contributions KB – Investigator and major contributor to writing of manuscript; ALHCC – Co-investigator and contributor to hypothesis; TJHC – Editorial contributions; ERB – Cowriter and editorial...
... xi yi ã As in Nei and Chakravarty [50], we not take into account the second and third terms of the Taylor expansion (in order to compute the second term we need to know the moment of the order ... order to infer the true history of populations, it is necessary to root the tree using an outgroup This work points out that, under the drift assumption, the major part of the genetic distances (the ... populations As in [11], we privileged distances which can be expressed with the increase during t generations of the inbreeding coefcient alone (or equivalently the increase of the kinship coefcient)...
... story "Christina Rosenthal" was one of theshort stories inthe collection "Twist inthe Tale" published in 1998 on the basis of the historic context inthe early nineteenth century During the ... (questioning, inviting, promising, offering) In a conversation, the man normally dominates and is the more powerful interactant However, the initial look at the conversation structure might bring the ... understanding in mind, and the research to get insight into the question by studying a particular case - 23 - conducts the analysis of the story under critical discourse perspective to discover the...
... becomes the Theme In fact, this old artist is one of the three main characters and the hero of the story However, at the beginning of the story, the other two main characters appear instead of ... 100-98-92-52-46-31- The (window) The (window) There The (brick wall) its The (vine) its they them The (doctor) such That (vine) The (doctor) he 72 an old, old ivy vine 72 an old, old ivy vine 73 an old, ... 217, … That is because of the kind of the text – telling a story Thanks to these circumstances, the readers will find it easy to follow the events happening inthe story In clause 200, “still dark...
... them is deaf.She is fond…(6)……watching cartoons which were made (7) Desney She goes to school (8)… the morning but( 9) …Sartuday morning she doesn’t She always goes to school (10) ……… foot A Prepositions: ... doing ? ……………………………………………………………………………… 3.How does she go to school ? …………………………………………………………………………… V Rewrite the sentences with the same meaning 1.My brother is both clever and handsome My brother ... then answer the questions Maria lives (1)…a small town(2)… her grandmother.Everyday she gets (3)… early She is a good student She studies (4)……a big school.She has three brothers One (5)……… them...
... study does not lie inthe theoretical findings but on the basis of these it is to enlighten the analysis of the chosen story to understand the way the author constructs the text in terms of expansion ... setting of time and place For illustration, at the beginning of the story, the weather and scenery of countryside in Canada were described in details; therefore, readers can imagine a boring rainy ... relationships and strained interactions, digging emotional ditches that readers fall into and not realize the depth of until they are clawing their way tothe end In light of the findings above, to some extent...
... hands in 63; past him in 67; inthe air in 67; after a sunbeam in 69; inthe oak-tree in 77; into the air in 80; through the grove in 81; across the garden in 82; inthe centre of the grass-plot in ... brow in 25; in my arm in 32; inthe market place in 49; in their gallery in 52; on the grass in 62; in his hands in 63; inthe air in 67; after a sunbeam in 69; inthe oak-tree in 77, etc They ... tomb in 265; over her eyes in 271; in her throat in 274; Then in 275, 301; inthe sky in 278; tothe cold morning air in 281; to her purple cavern in 282; inthe hills in 282; from their dreams in...
... further studies Due tothe scope of study, all the issues related tothe study cannot be covered Inthe future, I hope to extend the topic to: - the study of lexical cohesive devices inthe story ... reference inthe story Diagram 3: The percentage of the definite article "The" inthe story Diagram 4: The percentage of conjunctive devices inthe story vi PART A INTRODUCTION Rationale of the study ... reference to connect the text The pronoun it can be referred backward tothe gold in example 12 and to a pan in example 13: (12) He made believe to be interested inthe gold in his hand He examined...
... analyze the theme-rheme structure of theshort story The Last Leaf” by O’Henry who is famous for short stories and their unexpected endings with the hope of exploring how the writer develop the ... others Accoding to Halliday (1994: 34), Theme is “what the message is concerned with, the point of departure for what the speaker is going to say” The Theme is what I, the speaker, choose to take ... analyze the themerheme patterns and the main cohesive ties inthe story 1.3 Scope of the Study As a minor thesis, not all aspects of functional grammar are explored but only some of them such as linguistic...
... suggestive of thainfarction adjacent tothe hemorrhage inthe at the onset of clinical abnormalities, either thalamus was shown inthe CT scans of three of the infants with thalamic hemorrhage/intraventricof ... for the site of origin (patients and in Table 2) had clinical abnorof the intraventricular hemorrhage and included malities during the first days of life In infants one or more of the following: ... this Clinical of Clinical Intraventricular Origin of Intraventricular Hemorrhage appeared normal angiographically No abnormal attenuation inthe straight sinus was shown in CTThalamus scan Angiographic...
... operate in a variety of ways to determine exchange rates in both theshort run and the long run FIGURE 15-11 A Complete Theory of Floating Exchange Rates: All the Building Blocks Together Inputs to ... Demand The figure summarizes the equilibria inthe two asset markets in one diagram In panel (a), inthe home (U.S.) money market, the home nominal interest rate i1$ is determined by thelevels ... also called nominal rigidity, is common tothe study of macroeconomics intheshort run Money Market Equilibrium intheShort Run: How Nominal Interest Rates Are Determined The Model The expressions...
... on the monitoring role of financial institutions in promoting growth Closely related to their model is the idea that financial intermediaries may ‘create winners’ in addition to ‘picking winners.’ ... we expect the underlying industry characteristic of financial dependence to be the dominant explanatory factor The main difference in our two approaches is the following: we argue that inherent ... low financial development Information Acquisition and Dispersion – In addition tothe financing role described above, King and Levine (1993) emphasize the role of financial institutions in overcoming...
... other business units involved in workforce planning In most cases, doing so involved finding a contact at the installation, suggesting to this contact the type of personnel to whom we were interested ... roles inthe workforce-planning process, including ensuring that workforce planning is a key part of an organization’s overall strategic planning efforts; leading the effort; and monitoring results ... workforce-planning framework would suggest First, nearly all installations reported some difficulty in estimating customer demand Installations also vary in their ability to translate customer demand into...