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Intelligent textiles and clothing

Intelligent textiles and clothing

... panel of experts and the book covers many aspects of cutting edge research and development Smart fibres, fabrics and clothing starts with a review of the background to smart technology and goes ... computing program and conducted jointly by University of Lapland, Tampere University of Technology, and University of Kuopio in Finland during the years 2003–2005 The purpose of the project was ... encompasses the fit of a garment and the mobility, comfort, protection, and ease of donning and doffing it offers A garment’s aesthetic properties (A) embrace the design principles and artistic elements...

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Who’s Afraid of ID, A Survey of the Intelligent Design Movement

Who’s Afraid of ID, A Survey of the Intelligent Design Movement

... explanations of the origin of life: chance, necessity, a combination of chance and necessity, and design And suppose also that one believes one has reason to eliminate the first three candidates ... materialism” and the promotion of “a broadly theistic understanding of nature” (from the Introduction of the Wedge Document, quoted in Forrest 2001, 14) It is apparently this view that leads Forrest and ... Afraid of ID? 21:55 33 the origins of id Barbara Forrest has recently published a history of ID that is well documented and informative and yet, in several important respects, inaccurate and misleading...

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THE CANADIAN DOMINION A CHRONICLE OF OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBORBy Oscar D. SkeltonNEW HAVEN: YALE potx

THE CANADIAN DOMINION A CHRONICLE OF OUR NORTHERN NEIGHBORBy Oscar D. SkeltonNEW HAVEN: YALE potx

... of Laura Secord and her daring tramp through the woods to warn of American attacks, of Stony Creek and Lundy's Lane, Chrystler's Farm and Chateauguay, the memory of sacrifice, of endurance, and ... shores of the inland sea and build posts in the interior * It is interesting to note the dominant share taken in the trade and exploration of the North and West by men of Highland Scotch and French ... and hated, and continued an autocratic political system, appeared to many to be the undoing of the work of Pitt and Wolfe and the revival on the banks of the St Lawrence and the Mississippi of...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "A Part of Speech Estimation Method for Japanese Unknown Words using a Statistical Model of Morphology and Context" pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: "A Part of Speech Estimation Method for Japanese Unknown Words using a Statistical Model of Morphology and Context" pptx

... ) and f(ci[ci-t, < W T > , ) are the relative frequencies of the character unigram and bigram for each word type and part of speech, f(ci) and f(cilci_l) are the relative frequencies of ... lookup So the topic of interest is part of speech estimation Some statistical model to estimate the part of speech of unknown words from the case of the first letter and the prefix and suffix is proposed ... probabilities of the combinations of word type and part of speech that did not appeared in the training corpus, we used the Witten-Bell method (Witten and Bell, 1991) to obtain an estimate for the sum of...

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NUPOS: A part of speech tag set for written English from Chaucer to the present ppt

NUPOS: A part of speech tag set for written English from Chaucer to the present ppt

... and ‘ing’ of verb forms Like other English tag sets, the Penn Treebank set consists of a somewhat inconsistent mix of syntactic and morphological markers The tags VVZ and NN2 respectively stand ... “knowledge” of the automatic tagger may consist of a set of rules or of a statistical analysis of the results Either way, a good tagger will provide accurate descriptions for 97 out of a 100 words ... is put in the class of auxiliary verbs and the tagging does not distinguish between ordinary and auxiliary forms of the verb, the forms of ‘undo’ are not classified as forms of ‘do’, but its pos...

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A Dialect Of Our Own Design by Simon Colison

A Dialect Of Our Own Design by Simon Colison

... individual to perform an action AFFORDANCE SEMIOTICS The study of signs offering an explanation of how people extract meaning from words, sounds and images SEMIOTICS Symbol Icon Index TYPOGRAPHY By using ... things Natural mapping leads to immediate understanding MAPPING Control Outcome Control Understanding Outcome AFFORDANCE An affordance is a quality of an object, or an environment, that allows an ... elements, add pace or emotion COLOUR THINK SMARTER PART TWO AND SO TO WEB OUR VISUAL GRAMMAR OUR MISTAKES UNIQUE PATTERNS AND INTERACTIONS EVOLUTION OF THE FRAME ...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "What does high NT-proBNP mean in septic shock patients? A part of the puzzle" pdf

Báo cáo khoa học: "What does high NT-proBNP mean in septic shock patients? A part of the puzzle" pdf

... upregulation of BNP and NT-proBNP secretion, whereas cardiac dysfunction could contribute to persistent high NTproBNP levels A limitation of the study by Mokart and coworkers is the lack of serial ... Morss AM, Pino RM, Fifer MA, Thompson BT, Lewandrowski K, Lee-Lewandrowski E, Januzzi JL: Utility of Btype natriuretic peptide for the evaluation of intensive care unit shock Crit Care Med 2004, ... the determinants of the secretion of natriuretic peptides during human sepsis as well as the confounding factors affecting their levels in ICU patients The great sensitivity of NT-proBNP in predicting...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

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A VOICE OF OUR OWN  RETHINKING THE DISABLED IN THE HISTORICAL IMAGINATION OF SINGAPORE

A VOICE OF OUR OWN RETHINKING THE DISABLED IN THE HISTORICAL IMAGINATION OF SINGAPORE

... marginalization by the state’s understanding of disability 1945-1960s: Of Welfare and Aid The end of the war brought about a government discourse of welfare and aid Disability and the disabled were subsumed ... announcement and issuing of a constitution, manifest, fundamental concepts and declaration of basic rights of the disabled.89 These reaffirmed the aims of the IYDP and advocated for the removal of external ... subject of extensive research by scholars and which are now flourishing and well developed fields of studies As a result of the marginalization of disability by the various disciplines and society,...

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Intelligent Software Agents on the Internet: an inventory of currently offered functionality in the information society & a prediction of (near-)future developments

Intelligent Software Agents on the Internet: an inventory of currently offered functionality in the information society & a prediction of (near-)future developments

... remarks and a look at the accuracy of the two statements of section 1.3 PART ONE - Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Agents and the Prospects of Agents in a Three Layer Model Intelligent Software ... Aspects that were of minor importance in the past, such as profitability of a technique and whether or not it meets a certain market or user demand (and how well this demand has Past and Current Agent ... be offered? 69 6.4.2 What kinds of agents will be offered? 71 6.4.2 What kinds of agents will be offered? 71 6.4.3 Why/with what reasons will agents be developed and/ or offered?...

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Incorporating english cultural elements into english training with the comparing - contrasting approach: A case of tourism students at haiphong community college part 3

Incorporating english cultural elements into english training with the comparing - contrasting approach: A case of tourism students at haiphong community college part 3

... culture is all the accepted and patterned ways of behaviour of a person The ways of thinking, feeling and acting are the reminder of a certain community Besides, this concept of culture also includes ... among members of a culture- is the most visible and available expression of that culture And so a person’s world view, self- identity, and system of thinking, acting, feeling, and communicating ... 2 aspects of culture to teach, and lack of practical techniques Although language teachers realize the importance of teaching English culture in EFL classes and the potential of improving...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:06

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Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 17)

Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 17)

... Assessment and some comments on the method > Figure 8.1 shows gas chromatograms of isobutyl nitrite (injected amount µg) and isobutyl alcohol (injected amount 10 µg); they appeared at 3.4 and 7.4 of retention ... of 0.4 mL of blank blood and 0.4 mL of IS- containing pentane solution in a glass vial with a Teflon-septum screw cap, which has been cooled with ice, and vortex-mixed for s; a 3-µL aliquot of ... detection limits of isobutyl nitrite and isobutyl alcohol in liquid specimens were 62 ng and 1.9 µg/mL, respectively [7] > Figure 8.2 shows EI mass spectra of isobutyl nitrite (A) and isobutyl alcohol...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 00:15

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Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 67)

Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 67)

... analysis of DAEMS, various concentrations of DAEMS are spiked into blank serum specimens containing a fixed amount of DAEMO (IS) each and extracted as described before Since the base peaks of DAEMS and ... Trace Analysis of Chemical Warfare Agents An Approach to the Environmental Monitoring of Nerve Agents Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Helsinki, pp 27, 28, 37–39, 59–64, 72–79 and 90–99 2) ... serum (a) a total ion chromatogram (TIC) and a mass chromatogram; (b) an EI mass spectrum of DAEMS; (c) a CI mass spectrum of DAEMS Poisoning case, and toxic and fatal concentrations VX is much less...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 00:15

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Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 20)

Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 20)

... 2.4 Mass spectra of the methyl ester plus TMS and TMS derivatives of ∆9-THC-11-oic acid The Substance Abuse and Mental Service Administration (SAMSA) in USA set the cutoff value of ∆9-THC-11-oic ... Methods for analysis of cannabis and its components In: The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan (ed) Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis in Poisoning – With Commentaries, 4th edn., Nanzando, Tokyo, pp ... purpose, the mass spectra of ∆9-THC, CBD, CBN and 5α-cholestane (IS) are shown in > Fig 2.3 ⊡ Figure 2.3 EI mass spectra of ∆9-THC, CBD, CBN and 5α-cholestane 189 190 Cannabinoids and their metabolites...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 19:15

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Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 21)

Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 21)

... analysis is made by the comparison of the retention time of a peak of a specimen with that of the authentic standard and also by the confirmation of the absence of such a peak in a blank specimen ... HPLC analysis Reagents and their preparation • • Standard solutions of morphine for a calibration curve (2, and 20 µg/mL): see “Reagents and their preparation”, above of GC and GC/MS analysis section ... subject and the urine specimens spiked with 0.1 mL each of the standard solutions (2, and 20 µg/mL) are also handled in the same way as above ii Each of the above solution is passed through a...

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Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 70)

Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 70)

... volume of the supernatant solution is transferred to a new polypropylene tube of the same type, followed by addition of 0.5 mL of concentrated sulfuric acid f and 0.5 mL of mesitylene Nitrate and ... addition of 20 mg of anhydrous sodium carbonate and vortex-mixed for After centrifugation at 3,000 rpm for min, 1- or 4-µL of the upper layer is injected into GC Various known amounts of nitrate and ... He; flow rate: 2.1 mL/min Procedures i Analysis of nitrate i ii iii iv v vi A 0.2-mL volume of a test specimen, 20 µL of IS solution and 0.2 mL of the saturated silver acetate solution e are placed...

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Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 71 and End)

Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 71 and End)

... A and B, a 0.5-mL volume each of distilled water is added To cuvettes C and D, a 0.5-mL volume each of % potassium ferricyanide solution is added vi To cuvettes A and C, a 3-mL volume each of ... cuvettes to stand for min, the absorbances of cuvettes B and D at 630 nm are read using cuvettes A and C as references, respectively These readings are A2 and A4, respectively x The percentage of Met-Hb ... Assessment and some comments on the method The present method for analysis of Met-Hb in blood is simple and rapid, and is not interfered with by the coexistence of high concentrations of CO-Hb...

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Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 22)

Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 22)

... mixture of chloroform and isopropanol or ethanol should be used The simultaneous analysis can be made using chloroform/isopropanol (9:1) or (3:1), and using columns of Bond Elut Certify® and Extrelut® ... amounts of unchanged cocaine, EME and BE excreted into urine are 1–14 %, 12–60 % and 14–55 % of total amount of cocaine administered, respectively [16, 18, 19] Because of the basicity of cocaine, ... using the ratio of cocaine to BE and the brain-to-blood ratios of cocaine and BE The ratios only give rough estimation of them References 1) Editorial Committee of the Manual of the Japanese...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 01:15

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Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 23)

Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 23)

... detection and quantitation of both therapeutic and toxic levels of pentazocine in blood The recovery of pentazocine using the Sep-Pak C18 cartridge was close to 100 % for both whole blood and urine ... history of intravenous use of pentazocine and tripelennamine, T,s and Blues J Forensic Sci 28:489–495 3) Kintz P, Tracqui A, Lugnier AJ et al (1990) Simultaneous screening and quantification of several ... 2) and dextromethorphan (IS, peak 1) extracted from whole blood and urine In this system, ions at m/z 271 plus 214 (IS) and at m/z 285 plus 217 (pentazocine) were used at the retention times of...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 02:15

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Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 24)

Drugs and Poisons in Humans - A Handbook of Practical Analysis (Part 24)

... (1992) Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis in Poisoning – With Commentary – Nanzando, Tokyo, p 43 and p 151 (in Japanese) 3) Cody JT (2000) Hallucinogens In: Bogusz MJ (ed) Handbook of Analytical ... about 10 µg and LSD is rapidly metabolized in human bodies As metabolites of LSD, 2-oxo-LSD, 3-, 13- and 14-hydroxy-LSDs and an N-de-ethyl-LSD are known [3] After oral ingestion of 160 µg LSD, ... Darmstadt, Germany and other manufacturers) Developing solvents: (A) acetone/chloroform (4:1, v/v); (B) chloroform/methanol/n-hexane (4:2:1, v/v) Assessment of the method The Rf values of LSD were 0.29...

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