resonant frequency and quality factor

... Estimated and measured loaded quality factor Qloaded as a function of VP 100 ix List of tables Table 1.1 Recently reported micromechanical resonators and their resonant frequencies and quality factors ... the resonator and one of the fixed comb-finger electrodes N Number of drive/sense electrodes xiii P Pressure Q Quality factor QL Quality factor under linear vibration QN Quality factor under nonlinear ... Amplitude -frequency response of a typical micromechanical resonator (b) amplitude -frequency responses with different quality factors 12 Figure 2.3 The effect of nonlinearities on the resonant frequency...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:13

... DeAngelo, L., 1981b, Auditor size and audit quality, Journal of Accounting and Economics, 3(December), 183 –199 Dechow, P M., R G Sloan and A P Sweeney, 1996, Causes and consequences of earnings manipulation: ... of the external audit and hence the quality of the financial statements We also selected three mechanisms relating to the external auditor which could affect audit quality and independence Our ... Goodwin, Jean Lin Seow / Accounting and Finance 42 (2002) 195–223 an understanding of accounting, auditing and control issues (Cohen et al., 2000; Goodwin and Seow, 2000; Hughes, 1999; Lear,...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:49

... dissemination and data quality need great effort and determination In modern quality management, philosophy of user-orientation plays a key role One of the decisive factors for the survival and development ... basis of service quality and customers’ satisfaction 2.1 Quality of service Quality of goods is tangible and measurable by such objective criteria as features, characteristics and durability However, ... provinces and cities and agencies, organizations and individuals; - Results of statistics survey, census under and not under the National Statistical Survey Program funded by the State budget and prescribed...

Ngày tải lên: 20/07/2015, 21:04

... Li and Miklau, 2012; Bhargava and Sundaresan, 2003; Kushal et al., 2012; Birnbaum and Jaffe, 2007]), prices are prescribed unilaterally and not negotiable, and give access to the best data quality ... conditioning are devised and presented Data providers and data consumers expect the price of data to be commensurate with its quality We study the relationship between quality and price of data We ... specifically, we study how to improve data quality through conditioning, and the relationship between quality and price of data In order to improve data quality (more specifically, accuracy) by adding...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:24

... Department of Education and Science (England and Wales) Department for Education and Employment (England and Wales) Postgraduate Certificate in Education Quality assurance Qualifications and Curriculum ... Ireland, Jamaica and other countries in the Caribbean, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK and the US; we will exclude Bangladesh, China, India, Malaysia, Pakistan and Singapore 1.3 Policy and ... McNeill, 1994; Roberts and Boggase, 1992; Rousseau and Poulson, 1985); one was a curriculum evaluation (Satterfield and Powers, 1996); and one a single subject ABACA design (Stone and Serwatka, 1982)...

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 05:20

... health-related factors, such as smoking rates and exercise habits (Alberini and Krupnick (1998), Portney and Mullahy (1986, 1990)) However, most of these studies focus on adults, and the results ... responses On one hand, since P and M are normal goods, wealthier families consume “better” levels of both On the other hand, if P is bundled with other components, such as school quality and crime rates ... emergency and non-emergency hospital admissions and the only geographic identifier is the region 38 For ease of interpretation, all pollutants have been standardized to have a mean of zero and standard...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... model and an algorithm that includes the full previous word as feature In addition to using the previously typed characters and/ or words in the buffer, word characteristics such as frequency and ... differences on the quality of a text prediction algorithm?” and (2) “What is the best choice of training data if domain- and text type-specific data is sparse?” By training and testing our text ... a low cognitive load for the user, and word prediction gives good results in terms of keystroke savings (Garay-Vitoria and Abascal, 2006) versational speech and web pages of Frequently Asked Questions...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

... Descriptive statistics of audit quality and control variables … …… 71 Table 7: Correlation coefficients for audit quality and control variables … …… 74 Table 8: Audit quality and audit firm regression ... audit quality of Big-audit firms and SecondTier audit firms in the post-Sox period and to test the audit quality changes, both pre- and postSOX To test the relationship between cost of capital and ... (e.g., Carey and Simnett 2006), industry expertise level (e.g., Jensen and Payne 2005), audit tenure (e.g., Beck and Wu 2006; Ghosh and Moon 2005), and auditor’s reputation (e.g., Hay and Davis...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:15

... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007, 5:67 Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) has wide-ranging and oftentimes unmeasured effects on health and quality of life[1] IPV ... relationship and ranges in score from 10 to 60 where 20 or higher is indicative of battering The CTS measures frequency and severity of physical, emotional and sexual abuse in both current and former ... one author (EW) and a research assistant for the domains of health and quality of life mentioned Each mentioned area in which health or quality of life was affected was recorded, and affected areas...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... care and use committee, and all animals received humane care according to the criteria outlined in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals [14] The animals were kept in a lightand ... immunologic quantitation and response to platelet-activating factor Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 1992, 6:158-67 Lundgren JD, Kaliner M, Logun C, Shelhamer JH: Platelet activating factor and tracheobronchial ... recruitment and activation of eosinophils and airway hyperresponsiveness, PAF is seriously involved in mucus hypersecretion which is a critical feature of the inflammatory process and occurs during...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... significant risk factors were regrouped with different thresholds Mosaic plots were depicted and Chi-square analyses were performed to evaluate the thresholds of each risk factor and thecombined factors ... association between various patient and implant characteristics and an increased rate of failure, few have specifically quantified independent risk factors Furthermore, risk factors have been most commonly ... femoral neck fracture and two for femoral component loosening These occurred in two female and three male patients In the multi-variable regression model, only T-score and body mass index showed...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007, 5:67 Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) has wide-ranging and oftentimes unmeasured effects on health and quality of life[1] IPV ... relationship and ranges in score from 10 to 60 where 20 or higher is indicative of battering The CTS measures frequency and severity of physical, emotional and sexual abuse in both current and former ... one author (EW) and a research assistant for the domains of health and quality of life mentioned Each mentioned area in which health or quality of life was affected was recorded, and affected areas...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... experimental group and 50 in the control group The quality of life was measured using the European organization for research and treatment of cancer quality of life question (QLQ-30) and its breast ... effects in the patient’s breast and hand and worries about hair loss The score of each aspect is based on a scale of to 100 In functional and general aspects of life quality a higher score shows ... image, sexual issues and complication in the patients’ hand as the most common factors reducing the quality of life in these patients [23] Hence, the body image, sexual function and satisfaction...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... other mammalian IVM and embryo culture systems including cattle, pigs, rodents and humans [6,15,22] In the serum of both pigs and humans, EGF levels have been reported at ng/ml and 1.2-3.75 ng/ml, ... vesicle breakdown (GVBD), and to cause cumulus expansion in bovine and mouse COCs Consequently, this study investigates the effect of ovarian estrus stage on oocyte quality and supplementation of ... cumulus cells and epidermal growth factor in the culture medium Human Reprod 1998, 13, 1638-1644 12 Hammond JM, Hsu CJ, Mondschein JS, Canning SF Paracrine and autocrine functions of growth factors...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:20

... gated and confirmed based on the expression of surface DC markers, CD11c and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecules For this, phycoerythrin-labeled antiCD11c antibody and fluorescein ... taxol for 24 or 48 h The supernatants were harvested from the cultures and used for the determination of IL-12 and tumor necrosis factor- α (TNF-α) production, both of which are important cytokines ... three independent experiments are presented (A) The optical density of each band was divided by that of the β-actin band, and the ratio at h was set at 100% (B) Fig NF-κB involvement in the taxol-induced...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... of site quality and thinning on the structural variables of the holm and stands The changes in site quality and management have different effects on the structural variables of the stands: several ... and dynamics of sprouts, quality (Cartan-Son et al, 1992; Ducrey, 1992; Ducrey and Turrel, 1992; Floret et al, 1992; Mayor and Rodá, 1994) Nevertheless, these studies are relatively recent, and ... (table V), the plots of stands managed by conservative thinning and those managed by intense thinning were clearly distinguished in both low and high quality sites Plots from stands under intense thinning...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... contributions VI, LE and SV conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript NC, TA and DN conducted the experiments TT and FG participated ... growth factors erythropoietin and granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor on mechanical strength and healing of colonic anastomoses in rats Eur J Surg 1999, 165:986-992 17 Higgins G, Anderson ... various cytokines and growth factors and perhaps cell populations, other than hepatocytes are involved Many different substances have been reported to stimulate liver cell growth in vivo and in vitro,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:21

... least one PI and at least one NNRTI; and (c) an abacavir or tenofovir containing regimen of three or more NRTIs in the absence of both PIs and NNRTIs Combinations of zidovudine (AZT) and stavudine ... Unlike in randomized trials, use of therapies in observational studies is not from random assignment and thus Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) 1.0 AIDS Research and Therapy ... score between HAART users and HAART naïve groups before and after propensity-score matchBoxplots of QOL summary score between HAART users and HAART naïve groups before and after propensity-score...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... experimental group and 50 in the control group The quality of life was measured using the European organization for research and treatment of cancer quality of life question (QLQ-30) and its breast ... effects in the patient’s breast and hand and worries about hair loss The score of each aspect is based on a scale of to 100 In functional and general aspects of life quality a higher score shows ... image, sexual issues and complication in the patients’ hand as the most common factors reducing the quality of life in these patients [23] Hence, the body image, sexual function and satisfaction...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... Rheinland Pfalz (RLP 837.109.05 [4767]), and written informed consent was obtained from every participating patient Cell isolation and culture of human myofibroblasts All of the cultures and functional ... after 24, 48, 72, and 96 hours of culture and fresh medium was sub- sequently added to the cultures at these time points The synthesis of prostaglandins E2 (PGE2), F1A (PGF1A), and F2A (PGF2A) ... expression of α-SMA and collagen type I (Figure 6a, b and Table 1) The effects of TNF-α on myofibroblasts are mediated by prostaglandin E2 synthesis Using immunfluorescence staining and Western blot...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22