... identify the literal and figurative meanings of these idioms On the other hand, the learners should equip themselves with the knowledge of cultural background as much as possible They should study the ... Interpreting the denotative meaning of the given idioms related to the concept of “Black”, “White” in the source language + Clarifying the connotative of the idiom mentioned + Explaining the general ... differences of English and Vietnamese idioms related to the concept of “Black”, “White” under a cognitive perspective 1.4 RESEARCH SCOPE OF THE STUDY The study is restricted to deal with the followings:...
Ngày tải lên: 06/06/2016, 15:00
... in their models [19] To obtain more insight into the role of the fat breast tissue, we investigated the independent effects of the size of dense tissue and the size of non-dense tissue in the ... subtracting the dense area from the total breast size The size of the dense and non-dense areas in cm2, was determined by multiplying the number of pixels in the respective areas by the size of one ... the sum of the risk for women with large areas of either one of the high risk tissues, but not statistically significantly (RERI 0.24, 95% CI: Table Breast tissue measures and breast cancer risk...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20
DICKIE’S INSTITUTIONAL THEORY AND THE “OPENNESS” OF THE CONCEPT OF ART pptx
... the product of a decision on our part to extend the concept (Weitz, 1956, 188) According to Weitz, this “openness” of the concept of art is the condition of the possibility of further creativity ... Carroll’s theory of historical narratives, one should take into account, for the reasons given above, Weitz’s sound intuition about the open character of the concept of art But on the other hand, the ... examples (e.g the member of a primitive society with no concept of art who creates the representation of a leopard and manages to endow it with something of the fearsomeness of the animal; see...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Coorbit Theory, Multi-α-Modulation Frames, and the Concept of Joint Sparsity for Medical " ppt
... device with 151 sensors (coils) The color encodes the Gaussian weighting, that is, the influence of the synthetic background signal The center of appearance of the synthetic signal is marked by a ... with respect to a suitable set of building blocks These building blocks may, for example, consist of the elements of a basis, a frame, or even of the elements of huge dictionaries Classical examples ... and the WeylHeisenberg group, one obtains the Besov spaces and the modulation spaces, respectively In the setting of the affine Weyl-Heisenberg group and the specific case vs (ω) = (1 + s |ω|) , the...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 01:20
CHAPTER 4: THE CONCEPT OF MEASUREMENT IN THE MARKETING RESEARCH docx
... CONTENTS The concept of measurement; What is measured?; The benefits of the measurement; The laws (rules) of measurement; Measure scales; Three standards of a measurement; Psychological measure; The ... reactions of skin, blood pressure, heart rate, and pupil of the eyes, the senses of man However, in the interview we usually apply the attitude scales 23 6.1 The normal psychological measure In the ... (+/-), if using division (/), the results will be meanless 16 4.4 The Ratio scale The Ratio scale has all of particularity of the interval scale Moreover, the point in the ratio scale is a value...
Ngày tải lên: 09/07/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo toán học: "How to include organ interactions in models of the root system architecture? The concept of endogenous environment " potx
... represents the apparent extension of the interaction zone but only to that of their mother root The global response was essentially local, since only the laterals close to the tip of the mother root ... responded In the second example [7], the growing medium of the root system was artificially made heterogeneous by the means of a hydroponics system, in which the major part of the root system bathed ... along the shoot This pattern of emergence is highly organised, since the roots on a given node appear only when the roots of the node just beneath have completed their emergence Furthermore, the...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22
Báo cáo y học: "The concept of “compartment allergy": prilocaine injected into different skin layers" pdf
... and ZG gathered the patient’s history and prepared the clinical pictures AT supervised the interpretation of the data and the design of the allergologic work-up MW organized and finalised the manuscript ... another example for the concept of compartment allergy Consent Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and any accompanying images A copy of the ... drafting the manuscript and revising it critically for important intellectual content All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo y học: "Nifedipine decreases sVCAM-1 concentrations and oxidative stress in systemic sclerosis but does not affect the concentrations of vascular endothelial growth factor or its soluble receptor" potx
... [17] The data reported herein confirm these results with a different design of the study (midterm effects) and extend the known beneficial effects of these drugs to a vascular marker (sVCAM) The ... suggests that these drugs improve endothelium injury A decrease of sVCAM-1 by nifedipine was previously reported in SSc [24] The improvement of all these markers and the correlation between the values ... well and then added 20 µl of acetic acid The absorbance of the reaction mixture was immediately read at 340 nm against a blank consisting of 200 µl of phosphate-buffered saline, 10 µl of 1.16...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23
Caldesmon regulates the motility of vascular smooth muscle cells by modulating the actin cytoskeleton stability doc
... seen in the control cells (Fig 1-d,e) Effect of phosphomimetic mutation of CaD on the motility of A7r5 cells To determine the effect of phosphomimetic mutation of CaD on the motility of A7r5 ... field of the fluorescent beads was calculated (Fig 3A-a) The magnitude and the direction of the vectors corresponding to the bead movement underneath the cell were then used to compute the average ... experiments, the scattering of the data was relatively large even with multiple measurements for each set (n = 10) Nevertheless, from the trend of the data it is rather striking that the effect of phosphomimetic...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21
Báo cáo khoa hoc:" Genetic variation in the myeloperoxidase gene and cognitive impairment in Multiple Sclerosis" pot
... the occurrence of the -463 G/ A promoter polymorphism of the MPO gene may be associated with cognitive impairment in patients with MS The sample included in this study consisted of 465 patients ... available on the possible role of MPO polymorphism in the development of cognitive decline in MS This study was mainly designed to investigate whether some clinical and individual variables and the occurrence ... 0.618 and higher than 1.527 These results suggest that the -463 G/A promoter polymorphism of the MPO gene does not confer a risk of cognitive impairment in patients with MS Genomic DNA was prepared...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Clinical review: Reappraising the concept of immediate defibrillatory attempts for out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation" pptx
... greater than The response interval was measured from the time of dispatch of emergency vehicles until the time of arrival at the street address (not time of collapse to arrival at the patient’s ... greater than The response interval was measured from the time of dispatch of emergency vehicles until the time of arrival at the street address (not time of collapse to arrival at the patient’s ... many of the patients were already awakening by the time of EMS arrival at the scene Nevertheless, the authors also noted that all survivors received some period of chest compressions and other...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo y học: "Reappraising the concept of massive transfusion in trauma" doc
... and the prothrombin time, which are the main features driving the development of ATC [6] Page of The performance of the tool might be improved if a better near-patient measure of the severity of ... threshold of 90% (at which 10% of actively bleeding patients will be missed initially), the tool has a specificity of only 50% [15-20] The consequences of lower specificity is the risk of inappropriate ... in the emergency department However, the performance of the model was only moderate, and the AUC of our tool of 0.81 is consistent with other prediction tools (0.68 to 0.85) [15-20] Setting the...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21
gai - systemic risk; the dynamics of modern financial systems (2013)
... region, the size of the giant vulnerable cluster corresponds closely to the size of the connected component of the network, meaning that the fraction of the network affected by episodes of contagion ... quantitative risk assessment framework developed at the Bank of England the Risk Assessment Model for Systemic Institutions (RAMSI)—that incorporated the insights of the early research of the Bank of England ... sector—particularly the extent to which financial firms take into account the effects of their actions on the balance sheets of other players But financial innovation, in the form of credit risk transfer and off-balance...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 18:15
williams - uncontrolled risk; the lessons of lehman brothers and how systemic risk can still bring down the world financial system (2010)
... customers grew, so did the prosperity of H Lehman 10 Uncontrolled Risk The arrival of Mayer reunited all the brothers In acknowledgment of Mayer’s arrival in 1850, the name of the family business ... inefficiency often plagued the market Key to the success of capital flow was the number of banks and their willingness to lend As the economy grew, the number of banks also grew In 1860, there were ... the use of or inability to use the work, even if any of them has been advised of the possibility of such damages This limitation of liability shall apply to any claim or cause whatsoever whether...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 23:33
The concept of human nature in wei jin chinese philosophy
... ruler and the father observe the nature of the minister and the son If their nature is good, the ruler and the father will nurture and guide them, keeping them far away from the bad If their nature ... consistent in the second part of chapter Wang Xiaoyi contributes to the scholarship of the period with his panoramic portrait of Learning of the Profound His clarification of the concept of nature ... Account of Tales of the World, 346 Shishuoxinyu 世說新語, 392; A New Account of Tales of the World, 402 4 The social and intellectual context of Han-Wei The last years of the Han dynasty and the subsequent...
Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:30
The concept of irony in jane austen, with constant reference to virginia woolf
... denial of the affective powers of irony If the critics admit their emotional reaction to irony, then they risk becoming the object of irony: this personal stake in the concept of irony removes the ... protagonist The blending of the protagonist’s voice with the narrator’s, together with evidence in the text that contradicts the views of either or both, ironise and destabilise the views of these ... against didacticism Of R.J Farrer’s book, The House of Shadows, she writes: The drawback of the concentration which is the result of the scheme of the book is naturally that the characters are...
Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 12:00
The significance of subjective cognitive decline in primary care and memory clinic patients
... with the symptom of SCD in the absence of a cognitive impairment, evidenced by neuropsychological test results in the normal range Usage of the broad term of SCD to describe a specific group of ... methods of assessment and the heterogeneity of the concept in the literature will be described SCD will then be discussed in relation to the biomarker model and the different stages of AD Similarly ... improvement of the early detection of incipient AD and more knowledge of the cognitive decline in the early (pre-MCI) phase of AD are needed (Sperling et al 2011) As will be discussed further below, the...
Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 10:00
Mencius and xunzi on moral agency and the concept of neng
... “tastes” of the heart-mind the natural attraction of the heart-mind to ethical things When the likings of the heart-mind are activated in response to the stimuli of certain circumstances, impulses of ... to get in the good books of its parents, the desire to win the accolades of those at the scene, and the desire to relieve the vicarious distress one feels due to the unpleasantness of the child’s ... by asserting the erroneousness in thinking that the orientation of the heart-mind towards yi can be sought from the influence of qi motility on the workings of the heart-mind In other words, Gaozi...
Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 10:49
An investigation into metaphors related to the concept of Dignity in Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens via its Vietnamese version translated by Phan Ngoc
... Nhật, PhD The Thesis was defended at the Examination Council for the M.A thesis, the University of Danang Time : December 15th, 2013 Venue : The University of Danang The original of this thesis is ... [48, p 74] The percentage of the phenomenon of loss of meaning is presented as follows: Figure 2: The percentage of loss of meaning 18 4.3.2 Gain of Meaning in lexical feature a Gain of Conceptual ... to the ideas of the author, the teachers should guide them to employ appropriate and approaches On the part of the students, with a good understanding and using of the translation stragegies, they...
Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2016, 17:08
Chap 1 marketing and the concept of planning and strategy
... define what business the company is in or is to be in and the kind of company it is or is to be CHAPTER 1: Marketing and the Concept of Planning and Strategy 161 1-4 IMPORTANCE OF STRATEGY Any organization ... about control of initiative 162 CHAPTER 1: Marketing and the Concept of Planning and Strategy 1-5 DEFINITION OF STRATEGIC PLAN Strategic plan specifies the sequence and timing of steps that ... set of criteria consisting of price, competitors, customer groups, and shared experience: a Price—To the extent that price changes in a product entail a review of the pricing policy of other...
Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2017, 15:31