... I., C J Popp, and R S Martin (2004), Biogenic emissions and ambient concentratiosn of hydrocarbons, carbonyl compounds and organic acids from Pondorosa pine and Cottonwood trees of rural and forested ... mixing ratios of CH3CHO, if proven correct, provide a major perturbation to our present understanding of tropospheric chemistry 3.1.3 Comparison of TRACE -P and PEM-West B Observations [15] PEM-West ... number of OVOC and chemical tracers in the polluted and unpolluted Pacific troposphere An overview of the mission payload, flight profiles, and prevalent meteorological conditions has been provided...
... times ofPaeruginosa respiratory tract infection or colonization andPaeruginosa gastric colonization, and the number of patients with persistent gastric colonization with L casei rhamnosus Sample ... colonization Paeruginosa was isolated from both gastric and respiratory specimens from only two patients in the placebo group and two in the probiotic Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) ... risk for Paeruginosa respiratory infection and or colonization (Table 5) Discussion Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the respiratory tract Actuarial representation of estimated probabilities of non-acquisition...
... land use Construction of nuclear production facilities and the reforestation of abandoned farmland and cutover forests affected SRS ecosystems in profound ways The construction and operation of ... Important precipitation variables include monthly mean precipitation and extremes, the maximum precipitation and its recurrence interval, and the spatial variability and distribution of precipitation ... cycle of poverty, cotton dependence, and land abuse developed in the South and persisted for most of the period from 1865 to 1950 Increased pressures on the land for production of cotton and other...
... Mestres N, Perez-Murano F, Godignon P, Camassel J: Anisotropic growth of long isolated graphene ribbons on the C face of graphite-capped 6H-SiC Phys Rev B 2009, 80:125410 Page of 13 Berger C, Song ZM, ... low p- type doped (ns = × 1011 cm-2) epitaxial monolayer versus applied magnetic field B, at different temperatures (b) Temperature dependence of the resistivity rxx of a graphene ribbon at different ... AFM tip The result presented with the AFM picture of Figure 2c demonstrates the almost free-standing and continuous character of the grown SLEG Figure SEM images of a monolayer graphene islands...
... been applied Results and Discussion Effect of Dipping Time We have firstly looked at the effect of dipping time on the formation of TPDA molecules on the silicon surface Dipping time has been reported ... findings demonstrated in the previous paragraphs Effect of TPDA Concentration The effect of TPDA concentration on the film thicknesses and water contact angles on the hydroxylated silicon surface ... variation of water contact angle of the Si(001) surfaces as a function of the TPDA concentration after treatment is quite significant For example, in the cases of 0.5 and 2% TPDA concentrations,...
... environment, with the model being best described by a system of dynamic equations (Beltrami [5, Section 5.6] discusses algae and copepod populations via second-order systems of BVPs.) This paper ... The proofs rely on the existence of solutions on finite intervals and so use the theorems of Section A standard diagonalization argument is also employed In Sections and 7, some simple maximum principles ... unification of the theory of differential and difference equations The potential for applications is enormous—especially in those phenomena that manifest themselves partly in continuous time and partly...
... TRANSACTIONS ON POWER DELIVERY, VOL 27, NO 3, JULY 2012 is approximately constant and derivatives of assumption, currents will be proportional to the derivatives of power based on (2) and (5) ... loop for the protection of the converter is elaborated in [19] and [23] This loop does not impact the performance of controllers Fig shows the schematic of a study system for validation of the proposed ... Xie and R Billinton, “Determination of the optimum capacity and type of wind turbine generators in a power system considering reliability and cost,” IEEE Trans Energy Convers., vol 26, no 1, pp...
... time-consuming assay, or require special equipments and complex procedures Therefore, the development of this new, simple and powerful ICS test for the rapid and on- site detection of DEV-specific ... for the prevention and control of DVE, and the monitoring of DEV-specific antibodies is a key to evaluate the effect of the attenuated DEV vaccine and develop the rational immunization programs ... is 19.51% and that of the negative number of ICS to the negative number of NT is 75.36% Large-scale preparation and purification of the recombinant UL51 protein Strain and expression vector:...
... HA and NA, respectively The other six segments encode the viral internal genes, PB2, PB1, PA, NP, MP and NS, respectively The PB1, MP and NS genes each encode two overlapping proteins (i.e PB1-F2 ... addition, five genes (PB2, PB1, PA, NA and MP) of the new virus could be traced back to avian influenza viruses, and the evolution of the PB1 gene had an additional stop in human populations Cross-species ... Damrongwatanapokin S, Payungporn S, Thanawongnuwech R, Amonsin A, Boonsuk P, Sreta D, Bunpong N, Tantilertcharoen R, Chamnanpood P, Parchariyanon S, Theamboonlers A, Poovorawan Y: Genetic characterization of H1N1,...
... HA and NA, respectively The other six segments encode the viral internal genes, PB2, PB1, PA, NP, MP and NS, respectively The PB1, MP and NS genes each encode two overlapping proteins (i.e PB1-F2 ... addition, five genes (PB2, PB1, PA, NA and MP) of the new virus could be traced back to avian influenza viruses, and the evolution of the PB1 gene had an additional stop in human populations Cross-species ... Damrongwatanapokin S, Payungporn S, Thanawongnuwech R, Amonsin A, Boonsuk P, Sreta D, Bunpong N, Tantilertcharoen R, Chamnanpood P, Parchariyanon S, Theamboonlers A, Poovorawan Y: Genetic characterization of H1N1,...
... efficient replication-competent vectors of SFV4 and for selection of conditions for their propagation Comparison of reported properties of replication-competent vectors of different designs and origin ... restriction fragments of pSFV-PLApa-d1EGFP (SphI to ApaI) and pHelper96 (ApaI to SpeI) SP6 corresponds to the promoter for SP6 RNA polymerase; bold arrow indicates the ligation process (B) Construction ... corresponding region of pHelperPL, and the resulting plasmid was designated pHelperPL-HRP- The PCR-amplified fragments of EMCV IRES and CR IRES were cloned into pHelperPL-HRP- as described above, and...
... http://arthritis-research.com/content/13/3/R104 Page of Figure Effect of pertussis toxin (PTX) on CXCL10-induced expression of receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa-B ligand (RANKL) Expression was assessed ... is principal investigator and EYL is chief investigator for this study YJL and EBL contributed to the conception of the study, the interpretation of the data, and the writing of the Discussion ... are representative of at least four independent experiments, and the histograms show average and standard deviations of representative RANKL expression (b) CXCL10, interferon-gamma-inducible protein...
... that of companies with a percentage lower than one-third Leadership structure in a company, i.e the degree of separation between the posts of board chairman and president, reflects independence of ... has any positive or negative influence upon the quality of the company’s financial reporting In other words, either the two positions holds by one person concurrently or a separation of the said ... managerial personnel from two aspects: first, the overall professional qualifications of the board and its service-providing capabilities; second, the efficiency of communication and decision-making...
... indicator of VRE during the UV disinfection process for photoreactivating conditions 90% Inactivation with Photoreactivation Paeruginosa 99% Inactivation without Photoreactivation 90% inactivation ... P aeruginosa( ATCC 15442) andP aeruginosa( ATCC 15442 mutant m1) (Hassen et al., 2000) Variation in the photoreactivation ofPaeruginosa exists Dukan et al (1997) suggested that recovery in phosphate ... 90% inactivation were then computed from these models - 20 - RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Photoreactivation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa The relationship between the survival ratio of VRE and visible light...
... 2 Operation of ECD-V3 Pump 2-1 Fuel Suction and Injection The mechanism for the suction and pumping/distribution of the fuel is basically the same as for the previous distributor type pump However, ... closed Pump Chamber Speed Sensor Cam Plate Solenoid Spill Valve (closed) Roller Ring Suction Port : open Distribution Port : closed Solenoid Spill Valve: closed Suction Port (open) Pulsar Pressure ... levels of response and spill Types performance ROM Pilot Valve Type ROM Direct-Acting Type 11 SERVICE TECH Vol.465 03-4 Pilot Valve Type This type consists of a main valve, pilot valve, and a solenoid...
... calorie consumption over placebo was only 79 kcal, an increase between calorie consumption in the absence of hesperidin and in the presence of 100 mg hesperidin Figure Over-Placebo Comparisons of Changes ... the expression of adiponectin which is known to play a role in lipid and glucose metabolism Liu et al [32] have shown that naringenin and hesperetin up-regulate adiponectin expression, and both ... response to p- synephrine or p- synephrine in combination with naringin and hesperidin (Table 2) p- Synephrine differs from ephedrine in that it has a hydroxyl group on the para position of the benzene...
... CF outpatient clinic and the pulmonary ward of the Department of Medicine I, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf Patients had chronic infection with Paeruginosa (proven by positive sputum ... counted and cytospins were prepared for differential cell counts Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) and serum samples PBMC were isolated by centrifugation over Ficoll-Paque (Pharmacia, Uppsala, ... solution to block Paeruginosa lectins PA-I and PA-II as an alternative approach to reduce airway colonisation with this bacteria Paeruginosa lectins PA-I and PA-II that bind to fucose and galactose...
... of events and the person-years at risk (34) Under these conditions, the expected proportion of events in the tamoxifen group (p) has a binomial distribution and was defined as the number of person-years ... of person-years in the tamoxifen group (PYtam) divided by the total number of person-years in both groups (PYtam + PYplac) The observed proportion of events (po) was defined as the number of events ... upper (pU) and lower (pL) limits of the CI for po, where po ([ סRR) (PYtam)]/[ (RR) (PYtam + PYplac)] and RR סThen the CI for the RR was determined by solving the equation RR ([ ס p) (PYplac)]/[(1...
... approach, as proposed by Pospisil & Dau [16,20], to evaluate the contributions and kinetics of the three main components of the FI traces Deconvolution of the traces with the sum of three exponential ... JI, and IP) added to F0 For details, see Experimental procedures sum of three exponential components that represent the OJ, JI and IP phases As reported previously [16], the use of three components ... reduction of the PQ pool A further analysis of the inuence of PQ reduction on FI was performed after the addition of dPQ to the thylakoid samples Treatment of thylakoids with lm dPQ had no effect on...