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... and Operation for the Formation of Aerobic Granular Sludge Two AUFB reactors were used for the formation of aerobic granular sludge Air was introduced from the bottom of the reactor, and aeration ... granular sludge used for characterization of sludge washout and retention was obtained from another AUFB reactor that had been operated using ammonia-rich wastewater Details of the granular sludge ... reactor Both surface loading and aeration rates affect the selection of well-settling sludge and the formation of aerobic granular sludge By setting and controlling adequate surface loading and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... Materials and methods All mathematical analysis and numerical tting were performed using the software package Mathematica 7.0 (Wolfram Research, Inc Champaign, IL, USA) The substrate in the calorimetric ... and off rate At a xed k2, a change in this ratio may be interpreted as a change in the afnity of the enzyme for the substrate Hence, we can assess relationships of this afnity parameter and the ... approximations as the average area of randomly adsorbed enzymes will be larger than the footprint, and only a certain fraction of the enzyme will be adsorbed in the initial stages Nevertheless, the analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... proposed alternative paradigm The current common paradigm is characterized by separate and distinct programs with little coordination or overlap The alternate paradigm emphasizes the need for increased ... Several individual projects assessing the feasibility of various collaborative and integrative efforts at the healthcare delivery level in urban and rural areas have been carried out or are ongoing ... programs.[18] National-level examples such as these can serve as models that other countries can adopt and implement Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of the International AIDS...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... treatment approach for OA, and agents such as GTPs could fill the gap In fact, complete deletion of the Il1b gene leads to disease exacerbation in a mouse model of OA, suggesting both a catabolic ... radiation-induced inflammation-associated skin diseases including skin cancers [9,10] The physician and the patients want to understand the real targets and mechanism of action of GTPs that lead to the prevention ... Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999, 96:4524-4529 Ahmed S, Rahman A, Hasnain A, Lalonde M, Goldberg VM, Haqqi TM: Green tea polyphenol epigallocatechin-3-gallate inhibits the IL-1β-induced activity and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:22

... the cell As alluded to above, the various types of RNA serve as intermediaries in the translation, access and control of the information encoded on the DNA mRNA is the intermediary data format ... servo head As the disk rotates, a new bit (flux boundary) travels across the receiving boundary area of the servo head and the data are read In the DHD, the DNA can be considered to remain relatively ... of eukaryotic DNA, does not appear to participate in the “classic” Watson and Crick role of DNA as an information repository for protein synthesis; therefore the majority of human DNA appears to...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... involves the transmission of payment transaction data, and associated remittance advice data, from a payee to their bank, for onforwarding (via banks and/or value-added network operators) to the payee's ... interface for service suppliers to update their own database So, there is no immediate link from the application’s database and the database of the suppliers 1.7 Organization of the research • ... payment card vouchers These mechanisms have various characteristics, such as the extent to which the parties are identified, the traceability of the transaction, and the taxability of the transaction...

Ngày tải lên: 07/04/2013, 23:51

... a = aa = a a = ⎛ a ⎝ b⎠ b3 a × a × a = aaa = a a × b = ab a b = ( ab ) = ⎛ 1⎞ = a – -⎝ a a3 a2 a3 = a2 + = a5 ( a2 )3 = a2 × = ( a3 )2 = a6 a4 ÷ a3 = a4 – = a a + b = ( a + b ) ( a – ab ... Addition:When adding two complex numbers, the real parts and imaginary parts are added separately, the real parts added to real parts and the imaginary to imaginary parts Thus, Copyright 2004, Industrial ... a0 = a – b = ( a – b ) ( a + ab + b ) a2 – b2 = ( a + b ) ( a – b ) ( a + b ) = a + 3a b + 3ab + b a a 3 3 3 a – b = ( a – b ) + 3ab ( a – b ) a a = a 2 a + b = ( a + b ) – 3ab ( a + b ) a b...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 03:15

... workload on the main processor, another benefit of running the input component on a PC is that there are a wide variety of devices available for the PC platform, as opposed to the UNIX platform ... This also has an important practical advantage in that a much Fig 14.2 VR system architecture wider (and cheaper) range of devices is available for a PC or Macintosh than for its workstation ... the need for realism, it is imperative to maintain a reasonable performance for the VR application Here "performance" refers to the response of the virtual environment to the user's actions For...

Ngày tải lên: 23/01/2014, 07:20

... a common forum for action the European Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health was launched in March 2005 The Platform brings together all relevant players active at European ... national, regional or local level, and to cooperate with similar fora at national level At the same time, the Platform can create input for integrating the responses to the obesity challenge into a ... multi-stakeholder approaches5 - for which the European Platform for Action on Diet, Physical Activity and Health (cf section IV.1) is a prominent example - and for action at local, regional, national...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20

... occasionally talk about the full-space process and the full-space process starting at (x, t) These are defined just as the half-space processes, but with r = ∞ In particular, the full-space process ... same distribution at the space-time point (x + y, t + s) as the full-space process (started at (0, 0)) at the point (y, s) Again we shall use the same random walk paths A for all the full-state ... is the case r2 = ∞) Rather than introduce formal notation for the probability measures governing the many processes here, we shall abuse notation and write P {A in the process P} for the probability...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 06:20

... one species from another As far as these characters can be used, they are taken, but in addition, many characteristics of a physiological nature are added The way that the organism grows in different ... such as albuminous material Carbon in the form of carbohydrates, as sugar or starch, is most readily attacked by bacteria Inasmuch as the bacteria are plant-cells, they must imbibe[Pg 6] their ... differentiated, and that is, that practically all of them are capable of producing their characteristic chemical transformations under anaesthetic conditions, as in a saturated ether or chloroform atmosphere...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 22:20

... of national data on current employment and the ability to link these data to higher-education databases makes it easier to gather this data today To further leverage these advances, a mechanism ... business and economic activity and the very lifeblood of global capital markets The term “accounting information” encompasses financial and nonfinancial information about the activities, performance, and ... emphasis on the need for a sustained focus on the many areas that impact accounting education and creating approaches that foster that continuous process Summary of Recommendations The paragraphs...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... predicted and tolerable level of externalities for tobacco use have changed dramatically in the past years, and as a result, policy with respect to managing tobacco usage behavior also has changed The ... marketing, or force of law as a paradigm of choice Each paradigm has a role to play in behavior management; behavior management must be considered from the pragmatic reality created by targets and environments ... behave to accommodate the manager and the target (See, for example, the case of iodized salt discussed in P2 in the section "A Conceptual Framework for Public Health and Social Issue Behavior Management.")...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 02:20

... catalytic domains; black dots, protease cleavage sites (B) SDS ⁄ PAGE separation of FN3d–AP purified from conditioned media using anti-placental alkaline phosphatase (PLAP) agarose (C) SDS ⁄ PAGE ... mounted and analyzed as described above To semipermeabilize cells for intracellular staining, cells were incubated in 4% paraformaldehyde for 30 at °C in the first instance and then stained as described ... Frisen J, Yates PA, McLaughlin T, Friedman GC, O’Leary DD & Barbacid M (1998) Ephrin -A5 (AL1 ⁄ RAGS) is essential for proper retinal axon guidance and topographic mapping in the mammalian visual system...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 05:20

... compared to h: *P < 0.05; **P < 0.01 sion number AAG09721) are located adjacently in a head-to-head orientation, and their transcription start sites are  1.5 kb apart We therefore analyzed the ... Biosciences, Piscataway, NJ, USA) Expression of a- tubulin was examined as an internal control using a- tubulin monoclonal antibody (NeoMarkers, Fremont, CA, USA) Assay for HO catalytic activity YN-1, ... Kitamuro T, Takahashi K, Ogawa K, Udono-Fujimori R, Takeda K, Furuyama K, Nakayama M, Sun J, Fujita H, Hida W et al (2003) Bach1 functions as a hypoxia-inducible repressor for the heme oxygenase-1 gene...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20

... equal, canceling the negative subgraph with a positive graph of the same absolute value (see below for an example) Therefore, only damped oscillations can be obtained in such a case Additional ... necessary for the negative graph to induce sustained oscillations We shall analyze the steady states, because the presence of steady states on the phase-space border and the irreversible steady-state ... oscillations The main result of such an analysis is that oscillations arise if the parameter k3 is the largest and the parameters k6 and k7 are the smallest in the system Oscillations in this system can...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... Minimize adverbs and articles Commas are a favor to the reader, not always necessary Eliminate personal pronouns When all else fails, invent a tag .A great tag works as the target of a search, and also ... communication is ubiquitous and instantaneous Those same features are also the bane of the medium Interruption and distraction can appear at any time, and anywhere The weakness of short-form communication ... social change Today, a transformation is happening Short messaging services, and the rich media applications that magnify them, are augmenting society one layer at a time Superfluous, outmoded forms...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 21:22

... flexibility: a lexicon or a grammar is not a static resource The management of lexicons and grammars implies manual construction and maintenance of resources in a readable format, and compilation of these ... exploitation and LR management Data are structured both in standard XML formats and in more compact ones Format converters are included in the platform The WRTN formalism allows for combining statistical ... parser is based on Earley algorithm (Earley, 1970) that has been adapted to deal with WRTN (instead of context-free grammar) and a text in the form of an acyclic finite state automaton (instead...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... Time Banks UK and their partners at the TimeBank campaign, and the idea has been hailed as a vital tool for rebuilding trust and social capital Community time banks are widely regarded as a neat ... because they find that taking part in the time bank can mean real improvements The South London and Maudsley NHS Trust covers the same area specialising in mental health, and have watched this process ... trust and social capital when it has all but gone But they are still culpable It is their fault that they have clung too long to an old-fashioned idea of professionalism, and a dream that they...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 10:20

... Modulation of metal availability for treating AD P J Crouch et al research attention as potential therapeutic targets Plaques and NFTs, however, cannot be regarded as ‘upstream’ causative factors ... stress, a loss of regulation of Ab production, and an increase in tau hyperphosphorylation Furthermore, an increase in extracellular metals can catalyse Ab oligomerization and aggregation, and the amyloid ... facilitate this process may therefore be a critical factor in the Ab mediated pathology of the AD brain Subsequent to an early report demonstrating that the Cu- and Zn-induced aggregation of Ab could...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 10:20