surgical approaches to the heart and great vessels

... teaching and learning 1.3 Approaches to language teaching and their relevance to vocabulary 1.4 Recent research about teaching and learning second language vocabulary 1.5 Advantages of the use ... Approaches to language teaching and their relevance to vocabulary 1.4 Recent research about teaching and learning second language vocabulary 1.5 Advantages of the use games in vocabulary teaching and ... invaluable as they give students a break and at the same time allow students to practice language skills (Lee, 1995)  Games encourage learners to interact and communicate with one another When taking...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 14:36

... study by D’Amato and colleagues, the sensitivity and specificity of the Amplicor MTB when compared to culture as the gold standard was: 55.3% and 99.6% from smear negative and 94.1% and 100% from ... susceptible If the difference is less than or equal to days, then the isolate is considered resistant However, for the test to be valid, the time to growth in the control bottle has to be between and 10 ... measuring the height of the bubbles, characteristic of the catalase reaction, in the tube If the height of the bubbles is > 45 mm, the reaction is considered high and if the height of the bubbles...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 00:20

... lineages to be placed sister to the wild progenitor populations Evolutionary History of the Domesticated Sunflower 37 from which they were derived, and this is not the case On the other hand, given the ... rice and other food items that made up the collection (Alexanyan and Krivchenko, 1991) The staff realized the value of these collections, and some sacrificed everything Today the vir is the second ... not introduce sweet potatoes to the islands of the Pacific, the possibility remains that Polynesians voyaged to the coast of South America and brought back the sweet potato Research on Crop Plants...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 12:10

... condition of the patient, their ability to carry on normal activity and care for them self, and the degree of their disability Other important factors include the presence of extraspinal bone or other ... preoperative Karnofsky and modified Tokuhashi scores with the type of the surgical approach in 57 patients with spinal metastases treated surgically and to evaluate the value of these scores in aiding decision ... other organ metastasis, the histological type of the primary tumor, the limited or diffuse nature of the primary tumor, and paralysis These prognostic factors must be taken into account for objective...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... originally submitted to the Editor under the theme of “Muscle Cell” Muscles are classified into three types, skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscles, according to their structure and function In vertebrate ... injected into the EC, and sucked out of the EC to keep the specimen in hydrated state (Fig.1B) In the research field of medical and biological sciences, it was a dream of investigators to observe ... to apply ATP to the specimen iontophoretically The image of the specimen is recorded with the imaging plate (IP) (Sugi et al , 1997) Current Basic and Pathological Approaches to the Function...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 15:20

... along the x axis 18 MRI of the Heart and Vessels According to the formula w = gB also the precession frequency of the protons, w, changes with the variation of the field Bz to which the protons ... of the T2 effect of the material and the time elapsed after the RF pulse The operator of the MR scanner can properly define the TE and search for the value that will generate the images with the ... Editors and especially to myself A special thanks goes to the technical, nursing, engineering and secretarial staff of the MRI laboratory of the IFC-CNR of Pisa, and in the same degree to the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 20:20

... vivo and piggyback the virus into tissues and through the blood brain barrier into the central nervous system [5,6] With their differentiation into macrophages, and according to the stimulation ... permissive to HIV-1, and albeit remaining more restrictive to the virus than other cell types, become overtly infected The virus takes hold of these cells and uses them to spread to neighboring ... macrophages with respect to different aspects of the viral life cycle [7,8] The first details the latest findings on the role that the non-structural viral proteins Vpr and Vpx (the first conserved...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... 1.3 Objectives and Scope of the Thesis This thesis attempts to improve and characterize several issues of MPC control law: the domain of attraction, asymptotical behavior and the on-line computational ... to approximate the terminal set and the terminal cost off-line using support vector machine (SVM) SVM is a powerful pattern recognition technique and the approach exploits the flexibility in the ... systems, two approaches are proposed under the time optimal control (TOC) and MPC frameworks Both approaches result in the polytopal domains of attraction using an inner polytopal approximation The resulting...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 14:29

... positive-strand DWV RNA in tissues of symptomatic and asymptomatic bees The hemolymph, gut, wings, legs, head, thorax and abdomen were individually dissected out from symptomatic and asymptomatic bees and ... dilutions of the RNA, ranging from 103 pg to fg per reaction as the template for the qRT-PCR assays The amplification plot shows the fluorescence (dR) plotted against the cycle number for the standard ... Quantification of positive and negative-strand in the Varroa mites showed no significant difference (p = 0.07) between the titers of the negative-strand and positive-strand RNAs as seen in the honey bees...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2015, 08:30

... 119 this case the patient had a panuveitis, which recovered only after a combination of medical treatment and surgery, with a final visual acuity of 40% in the affected eye [1] The only case ... year-old farmer and his ocular manifestations are described in the specific section Figure 1: Geographical location of the province of Parma (Italy) References Mora P, Vecchi M, Barbera L, Toscani M, ... P, Vecchi M, Barbera L, Toscani M, Orsoni JG Use of systemic cyclosporin A in a case of severe Toxocara uveitis J Infect 2006; 52:159-161 http://www.medsci.org ...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:11

... codes to speak and sometimes they translate on a word-by-words basis They apply the way they think in their mother tongue to form speech in English and pay no attention to the meaning beyond the ... considered one of the motivations for language learners The more they know the target culture, the more they want to explore it and their own culture as well, which helps them find differences and similarities ... totally aware of the role of English in an open door and market economy They learn and expect to pass the exam at the end of each term with the belief that they will be able to be - 11 - retrained...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:00

... painlessly, by technology The electric streetcar and then the automobile led to the disappearance of the horses, and with them went their dung Most of the animal dung produced in today’s New York comes ... to run only in the summer But there is a key difference between home heat and calories: while there is no good way to store the warm air in your home for the next winter, there is a way to store ... diet and various others They all proved ineffective or too hard or too boring to sustain He had by now come to embrace the theory that our bodies are regulated by a “set point,” a sort of Stone...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 18:20

... inspired me to be responsible for my actions and future Special thanks to my mum for the countless hours she spent illustrating this book and to my dad and brother for all their help too Thanks to my ... to contestants in the drama of our existence We pay the bills, feed us and put my brother and I need to take responsibility for the kind of life we through school Both mum and dad knew the land ... the consumer way is the only way and the best way to live, when there are many other ways We have a choice and we should choose not to be laboratory rats Let’s wake up from our deep slumber and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/12/2013, 02:15

... France and the UK exhibiting a mixed picture of a few strengths and a few weaknesses The fact that the smaller economies such as Ireland, the Netherlands, Finland and Sweden appear to be the most ... enterprises in particular The regulatory and administrative obstacles to innovation remain too great, and further efforts are required to lower the costs of doing business and to remove unnecessary ... form, sector or location, are to have the potential to grow and develop so as to contribute to the overall goal To survive in the new competitive environment, no enterprise can afford to stand still...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... guides on the front of the rack, guides that use no rack space, optical fibers can be safely routed to splice decks and storage trays The second factor that helped gain approval of the Extend ... modularity, and ease of service turn-up — carried over to the Extend O/E Line Extender The ADC solution was the preferred product for building reliability and operational efficiency into the growing ... CEVs, and other tight spaces The rack-mount chassis includes cable support bars on the rear for coax cables and radius limiters on the front for protection of fibers terminated at SC connectors...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 12:20

... of the value of the gift and $75, then the value of the advantage is considered to be zero For example, if the price to attend the benefit dinner is $200 and the value of the dinner is $15, then ... provides a service to the charity, the charity pays for the service and the entity then returns the payment to the charity as a gift The CRA recommends that in this situation, the parties should ... dinner, the value of the dinner is $40 and the value of a gift bag received is $45, then the total advantage is $85 or 85% of the ticket price and therefore cannot be receipted However if the value...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 03:20