the alchemy of vision

... Diachronic view of changes in the length of the second phalanx (GL) of goats from the Middle Paleolithic to the present day Diachronic view of changes in the depth of the distal humerus (Dd) of gazelle ... for the distinguishing of soft and hard glume varieties of corn (Chapter 7) In all of these case study examples, then, there are clear causal links between the process of domestication of the ... 15 in the genetic profile of those populations of the target species that are drawn into this new pattern of interaction with humans The new genetic profile of the domesticate subset of the target...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 14:20

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2012, 17:20

... within the more damaging northern sector of the cyclone The effects of Hurricane Iris varied with exposure to storm waves, which came from the east-northeast over the barrier reef crest and into the ... each of the pixels used in the spatial average, the SST represents the daily analyzed field, which is the average of all valid satellite SST observations within the 9-km pixel, weighted toward the ... array of 9-km pixels (an area of 729 km2) centered on the southeastern edge of the Channel Cay reef complex (station in Fig 1) Gaps in the time series are due primarily to contamination of the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20

... treatment of metonymic expressions is determined by the acceptability of the pattern to which the expression belongs Another important point is that the analysis and generation components of a machine ... both of them A SURVEY OF METONYMY A comparative survey on acceptability of metonymic expressions in English, Chinese and Japanese has been conducted All of the 25 sentences which are used in the ... from the intuition of the analysts However, we think that the patterns which are based on the analysts' intuition to begin with should be supported and determined more precisely by the result of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... we mean the length of a shortest oriented cycle in G We call a subset D ⊆ E of the set of arcs E a transversal of the family of oriented cycles of G if D intersects all oriented cycles of G From ... cardinality of a family of pairwise disjoint transversals In other words, this version of the conjecture states that if is the oriented girth of G then is the largest k ∈ Æ for which there exists ... arcs from each of the induced subgraphs T [X], T [Y ] and T [Z] to get rid of all the oriented cycles in these subgraphs For example, we may take the arcs on X to be the union of the following...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 07:21

... the joint of the anterior epiphyses of the first metatarsal (mt.m), the most prominent part of the inner side of the ball of the foot, and the joint of the anterior epiphyses of the fifth metatarsal ... (mt.l), the most prominent part of the outer side of the ball of the foot Foot breadth at heel (cc.m – ctu.l): Distance taken from the lateral side of the heel (ctu.l) to the medial side (cc.m) of the ... features of the foot and footprints [13-18], and the use of radiographic comparisons of the foot [19-23] confirms the importance of the foot in identification Kanchan et al [24] have reported the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... and for the cooperation of the school’s psychologists At the preliminary stage of the study, the research team hosted the psychologists of the selected schools at meetings facilitated by the Ministry ... model The domain scores of the WHOQOL-Bref can be computed in three ways The first is a summation of the raw scores of the constituent items The second and third ways consist of transforming the ... associations of QOL in multivariate contexts (Table 4) Summary of predictors of QOL from the perspective of the conceptual framework Using the model of Jirojanakul et al [13], the results of the regression...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... this study as part of Core funding to the Observational Studies Programme of the MRC Unit, The staff of the Observational Studies Programme who undertook the data collection and the study participants ... References Ministry of Health of Uganda: National Health Policy Minister of Health; 1999 Ministry of Health, Government of Southern Sudan: Health Policy for the Government of Southern Sudan 2006-2011 ... distress (SMD) none of the males and only three of the females (5.7% of those with SMD) reported that they were receiving formal medical treatment for the SMD, so majority of people who report...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... the Inc phase of arthritis instead of the Pk phase of the disease In fact, most of the genes showed significantly reduced expression at the Pk and the Rec phase compared to the Inc phase As the ... the target organ, the joint Bhsp65-induced gene expression profile of LEW rats in the preclinical phase of AA The analysis of Bhsp65-induced gene expression profile of rats in the Inc phase of ... during the whole disease course (Inc through Rec phase) The major functional groups of DEG at the Inc phase of AA are given in Tables and To monitor the progression of the disease after the onset of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... the effect of increasing eccentricity These pictures are the negatives of the original pictures captured using food dye released from the apex of the cone The rotating endwall is located at the ... theory combined with axisymmetric numerical simulations They indicated that the observation of streaks downstream of the vortex breakdown was due to the oscillation of the flow, rather than the ... shifting the location of the breakdown Following the experimental study of Escudier (1984), the vortex breakdown of the swirling flow in the axis region of an enclosed cylinder driven by the rotation...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:02

... attached on the surface of the stationary end plate with water-proof glue (see Fig 2.2) The nominal thickness of the sensor is less 0.1 mm, and therefore its effect on the flow is negligible These ... sensors were located at 2/3 of the radius of the cylinder and 180º apart The hot-film was not calibrated 31 CHAPTER DESCRIPTION OF EXPERIMENT primarily due to the design of the glue-on hot film which ... located at the bottom of the cylinder to the accuracy of 0.05ºC The thermocouple was connected to a digital indicating controller to display the measured temperature with the sampling period about...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:02

... Tf are the frequency and period of modulation, respectively In the present study, the system is non-dimensionalized using R as the length scale, and the dynamic time 1/Ω as the time scale The flow ... be the vectors of V NM , ei the eigenvalues of ANN , h the columns of H MN , then (BMM + ei I MM )vi = hi for i =1,…N (13.4) Once initial vorticity values are determined, h can be calculated Then, ... by Prof J.M Lopez using a different numerical scheme as part of the collaborative project, all the numerical results reported here are performed by the author using the axisymmetric scheme The...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:02

... of the captured video images shows that the spiral tails were the manifestation of the dye filaments or sheets spiraling around the periphery of the bubble-type vortex breakdown The absence of ... differences in the Reynolds number (less than 0.6%) can be attributed to the sensitivity of the function generator used to control the speed of the stepper motor and the accuracy of the measured ... operation of the stepper motor, as the Reynolds number was not the issue here Part (i) of the figure shows the broadband view of the vortex structure using food dye and part (ii) shows the corresponding...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:02

... numerically computed, and the lines are best fits to the computed data 5.4.3.5 Fixed Re, variable Λ The purpose of this part of the investigation is to further verify the coexistence of the two limit cycles ... techniques To further verify the symmetry of the flow, we present in Fig 5.11 time-series from the two hot-films placed 180º apart on the stationary endplate Part (a) of the figure is the output for ... These were determined numerically by extrapolating in Re the amplitude of the oscillations of the limit cycles LC1 and LC2 to zero at various fixed values of Λ as shown in Fig 5.12 For the other...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:02

... synchronous with the forcing Figure 6.11 shows the variation of the power at the natural and forced frequencies for a pair of states in the neighborhood of the 2:1 resonance Outside the horn, the power ... Rheometer, and the temperature of the mixture was monitored regularly using a thermocouple located at the bottom of the cylinder to the accuracy of 0.05ºC, giving a maximum uncertainty in the Reynolds ... 6.4 illustrates that the amplitude of the oscillations near the axis (Wa) and near the wall (Ww) are of the same order of magnitude for the unforced flow LCN (A=0), and the forced flow LCF (at...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:02

... One of them is the alteration in the structure of the disk and sidewall boundary layers, particularly near the corner where the disk meets the sidewall These alterations can be interpreted as the ... close to the Hopf frequencies of the basic state By comparing the spatio-temporal structure of the sequence of junction vortices produced by the modulations in this range of frequencies with the vorticity ... Hopf modes In the experiment, there are only quantitative measurements of the oscillation amplitudes at the location of the hot-film probes, which could give a skewed picture of the response To...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:02

... for the quenching of the oscillations The third regime is characterized by modulation frequencies close to the Hopf frequencies of the basic state By comparing the spatio-temporal structure of the ... initiated The result is a sequence of junction vortices of alternating sign propagating up the sidewall Their short wavelength and high frequency tends to inhibit the natural (Hopf) instability of the ... quasistatic adjustment, where the swirling flow adjusts to the steady unmodulated solution at the instantaneous value of the rotation rate In this regime, the boundary layers on the cylinder sidewall...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:02

... junction with the Rio Chinchipe Located near the Rio Marañon, to the West of the river Located near the Rio Marañon, to the West of the river Located near the Rio Marañon, to the West of the river ... near the Rio Marañon on both sides of the river Located near the Rio Marañon, to the East of the river Located to the East of the Rio Marañon close to the junction with Rio Parcoy BIODIVERSITY OF ... to the junction with the Rio Tabaconas Located on both sides of the Rio Chamaya at about km of the junction with the Rio Huancabamba Located about km left of the Rio Marañon and about km of the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/11/2015, 15:51

... investigates the background of the teachers, their attitudes towards different varieties of English, and their awareness of the research regarding Euro-English Part two tests the acceptability of ten ... USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent on the quality of the copy submitted In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these ... ABSTRACT This thesis investigates the acceptability of a new variety of English among the English teaching community in Germany A number of linguists claim there is a new variety of English developing...

Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2016, 13:47

... described in the setting of Carney complex We did not test for a germline mutation of the PRKAR1A gene, which is detectable in 50-65% of cases The field of genomics has provided new insight on the role ... discoveries could pave the way for targeting anti-apoptotic SVs to lower the apoptotic threshold of a tumor cell, thereby increasing the efficacy of chemotherapy drugs Despite the emerging evidence ... hamartomatous polyps and the presence of a sebaceous carcinoma cannot be readily explained in the framework of this syndrome Furthermore, there have been no reports of sebaceous carcinoma in...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21