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Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2016, 09:44

... passed the threshold of their building and the door closed behind them, their whole affect changed They slumped, they smiled at one another, they leaned against the mailboxes and set down their ... her change and her sleeve rode up and there was a number tattooed there, there on her wrist.” Posy shuddered “When they took her and her husband and their kids, she stood at the window and pounded ... and took off their hats and fluffed their hair and turned back into people He remembered that feeling from his life before, the sense of having two faces: the one he showed to the world and the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 04:20

... PAGE The Clock that Had no Hands The Cannon that Modernized Japan The Tailor who Paid too Much 13 The Man who Retreats before His Defeat 19 The Dollar that Can' t be Spent 25 The Pass of Thermopylae ... long and paid twice as much for its publicity? This is the day when the best man wins—after he proves that he is the best man— when the best store wins, when it has shown that it is the best ... newspaper that enters their homes And when he does enter their homes he must not confuse the sheet that comes in the back gate with the newspaper that is delivered at the front door 91–92 The Horse that...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... Þ=n where A and B are the MICs of drug A and drug B in the combination, MICA and MICB are the MICs of drug A and drug B alone, FICA and FICB are the FICs of drug A and drug B and n is the number ... 40, and FITC-D 70), and then incubated with the peptide The data shown in Fig reveal that Esc(1–18) is able to cause the release of the 5654 four dextrans used in a dose-dependent manner, and ... worthy of remark that both fragments of esculentin peptide were found to affect the integrity of the microbial plasma membrane and the synthesis of the microbial cell wall To the best of our knowledge,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

... mutation in E coli That means that proteins that normally catalyze the synthesis in R sphaeroides of b-1,2; a-1,6 cyclic glucans comprised of 18 glucose residues can catalyze the synthesis in E coli ... residues through the cell membrane to OPGs present in the periplasmic space [14] The open question was whether the R sphaeroides genes can be expressed in E coli, and what properties they confer in ... ethanol from the cell pellets The extracts were concentrated by rotary evaporation, and lipids and proteins were then removed by the addition of a mixture of chloroform and methanol (2 : 1) The aqueous...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 17:20

... when the US, Canada, and Sweden are compared on numerous social development and population health indicators [14,15] Sweden fares the best, the US the worse, and Canada comes up the middle These ... illuminate the state of political and economic forces that influence the quality of life of women in Canada and elsewhere A number of indicators from the HDR [26] map onto this quality of life theme The ... bode well for Canadian women and their quality of life [93] Caregiving in the US is seen to be in a crisis situation and has strong implications for the quality of American women’s and their children’s...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20

... can be the subject of written requests The incentives of BPCA and the requirements for PREA can operate in tandem for the same product and sponsor That is, FDA can require pediatric studies and ... science and technology and to their use for the general welfare Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal ... al., 2003, Reed and Gal, 2004; Ward and Lugo, 2005; Rakhmanina and Van Den Anker, 2009) These include the need to understand age- and development-related variations in the way that the body affects...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... in the T4–QN complex also demonstrated that the four t peptides are parallel and oriented in the same direction, opposite to that of the PRAD [30] The structure of a complex formed between synthetic ... shows that a fraction of dimers and tetramers was retarded by the M2 antibody (x), indicating that they were associated with the QN-flag protein Note that the coexpression with QN increased the ... concentration of the enzyme, as shown by the fact that the D4A/E5A and R16A mutants produced approximately the same levels of cellular activity with the same proportions of molecular forms as the wild...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

... Letter to Darwin 168 Travel to England and the Canary Islands: Experimental Justification of Evolution Visit to England and Meeting with Darwin Travel to the Canary Islands Research on Siphonophores ... Romanticism that emphasized both the spiritual need of the individual freely to construct the self (an idea at the root of Schelling’s idealism) and the destiny of that self in an ancient and fabled fatherland ... easily with them And while I may not have always met their demands, I am constantly reminded of and inspired by their standards My wife, Barbara, has provided all that one could desire, and more...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 00:20

... by the questions they asked and the subjects they discussed that the Soviets had built a semi- conductor manfuacturing and assembly plant and they were anxious to equip it They wanted American ... regarding the trading contacts and contracts between the U.S.S.R and the West, notably Germany and the United States The primary sources were the fascinating and extraordinarily detailed files of the ... better understanding of the American people and their way of life /s/ Lyndon B Johnson Why all the secrecy? Imagine the public reaction in 1966, when the Soviets were supplying the North Viets...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 01:34

... thanks to the simple structure of the original OIDP and the universal nature of its dimensions On the other hand, it proved more challenging to comprehend the theoretical basis of the OIDP and its ... Districts and the Employment Risk Prevention Centre) before the pilot and main studies were started All participants were briefed about the purpose and process of the study and filled the explicit ... participants of the Working Sample were asked about the influence of the mouth on their occupational performance, and 168 (62.5%) believed that their mouth could affect their work, citing the following...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... in the design of the study, interpreted the data and revised the manuscript AYNSM, PJR and PTCK interpreted the data and revised the manuscript PDB contributed to the statistical analysis and ... boys surviving RB and their male reference group We further divided the group into male and female children, and male and female adolescents and compared those subgroups with their relevant reference ... informing their child about these effects, and were uncertain about the timing and the way the message should be conveyed Shankar et al (2005)also suggest that young (aged 8–12 years) childhood cancer...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... correlating the GSRS with the QOLRAD; (b) correlating the GSRS and the QOLRAD with the SF-36 dimensions; and (c) correlating the GSRS and the QOLRAD with the HAD (except in South Africa) and with clinician-rated ... support the validity of the Scandinavian language versions of the GSRS and the QOLRAD in patients with GERD [41] Future studies could use this approach to further assess the validity of the additional ... two disease-specific and two generic PRO instruments: the GSRS, the dyspepsia version of the QOLRAD, the 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... was run that consisted of the reliability of the domain, the item-domain correlation, and conceptual analysis that included whether or not the scale made sense The internal consistency of the domains ... ceiling and floor effects Children and adolescents between and 16 years of age and their parents were asked to participate in the DISABKIDS pilot and field study, completing the instrument either ... medical condition and their parents [19] The project is a collaboration of seven European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom) and included...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... of the OPQOL score and the rest of the sample Results Out of the 239 participants enrolled at baseline, 29 were lost to the one-year follow-up: these missing cases were those in which either the ... comorbidity and risk of adverse events This same explanation can apply to the high prevalence of frailty, dementia and depression observed in the sample and is supported by the fact that in other recent ... none of the criteria are present We also considered the occurrence of specific life events in the year prior to the visit, such as any fall and any admission to the emergency department (ED) The...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... in the design of the study, interpreted the data and revised the manuscript AYNSM, PJR and PTCK interpreted the data and revised the manuscript PDB contributed to the statistical analysis and ... boys surviving RB and their male reference group We further divided the group into male and female children, and male and female adolescents and compared those subgroups with their relevant reference ... informing their child about these effects, and were uncertain about the timing and the way the message should be conveyed Shankar et al (2005)also suggest that young (aged 8–12 years) childhood cancer...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... contributions JMV, LR, and JA participated in the conception and design of the study EVO, SRF, GV and JAPV analyzed the data EVO, JMV, MH, MF, LR and JA participated in the drafting of the article All ... comparisons, the strongest associations were seen between undesirable events and HRQoL on the Psychological Well-being and School Environment dimensions and the Overall score in boys, and on the School ... tested the instrument and the recall periods in a pilot study that showed that they were feasible and acceptable to respondents[28] Thirdly, data on important mediators such as personality and coping...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... and standardized response mean The effect size anchors the changes against the variability in the sample, and is calculated by dividing the mean change by the standard deviation at baseline The ... Affiliation at the time the study was conducted Authors’ contributions All authors contributed to the concept and design of the study, to the interpretation of the data and to drafting the manuscript ... moderate to low, and the highest Page of values were obtained for the heartburn and regurgitation variables, these being the cardinal symptoms of GERD The higher correlation with heartburn and regurgitation...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... lưng Quay bàn chân theo hướng xoay bước quanh theo hướng xoay Cột sống thắt lưng nơi chịu áp lực cao, giúp thực động tác xoay xở lại uyển chuyển Phòng chống đau thắt lưng Theo TS Vũ Thanh Thủy...

Ngày tải lên: 08/07/2014, 11:20