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... by the ease of the constituent polymer to dissolve in the cross-linking medium and the extent of interaction between the cross-linker and polymer chains, bringing the chains closer together The ... each other A series of bands in the region 1150-1000cm-1 of SA had been reported to shift to lower wavenumbers as the calcium content increases and the authors attributed the shift to C-C and C-O ... influenced to a greater extent by the structural arrangement of the polymer chains than the extent of interaction of the polymer with Ca2+ Thus, by adjusting the proportions of alginate and copolymers,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 17:43

... explain the lower drug content of the S2 and S3 microspheres The higher viscosity of S3 mixture as compared to S2 mixture would impede the diffusion of the drug from the polymer phase to the organic ... as standard test samples could be easily prepared to evaluate the properties of the matrix and the influence of size and shape could be avoided The properties that affected the quality of the ... cross-linking of alginate matrices A review of the literature showed that the media used for internal and external cross-linking methods were not standardized and often, the pH values of the media...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 17:44

... tensile properties The tensile properties of the matrix were affected by the extent of cross-linking, as well as the flexibility and mobility of the polymer chains The latter played a greater role ... Ca2+ content (Tables and 8) On the other hand, a fairly linear relationship (r2 =0.86) was observed between the viscosity of sodium alginate and the Ca2+ content, indicating a strong influence of ... observed with higher alginate viscosity and greater extent of cross-linking (Tables and 10) The results suggested that the viscosity of the alginate and the amount of Ca2+ cross-linked with alginate...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 17:45

... many of them the treasury is amply remunerated, and more, by the increased sale of the public lands, the increase of population, and the consequent increase of the revenue from the custom-house And ... defray the expense of sending mails to the new and distant parts of the country There is no justice in it The extension of these mails is a duty of the government; and let the government, by the ... have the pleasure to send you the copy of a paper I have prepared, at the request of Mr Webb, of Boston, to show the progress of increase of the number of letters by the post-office here, since the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 02:20

... (n) denotes the feeling of great happiness and pride in one sense and a celebration or other expression of great happiness in the other sense Nouns Denoting Great Pleasure Apart from the noun ‘delight’ ... ‘sense of freedom’, and other nouns These adjectives have their syntactic functions as head of adjectival phrases, pre-modifier of noun phrases and complement in sentences ‘Joyful’ (adj) and ‘joyous’ ... (2009) 165-173 171 great delight and pleasure, often at the defeat or failure of someone else, celebrate”, as in: The soldiers exulted at their victory The soldiers exulted over their defeated enemies...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... at the end of the month prior to the start of the maintenance period that the operation falls under Write-offs and provisions and return on assets are measured at the end of the year before the ... a mean of 1,144% and a standard deviation of 3,331% It is highly skewed The minimum is 86%, the median is 400%, and the maximum is 26,997% Imbalance×nex has a mean of -208,065%2 and a standard ... foreign banks, they are 0.69 bps and −0.18 bps; for Landesbanks, they are 1.48 bps and 0.53 bps, and for cooperative central banks, they are 2.82 bps and 0.51 bps Thus Landesbanks are the best performers,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 10:20

... in the UK (7.4%) and the presence of family and friends in the UK (7.1%) (Figure 4) All respondents were asked to report their 'main' and 'other' reasons of immigration to the UK (Figure 3) The ... along with the increased resource investment in the NHS at the end of the last century resulted in an influx of doctors to the UK [6] Places available for the final part of Professional and Linguistics ... Percentage of responses Figure Other Reason for migration to United Kingdom and Great Britain Other Reason for migration to United Kingdom and Great Britain Number of respondents: 1615 Total number of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... media and analyst avenues To so, marketers are developing and outsourcing some of the same skill sets and resources of those more traditional media and analyst groups They are forming their own ... effective content marketing program is the definition of a strategic advocacy agenda and point of view This comes out of exhaustive online and offline discovery as well as invention sessions and continuous ... insights and discussions for others inside and outside of the network When Oracle’s ondemand CRM business unit teamed with the CMO Council to launch a campaign to improve integration and alignment of...

Ngày tải lên: 30/07/2014, 16:37

... 2.3 Methodology of the research 2.3.1 Data gathering The research began by the collection of official data concerning the poultry production from the reports of the Department of Livestock Production ... allow the characterization of the poultry production (sub-) systems, the scale of breeding and the realisation of the cost-benefit analysis of the mass vaccination campaign against H5N1 in these ... each of level from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to the provinces (Department of Agriculture and Rural Development), then to districts (Office of Agriculture) and finally to the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:22

... controls of SBA-15-type mesoporous silica are available in the literature.10,11 It is reported that the ratio of the silica source to the surfactant ratio and the pH of the synthesis gel can greatly ... can greatly influence the characteristics of the resulting materials as they generally control the formation of micelles during the synthesis.8 Hence, many aspects of the synthesis processes are ... layer The role of HCl in the synthesis process involves dehydrating the PEO segment and decreasing the solubility of the PEO block by the presence of Cl– ions in the aqueous solution.21 The increase...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 14:20

... Where n s and n1, are the refractive indices of the substrate and the corresponding layer respectively, d1, is the geometrical thickness of the corresponding quarter wave layers and λ B is the target ... reflectivity of the electric field from a single interface, and n1 and n2 are the optical indices of the alternating λ B /4 material layers As stated above, the λ B /4 optical thickness of the DBR ... formation of AlN on the surface, which degrades the properties of the epilayer [6] 2.2 Silicon Carbide (SiC) The main advantage of this substrate is that its lattice parameter and the thermal expansion...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 14:20

... 1.5% of dry weight of needles The low values of nitrogen content are due to the fact that measurements were made during the growing phase of new shoots The photosynthetic radiation responses of the ... inclinations of the shoot axis to the plane of projection The effect of asymmetry of the shoot was eliminated by rotating the shoot times in increments of 60° for each inclination angle The mean ... fitted to the measured photosynthetic rates using the method of least squares and the value at 2000 pmol was used as an s m’ estimate of the photosynthetic capacity The silhouette area of each...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... recruitment, characteristics of the study participating practices and their constituent healthcare professionals and administrative staff, and reports the descriptive analyses of the data collected ... BP and glycaemic control, it would be reasonable to expect higher rates of patients with lower BP and HbA1c -and there is one QOF indicator for each of these with rates of performance of 80% and ... considerable amount of coding of frequency of dose data (usually entered as text rather than coded data) and coding of maximum doses of drugs to allow the identification of a population of patients who...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... usage in HBV The C% and U% were higher than A% and G%, and C3% and U3% were higher than A3% and G3% in HBV (Table 1) Table The overall nucleotide contents and nucleotide contents at the synonymous ... alignment and drafted the manuscript., MLW and FXZ participated in the sequence alignment SDZ, GL and YW participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical analysis XQH conceived of ... understand the roles of geographic and subtype factors in influencing the process of HBV evolution Materials and methods Sequence data The 58 complete RNA sequences of HBV were downloaded from the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... grouping of proteins and water, the situation of the protein electric charge Adding the neutral salt to the protein solution, the hydration shell around the proteins becomes weaken or vanished, and the ... AS and GM carried out most of the experiments and wrote the manuscript AC and MW critically revised the experiment design and the manuscript DL, LL, TZ, DZ, QL, RJ, ZC, YZ and XC helped with the ... genome of DEV CHv-strain to amplify the UL45 and UL45Δ gene Electrophoresis analysis results of amplified products showed that the size of UL45 and UL45Δ gene was the same as expected The UL45 and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... interested in the topic of family, and of the students said that they liked horror stories and adventure stories Based on the information, the stories which can interest the students and therefore ... introduction of the study that includes the background of the study, the aims, the scope, the research questions and the method as well as the design of the study Part consists of four chapters ... of the students said that they tried to remember the content of the story 12 students wrote the new words and checked their meanings in the dictionary Some of the students (7) revealed that they...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 08:54

... from the centreline of the upstream cylinder location, the presence of the downstream cylinder will enhance the asymmetric features of the wake flow velocities and temporal variations of the surface ... and the other close to the beat frequency, fn = 0.108 Hz Figure 134 and 135 show the plots of the surge responses for these two natural frequencies, for downstream cylinder placement at y = and ... D offsets The plots in red and green are computed from experimental and CFD kinematics respectively Table 24 and 25 presents the standard deviation of the surge motion responses Table 24 Standard...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:54

... the kinematics of the other To quantify the dominance of either currents or waves in the wave current field on a cylinder, the ratio of the current flow (Uc) to the maximum particle (Uw) in the ... wake of the upstream structure is scattered, diffracted and probably turbulent, and these become the incident flow on the downstream structure The motions of the structures further complicate the ... Fundamentally, the flow interaction between the bluff column of the SPAR and one of the columns of the TAD can be represented by two interacting cylinders in waves and currents The upstream cylinder...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:54

... spacing of (a) ½ D, (b) D, and (c) ½ D for combined wave and currents of T=0.7 s, H = 25 mm, C = 50 mm/s Figure D3 Y direction velocities measured at y = offset, at spacing of (a) ½ D, (b) D, and ... wave and currents of T = 0.7 s, H = 25 mm, C = 50 mm/s Figure D4 Y direction velocities measured at y = 0.6 D offset, at spacing of (a) ½ D, (b) D, and (c) ½ D for combined wave and currents of ... spacing of (a) ½ D, (b) D, and (c) ½ D for combined wave and currents of T=0.7 s, H = 25 mm, C = 75 mm/s Figure D7 Y direction velocities measured at y = offset, at spacing of (a) ½ D, (b) D, and...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:54

... plots of wave and currents run, C= 75 mm/s, T=0.7s, at time intervals of T’ (First 24T’ s of run Downstream cylinder spacing at x = ½ D, y = 0.6 D) Figure H3 Iso surface plots of wave and currents ... Appendix H Iso Surface Plots of Numerical Wave Tank Figure H1 Iso surface plots of wave and currents run, C= 50 mm/s, T=0.7s, at time intervals of T’ (First 24T’ s of run Downstream cylinder spacing ... intervals of T’ (First 24T’ s of run Downstream cylinder spacing at x = ½ D, y = 0.6 D) Figure H4 Iso surface plots of wave only run, T = 0.7s, at time intervals of T (First 24T’ s of run Downstream...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:54