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... This breed was brought by the Celtic populations who colonised Asturias in the VIII century BC, and has been used in the last centuries mainly as a military horse, and as a work animal Both activities ... a randomly chosen allele at the same locus in the other Average r6latedness (AR) could be defined as twice the probability that two random alleles, one from the animal and the other from the ... was computed as those separating the offspring of its furthest known ancestor in either path Malécot [14] defined the coefficient of coancestry between two animals as the probability that a randomly...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... ideas of its actors and the demand for the goods and services they offer One of those manifold informal activities, namely the informal waste management systems is in the scope of this thesis Many ... in the formal waste management system In the last chapter an assessment scheme for alliances in solid waste management is used to compare the examples for formalisation of IS actors with the ... richer areas and the often insufficient collection services in poor areas of the cities has led to the formation of an informal waste management sector The cities’ poor, who see waste rather as a...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2013, 18:48

... Microsoft and their partners • Nokia brings proven capability and talent in critical areas • Ongoing share growth and the synergies across marketing, branding, and advertising Nokia • Be the best ... reductions Reduce the cost capital Improve market reach and industry visibility Create strange bedfellows, also have an impact on the bottom line Identify, share and discuss opportunities and problems ... Offering a greater range of product and services Reducing cost and cost efficient • In a merger ,two organizations or companies join together to become a new business • In an acquisition: one...

Ngày tải lên: 08/05/2014, 17:42

... supported the ITU activity since the early stages of the work in both WP 8F and WP 5D, and also at the previous workshop in Kyoto in 2007 where LTE was presented as a foundation for the LTE-Advanced ... for Further Advancements for E-UTRA (LTE-Advanced) ”, and are based on the following concepts: LTE-Advanced is an evolution of LTE All relevant requirements of LTE are valid also for LTE-Advanced ... members as the basis for the discussion towards the development of final specifications for the technology Hence at this stage of the work in 3GPP, many views are coming forward For example: ...

Ngày tải lên: 01/08/2014, 20:20

... Cecchi and colleagues reported increased collection over the period from 1999 to 2004 in the areas of Florence and Pistoia.4 Between August 20 and September 20 over the last years of the study, the ... spring and longer growing season that will accompany climactic changes in the future Other pollens have also been studied in relation to the lengthening of the growing season Emberlin and collea- ... on an international scale and illustrating the effects of the changing environment on allergic disease With the prevalence of allergic diseases increasing,54 it becomes important to study these...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... by other groups as a cause of CIJD or as enhancing factors in the disease, for example hypomethylated bacterial DNA [12], LPS [13] and heat shock protein 60 [62] Relevance of the findings The ... disease N Engl J Med 1979, 301:5-8 Kaplan C, Valdez JC, Chandrasekaran R, Eibel H, Mikecz K, Glant TT, Finnegan A: Th1 and Th2 cytokines regulate proteoglycanspecific autoantibody isotypes and ... Freiburg, Germany) Sorted T cells were re-analysed for purity by staining with allophycocyanin-labelled anti-B220, anti-NK1.1, anti-Mac-1 or anti-Gr1, with anti-I-A/anti-I-E-PE (M5/114.15.2;), anti-CD11cFITC...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... lymphangioma, and hemangioma [9] There have been no previous cases of preoperatively diagnosed xanthogranuloma as was found in the current case In our case, the gastric xanthogranuloma was preoperatively ... reported in cases Our histopathological inspection in these cases did not support continuity between the xanthogranuloma and early gastric cancer Therefore, it is unclear whether early gastric cancer ... http://www.wjso.com/content/9/1/67 that the elevated lesion had invaded the abdominal wall, and a defined abdominal mass was palpable on physical examination Therefore, the tumor was recognized as an advanced gastric cancer Biopsy...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:20

... of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 0W8, Canada Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 0W8, Canada RK: rani.kanthan@saskatoonhealthregion.ca ... of metastases was the ileum (3 cases) followed by the duodenum (2 cases) and the jejunum (1 case) Indirect small bowel involvement was also noted by Ewing et al, who reported metastases to the ... Though malignant melanoma is the most common extra-gastrointestinal primary to metastasize to the small bowel [2], intestinal metastases are common in end-stage adenocarcinomas of the pancreas, colon,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:21

... veins In these cases using the SMA as a landmark was less helpful and other landmarks were used to find the nerve As any other tool we not propose this approach for all situations and circumstances ... specimens and 22 live patients comparing the closest measured distances between tympanomastoid and posterior belly of the digastric muscle to the facial nerve They proved that the tympanomastoid ... and the angle of the mandible allowed a fast and safe identification of the facial nerve and may be of significant help during surgery around the parotid region Pather and Osman [1] evaluated the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... residual disease and was thus candidate to further therapy The role of chemotherapy in the management of liposarcoma has not been yet well established [24] Conversely, radiotherapy has shown to ... feasible The choice of therapeutic options should be based both on the natural history of the disease and on the patient's individual clinical status The collection of a larger number of cases ... Shokouh-Amiri MH, Hansen CP, Moesgaard F: Liposarcoma of the stomach: a case report Acta Chir Scand 1986, 152:389-391 Mohandas D, Chandra RS, Srinivasan V, Bhaskar AG: Liposarcoma of the ileum with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... the intermembrane space is ~25 fold higher than that in the matrix The entry of protons into the cytoplasmic half-channel is also facilitated by a +0.14V membrane potential, which increases the ... and deuteronated Asp61 This increase of pKa probably slows the dissociation of the deuteron The stator charge of Arg210 is normally sufficient to ensure the dissociation of the Asp61 facing the ... 4-methoxybenzoate monooxygenase from Pseudomonas putida was reported [19] An effect of nucleotide binding on H/D exchange was reported in ATP synthase from the thermophilic Bacillus PS3 [20] The difference...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... questionnaire and the two tests‟ scores Significance of the study The data collected from the study can be analyzed and interpreted in terms of using websites and web-based activities with songs and short ... have the opportunity to pause, listen and read a transcript or get instant feedback on what they have done (vi) Learners can access authentic websites They can plan out their own use of web-based ... conducted as a quasi-experimental design Three hypotheses were set up The first hypothesis stated in the research questions, the second one was the null hypothesis- there is no difference between the...

Ngày tải lên: 04/08/2015, 09:41

... dedication and passion for research I would like to thank the students and staff of BIOMAT Centre, past and present, for their help and the pleasure of their company: Chee Kong, Fenghao, Kay Siang, ... Solution to Organ Shortage Organ transplantation has become increasingly common in the past 30 years and has saved many lives, while having improved the quality of lives of thousands of other patients ... hyperplasia These failings highlight the importance of (1) provision of a blood compatible surface, (2) establishment and maintenance of an endothelial lining and (3) mechanical compliance of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:49

... cultured in the same medium, fibroblastic cells quickly grew out from fetal liver mononuclear cells, and failed to express endothelial phenotype 122 Chapter Isolation and Characterisation Of Vascular ... Chapter Isolation and Characterisation Of Vascular Progenitors Figure 4-3: Primary culture of haemopoietic tissue in EGM Following culture in endothelial cell media, outgrowth colonies ... from cord blood (a, b) In contrast, outgrowth colonies from fetal blood (c) were heterogeneous in nature, adopting morphologies ranging from cobblestone, fibroblastic to spindle (d - f) 123 ...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:49

... vessel development and vasculogenesis Of these, Kinase Domain Receptor (KDR) stands out, as it is one of the markers of endothelial progenitor cells (the other two being CD34 and CD133) (Peichev ... previously termed CFUHills, are associated with angioblasts and the adult haemangioblast (Hill 2003; Loges 2004) However, the cells were unable to undergo further proliferation and gradually diminished ... generate endothelial progeny, I assayed for the expression of various endothelial markers, namely CD31, CD144, VEGFR2, as well as vWF The staining profile was compared with FB-EPC, as well as HUVE...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:49

... Glow Discharge (RFGD) Plasma 5.2.1.4 Assessment of tensile properties The choice of the plasma-based method to modify the µXPCL surface was made on the basis of its advantageous low depth of penetration ... Furthermore, the cross-links may occur at or near the active site, obscuring the ability of the antibody to identify the cell antigen In my experiments, I had used titration methods to assess the ... Using the Nitschke method, I found that PAAc could similarly be engrafted onto the µXPCL surface, and that it was possible to increase the grafting yield simply by repeating the process The plasma...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:49

... by two bytes giving the functional address and the channel address by which the block is addressed in the STIM This identifies the block in the same semantics as the standard and does not depend ... perform the byte-handshake The channel read operation is longer than the Channel Aggregate Hold-off Time DS00214A-page 11 AN2 14 Organization of the Source Code The source code is divided into the ... between the end of the channel selector byte and the transmission of the first byte of the data frame This delay happens when the PICmicro device is processing the function code and dispatching to the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/01/2016, 11:45

... adaptation of the MEAMS was assessed using the Rasch measurement model [7,8] The Rasch model is a unidimensional model which asserts that the easier the item the more likely it will be passed, and the ... interpretation of DIF, as well as an ANOVA of the residuals Thus this DIF based ANOVA analysis is subtly different from the distributional analysis of the ANOVA approach which preceded it, as the latter ... software and significance levels Rasch analysis was undertaken using the RUMM2020 package [18] During the Rasch analysis, Bonferroni corrections are applied to both fit and DIF statistics due to the...

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Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2012, 17:20

... origin (2) The brand -as- organization The brand -as- organization perspective focuses on attributes of the organization rather than those of the product or service Such organizational attributes as innovation, ... as: • • • • What is the soul of the brand? What are the fundamental beliefs and values that drive the brand? What are the competencies of the organization behind the brand? What does the organization ... However, there is a big gap between living standards of the urban areas and the countryside Differences in annual income and purchasing power can be seen between the North and the South of the country...

Ngày tải lên: 13/04/2013, 10:29