the effect of diagnostic criteria on mean prevalence rates

... rupture of the membrane Thermal management is also essential for the control of the water evaporation or condensation rates [1-3] The need for improved lifetime of air-breathing proton exchange ... [kg/(m⋅s)] The mass balance is described by the divergence of the mass flux through diffusion and convection Multiple species are considered in the gas phase only, and the species conservation equation ... channels, along with the necessary pumps and fans, the cathode gas diffusion layer is in direct contact with the ambient air; (ii.) the ionic conductivity of the membrane is constant; (iii.) the membrane...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... depth) The objective of this work is to investigate the effect of brine depth on the productivity and efficiency of solar still under laboratory conditions Table shows a summary of some of the studies ... turning the heaters off On the other hand, the still with the higher brine depth has a larger production during the period with no heat input (termed as nocturnal production in the outdoor tests) These ... HM Thermal performance of a single-sloped basin still with aninherent built-in additional condenser Desalination 142 (2002) 19-27 [13] Khalifa AJN, Hamood AM On the verification of the effect of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... Hai_Trung-Anh strongly, and many buildings and big houses are grown up a lot.Morever, the growth of economy has given a lot of advantages by making people richer, healther, and freer to enjoy their lives.I ... of advantages by making people richer, healther, and freer to enjoy their lives.I always pride of my city whenever I talk about him.I wished that could work at my hometown after finishing at...

Ngày tải lên: 18/01/2014, 07:20

... performed only on the observations whose propensity score belongs to the intersection of the supports of the propensity score of treated and controls Imposing the common support condition in the estimation ... wedlock.2 If the characteristics of the parents and their relationship that determine the risk of union dissolution also affect child wellbeing, then estimates of the effect of separation on child ... are of “other” race/ethnicity - Mother = white, Father = non-white - Mother = black, Father = non-black - Mother = Hispanic, Father = non-Hispanic - Mother = other, Father = other Parents’ Region...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 11:20

... was synthesized successfully by co-precipitation method X-ray diffraction study shows the presence of cubic spinel The increase of Co2+ ion concentration yields the monotonic increase of MS, ... part of several tens percent of HC and the last one whereas can only reach several hundreds of gauss Thus, the increasing of Co-concentration led to the increasing of anisotropy property of ferrites ... temperature.These plots show that an increase in Co2+ doping yields monotonic increase in the saturation magnetization of Niferrite which may be due to the substitution of Ni2+ ions by Co2+ on the octahedral...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 04:20

... Phonetics of English Intonation Ph.D thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980 Janet B Pierrehumbert and Julia Hirschberg The Meaning of Intonation Contours in the Interpretation of Discourse ... effect is attentional, on the order of items in Cf; (2) the obligation to accent a pronominal for attentional r~asons depends on the variance between what the text predicts and what the speaker would ... accents on pronominals are primarily interpreted for what they say about attentional salience One determiner of whether attentional or propositional effects are dominant is the type of information...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 22:20

... Quantification of the proteolytic susceptibility of RNase A To gain further insight into the changes of the proteolytic susceptibility of RNase A as a function of trifluoroethanol concentration, the proteolytic ... conformation of RNase A with particular consideration of the pretransition region of global unfolding In correspondence to reports by other authors [16,30,31], CD spectra in the near-UV region, ... unveil the disruption of the tertiary structure of RNase A in > 30% trifluoroethanol CD spectra in the far-UV region, on the other hand, indicate a detectable increase in the content of secondary...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20

... awareness of monetary policies in the workplace The second objective is obtained from the questionnaire The research will give the common test about the application of monetary incentive in the Vietnamese ... company, the survey questions can be same for both of them to find out the effect of monetary incentive on their effort and task performance Survey questions only continue to be conducted if and only ... this was the premise of the appearance of the term “motivation” and then it has rapidly become one of the most common concepts in everyday language Nowadays, it is a concerning issue of almost...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 14:20

... norm  of the South‐East  Region  and  equal 1/3 of the Mekong Delta. This situation  is a pressure on suburban farmers in keeping  agricultural production [6].  According to the investigation of Institute  ... suburban districts. This causes the prodigality  in land use of the city.  directions,  but  it  was  mainly  concentrated  in  the North,  West  and  East  of the city  and  along the main roads. In the upcoming years,  ... urbanization in Ho Chi Minh City.  2. The study area  Ho  Chi  Minh  City  has  a  very  favorable  geographical location in the centre of the rich  Southern  region  with  many  resources.  The city  has  the common  administrative ...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 15:20

... Managers consider the effect of 104 P.M Healy, Effect of bonus schemes on accounting decisions alternative accounting methods on the present value of their bonus awards However, the effect of a procedure ... change The test mitigates one of the limitations of the contingency tests The proxy for the managers' accounting decisions in those tests, the effect of an accounting procedure change on bonus ... price? Second, what are the other incentive effects of bonus contracts? Finally, P.M Healy, Effect of bonus schemes on accounting decisions 107 what are the joint incentive effects of bonus schemes...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... and the spectral shape are determined by the concentration ratio of these two components while the PL intensity is determined by the concentrations of these two components and the density of nonradiative ... 175–184 Therefore, the main role of hydrogen here is the effective passivation of nonradiative recombination centers 3.4 The effect of annealing times upon 400 8C annealing Fig The dependence of the ... increases their amount The actual PL is determined by both the concentrations of PL centers and of nonradiative recombination centers This leads to the much strong enhancement of PL in the case of FG...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 15:31

... demonstrating the ability of the HAMP domain region to regulate AC activity The effect of the HAMP domain on the CHD of Rv1319c was much less pronounced, supporting the earlier notion of a distinct ... function in the context of mycobacterial class IIIb ACs The isolated CHDs of all four isoforms were purified and had AC activity in vitro Inclusion of the N-terminal HAMP-region enhanced the activity ... HAMP-domain which is part of the region connecting the membrane anchor to the catalytic domain (CHD) Secondary structure prediction suggested that the second amphipathic helix of the HAMP domain is...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

... significance, the pattern of improvement is fairly consistent Conclusions We investigated the consistency of human assessors in the area of summarization evaluation We considered two ways of measuring ... based on one of three regression methods: robust regression, nonnegative least squares, or canonical correlation The regressions are calculated based on a collection of linguistic and content features, ... measuring assessor consistency, depending on the metric, and studied the impact of consistent scoring on ranking summarization systems and on the performance of automatic evaluation systems We found...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 17:20

... higher values of Kfmax for the same weld shape In addition, Kfmax depends upon the shape of the weld and the type of loading to which it is subjected (a), and upon the size or scale of the weldment ... 2N The maximum recoverable life of ASTM A514/Ell0 butt welds "' "' ~ Ui 463 The initiation portion of life (N ) is estimated using strain-control faigue data and is considered to consist of the ... increasing the strength (Su) of weldments in the as-welded condition may actually decrease their fatigue strength due to the combined effects of increasing Kfmax and crr· When the mean stress...

Ngày tải lên: 24/05/2014, 20:36

... clients of Second-Tier audit firms is compared to the cost of capital of Big-audit firms in terms of the expected effect of the level of audit quality provided on the cost of capital The cost of capital ... components: one component is the cost of debt, and the second component is the cost of equity The results show that clients of Second-Tier audit firms incur cost of debt that is higher than the ... and other variables that constitute the relationship between the auditor and the client This study specifically examines the effect of the recent changes in the accounting profession on Second-Tier...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:15

... the presence of one of the vascular surgeons when they were seen and evaluated in the vascular clinic, while control subjects gave informed consent in the presence of one of the secondary investigators ... to control for other confounding variables as well as the detection and evaluation of any interaction effect between groups and time/intervention Conclusions In conclusion, our study demonstrated ... muscular contractions at the hip during walking Furthermore, the maximum knee extension moment is related with the development of the muscular contraction required to extend the knee and move the entire...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... (time to onset of EMG and peak EMG) were referred to the solenoid of the piston firing The time of the peak accelerations of sled and head were measured Also, the time relations of the onset and ... acceleration used in the study The purpose of the regression analysis was to see if using the acceleration of the sled – one could predict the head acceleration and EMG response The regression analysis ... measured by dropping the ascending slope line on the base line The point of intersection of these lines was considered as onset of acceleration In the analysis, the sample of volunteers was collapsed...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... al.: The effect of the initial position of the head and neck on the dynamic response of the human head and neck to Gx impact acceleration In Proceedings of the Nineteenth Stapp Car Crash Conference ... positions were randomly varied between the levels of acceleration Each subject effectively underwent levels of accelerative impacts under two conditions of trunk flexion, for one direction of impact ... in response to the applied acceleration were calculated Additionally, we also regressed the EMG magnitudes on acceleration The http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/3/1/10 responses of the left...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... activity of the quadriceps [5,6], diminished EMG activity of the VMO in relation to that of the VL [7-9], and the delayed onset of VMO activation in relation to the VL [1012] caused by the inhibition ... extension at 90° of flexion, MVIC hip abduction at 0° of abduction, MVIC hip abduction at 30° of abduction) were obtained dividing the highest EMG value of the MVIC trials by the EMG value of a ... insertion in vastus lateralis muscle (vastus of the obliq(P) and its view of the the thigh -lateral border of the patella Figure Lateral view of the right thigh showing the origin of the obliquus...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20