... whether densitometry or biochemical markers during the first year of treatment can predict the degree of reduction of BMD Our models' predictions of the time of maximum rate of change in bone mass ... with the curve of BMD changes at the spine (Figure 1) until the 18th month of therapy There is a point of inflexion at t = 7.4 or about months Osteoporosis affects 75 million people around the ... pulmonary disease, rheumatoid arthritis, sarcoidosis, and malabsorption syndromes among several other conditions The effect of thyroid hormone on bone turnover Thyrotoxicosis increases bone turnover...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21
Ngày tải lên: 23/08/2014, 23:25
A CFD analysis on the effect of ambient conditions on the hygro-thermal stresses distribution in a planar ambient airbreathing PEM fuel cell
... 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 ... channel, the gas-flow field is obtained by solving the steady-state Navier-Stokes equations, i.e the continuity equation, the mass conservation equation for each phase yields the volume fraction (r ... is pressure (Pa), µ is viscosity [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,...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58
Indoor tests to investigate the effect of brine depth on the performance of solar still
... 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
The effect of EGR rates on NOX and smoke emissions of an IDI diesel engine fuelled with Jatropha biodiesel blends
... to the reduction in oxygen concentration in the combustion chamber [5,16,24,25,26] The NOX emission increased with increasing biodiesel amount in the blends In addition, the NOX emission of JBD ... amount in the blends More amount of CO2 in the exhaust emission is an indication of complete combustion of fuel [13,21] The CO2 emission of DF increased slightly, when EGR was operated While, the CO2 ... indicated by the prevailing EGT Since, the result of Figure that the EGT of DF was higher than that of JBD blends Therefore, the NOX emissions of JBD blends were lower than that of DF At 0% EGR, the NOX...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11
Tài liệu The effect of economic growth on my city pdf
... 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
Tài liệu New Estimates on the Effect of Parental Separation on Child Health ppt
... score belongs to the intersection of the supports of the propensity score of treated and controls Imposing the common support condition in the estimation of the propensity score may improve the quality ... 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
Tài liệu Báo cáo " The effect of cobalt substitution on structure and magnetic properties of nickel ferrite " pptx
... 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
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "The Effect of Pitch Accenting on Pronoun Referent Resolution" ppt
... 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
Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: Dissecting the effect of trifluoroethanol on ribonuclease A Subtle structural changes detected by nonspecific proteases ppt
... 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
the effect of monetary incentive on effort and task performance a study of vietnamese company
... 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
Báo cáo " Research on the effect of urban expansion on agricultural land in Ho Chi Minh City by using remote sensing method " ppt
... 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
THE EFFECT OF BONUS SCHEMES ON ACCOUNTING DECISIONS* pdf
... 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
The effect of annealing conditions on the red photoluminescence of nanocrystalline Si/SiO films
... 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
Báo cáo khoa học: The effect of HAMP domains on class IIIb adenylyl cyclases from Mycobacterium tuberculosis pptx
... 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
Báo cáo khoa học: "Assessing the Effect of Inconsistent Assessors on Summarization Evaluation" doc
... 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
predicting the effect of shot peening on weld fatigue life
... 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 ... inward from the weld toe for as-welded and (cycled and uncycled) shot-peened specimens 473 A comparison of the experimental results and predictions of the effects of shot peening on the fatigue...
Ngày tải lên: 24/05/2014, 20:36
the effect of accounting regulation on second-tier audit firms and their clients audit pricing and quality, cost of capital, and backdating of stock options
... 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 influence of financial pressure on academic administrators' selection of management and resource allocation strategies
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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:16