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... had a picomolar LOAEL in the ciliary beat frequency assay Many of the compounds in Table were also screened using a chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) assay that measures growth of the CAM and ... oviduct: a regulator of local contraction and gamete transport J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 2004, 44 Suppl 1:S248-51 111 Wijayagunawardane MP, Miyamoto A, Taquahashi Y, Acosta TJ, Nishimura M, Sato K: Angiotensin ... femtomolar range (Table 1) In general, if a chemical were inhibitory, it acted in all three bioassays, although the potency and efficacy for a particular chemical varied among the assays Some of the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 17:20

... in all but the trivial case of measurements, whereas the noncompositional approach guarantees at least assimilation completeness for a subset of the parameters in the system This means that under ... is assumed to be ordered, and I will use the symbols I- and E for the ordering relation Most authors assume measurement theory ([Krantz et al., 1971]) as the axiomatic basis in the formal semantics ... unmarked case (e.g tall) and 1- for the marked case I call this approach non-compositional because interpretations of the differential comparative (6 cm longer than) and of the equative with factor...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20

... (22.2%) Hispanic/Latino, (9.7%) Black/African American, (9.7%) Asian/Pacific Islander, 2(2.8%) Native American or Native Alaskan, and (12.5%) missing The statewide SCHIP sample was representative of ... design, and performed the statistical analysis All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements This research was supported by a grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation ... DataStat, a nationally-based survey administration firm located in Michigan, was contracted to administer the California SCHIP statewide mail survey DataStat mailed the PedsQL™ 4.0 survey, together...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... the data The coordinator informed the students about the project and also sent a standard information letter to their parents The principal investigator or a research assistant administered the ... statistical analysis, interpretation of the data and the drafting of the paper BL contributed to the study design, statistical analysis, interpretation of the data and the revising of the manuscript ... to several life domains [32] This concept is partly comprised of positive and negative affect as an emotional appraisal of health and life circumstances, as well as an emotional state that is determined...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... theater .” The SCPV peak flags a large withdrawal of the hand backward terminating in a downward beat at the word “wombats.” At this point, the nondominant hand enters the scene and both hands join ... forces assuming the The Catchment Feature Model: A Device for Multimodal Fusion G-hand pose and pointing emphatically at the theater coinciding with the utterance “in the theater.” The hands then ... systematically assigned the description of the rear of her dwelling to her LH in sections (A) and (D) (this includes a kitchen area and a spiral staircase) She assigned the front staircase of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 01:20

... & Mauritz, and England’s Jaeger and Laura Ashley, have attempted to supply fashionable clothes at lower prices, none has succeeded as well as Spanish clothes maker, Zara, whose sales have soared ... products and uses a different marketing approach than its North American division Global and multidomestic strategies both have advantages and disadvantages The major advantage of a global strategy ... direction and purpose that a formal plan provides, managers may interpret their own tasks and roles in ways that best suit themselves The result will be an organization The Manager as a Planner and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 19:20

... basal area increment (BAI) instead of the ring width The basal area is defined as the area of the cross-section of a tree stem near the base, generally measured at breast height The BAI is then ... rates in the first cambial age class (a cambial age of to 10 years, starting from the pith) After they reached an age of ca 20 years the growth rate rapidly decreases, and tends to stabilize at ... as the increase in basal area of a tree over a specified time period (e.g one growing season) Ring-width series can be converted to annual basal area increments (BAIi; Eq (2)) assuming that the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... organ transplants Acknowledgements This research was supported in part by National Institutes of Health grant AI 41768, The Nora Eccles Treadwell Foundation, and the Arthritis Foundation-Southern ... self-tolerance; deficit of a T cell subset as a possible cause of autoimmune disease J Exp Med 1985, 161:72-87 Kuniyasu Y, Takahashi T, Itoh M, Shimizu J, Toda G, Sakaguchi S: Naturally anergic and ... Arthritis Research Vol No Horwitz et al can serve as a therapy for autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) This T-cell-based therapy could also be used to prevent graft...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:24

... determine the effectiveness of the screening materials and the interview schedule and (Talking Mats™ and the line drawings) The material and procedural efficacy was also assessed and modified as needed ... its design, statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript MG and AVDM participated in its design, data collection and statistical analysis All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing ... across the nine ICF activities and participation domains The Friedman analysis is a nonparametric statistical test which is an alternative to the repeated analysis of variance measure Statistical...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:20

... information regarding eye alignment and stabilization [44] This is an important part of the visual postural control pathway, as this pathway may compensate for visual deprivation such as in darkness ... involuntary postural regulation Harbst [163] previously reported that repeated voluntary performance of a postural task becomes faster and easier to perform as neuromotor pathways are reinforced As the ... orientation and coordination [47,48] It serves as an important integration center for the extraocular proprioceptive pathway as well as the spinal trigeminal nucleus The superior colliculus also has...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... of the squares of the Young diagram of λ with integers {1, 2, } such that the rows and columns are weakly increasing We say that a tableau T has shape λ Further, we call a tableau semistandard ... we want to understand the action of A (x) and the other elements of the Yang-Baxter algebra We have the following lemma and its proof, again from [11] Lemma 3.9 Let A (x) = r≥0 xr Ar Then the ... is a series of A- operators; let us call them µ and λ Due to the periodic boundary conditions, the same amount of paths leave the lattice as enter it and because all paths must propagate to the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 16:55

... which children learn and practice their language skills On one hand, parents serve as natural template and the main source of information for children's language acquisition Parents' ability to provide ... videotaped, except when participants were completing paper -and- pencil questionnaires Measures and Instruments “Help the ice-cream car” Maternal Intrusiveness was assessed through the behavioral task ... But these parents' behaviors were not conceptually intrusive since they did not interfere with the child's play. Basically,  the parent and the child were playing the game at the same time with no one talking to the other. This phenomenon may  be caused by misunderstanding of the task instruction or some cultural specific belief about task cooperation. Eight of the ...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:31

... think that Japan is not a part of Asia was as high as 77.2% in the survey in 1974.26 ‘Asia’ was generally considered as an area occupying eastern part of Eurasia, excluding Japan Japan’s indifferent ... ultimate example was the agenda of the Greater East Asia War Japanese militant government justified the war as the liberation of Asia from the West A famous slogan of a Kô -a Ron thinker Okakura ... that international theatre collaborations between Japan and Southeast Asia initiated a ‘boom’ of theatre collaborations in Japan This thesis traces the history of theatre exchanges between the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 08:39

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2017, 12:37

... Durand, and P Miele, Microporous and Mesoporous Mater 111, 643 (2008) [3] Y Wan, Y.-L Min, S.-H Yu, Langmuir 24, 5024 (2008) [4] P V Adhyapaka, P Karandikarb, K Vijayamohananb, A A Athawalec, and ... the reaction simultaneously The solution was stirred with a magnetic stirrer at about 700 rpm and then it was bubbled by flowing air, and the reaction was started After the reaction, the aqueous ... BJH (Barrett- JoynerHalenda) method The total pore volume was calculated as the amount of nitrogen adsorbed at the relative pressure until 0.99 Pore wall thickness √ was calculated as: Pore wall...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2017, 09:57

... are arrayed At the other end are humans, who are able to reason, achieve goals, understand and generate language, perceive and respond to sensory inputs, prove mathematical theorems, play challenging ... on the ideas and their realizations than on the personalities involved I believe that to appreciate AI’s history, one has to understand, at least in lay terms, something about how AI programs actually ... and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) all supported various research efforts I was part of during the last fifty years I owe thanks to all To the many people who have helped...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2018, 15:16

... 380 Part VI: The Part of Tens A C# class can inherit from a Visual Basic class and vice versa, and your program can be a mixture of C# and Visual Basic modules (and, for that matter, “managed” ... takes care of it for you automatically, at least for class data members If you want something other than zero, add your own initialization right at the data member’s declaration (Always initialize ... and all data members must join a class You want to access that function or data? You have to go through the author of that class — no exceptions All Objects Are Allocated Off the Heap C/C++ allows...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2013, 21:20

... interest They help the communicators understand each other and co-operate easily We have already asserted that languages of communication are different in each country, region, and culture And greetings ... In India, the traditional greeting among Hindu is called “namaste” which means “I bow to you” People bow their heads and place the palms of their hands together, and bring the hands to their chests ... to a man who is at your age, what would you say and do? a “How you do?” b “Please to meet you.” and lightly embrace him c “Please to meet you.” And shake his hand d Say nothing and shake hand...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 09:36

... 32P-labeled ETS-1 (lanes and 4) or ssDNA L (lanes and 2) (B) EMSA was performed with EWS (lanes 2, and 6) and 32P-labeled Htelo (lanes and 4), dsHtelo (lanes and 6) or ssDNA S (lanes and 2) The ... ACA G) and EWS reverse d(CGC TCG AGT CAC TAG TAG GGC CGA TCT CTG C), for pGEX–EWS; EAD forward d(CGG AAT TCA TGG CGT CCA CGG ATT ACA G) and EAD reverse d(CGC TCG AGT CAT CCG GAA AAT CCT CCA GAC ... methyltransferase and toward the Ewing sarcoma protein and a peptide Proteins 61, 164–175 48 Raman B, Guarnaccia C, Nadassy K, Zakhariev S, Pintar A, Zanuttin F, Frigyes D, Acatrinei C, Vindigni A, ...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 01:20

... patients was cited by Relman and Angell (2002) as reason for dismissing this study out of hand, with these authors concluding that the study was fatally flawed because the analysis is not by the ... center, marital status, or baseline total mood disturbance score Primary endpoint and sample size Survival was the a priori primary endpoint in this trial and was used as the outcome variable in ... suspicion On the basis of the criteria of having an a priori hypothesis and formal power analysis, the Goodwin et al and Kissane et al studies should carry greater weight than the others Among the studies...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 05:20