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... the chaotic properties of natural phenomena and the use of appropriate non-linear analysis, such as fractal analysis, in place of traditional analyses [1] A strong reason behind this paradigm ... such as COP control, is normal then a deviation away from a fractal pattern may be indicative of a shift towards an unhealthy or less desirable control strategy The analysis of fractal patterns ... original data can be considered appropriate Recently Parkinsonian patients (PP), spinocerebellar ataxia (SCA) patients, and healthy participants’ COP were analysed using a more traditional fractal dimension...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 10:09

... States of America, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Ireland In fact, as the statistics show, information about the United Kingdom and the United States of America has the most coverage in the ... illustrations) are also employed for analysis when and if appropriate The study just makes an initial attempt to conduct a small-scale cross-cultural analysis of the textbook and is not aimed at evaluating ... language knowledge The teaching of Language Focus consists of two parts: Pronunciation and Grammar-Vocabulary Material used in teaching Pronunciation, Grammar -Vocabulary is based on passages...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 12:58

... landscape in the study area has been changed cause of policy implementation such as rubber plantation and irrigation system were installed in the area, and than this place was changed in dynamics ... (Ground data, GIS data and satellite imagery data) • The zonation can be regarded as a tool for sustainable agricultural development in the watershed area 17 Suggestion zones for sustainable of watershed ... despoilment of forest covers and traditional farming system • The problems above due to lack of an appropriate tool in terms of integrated spatial data on land use/land covers However, recently GIS and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... In practical terms, it is most convenient to use municipality-based data because of the high availability and accuracy of the data, particularly in terms of demographics and health care variables ... demand and/ or urban amenities of the area The number of people in the area during daytime and the volume of commercial activity may be key components of medical demand in and/ or the urban amenities ... physician-to-population ratio as an indicator of the demand/supply balance of physicians is based Japanese health policies, particularly those on physician supply and rural health, have been created...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 17:20

... Class (as appears on last report card): Female Type of work (if any): A+ A A- B+ B B- C+ C C- D+ D D- F Overall average grade (as appears on last report card): How often you exercise in an average ... find an association between video game use and ADHD symptoms in adolescents Assessment of ADHD risk factors often involves identification of home and academic environmental factors Parental relationships, ... 31 males and 41 females in the ninth and tenth grade Average age was 15.3 ± 0.7 years Subject demographics are shown in Table Almost 32% of students worked and 89% had parents who were married...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... gibba mitochondrial region used in phylogenetic analysis (A) Mitochondrial genome comparison of Arabidopsis thaliana, Brassica napus, Carica papaya, Nicotianan tabacum and Vitis vinifera and ... performed assembling, annotation, database construction, statistical analysis and manuscript writing VAA contributed to data analysis, phylogenetic analysis, drafting and editing of the manuscript CAPT ... database Additional file 9: Figure S2 - Validation of PEGs by qRT-PCR Expression patterns of APETALA1, APETALA3, PISTILLATA, AGAMOUS, SEPALATA3, CLAVATA1, MYB21, MYB24, RBCS-1B, SBPase, a- glucosidase,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... program The study included 15 countries in the analysis, namely, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Sudan from Africa; Argentina, Chile, El Salvador and Mexico from Latin America; Russia and Georgia ... China, India, Malaysia, Pakistan and Thailand from Asia In the Chinese context, each of China's provinces and municipal entities has its own healthcare infrastructure This necessitates varying ... includes the largest GIPAP participant (India), other large Asian countries (Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia and China), countries with some health insurance coverage for small Page of 13 (page number...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... Ishida J, Satou M, Sakurai T, Nakajima M, Enju A, Akiyama K, Oono Y, Muramatsu M, Hayashizaki Y, Kawai J, Carninci P, Itoh M, Ishii Y, Arakawa T, Shibata K, Shinagawa A, Shinozaki K: Functional annotation ... K, Kasuga M, Todaka D, Maruyama K, Nakashima K, Enju A, Mizukado S, Ahmed S, Yoshiwara K, Harada K, Tsubokura Y, Hayashi M, Sato S, Anai T, Ishimoto M, Funatsuki H, Teraishi M, Osaki M, Shinano ... F, Blanca JM: EST2uni: an open, parallel tool for automated EST analysis and database creation, with a data mining web interface and microarray expression data integration BMC bioinformatics...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:21

... dosages appears to be associated with the number of disease-related events and mortality A limitation of our study is that analysed data were collected more than a decade ago and it can be argued ... of disease-related events Again the influence of age, pre-existent arterial hypertension and the mean vasopressor load on these associations was evaluated Statistical analysis The SPSS software ... the latter model For all comparisons and models, a P-value less than 0.05 was assumed to indicate statistical significance Throughout the manuscript data are presented as mean values ± standard...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... for each patient up to a period of 14 days was calculated and presented for each variable Variables for each patient were used for statistical analysis For each patient a highest RIFLE score was ... separate figures as mean values calculated for each day in a 14-day period and drawn separately for each group (intervention group with no sedation and control group with sedation) A mean value ... Evaluation (APACHE II) and Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) at Day 1) were recorded The time each patient was dependent on controlled ventilation was also recorded as a baseline value...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:21

... Ward We thank Papiya Ray, Jonathan Heidt, Ashkan Mojdehi, and Ann-Marie Woelbel for preparing the yeast samples We also thank Jerry Kaplan, Sandy Davis-Kaplan, and Diane McVey Ward for conducting ... example, mutants of class A have normal- interactions many mutants defective for vacuolar biogenesis and/ or function caused increased accumulation of manganese, calcium, sulfur, and copper as ... the vertical axis Increases greater than 2.5 standard deviations of the wild-type means are shown in red and decreases greater than 2.5 standard deviations are shown in green The bars at the top...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 14:22

... investigated terms related to male and female pronouns, man, woman, boy and girl, gender-related profession and such role nouns as chairman, spokesperson and policewoman, and terms of address as Mr and ... quantitative and qualitative analytical techniques Corpus linguistics and Discourse analysis Corpus-based approach is found to be of great value since it can be applied to a number of areas of ... corpus-based analysis of the collocates of the word “homeland” The data for the analysis were taken from two popular corpora which are Corpus of Contemporary American English and Time Magazine...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:17

... discourse analysis (CDA) is a type of discourse analytical research that primarily studies the way social power abuse, dominance, and inequality are enacted, reproduced, and resisted by text and talk ... star turn Actor came Material 55 Former Manchester United star and England captain David Beckham/ a football Actors/goal Arrived to kick Material 58 The Olympic flame Goal was extinguished Material ... China's capital Actor/Goal across Material A crowd of more than 90,000 at the landmark "Bird's Nest" National Stadium/ the pyrotechnics Actor/Goal watched Material The ceremony/ a climax Actor/Goal...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:18

... steals food Castration of domesticated animals, as in (1 0a- b), such as pigs, dogs, cocks, and cats is popular in Vietnam And such removal of the testicles hurts a great deal As the literal translations ... perspective is a phenomenon at a high and abstract level of thought where whole experiential areas are conceptualized metaphorically and have coherent realizations at the level of words and idioms” ... Vietnam, dogs are raised for food, house-watching, pets and guards to protect owners Baby dogs and adult dogs are traded in open markets Tiền rưỡi a penny and a half’ at any time is of small value...

Ngày tải lên: 24/06/2015, 08:16

... variables of fractional logit and fractional multinomial logit models Explanatory variables Farmland loss Land loss 2009 Land loss 2008 Natural capital Farmland per adult Residential land size ... urban population and rapid economic growth, particularly in urban areas of Vietnam's large cities, have resulted in a great demand for urban land For example, almost 500,000 hectares of farmland ... farmland acquisitions have taken place in the Red River Delta, which has a large area of fertile agricultural land, a prime location and high population density (Hoang, 2008).2Consequently, farmland...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2015, 19:16

... light of critical discourse analysis The research method applied in this part is both quantitative and qualitative The analysis will be made in terms of the content and presentation Apart from that, ... illustration of CDA approach; - Raising language users as well as newspaper readers‟ awareness of the power and ideology of discourses 1.3 Scope of the study In critically analyzing CNN and BBC ... Critical Discourse Analysis In this part, the history of CDA and some aspects such as critical, ideology and power are mentioned and analyzed Then, it deals with media discourse studies and systematic...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2015, 19:46

... Discourse analysis British discourse analysis was influenced by M .A. K Halliday’s functional approach of language His framework emphasizes the social function of language and the thematic and information ... They are contextual variables of what is called a register In linguistics, a register is a variety of a language used for a particular purpose or in a particular social setting Halliday and Hasan ... terms of structure, there are two types of collocation: grammatical collocation and lexical collocation (Halliday and Hasan, 1976) - Grammatical collocation often contains a lexical content word and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2015, 22:15

... Leeuwen’s framework of visual analysis Kress and van Leeuwen‟s (1990, 1996, 2006) framework of visual analysis is metafunctional Like language, the meaning potentials of visual communication can be ... not found any studies that directly engage with an integrated analysis of the linguistic and visual elements of the Batman films at a very close analysis level for a more holistic analysis To ... Schema in interrogation of suspects 85 4.3.3.2 Moral ambiguity and ambivalence of Batman 86 4.3.3.3 87 Competition and cooperation between the Joker and Batman Data Set 87 4.4 Analysis of Scene Three...

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2015, 16:41