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... that the frequency of the use of the speech act of refusal by the Australian NSs of English was different from that by the VLEs Although the VLEs and the Australian NSs of English employed the ... competence, the speech act of refusal to invitation and the rationale of the study The chapter ends with information on the structure of the thesis Chapter reviews previous studies on the speech act of ... provided the background and theoretical framework for the present study The specific issues of the study, including the aims, the research questions of the study, the data collection method, the data...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:31

... reads: Where the love of man is, there is also the love of art He founded the science of gynecology was honored in all lands and died with the benediction of mankind The first surgeon of the ages ... including the iron cross from Germany, the order of the knights of the legion of honor from France, and he was also honored by the governments of Italy, Spain, and Portugal He was an honorary member of ... monarchs such as the Empress of France, Scotland’s Duchess of Hamilton, and the Empress of Austria He served as president of the American Medical Association in 1876, president of the International...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20

... proteins, and an Ile in the 15RCOX [22,31] To determine the role of residue 349 in the specificities of the two P homomalla variants, a Val349Ile mutant of the 15S-COX and an Ile349Val mutant of the ... Swissprot on the basis of three-dimensional data of mammalian COX isozymes (data not shown), reveals that the other 16 residues lie outside of the active site and mostly on the surface of the catalytic ... form the disulphide bonds The residues that are different between the novel COX and the 15R-COX are dispersed along the polypeptide chain with most of them located in the C-terminal half of the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 12:20

... 3.2 Comparison of daily versus thermodynamic constants diurnal and N is the number of diurnal observations The number of points, n, for each daytime period in which I was recorded to assess i the ... outside of the general cluster of points The specific conditions of those days were investigated in detail and were found to result from rain night The effects of nighttime recharge in general and ... here and in the previous study may involve the length and timing of the present study (266 d through an entire growing season) versus that in the previous study (50 d in the early part of a growing...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... quality of dental care; the development, validation and standardisation of an index for the assessment of restorative care Thesis University of Amsterdam: The Netherlands; 1997 National Institute of ... monitoring of the general and oral health status of patients The main purpose of ROEs is to prevent the onset of oral diseases and/ or prevent further progression This allows the introduction of preventive ... Flow diagram of the progress through different steps of the trial Flow diagram of the progress through different steps of the trial Authors' contributions All authors declare that they have no...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... minutes after the PEEP change and just before the EELV measurement to avoid any influence of the step change in Fio2 required for the nitrogen wash-out/washin test At the time of the EELV measurement, ... 15, 10, and cmH2O PEEP were 40.9, 37.1, and 31.3 ml/kg PBW, respectively, in group N; 26.0, 23.6, and 20.2 ml/kg PBW in group P; and 23.4, 20.6, and 17.2 ml/kg PBW in group S The effect of the stepwise ... (0, 5, and 10 cmH2O) In their study, at a PEEP of cmH2O the measured EELV values were 2.5 l and 1.5 l in the postoperative and ALI groups, respectively We found comparable EELV data for the similarly...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... d m ice Figure The comparison of cytokines and antibody levels The comparison of cytokines and antibody levels The mean values of systemic and local concentrations of cytokines and IgE antibody ... responsiveness On the other hand, In the case of route of administration and chemical component of allergen in CPG-based immunotherapy, considering other reports studding on other allergic conditions ... compare the potentials of I.N and S.C administrations of CpG/allergen in mouse model of asthma In order to compare the effects of different administration route of CpG, we selected a number of immunological...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... Figure Correlation between change in EELV and change in dynamic compliance Data are presented as the difference between the lowest PEEP level (5 cmH2O) and 10 or 15 cmH2O PEEP Patients in group ... Pao2/Fio2 ratio in different types of lung conditions at three PEEP levels Patients in group N had normal lungs, those in group P had a primary lung disorder, and those in group S had a secondary ... P had a primary lung disorder, and those in group S had a secondary lung disorder EELV, end-expiratory lung volume; PEEP, positive end-expiratory pressure Page of (page number not for citation...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... squared deviations of every point from the mean of the cluster, or by squaring the distance between the cluster means and dividing that by the sum of the reciprocals of the number of points within ... between the two groups.6 The group average method the distance between groups is the average of the distances between all pairs of observations in the two groups.6 It takes the average of all the ... training set) and determines how often the rule correctly classifies these observations Therefore, the classification procedure is based on the known class membership of each of the samples in the data...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 11:33

... crustacean, flesh and offal of fish and other animals They can be feed on gains, nuts, seeds, fruits, algae, tender leaves and stems of aquatic plans (Nandlal and Pickering, 2005) Nevertheless, the optimal ... river and raised pigs, some of them were also officers and had their own business at home Farmers told that, the farming of prawns quite easy and had not to care almost the time, therefore, they ... describe the farming systems of prawn in the rice field in the study areas; To analyze technical and financial aspects of the farming systems and farmers‟ perceptions on the farming of prawn; and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/11/2015, 18:47

... the food stocks, and the mood of the garrison The tactics of the Daily Mail captured the attention of the nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation of the town by emphasizing the danger that ... examine both the role of the press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism and the role of the press in the formation of the concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... powerful beginning of the New Journalism at the same time as it marks the beginning of the end of the New Imperialism The coincidence of these occasions arises from the nature of the South African...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... of individual, hand-to-hand combat Grand strategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too, much the same phenomenon was apparent in the role of Indra, the chief of the ... the mainstream of legal analysis, largely as a result of the crumbling of older conceptions of legitimacy and the rise of new aspirations for democracy and the self-determination of peoples The ... testimony both to the warlike character of the Greeks and to their feeling of cultural unity, the cities of the Amphictyonic League of Delphi agreed that, in the event of war, the combatant states...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:02

... creating and advancing liquidity to producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end of the process, it determines the condition for the closure ... institutions and strengthen the complementarity between the formal and the informal sectors The poorest people of rural and urban societies live beyond the frontier of formal finance, or outside the formal ... conceptualization and recent evidence CTF clarifies the role of the financial system in the functioning of a monetary market economy of production At the start of the circuit process, the financial...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:33

... zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US Moreover, while in some countries, (including Finland, the UK and the US) residential ... also for these countries the existence of cointegration could not be rejected We therefore specify the VAR models in the level of the variables Nevertheless, we neither impose the number of cointegrating ... to offset the macro economic effects of the collapse of the bubble).2 Of course, it is by no means clear that central banks are better able to judge the appropriate level of asset prices and the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40

... kinds: + The change of consumer-demand modal, market and the attitude to the availability and diversity of goods + The pressure of reducing cost + The development of Information technology + The pressure ... learning and expanding With their experiences, they have learned the value of offering quality services In the way of growing, they have also open branches to establish a worldwide presence These ... The Association has the role of coordinating the activities of the members in order to protect the interests of the members and improve the position of Vietnam in the international freight forwarding...

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2012, 16:42

... the amount consumed in lians (50g/lian) per unit of time A lian is the unit of weight in China equivalent to 50 g The reproducibility and validity of the FFQ was assessed in a random sample of ... For other participants the average of the baseline and follow-up FFQ data were used in the analyses The average daily intake of individual food items (g/day) was combined to compute intake of red ... knowledge there are no other reports of a direct link between poultry consumption and risk of diabetes or of interactions between poultry consumption and BMI and the risk of type DM Red meat consumption...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 16:49

... than the level of HLA-DR in the cell lysates (5ul of a in 10 dilution, from x 106 PBMC) The shed HLA-DR therefore seemed to represent a small fraction of the total HLA-DR of the cell, however the ... for the therapy of septic patients with GM-CSF as these trials have already begun [18;19;30;31] Our findings are also relevant Int J Med Sci 2004 1(3): 126-136 132 to the understanding of the ... express HLA-DR on their surface [3] To assess the relative contribution of shed to total HLA-DR, the sHLA-DR in the plasma was compared to the total HLA-DR present in cell The level in the plasma (40ul...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:57

... where the consequences of infection can be very severe, while the risk of living with one’s beloved cat is practically nill References Angulo FJ, Glaser CA, Juranek DD et al Caring for pets of immunocompromised ... with the human immunodeficiency virus Clin Infect Dis.1994;18:14-24 Han K, Shin DW, Lee TY, et al Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection and risk factors associated with seropositivity of ... women in Korea J Parasitol 2008; 94: 963-965 Grant S and Olsen CW Preventing zoonotic diseases in immunocompromised persons: the role of physicians and veterinarians Emerg Infect Dis 1999; 5: 159-163...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:06