turning the tide when things go wrong

... that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and yet the parts collectively constitute the whole ± can be reconciled by stating that ` `the whole equals the sum of the parts plus all of the ... implies that choices involve theories These may be ``practical'' theories rather than abstractly formalized theories, they may have the character of ``rules of thumb'' rather than explanatory principles ... individuals ± their properties, their goals, their beliefs and their actions To go from social institutions and aggregate patterns of behavior to individuals is the same kind of operation as going from...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20

... bind to the tested oligonucleotides, SmRXR1 bound to the oligonucleotides in an unstable state and SmNR1 ⁄ SmRXR1 heterodimer strongly bound to the target oligonucleotides The results suggest that ... template DNA The PCR primers for one end (either the 5¢ or 3¢ end) were designed according to the cDNA sequence of a short fragment previously cloned [22] The primer for the other end (either the 5¢ ... when c-32P-labeled half-site DR0-DR5 or Pal0 were added to SmNR1 alone (Fig 8) Smears were observed when the same oligonucleotides were added to SmRXR1, and strong shifts were observed when the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... cytosolic GSTs in insects [2] The majority of GSTs are in the Delta and Epsilon classes, and the remaining enzymes are in the Omega, Sigma, Theta and Zeta classes The German cockroach (Blattella ... (< 10%) of the GST activity was detected in the flowthrough fraction Further experiments confirmed that the lack of binding was not due to overloading of the column matrix SDS ⁄ PAGE of the affinity-purified ... peptides The length of these peptides was six to eight amino acid residues The deduced amino acid sequence of one Table Substrate specificities of purified cockroach GST compared with those of other...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 09:21

... of the MHC/peptide/ b2-microglobulin complexes on the DC surface, especially when the antigen-derived peptides are bound from the outside and not processed [31] It is therefore essential that the ... only the peptide-pulsed T2 cells, but also the HLAA2-positive melanoma cells 624 In contrast, the CTL induced with the peptide-pulsed DC were less efficient in killing these target cells, and the ... presentation of the peptides loaded with NP resulted from improved loading and sustained release of these peptides after the internalization of the NP Improved generation of peptide-specific CTL...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... of the MHC/peptide/ b2-microglobulin complexes on the DC surface, especially when the antigen-derived peptides are bound from the outside and not processed [31] It is therefore essential that the ... only the peptide-pulsed T2 cells, but also the HLAA2-positive melanoma cells 624 In contrast, the CTL induced with the peptide-pulsed DC were less efficient in killing these target cells, and the ... presentation of the peptides loaded with NP resulted from improved loading and sustained release of these peptides after the internalization of the NP Improved generation of peptide-specific CTL...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... informed a priori by the WHO building block framework The goal was to select variables that could represent each of the building blocks and then to investigate how well they explain the variability ... necessary component to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) [4, 5], however the indicators to measure health system strengthening are less understood There is an on-going debate about global ... category [15] Although the CPI focuses on perceptions of corruption rather than the actual extent of corruption, the index has been assessed to be a reliable and consistent measure [16] The final...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... fulfill the patient's desire the teeth 11 and 21 were left in the maxilla Case report The patient was a 46-year-old man, afflicted with a cleft palate but no other serious diseases, when he first ... of the inserted implants [16-18] A similar variant of the maxillary sandwich osteotomy for the rehabilitation of the severely atrophied maxilla is the horseshoe Le Fort I osteotomy where the ... relationship amongst others due to the cleft palate Minor degree maxillary alveolar atrophy was found in the anterior maxilla because of the still remaining teeth there The first step of our...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:22

... for the log can be generated either by copying the old blocks or by threading the log around the old blocks The left side of the figure shows the threaded log approach where the log skips over the ... the disk during the simulation The distribution is computed by measuring the utilizations of all segments on the disk at the points during the simulation when segment cleaning was initiated The ... the fraction of the segments that were empty when cleaned, the average utilization of the non-empty segments that were cleaned, and the overall write cost for the period of the measurements These...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05

... to the ICU after a ward CA were 37.9% before the introduction of the MET and 38.3% after the introduction of the MET (P = 0.779) (Table 4) There was no statistically significant reduction in the ... admission These CAs may have increased or more people may have died from them, thus artificially reducing the number of patients admitted to the ICU Furthermore, we observed that the introduction of the ... hospitals in response to the '5 Million Lives campaign' promoted by the Institute of Health Improvement (IHI) [11] On the other hand, the degree of uptake and factors affecting the introduction of...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... epithelialized communication between the oral cavity and the maxillary sinus The fistula is established for migration of the oral epithelium in the communication, event that happens when the ... pad1,3-7 The problems linked to these techniques are related to the morbidity of the donor site, discomfort for the patient, and no possibility to repeat the same technique after surgical failure The ... such as the buccal or palatal mucosa, buccal fat pad, submucosal tissue, or tongue tissue6 Most of them rely on mobilizing the tissue and advancing the resultant flap into the defect5 The closure...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:48

... model was then used; otherwise, the random-effects model was more appropriate We also computed the power of the selected studies by using the DSTPLAN4.2 software, in order to assess the probability ... model based on the Mantel-Haenszel method and the DerSimonian and Laird method, respectively, to combine values from each of the studies When the effects were assumed to be homogenous, the fixed-effects ... comparison with the more frequent -28C, suggesting that the polymorphism can increase RANTES expression in the human body [12] Therefore, it’s reasonable to hypothesize that the RANTES -28C/G...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:39

... control the variety available to the controller should be the same as the variety available to the system to be controlled” [16] The implications of this theorem are significant due to the fact ... formulate the latest organizational theory, called an organismic theory [14] The primary importance of relationships vs components is emerging even in the realm of physics with a new theory, the loop ... analogous to the movement of sperms prior to fertilization The systems’ evolutionary phase follows the completion of the initial state but prior to a stage of a of the zone of order and the fully-functioning...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 10:04

... surprising then that results from the present study did not show significant differences when the young adult group stood with their eyes closed, compared to when they stood with their eyes open ... uses the original time series and, in the present case, employed a technique known as the amplitude adjusted Fourier transform (AAFT) algorithm The surrogate data created by the AAFT algorithm ... systems which they are able to reliably use in the absence of visual information The elderly group however, did show a significant change in their fractal dimension when they closed their eyes demonstrating...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 10:09

... xuất theo hướng chuyên môn hóa sâu đồng thời vừa đa dạng hóa theo điều hành công ty Vì vậy, mô hình tổng quan Công ty là: Công ty mẹ - Công ty đơn vị phụ thuộc Công ty VCC tổ chức quản lý theo ... quy trình quản lý chất lượng theo ISO chưa thực theo yêu cầu, cấp độ công ty cấp độ đơn vị Việc lập KHCL thực mang tính hình thức, phận quản lý chưa giám sát công việc theo quy trình, dẫn đến có ... động tài kết bất thường kỳ trước, số phát sinh kỳ số luỹ kế từ đầu năm theo cột tương ứng Kết hoạt động kinh doanh khái quát theo biểu sau: Báo cáo kết hoạt động kinh doanh - Tổng doanh thu - VAT...

Ngày tải lên: 07/12/2012, 11:12

... growth, when it antagonises melanocortin receptors In the obese yellow mutant the gene is expressed in all tissues, and at all times, when it antagonises the melanocortin receptors in the hypothalamus ... (e.g albuminuria is the excretion of proteins in the urine) albumin index A measure of the quality or freshness of an egg – the ratio of the height: width of the albumin when the egg is 12 broken ... about 3% of the weight of the grain, and is rich in protein, as well as containing about 20% of the vitamin b1, 30% of the vitamin b2 and 50% of the niacin of the grain Botanically the aleurone...

Ngày tải lên: 21/08/2013, 13:55

... their income in Hanoi's peri-urban areas The paper is structured as follows: the next section describes the context of the study district, followed by the data collection and analysis in Section ... years The overall objective of this study is to contribute to the understanding of income-generating activities, important sources of income amongst households and the factors affecting their ... discussions, and followed by the conclusion and policy implications in Section DESCRIPTION OF THE STUDY AREA Hoai Duc is located on the northwest side of Hanoi, 19 km from the Central Business District...

Ngày tải lên: 28/08/2013, 11:25

... PDF is the disk friction dissipated power, ∆Heul the theoretical head based on Euler theory of rotating machines, Ql the leakage discharge flowing in the small channels of the machine For the CFD ... with the one obtained with the 15 million elements mesh The figure shows that the differences between the two curves are very low, and the maximum errors are of 3.5% for the head and of the 7.4% ... CFD-meshes The head increases with the decreasing of the number of elements, and the maximum error respect to the value obtained with the million elements mesh is greater than 7.4% The efficiency...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... temperature In addition, the droplet temperature change rate is determined by the heat balance, which states that the heat convection from the gas to the droplet either heats up the droplet or supplies ... adiabatic case is larger than the other cases thus, the amount of burnt fuel in this case is more than the others Because of shortage of oxygen in the charge of cylinder in the EGR case, amount of ... similar the mixture formation processes for three cases at these crank angles In the front view at 400°CA, the hot gas from the pre-chamber reaches the opposite side of main chamber This leads to the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11

... at the same time improve the emissions Experiment and procedure In the study, the selected vegetable oil was transesterified and the major properties were evaluated Further, the evaluation of the ... outlet and load on the engine These signals are interfaced to computer through data acquisition system and the software displays the P-Ө and P-V diagrams The specifications of the engine and instrumentation ... with exhaust gas opacity The software enables evaluation of performance from the acquired data using standard relationships The BTHE is evaluated using the expression BTHE = (brake power x 3600...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:11