... principle that we must ‘Respect autonomy’ is related to Kant’s humanity formulation only loosely To respect autonomy, in the current sense, means roughly to allow beings to makes choices for themselves, ... commitment) to act morally But it is very strange to say the power to set ends is what gives us the capacity to act morally Besides the power to set ends, one must have the power to legislate ... rationality are: to act for reasons in general; to follow principles of prudence (hypothetical imperatives); to set ends; to understand the world by using theoretical reason; and to legislate 35...
... analysis were solvent exchanged into acetonitrile and sealed in amber glass ampoules before being shipped to the USGS National Water Quality Laboratory in Denver, Colorado, for analysis using liquid ... 300 milligrams (mg) of silica gel to remove color and any precipitate A total of 10 mL of hexane was used to transfer the samples to the silica gel columns and to recover the derivatized hormones ... fractionated using size exclusion chromatography (SEC), followed by sample cleanup and enrichment by Florisil adsorption chromatography Analysis was performed using an Agilent 6890 gas chromatograph...
... were used to obtain a region of 1813 bp, corresponding to positions -9 to 1804 relative to the start codon (ATG) of the sequence NM_025079 The obtained fragment was cloned into a pcDNA3 vector (Invitrogen, ... compared to the blot with the b-actin probe (B) A Qproteome kit (Qiagen) was used to isolate cytosolic, membrane, nuclear and cytoskeletal proteins Protein concentrations were determined using a ... who showed that cytoskeleton proteins have binding capacity for proteins involved in mRNA metabolism Moreover, cytoskeleton proteins, such as actin or tubulin, are thought to be crucial for compartmentalization...
... (range, 10.48 to 35.63) and 0.164 ng/mL (range, 0.035 to 1.609) in class II, 18.9 mg/dL (range, 0.30 to 32.85) and 0.723 ng/mL (range, 0.013 to 3.279) in class III, 12.0 mg/dL (range, 3.55 to 34.42) ... tests were compared to the final diagnostic group scores Methods The serum CRP level was measured using an automated latex-enhanced turbidimetric immunoassay in a clinical laboratory within hour ... al Procalcitonin as a diagnostic tool in lower respiratory tract infections and tuberculosis Eur Respir J 2003;21:939-943 22.Lawn SD, Obeng J, Acheampong JW, Griffin GE Serum procalcitonin concentrations...
... HyGraphDB (Gleim et al., 2007)) Which kind of Storage Backend is used to archive a given document is transparent to the user- and also to developers using the Storage Handler The Document Indexer allows ... correctly, authorized to perform PoS tagging and has permission to read the document to be tagged The next step is to fetch the document from the Storage Handler as input to the PoS Tagger application ... documents and repositories Repositories are containers, similar to directories known from file systems An important addition is that resources can be member of an arbitrary number of repositories That...
... symptom could occur due to the progression of time According to our preliminary study [7], the accumulation did not simply increase with respect to time Accumulation factor most likely links to ... http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/4/1/34 Figure Time-varying factors model with trigger factors and accumulation factor (adapted from [7]) Time-varying factors model with trigger factors and accumulation factor (adapted from [7]) Measurement ... biosignals during exercise [11] tion factor and trigger factors [7] An accumulation factor has a long time scale because it relates to background ANA, while trigger factors have a shot time scale because...
... 1.49*** 1.24 to 1.73 1.23 to 1.80 208 765 124 1.26** 1.20 1.07 to 1.50 0.94 to 1.53 403 177 517 0.73 1.26* 8.38 to 24.00 4.91 to 7.19 1.67 to 2.28 0.73 to 1.18 1.02 to 1.56 0.340 Interpretation ... vasomotor symptoms (hot flushes) than women whose weight remained stable and hence also poorer QoL However, the question of association between obesity and vasomotor symptoms is contradictory ... [10] Gold EB, Sternfeld B, Kelsey JL, Brown C, Mouton C, Reame N, Salamone L, Stellato R Relation of demographic and lifestyle factors to symptoms in a? multi-racial/ethnic population of women...
... how H bonds to Si and Ge before and after annealing An Oriel Cornerstone instrument was used Makyoh topography [13] was employed to measure the mean curvature radius of the films to evaluate ... front of the ERDA detector to stop the forward-scattered He ions Therefore, the ERDA spectra of the H are almost background-free Low ion current (ca nA) has been used to avoid beam heating, i.e ... ions was collected by surface-biased Si detector placed at a detecting angle of 10° with regard to the beam direction, while the sample was tilted to 85° from the normal Mylar foil with thickness...
... thickness of 3.0 mm The gain of the system is −5 dBi The connector is of type MMCX The PCMCIA card is plugged into a laptop, which is used to collect and process the measurements later Every 0.5 second, ... session description protocol (sdp) file, we can monitor the channel on the laptop with a media player The observation of the visual and auditive reception quality is related to %Valid reception, ... samples needs to be investigated to obtain these MFER values So, a measurement campaign has to be executed before the actual range measurements can even start The classical method to calculate...
... functions convergent to f μ-a.e, then fn∗ is a nondecreasing sequence convergent to f ∗ pointwise The remainder of this section will be devoted to extend these convergence results to the general setting ... of all real-valued totally μ-measurable functions defined on Ω 6 Journal of Inequalities and Applications (i) If { fn } converges in measure to f , then fn∗ (t) converges to f ∗ (t) in each point ... there is a · N - Cauchy sequence (sn ) in S(Ω,Ꮽ) converging to f with respect to · , and f N = limn sn N , the sequence (sn ) is said to determine f Proposition 4.2 (see [6, Proposition 2.6 (c)])...
... of continuous linear operators acting in a reflexive Banach space, and obtain conditions under which such operator has an eigenvector (clearly this implies that the operator has an invariant subspace) ... point and the dual space (X0 )∗ is equivalent to a subspace of X ∗ It remains, therefore, to identify this subspace In order to construct a dual subspace to X0 , we will consider the duality mapping ... construct operators from B0 by using the operators from B0 for which VA ⊆ Br (x0 ) Let {Aβ | β ∈ I0 ⊂ I } be a minimal subset of B0 for which β∈I0 VAβ = Br x0 (6.4) (the number I0 of such operators for...
... RMS voltage along with its histogram representation Using such steady-state data, statistical signal processing can be used to predict performance or the health condition of voltage regulators ... failures, switch problems (restrikes, reignitions), and resonance concerns (iii) Voltage regulator performance assessment to identify unusual operations, arcing problems, regulation problems, and ... electric bills (vi) Motor starting evaluation to identify switching problems, inrush current concerns, and protection device operation (vii) Profiling of voltage variations (flicker) to identify load...
... the arterial system to respond to a sudden increase in CBF and is usually due to severe vascular stenosis together with insufficient collateral blood flow When these two factors coexist, cerebral ... (Karapanayiotides et al, 2005) prefer to call this entity “reperfusion syndrome” to emphasize the damage to tissues caused by simple reperfusion Several investigators have analyzed the characteristics ... comparable to those of large published series in high-risk patients Nevertheless, careful monitoring of the patient, blood pressure, and heart rate is mandatory to avoid complications related to CHS...
... not considered to be the factor that automatically decides the amount of respect Westerners tend to demand more information and interaction before showing their respect to someone To them, age ... directives are those speech acts whose function is to get the hearer to something As attempts on the part of a speaker to get the hearer to perform or stop performing some kind of action, requests ... you to keep it Bác yêu cầ u phải giữ bí secret mật chuyê ̣n đó Hedged performative I have to ask you to keep Tôi phải yêu cầ u anh giữ bí it secret Obligatory statement You have to keep...
... needed to make clear, namely invite and invitation Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary indicates that to invite means to ask somebody to come to a social event or to ask somebody formally to go to ... wants to claim for himself” (Brown and Levinson 1987, p.61) "Face" associates with the English idiom to lose face which means to something which makes other people stop respecting you; to not ... and Vietnamese To immerse into the culture and daily life of the target language is a must in order to comprehend wholly that language In another words, to learn a language means to learn the culture...
... increment was not proportional to 283 284 J FOR SCI., 53, 2007 (6): 278–289 200 100 Gródek Total 300 200 100 Przełęcz Sosnów Total 300 200 100 Walusiówka Stand layer acc to IUFRO classification 22 ... (measurements and classifications of 1987) Total 300 200 100 Facimiech Total 300 Table to be continued 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 total 58.8 0.0 29.4 0.0 11.8 0.0 ... and increment in relation to actual (1997) numbers or volume of living trees (%) Species Ratio of the number Ratio of the volume of dead trees to the of dead trees to the number of living trees...
... trees affects the response of growing shoots to the death of distal organs Genetic and ontogenetic factors might be related to the production of stress-tolerance promoters, as found for other plant ... distal nodes and internodes of a GU may occur together with terminal bud abscission, a condition referred to here as dieback Since no pruning was applied to the plants, the dead segment of each GU ... gave rise to the second-year trunk shoot (Figs 1A, 1D and 1G), the position of the latter shoot was quantified by adding to the number of nodes of the first-year shoot The following descriptors were...
... receptor are typical for peripheral tissues Soluble leptin receptor is a unique form, which consists solely of extracellular domain of membrane leptin receptors [9] By binding to this receptor, ... receptors [5] Among the hereditary risk factors, the polymorphisms of leptin or leptin receptor genes provide a good opportunity to study the relationship between ALL and overweight status To our ... Currently, to 25% of children with ALL are classified to high risk groups and are treated with 18 Gy CRT In the US approximately 25,000 to 30,000 long-term survivors of childhood ALL have a history...
... HR, Stockley PG: Development of a novel drug-delivery system using bacteriophage MS2 capsids Biochemical Society Transactions 1996, 24:413S Wu M, Brown WL, Hill HR, Stockley PG: Specific cytotoxicity ... protein dimer and PP7 operator RNA High concentrations of operator RNA apparently inhibited virus assembly, since the oneto-one complex was most abundant at the highest RNAto-protein ratio, and its ... effect of RNA at high concentration is apparently specific to authentic PP7 operator RNA, since neither the MS2 operator nor tRNA seems to exert this effect Preliminary measurements of the amount...
... 18 items corresponding to the 18 ADHD symptoms listed in the DSM-IV Each item is rated on a scale from = ‘never/rarely’ to = ‘very often.’ The total score ranges from to 54 The TDSM-IV-S is based ... ADHD using meta-analysis MedGenMed 2006, 8(4):4 14 Kratochvil CJ, Milton DR, Vaughan BS, Greenhill LL: Acute atomoxetine treatment of younger and older children with ADHD: a meta-analysis of tolerability ... from 38.6-45.5 for atomoxetine and 37.4-40.0 for methylphenidate One trial used Parents T-DSM-IV total to measure outcome and reported baseline severity of 44.2 (SD 7.5) for atomoxetine and 47.3...