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Competitiveness as an Engine for Economic Growth: Implications for Saudi Arabia doc

Competitiveness as an Engine for Economic Growth: Implications for Saudi Arabia doc

... Retail Marketing Gas Gathering Oil & Natural Gas Completion & Production Oil Trading Gas Processing Gas Trading Gas Transmission Gas Distribution Gas Marketing Oilfield Services/Engineering & ... 35,000 Kuwait Greece Italy 30,000 Bahrain Hong Kong Iceland Switzerland Australia Denmark Ireland Canada Finland France Sweden Taiwan Japan Germany Spain Israel Slovenia Portugal Cyprus Czech Republic ... Economic cities have an unclear relation to clusters and the surrounding regional economy Eastern Province Makkah AlBaha Asir Najran Jizan Jizan Economic City • They ask for private sector action...

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báo cáo hóa học: " Intention as an indicator for subjective need: A new pathway in need assessment" doc

báo cáo hóa học: " Intention as an indicator for subjective need: A new pathway in need assessment" doc

... GHQ-12 and MBI-EE was associated with participation in the coaching program and this was accompanied by stronger effects for GHQ-12 than for MBI-EE The regression analysis applied to model and model ... regression analysis at t-1 was used as additional covariate The last analysis was focused on the association between health factors and participation This result has to be taken into account for the ... decreased Thus, for reasons of stability and efficiency there are good reasons for disregarding other covariates and suppressor effects and to rely primarily on intention as the main variable for...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

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Báo cáo y học: "Using internet enabled mobile devices and social networking technologies to promote exercise as an intervention for young first episode psychosis patients" docx

Báo cáo y học: "Using internet enabled mobile devices and social networking technologies to promote exercise as an intervention for young first episode psychosis patients" docx

... Persuasive technology for human well-being: setting the scene In Persuasive Technology: First International Conference on Persuasive Technology for Human Well-Being: 18-19 May 2006; Netherlands ... techniques is known as persuasive technology, which has been defined as technology that is intentionally designed to change a person’s attitude or behaviour [20,21] Persuasive technology can have a positive ... offer the participant support to purchase a pair of running shoes Providing a good pair of running shoes to participants was considered important as this would play a significant role in minimising...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

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The use of the Internet tool as an assistance for first-year non-major students at Namdinh University of Technology Education in basic English self-study

The use of the Internet tool as an assistance for first-year non-major students at Namdinh University of Technology Education in basic English self-study

... of the specific language in an authentic setting - can be used to acquire information from language resources for a variety of purposes - serves as a medium for experiencing and presenting creative ... web-based listening activities was experimented in such a short period of time (four weeks) As such, it was impossible for the author to study the participants‟ background information as well as ... comprehension? Foreign Language Annals, 29, 331-342 33 Vandergrift, L (2003) Listening: theory and practice in modern foreign language competence Retrieved January 4, 2012, from http://www.llas.ac.uk/resources/gpg/67...

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Báo cáo y học: "Characterization of Human Erythrocytes as Potential Carrier for Pravastatin: An In Vitro Study"

Báo cáo y học: "Characterization of Human Erythrocytes as Potential Carrier for Pravastatin: An In Vitro Study"

... drug was studied also in plasma and in PBS after addition of glutaraldehyde Pravastatin assay by UPLC A reversed phase UPLC method was developed and used throughout the study for pravastatin assay ... plasma and PBS after using glutaraldehyde as a membrane stabilizer Also the figure shows the hemoglobin release The releasing curves of pravastatin show release phases, the first is rapid release ... rapid release phase and the second is slow sustained release phase with hemoglobin release similar pattern Pravastatin release in PBS is rapid process compared to release in plasma and after glutaraldehyde...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:10

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The phenomenon of evaporative cooling from a humid surface as an alternative method for air-conditioning

The phenomenon of evaporative cooling from a humid surface as an alternative method for air-conditioning

... comfort area defined by ASHRAE (Figure 30) As well as the other two cases, cooling is performed as a consequence of an increase in the humidity level, though in this case it is more effective for ... large devices, and heat-exchange between gas mediums require great areas of transference, so they are not used Another system, more cheap and compact, was designed by Dr Pernot and later by Dr ... first rigorous analysis of the direct and indirect evaporative systems, considering both the advantages and disadvantages and indicating and establishing some basis about their design, was developed...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

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Tài liệu Freshwater sponges as indicators of water pollution: an investigative undergraduate lab pdf

Tài liệu Freshwater sponges as indicators of water pollution: an investigative undergraduate lab pdf

... choanocytes to pump water through a series of canals Incoming water enters through ostia, passes through choanocyte chambers, and exits through the osculum Bacteria are filtered from incoming water, ... water, and large volumes of water can pass through a sponge in a 24-hour period Because of their simple morphological construction, many cells come into direct contact with the surrounding water as ... Grant C Stabile conducted many of the preliminary experiments Table Selected compounds of interested, their sources, toxic effects in humans and structural formulae Information in this table was...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: Neuroserpin Portland (Ser52Arg) is trapped as an inactive intermediate that rapidly forms polymers Implications for the epilepsy seen in the dementia FENIB ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: Neuroserpin Portland (Ser52Arg) is trapped as an inactive intermediate that rapidly forms polymers Implications for the epilepsy seen in the dementia FENIB ppt

... resulting proteins were assessed by SDS, nondenaturing and transverse urea gradient PAGE, and activity was assessed against tPA [6] Complex formation assays Wild-type and Ser52Arg neuroserpin ... neuroserpin and tPA Ser52Arg neuroserpin is inactive as an inhibitor of tPA Wild-type neuroserpin forms complexes with tPA with a stoichiometry of inhibition of and an association rate constant (kass) ... polymer formation and Tm [19], and thus it was unusual to find that the Tm was higher than that of the less severe Ser49Pro neuroserpin The overall structure of Ser52Arg neuroserpin was therefore assessed...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: Functional analysis of cell-free-produced human endothelin B receptor reveals transmembrane segment 1 as an essential area for ET-1 binding and homodimer formation pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: Functional analysis of cell-free-produced human endothelin B receptor reveals transmembrane segment 1 as an essential area for ET-1 binding and homodimer formation pptx

... Glaubitz and Andreas Engel for valuable discussions, and we thank Walter Rosenthal for the cDNA of human ETB We further ´ thank Robert Tampe and Katrin Schulze for their help with SPR analysis ... Switzerland), and 0.1% (w ⁄ v) Triton X-100 Horseradish peroxidase-conjugated T7-tag antibody (Merck Biosciences) was diluted : 5000 and incubated for h with the membrane Washed blots were analyzed ... Homo-oligomerization of rhodopsin-like GPCRs is an increasingly recognized mechanism, and might represent an important platform for the modulation of GPCR activities such as ligand binding, signaling or trafficking...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 10:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: Identification of sodium salicylate as an hsp inducer using a simple screening system for stress response modulators in mammalian cells pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: Identification of sodium salicylate as an hsp inducer using a simple screening system for stress response modulators in mammalian cells pptx

... Hirakawa, T., Rokutanm, K., Nikawa, T & Kishi, K (1996) Geranylgeranylacetone induces heat shock proteins in cultured guinea pig gastric mucosal cells and rat gastric mucosa Gastroenterology 111, ... 37 °C for h and further incubated for h at 37 °C The levels of Hsp105a and Hsp70 significantly increased in cells treated with 45 and 60 mM SA However, the levels remained unchanged or decreased, ... nitrocellulose membranes, and immunostained using antiHsp105 or anti-Hsp70 Ig (upper panels) Bands were quantified by densitometry, and relative levels of Hsp105a or Hsp70 are shown as ratios to that...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: Cytoskeleton-modulating effectors of enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagicEscherichia coli: a case for EspB as an intrinsically less-ordered effector pptx

Báo cáo khoa học: Cytoskeleton-modulating effectors of enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagicEscherichia coli: a case for EspB as an intrinsically less-ordered effector pptx

... reorganization The EspB (or EarB) gene product was first identified as an important factor in EPEC attachment [14] and later characterized as a T3SS-secreted protein required for signal transduction ... Acknowledgements This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for the Global COE program A08 from the MEXT, Japan, and Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science ... 6, 313–318 Batchelor M, Prasannan S, Daniell S, Reece S, Connerton I, Bloomberg G, Dougan G, Frankel G & Matthews S (2000) Structural basis for recognition of the translocated intimin receptor...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20

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nanocarriers as an emerging platform for cancer therapy

nanocarriers as an emerging platform for cancer therapy

... (Fig. 3b) and a free drug76, was evaluated for metastatic pancreatic cancer treatment Another carrier is NK105, a micelle containing paclitaxel, was evaluated for pancreatic, colonic and gastric ... selectivity can be increased through ligand dimerization or by screening for conformational-sensitive targeting agents such as affibodies, avimers and nanobodies, as well as intact antibodies and their fragments ... reduced toxicity and enhanced anti-metastatic effects in two different mouse tumour models, emphasizing the advantages of a mechanism-based design for targeted nanocarriers84 Organic nanoparticles...

Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2014, 15:07

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báo cáo hóa học:" Identifying alemtuzumab as an anti-myeloid cell antiangiogenic therapy for the treatment of ovarian cancer" pdf

báo cáo hóa học:" Identifying alemtuzumab as an anti-myeloid cell antiangiogenic therapy for the treatment of ovarian cancer" pdf

... APC anti-CD45 (BD Pharmingen, San Diego, CA) and PEmouse anti-human CD144 antibody (eBioscience, San Diego, CA) CD52 expression was confirmed with using FITC-anti-human CD52 (GeneTex San Antonio, ... breast, gastric, pancreatic, and lung carcinomas[20] Consistent with this finding, we observed VLC in http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/7/1/49 melanoma, breast, lung, and ovarian cancer ... tissue using an anti-CD52 antibody (1:100 GeneTex, Inc) and anti-VE-Cadherin FITC antibody (1:200 Bender MedSystems) Immunohistochemistry was performed on murine tumors with anti-CD31 antibody (1:800...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

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báo cáo hóa học: "Infrared thermography as an access pathway for individuals with severe motor impairments" docx

báo cáo hóa học: "Infrared thermography as an access pathway for individuals with severe motor impairments" docx

... placement This participant had an awkward position in his wheelchair (See Figure 3(b)) which forced us to position the thermal camera at an angle and distance from the participant that was not consistent ... Kiguchi M, Kanazawa T: A communication means for totally locked-in ALS patients based on changes in cerebral blood volume measured with near-infrared light IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, ... face region If one can voluntary control mouth open and close action, sip and puff technology, EMG based switches, and computer vision based switches can also be used The advantage of the proposed...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

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báo cáo hóa học:" Interleukin-6 as an early marker for fat embolism" docx

báo cáo hóa học:" Interleukin-6 as an early marker for fat embolism" docx

... benefit and the aim of our study was to determine whether IL-6 was such a marker An animal model using Sprague Dawley rats was used for this study Many studies have utilized rats as a model for fat ... litter The animals were induced using inhalational halothane anesthesia with a mixture of oxygen Depth of anesthesia was assessed by pedal reflex After each animal was anaesthetized, it was placed ... drill was advanced well into the medullary canal A mm Kirchner wire (2.5 cm long) was then advanced (Figure 1) until it was flush with the joint surface The wound was closed in the same manner as...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

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báo cáo hóa học:" Anonymous HIV workplace surveys as an advocacy tool for affordable private health insurance in Namibia" pot

báo cáo hóa học:" Anonymous HIV workplace surveys as an advocacy tool for affordable private health insurance in Namibia" pot

... data and edited the manuscript HMC analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript PJW conceived the project and edited the manuscript EG was responsible for the HIV test results and edited the manuscript ... companies Statistical analyses Statistical analyses were performed with SPSS version 15.0 for Windows, Chicago: SPSS Inc For significance testing, Chi square and Student's T-test were used for ... education and sensitization sessions were held for both management and employees on the process of surveillance and the importance of participation During these sessions, the importance of access...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Novel Strategy to Fabricate PLA/Au Nanocomposites as an Efficient Drug Carrier for Human Leukemia Cells in Vitro" pdf

Báo cáo hóa học: " Novel Strategy to Fabricate PLA/Au Nanocomposites as an Efficient Drug Carrier for Human Leukemia Cells in Vitro" pdf

... concentration and hence enhance the cytotoxicity of anticancer agents Meanwhile, it is observed that the inhibition effect for drug-resistant K562/AO2 cancer cells was relatively significant than that for ... into the nanocomposites and stored in the dark at 4°C for more than 12 h to form the PLA/Au nanocomposites conjugated with dauborubicin Atomic Force Microscopy Study In a relevant atomic force microscopy ... color did not change Ultrapure water was added in which the final volume was 100 mL and the diameter of Au nanoparticle was about 15 nm The other reagents were analytical grade For the following...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

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Báo cáo hóa học: "Error Sign Feedback as an Alternative to Pilots for the Tracking of FEXT Transfer Functions in Downstream VDSL" pptx

Báo cáo hóa học: "Error Sign Feedback as an Alternative to Pilots for the Tracking of FEXT Transfer Functions in Downstream VDSL" pptx

... decreasing noise variance) It can also be seen that the gain is indeed higher than for reasonable cases: it does not seem reasonable to allow the interference, which is due to changes in the channel, ... significantly above the noise as it would unacceptably decrease the performance So this shows that for a given bit rate usage, a well- EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE Relation between estimation variance and ... able to perform this coarse estimation However, for reasons explained later, it might not be as efficient in the initialization phase The precoder can then be computed and transmission can start...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

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Báo cáo khoa học: "An evaluation of decapitation as a method for selecting clonal Quercus petraea (Matt) Liebl with different branching intensities" ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: "An evaluation of decapitation as a method for selecting clonal Quercus petraea (Matt) Liebl with different branching intensities" ppt

... growth lasted for 42 d and the second period started at day 79 and lasted 25 d The rate of development of plants growing under natural conditions was slower than that for either chamber Expansion ... was less obvious than for the clonal plants for control and decapitated plants, respectively (fig 4) Plants in the cool chamber produced approximately 25% more branches on original shoots than ... (Leakey and Longman, 1986) Before investigating the differences in bud activity and branch production between clones of oak it was necessary to allow for shoot length which was very variable and has...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

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