wave phasic activity in sleep and its relation to dreaming

... as, increasingly, integration into the global economy Women (like men) shift out of agriculture and into expanding manufacturing, service, and commerce sectors These and concomitant changes in ... for women to enter the labor force or intensify their involvement in income-earning activities to compensate for declining family income This in turn often involved calling on girls to take over ... trends in developing economies and in the global economy that are affecting women’s work and its relation to children’s welfare, as well as affecting the ability of governments to intervene to ease...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... experiments, and was involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically AJS, CGMK, and HB participated in the conception and design of the study and were involved in drafting the manuscript ... Ltd, Abingdon, UK) and thrombomodulin (TM) (Diaclone, Besançon, France) were measured according to the manufacturers' instructions Serum was used to determine C-reactive protein (CRP) and plasma ... considered an inflammatory disease in which endothelial cell dysfunction is strongly implicated in its pathogenesis [11], in part related to traditional risk factors like smoking and dyslipidemia...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... non-survivors indicating a strong relation between acidic reflux and high mortality rate in VAP patients Acid and pepsin are the major factors responsible for symptoms and esophageal mucosal damage in gastroesophageal ... disposing factors of GER and aspiration in mechanically ventilated patients [6] We hypothesized that GER occurs in ventilated non-pneumonic infants and children and is possibly a predisposing factor ... reaching up to 60% [3,10] Another study found that the GER reached up to 74% in patients with nasogastric tube (NGT) which increased to 81% in supine position [11] The patients are defined to have...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... domains or putative GPI unit, if one exists in CLAP as it does in Drosophila fasciclin I and many other fasciclin-containing proteins [36,46] Fas I domains in proteins are almost always found in ... CLAP with a phosphoprotein stain did not reveal phosphate additions to these proteins Only lanes in the gel containing the known phosphoproteins ovalbumin, b-casein and pepsin gave a reaction Thus, ... 271) binding domains, so the presence of a GTP/ATP binding region in CLAP may indicate an energy dependent mechanism for pro-CLAP processing or cathepsin L docking and stabilization not found in...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... grammaxs contain the fewest symbols and (ii) a set of rules represent independent phonological processes when they cannot be combined into a single rule schema according to the intricate notational ... other hand, the surface form contains any nonhalting or nonaccepting units, then the ATM does not accept its input w in polynomial time The reduction may clearly be performed in time polynomial in ... note in passing, however, that the problem of simply determining whether a given rule is subsumed by one of Johnson's schema is itself intractable, requiring at least exponen- According to generative...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 18:20

... reporting the total nutrient intake for foods likely to be consumed in a single sitting (27); and using more intuitive labeling that requires less cognitive processing such as a red, yellow, and ... Dietetics educators and practitioners may be uniquely capable to train individuals on the use of the food label and to increase awareness in the need for better population-wide nutrition monitoring practices ... expected to be sufficient in modifying behavior ultimately leading to improved health outcomes but may be used by individuals and dietetics practitioners as a valuable and motivating tool in our...

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2014, 18:33

... cycles and with at least a half of its arcs, as may be seen by taking a random linear ordering on V (G) Theorem goes beyond Thomassen’s counterexample in that it tells us that there exists an in nite ... result in [4], with some more bookkeeping, does in fact prove Lemma above One may also deduce Lemma from the result in [4] Proof of Theorem To prove our main result, we first need to recall some standard ... probability tending to as n tends to in nity, we have Gn,p ∈ OG We may now complete the proof of Theorem using Claims and Fix a graph F n ∈ OG Let Gn be a graph obtained from F n deleting one arc...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 07:21

... strength (DIN 52186), compressive strength (parallel and perpendicular to the grain; respectively DIN 52185 and DIN 52192), and tensile strength (parallel to the grain; DIN 52188), and Brinell hardness ... and MOE of the specimens were determined on an Instron test machine according the DIN 52186 using the 4-point loading test method Twelve treated and untreated Norway spruce boards were used to ... level); and fiber -to- fiber bonding with the middle lamella acting as the adhesive (macroscopic level) According to Sweet and Winandy [45] wood fibres can be regarded as a composite material and a single...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:21

... study also included determination of copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) in the samples This was due to the experimental findings that Cu might facilitate the endocytosis of the prion protein, and that Zn ... according to their appreciated scrapie status and the inclusive counties indicated Scrapie was, from its presumed origin in Skagafjörður around 1880, confined to a part of northern Iceland until ... areas in Iceland (see Figure and text) The boxes span the middle 50% of the data and the horizontal line within each box indicates the median Whiskers extend to the minimum and maximum values up to...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... in relation to its predictors 149  Table 6.9 Interpretation of ECGU model in relation to its predictors 150  Table 6.10 Interpretation of SGU model in relation to its predictors ... climate of Singapore also results in the excessive use of air conditioning in the buildings during daytime Generally, in hot and humid climate countries, the cooling demand in a building varies ... consumption in Singapore (Bing et al., 2005) Energy required in air conditioning is very much related to the cooling energy demand and the equipment’s operating efficiencies Cooling energy demand of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:18

... VIETNAM CO LTD AND ITS MARKETING harmoniously living and working together into the future” (Canon Vietnam, n.d) Hence, its purpose is to bring goods thing to all people in the world by its products ... LTD AND ITS MARKETING partners in Vietnam, information about keep its current consumers demand and taste of customer are send to and get new one because loyal office of Canon in Japan (Tokyo) to ... Canon has to pay is to satisfy customer demands by its products and services However, it gains many benefits, the company’s image will be raised and its income will increase And the benefits that...

Ngày tải lên: 20/04/2013, 17:37

... of the verb to have when it is used as an ordinary verb and its equivalents in Vietnamese - Helping them know and apply the verb to have in some constructions and its equivalents in Vietnamese ... between using the verb to have in English and in Vietnamese - Scope of the study - Studying the verb to have in some constructions and as an ordinary verb as well as its equivalents in Vietnamese ... different meanings, depending on context that verb has its own meaning, and this itself makes troubles to learners However, besides the diffculties, we find it so interesting thus researching the English...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 21:45

... concentrations With accumulating concentrations of the reaction products (appearing in the nominator) and/ or vanishing concentrations of the reaction substrates (appearing in the denominator), the concentration-dependent ... selfreproduction, gaining a maximal biomass production at a given total flux is obviously equivalent to maintaining a given rate of biomass production at a minimum of the total flux Insofar, the principle ... metabolites) can be used to build up mathematical models of the gene-regulatory, signal-transducing and metabolic networks of a cell and to integrate them into whole-cell in silicoÕ models The...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... latest revised tagset and guidelines to produce a clean and accurately tagged training corpus to be used for the automatic tagging of the remaining corpus The long-term goal is to produce a very ... by considering the practical and theoretical concerns of POS tagging 4.1 Practical Concerns There are at least two practical concerns in Chinese POS tagging First, we want to obtain information ... between nominalisation and verbalisation in Chinese was observed in Tai (1997) In other words, verbs are more freely deverbalised than nouns denominalised This fluidity between verbal and nominal...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20

... the binding of proMMP-9 to gelatin or collagen IV, binding of proMMP-2 to collagen VI (a2 chain), as well as binding of individual SIBLINGS to specific MMPs (see text) Binding of HgCl2 or APMA to ... small integrin-binding ligand N-linked glycoprotein (SIBLING) Individual members of the SIBLING family are known to bind strongly to both pro- and active forms of specific MMPs Bone sialoprotein binds ... hemopexin-like domain (C domain) of human gelatinase A (matrix metalloproteinase-2) requires Ca2+ for fibronectin and heparin binding Binding properties of recombinant gelatinase A C domain to extracellular...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 00:20

... indomethacin and the enzymatic system of creatinine phosphate and creatinine phosphate kinase exerted the same inhibitory effect on both standard PAF and the lipid product of similar aggregatory activity ... fractions were percentage inhibitory activity of 0.7 mM creatine phosphate/ aliquoted and stored at – 30 °C All homogenization and 4,5 creatine phosphate kinase, 10 lM indomethacin and 0.1 lM fractionation ... BSA in binding PAF or lyso-PAF [31] In our assays, it seems that the microsomal proteins can bind PAF effectively preventing it from inhibiting lyso-PAF AT activity and the addition of BSA up to...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 03:20

... expert fact-finding, corporate mini-trial It must also be noted that new strategies and forms are continually being developed in a variety of forums and continue to be implemented in a variety ... rhyming slang to communicate to their parents and grandparents, but when talking with their brothers or their sisters, they prefer to use the modern rhyming in order to avoid their parents to ... talking with their siblings in the family In addtionnal to that, we can also see the grand-parents and parents never use rhyming slang to talk their children or even talking with others in the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 00:21

... Kudo and Yuji Matsumoto 2001 Chunking with support vector machines In Proceedings of the NAACL Sadao Kurohashi and Makoto Nagao 1997 Building a Japanese Parsed Corpus while Improving the Parsing ... determining the beginnings of clauses is difficult in a single process because all features mentioned above are local information Therefore, the global information is also used to detect the beginning ... ends of inserted clauses (2) fillers and pauses Fillers and pauses are often inserted just before or after quotations and inserted clauses Pause duration is normalized in a talk with its mean and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 18:20

... [23,24] Furthermore, TGase in hair follicles is involved in crosslinking structural proteins such as trichohyalin and keratin intermediate to hardening the inner root sheath In this case, TGase co-operates ... TGase are believed to act cooperatively in the cross-linking of proteins, including involucrin, loricrin and small Preferred substrate peptide for TGase proline-rich proteins (SPRs) Such concerted ... cross-linking structural proteins in keratinocytes [7–9] TGase is expressed in the prostate and is reported to be involved in plug formation in rodents [10] The biochemical characterization and...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 21:20

... helps us to see the relation between two points of sustainability in a single diagram Forth, the thesis explained in detail about the current issues related to trade and environment, including commodity ... closely linked with trade in this century, particularly through the framework of international organizations including WTO, IMF, WB and ITTO Then, this chapter explains the international efforts towards ... explained in detail The issues include the opening of world summit meetings for environment, ODA and its relation to trade and environment, the role of private sector, transparency, capacity building,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/04/2014, 20:22