... that the Annual Percent Change is equal to zero is equivalent to testing the hypothesis that the slope of the line in the above equation is equal to zero The latter hypothesis is tested using the ... (Figure 10) There were improvements in survival for many forms of childhood cancer (Figure 11) The principal reason for the gain for total childhood cancer is due to the improvement in the survival ... this monograph, there are discussions of potential causes and risk factors for individual childhood cancers The discussion below provides background for considering the strength of the epidemiological...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20
... THEORY 2.1 Impedance From [6]-[7], in case of open-ended grounding wire line, we get the Thevenin impedance (seeing from the position that lightning strikes to the end of the grounding wire line) ... th (4) where Z th is the Thevenin impedance of the grounding wire of transmission line (seeing from the position that lightning strikes to the second substation) (Ω) Z1 is the grounding system ... 2008 where Z th1 is the Thevenin impedance of the grounding wire of transmission line (seeing from the position that lightning strikes to the first substation) (Ω) Z p is the shunt impedance...
Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2014, 03:20
báo cáo khoa học: " Preventing HIV transmission among Iranian prisoners: Initial support for providing education on the benefits of harm reduction practices" ppsx
... associated with them) Our sample is representative of the majority of male prisoners incarcerated at the prison at the time of the study At the time, the design did not allow us to consider the types ... use a condom) if they feel the negative health condition can be avoided, if they feel their particular action can avoid the negative health condition, and if they are able to put the recommended ... establishing the beliefs prisoners' hold about how HIV is transmitted We then identify the types of behaviours prisoners engage in that have the potential for HIV transmission Using the Health...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20
INTERLEUKIN 6 RELEASE FROM t98g HUMAN GLIAL CELL LINE AS a PREDICTIVE MARKER FOR CHRONIC PAIN, AND THE CHARACTERIZATION OF SUBSTANCE(S) INVOLVED IN PAIN
... Tat Leang, for supporting my work constantly, for their helpful advice when things did not go well, and for helping me procure the valuable samples from National University Hospital for the project ... molecule transmitters, which are chemicals that are released by neurons for communication within the nervous system, are involved in chronic pain transmission They are synthesized locally within the ... marks on a line from mm (no pain) to 100 mm (worst imaginable pain) the point that they feel best represents their current state In order to establish the effectiveness of steroid therapy for PHN...
Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2015, 17:15
Transmission line and and waveguide
... Solution for TM Mode 40 Some Constants 41 42 43 Field Lines for Lower Mode 44 Field Lines for Lower Mode (Cont.) 45 Field Lines for Lower Mode (Cont.) 46 Outline 47 General Solutions for TEM, ... Solutions for TEM, TE, and TM Waves Parallel Plate Waveguide Rectangular Waveguide Circular Waveguide Coaxial Line Surface Waves on a Grounded Dielectric Sheet Stripline Microstrip Line The Transverse ... Procedure for Analyzing a TEM Line 11 1.Solve Laplace’s equation, for (x, y) The solution will contain several unknown constants Find these constants by applying the boundary conditions for the known...
Ngày tải lên: 07/12/2015, 02:26
Monetary Policy Transmission in Ghana: Does the Interest Rate Channel Work? pptx
... resting on the stability of the monetary transmission mechanism and the constancy of money velocity may be compromised due to the loss of stability in reality An important argument, therefore, for moving ... central bank leaves the money market short in the end of the day (in the model denoted by the term u), this will increase the demand for bank reserves at the central bank Furthermore, we introduce ... Scharler (2010) for the U.S and the euro zone) A theoretical explanation for the asymmetry can be found from the menu-cost models For instance, Hofman and Mizen (2004) analyze asymmetries in the banks’...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20
Reducing the Odds - Preventing Perinatal Transmission of HIV in the United States pptx
... Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate ... national efforts to prevent perinatal transmission of HIV The universal testing approach that the committee recommends, as well as the call for health plan performance measures, should facilitate the ... rely upon federal funding for research and for services through HRSA’s Ryan White program to maintain the infrastructure they need to succeed The efforts called for in the earlier recommendations...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20
See The Light Shawl potx
... follows: k3, p until sts before the end of the row, k3 Exception: O O If there are two yarnovers in a right-side row, p and ptbl them in the following wrong-side row The egde stitches on each ... If there are two yarnovers in the right-side row, p and ptbl in the following wrong-side row Beads: The yellow bead symbol pertains/belongs to both the short and long versions of the shawl; the ... or I , is also the first stitch of the next section You have four sections in the first chart, each framed by a knit stitch So there are five of these edge stitches in total, the single knit...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Calpain 1–titin interactions concentrate calpain 1 in the Z-band edges and in the N2-line region within the skeletal myofibril doc
... to the myofibrils axis within the I-band The fractures were further located at the N-lines of the myofibrils (Fig 5A,B) and imputed to the proteolysis and the rigor mortis contraction [33] On the ... calpain [29], situated near the Z-band and the N2 -line [22] Hence, besides the Z–N1 region, the N2 -line sector might constitute another binding region for calpain in the I-band The analysis of postmortem ... isoformspecific antibody Calpain is found mainly within the I-band between the Z-band and the N1 -line (a transverse dense structure located 100 nm from the Z-band) and at the N2 -line level, on the...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20
To Live To See the Great Day That Dawn - :Preventing Suicide by American Indian and Alaska Native ppt
... guidance for enlisting the media in prevention efforts and for reporting on suicide Another of the CDC guidelines for preventing suicide contagion is to enlist the support of the media On the surface, ... and • Enlist the support of the media Some of these guidelines warrant further discussion as they apply to AI/AN communities The first guideline is to avoid glorifying suicides The concern is ... Some may not 23 want to bring up the topic of suicide for fear of causing others to feel these emotions Either way, the end result for the suffering family member is the same: isolation Having a...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20
transmission line matrix (tlm) in computational mechanics - d. de cogan, et al., (crc, 2006) ww
... separately from the wave dynamics At each time increment, the value of the effort variable of the wave at the boundary acts as an external force on the boundary dynamics The latter can then be updated ... scattering: (1) the force variable should be common to all lines meeting at the node, and (2) the total flow (into or out of the node) should be conserved The common force variable is the sum of the incident ... reflected pulse in each line (see Equation [2.9]), whereas the net flow into the node from each line is the incident minus the reflected pulses divided by the impedance of the line (Equation [2.9])...
Ngày tải lên: 05/05/2014, 17:21
high transmission nanoscale bowtie shaped aperture probe for near field
... narrow peak in the middle with a FWHM equal to 66 nm ͑A dashed line is drawn across the bottom of the narrow peak.͒ The FWHM of the peak roughly equals the sum of the two gaps of the two bowtie ... On the tip of the probe, a platform was created by FIB side slicing Then an aluminum film of about 100 nm thick was deposited to cover the entire tip side of the cantilever, including the platform ... can therefore be compared by the photon counts The two bowtie apertures with outline dimensions of 160 and 180 nm had 100ϫ 103 and 160ϫ 103 / s photon counts, respectively On the other hand, there...
Ngày tải lên: 06/05/2014, 08:55
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Penetration Loss Measurement and Modeling for HAP Mobile Systems in Urban Environment Jaroslav Holis and Pavel Pechac" pot
... information concerning the altitude The airship position determines the distance between the receiver station and the transmitter antennas The penetration loss can then be calculated from the measured ... in the surroundings of a building and the mean signal strength inside the building In this paper, the penetration loss is defined as the additional path loss with respect to the FSL from the transmitter ... dominant for the 5th floor The atypical behavior in the 8th floor is given by the position of the receiver station (directly under the flat roof of the building being studied), and by the fact that the...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "The effect of point application of fertilizers on the soil environment of spread line windrows in the Krušné hory Mts" docx
... resulted in the almost absolute disintegration of forest ecosystems (Vacek et al 2003) The subsequent total felling of these stands created conditions for the use of heavy-duty machinery for the preparation ... variance was verified by the Fisher-Snedecor Ftest If the F-test result rejected the null hypothesis (H0) about the consistency of variances, multiple comparisons were used for the detection of specific ... found to be the most efficient fertilizer The ratio of true humus fractions to Cox is high and their content is sufficient for the soil environment of forests (Hyvönen et al 2000) The proportion...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22
Báo cáo toán học: "An On-Line Version of the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences" doc
... the identification line: Annnn is the absolute catalogue number of the sequence, and Nnnnn (if present) is the number of the sequence in [3] The %S and %T lines give the initial terms, %N is the ... (even if the sequence is not in the table), and furthermore will apply a series of transformations to a given sequence and then look up the transformed sequences in the table The advantage of the ... available.) The %O, or “offset”, line contains two numbers The first gives the subscript of the initial term in the sequence (in the above example the first term corresponds to n = 0), and the second...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Identification of a novel germ-line mutation in the TP53 gene in a Mexican family with Li-Fraumeni syndrome" doc
... that the proband and the two remaining mutated members were homozygous for the Arg >Pro polymorphism at codon 72 We must continue to seek the mutation in other family members; however, they have ... participate in the study until the present Cloning of the mutated exon To further characterize the mutation, we cloned the mutated PCR product into the pCR4-TOPO vector (TOPO-TA Cloning Kit for Sequencing, ... while the Y axis indicates height of the peaks been reported either as a germ -line or as somatic mutation Discussion Identification of a germ -line TP53 mutation in a patient allows for the following...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21
Báo cáo khoa hoc:" Multiple dosing strategies with acetyl L-carnitine (ALCAR) fail to alter age-related hearing loss in the Fischer 344/NHsd rat" docx
... dysfunctional The working hypothesis for the current study was that long-term ALCAR treatment could prevent the loss of mitochondrial efficiency, which would lead to prevention of the loss of OHC ... assess the rate of hearing loss with age as well as the shape of the audiogram, the rats were tested for http://www.jnrbm.com/content/7/1/4 hearing sensitivity using free-field ABR thresholds The ... occurred for Time of test or Frequency, post hoc testing with Tukey A tests was performed to delineate the nature of the differences The three separate studies were analyzed separately from one another...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:20
báo cáo khoa học: " LINE dancing in the human genome: transposable elements and disease" ppt
... reported the formation of DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) associated with L1 expression [49-51] These DSBs depend on the enzymatic activity of the L1 ORF2 endonuclease domain [51], and their formation ... disease However, the full impact of these ubiquitous, high-copy-number elements on the biology of the cell may remain elusive for some time Competing interests The authors declare that they have no ... solely the responsibility of the authors and not necessarily represent the official views of the National Center for Research Resources or the NIH Competitive Advantage Funds (2006) from the Louisiana...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20
Báo cáo y học: "The interferon-inducible p47 (IRG) GTPases in vertebrates: loss of the cell autonomous resistance mechanism in the human lineage" docx
... However, in one splice form of Irgm1 and one splice form of Irgm2 the initial methionine is encoded at the 3' end of the penultimate exon (also see the legend to Figure 2) The closely related Irgb1 ... in the middle of β-strand just before the G5 sequence motif, which interacts with the guanine base of the bound nucleotide (Figures and 8b; also see Ghosh and coworkers [12]) The longer isoforms ... in the bacteria that have sequence features reminiscent of IRG GTPases Perhaps the most striking of these are found in the Cyanobacteria (see Additional data file for accession numbers for these...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo y học: " Epigenetic transmission of piRNAs through the female germline" docx
... of the I-element These traits are not seen in the female progeny of the reciprocal cross (termed RSF) (Figure 1) To elucidate the nature of the maternally transmitted determinants responsible for ... schematically), the pools of their ovarian I-specific piRNAs (short wavy lines) are different The approximate ratios of I-specific piRNAs in the ovaries of I and R mothers, in 0-2 hour embryos, and in the ... P-element in the subtelomeric region of the X chromosome The numbers in the rectangles beneath each cross are the P-element copy number per haploid genome The P-specific piRNA density across the P-element...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 21:20