... is highly reliable and valid and is an extensively used scale in internal medicine research [21] 5) The Charlson co-morbidity index is an often used index in internal medicine and oncology for ... better HRQL and initiative power and could be therefore helpful tool in preventive medicine [14,20] Our findings support the case for developing interventions to improve self- regulation in cancer ... patients and 120 healthy controls (80 female/66.7%) (C) gave their written consent and took part in an initial evaluation in 2000/2001 (table 1) According to our institutional standard in 2000,...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
... of initial getting-to-know conversations in Twitter They welcome and greet each other about kids and pets, and offer sympathies about feeling bad One interesting way to use our analysis is in ... automatically analyzing self- disclosure behaviors using topic modeling This is ongoing work, and we are looking to improve methods for analyzing relationship strength and self- disclosure, especially ... Research Y Jo and A.H Oh 2011 Aspect and sentiment unification model for online review analysis In Proceedings of International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining S Kim, J Bak, and A Oh 2012...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 17:20
Role of environmental self-auditing and audit policies in regulatory compliance
Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 14:03
SELF ASSEMBLY AND DRUG DELIVERY IN AMPHIPHILIC PEPTIDES MICROSCOPIC INSIGHTS FROM COARSE GRAINED SIMULATIONS
... in the group I would like to thank the internal and external examiners for spending precious time in examining my thesis and providing valuable comments I am thankful to A/Prof Yang Kun-Lin and ... and A/Prof Chen Shing Bor for being the panel examiners in my oral qualifying examination and thesis advisory committee Their suggestions and comments were helpful in improving my research I ... of 2-50 amino acids, and long chains of peptides are known as proteins There are 20 naturally occurring amino acids (see Figure 1.3) utilized in the synthesis of peptides and proteins in biological...
Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:13
The prosthetic self technology and human experience in contemporary speculative fiction
... thinking and unextended thing,’ who possesses a body that is ‘an extended and unthinking thing,’ such that the self or ‘soul’ is ‘entirely and absolutely distinct from [the] body, and can exist ... posthumanism, ‘attempt[ing] to intervene in and diversify what 32 posthumanism can mean’ (xi, xiii) Also examining changing subjectivities in the postindustrial context of human-machine integration ... government and industry (Luckhurst, Science Fiction 59) Applying science and engineering principles to management, Taylor divided each work task down into singular actions and timed each movement in...
Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:25
Báo cáo khóa học: Characterization of presenilin complexes from mouse and human brain using Blue Native gel electrophoresis reveals high expression in embryonic brain and minimal change in complex mobility with pathogenic presenilin mutations pptx
... Analysis of mouse and human brain presenilin complex (Eur J Biochem 271) 381 Fig PEN-2 and APH-1 expression in mouse and human tissues and detection in PS complex after 2D -complex analyis (A) ... H.T., Tandon, A., Fraser, P.E & St George-Hyslop, P (2003) APH-1 interacts with mature and immature forms of presenilins and nicastrin and may play a role in maturation of presenilin.nicastrin complexes ... H.T., Tandon, A., Fraser, P.E & St George-Hyslop, P (2003) APH-1 interacts with mature and immature forms of presenilins and nicastrin and may play a role in maturation of presenilin-nicastrin complexes...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20
KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND COMPETENCE DEVELOPMENT IN COMPLEX PAPER PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS pdf
... management and knowledge processes are introduced Finally, the theories of organizational learning, including individual and organizational learning, in single and double loop and a systemic model in ... concept utilizing simulation and knowledge support systems The applicability of the constructed concept and tools is verified in industrial case studies both in Finland and in China In more detail ... paper machine rebuilding project in Finland is evaluated and, finally, in the fourth study the use of the concept in a paper production unit start-up in China is reviewed In Chapter 8, the major...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20
Báo cáo y học: " What is MRI bone oedema in rheumatoid arthritis and why does it matte" ppt
... exciting and suggest a new focus for understanding disease pathology and influencing disease progression; moving away from the synovium and towards the bone marrow 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Competing interests ... vascular endothelial growth factor and platelet derived growth factor [26] Ostendorf and colleagues [27] investigated rheumatoid finger joints using miniarthroscopy and found that macroscopic vascularization ... shown in Figure Finally, animal studies are emerging to clarify the role of the bone marrow as a site of pathology in RA MarinovaMutafchieva and colleagues [29] described an inflammatory infiltrate...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23
Does a Causal Link Exist between Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Growth in the Asian NIEs
... growth and its correlation with the inflow of FDI Through looking at some countries in Asia, this paper examines similarities and differences in magnitude of impact and causality of FDI inflow and ... the level of development” (Hansen and Rand, 2004, p 18) According to their findings, the impact of FDI does not vary across regions including Africa, Asia, and Latin America This conclusion completely ... rate and FDI net inflows as a percentage of GDP with and without Export of goods and services as a percentage of GDP Looking at Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines,...
Ngày tải lên: 14/05/2015, 14:22
Vietnamese Speech Recognition and Synthesis in Embedded System Using T-Engine
... that, in our recognition engine, we separate the training phase from the recognizing phase in order to reduce the system resource used in T-Engine The training phase is implement in a PC with ... speech data from T-Engine, only the recognition module is implemented in T-Engine IV VIETNAMESE SPEECH SYNTHESIS IN T-ENGINE Previous researches in Vietnamese speech synthesis have indicated that PSOLA ... database index file as described in table II Fig.7 Waiting for speech commands from users screen shot V APPLICATION OF VIETNAMESE RECOGNITION AND SYNTHESIS Vietnamese speech recognition and synthesis...
Ngày tải lên: 12/04/2013, 16:05
Tài liệu Prevalence of respiratory symptoms and cases suspicious for tuberculosis among public health clinic patients in Afghanistan, 2005–2006: Perspectives on recognition and referral of tuberculosis cases doc
... (CHCs) in the eight provinces (Bamiyan, Hirat, Jawzjan, Kandahar, Kapisa, Khost, Kunduz and Wardak) included in an accompanying survey to permit comparability between tuberculin skin test results and ... completed an interview and clinical examination with a representative of the same sex Study teams recorded medical history, current symptoms, examination findings and clinic staff findings Study interviews ... residing in a refugee camp within the last years, a greater number of people sleeping in one room, and a wood cooking fire in the sleeping room Contacts with those previously or currently residing...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 13:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Conserved residues in the N-domain of the AAA+ chaperone ClpA regulate substrate recognition and unfolding pdf
... usually contain an N-terminal domain (N-domain) that serves as a docking site for various adaptor proteins [6–10] ClpA consists of three domains: an N-domain and two ATP-binding domains referred ... crosslink to ClpS and mediated the degradation of GFP–ssrA and FRlinker–GFP by ClpP (data not shown) Thus it remains unclear whether these arginine residues are directly involved in substrate binding ... unfolding to proceed efficiently Substrate recognition and unfolding by ClpA Results Two conserved arginine residues (R90 and R131) within the N-domain are required for full ClpA function We were interested...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 05:20
The Carbon and Global Warming Potential Impacts of Organic Farming: Does It Have a Significant Role in an Energy Constrained World? pptx
... the growing of crops and livestock production, manufacture and application of agricultural inputs, processing, packaging, distribution and cold storage, preparing and serving, and disposing of ... benefits are an incremental gain, which combined with significant improvements in processing E use and efficiency, and to a lesser degree by improvements in transport, cooling and packaging of conventional ... representing organic and conventional farms located in alpine, upland and lowland regions Notably, and rather innovatively, the authors included an estimate for GHG impacts of the estimated land use change...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 23:20
How and Why does the Efficiency of Regional Innovation Systems Differ? doc
... difficulty in finding evidence of the interregional differences in innovation activities may be that a clear measurement concept and appropriate data has been lacking Recent attempts to explain the ... by maintaining R&D cooperation and implementing an effective division of innovative labor Some regional case studies suggest that spatial clustering or density of innovation activities does not ... Vienna and Stockholm We find the lowest average number of patents per enterprise in Saxony and in South-Wales (Table 2) By far the highest value for this indicator was attained in Vienna Baden and...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20
WHY DOES THE WORLD STAY GREEN? Nutrition and survival of plant-eaters doc
... rice grains And in the field when there has been enough rain to cause the grain spilt on the ground to germinate, they will again begin breeding They are ‘homing in on soluble amino acids being ... as urine recycled in the gut of birds and reptiles, or as uric acid in those of insects In this way it is incorporated into the bodies of the microbes instead of being excreted in the urine or ... the sycamore aphid in Britain In spring, individual aphids grow and reproduce rapidly on the expanding new leaves of sycamore trees, and their population increases dramatically In the summer, however,...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 19:20
A Monthly Struggle for Self-Control? Hyperbolic Discounting, Mental Accounting, and the Fall in Consumption Between Paydays ppt
... difficult to explain the decline Also, incorporating uncertainty about future consumption would increase the difficulty of explaining the decline with exponential discounting, in the standard isoelastic ... beginning on payday and continuing until a distance of 13 days, for spending on all goods and spending excluding bills These results are reported in Table B1 of Appendix B Robustness checks: Self- control ... Expenditures in the data are reported in pounds sterling We adjust expenditures and pay amounts for inflation using the Retail Price Index for Britain, with 2000 as the base year 3.2 Baseline Results and...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20
ALL AMERICAN: Why I Believe in Football, God, and the War in Iraq docx
... Amanda, Delainey, Mackenzie, Brendan, Erin, Colin, Griffin, T.J., and Timmy Finally, I must thank the most incredible woman in the world She came into my life when I thought I would never find ... okay Everything’s going to be okay.” I believe that is true, because I believe we’re doing the right thing and that we are succeeding in the war against terrorism and extremism in Iraq and Afghanistan ... boy growing up in New Jersey, as an NFL linebacker, as a prosecutor in Manhattan, and as an Army officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, I have had the rare privi- Our Defining Moment ★ 29 lege and opportunity...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 02:21
Báo cáo khoa học: "Why Are They Excited? Identifying and Explaining Spikes in Blog Mood Levels" potx
... Hurricane Katrina: Resources regarding missing/located people (Sept 2) Crime in New Orleans sharply increases after Hurricane Katrina (Sept 1) Fats Domino missing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina (Aug ... submitted to (headlines of) a news corpus A headline is retrieved if it contains at least one of the overused words and is dated within the peaking interval or the day before the beginning of the peak ... streams In Proc 8th ACM SIGKDD Intern Conf on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pages 1–25 R Kumar, J Novak, P Raghavan, and A Tomkins 2003 On the bursty evolution of blogspace In Proc 12th Intern...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học: From meiosis to postmeiotic events: Alignment and recognition of homologous chromosomes in meiosis ppt
... of pairing still remain, suggesting that a DSB-independent pairing mechanism may also be operating in this organism [42–44] On the other hand, typical DSB-independent pairing is found in Drosophila ... and the consequent recombination are involved in homology searching in S cerevisiae [5] On the other hand, homologous pairing is independent of recombination in many organisms [5,6] After chromosomes ... chromosomes, although they are recombined Schiz pombe is an example of such organisms lacking canonical SCs [19] In this organism, interestingly, the continuous pulling movements of the chromosomes...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Activation of p21-activated kinase 1 is required for lysophosphatidic acid-induced focal adhesion kinase phosphorylation and cell motility in human melanoma A2058 cells potx
... turn recruits other proteins, including paxillin, p130Cas, vinculin and talin in focal adhesions These protein complexes anchor the actin cytoskeleton and provide structural integrity to cells [16] ... either tyrosine kinase inhibitor, genistein, or MAP kinase inhibitor, PD98059 Inhibition of tyrosine kinase by genistein greatly inhibited LPA-induced PAK activation, whereas MAP kinase activity ... endothelial cells [52] and G protein coupled receptor kinase (GRK)-interacting targets (GIT) links PAK and FAK [53], involvement of PIX, Nck and GIT in LPA-induced FAK phosphorylation and cell motility...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20