... rating and indexes thereon Non-financial variables not need tobe specific to a party to the contract The initial investment required is zero, orlessthanthatrequiredforothertypesofcontracts ... described below: Income: increases in the company’s equity during the reporting period in the form of inflows or enhancements of assets or decreases in liabilities, otherthan those relating to ... that descriptive information for the prior period be included Ultimately, the changes incorporated into the model are aimed at providing the user of the annual accounts with more detailed information...
... process on all the typesof sentences The second one is to conduct more experiments for obtaining better performance The final one is about an integrated system Since we perform Task and Task ... Chunking using Transformation-Based Learning In Proceedings of NLP/VLC’95, 82-94 Ellen Riloff and Janyce Wiebe 2003 Learning Extraction Patterns for Subjective Expressions In Proceedings of EMNLP’03 ... second following word of k is tagged z the preceding word of k is tagged z, and the following word of k is tagged w the preceding word of k is tagged z, and the second preceding word of k is tagged...
... can bring forth in players in any organizational setting From the Library of ALESSANDRO CAROLLO FOREWORD xiii That said, I have come to discover in David and his writing, a kindred spirit that ... largest single group of people to enter into the workforce in American history As they leave the workforce in the next 15 to 20 years, fewer people will replace them In the harsh light of supply ... selecting talent wisely, investing inthat talent, modeling a philosophy and spirit of commitment and caring, and trusting that talent to perform to expectations And while garnering success and being...
... surface of the sensing structure To understand the origin of the difference in the sensing performance of the three kinds of sensors, the BET surface area of the nanocubes, hollow sea urchin-like ... after the sensor storing for days in air It is generally accepted thatfor metal oxide-based sensors the change in resistance is mainly caused by the adsorption and desorption of gas molecules ... triethylamine, acetone and ethanol, indicating that these hollow sea urchin-like ␣-Fe2 O3 nanostructures could be promising candidates as the building blocks for the fabrication of gas sensors for the...
... observations of a single specimen [20] We then used 47 parts for calculating the PCA and training the LDA and the remaining part for testing This was repeated for all 48 parts so that the predictions for ... alteration of optical tissue properties due to post mortem changes It is known that de-oxygenation and a loss of hemoglobin are the main factors for a continuing decrease of absorption in the visible ... PCs discriminated best between all tissues In the following steps we performed LDA training and testing and ROC analysis We found thatin each of the cross-validation steps, either nine or ten different...
... observations of a single specimen [20] We then used 47 parts for calculating the PCA and training the LDA and the remaining part for testing This was repeated for all 48 parts so that the predictions for ... alteration of optical tissue properties due to post mortem changes It is known that de-oxygenation and a loss of hemoglobin are the main factors for a continuing decrease of absorption in the visible ... PCs discriminated best between all tissues In the following steps we performed LDA training and testing and ROC analysis We found thatin each of the cross-validation steps, either nine or ten different...
... breath Moreover, it seems that the ratio of number of carbons of the carboxylates surrounding the SBU to number of metal atoms within the SBU must be greater thanor equal tofor such breathing effect ... al., in which p-perfluoroethylbenzoic acid (pfmbc) was used as modulator for yielding MOF-5 nanoparticles.149 In the growth solution of MOF-5, pfmbc modulator competed with BDC linker for coordination ... similar to those of microporous MOFs, mesoporous MOFs offer extensive features involving mesopores which are not exhibited by microporous MOFs Combining the advantages of MOFs with the benefits of...
... metadirectory Determine Which Directory Will Be the Prime Connector Lead -in Join One or More of the Remaining Directories to the Prime Connector Customize One or More of the Mas to Use More Information ... authoritative for each attribute The directory that will be authoritative for each attribute A list of directories tobe integrated in the metadirectory A list of directories tobe integrated in the ... list of directories tobe integrated in the metadirectory • The metadirectory entry types • The naming convention for metadirectory entries • The metadirectory management method • The metadirectory...
... autoimmune disease in 1986 to the present No restriction for language was used Assessment of eligibility criteria for inclusion or exclusion and extraction of outcome variables was performed independently ... change of more than 10% in the pulmonary function parameters evaluated in the studies reviewed in the present metaanalysis (or more) would have been considered clinically meaningful for the purposes ... comparator treatments varied across studies For example, some evidence suggests that glucocorticoids may be effective in SSc-related ILD in certain situations [5,25,3133] There may beother factors...
... factors of HCV, with advice on prevention including the need to reduce sharing of injecting equipment and safer injecting practices It was intended tobe a non-interactive intervention in order ... control for differences in standard service at each of the recruitment sites, and "Injecting Equipment Sharing Behaviour", to control for a very important risk-factor predictor for contracting hepatitis ... willingness to nominate an independent informant to provide collateral information, and nominate a locator who can assist in tracing the subject at follow-up (5) stable place of residence (defined...
... to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Prof PASTORIN Giorgia, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy, National University of Singapore, for the continuous support of my Ph.D study ... of Singapore, for kindly providing platinum(IV) compounds, and Prof RAMAPRABHU Sundara, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, for providing ultrapure multi-walled carbon nanotubes for ... tumors of mice, was more effective in suppressing the tumor growth than the intact CDDP and was found to stay in the tumor tissues for a considerable period up to 25 days, which was in favor of...
... BMP-7) belong to the Transforming growth factor beta superfamily of proteins Since then, thirteen more BMPs have been discovered, bringing the total to twenty BMPs interact with specific receptors ... group of growth factors and cytokines known for their ability to induce the formation of bone and cartilage (Chen et al., 2004) Originally, seven such proteins were discovered Of these, six of them ... Definition of growth factors Growth factor is sometimes used interchangeably among scientists with the term cytokine Historically, cytokines were associated with hematopoietic (blood forming)...
... using an electrospinning method, including encapsulating into fibers or coating on fiber surface, and revealed that BMP-2 encapsulated into fibers retained its integrity and structural conformation ... absorb heat during the heating process Therefore, more time is requiredfor the PLGA in the fibers to absorb enough heat to reach the decomposition point Recalling that the temperature varies linearly ... Protein integrity and secondary structure testing results In order to examine whether there is a loss in protein integrity through the loss of amino acid groups or structural damage caused in the...
... moieties can be added to the matrix to promote and expedite bone formation A number of different growth factors, including bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs), transforming growth factor β, platelet-derived ... glycoprotein and produced constitutively in endothelium during blood vessel formation After treatment of IHC staining, vWF can be stained as brown color Therefore brown color staining detected in bone ... Immunohistochemical staining for Von Willebrand factor (vWF) was performed as Chapter 67 follows Sections were treated for with 0.15 mg/L of trypsin in phosphate buffer at a pH of 7.8 and then incubated...
... scaffold in a random (uniform) form They could be located on the surface of fibers, inside the fibers but near to the surface, or near the core of fibers This is similar to the distribution of HAp ... direct contact of DCM As a result, in the process of electrospinning, DNA/chitosan nanoparticles are incorporated into fibers together with HAp nanoparticles This means that more HAp nanoparticles ... solution or chitosan/DNA nanoparticles suspension was dripped into scaffolds after the fabrication of scaffolds; therefore it can be considered that full amount of DNA was adsorbed into scaffolds...
... comparable toother samples In contrast, C1 showed a steep increase before reaching a peak in the fourth week ALP activity is a good indicator for analyzing the activity of osteogenic differentiation of ... volume of both solutions were quickly mixed and vortexed for 15-30s The final volume of the mixture in each preparation was limited to below 500 µL in order to yield uniform nanoparticles In this ... IHC staining was also performed to check the formation of blood vessels in bone fractures After treatment of bone fragments in liquid nitrogen for minutes, both bone cells and blood vessels in fragments...
... the pores are not uniform and random in all directions (Figure 7.2b) After the incorporation of 5% of chitosan, the pores were relatively more uniform and aligning in a particular direction than ... porous foams were fabricated by the combination of spray drying and supercritical CO2 foaming techniques and the effects of chitosan incorporation on the following factors was investigated: in ... chitosan content was increased to 10%, the foam seemed tobe flower-like with all pores interconnected (Figure 7.2d) Triplicate samples for each typesof foam with a sampling size of 100 pores...
... penetration of DNA molecules into the deeper layer of K20 coating on foam F2 due to the long chain of K20, instead of just being anchored on the top of K20 coating This is likely tobe the reason for ... DNA-matrix interactions thus leading to adsorption of more DNA molecules Although electrostatic attraction is believed tobe the dominating reason for the high uptake of DNA by F1 and F2, it may not be ... factor that influences the adsorption of DNA There are more times of -NH or -NH2 in K20 thanin K4, but the N1s concentrations on F1 and F2 are comparable (see Table 8.2) Moreover, the amount of...
... foaming techniques are promising for gene delivery The chitosan incorporated was coated on the surface of PLGA matrix in an amorphous form, which could help to slow down the disintegration of ... demonstrated that the bioactivity of BMP-2 protein released from PLGA/HAp scaffolds was maintained and in vivo and satisfactory performance of bone healing was observed For the case of BMP-2 plasmid ... DNA/chitosan, DNA/PEI and DNA/PLL, can be incorporated into or onto the foams in some way, on the conditionsthat the release of DNA/polycationic complex from the foams is significant and sustainable...