... the data and wrote the manuscript; XL performed cell culture, western blot analysis, ELISA assay and NO measurements; RL and LS helped in performing NO measurements All authors read and approved ... disease: different molecular targets and potential therapeutic agents including curcumin Curr Opin Pharmacol 2009, 9:434-444 Zhang D, Liu R, Sun L, Huang C, Wang C, Zhang DM, Zhang TT, Du GH: Anti-inflammatory ... JD: Mechanisms of Disease: astrocytes in neurodegenerative disease Nat Clin Pract Neurol 2006, 2:679-689 Wyss-Coray T, Loike JD, Brionne TC, Lu E, Anankov R, Yan F, Silverstein SC, Husemann J:...
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... guidance and inputs through the course of this project I would also like to sincerely thank Dr Yang Chuan and Dr Nikken Wiradharma for the long discussions and continuous guidance and assistance, ... concern for resistance development Also, employment of antimicrobial agents for uses other than therapeutic reasons is hastening the emergence of antimicrobial resistance Resistance can appear in ... China and was of more than 95 % purity α-cyano hydroxycinnamic acid was purchased from Sigma (Singapore) as well Phosphate buffer saline (PBS) at 10 X concentration was purchased from 1st Base...
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C++ - I/O Streams as an Introduction to Objects and Classes
... Chapter I/O Streams as an Introduction to Objects and Classes Copyright © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc Publishing as Pearson Addison-Wesley Overview 6.1 Streams and Basic File I/O 6.2 Tools ... data permanently! Data output to a file lasts after the program ends An input file can be used over and over No typing of data again and again for testing Create a data file or read an output ... Initializing a stream means connecting it to a file The value of the stream variable can be thought of as the file it is connected to Can have its value changed Changing a stream value means disconnecting...
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USING BRAND AS AN EFFECTIVE WEAPON TO COMPETE IN THE MARKET: A CASE STUDY OF NHAT LINH COMPANY
... the brand -as- product, brand -as- organization, brand -as- person, and brand -as- symbol • Brand identity structure includes a core, extended and proposition identity A brand identity is to brand strategy ... offer quality assurance and reduce risks • Brands help self-expression • Brands offer friendship and pleasure 2.3.2 A brand is more than a product Brand is more than a product Branding is about ... Company with the assistance of his young brother, the Company’s Vice Director When asking about the soul and other attributes of LiOA brand name such as brand identity, brand personality and brand...
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THE INFORMAL SECTOR IN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES SUSTAINABILITY EFFECTS OF FORMALISATION CONSIDERING HO CHI MINH CITY – VIETNAM AS AN EXAMPLE
... by the value of the waste, and in the second place by their ease of extraction, handling and transport Paper, metals and plastics, sorted out as early as possible in the waste chain, therefore ... I.1 Background Human activity has always created and will always create waste In big cities around the world Solid Waste Management (SWM) is an especially important and complex task for the municipalities ... collection, transport, transfer, processing and disposal of solid wastes The growing demand for service caused by rapid, unplanned urban growth and rising waste generation rates can often only...
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The phenomenon of evaporative cooling from a humid surface as an alternative method for air-conditioning
... economic solution than installing an only system In 1986, Anderson tested an air conditioning system using a direct and an indirect evaporative cooler combined with an expansion battery, and compared ... material, another device mainly made of wet textile band has been designed, manufactured and characterised It is basically a cotton band of 25 cm width and 1600 cm length, disposed in a plasticized ... developed by the ASHRAE has cast doubt on this supposing, making more interesting the idea of considering and analyzing the use of these devices Another disadvantage is the water consumption associated...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10
Tài liệu Understanding the Internet as an Infrastructure docx
... but are rendered as HTML to allow them to operate correctly in any HTML-compliant browser Microsoft has also extended many of the standard HTML controls as well, allowing you to manipulate them ... optimize throughput and Web site maintainability Microsoft has also added the following features: • Enhanced page design and layout using Master Pages, Themes, and Web Parts You can use Master Pages ... things, such as display a page of data from a database; mixing application code and HTML caused readability and maintenance issues; and performance was not always what it could be because Active Server...
Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 00:15
Tài liệu 27 Robust Speech Processing as an Inverse Problem docx
... cepstral mean subtraction (CMS) [6] If the mismatch is caused by both channel and random noise, the testing vector is translated as well as shrunk The shrinkage is measured by αjj and the translation ... operator, and V AR[] and COV [] represent the variance and covariance operators, respectively As can be seen from Eq (27.60), the diagonal entries αjj are the weighted covariance of the model and the ... channel and (b) Gaussian white noise the key to the problem is to find feature sets that are invariant1 to the changes of transmission channel and environmental noise Liftered cepstrum [9] and...
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Tài liệu Module 13: Using Excel as an OLAP Client docx
... at least one measure to the Data Items area—a PivotTable must have at least one data item You can place more than one dimension in the page, row, and column regions You can pivot page, row, and ... capabilities that enhance the ability to manage the data and organization of a PivotTable report The following are additional capabilities that enhance the ability to manage the data and organization of ... reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, for any purpose, without the express written permission of Microsoft Corporation If, however, your only means of access...
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Tài liệu Configuring Linux as an NIS Client ppt
... be the easiest way Step At this point, the Linux system should be setup to run as an NIS client If this system was connecting to an actual NIS server, the ypwhich and ypcat hosts commands could ... be erased unless the system is configured to run this command every time the system boots up There are many methods that can be used to force a Linux system to run commands upon startup Many of ... The ypbind daemon performs two functions, the master and the slave functions The master process handles requests for information from the NIS server and the slave process checks the bindings - IT...
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Tài liệu FOCUS ON DATA XMLPULL AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO DOM & SAX doc
... occupy more than one code unit—it can be multi-byte) All three encodings can display any Unicode character, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages depending on what’s important in a particular ... New Roman, and Courier New—are Unicode compliant However, that doesn’t mean they can display any Unicode character They are fine for English and most Central and Eastern European languages For ... session cannot exist without an underlying request As a result, it seems natural to conclude that our static HTTPRequest class should yield, on demand, an instance of an HTTPSession class by means...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Multi-targeted activity of maslinic acid as an antimalarial natural compound pdf
... the aspartic protease catalytic class, was previously reported [12] Accordingly, an additional inhibition assay was performed using P falciparum protein extracts and including cathepsin D (an aspartic ... Prod 59, 643–645 Maslinic acid targets on Plasmodium falciparum 13 Garcı´ a-Granados A (2007) Use of maslinic acid as an antiparasitic agent against phylum apicomplexa protozoans Patent number ... reported antioxidant [4,5], vasorelaxation [6] and anti-tumoural [7,8] activities, MA has been shown to specifically inhibit glycogen phosphorylase [9,10] and protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B [11],...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 14:20
Tài liệu Cancer as an evolutionary and ecological process pptx
... Conclusions and future directions To understand cancer, we need to understand and measure the population dynamics and evolutionary parameters of neoplasms These measurements provide biomarkers that can ... (Sinauer Associates Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts, 1998) 91 Paszek, M J et al Tensional homeostasis and the malignant phenotype Cancer Cell 8, 241–254 (2005) 92 Vaupel, P & Mayer, A Hypoxia and anemia: ... between organs There is some evidence that polyploidy in plants, and perhaps aneuploidy in neoplasms, is associated with an ability to invade new environments98, perhaps owing to an increased opportunity...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 05:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "A Text Input Front-end Processor as an Information Access Platform" doc
... writing' and 'making' The Japanese terms Eisaku and Pen mean, respectively, 'Creating English' and 'a pen' The Japanese terms Shoseki and Renzu mean, respectively, 'written materials' and 'a lens'• ... retrieved and displayed automatically, that of type 2) is both retrieved and displayed manually, and that of type 3) is retrieved automatically but displayed manually In the first case of translation ... operating system, this tool can be combined with any Windowscompatible text-input application In addition, it can be combined with any other front-end processor, including Kana-Kanji conversion FEPs,...
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Báo cáo " Imperialism of communicative language teaching and possible resistance against it from teachers in Vietnam as an English foreign languages context " doc
... process between all participants in the classroom, and between these participants and the various activities and texts The second role is to act as an independent participant within the learning-teaching ... and applauded by a number of countries, namely Japan, Hong Kong, Costa Rica, Taiwan, the European Union, not to mention countries where English is regarded as the first language and second language ... communicate in English” and in practice it focuses on “language skills rather than on language knowledge, communication tasks.” Another one says CLT means: Teaching language using the approaches...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20
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 ... ratios and times Lane 1, lg Ser52Arg neuroserpin; lane 2, lg tPA; lanes 3–5 correspond to an incubation of at a Ser52Arg neuroserpin to tPA ratio of 1, and 10; lanes 6–8 correspond to an incubation ... 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)...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Identification of versican as an isolectin B4-binding glycoprotein from mammalian spinal cord tissue pptx
... and methods Lane 1, homogenate; lane 2, low-speed supernatant; lane 3, low-speed pellet; lane 4, high-speed supernatant; lane 5, high-speed pellet; lane 6, myelin; lane 7, light membranes; lane ... supernatant; lane 3, low-speed pellet; lane 4, high-speed supernatant; lane 5, high-speed pellet; lane 6, myelin; lane 7, light membranes; lane 8, synaptosomes; lane 9, mitochondria; lane 10, ... melibiose, an a-d-galactopyranoside-containing disaccharide, and both IB4-peroxidase and an anti-versican (anti-GHAP) immunoglobulin bound to this high-molecular-mass protein Immunoprecipitation with an...
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Báo cáo khoa học: MicroRNA-373, a new regulator of protein phosphatase 6, functions as an oncogene in hepatocellular carcinoma pdf
... acquisition and analysis software was used to quantify band intensities Antibodies were purchased from Tianjin Saier Biotech and Sigma-Aldrich 10 11 Statistical analysis Data are expressed as mean ± standard ... group, and the fraction of cells in S-phase was significantly decreased in the miR-373 ASO group (B) In the pri-373 group, the fraction of cells in G1-phase was significantly decreased The PI increased ... cancers Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101, 2999–3004 Yang K, Handorean AM & Iczkowski KA (2009) MicroRNAs 373 and 520c are downregulated in prostate cancer, suppress CD44 translation and enhance invasion...
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