... species of benthos and about 33 species of fish According to Vietnam standard of water quality, the important parameters of water quality of West Lake, including: Phosphorous and Nitrogen concentration, ... 3.3 Estimating and predicting eutrophication of West Lake by biomass of phytoplankton Biomass of phytoplankton is an indicator of eutrophication, so it is possible to estimate and especially predict ... growth rate of phytoplankton; Gp,z: rate of grazing phytoplankton by zooplankton; Up: rate of settlement, Mp: rate of mortality without zooplankton After combining the data of West Lake and CLEAN...
... Dilemmas in the reliable estimationof the in- vitro cell viability in magnetic nanoparticle engineering: which tests and what protocols? Clare Hoskins1, Lijun Wang*1, Woei Ping Cheng2 and Alfred ... cultured in 50:50 Dulbecco's minimum essential medium [DMEM]: Ham's F-12 media containing 10% heat inactivated foetal bovine serum [FBS], mM L-glutamine and 1% penicillin streptomycin [Penstrep] (all ... The increase in cellular uptake, which is dependent on surface properties of MNPs, further confirms the coating of the particles Only a small increase in nanoparticle uptake was observed in RAW...
... small increase in nanoparticle uptake was observed in RAW 264.7 upon coating (maximum of 1.6fold and 1.7-fold increase by PEI and PEG, respectively) [see Table S2 in Additional file 1], thus indicating ... foetal bovine serum [FBS], mM Lglutamine and 1% penicillin streptomycin [Penstrep] (all purchased from Invitrogen Ltd., Renfrew, UK) RAW264.7 cells (kindly donated by Prof Colin Watts and Dr Alan ... studying nanotoxicity We have shown a reduction in toxicity after pegylation of the MNPs, which could be due to a number of factors including an increase in the coating diameter upon addition of...
... score of ≤8 and staying at ≤8), sustained remission (reaching a MADRS score of ≤8 and staying at ≤12) and response (achieving a 50% decrease in MADRS from baseline MADRS score), mean changes in ... discretion of their supervising physician The investigation was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and Good Clinical Practice guidelines although a non-conformance in the medication ... to weight gain The percentage weight gain is presented by dose at final visit for patients completing the study in Figure and shows that weight gain did not appear to be dose related Potentially...
... years old In term of generation, my informants fall into the category of second, third, and fourth generations of Javanese-Singaporeans Allof the in- depth interviews were conducted in the language ... contribute in opening up a new terrain of narrative studies, not just on Javanese-Singaporeans but also on other ethnic minority groupsin Singapore Methodology, Fieldwork, and Limitation of the ... visiting Java, speaking Javanese, and carrying out a Javanese wedding 17 In Chapter 5, I demonstrate the intricacy of the constructions of Javaneseness in Singapore today around the themes of...
... The MBR, which comprises of data collected by midwives and doctors attending deliveries, contains information on all births in Denmark since January 1973 [24,25] The main data constitute maternal ... number, and the date of drug dispension Since January 1989 all data from North Jutland County have been stored in a prescription database maintained by the Department of Clinical Epidemiology, ... with exposure to loratadine and other antihistamines according to the time of exposure The adjusted OR for loratadine exposure within 30 days before conception and during the first trimester...
... Journal of World Trade 34 (1): 141–166 Estevadeordal, Antoni and Kati Suominen 2006 “Mapping and Measuring Rules of Origin Around the World.” In The Origin of Goods: Rules of Origin in Regional ... effects Because China is a larger trade partner, the elimination of Chinese quantitative restraints results in a correspondingly larger increase in imports and a smaller increase in GDP The biggest ... quarter of the welfare gain at a cost of 13.3 percent of the output loss, while elimination of preferential rules of origin accounts for the remaining 23.3 percent of increased welfare and 84.9...
... the domains of units: there are systems of sentences, of clauses, of groups, of words, andof morphemes Basing on the source language, students are taught to distinguish the similarities and the ... Traditionally, it refers to a branch of grammar in which words are put in arrangement In English and other languages, the arrangement of words is a vital factor in determining the meaning of an ... branch of language study dealing with word meaning Word meaning consists of grammatical meaning and lexical meaning Grammatical meaning unites all grammatical characteristics of a word and lexical...
... code in Listing 6.8 to the TextChanged events of txtCustomerID, txtFromDate, and txtToDate, respectively These routines call GenerateDate when the values change Listing 6.8 frmHowTo6_3.vb: Calling ... common problem with inner joins is retrieving multiple records when you just want to see one per occurrence Comments By placing your use of wild cards and allowing for ranges of values, you can ... SQL String Label Name lblSQLString Label Text Results DataGrid Name dgResults TextBox Add the following code in Listing 6.6 to the Load event of the form (Double-click on the form to bring up the...
... powerful influence in shaping our thinking and behaviour As its simplest, culture can be defined by Guirdham as shared ways of seeing, thinking and doing or “a historically transmitted system of symbols, ... wedding celebrations Red in that culture is the symbol of happiness and ultimate joy, thus all Chinese weddings include the colour red English find many meaningful definition for colours used in ... Pink (h ng): Cotton Candy and Little Girls: Pink is a softer, less violent red Pink is the sweet side of red It's cotton candy and bubble gum and babies, especially little girls Culture of Pink:...
... development of cage culture methods/designs for groupers in Malaysia, although large-scale cage farming in marine waters really gained ground in the 1980s andin inland waters in the 1990s (Shariff and ... conversion rates and overall growth, especially in meeting marketing and processing requirements (Hugenin and Ansuini, 1978) Frequency of grading depends on individual fish species and size requirement ... marine finfish in Singapore In: Guerrero, R.D and Soesanto, V (eds) Report of the Training Course on Small-scale Pen and Cage Culture for Finfish South China Sea Fisheries Development and Coordinating...
... multiple-puncture), the kind and dose of tuberculin, and the size of reaction in millimeters of induration D Interpretation of Skin Test Reactions To interpret the tuberculin skin test appropriately, ... tuberculosis, urinalyses are abnormal in more than 90%, the main finding being pyuria, and/ or hematuria The finding of pyuria in an acid urine with no routine bacterial organisms isolated from a urine culture ... within wk, and 64% in wk, of beginning treatment The median duration of fever after beginning treatment was 10 d, with a range of to 109 d Loss of appetite, weight loss, weakness, night sweats, and...
... resurgence in the incidence of TB occurred in the United States and included increases in the number of TB cases among adults and children and outbreaks of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) involving ... of skin testing is the Mantoux tuberculin skin test using 0.1 mL of tuberculin units (TU) of purified protein derivative (PPD) (1 ) BCG vaccination contributes to the prevention and control of ... preventing pulmonary TB in adolescents and adults These studies also were not useful in determining a) the efficacy of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy of the vaccine strain administered...
... doctrines, institutions and attitudes dominate the political and legal structures of North America and Western Europe, and recently also of South America and Eastern Europe, with growing influence ... truth Indeed, the whole institution of justification, of making moral arguments andof publishing ones views presumes that other people are capable of perceiving truths, and that at least some of ... Liberdade: Justice and the Courts in Brazil and the United States of x Preface America (2003); and Chapter 15 as “Republican principles in international law” in 11 The Connecticut Journal of International...
... processing and marketing through providing improved varieties of rubber seedlings, aiding in the establishment of both new plantations and replantings and providing technology and guidance (Chaninthornsongkhla ... the majority of rain during the Southwest monsoon Generally, the quantity of rainfall decreases with increasing distance from the sea, but the amount of rainfall and the length of rainy season ... rubber in Thailand are banana, papaya, pineapple and upland rice (RRIT 2005) Cherdchom et al (2002) reported four main integrated rubber farming systems in the South of Thailand emerging during...
... varying degrees of functional limitation and reduced quality of life It is the most common form of arthritis and one of the leading causes of pain and disability worldwide Knees, hips and small ... Osteoarthritis is a metabolically active repair process that takes place inall joint tissues and involves localised loss of cartilage and remodelling of adjacent bone A variety of joint traumas may trigger ... understanding of the condition and its management, and to counter misconceptions, such as that it inevitably progresses and cannot be treated Information sharing should be an ongoing, integral...
... consequences of trafficking in women and adolescents findings from a european study Table of contents Trafficked women defining trafficking Summary of findings and general recommendations Terms and definitions ... accessing women in safe and appropriate ways; overcoming language and cultural barriers; gaining trust and offering support; and Immigration and police authorities interviewed in Italy, United Kingdom, ... slowly andin nonjudgemental ways, and maintaining continuity of care Women in both integration and reintegration settings expressed concerns about their personal safety, and reprisals of traffickers...
... was retained on an affinity matrix containing purified Lf In view of this andof a previous observation pointing out that nucleolin serves as a binding protein for various ligands, we investigated ... crosslinking of a ligand leads to the clustering or capping of its surface receptor Accordingly, we investigated the distribution of surface nucleolin following the crosslinking of bound hLf using ... binding site in nucleolin, i.e the C-terminal tail containing nine RGG repeats The conservation of this nucleolin domain among various species [22] probably accounts for the binding of hLf and...
... annotations, e.g labels, POS tags etc In fact, in the area of POS tagging a similar strategy of using the same data for training and testing in order to detect inconsistencies has proven to be very ... The idea behind this step is that we basically try to reproduce the gold standard, since parsing the data seen during the training is very easy (a similar idea in the area of POS tagging is very ... find all errors in a corpus On the other hand it has a very high precision and thus is in any case beneficial, since the quality of the treebanks increases with the removal of errors Additionally,...