... Pre-Intermediate levelof Proficiency at Hanoi University of Industry” is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts is the result of my own work, except ... the nd year students at PreIntermediate levelof Proficiency? A Students’ low motivation E Large and heterogeneous class B Students’ low levelof English proficiency.F Inappropriate materials C ... TABLE OF CONTENTS CANDIDATE’S STATEMENT i ACKNOWLEGDEMENTS ii ABSTRACT iii LIST OF ABREVIATIONS iv LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES v TABLE OF CONTENTS vi PART ONE: INTRODUCTION I Rationale of the...
... a profound effect on the strategies learners choose, with negative attitudes and beliefs often causing poor strategy use or lack of orchestration of strategies Type of task: The nature of the ... distributed, this narrow range of students prevent us, to some extent, from getting a full idea of the effect of CS in learning vocabulary at varying levels of proficiency Therefore, we not know ... beginners to those with the highest levels of proficiency Such a study would help us to get a full idea of the impact of CS in learning vocabulary - 43 - The results of the questionnaire used as a...
... downstream of Busan area of Nakdong river basin Estrogenic activity and concentration of estrogenic substances in the Nakdong River basin Relative estrogenic activity of the main and branch stream of ... reaction (min), v: volume of culture used in assay (ml), OD420: absorbance at the end of reaction, OD570: light scattering at the end of reaction, OD595: cell density at the start of the assay The results ... indicator for evaluating the performance of treatment processes, Proceeding of 2002 IWA World Water Congress, e20217a Kamata M., Evaluation of estrogenic activity of natural water by Yeast two-hybrid...
... concentrations of the two reactors The maximum nitrogen conversion rate of each reactor at the influent DO of about 0.2 mg/L was set to an anammox activity value of 1.0, and for the other concentrations of ... decreased when DO of high concentration was fed into the reactor of each Fig shows the amounts of nitrite removed (NO2-Nre.) and nitrate produced (NO3-Npro.) based on the amount of ammonium removed ... nitrogen conversion rate of reactor (open circles), nitrogen conversion rate of reactor (open squares) and the solid line (no symbol) shows influent DO concentration - 172 - Journal of Water and Environment...
... congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, the policy of DOI MOI (Renovation) was adopted New approaches to planning in all fields emerged, affecting all sectors of society Education is just one of ... student can be well catered for An area of research which has received a lot of attention in many areas of education is the issue of learning style The idea of learning style comes from general ... relatively equal proportion of good, average and poor English proficiency students and these classes are at different levels of English From observation and interviews with teachers of English, the author...
... have implications at two different levels; at the levelof the hepatic cell itself and at the levelof the relationship with neighboring cells At the levelof the hepatocyte, CD1d redistribution ... exception of CR3 ⁄ 43 (n ¼ 3) (B) Histograms compare the levels of expression of Nor3.2-reactive and CDd142-reactive CD1d molecules in HepG2 cells cultured in the absence (– Fe) or presence (+ Fe) of ... cytometry revealed that the inhibition of cell growth was due to a decrease in the percentage of cells in the S and G2 ⁄ M phases of the cell cycle (Fig 3B) In a total of seven separate determinations,...
... 24 months of follow-up Sample size For an alpha of 0.05, a power of 80%, and in order to detect an reduction of HbA1c of 0.3 percentage units, with a common standard deviation (SD) of 1.15, in ... The BMI of the patients did not change during the study in either of the two models analyzed, and the adjusted effect of PRECEDE was close to zero (Table 2) In both models, the levelof exercise ... reduction of 7% in the risk of mortality owing to cardiovascular disease, and 10% in the risk of mortality owing to ictus with every mmHg decrease in SBP The slight decrease in the lipid profile of...
... relocalization of FADD and its subsequent recruitment to endosomal compartments, where FADD promotes efficient DISC formation The regulation of the subcellular localization of FADD adds a new levelof complexity ... the regulation of nuclear cytoplasmic shuttling of FADD by CD95-mediated signals, suggesting a new levelof regulation in death receptor signaling As the specific relocalization of FADD from the ... subsequently generated by softworx software (Applied Precision) Quantitative analysis of images to determine relative pixel values of fluorescence intensity was performed using iVision software (Biovision...
... the state of tyrosinephosphorylation of the insulin receptor or of IRS1, or of phosphorylation of ERK1 ⁄ 2, was not significantly different in either group of diabetics compared with the nondiabetic ... at the levelof insulinstimulated phosphorylation of IRS1 Experimental procedures Subjects Samples of subcutaneous abdominal fat were obtained from patients at the University Hospital of Linkoping ... exhibited lowered levels of phosphorylation (Fig 1A,B) Insulin treatment now caused a significant increase in the phosphorylation of ERK and (Fig 1A), but had no effect on the phosphorylation of p38 MAP-kinase...
... analysis of the creditworthiness and the repayment capacity of their clients, a domain where they have a high levelof expertise, while savings banks could make use of their front and back of ce ... expansion of its services catering to the needs of its target clientele It has created “Creemos,” a microfinance programme targeting micro entrepreneurs with a monthly sales turn over of less than ... before the expiry date of the lease right As of February 2, 2005, a total of 2,054 loans, which amounted to US$ 4.12 million were extended Government Savings Bank (GSB) of Thailand has been very...
... insulin-induced activation of mTOR signaling in C2C12 myotubes (Fig S1A) so we cannot rule out the possibility of the inhibition of other lipid or pro- Fig IGF-1 induced activation of mTOR signaling is ... phosphorylation of ERK1 ⁄ was induced within 10 and phosphorylation was back to basal levels by 60 min, unlike phosphorylation of Akt and S6K1, after IGF-1 stimulation (Fig S1B) The rapid phosphorylation of ... TSC2, or the amount of either TSC1 or TSC2 protein levels (Fig 1B) This finding is contrary to previous studies reporting that phosphorylation of TSC2 caused a dissociation of the TSC1 ⁄ TSC2 protein...
... (µM) % of lactamase release B 100 80 60 40 20 10 32 15 20 Time (min) Fig Permeation of E coli OM by Esc(1–18) (A) Effects of different concentrations of Esc(1–18) on permeation of the OM of E coli ... Insertion of Esc(1–18) into E coli O111:B4 LPS monolayers (A) Increments of surface pressure of E coli LPS monolayers due to the addition of Esc(1–18) to the subphase are illustrated as a function of ... dosedependent perturbation of the OM, and the greatest perturbation was obtained at the MIC of the peptide (32 lm with · 107 CFUÆmL)1) The rate of CENTA hydrolysis, upon addition of · MIC of Esc(1–18) to...
... medium This concentration of dimethylsulfoxide had no effect on distribution or levelof Glu-tubulin in cells Quantification of Glu-tubulin Immunoblots were scanned and amount of Glu-tubulin in cytoskeletal ... value of integrated intensity of Glu-microtubules was divided by that of Tyr-microtubules to estimate the relative proportion of Glu- with respect to Tyr-microtubules Results Exposure of cells ... okadaic acid induces decrease in the activity of tubulin carboxypeptidase associated with microtubules in living cells The levelof association of tubulin carboxypeptidase activity with microtubules...
... subcellular structures at the levelof the endogenous proteins In addition, the identification and subcellular assignment of previously unknown gene products at the levelof the endogenous protein ... the approach, contain different kinds of information exceeding the mere identification of proteins These comprise of studies on different part of the nucleus of eukaryotic cells to demonstrate how ... architecture of the nucleus of eukaryotic cells is one of the central topics in current cell biology A simplified schematic representation of a cell nucleus is shown in Fig Instead of representing...
... microscope for expression of fusion protein (B) Confirmation of expression of EGFP-TPD52 by western blotting with anti-EGFP serum (C) Downregulation of TPD52 by shRNA For the kinetics of TPD52 knockdown, ... overexpression of TPD52 and (B) cell proliferation after downregulation of TPD52 Viability of cells was measured in a colorimetric MTT assay by the detection of formazan formation The proliferation of control ... Quantification of western blot signals showing 40% of downregulation; the results are the mean ± SD of three experiments (Fig 2B) using anti-EFGP serum On the other hand, co-transfection (1 : 10 ratio) of...
... Fig 1, deletion of OXA1 decreased the rate of formation of all aminoglycerophospholipids The rate of PtdSer synthesis decreased to 80%, the rate of PtdEtn formation to 70% and that of PtdCho synthesis ... levelof PtdEtn in this strain (Table 1) Studies on the stability of subunits of the mitochondrial membrane complexes Cox and ATPase revealed that these proteins are degraded in the absence of ... procedures) allowed analysis of protein assembly into mitochondrial membranes independent of the transcriptional levelof a respective gene The full-length precursor form of Psd1p was synthesized...
... makes the binding problem (at least at the levelof concern here) a kind of artifact of our own understanding ofconsciousness Within the problem of consciousness, the binding problem appears ... the two questions of the nature and generation ofconsciousness Descartes in fact provides an example of a somewhat sketchy theory of consciousness: a theory that makes states ofconsciousness one ... suggestive remarks linking consciousness to the notion of representation and his brain-theory of the generation ofconsciousness Since Descartes maintains that every state ofconsciousness involves...
... bases ofconsciousness and never questioned the legitimacy of such studies It is useful to dis- tinguish the study of the structure ofconsciousness from the question of the ultimate nature ofconsciousness ... alternative states ofconsciousness 16 States of Consciousness: Normal and Abnormal Variation p a r t ii THE NEUROSCIENCE OFCONSCIOUSNESS 43 a neurophysiological mechanisms ofconsciousness J ... Philosophical Theories of Consciousness: Contemporary Western Perspectives 117 Drew McDermott THE COGNITIVE SCIENCE OFCONSCIOUSNESS A Brief History of the Philosophical Problem ofConsciousness b...
... season of gift-giving for much of the worldÑand especially for many of the worldÕs children Some parents among you may be softly hyperventilating at the thought of the miles of ribbon and acres of ... description of the symptoms of cystic Þbrosis and of the changes produced in organs Those changes, she noted, almost always included destruction of the pancreas (even in infants) and, often, infection of ... investigator, is professor of medicine and of physiology and biophysics at the University of Iowa College of Medicine He earned his M.D at Iowa in 1974 and held fellowships at the University of California,...