... a clear definition to qigong, but it is possible to identify the common features of qigong (Brown and Knoferl, 2001) There are three main features of qigong: postures and movement, state of mind, ... mind, and breathing The aim of practicing qigong is to cultivate qi to help the organism stay healthy and vital In China, health and longevity are determined by strength, balance and cultivation of ... motion Physiological studies have been conducted on Qigong practitioners The results show that regular practice of Qigong will lead to decrease in heart rate, respiratory rate, oxygen consumption...
... respectively, and K is Boltzmann constant On the basis of best fitting of our data with thermally activated type of conduction, the values of activation energy and pre-exponential factor are calculated, and ... (hm) of thin films of a-GaxSe100-x nanorods solids The presence of high concentration of localized states in the band structure is responsible for the decrease in optical band gap on increasing ... range of energy leading to band tailing and hence shrinking of the band gap The optical gap decreases from 1.80 to 1.72 eV for x = to x = 12% of Ga content as shown in Table The addition of Ga...
... Adverse reactions to illicit drug injections are commonly aggravated by infections due to the non-sterile methods of preparation and injection procedures This is seen with local skin and soft tissue ... the effectiveness of different http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/6/1/37 types of commonly used filters on their ability to reduce particle content, and also their effecton amount of ... (84-93%) of the extracted morphine Overall, the extraction of morphine and its recovery after filtration was similar after cold and hot extraction The MS Contin® tablet contains a number of constituents...
... β-carotene strongly oxidized when exposed to air, which caused lost portion of β-carotene content 17 CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS 4.1 Conclusion Urea a nitrogen source at concentration of mM was appropriate ... increasing of biomass and high yield of βcarotene accumulation in Dunaliella sp 4.2 Suggestions Further studies should be done to see the effects of nutrient conditions and the influence of environment ... Determination of β-carotene content 2.5 Data analysis RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS 3.1 Effectof nitrogen source on the growth of microalgae Dunaliella sp 3.1.1 NaNO3 3.1.2 KNO3 3.1.3 Urea 11 3.2 Effect of...
... subsurface boron atoms after surface reconstruction 118 Figure 5.2 Effectof boron promotion on the TPR profile of 20 wt% Co/γAl2O3 catalyst 126 Figure 5.3 Effectof boron promotion on the CO DRIFT ... investigation was started, integrating DFT calculations, catalyst characterization, and FTS reactor studies to confirm and understand the effectof boron promotion on the stability of Co catalyst ... eV) The relative integrated intensities of the peaks are indicated 130 Figure 5.5 Effectof boron promotion on the CO conversion as a function of time on stream for a 20 wt% Co/γ–Al2O3 FTS catalyst...
... sub-optimal afterload conditions resulting in a prolongation of left ventricular ejection and total LV systole (10,11) This effectof loading conditions on the duration of LV systole is a well ... peak exercise Relative duration of systole (s/min) rest peak exercise Relative duration of diastole (s/min) rest peak exercise RV-LV delay (°) rest peak exercise Loss of diastolic time per beat ... corresponding heart rate of each exercise stage and regression analysis was performed An inverse, nonlinear relation between heart rate and LV diastolic time was found in either normal subjects and...
... showed that the removal of the organics and nitrogen were effectively done in each reactor and Fe addition had no negative effecton them Table - Synthetic wastewater CH3COONa∙3H2O C6H12O6 KH2PO4 ... because of the occurrence of the EBPR High standard deviation, however, implied that phosphorus removal was generally unstable In Run1-2, the mean and standard deviation of PO4-P concentration was ... aerobic phase The effectof Fe addition on biological phosphorus uptake and release was discussed by comparing these indices Fig shows the average and standard deviation of vrel, Cmax and kupt which...
... regulation; macroeconomic stabilization policy JEL Classification: G21, G28, E61 *The authors are a staff economist in the Division of International Finance and financial analyst in the Division of ... time period The Treasury information includes the identity and location of the institution, the date the institution received TARP funds, and the amount of the funds received None of the banks which ... banks, greater infusions in dollar amounts lead to an increase in the risk rating on future loan originations In contrast, for small banks, greater infusions lead to lower risk ratings on future...
... Economics and the Canadian Journal of Economics His current research is on the empirical impact of taxation on international production and location decisions of multinational firms jason yackee Jason ... public and private He is the author of a major treatise on International Economic Law, as well as casebooks and textbooks on conflict of laws and aviation law and a series of teaching books on international ... professor and currently as contributors xiii director of the Kyiv School of Economics His research interests are labor economics, transition economics, economics of education, and political economy...
... amount of proteins loaded on the gel responsible for an increase in HIF-1A gene transcription, resulting in a higher level of HIF-1a protein and higher expression of HIF-1 target genes In conclusion, ... a dual effecton HIF-1 activity under normoxic and hypoxic conditions, demonstrating that this molecule cannot be used in cancer treatment In the context of cancer treatment, the use of this ... For each set of data, real triplicates were performed in one experiment Each experiment was repeated at least twice Acknowledgements B Vlaminck and B Ghislain are recipients of a grant from Fonds...
... Arg143 and the main-chain carbonyls of Lys181 and Asn182 directly, and the main-chain carbonyl of Glu184 by way of a water molecule However, in lactate oxidase, the exchange of the E160G mutation ... many researchers have found that combinations of mutations, and the resulting effects of the amino acid substitutions at different positions, are usually additive, our findings for two types of double ... mM) and assays were conducted at 15, 25, 35, and 45 °C Km values were calculated by plotting [S]/V vs [S], where [S] and V are, respectively, the L-lactate concentration and the initial reaction...
... disease and stroke The most common pulmonary diseases resulting in death are pneumonia (nearly a half of all cases), cancers and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (which includes chronic bronchitis ... estimates of the effect of an additional year of education on weekly earnings of nearly percent (standard error of percent) For women the corresponding estimates are 1.5 percent (standard error of percent) ... measures of health, including both subjective and objective measures, and measures of health behaviors, including self-reports of smoking, drinking, diet and exercise Some of these health measures...
... Journal of Economic Perspectives, 21(1):141–167 Burgess, R., Deschnes, O., Donaldson, D., and Greenstone, M (2011) Weather and Death in India London School of Economics Cole, S., Gin´, X., and Vickery, ... variation to health conditions in the household The role of drought for health outcomes is analyzed in a reduced-form regression that relates a measure of health conditions on drought incidence and other ... Manual: Measuring and Interpreting Malnutrition and Mortality World Food Programme and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention WHO (2013) Child growth standards World Health Organization online:...
... activation of p38 MAPK is partially involved in induction of ISRE transcription and Stat1 serine phosphorylation EffectOf acute alcohol on HCV replicons Figure depicts the effects of acute ethanol on ... acute ethanol on HCV replication Effect of4 Effectof acute ethanol on HCV replication BB7 replicon cells were treated once with 0, 25, 50, or 100 mM ethanol or 20 U/ ml of IFN, and RNA and protein ... doses of 10, 20 and 100 U/ml relative to cells treated with IFN alone Alcohol also inhibited IFN induced upregulation of Stat1 at these concentrations However, at IFN concentrations of 0, 0.1 and...
... pathogenesis of many inflammatory reactions, including airway inflammation Besides bronchoconstriction, microvascular leakage, recruitment and activation of eosinophils and airway hyperresponsiveness, ... secretion significantly (120 ± 7%) Montelukast alone had no effecton baseline secretion (98 ± 5%) and could not influence the neurokinin A induced increase of tracheal secretion (neurokinin A + montelukast: ... secretion up to 205 ± 49% of baseline levels The addition of montelukast (10 µM) to the culture medium had no significant effecton the secretion levels (95 ± 6%) Combination of PAF (100 µM) and montelukast...
... toxicity of each borax concentration on immune cell proliferation (lymphocyte proliferation) by MTT assay and study about the genotoxicity effect were done by ANOVA test Figure The correlation between ... borax concentration increased Borax effects on immune cell proliferation (lymphocyte proliferation) the number of living lymphocytes The results indicated that at the borax concentrations of 0.15, ... duplicate fashion Mean absorbance was calculate for the control wells and for each borax concentration in the test wells The degree of immune cell proliferation (lymphocyte proliferation) sensitivity...
... activation of p38 MAPK is partially involved in induction of ISRE transcription and Stat1 serine phosphorylation EffectOf acute alcohol on HCV replicons Figure depicts the effects of acute ethanol on ... acute ethanol on HCV replication Effect of4 Effectof acute ethanol on HCV replication BB7 replicon cells were treated once with 0, 25, 50, or 100 mM ethanol or 20 U/ ml of IFN, and RNA and protein ... doses of 10, 20 and 100 U/ml relative to cells treated with IFN alone Alcohol also inhibited IFN induced upregulation of Stat1 at these concentrations However, at IFN concentrations of 0, 0.1 and...