... stress occurs when the rate of water loss exceeds the rate of uptake It was clear that the rates of day and night transpiration did not differ between treatments From needle drying curves (data not ... contradiction to those of several investigators who noted a significant effect of acid rain/mist upon cuticle structure and/ or resistance The lack of apparent effect in the present study may be ... from either increased solute accumulation or reduced -, The former did not occur; the latter did (Table I) A reduction in E indicates a more elastic cell y crease wall, possibly the result of the...
... in Rn Proof of Theorem 4.1 The ubiquity version of Theorem 4.2 An auxiluary lemma 4.3 Proof of Theorem Proof of Theorem Proof of Theorem Proof of Theorem Various generalizations 8.1 Theorem for ... completes the proof of Theorem 10 in the case that G is finite C.3 Proof of Theorem 10: G = ∞ The proof of Theorem 10 in the case that G is infinite follows the same strategy as the proof when G ... Proof of Theorem modulo Theorem This is trivial Given the hypotheses of Theorem 7, the hypotheses of Theorem are clearly satisfied Fix an interval I ⊆ I0 By Theorem 7, there exist constants δ0 and...
... signal, and a candidate PCNA-interaction domain To better understand the role ofthe C-terminal domain of this Y-family DNA polymerase during DNA synthesis, we compared the catalytic properties of ... AtPOLK and AtPOLKnC We next analysed the catalytic efficiency and fidelity of AtPOLK and AtPOLKDC during DNA synthesis To determine the fidelity of both full-length and truncated AtPOLK, we analysed the ... dividing the amount of product formed by the reaction time The observed rate was plotted as a function ofthe dNTP concentration andthe data were fitted to the Michaelis–Menten equation The apparent...
... Proof Though the proof is quite similar to the proof of [8, Corollary 3(iii) and (vii)] for Hadamard product, we give proof for the sake of convenience (i) It is evident from the structure of ... 1, the reverse inequality holds in (3.27) Proof This theorem follows from [3, Theorem 3.1(ii) and (iii)] We give proof for the sake of convenience In (2.20) and (2.22) of Lemma 2.4, set k = and ... m(i) Proof The special case in (2.12) of Lemma 2.2 is proved in [3, Corollary 2.2] and (2.13) follows immediately by the definition of matrix Z We give proof ofthe general case in (2.11) of Lemma...
... that depends only on the sizes ofthe sets P2 and R In particular, this bijection is entirely independent ofthe rank m and size n ofthe matroid More importantly, as the class of uniform matroids ... E, the sets P and ∅ are R-modular in M We further know ofthe following instances of R-submodularity for a matroid M(E, ρ) The first of these was communicated to us by Noble [10] Recall that the ... operations, and includes the uniform matroids and series-parallel networks among others A primary application of extended submodularity is in the study of Rayleigh properties ofthe multivariate...
... EF in the use ofthe image analysis software Prof B Stark ofthe Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University of Freiburg Medical Centre, Freiburg, Germany, who's department supplied the ... correction the manuscript All Authors have read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements Prof K Actories and Prof D Meyer ofthe Institute of Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, ... cells (in their unmyelinating state) favours further extension because ofthe presence of adhesions molecules on their surface, which provide greater stabilisation ofthe growth cone and in turn...
... child of Union punishes its mother from within and threatens its father, too, ‘‘across the water’’ () The ‘‘legacy’’ () of force and violence, the poem suggests, is more ofthe same: the crossing ... suspicious – not ofthe fact of conquest the poem describes, but ofthe sexualized and gendered binary it superimposes on the colonial relation, andof its attendant use of rape as a metaphor of imperial ... concerns of theorists and critics working in a wide variety of specific contexts – the creation of otherness as a material agent of imperial rule, the place of language as a site of both domination and...
... the food stocks, andthe mood ofthe garrison The tactics ofthe Daily Mail captured the attention ofthe nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation ofthe town by emphasizing the danger that ... examine both the role ofthe press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism andthe role ofthe press in the formation ofthe concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... powerful beginning ofthe New Journalism at the same time as it marks the beginning ofthe end ofthe New Imperialism The coincidence of these occasions arises from the nature ofthe South African...
... humanity, with the spread ofthe Gregorian calendar andthe heliocentric idea ofthe world The ‘incipient phase’ began in the mid-eighteenth century and ended in the 1870s The concept ofthe unitary ... andthe proper domain ofthe United Nations Many commentators write ofthe decline ofthe nation-state, in the face ofthe transference of national sovereignty to such structures as the UN, the ... the rise ofthe state 6.1 The birth ofthe state 6.2 Legal diversity and universality in the emerging European states 6.3 The decline ofthe Christian commonwealth 6.4 The arrival ofthe state...
... conservative propaganda, and with the break up ofthe radical associations andthe consequent erosion ofthe links between these organisations and other intellectual currents and circles, the conditions ... by enlightening the understanding, and uniting the sentiments and views of men andof nations, forms a concert of wills, and a concurrence of action too powerful for the armies of tyrants’ (2 ... from the superstitions ofthe weak, andthe imposing craft ofthe subtle’ (323) Thomas Holcroft placed a similar emphasis on the art of printing’ in the defence of this progressivist vision of...
... the same base as the segment and an equal height.3 Later, theorems worthy of mention suggested themselves to us, and we took the trouble of preparing their proofs They are these: first, that the ... the center ofthe sphere, I call the figure internally contained by the surface ofthe cone, and by the surface ofthe sphere inside the cone, a “solid sector.” /6/ And when two cones having the ... See the following note on purpose and practices ofthe critical edition of diagrams 2.3 Purpose and practices ofthe critical edition of diagrams The main purpose ofthe critical edition of diagrams...
... of individual, hand-to-hand combat Grand strategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too, much the same phenomenon was apparent in the role of Indra, the chief ofthe ... the mainstream of legal analysis, largely as a result ofthe crumbling of older conceptions of legitimacy andthe rise of new aspirations for democracy andthe self-determination of peoples The ... testimony both to the warlike character ofthe Greeks and to their feeling of cultural unity, the cities ofthe Amphictyonic League of Delphi agreed that, in the event of war, the combatant states...
... creating and advancing liquidity to producers; along the circuit, the financial system governs the supply and demand of funds and, at the end ofthe process, it determines the condition for the closure ... institutions and strengthen the complementarity between the formal andthe informal sectors The poorest people of rural and urban societies live beyond the frontier of formal finance, or outside the formal ... affected by the creation and use of fiat-money Crucial to this purpose is the functional separation that the theory operates between banks and firms The macroeconomic focus ofthe theory, however,...
... zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK andthe US Moreover, while in some countries, (including Finland, the UK andthe US) residential ... also for these countries the existence of cointegration could not be rejected We therefore specify the VAR models in the level ofthe variables Nevertheless, we neither impose the number of cointegrating ... to offset the macro economic effects ofthe collapse ofthe bubble).2 Of course, it is by no means clear that central banks are better able to judge the appropriate level of asset prices and the...
... (46,47) They are synthesized by chondrocytes and FLS These cytokines act in various ways in the pathogenesis of OA such as inhibition of synthesis of type (articular) cartilage and activation of catabolic ... present clinical study we sought to evaluate the comparative efficacy and tolerability of 5-Loxin® and Aflapin® in the treatment of OA ofthe knee Materials and Methods Study materials BE-30 (5-Loxin) ... [31] The pain subscale was the average ofthe first five questions of WOMAC and measured using the NU scale from ('no pain') to 100 ('extreme pain') for each question The stiffness subscale was the...
... major role in the pathogenesis of both types of diabetes mellitus High levels of free radicals andthe decline of antioxidant defense mechanisms lead to damage of cellular organelles and enzymes, ... current (maximum of milliAmperes) of one polarity for 11.5 minutes, which then switched to the opposite polarity for another 11.5 minutes The device was designed to switch the direction of current ... bilaterally with poor capillary refill The left foot was red and inflamed up to and including the medial malleolus The lateral aspect ofthe great toe and second toe turned black Laboratory investigation...
... kinds: + The change of consumer-demand modal, market andthe attitude to the availability and diversity of goods + The pressure of reducing cost + The development of Information technology + The pressure ... learning and expanding With their experiences, they have learned the value of offering quality services In the way of growing, they have also open branches to establish a worldwide presence These ... The Association has the role of coordinating the activities ofthe members in order to protect the interests ofthe members and improve the position of Vietnam in the international freight forwarding...
... the amount consumed in lians (50g/lian) per unit of time A lian is the unit of weight in China equivalent to 50 g The reproducibility and validity ofthe FFQ was assessed in a random sample of ... For other participants the average ofthe baseline and follow-up FFQ data were used in the analyses The average daily intake of individual food items (g/day) was combined to compute intake of red ... knowledge there are no other reports of a direct link between poultry consumption and risk of diabetes or of interactions between poultry consumption and BMI andthe risk of type DM Red meat consumption...
... interspersed by a stimulus which deviated from the standard in the intensity ofthe first component andthe glide direction ofthe second constituent The number of distinct MMN components elicited by ... et al The relationship of age, gender, handedness, and sidedness to the size ofthe corpus callosum Academic Radiology 1994; 1:243-248 69 Driesen NR, Raz N The influence of sex, age, and handedness ... P300 andthe N2b Data indicate that the P300 is involved not only in processes of working memory, but may interact with the N2b in the control of motor response to external cues Through the use of...
... than the level of HLA-DR in the cell lysates (5ul of a in 10 dilution, from x 106 PBMC) The shed HLA-DR therefore seemed to represent a small fraction ofthe total HLA-DR ofthe cell, however the ... expression of both the percentage of monocytes expressing HLA-DR andthe density of HLA-DR expression have been observed as a feature of sepsis [4;5;7;8;22-25] Only recently have the possible ... express HLA-DR on their surface [3] To assess the relative contribution of shed to total HLA-DR, the sHLA-DR in the plasma was compared to the total HLA-DR present in cell The level in the plasma (40ul...