... the individual difference variables alters For example, ina formal setting intelligence and aptitude play a dominant role in learning, while exerting a weaker influence in an informal setting ... university graduation, applying for a job, requesting higher pay based on language ability, reading technical material, translation work or achieving higher social status Instrumental motivation is ... successful acquisition of a second language At the same time it is necessary to view motivation as one of a number of variables in an intricate model of interrelated individual and situational factors...
... (mean age 12) on a social phobia and anxiety inventory for children (SPAI-C) and on a behavioral assessment task This included an interaction with a peer as well as reading aloud in front of an ... looking away in an attempt to make oneself inconspicuous, behaving ingratiatingly and submissively in attempts to appease, being evasive, and if everything else fails threatening or fighting, are ... sport, dancing, gambling, attempting an elaborate deception, narrowly avoiding being hit by a car, an angry row, getting intimate with an alluring and sexually receptive partner), the state of anxiety...
... English as an international language in this century, there are a great number of the Vietnamese people who learn and speak English In fact, in learning English asa foreign language, the Vietnamese ... research is intended to deal with the followings: - To find out the common strategies of encouraging in Vietnamese asa speech act A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF ENCOURAGING ASA SPEECH ACT IN ENGLISH ... plan, saying sorry, attending summer holiday situations Meanwhile, VNS used greater number of strategies in interview preparation and familiar situations than in the familiar situations whereas...
... While a lead is always a separated paragraph and usually made up by one sentence, a body often includes more than one paragraph The table below shows the average length of a body in all the news -in- brief ... Conclusion In this part, principal findings are summarized and some practical applications as well as some suggestions for further researches are provided Reiteration asa cohesive device in news -in- brief ... depending on any semantic relationships like in the following example: ‘Put that gun down,’ said one of the lawyers at the table His name was Rafter He was a hard man ina courtroom, maybe the hardest...
... English asa Second Language in the Early Years (birth to six years) but also includes the development of communicative aspects such as attracting and sustaining attention, managing interactions in ... maintaining the first language include: • playing picture lotto, bingo and card games, using two languages or playing ina language other than English 11 Supporting Children Learning English as ... for participating in classroom activities, and for obtaining, processing, constructing and providing information In the early stages of learning English asa second language children should hear...
... conformational change induced by cGMP binding is thought to induce the release of the autoinhibitory domain from the active site, thereby activating the kinase This is indicated by a remarkable increase ... results Stoichiometry (native ESI-MS) Average mass calculated (Da)b Mass measured LC-ESI-MS Mass measured ESI-MS (native) (Da) a W15-peptide TQAKRKKSLAMA [30] ine c As previously measured [31] b R77L ... separating gel in absence of sodium dodecylsulfate at °C Gels were run at mA for h and subsequently at 10 mA for an additional h A 5% stacking gel was used and proteins were stained using Coomassie...
... that p53 inactivation occurred prior to invasion in breast carcinogenesis, with mutations being uniformly identified in ductal carcinoma in situ associated with p53-mutated invasive carcinomas Immunohistochemical ... immunohistochemically stain was assessed by comparing the sections with an accompanying positive control slide A tumor sample was regarded as p53 positive if nuclear staining was clearly detected, but cytoplasmic ... concluded that p53 staining in benign breast biopsies was associated with an increased risk of future breast cancer Thus, p53 protein levels of wild type or mutant protein may be associated with...
... non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma asa single agent as well asin combination therapy, emphasizing its high B-cell-depleting potency [8] In patients with lymphoma, rituximab infusion is frequently associated ... the US National Institutes of Health is in the planning stage 132 Although autoantibodies in autoimmune cytopenias and some other diseases, such as pemphigus and myasthenia gravis, have a direct ... immunoglobulin levels are usually maintained, possibly asa consequence of plasma cells being spared B-cell depletion in antibody-mediated diseases It is understandable that rituximab has been most...
... Table p27 and cyclin E statistical associations p27 Cyclin E All invasive carcinomas Infiltrating duct carcinomas only All invasive carcinomas Infiltrating duct carcinomas only Distant metastases ... was a significant association of age, grade, lymph node spread and vascular invasion with distant metastases free survival (MFS) in all invasive carcinomas and the subgroup of IDC in an univariate ... distant metastases in all invasive carcinomas, the subgroup of invasive ductal carcinomas and in the node negative group when cyclin E was stratified as negative and positive (low/high) Many...
... M, Valesini G, Alessandri C, Capoano R, Profumo E, Siracusano A, Salvati B, Rigano R, et al.: Screening of a HUAEC cDNA library identifies actin asa candidate autoantigen associated with carotid ... actin-based structures such as the contractile ring and stress fibers [22,23] The septins are a family of cytoskeletal GTPases that play an essential role in cytokinesis in yeast and mammalian ... expression and contributed in the interpretation of data MR carried out the ELISA experiments and participated in analysis of data CA performed the statistical analysis and the clinical associations AS...
... [Tumor marker in primary lung cancer] J UOEH 2004, 26:473-479 38 Suzuki A, Yamada R, Chang X, Tokuhiro S, Sawada T, Suzuki M, Nagasaki M, Nakayama-Hamada M, Kawaida R, Ono M, et al.: Functional haplotypes ... Research & Therapy Vol No Kinloch et al Figure Figure Prevalencepatients and healthy controls lase in RA of antibodies against deiminated and undeiminated α-enolase in RA patients and healthy ... protein, 46% of a larger panel of sera from patients with RA reacted with citrullinated α-enolase by immunoblotting This suggests that citrullinated α-enolase is at least as immunodominant as citrullinated...
... the patient, diagnosis and preparation of this case report: Zulifqar Ali, Irshad Ahmad and Zikria Rasheed of the Department of Surgery, Madina Teaching Hospital, Faisalabad, Pakistan; Saadia Hameed ... Department of Pathology, Madina Teaching Hospital and University Medical College Faisalabad, Pakistan; and Rana Qaiser Mehmood of the Department of Pathology, Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad, ... migrated into the bladder and was retained in the urinary bladder wall for years, as no such case has been reported in the literature It is thought that injury to the bladder wall occurred during...
... approximately three weeks after therapy simplification (Figure 1) Neither a preNNRTI GRT assay was available at that time, nor samples of plasma drawn in advance of the NNRTI-based treatment, had ... isolate presence of the K103N mutation in the prevalent strain (Table 1) The patient was put on a new PI-based HAART regimen including boosted atazanavir, tenofovir and emtricitabine, reaching a ... laboratory assays Dr E Polilli was funded by an educational grant from the “Fondazione Camillo de Lellis per l’Innovazione e la Ricerca in Medicina”, Pescara, Italy References Maggiolo F, Ravasio...
... Editor -in- Chief of this journal Acknowledgements The authors state that there was no extra-institutional funding Andreas Petrolekas was a major contributor in writing the manuscript Constantinos ... urethra is of erotic or sexual nature, especially masturbation or sexual gratification [1-4] A mental illness or drug intoxication may also be the reason Clinical presentation may vary from asymptomatic ... impulsive behavior, self-punishing in nature that may aggravate to suicide [1] The psychiatric evaluation is controversial as many of these patients are psychologically normal [2] In our case, as there...
... has been associated with a number of factors notably mechanical irritation and microbial infection with bacteria such as P aeruginosa and S aureus [5], as well as fungi such as Candida species ... for 30 minutes after which a drop of calcofluor white was added and the suspension was examined using a fluorescent microscope A slide was also prepared for Gram staining and this was examined with ... blood agar aerobically and anaerobically, Maconkey agar, Neomycin blood agar anaerobically with a metronidazole disc added on the streak cm away from the inoculum, chocolate agar under 10% carbon...
... done ina blinded manner asa batch analysis MR-proADM was detected in EDTA plasma of all patients using a new sandwich immunoassay (B.R .A. H.M.S Sevadil® LIA; B.R .A. H.M.S., AG, Hennigsdorf/Berlin, ... Minamino N, Kubo A, Akai Y, Kangawa K, Matsuo H, Fujimura Y, Yoshioka A, Masui K, et al.: Increased plasma levels of adrenomedullin in patients with systemic inflammatory response syndrome Am ... Myocardial infarction 12 Heart failure 11 Pulmonary embolism Haemorrhagic shock Abdominal 24 Gastrointestinal bleeding Abdominal infection Urinary tract infection Acute renal failure Hepatic coma Cerebral...
... extract containing (CN and 6,0 kg Cl-) Research results Effectiveness of corrosion inhibition in extract of cement water containing Cl-: • In H0 extract, steel is maintained in passive state and ... • The extract containing Cl-: corrosion rate is continuously increased with the time and with Clratios • At [Cl-]/[NO2-] 2,2; corrosion rate was very small Research results Case of reinforced ... very fast under the effect of chloride ion in marine environment Cua Cam port The strongly agressivity rate of chloride ion is the main reason causing corrosion, especially in the tropical climate...
... used equation (8) as the incoming signal, substituted this into equations (6) and (7) and solved analytically using Math Cad graphing software (MathSoft Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA) to predict in vivo ... "free" BAS (see Methods) For equation (6) the value of this maximum is increasing as β increases; for equation (7) this value is maximum for mid-range β values BIPHASIC PATTERNS OF BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE ... E +A ←→ EA y = B*x/(1 +A* x) (6) and for scheme (5): (scheme 2) EA+S ←→ EAS → EA+P → cell response increasing, Scheme (3) is characteristic of many BAS The majority of these groups are vitamins and...
... electrical properties include resistance in series, resistance in parallel, capacitance in series, capacitance in parallel, reactance in series, reactance in parallel, and phase angle (Cox and Hartman ... Reactance in series Resistance index Parallel resistance index Reactance index Parallel reactance index Parallel capacitance index Impedance index Phase angle Standardized resistance Standardized ... models using only the dorsal BIA measures explained 71.5% of variation and ventral-only BIA measures explained 65.5% of variation Models including both dorsal and ventral BIA measures explained 78.3%...