... The in vitro findings of NanoEL effect triggered by TiO -NPs were validated by the in vivo study It was observed that subcutaneous injection of TiO -NPs could cause leakiness in the surrounding ... the spleen, lung, liver, kidney and in small degree the heart 14 days following a single bolus intraperitoneal injection of TiO2-NPs into the mouse Numerous other animal studies supported the ... was confirmed with intravenous introduction of NPs Fabian et al (2008) observed systematic distribution following one bolus of intravenous TiO2-NPs injection (5 mg/kg BW) in the major organs...
... determined by flow cytometry after surface staining or intracellular staining with anti-human-specific Abs conjugated with either phycoerythrin or fluorescein isothiocyanate These human Abs included ... Servant, R Zollinger, SI Bogiatzi, P Hupé, E Barillot, V Soumelis, A critical function for transforming growth factor-β, interleukin 23 and proinflammatory cytokines in driving and modulating human ... different groups were performed using a Kruskal-Wallis one-way analysis of variance on ranks For data in MPE and in the corresponding blood, paired data comparisons were made using a Wilcoxon signedrank...
... seen in this stage, the number of cells in the perfusion/flow system exceeds that in T25 flask, implying a faster growth rate in the device with continuous medium perfusion HUVECs in the perfusion/flow ... substances in one signaling pathway will increase the difficulty in experiment and sometimes may bring unnecessary measurement error 1.3 Thesis Objective and Outline In this thesis, an engineering approach ... motivates us to initiate further investigation on whether taking into consideration the phenomenon of “receptor desensitization”, i.e including p2 in the model, is really crucial or not In order...
... refractions in Western China In order to obtain the refractive status in school-age children in Western China, we selected Yongchuan District, Chongqing, a representative district in Western China, ... examinations, eye drop instillation, cycloplegic retinoscopy, and fundus examination The quality of examination for each station was controlled by the leading investigators Because a senior investigator ... Texas, Austin, USA The authors indicate no financial conflict of interest This study supported in part by a grant (2007CE9070) from the Chongqing Science and Technology Commission Competing Interests...
... forest deterioration in Zamboanga Peninsula, Philippines, using Landsat MSS data In: Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Environment Macintosh, D.J., 1996 Mangroves ... ven bi^n t ınh Tra Vinh _ _ (Final report in 1999 and developing plans in 2000 of aquaculture in marsh areas of coastal zone in Tra Vinh province) Department of Fishery, Tra Vinh 20 pp unpublished ... distribution and changes in Tra Vinh province by using Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Materials and methods 2.1 Materials Tra Vinh Province belongs to the Mekong...
... have been reclaimed in Shenyang of China since 1996 Moreover, these soil reclamation methods have performed in Tianjin, Inner Mongolia (Wang et al., 2008), Ningxia Province of China (Wang et al., ... evapotranspiration in test fields in China into consideration, salt leaching in fields could be predicted using the results of the soil column experiment MATERIALS AND METHODS Soil sampling and soil ... one In both cases, the Ca2+ concentration increased gradually from the beginning of leaching, decreased after a peak, and then increased and decreased again This behavior indicates that the initial...
... Engineering & Materials Science at Washington University in St Louis, USA He holds a B.S degree in mechanical engineering from Tsinghua University, and a M.S degree from Washington University in ... stay constant As CO2 injection continues, more brine will be pushed out of the pore space adjacent to the injection well, thus lowering the Sb Simultaneously, kr,g will increase in a semi-exponential ... Therefore, during intermediate and late stage of CO2 injection, it is expected that CO2 injectivity should greatly improve, resulting in low injection pressure if the injection mass rate remains unchanged...
... certain things According to Thompson (1990:132), “the pattern meaning embodied in symbolic forms, including actions, utterance and meaningful objects of various kinds, by virtue of which individuals ... teachers must be aware of the contribution of other factors involved in speaking 1.3 Cultural factors in the teaching and learning of speaking skills in classrooms 1.3.1 What cultural factors influence ... culture and speaking skills in ELT and towards cultural factors in developing speaking skills Also, the current teaching and learning of speaking skills accompanied by cultural challenges in the classroom...
... “snapshot” of existing bridges in the US at one point in time This market share report is based on data extracted from the inventory as of December 2003 On that date, the NBI contained information for ... for structures located in all states plus Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico The format of this report parallels that of Reference The main purpose for creating and maintaining the NBI is to monitor ... population built during those years In this report, each bridge is categorized according to the FHWA definition, i.e by the material of the main span superstructure In structures incorporating approach...
... who is he involving?) In customer teams, roles of CBD people in consumer and customer and centre of expertise teams and to a lesser extent role of marketing people in consumer and customer teams ... focused towards building capability Make it very explicit It is working in Asda and in Boots In net, We want to have people excited about winning and delighted about what is in it for them They ... by us all Step : Have a training programme This is often why people joined P&G in the first place and this is currently perceived as missing Have a plan for each team and each function focused...
... is intended to eliminate interfering compounds by using physical or chemical properties that differ between interfering compounds and the analyte of interest The analytical methods currently used ... of introducing this approach is to encourage all involved in sustainable land application to collect meaningful data for use in more complex models that provide more information The use of these ... affecting the USEPA’s interpretation of the results Exposure point concentration distributions were determined using source partition modeling of constituent releases, fate and transport modeling,...
... Ciskei include the economic and industrial hub of the province harbouring the major towns, airports and industrial zones The provincial headquarters are also located in the Ciskei According to ... agricultural sector in South Africa and significant progress in integrating smallholders since democratic reforms, food security concerns remain in South Africa Recent global increases in food prices ... remained significantly high and are close to the 2008 peak levels, with the World Bank Food Price Index increasing by 33 percent in the last year Investigating what people buy and the factors influencing...
... Continuous internal integrity monitoring and annual external integrity testing Monitoring Analyze injectant; continuously monitor annular pressure; monitor for fluid movement into USDWs within ... or propagate fractures into the confining zone or cause fluid movement into USDWs Quarterly reporting on injection, injected fluids and monitoring of USDWs within the AoR Must report changes to ... following five categories: • Class I – Wells injecting hazardous, industrial, and municipal wastes below USDWs. • Class II – Wells related to oil and gas production, mainly injecting brine and...
... disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) • dwindling treatment options, including the current and last-remaining internationally recommended first-line treatment options – the extendedspectrum cephalosporins ... results In the absence of such information, the following combination therapy could be tried: • 2 g azithromycin single oral dose + gentamicin 240 mg single IM dose OR • 2 g azithromycin single ... delays inherent in the reporting of laboratory results hinder timely treatment In addition, patients presenting with gonococcal infections are more often seen in primary health-care facilities in...
... issues within calendar days in tandem with SEBI (Insider Trading) Regulations b A statement of holding in securities as on March 31 within 30 calendar days (in tandem with SEBI (Insider Trading) Regulations) ... or CRISIL 500 or similar standard indices 1.8.5.2 Income funds maintaining 65% or more of investments in debt instruments shall be compared with a suitable index that is a representative of the ... Agglomerations/Cities; or 3.4.1.2 List of Million Plus Cities 3.4.2 Such list appears in Census Statistics of India (2001) at www.censusindia.gov .in A printout of cities which appear in the foresaid categories taken...
... frequency in Covo during year t and frequency change in MZEE between t and year u = t + i Initial frequency and dissemination in MZEE In studying the fate of all words in two English Usenet corpora, ... compounding) The baseline classifier We used MALLET (McCallum, 2002) to train a maximum entropy classifier, using character 1- through 6-grams (including word boundaries) as features Since we could ... of English inclusions in mixed-lingual data with an application to parsing Ph.D thesis, Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh Eduardo...
... laser-scanning microscope was used and the images taken were processed using Adobe PHOTOSHOP (Adobe Systems, Mountain View, CA, USA) For double staining of cystatin F and ER the staining was performed ... suggested function of cystatin F is hypothetical Although most cystatins inhibiting cathepsin L also inhibit cathepsin S, an inhibitory activity of cystatin F against cathepsin S has not yet been reported ... Overlay of images in (A) and (B), where a yellow colour would indicate colocalization Arrows indicate distinct ÔholesÕ in the ER staining where cystatin F stains Regulation of cystatin F expression...
... group E: Assessing the quality of housing in residential areas 100.00 E1: proportion of solid housing is higher than 80% and no makeshift housing 31 7.91 E2: proportion of solid housing is higher ... 392 Indicator group F: Assessing of social infrastructure: Percentage of households using electricity, telephones, cleaned water in residential areas 100.00 F1: proportionof households using ... than 95%; proportion of households using telephone is higher than 70%; ratio of households using cleaned water is higher than 85% 43 10.97 F2: proportion of households using electricity is from...
... daily living-instrumental activity of daily living (ADLIADL) without help e.g dressing, transferring from bed, toileting or taking bath, preparation of food, eating, shopping and walking Height ... measured using standard procedures The weight was measured using SECA balance with minimum of cloths to the nearest of 100 gms and height was measured using an anthropometric rod to the minimum ... probably true in case of less educated In sharp contrast to the sedentary lifestyle in urban population, life in tea garden industry involves hard physical activity due to their job demand Moreover,...