... private sector, and personal information The increasing risks are demonstrated by the dramatic increase in reports of security incidents, the ease of obtaining and using hacking tools, and steady ... coordination of U.S international cyberspace policy According to the strategy, in order to reach the goal of working internationally to promote an open, interoperable, secure, and reliable information ... analysis and warning capability Difficulties in sharing and accessing classified information and the lack of a centralized information-sharing system continue to hinder progress According to DHS,...
... the integrated reading and writing instruction program on first year students writing performance in EFL settings Investigating the students opinions about the integrated reading and writing instruction ... writing performance between students who take part in the integrated reading and writing instruction program and those who not H1 : Students who take part in the integrated reading and writing instruction ... Learners of English Victoria University of Wellington Rabideau, D (1993) Integrating Reading and Writing into Adult ESL Instruction National Clearinghouse on Literacy Education Washington DC Raimes,...
... with an intestinal prokinetic agent, tegaserod, on bloating and intestinal transit The aims of this study are to determine: 1) To investigate the baseline gastrointestinal & bowel symptoms and psychological ... this study is to investigate the symptomatology of bloating, the role of gastrointestinal transit and effect of tegaserod in non-diarrhea IBS patients with bloating In the first part of this thesis, ... are trying to find the role of GIT transit using bran scan in IBS patients with bloating (See later chapter) 1.3 The role of Serotonin in IBS Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) has gained recognition...
... Japanese tourists go abroad for travelling in a decade and Australians share of marketing for Japanese tourists Between 1985 and 1995 Japanese tourists travelling abroad was dramatically increased In ... is the examiners comment: The writer does what is required of her intermsof task fulfilment, and the message can be followed, but the weaknesses in grammatical control andin spelling cause ... million Japanese tourist went to Australia in 1985 Between 85 and 89 people went there is increased sharply, which is almost times more In 1990 it fall number slightly but from 90 to 94 number is went...
... teachers and students? What are the main difficulties in exploiting pictures in teaching vocabulary as perceived by teachers and students? Do teachers andstudents desire to use pictures in teaching ... vocabulary for first year students at VNU, HUEB Figure 1: Using pictures to teach vocabulary according to teachers andstudents answers 3.1.1 The frequency of teachers using pictures in teaching vocabulary ... Advantages of using pictures in teaching vocabulary as perceived by students 3.3 Main difficulties in using pictures to teach vocabulary as perceived by teachers andstudents Figure 4: Difficulties in...
... treatment ingestion After eating, an increase in heart rate occurred in all three treatment groups The increase in heart rate does not coincide with the pharmacokinetics including blood levels and ... due, at least in part, to a lack of understanding of the differences in the pharmacokinetic and pharmacological properties between p-synephrine and m-synephrine (phenylephrine) Failure to differentiate ... differences in pharmacological properties of the m- and p- isomers of synephrine can be explained on the basis of adrenergic receptor binding It is well known that, in general, binding to α-adrenergic...
... infarcted and non-infarcted segments Further research for the definition of cut-off values and technical standards will be needed to fully integrate this method into clinical practice The detection of ... velocities (S´ and E´), but not of strain and strain rate values In contrast to our results, one previous study showed significant differences of the peak systolic longitudinal strain between segments ... diastolic systolic strain rate [s-1]; ROI: Region of interest; TDI: Tissue Doppler Imaging; VVI: Velocity Vector Imaging Conflict of Interest The authors have declared that no conflict of interest...
... storytelling Technique is one of the five major elements of storytelling in association with plot, theme, point of view, character and setting Technique has to with the structuring of the story into ... what is happening and what is going to happen next or, moreover, the suspense of readers – a type of involvement of the readers in doubting and speculating the coming events of the story II.1.3 ... the American to the golden age of booming national prosperity with the highest standard of living in the history of the world economy, as indicated in the increase of the Gross National Product...
... The composting rate was increased in increasing in the numberof the perforated pipes placed vertically in the composting bed within certain limits for air delivery in the composting mass 3) ... in Fig At the beginning of the composting, after the raw materials were initially put into the reactor, particularly when the upper wall of the perforated pipes was heated, a rapid increase in ... Marugg C., Hansen R.C and Hoitink H.A.J (1993) Optimizing the efficiency of the composting process, In: H.A.J Hoitink and H.M Keener (Eds.), Science and engineering of composting: Design, environmental,...
... institutions Tools used include outlining possible gaps between design and action of institutions and explaining success and failures in their performance andin behavior of main stakeholders Analysis of ... the advances of domestic economic and political reforms Financing Problems in financing are often indicated as one of the most important factors defining failures in performance of institutions; ... section of Report focuses on results of analysis of institutional perspective in flood risk reduction in the countriesof Asia It presents project findings related to defining the role of institutions...
... according to Graham and Harvey (2001) Sweden seems to fall in between Finland according to the older surveys, and the U.S., since Sandahl and Sjögren (2003) find that 78.1 percent of the largest ... aims in this paper First, we provide empirical results of the popularity of investment evaluation methods in the Finnish companies together with some insights 10 into how these methods are used in ... decades, and how the current situation in Finland compares with other countries Third, we analyze how the required rateof return is set and what is the cost of capital Finally, we provide insights into...
... be identified intermsof three kinds of interaction: studentsto their teacher, studentsto students, andstudentsto material The interaction between studentsand their teacher includes care, ... learning to read, studying grammar, and learning English words by seeing them - Students motivation Motivation is a key factor leading students success in learning in general, andin learning ... 99 out of 345 students How many students would you like to have in each group? Numberofstudentsin a Numberofstudents Percent (%) 55 246 29 14 Table 14: Group size preferred by students...
... present a special threat to others intermsof absolute numbersof casualty outcomes and were involved in much smaller numbersof accidents resulting in deaths or injuries to other road users 20 ... growing segment of the driver population due to a proportional increase of women in the population, increased licensing rates and increased driving and it is predicted that crash and injury rates ... current state of knowledge in regard to the following issues: Understanding the facts and myths of the elderly and traffic safety; Understanding the need for mobility; and THE ELDERLY AND MOBILITY: ...
... stressedto-relaxed transition of serpins in general and latency transition of PAI-1 in particular The data presented provide novel insights into the determinants of serpin stability located inand ... Engineering of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 to reduce the rateof latency transition Nat Struct Biol 2, 442–445 12 Sui, G.C & Wiman, B (1998) Stability of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1: role of ... (2000) Importance of the hinge region between a-helix F and the main part of serpins, based upon identification of the epitope of plasminogen activator inhibitor type neutralizing antibodies J...
... bounded intermsof ∆L There are only finitely many such polynomials, and counting them gives the theorem of [18] The main idea of Theorem 1.1 is to count r-tuples of integers in L instead of single ... Bhargava, The density of discriminants of quartic rings and fields, Ann of Math 162 (2005), 1031–1063 [3] ——— , The density ofof discriminants of quintic rings and fields, Ann of Math., to appear [4] ... Substituting these r! r r r values of r, c into (2.6) yields the upper bound of Theorem 1.1 In the language of the beginning of this section, we have taken A to be Spec RΣ and the map F to be FΣ...
... method of curing concrete is demonstrated in 3.3 and shown in Figure Figure Shape and curing plan of mat foundation 4.3 Thermal stress and TCI of mat foundation Hydration heat generated from internal ... Temperature analysis of the total cross section of mat foundation (b) Stress dispersion of the total cross section of mat foundation during and after curing (c) TCI of the total cross section of mat foundation ... the total hydration heat would be decreased and the peak point of hydration heat for the total amount of binder would be increased as increasing the quantity of cement Therefore, the amount of...
... Chemometric processing The results were processed by PCA and HCA, in order to obtain a visual representation of the data set and gain insight into the distribution of the pollutants by detecting similarities ... chosen in a random fashion in order to cover the whole areas A total of 33 samples was collected at site A, both at different points of the presumably most contaminated zone andin the surroundings ... respectively, is made up of a mixture of industrial wastes and soil The original soil is almost absent in the area andin its surroundings, because of repeated excavations; the soil covering the area, probably...
... with lm SYTOX Green in NaCl ⁄ Pi for in the dark After addition of peptide, the increase in fluorescence, owing to the binding of the dye to intracellular DNA, was measured at 37 °C in a microplate ... 0.73 0.98 20 cin, and rifampicin [a fractional inhibitory concentration (FIC) £ 0.5 indicates synergy; see Experimental procedures] To obtain insights into the mode of action underlying the synergistic ... the numberof microbes present in the inoculum Afterwards, to examine the killing activity of Esc(1–18) against E coli andto determine whether this process was affected by the ionic strength of...
... complex was stable in 0.5% DDM even after addition of reducing agent (1% b-mercaptoethanol), indicating strong interaction, independent of maintenance of disulfide bonds Stability to M urea further ... membranes of SY5Y and 5-day-old mouse brain were examined using 10% Tris/tricine gels with reducing Ó FEBS 2003 Analysis of mouse and human brain presenilin complex (Eur J Biochem 271) 381 Fig PEN-2 and ... (2003) Nicastrin is required for assembly of presenilin/gamma-secretase complexes to mediate Notch signaling and for processing and trafficking of beta-amyloid precursor protein in mammals J Neurosci...