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Báo cáo khoa học: "Crown architecture in relation to productivity of Populus clones in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A." ppt

Báo cáo khoa học: "Crown architecture in relation to productivity of Populus clones in the Pacific Northwest, U.S.A." ppt

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 02:21
... (LiCor Inc., U. S. A.) leaf area meter Results and Discussion Significant clor!al differences in number of branches, branch length and diameter, and branch angles caused striking differences in form ... distribution and leaf area density help explain the substantial differences in light interception and biomass production of these poplar clones beginning (Scarascia-Mugnozza et aL, 1989) Conclusion ... with the information on crown architecture and leaf area distribution, in order to provide a stronger basis for understanding and optimizing yields in SRIC of Populus This information on functional...
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Báo cáo y học: "Elevated endotoxin levels in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease" potx

Báo cáo y học: "Elevated endotoxin levels in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease" potx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 03:20
... endotoxin 6.25 NASH 3.2 Results NAFLD Vs NASH* 1.2 Statistical analysis Statistical analysis was carried out using SPSS 16.0 for Windows software (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL) Variables were expressed as ... oxidase method (YSL 200 STAT plus) Homeostasis model assessment for insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) was calculated for all patients using the HOMA formula: HOMA-IR = Fasting insulin (mU/L) × plasma ... that patients with NAFLD are characterised by a significant increase in circulating levels of endotoxin This finding was independent of diabetic status and, as such, suggests that endotoxin levels...
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Báo cáo y học: " Elevated endotoxin levels in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease" pdf

Báo cáo y học: " Elevated endotoxin levels in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 06:22
... endotoxin 6.25 NASH 3.2 Results NAFLD Vs NASH* 1.2 Statistical analysis Statistical analysis was carried out using SPSS 16.0 for Windows software (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL) Variables were expressed as ... oxidase method (YSL 200 STAT plus) Homeostasis model assessment for insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) was calculated for all patients using the HOMA formula: HOMA-IR = Fasting insulin (mU/L) × plasma ... that patients with NAFLD are characterised by a significant increase in circulating levels of endotoxin This finding was independent of diabetic status and, as such, suggests that endotoxin levels...
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Báo cáo y học: "HTLV-1 Tax mutants that do not induce G1 arrest are disabled in activating the anaphase promoting complex" pdf

Báo cáo y học: "HTLV-1 Tax mutants that do not induce G1 arrest are disabled in activating the anaphase promoting complex" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 05:22
... point mutants whose expression did not cause growth arrest in S (A) A summary of amino acid substitutions in HTLV-1 tax point mutants whose expression did not cause growth arrest in S cerevisiae ... pathway Results Isolation of tax mutants that not cause growth arrest in S cerevisiae In the course of a yeast 2-hybrid screen using Tax as bait, we noticed that the yeast strain expressing the ... amino acid residues 61 and 108, suggesting the importance of these residues in protein-protein interactions that mediate Tax functions Finally, the expression levels of all mutants in S cerevisiae...
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Báo cáo y học: "Natural antisense transcripts with coding capacity in Arabidopsis may have a regulatory role that is not linked to double-stranded RNA degradation" ppt

Báo cáo y học: "Natural antisense transcripts with coding capacity in Arabidopsis may have a regulatory role that is not linked to double-stranded RNA degradation" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 14:21
... adenosine deaminases, which convert about 50% of adenosine residues into inosines, leading to the unwinding of the RNA duplex [11] Inosine-containing RNAs are not translated as they are retained in ... NATs is the repression of the testisexpressed Stellate gene in Drosophila by paralogous Su(Ste) tandem repeats [9] Both strands of repressor Su(Ste) repeats are transcribed, producing sense and ... transcripts in any of the four sample tissues This assumption is further supported by the lack of any bias against the joint expression of sense and antisense copies from the same COP We can calculate...
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An analysis of the inaugural address by g w bush in the u s president election 2004 from a perspective of discoure analysis

An analysis of the inaugural address by g w bush in the u s president election 2004 from a perspective of discoure analysis

Ngày tải lên : 18/12/2013, 10:08
... findings answer the research questions Part 3: Conclusion summarizes the findings of the study, giving concluding remarks, implications, limitations of the study and suggestions for further studies ... from less imposing need in the previous sentence to more imposing must in the second gives us an impression that Mr Bush means to impose on those governments, thus showing his power and authority, ... moves and chooses as He wills (s. 94) It is clear that there is in fact no ground for such assumption How does he know that God chooses the U. S, not the others? By considering the U. S as a chosen...
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Tài liệu Material Usage and Condition of Existing Bridges in the U.S pptx

Tài liệu Material Usage and Condition of Existing Bridges in the U.S pptx

Ngày tải lên : 20/12/2013, 20:15
... Bridges in the U. S The coding guide assists bridge inspectors in preparing data for identification items, such as bride location, and for rating items, such as substructure and superstructure condition ... main span superstructure In structures incorporating approach spans, the main span superstructure material may differ from the approach span superstructure material In this case, the contribution ... On that date, the NBI contained information for 699,898 structures These structures included highway bridges (including culverts), railway bridges, tunnels, and other transportation structures...
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Tài liệu Mothers’ Investments in Child Health in the U.S. and U.K.: A Comparative Lens on the Immigrant ''Paradox'' docx

Tài liệu Mothers’ Investments in Child Health in the U.S. and U.K.: A Comparative Lens on the Immigrant ''Paradox'' docx

Ngày tải lên : 12/02/2014, 12:20
... (marital status and grandparent presence) is surprising, given substantial differences in composition across nativity groups In contrast, it is not surprising that instrumental support and social integration ... although we recognize that this measure is not ideal, very small to nonexistent sample sizes prevent us from using a more stringent drinking measure in the MCS 13 MCS, we distinguish among South ... a function of not only time, but of covariates that vary across, but not within, individuals This amounts to equations for the random intercepts and slopes: Because measures of smoking around...
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Tài liệu U.S. Foreign Aid to the Palestinians: Jim Zanotti Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs pptx

Tài liệu U.S. Foreign Aid to the Palestinians: Jim Zanotti Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs pptx

Ngày tải lên : 16/02/2014, 10:20
... Administrations to broker an Israeli-Palestinian negotiating process that yields a substantive and lasting resolution of core issues in dispute (borders, security, refugees, the status of Jerusalem, ... transfer of funds by the PA for such payments Funds may also be used to pay for upcoming purchases from commercial suppliers or reimbursements of recent purchases from suppliers.38 Despite this ... of U. S budgetary assistance to the PA, some commentators allege that U. S funding indirectly supports PA salaries, including those supposedly paid to some Palestinians who are imprisoned by Israel...
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Tài liệu The Role of Community Banks in the U.S. Economy pdf

Tài liệu The Role of Community Banks in the U.S. Economy pdf

Ngày tải lên : 16/02/2014, 11:20
... as small businesses, family farmers, and depositors of low to moderate wealth Small business lending Community banks’ role as small business lenders is important because small businesses account ... also result in other creditworthy small businesses being turned down for credit Another reason community banks may be better suited to making small business loans is that such loans often require ... banks in making small business loans First, some researchers have found that small banks earn higher rates of return on their small business loans than large banks, even after adjusting for loss...
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Tài liệu The Decline in the U.S. Personal Saving Rate: Is It Real and Is It a Puzzle? pptx

Tài liệu The Decline in the U.S. Personal Saving Rate: Is It Real and Is It a Puzzle? pptx

Ngày tải lên : 16/02/2014, 11:20
... These accounts also provide estimates of holding gains and losses for assets such as real estate and corporate equities, including assets held indirectly through mutual funds, pension funds, ... personal and business saving—is famous in economics (it is often called Denison s law, from Denison, 1958) Unfortunately, it does not successfully withstand serious empirical scrutiny.22 Figure ... is little doubt that such households would/could finance their standards of living by selling assets in their net wealth, thus “cashing out” from their cumulated capital gains (see, e.g., Lusardi,...
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Tài liệu Faultlines of Conflict in Central Asia and the South Caucasus - Implications for the U.S. Army docx

Tài liệu Faultlines of Conflict in Central Asia and the South Caucasus - Implications for the U.S. Army docx

Ngày tải lên : 17/02/2014, 11:20
... Varies High Operational Competence Leaders, members, limited assets Leaders, bank accounts, linkages Variation of the usual Usual Usual Usual Usual Usual Usual Societal/ Organizational Vulnerabilities ... choices and addresses a number of specific issues that affect those choices Chapter Six summarizes our conclusions Chapter Two NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND U. S SECURITY— BACK TO BASICS In addressing the ... in the old As Quinlivan put it: 1Russians raise this possibility occasionally in conversations with U. S analysts It is unclear whether they believe that Russia would actually adopt such...
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Tài liệu Why Has The Cost of Navy Ships Risen - A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U.S. Naval Ship Costs Over the Past Several Decades doc

Tài liệu Why Has The Cost of Navy Ships Risen - A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U.S. Naval Ship Costs Over the Past Several Decades doc

Ngày tải lên : 17/02/2014, 22:20
... unstable business base causes fluctuations in the demand for skilled labor that are expensive and difficult to manage The unstable business base also prevents contractors from leveraging purchases ... few hulls These trends suggest that the causes of cost escalation for DDs and DDGs may be driven by evolutions in capabilities of ships rather than increases in basic shipbuilding costs such as ... insight into its underlying reasons For example, if the increase is continuous and steady, then escalation may be due to a systemic issue such as the increase of shipbuilding input cost (e.g.,...
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Tài liệu Why Has the Cost of Fixed-Wing Aircraft Risen - A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U.S. Military Aircraft Costs over the Past Several Decades pptx

Tài liệu Why Has the Cost of Fixed-Wing Aircraft Risen - A Macroscopic Examination of the Trends in U.S. Military Aircraft Costs over the Past Several Decades pptx

Ngày tải lên : 17/02/2014, 23:20
... by sensors such as radar) Equipment comprises all systems such as avionics (electronics to control the aircraft), sensors (such as radar), other mission systems (such as electronic countermeasures, ... depreciation Business base considerations are important in determining the burdened costs because certain fixed costs (costs that occur independently of workload such as security costs) get spread to ... MG696-2.1 in subsequent years, and eventually levels off Other aircraft, such as F-14A/D, display a steady increase in average unit cost in subsequent fiscal years, as electronic aircraft, as shown in...
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Tài liệu K–12 Education in The U.S. Economy pdf

Tài liệu K–12 Education in The U.S. Economy pdf

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 19:20
... revenue increase results in equivalent decrease in these alternative revenue instruments and expenditure increase results in increase in these alternative revenue instruments The values in this ... 2, these can be classified as student inputs and social inputs Student inputs include student and parent characteristics that affect education outcomes; social inputs include characteristics of ... School Quality As suggested above, establishing a causal link between educational resources (inputs) and school quality (output) requires more than just showing that educational resources and school...
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Tài liệu Company ''''A'''', corps of engineers, U.S.A., 1846-''''48, in the Mexican war doc

Tài liệu Company ''''A'''', corps of engineers, U.S.A., 1846-''''48, in the Mexican war doc

Ngày tải lên : 21/02/2014, 08:20
... is his business not yours" In a few hours, the road was put in such condition that, by the use of drag-ropes and men at the wheels, we were enabled to pass artillery and wagons over the obstructions; ... days of receipt that s/ he does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm License You must require such a user to return or destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical ... general -in- chief having instructed me to take a position and await his further orders Shortly afterwards a straggling assassin-like fire commenced from the house-tops, which continued, in various parts...
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Tài liệu THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE U.S. MEDIA 2012 doc

Tài liệu THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN THE U.S. MEDIA 2012 doc

Ngày tải lên : 21/02/2014, 21:20
... editors, and supervisors in 2011 Figure shows gender representation in newsrooms since 2011, according to the ASNE Newsroom Census Figure1 Gender Representation in Newspaper Newsrooms, 1999-2011 ... suggest this will include: z  etermining why women s representation in news media occupations is inverse to the D proportion of women with journalism and mass communication degrees z  ssessing ... existing that aim to increase gender equity have produced U few measurable results to-date Accomplishing this will require key stakeholders such as women s advocacy groups, media professional...
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Tài liệu A Comparison of Conventional and Organic Milk Production Systems in the U.S. potx

Tài liệu A Comparison of Conventional and Organic Milk Production Systems in the U.S. potx

Ngày tải lên : 22/02/2014, 05:20
... economic costs the value of the coefficients decreased with successive size categories indicating economies of size associated with these costs Costs declined as size increased as fixed amounts capital ... replacements used up in the annual production process, plus interest that the remaining capital could have earned in an alternative use These costs were computed based on 2005 replacement cost estimates ... operations can replace capital assets as needed and thus stay in business over time Other costs are primarily opportunity costs of owned resources (land and labor) that may or may not influence production...
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Trends in Childhood Cancer Incidence in the U.S. (1992–2004) pdf

Trends in Childhood Cancer Incidence in the U.S. (1992–2004) pdf

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 02:21
... performed in the joinpoint regression analyses and the results therefore may include spurious associations Trends involving
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