... Page of 10 Figure Flow chart of HIV-positive children on ART the medium term Ninety -three percent of children in our HIV-programmes were alive and in care at the end of the observation period ... possibly resistant to tenofovir Six out of 22 children had developed a profile of extensive resistance, explained by the presence of the K65R mutation in four children and Q151 M in two children 1000 ... such as: age of caregiver; education and literacy level of caregiver; distance of house to the clinic; size of family; and status of parents (alive/dead) Isaakidis et al Journal of the International...
... fraction of dispersed phase K - ratio of dispersed phase viscosity to continuous phase viscosity – maximum packing fraction of dispersed phase – oil holdup at inversion point µ - dynamic viscosity of ... circular pipes 46 4.2.4 Friction factor for twophase liquid-liquid system 52 4.3 Results ofthreephase flow experiment 4.3.1 Results ofthreephase slug flow experiment iv 55 56 4.3.1.1 Slug flow visualization ... characterization of emulsions 36 4.2 Results oftwophase flow experiment 37 4.2.1 Significance of hydrostatic and frictional pressure drop in twophase system 42 4.2.2 Wall shear stress for twophase liquid-liquid...
... study of hydrodynamics in two- and threephase bubble column and column containing draught tube experimentally Chapter introduces the objectives of this research and briefly describes the scope of ... bottom section of the column at using single aeration 83 Profiles of the Reynolds stresses component for the bottom section of the column at using double aeration 84 Profiles of the Reynolds ... of the column at using tetra aeration 86 Profiles of the Reynolds stresses component for the middle section of the column at q = 10.4 m/s using different aeration 87 xii List of Tables LIST OF...
... time derivative of both sides of the equation r r r d r d r d r r r r rPA = rPB + rBA → vPA = vPB + vBA vPA = vPB + vBA dt dt dt If we take the time derivative of both sides of the last equation ... Dimension: The velocity of a particle P determined by two different observers A and B varies from observer to observer Below we derive what is known as the “transformation equation” of velocities This ... xBA is the coordinate of B with respect to A d d d We take derivatives of the above equation: xPA ) = ( xPB ) + ( xBA ) → ( dt dt dt vPA = vPB + vBA If we take derivatives of the last equation...
... stator windings of a twophase induction machine to be out ofphase To accomplish this the impedances of the stator windings are made unequal For example, the split -phase machine is a two -phase ... impedance of the start winding larger than that of the run winding The asymmetry of the stator windings causes the winding currents to be 359 SINGLE -PHASE INDUCTION MACHINES out ofphase when the phases ... Open-Circuited Stator Phase For the purpose of analyzing an open-circuited stator phase, which is equivalent to single -phase operation, let us consider the stator circuitsof a three- phase, wye-connected...
... Each aggregated unit consists of seven adjacent strips except unit 28, which contains strips located at the upper end of the study site Our results show that for both the two- cut and three- cut systems, ... Optimal aggregation pattern of two- cut system Figure 7Figure 5: Optimal aggregation pattern of three- cut system Fig Optimal aggregation pattern of two- cut system (a), and three- cut system (b) method ... system, the sequence ofthree cuts (preparatory, establishment, and removal) starts from the windward strip (Table 3) With a time lag ofthree to four years, the sequence ofthree cuts is initiated...
... Kellgren-Lawrence grades of or higher were included More than 70% of patients had a Kellgren-Lawrence score of or None of the control individuals had ever exhibited any signs or symptoms of arthritis or ... ethnical committees of the Medical School of Nanjing University, and single nucleotide Page of (page number not for citation purposes) polymorphism (SNP) Research Center of RIKEN, and informed ... no association of RHOB and TXNDC3 with knee OA, even though the ethnicity and disease ascertainment were basically the same in the two studies [10] To examine the replication of association between...
... died at the terminal phaseof the experiment from PID 12 became the signs more pathognomonic At the post mortem examination of the pigs in Experiment III a general swelling of the lymph nodes was ... on the comparative pathology ofthree virulence variants of CSFV The experiments confirmed the previous expectations that the three variants represent various levels of pathogenicity Data have ... Organ and tissue distribution of the antigen of the cytopathogenic bovine viral diarrhoea virus in the early and advanced phaseof experimental mucosal disease Archives of Virology 1997, 142:1613-1634...
... cut-off value 15 for strain of –6.5 % a sensitivity of 23 % and specificity of 87 % was calculated for the detection of infarcted segments (AUC 0.6, confidence interval 0.53 – 0.64) A 111 cut-off ... of wall thickness or no LE but LAD perfusion territory) and non-infarcted 107 (LE 0%, no LAD perfusion territory)9 The results of the VVI offline analysis of the tissue velocities (S´, E´, A´) ... change of length per time unit 2-6 Previous studies using TDI or 2DST demonstrated a reduction of the myocardial deformation indices 2DS and SR in infarcted segments after AMI 7-13 The goal of our...
... divides Vietnam into units with one Unit Sales Manager (USM) to be in charge of sales in his/her correspondent unit Number of units varies from (Coca-Cola VN) to (P&G VN) In each unit, for a certain ... specific task is within each salesperson’s control Therefore the person’s perception on this relationship depends on what it means by performance and improvement of performance Previous researches ... self-controlled because salespeople spend majority of their time out of office • Ambiguous in terms of roles perception since they have little supervision and under pressure from dual masters: their...
... when switch Sx turns off Thus, when two active vectors ({1 0}, {0 1}) are taken, the battery bank voltage is applied to the load through two inductances (L1 and L2 ); when two null vectors ({0 ... is shorted by either the upper or lower two switches; when the shoot-through zero vectors are taken, the load is shorted by the upper and lower switches at the same phase leg These zero vectors ... Ts − T1 , and Ts is the switching period, the diode D is off, and the H-bridge inverter can be considered as a short circuit As a result, the equivalent circuit of the Z-source inverter at shoot-through...
... the TVA-II group As the polypeptide superposition of Fig places the three catalytic residues of CDase (Fig 1) within less than ˚ A of the positions of those of TVA-II, and as the active centers ... placing of the gaps Therefore, we took account of the geometry and first derived the group of structurally equivalent residues in a chain-fold superposition and then counted the number of identical ... not shown) Interestingly, the general location of the N-terminal domains of these two outliers [35,36] corresponds to that of CDase A superposition of the highly variable B domains, which participate...
... representation Each value (± SEM) is representative ofthree experiments GPX and TPX activities are expressed as nmol of NADPH oxidized perper mg of protein, and GSH concentrations are expressed ... substrates Glutathione peroxidase assays were performed as described in Experimental procedures with a fixed concentration of GSH (3 mM) using four or five different concentrations of peroxide The data ... shown as the average ofthree independent experiments LA-OOH, linoleic acid hydroperoxide; Pcdili-OOH, phosphatidylcholine dilinoleoyl hydroperoxide; t-butyl-OOH, tert-butyl hydroperoxide GPXle1 GPXha2...
... different three- fold symmetry-related subunits (B) Schematic representation of the pore View perpendicular to the three- fold symmetry axis The residues lining the pore of a single subunit are ... number of molecules per asymmetric unit Given that the protein in solution is a dodecamer, the value of n can only be Assuming the presence of a tetramer in the asymmetric unit, the value of ˚ ... presence of 24 asymmetric units in the ˚ I23 cell with dimensions a = b = c = 174.504 A, the value of VM (the unit cell volume divided by the total molecular mass of the protein in the unit cell)...
... amount of the oxidized form (13 019 Da) Fig Gel filtration of crude venoms oftwo KBf (samples and 2) Venom powder (15–20 mg) of KBf was dissolved in 200 lL of deionized water and loaded onto a Superdex ... proteins of Bungarus fasciatus I.-H Tsai et al Fig Ca2+-binding affinity oftwo Pro31PLAs (Bf Va and VI) and a K31-PLA (Bf-X-1) The initial rate of hydrolysis of mM diC16PC in the presence of mM ... several viperid species [17,18], but are less well explored for elapid venom In order to better understand the proteomics and variations of Bf venom, we studied individual venom oftwo specimens of...
... Ballard ***** TEMPER YOUR TEMPER Temper tantrums, sulking, finger-pointing are all signs of panic More corporate heads have rolled because of the above than any other single display of emotion When ... personal reviews on paper, quarterly reports, year-end reports, stock reports, one hundred page business plans and many more Do not get paperstrapped Papers are means to an end Do not get paper ... to create assets Job security: The very fact of closure of Lehman and lay-offs by GM, Microsoft and IBM in 2008 only questions the very hypothesis of job security as it exists in salaried jobs...
... to reduce their risk of cancer Three- quarters of the UK public will be aware of the main lifestyle choices they can make to reduce their risk of getting cancer • The number of smokers will fall ... development of all three national screening programmes for breast, bowel and cervical cancer, which have saved tens of thousands of lives • In the 1960s we first tested mammography as a way of diagnosing ... scale of the cancer problem and the impact it has on the lives of hundreds of thousands of people every year We have made huge steps forward in improving survival and in preventing thousands of...
... relative periodic if its projection x in the ˜ ˜ is periodic The prime relative period of x reduced configuration space V is the prime period of x Our major result concerns the existence of relative ... represents a similarity class of one type of double collision Let S be the unit EXISTENCE AND MINIMIZING PROPERTIES OF RETROGRADE ORBITS 329 sphere in V and S be the unit shape sphere The Hopf fibration ... class of the ˜ ˜ projection αφ of αφ in V \ Δ over t ∈ [0, 1] is one of the two generators for ˜ \ Δ) The left side of Figure depicts the path α over t ∈ [0, 1] ˜ ˜φ π1 (S A solution x of (1)...