... battle field to commercial enterprises, the microstrip antenna is fast replacing many conventional antennas The advantages and disadvantages of the Microstrip Antenna are tabulated below: Advantages ... definitively changed with the development of radio wave propagation and antenna engineering that took off and developed by leaps and bounds It can be said that there can be no radio wave propagation without ... without antennas Antennas are so intricately intertwined with radio wave communications, and so important a part of it, that it has developed a life of its own Today, the number of different types of...
... pH range from 5.3 to Tsuruga and Shikama [21] confirmed that the fast phase of oxidation was due to the a chains and the slow phase was due to the b chains Tsuruga et al found that the beta chain ... of pH on the auto-oxidation of Hb A0 has been the subject of several studies Mansouri and Winterhalter [5] reported that the oxidation of the a chains of Hb A0 was 10 times faster than that of ... initial fast phase of the reaction, but decreased the rate of the slow phase of oxidation in the presence of EDTA A comparison of rough and smooth LPSs of E coli and S minnesota in the presence of...
... contact angle of water was measured asa control on a clean (as defined in experimental section) silicon substrate and was 36.0° The contact angle of water was determined for the polymer brush samples ... range of temperatures used Although the value of permittivity began at a reasonable value, it increased as the temperature increased This increase could have been caused by a build up of charge ... 25°C and the heating process was repeated for a second run All of these tests used nitrogen asa purge gas The glass transition function in TA Instrumental Analysis was used to calculate the Tg of...
... to this research They are: Ms Azira Amran, Mr Mahmood Sulaiman, Mrs Siti Zalaikhar, Mr Rozimi and Ms Mazalina Viscosity asaFunctionof Absolute Temperature 38 REFERENCES Fasina, O O & Colley, ... Malaya, NTC, Kuala Lumpur, 4–5 May 2009, 58–65 Magerramov, M A. , Abdulagatov, A I., Abdulagatov, I M & Azizov, N D (2007) Viscosity of tangerine and lemon juice asafunctionof temperature and ... asaFunctionof Absolute Temperature 32 Equation (5) has a similar value and unit to that of equation (1) R is the gas constant, and is equal to 8.314 J/mol/K To is the viscosity at temperature...
... whereas areas in the upper and the middle regions decreased (Table 3) Assessment of relative percentage changes in areas revealed an increase in area in the lower lung regions anda decrease in ... (PS) are presented Total area differed significantly between VC and PC as well as between VC and PS Data are presented as mean ± standard error of the mean Page of 13 (page number not for citation ... analysis Normalization was applied to a predetermined range of frames Within a frame, the areas with the highest vibration energy are represented as black in a gray-level scale and the areas with...
... Peak Viremia Asymptomatic Symptomatic 10 12 Peak Viremia Average *p < 0.05 Figure Plasma viral loads of FIV infected cats asafunctionof TL-3 treatment and disease Plasma viral loads of FIV infected ... was used asa template for PCR reactions using 5' primer MFIVCPL5' (5'-GATTTATAAATCATATG GCATATAATAAAGTGGGTACCACTACAACATTAG-3'), which adds an NdeI restriction site, methionine, and alkaline to ... N-terminal of the protease and 3' primer MFIVCPL33' (5'-CTGAGATCTGAGCAAGCTTTTACATTACTAATCT AATATTAAATTTAACCATG TTATC-3'), which adds a stop codon anda Hind III restriction site to the C-terminus of...
... distribution along the cephalocaudal axis A larger ratio suggested increased sound in the apical areas anda smaller ratio increased sound in the diaphragmatic areas Distribution was considered ... representative frame (or map) at peakinspiratory flow was automatically selected and displayed on the screen (Figure 2) This map was also quantified by the software and presented as the percentage of ... the apical to the diaphragmatic lung areas was observed during PEEP increase This shift was not correlated with significant change in VT but was associated with an increase in Cdyn High repeatability...
... observation that δz was a significant parameter in all cases, and that the magnitude and direction of this effect varied according to cell line and confluence, suggests that this variable is an ... drug-treated case; and δx – where "x" is any of the parameters above – is the variation on x between the control and case under study General least square fitting was used and the significance of terms ... SER values calculated in this way reflect the impact ofa repair modifier at a single dose or survival point [9-11] D0 and SF2 may also be estimated by fitting survival data asafunctionof dose...
... triglycerides In addition, an enzymatic activity for the following proteins was measured: alanine aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase, aspartate aminotransferase, lactate dehydrogenase, and sorbitol ... USA) and serum was separated Clinical chemistry analysis was performed on all rats using a COBAS MIRA (Roche Diagnostics, Montclair, NJ, USA) using commercially available reagents from Equal ... final manuscript Additional data files The following additional data are available with the online version of this paper Additional data file is a table detailing the histopathological scores as...
... resonance decaying in a top-antitop pair, using ATLAS data at center -of- mass √ energy of s = TeV The latter analysis is repeated for ATLAS data col√ lected with s = TeV Performance studies of b-tagging ... described by a Lagrangian density that can be separated into a gauge term, a matter term, a Yukawa term anda Higgs term [30]: LSM = LMatter + LGauge + LYukawa + LHiggs The matter Lagrangian contains ... models, so that a comparison of the measurements and searches in data and simulation can be used to test proposed extensions of the Standard Model A comparison of the data and the simulated result...
... Descriptive Statistics (includes all cases) 178 Table A6 : Summary of Descriptive Statistics for AREs and CARs 179 Table A7 : ARE and CAR Means and Standard Deviations for No Rationale and Rationale Groups ... Sample by Average Two-Year Growth Rate in Revenues 191 Table A1 9: ARE and CAR Means and Standard Deviations for Various TwoYear Average Growth Rates in Revenues 192 Table A2 0: Listing of Companies ... Listing of Companies in Final Sample by Categories of Book-toMarket Ratios 197 Table A2 5: ARE and CAR Means and Standard Deviations for Different Book-to-Market Ratio Categories 198 Table A2 6a: Longer-Term...
... leading cause of death after cancer (Seow & Lee, 1994) Asof 1999, Singapore’s age-standardized CHD death rate (100/100,000) was among the highest of Southeast Asian nations (higher than Japan (22/100,000) ... rate that was 1.81 times higher than Malay males and 2.69 times higher than Chinese males (Registry of Births and Deaths, 1991) Malay males had an average hypertension mortality rate that was ... endpoints of BP and HR levels 1.3 Dispositional anger and CVR Trait anger and anger expression styles have been shown to elevate cardiovascular activation and heighten risk for cardiovascular diseases...
... was calculated as 32% on a cardiac catheterization and 40% on a transthoracic echocardiogram Shortly after cardiac catheterization, she developed bilateral ophthalmoparesis, significant bulbar ... microcirculation of the heart, and elevated catecholamine states [4,7] TC has been described in many different stressful and catastrophic circumstances such as car accidents, family deaths, and even major ... the manuscript JTW analyzed and interpreted the patient’s data and was a major contributor in writing the manuscript AF is a cardiologist who analyzed and interpreted the patient’s data regarding...
... 65.7 years) undergoing elective coronary artery bypass grafting Patients with valvular heart disease, intracardiac shunts, regional myocardial asynchrony, peripheral vascular disease, preoperative ... increase in SVITD was under 10% Statistical analysis For statistical analysis, all volume variables were indexed to body surface area Statistical analysis was performed using the SPSS 12.0 software ... end-expiration, were analyzed and averaged All hemodynamic parameters were measured simultaneously after induction of anesthesia, when CCO had stabilized (T1) A second measurement was performed...
... also enhance virus packaging as it appears that the assembly of coronavirus occurs intracellularly, probably in the intermediate compartments between the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus ... motif can also bind other adaptor protein complexes, like AP-1, and 4, and the differential binding to the different adaptors will determine the pathway ofa cargo protein containing a particular ... and enhance cellcell fusion, a process that is important for viral spreading Table shows a comparison of the amino acid sequences of the cytoplasmic tails of the S protein of different coronaviruses,...
... also enhance virus packaging as it appears that the assembly of coronavirus occurs intracellularly, probably in the intermediate compartments between the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus ... motif can also bind other adaptor protein complexes, like AP-1, and 4, and the differential binding to the different adaptors will determine the pathway ofa cargo protein containing a particular ... and enhance cellcell fusion, a process that is important for viral spreading Table shows a comparison of the amino acid sequences of the cytoplasmic tails of the S protein of different coronaviruses,...
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... difference is in their emphasis It is my belief that in giving the L2 student both as much input and practice as they can reasonably manage, anda strong metalinguistic awareness, we, as teachers give ... Ireland and Britain One of the most important initial tasks for any teacher is the task of knowing his clients The notion of needs analysis is absolutely central Even with as few details as we ... taught asa means to accessing literature, be it classical, technical or otherwise Any of the group that actually work, will almost certainly be trying to improve their English, asa means of improving...