... such methods as descriptive, analytic, comparative and contrastive are also utilized to describe and analyze, to compare and contrast the database so as to bring out similarities and differences ... technology. It includes Canada and Northern States of the USA. Although English and French are legitimated official languages of Canada, the Canadian respondents are native speakers of English, either ... Vietnamese. The combination of pragmatics and CA takes advantage of the strengths and reduces the limitations of each approach.6.2. Data from questionnaires and naturally occurring conversationFor the...
... bank lending channel. Our analysis indicatesthat the bank lending channel was reducing the overall potency of monetary policy from January 1996to August 1998 and had and on average a neutral ... loans. The exogenous variablesofbothloandemandandsupplyfunctionsandtheir expected signs are as follows.The loan interest rate, ILt,isdefinedasanarithmeticalmeanof3-month, 6-month and 1-yearweighted ... of the traditional interest rate channel.An important explanatory factor of amplification and attenuation eff ects is the sensitivity of banks and firms to loan and market interest rates. But...
... Banking InstituteMaster of Advanced Studies in FinanceMaster ThesisStatistical Methods of Valuation and Risk Assessment: Empirical Analysis of Equity Markets and Hedge Fund StrategiesAdam ... dependence measure we use rankcorrelations. Rank correlations are principally based on the concept of concordance and discordance which informally says that a pair of random variables are concordant ... traditional asset classes. - 28 - and is called the ideal bootstrap estimate of the standard error of the copula parameter. Toobtain an approximation to its numerical value we use the computational...
... they are also used as aromatics. Because of their pharmacological e ect, alkyl nitrites are being abused as uncontrolled inhalant drugs and causing a social problem [4]. Although there are many ... concentration of an alkyl nitrite on the horizontal axis and peak area on the vertical axis. e concentration of the analyte in a specimen is calculated using the calibration curve.Assessment and some ... rats. J Pharm Sci 74:780–782 10) Kielbasa WB, Bauer JA, Fung HL (1999) Analysis of isobutyl nitrite inhalant in rat and human blood: application for pharmacokinetic investigations. J Chromatogr...
... construct a cali-bration curve for DAEMS consisting of peak area ratio of DAEMS to IS on the vertical axis and DAEMS concentration on the horizontal axis. A peak area ratio obtained from a test ... are no precise data on the toxicity of VX in humans; there are only estimated values based on the experimental GC/MS analysis for DAEMS in serum. (a) a total ion chromatogram (TIC) anda mass ... dichloromethane layers are combined and dehydrated by adding anhydrous Na2SO4. e clear dichloromethane solution is transferred to a glass vial and carefully evaporated to dryness under a stream...
... Determination of cannabinoids in cannabis oil by capillary gas chroma-tography. Eisei Kagaku 38:471–475 (in Japanese with an English abstract) 5) Watanabe K, Yamaki E, Yamamoto I et al. (1979) A ... construct a calibration curve with cannabinoid concentra-tion on the horizontal axis and with peak area ratio of a cannabinoid to IS on the vertical axis. 194 Cannabinoids and their metabolitesReferences ... CBD, CBN and 5α-cholestane. GC analysis of cannabinoids in plant specimens 192 Cannabinoids and their metabolites e Substance Abuse and Mental Service Administration (SAMSA) in USA set the...
... 23:436–442Toxic and fatal concentrations 196 Morphine and its analoguesMain metabolic pathways of morphine, heroin and codeine. The thick and thin arrows show the main and minor metabolic pathways, respectively.⊡ ... 5 h a er the heroin intake [4]. HPLC analysis Reagents and their preparationã Standard solutions of morphine for a calibration curve (2, 6 and 20 àg/mL): see “Reagents and their preparation”, ... opiate-dependent patient, several grams of an opiate do occasionally not cause death.Toxic and fatal concentrations 202 Morphine and its analoguesã 5 mM Ammonium sulfate solution (pH 9.4): a 66-mg aliquot...
... dyspnea, tachypnea, tachycardia and hypertension40–50 % mental derangement, listlessness and metabolic acidosisnot lower than 50 % coma, convulsive attack and hypotension70 % death A poisoning ... capable of transporting oxygen. When methemoglobinemia be-comes severe, it causes cyanosis, headache, easy fatigability, respiratory and conciousness dis-turbances and nally death. e fatal ... was disclosed that he had ingested nitrate. e analytical results for nitrite and nitrate in his blood and stomach contents are shown in > Table 5.2. An example of the gas chromatograms...
... e author et al. experienced a fatal cocaine poisoning case and measured concentrations of cocaine and its metabolites in body uids and various organs. A 41-year-old male was found dead in a ... PFPA and 50 µL HFIP, capped airtightly and heated at 70 °C for 30 min for derivatization. A 12 àL aliquot of it is subjected to GC/MS analysis. Cocaine and its metabolites 215time of death ... Derivatization reagents e: penta uoropropionic anhydride ( PFPA, Tokyo Kasei Kogyo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan and other manufacturers); tri uoroacetic anhydride ( TFAA, manufac-turers the same as...
... P, Tracqui A, Lugnier AJ et al. (1990) Simultaneous screening and quantification of several nonopiate narcotic analgesics and phencyclidine in human plasma using capillary gas chromatography. ... 860–861Pentazocine 221tazocine concentration in the horizontal axis and peak area ratio of pentazocine to IS in the vertical axis. e peak area ratio of a test specimen is applied to the calibration ... Brandenberger H, Maes RAA (eds) Analytical Toxicology for Clinical, Forensic and Pharmaceutical Chemists. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, pp 707–718 10) Association of Medical Examiners, NAME, Pediatric Toxicology...
... pharmaco-logical activity can be obtained by oral administration of as small as 2075 àg of LSD. e ab-sorption of LSD from the digestive tract is rapid and distinct visual hallucination takes ... small amount of methanol to be subjected to further analysis. TLC analysis Analytical conditionsTLC plate: a usual silica gel plate, for example, Kieselgel (0.25 àm thickness, Merck, Darm-stadt, ... drug is extracted by adding 1 % tartaric acid aqueous solution and by shaking it for 5 min. is procedure is repeated six times and the tartarate extract solutions are combined. A er the pH...
... hyperthermia, rhabdomyolysis, acute renal failure, dis-seminated intravascular coagulation and death [19, 20]. A detailed review by Kalant [16] re-vealed that 87 MDAs-related fatalities were associated ... Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is 250 ng/mL.Symptoms, and toxic and fatal concentrationsMDMA causes increased catecholamine (including serotonin) release and ... pharmaceutical agents, such as ca eine and ketamine [4, 5].Structures of MDA and its analogues.⊡ Figure 7.1 231Reagents and their preparation ã MDA, MDMA and MDEA can be purchased from Sigma (St....