... strange that people can make aesthetic judgments on stimuli as simple and as abstract as rectangles of different proportions That, however, ignores the human propensity for ascribing meaning and ... 84-item basic rectangle preference task, the participants in Study carried out a range of other aesthetic tasks, lasting about 30 min, and then repeated the 84-item basic preference task The second ... almost any object, however arbitrary (and, for instance, participants have aesthetic preferences for some random dot patterns over others; McManus & Kitson, 1995) The great art critic and historian,...
... Inc, the manufacturer of micafungin MDZ and AFS are consultants to and SK is an employee of Astellas SK is a stock holder in Astellas Pharma US, Inc, the manufacturer of micafungin AFS and MDZ ... ICUAC and the availability of C&S results was assumed, and this was varied between two and four days Patients treated with MIC who tested positive for Candida albicans (CA) were switched to FLU and ... value and the life tables life expectancy served as the estimate of life expectancy of a sepsis survivor The QALY adjustment was based on the mean of those reported by Fowler and colleagues [26] and...
... the brand -as- product, brand -as- organization, brand -as- person, and brand -as- symbol • Brand identity structure includes a core, extended and proposition identity A brand identity is to brand strategy ... offer quality assurance and reduce risks • Brands help self-expression • Brands offer friendship and pleasure 2.3.2 A brand is more than a product Brand is more than a product Branding is about ... Company with the assistance of his young brother, the Company’s Vice Director When asking about the soul and other attributes of LiOA brand name such as brand identity, brand personality and brand...
... by the value of the waste, and in the second place by their ease of extraction, handling and transport Paper, metals and plastics, sorted out as early as possible in the waste chain, therefore ... of landfills located in greater distances from the cities implies higher transfer costs as well as higher investments in infrastructure • Inadequate management of healthcare and hazardous waste: ... collection, transport, transfer, processing and disposal of solid wastes The growing demand for service caused by rapid, unplanned urban growth and rising waste generation rates can often only...
... large devices, and heat-exchange between gas mediums require great areas of transference, so they are not used Another system, more cheap and compact, was designed by Dr Pernot and later by Dr ... economic solution than installing an only system In 1986, Anderson tested an air conditioning system using a direct and an indirect evaporative cooler combined with an expansion battery, and compared ... developed by the ASHRAE has cast doubt on this supposing, making more interesting the idea of considering and analyzing the use of these devices Another disadvantage is the water consumption associated...
... but are rendered as HTML to allow them to operate correctly in any HTML-compliant browser Microsoft has also extended many of the standard HTML controls as well, allowing you to manipulate them ... optimize throughput and Web site maintainability Microsoft has also added the following features: • Enhanced page design and layout using Master Pages, Themes, and Web Parts You can use Master Pages ... things, such as display a page of data from a database; mixing application code and HTML caused readability and maintenance issues; and performance was not always what it could be because Active Server...
... cepstral mean subtraction (CMS) [6] If the mismatch is caused by both channel and random noise, the testing vector is translated as well as shrunk The shrinkage is measured by αjj and the translation ... cepstrum domain distortions due to channel and noise interference can be modeled asan affine transformation The parameters of the affine transformation can be optimally estimated using the least squares ... operator, and V AR[] and COV [] represent the variance and covariance operators, respectively As can be seen from Eq (27.60), the diagonal entries αjj are the weighted covariance of the model and the...
... hierarchies, and it contains measures You typically store much less data in a local cube than in a server-based cube, and a local cube does not include many of the capabilities of a server-based cube ... capabilities that enhance the ability to manage the data and organization of a PivotTable report The following are additional capabilities that enhance the ability to manage the data and organization of ... dimension—can exist on a single axis Drag the Sales Dollars measure button from the toolbar to the data area As soon as you add a second measure to the PivotTable report, the measures act as if they...
... be the easiest way Step At this point, the Linux system should be setup to run asan NIS client If this system was connecting to an actual NIS server, the ypwhich and ypcat hosts commands could ... be erased unless the system is configured to run this command every time the system boots up There are many methods that can be used to force a Linux system to run commands upon startup Many of ... the ypbind and ypwhich daemons The ypbind daemon performs two functions, the master and the slave functions The master process handles requests for information from the NIS server and the slave...
... Times New Roman, and Courier New—are Unicode compliant However, that doesn’t mean they can display any Unicode character They are fine for English and most Central and Eastern European languages ... occupy more than one code unit—it can be multi-byte) All three encodings can display any Unicode character, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages depending on what’s important in a particular ... pts/Access_Counters/Text_Based/ 10 The Anatomy of a Hit: An Advanced PHP & MySQL Hit Counter MySQL, and user interface design The counter and graphing methodology I provide here are very simple to understand and can...
... the aspartic protease catalytic class, was previously reported [12] Accordingly, an additional inhibition assay was performed using P falciparum protein extracts and including cathepsin D (an aspartic ... Prod 59, 643–645 Maslinic acid targets on Plasmodium falciparum 13 Garcı´ a-Granados A (2007) Use of maslinic acid asan antiparasitic agent against phylum apicomplexa protozoans Patent number ... reported antioxidant [4,5], vasorelaxation [6] and anti-tumoural [7,8] activities, MA has been shown to specifically inhibit glycogen phosphorylase [9,10] and protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B [11],...
... to cancer outcome and can be easily sampled A crucial unresolved question is why patterns of gene loss and/or gain differ between cancers in different organs and cell types? It will be important ... leukoplakia161,162 and ulcerative colitis163,164 Serial biopsies can also be obtained during randomized trials to prevent or treat some cancers, for example, gastric165 and prostate cancer166 A randomized ... Conclusions and future directions To understand cancer, we need to understand and measure the population dynamics and evolutionary parameters of neoplasms These measurements provide biomarkers that can...
... writing' and 'making' The Japanese terms Eisaku and Pen mean, respectively, 'Creating English' and 'a pen' The Japanese terms Shoseki and Renzu mean, respectively, 'written materials' and 'a lens'• ... operating system, this tool can be combined with any Windowscompatible text-input application In addition, it can be combined with any other front-end processor, including Kana-Kanji conversion FEPs, ... information relevant to the input texts This information is displayed for easy editing and utilization Because all of this can be achieved with standard hooks and the IME API of the Microsoft Windows 95...
... and applauded by a number of countries, namely Japan, Hong Kong, Costa Rica, Taiwan, the European Union, not to mention countries where English is regarded as the first language and second language ... process between all participants in the classroom, and between these participants and the various activities and texts The second role is to act asan independent participant within the learning-teaching ... communicate in English” and in practice it focuses on “language skills rather than on language knowledge, communication tasks.” Another one says CLT means: Teaching language using the approaches...
... resulting proteins were assessed by SDS, nondenaturing and transverse urea gradient PAGE, and activity was assessed against tPA [6] Complex formation assays Wild-type and Ser52Arg neuroserpin ... ratios and times Lane 1, lg Ser52Arg neuroserpin; lane 2, lg tPA; lanes 3–5 correspond to an incubation of at a Ser52Arg neuroserpin to tPA ratio of 1, and 10; lanes 6–8 correspond to an incubation ... neuroserpin and tPA Ser52Arg neuroserpin is inactive asan inhibitor of tPA Wild-type neuroserpin forms complexes with tPA with a stoichiometry of inhibition of and an association rate constant (kass)...
... and methods Lane 1, homogenate; lane 2, low-speed supernatant; lane 3, low-speed pellet; lane 4, high-speed supernatant; lane 5, high-speed pellet; lane 6, myelin; lane 7, light membranes; lane ... supernatant; lane 3, low-speed pellet; lane 4, high-speed supernatant; lane 5, high-speed pellet; lane 6, myelin; lane 7, light membranes; lane 8, synaptosomes; lane 9, mitochondria; lane 10, ... melibiose, an a-d-galactopyranoside-containing disaccharide, and both IB4-peroxidase and an anti-versican (anti-GHAP) immunoglobulin bound to this high-molecular-mass protein Immunoprecipitation with an...
... acquisition and analysis software was used to quantify band intensities Antibodies were purchased from Tianjin Saier Biotech and Sigma-Aldrich 10 11 Statistical analysis Data are expressed as mean ± standard ... cancers Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101, 2999–3004 Yang K, Handorean AM & Iczkowski KA (2009) MicroRNAs 373 and 520c are downregulated in prostate cancer, suppress CD44 translation and enhance invasion ... group, and the fraction of cells in S-phase was significantly decreased in the miR-373 ASO group (B) In the pri-373 group, the fraction of cells in G1-phase was significantly decreased The PI increased...