... - assembled aggregates). An alternative way is to treat the surfactant mole-
cules in bulk (usually aqueous solution) and the surfactant micelles as a different
phase ( pseudo - phase separation) ... organic,
polymeric, metallic, and biological materials in vacuum and in water.
Material
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extended by sales representatives or written sales materials....
... application-aware adaptive
middleware architecture as a viable approach to control
the adaptive behavior of applications so that the best
possible application-level QoS is achieved under any ... the applications.
In this paper, we present a control-theoretic algorithm for
QoS adaptation in the application-aware middleware
architecture to enhance the effectiveness of QoS adaptation ...
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assign a value to it (as in languages such as C++ and Java), PHP automatically assigns a data
type to a variable when a value is allocated to it. This makes PHP rather ... regular arrays, multidimensional arrays, and even the
handy associative array. Unlike the string functions available to PHP, the array functions are
actually rather well organized and follow fairly ... always assigned by value, since the PHP 4 release
(and including PHP 5), you can now assign variables by reference. This means you can create
something of an alias to a variable that will change...
... own action plan. Through these S&CWGs activities, regalar
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An Evaluation of A Participatory Research Approach
in Rainfed Lowland Area of Vinh Trach Village, Bac Lieu
Nguyen Duy Can
1
, ... are Vietnamese. Natural area of of the village is about 4,229 ha, of which the rice
land area occupies about 2,855 ha, vegetables area about 232 ha and some 1,400 ha of rice land has been
converted ... research approaches to support the small-scale
household farming in utilizing and managing of agricultural and natural resources reasonably. Central
elements in this participatory research are...
... work
for various applications, data transformation is necessary to standardize the raw data into the value range
that both neural network components can work with. Formulas for data transformation are ... operations,
etc. A QC can be mathematically defined as a random variable, which is a function that takes values from
a population or distribution. Denote a QC as random variable
x
. If a population ... Tables 18.6 (a) and (b), to Acosta and Pignatiello’s
(1996) EWMA chart which adopts Roberts’ (1959) EWMA for mean and Wortham’s and Heinrich’s
(1972) EWMA for variance.
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Acknowledgments
1
A list of participants and their organizations is available at
http://gucchdtacenter.georgetown.edu/public_health.html
C. ... on
mental health can have just as many societal benefits as those that focus on physical health.
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CHAPTER 1: Introduction
A Public Health Approach to Children’s Mental Health :A Conceptual Framework
Multiple ... where a public health approach to children’s mental
health can be envisioned and achieved.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
... clients. Having said that, the fundamentals of
participatory training are repeated and reinforced throughout the manual as
a reminder, and to encourage those who may have had less advanced
training ... client-
centered approach is its applicability to any client and any provider in any
location. The manual has been revised slightly from its use in Pakistan to
enhance its broad appeal and trainers are ... Gul Rashida and Zakir Hussain have been the heart of this
training and development of the manual. Dr.Ali Mir has been a core member
at various stages of the course development. Mr.Fayyaz Khan...
... measured with an infrared gas
analysis system (Uras 3 G; Hartmann & Braun AG, Frank-
furt am Main, Germany). A whole-rosette cuvette design
was used as described in [31]. Gas exchange was ... Whereas many
tropical and subtropical species have only limited
capacities to cope with low temperature, plants from
temperate climates, such as Arabidopsis thaliana, grow
at low temperature and can ... demonstrated [21], and it was shown
that acclimation does not take place in total darkness.
Strand et al. [22] found that cold acclimation was sig-
nificantly enhanced in plants with increased SPS activ-
ity,...
... earth. “Wabtagi fema a tak Allah al-dar el-aakhera wala
tansa nasibak men al-dunia” (Al-Qusas #77). [But seek, by means of that which
God has given you, to attain the abode of the hereafter and ... and avoid hopelessness, by employing the verse, “Faasa an takrahou
shaiaan wayajaalu Allah menhu khayran kathera” (Al-nisaa #19). [It may well
be that you dislike a thing which God has meant ... katab Allah lana howa mawlana
waala Allah falyatawakal el-moamenin” (Al-tawbah #51). [Say: Nothing will
befall us except what God has ordained. He is our Guardian. In God let the
faithful put...
... presence or absence
of affiliations with medical schools.
The goal of Phase II was to conduct a quantitative analysis aimed at evaluating the
impact of a wide range of patient and facility characteristics ... from the Phase II analysis.
Our analytic approach closely resembles the approach that we took in the Phase II
analysis. The analysis was structured to yield clear, policy-relevant, practical conclusions ... each patient was as-
signed the average value for each characteristic (the “unadjusted average allocation”) with the
simulated allocation that occurs when a characteristic of interest (e.g., health...
... E & Hisabori T (2001) ATP
synthase – a marvellous rotary engine of the cell. Nat
Rev Mol Cell Biol 2, 669–677.
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Kihara A, Ueda I, Yanagida T, ... triphosphate
(ATP) synthase from the thermoalkaliphilic Bacillus
sp. strain TA2 .A1 facilitates ATP synthesis at low
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only 10 membrane-buried negative charges that are
essential for binding the ion and also for the rotational
mechanism of the ring. The c ring of I. tartaricus has
11 negative charges that...
... disease plays a key
role in inducing plasma leakage, shock and hemorrhagic manifestations.
Currently, there are no vaccines available against dengue virus, although
several tetravalent live-attenuated ... World Health Organization, updated February 2006.
Type of vaccine
Pharmaceutical
company or
research group
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development
Live attenuated tetravalent vaccine Sanofi-Pasteur ⁄ Mahidol Phase ... mutant US Food and Drug Administration Preclinical
Tetravalent E-NS1 fusion protein subunit Hawaii Biotech Preclinical
DNA and recombinant
modified vaccinia Ankara
National Institute of Health...