... d1x increases and d2x decreases, indicating that the breaking point (BP) shifts toward store and the trade area for store expands The observation is straightforward It is also interesting to examine ... studies In this case, the methods are used in delineating hinterlands (in uential areas) for major cities in northeast China Delineation of hinterlands is an important task for regional planning ... Constructing Thiessen polygons for five points Breaking point d1x d2x Store (S2) Store (S1) X d12 FIGURE 4.2 Breaking point by Reilly’s law between two stores Consider two stores, stores and 2,...
... sensation and resolution of the paresthesia Intraoperative lipoma showing the median nerve within the Figure intermuscular photo Intraoperative photo showing the median nerve within the intermuscular ... corresponding to compression in the region of the pronator teres (pronator syndrome) Conservative treatment (anti-inflammatory medication and a diurnal long-arm splint) for one month did not result in ... anesthesia and hemostatic tourniquet The surgical incision began just medial to the biceps tendon and distal to the elbow flexion crease and continued to the mid-forearm between the flexor and extensor...
... of Uong Bi Town The extent and output of coal mining are increasing for both open pit and underground mines Coal mining brings big economic benefits, but impacts strongly the land and forest ... pollution in the mining area and the surroundings Coal mining is the greatest source of environmental pollution in the area of Uong Bi Town It is necessary to perform well andin time the land rehabilitation ... mountains of Yen Tu mountain range The landform in this sub-area is developed on coarse grained sedimentary rocks, consisting of alternating layers of conglomerate, gritstone, sandstone, claystone...
... that rainfall in dry season can decrease whereas rainfall in rainy season can increase and annual rainfall can increase in all research areas under the emission scenarios from highest (A1FI), to ... Can Tho relative to the baseline period (1980 - 1999) under the emission scenarios from medium to high Annual rainfall and rainfall in rainy season can increase whereas rainfall in dry season can ... value in increasing level, followed by Quy Nhon and Can Tho This is quite compatible with the temperature happening in the past (increasing level declined southwards) In addition, temperatures in...
... angle of $ 30, Tyr190 and His107 interact by a common aromatic stacking interaction To gain insight into the role of Tyr190 on NAT catalysis, we characterized a set of point site mutants at this ... aromaticHis interaction in barnase stabilizes the protonated His, increasing its pKa value and, therefore, increasing the nucleophilicity of active site Cys A similar interaction was found between the indole ... role of Y190 in NAT grown from single colonies and were diluted to L terric broth containing ampicillin (100 lgặmL)1) and chloramphenicol (50 lgặmL)1) Cultures were grown at 37 C to an absorbance...
... factors attributable to the overall financial services industry andto specific sectors within the financial services industry, such as the banking, securities, and insurance sectors Within each ... RELEASE The information in this report is intended to provide investors with insight into how the Board fulfills that mission This report should also be useful to investors and other financial statement ... prices for use in testing certain fair value measurements.10/ Fair Value Measurements for Financial Instruments Certain financial instruments, including certain investments in debt and equity securities,...
... (1995) TNF-induced intracellular signaling leading to gene induction or to cytotoxicity by necrosis or by apoptosis J In amm 47, 67–75 Fausto N (2000) Liver regeneration J Hepatol 32, 19–31 Link CD, ... boxes indicate coding region, and open boxes indicate 5¢UTR and 3¢UTR (B) 5¢-Flanking region of human KCTD10 from )609 to +30 KCTD10 was arranged in the reverse direction to its neighboring gene ... 5¢-flanking region contained the functional promoter; within it, the region from )108 to +30 is essential for the promoter activity Using tfsearch and matinspector programs, multiple potential binding...
... (1992) Low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein and gp330 bind similar ligands, including plasminogen activator-inhibitor complexes and lactoferrin, an inhibitor of chylomicron remnant ... A-chain, it seems likely that both the growth factor domain and the kringle contribute to the binding, but putative endocytosis receptor-binding residues in the kringle remain unknown The involvement ... Particularly interesting ligands are the serine protease urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA), its primary serpin inhibitor, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), and the corresponding protease-serpin...
... temperature ranging from 20°C to 55°C Confined areas on the Si wafer were defined by photolithography using the AZ5214 photoresist This photoresist was used as the masking material for SiNW formation ... Square-shaped windows in the photoresist having a surface area ranging from × μm to 400 × 400 μm were used in our experiments SiNWs were characterized by FE-SEM using a JSM7401F microscope (JEOL, Tokyo, ... the confined areas to etch by MACE (b) The patterned wafer is then immersed into the MACE solution, and SiNWs are selectively formed in the resist windows, as illustrated in (c) In (d), a top-view...
... proximal point methods and their variants for finding zeros of monotone maximal operators, see, for example, 7–10 and the references therein In this paper, motivated by the research work going on in this ... algorithms 1.13 and 1.14 are very interesting and quite reasonable In this paper, we consider the problem of finding zeros of maximal monotone operators by hybrid proximal point method To be more precise, ... by the Teaching and Research Award Fund for Outstanding Young Teachers in Higher Education Institutions of MOE, China and the Dawn Program Foundation in Shanghai References J Eckstein, “Approximate...
... CAD tools (widespread used in this area) in mind, in order to minimize the learning curve for the final users andto guarantee a good level of acceptance of the new functionalities included in ... widely used in security monitoring and command and control for special operations Video images from video see-through AR display and optical tracking devices may also be fed to command and control ... development incorporating not only AR features, but also configurable graphic windows oriented to AR content This interface allows users to show, to hide andto modify layers included in the original...
... Edge coloring Expository Interesting exercises (in an expository work) Frustration (imbalance); esp frustration index (line index of imbalance) Connections with geometry, including toric varieties, ... from analysis of data on a small (social) group, in terms of frustration index l and a clusterability index mink>2 2Pk,.5 (slightly different from the index in Doreian and Mrvar (1996a)), finding ... of signs (However, due to lack of time andin order to maintain “balance” in the bibliography, I have included only a limited selection of items concerning binary clutters and postman theory, two-graphs,...
... cm away from the ligament of Treitz was led from a small abdominal incision to outside the abdominal cavity and also cut off with an automated stapler An automated stapler was inserted from the ... again inflated and the lifted jejunum was led into the abdominal cavity Connection with anvil, and anastomosis The anvil and the main unit were connected after it was confirmed that an automated ... safe and easy way of conducting anastomosis between the esophagus and digestive tract following total or proximal gastrectomy by the hemi-double stapling technique using EEA™ OrVilTM1 [1] In this...
... trend toward correlation with joint stiffness is a new and most interesting finding, as there is, to date, very little information of this kind originating from longitudinal studies However, from ... analysis and interpretation of data, and statistical analysis M-JB and FA contributed to acquisition of dataandto analysis and interpretation of data DC and BH contributed to acquisition of data JFB, ... played by the meniscal structure and positioning in protecting the integrity of cartilage in both healthy and OA individuals Our data, however, clearly point to the fact that by far the greatest...
... Associates, Flagstaff, AZ, USA) starting at the origin of the brachiocephalic trunk and ending in the descending thoracic aorta, was inserted and resulting in a complete Figure Angiography after ... owing to surgical difficulties to clearly visualize and manipulate the deeply located proximal left subclavian artery, the ligation was incomplete in two cases and impossible in the remaining ... of the thoracic aneurysm in two cases andin persistent, retrograde perfusion of the false lumen in the remaining case Additionally, in all cases these radiological findings were associated with...
... evaluated using a repeated measures analysis of covariance (ANCOVA, mixed effects model) This model is able to Page of 10 handle missing data points by taking into account all available datafrom scheduled ... contributed to the conception and design of these studies, the acquisition of study data, and the analysis and interpretation of these data He was fully involved in the drafting and revision ... the acquisition of study data, and the analysis and interpretation of these data He was fully involved in the drafting and revision of this manuscript, and provided final approval of its content...
... into a single arc, so that the resulting structure is linear in the length of the string Whereas a string of L characters may contain Θ(L2) distinct substrings, the O(L) substrings terminating at ... resulting from the composition vectors relative to all words in two sequences can be computed in time and space linear in the input size We consider the combined trie for both sequences and discuss ... aw will be injected into the trie to mark that locus, and a suffix link will be issued from ν to μ With dummy nodes in place, the restriction in the above construction is levied, in the sense...
... latrine coverage was increased from 78% in 2007 to 82% in 2009 in urban areas andfrom 67% to 71% in rural areas (see Table 4), however, coverage declined to 62% in urban areas andto 48% in rural ... HMIS indicator for health services utilization, The datafrom EWAR, which includes statistics from international NGOs, indicated that there were a total of 754,852 consultations in 15 townships in ... rate increased to 798.81 in the post-Nargis months of 200 8and declined in 2009 to 610.6 per 100,000 in the study area As shown in the figure, the seasonal peak for diarrhea cases in 2007 and 2009,...
... various proton acceptor sites in solution As shown in Table 2, by defining the partitioning of H+ buffering among the different proton acceptor sites, the equilibrium [H+] is simply determined from ... the partitioning of H+ buffering among the different proton acceptor sites of a triprotic acid-containing solution As shown in Table 2, by defining the partitioning of H+ buffering among the ... were to have a mechanistic role in determining the equilibrium pH, it must so by imparting a fixed macroscopic charge to the solution which will in turn cause the [H+] to attain a given value in...