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... Enzyme beads containing sulfurase and luciferase, and packing beads used only to keep the DNA beads in place • Above the wells is a flow channel, passing nucleotides and apyrase in a timed schedule ... analysis • The intensity of the light emitted by luciferase is proportional to the number of nucleotides incorporated • Therefore, if the intensity of a single read is times the intensity of a previous ... amount of incorporated nucleotides in the second read Two Types of Analysis • Run Time Analysis: • Image acquisition – raw image • Image processing – mapping of raw image to corresponding wells...
... capacities with respect to all psychosocial aspects in order to re-integrate the patient into social and working life [36] The goals of inpatient rehabilitation are similar to those of outpatient rehabilitation, ... Our data indicate that low income and low education level are separate risk factors, whereas only income is an influence factor of the psychological HRQOL Corresponding with this finding, in our ... reason for noninclusion was reported Table provides information on the patients in the study Instruments At the beginning and end of the inpatient rehabilitation lasting an average of 21 (+/-3.1)...
... Subjects were randomized into three groups: a control group receiving “usual care”, a smoking intervention group receiving placebo, and a smoking intervention group receiving the bronchodilator ipratroprium ... design of the study, drafting the manuscript, and interpreting the results ASB assisted in acquiring the data, drafting the manuscript, and interpreting the results All authors have read and approved ... smokers (in the absence of asthma) to differ significantly from the pre-bronchodilator value Finally, the dose of bronchodilator used in this study (two inhalations, 200-µg total dose, of isoproterenol)...
... humble attitude toward science and engineering I am extremely grateful and obliged to my co-supervisor Prof Jian-Xin Xu for his intellectual innovative and highly investigative guidance to me for my ... DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2008 Acknowledgments I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my supervisor Prof ... other Professors in the Drives, Power and Control Systems Group at ECE Department in NUS, for their help and guidance in various ways I wish to express my warm and sincere thanks to the laboratory...
... synchronous inductance lm magnet thickness Ncoil number of turns per phase in equivalent full pitch winding Nph number of turns per phase in actual winding P number of poles Pin motor input power Po motor ... model of interior PMSMs, which is used to determine the in uence of motor parameters and inverter power rating on motor output power capability This analysis provides design criteria to obtain optimal ... range and still maintaining a good efficiency and power factor The price of rare earth magnets are also coming down making these motors more popular 1.2 PM motors in Variable Speed Drives In a variable-speed...
... effector cell-bound specific IgE leads to the cross-linking of FcέRI receptors and the release of inflammatory mediators by means of degranulation, resulting in the immediate symptoms of allergy (C) ... 7-5 Inhibitor Figure Comparison of the inhibition capacity of hybrid proteins Der p 1-2 and Der p 7-5 Hybrid proteins were tested for their abilities to inhibit the binding of human serum IgE to ... dependent inhibition of human IgE binding to native Der p by mice antisera 65 Figure 19: Inhibition of the binding of human IgE to native Der p 67 Figure 20: Binding levels of mice sera...
... usually not perfect, at best producing preferences and guiding hints instead of reliable certainties Integrating a number of them into a single systems poses the problem of error propagation Whenever ... amounts to 59,622 sentences with 1,032,091 words as training data For each word in the training set, the local context was extracted and encoded into a linear representation The output of the retrained ... tagging and supertagging (line 4) Individual inspection of the results suggests that the lexicalized information of the PP attacher is often counteracted by the less informed predictions of the...
... value in the past decade has included a rethinking of sustainable capital structure proportions in relation to business performance and outlook and not just from the standpoint of minimizing the ... referred to leasing at several points in this book Leasing is a special form of financing that gives a business access to a whole range of assets, from buildings to aircraft and rail cars, and from ... latter two lines are parallel with each other and also with the line representing the original situation, both appearing to the right of the original line The lesser slope of the common stock line...
... technicalities involved in the modeling and use of virus causes damage due to: • Lack of control • Difficulty in distinguishing the nature of attack • Draining of resources • Presence of bugs • Compatibility ... fields due to floppy disk, monitor, and telephone can damage stored data Software Threats Software Problems: • In multitasking environment, software conflicts may occur due to sharing of data by ... characteristic of the virus Integrity Checking • Integrity checking products work by reading your entire disk and recording integrity data that acts as a signature for the files and system sectors Interception...
... Lycos, and Excite each offer a selection of financial data, news, and a variety of information for individuals and businesses, as well as links to a large number of information sites on financial offerings ... engaging in offsetting contracts whereby potential gains and losses will cancel each other Historical cost principle An accounting principle requiring the recording of transactions and the maintenance ... rough indicator of what investors are willing to pay for $1 of a company’s earnings Principal The original amount of a loan or bond, also called face value, on which the rate of interest to be...
... Comminuting organic material (including cattle feces in meadows) as a first step in its breakdown • Providing nutrients to plants (e.g., by concentrating them in burrow linings or by increasing ... • Penetrating the soil and building burrows, as well as increasing pore space • Transporting soil and organic matter by casting 18 Assessment of Ecotoxicity of Contaminated Soil Using Bioassays ... An inhibition of reproduction of 50% compared to the control is indicative of a contaminated soil sample I Notes and Points to Watch • The common test species F candida is difficult to distinguish...
... sectors; industries; and services including government services The model distinguishes two factor inputs, labor and capital, which determine sectoral value added using a constant elasticity of ... Nepal, Pakistan, and Viet Nam.3 To incorporate other countries in the system, further refinement of the models, including the integration of household data and interfacing of the modeling mechanisms ... • Sectoral capital is fixed Value added, together with sectoral intermediate input (which is determined using fixed coefficients), determine total output per sector In both product and factor markets,...
... targeting determinants resulting from the deimination of peptidylarginine to peptidylcitrulline residues have been described in the serum of patients with RA [19] These include antibodies targeting ... cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) [20] and antibodies targeting invivo citrullinated proteins, such as anti-keratin antibodies, antiperinuclear factor, anti-citrullinated (pro)filaggrin and anti-Sa/citrullinated ... symptoms of inflammatory arthritis appeared, additive to the previous signs and symptoms Scheduling the follow-up evaluations relative to the onset of symptoms rather than to the establishment of...
... is attached to the heating block using silver electroconductive paint The intensity of luminescence is low at high temperatures owing to recombination and therefore a large amount of sample should ... electrons reverting to their ground state following recombination A plot of the variation in intensity of luminescence with temperature is called a glow curve A block diagram of a TL instrument, ... Computercontrolled DMA instruments allow the deforming force and oscillating frequency to be selected andto be scanned automatically through a range of values, in the course of the experiment DMA...
... numbers were used as independent variables in empirical predictions of tire sinkage and torque, and hence drawbar pull (Turnage, 1972) The clay and sand mobility numbers required refining to reflect ... logged using the analog -to- digital converter of a datalogger or personal computer Proving rings that are too flexible can result in small voids going undetected, as the proving ring expands when ... made in the laboratory by attaching a suitable probe to the force transducer of a loading frame designed for material testing In the following sections, the effects of penetrometer design and...
... staining The presence of a single band of 782 bp identified individuals who were AA homozygous, two bands at 586 and 196 bp indicated those who were GG homozygous, and heterozygous individuals were ... release of other proinflammatory mediators and regulating apoptosis In contrast, IL-10 is the paradigmatic anti-inflammatory cytokine It exerts its biological properties by inhibiting the release of ... Individual variants of genes encoding mediators that are involved in the inflammatory response to an infectious agent might account for differences in clinical evolution and outcome of septic patients...
... Installation The process of unpacking, erecting, assembling, aligning, and calibrating a system and installing it into a facility, if applicable • Site Selection The process of identifying candidate ... Provisioning “The process of determining and acquiring the range and quantity (depth) of spares and repair parts, and support and test equipment required to operate and maintain an end item of material ... create training aids to support training? The answer is by way of training devices Training Devices The cost, complexity, availability, and risk of using actual systems for training purposes often...
... high degree of complementarity, 750,282 and 838,816 probes were retained to interrogate the entire nonrepetitive sequences of japonica and indica chromosome 10 andwere synthesized intwo sets Genome ... suggesting that the gene structure of about half of the UG models need to be corrected or improved Since the tiling microarrays used in this study have limited ability to pinpoint precise intron-exon ... number of oligos masked during array design (Figure 6a) To further examine the two domains, colinearity of the CG models in chromosome 10 of japonica and indica rice was calculated Mapping chromosomal...