... than colonialism Beyond just a historical exploration ofthe effects of disease and medicine on different spheres of society, this thesis is interested in using disease as a means of re-framing ... the death toll as a result oftheGreat Flu, it is surprising that it has largely remained a blind-spot for historians.24 This historiographical absence has slowly been addressed with texts such ... defined” as the Russian influenza because in those far-off days Russia was a land of melodramatic mysteries for most of us, and, therefore, the likeliest place ofa swift and strange disease,...
... unstable business base causes fluctuations inthe demand for skilled labor that are expensive and difficult to manage The unstable business base also prevents contractors from leveraging purchases ... cost escalation for DDs and DDGs may be driven by evolutions in capabilities of ships rather than increases in basic shipbuilding costs such as those for labor or materials If labor and material ... Graser, of RAND, and Daniel Nussbaum, ofthe Naval Post Graduate School Their comments and suggestions have greatly improved this work Abbreviations Amphib amphibious ship BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics...
... find airframe materials data for all the aircraft used for the technical characteristics analysis, so our material complexity analysis is based on a further reduced set of aircraft Appendix A lists ... flyaway costs inthe HAPCA data This similarity in escalation rates for the two different costs suggests that our results are not biased by using P-1 rather than unit flyaway cost The rates of escalation ... characteristics for all aircraft bought in that fiscal year To begin addressing aircraft cost issues, we review three topics in this chapter First, we examine available data sources, including their...
... paraphrase of Raphael 's painting of music 's patron saint in his fine picture of Mrs Billington, the famous English singer of his last years, as St Cecilia She holds a music book in her hand, but is ... sixty-two, having gained many medals and a professorship of painting at the Paris School of Fine Arts His fame was mostly won by pictures ofthe war inthe Crimea, notably by his "Battle ofthe Alma," ... his art by the constant use of his beloved instrument, and this story must serve as the artist 's excuse Doubtless as many believers were found for this baseless tale as for these others [Illustration:...
... or inhibition of phosphatidylinositol-3 kinase (PI3K) attenuates ROS production These findings suggest that these kinases are involved in upstream signaling cascades responsible for activating ... microglia and the assembly ofthe active microglial NADPH oxidase maybe largely responsible for the oxidative damage observed inthe AD brain Astrocytes and the NADPH oxidase Astrocytes are the most ... 120 Ishii K, Tokuda T, Matsushima T, Miya F, Shoji S, Ikeda S, Tamaoka A: Pravastatin at 10 mg/day does not decrease plasma levels of either amyloid-beta (Abeta) 40 or Abeta 42 in humans Neurosci...
... that mucin histochemistry could be used to establish if a pattern of mucin staining in Barrett 's esophagus may be associated with a greater risk of progression to adenocarcinoma [35] Three dyes, ... expressed at seven ofthe ABE in this investigation So, an area with gastric metaplasia within the specialized Barrett 's epithelium could originate an expansion clone capable of initiate the carcinogenesis ... were the pathologists and involved in laboratory investigation AVSR was involved in collecting data, laboratory investigation, carried out the immunoassays All authors read and approved the final...
... acid-base disturbances - which should be managed - are probably the most important As such, the fact that absolute ultrafiltered volumes were comparable in both the less and more intensive patient ... group, the dose was expressed as the number of dialysis days per week, targeting a Kt/V urea threshold However, as long as we know neither the nature nor the kinetics of many ofthe ‘toxins’ involved ... groups makes it questionable whether there really was a difference of dose inthe study by Vesconi and colleagues Interestingly, there was also no difference in obtained net ultrafiltration between...
... ofthe passage The three stages are summarized as: Pre-listening stage, While-listening stage and Postlistening stage Each stage has its own aims and activities 1.3.1 Pre-listening stage It is ... other skills such as speaking, listening and writing Also, the main purpose of teaching and learning English at the school is for the final exams This certainly affects the students’ listening competence ... is essential to assist the students to build up the habit of listening English For example, teachers can ask students to listen to the tape at home before listening in class When listening at...
... bends of opposite curvature and the radial pressure gradient changes sign along the S- duct, the side wall pressure distribution is sinusoidal-like in shape An example of such a distribution is shown ... structure at the duct exit stays relatively invariant as that described above That isa thicker boundary layer exists along the inside wall and a thinner boundary layer at the outside wallofthe bend, ... velocity) inthe S- duct migrates towards the outside wallofthe first bend and exits near the inside wallofthe second bend Lastly, large scale, vortical structures exist along the outside wallof the...
... ofthe cobra probe is mm Besides the probe, the system consists ofa pressure module (containing seven 0.3 psi pressure transducers), a DAQ board and an acquisition computer The pressure on the ... disk A software called Aeroprobe supplied by the manufacturer controls the data acquisition process It allows the user to set important parameters like the number of data points, the data acquisition ... probe is measured by the pressure module via tubes The analogue pressure signals are then digitized by the DAQ system board and transmitted to the acquisition computer for storage into hard disk...
... may also contribute to the observed scatter inthe data The explanation given above to explain the observed deviation and scatter inthe data of (s/ SO) versus (s/ SO) in S- duct flows is still a ... the far side and near side wall at the same (s/ SO), multiplied by half ofthe curvature ratio This mathematical operation is applied to all the CP data and presented as plots of (s/ SO) versus ... the cases obtained from literature This isa reasonable assumption because a constant reference pressure (usually thewall static pressure) is used in experiments Next, the difference in CP between...
... on the linear traversing device, and the spatial resolution for all probe measurements is mm In all cases, a sec waiting time was allowed for the flow to stabilise before acquiring data at each ... = the vertical co-ordinate and = the turning angle ofa bend measured in radians The derivation ofthe Squire and Winter formula is shown in Appendix A and Bof this thesis To test whether the ... flow separation along the near-side wallThe adverse pressure gradient is defined inthe present investigation as the difference between the minimum near-side wall pressure and the pressure at the...
... that the swirl magnitude increases Of particular interest isthe presence ofa small, nascent vortex near the corner ofthe bottom wall and near-side wall as labelled This small vortex starts to ... side wallis reduced In addition, the flow along the periphery ofthe far-side wall and bottom wall increases This is to be expected as the streamwise flow near the far side wall (higher static ... 5.3 shows that the cross flow direction is from the far-side wall towards the near-side wall This is to be expected as the incoming flow at the inlet encounters an adverse stream-wise pressure...
... implemented, the radial pressure difference between the side walls increases, resulting ina stronger swirl inthe S- duct Using total pressure and cross flow measurements, it was shown that this increase ... mid-height of each vertical side wallis used to measure thewall pressure distribution The reference static pressure (PS) is measured from the side wall as indicated in Fig 6.1 (b) Also shown in Fig ... added mass injection for the blowing and VG cases The mass flow rate ratio (i.e mass flow rate of air injection to the mass flow rate inthe S- duct) ofthe various cases can be computed for tangential...
... separation and accompanied by changes inthe configuration of near -wall stream-wise vortices The latter changes the side wall pressure distribution and hence the variation of (s/ SO) with (s/ SO) This implies ... formation ofthe separation line at the bottom floor and finally, the formation of stream-wise vortices on the outer wallofthe second bend These cross flow measurements also indicate that the streamwise ... improving flow uniformity at the exit In fact, these three methods increase the swirl inthe Sduct as a result of an increase inthe radial pressure difference between the side walls The increase in...
... or 20 mini compact cars – or any combination thereof – parked inthe same amount of space. However, the TPA has been using this data as its primary source for capacity analysis so the researchers feel this isa reasonable data set to use. In future studies, it could be useful to ... lines, two streetcar lines and a variety of bus routes feed into two subway stations (Spadina and Bathurst) at either end ofthe study area. Bloor is one ofthe busiest cycling streets inthe city and has more bicycle‐motor vehicle collisions than other streets. However, there are currently no ... Annex neighbourhood, between Spadina Avenue and Bathurst Street. Based on the data, analysis and discussion, the evidence makes a strong case that Toronto should be looking to install a bike lane on this section of Bloor Street. The spending habits of cyclists, their relatively ...
... makes his living from his apparent wisdom rather than any real wisdom.9 Naturally, then, the source ofthe sophists success is his expertise in eristic But Aristotles sophist is more than a master ... Coriscus is musical and unmusical, but that this Coriscus is musical and this Coriscus is unmusical For this Coriscus will be the same phrase as this Coriscus [who] is unmusical (or musical), ... simulates other kinds of reasoning Since the other kinds of reasoning have been distinguished by the nature of their premises, Aristotle initially denes eristic as reasoning from premises that are...
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... K, Nakamura S, Takashima A, Ono F, Sakakibara I, Ishii Y, Kyuwa S, Yoshikawa Y: Age-related changes of Alzheimer 's disease-associated proteins in cynomolgus monkey brains Biochem Biophys Res Commun ... produced inthe human brain, but less is known about their CNS synthesis in other species [31] The status of some of these regulatory proteins in AD is unclear; for example, there are conflicting ... studied inthe AD brain There is convincing evidence for activation of both the classical and alternative pathways, resulting in full activation as indicated by the presence ofthe MAC Both aggregated...