... Listen and “hands up when you hear” First listening: Hands up when you hear the word beginning with /θ/ Second listening: Hands up when you hear the word beginning with /ð/ Third listening: Hands ... different in respect of only one sound segment The series of words pin, bin, tin, din, kin, gin, chin, fin, thin, sin, shin, win supplied with 12 words which are distinguished simply by a change in ... differ in only aspect-that of voicing There are many pairs of English consonants that differ only in this feature: /p/ and /b/ (pin, bin) /θ/ and /ð/ (think, the) /f/ and /v/ (fast, vast) /t∫ / and...
... proposed inwhich the 3-D motion and the 3-D shape of the whole hand, or ngers are computed and used in recognizing gestures For example, Regh and Kanade 26] describe a model-based hand tracking system ... lips and rest of the face to be useful in snakes Otherwise, snakes get caught into local minima 12 MUBARAK SHAH AND RAMESH JAIN In Bregler and Omohundro's method, the training lip images are initially ... researchers to explore some of the exciting and challenging directions presented in this book References Adelson, E.H and Niyogi, S A Analyzing and recognizing walking gures in XYT In IEEE CVPR-94,...
... Hilt B, Langård S, Andersen A, Rosenberg J: Asbestos exposure, smoking habits, and cancer incidence among production and maintenance workers inan electrochemical plant Am J Ind Med 1985, 8(6):565-77 ... chose to interpret that the low specificity for ever having mixed amalgam manually in a mortar may be explained by some misunderstanding and unclear wording in the questionnaire The method, “mixing ... performed manual mixing in a mortar, and used a Dentomat Taking the answers from the interview on these questions as the true answer and comparing this to the similar answers from the questionnaires,...
... production of aminoand organic acids and, consequently, a lower input to the repair processes at the end of the season The total phenol content is reported to increase in response to O3 [8, 32] and phenolic ... photoynthesis in a forest canopy experiment, Plant Cell Environ 18 (1995) 895–905 [52] Topa M.A., Vanderklein D.W., Corbin A., Effects of elevated ozone and low light on diurnal and seasonal carbon gain in ... material from a single leaf was sampled from each flush of each seedling, cut into × mm pieces and incubated in mL of 100 mM phosphate buffer (pH 7.5) containing 40 mM KNO3 and 1.5% 1-propanol Each sample...
... EA-H, Brett CT: Protein and ph dependent binding of nascent pectin and glucoronoarabinoxylan to xyloglucan in pea Planta 2000, 211:423-429 48 Smallwood M, Bevan A, Donovan N, Neill SJ, Peart ... extensins, including repeats of structural Ser (Hyp)4 motifs, as well as Tyr-Lys-Tyr-Lys and Pro-ProVal-Tyr-Lys motifs believed to be required for the intra- and inter-crosslinking of extensin in ... 16 and 132 Da This can be clearly attributed to the expected heterogeneity in proline hydroxylation (16 Da) and hydroxyproline arabinosylation (132 Da) in extensins Saline-eluted walls regain...
... chemiluminescence detection regent (Santa Cruz) To ensure equal protein loading, anti-β-actin antibody (Santa Cruz) was used to detect β-actin expression in cells In order to test the capacity indicative ... cells infected with BIV This study demonstrates that bISG15 is an antiviral and inducible protein in BIV infected fetal bovine lung cells BIV infection can induce the expression of bISG15 in FBL ... Genomics (Tianjin), College of Life Sciences, Nankai University; N0 94, Rd Weijin, Nankai District, Box 300071, Tianjin, PR China and 2School of Medicine, Nankai University, N0 94, Rd Weijin, Nankai...
... new antiretroviral therapies In this point context, understanding mechanisms by which reservoirs of HIV-1 latently infected cells are established and maintained in vivo is crucial The preintegration ... thank Elisabeth Dohin, Melissa Egbertson, and Harold Selnick from Merck Sharp & Co for their help and kind donation of the HIV-1 integrase inhibitor We also thank Marie-France Huguet and Karine ... Meylan, France), and a Custom Cocktail containing Abs directed against HLA-DR, CD69, and http://www.retrovirology.com/content/4/1/60 CD25 cell receptors (Stemcell Technologies, Meylan, France) to...
... specific human capital related to management is expected to play an important role mainly in labor management, inventory control, accounting, and other managerial tasks within enterprises In other ... quantity of manganese, silica, and aluminum mixed into the melted metal, and the machines The proprietors and the foremen are not tied by any formally written labor contract, but rather by informal ... Asian countries such as Japan, Taiwan, and China, the entrepreneurs’ management abilities are found to be important in facilitating the transition of industrial clusters from the quantity expansion...
... gold,’ and ‘fulvus sand,’ and ‘fulvus lion’; and so Ennius in his Annals says ‘fulvus air’ Flavus, on the other hand, seems to be mixed from green, red and white; thus ‘flavus tresses’ and (which ... found in literary passages and inscriptions about the dyes, the materials being dyed, and social attitudes towards these colorants An examination of the dyeing and fulling industry in Rome illuminates ... purple, purpureus, ostrinus, conchyliatus, and hysginum; for red, coccinus, minium, and sandraca Romans were interested in all types of dyeing methods and all types of materials and did not restrict...
... 3-fold increase in glucose and a more than 30-fold increase in lactate, whereas the levels in controls remained constant The arginine kinase gene (AK) and the eukaryotic translation initiation factor ... glucose and lactate in hemolymph and gene expression in the ES and PO Hypoxia and emersion Hypoxia and emersion caused hyperglycemia and hyperlactemia (Fig 7A,B) Crabs exposed to hypoxia 696 and ... (http://www.dnr.state.md.us/bay/ monitoring/water/index.html) In particular, it is noted that in the Bay, low temperatures during winter and anoxia during summer, in combination with the changes in salinity, are associated...
... world and that there is a better place for them than inside the cave A few escape and come into the light When they do, they realize how much they have missed and cannot and will not return to ... Neo and the others are waging a war against A.I run rampant, the creators of that AI were their own ancestors Star Wars is decidedly less complex, and doesn't bother to give us much back-story; ... needs to "wake up" to the real world and lose his illusions This idea is very similar in nature to Plato's allegory The Cave In this allegory humans are trapped in a cave and can see no light They...
... for ASEAN-6 - 2015 for CLMV ASEAN-China FTA PRC and ASEAN-10 - Signed in 2002 - Under implementation- - 2010 for China and ASEAN6 - 2015 for CLMV ASEAN-Japan FTA Japan and ASEAN-10 - Signed in Oct ... ASEAN-Japan, ASEAN-Korea, ASEAN+3, ASEAN+4, ASEAN+6 and China-Japan-Korea Percentage change in welfare (or welfare per capita) and change in GDP and output are the most commonly used variables in empirical ... found to be generally larger than that for China and Japan Using GTAP simulations, Urata and Kiyota (2003) indicates that ASEAN+3 will generate 12.5% gain in welfare for Thailand and 6.6% gain for...
... proteins and macrophages into the brain [46] TNFa and IL6 are cytokines involved in cell-mediated immune response and their production has been shown to be associated with tissue inflammation and ... postulated to play an important role in the etiology of autism Investigators have proposed infectious, autoimmune, and cytokine-related etiologies These information initiate our interest to measure ... activation and neuroinflammation in the brain of patients with autism Ann Neurol 2005, 57:67-81 10 Jyonouchi H, Sun S, Le H: Proinflammatory and regulatory cytokine production associated with innate and...
... they were less tolerant and less accommodating towards people living with HIV/AIDS than the diabetic patients Stigma and discrimination shown to these people can worsen the spread and impact of ... patients in regard to HIV/ AIDS; • To determine the knowledge, attitudes, and risk behaviors of diabetic patients in regard to HIV/AIDS; and • To compare these groups on these parameters and make conclusions ... time, a total of 69 consecutive and consenting attendees of the outpatient endocrinology clinic of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, suffering from diabetes mellitus were initially...
... contributions to the final models In line with research of anxiety and gender, male gender was associated to less anxiety [34] Not surprisingly, increasing age and clinical Hamang et al Health and Quality ... between a given predictor andan outcome in a standardized form It is the change in the outcome (in standard deviations) associated with a one standard deviation change in the predictor, thus it is ... disease manifestations, and LQTS and HCM are both autosomal dominant disorders with variable penetrance and disease expression An important issue in discussing the findings in the present study...
... writing to the first year students with an intermediate knowledge of English who study in Vinh university The writing games can be classified into group according to the teaching aims and situations: ... command is given and the procedure is repeated - When the work has finished, the students open them and, in writing, join the fragments of information together to make it more interesting and logical ... how good and useful the books are, the basic teaching techniques and supplementary activities are of significant importance to a writing lesson Depending on R Y E various teaching aims and situations...
... biomass investment in branches in low light However, in our study, there was an increase in the fractional investment in needles with increasing Qint in the fertile site, and no effect of Qint in ... the infertile site, and became increasingly asymmetric and peaked with increasing irradiance at the fertile site 3.2 Effects of irradiance and nutrient availability on branching frequency and ... site X NM interaction were significant according to ANCOVA (P > 0.2), data were fitted by a single regression line in A Symbols and regression lines as in figure 202 Ü Niinemets and A Lukjanova...
... experiment was to analon the seed germination of Pinus pinaster Aiton, Pinus radiata D Don and Eucalyptus globulus Labill and yse the effect of ash to determine whether ash affects the mean germination ... fire in a Mediterranean pine forest, Oecologia 91 (1992) 365-370 of Neéman G., Meir I., Neéman R., The effect of ash on the germination and early growth of shoots and roots of Pinus, Cistus and annuals, ... tends to increase the greater the concentrations of ash cate Our results coincide with those found by González-Rabanal and Casal [17], Neéman et al [25], Thomas and Wein [32] and Trabaud and Casal...
... exchange rates not provide much information about control mechanisms Measurements of changes in stomatal conductance and pho- tosynthetic rates can divide photosynthetic response into stomatal and ... maintaining a balance between shoot and root growth and permitting a shift of carbon allocation to roots for continual growth The mechanisms that control leaf expansion in response to changing ... should survive and grow to be a significant component of future stands (Crow, 1988; Teclaw and lsebrands, 1993; Johnson, 1994) With current management practices, many oak stand stands in the United...
... for centuries as coppice-with-standards stands, inwhich oaks (Quercus robur L and Q petraea [Matt] Liebl) are the predominant species in the standard trees In many places, the foresters are confronted ... area of 2.6 The stand is also an old coppice-with-standards but less degraded than the Molinia site The standards are almost exclusively pedunculate oaks, ranging in age between 50 and 160 years ... (Becker and Lévy, 1986) Three main ecological factors may play an important role: level and length of the temporary soil waterlogging, chemical soil properties, and competition for water and/ or...