... urban consumers in South Africa have smartphones than any other country. For instance, 75 percent of urban South Africans own smartphones, compared with 20 percent of consumers in Japan. ... Germany and Japan) are conducting activities weekly on their devices. To do these activities, emerging-market consumers are much more often downloading free apps than paid apps. And they ... Emerging markets lead the growth of many consumer technologies, but these markets are not uniform in consumers’ device purchase and use. The data is in andthe findings are clear: The movement to...
... type. You can see this type correspondence in Table 9.3, shown earlier. You can get the database type for a column using the GetDataTypeName() method of your DataReader object. For example: ... the type ofthe database column. If you don't know the type of a column, you can get it using Visual Studio .NET's Server Explorer. For example, Figure 9.1 shows the details ofthe ... how to get the .NET type and database type of a column using C#. You get the .NET type used to represent a column using the GetFieldType() method ofyour DataReader object. For example: Console.WriteLine("ProductID...
... string of binary data. SqlBoolean An integer with either a 1 or 0 value. SqlByte An 8-bit unsigned integer value between 0 and 28 - 1 (255). SqlDateTime A date and time between 12:00:00 AM January ... the Get* methods andthe standard C# types. I showed you the Get* methods earlier only because they work with non-SQL Server databases. Table 9.6 shows the Sql* types andthe values that may ... convert between SQL Server types andthe standard C# types, which the Get* methods have to do. Tip If you are using SQL Server, always use the GetSql* methods and Sql* types rather than the Get*...
... of these changes occurred at frame-work 3 ofthe heavy chain (Asp74Asn) and 3 ofthe lightchain. Two ofthe changes (Thr152Ile and Ser197Gly)occurred at frameworks 1 and 3, respectively, and ... To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report ofthe generation of a human recom-binant antibody fragment capable of neutralizing the toxic effects ofthe whole venom from a deadly animal.ResultsHuman ... for the selection of human antibodies through the creation of large repertoires in vitro [10]. This process begins with the cloning and expression of cDNAs encoding the variable regions of the...
... the study design, statistical analysis and helped todraft the manuscript; CMT participated in the studydesign anddata collection; KL helped to draft the manu-script and took part in the theoretical ... differ significantly between the two samples and raises the question of whether these sim-ilarities remain or not in other different cultures. The demonstration of cultural invariance ofthe core ... AccessResearchDevelopment and validation ofthe Brazilian version ofthe Attitudes to Aging Questionnaire (AAQ): Anexampleof merging classical psychometric theory andthe Rasch measurement modelEduardo...
... the study design, statistical analysis and helped todraft the manuscript; CMT participated in the studydesign anddata collection; KL helped to draft the manu-script and took part in the theoretical ... differ significantly between the two samples and raises the question of whether these sim-ilarities remain or not in other different cultures. The demonstration of cultural invariance ofthe core ... item and subscale correlations and internal relia-bility. No missing values were found in any ofthe 44items in the Brazilian sample. The analysis ofthe pooledinternational data indicated the...
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... stearothermophilus mutants. The kinetic parameters of the wild-type enzymes andthe various mutants from the two organisms (B. stearothermophilus [47] and T. brucei) aresummarized in Table 6. With ... the T. brucei and T. cruzi proteins. These Kdvalues actuallyrepresent the ligand affinities for a nonactive conformation of the enzyme in the absence of substrate and cofactor.Molecular ... resolved. The stereochemistry of the structure is generally quite satisfactory, with morethan 99% ofthe residues showing torsion angles in the favourable regions ofthe Ramachandran diagram...
... (analogues of 6 and 7), whereas the two remaining analogues wouldinhibit both trypsin and chymotrypsin simultaneously and independently. Jaulent and Leatherbarrow [11]reported the synthesis and kinetic ... positions 5 ⁄ 6 and 19 ⁄ 20 to release fragments with Ser6 and Lys19 at their N- and C-termini, respec-tively. The cleavage is followed by resynthesis of the peptide bond between Lys5 and Ser20 to ... experimental proteinases and remained intact in the presence ofthe other enzyme. Consequently, the hypothesis that the inhibitory activity ofthe permu-tants in the presence of both enzymes could...
... dynamics of Av17 and macrophages and allow refining ofthe mathematical model thatwe currently have.A mathematical model goes hand in hand with experimental models. It is a caricature of reality, and its ... transient ERK and strong and sustained p38 activation.Changing the Av17 stimulus shows that bothERK and p38 control the amplitude of IL-10 The density ofthe parasite population, and hence the concentration ... of p38 in the feedbackmechanism.Understanding the process behind IL-10 regulation and macrophage deactivation could open the door tounderstanding the role of ERK in macrophage fate.Av17 and...
... south of the Greenland-Scotland ridge. At α = αc≡ 1.7 a thresh-old associated with a drastic AMOC increase of more than10 Sv and a northward shift of deep water formation north of the Greenland-Scotland ... for the lowered CH4 and N2O atmospheric CO2concentration), the ICE-5G ice-sheetreconstruction (Peltier, 2004) and changes in land-sea maskconsistent withthe latter, andan increase of ... changes (black). The gray rectangle indicates the duration ofthe oceanicsubsurface warming. Within this rectangle, (A) shows the phase of ice shelf breaking and (B) indicates the period of...
... design and wrote the manuscript. TT, IM and DEG carried out the data analysis. MK participated in the study design and crit-ically reviewed the manuscript, and all authors read and approved the ... treatment and psychosocial care services. In addition, participants with Table 2: Means and standard deviations of trait anxiety and coping strategies ofthe participants of two types of diabetes ... 70% of items included in any scalewere included in the study.Results The total mean and standard deviation of trait anxiety intwo types of diabetes was 46.98 ± 6.14. The mean of traitanxiety...