... with fixed maturityand fixed or determinable payments traded in an active market, whichthecompanyhastheintentionandabilitytoholdtomaturity 2.2.1 Initial measurement Held -to- maturity ... period for whichthe lessee has contracted to lease the asset together with any further terms for whichthe lessee hasthe option to continue to lease the asset, with or without further payment, ... expected to pass tothe lessee by the end of the lease term The minimum lease payments shall be allocated between the land andthe building elements in proportion tothe relative fair values of the...
... applied, and Ei is the number of the opposite case The ranking process is executed iteratively The iterations stop when the scoring function reaches a certain threshold We finally set up the threshold ... candidates (CEcandidates), and then choose the answer among the candidates In this paper, we only present the results of two types: “Greater or lesser” and “Superlative.” As we will see in the ... generated on the basis of the templates For example, “Change the type of the current sentence from “Greater or lesser” to “Superlative” if this sentence holds the CK of “보다 ([bo-da]: than)”, andthe second...
... husband their resources in slow times They flex in size to respond tomarket conditions They pare the size of their workforces to meet economic realities and make other moves to reduce costs and ... From the Library of ALESSANDRO CAROLLO INTRODUCTION to handling the people they hire As I watched and learned, I’ve recorded these behaviors and created tools, the “rules” referred to in the title, ... people to enter into the workforce in American history As they leave the workforce in the next 15 to 20 years, fewer people will replace them In the harsh light of supply and demand—understanding...
... by the adsorption and desorption of gas molecules on the surface of the sensing structure To understand the origin of the difference in the sensing performance of the three kinds of sensors, the ... pits on the nanorod surfaces The diameter of these pits is 5–9 nm The presence of the pits may be due tothe decomposition of ␣-FeOOH and release of H2 O Fig 5a and b show SEM image and XRD pattern ... voltage of the reference resistor andthe resistance of the sensor could recover their initial states, which indicates that the sensors have good reversibility The response time (defined as the time...
... vascular and mainly consists of hematopoietic cells and erythrocytes [35] Therefore, the main optical properties of the cancellous bone are assumed to be constituted by hemoglobin andthe hematopoietic ... sensitivities and specificities for the optimal cutpoint maximizing the Youden index [23] which is defined as sensitivity + specificity - This is the point with the largest distance tothe diagonal and ... FS, AZ and KTG carried out the tissue preparation as well as the optical measurements AZ, AD and KTG installed and adapted the optical set-up WA participated in the design of the study and performed...
... vascular and mainly consists of hematopoietic cells and erythrocytes [35] Therefore, the main optical properties of the cancellous bone are assumed to be constituted by hemoglobin andthe hematopoietic ... sensitivities and specificities for the optimal cutpoint maximizing the Youden index [23] which is defined as sensitivity + specificity - This is the point with the largest distance tothe diagonal and ... FS, AZ and KTG carried out the tissue preparation as well as the optical measurements AZ, AD and KTG installed and adapted the optical set-up WA participated in the design of the study and performed...
... The ditopic linkers are on the edges of the bipyramid and there is no link in the equatorial plane of the bipyramind The SBUs can rotate around the knee cap OO axes of the carboxylates andthe ... MIL-100 and MIL-101 as the result of the increase in the dimension of the STs The internal diameters of the mesocages are 39 Å and 47 Å Although the mesocages are larger, the apertures of the windows ... ions and CTAB templates, which ensured the coassembly of the MOF precursors andthe templates into mesostructures.136 The chelating agents interacted simultaneously with the copper ions and the...
... join strategy: ! Identify the prime connector The prime connector is the first directory you reflect into the metadirectory To select the prime connector, identify the directory that best represents ... will be connected tothe connected directory ! Determine when to use referrals and when to use replication to connect together the different parts of the metadirectory The factors that you must ... configured and operated Defines how MAs function together to flow data into and out of the metadirectory The Data Model Specifies: % The strategy for initially populating the metadirectory % The mode...
... unable to provide standard error data We therefore imputed the mean value of the standard errors of the other studies, and performed sensitivity analyses across the range of reported standard ... Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Dr Victor Montori and Dr Hassan Murad for their expertise and advice in the conduct of this study There was no funding support for the present study ... errors of these studies We used a random-effects model assessing the weighted mean difference in the meta-analysis The overall pooled analysis included the mean changes of the FVC andthe DLCO...
... teachers and parents, was monitored Checklists were developed to rate the degree towhich principals and facilitators fulfilled their clearly defined roles related to supporting the teacher andthe ... teachers; and systematically monitoring teacher practices and support to teachers Multilevel structure of the school system To understand the level and nature of the mandate, authority, accountability, ... conferences, and joint planning Theabilityto work through trust with the teacher was a critical skill for facilitators; not all teachers welcomed a facilitator into their classroom or were open to the...
... outside, and were opened by the Research Team upon completion of a baseline interview Other features which contributed tothe protection of the validity of the Trial and maximising the quality of the ... preferable for the purposes of completely eliminating the potential for bias to make the Research Team blind tothe therapy intervention allocated, due tothe Research Team's need to co-ordinate and help ... intervention and liaise with them over the progress that they were making with the clients allocated to them, and this applied to both EPC and SEC therapists Arrangements for the payment of travel expenses...
... specificity and cytotoxicity of SWCNT-taxoid-biotin conjugate against L1210 cells, which overexpress biotin receptors at their surface, andthe cytotoxicity of the conjugate is solely ascribed tothe ... confocal microscope, which showed that DOX detached from FITC-SWCNT inside the lysosomes to yield free molecules and escaped into the cytoplasm and finally into the nucleus, while the vehicle FITCSWCNT ... at the tumor sites compared with the chance to locate in normal tissues [66-68] Nevertheless, one main concern in drug delivery is the bioavailability, i.e the measure of the rate and extent to...
... support and remolding 27 Chapter CHAPTER OBJECTIVES AND ORGANIZATION OF THESIS This chapter describes the main objectives and motivation for the thesis and highlights the organization of the thesis ... growth factors and cytokines known for their abilityto induce the formation of bone and cartilage (Chen et al., 2004) Originally, seven such proteins were discovered Of these, six of them (BMP-2 ... the fabrication process These methods generally involve the mixing of the polymers with the growth factor before processing to form the scaffold The main challenge of this set of methods is to...
... 32R, Andreas Hettich GmbH & Co KG, Tuttlingen, Germany) at 9000 rpm for 20 to separate the oil and water phases At the same time, HAp nanoparticles settled tothe bottom of tubes The water phase ... determination The encapsulation efficiency (EE) of the BMP-2 in the scaffolds is defined as the percentage of the actual BMP-2 loading tothe total (theoretical) amount of BMP-2 loading In the EE analysis, ... crystallinity of HAp and residual DCM content The biological characteristics investigated are the cell attachment and cytotoxicity of the fibrous scaffolds Towards the end of this study, the protein encapsulation...
... have been shown to support the attachment, growth, and low cytotoxicity in vitro (Nie et al., 2008b) In addition tothe use of biodegradable scaffolds, cells, growth factors and other biological ... F1, the DCM content dropped to 340350ppm in scaffolds F2 and F4, and dropped even further to almost 332ppm in scaffold F3 The hydrophilicity of HAp could be the contributing factor because the ... Histological Analysis and Immunostain of Bone Tissue Concurrently, histochemical and immunohistochemical analysis was employed to check the micro-changes of bone tissue, as a supplement to the...
... testing was carried out to check the effect of the addition of HAp, and chitosan on the mechanical property The stress-strain (S-S) curve of the samples was monitored, and representative examples ... nanoparticles in the water phase go tothe top layer of PLGA/DCM solution and phase separation occurs especially in the later phase of electrospinning process As pure aqueous phase can not be ... throughout the fibrous scaffold in a random (uniform) form They could be located on the surface of fibers, inside the fibers but near tothe surface, or near the core of fibers This is similar to the...
... group A samples (A1 and A3) were lower than control over the testing period of four weeks The most important factor contributing tothe phenomenon should be due tothe serious cytotoxicity of group ... the first two weeks However, with time, the migration and accumulation of osteoblast cells into the zone of defects helped alleviate the effect of cytotoxicity and enabled high transfection and ... of exactly in the matrix of bone defect Furthermore, the detachment of HAp from scaffolds and subsequent migration to bone defect may take a long time Due tothe above two factors, the impact of...
... in DI water to form aqueous phase After adding the aqueous and organic phases together, the mixture was sonicated for about 10 seconds andthe resultant emulsion was transferred to a Buchi 191 ... plasmid from the spray drier was first loaded into the mold and sealed with aluminum tape Several small holes were made on the top of the mold to allow CO2 to equilibrate with the PLGA during the foaming ... was released from PLGA and chitosan, chitosanase from Streptomyces griseus was utilized to degrade chitosan for the cases of scaffolds F1 and F2 To evaluate the effects of the fabrication process...
... cell viability was detected in the control group and F0 on day and day This finding is similar tothe observation in other research group (Chun et al., 2004) One of the reasons for the cytotoxicity ... between the carboxyl groups of DNA andthe amine groups added tothe foams F1 and F2, the release rates of DNA from the K4- and K20-functionalized foams are more sustained in comparison tothe blank ... tothe foam matrix Therefore, they are not easy to detach from the foam surfaces Furthermore, it is difficult to encapsulate DNA into particles and impose obvious toxicity to cells This statement...