... favourable perceived health status, to currently smoke, andto not exercise regularly Those who used both Chinese medicine consultation and Chinese OTC medication were more likely to be middle aged, to ... likely to be aged 60 or above, male, to have received no formal education, to have a lower personal monthly income and no insurance coverage for TCM services Also, they were more likely to report ... data and on the manuscript SMG and EKY supervised the whole research process All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing...
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... depreciation and other operating expenses Operating profit (before-tax) corresponds to total operating income (as defined above) less these expenses In this part of the table, interest and fee-based expenses ... explanatory factors emerge, as regulation, operating costs and equity capital The following paragraphs will elucidate how these models have been tested empirically and which dependent and explanatory ... income, relative to total assets, shrinks following increases in other income Operating costs (overheads) are included to investigate whether rising costs are passed on to the customers in the form...
... Reverse transcription was performed using 1–5 lg total RNA and random primers according to the manufacturer’s protocol (Superscript; Invitrogen) cDNA was amplified by PCR using specific sets of primers ... full-length open reading frames of mouse Cdt1 and geminin as templates and the T3 and T7 polymerase, respectively, while sense probes served as negative controls and were generated using T7 and T3 ... cycle by addition of serum and collected at 6, 12, 15, 18, 21 and 24 h, respectively The band corresponding to Cdt1 has been marked by an arrow, while a cross-reacting band running above Cdt1 is indicated...
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... The pellet was resuspended in mM EDTA and again centrifuged to obtain supernatant S2 and a pellet [33,34] The supernatants and pellets were investigated by Western blotting using hCdc6p-specific ... right) This value appears to be similar for cytosolic and salt-extracted hCdc6p We have performed several pulse–chase experiments and quantitated the results by densitometry to determine the relative ... can assumed that part of the labeled cytoplasmic hCdc6p moved into the nucleus and bound to chromatin, but another part may have remained in the cytoplasm to be degraded or Ó FEBS 2002 1044 E Biermann...
... will open the way to more research work in the future We tried our best to embrace the many new research points in this area and combine them into this special issue Our special thanks go to the ... issue Our special thanks go to the reviewers who helped select and shape the papers presented here We hope these papers will provide a helpful and stimulating reading Enrico Magli Qibin Sun ... secured data have to be transmitted over a noisy channel It is shown that compression, security, and error protection can be implemented into a single tool They proposed and compare two such schemes,...
... traffic over the router system by using sequential decoding to reduce the packet error rate (PER) and this clearly refers to a type of error control Moreover, we add parallel sequential decoders to ... the packets being lost due to full buffer), total arriving packets (the total number of arriving packets to the router system), and time history (history or record of the total number of the packets ... noticed that choosing it too small or too large leads to high system flow and congestion over the [1] Y Tian, K Xu, and N Ansari, “TCP in wireless environments: problems and solutions,” IEEE Communications...
... processor to acquire images and perform background subtraction, and M Wu and C W Chen feature-based image matching Both spatial and temporal correlations have been exploited, and three types of ... between neighboring sensor images, a shape matching method [12] is applied to find out maximal overlapped areas The shape matching algorithm is operated on a very small number of the feature points, ... The super-resolution overlap recovery requires multiple frames of low-resolution overlap Thus the imaging sensors need to be deployed very densely to accommodate such technique In this paper,...
... would appear that it is necessary to provide a transparent transport scheme for packet video over wireless networks More specifically, packet video over wired and wireless IP networks may have to employ ... 21] to recover from such losses Specifically, a video stream is first chopped into segments each of which is packetized into k packets, and then for each segment, a block code is applied to the k ... packets to generate an n-packet block, where n > k To perfectly recover a segment, a user only needs to receive any k packets in the n-packet block To avoid additional congestion problems due to channel-coding...
... Linear Algebra and its Applications, to appear [12] B De Bruyn On the Grassmann-embeddings of the Hermitian dual polar spaces Linear and Multilinear Algebra, to appear [13] W M Kantor Subgroups ... spaces of symplectic type over GF(2) European J Combin 18 (1997), 741–749 [6] B N Cooperstein On the generation of dual polar spaces of unitary type over finite fields European J Combin 18 (1997), ... the involutory automorphism of K associated with H and let K denote the fixed field of θ Let (·, ·) denote a skew-θ-Hermitian form of a 3-dimensional vector space V over K which gives rise to the...
... attempt to gain appropriate insight over a period of several decades Since winter buds are formed during the vegetation period prior to the year of shoot elongation, the period from March to October ... (PROD) and shoot length (SHOOT) 162 C Sander and D Eckstein Figure Relationship between March + October temperature and annual needle production (PROD) CONCLUSION This study was limited to the ... sylvestris L.) to record past needle retention and annual needle loss and used this information, for example, in forest pathology [17] Sander and Eckstein [25, 26] applied the same method to spruce...
... China and the process seems to repeat (Fig 1d) Figure Simulated virtual potential temperature and wind vector at 700 hPa on 10 (a), 11 (b), 12 (c), and 13 (d) June 2005 at 1200 UTC Contour interval ... Korean peninsula (Fig 1a) As time elapses, the hot low broadens toward northern Vietnam while the cold trough amplifies and propagates to the east, and the Mei-yu front starts to develop toward ... upper-level jet In the Mei-yu studies, the upper-level jet appears as a key factor for the development of the Mei-yu front system In order to clarify, an experiment is set up where the wind speed...
... remain the same over the two-year study period, that opinion leaders were Page of perceived by the community to have very clearly demarcated areas of expertise and not be polymorphic, and that the ... second survey) with respect to sex, age, and clinical experience The second limitation was that 5% of pathologists and 3% of surgeons changed hospitals between 2003 and 2005 and may have disrupted ... participated in the study’s design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript AS participated in the 2003 survey, participated in the design of the study, and helped to draft the manuscript JG...
... one estimator node and two sensor nodes The estimator node is set as COORDINATOR and the sensor nodes are set as END_DEVICE in Zigbee network Transmission speed is 250kps NI-6025E Connector ADC ... protocol Simply speaking, CSMA/CD specifies that every node should detect the network availability before sending out messages and, if there are message collisions, a collided node stops transmitting ... collided node stops transmitting and waits a random length of time to retransmit messages Hence, due to the random binary exponential backoff (BEB) algorithm the transmission delays are non-deterministic...
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... Mostly to go deeper in analyses through spectral properties extractions of wavepacket dominant 2D and 3D wave modes, in order to understand more intrinsic mechanisms behind the wavepacket overall ... have a frequency equal to that of the primary 2D TS waves and exhibit spanwise periodicity of alternating peaks and valleys, corresponding to the aligned Λ-shaped vortices and spikes The spanwise ... study (iv) Spectral analyses was taken to a much higher level by extracting the spectral properties for the dominant 2D and 3D wave modes, which were compared to the Craik (1971) type resonance...
... study and analyses (spatial and spectral) for both over the rigid wall (RW) case and single compliant panel (CP) case, with much emphasis on spectral analyses so as to properly understand the ... simulation of experiments On the other hand for TDNS and in order to make the computation simpler, the perturbed flow is assumed to be periodic in the streamwise direction The purpose of this is to allow ... be ascribed to the compliance of their skin He then carried out experiments in water by dragging a torpedo covered with a compliant coating conceived to mimic the dolphin’s skin and achieved...
... include before, during and after the single CP location so as to properly understand the overall spectral dynamics of the wavepacket Figures 3.7(a1) and (a2) have almost the same spectral plots for ... just after perturbations, and both look nearly identical as they developed into crescentshaped waves in figures 3.13(a1) and (a2) for over both the RW and CP cases respectively, as both wavepacket ... Comparison between rigid wall and single compliant panel 3.3.2.3 Spectral properties of dominant 2D and 3D wave modes The spectral properties for the dominant 2D and 3D wave modes were carefully...