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... chemical weapons of mass destruction bythe United Nations according to UN Resolution 687 Production and stockpiling ofthe agents was outlawed bythe Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 with the Chemical ... respiratory assistance due to central respiratory depression The cardiac complications were suggested bythe authors to have been caused by increased sympathetic and parasympathetic tone, hypoxaemia, ... injection of VX was performed by pinching a bit of skin between the fingers to form a fold andthe needle was inserted into the skin at the bottom ofthe fold where the loose skin meets the body Normal...
... attention was given tothe relationship between strategy use and such factors as gender, age, motivation, and ethnicity There is a need, therefore, to exam how these factors affect onthe use andthe ... tasks and arranging for the presence of those conditions Checking one's comprehension during listening or reading or checking the accuracy and /or appropriateness of one’s oral or Self-monitoring ... for learning, monitoring the learning task, and evaluating how well one has learned Advance organizers Previewing the main ideas and concepts ofthe material to be learned, often by skimming the...
... reaction was performed usingthesame primer Nucleotide A, 63 bp upstream ofthe start codon, was identified asthe TSS by sequence reading (Fig 2) Identification ofthe cis-regulatory region and ... Transcriptional interference, in which overexpression of one transcription factor resulted in inhibition of another, was often found in the regulation of eukaryotic gene expression The repression of ... separated onthesame gel The extended product is indicated bythe arrow (PE means primer extension) Binding of Sp1 and AP-2a tothe corresponding sites in the promoter of human KCTD10 in vivo To confirm...
... assay The 16PV stock was diluted at 20-fold with the growth medium, and DTNB (2 mM) was added tothe medium The stock was incubated at 37°C for h andused for the binding assay The 16PV stock was ... Authors' contributions YI conceived ofthe study, carried out the biological experiments, and drafted the manuscript KK supported the preparation ofthe 16PV stock TM constructed the reporter plasmid ... CA) Thedata were collected by data- dependent mode andthe MS/MS sequence were analysed byusing software Bioworks (Ver.3.1, Thermo electron corp.) with variable modification option of a mass...
... assay The 16PV stock was diluted at 20-fold with the growth medium, and DTNB (2 mM) was added tothe medium The stock was incubated at 37°C for h andused for the binding assay The 16PV stock was ... Authors' contributions YI conceived ofthe study, carried out the biological experiments, and drafted the manuscript KK supported the preparation ofthe 16PV stock TM constructed the reporter plasmid ... CA) Thedata were collected by data- dependent mode andthe MS/MS sequence were analysed byusing software Bioworks (Ver.3.1, Thermo electron corp.) with variable modification option of a mass...
... World 3, the world of metascience Instead, the focus ofthe discussion in this section of this article is the interaction between World (“Everyday life”) and World ( The World of Accounting as ... theory more attractive According to Deegan and Unerman (2006:10), a conceptual framework is an example of a normative theory of accounting In this case, normative accounting theory is basedon ... part of) the body of accounting theory, normative theory There is also a huge body of positive and inductive theories to be found in accounting literature Together they constitute the body of accounting...
... production of affricates, the soft palate is raised andthe nasal resonator shut off, the obstacle tothe airstream is formed by a closure made between the tip, blade, andthe rims ofthe tongue and ... interference ofthe vocal organs with the air stream, and so are easy to describe and understand” That is the reason for the writer to mention English consonants in the study Two of 24 consonant sounds ... First the tongue touches the ridge ofthe upper front teeth for /t/, then instead of releasing quickly for a plosive sound like /t/, the tip ofthe tongue moves (further back than that for /s/) to...
... served as a representation ofthe conformational space, and each of them was used in the MARDIGRAS calculations The extreme values were usedas upper and lower bonds in the structure calculation As ... specific assignment could be made for the methyl and methylene protons, appropriate pseudoatom correction was applied [30] The rotational correlation time, sc, used in the MARDIGRAS calculations, was ... the formation of small aggregates is also supported bythe rotational correlation time (sc) In our case, sc was determined to be ns, which is too long to be explained bythe viscosity ofthe 2,2,2trifluoroethanol/water...
... concentration versus the IL-1Ra concentration at the time of IL-1β stimulation and at the end ofthe 48 hour incubation Because these values represent the starting and end-point IL-1Ra concentrations, the ... stimulation one half ofthe conditioned media in each well was removed and replaced with fresh media As before, the PGE2 and IL-1Ra concentrations in the recovered media were measuredusing ELISA ... concentrations of PGE2 in media conditioned bythe HSFs were usedas a measure of IL-1β stimulation In our initial experiments we compared the inhibitory activity of rIL-1Ra tothatof HIG-82-IL-1Ra+...
... not load onanyofthe four factors The four factors, or subscales, were assumed by Funk and colleagues to be congruent with dimensions in Rogers' Diffusion of innovations theory [8] The subscales ... RNs' perceptions of barriers to, and facilitators of, research utilization andto examine the validity ofthe BARRIERS scale in relation to research use, i.e., the capacity ofthe Scale to discriminate ... behavior' more onthe 'user-side' than onthe 'do not know' or 'non-user-side' ofthe scale The index consists of nine items and when a respondent rates, for example, agree (= 4) on five of the...
... not load onanyofthe four factors The four factors, or subscales, were assumed by Funk and colleagues to be congruent with dimensions in Rogers' Diffusion of innovations theory [8] The subscales ... RNs' perceptions of barriers to, and facilitators of, research utilization andto examine the validity ofthe BARRIERS scale in relation to research use, i.e., the capacity ofthe Scale to discriminate ... behavior' more onthe 'user-side' than onthe 'do not know' or 'non-user-side' ofthe scale The index consists of nine items and when a respondent rates, for example, agree (= 4) on five of the...
... Role onthe Network Intermediary devices to provide connectivity andto work behind the scenes to ensure thatdata flows across the network These devices connect the individual hosts tothe network ... protocols, andthe stack is the software implementation of them 24 Network Protocols At the human level, some communication rules are formal and others are simply understood, or implicit, basedon custom ... TSPs Connect their customers tothe Internet The Internet – ISPs connected to other ISPs 20 The Internet – A Network of Networks •Although there are benefits tousing a LAN or WAN, most of us...
... poem In drama, as noted earlier, there is no narrator; instead, the characters speak directly to each other ortothe audience The story is driven forward bythe words and actions ofthe characters, ... understand tone and reinforce the theme ofthe play For example, the stage directions for Waiting for Godot, as we noted earlier, are intentionally few; the emptiness ofthe stage is meant to echo the ... believe thatthe refrigerator is empty c He is angry and wants the door to break off d He likes the noise the door makes e He is bored The narrator tells us that “Thomas was hungry on a reservation...
... in a bubble are typically comparing what gold is worth in terms of paper money. Their perception is that green paper is a viable benchmark for the cost of goods or assets to be priced in, and they couldn’t be more wrong By contrast, the central banks that control the world banking system use gold as ... investment basis for legislation that was passed by Congress and which provided for the inclusion of gold in Individual Retirement Accounts. The conclusions over the 28year period covered bythe report were remarkable: ... because they are as durable, wellperforming and wealthprotecting asany investment products onthe market. Andthe fact that they are also valuable to collectors means that they are scarce and maintain an ...
... Comparison of results given bythe reconstruction of logs using WoodCimđ and reality in relation tothe number of knots andthe Z coordinate of knot origin (height in the stem) as mean of deviations ... stem base tothe top: the total knot core represents 28% ofthe tree radius in the stem butt, and 84% at the stem top The sound knot core shows thesame type of variation, but the increase rate ... pertaining to one log were processed with the WoodCimđ module software for the mathematical reconstruction of a log in a 3D system The North-South line drawn onthe top of logs before sawing was used as...
... alloreactive CTLs to proliferate andto secrete IFN-γ via TLR-2 adds another facet tothe functional potential of T effector cells The fact thatthesame stimulatory signal leads neither tothe ... populations suggests the surface expression ofthe respective lipoprotein receptor on presensitized T cells and CD8+ T effector cells This assumption is furthered bythe fact that co-stimulation of ... calculated onthe basis of amplification of DNA in a 10-fold dilution series The resulting calculation curves showed an error rate of less than 0.05 Moreover, fluorescence was measured at 2°C below the...
... crucial for the regulation of ion homeostasis during salinity stress and other forms of environmental stress, not only at the plasma membrane and tonoplast, but also at the cytoplasm, and nucleus ... interpretation and finalization ofthe manuscript GRC participated in the organization ofthe studies and finalization ofthe manuscript JCC conceived and organized the studies, conducted EST data analysis, ... with contradictory responses to stress (expression significantly increased in one condition, but significantly decreased in another) were not considered Functional annotation was then assigned using...
... http://www.soybase.org/ 20 Conclusions and suggestions 4.1 Conclusions Pod colors were tan, black, and brown The segregation of pod color fitted to (1 : : 1) ratio The segregation of hilum color fitted to ... semi-indeterminate There was diversity among these groups for plant height and number of nodes in main stem All of six SSR loci showed the segregation ratio of (1:2:1) in F2 population No segregation distortion ... http://www.soybase.org/ The components of each reaction andthe PCR cycle was shown in Table and Figure Table The reaction components of PCR Components Buffer (including MgCl2 10mM) dNTP Forward primer...
... secondary data collection for additional information The information from the participatory rural appraisal stage was used for the preparation ofthe questionnaire for the formal survey Two districts ... reported that beef shared only 5% ofthe total meat production ofthe country and did not meet the demand of domestic consumption To fill the gap beef has been imported, especially to satisfy the ... storage for crop by- products and other sources of feed, shortage of feeds by type and month; (vi) Marketing system for beef production; and, (v) Influencing factors and constraints related to the...