... the content of the sentence compared to a human gold-standard Yet, the assessments of the two aspects were often the same—readability/fluency of the sentence is important for understanding the ... presence of uncommon difficult words are known to pose problems to readers and to render text less readable (CollinsThompson and Callan, 2004; Schwarm and Ostendorf, 2005) But these discourse- and ... phrase (where embedded phrases of the same type were counted only once) and for each phrase regardless of embedding Length of NPs/PPs contained in a VP The average number of words that constitute an...
... processes involved in the evolution and diversification The Dynamical Processes of Biodiversity CaseStudiesof Evolution and Spatial Distribution of the Vanilla genus and concluded that Vanilla must ... association of chromosomes and other mitotic abnormalities in Vanilla planifolia (Andrews) Caryologia, Vol.47, pp.65-73 24 The Dynamical Processes of Biodiversity CaseStudiesof Evolution and Spatial ... gradient of species richness illustrates the complex evolutionary history of global biodiversity, and many studies have placed it in the context of geological history and rates of speciation and extinction...
... implementation of developmental state model in the first tier of the NICs of NEA and the implementation of the nondevelopmental state model of the second tier of NICs of SEA Even though NEA and SEA ... of money politics 19 , and impeding the process of democratisation This study will expand the research on patrimonial state-business relations through comparing casestudiesof the palm oil and ... including company profiles and annual reports From KADIN and KADINDA and business associations, I accessed minutes of meetings, 16 speeches, handbooks, memos and statutes of the associations...
... context, and then present and discuss eight casestudies found in the literature 1.1 Software development; problems and remedies To develop and maintain software is often referred to as software ... Problems with software development Software development can often be challenging There are many examples of software projects that have failed The much-cited Standish report on software projects ... productivity and quality of the developed software The outcome of several of these improvement initiatives was summed up in an article in Communications of the ACM [10] Claims of order of magnitude...
... the issue of social desirability of a particular response; errors in response to sensitive questions; and errors in survey reports of earnings and income A number of existing studiesof measurement ... confidentiality, and privacy, making a number of important distinctions between different types of issues and clarifying the content of several pieces of legislation—federal and state—governing access and ... These include household structure and characteristics, such as the number and ages of the household members and the quality and upkeep of housing, and the experience of the respondent, such as exposure...
... mission of RAND ISE is to improve the development, operation, use, and protection of society’s essential built and natural assets; and to enhance the related social assets of safety and security of ... groups and to assist in selecting individual groups for detailed study Terrorist group casestudies The research process consisted primarily of preparing and reviewing a set ofcasestudiesof organizations ... within RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment (ISE), a division of the RAND Corporation, for the National Institute of Justice Points of view in this document are those of the authors and not...
... energy [18], and the fraction of solid atoms in each layer [19] Computation of the interface temperature and regrowth velocity gives an indirect view of the congruent melting temperature of these ... thickness of the amorphous layer is determined to be of the order of several tens of nanometers at fluences up to two times above the melting threshold [24] Residual stress and amorphization of the ... positions of crystalline-liquid and liquid-amorphous silicon; and the second focus is to understand the resulting microstructure, i.e., crystalline vs amorphous, and the qualitative and quantitative...
... nationally and to world-class standards in terms of teaching and research in some of its discipline areas, and is placed under the direct administration of the Ministry of Education by the authority of ... College English Band to Band syllabus and the CET Band (CET-6) for third-year students who have completed Band to Band Three major phases are discernible in the historical developmentof the CET (Zheng ... People’s Republic of China on Academic Degrees (Ministry of Education of the Peoples’ Republic of China 2004), which was adopted at the 13th Session of the Standing Committee of the Fifth National...
... climate science of today stands “on giants' shoulders”, and on a bedrock of understanding of the workings of the atmosphere and the planet as a thermal engine This book has lost nothing of its original ... the caseof Spain, the Spanish Climate Change Office reaches similar conclusions, predicting a “Mediterraneanisation” of the north of the peninsula and the aridization of the south (Ministry of ... from the point of view of tourism demand (in our case, the source market of Madrid), as to so from the point of view of regulated supply2 would involve only looking at a minor part of tourism uses...
... found in T4 and KVP40 [44,45] The motif was found upstream of a number of homologues of known T4 late genes in S-PM2 [5] and Syn9 [23] It has since been found upstream of a number of genes in ... composition of the cyanophage community and the relative abundance of specific g20 genotypes In Rhode Island’s coastal waters Sandaa and Larsen [34] also observed seasonal variations in the abundance of ... Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, Maurice Shock Medical Sciences Building, University of Leicester, PO Box 138, Leicester, LE1 9HN, UK 2Department ofBiological Sciences, University of...
... identifying the potential of the weirdness and complexity of quantum mechanics for a new and profound way of information processing This led to the developmentof a new branch ofstudies unifying the ... making use of the exchange interaction due to the overlap of the electron wave functions are the nuclear [27] and electron spin [28] based quantum computers In the former case, arrays ofnuclear ... ↑ and |1 = |T + |↓ − |T | ↑ where |S = (| ↑ | ↓ −| ↓ | ↑ ) is the singlet state of spins andof the three spin block, and |T+ = | ↑↑ and |T0 = (| ↑ | ↓ +| ↓ | ↑ ) 15 ˆ are the triplet states of...
... different chemicals present in our body fluids and tissues Hence, quantification of a wide range of potential chemical compounds in biological fluids and tissues may lead to proper understanding of ... estimation of these chemicals poses real challenge because of the complexity ofbiological matrix Hence, there is a need for the developmentof simple and rapid analytical techniques for the analysis of ... activation of a xenobiotic 1.5 Xenobiotic toxicity All living organisms depend upon a large and complex array ofchemical signalling systems to guide biologicaldevelopmentand control cell and organ...
... limits of detection and repeatability The linearity of the calibration curve was examined for each target estrogen using an aqueous standard solution of a concentration range of 0.5- 50 µgL-1 of ... samples) and 17α-ethynylestradiol (0.72 times more in benign samples) Figure 2.6 shows a GCMS trace of an extract of malignant and benign cyst fluids Our studies showed a pattern of higher levels of ... 280◦C, and held for The standard mixtures and extracts were analyzed in selected ion monitoring mode with a detector voltage of 1.5 kV 2.3.4 Preparation of µ-SPE device The preparation of the...
... 3.1 Chemical Structures and abbreviated names of PBDEs and PEB 51 Chapter Figure 3.2 Structures, names and abbreviated names of the heterocyclic aromatic amines Figure 3.3 Structures and names of ... trends of different xenobiotic and their impact on severity of cancer The trends of the chemicals in the two groups of tumor cyst fluid samples may be account for the source of the analyte and etiology ... 300◦C and held for OCP standards and samples were analyzed in selective ion monitoring (SIM) mode with a detector voltage of 1.5 kV and a scan range of m/z 50 to 500 3.5.2 HPLC analysis HAAs and...
... of PCBs and their metabolites in biological fluid and tissue samples involves complex, and time -and solvent-consuming extraction, separation and clean-up steps 78 Chapter Sample preparation and ... Preparation of Standards Standard solutions of the following concentrations: Surrogate standard solution (20 ng mL-1), Perylene-d12 internal standard solution (2 µg mL-1 and 20 µg mL-1), PCB standard ... relationships between chemical exposure and diseases or development abnormalities and to distinguish between exposed and control groups The data obtained from contaminant profiling of body fluids,...
... metal status of individuals and groups [9-11] Nonetheless, in the caseof ovarian tumor, both benign and malignant ovarian cyst fluids are good source of information about tumor marker and other ... studying the role of trace elements in the development or inhibition of cancer To understand the cause for metal induced tumors, it is important to understand the mechanism of metal carcinogenicity ... Determination of metal ions at trace level is difficult for the biological samples, owing to trace amount of these metal ions and complex contents of the matrices Hence, preconcentration and separation...
... useful to understand the effects of bioaccumulation of estrogens to human and further, to understand the relationship between the bioaccumulation behaviour and carcinogenicity of estrogens 130 ... effects of chemicals and pharmaceuticals in the environment [10, 11] Male and female zebrafish are sensitive to low concentrations of waterborne estrogens Since the zebrafish genome resembles that of ... prediction of rate of accumulation of estrogens in zebrafish can reveal the effects of xenobiotic estrogens on humans [12] There is a direct correlation between the rate of bioaccumulation of estrogen...
... constant of 0.57 N/m, tip size of 15 nm and resonant frequency 300 kHz (Veeco) 7.2.6 Preparation of plasma and serum samples Plasma (n=2) and serum (n=2) samples from a healthy being and ovarian ... modelling and the presence of endorepellin in plasma and serum samples was established by conducting conventional proteomic studies i.e SDS-PAGE for the quantification, separation and identification of ... expression of endorepellin in tumour plasma and serum samples was detected by Atomic force microscopic imaging studiesand compared with control plasma and serum samples 7.2 Experimental 7.2.1 Chemicals...
... complete profile of environmental organic, inorganic and steroid chemicals in cyst fluids helpful to understand their synergic effect on the malignant transformation and etiologic research of cancer ... groups With the aid of PCA, their trend in the two groups of samples is compared and individual and compound group trend analysis was also explored in detail In the caseof PCBs, the results ... restricted by their availability, cost andbiological nature Inclusion of more samples would enhance the reliability of the results 2) The association ofchemical levels on the disease progress...