... value of turbulent intensity is observed at the relative gap width of 1.0 which is in the line ofheat transfer measurements. These results of PIV showed good agreement between theheattransfer ... of attack of 60° shows better heat transfer performance compared to that ofthe 45° rib arrangement. Lau et al. [6, 7] investigated the heat transferand friction factor characteristics of ... in various forms on to improve the thermal performance of solar air heater. They reported that the geometry ofthe rib namely shapes, height, angle of attack and pitch affects significantly the...
... to above) Comparethe advantages of letters andthe advantages of phone calls. FQx2 ã How have mobile phones andthe internet improved the way people communicate today (compared to the days ... information about the contents ofthe food they eat? ã Do you think supermarkets give people enough information about the contents ofthe food products they sell? ã Do you think the government ... phones andthe internet improved the way people communicate today (compared to the days before we used these inventions)? ã What are the advantages and disadvantages of, on the one hand, using...
... end.Here, the passage treats each ofthe things beingcompared and contrasted separately—first, all aspects of the gardener, then all aspects ofthe parent—ratherthan one aspect ofthe gardener, one of ... education.Gardeners nurture the plants in their gardens.They pull weeds and prune them to encourage themto grow. They feed them and apply insecticides.They watch them flower and then witness theirdemise.You’ll ... one ofthe parent;another ofthe gardener, another ofthe parent. So the organization is quite different.But you should notice one thing that is similar inboth passages: They compareand contrast...
... nullius – as if they had no biological fathers. With no linkbetween fathers and fetuses, no inheritance of harm could be attributed to the father’s use of drugs. The absence of fathers in debates ... the symbols ofthe ‘crackbaby’, ‘pregnant addict’ and ‘absent father’ emerged at the center of debateover fetal hazards. (A more detailed analysis ofthe social and politicalconstruction of ... mediacoverage ofthe issue, and since news stories began suggesting the relation onfetal health ofthe combined eVects of poverty, addiction and exposures toworkplace and environmental toxins. The precise...
... the condensation and fragmentation of theirnuclei. The percentage of apoptotic cells was calculated as the number of apoptotic cells divided by the total number of cells counted. A minimum of ... lost.Taken together, our results demonstrate an impor-tant relationship among the regulation of nucleo-lin ⁄ C23, the activation of caspase-3 andthe induction of apoptosis under the setting of oxidative ... InstitutionalAnimal Care and Use Committee ofthe Center South Uni-versity, and were carried out in accordance with the National Institutes of Health Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals....
... between the C tails of b and c andthe ubiquitin ligase Nedd4. The WW domains of Nedd4 bind to the proline-rich PY motifs of b and cENaC, leading to channel ubiquitination, internalization and degradation ... fractions(Fig. 6), andthe finding that the electrophoretic mobility of the phosphorylating kinase corresponds to that ofthe asubunit of CK2 (Fig. 9). However, other experimentsaiming to detect the b subunit ... donor (Fig. 8A), the inhibitory effects of heparin and DPG (Fig. 8B), the fact that purified CK2 canphosphorylate bS631 and cT599 (Fig. 7A), the presence of the a subunit of CK2 in the active cytosolic...
... in the caption of graphicswhose message was judged to convey the entity with the minimum value and in the caption of graphicspear on the bars and sometimes next to them, andthe headingfor the ... in-tended message ofthe graphic will be an importantcomponent ofthe initial summary, and hypothesiz-ing it is the goal of our current work.3 Evidence about the Intended Message The graphic designer ... rat-ing ofthe system’s top-rated hypothesis did not ex-ceed 50%. Overall success was then computed byaveraging together the results ofthe whole series of experiments.Each experiment consisted of...
... sovereign at the head, and partly because of the authors’ disregard for the micro-processes of agency and governance that haveloomed large in the work of other theorists of national and imperial ... runcenter of knowledge for the productive management of nature.36Problems of sugarcane cultivation in the West Indies led to the formation ofthe Imperial Department of Agriculture at the end ofthe ... Empire: The Global Power of Seeds and ScienceBy Sheila Jasanoff*ABSTRACTFollowing the cold war, interest has grown in the possible rise of new forms of im-perial rule and in the likely role of...
... forextracellular ligands in the pericellular environment[15] (Fig. 2). The remaining portion ofthe membrane-bound receptor loses its ability to bind ligands, and can be further processed by the presenilin ... hydrophobicenvironment (mainly between Leu403 and Val404) of the phospholipid bilayer ofthe membrane [17]. Inturn, there is decreased plasma membrane targeting of the transcriptional cofactor calcium ⁄ calmodulin-associ-ated ... engagement of HS chains and regulation of MAPK-dependent synthesis of MMP3 during cartilage damage in osteoarthritis [53].Therefore, lack of syndecan-4 may be chondroprotec-tive in some models of osteoarthritis....
... sorrowful. Then when Juliet shot herself in the head, it was really dramatic, as you heard the sound of the shot.To summarise the two films, all I can say is that I loved them both, because they are ... are so different,but if I had to choose, I’d choose the Luhrmann version, starring Claire Danes and LeonardoDiCaprio, just because I loved the ending. ...
... on rural and urban portions of the highway system, 41 2-2 Map of National Highway System in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, 46 2-3 Miles of road and use of roads ... construction and management. More is also understood about the impact of roads on the environment. To address these matters, a better understanding of road ecology and better methodsof integrating ... construc-tive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the con-clusions or recommendations, nor did they see the final draft ofthe re-port before its release. The review of this report...
... through official bureaucraticprocedures. As a matter of fact, the designation of a state secret is an expression ofthe subjec-tive will of state officials within the framework ofthe power and ... decades, the Soviet Union andthe North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)were engaged in a dangerous confrontation. The end ofthe Cold War, the collapse of the Warsaw Pact, andthe dissolution of ... since the end of the Cold War and some other basic elements since the origin of NATO. But what NATOdoes either on its own or together with Russia in what NATO used to call “out of area” hasthe...
... increasingconcentration of urea in the absence and presence of TMAO. The Dmvalues for the urea-induced unfolding of FtsZ were found to be 1.8 and 3.6 m in the absence and presence of TMAO, respectively. Furthermore,TMAO ... bundles of FtsZ proto-filaments in the presence of TMAO compared with the control (Fig. 6). The widths ofthe bundles of FtsZFig. 2. Effects of TMAO on denaturant-induced perturbation of the far-UV ... 64 and 82% of the total FtsZ were pelleted in the absence and presence of 0.8 m TMAO, respectively. Electron microscopyanalysis ofthe FtsZ assembly reaction showed the formation of thicker and...