... and conventional longitudinal change could be attributed to recall bias rather than response shift While this was the case during the investigation at hand, the relative contribution of response ... Wider implications For an individual patient, inappropriate implementation, continuation or cessation of a health intervention may occur if a decision is reached based on clinical reasoning flawed ... Authors' contributions SM contributed to research idea conception, planning of research processes, data analysis and manuscript preparation, as well as manuscript review, appraisal and editing TH contributed...
... Benayahu, D Aronov, G Rosenman, The effect of surface treatment on the surface texture and contact angle of electrochemically deposited hydroxyapatite coating andon its interaction with bone-forming ... glass micropipettes andtheireffecton biological studies Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:401 Submit your manuscript to a journal and benefit from: Convenient online submission Rigorous peer review ... pipette tip on giga-seal formation Engineering Letters 17, 281–285 (2009) 12 M Malboubi, Y Gu, K Jiang, Experimental and simulation study of the effect of pipette roughness on giga-seal formation in...
... residual monomer content could be reduced when the polymerization time was extended Dogan et al.9 studied the effects of varying polymerization times and temperatures on the residual monomer content ... The effect of preparation conditions of acrylic denture base materials on the level of residual monomer, mechanical properties and water absorption J Dent., 23, 313–318 Jagger, R.G (1978) Effect ... investigators have evaluated the effect of water on the bond strength of acrylic materials and demonstrated that absorbed water can have a detrimental effecton bond strength to acrylic resin Furthermore,...
... variation andtheireffecton genomic evaluation Genetics Selection Evolution 2011 43:18 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • Convenient online submission • ... variation in real populations may be controlled by many genes and behave somewhat like the model with many small QTL effects controlling variation The size and distribution of the QTL effects controlled ... genomic selection when the validation individuals were one generation, several generations, or one sub-population removed from the prediction animals Page of Methods Base genotype simulations Genotype...
... Thessaloniki, an observation confirming this conclusion, since Athens is located southern and evidently the temperatures observed are higher This conclusion is further confirmed by the comparison ... heating and cooling andon CO2 emissions In order to reach conclusions regarding the effect of temperature data changes on the energy consumption of buildings, the energy demands of a typical residential ... cooling demands is 28.5% and for Thessaloniki 13.2% Obviously, directly proportional to the energy demand for heating and cooling is the fuel (diesel oil) and electricity consumption and hence...
... and SB SU and SG yield low precision, high recall alignments In contrast, SI yields very high precision but very low recall SA and SB attempt to balance these two measures but their precision ... (source-to-target and vice versa) with default configurations The combined alignments that are used in this paper are as follows: Union of both directions (SU ), Intersection of both directions (SI ), ... Banerjee and Alon Lavie 2005 Meteor: An automatic metric for MT evaluation with improved correlation with human judgments In Proceedings of Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures...
... in various handbooks [3, 10] b Net long wave radiation The exchange of long wave radiation Ln (MJ.m-2.day-1) between vegetation and soil on the one hand, and atmosphere and clouds on the other, ... Assimilation System) information AVHRR provides information on globe land classification at 30 s resolution [13] Fig 2.b shows the vegetation classification at 30 s resolution for the Nong Son catchment ... there are only four rain gauges, among those only one collects hourly data; one climatic station at Tra My; and one discharge gauge at Nong Son In general, the hydro-meteorological station network...
... Here, we report on the structure of posttranslational modifications of plasma-derived and recombinant human HCII from CHO cells andtheir effects on heparin binding MATERIALS AND METHODS Outdated ... tyrosine sulfation and N-glycosylation under conditions that allowed partial inhibition of these modifications After dialysis, the conditioned medium was fractionated on heparin–Sepharose with a linear ... DISCUSSION In this investigation we have analyzed the structure of posttranslational modifications of human HCII from circulating blood and genetically modified CHO cells andtheir effects on heparin...
... personally attest to the fact that most parents don't know what their children are listening to Much of the popular music of today contains messages about sex and violence The artists who sing the music ... desensitize children to violence and alter their perception of reality It can give them the idea that violence is the way to deal with problems and conflict Little is known of the actual numbers ... is very impressionable Much of his personality is formed by the time he goes to his first day of kindergarten There is nothing wrong with him listening to music, watching television, or even playing...
... can desensitize children to violence and alter their perception of reality It can give them the idea that violence is the way to deal with problems and conflict Little is known of the actual ... is very impressionable Much of his personality is formed by the time he goes to his first day of kindergarten There is nothing wrong with him listening to music, watching television, or even playing ... about things Next time you wonder about how easily children can be convinced of something think of the myth of Santa Claus: One man bringing presents to the WHOLE world, in one sled, pulled by flying...
... the Congress on Practices of the Consumer Credit Industry in Soliciting and Extending Credit andtheir Effects on Consumer Debt and Insolvency Submitted to the Congress pursuant to section 1229 ... to report on the effects of credit solicitation and extension on consumer debt and insolvency This report is submitted in fulfillment of the Federal Reserve’s obligations under section 1229 of ... several months Regulation of Revolving Consumer Credit Depending on its charter, a financial institution that conducts credit card lending is subject to supervision and regulation by one or more...
... trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe Library of Congress Cataloging‑in‑Publication Data The delivery of regenerative medicines andtheir impact on ... culture based on innovation (Australian Government Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research 2009) on the other The reports are consistent in their emphasis on education, strong government ... commissioned by the federal government addressed the relationship between health and biomedical research and investment on the one hand (Australian Government Department of Health and Aging 1998), and...
... and ring core layer removal sectioning X-ray diffraction neutron diffraction ultrasonic magnetic methods ASTM has standard test methods for the hole-drilling method and for X-ray diffraction ... Residual Stresses & Their Effects 41 SUMMARY & DOS AND DON’TS IN DESIGN Do consider the beneficial and harmful effects of residual stresses for all long-life (high cycle) and intermediate-life ... & Their Effects 47 SUMMARY & DOS AND DON’TS IN DESIGN Relaxation of residual stresses can result from plastic deformation and also from thermal stress relief The magnitude and distribution...
... standards and other pronouncements‖ (Miller et al., 1994, p 58) Miller, Redding and Bahnson also indicate that one component of due process is the solicitation and collection of comment letters on selected ... accounting standards are essential to the efficient functioning of the economy because decisions about the allocation of resources rely heavily on credible, concise, and understandable financial ... the FASB, the organization is a nonprofit corporation with a mission to ― establish and improve standards of financial accounting and reporting for the guidance and education of the public, including...
... pre-operative questions were not unidimensional and could not be scaled together Consequently, analyses using these baseline data were done on individual items for descriptive purposes only and not used ... questionnaire used in this study can be improved by utilizing Likert rather than dichotomous response options It would be worthwhile to investigate whether this modification in respondent options ... Authors' contributions CES conceptualized and designed the study, supervised the acquisition of data and data analysis, and drafted the manuscript; JFM, PK, DAW participating in the acquisition of...
... vacancies or confined within quantum dots in nanocrystals region On the other hand, the excited electrons can transfer from the valance band to the new levels that exist upper of the conduction band introduced ... comprising titania and alumina, and its realization within the present films is notable consideration that no attempts were made to control the size of the nanocrystals Conclusions Fig Optical Raman ... distance between the substrate and the target was about cm The silicon substrates were ultrasonically cleaned by acetone and de-ionized water Afterward the silicon substrates were immersed in...
... function if and only if f is a solution function of the cubic functional equation f x y f x−y 2f x y 2f x−y 12f x 1.6 Jun and Kim proved that when both X and Y are real vector spaces, a function ... quadratic operators on the function space Xλ and provided more general results regarding their norms In , Jung investigated the norm of the cubic operator on the function space Zλ A function f : X→Y ... from the Euler-Lagrange-type cubic and the Pexiderization of the Euler-Lagrange-type cubic functional equations 1.7 and 1.8 A Najati and A Rahimi P P Definition 1.2 The operators C1 , C2 : Zλ...
... correlations existed between adjacent chronologies HHT and JGB (P < 0.001), and remote chronologies BYAB and HHT, XLPI and JGB, XLPI and BYAB (P < 0.01) (table II), whereas BYAB and JGB chronologies ... climate than the two other stands The significant teleconnection between BYAB and HHT, XLPI and JGB, and the relatively low correlation between BYAB and JGB, HHT and XLPI suggested the influence ... drought and its effecton tree growth missing rings in response to extreme drought in the 1920s and early 1930s, the prolonged drought did not preclude its survival and recovery On the contrary,...