... into the influence of the number of hops and the severity of fading on the instantaneous channel capacity, and hence they are very useful for the design and performance analysis of multihop communication ... analysis of the capacity of N ∗Nakagami-m channels Specifically, we have studied the influence of the severity of fading and the number of hops on the PDF, CDF, LCR, and ADF of the channel capacity ... behavior of the instantaneous channel capacity can be studied with the help of the LCR and ADF of the channel capacity The LCR of the instantaneous channel capacity describes the average rate of up-crossings...
... Service of Adult Intensive Care and Burns Centre, University Hospital (CHUV), Rue du Bugnon 46, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), School of Health ... Randomized comparison of nasojejunal and nasogastric feeding in critically ill patients Crit Care Med 2002, 30:586-590 Treasure T, MacRae D: Minimisation: the platinum standard for trials? Randomisation ... Switzerland (HES-SO), School of Health Professions Geneva, Nutrition and Dietetics Department, Rue des Caroubiers 25, 1227 Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland Page of Competing interests The authors declare...
... The FirstandLast PERSONS OF THE PLAY KEITH DARRANT, K.C LARRY DARRANT, His Brother WANDA SCENE I KEITH'S Study SCENE II WANDA's Room SCENE III The Same SCENE I It is six o'clock of a November ... tell me quietly from the beginning Here, drink this coffee; it'll clear your head [He pours out and hands him a cup of coffee LARRY drinks it off.] LARRY My head! Yes! It's like this, Keith there's ... eyebrows The curtained door away out in the dim part of the room behind him is opened so softly that he does not wake LARRY DARRANT enters and stands half lost in the curtain over the door A thin...
... concept of lower and upper solutions of problem (3.1)–(3.5) as follows F M Atici and D C Biles 127 Definition 3.1 The functions α and β are, respectively, a lower and an upper solution of problem ... and convex set, in view of the Tychonoff-Schauder fixed point theorem, there is at least one fixed point of Q Theorem 3.3 Assume that conditions (F) and (I) are satisfied Let α and β be a lower and ... spaces of functions Let yi be the restriction of y : J → R to Ji , i = 1,2, then Ꮿ J1 = y : J1 −→ R : y and y ∆ are continuous on J1 , + + Ꮿ J2 = y : J2 −→ R : y and y ∆ are continuous on J2 and...
... Introduction offirst law It is a subject dealt with volume, pressure, temperature, and concentration and with the relationships between them The first law prediction is however ... acquired by means of the mass and motions of molecules , intermolecular forces and chemical compositions The energy equation is ∆U=U2-U1 Where , ∆U= Total energy U1 =Initial value of the internal ... represent by ∆V, then the work done is given by W=p ∆V First law derivation The first principle of thermodynamics states that the internal energy E of the system is closed i.e it cannot exchange material...
... analyzed the prevalence of CD in Turkish children with T1DM and their non-diabetic first- degree relatives MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients and Control Subjects A total of 48 children with T1DM ... statistically significant Table Laboratory results of children with type diabetes mellitus and their relatives Type Diabetes Mellitus (n=48) Relatives of Diabetic Children Total villous atrophy (n=3) ... T1DM approved duodenal biopsy, andof them (6.3%) showed total villous atrophy (Marsh type 3) The remaining patients showed normal mucosa One sibling and two parents of diabetic children were positive...
... always offer a quick and enormous information about the author of the song, the root of it and even the words of the song So there are no reasons for not making advantage of such a useful and potential ... median of five which is fairly corresponding to the mean The standard deviation of 1.56433 and 1.59921 shows a very small spread of scores which implies a narrow range of ability in students of both ... content of the songs, this task is really helpful as it enables them to have a full understanding of the song It is quite unexpected that dictation is at the bottom of the list Of 19.9% of the...
... Xing and Fu: Some new results for BVPs of first- order nonlinear integro-differential equations of volterra type Advances in Difference Equations 2011 2011:14 Submit your manuscript to a journal and ... function r(t) = -||x(t) ||2, t Î [0, 1], where x(t) is a solution of (3.6), for the rest part of the proof we proceed as in the proof of Theorem 3.1 Corollary 3.2 Let f be a scalar-valued function ... equations of mixed type J Math Anal Appl 300, 1–11 (2004) doi:10.1016/j.jmaa.2004.02.060 Xing, Y, Han, M, Zheng, G: Initial value problem for first order integro-differential equation of Volterra type...
... severe sepsis and septic shock b ACS, acute coronary syndrome (unstable angina and myocardial infarction Cumulative incidence oftype diabets (%) of beds available on cardiology wards and in the ... Influence of diabetes and hyperglycaemia on infectious disease hospitalisation and outcome Diabetologia 2007, 50:549-554 Christiansen C, Toft P, Jorgensen HS, Andersen SK, Tonnesen E: Hyperglycaemia and ... root of hospital acquired hyperglycaemia and in the long term lead to development of diabetes Although the incidence of hospital acquired hyperglycaemia differed between the three subgroups of...
... weeks of randomization Use of acetaminophen or ibuprofen within days of randomization Subject is unwilling to stop taking pain medication other than the study medication (for arthritis or other types ... common form of arthritis, and it is often associated with significant disability and an impaired quality of life Clinical and radiographic surveys have found that the prevalence of OA increases ... accounting for a daily dose of 40 mg UC-II containing 10 mg of bioactive undenatured type II collagen Each G+C capsule contains 375 mg of glucosamine HCl (USP Grade) and 300 mg of chondroitin sulfate...
... consumption of red meat and processed meat may not increase the risk oftype DM, per se, but be part of a dietary pattern that has been associated with a higher risk oftype DM Red and processed ... cases oftype DM We performed analyses with both confirmed and all type DM cases and found similar trends Thus, in this paper we present results that include all self-reported cases oftype DM ... reduction in the risk oftype DM for normal weight and overweight participants, but was unrelated to the risk oftype DM in obese participants and the interaction factor was of marginal significance...
... beautiful and lively with variety of colors such as purple, yellow, pink of the walls; dark green, white and yellow of the notocactus and cactus, and all kinds of fragrance from the flowers and herbs ... short stories and other genres of literature including essay and memoir, techniques in storytelling and moreover, short literary works and their portrayal of life With the understanding of such concepts, ... the objectiveness of the amount of narration There are two main types of memoirs including personal memoirs and historical memoirs As a personal observations of, thoughts ofand feelings about...
... availability firstof phonograph records, then of tape recorders and language labs in the mid-twentieth century, and more recently of audio- and video-cassettes and compact discs Jones and Evans ... (1984), Pennington (1989), Jones and Evans (1995), Dalton and Seidlhofer (1994) are Approaches of Bottom-up and Top-down 1.3.3 Approach of Bottom-up Approach of Bottom-up has close relationship ... poems, plays, and dialogues 1.4.10 Recordings of learners’ production: Audio- and video-tapes of rehearsed and spontaneous speeches, free conversations, and role plays Subsequent playback offers opportunities...
... Types of listening There are many different types of listening We can classify these according to a number of variables, including listening purposes, the role of the listener and the types of ... little of what they hear can be automatically processed They need to focus on details of what they hear and given limitation of working memory and speed of speech which affects comprehension and ... process of constructing meaning and this is done by applying knowledge to the incoming sound in which “number of different types of knowledge are involved: both linguistic knowledge and non-linguistic...
... former society, the ability to read and write was of value only to clergy and aristocracy The first known reference to “literate laymen” did not appear until the end of the 14th century Illiteracy ... invention of printing in the 15th century The first significant decline in illiteracy came with the Reformation, when translation of the Bible into the vernacular became widespread and Protestant ... Mr Pike gets old, he often feels tired C The older Mr Pike gets, the more often he feels tired D Mr Pike likes to get old so that he often feels tired I suggest turning off the air-conditioner...
... needs and interests of students to enhance learning and are based on types of learning styles Speaking strategy is a typeof learning strategies, it refers to students’ ways to continue and develop ... enables a user of a language to produce and understand an infinite set of sentences out of a set of a finite set of rule” Following that, linguistic competence is the subconscious knowledge of grammar ... period of training, the performance of the people become professional and it should be sensitive to feedback because it depends on the understandability or the ideas of different people f Most of...
... cells and batteries .91 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 22.6 Categorization of cells and batteries 91 General requirements for cells and batteries of types and .93 Charging oftype ... temperature and ignition temperature The requirements of 5.4 of IEC 60079-0 not apply and are replaced by the following: Except for the internal parts oftype nR enclosures andtype nC devices and components, ... and clearances at peak values of pulse voltages greater than 1,5 kV 85 Table Types and use of cells and batteries 93 Table 10 Minimum creepage distances, clearances and...
... absence and presence of unlabeled PCSK9 (Fig 4A) In the presence of a high concentration of unlabeled wild -type PCSK9, the halftime of the rapid phase was reduced from 19 to 16 and the half-time of ... time courses and effects of unlabeled ligands and low pH on the dissociation rates of [125I]TC-PCSK9 (A) and [125I]TC-PCSK9-D374Y (B) from HepG2 cells Binding to equilibrium and removal of unbound ... [koff] of 0.0009 ± 0.00012 min)1 (n = 3), which corresponds to a half-time of dissociation of 770 Lowering the pH of dissociation medium to 6.2 also led to monophasic and slow dissociation of...
... Bureau of Investigation, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Energy, and the Coast Guard • The Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department of State • Any of the elements of ... Reconnaissance Office and any other office within the Department of Defense for the collection of specialized national intelligence through reconnaissance programs • Any of the intelligence elements of the ... main home and none of the other exceptions apply • Members of the uniformed services or Foreign Service and employees of the intelligence community (defined on this page), and spouses of such individuals...
... (lane 2), MT1/MYC and GRASP55F and 0.5 lg EGFP-furin ICD (lane 3) or MT1/MYC and GRASP55F and 1.0 lg of EGFP-furin ICD (lane 4) were immunoprecipitated with the FLAG antibody and the associated ... interaction between MT1-MMP ICD and GRASP55 and therefore its mutation to AAA573 could explain the reduction of the level of cell surface expression of this mutated version of MT1-MMP It is important ... MT1/EYFP and the GRASP55-green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusion protein as previously described [35] and the localization of both proteins was studied in live cells Separation of the GFP and EYFP...