... Friday, February 3, 2006 12:21 PM GIS- BasedTradeAreaAnalysisandApplicationsinBusinessGeographyandRegionalPlanning “No matter how good its offering, merchandising, or customer service, every ... Friday, February 3, 2006 12:21 PM GIS- BasedTradeAreaAnalysisandApplicationsinGeographyandPlanning 69 TABLE 4.2 Four Major Cities and Hinterlands in Northeast China No of Counties Major City ... February 3, 2006 12:21 PM GIS- BasedTradeAreaAnalysisandApplicationsinGeographyandPlanning 59 Consumers at the BP are indifferent in choosing either store, and thus the gravitation by...
... were in the hand and five cases in the forearm, with signs of median nerve compression in two cases, one in the hand with the location of compression in the second case being unclear However, in ... sensation and resolution of the paresthesia Intraoperative lipoma showing the median nerve within the Figure intermuscular photo Intraoperative photo showing the median nerve within the intermuscular ... gradually worsening numbness and paresthesia on the palmar aspect of the left thumb and thenar eminence Static two point discrimination in the median nerve distribution of the index and thumb showed...
... pollution in the mining areaand the surroundings Coal mining is the greatest source of environmental pollution in the area of Uong Bi Town It is necessary to perform well andin time the land rehabilitation ... Bi Town The extent and output of coal mining are increasing for both open pit and underground mines Coal mining brings big economic benefits, but impacts strongly the land and forest resources, ... Integrated and inter-disciplinary surveys were conducted along traverses across the main types of landforms and characteristic production areas of Vang Danh, Nam Mau coal mining areas, Yen Tu tourist area, ...
... value in increasing level, followed by Quy Nhon and Can Tho This is quite compatible with the temperature happening in the past (increasing level declined southwards) In addition, temperatures in ... June to August in all three cities with 1.7 - 2.9 oC in Da Nang, 1.5-2.6 oC in Quy Nhon and 1.4-2.5 o C in Can Tho 3.2 Rainfall scenarios Rainfall scenarios show that rainfall in dry season can ... show that rainfall in dry season can decrease whereas rainfall in rainy season can increase and annual rainfall can increase in all research areas under the emission scenarios from highest (A1FI),...
... determined at 25 C by measuring the linear increase in absorbance at 400 nm during the initial Control experiments were carried out in the absence of NAT2 The slope of the linear increase in absorbance ... in a decrease in the rate of enzyme acetylation (k2) by 4.7-fold and an increase in the rate of intermediate hydrolysis (khydrolysis) of 3.6-fold Similarly, a decrease in k2 and an increase in ... aromaticHis interaction in barnase stabilizes the protonated His, increasing its pKa value and, therefore, increasing the nucleophilicity of active site Cys A similar interaction was found between the indole...
... prices for use in testing certain fair value measurements.10/ Fair Value Measurements for Financial Instruments Certain financial instruments, including certain investments in debt and equity securities, ... and significantly increased the risk of material misstatements in financial statements in certain industries, such as the financial services industry, andin certain audit areas, such as fair ... complex financial instruments in an increasingly thin or illiquid market, including the availability and use of prices provided by brokers or pricing services As the challenges grew and spread...
... regions containing Sp1 or AP-2a binding elements in the KCTD10 promoter, and representative ChIP-PCR results were shown in Fig The chromatin fragment containing Sp1- or AP-2a-binding sites in the KCTD10 ... genomic fragment in the 5¢-flanking region of human KCTD10; and identified the binding sites of two transcription factors, specificity protein (SP1) and activating protein-2a (AP-2a), in the promoter ... element binding protein-1 (B) Alignment of the 5¢-flanking sequences upstream of the start codon of human and mouse KCTD10 B Fig In vivo ChIP assays of Sp1.1 and AP-2.2 binding sites in the proximal...
... Particularly interesting ligands are the serine protease urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA), its primary serpin inhibitor, plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1), and the corresponding protease-serpin ... and incubated overnight at C with 20 pm 125I-ligand Washing and incubation with ligands were performed in binding buffer with 1% BSA When the effect of monoclonal antibodies on binding was investigated, ... J (1992) Low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein and gp330 bind similar ligands, including plasminogen activator-inhibitor complexes and lactoferrin, an inhibitor of chylomicron remnant...
... defined areas (b) defined 100 × 100-μm2 surface areas at a temperature of 30°C The results are shown in Figure In non-patterned areas, the SiNW length increases linearly with the etching time, in ... most interesting observation is that the SiNW length in the lithographically defined areas is much higher than that in the non-patterned ones, which means that the etching rate is increased in ... that occurs during etching Formation of SiNWs on confined areas on the Si substrate We investigated the growth of SiNWs by MACE on confined areas on the Si substrate of a surface area that varied...
... by the Teaching and Research Award Fund for Outstanding Young Teachers in Higher Education Institutions of MOE, China and the Dawn Program Foundation in Shanghai References J Eckstein, “Approximate ... proximal point methods and their variants for finding zeros of monotone maximal operators, see, for example, 7–10 and the references therein In this paper, motivated by the research work going on in this ... lim infn → ∞ λn > and en ≤ ηn xn − xn with supn≥0 ηn η < Let {αn }, {βn }, {γn }, and {δn } be real sequences in 0, satisfying the following control conditions: i αn βn and γn δn ≤ 1, ii lim infn...
... biological, and human bodies The third and final section contains a number of new and useful applicationsin daily living and learning Section – Outdoor and Mobile AR Applications (Chapters 1-4) In Chapter ... 1, Ai and Livingston described a mixed reality (MR) based system for security monitoring, and large area intelligence gathering or global monitoring, where geo-registered information is integrated ... Emerging Application Areas by a new concreting area and, therefore, check if the obtained results coincide with the expected data included within the original design plans In case the user finds...
... time andin order to maintain “balance” in the bibliography, I have included only a limited selection of items concerning binary clutters and postman theory, two-graphs, signed digraphs in qualitative ... related to signed (and gain) graphs and suggests some interesting lines of graph-theoretic research See M´zard, Parisi, and Virasoro (1987a) and citations in its e annotation Plainly, judgment is ... from analysis of data on a small (social) group, in terms of frustration index l and a clusterability index mink>2 2Pk,.5 (slightly different from the index in Doreian and Mrvar (1996a)), finding...
... with no overlapping spots of the stapler in this report the anvil head and the main unit of the automated stapler, and conducting firing(Figure 1) We used Surgitie™ for purse-string suture of esophagus ... was inserted at the right subcostal margin, and after the looped-shaped thread was wrapped around the esophageal stump opening, assisting Maryland forceps inserted at the left subcostal and left ... assessed and monitored to test for safety and reliability in a randomized fashion Consent Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and any accompanying...
... volume loss and the severity of symptoms, including worsening of pain at 24 months Competing interests JFB, GAC, and JMM declare that they have financial competing interests as employees of and/ or ... trend toward correlation with joint stiffness is a new and most interesting finding, as there is, to date, very little information of this kind originating from longitudinal studies However, from ... by the trochlear area These findings are in line with the work of Amin and colleagues [4] in patients with knee OA with meniscal lesions and that of Biswal and colleagues [30] in patients with...
... Associates, Flagstaff, AZ, USA) starting at the origin of the brachiocephalic trunk and ending in the descending thoracic aorta, was inserted and resulting in a complete Figure Angiography after ... of the thoracic aneurysm in two cases andin persistent, retrograde perfusion of the false lumen in the remaining case Additionally, in all cases these radiological findings were associated with ... owing to surgical difficulties to clearly visualize and manipulate the deeply located proximal left subclavian artery, the ligation was incomplete in two cases and impossible in the remaining...
... GlaxoSmithKline, Nycomed, and Novartis He has received research funding from GlaxoSmithKline, Nycomed, and Boehringer Ingelheim, and has spoken at meetings supported by AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline, and ... conception and design of these studies, the acquisition of study data, and the analysisand interpretation of these data He was fully involved in the drafting and revision of this manuscript, and provided ... the acquisition of study data, and the analysisand interpretation of these data He was fully involved in the drafting and revision of this manuscript, and provided final approval of its content...
... distance at the outset in time linear in the input size In what follows, we expand on the approach based on the distribution of k-mers by including all the values of k in the count In other words, we ... digital search index) collecting all suffixes of a string For a compact representation, all chains of unary nodes are collapsed into a single arc, so that the resulting structure is linear in the length ... structure is linear in the length of the string Whereas a string of L characters may contain Θ(L2) distinct substrings, the O(L) substrings terminating at branching nodes of the suffix tree are enough...
... latrine coverage was increased from 78% in 2007 to 82% in 2009 in urban areas and from 67% to 71% in rural areas (see Table 4), however, coverage declined to 62% in urban areas and to 48% in rural ... rural areas in the months of 2008 following the Nargis incident In urban and rural areas combined, the sanitary latrine coverage for the Nargis-affected population during 2008 was 76% in the ... highest during June 2008 (21 cases) and surged again a year after Nargis in March 2009 (15 cases); according to EWAR reports following Cyclone Nargis Increasing incidence of diarrhea coincided with...
... to determine whether it is possible to derive a mathematical model based on the underlying physical chemistry involved (i.e partitioning of H+ buffering) in a triprotic acid-containing aqueous ... only on partitioning of H+ buffering was indeed possible in predicting the equilibrium pH of a triprotic acid-containing aqueous solution as well, this would demonstrate convincingly that electroneutrality/charge ... fundamental in determining the pH from a chemical standpoint Towards this goal, we derived our new mathematical model utilizing: 1) partitioning of H+ buffering; 2) conservation of mass; and 3) acid-base...