... whether individuals have heard ofthe RWC, whether and how they have accessed and used any ofthe campaign materials, their perceptions ofthe quality and believability ofthe materials, and ... Sta, the Unied Combatant Commands, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, andthe defense Intelligence Community. iv Assessment ofthe Content, Design, and Dissemination ofthe ... RWC tweets, and re-tweets, the number of YouTube videos viewed, andthe number of users and posts to the RWC message board on the website. For media relations, we summarize the range of information...
... nearly flat in the passband and rolls off smoothly and monotonically. In addition, it has virtually no ripple in either the passband or the stopband. For these reasons, many designers regard the Butterworthfilter ... afinite period of time and then drifts back to the original baseline. The time required for the return of normal operational conditions ofthe biopotential amplifier after the end of the saturating ... filtersacross the inputs degrades the performance ofthe amplifier. This practice loads the input of the amplifier, which substantially lowers input impedance and degrades the CMRR of the differential...
... within each line of computers the screen size, the amount of memory, the speed of the processor, the capabilities ofthe CD/DVD device, the capacity and rotational speed of the hard drive, etc. ... manufacturing process step, then Ystep is theprocess step yield. If NI is the number of units that complete the manufacturing process, then Ystep is the yield of the product after theprocess ... other, then the yield of an entire process is given by YYProcessstepimi==∏1 (3.12)whereYstepiis the yield ofthe ith step in the process, and m is the total number of steps in the...
... 3.1 The focus ofthe questions My questions focus on the ongoing restructuring ofthe dialogue between members of the public and representatives of official bodies, and on how discourses and ... representation of women. This contributed to a more complex understanding ofthe values ofthe predominant IT discourses, and revealed the “cracks” in, and possibilities of feminist redefinitions of, these ... aware ofthe reality-producing effects of describing the case. In talking to representatives ofthe control group ofthe Public Internet Monitor Project, the case ofthe cleaner was seen as proof...
... activity ofthe TAP2iso product and TAP2DV might be due to the different length of the C-terminal truncations andthe ability ofthe exon12-encoded C-terminal tail to regulate the function of NBD2. ... b11-strand of the C-terminal tail of NBD2 is necessary and sufficient toconfer the different nucleotide binding and functionalproperties of SUR2A and 2B [39]. As the sequence of the TAP-NBD2 ... NBD1bearing the core NBD1 andthe C-terminal segment of TAP2 confers the characteristic ADP binding of wild-typeTAP2. Taken together, our data suggest that in the restingstate ofthe transporter the...
... hypotheticalsecond site have been made here for the bacterial enzyme bystripping subunits III and IV off the native complex, and byfurther destroying a large part ofthe acidic lobe(s) of the docking ... oxidase is the terminal complex of the respiratory chains of mitochondria and many bacteria[1–4]. It catalyzes the reduction of oxygen to water, coupling the free energy of this reaction to the generation ... with the crystal structures ofthe eukaryotic and the Paracoccus denitrificans oxidase showing clusters of negat-ively charged residues on the surface of subunit II [11,12].Previous studies on the...
... technology-driven); the market destination ofthe TNC production (domestic or foreign markets); the technological profile ofthe sector FDI; the role ofthe TNC affiliate into the technological network ofthe ... analyzing the emission indicators andthe environmental management systems ofthe sample companies. These indicators do not cover the forest phase ofthe pulp and paper production process, i.e, they ... the pulp and paper industry in the industrial phase such as: the high demand of water and energy, the generation of toxic effluents andthe malodorous smell. The indicators8 BDO5, TSS and AOX...
... Maryland and federal law regulate the use of ―child labor‖ (i.e., the employment of persons below the age of eighteen) andthe employment of people to do work in their homes. The Maryland Division ... government has approved the Occupational Safety and Health Plan ofthe State of Maryland and has authorized the State to be the enforcement agency. The Maryland Occupational Safety and Health Act approach ... Division, Office ofthe Attorney General David M. Lyon, Principal Counsel, Office ofthe Attorney General, Department of Assessments and Taxation Craig A. Nielsen, Principal Counsel, Office of the...
... the in¯uence of competitors is not shown. The loop on the right connects the needs ofthe customerto the needs ofthe manufacturer andthe loop on the leftconnects the needs of society to the ... value.Use ofthe intercept as a phenomenological measure of the value ofthe product is also intuitive in the absence of the S-model. The use of V±P as a measure ofthe drivingforce for demand was ... goods and selection ofthe best design alternative51 On the valuation of goods and selection ofthe best design alternativeH.E. Cook, A. WuAbstract In the planning and early design stages of...
... relevant theoretical concepts and previous research – including those ofthe researcher at Ernst & Young. (2) Analysis ofthe profitability ofthe biggest pulp and paper companies ofthe world ... preservation of culture and knowledge and better preservation and transport of food are just some ofthe important contributions ofthe industry to modern civilization. Today, the end-products ofthe ... consequence. On the other hand, companies in the emerging markets of Asia and South America are investing and performing better. An indication ofthe severity ofthe crisis is the “Manifesto...
... on the one hand, the subjectivization ofthe aesthetic object and, on the other, the specialization of aesthetics in issues of aesthetics of art. Namely, art, just like the beautiful andthe ... mass-produced and heteronymous production ofthe aesthetic artifacts. The rise of aesthetic experience can, therefore, be seen through the prism of aestheticization, which is, simply, theprocessof ... find the reason for that process at the complexity ofthe term “aesthetic experience”. To understand the meaning oftheprocessof aestheticization, we need to make clear its mechanism and, ...
... DPP-IV). Another potential bond can beproposed between the OH atom of Tyr380 andthe car-bonyl group ofthe ligand. Finally, the valine sidechain ofthe ligand, pointing towards the active ... be the reference); 2, docked into the active site of the human DPP-IV; 3, docked into the active site ofthe crystalline structure of PepX from L. lactis ;and4 , docked into the active site ofthe ... 2). The interactions ofthe bound ligand with the resi-dues ofthe specificity site (Fig. 4A) reveal good stack-ing between the pyrrolidine ring ofthe drug and the side chain of Tyr380 (Pos1 subsite),...
... ofthe efficacy of the communication capabilities ofthe Web in facilitating knowledge construction and attitude changein the area of health education.This paper describes thedevelopmentand ... subject. The theoretical basis for the designof learning activities and a prototype Web environment will be outlined andthe methodology,findings and implications ofthe formative evaluation for the ... evidence ofthe efficacy of the communication capabilities ofthe Web in facilitating knowledge construction and attitudechange in the area of health education. The Faculty of Education at the University...
... Expression ofthe p65 and p50 NF-jB subunit proteins intesticular cells. (A) RT-PCR detection of p50 and p65 transcripts in the testis (Te) and in TM3 and TM4 cells. (B) Western blot analysis of the ... transcriptionalactivities. The first 3Â segment deleted in the intronsequence (designated R4) in the construct F2 resultedin the abolishment of 80% ofthe relative luciferaseactivity, despite the presence of exon ... transfection. The siRNA oligonucleotides and 5 lL of Lipofectamine2000 were prepared separately in 250 lL of SF medium. The siRNA oligonucleotide was then added slowly intoLipofectamine 2000 and the...
... minimize the sum of distances between colors andthe centers of color clusters resulting in the quantization process (Ù minimize the sum of distances within each cluster)ã2ndapproach: maximize the ... analysis State ofthe art in color image processing and analysisLecturer:Assoc. prof. Mihaela GORDANTechnical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information ... attributes of color. The perceptual attributes of color = the HVS specific attributes in the perception and description of a color: Brightness; Nuance (Hue); Saturation (Purity).ã Note: the RGB...