... additional fall in ETCO2 We hope the response addresses the concerns of the reader Thanking you Hemant Bhagat, Anil Agarwal, Manish S Sharma Competing interests The authors declare that they have ... Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury 2008, 3:21 http://www.jbppni.com/content/3/1/21 With increase in the amplitude of current, there is further increase in the force of diaphragmatic contraction (akin ... competing interests They did not receive any grants nor they have any vested interests in the equipment described References Akcali DT, Ozkose Z, Yardim S: Do we need bispectral index monitoring during...
... assimilation or cognitive dissonance: the dissonance theory (also known asthe assimilation theory) and the contrast effect have been borrowed from the consumer behaviour area The assimilation ... of theservice transaction; the final consumer satisfaction is considered asthe outcome of theservice and therefore, service has a significantly emotional content for the consumer 2.4.1.2 The ... strengthened thereafter (Chase and Dasu, 2001; Pine and Gilmore, 1998) Chase and Dasu (2001) highlight the importance of the sequence and the duration, as well asthe trend of the sequence They assert...
... cohesion-category by Haliday and Hasan (1976) Then the occurrence frequency of each error type was counted The data and the list of the errors was the source for the analysis 1.6 ORGANIZATION OF THE ... article based on contrastive approach, the students might produce false conceptualization, and the confusion between ‘a’ and the in their writing is obvious These errors such asthe use of the ... of there in these cases is anaphoric and locative; it refers to “in the old streets in Hanoi” in the first example, “in the party” in the second Considering its meaning and function, there in the...
... c More than 45 minutes per week d There was no pronunciation lesson but the teacher taught the pronunciation of new words and corrected students’ pronunciation mistakes during the lesson (If yes, ... at its pronunciation and meaning, then pronounced it aloud Part 3: Attitude and problems with English pronunciation How important is pronunciation you think? a Not important b Important 10 What ... PASSAGES PASSAGE 1: JOB SATISFACTION Over the years, the development of different theories of management and different approached to organization has affected the way we view motivation In the...
... syllable, whereas consonants form the onset and coda Vowels can be defined as “sounds in the production of which there is no obstruction to the flow of air as it passes the larynx to the lips” (Roach, ... 13-14) As for consonant sounds, Roach (2000:10) defined them as “sounds in which there is obstruction to the flow of air as it passes the larynx to the lips.” As consonant sounds were the main ... was devoted to the teaching of speaking skills and pronunciation The pronunciation period was often the last period, which lasted for 45 minutes Asthe tasks 36 designed for the pronunciation...
... Part of the decomposition above 700°C (not shown onthe graph) was attributed to the calcium carbonate of the sample, the content of which was about 45% in ash Therefore, the DTG peaks of the two ... production She has extensive experience in the fields of pyrolysis, combustion, gasification and reduction of pollutant emissions from solid fuels, as well as coal/biomass characterization and physical ... j, g expresses the effect of ambient gas composition and f describes the change of surface reactivity as a function of the fractional burn off: Asthe function g(Po2) represented the partial pressure...
... d Please answer the next question a Just nothing, let the class be b Shout at the students and punish them c Move to another parts of the lesson d Try to find out the reasons why they are ... students were asked to give their answers to the questions and then handed in their papers to the teacher These were the results of the survey: Question 1: What is your self - assessment on your writing ... Introduction, Development and Conclusion Part 1: Introduction presents the rationale, the research questions, the method of study, the research procedure, the scope of the study, the significance of the...
... interaction She contrasts what conventionally happens in the language class with what typically happens outside the classroom in relation to the content, reason, result, participants and means of ... Spoken language, onthe other hand, consists of short, often fragmentary utterances, in a range of pronunciations There is often a great deal of repetition and overlap between one speaker and another, ... for one, one for all” and expanding it beyond the small classroom group to encompass the whole class, the whole school, on and on, bringing in increasingly greater numbers of people and other...
... savings contributions based onthe number of members and the number of expected contributions; • add reasonable expected profit based on rates charged on loans and compare the total to the actual ... (usually another surplus season) rather than the middle One xonchoi manager explained that “our financial year ends onthe 1st of Magh1 (mid-January) All of our calculations are done then People ... for the general welfare of the clan, for marriages, death ceremonies, emergencies, etc Onthe other hand, there are mechanisms focused on economic gains, and these include the Samities (ASCAs)...
... AFPs onthe flat ice plane Indeed, TH increases in proportion with the total concentration of nfeAFP8, as can be seen in Fig 3A The fraction of AFPs onthe flat ice plane is not, however, changed ... When the type III AFP solution contains a seed ice crystal, the AFP molecules come closer to the ice through the diffusion process, for which an association constant of 107)108 s)1Æm)1 can be assumed ... activity has been examined to date These data raise the question about the key determinant that has a significant influence onthe TH activity of an AFP species The present study examined the TH value...
... all the Ba/F3 transfectants (Fig 3C–E) These experiments revealed that the total amount of CD38 (as assessed by immunoblotting), as well asthe amount of CD38 expressed onthe plasma membrane (as ... expressed onthe plasma membrane (Fig 4A,B) To confirm these results, we repeated the biotinylation experiment using Ba/F3 transfectants expressing other CD38 mutant proteins The plasma membrane expression ... these mutations result in reduced plasma membrane stability and decreased expression of CD38 onthe plasma membrane Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Troy Randall for discussions...
... depreciation)/Total assets CFt − CASHt − Cash and cash equivalents/Total assets MTBt − Market value of the assets/book value of the assets LEVt − Long-term debt/Total assets EXCESS_RET t − One-year ... of estimations The first set has a parsimonious second stage equation with only HP_INDEXt appearing onthe right hand side The second set of equations controls for all of the control variables ... for the median HP_INDEX, we conclude that the presence of financing constraints discourages the use of repurchase-based earnings management in an economically meaningful way 3.2.1 Can variation...
... (IL-6, IL-1b, and TNF-a) and the expression of inflammation-related proteins (iNOS, COX-1, and COX-2) in LPS-activated microglia and astrocytes, and we explored the association of these effects ... use of NSAIDs on onset of disease and on dementia, with increased duration of NSAIDs use having increased protective effect against AD [20] The best characterized action of these anti-inflammatory ... various concentrations of DL0309 for h Cells were then treated with arachidonic acid, 30 μM, for another 20 min, and PGE2 levels in the medium were then measured by ELISA For the COX-1 activity assay...
... P3HT asan electron donor was purchased from Rieke Metal Inc (Lincoln, NE, USA) PCBM asan electron acceptor was purchased from Nano-C (Westwood, MA, USA) Aluminum as a cathode was purchased ... fabrication The pre-patterned ITO glass substrates were cleaned with acetone, ethanol, and isopropyl alcohol (1:1:1) for h by sonication and then rinsed by ethanol After cleaning, the ITO glass substrates ... amount of pentacene was increased, the UV-visible transmittance intensity slightly increased in the wavelength range of 300 ~ 800 nm Therefore, the transmittance was dependent onthe amount of pentacene...
... historical study onthe Blasius problem and analyzed the case β < in details, in which the shape and the number of solutions were determined We may refer to 14 and the references therein for more ... problem 1.1 - 1.2 has been widely studied analytically Weyl proved that 1.1 - 1.2 has one and only one solution for β 0; Coppel studied the case of β > 0; the cases of < β < and β > were also ... Falkner-Skan equation arising in boundary layer theory,” Applied Mathematics and Computation, vol 202, no 1, pp 406–412, 2008 13 K Q Lan and G C Yang, “Positive solutions of the Falkner-Skan equation...
... 0, 1, then Re zFn z Fn z 2.12 so Fn is a convex function Corollary 2.4 Let γ be a real number, γ > Suppose that the functions f ∈ Sp β and < γ ≤ z 1/ − β In these conditions, the function F1 ... γ dt is convex of order β − γ Proof In Corollary 2.2, we consider n Corollary 2.5 Let f ∈ Sp β and consider the integral operator of Alexander, F z In this condition, F is convex by the order ... Ronning, “Uniformly convex functions and a corresponding class of starlike functions,” Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, vol 118, no 1, pp 189–196, 1993 D Breaz and N Breaz, “Two...
... 0, 1, then Re zFn z Fn z 2.12 so Fn is a convex function Corollary 2.4 Let γ be a real number, γ > Suppose that the functions f ∈ Sp β and < γ ≤ z 1/ − β In these conditions, the function F1 ... γ dt is convex of order β − γ Proof In Corollary 2.2, we consider n Corollary 2.5 Let f ∈ Sp β and consider the integral operator of Alexander, F z In this condition, F is convex by the order ... Ronning, “Uniformly convex functions and a corresponding class of starlike functions,” Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, vol 118, no 1, pp 189–196, 1993 D Breaz and N Breaz, “Two...