... of inorganic arsenic In the second row they were given 500 μg of MMAs In the third row they were given 500 μg of DMAs Their urine was collected over a 14 day period and the number of μmoles of ... changed in any ofthe 12 model experiments shown in Figure Note that the scales on the y axes differ in the different panels of Figure The model predictions ofthe time courses of excretion rates ... is the first step in our project, since it will enable us to connect the dynamics ofthe methylation reactions in the liver to the presence of arsenicals in the blood and the urine where they...
... the fuel cell relies on the ambient relative humidity and water production in the cathode for the humidification ofthe membrane; (x.) the circulating ambient air facilitates the cooling ofthe ... kg is gases thermal conductivity (W/(m.K)) The gas phase and the liquid phase are assumed to be in thermodynamic equilibrium; hence the temperature ofthe liquid water is the same as the gas phase ... [W/m2] and the specific surface area [m2/m3] ofthe porous medium [17] Hence, the unit of β is [W/m3] The gas phase and the liquid phase are assumed to be in thermodynamic equilibrium, i.e., the liquid...
... depth) The objective of this work is to investigate the effect of brine depth on the productivity and efficiency of solar still under laboratory conditions Table shows a summary of some ofthe studies ... that of greater thickness, but the productivity diminishes rapidly after turning the heaters off On the other hand, the still with the higher brine depth has a larger production during the period ... as nocturnal production in the outdoor tests) These values are the initial value ofthe production line in the figures This may be due to the large thermal capacity of water, which is directly...
... across the orifice plate, to measure the pressure difference inside the inlet pipe and the atmosphere The coefficient of discharge ofthe orifice is determined experimentally to be 0.603 Simple software ... DF without EGR They concluded that the use of EGR with biodiesel was able to reduce NOX emissions at the expense of increase in smoke, CO and unburned HC emissions The aim ofthe current study ... amount in the blends More amount of CO2 in the exhaust emission is an indication of complete combustion of fuel [13,21] The CO2 emission of DF increased slightly, when EGR was operated While, the CO2...
... houses are grown up a lot.Morever, the growth of economy has given a lot of advantages by making people richer, healther, and freer to enjoy their lives.I always pride of my city whenever I talk about...
... are of other race, mother is white (not father), mother is Hispanic (not father), mother is of other race (not father), mother is foreign-born (not father), father is foreign-born (not mother), ... to the intersection ofthe supports ofthe propensity score of treated and controls Imposing the common support condition in the estimation ofthe propensity score may improve the quality ofthe ... parents are of “other” race/ethnicity - Mother = white, Father = non-white - Mother = black, Father = non-black - Mother = Hispanic, Father = non-Hispanic - Mother = other, Father = other Parents’...
... of ferrites Ni1-xCoxFe2O4, hence it was the increasing of HC The increasing of HC proved that the soft magnetic property of ferrite NiFe2O4 changed to the hard magnetic property of ferrite CoFe2O4 ... (3) where B2θ is the full width half maximum (rad), λ the wavelength ofthe X-ray, θ the angle between the incident and diffracted beams (degree) and d the particle size ofthe sample (nm) (in ... materials, the second term can take part of several tens percent of HC and the last one whereas can only reach several hundreds of gauss Thus, the increasing of Co-concentration led to the increasing of...
... - - the forward.looking center list (Cf) and the backward-looking center (the Cb) Cf is a partially ordered list of centering candidates; the Cb, at the head of Cf, is the current center of attention ... utterance, one of three operations are possible: * The Cb retains both its position at the head of Cf and its status as the Cb; therefore it continues as the center in the next utterance • The Cb retains ... r~asons depends on the variance between what the text predicts and what the speaker would like to assert about the order of items in Cf These hypotheses arise from the following chain of assumptions:...
... Both the slight shift ofthe emission maximum to a shorter wavelength and the strong increase ofthe fluorescence signal indicate changes ofthe tertiary structure ofthe RNase A molecule Furthermore, ... Quantification ofthe proteolytic susceptibility of RNase A To gain further insight into the changes ofthe proteolytic susceptibility of RNase A as a function of trifluoroethanol concentration, the proteolytic ... the decrease ofthe activity of RNase A precedes the disruption ofthe tertiary structure Apart from a slight activation, an effect which was also reported for other enzymes in the presence of...
... duties in the company All of them are utility maximizes; therefore, there is no ground to believe that they will act on the interest ofthe company On the other hand, it is not easy to mediate these ... the importance of influencing workers to accomplish task performances Many years later, this was the premise ofthe appearance ofthe term “motivation” and then it has rapidly become one ofthe ... For owners, they should be especially aware ofthe importance of motivation because only if they understand the importance of it, then can they implement incentive policy to motivate their employees...
... useful to consider the historical development of a region. This study uses the Landsat TM and ETM+ to extract the built‐up land in the city and evaluate the change of agricultural ... urbanization in Ho Chi Minh City. 2. The study area Ho Chi Minh City has a very favorable geographical location in the centre ofthe rich Southern region with many resources. The city has the common ... among them 45% is the agricultural land. The land ofthe city is formed by old and recent alluvions, having poor fertility of soil, not suitable for development of annual crop production [5]. ...
... multiplied by the average number of shares ofthe Corporation's common stock outstanding at the close of business on each day ofthe year' The upper bound is commonly written as a function of cash ... by the book value of total assets at the end of each company-year 1° are also displayed for 1°Accruals are also deflated b y sales and the book value of assets at the beginning ofthe year The ... value of their bonus awards However, the effect of a procedure change on the accounting numbers is only publicly disclosed for the year ofthe change This proxy therefore fails to control for the...
... during the decay process ofthe PL centers (blueshift ofthe PL), a short time annealing causes the recovery ofthe PL centers (re-redshift ofthe PL) This leads to the spectral shift and the peak ... since the blueshift ofthe PL accompanies the decrease ofthe nc-Si size (Fig 2b–d) However, due to the coexistence of two PL centers, the explanation of spectral change is much more complicated The ... concentration ratio of these two components while the PL intensity is determined by the concentrations of these two components and the density of nonradiative recombination centers The increase ofthe PL...
... classification of chest lesions was made following the guidelines ofthe National Tuberculosis Association ofthe USA (1961) All the chest radiological assessments were done by one ofthe chest physicians ... blinded regarding the contents ofthe capsules The supplements were distributed sequentially according to the code number ofthe packets Symptoms of gastrointestinal upset, such as loss of appetite, ... growth of a virulent strain of M tuberculosis in the spleen and lungs of female Balb/C mice It was concluded that an excess of Fe might enhance the growth of M tuberculosis and worsen the outcome of...
... ACs The isolated CHDs of all four isoforms were purified and had AC activity in vitro Inclusion ofthe N-terminal HAMP-region enhanced the activity ofthe CHD of Rv3645 by more than an order of ... between the two catalytic centers (Table 1) Taken together it appears that the HAMP regions modulate the AC activity ofthe CHDs in a rather distinct manner Next we examined the role ofthe HAMP ... in substrate affinity between the isoforms and the known differences of metal-cofactor affinity of mammalian AC isoforms [16] prompted us to investigate the metal-cofactor dependence in detail...
... order to predict thehuman metrics in 2011, for example, CLASSY uses thehuman ratings from 2009 and 2010 It first considers each subset ofthe features in turn, and using each ofthe regression ... significance, the pattern of improvement is fairly consistent Conclusions We investigated the consistency ofhuman assessors in the area of summarization evaluation We considered two ways of measuring ... Evaluating content selection in summarization: The Pyramid method Proceedings oftheHuman Language Technology Conference ofthe North American Chapter ofthe Association for Computational Linguistics,...
... a function ofthe initial hardness ofthe peened metal {Fig 8} The fatigue properties of' b and k were estimated from the hardness ofthe peened material at the weld toe at a depth of 200 ~m: ... for the same weld shape In addition, Kfmax depends upon the shape ofthe weld and the type of loading to which it is subjected (a), and upon the size or scale ofthe weldment (t) Using Eq and the ... pocket or deep notch, the size ofthe initiated crack length (ai) may be taken as the dimension ofthe defect Thus, the fatigue crack propagation life {Np} may be calculated taking the defect size...
... audit firms is compared to the cost of capital of Big-audit firms in terms ofthe expected effect ofthe level of audit quality provided on the cost of capital The cost of capital is split into ... changes the firm’s ratio ofthe expected future cash flows to the covariance of these cash flows with the sum of all the cash flows in the market They show that this effect can go in either direction, ... with the cost of equity 10 The results ofthe last part of this study, which investigates whether there is a relationship between clients of Second-Tier audit firms and the backdating of ESOs,...
... stance and the increased range of motion during stance, are affected by changes that occur further up in the kinetic chain at the hip joint The Page of increase in the range of motion ofthe ankle ... the area ofthe leg most likely affected by ischemia since the blood must travel farther to reach the lower part ofthe leg The abnormal biomechanical parameters at the ankle, including the decreased ... utilizing the same kinematic and kinetic biomechanical measures to assess the impact of pharmacological treatment of PAD patients Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the impact of...