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... 3. Analysis and adaptation of the model of Nicolaı¨ et al. (1993) Nicolaı¨ et al. (1993) have constructed a dynamic model for the surface growth of lactic acid bacteria on vacuum-packed meats. ... accuracy of latter input values is also of major im- portance. Therefore, an adequate calculation method for the actual values of [LaH] and pH at each time point during growth is necessary. According ... line) approximates the LaH tot -axis for small LaH tot values and a straight line with slope a for larger LaH tot values (thin full lines). Curves for different parameter values are indicated.

Ngày tải lên: 05/05/2014, 08:44

... spectrum, many parliaments lack a strategic plan, an adequate ICT infrastructure, basic tools for Members of Parliament and staff, systems for managing documents and trained ICT staff The status of the ... internasionale skaal, die inisiatiewe wat onderneem word, en die uitdagings wat ervaar word Literatuur wat die nuutste verwikkelinge saamvat, word ondersoek, asook onlangse opname aangaande opkomende ... example the importance of knowledge management and organisational design for improving the parliament-citizen interface, which require consideration by parliaments in general A seamless platform

Ngày tải lên: 10/05/2014, 16:26

... Sciences at UNC Charlotte, the most recent cycle has been transforma-tional and exceptransforma-tionally fast As summarized in Figure 5, the Department has had a string of rapid successes and ambitious ... objectives are one area where practica and capstones (theses or projects) can serve a critical catch-all role, in much the same way as qualifying exams for doctoral students External assess-ments, ... the faculty to examine assessment at both a course and a programmatic level: it may be fine to assess only a student's ability to calculate a chi-square statistic on a biostatistics end-of-class

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... Welfare Act and other federal statutes and regulations relating to animals and experiments involving animals and adhered to principles stated in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals, ... International. Mouse adaptation The general approach to adapt MARV to mice was based on virus passage in scid (BALB/c background) mice to avoid usage of suckling mice to develop a lethal mouse- adapted ... Ternovoj VA, Klenk HD: Molecular characterization of guinea pig-adapted variants of Ebola virus Virology 2000, 277(1):147-155 Ebihara H, Takada A, Kobasa D, Jones S, Neumann G, Theriault S, Bray

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... benefit and a concerted international effort to roll out ART, only four countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Senegal, Rwanda, Botswana and Namibia) have achieved the "3 by 5" goal of treating at ... evaluation summary score was obtained by averaging the domain scores and was reported as Superior, Satisfac-tory or UnsatisfacSatisfac-tory If a domain or an evaluation was identified as unsatisfactory, ... final approval to the manuscript HMS assisted in data analysis, interpretation of results, and provided final approval of the manuscript RV assisted in data collection, data analysis, interpretation

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... the central states For Sci 18, 109-120 Corman A, Carret G, Pave A, Flandrois JP, Couix C (1986) Bacterial growth measurement using an auto-mated system: mathematical modelling and analysis of ... of information along the time scale For a model f(t,&thetas;), depending on the parameter vector &thetas;, the sensitivity function of a parameter &thetas;is the partial derivative ... rate) are considered specific to each individual whereas the shape parameter (m) may be estimated globally for the population. Parametrization The original equations were reparametrized to gain

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

... Care, Bellingham, MA, USA Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Trang 2the relationship Differently from simple PTSD, survivorsof that particular trauma recreate ... Observation Scale General linear model (mixed model analysis of variance (ANOVA)) was used to examine both within and between group differences in total BPRS, total BSI and total Client Observation ... between 8 and 24 h from the beginning of treatment (that is, from the sub-ject's examination by a psychiatrist and formulation of a treatment plan by the clinical team) Research assistants ('raters'),

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... discrimi- nate between particular individuals in a stand. Sap flow data have been used for estimating hourly transpiration and canopy conductances in a range of forest stands ... resis- tances and capacitances are expressed on an all-sided needle area basis. The water potential values used in the present paper are corrected for the gravitational gradi- ... MPa [36] and a semi-cylindrical needle shape with an average diameter of 0.002 m. 3. MATERIALS AND METHODS 3.1. Sites The model was parameterised and evalu- ated using data

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... 100 Large set of transporters Reduced set of transporters (a) Chlamydophila pneumoniae Chlamydophila abortus 0.2 Nosema ceranae Nosema ceranae Nosema ceranae Nosema ceranae Antonospora locustae ... by a black square (b) Evolution of the ATP transporter family based on available amino acid sequences from a range of microsporidian parasites 1, Putative ancestral duplication of ATP transporters ... genomic analyses from a broad range of uncultivatable organisms from which only a handful of contaminant-free DNA can be extracted Finally, an important goal of the present study was to gather a large

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:20

... related A small subset, approximately 5%, of patients have headache as a primary complaint Any rea-sonable estimate would place the percentage of chiroprac-tic patients with somachiroprac-tic pain ... the past several decades, a substantial body of evi-dence has accumulated to inform decision-making on the value of chiropractic manipulation for low back, neck and headache complaints • A large ... interest and is amenable to change We maintain that there is no such argument In fact, efforts to launch such a campaign have failed For example, two recent public relations efforts have been attempted

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... reparative activities that are conventionally accepted as the epitome of revitalization of avascular dead bone Investigators have a priori endeavored to enable vascular ingrowth Accepting that ... an exaggerated revascularization of the formerly avascular femoral heads To conclude, the above alterations are unmistakably exclusive to the healing phase of osteonecrosis of the femoral head ... alendronate after 42 days Figure 2 Femoral head with AVN treated with alendronate after 42 days The right operated femoral head of an alen-dronate-treated rat There are just remnants of the physeal cartilage

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... Reso- nating circadian clocks enhance fitness in cyanobacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1998, 95:8660-8664. 53. Dodd AN, Salathia N, Hall A, Kevei E, Toth R, Nagy F, Hibberd JM, Millar AJ, Webb AAR: ... ingly, it was the circadian clock in Drosophila that prompted the modeling of circadian rhythms as coupled ultradian ones [12], and this proposal was based partly on data showing ultradian peaks in ... components in addition to the main circadian frequency. Amongst the arguments that have been brought forward against 'beats' as a mechanism is that coupled oscillators of similar frequencies

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... Reverends Greg and Peg Sammons and family, you have proved yourselves as emulated examples and mentors God bless you For your patience, love and prayers, I appreciate you mama and papa and my faithful ... analysis and development of the model It is therefore recommended that thorough scrutiny be carried out on all data, and that sufficient data from all regions be made available in the database system ... Semisesquicentinnial Transportation Conference, Centre for Transportation Research and Education (CTRE), Iowa State University http://www.ctre.iastate.edu/index.html 17 Huang, Y A., (1993) “Pavement Analysis and

Ngày tải lên: 04/07/2016, 17:20

... better able to make profi ts Trang 22In sum, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach suggests a pragmatic approach Indeed, Freeman has always claimed to belong to a pragmatic current (Freeman ... published Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach In 1993, he co-wrote an article with Evan on Kantian posi-capitalism Simultaneously, Freeman was appointed as Professor of Management at the ... as a toolbox for managers (a map of stakehold-ers providing a model of the competitive advantage of a fi rm on a particular market and determining its capacities for negotiation It also reintroduced

Ngày tải lên: 14/05/2018, 15:45

... widespread psycho-educational materials and public communication campaigns to de-stigmatize mental illness and educate the public about mental health and treatment options (Wahl 2003) Media campaigns ... all of the interviews Data analysis We deployed a theory-building approach with the TPB as framework but allowed essential variables like cultural factors and participants’ own narrative to formulate ... guided by a clear conceptual framework The under-lying mechanisms that enable a particular campaign to work and how it can change public attitudes toward help-seeking remain unclear Rather than promoting

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 13:15

... that satisfy the requirement of part type k, is bounded by: ments For each set of locations, a Lagrangean relax- ation of the associated TSP was formulated and solved Among all of the relaxations ... picking requirement for each part are generated within a tabu-search framework (sub- procedure ATABU) Feasible assignments are then evaluated using a second tabu-search approach to de- termine ... and five for the shortest arc heuristic, with 5000 iterations performed for each procedure 4.4 Tabu search Tabu search is a strategic approach for generating approximate solutions to combinatorial

Ngày tải lên: 17/06/2020, 12:49

... 5Data collection and analysisAn anonymized database was used to collect all informa-tion related to the AMA-AC program This database was secured and managed by an external service device in accordance ... this AMA-AC program, and that AMA1 and AMA-AC are highly complementary (all patients enrolled in AMA-AC were initially enrolled in AMA1) The fact that the majority of our patients were well-educated ... Trang 1R E S E A R C H A R T I C L E Open AccessAmbulatory Medical Assistance - After Cancer (AMA-AC): A model for an early trajectory survivorship survey of lymphoma patients treated with anthracycline-based

Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2020, 00:12

... level was 5% The analysis was repeated removing the least significant covariate in order to use all available data, in particular the molecular markers were only done for a subset of patients Model ... diagnosis It can also be seen that a change in several variables at the same time can have a major negative impact on the survival probability for the individual patient, while a change in only ... multivariate analyses of OS and TTP for the chosen explanatory variables were performed using the Cox proportional hazards regression model Analysis of time-dependent Michaelsen et al BMC Cancer

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2020, 06:04

... values are words or sentences in a natural or artificial language [22,23] Each linguistic value is characterized by a label and a semantic value The label is a word or sentence belonging to a ... which informa-tion may be qualitative, or quantitative informainforma-tion may not be stated precisely So far, a number of MAGDM approaches have been proposed for dealing with linguistic assessment ... China Abstract An enterprise resource planning (ERP) is an enterprise-wide application software package that integrates all necessary business functions into a single system with a common database

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