properties test methods and their significance in gasketed joints
An investigation into teachers perceptions of language test validity and their practice in designing tests at some upper secondary schools in quang tri
... overview of teachers' insights and practices regarding language testing, highlighting their understanding and implementation of valid testing methods By examining these issues, the findings will help ... understanding and implementation of language testing principles, particularly its validity Additionally, examining these issues will assist language teachers in gaining a deeper understanding of ... the significance and objectives of language testing, examining how their beliefs influence their assessment methods and test design practices.The relationship between teachers' perceptions and
Ngày tải lên: 30/08/2023, 18:07
The use of linguistic units and their implicatures in the listening section of TOEFL iBT test
... Understanding Organization, Connecting Content and Making Inferences (ETS, 2007) One of the most challenging types of question in the listening section of TOEFL test is inference since test-takers ... of conveying what speakers mean linguistically, and it is most commonly used in spoken language Identifying the possible interpretations and discovering the implied meanings of the information, ... of linking words (25.4%) and determiners (9.4%) in lectures is much higher than that in conversations (linking words: 16.9%; determiners: 5.6%) Additionally, adjectives account for 1.6% in
Ngày tải lên: 09/01/2020, 11:14
The physical and physicochemical properties of some Turkish thermal muds and pure clay minerals and their uses in therapy
... skin (Quintela et al., 2012) Clay minerals, e.g., kaolinite, smectite, palygorskite, sepiolite, and talc, are defined in pharmacopoeias, and being accepted medicines they could contribute in pharmaceutical ... clay minerals can be used for healing, wellness, and cosmetics because clay minerals and clay/water mixtures are the main controlling factors of peloid properties and uses 2 Materials and methods ... Geological Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Selçuk University, Konya, Turkey 2 Department of Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Necmettin Erbakan University,
Ngày tải lên: 13/01/2020, 16:53
The expression levels of transcription factors T-bet, GATA-3, RORγt and FOXP3 in peripheral blood lymphocyte (PBL) of patients with liver cancer and their significance
... dis-played a predominant expression of Th2-type cyto-kines and that there was an increasing trend with the increases in clinical stages and exacerbation of the disease, indicating that the expression ... RORγt, and the Treg-specific TF, FOXP3, were significantly increased in PBMC of patient with HCC, indicating the exist-ence of a phenomenon of predominant Th17- and Treg-expressing PBMC in HCC Maintaining ... The mRNA levels of RORγt and FOXP3 in PBMC of HCC were significantly increased, indicating the existence of a predominant phenomenon of Th17- and Treg-expressing PBMC in HCC Key words: RORγt;
Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2020, 02:13
Two approximation methods of spatial derivatives on unstructured triangular meshes and their application in computing two dimensional flows
... meshes in modeling flows [7] The popular methods using unstructured meshes consist of finite v lumes and finite elements A cell, e.g a triangular, is a base element in such methods The finite ... problem is not severe in the above tests but we need examine it in future The most difficult thing lies in choosing an appropriate number of smoothing Large numbers of smoothing will smooth the ... usual in the CFD context, subscript indices denote space indices while superscript indices denote time indices All spatial derivatives in ( 2 l 3a, b, c) are estimated from the methods in the
Ngày tải lên: 12/04/2021, 08:47
Bioavailability and toxicity of cd to microorganisms and their activities in soil
... beingan enzyme inhibitor, can have deleterious effects on membrane structure and function by bindingto the ligands such as phosphate and the cysteinyl and histidyl groups of proteins(Collins and ... Gley, Gray lowland, Andosol and Humic Andosol 5 different soils—River sand, Gley, Gray lowland, Andosol and Humic Andosol y , CO , N-min, bacteria, actinomycetes, 2 proteinase Hattori (1989) ... ecophysiological indicator of heavy metal stress in soil (Anderson and Domsch, 1990; Brookes, 1995) qCO decreased in the heavily Cd contaminated2 soil over that in control duringthe first 2-d incubation (Landi
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:21
TALENT AGENTS, PERSONAL MANAGERS, AND THEIR CONFLICTS IN THE NEW HOLLYWOOD docx
... and to assist them in making career decisions.1 This is where talent agents and personal managers step in Agents andmanagers represent artists, and their collective role in the entertainmentindustry2 ... preceding Part has explained, talent agents and personalmanagers traditionally have performed distinct, albeit similar-sounding,roles in the entertainment industry Agents, again, arrange and negotiatetheir ... interests by preserving and enforcing the agent-managerdistinction According to the TAA, a talent agent is “a person orcorporation who engages in the occupation of procuring, offering,promising,
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20
An analysis on consonants in english and their comparison in Vietnamese to improve pronouncitation
... Difficulty in pronouncing English fricative consonants 27 1.3 Difficulties in pronouncing English consonant /r/ 28 1.4 Difficulties in pronouncing English consonant / θ/ and / ð/ as in „think‟ and ... Difficulties in pronouncing English consonant /p/ vs /f/ and /b/ 29 1.6 Difficulties in pronouncing word-final /tʃ / 29 CHAPTER IV: Finding and solution 30 1 Some suggested techniques and activities ... focuses on: Introducing the basic theories of English and Vietnamese consonants and their differences and similarities Particularly, giving the principles of consonants pronunciation and raising the
Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 01:26
Aggregate bankruptcy probabilities and their role in explaining banks’ loan losses doc
... 20 Fernandez , Martinez and Saurina (2000) study cyclical behaviour of bank loans, loan losses and loan loss provisions in Spain and show that housing prices, asset prices and lending margins have ... they either should increase their screening and monitoring costs or tolerate higher risk and compensate it with larger lending margin The latter was more apparent in expanding and optimistic economic ... probabilities and their role in explaining banks’ loan losses by Olga Andreeva Trang 2ISSN 0801-2504 (printed), 1502-8143 (online)ISBN 82-7553-225-6 (printed), 82-7553-226-4 (online) Working papers
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21
Báo cáo khoa học: Arthropod nuclear receptors and their role in molting pptx
... also contain a carboxy-termi-nal extension containing T-box and A-box motifs [124] In each zinc finger, four invariant cysteine residues coor-dinate tetrahedrically to a zinc ion, and both zinc fingers ... 20-hydroxyecdysone; CBP, cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB) binding protein; COUP, chicken ovalbumin upstream promoter; DAH, diacylhydrazine; DBD, DNA-binding domain; DR, direct repeat; DSF, dissatisfaction; ... isoforms in D melanogaster[139], and probably multiple EcR iso-forms exist in several, but not all, insect species In all cases described so far, the isoforms vary in their amino-terminal domain and
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Study of uptake of cell penetrating peptides and their cargoes in permeabilized wheat immature embryos pot
... transloca-tion depending upon the biophysical properties of CPPs and their cargo [7,14,24] Interestingly, most investigations involving CPPs have been carried out in mammalian cell lines and there are ... seedlings [27] Macropinocytosis dependent transduction of fluores-cent proteins by arginine-rich intracellular delivery (AID) and Tat-protein transduction domain has been reported in onion and ... the combined use of cell per-meabilizing agent and cell-penetrating peptides results in the delivery of such large sized cargoes in plant cells involving endocytic⁄ macropinocytic pathways In conclusion,
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Subcellular localization of yeast Sec14 homologues and their involvement in regulation of phospholipid turnover pptx
... to pouring plates as described by van den Hazel et al [11] Chemically defined synthetic media lacking inositol and choline (Ins–/Cho–) or supplemented with 75 lM inositol and 1 mM choline (Ins+/Cho+) ... microinjection into fetal bovine heart endothelial cells, PITP-a was predominantly present in the nucleus and in the cytoplasm [48] Fig 4 Laser scanning fluorescence microscopy of strains expressing ... originally identified as a phosphatidylinositol transfer protein (PITP) which catalyzes in vitro transport of phos-phatidylinositol (PtdIns) and phosphatidylcholine (PtdCho) between artificial and
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 18:20
Comparison between students’ academic performance and their abilities in written English language skills: A Tanzanian perspective ppt
... consultants comprising an Edinburgh University linguist, Dr Criper, and an administrator, Mr Dodd The findings of this study indicated that “education standards were falling, and teachers’ and students’ ... study Their total number was 358 students, including 251 males and 107 females The instruments used during the data collection process included Data Entry Sheet and the English Writing Skills Test ... English Writing Skills Test was administered to all students who participated in the study in order to examine the students’ abilities in their English language writing skills The test had two
Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 05:21
The development of acidic protein aptamers using capillary electrophoresis methods and their use in surface plasmon resonance
... sequence and binding affinities for each full hemoglobin aptamer using affinity capillary electrophoresis 87 Table 4.7 A summary of the estimated binding affinities of different proteins towards ... against different proteins The catalase protein shows a 100 fold increase in binding compared to the other proteins 174 Figure b.11 Electophoreogram of the initial haemoglobin library using ... for 12 partitioning include biotin-streptavidin, glutathione S-transferase (GST), polyhistidine tagging and Immobilized metals49; 50 Biotin-streptavidin was originally used for affinity column based...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:22
Model selection methods and their application in genome wide association studies
... extended Bayesian information criterion, combining the group selection methods with the generalized tournament approach and constraining the order of selecting main effects and interaction effects ... taking caring of me and encouraging me Finally, I would like to give my special thanks to my parents for their support and encouragement I thank my husband for his love and understanding I also ... to generalized linear models with main effects and interactions by deducing different penalties on the number of main effects and the number of interactions In the third part, we introduce the generalized...
Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 16:05
Stochastics global optimization methods and their applications in chemical engineering
... Solving NLPs and MINLPs 147 5.1 Introduction 148 5.2 Description of DETL 152 5.3 Handling Integer and Binary Variables 155 5.4 Handling Constraint and Boundary Violations 156 5.5 Implementation and ... non-linear programming problems (NLPs) having constraints and different degrees of complexity, and several mixed-integer non-linear programming problems (MINLPs) which involve process design and ... clustering rule The two most popular clustering techniques are density clustering (Rinnooy Kan and Timmer, 15 Chapter Introduction 1987a and b) and single linkage clustering (Timmer, 1984) In density...
Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2015, 21:39
Study of sample preparation and pretreatment methods and their applications, in combination with high resolution chromatography
... to improving analysis speed, resolution, and automation as well as to developing and improving instrumentation, data-handling and report-generating software, while sample preparation and pretreatment ... materials were introduced at the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1970s Polymeric materials for SPE began from the work of Riley and Taylor and the work of Burnham et al., and gained in popularity ... alternative to LLE in many U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) methods These include the following analytes in drinking water: benzidines (EPA 553); carbonyl compounds (EPA 554); chlorinated pesticides...
Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 15:54
Development of mesh free methods and their applications in computational fluid dynamics
... cylinder and a circular inner cylinder ……106 Figure 5.5 Streamlines and isotherms for Ra = × 105 , rr = 2.6 , and ϕ = 00 ……111 Figure 5.6 Streamlines and isotherms for Ra = × 105 , rr = 2.6 , and ... discusses the governing equations for the compressible and incompressible flows The node generators and how to define and find the local support for the interior node in the domain are also presented ... of these standard numerical methods is that they are all mesh-based methods For FVM and FEM, preliminary (pre-processing) steps are needed to establish a data base containing nodal and elemental...
Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 17:12
Báo cáo y học: "Citrullinated proteins have increased immunogenicity and arthritogenicity and their presence in arthritic joints correlates with disease severity" pdf
... metacarpophalangeal and wrist joints in the forepaws and the metatarsophalangeal and ankle joints in the hind paws In brief, point signifies swelling of one group of joints, points signifies two ... directed against proteins containing the nonstandard amino acid citrulline [3,4] Citrulline is generated by the deimination of arginine, a post-translational modification occurring during apoptosis ... model In the present study we examined, for the first time, the kinetR465 ics of the presence of citrullinated proteins and the citrullinating enzyme PAD4 in joints during arthritis development In...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22
Báo cáo hóa học: " Review of thermo-physical properties, wetting and heat transfer characteristics of nanofluids and their applicability in industrial quench heat treatment" pot
... State of the art in quenching In Quenching and Carburizing Proceedings of the Third International Seminar of the International Federation for Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering Edited by: Hodgson ... properties, avoiding quench cracks, minimizing distortion and improving reproducibility in hardening The addition of nanoparticles to the conventional quenching fluid results in anomalous change in thermo-physical ... IV Clustering of nanoparticles: Since nanoparticles in the fluid are in Brownian motion and the Van der Waals force against gravity results in clustering of nanoparticles into percolating patterns...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20