protection of critical infrastructure sectors

... Rhinosinusitis (ARS)  Inflammation of the nasal mucosa and lining of the paranasal sinuses    Viral etiology in majority of cases     Obstruction of sinus ostia Impaired ciliary transport ... table of the frontal sinus is twice as thick as the posterior table, which separates the sinus from the anterior cranial fossa. The floor of the sinus also functions as the supraorbital roof, ... posteroinferior end of the superior turbinate was located in the same horizontal plane as the floor of the sphenoid sinus. The ostium was located medial to the superior turbinate in 83% of cases and

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 14:20

... L-chain fhx/P25 A role of L-chain in the protection of a1,2-mannose residues of the N-linked oligosaccharide chains of fhx/P25 in the elementary unit The PSG cell extract of Nd-sD mutant was subjected ... significance of the assembly of the elementary unit of fibroin in ER It was demonstrated in this study that the elementary unit of fibroin, having the same molar ratio of H- and L-chains, and fhx/P25 as of ... oligosaccharide chains of fhx/P25 which have been suggested to be located internally of the elementary unit [1] A possible mechanism of the protection of a1,2-mannose residues of fhx/P25 in the elementary

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20

... change the rate of formation of cholesteryl ester in THP-1 macrophages (Table 4) In addition, there was no significant effect on the expression of mRNA for ACAT1, the isoform of the enzyme found ... between the effects of CRLPs and pCRLPs on the expression of mRNA for a range of genes believed to be involved in lipoprotein uptake, intracellular lipid metabolism and the efflux of cholesterol from ... high levels of natural antioxidants such as vitamin E and carotenoids, reduce the risk of heart disease [4–6] A number of prospective studies have also suggested that consumption of antioxidant

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20

... E1–100 (A) Overlay of 2D 1 H– 15 N-HSQC spectra of H1–47 in the absence (red) and presence (black) of 1.5 equivalents of E41–60 peptide (B) (C) Overlay of 2D 1 H– 15 N-HSQC spectra of the F subunit ... boomerang-like H subunit of A1A0 ATP synthase forms one of the peripheral stalks connecting the A1 and A0 sections Structural analyses of the N-terminal part (H1–47) of subunit H of the A1A0ATP synthase ... Previous fitting of the X-ray coordinates of the atomic models of subunit A from P horikoshii [17] and subunit B of Methanosarcina mazei Go¨1 [18] into the electron density map of the A-ATP synthase

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20

... law? That is one of the questions that Professor Joost... welfare of the planet needs all the strengthening it can get From their point of view, the optimal level of protection is clearly ... of protection American partisans of law and economics, on the other hand, would assume that the optimal level of protection is the level that allows for the greatest freedom of ... contrast, the levels and types of protection or ‘‘bindingness’’ of international law commitments are surprisingly uniform (besides so-called soft law, a set of norms not tackled in this

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 10:20

... Constitutive expression of the human peroxiredoxin V gene contributes to protection of the genome from oxidative DNA lesions and to suppression of transcription of noncoding DNA Andrey Kropotov 1,2,3 , ... inhibition of PRDX5 by CSE can be explained by a CSE-induced decrease in NRF2 (Fig. 3C,D). Role of PRDX5 in suppression of DNA oxidation (formation of 8-oxoG) To study the potential significance of PRDX5 ... been also shown that overexpression of human PRDX5 in mitochondria of Chinese hamster cells decreases formation of 8-oxoG in mitochondrial DNA [20], but the role of this protein in protecting nuclear DNA

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 11:20

... interpretation of the scope of the "sui generis” right devalued the uniform levels of protection achieved for "non-original” databases? 13 4.2. Has the provision of uniform protection ... 1 Directive 96/9/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases, OJ L 77, 27.3.1996, p. 20-28. 2 Article 16 of the Directive requires ... the creation of databases by means of a sui generis right Provision of effective uniform protection for non-original databases in all Member States Elimination of differences in protection in

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20

... (x, k, ε) > t). One of the possible reasons of slow relaxations is a sudden jump in dependence of the ω-limit set ω(x, k) of x, k (as well as a jump in dependence of ω(k) of k). These “explosions” ... Vi But because of the continuity of f there is such neighbourhood of x in X... divided into finite number of sequences, ˜ each of them being either (a) a sequence of points X X, ... parameters k of the system, and accuracy ε of the relaxation. We study the singularities of relaxation times as functions of (x 0 , k) under fixed ε, and then classify the bifurcations (explosions) of limit

Ngày tải lên: 24/04/2014, 16:50

... Calculation of Critical Point of Nickel 13 liquid–gas saturation lines (binodes), as will be seen in the next section. The peak of the two saturation lines is the critical point, and its parame- ters of ... Journal of Thermophysics, Vol. 28, No. 1, February 2007 (© 2006) Molecular Dynamics Calculation of Critical Point of Nickel Changrui Cheng 1 and Xianfan Xu 1,2 Received: June 28, 2005 The critical ... represent the phase diagram near the critical point compared with other forms of EOS. [...].. .Molecular Dynamics Calculation of Critical Point of Nickel 19 ACKNOWLEDGMENT Support

Ngày tải lên: 06/05/2014, 08:54

... (NC-OFDM) [1, 2], which is based on the popular orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission technique. One of the primary advantages of using NC-OFDM within the context of a ... also used on each side of an OFDM symbol The number of CCs and shaping window... an effective OFDM symbol duration of N + NCP + β samples The primary advantages of this method is its ... essential that the spectral shape of the NC-OFDM waveform is treated such that the out-of-band (OOB) radiation is minimized. In addition to the issue of OOB interference, OFDM-based waveforms are generally

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... NANO REVIEW Open Access Enhancement of critical heat flux in nucleate boiling of nanofluids: a state-of-art review Hyungdae Kim Abstract Nanofluids (suspensions of nanometer-sized particles in base ... increase of CHF in nanofluids. This paper presents an exhaustive review and analysis of CHF studies of nanofluids over the past decade. The characteristics of CHF enhancement in nanofluids are ... exhaustive review of published studies over the past decade will be summarized in terms of the effects of primary Table 1 Summary of studies on CHF of nanofluids in pool boiling Reference Nanofluids Concentration

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... watermarking The rationale of the technique consists of embedding the watermark into the ridges area of the fingerprint images which constitutes the region of interest The key features of the proposed technique ... Figure 7: BER as function of total amount of hidden information bits Watermark applied in the DCT domain (ML) estimation scheme For the sake of illustration, the process of watermarking is applied ... been done on the basis of the variability of the ridges area size Since the watermarks are inserted in the × DCT blocks, the size of a block is chosen to be a multiple of The experiments carried

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... with data-link FEC protection of re-transmitted packets, that is, a form of type-1 hybrid ARQ A finer level of data prioritization may be applied [24] by inspecting the number of intracoded macroblocks ... packets In the tests of Section 5, an AWGN channel is mod-eled, with a bit error rate (BER) of 10−5 at the higher rate of 3 Mbps, corresponding to anE b/N0 of 16 dB This value of SNR is convenient ... frequency of frame types is in the ratio of 1 : 3 : 8 There-fore, by simple multiplication of the three ratios, the buffer zone sizes would be in the ratio of 6 : 9 : 16 For a total buffer capacity of

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20

... application of speech recognition [4] In the FFT method, the spectral magni-tude of each critical band is obtained by calculating the weighted sum of the FFT magnitude coefficients within the critical ... inSection 6 THE CRITICAL-BAND TRANSFORM Based on the observation of the critical-band scale de-picted in Section 1, a novel critical-band transform algo-rithm is proposed to approximate the critical-band ... OF THE CRITICAL-BAND TRANSFORM In this section, an efficient VLSI architecture is proposed for the critical-band transform By applying the symmetry prop-erty of the CBT coefficients, the number of

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... of the slope vector should be monotonously decreasing. However, because of the introduction of the loss recovery function, even though the R-D function of data vec- tors is convex, elements of ... sity, where he is an Associate Professor. He spent the summers of 1998 and 1999 at Mi- crosoft Research, Redmond, Wash, and the summers of 2000 and 2001 at Microsoft Research in Beijing. His current ... capability of multimedia data and partially due to the increasing deploy- ment of broadband networks. However, network heterogene- ity and competing traffic over networks often cause fluctua- tion of the

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... 7, application of Annex I is exempted in cases of emergency relating to the safety of human life or of ships, aircraft or equipment and facilities of high value, or protection of the environment ... Environmental Protection Regime for the Antarctic For a summary of the work of the group of legal experts on liability and for an overview of the seven main pending issues, see Report of the Group of Legal ... of species or populations of species of fauna and flora; further jeopardy to endangered or threatened species or populations of such species; or degradation of, or substantial risk to, areas of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

... apparatus for protection of the Arctic environment produced the Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy of 1991, including a set of working groups that generated a considerable amount of programmatic ... legal discussions of this layer of regionality in the protection of the marine environment, see Boyle, Chapter 1; and Vukas, Chapter in this book Sub-regional cooperation and protection in the ... agenda of representatives of the indigenous peoples.68 We have already noted the institutionalisation of a European linkage in the BEAR structure through the participation of a representative of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20