the characteristics of living things

... representation of the PCA analysis of DNR The X-axis is the first principal component (PC1) and Y-axis is the second principal component (PC2) The diameters of the circles indicate DNRs The plots ... Outline of the experimental field and the water treatment apparatus - 422 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 8, No.4, 2010 Paddy field The characteristics of the paddy field and the ... important indicator of the stabilization of denitrification activity in the water treatment apparatus and will help with the water treatment apparatus improvement Furthermore, the types of quinone related...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... underestimating the size of their employer Even with the potential reporting problems, the CPS data provide an invaluable, timely view of the characteristics of employees by firm size The results ... table and percentages offered by the other tables As the variable HRCHECK On the Internet at http://ferret.bls.census.gov/cgi-bin/ferret For an analysis of the characteristics of these workers over ... 23.2 million) The percent of Hispanic workers in a firm decreases as the employment size of the firm increases The workforce of small firms was 12.2 percent Hispanic, while that of large firms...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20

... people The seed for the writers’ workshop as we now know it was planted at the end of the nineteenth century at the University of Iowa The result was the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, which is one of the ... If the others are strangers, then the results are unpredictable This is the crucial point in the early arc of improvement The wrong reaction can cause the fledgling maker to quit and then stop The ... those of the experienced, but those of a new writer, a young person, and it’s not out of the realm of possibility that a career might be changed by the wrong kind of statement at the wrong time The...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... customers They relate various characteristics of their dialogue data such as the number of utterances, the types of information exchanges and patterns of initiative taking to the stages or phases of ... examine whether there are differences of the number of characters and turns between speakers The results indicates that there are statistically no differences at 05 level to the number of characters ... Further Work This paper empirically describes the important characteristics of three-party dialogues by analysing the dialogue data collected in the task of meeting scheduling domain The characteristics...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 04:20

... example of natural mapping The control is in the shape of the seat itself: the mapping is straightforward To move the front edge of the seat higher, lift up on the front part of the button To make the ... available from the appearance of the objects the psychology of everyday things And part comes from the ability of the designer to make the operation clear, to project a good image of the operation, ... when they are unable to use simple things, guilt that should be not theirs but rather the designers and manufacturers of the objects So it all came together These ideas, the respite of the sabbatical...

Ngày tải lên: 26/05/2014, 07:46

... the tissue was removed and the degree of arthrosis examined on the basis of Bombelli’s classification [21] This study was approved by Ethics Committee No 007.06.01 of the Federal University of ... increased number of vessels The acetabular labrum had thick and parallel collagen There was a reduction in the number of collagen fibers and vessels in the arthrosis group However, there were no ... the groups with arthrosis With regard to the total number of densities of the mechanoreceptors in the two groups, there was a significant reduction in the arthrosis group (P = 0.0082) Morisawa,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... this technique, bunches of silicon nanowires can be patterned on the whole region of 8-inch wafer Figure shows the finally formed silicon nanowire pattern after the removal of lm-thick BOX layer ... shown in Fig 2, the 30 nm-wide silicon nanowire is fully suspended The variations of electrical conductivities of n-/p-legs as a function of nanowire width are summarized in Fig The open and closed ... using BF2 with the dose of 1015 cm-2 The extracted electrical conductivity of 30 nm p-leg (rp) is 396 X-1 cm-1, and the corresponding doping concentration is around 4.0 1019 cm-3 [11] The 1000 500...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... from the regional cooperative office Although they had had a substantial amount of beans on their own, which represented the majority of the sales of coca in the whole society, they had to take their ... and column the number of households who responded to the variable in question Column then reports the "mean value" of such responses; and column the absolute variability in the form of the "standard ... cooperative in the whole region, was founded in 1968 Since 1991, they renamed themselves the Union of Cooperatives because there are so many separate units below them The members of the cooperative...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 15:20

... can greatly influence the characteristics of the resulting materials as they generally control the formation of micelles during the synthesis.8 Hence, many aspects of the synthesis processes are ... the fact that the PEO chain becomes dehydrated with increasing amounts of HCl or the presence of large amounts of C1– ions Therefore, for the partial dehydration of PEO units, the volume of the ... layer The role of HCl in the synthesis process involves dehydrating the PEO segment and decreasing the solubility of the PEO block by the presence of Cl– ions in the aqueous solution.21 The increase...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 14:20

... is to show how the change in the DBR substrate will result in the difference of reflectivity For the simulation, we have used the thicknesses of the Al0.3Ga0.7N and GaN layers of 44.16 and 41.8 ... and n1, are the refractive indices of the substrate and the corresponding layer respectively, d1, is the geometrical thickness of the corresponding quarter wave layers and λ B is the target wavelength ... reflectance of DBRs used in VCSELs are in the range of 99.9–99.999% This high reflectance is required to compensate for the small amount of optical gain due to the short cavity length of VCSELs The reflectivity...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 14:20

... usage bias The Figureure represented that the plots of HBV aggregated below the expected curve, suggesting other selections take part in the process of HBV evolution Comparative analysis of the RSCU ... Analysis of codon usage bias The ‘effective number of codons’ (ENC), the useful estimator of absolute codon usage bias, was a measure quantifying the codon usage bias of the whole coding sequence of ... effect the codon usage of the whole HBV coding sequence, and the subtypes did not reflect the characteristic of HBV evolution to some degree In this case, the codon usage variation might be one of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... path Blood from the body returns to the right side of the heart The heart then pumps it to the lungs The lungs take carbon dioxide out of the blood The blood gets oxygen from the lungs This oxygen-rich ... oxygen-rich blood goes to the left side of the heart The blood is then pumped to all body cells What path does blood follow from the body to the left side of the heart? from upper body The heart pumps ... When you put things in a sequence you put them in order Follow the sequence of blood as it moves through the body The Heart The heart is a muscular pump It carries blood to all parts of the body...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2014, 14:34

... tissue There are two kinds of vascular tissue Xylem carries water and nutrients up from the roots It brings them to other parts of a plant Phloem carries food from the leaves to other parts of a ... you put things in sequence, you put them in order As you read, follow the sequence of photosynthesis Photosynthesis Photosynthesis produces food for plants Photosynthesis uses water from the soil ... throughout the stem What is the function of xylem cells? The inner part of this tree is filled with xylem The inner part of a tree trunk, called heartwood, is filled with woody xylem cells These cells...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2014, 14:43

... Example: Thermostat • Will a room or oven heat (or cool) faster if the thermostat is turned all the way to the maximum setting? Thermostat • Two 'folk' theories of thermostats • timer theory - thermostat ... Homework The purpose of this assignment is to give you a bit of practice with the material presented in the first week of the class - the design of everyday things * find a vending ... controls the relative proportion of time that the device stays on • valve theory - thermostat controls how much heat (cold) comes out of the device Thermostat • Both are wrong • Thermostat is an on/off...

Ngày tải lên: 10/05/2015, 14:31

... develop the detailed proof explaining the theory of relativity That was the execution the details of proof in mathematical calculations The theorem would not have been valid without the proof Einstein ... Things that are supposed to happen don’t happen Either the organizations aren’t capable of making them happen, or the leaders of the business misjudge the challenges their companies face in the ... have the comprehensive view and ask the tough incisive questions Only the leader can set the tone of the dialogue in the organization Dialogue is the core of culture and the basic unit of work...

Ngày tải lên: 26/06/2015, 18:05

... smoothing the surface Then the glass container containing rapeseeds were weighed The densities of the seeds (Ds ) were calculated from the weight of rapeseeds (Ws ) and the volume of rapeseeds ... meringue and rapeseeds placed together in container, Wm is the weight of baked meringue, and Wc is the weight of the container The volume of the rapeseeds placed together with baked meringue (Vsm ... meringue, A is the contact surface area before the plunger penetrates into baked meringue, a is the diameter of the rod plunger, H0 is the original height of baked meringue, and H is the height of baked...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2015, 20:41

... on (1) the electrode-scalp contact which is then dependent on the curvature of the head, (2) the material property of the electrode, and (3) the amount of force exerted on the scalp by the electrode ... are sensitive to changes in the chloride concentration due to the sweating of the subject as well as the drying of the electrolyte as the time of the experiment lengthens When a metal electrode ... due to the high impedance ratio between the skull, the brain and the scalp This skull impedance distribution, which is highly dependent on the thickness of the skull and the porosity of the skull...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:29

... aggregation of the helices, which accounted for the reduction in thickness of KC and AK films after cross-linking The increased aggregation of the helices was reflected by the lower transmittance of KC ... of double helices (Hermansson et al.,1991) However, in the presence of Ca2+, the aggregation of κ- carraggenan helices was limited, resulting in the formation of weaker gels The aggregation of ... influenced to a greater extent by the structural arrangement of the polymer chains than the extent of interaction of the polymer with Ca2+ Thus, by adjusting the proportions of alginate and copolymers,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 17:43

... explain the lower drug content of the S2 and S3 microspheres The higher viscosity of S3 mixture as compared to S2 mixture would impede the diffusion of the drug from the polymer phase to the organic ... evaluate the properties of the matrix and the influence of size and shape could be avoided The properties that affected the quality of the alginate matrix such as thickness, extent of cross-linking, ... alginate The displacement of Ca2+ by H+ could be controlled by careful manipulation of the pH of the medium The FTIR spectra of the cross-linked alginate films 109 1737 cm-1 Figure 16 FTIR spectra of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 17:44

... change in tensile properties The tensile properties of the matrix were affected by the extent of cross-linking, as well as the flexibility and mobility of the polymer chains The latter played a greater ... cross-linking with the small globules of the calcium chloride solution From the results obtained, it can be seen that the properties of the alginate matrix are affected by the method of production ... from these studies did not take into account the tensile properties of the different sodium alginate matrices and comparison was based only on the values obtained from the tensile tests of the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 17:45