carbohydrate metabolism , carboidrato vegetal , compositae , enzima vegetal , metabolismo de carboidrato , vegetable carbohydrate , vegetable enzyme

A ocorrência de frutanos em espécies de Asteraceae foi amplamente documentada para a flora da região de cerrado da Reserva Biológica e Estação Experimental de Moji Guaçu. Dentre estas espécies destaca-se Vernonia herbacea, uma planta perene que apresenta órgãos subterrâneos de reserva, denominados rizóforos, que acumulam altos teores de frutanos do tipo inulina. Seu crescimento sazonal &am...

Brasil , Brazil , supermarkets. , supermercados.

O setor supermercadista no Brasil passou por profundas transformações na década de 1990 tais como o processo de consolidação das maiores empresas, automação comercial e uso de transferência eletrônica de informações. O objetivo do estudo foi analisar o impacto das modificações deste setor sobre a economia utilizando a teoria insumo-produto. Para tanto, o novo setor Supermercados f...

bending redistribution , comportamento não-linear , Laje pré-moldada , non-linear behavior , precast prestressed joist , Precast slabs , redistribuição de esforços. , vigota protendida

Este trabalho enfoca a análise estrutural de um dos tipos de laje que vem ganhando espaço no mercado brasileiro, que é a laje formada por vigotas de concreto protendido. O objetivo principal do trabalho é contribuir na avaliação do comportamento desse tipo de laje com relação aos momentos fletores negativos no apoio, mediante análise teórica. Esta análise foi realizada a partir da relaç&am...

epistemologia , epistemology , ontologia , ontology , realidade , reality , subjectivity , subjetividade , Wittgenstein , Wittgenstein

Procurando investigar as razões que justificam a ausência de uma epistemologia no Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus de Wittgenstein, o trabalho encontra na filosofia de Schopenhauer a raiz da metafísica que ele vincula à lógica. Descobre-se que esse vínculo constitui a verdadeira estratégia de dissolução do terreno no qual classicamente se constroem as epistemologias. A partir daí, duas direç&#245...

flexure hinges , piezoelectric actuators , precision positioning

AbstractThis paper reports about a precision positioning XY stage utilizing flexure hinges and piezoelectric actuators. XY stage was designed with the aim of reducing the stress-concentration of flexure hinges and the low interference between two actuating axes. Utilized the expression of matrix to figure out the properties of the bellow-type flexure hinges, and proved these by mathematical software. Experiments demonstrated that the stage actuated by a stairstep driving signal with maximum disp...

Document clustering , Hierarchical agglomerative clustering , Ontology learning , Ontology , Personalized document clustering , Ontology-based document clustering

With the proliferation of electronic commerce and knowledge economy environments, both persons and organizations increasingly have generated and consumed large amounts of online information, typically available as textual documents. To manage this rapid growth of the number of textual documents, people often use categories or folders to organize their documents. These document grouping behaviors are intentional acts that reflect the persons¡¦ (or organizations¡&#16...

fatigue , crack propagation , IF steel

IF Steel to be used in this thesis which only have 50ppm carbon is approach Iron. It to be part of BCC. Because BCC material have much slip system when increase the cycle will induce to create multiple slip system. The dislocation structure often to become cell. We observation the same result of SEM and TEM in low cycle fatigue. The cell size is small in high plastic strain amplitude. The cell size is big in low strain amplitude.The difference of dislocation structures in front of crack tip whic...

cosmo-ceutical products , focused operational strategy , SWOT Analysis , Diamond Model , Porter¡¦s Five Force Analysis , product diversification

Because of the growth in income per capita as a consequent to the growth of global economy, skin care and cosmetic products have changed from luxury items to daily essentials. Together with the human nature of pursuing attractive appearance, factors such as decrease in the level of average age of cosmetic consumers, the increase of frequency of using cosmetic products, strong demand for high end skin care products with medical effects, and government support in developing cosmetic manufacturing ...

Image Retrieval , Multiple-Instance Learning , Fractal Orthonormal Basis

The objective of the present work is to propose a novel method to extract a stable feature set representative of image content. Each image is represented by a linear combination of fractal orthonormal basis vectors. The mapping coefficients of an image projected onto each orthonormal basis constitute the feature vector. The set of orthonormal basis vectors are generated by utilizing fractal iterative function through target and domain blocks mapping. The distance measure remains consistent, i.e....

Organizational Promise , Working Effectiveness , Acquisition , Expected Distance

After the 1990s, the activities of acquisition among firms have become an international trend. Associated with the situation of global economic slump, both the domestic and international enterprises are eager to establish more powerful and effective business groups, and strengthen their competitiveness in order to create firms with higher commercial value. The rapid acquisition by firms usually results in the situation of promptly laying off employees, decreasing employees¡¦ sa...

Rutaecarpine , electrooxidation¡@

Part 1:using the potassium manganese to product the ketone group , then synthesis the quinazolinocarboline alkaloids.part 2:use the electrooxidation reaction to product tropinethen synthesis the atropine alkaloids.

Semilinear Elliptic equation

In this thesis, we shall give a concise account for the classification of the structure of positive radial solutions of the semilinear elliptic equation$$Delta u+K(|x|)u^{p}=0 .$$ It is known that a radial solution $u$ is crossing if $u$ has a zero in $(0, infty)$; $u$is slowly decaying if $u$ is positive but $displaystylelim_{rightarrow{infty}}r^{n-2}u=infty$; u is rapidly decaying if $u$ is positive,$displaystylelim_{rightarrow{infty}}r^{n-2}u$ exists and is positive. Using some Pohozaev ident...

Election Practice

AbstractOur country stroke the path of democratic politics by enforcing the local election since 1950¡Abut we merely imitated electoral system of Japan¡AAmerica¡Aand so forth due to each incomplete electoral system at the initial stage. However ¡Mthere are still many problems failed to operate normally in practical application of electoral affairs arising from our exceptional national conditions. Hence¡Aour Public Officials Election and Recall Law exp...

women workers , arts administrator , gender roles , arts manager , women career choice

This thesis is about women arts administrators in Taiwan. From the general researches about arts administration, we found in Taiwan, most workers in this occupation are women, though we lack of research to know why women choose this occupation and how do they consider when making a career decision. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to present the workers¡¦ aspects, their real conditions on arts administration, and to figure out the gender facts influence in those women&am...

Competition advantage

AbstractThe industries moving to China cause the business environment of traditional industry getting worse than worse. But, it also accelerates eliminating the unhealthy company. How does the traditional industry survive in such bad situation? When they face the uncertain future, how do the companies draw up their strategy, reinforce the learning ability, and raise the corporate performance? They have to response the change faster than their competitors, know well the market tendency. Use the d...

dislocation , fault , phase transformation , BaTiO3

Hot-pressed BaTiO3 ceramics are prepared from commercial nano-size powder supplied by Cabot. Samples have been thoroughly analysed for the crystalline phases, microstructure, including stacking faults and dislocations, by X-ray diffractometry, scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy.This research consists of three major endeavours: (a) the analysis of stacking faults, (b) the hexagonal _ tetragonal-phase transformation matrices, and (c) the analysis of dislocations. He...

Pa-Chang River , broad-leaved forest , TWINSPAN , DCA

Pa-Chang River is in Southwestern Taiwan. It originates from Fenchihu, Alishan and flows between Chiayi County and Tainan County. Its total length is 81 kilometer and total basin area is 475 square kilometer. The natural forest communities are mostly in the upper section and fragmentarily spread in the small areas that locate between farms or in complicated topography, e.g. steep slope, area difficult to reach. It is necessary to make inventory and research about these natural forest communities...

modus vivendi , John Gray , utilitarianism , John Rawls , modernity , value pluralism , overlapping consensus , liberalism , John Stuart Mill

The purpose of this essay is, in a political philosophy perspective, to offer an illumination of John Stuart Mill¡¦s thoughts on modernity. In this essay, firstly, in the first chapter, I will try to elaborate the reason why I write this essay and take a perspective of history and political philosophy as my analytic viewpoint. Moreover, I also briefly introduce Mill¡¦s writings and the frameworks of this essay. In the second chapter, I describe the events, mov...

biopile , landfarming , bulking agent , biological agent , diesel , bioremediation

Biopile and landfarming systems are ex situ technologies developed for the remediation of contaminated soils. In this study, laboratory degradation experiments and a combined full-scale landfarming and biopile system were operated for the remediation of diesel fuel-contaminated soils. The effectiveness of bulking agents (wood chips and rice hulls), inorganic nutrients (N and P), and biological agent on petroleum hydrocarbon biodegradation were also evaluated. The ratios of contaminated soils to ...

Taiwan Bicycle Industrial A-TEAM

At present traditional industries, shifting production to China and South-East Asia has become the key to survival, and the only way to promote their competency. Taiwan bicycle industry started to shift production to these areas in early phases since 1989. At that time, it seems that it was the only solution for promoting competency and keeping survival. Ten years lately, nowadays, Taiwan¡¦s enterprises starting self-examination on their competitiveness advantage. This new deli...

Finnish electoral system , electoral reformation , proportional representation , Finland

The Finnish electoral system was introduced in 1906 and elections were held the following year. Since 1906, all women and men have been eligible to vote and to be nominated in elections. The age of eligibility has been successively lowered from 24 in 1906 to 21 in 1944, to 20 in 1969 and to 18 in 1972.The Finnish parliament (Eduskunta) consists of 200 MPs elected from 15 districts. Except the Åland Island district elects a single member, the other 14 districts are all multi-member...

Promotion , Chinese , Employee categorization model , Selection , Chaxugeju

This research is mainly developed from the unique perspective of Chinese Chaxugeju (differential mode of the association) and employee categorization model, derived from Chaxugeju model on organizational behavior. This research analyses the decision model of Chinese supervisors¡¦ selection and promotion. Also, this dissertation discusses the moderating effect of decision maker¡¦s propensity (including decision maker¡¦s level, conventionality ...

Lagrangian optimization , quantization parameter , Rate control , H.264 , frame-skipping

In real-time, two way video communications, how to minimize the end-to-end delay for transmitting video data is very important. Since the delay produced by bits accumulated in the encoder buffer must be very small, we need an improved rate control to encode the video with high quality and maintain low buffer fullness. One approach to reduce the buffer fullness is to skip the encoding frames, but the frame-skipping will produce undesirable motion discontinuity in the encoded video sequence. In th...

Turbo Code , ARQ , Hybrid ARQ

There are two important techniques, automatic repeat request (ARQ) and forward error control (FEC), in error control systems. ARQ uses redundancy for detecting errors. While an error is detected in a transmitted code word, the receiver requests the transmitter to re-transmit the corrupted code word and the transmitted code word with detected error is discarded. However, the transmitted code word with detected error still contains a lot of information. ARQ schemes require a feedback channel. FEC ...

Job Characteristic , Personality Traits , Perceptions of Organizational Politics

AbstractIn recent years, many enterprises¡¦ organization structure were toward gradually to the ¡

historical bloc , historical structure , Poulantzas , Gramsci , critical theory , neoMarxism , Polanyi , culture hegemony , social movement

AbstractThis essay elaborates the international New Gramscian School, which is one branch of critical theory, through comparing with mainstream international relation theories, limited in Waltz¡¦s structural realism, Gilpin¡¦s theory of hegemonic stability and neoliberal institutionalism Keohane & Nye devised. Meanwhile, this essay is divided into three parts, from lower level of relation between state and society (relation of structure and agent), heg...

Multinomial Logit Mode , the President Election , Economic Evaluation , the Legislative Election , Voting Behavior

ABSTRACTThe definition of economic voting by Lewis-Beck indicates constituency can cast a ballot for the benefit of the ruling party while they definitely confirm economic performance by past; vice versa. The study also expresses Western democratic countries periodically hold the Election of Central Administration Leading Cadre and the Legislative Election; furthermore, it shows in response to economic voting during constituency go into deciding by ballot at the meantime. Seeing that documents o...

EMS , service encounter , Customer reaction

As the pre-hospital emergency medical service experienced a series of interactions, so they should be well-managed to improve the needs of patients and the quality of pre-hospital EMS. Based on the approaches of service encounter, we can further understand and guide the performance of EMT and the reactions from patients. Especially besides the technical aspect, we expected that the quality of pre-hospital EMS and the evaluation made by general people will be also emphasized.We can see that partl...

Engineering, Materials Science

Titania-supported vanadium oxide is an importantheterogeneous catalyst in a variety of applications. Therefore,the synthesis of mixed titanium-vanadium oxide films may be ofinterest for potential catalysts. While most vanadium-basedcatalysts consist of a vanadium oxide phase deposited on thesurface of an oxide support, mixed titanium-vanadium oxides wereco-deposited from aqueous solutions in a single step. Thechemical composition of the titanium-vanadium oxide thin films onorganic self-assembled...

Engineering, Biomedical

The activation of CNS neurons may be initiated bystimulation of different neural elements including axon,dendrites, and cell body, that are exposed to an extracellularelectric field. It is not known how the distribution of theelectric field impacts the different neural elements. Theobjective of this research is to understand thestructure-function relationships of CNS neurons exposed toextracellular electric fields. The effects of extracellularfields on cell polarization were studied by solving t...

Many X-linked disorders have been reported to manifestto some degree in females. This is due to preferentialinactivation of the X-chromosome carrying the normal allele andsubsequent expression of the mutant allele in the majority ofcells. The determination of which X-chromosome becomesinactivated is believed to be a random event, with each parentalX-chromosome having an equal probability of becoming inactivated.However, alleles have been identified in inbred mouse strainsthat control X chromosom...

Engineering, Materials Science

Tin oxide derived from sol-gel yielded nano-sizecrystals. Tin oxide (cassiterite) crystals were present in thesol-gel dried at 100oC, and crystallization rapidly increased at 700oC and above. At temperatures below 700oC, the grain growth kinetics showed a weaker time dependence(grain growth exponent n of 6-7.4) with an activation energy of20-25 kJ/mol, and no growth anisotropy was observed. At 1100oC, n was about 4, consistent with pore control by surfacediffusion as a dominant growth mechanism....

Psychology; Psychology, Behavioral

This paper reports on the social information processesthat occur in order for individuals to arrive at a sociallycompetent response. The objectives of this study were to examinethe effects of age and aggressive tendency on preschoolboys

Environmental Sciences

My internship with the Ysleta del Sur PuebloEnvironmental Management Office involved community-driven workfocusing on ambient air quality. As the Air Quality Specialistfor the Tribal Air Program, I have helped build capacity byparticipating in tribal and governmental (local, state, andnational) air quality meetings, and attending air trainingcourses, workshops, and conferences. Some of the education andoutreach activities that I have been involved with during myinternship include: (1) documentin...

Mathematics

We examine and classify the solutions to certainDiophantine equations involving factorials and some well knownarithmetic functions. F. Luca has showed that there are finitelymany solutions to the equation:f(n!)=a m!wherefis one of the arithmetic functions

; Education, Adult and Continuing

The purpose of this report is to discuss my experienceas an intern in the User Services department at BluespringSoftware, Inc. from October 2002 - June 2003. My internshipchallenged me professionally and gave me advanced knowledge abouttechnology and practice in technical training. Bluespringprovides Deal Assurance solutions to the telecommunicationsindustry through its product

and Instruction

ABSTRACT A MEDIATIC PEDAGOGY: RHETORICIZING IMAGESWITHIN COMPOSITION CURRICULUM by Brenda M. Helmbrecht Mydissertation explores how students

Robustness and simplicity are of major interest toautonomous robotics. One of the major problems in creating anautonomous robot is making the robot architecture flexible androbust, so that the robot can adapt easily to a wide range ofenvironments. The Emotion Based Subsumption Architecture (EBSA)is introduced in order to solve some of the afore mentionedproblems. EBSA builds on concepts of Brooks

Language, Rhetoric and Composition

This dissertation explores ontological issues, the realconditions of experience, and their relation to contemporarycomposition studies. Given the shifting terrain of contemporarysocio-cultural practices concerned with issues of experience,affect, and labor, I explore alternative ways of thinking aboutand understanding these concerns. In order to develop thisconcern, I argue for a relational ontology that is normativerather than absolute and which speaks to the real conditions ofexperience and tr...

The purpose of this study was to a) validate andcompare single and multi-factor models of the posttraumaticpsychological growth construct, b) clarify the relationshipbetween post-divorce adjustment and posttraumatic psychologicalgrowth, and c) examine the effects of social support and copingstyles on post-divorce adjustment and posttraumatic psychologicalgrowth, including gender differences. One hundred-fortyparticipants completed questionnaires measuring demographicvariables as well as appraise...

Environmental Sciences

My internship with Balke American commenced January 5,2004 and ended July 5, 2004. Balke American is located inCincinnati, Ohio and is a private engineering consulting firmthat specializes in the transportation sector in several statesincluding: Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. While I worked onmany different projects, I concentrated most of my efforts on theInterstate 75 and the Eastern Corridor (Eastgate) projects,located in Butler, Warren and Clermont Counties, Ohio. Over thecourse of my in...

This report describes my ten-month internship at theFernald Closure Project (Ross, OH) in the Soils CharacterizationDepartment. I was responsible for writing technical documents tothe Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ohio EPA, whichexplained and justified the remedial actions taken in specificareas of the site. As part of this certification process, Iexamined soil data and planned soil sampling to determine theextent and type of contamination for specific areas. Icoordinated with an...

History, Ancient

This thesis looks at the approaches Afrocentrists andtheir critics have used in theinvestigation of ancient Egyptianidentity. These scholars

Chemistry, Organic

The lithiation reactions of mid-sized cyclic vinylethers were studied using density functional theory calculationsat the level of B3LYP/6-31++G(d,p). Gas phase and several majorsolvation models were incorporated in the calculations in anattempt to reproduce and explain experimental results ¡V theregioselectivity of these lithiation reactions. The solvationmodels employed here include the microsolvation model with onedimethylether solvent molecule, the continuum models such as theOnsager...

Gerontology

In this research I explore how a specific spiritualorientation of select women shapes the social meaning and processof their aging. The central question of this research revolvesaround how older women who identify as Pagan experience growingolder, and how that spiritual identity and practice characterizestheir understanding of aging. Semi-structured interviews wereused to collect data and explore the meaning of life and agingfor women identifying as Pagan. Three major themes within thedata demon...

Psychology, Clinical

The feasibility of using online psychotherapy processforms and the equivalence of these forms to theirpaper-and-pencil counterparts was investigated. Participantsdrawn from a psychology department clinic, a student counselingcenter, and community agencies visited an online Web site toreport on each of their sessions by completing the two briefonline rating forms. The feasibility of online psychotherapyprocess measure usage for therapists indicated they visited theWeb site on a regular basis; how...

Literature, Romance

Annie Ernaux professes to write

Biology, Ecology

Fragmentation of forests has led to the creation offorest patches that differ in size, proportion of edge habitat,and degree of isolation. Although densities of many mammalianspecies are positively related to patch area, there appears to bea general negative relationship between density of white-footedmice (Peromyscus leucopus) and patch area. In Chapters 2

Engineering, Environmental

The use of nanostructured V2O5 / TiO2 and WO3 / V2O5 /TiO2 catalysts was investigated for the low temperature oxidationof methanol. A wet incipient method was used to dope WO3 and V2O5on the Ishihara ST-01 TiO2 support. The V/Ti mass ratios variedfrom 0 to 0.10 for the V2O5 / TiO2 catalysts, and the W/Ti massratios varied from 0 to 0.10 with constant V/Ti mass ratio = 0.02for the WO3 / V2O5 / TiO2 catalysts. Characterization of thecatalysts using X-ray Diffraction, BET surface area and RamanSpec...

Environmental Sciences

I interned with Butler County Department ofEnvironmental Services (BCDES) from January to July, 2003. BCDESis a publicly-owned utility that provides water, wastewatertreatment, solid waste management, and recycling and litterprevention services to the eastern portions of Butler County,Ohio. The Department provides environmental services to over100,000 residents in West Chester, Liberty, Fairfield, Hanoverand Ross Townships. As an Environmental Intern, I had a varietyof job duties. I worked in a ...