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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"BNC"”.
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Novel Synthesis of Bulk Nanocarbon (BNC)
… metal and polymer matrices. A bulk nanocarbon (BNC) material was synthesized using high energy ball milling and the carbonization of corn cob. Corn cob was mechanically milled for up to 20 hours by applying high energy ball milling to produce the milled powder. The milled powder was …
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What's in a laugh? Humour, jokes and laughter in the conversational corpus of the BNC
… in the UK for the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Bergen Corpus of London Teenage Language (COLT). It is a broad-based study that aims to elucidate how humour and laughter function in the general population, thus seeking to overcome the limits of humour studies which rely on small …
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Evaluating the level of community participation in increasing children’s attendance in quality primary education in Lao PDR : a case study of BEQUAL NGO Consortium project in Xaybouathong district, Khammouane Province
… effective is the community participation in the BNC project in increasing children’s attendance in quality basic education? SUB-QUESTIONS: 1. How does the BNC project engage in the community to promote an increase in the participation of children in primary education? 2. What challenges does the …
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The use of <i>fuck</i>: A sociolinguistic approach to the usage of <i>fuck</i> in the BNC and blog authorship corpus
… approach using both the British National Corpus (BNC) and the Blog Authorship Corpus (BAC) to identify variance in spoken use of <em>fuck</em> between genders, age groups, and social classes. The resulting analysis shows that there is little variance in use between male and female speakers, while …
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Fabrication and characterization of a magnetic bacterial nanocellulose for neurovascular reconstruction of cerebral aneurysms
… work, we have used bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) as starting material for the production of a magnetic hydrogel, which we named magnetic bacterial nanocellulose (MBNC). BNC is a natural polymer produced by the bacterial strain Acetobacter xylinum, which is extruded as a pellicle in the …
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Optimization of Microfluidic, Point of Care, Flow-Through, Bead-Based Microarrays: Towards Affordable Healthcare
… known as the Programmable Bio-Nano-Chip (p-BNC), these beads have demonstrated opportunities for detection of low volumes of sample under short analysis times. However, limitations in traditional microfluidic materials such as silicon and inefficient fractional capture of analytes by porous …
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Curricular innovations in an EFL program: A technology-enhanced task-based approach
… was used and a survey was conducted among the BNC teachers. The results show that relative advantage of both innovations is a key attribute that might lead to their successful implementation. Conversely, negative factors include feasibility issues and the compatibility of the proposed …
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Branch-and-Price Method for Stochastic Generalized Assignment Problem, Hospital Staff Scheduling Problem and Stochastic Short-Term Personnel Planning Problem
… of the BNP-based method over the branch-and-cut (BNC) method is demonstrated for all of these problems. The first problem that we address is the SGAP for which the processing time of a job on a machine is assumed to be stochastic. Even though the generalized assignment problem (GAP) has been …
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Low Temperature Electrical Transport in 2D Layers of Graphene, Graphitic Carbon Nitride, Graphene Oxide and Boron-Nitrogen-Carbon
… graphene and boron, nitrogen doped graphene (BNC) were grown using thermal catalytic chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. Liquid phase exfoliation technique was utilized to exfoliate graphene and graphitic carbon nitride samples in isopropyl alcohol. Chemical reduction technique was used to …
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Development of a static bioactive stent prototype and dynamic aneurysm-on-a-chip(TM) model for the treatment of aneurysms
… collected against PDMS, bacterial nanocellulose (BNC), and magnetic bacterial nanocellulose (MBNC). Preliminary static bioactive stents were synthesized whereby BNC was grown to cover standard nitinol stents. In an offshoot of the original research, a two-dimensional microfluidic model, the …
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An attampt to measure the electron temperature of a Xenon Chloride excimer laser discharge plasma by Thomson scattering
… amplifier could be triggered remotely with a BNC cable and pushbutton switch. This system was used to accurately time a Xenon Chloride transverse discharge laser to the short, high power Nd:YAG pulse to within 5 ns. Attempts were made to determine the electron velocity distribution of the …
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Measuring and comparing the readability and vocabulary coverage of CNN, China Post and Taipei Times
… the results of the vocabulary levels examined by BNC word lists, the vocabulary levels of the different news classifications spread from 4,000 words to over 14,000 words. The sequencing of the vocabulary levels of the news classifications provides good reading sources of extensive reading and …
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Mechanism and kinetics of homogeneous catalysis
… the formation of the binuclear complex (BNC) consisting of the neutral catalytic species and an active site connected via degenerative transfer of benzyl ligand. The kinetic study of the Zr[tBu-ON<sup>NEt2</sup>O]Bn<sub>2</sub>/B(C<sub>6</sub>F<sub>5</sub>)<sub>3</sub> system showed that …
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A corpus-based examination of English if-conditionals through the lens of modality : nature and types
… of conditionals to modality using the written BNC, and develops two complementary metrics for the extent of modal marking (modal load): modal density and modalisation spread. It establishes the modal load in a random sample of if-conditionals, and compares it to that of written English, as well …
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Fatores de risco para óbito precoce em crianças e em adolescentes submetidos a tranplante hepático eletivo no Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre
… (BT) (p=0,0083) e bilirrubinemia não conjugada (BNC) (p=0,0024) elevadas, e colesterolemia reduzida (p=0,0385). Os receptores menores de 3 anos tiveram um risco 25,5 vezes maior de óbito que as crianças maiores (IC 95%: 1,3–487,7). A chance de óbito após o Tx dos pacientes com BT superior a 20 …
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The history of the Barolong in the District of Mafikeng: a study of the Intra-Batswana ethnicity and political culture from 1852 to 1950
… that is, the Barolong National Council (BNC), formed by the traditional leaders and clerics in the central Transvaal and northern and central Orange Free State in the early 1900s(NASA,Vol.12,1917). Its geographic axises were centred in Kimberly, Mafikeng, Kroonstad and Johannesburg. Its …
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Immediate and extended intersubjectivity : synchronic and diachronic interplay among evidentiality, factuality and other domains
… of data from English and Italian (taken from the BNC and diaCORIS) that epistemic predicates originally conveying weak certainty towards a proposition P diachronically develop an increasingly factual meaning conveying more and more frequently absolute certainty. In Chapter 7 I turn to textual …
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Using Corpora with Taiwanese college students in a Student-centred
… bilingual corpus and British National Corpus (BNC), and the corresponding corpus tools are Total Recall and Tango. Questionnaires, student group interviews, students’ online feedback, pre-test and post-test, and query log analysis were adopted as instruments to verify the results. The results …
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Formação continuada de professores em educação do campo e planejamento do trabalho didático: contribuições da pedagogia histórico-crítica à experiência da quarta versão da ação escola da terra na Bahia - 2017 e 2018
… imposed by the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC). To achieve the proposed objective, the study was developed based on the historical-dialectical materialist theoretical framework and in the investigation process procedures specific to bibliographic and documentary research were used. The …
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Exploring the development of 'verb gram' sequences and grammar patterns in L2 writing: A case study of L1 Korean speakers
… academic portion of the British National Corpus (BNC). The findings reveal that there is a clear transition towards a greater variety of complex grammar and a wider range of meanings that become more prevalent in higher proficiency levels. Furthermore, idiomatic expressions, phrasal verbs, and …
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