... alcohol misuse. These findings resulted in VA mandating the use of the AUDIT-C to meet the existing performance measure requiring alcohol screening for veterans. Thus, QUERI steps that emphasize the ... Disorders Identification Test) screening instrument for alcohol misuse/disorders was preferable to older instruments (e.g., the CAGE). As part of this study, investigators...
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... the focus of scarce resources on those veterans with the high- est risk and enhances cost-effectiveness. Another example of QUERI& apos ;s influence on performance measures includes the finding by ... Network&apos ;s experience [RP], the most striking feature of TIDES was the assistance provided by the research team in implementing system changes. QUERI researchers...
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Báo cáo khoa hoc:" Failure of E. coli bacteria to induce preterm delivery in the rat" ppsx
... designs is due to route of administration (intrauterine versus intraperitoneal), rate of infusion, rat strain (Sprague-Dawley versus Wistar) or some other fac- tor is not clear. In the present ... However, spontaneous uterine contractions induced by LPS in the rat do not appear to be mediated by prostaglandins, as prostaglandin inhibitors fail to dimin- ish this response [36]. T...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Influence of on cutting methods and dates stump sprouting in Holm oak (Quercus ilex L) coppice" pdf
... and ’saut du piquet’ cuttings. Histograms in figure 5 specify these re- sults and show the large number of small diameter sprouts in stools cut using the S1 5 method as well ... to distribute stools according to shoot number classes, and mean girth of shoots in each stool was used to distribute stools according to shoot girth class- e...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Hepatic stimulator substance mitigates hepatic cell injury through suppression of the mitochondrial permeability transition pdf
... was observed in the HSS-expressing cells treated with CCCP as compared with the vector-transfected cells and cells expressing mutant HSS. Furthermore, silencing of HSS expression using small interfering ... renders the mito- chondrial IM permeable to protons and causes dissi- pation of the proton gradient across the IM. CCCP also uncouples the transfer of electrons through...
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Báo cáo khoa học: A single EF-hand isolated from STIM1 forms dimer in the absence and presence of Ca2+ ppt
... apparent dissociation constant by Eqn (1). By assuming that the sample is saturated with Tb 3+ at the starting point of the competition, the Ca 2+ -binding affinity is further obtained using the equation: K d; ... that these key residues are essential for metal binding. The direct binding of metal ions to the grafted sequences was further supported by two-dimen- sional HSQC NMR...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Molecular dynamics structures of peptide nucleic acidÆDNA hybrid in the wild-type and mutated alleles of Ki-ras proto-oncogene ppt
... its fluctuating character in these cases may be governed to some extent by the sequences flanking the mismatch. Interestingly, base pair mismatch is also found to induce depression of T m [14] in ... their iso- sequential DNA duplexes at moderate salt levels, as a consequence of reduced electrostatic repulsion caused by the conspicuous absence of phosphates in the PNA strand [...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Molecular characterization of Osh6p, an oxysterol binding protein homolog in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae pot
... v) sodium chloride. Construction of plasmids and strains Construction of expression plasmids were performed according to the universal protocols [29]. For plasmids and strains used in this study, ... homeo- stasis seems to be conserved from mammals to the uni- cellular yeast. The yeast OSHs collectively are essential for cell viability and loss of all OSH function results in a...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Combining Acoustic and Pragmatic Features to Predict Recognition Performance in Spoken Dialogue Systems" pdf
... hypotheses in order to select a result but could stop as soon as a hypothesis is classified as correct, which can save processing time. 4.2 Simplifying Assumptions The evaluations in the following ... the learners for classifying the individual recognition hypotheses but the classification of (whole) user ut- terances (i.e. including the selection procedure to choose from t...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Novel diadenosine polyphosphate analogs with oxymethylene bridges replacing oxygen in the polyphosphate chain pdf
... nucleosides and n = 3–6 phosphate residues) are naturally occurring compounds that may act as signaling molecules. One of the most successful approaches to understand their biological functions ... present the results of enzymatic studies on these novel analogs as potential substrates and/or inhibitors of two asymmetrically acting Ap 4 A hydrolases [bis(5 ¢-nucleosyl)-tetraphos- phata...
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