... take about 1.6 percent of the income of the poorest families, 0.8 percent of the income of middle-income families, and just 0.1 percent of the income of the very best-off In other words, these ... some of your state taxes are offset by lower federal taxes This feature of the federal income tax is what ITEP refers to as the “federal offset.” The practical impact of being able to write off ... Oklahoma) offer an income tax credit to help offset the sales and excise taxes that low-income families pay Some of the credits are specifically intended to offset some of the impact of sales...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20
... NMR spectrum of the O-polysaccharide of P myxofaciens Fig 1H NMR spectrum of the O-polysaccharide of P myxofaciens COOH of AlaLys) A relatively high-field position of the signal for C6 of GlcA showed ... aerated culture as described previously [13] Isolation of the LPS and O-polysaccharide LPS of P myxofaciens was isolated in a yield of 6.23% of dried cell weight by phenol/water extraction [14] ... tetrasaccharide repeating unit of the polysaccharide consists of two residues of GlcNAc and one residue each of GalNAc, GlcA and AlaLys The 1H and 13C NMR spectra of the polysaccharide were assigned...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20
.The Project Gutenberg EBook of Development of the Digestive Canal of the American Alligator pot
... reconstruction, from a series of transverse sections, of the enteron of an embryo of about the age of the one shown in figure The outlines of the entire embryo, of the eye, e, and of the anterior, aa, ... tip of the tail Figure 5J is a composite drawing from reconstructions of the enterons of two embryos of approximately this stage One of these reconstructions was plotted on paper from a series of ... poor idea of the size of that part of the enteron The widely-open mouth, m, leads, with no line of demarkation, into the pharynx, ph, which is of irregular outline and, as has been said, of much...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 19:20
Chapter 3 - General Principles of the IMS Architecture pot
... analysis of the requirements we find the requirement to negotiate a certain QoS (Quality of Service) This is a key component of the IMS The QoS for a particular session is determined by a number of ... types of device and access PDAs (personal digital assistants) and computers are examples of devices that can connect to the IMS Examples of alternative accesses are WLAN or ADSL The remainder of ... network usually includes a number of S-CSCFs for the sake of scalability and redundancy Each S-CSCF serves a number of IMS terminals, depending on the capacity of the node 3.4.2.6 S-CSCF Location...
Ngày tải lên: 01/08/2014, 17:21
Báo cáo y học: "Association of the microsatellite in the 3'''' untranslated region of the CD154 gene with rheumatoid arthritis in females from a Spanish cohort: a case-control study" ppsx
... expected, the half-life of the 24CAs mRNAs was higher than that of the rest of the alleles after and 24 hours of anti-CD3 stimulation As shown in Figure 2a, scattering of the data in the non-24CAs ... because of the low sample numbers (Figure 2a) However, if the number of molecules was compared instead of mRNA decay, the total number of CD154 mRNA molecules in CD4 T lymphocytes after hours of stimulation ... panels) of stimulation with anti-CD3/anti-CD28 PE, phycoerythrin To assess the influence of the microsatellite in the kinetics of surface expression of the CD154 protein, PBMCs from both groups of...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21
Báo cáo y học: " Selective decontamination of the digestive tract reduces mortality in critically ill patients" pot
... care, the use of SDD significantly reduced the incidence of pneumonia [14–25] The reduction was independent of the choice of systemic antimicrobial agent, as well as the choice of topical antimicrobial ... majority of studies was performed in a nonblinded fashion However, the results of the two double-blind studies are comparable with the results of the nonblinded studies in respect to the reduction of ... Surveillance cultures are an integral part of microbiology for SDD patients They are necessary to enable monitoring of the efficacy of SDD and the detection of exogenous infection problems in the...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22
Báo cáo y học: " Selective decontamination of the digestive tract: all questions answered" ppsx
... interpretation of the resistance data of this study [2], it is essential to determine the relative impacts of introduction of resistant strains, of endogenous and exogenous colonization of resistant ... importance of the individual components of SDD had not been determined Finally, selection and emergence of antibiotic-resistant microorganisms was considered an important drawback of the routine use of ... use of SDD may have improved compliance with hygienic measures In fact, this indirect effect of SDD on the awareness of health care workers is frequently put forward as one of the principles of...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22
Báo cáo khoa học: "Single-drug therapy or selective decontamination of the digestive tract as antifungal prophylaxis in critically ill patients: a systematic review" pot
... between the pooled ORs of both types of prophylaxis, so no definite conclusions should be drawn With a relatively high NNT of 38 for SAP and a relatively low incidence of candidemia of 3.8% in these ... 6) A significant reduction of the risk of invasive infection was found (Figure 3) Page of 16 (page number not for citation purposes) for SAP studies with a pooled OR of 0.54 (95% CI 0.39 to 0.75, ... analysis of SAP studies showed a significant reduction of the risk of candidemia by prophylactic therapy (pooled OR 0.32, 95% CI 0.12 to 0.82, NNT 38) (Figure 4), reducing the incidence of candidemia...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo y học: "hysicians’ and nurses’ opinions on selective decontamination of the digestive tract and selective oropharyngeal decontamination: a survey" potx
... (SOD) [5-7] The concept of SDD consists of the application of topical (oropharyngeal) and enteral (nasogastric) non-absorbable antimicrobial agents, systemic administration of cephalosporins during ... use of SDD and SOD has been the subject of intense controversy, due to methodological issues and concern about increased selection of antibiotic-resistant pathogens [3-5,7-13] Proponents of the ... and standard care on a scale of (low) to 10 (high) Patient friendliness was described as ease of application of oral hygiene and oral paste, and patient endurance of oral paste (taste, structure)...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21
Báo cáo y học: "Withholding selective decontamination of the digestive tract from critically ill patients must now surely be ethically questionable given the vast evidence base" pdf
... al Critical Care 2010, 14:443 http://ccforum.com/content/14/5/443 Page of Kluytmans JAJW, Bonten MJM: Ecological effects of selective decontamination on resistant Gram-negative bacterial colonisation ... doi:10.1186/cc9255 Cite this article as: Zandstra et al.: Withholding selective decontamination of the digestive tract from critically ill patients must now surely be ethically questionable given ... Critical Care 2010 14:443 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • Convenient online submission • Thorough peer review • No space constraints or color figure...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21
Classification of the asymptotic behavior of a stochastic SIR model
... density of π ∗ Figure 1: Trajectories of S(t), I(t) in Example 3.1 Figure 2: Phase portait of (2.1); the boundary I = empirical density of π ∗ in Example 3.1 1.9375 S of the support of π ∗ and ... sample path of solution to (2.1) is illustrated by Figures 3, while the phase portrait in Figure demonstrates that the support of π ∗ and the empirical density of π ∗ Figure 3: Trajectories of S(t), ... denote by S(t), I(t), R(t) the number of individuals in classes (S),(Z),(R) respectively at time t, the spread of infection is formulated by the following system of differential equations: dS(t)...
Ngày tải lên: 12/10/2015, 10:41
THE structure of the multiprogramming system
... process blocked in the course of task execution relies on the other processes for removal of the barrier Essentially, the proof in question is a demonstration of the absence of "circular waits": process ... "coincidence" of two or more critical occurrences, for we shall have proved the eon'eetness of the system with a rigor and explicitness that is unusual for the great majority of mathematical proofs A ... cooperation of a set of such sequential processes can be established by discrete reasoning; as a further consequence the whole harmonious society of cooperating sequential processes is independent of...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05
Developmentof the Microfinance system in Russia
... >5.6 millions (including 4.5 millions of individual entrepreneurs); 90 % of the total number of establishments; 44 % of GDP; 45 % of employment Sources of financing Business partners, relatives ... stimulation of goods and services production and distribution, and also for a mutuality of start-up enterprises in the acquisition of getting profits and a capital accumulation experience Main tasks of ... between $ 500 – 1000 USD TTerm of payment is till months More advantageous for small size borrowers than classical bank loans Main objective of Microfinance creation of a high dynamic and an effective...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 03:15
The Critique of the Morality System
... sense of practical necessity outside of contexts of moral deliberation, that there exist no options between the extremes of reason and force, and so on As one reviewer of Ethics and the Limits of ... in philosophy of the requirements of morality is Kant’s,” Williams (1995a), p 17 Later in this essay, I shall examine the accuracy of Williams’ portrait of Kant’s moral theory, and offer a few ... historical facets of his position, some with the philosophical, and some with both.4 What are the defining features of the morality system? At the end of Chapter 10 of Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 07:20
an overview of the financial system
... An Overview of the Financial System • Primary function of the Financial System is financial Intermediation • The channeling of funds from households, firms and governments ... (savers) to those who have a shortage of funds (borrowers) • Direct finance vs Indirect finance 2-2 An Overview of the Financial System II 2-3 Structure of Financial Markets I Debt Markets • ... country 2- World Stock Markets 2- Function of Financial Intermediaries I Financial Intermediaries • Engage in process of indirect finance • Are needed because of transactions costs and asymmetric information...
Ngày tải lên: 05/01/2014, 16:55
Tài liệu Color Atlas of Pharmacology (Part 12): Inhibitors of the RAA System ppt
... Inexcitability Stimulus Rate of depolarization Suppression of AP generation Prolongation of refractory period = duration of inexcitability A Effects of antiarrhythmics of the Na+-channel blocking ... neurotransmitters The plasmalemma also harbors the sites of action of cardiac glycosides (the Na/K-ATPases, p 130), of Ca2+ antagonists (Ca2+ channels, p 122), and of agents that block Na+ channels (local anesthetics; ... degree of shortening, i.e., the force of contraction Sources of Ca2+ are: a) extracellular Ca2+ entering the cell through voltage-gated Ca2+ channels; b) Ca2+ stored in membranous sacs of the...
Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 19:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Control of the coagulation system by serpins Getting by with a little help from glycosaminoglycans pptx
... (1998) Mechanism of heparin activation of antithrombin Role of individual residues of the pentasaccharide activating sequence in the recognition of native and activated states of antithrombin ... concentration of AT and the rates of interaction in the presence and absence of heparin pentasaccharide (Table 1), one can calculate that the half-life of enzyme activity in the absence of heparin ... the structure of the protease appears to be deformed by being ‘crushed’ against the bottom of the inhibitor [7] In particular, this deformation of the protease affects the geometry of the catalytic...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 02:21
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "The Second Release of the RASP System" pdf
... The current version of the grammar finds at least one parse rooted in S for about 85% of the Susanne corpus (used for grammar development), and most of the remainder consists of phrasal fragments ... account both of the probability of derivations yielding a specific relation and of the proportion of such derivations in the forest produced by the parser A weighted set of GRs from the parse forest ... featural descriptions of the preterminals, and the nonterminals project information up the tree using an X-bar scheme with 41 attributes with a maximum of 33 atomic values Many of the original The...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: Presence and regulation of the endocannabinoid system in human dendritic cells potx
... function, some of which (e.g modulation of cytokine release from macrophages and inhibition of lymphocyte proliferation) resemble those of THC, while some others (e.g stimulation of hematopoietic ... able to produce a higher amount of anandamide and/or 2-AG [21,23–26] IgE-dependent stimulation of RBL-2H3 cells also leads to the formation of anandamide and of its congener N-palmitoylethanolamine ... were selected on the basis of the sequence of the FAAH gene (NCBI accession number AF098010) by including the introns 5476–6026 and 6173–6296, and of the sequence of the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate...
Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20
Aging of the Respiratory System: Impact on Pulmonary Function Tests and Adaptation to Exertion pdf
... decrease in the surface area of airspace wall per unit of lung volume beginning in the third decade of life The decrease in surface area of airspace wall per unit of lung volume approximately ... Lung volumes The major determinants of static lung volumes are the elastic recoil of the chest wall and that of the lung parenchyma Loss of elastic recoil of the lung parenchyma and, to a lesser ... measure of PEF reliably at home, older age per se was a factor of increased variability in longitudinal monitoring of ambulatory PEF (independent predictor of higher PEF lability) [80] In a study of...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20