4 animal models available for research of disease mechanism and therapeutics

... estimation of PDR for a certain transmission power level in interval t, Xt is the calculation of PDR for this power level in interval t, and the smoothing factor α is used to tune the speed of updating ... updating phase as explained in Section 4.1 In this comparison, a fixed α value of 0.2 and a fixed percent of probing packets of β = 10% were used in the updating phase We tried different α and β values ... increased number of retransmissions cancels out the lower power consumption of using a lower transmission power level The reason why the PDR-based method performs better is its direct use of the PDR...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... entry of c, is nonzero, it can be easily seen from Lemma that λ − d j is a factor of det(λI − Q); that is, d j is one of eigenvalues of Q The remaining eigenvalues of Q are the same as those of ... functions of ρ in [0, 1] That is, the upper bounds of the eigenvalues of Q are functions of ρ in the interval [0, 1] Therefore, we are able to find optimal bounds of the eigenvalues of Q by choosing ... Processing of the truncated Q matrix to the largest eigenvalue of the Q matrix Again, it was previously shown that these ratios could be bounded by the ratios of norms of columns of the associated...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... conditions depending on u, in the proof of the local regularity results, we have to estimate the integral of some power of |u| by means of |Du| To this, we will make use of the Sobolev inequality that ... is supported by Special Fund of Mathematics Research of Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province no 07M003 and Doctoral Foundation of the Department of Education of Hebei Province B2004103 ... minima of functionals of the calculus of variation,” Nonlinear Analysis Theory, Methods & Applications, vol 39, no 4, pp 463–482, 2000 M Giaquinta and E Giusti, “On the regularity of the minima of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20

... conditions depending on u, in the proof of the local regularity results, we have to estimate the integral of some power of |u| by means of |Du| To this, we will make use of the Sobolev inequality that ... is supported by Special Fund of Mathematics Research of Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province no 07M003 and Doctoral Foundation of the Department of Education of Hebei Province B2004103 ... minima of functionals of the calculus of variation,” Nonlinear Analysis Theory, Methods & Applications, vol 39, no 4, pp 463–482, 2000 M Giaquinta and E Giusti, “On the regularity of the minima of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 18:20

... performance of the associated receivers, increase with the number of symbols, K, of the training sequence and with the SINR, SINR y [OPT-LS](K) and SINRz [CONV-LS](K), in the real part of the output of ... given scenario of useful signal and total noise, for a given array of N sensors and a given number of symbols, K, of the training sequence, we compute M independent realizations of the filters ... SINRc [OPT-LS](K), defined by the ratio between the expected value of the square modulus of the two terms of the right-hand side of expression (30), is given by SINRc [OPT-LS](K) = K SINR y [OPT-LS](K)...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 20:20

... V1 = ml of 0.05 N AgNO3 solution used for titration of the sample (equivalence point) Vb = mlof 0.05 N AgNO3 solution used for titration of the blank (equivalence point) N = normality of 0.05 ... shall consist of determination of chloride contents of three individual 30 gm samples 7.2—Weigh each sample (30 g ± g) to the nearest 0.01 g and place in the porous sample holder of a Soxhlet ... the determination of water-soluble chloride in a cement system.* However, some aggregates contain a considerable amount of chloride that is bound in the aggregate and is not available for the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2014, 17:40

... percentage of contaminated cultures; review question B: the name and manufacturer of the reference standard • Details of index test: software version of test • Details of comparator: type of microscopy: ... definition of a positive smear • Details of outcomes: the number of true positives (TP), true negatives (TN), false positives (FP), and false negatives (FN); number of missing or unavailable test ... or refrigerated >48 hours of collection - Unk/NR If frozen, specify: - Tested after frozen < year of storage - Tested frozen ≥ year of storage - Unk/NR Version of software for test interpretation...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... limitation 31 Office of Chief Counsel Topic NHTSA Office/Internet Telephone No./Link Requests for interpretation of the statutes and regulations administered by NHTSA Office of Chief Counsel ... trucks with a GVWR of 10,000 lbs or less, if Position of the VIN is alphabetic, the model year identified in Position 10 of the VIN refers to a year in the range of 2010-2039 Position of VINs assigned ... is comprised of four sections Each section is described in detail below First Section of the VIN The first section of a VIN consists of three characters These first three characters of a VIN uniquely...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... security of supply and exposure to price fluctuations are topics of concern within the European Union The EU 27 is a net importer of energy, importing over half of its energy needs Of this share, ... rise to a level of emissions that may be considered as part of a lifecycle analysis Furthermore, the mass deployment of wind farms imposes a degree of cost on society in the form of visual disamenity ... number of such technological levers in the context of their potential to deliver CO2 abatement across a range of sectors in Ireland This earlier report offers a useful perspective on the types of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20

... monitoring of vancomycin in adult patients: a consensus review of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the Society of Infectious Diseases ... of .500 IU/L compared to standard treatment (9.5% of 116 vs 1.5% of 111, P  =  0.04) However, only three of these patients required discontinuation of daptomycin.62 A retrospective analysis of ... sub-therapeutic troughs of vancomycin may select for hVISA sub-populations.20 However, the clinical implication of the presence of hVISA subpopulations is not clear In a retrospective analysis of patients...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 00:20

... number of adenylation domains, an iterative mechanism of biosynthesis was proposed [27] Online modifications of the natural amino acids include epimerization of l-Cys1 to d-Cys1 and N-methylation of ... turnover of the linear pentapeptidyl-thiophenol of GrsB T-TE (kcat = 2.4 min)1) The substrate turnover of TL8 is given by a kcat of 8.92 ± 1.2 min)1 The higher kcatvalue for TL8 is result of an ... of molecular dynamics gives rise to a preferential prefold of the oligopeptide The substitution of N-methyl-Gly residues with Gly in the case of FAJANU chromodepsipeptides led to a decrease of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care, Infectious Diseases Society of America, ... Factors that may decrease the strength of evidence Poor quality of planning and implementation of available RCTs, suggesting high likelihood of bias Inconsistency of results, including problems with ... (UG) Rationale The principles of source control in the management of sepsis include a rapid diagnosis of the specific site of infection and identification of a focus of infection amenable to source...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20

... (ZXH2011C002) Authors’ contributions PD carried out the proof of convergence of the theorems and realization of numerical examples JZ carried out the check of the manuscript All authors read and approved ... [4], and Duan [8], the main purpose of this paper is to introduce a new iterative process for finding a common element of the fixed point set of a finite family of asymptotically li-strict pseudocontractions ... converges strongly to PΩx1 Proof If Fk(x, y) = 0, an = in Theorem 3.1, we can draw the conclusion easily □ Remark 3.5 Corollary 3.4 extends the Theorem 4.1 of [4] and Theorem 2.2 of [13], respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 02:20

... 1, δ(N–H), amide II of primary amine: 3400, 1638 cm− By comparison of IR spectra of a, b, c samples it can be noted that the presence of chitosan did shift IR vibrations of Fe3O4 but did not ... isotherms are one of the most useful data to understand the mechanism of the adsorption and the characteristics of isotherms are needed before the interpretation of the kinetics of the adsorption ... of 2θ = 10°–60°, and a scanning rate of 0.02 s− Infra red (IR) spectra were recorded with Nicolet 6700 FTIR Spectrometer, using KBr pellets, in the region of 400–4000 cm− 1, with resolution of...

Ngày tải lên: 02/07/2014, 14:14

... that of NR/S nanocomposite with a Nafion resin load of wt%, as shown in Table Table 2: Comparison of the effects of NR/S-5 nanocomposite and Nafion resin on the esterification reaction Type of ... lower activity compared to that of the Nafion resin nanocomposites Even though Nafion resin swelled in the presence of methanol due to the formation of Journal of Physical Science, Vol 20(2), ... Amount of Nafion resin on silica (wt%) (b) Figure 7: Conversion (●), selectivity (○) and yield (▼) of methyl laurate from the esterification of lauric acid and methanol as a function of (a) Nafion...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 14:20

... with analysis of the transference and of scenarios of old betrayals The crisis intervention of the Cape Cod Model aims for quick resolution by offering immediate, rudimentary proof that trustworthiness ... phenomenology of their crises is evident Guilt, shame, loss of faith in the benevolence of others, hopelessness, mistrust and avoidance of primary relationships are personality attributes of persons ... It consists of five items of observable behavior that are characteristic of behavioral crises in BPD and PTSD (see Table 2) They are outward manifestations of the underlying scenario of repetition...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... calculated as (percentage of experimental apoptosis – percentage of spontaneous apoptosis)/(100 – percentage of spontaneous apoptosis) [4] Histopathologic analysis of kidneys Halves of each kidney from ... purposes) 18 to 24 weeks of age, 40% of control group mice developed severe nephritis, whereas apigenin-injected mice did not develop overt renal disease At 36 weeks of age, 100% of control group mice ... weeks of age, as documented by persistent proteinurea of greater than 100 mg/dL (Figure 4b, log-rank test, P = 0.00313) and a renal pathology grade of to 4+ (Figure 4c, P < 0.01) From Page of 13...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... number of disease II genes above a particular Si cutoff, TN is the number of genes associated with neither disease below the cutoff, FP is the number of genes associated with neither disease ... FLN, which is then used for disease gene prioritization and prediction of diseasedisease associations FLN-based disease gene prioritization For a given disease, the known disease associated genes ... approach for assessing disease- disease associations requires the knowledge of a few known disease genes for each disease, and cannot be applied to diseases with no known disease genes In these...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:20

... number of uniquely aligning reads from either sample The theory of our calculation of q2 is that once a Pvalue cutoff is set, any potential choice of q2 will lead to a certain number of significantly ... Additional file are available from the European Nucleotide Archive under accession number ERP000619, available at [27] Archival copy of software For archival purposes, version 1.3 of the software is included ... numbers To estimate the effective total number of reads n1 and n2 in a pair of samples (or pair of groups of samples), we estimate q2, which is the fraction of reads in the second sample, and then set...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 23:20