... blood gas and glucose analyzer, as described above In addition, we calculated approximated IDVG from the increase in plasma values above baseline at after glucose injection determined usingthe ... receiving on continuous haemodiafiltration Values are presented as mean ± standard deviation (range) or as number of patients aCatecholamines: an infusion of dopamine, dobutamine, noradrenaline, ... clinically acceptable as an alternative calculation of IDVG, although approximated and original IDVGs are not equivalent Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests...
... cultural and local adaptation Inthe months after the central training, all intervention centres planned the adoption of the intervention by the local stakeholders Plans for cultural and local adaptations ... local and cultural adaptation was necessary to make the intervention feasible and to enhance deliverability in all participating countries, this way increasing the likelihood of program sustainability ... cultural adaptation The primary aim of integrating opportunities for cultural adaptation was to implement a culturally equivalent version of the overall intervention framework in all participating...
... any other sequences available in FASTA and BLAST database programs at the DNA Data Bank of Japan Recently, we reported the cloning and sequencing of the gene encoding 4- amino-3-hydroxybenzoate ... changes inthe spectrum during the reaction ina coupled enzyme assay of 4- amino-3-hydroxybenzoic acid and the prepared crude extracts The absorption peaks at 263 and 2 94 nm characteristic of 4- amino-3-hydroxybenzoic ... 44 9 nm (Fig 4A) A peak at 5 14 nm was observed inthe emission spectrum (Fig 4B) Authentic FAD in 50 mM sodium potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.0) showed maxima at 372 and 44 9 nm inthe excitation...
... o(1) )a , e giving a combinatorial proof to a weakened Stirling formula! (Apart from Lemma 4, this is the only result inthe paper not using Theorem 1.) We say that the events A1 , A2 , , An are ... special setting The manuscript [ 14] available on the web gives a detailed proof to Lemma A variant of Lemma has been proved in [1] The main obstacle for using Lemma is the difficulty to define a useful ... from the ‘Birthday Paradox’ Now using Lemma in combination with Lemma below, we can show that a random function from an a- element set into an a- element set is an injection with probability at least...
... Characterisation of the multi- line dot assay Assay performance analysis of ELISA and MDLA demonstrated similar data regarding assay variation and functional assay sensitivity Data are shown in Additional ... intra-assay variability ranging from 2.3% to 4. 1% and inter-assay variability ranging from 7 .4% to 10.3% The anti- b2 GPI IgG and IgM ELISAs revealed intra-assay variability from 3.3% to 4. 5% and inter-assay ... and NHS (9/ 144 ) groups compared to the ELISA data (1/ 144 , P = 0.019 742 ) Optimal assay performance of MLDA regarding APS diagnosis False positive aPL IgM findings in control patients and NHS in...
... i ABSTRACT Since the application of Communicative Language Teaching approach to EFL teaching, process writing and collaborative learning have been greatly emphasized as typical features of teaching ... process approach to writing, allowing other views of student writing than the single, timed test, usually placed at the end of a writing course In an attempt to find an attractive alternative approach ... justifying the research instruments as well as describing in details the instrument and procedures of collecting and analyzing data III.1 Research design The main instrument for the data collection...
... monitors inthe wave tank at (a) x=-0. 84 m, (b) x=+0. 84 m, (c) x=+9. 24 m for combined waves and currents, C = 75 mm/s, downstream cylinder placed at x = ½ D, y=0 350 Wave Height Plots along wave tank ... F8: Wave height monitors inthe wave tank at (a) x=-0. 84 m, (b) x=+0. 84 m, (c) x=+9. 24 m for waves only, downstream cylinder placed at x = ½ D, y=0 352 Wave Height Plots along wave tank at positions ... T=0.7s, at time intervals of T’ (At Stable Beating Downstream cylinder spacing at x = ½ D, y = 0.6 D) Figure H8 Iso surface plots of wave only run, T = 0.7s, at time intervals of T (At Steady State...
... GWAS inthe Singapore Chinese, Malays and Asian-Indians A metaanalysis of similar studies in other East Asian populations was performed in order to clarify the importance and relevance of these ... Malay and Asian-Indian populations in Singapore We also examined their associations with traits that appear to be involved inthe pathogenesis of type diabetes; namely obesity, insulin resistance ... sampling strategy and measurements SDCS comprises Chinese, Malay and Asian-Indian individuals with T2DM Since 20 04, all individuals diagnosed with T2DM at primary care facilities of the Singapore...
... transform and has a dc component (ϕ (0 ) = ˆ 1) whereas the wavelet has a “band-pass” behaviour and zero average The standard notation used for the scaling functions and wavelets inthe literature ... patch used in [1] may obtain the input impedance of the patch as shown in figure 3.8 on the following page We may also obtain a plot of the electric field Ez over the patch using equation (3. 14) ... Subsequently, antenna parameters such as the input impedance and radiation pattern are computed The theory and formulation of the problem cast as a traditional moment method (Galerkin) problem can be...
... 40 6a 27 Oka Y, Tsuboi A, Murakami M, Hirai M, Tominaga N, Nakajima H, Elisseeva OA, Masuda T, Nakano A, Kawakami M, Oji Y, Ikegame K, Hosen N, Udaka K, Yasukawa M, Ogawa H, Kawase I, Sugiyama ... 20 04; 101:13885-13890 Kawakami M, Oka Y, Tsuboi A, Harada Y, Elisseeva OA, Furukawa Y, Tsukaguchi M, Shirakata T, Nishida S, Nakajima H, Morita S, Sakamoto J, Kawase I, Oji Y, Sugiyama H: Clinical and immunologic ... T, Nakajima H, Elisseeva OA, Oji Y, Kawakami M, Ikegame K, Hosen N, Yoshihara S, Wu F, Fujiki F, Murakami M, Masuda T, Nishida S, Shirakata T, Nakatsuka S, Sasaki A, Udaka K, Dohy H, Aozasa K,...
... sports language, in Athletics we can say, “clear the bar, 4. 3.2.3 Noun-Noun Lexical Collocation Type pass the ball” but not “*pass the bar, clear the ball” in English, we After analyzing results in ... understand and individuals and groups usingin sports language through collocations of words and it will We have found that learning to analyze and interpret the collocation of words inthe language ... offensive players pay the ball to the basket instead of take the ball to the basket and *have a lot of goals instead of get a lot of goals These errors were found out in lexical collocation type...
... created It also has the advantage of being owned and operated by a company that knows a thing or two about always-on availability! Those reasons alone make it a great place for a new IT infrastructure ... done it and saved a snapshot of their running instance as an Amazon Machine Instance (AMI) That means if someone has already saved an OpenVPN AMI, for example, then you don’t have to anything more ... machine is named Gateway and I used to log in with the name Gateway \Administrator Now, however, I’ve created a domain named dkrdomain.local, so I now have to use the name dkrdomain\Administrator...
... conduct an audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing The auditor should determine whether the financial reporting framework adopted by management in preparing the financial statements ... of an audit of financial statements is to enable the auditor to express an opinion whether the financial statements are prepared, in all material respects, in accordance with an applicable financial ... the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (the CICA), is the full responsibility of the IFAC SMP Committee International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) staff and a global...
... temperature; each gel strip was then placed horizontally inthe gel-pouring apparatus for the second dimension (SDS ⁄ PAGE) [48 ], already containing the separating gel (15% polyacrylamide and 0.1% ... PAGE analysis of the mitochondrial membranes isolated from all these deletion strains and from a wild-type strain Inthe DQCR9, DISP and DBCS1 strains, a protein band of approximately 500 kDa ... assistance of specific chaperone proteins is also required The available data indicate that the accessory factor Bcs1p is involved inthe binding of ISP to an immature bc1 intermediate Yeast cytochrome...
... parabutoporin, this could explain the higher antibacterial activity on Gram-negative bacteria for parabutoporin compared to opistoporin Also with magainin analogs, an increase in antibacterial activity ... amino acids) [19], peptides consisting of amino acids 7–22 of parabutoporin (an a- helical part having the four amino acids LAKK identical to mastoparan) and of the first 28 amino acids of the opistoporins ... bacteria and their activity was compared with the activity of melittin and mastoparan (Table 1) Parabutoporin inhibits the growth of all Gram-negative bacteria tested except S marcescens at a...
... of starch granules stained by Patag (data not shown) The results listed in Table show that for the first 12 h the cells are actively engaged in amylopectin synthesis and that the overall rate of ... of an extra 11 .4 kDa at the C-terminus of the mature algal enzyme When the specific activities (activity vs amount of starch) were measured in comparison with potato, cassava, taro and wheat, the ... obtain more information about the 5¢ end of this cDNA, an RT-PCR amplification was done usinga specific primer 5¢-CGCAAACACCTCGCTGGCAC and a degenerated primer 5¢-AAGACSGGYGGYCT corresponding...
... not an Axiom A map We want to the same with an arbitrary unimodal map of an interval So the first reasonable question one may ask is “What makes quadratic maps so special”? Here is alist of major ... of the quadratic maps which the ordinary unimodal maps not enjoy: • Quadratic maps are analytic and they have nondegenerate critical point; • Quadratic maps have negative Schwarzian derivative; ... box mapping Denote the central domain of the map g as A1 and consider the first return map onto A1 This map is again a real holomorphic box mapping and we can again consider the first return map...
... is the parameter appearing inthe formulation of the vanishing conjecture 0.2 Let us briefly indicate the main steps of the proof First, we show that instead of proving that the functor Avd vanishes, ... exhibited a local system E , for which the functor Avd was zero.1 E In particular, we obtain that inthe -adic situation over a finite field the vanishing of the Euler-Poincar´ characteristics takes place ... be the corresponding projections from IntModd to n Bunn , and s the map IntModd → X d All these maps are Σd -invariant n We have a natural map rInt : ItModd → IntModd n n Lemma 1.9 The map rInt...
... F-stat Control Marketing Treatment P-value A VARIABLES AVAILABLE AT TIME OF RANDOMIZATION Client savings balance (hundreds) Active account Barangay’s distance to branch Bank’s penetration in barangay ... barangay Standard deviation of balances in barangay (hundreds) Mean savings balance in barangay (hundreds) Population of barangay (thousands) B VARIABLES FROM SURVEY INSTRUMENT Education Female Age ... same interest rate inthe SEED account as ina regular savings account (4 percent per annum) This is the nominal interest rate Thein ation rate as of February 20 04 is 3 .4 percent per annum The...