... pulmonary vascular remodeling A pathological feature shared by secondary and primary PH is increased thickness of the distal pulmonary artery walls, related chiefly to SMC hyperplasia [7] The 5-HTT ... preliminary data from a case–control study performed in Europe has suggested that the psychoanaleptic drugs may lower the odds ratio for primary PH [20] The 5-HT concentrations in blood and plasma may ... decreases plasma 5-HT levels in humans [19] Another argument against the serotonin hypothesis is that 5-HTT is also the target of widely used antidepressants, such as selective 5-HT reuptake inhibitors...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20
... typed DataSet based on the Categories table in Northwind The user specifies whether the one based on the default or annotated schema file is used In either case, data is loaded into the DataSet and ... _throw Raise an exception Table 2-18 lists the different objects in a strongly typed DataSet and the default names and available annotations for each Table 2-18 Default values and available annotations ... annotations for elements of strongly typed DataSet objects Element Default name Annotatio n DataTable TableNameDataTable typedPlural DataTable methods NewTableNameRowAddTableNameRowDeleteTableNa typedName...
Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 05:15
An e-Health System for the Elderly (Butler Project): A Pilot Study on Acceptance and Satisfaction pot
... emotions at various periods A variant of the Gross and Levenson24 measure was used The emotions we assessed were joy, sadness, anxiety, and relaxation This scale was applied before and after each ... were used to assess the emotional aspect and satisfaction with the system: Visual Analogic scale (VAS) In this instrument, the person quantitatively assessed (from 1, not at all, to 7, totally) the ... platform, the professionals can access the diagnosis and history of each participant for whom they are responsible Butler thereby allows the practitioner to maintain a database on all of the users’ daily...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20
Risks Ahead for the Financial Industry in a Changing Interest Rate Environment pdf
... losses a) Based on banks contained in respective countries' Datastream bank indices Note that such data are not available for Saudi Arabia b) From 1-Jan-10 to 29-Jul-10 c) Based on banks contained ... Datastream bank indices d) Based on banks in Datastream worldwide bank index e) Memo item: Market valuation as of 05-Apr-10 f) Ratio of sum of change in 2009 and 2010(b) over the negative change ... countries are: Austria, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Chinese Taipei, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, Sweden,...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20
The welfare state as a determinant of women’s health: support for women’s quality of life in Canada and four comparison nations pptx
... figures for 2000 from Statistics Canada (Statistics Canada, 2002) The data and analysis related to the availability and quality of childcare for Canadian women and those from the four comparisons nations ... and administration, labour market training, youth measures, subsidised employment and measures for the disabled Canada is very low in comparison to the social welfare nations The value for Canada, ... provincial fiscal circumstances than it was in the 1980’s In several provinces, federal withdrawal has been associated with downsizing and reduced regulation In some cases, as in Alberta and Ontario,...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Distribution of the extrinsic proteins as a potential marker for the evolution of photosynthetic oxygen-evolving photosystem II ppt
... text for details), although it was not detected by the immunological assays Psb P Cyanobacteria Glaucophyceae Red algae Diatoms Haptophyceae Brown algae Prasinophyceae Euglenophyceae Green algae ... suggests that C paradoxa PsbU has a higher homology with the red algal protein than with the cyanobacterial one The C paradoxa thylakoid membranes also contained a band cross-reacted with anti-(R-PsbQ¢), ... Cyanobacteria Synechocystis sp PCC6803 Rhodophyceae (red algae) Cyanidioschyzon merolae Nuclear DNA Chloroplast DNA Cyanidium caldarium Chloroplast DNA Bacillariophyceae (diatoms) Thalassiosira pseudonana...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 15:21
Báo cáo hóa học: " Could sound be used as a strategy for reducing symptoms of perceived motion sickness?" docx
... board the platform in front of a blank screen The first half of these five minutes served as familiarization phase, whereas the last 2.5 minutes served as baseline The subjects then completed the ... JD also participated in the analysis of the results and preparation of the manuscript AS participated in the experimental trials, were responsible for the statistical analysis and participated ... obtain a valid measurement of the perceived state The NoFix slope increased as Mal slope increased, a finding that was expected [16,17] As mentioned, fixation time and NoFix are related measurements...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20
báo cáo hóa học:" A decade of modelling research yields considerable evidence for the importance of concurrency: a response to Sawers and Stillwaggon" potx
... model with behavioural and biological data in all of the ways that Sawers and Stillwaggon outline as necessary for a realistic model, although all incorporated some forms of data Nevertheless, this ... of the world’s greatest public health crises Acknowledgements The author thanks Aditya Khanna, Susan Cassels and the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable feedback and assistance with the ... HIV and other STIs under realistic biological and behavioural scenarios for various sub-Saharan African populations Sawers and Stillwaggon’s argument that the concurrency models of Morris and...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Research Article Resource Allocation for the Multiband Relay Channel: A Building Block for Hybrid Wireless Networks" ppt
... bands available from the source and the relay are mutually orthogonal In particular, the situation where, among total k channels, there are m channels available for the source node and k − m for ... where Ps and Pr are the total available power at the source and relay node αi and ζi are the nonnegative power allocation parameters for each orthogonal band at the source and relay node, and m ... have a total power constraint between the source and the relay and assume that each has its own battery We assume that the system has total bandwidth W We define the received SNRs at the relay...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Inequalities for the Polar Derivative of a Polynomial" pot
... derivative,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 336, no 1, pp 171–179, 2007 11 A Aziz, “Inequalities for the derivative of a polynomial,” Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, ... Dewan, J Kaur, and A Mir, “Inequalities for the derivative of a polynomial,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 269, no 2, pp 489–499, 2002 13 K K Dewan, N Singh, and A Mir, ... Singh, and A Mir, “Extensions of some polynomial inequalities to the polar derivative,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 352, no 2, pp 807–815, 2009 A Aziz and Q M Dawood,...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 02:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Multiple-Clock-Cycle Architecture for the VLSI Design of a System for Time-Frequency Analysis" doc
... Finally, the ability to realize almost all commonly used TFDs by the same hardware represents a major advantage of the proposed MCI design On the other hand, the fastest sampling rate in the ... units are realized by using combinational logic, meaning that all calculation operations are performed in parallel The schematic diagram of its FPGA implementation is given in Figure 12 As seen, there ... recursive algorithm, than it has the same longest path, [10, 17] This path determines the clock cycle time and then the fastest sampling rate This design can be implemented as EURASIP Journal on Applied...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " The Cramer-Rao Bound and DMT Signal Optimisation for the Identification of a Wiener-Type Model" pptx
... very high Cramer-Rao bounds but even to biased estimates These biased estimates are caused by the practical problem that, for these special phase sets ϕ, the Hessian matrix of the estimator of Section ... Mean variance for optimal signal Mean variance for suboptimal signal Mean variance gain 6.46 × 10−5 2.68 × 10−4 6.18 dB One can draw the important conclusion that, for a signal with optimal amplitude ... variance σu = 0.64 The figure reveals that there is a high covariance between the linear parameters and the third-order parameters That corresponds to the known fact that even in the case of a...
Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo toán học: "Lower Bounds for the Average Genus of a CF-graph" doc
... E ∼ Db− EabCBa− A = EabCBa− ADb− ∼ ba− ADCBb− Ea ∼ a b− EADCBab = aba− b− EADCB ∼ aba− b− ADCBE Relation is also called handle normalization, In the above relation, A, B and C are permitted to ... subgraph of Gi+1 for all i In [4] it was proved that the values of the average genus for 2-connected graphs have limit points Note that the average genus for bar-amalgamation of a cactus and the ... have average genus at least β(G) 12 By Corollary 3.5, γavg (G) = △(G)−1 γavg (G) G∈Λ β(G) 12 Subcase b: κ1 (G) In this case have a similar discussion as in subcase a Case 2: G is a pseudograph...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 12:23
Báo cáo y học: "Direct Toll-like receptor 2 mediated co-stimulation of T cells in the mouse system as a basis for chronic inflammatory joint disease" ppsx
... obtained was used as a template for real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction, which was performed with the LC FastStart DNA Master SYBR GreenI® (Roche Diagnostics, Mannheim, Germany) in a LightCycler® ... 2:116-126 20 Matsuyama T, Yamada A, Kay J, Yamada KM, Akiyama SK, Schlossman SF, Morimoto C: Activation of CD4 cells by fibronectin and anti-CD3 antibody A synergistic effect mediated by the VLA-5 fibronectin ... receptors and are activated by lipopolysaccharide J Exp Med 2003, 197:403-411 Nagai Y, Akashi S, Nagafuku M, Ogata M, Iwakura Y, Akira S, Kitamura T, Kosugi A, Kimoto M, Miyake K: Essential role...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23
Báo cáo y học: "Knowledge transfer for the management of dementia: a cluster-randomised trial of blended learning in general practice" docx
... collated the data and assisted with statistical analysis HM performed the statistical analysis and helped to draft the manuscript TO helped perform the statistical analysis and contributed to draft ... medical associations, but only received the information of the specialisation of a QC at the first phone call The consequence was that many QCs moderators refused to participate at that time because ... because they had had a specialised focus (i.e diabetes, CAM) This is the reason why the ongoing LISA trial (German acronym for Guideline Implementation Study Asthma) asked the participating GPs...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21
báo cáo khoa học: " Implementing and evaluating a regional strategy to improve testing rates in VA patients at risk for HIV, utilizing the QUERI process as a guiding framework: QUERI Series" pptx
... printed materials such as e-mail communications, pocket cards, posters and flyers, and removal of organizational barriers) are the same at all stations The audit feedback program is directed at all ... assistants, and post-graduate medical trainees) from the primary care administration staff at Facilities A and B The data on provider types were used to compare HIV testing and evaluation performance across ... contributions MBG drafted the manuscript CB, TH, HA, TO, AG and SA participated in the design of the study TH performed the statistical analysis All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22
Báo cáo y học: "Rapid and persistent selection of the K103N mutation as a majority quasispecies in a HIV1-patient exposed to efavirenz for three weeks: a case report and review of the literature" pot
... his last check in 2003, approximately three weeks after therapy simplification (Figure 1) Neither a preNNRTI GRT assay was available at that time, nor samples of plasma drawn in advance of the ... pressure, after administration of EFV for a year and a half In such a case, the authors postulated a possible eradication of the wild type quasispecies before HAART failure [13] Capetti et al reported ... mother-to-child HIV transmission Table GRT of proviral and plasma HIV, as interpreted by the Stanford HIV database algorithm (as of March, 2006) HIV-DNA resistance mutations HIV-RNA resistance...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21
Báo cáo y học: " Is the PANSS used correctly? a systematic review" doc
... to their PC calculation method were sub-classified according to their year of publication, their outcome parameter and their particular citation number, using nonparametric, rank-based statistics ... the calculation of PCs in the PANSS Articles were included if they contained PCs in the PANSS in any form: Study inclusion criteria as well as outcome parameters were of interest, as well as continuous ... related to the PANSS and schizophrenia, such as Molecular Psychiatry or journals specialising in adolescent psychiatry, were excluded Based on these criteria, a predefined Pubmed search was carried...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22
báo cáo khoa học: " Knowledge transfer for the management of dementia: a cluster-randomised trial of blended learning in general practice" potx
... collated the data and assisted with statistical analysis HM performed the statistical analysis and helped to draft the manuscript TO helped perform the statistical analysis and contributed to draft ... medical associations, but only received the information of the specialisation of a QC at the first phone call The consequence was that many QCs moderators refused to participate at that time because ... because they had had a specialised focus (i.e diabetes, CAM) This is the reason why the ongoing LISA trial (German acronym for Guideline Implementation Study Asthma) asked the participating GPs...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20
báo cáo khoa học: " Implementing and evaluating a regional strategy to improve testing rates in VA patients at risk for HIV, utilizing the QUERI process as a guiding framework: QUERI Series" docx
... printed materials such as e-mail communications, pocket cards, posters and flyers, and removal of organizational barriers) are the same at all stations The audit feedback program is directed at all ... assistants, and post-graduate medical trainees) from the primary care administration staff at Facilities A and B The data on provider types were used to compare HIV testing and evaluation performance across ... contributions MBG drafted the manuscript CB, TH, HA, TO, AG and SA participated in the design of the study TH performed the statistical analysis All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21