... replacement of specific antiserum by the same antiserum, which was preincubated with its corresponding antigen and the relative frequencyof the occurrence of each type of IR cell was placed into one of ... results of this study.CG A belongs to a family of large anionic proteins (CG A, B and secretogranin Ⅱ) Members of this family are found in the secretory granules of a broad spectrum of amine and ... reported for most other mammals Somatostatin consisting of 14 amino acids was isolated from the hypothalamus of sheep for the first time, and can 35 be divided into the straight form and cyclic form...
... the volume ofand illness severity of patients presenting to the A&E department, just as we are observing in the United Kingdom The studies also confirm what many of us believe andwhat may be ... effects may also be felt in an erosion of local expertise and the range of services offered Others may suggest exportation of training, enforced protocols and ‘care bundles’ At present there is no ... ICU care – and to avoid doing so is ‘inefficient, expensive and deadly’ [7] What is clear is that there is a growing body of evidence demonstrating that improved intensive care outcomes are associated...
... powder, and particle reinforcement of composite materials types with difference volume fraction of fiber They study of effect of fiber and resin types and the effect of volume fraction of fiber and ... agreement of mechanical properties and natural frequency results And, the increasing of reinforcement powder cause increases the modulus of elasticity of hyper plate and increasing the natural frequency ... fraction of resin, powder and short fiber reinforcement of samples studied in experimental investigation to evaluate the natural frequency And, Tables and shows the natural frequencyof plate...
... (rooftop of Sumida-ku Ward Office as catchment area) and communal RWH called ‘rojison’ - 190 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 9, No.2, 2011 From the interviews with Sumida-ku officers, ... policy makers and end-users) Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 9, No.2, 2011 Mandatory Scheme The introduction of WWR and cumulative charging system are considered as mandatory schemes, ... (WCP) in 1973 which consists of supply/demand side control meant for reducing per capita water consumption Thus, today TMG secures 530 L/p/d of water resources Out of the total water resources amount,...
... part of South-East Asia and occupies a total land area of 330,434 square kilometres The land mass comprises three main components: Peninsular Malaysia and the two states of Sabah and Sarawak, which ... the standards and procedures for handling the various types of domestic and industrial wastes Stakeholders and Water Resource Management The conservation, use, and management of water resources, ... existing information on the use of, and threats to, the Malaysian coastal and marine resources off the Straits of Malacca and the adjacent waters of the Andaman Sea and the Indian Ocean In the process,...
... of four basic components, each ofwhich may be affected by changes in technology (IFF, 2001) The first component consists of emission of energy from some source The type, source, and amount of ... individuals 65 years and older are covered by Medicare Parts A and B, resulting in a small (approximately percent) overstatement of the Medicare population and costs The FEM and SSA estimates of mortality ... transport process, and rejection of immunologically incompatible organs and tissues Tens of thousands of patients await donor organs (Niklason and Langer, 2001) Current research efforts can be divided...
... transcriptional activation of chromatin (phosphorylation of S10 and S28 in histone H3) and DNA repair (phosphorylation of S14 in histone H2B) [23,26] Whatare the limitations of the studies presented ... modifications of histone H3 cluster in the N-terminal region of the molecule (amino acids 1–36), e.g methylation of K4 and K9, acetylation of K9, K18, K23 and K36, phosphorylation of S10, and mono- ... biotinylation of K4 and K9 by biotinidase (compare lanes 2–4 to lane 1) Dimethylation of R17 (peptide dmeR1716)23) substantially increased the enzymatic biotinylation of K18 (compare lanes and 5) Note...
... facilities of the School of Pharmacy (University of Barcelona) for the professional care of C/ EBPb knockout mice and Tony Valente for technical assistance Marco Straccia and Nuria Gresa-Arribas are ... treatment, and in nuclear levels of both activating (Full/LAP) and inhibitory (LIP) C/EBPb isoforms 24 h after treatment The increases in C/EBPb mRNA and protein induced by LPS and LPS+IFNg were of similar ... well as in DNA binding Time-course analyses have revealed that upregulation of the C/EBPb activating isoforms Full/LAP often precedes upregulation of the inhibitory isoform LIP [21,24,42] When a...
... development of drug resistance and the lack of alternatives for the treatment of drug resistant disease are responsible for a 5-year survival of approximately 30% in ovarian cancer patients with ... drugs for four to five cycles For each cycle, the cells were exposed to each individual drug for twenty-four hours, and then transferred to normal media where they were allowed to grow for weeks ... incubation; 95°C, 10 for AmpliTaq Gold activation; and 40 cycles of melting (95°C, 15 sec) and annealing/extension (60°C for min) PCR reactions for each template were performed in duplicate in...
... mapping; F (T ) denotes the set of fixed points of mapping T , i.e., F (T ) := {x ∈ C, x = T x} We use “ → ” to stand for strong convergence and “ ” for weak convergence For a given sequence {xn } ... existence and convergence of fixed points for the class of pseudocontractions Especially in 1974, Deimling [1] proved the following existence theorem of fixed point for a continuous and strong ... Strong and weak convergence of an implicit iterative process for pseudocontractive semigroups in Banach space Jing Quan∗,1 , Shih-sen Chang2 and Min Liu1 Department of Mathematics, Yibin...
... fixed points of nonexpansive mappings and fixed points of some of their generalizations have been flourishing areas of research for many mathematicians see for more details 1, In Diaz and Metcalf ... Shioji and Takahashi 13 , and Tan and Xu 14 in the settings of Hilbert spaces and uniformly convex Banach spaces There are many methods for approximating fixed points of a nonexpansive mapping Xu and ... construction for fixed points of nonexpansive mappings on closed and convex subsets of a Hilbert space Note that for the past 30 years or so, the studies of the iterative processes for the approximation of...
... rk , θk , and nk are the kth component of the vectors r, s, θ, and n, of length Ns , respectively The noise samples nk contain uncorrelated real and imaginary parts with zero mean and two-sided ... (1) Construction of local check nodes: the edges of the local L check node are connected to the first dc symbols of the sub-block forwhich it resolves the phase ambiguity L For example, assuming ... the dotted part of the matrix The local and the global check nodes shown in the first and fifth rows of the H-matrix are used in the previous examples A portion of the Tanner graph of the H matrix,...
... need of information [16] Patients may seek information through formal or informal information sources Part of the information seeking behaviour used may also involve efforts to obtain information ... seek information when they are in need of specific information Patients are often routinely provided with large amounts of information; however, not all of this information meets their needs and ... provide information that meets their needs and information seeking behaviour Development of the two scales was informed by Wilson's research on information behaviour [16], which proposes that patients...
... profile of female patients compared with the profile of male patients [18,19] The great majority of studies show that diabetes is 40% to 50% more common in female patients than male patients undergoing ... obese, obese and non-obese female patients after CABG Methods Patients In a four year period a total of 427 female patients underwent isolated CABG under cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) Patients who ... use of LITA [30] In the study of Aldea and colleagues LITA was used in 91% of female patients and found no gender differences in operative mortality [31] In most series there is a higher rate of...
... periods of 48 hours and 72 hours Statistical Analysis Results of alamarBlue and PicoGreen assays were analysed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) A r value of less than 0.05 for the ANOVA ... solution was prepared by adding alamarBlue (Biosciences UK) and HBSS in the ratio of 1:10 200 μl of alamarBlue solution was added to each well and the plates were incubated for hour 100 μl of reduced ... measured at lower wavelength of 550 nm and higher wavelength of 595 nm with a measurement time of 5.0 s This was repeated with incubation periods of 48 hours and 72 hours PicoGreen Assay PicoGreen...
... of item bias) Significant differences in fit indicate gender bias for the study items andare inspected for clinical relevance To investigate the presence of DIF and to understand what kind of ... different latent cutoffs were determined for females and males For the cutoff score X+ = 9, the latent cutoff points were 0.54 for females and 0.60 for males This means that a sum score of on the EDS ... between males and females We found significant DIF for items 3, 4, and (Table 5; column 4) for the c2 -test for Table Results of testing for gender bias and estimated item parameters (standard error...
... through a careful survey ofpatient journals of all patients admitted to Huddinge Hospital for suspect SLE or SLE Of these, 122 initially, but finally only 118, agreed to participate and were included ... the ultrasound investigation of carotids Finally, our study consisted of data for 114 patients fulfilling the 1982 revised criteria of the ACR for SLE and 122 sex- and age-matched controls The ... JF and MV, and participating in drafting of the manuscript TG performed and analysed physiological investigations with TJ, and participated in drafting the manuscript XH and JS performed and...
... staff of Georgia and the technical staff of the Institute of Tropical Medicine for their excellent assistance We are indebted to the staff of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia for granting permission ... simultaneously present within one sample For example, isolates from two of these patients (patients and 5) displayed MIRUVNTR profiles differing by 10 and 14 loci respectively, and all showed a single allele ... other loci of one of the isolates, none ofwhich was detected in the same locus of the other isolate from that patient A similar phenomenon was also noticed for both isolates ofpatient 9, but without...