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... are responsible for a rapid and plentiful recurrence of pleural effusion and limited life expectancy Sahn and Good showed that this type of pleural effusion correlated with a pH of 7.28 or less ... Rodriguez-Panadero and Lopez-Mejias also suggested that the extent of pleural lesions detected during thoracoscopy was closely related to both glucose and hydrogen ion concentrations in pleural fluid and that ... conceived of the study and participated in its design and coordination CA participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical analysis FP, GS, DP, AK, KL and IK took part in the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... 7:121 http://respiratory-research.com/content/7/1/121 the EAR 3and thesaline and Y-27632 (A) and to reduce andare(PGF2α) animals PC and airway (hyper)responsiveness inhaEffectivenessrepresent for ... or PGF2α PC100-values were assessed 24 h before OA-challenge, and at h and 23 h after the OAchallenge, i.e after the early (EAR) and late (LAR) asthmatic reaction, respectively Thirty minutes after ... [9] and after repeated allergen challenge in rats [13] and mice [17] Inflammatory cells – activated during the allergic reaction – release mediators, including prostaglandins, leukotrienes and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... isolated as described above Cells (3 × 107 in RPMI 1640 containing 15% human AB+ serum, 1.5 ng/ml of M-CSF, and 0.08 ng/ml of GM-CSF) were seeded into 100-mm plates or split into 24-well plate and ... dotyped2 Infectivity of SIV within dividing and truncated Env and pseuInfectivity of SIV with full length or truncated Env and pseudotyped HIV virions in dividing and nondividing cells MAGI-R5 cells ... TX-100 and a discontinuous sucrose gradient of to 30% sucrose was used to obtain 11 fractions as described in Methods assembly and release of SIV with full length and truncated Env in dividing and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:22

... 2); j f = random effect of fullsib group (j = 78), with mean and variance !2 f’ ij (Bf) = interaction effect between fullsib group and treatment, with variance I mean and cr2 Bf; random residual ... mutations Vogel and Zijlstra (1987) reported similar results At later ages, differences in number of offspring and sterility between the EMStreated group and the control group are smaller, and no significant ... procedure was repeated once more.Broods and represent fertility at a late age (35 and 37 d after eclosion) All XX-females used in the experiment were between and d of age The total number of offspring...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22

... one-generation selection for early and late reproduction in populations maintained for 10 generations at low and high levels of larval density work on MATERIALS AND METHODS Life history of Acanthoscelides ... both traits (early and late fecundities) suggest that realized heritabilities are greater in the high density population A comparison of realized heritabilities between early and late reproduced ... effects of late parental age and high larval density with respect to adult longevity (table I) In fact, we have obtained only direct responses to 1-generation selection in both early and late reproducing...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... changes in private transfers and changes in household socioeconomic and demographic variables and find that private transfers appear responsive to changes in earning potential and life events such as ... transfers from young to old were given to grandparents, and the remaining percent of transfers from old to young were given to grandchildren, nieces and nephews 12 definition of transfers nearly ... Income and Product Accounts,) and sometimes as investment (the United States Flow of Funds Accounts) The latter is closer to the economic concept of investment—the act of paying now and enjoying later—as...

Ngày tải lên: 26/04/2016, 07:25

... cohort and/ or randomised/quasi-randomised clinical trial (RCT) design; 2) adult critically ill population; 3) diagnosis of AKI; 4) description of factors related to timing of initiation of RRT; and ... Yes Was the method used to randomise described and appropriate (table of random numbers, computer generated, and so on)? Yes No Was there a description of withdrawals and dropouts? Yes Yes Was ... Sugahara [32] 2004 Early Late 21.7(5.5) 23.6(8.3) DialysisFree (%) Early Late 17 Duration of RRT (days) ICU Length of Stay (days) Mortality at 28days (%) Early Late Early Late Early Late 22 5.7 6.6 NR...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... cardiovascular autonomic function: age-related normal ranges and reproducibility of spectral analysis, vector analysis, and standard tests of heart rate variation and blood pressure responses Diabet ... Saini JS, Kleiger RE, Carney RM, teVelde A, Freedland KE Correlation of heart rate variability with clinical and angiographic variables and late mortality after coronary angiography Am J Cardiol ... heart and central hemodynamics during handgrip exercise Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 2000; 278(5): H1648-52 185 Kollai M, Koizumi K Reciprocal and non-reciprocal action of the vagal and sympathetic...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:10

... Nevrokard and F-EXTRACT HRV systems, the Bland-Altman technique (Bland JM and Altman DG, 2003, 1999) was performed using Prism 4.03 for Windows (GraphPad Software Inc., San Diego, CA, USA) The Bland-Altman ... constant standard deviation is violated A logarithmic or percent Y-scale, which is computed by log (N-F) and {[(N-F) ÷ (N+F)/2] x 100}, respectively, is thus recommended (Bland JM and Altman ... display the Bland-Altman plots of absolute and percent differences, respectively, in the frequency-domain HRV variables, LF and HF power, normalized LF and HF power, total power and LF/HF ratio...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:11

... normal and ectopic beats and thus gave an accurate measure of the true fHR The case history highlights the usefulness of non-invasive fECG in the determination of foetal heart rate and ECG and its ... files and stored in the computer hard disk drive for later use When HRV analysis was to be conducted, the MatLab program was initiated and relevant programming instructions were typed in the Command ... user-interface is divided into two sections: the Command Window on the right half of the screen, and the Command History on the left half (Figure 9-1) The Command Window is where the programming instructions...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:11

... ECG signal; MF’ and MF’’- 1st and 2nd derivatives containing both maternal and foetal ECG signals; F’ and F’’- Foetal ECG signals after subtraction of M from MF’ and MF’’ Materials and methods 89 ... (Brambati B and Pardi G, 1980; Morgan M and Symonds EM, 1991) A positive correlation between birthweight and duration of the P wave and QRS complex was also found in a study of full-term and premature ... maternal contribution, M F’’ F’ Summation of 1st and 2nd derivatives Calculate maternal RR interval series Calculate foetal RR interval series Calculate average foetal ECG complex Figure 6-4: Block...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:11

... spectrum and results on Nevrokard software …… 181 Figure 11-4 Time-domain HRV from Nevokard and F-EXTRACT ……… 185 Figure 11-5 Frequency-domain HRV from Nevokard and F-EXTRACT …… 186 Figure 11-6 Bland-Altman ... interval and depression of the ST segment This study again faced the problems of using filters that provided low frequency cut-offs, which distorted the P and T waves A year later, Kaplan and Toyama ... acid-base and electrolyte measurements Their main findings in relation to foetal hypoxia and cord blood acidosis were QT prolongation and T wave inversion (Symonds EM, 1971), shortened PQ interval and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2015, 17:11

... Choose the correct case for each of the following treatments A) The victim should not sit or stand B) Victim cannot drink wine or beer C) The victim s head should be lower the level of the heart ... leave the patient lying flat when he/ she is fainting? b) Why dont you force him/ her to sit or stand when he/ she is fainting? c) Why you give the victim a cup of tea when he/ she revives? d) Why...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2013, 01:25

... example, people………… (8) natural beauty by scattering junk and litter on the land and ……… (9) the waler, They operate the machines and motor vehicles and …………(10) the air with disturbing noise VII : Rewrite ... (2) Man dities the air………… (3) gasses and smoke, poison the………………(4)with chemicals and other substances, and damages the……………….(5)with too many fertilizers and pesticides………… (6) also pollules ... unit on her arm and said to the man "We can breathe the air it's a mixture of oxygen and nitrogen” They looked at everything carefully All the plants and animals looked new and strange They...

Ngày tải lên: 10/10/2013, 18:11

... Kit defines a number of message-related classes that are used to create, deliver, and handle these messages Among these classes are: BMessage, BLooper, and BHandler BApplication class An application’s ... message and then handles that message is determined by the Application Kit classes BLooper and BHandler A BLooper object runs a message loop in a thread This message loop receives messages and dispatches ... looper and then dispatched to a handler Posting and dispatching a message Once created, a message needs to be placed in the message loop of a looper’s thread and then delivered to a handler The...

Ngày tải lên: 17/10/2013, 19:15

... Steps Expand Administrative Groups b Expand First Administrator Group c Expand Servers d Expand your_servername Expand Protocols f Expand SMTP g Right-click Default SMTP Virtual Server, and then ... performed at the same time a Expand Northwind Traders (Exchange) b Expand Administrative Groups c Expand First Administrative Group d Expand Routing Groups e Expand Group# Routing Group f Right-click ... remote routing group, click No a Expand Northwind Traders (Exchange) b Expand Administrative Groups c Expand First Administrative Group d Expand Routing Groups e Expand First Routing Group f Right-click...

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Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 12:15

... programming languages, C and C++, and in COM Language or environment Example of manual memory management C malloc and free functions C++ new and delete operators COM AddRef and Release reference ... encapsulate control over resources that are not managed by the runtime Examples of these non-memory resources include window handles, file handles, and database connections You need implicit and ... 9: Memory and Resource Management Handling Nested Try and Finally Blocks The syntax in the preceding example becomes even more awkward when more than one resource is used, and the try and finally...

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 08:20

... object and what happens when it is destroyed Create destructors Inherit from IDisposable interface and implement Dispose method Materials and Preparation This section provides the materials and ... language, like Java and unlike C++ It has a class loader and can dynamically load classes across the Internet upon demand Often classes need to be initialized just like objects Objects and Memory Object ... to populate the transaction amount instance variable The date and time instance variable will be populated by DateTime.Now, a property of System.DateTime that returns the current date and time...

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 09:20

... You can then command a cluster host to join and leave the cluster by using the start and stop commands in the Network Load Balancing command-line control Dedicated IP Address and Subnet Mask The ... Start, click Run, and then type cmd in the Run dialog box Click OK to open a command window At the command prompt, type Ipconfig /all and then press ENTER Record the Physical Address and IP Address ... and type cmd in the Run dialog box Click OK to open a command window Module 9: Installing and Configuring Network Load Balancing At the command prompt, type Ping partner Adapter IP address and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/01/2014, 05:20