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... to enlargement of cardiac myocytes), and changes in the vasculature, the diameter, and vascular stiffness of the aorta and large arteries [83]. Up to 60% of geriatric patients with normal EF, ... that DD was characterized by a decrease in E wave veloc- ity, prolongation of the E wave DT, and a decrease of E /A ratio [43]. Potential implicated mechanisms are those of free oxygen radicals, ... increasing the action of SERCA by administration of captopril, and β-agonists (or decreasing the action of phospholamban), results in improvement of diastolic relaxation [28]. Pathophysiology and diagnosis

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... to the restarting of large solar arrays that have been stagnating In addition to the obvious issues related to accommodating for the thermal expansion of solar array headers and pipe runs at ... number of configurations for rejecting heat directly from a solar collector during stagnation have been developed These approaches address stagnation at the source and have the advantage of maintaining ... large to accommodate the vapor generated by the boiling of the heat transfer fluid from the solar collector array 4.3 Solar collector approaches to stagnation control A number of approaches have

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2022, 08:57

... left lobes of Alpha and Gamma2 band and central lobes of the Alpha band. Alterations in the Alpha band are also expected since they are generally associated with prob- lems in attention and episodic ... group and the control group for both the signal representation approach and the signal modelling approach in the univariate and bivariate cases. Once the features were available, classification was ... Theta-Alpha band activity on central and temporal channels (TL, TR, CL and CR) for further analysis of our results from univariate analysis. In Table 1 we analyze the spectral biomarkers of the

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... below Stationarity Weak stationarity implies that the mean and variance of the signal not change over time Determination of stationarity is important in selecting the appropriate analytical method, ... was approved by the Research Ethics Board of Bloorview Kids Rehab (Canada) The mean age of the participants was 6.0 ± 3.9 years with 64 males and 53 females Swallowing difficulty in all the participants ... distributed as a standard normal with zero mean and unit variance Hence, at the 5% significance level, |zA| < 1.96 for a stationary signal For a step-by-step procedure for calculating the number of reverse

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... fractures (Figures 5b and 6b). A possible fracture may have been avoided in the case of an abnormal bone structure and a deformed endomedul- lary canal as the FRF analysis showed an abnormality ... technique for the full mechanical characterization of the contact between the prosthesis and the bone in terms of contact areas, interface stresses and ultimately stability under real loading. In a finite ... vibration analyser generates the excitation signal which is amplified and sent to the shaker. The vibration analyser, the portable computer and the amplifier were installed in the surgical theatre

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... Concretely, the propagation model which defines the typical case for the urban area was utilized for this purpose. The time delay and the corresponding average powers in the case of a 12 tap configuration ... es (for most of the cases) the worst performance. In fact for the Figure 3 Assignment algorithms comparison, for a scenario considering the presence of four UE and four RC. Medina-Acosta and ... mance,averyimportantaspecttoconsideristhatin the case of the first one, as the size of the input matrix increases then the number of branches also increases by two (e.g., 3 × 3 matrix = 4 branches,

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 00:20

... partial difference equations of three and four variables The aim of this paper is to present the generalization of this functional-analytic method for the study of linear and nonlinear partial difference ... details, see [11] and the references therein) Also, by assuring the existence of a solution of a difference equation in the space or , we obtain information regarding the asymptotic behavior of the ... equation under consideration into an equivalent linear or nonlinear operator equation in an abstract separable Hilbert H or Banach H1 space Then, after some manipulations, we bring the linear

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... Editorial Assistant: Pamela Boland Senior Marketing Manager: Julie Phifer Assistant Marketing Manager: Megan Graue Operations Specialist: Jodi Kemper Cover Designer: Alan Clements Managing Editor: ... tried asking for more details, they often hit a brick wall Fair Isaac, the leader in the credit- scoring world, wanted to keep the information secret The company said it worried that ... expert assistance is required in a specific situation, the services of a competent professional should be sought to ensure that the situation has been evaluated carefully and appropriately. The author

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 17:20

... bacteria and archaea in the NUTs, we used the score of separation B /A (SSB /A) that was calculated, for each branch in a tree, by subtracting the number of bacteria or archaea ... representation of the early phases of evolution of archaea and bacteria than the BBB model. In other words, the signal of vertical inheritance (a central trend in the forest of life) is detectable ... considered an approxi- mation of a tree of life. The principal object of this analysis was a complete, all-against-all matrix of the topological distances between the trees (see Materials and methods for

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:20

... concentrate enough. This includes the following four series’ of letters: LTPEAOAISTDA- LAA, ANIABFSAMPZEOAD, PAKLATSXTOEABAA and ZYFMTSAHEOAAPAT. The first and third group include five ‘ A? ?? s, ... it is an index of correlation and not an index of agreement [19-21]. The calculation of means and standard deviations for each SCCT item and total score during the rating by each examiner may provide ... Additional file 1. The SCCT instructions ask the subject to draw an id entical shape on the sam e piece of paper. The template shape was printed on the left half of the sheet leaving space for the

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... data, and in the revision of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript SP additionally drafted the manuscript Acknowledgements The authors are grateful to the Laboratoires ... recent years This emphasis is in part related to the relatively recent work of the Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation (AGREE) collaboration, an 'international collaboration of researchers ... purposes) Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol No Poitras et al Table Domain scores and overall assessment of the guidelines Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation domain EULAR [6] Ottawa Panel

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:22

... stored at - 20°C until analysis. Statistical Analysis Means ± standard deviations (SD) were calculated for all parameters measured. The primary efficacy analysis was based on the TQ score in the ... aminotransferase; ANCOVA: analysis of covariance; AST: aspartate aminotransferase; bid: twice a day; BMI: body-mass-index;... ischemia/hypoxia on the HIF-1 activity and expression of hypoxia-dependent ... interpreted the data, drafted and critically revised the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge the assistance of

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:21

... bit. In fact we only demand that the data is arranged in some binary tree. The match-bits of a given node are com- puted as all bits that are not a match-bit in any ancestor and for which all fingerprints ... clearly demonstrate that this leads to a sig- nificant performance increase. Our methods allow researchers to search larger data- bases faster than previously possible. The use of larger databases ... drugs, researchers are faced with the task of selecting a subset of all commercially available molecules for further experiments. There are more than 8 million such molecules available [1], and it

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:20

... HTLV-4 are associated with any particular disease such as leukemia The amino acid sequence and the functional analysis of HTLV-3 Tax3 showed that Tax3 has a functional PBM, and is capable of interacting ... Shoji†1,2, Masaya Higuchi†1, Rie Kondo1, Masahiko Takahashi1, Masayasu Oie1, Yuetsu Tanaka3, Yutaka Aoyagi2 and Masahiro Fujii*1 Address: 1Division of Virology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical ... transforming activity of Tax1 The Tax1(185-207) region negatively regulates the transforming activity of Tax1 (A) The amino acid sequences of the 185-207 region of Tax1 The exchanged amino acids

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:22

... the amplification Also listed are product names, ORF coordinates and. .. K, Kagawa M, Chen J, Mori Y, Sunagawa T, Kawanishi K, Sashihara J, Hata A, Zou P, Kosuge H, Yamanishi K: Comparison ... of the measured fluorescence intensities was calculated for both the experimental and control and the ratio of these was used as a scaling factor to adjust the. .. the values ... treated the Cy3 and adjusted Cy5 intensities as technical replicates and calculated the mean of these values The ratio of this mean on the average... 8:85-101 Chambers J, Angulo

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... (COES®) – Repatriation Hospital 1996 using standard scoring algorithms and analysis of means and standard deviation in that program Table demonstrates the breakdown of participant race within the project ... hand paraesthesia [5] The aim of the http://www.chiroandosteo.com/content/15/1/9 project was to evaluate if the application of ENAR therapy resulted in statistically significant changes in the ... Differential means analysis of the SF-36 results favoured ENAR for all of the subscales Six of the initial 30 participants discontinued the trial protocol Conclusion: ENAR therapy participants reported

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... Reporting the plans for cultural and local adaptation in written form to the coordination centers Preparation of local intervention adaptation and implementation Further development and agreement about ... consists of a general and standardized intervention framework that allows for cultural adaptation to make the intervention feasible and to enhance deliverability in all participating countries. The ... 3 Parents perceive the schools as an important setting for the promotion of healthy eating and physical activity. Parents assigned the main responsibilities for healthy eating and physical activity

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... et al 2008; Lee and Mason forthcoming). The asset scenario avoids distortionary taxes on labor, which most would view as an advantage. But some see the lack of taxes as a disadvantage since the ... which we can interpret as a form of the ―quantity-quality tradeoff‖. This tradeoff can mitigate the adverse effects of population aging on the economic support ratio by raising the quality and productivity ... terms of stocks, rather than flows. Population aging tends to raise the aggregate demand for wealth, partly because the elderly – who hold the greatest amount of wealth—grow as a proportion of the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... by Mitrofan, Paul and Spencer (2008) and adapted for this review, including the introduction of a numerical numbering system to aid data analysis. As such, a score of 0 denotes no available evidence ... evidence for such a feature, 1 indicates partial evidence, and 2 indicates there was definitely evidence for such a feature in the study. A further adaptation was sorting of the categories ... 39-year old man suffering with anxiety as a result of residual psychotic symptoms. Clinical Practice Report 5 was an oral presentation of a piece of clinical work completed with staff at a day...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... lower mean rates of carbon uptake before and during the first day of cold acclimation. After 3 days of cold exposure, the mean rate of carbon uptake was significantly lower for C24 than for Rsch (P ... Experi- mental procedures, the rate of assimilate export from photosynthetically active source organs to consuming sink organs or metabolic pathways other than carbo- hydrate pathways was calculated as the ... lmol C 1 Æh )1 Æg )1 FW). Calculated means of uptake rates were fed into the mathematical model, and standard deviations (SDs) were set as boundaries in the estimation process for model parameters (Fig. 4A) . As described...

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