... to access various sources of information nowadays Manual works in manufacturing has a negative relation with the number of machines that are equipped in factories For example, in the past, a car ... managers in maintaining the efficiencies of financial activities By following annually reports, managers can predict the trend of products in next year as well as figure out the reasons for inefficient ... reducing, products quality improvements and saving manufacturing time can be listed as three main benefits that ABC can bring to organizations in operational performances aspect (Anderson and...
... Post-translational modifications include cleavage of N-terminal or C-terminal fragments, phosphorylation, and glycosylation of amino-acid residues [13] The latter is a remarkable characteristic of many ... Schematic drawing of the isolation of native S-layer proteins from bacterial cells and the reassembly of native and recombinant S-layer proteins into crystalline arrays in suspension, on a solid ... structural organization principles have been identified A cell-wall-targeting domain was found at the N-terminal region of many S-layer proteins, which mediates binding to a specific heteropolysaccharide,...
... academic field of business a feasibility analysis is developed to help a client make a game-changing decision My feasibility analysis follows the general criteria of an analysis including: basic ... unbiased information While CEOs understand in principle that everyone who seeks their attention has an agenda, they don't always know a bias when they see one." This was a challenging balance ... sanitary paper industry, a small niche in the larger U.S paper industry Based on this research Booshoot Gardens, LLC has already begun to find investors and expand the business into the U.S Paper...
... the town about it, he just went home and fell asleep Landing the fish did not matter to the old man only to get it as far as the side of the boat The Old Man And The Sea portrays Hemingway Code ... potential As Heros they try their hardest to persevere under pressure and achieve the goal in front of them They show the characteristics of a stoic, working hard in the hardest of situations Hemingway ... offered each other the best of company While out at sea Santiago is constantlywishing the boy was there to talk to or to help with the mighty fish Santiago does not have relationships with any of...
... Immunoprecipitation and SDS/PAGE Materials and cell lines The mAbs V.1 and V.5 against GPV, ALMA.12 against GPIba, ALMA.16 against GPIX and RAM.1 against GPIbb, were developed in our laboratory [19] ... Strassel, C., Baas, M.J., Salamero, J., ChasserotGolaz, S., Cazenave, J.P., De La Salle, C & Lanza, F (2001) Biosynthesis and intracellular post-translational processing of normal and mutant platelet ... band was composed of three or four different molecular mass forms Parallel analysis of the supernatants revealed a positive signal starting at 60 of chase and having a molecular mass (82 kDa) consistent...
... Groot et al (1999) have extensively evaluated bast fiber asa papermaking raw material using a variety of pulping methods Their findings indicate that industrial hemp bast fiber has a wide range ... United States, plantations are also predicted to supply increasing quantities of wood fiber in the decades ahead In fact, a recent estimate indicates that increasing volumes of plantation pine in the ... source of papermaking fiber For example, paper was invented in China in A. D 105, but it was not until about 1850 that wood began to be used asa principal raw material for papermaking Early sources...
... proteins such as NEMO may sterically hinder RIP1 from interacting with downstream death mediators such as caspase or RIP3, which not have ubiquitin-binding domains Ubiquitination of RIP1 may also ... inhibit necrosis by activating caspase may have additional necrosis-blocking activity by contributing to RIP1 ubiquitination RIP1 functions asa proapoptotic molecule by binding caspase 8, but how ... key event in NF-kappaB activation [corrected] Nat Cell Biol 8, 398–406 Tokunaga F, Sakata S, Saeki Y, Satomi Y, Kirisako T, Kamei K, Nakagawa T, Kato M, Murata S, Yamaoka S et al (2009) Involvement...
... give various final concentrations as described in the results section Each experiment was done in triplicate Caspase-3/7, -8, and -9 activity assay Caspase activity was measured using Caspase-Glo™ ... CA) Relative activity was calculated based on readings measured from untreated cells after subtracting blank values Baseline was set to 100 units Each sample was measured in triplicate Cytokine ... 12, and 24 hours "0" designation represents non-treated controls (a) Activity of capase-3, -8, and -9 was measured using Caspase-Glo assay, and (b) effect on XIAP, Caspase-2, and Bid was determined...
... this article as: Rahma et al.: A pilot clinical trial testing mutant von Hippel-Lindau peptide asa novel immune therapy in metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Journal of Translational Medicine 2010 ... adjuvant administered subcutaneously as easy and practical as they may be–reverse gradually as soon as vaccinations are completed Accordingly, we believe that such treatment needs to be continued ... and 6) pre and postvaccination The postvaccination samples were taken during the last vaccination visit for every patient except patient whom the last available T regs sample was during vaccination...
... the data analysis and interpretation, and also participated in writing the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript References It is important to note that this type of analysis ... items in the scale Finally, a measure of reliability, the Person Separation Index (PSI), was computed This is equivalent to Cronbach's alpha but has the linear transformation from the Rasch model ... of as many animals as possible in two minutes (ten is the pass mark) Finally, 'motor perseveration' tests executive function in five trials Subsequently a total screening score is calculated as...
... for children ages 2–4 DataStat, a nationally-based survey administration firm located in Michigan, was contracted to administer the California SCHIP statewide mail survey DataStat mailed the PedsQL™ ... (22.2%) Hispanic/Latino, (9.7%) Black/African American, (9.7%) Asian/Pacific Islander, 2(2.8%) Native American or Native Alaskan, and (12.5%) missing The statewide SCHIP sample was representative of ... trial endpoints, and include multi-item HRQOL instruments, as well as single-item measures (e.g., pain visual analogue scale), daily diaries, treatment adherence, and healthcare satisfaction [15,16,23]...
... Narahara H, Hara T, Takagane A, Akiya T, Takagi M, Miyashita K, Nishizaki T, Kobayashi O, Takiyama W, Toh Y, Nagaie T, Takagi S, Yamamura Y, Yanaoka K, Orita H, Takeuchi M: S-1 plus cisplatin ... Nash A, Sacks N, Ford H, Carter R, Hill A: A phase II study in advanced gastro-esophageal cancer using epirubicin and cisplatin in combination with continuous infusion 5-fluorouracil (ECF) Ann ... with advanced gastric cancer Cancer Chemother Pharmacol 2009, 64:877-883 Yoshida K, Hirabayashi N, Takiyama W, Ninomiya M, Takakura N, Sakamoto J, Nishiyama M, Toge T: Phase I study of combination...
... regression analyses as independent variables and resistin asa dependent variable A forward stepwise method was used ESR and S-creatinine were defined as normal or pathological according to standard laboratory ... variables Analyses were also performed with z score total hip and radius as dependent variables using a cutoff value as -1 SD for normal or reduced bone mass Resistin was significantly associated ... lupus erythematosus An association between resistin and inflammation has been reported in several different diseases, including RA [21] and inflammatory bowel disease [5], but is very weak or nonexistent...
... trial reduction in test requesting was partially mediated by a change in intentions In our experience, formal mediational analyses have been rarely used to investigate the causal factors in KT ... relationship between intention and behaviour, because the behaviour data were at a practice level, a summary measure of intention for each practice had to be calculated This was generated in ... information system This data are routinely collected and ascribed to the primary care practice and could not accurately be attributed to individual primary care doctors Statistical analysis In all...
... is available for review by the Editor -in- Chief of this journal Abbreviations ALB: albumin; AN: anorexia nervosa; AST: asparate aminotransferase; ALT: alanine aminotransferase; BCAA/AAA: branch-chain ... spleen ina patient with AN and elevated transaminases, whereas liver steatosis was diagnosed in ultrasound imaging, as was found in our patient In addition, these authors detected increased markers ... magnetic resonance imaging, and magnetic resonance angiography of the head showed no abnormality Aspartate aminotransferase was 3194 IU/L (reference range, to 38 IU/L); alanine aminotransferase,...
... hemoperitoneum An acute intra-abdominal bleed from the liver metastatic disease was diagnosed Our patient had an esophageal gastro-duodenal endoscopy as he had been taking aspirin and had a past history ... Dewar GA, Griffin SM, van Hasselt CA, et al.: Fatal haemoperitoneum due to liver metastases from nasopharyngeal cancer Aust N Z J of Surg 1991, 61(9):723-725 Yoshida H, Mamada Y, Taniai N, et al.: ... be of metastatic disease within the liver (Figures 1, 2, No primary tumor was identified A diagnostic peritoneal tap was performed and frank blood was aspirated confirming that there was hemoperitoneum...
... recognized as metastatic tumors; initially diagnosis was not appreciated in case All had foci indistinguishable from primary surface epithelial neoplasms Young and Scully [3] 33-72 Abdominal pain n=4 ... ovarian metastasis arising from gall bladder carcinoma Australas Radiol 2006, 50:504-506 Majumdar K, Singh DK, Kaur S, Rastogi A, Gondal R: Papillary adenocarcinoma gallbladder with simultaneously ... Thomas WE, Gillespie A: Bilateral ovarian metastases from carcinoma of the gallbladder Gynecol Oncol 2006, 103:361-362 Taranto AJ, Lourie R, Lau WF: Ovarian vascular pedicle sign in ovarian metastasis...
... Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg African Journal of AIDS Research 2009, 8(1):93-106 Van As M, Myezwa H, Stewart A, Maleka ... Physiotherapy 2011, 97:17-25 38 Gaidhane AM, Zahiruddin QS, Waghmare L, Zodpey S, Goyal RC, Johrapurkar SR: Assessing self-care component of activities and participation domain of the international classification ... and AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa Disability and Rehabilitation 2011 doi:10.1186/1744-8603-7-41 Cite this article as: Nixon et al.: The increasing chronicity of HIV in subSaharan Africa:...
... Office A reconviction was regarded as being “serious” in cases of murder, manslaughter, assault, rape, indecent assault towards adult male, adult female or child, robbery and arson, based on ... assisted in data analysis and assisted in drafting the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... in the North of England has adopted this instrument into routine clinical practice following a series of research based validation studies to examine its utility as part of its ongoing risk assessment...