action—an integrated biomarker approach to measuring the toxicity of mixtures

... using the exhaust gasses of the recovery boiler to further reduce the mixture to the 80% solids concentration The energy consumed by the evaporators is around 4.4 GJ/ton of pulp [14] Canadian Office ... Steam is used at the beginning of the process to soften the incoming wood chips Next, the same process as the refiner pulping is completed to produce the pulp Compared to the other mechanical ... in the collection of inorganic sulfur in the bottom of the reactor During that process a mixture of 12 sodium sulfide and sodium carbonate forms at the bottom of the typical recovery boiler The...

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Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20

... calculation of the equivalent of the degree of difficulty [25] as a measure of an Index of Discrimination (D) in order to identify those items from the TEMPS-A scale that best discriminate groups The ... between the different genotype groups to a high degree, no scale compiling these items showed high sensitivity and specificity with respect to the presence of the s allele Even the combination of the ... carried the ss genotype, 50 (36.23%) the ll and 69 (50%) sl genotype A total of 88 subjects (63.77%) carried the s allele while 50 subjects (36.23%) did not carry the s allele The frequency of the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... gained wider acceptance to achieve the goal of increasing the volume of the FLR [2] First reported by Makuuchi et al [3], the aim of PVE is to bring about atrophy of the segments to be resected and ... during the course of the treatment Graph analysis of anatomic (VA) and functional (VF) tumor volume changes during the course of the treatment Functional volume following the first course of the ... in the portal tracts The deposition of the majority of the absorbed dose is within a very tight zone immediately surrounding the microspheres Even though the maximum range of  particles in the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... since the levels of MMP-9 in SF have been shown to vary according to several factors, such as the disease state, the local concentration of inflammatory cytokines, and the number of infiltrating ... a product of the chondrocytes, have predominant roles because they are rate limiting in the process of collagen degradation [27,28] The efficiency of these two inhibitors to block the enzymatic ... levels of TIMP-1 in SF with the highest levels of NPA, both of which correlated with the levels of leukocytes, further emphasize the importance of infiltrating leukocytes in controlling the NPA of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... groups of nurses and the two groups of rats were significantly different in terms of their IS values The ratio of the mean IS values for the two groups of nurses (2.6) and the ratio of the mean ... during the light phase) To allow for acclimation to the cages and to the lighting by the rats, wheel-running data were not collected until the third day of the study, by which time the photoperiod ... reversals of the light-dark cycle, the wheel running appeared to be disassociated with either light or dark The same analyses performed on the data from the nurses were also applied to the data from the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... permit us to test the efficacy of the modified healthcare manager intervention or to identify mechanisms of change We plan to use the results of the pilot study to inform the design of a more ... code the rest of the data Additional analyses will include identification of subthemes and descriptions of the range and salience of themes Established procedures to enhance the trustworthiness of ... of error of an estimated rate to assess the precision that can be achieved by the proposed sample size Margin of error is half the width of a confidence interval of an estimator The smaller the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... estimating the nature of these interactions may play a key role for an early detection of cancer In addition, the invasive nature of some tumors is directly linked to the modification of the strength of ... where M corresponds to the set of the possible cell types (or marks), and where Hϕ ({xi, τi}) represents the contribution of the marked cell {xi, τi} in the expression of the Hamiltonian H(ϕ), i.e ... 10 (b) The decrease of the energy as a function of the iteration steps (c) The evolution of the accpetance rate as a function of the iteration steps engulfment patterns In each case, the interaction...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... characteristics of the patients managed using one of the three main initial therapeutic options (conservative measures, BAE or surgery) and to help better define the role of BAE, according to the severity of ... confirm the safety and the reproducibility of such a therapeutic approach; this approach may also be influenced by the use of the multi detector row helical CT scan, which can depict accurately the ... Fartoukh had full access to the data and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis 19 20 Study concept and design: Fartoukh, Cadranel Acquisition of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... ‘constructor’ who actually builds the model plane, the other participant is the ‘instructor’, who provides instructions for the constructor The corpora differ in that the constructor in the HHC ... Instructors in the HCI condition not then attempt to give a general orientation to their hearer This is true of all the humancomputer dialogues in the corpus Moreover, the dialogue phases of the ... perceptual) of the interlocutors Topic or Activity Analysis: Speakers attend to which aspects of the location addressed are relevant for the given topic and activity They have a number of choices at their...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20

... dispersion of 11 percent The trend in the toxic dispersion indicator is shown in Figure 10 The Dutch policy objective is to reduce the quantity of each of the hazardous substances released into the ... the Netherlands The trend of the climate change indicator is shown in Figure The aim of the Dutch policy is to reduce the 1988 discharge levels of greenhouse gases by more than 50 percent by the ... with the effects of increased levels of ultraviolet-B radiation STRATOSPHERIC OZONE DEPLETION INDICATORS Depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer has been linked to the action of a number of...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... heuristics of the relevant Expert subclass (here the Travel Expert), the system analyses the supplied information, to try to establish the context of the transaction, and then to process the transaction ... ask the user to narrow the enquiry to one of the areas available Although the system may request specific information (as in the turn above), the user may supply rather more than this Using the ... travel to the destination on the day and at the time requested Figure below illustrates the process If the instance is unable to meet the criteria it simply performs a cut and passes the call to the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:20

... that not all of these variables need to be observable; often in such models several of the variables are unobservable, i.e they are latent In order to obtain the joint distribution of the observable ... normalized to sum to 1.0 The normalized histogram effectively represents both the values and the fluctuation in the features For instance, a histogram of loudness values captures the variation in the ... loudness of the speaker within a turn The logarithms of the normalized 10-bin histograms for the features were concatenated to result in a single 70-dimensional observation vector for the turn These...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:20

... along the orbit of the particle.But when the ruler and clock move along the orbit in the gravitational field, the length of ruler and rate of the clock vary at each point Because of this reason, the ... etalons into measured results with the standard etalon is the synchronizing of the rulers and the clocks as the synchronizing of clocks in the special theory of relativity Firstly, we seek the relation ... TO THE METRIC TENSOR OF SPACE-TIME WITH THE PRESENT OF THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD In this section, we introduce an approach to the Schwarzschild metric tensor, it is similar to an approach from the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2014, 06:21

... of the derived predictions for the LacI family applying the Mann-Whitney test to distances of the predicted SDPs to the functional site of the protein compared to all amino acid resudues of the ... structures of LacI and PDE family members, we always assume 5Å to be the cutoff for two atoms to be contacting each other, and contacting residues are defined by the contact of their nearest atoms ... http://www.almob.org/content/5/1/29 Page of 12 where nj is the size of group j, Σj = 1, ,k nj = N, N is the total number of sequences in the MSA The exact formulae for the expectation value and the variance of MIp are: 20...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:20

... (days to 14 and days 15 to 28) Deaths from refractory shock and respiratory failure comprised most of the rest of the deaths Regardless of treatment group or time to treatment, 'late' refractory ... receiving placebo Because of the burden of disease and the expected increase in the number of cases of severe sepsis, there is an emphasis on improving the early identification of severe sepsis Recent ... that these studies required consent for subject inclusion Sicker patients are less likely to have the capacity to provide informed consent The need to locate surrogates, inform them of the seriousness...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... Figure cells resistant the calculation An example ofto puromycin to estimate the proportion of An example of the calculation to estimate the proportion of cells resistant to puromycin Data from ... the proportion of populations that were resistant to puromycin Theoretically, after T days of culture in the presence of puromycin, the number of cells in the culture NT, the initial number of ... shows the method by which the actual number could be derived mathematically using the Poisson equation Another potential source of error was the sensitivity of the PCR To employ this method the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:20

... 100 A Students of the same proficiency B Students of the different proficiency C Students of the same age D Students of the different age E Students of the same sex F Students of the different ... Students of the same proficiency B Students of the mixed proficiency C Students sitting next or near to you D Students of the same age E Students of the different age F Students of the same sex ... copies of the questionnaire for the students have been responded (100%) The data was analyzed in this part of the study in the below tables to show the frequencies of the responses to the questions...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 08:59

... Average Fraction of Inspection, AFI, i.e., probability of a part is inspected It is equal to the ratio of flow rate into the inspection machine to flow rate into the processing machine Therefore, AFI ... Performance of the rework system of Case 11 where an additional inspection machine is placed after the ith processing machine, i = 1, 2, , 122 xii 5.13 The effects of the defective rate of M5 on the ... industries range from 1-30% of the total production (Agnihothri and Kenett, 1995) These defects significantly decrease the system throughput and thereby undermine the profitability of the system (Li and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 17:58