... Benayahu, D Aronov, G Rosenman, The effect of surface treatment on the surface texture and contact angle of electrochemically deposited hydroxyapatite coating andon its interaction with bone-forming ... are magnification, tilting angle, and resolution Since the maximum pixel resolution of the machine is limited, different magnifications, and tilting angles have been used to reconstruct every ... glass micropipettes andtheir effect on biological studies Nanoscale Research Letters 2011 6:401 Submit your manuscript to a journal and benefit from: Convenient online submission Rigorous peer review...
... residual monomer content could be reduced when the polymerization time was extended Dogan et al.9 studied the effects of varying polymerization times and temperatures on the residual monomer content ... Usanmaz, A (1995) The effect of preparation conditions of acrylic denture base materials on the level of residual monomer, mechanical propertiesand water absorption J Dent., 23, 313–318 Jagger, R.G ... the residual monomer content was evaluated by HPLC, and mechanical properties of heat-cure and self-cure denture base materials were checked out in both dry and wet condition using distilled water...
... Thessaloniki, an observation confirming this conclusion, since Athens is located southern and evidently the temperatures observed are higher This conclusion is further confirmed by the comparison ... cooling demands is 28.5% and for Thessaloniki 13.2% Obviously, directly proportional to the energy demand for heating and cooling is the fuel (diesel oil) and electricity consumption and hence ... climate and consequently the estimation of energy demands and CO2 emissions In the case the above mentioned trends are confirmed, the climate input data used in energy behavior calculations and for...
... and SB SU and SG yield low precision, high recall alignments In contrast, SI yields very high precision but very low recall SA and SB attempt to balance these two measures but their precision ... (source-to-target and vice versa) with default configurations The combined alignments that are used in this paper are as follows: Union of both directions (SU ), Intersection of both directions (SI ), ... Banerjee and Alon Lavie 2005 Meteor: An automatic metric for MT evaluation with improved correlation with human judgments In Proceedings of Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures...
... tyrosine sulfation and N-glycosylation under conditions that allowed partial inhibition of these modifications After dialysis, the conditioned medium was fractionated on heparin–Sepharose with a linear ... Purification andproperties of a heparin-dependent inhibitor of thrombin in human plasma J Biol Chem 257, 2162– 2169 Sandset, P.M & Andersson, T.R (1989) Coagulation inhibitor levels in pneumonia and ... ultrafiltration module and dialyzed against 10 mM Tris/HCl, mM EDTA, 10 lM phenylmethanesulfonyl fluoride, mM NaCl, pH 7.4 The following isolation procedures included fractionation on heparin–Sepharose and...
... the Congress on Practices of the Consumer Credit Industry in Soliciting and Extending Credit andtheir Effects on Consumer Debt and Insolvency Submitted to the Congress pursuant to section 1229 ... several months Regulation of Revolving Consumer Credit Depending on its charter, a financial institution that conducts credit card lending is subject to supervision and regulation by one or more ... concerns about whether consumers have enough information to make good decisions and avoid unexpected costs and whether some practices and products of issuers affect consumers unfairly These concerns...
... trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe Library of Congress Cataloging‑in‑Publication Data The delivery of regenerative medicines andtheir impact on ... culture based on innovation (Australian Government Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research 2009) on the other The reports are consistent in their emphasis on education, strong government ... commissioned by the federal government addressed the relationship between health and biomedical research and investment on the one hand (Australian Government Department of Health and Aging 1998), and...
... and ring core layer removal sectioning X-ray diffraction neutron diffraction ultrasonic magnetic methods ASTM has standard test methods for the hole-drilling method and for X-ray diffraction ... & Their Effects 47 SUMMARY & DOS AND DON’TS IN DESIGN Relaxation of residual stresses can result from plastic deformation and also from thermal stress relief The magnitude and distribution ... determination and relaxation from simple to complex applied load histories are best obtained using the local notch strain analysis as described in Section 7.3 Loading in one direction only, as...
... National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers, and Treasurers, and the Securities Industry Association‖ (p 3) The independence of the FASB was questioned by its reliance on contributions ... standards and other pronouncements‖ (Miller et al., 1994, p 58) Miller, Redding and Bahnson also indicate that one component of due process is the solicitation and collection of comment letters on selected ... the FASB, the organization is a nonprofit corporation with a mission to ― establish and improve standards of financial accounting and reporting for the guidance and education of the public, including...
... and conventional longitudinal change could be attributed to recall bias rather than response shift While this was the case during the investigation at hand, the relative contribution of response ... Wider implications For an individual patient, inappropriate implementation, continuation or cessation of a health intervention may occur if a decision is reached based on clinical reasoning flawed ... Authors' contributions SM contributed to research idea conception, planning of research processes, data analysis and manuscript preparation, as well as manuscript review, appraisal and editing TH contributed...
... vacancies or confined within quantum dots in nanocrystals region On the other hand, the excited electrons can transfer from the valance band to the new levels that exist upper of the conduction band introduced ... comprising titania and alumina, and its realization within the present films is notable consideration that no attempts were made to control the size of the nanocrystals Conclusions Fig Optical Raman ... distance between the substrate and the target was about cm The silicon substrates were ultrasonically cleaned by acetone and de-ionized water Afterward the silicon substrates were immersed in...
... function if and only if f is a solution function of the cubic functional equation f x y f x−y 2f x y 2f x−y 12f x 1.6 Jun and Kim proved that when both X and Y are real vector spaces, a function ... quadratic operators on the function space Xλ and provided more general results regarding their norms In , Jung investigated the norm of the cubic operator on the function space Zλ A function f : X→Y ... from the Euler-Lagrange-type cubic and the Pexiderization of the Euler-Lagrange-type cubic functional equations 1.7 and 1.8 A Najati and A Rahimi P P Definition 1.2 The operators C1 , C2 : Zλ...
... focused ontheir clinical relevance Future investigations aiming at population- and disease-based screenings should provide new and important insights on panallergens andtheir contribution to ... participated in its design and discussion ME wrote the introduction, participated in the design and discussion, and coordinated and drafted the manuscript All authors read and approved the final ... denaturation and gastric digestion, they cannot cause sensitization via the gastrointestinal tract In fact, consumption of raw foods by profilin-sensitized patients leads to reactions that are...
... saline alone, * p < 0.0002 on ANOVA and p < 0.05 by Tukey HSD or with A fumigatus alone, † p < 0.0003 on ANOVA and p < 0.01 by Tukey HSD Effects on perivascular, peribronchial airway inflammation, ... (personal observation) Conclusion In conclusion, our results indicate that A fumigatus administration during pregnancy resulted in protection from systemic and airway allergic responses Prenatal ... pteronyssinus (D pteronyssinus) allergen prior to mating developed significant decreases in total and anti-D pteronyssinus IgE, IgG1, IgG2a and IgG2b levels upon resensitization in comparison...
... enthusiasm and altruism, but physicians are also expected to show care, compassion and a dedication to their profession We used a questionnaire which has already been used by British Medical Association ... depression, only 15% have used antidepressant medications More than half were aware of their colleagues suffering from depression and were using antidepressant medication The majority of the respondents ... citation purposes) Annals of General Psychiatry 2009, 8:8 http://www.annals-general-psychiatry.com/content/8/1/8 Table 2: Frequency of responses to questions related to depression Questions Responses...
... yields higher local control with significant reduction in both acute and late complications[5] Nevertheless, the use of higher RT doses beyond the conventional doses has been demonstrated to cause ... thorough physical examination, serum total and free prostate specific antigen (PSA), and testosterone levels, complete blood count and serum biochemistry, and pelvic MRI every months At each visit, ... this manner, better control of the local tumor and reduction of distant metastatic rates can be achieved by escalating the dose beyond that of conventional doses without additional toxicities [9,21,22]...
... cell proliferation and cytokine production [40] Other observations demonstrated inhibition of both T-helper type and T-helper type cell cytokine production, including inhibition of IL-4 [41,42] ... on modulatory effects of estrogens obtained from animal and in vitro investigations to the human condition, however, is always difficult and complex [24] In addition, in most animal studies only ... inflammatory conditions depending on the microenvironment and the type of disease Generally, estrogens enhance cell proliferation and reduce cell apoptosis [26] Finally, the role of local estrogen concentrations...
... central contributions of this study Knowledge sharing and its influence on innovative behavior and patient satisfaction We define innovative behavior as the introduction and implementation of new ... satisfaction by better fitting their permanent needs Shared decision making and its influence on innovative behavior and patient satisfaction Although the concept of knowledge sharing focuses mainly on ... expectations andtheir perception of performance will diminish [24] Thus, shared decision making also has a positive effect on patient satisfaction Innovative behavior and its influence on patient...
... with control over equipment selection and data collection handed to the regional private sector consortia and to national audit bodies Clinician engagement and choice may not feature highly on the ... storage, and networked monitoring and audit systems, linked to a national electronic patient record ‘spine’ There are already concerns about timescale, feasibility and funding Broader concern is ... European Information Network on New and Changing Health Technologies (EuroScan) http://www.publichealth.bham.ac.uk/euroscan/Default.htm Current Controlled Trials (London) http://www.controlled-trials.com/...