anatomical and physiological approach to cardiothoracic imaging

... high-latitude and high-altitude environments have shown varying phenological and physiological responses to simulated infrared warming However, significant year -to- year variation in flower production and ... season and have apparently different responses to IR forcing, and employed an integrative process model to investigate one potential mechanism for altered reproduction in relation to www.newphytologist.org ... individuals of each species and the number of flowers per individual were counted in yr (2001 and 2003 for E grandiflorum and D nuttallianum; 2002 and 2003 for E speciosus and H quinquenervis) The...

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... non-maneuvering trajectories and cosine and sine functions for nonlinear (maneuvering) trajectories The second case allows one to generate trajectories with known models and known set of parameters to evaluate ... X-Y position and velocity are set to (70, 200) and (20, -3) (c) The third trajectory is of “MIX” type and exists for 70 frames The initial position and velocity are set to (30, 30) and (10, 1) ... images by combining the PMHT and the IMM approaches [23] In this combined approach, PMHT is first used to compute the measurement -to- target assignment probabilities and to update the target states...

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... known to be more tolerant to drought [10, 11, 14], whereas Q robur displays a larger tolerance to water-logging and associated root hypoxia [22, 23, 53, 60] This difference of tolerance to waterlogging ... and probably local consumption and therefore is not a efficient indicator of species tolerance to hypoxia 4.6 Enhancement of O2 diffusion towards roots in Q robur Q robur formed more lenticels and ... Quercus rubra L and Fagus silvatica L.) to water-logging and associated root hypoxia: effects on water relations and photosynthesis, Ann Sci For 51 (1994) 417–429 [23] Dreyer E., Colin-Belgrand M., Biron...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... cell function; and cytotoxic T lymphocyte activity, influenza-specific antibodies In mice, defects in interferon α and β, complement system have been shown to increase morbidity and mortality ... Influenza antigenic properties are determined by both HA and NA [7] HA acts to attach the virus into host cells and subsequently fuse it to cell membranes, which is essential for the virus life ... internalise viral antigens and present them on major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I to CD8+ T-cells to enhance host immune responses [23] These defence mechanisms when work together are very...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... both the scientific and general public to understand that decisions will need to be made using the best information available at the time and will be fallible There can be no standard playbook However, ... protein It determines whether the virus is able to bind to and infect cells of different species by its ability to attach to carbohydrate receptors on the cells The protein loops that determine ... human influenza genes and become better adapted to human replication and spread A virus with the new coat of H and N antigens, built onto the core of prior successful human pandemic influenza viruses,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... this manuscript The 'A to G' approach to managing a MET call was subsequently developed to achieve these minimal standards Finally, the 'A to G' approach was adapted to provide a plan for the management ... encouraged to explain the cause of the call and subsequent management and follow-up plan to the medical and nursing staff, the patient and/ or their next of kin The subsequent frequency of monitoring ... thought to have caused the MET call Details of 400 calls that occurred between April and October 2004 were manually entered into an Excel spreadsheet to provide details on the trigger and the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... of other and faster methods to induce hypothermia must be considered Infusion of ice-cold Ringer’s solution (30 ml/kg within 30 minutes) has been shown to be an easy, cheap, effective and safe ... intravascular and body surface cooling techniques may both be effective and safe Well known side effects of therapeutic hypothermia, like hypokalaemia, hypomagnesaemia and bacteraemia may occur, and it ... used routinely in most cardiac arrest patients There is no good argument to wait any longer According to Hippocrates, we have to treat the next unconscious cardiac arrest patient with mild therapeutic...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... connected to metritis treatment and potential links to data quality This understanding provides insight into potential errors (bias and random error) related to data based on clinical examina- ... generating score data and decision making in relation to treatment of metritis and their motivation to produce data This information was condensed into a 'model of understanding' that demonstrates ... perceptions and reasoning behind generation of data and to describe the interaction and relations between the recording of metritis scores and veterinarians' decision making connected to metritis...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45

... linked by and : old and musty with, a long and winding road, hard and fast rules When the premodifiers are two color adjectives, it is obligatory to use and, not the commas as: the yellow and blue ... Chapter III is a study to a new approach to semantic and syntactic functions of English adjectives Chapter IV is to make a contrastive analysis between English adjectives and their Vietnamese equivalents, ... adjectives According to researches, adjectives are classified into stative and dynamic, gradable and non- gradable as follows: 2.2.1 Stative and dynamic adjectives According to the opinion of Quirk...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 14:46

... have to want to things If you want to sit in a wheelchair okay So my husband pushed me down to therapy the first day And this big man approached me and said Tm here to help you I'll teach you to ... approvals to enter a health care agency and approach patients Being responsive to staff concerns and offering to reciprocate with staff for facilitating entree may be helpful Anderson and Hatton (2000) ... are two people and two histories, and understanding takes place only when both take their ongoing life situations and histories into account One way in which scholars attempt to deal with the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2013, 11:15

... obscure and contradictory, but in working together, simplicity and directness are key The better the two fields are able to understand each other, the more effectively they can work together to produce ... both IT and OD value competence, and asking for help is analogous to admitting fault IT and OD practitioners are experts brought into an organization to solve the toughest problems, not to introduce ... with new and innovative uses of technology, IT project teams continue to contribute tremendous waste and dysfunction to their organizations and clients through their failure to work together...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... world’s great organizations and people Special thanks to my editors, Judy Umlas and Ed Levy for their contribution to making this expression clear and useful Thanks and homage to my teachers from several ... “who am I?” and cut to the core of self Thanks also to Gabriel Halpern who introduced me to Yoga and to the joy of chanting and song as a means for going beyond the intellect Thanks to N.Y Insight ... time and cost The Zen Approach to Project Management / 15 Projects are often more complex and stressful than they need to be Far too many of them fail to meet expectations There are far too...

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Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... satIsfactory understanding IS monitored Also, it is suggested that the subjective experience of success or failure in understanding can initialize top-down information processing In fact, monitoring ... higher visual and emotional levels towards early visual processing A comparison of the models proposed hy Leder and colleagues (2004) and Chattetjee (2003) reveals similarities and differences ... attention is awarded a central role: It is known to exert top down modulation of early visual processing On the other hand, Leder and colleagues (2004) aimed to present an information-processing model...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... monitoring and review of performance and communication and consultation Monitoring and review ensures that the organisation monitors risk performance and learns from experience Communication and ... attacks and operator errors These operational risks may be very significant, and correct procedures will need to be designed and implemented to minimise potential disruption A structured approach to ... arrangements and protocols N Significant risks and key risk indicators N Critical controls and control weaknesses N 17 Risk appetite, tolerance and constraints Sources of assurance available to the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 12:20

... respond to them; the need to go beyond a health-needs and fertility-based approach, and to include legislation, advocacy and education to change cultures that condone violence and inhibit men and ... marital rape and sexual abuse, and against violence towards women and girls as a human rights violation; and for programmes to encourage and enable men to adopt safe and responsible sexual and reproductive ... stereotypes and the implications of gender roles, and to equip them with tools to grow To complement educational efforts, a human-rights approach promotes collective change It calls for social justice and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... Practical Approach to Water Conservation for Commercial and Industrial Facilities A Practical Approach to Water Conservation for Commercial and Industrial Facilities Mohan Seneviratne Queensland Water ... threat to the busi­ ness and the environment, the social license, higher water prices, inability to expand production, loss of competitiveness, cost increases, damage to the brand name and loss ... Global demand for water needs to • satisfy human needs for safe drinking water and proper sanitation • expand agricultural production to meet population growth • meet business needs to provide...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 17:20

... Mn(IV) in MR-1 is thought to be composed of cytochromes and a quinone, located in both the cytoplasmic membrane (CymA and menaquinone) and the outer membrane (OmcB, and a partial role for OmcA) ... were applied to the gels, which were then heme stained according to Thomas et al [29] The outer membrane cytochromes c OmcA and OmcB, the periplasmic FR, and the cytoplasmic tetraheme cytochrome ... and omcB genes were 5¢-phosphorylated and cloned into EcoRV-digested and calf intestinal phosphatase-treated pKNOCK-Km and pKNOCK-Cm, respectively, using T4 DNA Ligase (all enzymes: New England...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 09:20

... features (Hatori et al., 2011) and richer parsing features (Zhang and Nivre, 2011) Acknowledgement We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions, and to Xianchao ... * q−1 and q−2 respectively denote the last-shifted word and the word shifted before q−1 q.w and q.t respectively denote the (root) word form and POS tag of a subtree (word) q, and q.b and q.e ... These corpora are split into training, development, and test sets, according to previous works For CTB-5, we refer to the split by Duan et al (2007) as CTB-5d, and to the split by Jiang et al...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 18:20

... ■ Current practical approaches to obesity; ■ Effective physical examination techniques and office procedures for dermatology and office orthopedics; ■ Current approaches to functional assessment, ... evaluation and peri-operative care; ■ Modern approaches to accessing and understanding the medical literature UCSF designates this educational activity for a maximum of 19.75 category credits toward ... care practice; and expanded skills in clinical examination and common office procedures The course will utilize formal lectures, hands-on workshops, case discussions, and questions and answers A...

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