... time-consuming and computation intensive to calculate the age-standardised mortality (ASM) rates at a Statistical Local Area (SLA) level, we used the aggregated data to examine the feasibility of ... Queensland in 2001 All suicide data were then compiled and linked at the LGA levelThe Australian Standard Geographical Classification ASGC (1999-2003) was applied as a reference to combine the SLAs ... northern-central, south-western, southern and south-eastern inland areas had lower rates Figure 1B shows female suicide ASM rates at the LGA level Part of central, eastern and southern coastal areas...
... oviduct: a regulator of local contraction and gamete transport J Cardiovasc Pharmacol 2004, 44 Suppl 1:S248-51 111 Wijayagunawardane MP, Miyamoto A, Taquahashi Y, Acosta TJ, Nishimura M, Sato K: Angiotensin ... had a picomolar LOAEL in the ciliary beat frequency assay Many of the compounds in Table were also screened using a chick chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) assay that measures growth of the CAM and ... femtomolar range (Table 1) In general, if a chemical were inhibitory, it acted in all three bioassays, although the potency and efficacy for a particular chemical varied among the assays Some of the...
... Money was Ruined The Gold Coin Standard The Gold Bullion Standard The Gold Exchange Standard The Managed Fiat Currency Standard The Stage is Set Is Business to Blame? Are Banks to Blame? Are Unions ... Money and banking must be separated from the State, just as Church and State are separated in the American tradition, just as the economy andthe State should be separated Vital to this necessary ... Prosperity The fact that the later gold exchange standard lasted longer than the one set up in the 1920s, and that the patchwork monetary policy of the managed fiat currency has delayed the inevitable,...
... disk, the accesses to disk pages performed by materialise are organized in a similar way to that brought about by the hash table of hash-loops On the other hand, hash-loops hasthe additional overhead ... the hash table sizes for hash-join and hash-loops) In all cases, the values for these parameters were chosen so as to allow the algorithms to perform at their best In hash-join, the hash table ... Muralikrishna M Gamma a high performance dataflow database machine Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Kyoto, Japan, August 1986 Morgan Kaufmann: San Mateo, CA,...
... component of the larger system The UNMC’s data, along with the HRIS data from the Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council, the Allied Health Professional Council, andthe Uganda Pharmacy Council ... information was only accessible in hard copy files; now, these data are electronically available and can be aggregated and analyzed for decision-making It is the hope of the HWAB andthe UNMC that ... were provided by the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Council Author details IntraHealth International, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA 2IntraHealth International, Kampala, Uganda Authors’ contributions...
... them a ball and have them toss it back Then I toss two balls simultaneously, which they catch and throw back As they begin to relax and maintain balance, some get really, really scared They are ... that are again increased in size For example, a professional pianist like Gary Graffman unquestionably has enlarged hand and finger maps His maps are larger than average because they are crammed ... their brains are flooded with natural painkillers But if they are lucky enough to escape—say, the cheetah does not kill instantly andthe impala gets away the animals will run to safety and then...
... contradicts the claim that a variable inflation rate is the worst kind as well as the claim that an uncertain price level 'causes agents to make more [sic] mistakes they would otherwise have avoided, ... output and employment from their 'natural' levels In so far as it suggests that a variable inflation rate can actually help achieve a full-information ideal for resource allocation, my argument also ... output and input demand schedules Although the price level does not change, agents may confuse this general, nominal increase in demand with changes in the real demand for particular goods and factors...
... in the water and sanitation project in Bauniabad since 1993 The activities are divided into four phases: (i) Water and sanitation evaluation in 1993; (ii) Educational intervention on water and ... well as the donor agency were not involved at the stage of planning and implementation of water and sanitation options Educational intervention on water and sanitation: 1995-1997 The educational ... NGO, was mainly involved in water, sanitation, drainage and other environmental health improvement in the area from the early years of the resettlement Their program mainly included education and...
... society organizations and others In six countries, namely the Bahamas, Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, support is given to a Sector Wide Approach (SWAP) in education with ... buildings and facilities in all schools Anguilla Antigua The Bahamas Barbados Belize Dominica Grenada Guyana Jamaica St Kitts & Nevis St Lucia St Vincent & Grenadines Trinidad & Tobago Table Education ... Lee, Shiyan Chao, Angela Demas, Cynthia Hobbs, Christine Lao Pena, Andy Tembon, Stella Manda and Fahma Nur who provided guidance and support at different stages and throughout the preparation process...
... acid capsule is a virulence factor for mucoid group A streptococci Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 88, 8317–8321 49 Kawabata S, Kuwata H, Nakagawa I, Morimatsu S, Sano K & Hamada S (1999) Capsular hyaluronic ... a- l-sorbofuranose branch attached at C2 of b-d-GlcA anda MeOPN modification located at C4 of b-d-GlcNAc There are very few reports for sorbose in the literature and it is an unusual sugar to find in a bacterial ... novelty of these modifications andthe lack of other bacterial homologues in the current databases Alternatively, the biosynthesis genes may reside elsewhere in the genome Studies that have examined...
... present and; another at 5.20 p.p.m when it was absent These structural artifacts complicated NMR and mass spectrometry data and as a result, hindered the identification of these labile branches and ... H4 labeled A2 a, A2 b, A3 a, A3 b, A4 aand A4 b, respectively (Fig 4A) The 1D-NOESY of Gal H- 4a showed NOEs for Gal H- 2a, Gal H- 3a, Gal H-5 and Gal H-6 ⁄ 6¢, as well as for Fru H-4 and Fru H-6 ⁄ 6¢ ... Experimental procedures Solvents and reagents Unless otherwise stated, all solvents and reagents were purchased from Sigma Biochemicals and Reagents (Oakville, Canada) Media and growth conditions The...
... subjects (CA genotype) was PCR amplified using a forward primer starting at nucleotide )622 (5¢-CCAAGACATACTAAGAATGG-3¢) andthe same reverse primer ending at nucleotide +74 (5¢-GGCA GAGAAAACTCGAGAAC-3¢) ... nucleotides )132 and +74 (forward: 5¢-GAATGTGGGTCTCAGAGTTCC-3¢ and reverse: 5¢-GGCAGAGAAAACTCGAGAAC-3¢) were designed to generate a 206 bp 5¢ flanking DNA fragment For DHPLC analysis, PCR was performed ... Trisborate and mM EDTA) at a constant voltage of 190 V, then dried and autoradiographed using intensifying screens The concentration of nuclear protein extracts used in each reaction was lg and that...
... imaging, and computational and health quantitative sciences will be available to the scientists for their research projects The Center will also develop educational and training programs, and ... student data components of the article MA conceptualized and wrote the premedical education component of the manuscript MHA and AMA - provided ideas and discussions on the history of Qatar, Qatar Foundation ... organization, Page of whose mission is “to prepare the people of Qatar andthe region to meet the challenges of an ever-changing world, and to make Qatar a leader in innovative educationand research.”...
... imaging, and computational and health quantitative sciences will be available to the scientists for their research projects The Center will also develop educational and training programs, and ... student data components of the article MA conceptualized and wrote the premedical education component of the manuscript MHA and AMA - provided ideas and discussions on the history of Qatar, Qatar Foundation ... organization, Page of whose mission is “to prepare the people of Qatar andthe region to meet the challenges of an ever-changing world, and to make Qatar a leader in innovative educationand research.”...
... primer was 5'-CAACTGCTCCAAGGATAGATGATGA-3 'andthe reverse primer was5'-CCAGCTTCCTCAACCACAATAAATG-3' The probes were labelled at their 5' ends with FAM™ (the C allele) and VIC™ (the T allele) andthe ... The Netherlands are thanked for their collaboration Solveig Linghult and Thord Johansson are gratefully acknowledged for technical assistance The staff of the Medical Biobank, andthe Early Arthritis ... between the PTPN22 1858T variant anda disease related autoantibody, and that they co-operate to increase the relative risk of developing an autoimmune disease, in this case RA Our data suggest that...
... 5'-GACAGGTTCAGGTCATAGAAG-3' for At5g21920, 5'-TATCTGAACACTCCGTTGACGGTA-3' and 5'-CAAAGATA AACGGAATACGATC-3' for At4g27990, 5'-GCAATGGGAAGCAGTGGTGG-3' and 5'-GGGAGAAGAGACGGGTTTCG-3' for GAPDH, and ... identify the inserted 35S-cDNA in the FOX lines, the insertion was amplified by PCR using primers 5'GTACGTATTTTTACAACAATTACCAACAAC-3' and 5'-GGATTCAATCTTAAGAAACTTTATTGCCAA-3', and then sequenced by a ... (Takara) with oligo(dT)15 primer PCR was performed by using primers 5'-CACCGAGAAGTCAACAGCTCGGTCATCGAC-3' and 5'-TCAAGTCTTCCAATTTCTACCCAGTGCTGC-3' for AtYLMG1-1, 5'CCTCAACATATATAACACCATC-3' and...
... ‘unhygienic’ areas inhale and ingest a different kind, variety and amount of bacteria compared with children of farmers and anthroposophic families, who have access to natural soil and eat only biologically ... extracts ‘Immunoeducation’: a novel strategy or an utopian goal? Bacteria or bacterial products are already being tested against allergic diseases Encouraging preliminary data are coming from animal ... environmental antigens Facultative and professional antigen-presenting cells (dendritic cells) may be the target of a microbial bystander effect, that may dictate the pattern of accessory molecules and...
... greater access to cached data than the data manager has permitted (e.g., a write fault on a page made read-only by a pager_data_lock call), the kernel issues a pager_data_unlock call The data manager ... dirty pages • Data manager floods the cache This is rather similar in nature to a data manager which fails to free data, but is easier to detect and prevent • Data manager changes data A malicious ... the cached data The kernel uses the pager_data_write call in response, just as when it initiates a cache replacement A data manager may restrict the use of cached data by issuing a pager_data_lock...
... non-parametric correlations A P value of less than 0.05 was regarded as significant Software package STATA 9.0 (USA) was used for the analysis Materials and Methods Results Hospital setting and antibiotic ... financial cost and resistance patterns of leading nosocomial pathogens (gram) and number of boxes were calculated from two databases, 1) Hospital pharmacy computer databases, and 2) International ... G, Markogiannakis A, Papaparaskevas J, Daikos GL, Stefanakos G, Zissis NP, Avlamis A Differences in the changes in resistance patterns to third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins and piperacillin/tazobactam...