... arthritis is considered to be non-erosive, although erosions may appear in late stages of the disease Inflammation and erosion of cartilage in the nasal septum is common and occasionally results ... found as manifestations from chondritis at specific sites Asfor many other autoimmune diseases, there have been reports of a correlation between RP diagnosis and the MHC class II region [6,7] ... Available online http://arthritis -research. com/content/4/5/296 Figure such as the skin and cardiovascular system are commonly affected by inflammation as well, the latter accounting for a fatal...
... general but easier to use 50.6.1 Text-Based Interfaces Traditional interfaces for specifying computations are based on a textual-representation in the form of scripts and programs For OS-based speech ... Software Toolsfor Speech Research and Development 50.1 Introduction 50.2 Historical Highlights 50.3 The User’s Environment (OS-Based vs Workspace-Based) Operating-System-Based Environment Environment ... In a visual interface for compute-oriented software, on the other hand, the focus is on the operations Operations among signals typically are represented as icons with one or more input and output...
... systems such as slices) and methodological variations (e.g different agonist concentrations, protocols for toxin application or determination of the toxin concentration) have to be considered 2308 ... 271) Identification and characterization of neuronally active a-conotoxins Assay-based and cDNA-based strategies The first a-conotoxins were identified using bioassays such as intraperitoneal (neuromuscular ... compared to conventional venom fractionation is that only small amounts of tissue are required In addition, conotoxins with low expression levels that would escape detection in functional assays can...
... [10] For example, we showed that such a padlock oligonucleotide strongly inhibits DNA digestion by a restriction endonuclease, and that the complex is strong enough to inhibit the elongation of ... contain many Gs Moreover, as the triple helix was not stable in the absence of intercalator, it was possible to switch easily from conditions where the triple helix was very stable to conditions ... structures were formed only if the samples were heated before the ligation reaction was started Our idea was that the stem could dissociate upon heating, thereby allowing triple-helix formation between...
... error propagation Whenever one component decides on the input of another, the subsequent one will most probably fail whenever the decision was wrong; if not, the erroneous information was not crucial ... integration does not blindly rely on the available predictions but is able to question them as long as there is strong enough combined evidence from the grammar and the other predictor components For ... compensate for the last two effects we re-evaluated our parser without considering punctuation but providing it with perfect POS tags Thus, under similar conditions as used for the CoNLL evaluation we...
... Organization; 2002 Background Paper: Non Communicable Diseases in Low and Middle Income Countries Regional High-level Consultation in the Eastern Mediterranean Region on the Prevention and Control ... interwoven framework of education, research, public health and clinical components lays a sturdy foundation for developing evidence based translationalresearchas discussed in this review We ... interwoven education, research and public health based framework provides a robust platform fortranslational medicine research programs Chouchane et al Journal of Translational Medicine 2011,...
... Organization; 2002 Background Paper: Non Communicable Diseases in Low and Middle Income Countries Regional High-level Consultation in the Eastern Mediterranean Region on the Prevention and Control ... interwoven framework of education, research, public health and clinical components lays a sturdy foundation for developing evidence based translationalresearchas discussed in this review We ... interwoven education, research and public health based framework provides a robust platform fortranslational medicine research programs Chouchane et al Journal of Translational Medicine 2011,...
... studies into the association of sCD25 with lupus disease activity strongly support the inclusion of this protein as part of a biomarker panel As with the measurement of complement activation, however, ... previously identified as a biomarker for lupus Available online http://arthritis -research. com/content/11/6/255 disease activity [34], was also demonstrated to be elevated on peripheral T cells ... expansion of a unique population of CD19+/CD27high plasma cells was noted under the condition of lupus Jacobi and colleagues evaluated the correlation of CD27high plasma cells and disease activity...
... based on an intermediate format, and they target only a point-to-point translation from one HDL to another HDL or C++ Thus, manipulation on the code before the translation is not supported On ... semantics such tools rely on 5.1 The Front-End and Back-End Conversion Tools The conversion tools are organized into front-end (HDL2HIF) and back-end (HIF2HDL) tool sets 5.1.1 HDL2HIF They convert HDL ... corresponding to traditional HDL constructs like, for example, processes, variable/signal declarations, sequential and concurrent statements, and so forth (see Section 4) (ii) Second is a set of front/back-end...
... Iteration simulated energy consumption was obtained by multiplying per cycle energy consumption as per datasheet specification, by the number of cycles executed in the target application The results ... approach for energy and throughput for an application basis In fact the accuracy of these models is independent of any particular cache configuration as standard cache energy and timing tools are ... misses is not accounted for a particular application Apart from the mathematical models, substantial work has been done for cache miss rate prediction and minimization Ding and Zhong in [18] have presented...
... an integration level adequate for controlled trials However, even considering this asresearch prototype software, the large number of interactions identified has raised some concerns on the development ... also obtained for delay and jitter, as well asfor autoconfiguration only Based on these results, we decided to use the indoor topology to run the remaining tests 5.4 QoS In this section, we summarize ... hop way from the receiver, which we denote as the last forwarding node, is responsible for sending the proofs to the gateway, which contain information on the path(s) of the flow When receiving...
... multiple pronunciation lexicon, Hain [25] focused on finding a single optimal phonetic transcription for each word in the lexicon Our study confirms that a single pronunciation that is consistently ... performance of the triphone recogniser determined the baseline performance for each recognition task 3.3.1 Triphone recogniser A standard procedure with decision tree state tying was used for ... syllable models, the gains from including longerlength acoustic models were small and depended heavily on the recognition task: for telephone numbers, the performance even decreased In any case,...
... detection and bidirectional tracking, which is discussed in Section The training data for constructing a person identification system can be labeled from two different modules One is the conventional ... track a face using an approach based on online region confidence learning This approach associates different local regions of a face with different confidences on the basis of their discriminative powers ... pairwise constraints for video object classification,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR ’04), vol 2, pp 284–293, Washington, DC,...
... were performed using the BLAST algorithm at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (National Center for Biotechnology Information), with programs blastn, tblastn and tblastx New primers were redefined on the ... contingency table was performed on the phenotypic composition of each population using procedure CORRESP in SAS (SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA) 2.2 Seed characteristics Seeds were harvested on ... their colonizing abilities (see [9] for F excelsior) This can be useful for studies of hybridization in zones of sympatry and/or of putative replacement of common ash by narrowleaved ash, for example...
... factors The disease models should therefore preferably be correspondingly polygenic and dependent on environment There are a number of available animalmodelsfor RA that all mimic various aspects of ... animals is dependent on there being good models of human diseases In this review we focuson RA, a highly heterogeneous autoimmune disease that is known to depend on multiple genes and environmental ... proven; asfor candidate studies, this type of reasoning is counter to one of the main aims: hypothesis-free generation of new knowledge Interestingly, C5 has already been implicated, based on studies...
... transgene expression, both under control of the tetO promoter in a head–tail configuration on one plasmid The plasmid was electrotransferred intramuscularly in order to yield expression of a dimeric ... cause p53 mutations that transform cells resulting in aberrant proliferation [76] Mutated p53 is considered responsible for the transformation of synovial fibroblasts into invasive phenotypes ... DBA1/J mice before the onset of CIA dramatically reduced pannus formation (invasive tissue of fibroblast-like cells in cartilage and bone) and cartilage erosion as a result of the prevention of angiogenesis...
... motivation was a case when a trait Yl was measured on males and y was measured on females and there was interest in the genetic covariance between traits (0’ ) A12 and there was no environmental ... selection in univariate and multivariate settings (for example, Henderson et al, 1959; Thompson, 1973) if the records on which selection is based are included in the data If this condition is only ... effects Secondly, in order that , scaled versions of Yl and y have homogeneous contributions for e and e as in l , model 1, but also for Ub scaling factors, a and b for the contributions of Ub...
... evaluations for such a mixture of crossbred animals can be obtained by BLUP using Henderson’s = = mixed-model equations (MME) Genetic evaluations are based on a vector of be modelled as: (1984) ... Henderson’s MME, can be constructed was as: where G, is a diagonal matrix with the ith Note that these elements are diagonal linear functions of element defined a2 and as: !ALI! PREDICTION OF ... Linear Regression Analysis J Wiley & Sons, New York, USA Thompson R (1979) Sire evaluation Biometrics 35, 339-353 Toutenburg H (1982) Prior Information on Linear Models J Wiley & Sons, New York,...
... truncation selection Meijering and Gianola (1985) showed that with a balanced random one-way classification and binary responses, the application of quasi-best linear unbiased prediction (QBLUP) ... European Association forAnimal Production Edinburgh, 5-8 September 1994 Meijering A, Gianola D (1985) Liner versus nonlinear methods of sire evaluation for categorical traits: a simulation study ... posteriori estimation procedure, was employed to demonstrate the differences between the estimators based on either a sire or an animal model The data consist of calving ease scores from 28 male...
... used only in conjunction with optimisation techniques ensuring an increase in log G in each iteration Further motivation for the scope to reduce use of transformations has been computational effort ... 2possible = combinations of traits recorded (assuming single records per trait), eg, W for with combinations trait only, trait only and both traits Foranimal i q which has combination of traits w, ... calculation of second derivatives by backward differentiation (pseudo-code not shown here) Amongst other calculations, this involves one evaluation of a matrix W as described above, for each...