... understanding the roots, possibilities, and limits of human beings; at understanding where they came from and determining where they were going in a word, at understanding what it means to be minimally ... farmers and introduction 11 local community activists, are emerging to contest an industry that is encroaching on cultural understandings and practices of food, land, and nature Chaia Heller and ... nature and culture, and both scientific and humanistic analyses And the techniques and practices of the new genetics, as they have come into wider use in anthropology, have become a source of contention...
... understanding the roots, possibilities, and limits of human beings; at understanding where they came from and determining where they were going in a word, at understanding what it means to be minimally ... farmers and introduction 11 local community activists, are emerging to contest an industry that is encroaching on cultural understandings and practices of food, land, and nature Chaia Heller and ... nature and culture, and both scientific and humanistic analyses And the techniques and practices of the new genetics, as they have come into wider use in anthropology, have become a source of contention...
... representative of normal behavior during a standard RAGT session of 30-45 minutes In fact, motivating children during an entire training session is a very difficult and exhausting task and requires ... standardized, repetitive gait training, relieve the therapists' physical strain of manually guiding training and allow objective measurements of performance and progress On the other hand, it is difficult ... amount of engagement, creativity or even imagination The use of a VR environment in RAGT, on the other hand, has the potential to constantly enhance and adapt training motivation and therefore increase...
... in this field, although some findings remain preliminary All in all, we hope that this issue will advance our understanding on the effects and influences of enhanced or augmented VR stimuli in ... to quantitatively evaluate the visually-induced effects and influences in the fields regarding motion images, sensory systems, and Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of NeuroEngineering ... passive and subjects were sitting on the chair or standing while viewing motion videos Finally, Kiryu and colleagues report a study on the differences in real active and virtual passive exercises in...
... prototyping, and automated floating-point to fixed-point conversion He received his M.S and B.E degrees from Northeastern University, Boston, and the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2002 and ... Number of blocks in the input image Pointer to input block ¡¡¡ Pointer to input block Pointer to end of input block Number of sequences in input block Pointer to sequence Pointer to the starting ... each of the data channels going into the model and one for each data channel going out of the model A pair of dedicated parameter streams, exactly one for all parameters going into the model, and...
... Yanliang1, Deng Jianxin1,2 and Liu Zhanqiang1,2 of Mechanical Engineering Shandong University, Jinan, Laboratory of High Efficiency and Clean Mechanical Manufacture (Shandong University), Ministry ... artificial lines, process routing is : finish turning of the spigot rough boring of pin hole finish turning of cylindrical, rough finish and finish turning of the groove of iron hoop finish turning ... groove of aluminum hoopsemi-finish boring of pin hole turning of retaining ring groove and outside pin shaftrough turning of combustion chamber fine turning of combustion chamber fine turning...
... Rawalpindi) The study reflects the tip ofan iceberg of weaknesses in the private health sector in controlling and treating tuberculosis by examining the linkages between private physicians, pharmacies ... doctors in Pakistan tend to practicein the urban areas (4, 5) Due to a poorly managed government health infrastructure in Pakistan, a large number of TB patients in both rural and urban areas ... private clinics run by general practitioners and consultants Among the handful of studies done in Pakistan, 36 patients were interviewed in depth who were attending TB clinics in rural areas of Islamabad...
... review of findings and devising of plans to strengthen such linkages, integration into national health and development plans [all regions] • ountries supported in expanding and strengthening the ... efficiency and impact, expanded access to quality-assured point -of- care (POC) diagnostics, integrating and decentralizing service delivery, and driving increased market transparency and investment in ... play in addressing these issues and ensuring the meaningful engagement of communities and the protection and promotion of human rights in the design and delivery of services Core elements of Strategic...
... NIRS-based brain-computer interface system during motor imagery: System development and online feedback training Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society EMB, Annual International Conference of the ... the non-dominant hand Future studies may include both left-handers and right-handers Considering these factors may contribute to differentiation of individual oxygenation pattern and permit classification ... [O2Hb]rest and [O2Hb]stim and [HHb]rest and [HHb]stim using the paired t-test; confidence interval (CI) = 95% (Bottom) Inter-condition statistical significance of mean changes of Δ[O2Hb] and Δ[HHb]...
... information and working memory capacity As a consequence, age differences emerge when demanding storage and processing of information are simultaneously required [21] Paper and pencil tests and ecological ... representations into Virtual Reality Mazes: effect ofageand cerebral lesion Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2011 8:6 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: ... of the third VR Maze VR mazes by means of the keyboard; left-right, up-down and forward-backward movements are allowed and a standard speed of walk is maintained In order to find the exit point,...
... arm and hand movement skills in individuals with hemiparesis Subramanian, Knaut, Beaudoin, McFadyen, Feldman and Levin describe an immersive and interactive experimental protocol developed in ... respective discipline, andin which the goals for each discipline becomes overlapping with the skills and goals of the other fields of endeavor andof the consumer [2] Such interdisciplinary interactions ... Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2007, 4:18 laborative interactions in which the engineers, clinical scientists, and clinicians are comfortable with the language of each respective...
... concept shapes using natural interaction mechanisms, such as voice commands and gestures 14.7 VIRTUAL PROTOTYPING/MANUFACTURING AND VR The terms virtual prototyping and virtual manufacturing are commonly ... to reach into the 3D virtual world Based on their usage, input devices can be grouped into five categories: tracking, pointing, handinput, voice-based, and devices based on bio-sensors Of these, ... thought of as fitting into the category of virtual world authoring tools and playback discussed above Though the attempt to integrate CAD into VRML is still in the initial phase, it certainly offers...
... C91S mutant and after 24 h infected with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis (MOI 60 : 1) for 15, 30 and 60 min, followed by fixing and staining for extracellular bacteria using fluorescein isothiocyanate ... immunoprecipitation of OTUB1 Eluted material was analysed by SDS ⁄ PAGE gel and Coomassie Blue staining, and the band corresponding to a modified OTUB1 (rectangle) was excised and digested with trypsin The ... immunoblotting using HA antibodies and quantified for two experiments (black and grey bars) The intensities of the corresponding bands were measured and the ratio between them is shown (labelling ratio),...
... separated by anion-exchange chromatography Major components CipC, Cel9E and Cel48F are indicated; bands analysed using MS methods are numbered; the asterisks indicate a band containing a nonsecreted ... Proteins (5 lg) were separated on 10% SDS ⁄ PAGE, transferred to a polyvinylidene fluoride membrane and probed with anti-CelA, anti-CelC, anti-CelM and anti-CelG serum C, control sample corresponding ... xylan (F1), Avicel (F5) and CMC (F6), showed lower levels of activity and synergy than a mixture consisting of F1, F3 and F6, which was the most diverse combination of cellulosomes This finding...
... by silver staining In the examples shown, 100 ng of each peptide were loaded per lane, and only a single band was detected in the lanes containing Ab(1–40) and Ab(M1–40) (Fig 5E) In other experiments, ... prepared in the buffer supplied with the enzyme, and contained Aba, Abb and Abc at 40 nm each, and the start and stop primers Abstart and Abstop at 600 nm each, and 200 lm each of dATP, dCTP, dGTP and ... huge interest in understanding the structural and biological properties of this molecule [13–16] Using chemically synthesized Ab peptides, substantial progress has been made in understanding of...
... upregulated in gills but slightly less and later in mantle One inducible and two constitutive isoforms of HSP70 are synthesized in the gills and mantle of C gigas [26] The expression level of the ... processes including actin filament organization and is expressed in response to environmental changes [31] In this study, Rholp was rapidly upregulated in gills and later in mantle during warming These ... of potential biological markers cathepsin B, cathepsin L, stefin A and stefin B with urokinase and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 and clinicopathological data of breast carcinoma patients Cancer...
... acids in the plasmin molecule, the amidolytic activity of two truncated plasmin variants was examined (Fig 8) Miniplasmin (des-kringle 1-4 plasmin) contains the kringle and the catalytic domain of ... It can be proved that t in Eqn (4) is a strictly increasing function of P for any combination of Km, kp and Ki and therefore it has an inverse function P = PM(t, Km, kp, Ki, S0, Et0), which can ... (B) The p-nitroaniline (P) generated is shown as the mean (lines) and standard deviation (cross-bars) of four measurements Insets show silver-stained samples of plasmin (0.3 lM) incubated without...
... basis of its catalytic activity, to provide new understanding concerning its bifunctionality and to establish links between this GH-57 amylopullulanase and other non pullulandegrading GH-57 and ... regions that were originally described as a SLH-like domain (SLD2), a threonine-rich region and a putative transmembrane domain [22] Interestingly, the 3D structure of a protein domain, which is clearly ... one half of the family is formed by ORFs coding for putative proteins of uncharacterized activity and specificity A striking feature of GH-57 is the sequence and length diversity of the individual...
... from Ministry of Science and Technology of the Spanish Government (SAF 2002–02785), INTAS grant (97–1504), and the Netherlands’ Organization for Scientific Research We thank T Sukhomlin for discussions ... value of a subgraph that contains p reactions and p concentrations, as minus the sum of all its combined autoinfluence paths of order p Note therefore that negativity of a subgraph and positivity of ... species and three reactions, by pointing out that they have positive paths ofin uence We divide these graphs into two classes, i.e those with positive in uence steps only, and those including an...