... characteristics, sexual health related attitudes and practices It is envisaged that this information may encourage research and programmatic interest in efforts aimed to prevent the spread of ... proportions of the various attributes studied are representative of the general MSM population in Malawi Furthermore, because of the snowballing nature of participant recruitment, it is likely that respondents ... from Africa (Cáceres et al., 2006) Despite the above these considerations, the Malawi National AIDS Commission in collaboration with the Department of Correctional Services facilitated the drafting...
... particular, the anti-slavery state courts are prone to use the term “unconstitutional” much more often than the slave states The word “man-trap”, a term used to refer to states where free blacks ... 5.2 Qualitative Analysis In this section, we qualitatively evaluate the topics generated vis -a- vis the secondary literature on the legal and political history of slavery in the United States The ... empirical justifications, and analysis of online communities, which are often rife with available metadata but produce content far faster than it can be analyzed by experts Acknowledgments We thank...
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... reminiscent of the walking pattern of older adults witha HLGD and cautious gait An elevated risk of falling has been associated with visual impairments, a problem that increases with age [14-17] and ... the digitized data were transferred to a computer workstation for analysis using software that extracts the initial and end contact time of each stride and determines stride and swing times To ... Statistical Analysis Descriptive statistics are reported as mean ± SD or % We used the Student's t and Chi-square tests to compare the patient and control subjects with respect to different background...
... have any neurological deficit in all the patients done under general anesthesia The advantage of general anesthesia is that there is no patient discomfort and intraoperative pain that is associated ... which are not related with validated measurements of outcomes that are more relevant to patients' quality of life and functional status These measures place no emphasis on the patient's overall ... comfort of the patient, sedation with intravenous midazolam or Fentanyl was administered by the anesthetist 19 patients (34%) were uneasy about having the operation performed under local anaesthesia...
... domain with boundary conditions (1.2)-(1.3) In that article, they proved that the energy decays with the same rate of decay of the relaxation function This latter result improved an earlier one ... nonlinear term h(∇u) requires a careful treatment because we not have any information about the influence of the integral h(∇u)ut dx about the sign of the derivative E’ (t) Although the subject is ... Kirchhoff [1] was the first one who introduced (1.5) to study the oscillations of stretched strings and plates, so that (1.5) is called the wave equation of Kirchhoff type after him In this direction,...
... also , the authors established the asymptotics of the zeros of such Jacobi-Sobolev polynomials The aim of our contribution is to obtain a lower bound for the norm of the partial sums of the Fourier ... Journal of Inequalities and Applications estimates, inner strong asymptotics, and a Mehler-Heine type formula Some estimates of the weighted p Sobolev norm of these polynomials will be needed in the ... Polynomials, vol 23 of American Mathematical Society, Colloquium Publications, o American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, USA, 4th edition, 1975 13 P Nevai, T Erd´ lyi, and A P Magnus, “Generalized...
... Radar parameters represent the accuracy and quality of available data, while target conditions are the distance and orientation of the flight with respect to radar, motion state of aircraft (uniform ... he has been there as an Assistant Professor of automata theory and programming language translation His main research topics are evolutionary computation applications and network optimization ... is matched to a specific type of motion pattern, and represents the target trajectory as a series of states, with the sequence of transitions modelled as a Markov chain In our case, the states...
... k-subgraph of G that contains a vertex of X, a contradiction Now assume s < k (clearly s ≥ 1) We can repeat the same argument where instead of M we use a complete graph on S, and similar computations ... Proof Assume the lemma is false Put x = |X| and let S ⊂ V (G) \ X denote the set of vertices of the graph G that have at least one neighbor in X Put s = |S| Notice that there are at most (k − 1)x ... #R32 are at least q = (m − (d − 1)n + d )/r edges in one of the monochromatic d-graphs √ Thus, this monochromatic d-graph contains at least 2q vertices as claimed Notice that this bound is rather...
... Conduct a continuous time study on manual harvesting systems witha chainsaw model Stihl in a Caspian hardwood forest (2) Estimate the production rates and costs of chainsaw felling Material and methods ... Site of study This study was carried out in compartment 231 in Chafroud forests in the north of Iran The altitude ranged from 1,350 to 1,550 m above sea level and the average annual precipitation ... shows that the model is significant at α = 0.01 The SPSS 14 statistical program was applied according to its series of phases in Table Conclusion The variables such as distance between harvested trees,...
... the representations of the constants ca,b by certain integrals (see (50) in appendix A. 3), we obtain the following approximative asymptotics by numerical integration (carried out with Mathematica) ... illustration.) A p–watermelon of length n witha wall has the additional property that none of the paths ever goes below the line y = (since the paths are nonintersecting, it suffices to impose this ... attention to the paper of Biane, Pitman and Yor [2] Exact enumeration For a start, we gather some exact enumeration results 2.1 The number of p–watermelons witha wall The following proposition generalizes...
... spontaneous urticaria) has been a matter of debate for a long time The 1998 edition of the most authoritative textbook of allergology still stated that ‘‘after earlier exposure to a specific ASA ... Management of Adult Patients with NSAID-Induced Urticaria/Angioedema an increase in cardiovascular events,50 and this has brought about the withdrawal of most of them from the market; presently, the ... Interestingly, and similarly to patients with aspirin-exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD), in patients with acute urticaria induced by distinct NSAIDs (both with and without chronic urticaria),...
... admitted restricted joint movement with mild pain At time of diagnosis, pulmonary metastasis was detected in all three cases In contrast to other soft tissue sarcomas, alveolar soft part sarcomas ... present study, the characteristics of some types of soft tissue sarcomas contrast with the traditionally held opinion that they are small slow-growing masses witha superficial location Fortunately, ... these tumors can be misdiagnosed as hemangiomas or A- V malformations In the present study, one case was attributed to hemangioma at initial examination In alveolar soft part sarcomas, solid tumor...
... present MCMC algorithms that allow Bayesian linkage analysis witha RAM We study two alternative parameterizations of the genetic model and use a test statistic to postulate presence ofa QTL at a ... dispersion parameters are not standard Intuitively, RAM, used to eliminate genetic effects and concentrate information, is the antithesis of data augmentation, used to arrive at simple standard densities ... part of the joint posterior density (13) It can thus be treated as a constant, but it does not drop out of the equation With , RT B the conditional density of u2is standard, but those for h2 and...
... ; that is to say, the greatest part of the loci, or the ones most important in production of chaetogen, are on this chromosome Chromosomal combination AAB belongs to the same group as BBA in three ... decrease of bristles, there are chromosomal combinations in the other lines that attract attention (table 2) Chromosomal combination ABB is positionally decanalized in SC-2 : posterior dorsocentral ... has some positional decanalization, and ABB is clearly positionally and numerically decanalized These observations are statistically proved by positional standard test a posteriori (table 4), in...
... participated in the study design, data analysis, manuscript writing and editing ACLN supervised the study and contributed to the data analysis, manuscript writing and editing All of the authors read ... Longitudinal evaluation the pulmonary function of the pre and postoperative periods in the coronary artery bypass graft surgery of patients treated witha physiotherapy protocol Journal of Cardiothoracic ... respiratory exercises, such as huffing and directed coughing, from postoperative days to (Table 1) Statistical analyses Statistical analysis was performed in Statistica version 7.0 (Stasoft Corporation,...
... chosen particles Samples are imaged without filtration (Figure 4) These data suggest that by optimizing all three of these parameters, the FNPS has the flexibility to generate uniform particles across ... number, but also by factors that influence interfacial tension These include the polymer concentration, the presence and concentration of surfactant [37], and the nature of any payload that is co-precipitated ... SEM without prior filtration The diameter of the particles was calculated by using ImageJ For each sample, the mean diameter was calculated based on the measurements of 100 randomly chosen particles...
... with methotrexate and had to discontinue methotrexate after three years Since the episode of angina, the patient was started on a daily regimen of low-dose aspirin at 75 mg and simvastatin at 40 ... it was restarted Therefore, the improvement in the patient’s inflammatory condition could be attributed to the psychotropic medication rather than to the aspirin or the simvastatin A bi-directional ... in modulating inflammatory pain, compared with mechanistic pain Antidepressants have anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties Antidepressants witha dual action (inhibiting serotonin and norepinephrine...
... investigate whether a specific enzymatic reaction can be coupled witha photoinitiated reaction at a QD modified electrode in a way that the recognition element is integrated with the transducer The ... Data demonstrate that the concentration of 4AP can be reasonably detected within the ranges of 25 μM to around 1.5 mM For 4AP concentrations larger than 1.5 mM the photocurrent response is saturated ... speculate that the QDs layer is not tight so that PAH is attracted by the negatively charged underlying BDT monolayer Stability after rinsing confirmed stable deposition of PAH To this configuration a...
... cDNAs both transiently and stably to rule out potential epiphenomena created by viral transduction The data obtained by transfection were in line with those obtained by transduction (data not ... place of origin (EPR, Exhaustive Photon Reassignment software Scanalytics, Massachusetts, USA) after accurate characterization of the blurring function of optical system (point spread function, ... protein acts as a receptor It has been shown that a transmembrane domain is sufficient to translocate proteins into the membrane of the ER from where they travel to the plasma membrane via the...