... influence of clinical conditions, socioeconomic status, homeenvironmentofchildrenand subjective perceptions of parents andchildren about general and oral health on OHRQoL of schoolchildren ... self-perception oftheir general and oral health (excellent/very good/ good or fair/poor) andhomeenvironment The variables about homeenvironment were: family structure (children live with both biological ... structure, number of siblings, use of cigarettes, alcohol and drugs in the family, parents perception of oral health of schoolchildren, schoolchildrens self perception their general and oral health,...
... in the homeand CCC indoor environments and health pathways is presented in Figure 1.3 There are different types of sources of pollutants and allergens in the indoor environments of homes and CCCs ... forty out of fifty children continued to wheeze at yearsold while family history of bronchial hyperresponsiveness and self-atopy determines frequency and severity of attacks at yearsold (Wilson ... 172 5.2.2 Home ETS exposure andChildren s Asthma and Allergies 174 5.2.3 Home Building Materials andChildren s Asthma and Allergies 175 5.2.4 Indoor Combustion Sources andChildren s...
... students prefer receiving, theirattitudes towards, their comprehension ofandtheir attention to different types of teacher written feedback It is hoped that the results of this study would help ... questionnaire and the interview with 12 students at different level of English proficiency The results show that the students highly valued the importance of teacher’s feedback and had different attitudes ... writing In terms of the students’ comprehension of teacher written feedback, the results show that most of them had difficulty in understanding uncoded and content feedback Based on their responses...
... coefficient of determination 219 Growth Performance and Sperm Quality of Stress Negative Piétrain Boars andTheir Hybrids with Duroc Table Production performance, Least square means (LSMSE) of PiDu and ... Quality of Stress Negative Piétrain Boars andTheir Hybrids with Duroc REFERENCES Dang Vu Binh, V.D Ton, N.C Oanh, (2008) Productivity and meat quality of fattened pigs of crossbred formulas LandracexF1(YorkshirexMong ... Carcass composition and meat quality of crossbreds between F1(LandracexYorkshire) sows mated with LandracexDuroc (omega) and PietrainxDuroc (Pidu) Crossbred Boars Journal of Science and Developement...
... snapshots relative to the volume of total bonds outstanding For Greece, the net open CDS amount to around 3% oftheir outstanding sovereign debt and for Portugal and Ireland around 7% This magnitude ... of the determinants of spreads5 and second a study of the arbitrage relationship between CDS and the underlying bonds In the first part, we study the common factors in the first differences of ... and the linkages between the bond and the derivative market Overall, our results on the arbitrage relationship between bonds and CDS support the existence of ‘limits of arbitrage’ (Shleifer and...
... overexpressed in solid and wet cancer types [10] Mutations and amplification of the androgen receptor gene, without loss of gene expression, play a key role in the development of advanced, androgen-independent ... most often occurring in short stretches of CpG-rich regions known as CpG islands Such regions are about 0.5–2 kb long and can be found in the 5¢-region of approximately 60% of genes, near to their ... on Ser172 of H1.4 For H1.2 and H1.3, the work of Wisniewski et al [43] agrees with that of Garcia et al [42], noting that in Table I of the former paper the phosphorylation on Thr173 of H1.2 is...
... side of domain A The C domain comprises the C-terminal residues 380±471 (orange in Fig 1) and forms a separated folding unit, exclusively made of b sheet Eight of the 10 strands fold into a b sandwich ... interacting with catalytic residues from the A and B domains of TMA (Fig [82]) The residue Asp287, one of the catalytic residues of its enzyme, forms a salt bridge directly with Arg7 of AAI The ... The various known modes of a-amylase inhibition A standard colouring scheme is used with enzyme drawn in magenta and inhibitor helix, strand and coil drawn in red, cyan and yellow, respectively...
... oxidation of retinol to retinal Retinol and all-trans-retinal were extracted with solid phase C-18 columns (Varian Inc.) The columns were washed with mL of methanol and equilibrated with mL of acetonitrile/water ... washed with mL of acetonitrile/water (60 : 40, v/v), mL of ethanol/water (60 : 40, v/v) and 10 mL of methanol/water (90 : 10, v/v) Retinyl palmitate was eluted with mL of methanol Purity of the sample ... of each nucleotide and 2.5 U of Amplitaq The rat liver cDNA was denatured at 95 °C for and amplified using a DNA Thermal Cycler (Perkin-Elmer) with 35 cycles of 95 °C for min, 58 °C for 30 s and...
... structures of the six complexes of paclitaxel, IDN5390 and epothilone A with both bI and bIII isotypes of tubulin Docking of antimitotic agents to tubulin isoforms A B C Molecular dynamics and thermodynamics ... not interact with Arg320 The models of the complexes of IDN5390 with the bI and bIII-tubulin isoforms are shown in Fig The bound conformation of the ligand is quite similar in the I1 and I3 complexes, ... interactions of the ligands with other residues in the M-loop In particular, paclitaxel interacts through hydrogen bonds with Ser277, Gln282 and Arg284 in the case of the bI isoform and only with Arg278...
... stoichiometry of the complex between RI and RATEs, 100 or 200 pmol of RI was incubated either with 100 pmol of SGRSGRSG-RATE or with 100 pmol of RNase A at 25 °C for 15 in 15 lL of 0.1 m sodium ... catalytically active and that the activity decrease [16] is a result of the tandemization Accessibility of the linker of SGRSGRSG-RATE in the presence of RI The accessibility of the linker sequence ... the other hand, the decreased activity of the RATEs as compared with RNase A ([16] and Table 1) indicate a negative influence of the tandemization on the catalytic efficiency The recovery of activity...
... the defense agencies, and the unified commands The NIC provides mid-term and long-term strategic thinking andintelligence estimates for the Director of Central Intelligenceand key policymakers ... quality of life with accompanying prosperity and reduced tension, and the possibility of human eugenics and cloning The actual realization of these possibilities will depend on a number of factors, ... necessity, social demands, and resource availabilities will affect the scope and pace of technological adoption in each industry and society over the next 15 years The pace and scope of such change...
... profiles andwith similar (p > 0.05) values of BS and hardness to textural profile 1, and similar values (p > 0.05) of cohesiveness and springiness to profile 3, and intermediate values of adhesiveness ... times (January, May and October) maintaining brands and meat sausage type At every time of purchase, eight samples were of chopped (CH), nine of mortadella (MT), and seven of galantines (GL) Chopped ... emulsion with cubes of meat and fat ($1 cm2) $60–65% fine emulsion with coarse meat (0.1–0.3 cm2) $65–70% fine emulsion with coarse meat ($0.1–0.3 cm2) $65–70% fine emulsion with cubes of fat ($0.25...
... central and northern parts of Norway with about 1.1 million inhabitants The unit consists of wards with a total number of 21 beds One of the wards (ward F) is specialised to serve offenders with ... Interestingly in spite of being a high risk exposure environment the high security forensic psychiatry and the relationship between, and occurrence of job satisfaction, burnout and post traumatic ... levels of control and structured environment in order to fit the needs of controlling the patients behaviour (ward A, admission ward with the highest structure, ward B intermediate and ward C with...
... levels and vitamins A and E concentrations in plasma of HIV-positive and HIV-negative Ghanaians chronically exposed to aflatoxin in their diets and examined the association of vitamins A and E ... males and females 19 yearsof age and older was conducted in Kumasi (a major maize and peanut-producing and consuming area) in the Ashanti Region of Ghana All HIV-positive and some HIV-negative ... study This sample size of 300 was based on the expected prevalence of vitamin A deficiency of 35%, an alpha level of 0.05 and precision of 5% Based on a hypothesized difference of 25% (35% deficiency...
... volume of 25 µl, consisting of 2.5 µl of 10 × PCR buffer, 2.0–2.5 µl of MgCl2 (25 mM), 0.5 µl of dNTPs (10 mM each; Promega), 0.5 µl of Hot Star Taq (5 U/µl), 0.5 µl of primer mix (20 µM each) and ... because of an activity optimum at neutral pH However, an increasing number of expression analyses of synovial tissues and fluids from patients with RA [21-27], and studies with models of experimental ... course of AIA Our observation concurs with that of van Meurs and colleagues [12] who noted a fast upregulation of mRNA for stromelysin during acute flare-up of murine AIA The overproduction of MMP-3...
... [TE] 20/80 milliseconds) with a slice thickness of mm, a 1-mm interslice gap, excitation, a field of view (FOV) of 11 to 12 cm, and a matrix of 256 × 192 pixels and coronal and axial spin-echo fat-suppressed ... 20) and interday (n = 200) coefficients of variance for each biomarker are, respectively, 10%–17% and 14% for C2C, 5%–14% and 13% for C1,2C, 4%–12% and 12% for CS 846 epitope, and 11%–18% and ... (28.6) 49.7 (15.5) Percentage with K&L grade of ≥ Number of plates with cartilage loss, mean (SD) Mean interval in years between baseline and follow-up scan Levels of biomarkers, mean (SD) COMP...
... standard deviation Ln-NTx exhibited a significant association with BMLs, with the odds of a BML being present increasing by 1.4-fold (95% confidence interval = 1.0-fold to 2.0-fold) per standard ... incident cases of hand or knee OA as compared with women without OA Of the markers we studied, NTx appears to exhibit the greatest discrimination between participants withand those without BMLs ... studied (Table 3) Their mean age was 68 years, their BMI was 29 kg/m2, and 40% of them were male Fifty-five per cent of participants had a maximum BML score > Table Characteristics of the BOKS study...
... over-expression of TIMP-3 causes stimulation of Fas/Fas ligand signalling [38] and results in increased apoptotic activity Involvement of TIMPs in the regulation of death pathways including Fas/Fas ligand ... the formation of EDS-like structures within the membranes In light of our recent findings of increased MMP activity and qualitative changes in collagen IV expression within glomeruli of lupus-prone ... deposition and compromising the physical integrity of the membrane Central to the pathogenesis of lupus is continuous activation and proliferation of B-lymphocytes and T-lymphocytes with specificity...
... rate of development Thirty pairs each of S andof S females, were isolated in tubes of nutrient medium a period of days For each tube, the number of emerging wild-type flies, offspring and transferred ... °C and those of ten other pairs at 24 &dquo;C For each tube, twenty F individuals of each l sex were examined and the frequency of both S and wild-type calculated Infectivity of the extracts of ... effect of NaOCI solution on hatchability The time between egg deposition and adult emergence was scored and the phenotype of each imago determined Temperature effects The offspring of 10 pairs of...
... is the interactional variance of genotype and environment, σe is gl 20 the error variance, r is the number of replicates of each environment, and n is the number of environments [65] Associations ... frequency, and probability value for each site is shown in Table Of interest, the SNP sites (s60 and s222) from the promoter and s1448 from the exon of BnA7.SUT1 were associated with EFB and TSW and ... associated with yield-related traits, and allelic variation at the promoter and CDS of BnA7.SUT1 correlated with expression pattern and phenotype Polymorphisms at the promoter and CDS regions with...