... Certificate of Confidentiality fromthe National Institutes ofHealth was obtained to further protect the respondents The study protocol was approved bythe Institutional Review Board ofthe Guttmacher ... according to a combination ofthe respondent’s description ofthe relationship and the interviewers’ understanding of whether any ofthe abusive behaviors as defined in the screening questions were ... some type of reproductive control The demographic characteristics ofthe respondents who reported experiencing at least one type of reproductive control did not differ fromthe rest ofthe sample...
... pollution, the air concentration of some organic compounds is regulated TheWHO has proposed guideline value of organic compounds,67) as has The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan.68) The ... residences, chemical substances emitted from old furniture might affect thehealthof residents The regulation of chemical emission from furniture and the education of residents are required COMMUNICATION ... habitation The cause ofthe disease onset relates to a house, symptoms occur within the house, symptoms are less serious or disappear when the patient is away fromthe house, and when the patient...
... In our sample, age was strongly associated with the mean EQ-5D index, but the age- related decline in health was only observed fromtheageof 70 The negative correlation between age and HRQL, ... Public Health (Oxf) 2005, 27(2):156-164 Soltoft F, Hammer M, Kragh N: The association of body mass index and health- related quality of life in the general population: data fromthe2003Health ... and the history of stroke caused greater impairments in HRQL measured bythe EQ-5D than could be expected fromthe separate effects of these conditions Our findings emphasise the importance of...
... language teaching, “language is created bythe individual often through trial and error” In fact, the communicative approach does stress the importance ofthe both the forms and the uses of language ... comparison between theinformation given bythe teachers and their students Then, there will be a discussion aboutthe gap between them The students under investigation aged from 19 to 25 both ... only 14% ofthe teachers said they 'use it regularly' when 50% of them said they 'never tried' it It seems that these 50% ofthe teachers were not aware of or comfortable in the use of internet...
... slope fromthe active tank battery, the injection well/pit, and the old tank battery to the lake edge Two small creeks cross the northern and southern parts ofthe site The upper part ofthe site ... battery The large pit is about 15 m fromthe shoreline ofthe Skiatook Lake; all the other sites are within 45 m ofthe lake Three salt scars that were partly ‘remediated’ in 2000 by soil removal, tilling ... by a thin surface layer of eolian sand mixed with sandstoneclast colluvium underlain by weathered and unweathered shale whereas the lower part ofthe site is underlain by 1) a surface layer of...
... network by linking to other people’s profiles A profile is a page with pictures, personal statistics, and other customized information created to reflect your personality and characteristics These ... social networking profiles and website pages (widget) Widgets and apps can have a variety of functionalities and interactive features Apps take advantage ofthe existing features ofthe particular ... MySpace profile for their organization in an effort to reach more teens Taking advantage ofthe formatting capability MySpace offers, Sex, Etc has created a very polished profile dominated by a running...
... or the economic well-being ofthe country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection ofhealthof morals, or for the protection ofthe rights and freedoms of others Finally, the ... CM/Rec(2009)5 ofthe Committee of Ministers See Freedom of communication on the Internet, Declaration adopted bythe Council of Europe Committee of Ministers on 28 May 2003 at the 840th meeting ofthe ... dissemination ofinformationof all kinds” and “encourage cooperation in the field ofinformation and the exchange ofinformation with other countries” At the Budapest Summit in 1994, the participating...
... public healthissues within their communities Lessons fromthe Field is one ofthe tools developed to help state, local, and not-for-profit professionals apply social marketing to public healthissues ... cooperation with the communities it serves For more informationaboutthe transformation ofthehealth department, contact the project coordinator listed at the beginning ofthe case Chapter ... Washington Heights-Inwood, on the northern tip of Manhattan, had a population of 200,000 in 1992, the majority of whom were low-income Latinos, many of them fromthe Dominican Republic Cardiovascular...
... assuming that the N-terminus is an acetyl group, the molecular mass was calculated to be 8670 Da The alignment ofthe amino-acid sequence of lungfish calhepatin with other members ofthe S100 family ... mediators ofthe Ca2+ signal [3] Kligman & Hilt [3] described the structural features that determine whether a protein is a member ofthe S100 family They have two EF-hands per monomer One of them, ... Three-dimensional structure of lungfish calhepatin predicted using the SwissModel automated modelling package based on the crystal and/or NMR structures of other members ofthe family The molecule is depicted...
... made by getoutraged.com This Web site is the work of an anti-smoking lobby, though it is officially copyrighted bythe Massachusetts Department of Public Health Students were asked: “Getoutraged.com ... skeptical of this type of informabelieved the statistic from getoutraged.com, but they tion on theInternet would confidently cite it in a research paper They did Table Median score byThe remaining ... information; now, with the advent ofthe Internet, the greatest problem is evaluating the vast wealth ofinformation available Students in this survey placed greater emphasis on the process of...
... spectrum ofthe His6-GMD reaction buffer at the beginning ofthe reaction, showing the anomeric region (B) 1H-NMR spectrum ofthe His6-GMD reaction buffer after 16 h (C) 1H-NMR spectrum ofthe His6-GMD ... stabilized by interactions between cofactor and the neighboring monomer, it is conceivable that oxidation ofthe cofactor may alter the conformation ofthe RR loop or destabilize the dimer–dimer ... both the P aeruginosa and A thermoaerophilus RMD sequences have gaps in the region ofthe RR loop, and in the His6-RMDAt structure, the b2–b3 loop is notably shorter than in GMD The truncation of...
... shown that the enzymatic activity of TGase was inhibited bythe presence of GTP or ATP, as in the case of PpTGase [51] These results suggest that the mechanism by which nucleotides inhibit the enzymatic ... decreased bythe addition of 100–500 lM GTP In the presence of mM Ca2+, an inhibitory effect was observed only at a higher level of GTP In the case of mM Ca2+, inhibition by GTP was not observed These ... smaller than the length deduced fromthe molecular size ofthe purified protein Furthermore, an initiation codon was not observed in the sequence obtained Therefore, we performed a further 5¢ RACE...
... the start ofthe war in the war regions of Ethiopia have lower height-for -age Z -scores 12 before the war ended to the Z -scores of children born after the war ended in the war regions of Eritrea ... heightfor -age, where the Z-score is defined as the difference between the child’s height and the mean height ofthe same-aged international reference population, divided bythe standard deviation ofthe ... inclusion of this time trend buttresses the argument that changes in average height-for -age Zscores in these regions would have been similar in the absence ofthe war Equation assumes that, apart from...
... HvTrxh1 from all three tissues is observed The relative intensity ofthe two HvTrxh1 spots fromthe different tissues varies (Fig 1), suggesting that the degree of modication giving rise to the two ... for variation in the distribution of thioredoxin h forms in seed tissues [9,16] To obtain more detailed informationaboutthe origins of HvTrxh1 and HvTrxh2, the occurrence ofthe thioredoxin ... the antibody to wheat thioredoxin h This suggests that the antibody does not recognize these isoforms because several ofthe ESTs contained in the TC ể FEBS 2003 Barley seed thioredoxin h isoforms...
... rather on the regions initiating or impairing insertion of a segment in the membrane Therefore, in the case of M8 where the length ofthe M8 recombinant peptide is probably shorter than that of ... in the center ofthe b-strands forming the Rossman fold and leads to the membrane domain at the top of M4 and M5 (see Fig 4, cavities numbered 1–6) As could be expected fromthe high level of ... Likewise, the secondary structure ofthe phorphorylation domain deduced fromthe model built here using the Ca2+-ATPase as template and that determined directly fromthe amino acid sequence of the...
... °C The eluate containing enterokinase was added again to the column The operation was repeated three times which took about 10 The cleavage yield was eluted fromthe GSH gel in the water The ... accordance with the guidelines laid down bythe National Institutes ofHealth in the USA regarding the care and use of experimental animals and committee giving approval for the experiments The right ... sequencing of BmKIM cDNA The yield fromthe initial screening ofthe cDNA library with the 32P-labeled cDNA probe was about 260 positive clones On the final screening, 25 clones were selected on the...
... through the process of repression” (p 241) Indeed, those instances that evoke the sense ofthe uncanny the idea ofthe double, ghosts, the return ofthe dead, the evil eye, the coming to life of machines ... one of which is the relation ofthe uncanny to repressed primal fantasies, particularly to the threat of castration Thus, the sense of uncanniness provoked bythe birth ofthe machine, bythe ... can capture the grace of [Alicia’s] gesture, the fullness of her body, the fragrance of her flesh, the resonance of her voice, the turn of her waist, the light of her eyes, the quality of her movements...
... camera [2] Most ofthe image processing techniques are based on the detection of changes in the sequence of images Therefore, movement ofthe background objects like trees (because of wind) and ... We observe that theaverage accuracy for the situation awareness with all three classifiers is rather high, which is over 95% Fromthe point of view ofthe results, especially the first four situation ... high with an average accuracy of 87.6% But compared to the other four classes, theaverage classification accuracy of C5 drops about 10% While a loss in accuracy for the class of “many cars stopped”...
... human health and well-being Opinion polls show that the majority ofthe European public has increasing concerns aboutthe influence of these factors on their health and their children’s health ... Health – project T erahertz Radiation and Health – projects The majority ofthe projects looked at radiofrequency fields and health due to the increased concern fromthe widespread use ofThe ... ofthe impact of nanoparticles on human health and the environment38) and NANOTOX (Investigative support for the elucidation ofthe toxicological impact of nanoparticles on human health and the...
... in other antibiotics (Table 3), There were no significant differences in the resistance rates to any antibiotic according to the site of infection, theage group or the year of isolation ofthe ... study was to make an update on the susceptibility of S aureus isolates fromthe IPM to various drugs and therefore to improve the empirical approaches to the therapy of serious infections Materials ... isolated from genital infections using swabs and these strains are often contaminants Concerning the detection of methicillin resistance we have followed the guidelines ofthe French Committee for the...