... physiopathology of AS Genotype appears as a very strong component for risk of AS and possibly age too To have a better understanding of their respective impact on the development of the disease ... flock to have at least one AS case detected according to the number of animals tested Plain line: median of probability, dashed lines: 95% credibility interval of probabilty Page of cases and controls ... reasons, we inferred F141 and H171 information from the external data set to our control data set In order to take into account a possible uncertainty on the estimation of F141 and H171 in the external...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21
... further research and understanding in this sector may bring exciting new information and better understanding of the natural history of HBV and supplement our existing armamentarium to combat this ... clearance of virus and development of immunity However, an estimated 3% to 5% of adults and up to 95% of children develop chronic HBV infection Persistent infection can also be either symptomatic ... positivity Hepatocellular Carcinoma The development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and liver failure are main cause of death from chronic hepatitis B Various factors involving the host and the virus...
Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:17
Cognitive and Physiologic Correlates of Subclinical Structural Brain Disease in Elderly Healthy Control Subjects docx
... among increasing age and increasing volume of SSBD (a), increasing volumes of SSBD and poor cognitive performance (b), reduced connectivity and cognitive impairment (c), and increasing disconnection ... DWMH, vCSF, sCSF, and PVH Age, DWMH, vCSF, and sCSF Age, DWMH, and sCSF Age and sCSF Age SHAR Test Age, DWMH, vCSF, sCSF, and PVH Age, DWMH, vCSF, and sCSF Age, DWMH, and vCSF Age and DWMH Age Table ... coherence in the prerolandic and postrolandic regions As in our previous work,2 values were multiplied by 10 and log-transformed to minimize skew and kurtosis We limited our examination to frequencies...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT TRAFFICKING doc
... specific dates and magnitudes), cases of SARM increased by a factor of in Germany and Spain, and a factor of approximately in Austria, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland In France and the United ... however, to have fallen back to $120 million by 1993, equivalent to per cent of GDP.34 Magnitudes similar to those of Bolivia in the late 1980s would appear to apply to Afghanistan, which is one of ... coca and cocaine exports were equivalent to half the size of total legal exports More recently, however, the share of illicit drugs, as a proportion of both GDP and total exports, appears to have...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20
Credit Unions and the Supply of Insurance to Low Income Households pdf
... function to be either the maximisation of interest income of savers or the minimisation of the rate of interest to borrowers (see, for example, Overstreet and Rubin,1990; Smith 1984, 1986; and Srinivasan ... right to credit.6 Which aspect is dominant to any agent depends on the outcome of a random process; they constitute two sides of the same coin To exclude one in defining the objective function of ... privilege of raising deposits and capital from nonmembers Low-income credit unions often need third-party deposits, low-interest loans and technical assistance to enable them to grow and stabilise...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20
Đề tài "Invariant measures and the set of exceptions to Littlewood’s conjecture " doc
... fellow Visits of A.K and E.L to the University of Washington were supported by the American Institute of Mathematics and NSF Grant DMS-0222452 514 MANFRED EINSIEDLER, ANATOLE KATOK, AND ELON LINDENSTRAUSS ... method of [20] can be adapted to quotients of more general groups, and in particular to SL(k, R) It is noteworthy (and gratifying) that for the space of lattices (and more general quotients of SL(k, ... THE SET OF EXCEPTIONS TO LITTLEWOOD’S CONJECTURE 539 We proceed to the proof of (4.17) and (4.18) For (4.18) we first recall that |˜21 | ≤ κ(x, x )2 , and then use (4.12) and (4.16) to get g...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Structural and functional consequences of single amino acid substitutions in the pyrimidine base binding pocket of Escherichia coli CMP kinase pdf
... states of native and R188M-modied structures revealed a major difference In the absence of R188, D185 is calculated to be neutral (protonated) Thus, by turning off both charges (of R188 and D185), ... with CMP The side chain of R110 is a hydrogen bond donor to the N3 atom of cytosine As the main chain carbonyl of D129, a H-bond acceptor, interacts with the terminal oxygen of S36 side chain, the ... from the distal point of the rest of the protein Such a dipole will have weak interactions with the rest of the protein Thus, if turned off (by removal of Arg and protonation of Asp185), the protein...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 10:20
Gradual phase and morphology transformation of Fe3O4nanoparticles to a - FeOOH nanorods in alcohol/water mediain the presence of surfactant F127
... constituted with 52% of Fe3O4 in mass and 48% of a-FeOOH in mass Results and discussion Figure shows XRD patterns of the samples prepared in pure water and in alcohol/water media XRD pattern of Fig 1a matches ... of F127 were about 15 nm By adjusting the volume ratio of alcohol to water from 0:1 to 5:1, Fe3O4 nanoparticles were completely transformed to a-FeOOH nanorods, which confirmed by TEM images and ... well The magnetism of the samples prepared in pure water and in alcohol/water media is also investigated, as shown in Fig The value of saturation magnetization of samples a, b, and c is 75.4 emu/g...
Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 16:48
Intersections of Mathematical, Cognitive, and Aesthetic Theories of Mind pptx
... our understanding of the world can move from a “book” to “office,” to “university,” to “educational system,” and so on, to concepts near the top of our minds These concepts “attempt” to unify our ... nature of this mechanism All mathematical algorithms capable of learning (tens of thousands of publications) use some form of this mechanism To satisfy bodily needs, we have to understand the ... beautiful Whereas the beautiful is related to understanding of conceptual contents of the highest models, sublime is related to understanding of behavioral contents of the highest models One feels religiously...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 16:20
operational and environmental consequences of large industrial cooling water systems
... small to get through the initial screens, often with a mesh of cm2, and then into the body of the power plant Hence, this includes the permanent members of the plankton, the holoplankton, and also ... monitoring, compliance/condition monitoring, investigative/diagnostic monitoring—see Gray and Elliott 2009) and an understanding of the relative roles and adequacy of survey, experimental and ... generation by electrolysis of seawater a convenient means of chlorination, as it gets rid of on-site and off-site safety issues related to transport and storage of large amounts of liquid or gaseous...
Ngày tải lên: 29/05/2014, 23:46
summary of dissertation delimitation of the jurisdiction to deal with administrative complaints and the jurisdiction of courts to deal with administrative cases in vietnam
... complaints and the jurisdiction of courts to deal with administrative cases 4.2.1 Concerning to aspect of legislation Dissertation proposes to revise and add some contents and methods of promulgation of ... consistently, and to comply with principle of distribution of state functions Fourthly, delimitation of the jurisdiction to deal with administrative complaints and the jurisdiction of courts to deal ... OVERVIEW OF STUDIES RELATED TO RESEACH TOPIC Through assessment of previous studies related directly to the scope of this research, the viewpoints of delimitation of the jurisdiction to deal with...
Ngày tải lên: 17/07/2014, 11:06
Báo cáo sinh học: "RNAi and the shape of things to come" ppsx
... it take you to develop the system and what were the steps that ensured your success? We had to spend quite a bit of time developing a new set of tools and methodologies and we had to devise new ... curve and it took almost three years To start off we had to a survey screen of cellular phenotypes to figure out what we could actually study in these cells We also needed to develop ways to annotate ... refers to the shape of a cell that is determined by a large number of interactions between the cell and the extracellular matrix, as well as the internal cytoskeleton that is composed of networks of...
Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Cognitive and behavioural therapy of voices for with patients intellectual disability: Two case reports" doc
... mild to moderate ID not usually accede to specialized therapists in CBT of psychotic symptoms and our team not meet a sufficient number of patients with dual diagnosis of psychotic symptoms and ... specifically to test the hearing of patient 1, exercises consisting of listening to people on the street were used as reinforcement of the challenge of the belief practiced in the office Patient had to ... patients have to respond to the voices and disobey their orders To start with, the patient takes the place of the voice and the therapist answers to model effective responses, and then the roles...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20
Báo cáo y học: " Phosphatidylserine receptor and apoptosis: consequences of a non-ingested meal" pptx
... anti-inflammatory signals Phagocytosis of apoptotic cells is known to be an antiinflammatory [15] and immunologically silent process [16] Micropinocytosis of apoptotic bodies triggers the production of ... engage a signal pathway leading to cytoskeleton rearrangements and engulfment Many of the receptors implicated in the recognition of apoptotic cells have been shown to bind PS liposomes However, ... such proof The PSR-deficient animals were found to be unable to breathe and died within 24 hours of birth Histological examination of the lung revealed a severe reduction in the number of airspaces...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23
Báo cáo y học: "Expression and functional properties of antibodies to tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases (TIMPs) in rheumatoid arthritis" docx
... interphalangeal joints of forefeet The presence of a single erosion was sufficient to fulfil the requirement of an erosive disease The presence of rheumatoid factor of any of the immunoglobulin ... means and interquartile ranges in each group The dashed line indicates the cut-off level for each type of TIMP equal to the mean +2 standard deviations of the controls TIMP, tissue inhibitor of ... contributed to the study design; clinical, laboratory, and statistical evaluation of material from RA patients; and preparation of the manuscript LD performed the collection and clinical analysis of patients...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:23
Báo cáo y học: " Eotaxin and the attraction of eosinophils to the asthmatic lung" ppt
... effects of interleukin-5, such as stimulation of differentiation and proliferation of bone marrow eosinophils and suppression of eosinophil apoptosis at sites of inflammation C-C chemokine receptor-3 ... [37] Atopic asthmatic persons were reported to have high concentrations of eotaxin in the BAL fluid, and increased expression of eotaxin mRNA and protein in the epithelium and submucosa of their ... levels of mRNAs for eotaxin and its receptor CCR3 were observed, and were associated with airway hyperresponsiveness and predominant colocalization of eotaxin mRNA to bronchial epithelial and endothelial...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo y học: "Cognitive and affective perspective-taking in conduct-disordered children high and low on callous-unemotional trait" pdf
... cartoon strip stories, was designed to assess both cognitive and affective perspective-taking A series of questions was devised to respectively elicit participants' awareness of the thoughts of ... questions – to assess children's understanding of the factual content of the story, (b) cognitive questions – to assess children's interpretations of the different cognitive perspectives and false ... test of theory of mind: Understanding of Story Characters' thoughts and feelings by able autistic, mentally handicapped and normal children and adults J Autism Dev Disord 1994, 24:129-154 Sutton...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21
Báo cáo y học: "A mathematical model for LH release in response to continuous and pulsatile exposure of gonadotrophs to GnRH" ppt
... entrance of calcium into the cytosol via voltage gated membrane channels, pumping of calcium out of the cytosol via membrane and ER pumps, and the release of luteinizing hormone (LH) Cytosolic ... exposure to GnRH, the total number of receptors in the membrane continues to decline as shown in Figure 3B The rate of change of IP3 (Fig 3E) is closely related to the rate of change of HRRH as ... rate of recovery of the outer membrane channels and the rate of receptor internalization) the model gives good matches to the data of Stoljilkovic et al [19], on LH responses to pulses of endothelin...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 22:22
Báo cáo sinh học: " Irreducibility and efficiency of ESIP to sample marker genotypes in large pedigrees with loops" pot
... alleles and 4, and the Aa offspring of family inherited founder alleles and 4; the AA offspring of family inherited founder alleles and 4, and the Aa offspring of family inherited founder alleles and ... alleles and 4, and the Aa offspring of family inherited founder alleles and 3; the AA offspring of family inherited founder alleles and 4, and the Aa offspring of family inherited founder alleles and ... AA offspring of family inherited founder alleles and 4, and the Aa offspring of family inherited founder alleles and 3; the AA offspring of family inherited founder alleles and 4, and the Aa offspring...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21
economic and health consequences of pesticide use in paddy production in the mekong delta, vietnam
... - 45.40) Total dose of category I & II (TOCA1) 437 (0 - 2092) Total dose of category III & IV (TOCA3) 580 (0 - 3429) Number of contacts with TOCA1 2.5 (0 - 8) Number of contacts with TOCA3 2.65 ... a.i./ha) TOCA3 = Total dose of categories III & IV (gram a.i./ha) NA = Log of number of applications of pesticides/ season NA1 = Number of times in contacting with TOCA1/ season NA3 = Number of times ... kinds of costs: opportunity costs of work loss days (assumed to be equal to wage multiplied by the number of days off) and restricted activity days; costs of recuperation (meals, medicines, doctors...
Ngày tải lên: 03/02/2015, 15:33