... administration of intracoronary glyceryl nitrate At least six standardized projections of the left coronary artery and two of the right coronary artery were obtained Quantitative analysis of the angiograms ... Nachtmann A, Randerath W, Rasche K, Rühle KH, Sanner B, Schäfer H, Staats R, Töpfer V: Sleep disordered breathing and cardio- and cerebrovascular diseases: 2003 update of clinical significance and future ... obstruction, apnea and nocturnal hypoxia There is a prevalence of OSA in patients with coronary artery diseaseof up to 50% [1-3] Beyond this high prevalence, the occurrence of OSA is associated...
... infiltration of macrophages Figure 3.17 Immunostaining and time observation of the infiltration of CD8+ lymphocytes Figure 3.18 Immunostaining and time observation of the infiltration of CD4+ lymphocytes ... immunostaining and doubling time of rSkMs Figure 3.27 Desmin immunostaining and flow cytometry assay for the purity of rSkMs Figure 3.28 Time observation of the infiltration of macrophages, CD8+, and CD4+ ... ischemia, and non-tumorigenic nature The present study was to investigate the characteristics of human SkMs in vitro and in vivo, to investigate and compare immune responses, SkM survival profile, and...
... USA alone (Heart Diseaseand Stroke Statistics Updates 2006, American Heart Association) PCI is the most common treatment option for single vessel disease as well as simple multi-vessel disease ... (The Journal of the American Medical Association) In Singapore, IHD stands the -3- 2nd contributing cause of death (18.1% in total deaths) The prevalence and the mortality of the disease are calling ... levels of cytokines and neurohormones Different from mechanism of normal heart failure, ischemic cardiomyopathy has large quantity of cardiomyocyte loss and severely impaired heart function It...
... view of the fundamentals of biotechnology and genetic engineering, the processes used in developing transgenic organisms, the types of genetic material used, and the benefitsandrisksof the ... pests and diseases, and reduced cost of production Biotechnology, in the form of genetic engineering, is a facet of science that has the potential to provide important benefits if used carefully and ... are the benefitsof genetic engineering in agriculture? Everything in life has its benefitsand risks, and genetic engineering is no exception Much has been said about potential risksof genetic...
... Leland Deck of Stratus Consulting; Jim Wilson and Frank Divita of E.H Pechan and Associates; Sharon Douglas and Boddu Venkatesh of ICF International; Neil Wheeler of Sonoma Technologies; and ... models developed and used in various offices of EPA's Office of Air and Radiation These emissions models provide estimates of emissions of five criteria air pollutants2 from each of several key ... second Section 812 report, The Benefitsand Costs of the Clean Air Act: 1990 to 2010, was completed in November of 1999 and addressed the incremental costs andbenefitsof the Clean Air Act Amendments...
... an out -of- the-box solution The product is deployed directly on to the mail server, and the specification of this server is dependent upon the volume and profile of mail processed The cost of a ... OS8/9 and OS X; Solaris SPARC and Intel; FreeBSD/Intel; HP-UK and HP-PA; Compaq Tru64; IBM AIX; SCO OpenServer and Unixware; OpenVMS/VAX and Alpha; OS2; and DOS MailMonitor covers: SMTP (Microsoft ... licence fee, and support is provided 24x7 as standard Updates to the virus protection and upgrades of the software are provided automatically from the Sophos Databank using Enterprise Manager and, for...
... mechanisms of action, and clinical applications of all glucans for tumor and malignancy prevention and treatment Another review with 14 pages and 18 references was published in Frontiers of Biomedicine ... even heard of beta glucan much less take it every day Most drug stores, health food stores and vitamin companies don’t even sell it, and most of the brands offered are either weak and/ or overpriced ... beta glucan, you can take 1-2 grams of flax oil (instead of fish oil), 300-600 mg of beta sitosterol (mixed sterols), and 40 mg of soy isoflavones (genestein and daidzein) You can also take guggul...
... significant benefits to researchers and institutions, potential conflicts must be carefully monitored Sometimes the protection and respectful treatment of subjects and the integrity of research ... Source of funding and outcome of clinical trials J Gen Intern Med 1986, 1:155-158 Friedberg M, Saffran B, Stinson TJ, Nelson W, Bennett CL: Evaluation of conflict of interest in economic analyses of ... of the fundamental goal of medical research, to advance scientific knowledge in order to cure illness and relieve suffering [14] In a 1997 survey, Blumenthal and colleagues found that 19.8% of...
... 1.3 Theoretical backgrounds of narrative text 1.4 Benefitsand limitations of GBA 1.4.1 Benefitsof GBA 12 13-14 14-15-16-17 17-18 19-20-21 19-20 1.4.2 Limitations of GBA 20 1.5 Conclusion 21 ... TABLE OF CONTENTS CONTENTS PAGE Acknowledgements i Abstract ii Table of contents iii,iv,v,vi Lists of abbreviations vii Lists of tables and figers viii INTRODUCTION 1 Rationale Purposes of the ... Discussion of the Research Questions 35 3.1.1 Benefitsof G.B.A on students’ writing proficiency 35-36-37 3.1.2 Limitations of G.B.A to teaching writing 37-38 3.2 Summary 38-39 CONCLUSION 1.The benefits...
... job security Offshore Market and Supplier Issues - Formative offshore market - Dependence on supplier-provided information - Limited understanding of suppliers’ true reputation and track record ... language, and cultural issues - Time zone and holiday schedule issues - Increased travel costs The importance of the risks listed above varies widely from company to company Some of the risks presented ... Challenges Before launching an offshore development initiative, senior management needs to thoroughly understand the challenges to successful offshoring Major risksand issues include differences...
... understanding of the generic principle of catalysis for this family of proteases Results and Discussion Fold of ervatamin-A The overall structure and fold of ervatamin-A is similar to that of ervatamin-B, ... investigation of the catalytic mechanism and substrate specificity and to understand the differences therein for this class of enzymes In order to identify the subsites of the ervatamins and to understand ... [27,35] and other members of the papain family, and is made up of two domains, L and R, with a V-shaped active site cleft at the interface of the domains (Fig 1) Substrate specificity and activity of...
... address geographical and socio-cultural differences in benefitsand uses between European regions 4.2 Social and Aesthetic Benefitsof Urban Forests and Trees 4.2.1 Urban Woodland and Parks As a Recreational ... on urban woodland, parks and trees on public and private land will only increase The key issues related to the future benefitsof urban forests and trees include what is demanded and perceived ... potential of woodland, parks and trees and to integrate people with specific needs and demands, deriving from their social status age, gender and ethnic background (German-Chiari and Seeland 2004)...
... Illustration of the Role of Bias in Machine Learning In Proceed- ings of EMNLP'96 conference Samuelsson, C and Voutilainen, A 1997 Comparing a Linguistic and a Stochastic Tagger In Pro- ceedings of joint ... the value of p has similar constraints to those of u If the test and training corpora are independent, the probability of making the same error, given that both are wrong, will be the random / ... suggest that although we observe a performance of K , we can not be sure of how well is our tagger performing without taking into account the values of t, u and p It is also obvious that the intervals...
... Bank of England (Butler) outstanding government debt In terms of market value, the indexed bonds account for about 15 percent of the UK’s outstanding government debt POTENTIAL BENEFITSOF INFLATION ... could provide many benefits, these benefits could be partially offset by some limitations arising from the design and issuance of the bonds Some of the limitations are small and would not have ... sufficient to completely offset the benefits The choice of the inflation index and the measurement bias of the index would have little effect on the benefits, and the effect of the indexation lags could...
... Gut of Korea Foundation and the Holy Mother in Vietnam and the classification of Gut and len dong Chapter 2: The different and similar between the ritual of len dong and Gut (The case in Seoul and ... RITUAL OF LEN DONG AND GUT (THE CASE IN SEOUL AND HANOI) 34 2.1 The way and purposes of the "ra Dong”, “moi Dong”, “di Gut” and “moi Gut” 34 2.1.1 The way and purposes of the ... Gut and SenamGut CHAPTER 2: THE DIFFERENT AND SIMILAR BETWEEEN THE RITUAL OF LEN DONG AND GUT (THE CASE IN SEOUL AND HANOI) 2.1 The way and purposes of the "ra Dong”, “moi Dong”, “di Gut” and...
... chorea, Alzheimer’s, ALS and diseases of the eye Repair and replacement Damaged tissues and organs are often replaced by artificial substitutes, and nanotechnology offers a range of new biocompatible ... manipulation of materials and properties on a nanoscale, exploits the interaction of three technological streams : new and improved control of the size and manipulation of nanoscale building blocks new and ... relatively new field of science and technology (and even more so of government policy) and also because of its interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral character Given this, estimates of potential nanotech...
... at the beginning of day and those at the end of day (p = 0.006) 24.2 ± 4.5 Years of employment (mean ± SD) Page of 13 Characteristics of the studied male workers smokers None of the workers was ... Levels of 1-OHP, 8OHdG and reducing species in urine Concentrations of 1-OHP (a), 8OHdG (b) and reducing capacity (c) in urine samples of workers, presented as a function of their smoking status and ... μL of HCl M BondElut C18/OH SPE cartridges (500 mg, mL, BioPack Switzerland) and were conditioned using mL methanol and mL bidistilled water, then loaded with ml of diluted urine sample, and...
... cases of lung cancer andof nasal cancer in a cohort of 495 workers, all of whom were employed at CC between 1948 and 1962 All 64 cases were first employed before 1957; and the reported SIRs (standardized ... Clydach and key KNR departments including electrolysis; and warrants further investigation the risksof these cancers and that it may enhance risks associated with exposure to less soluble forms of ... study of mortality in workers engaged in the mining, smelting, and refining of nickel I: Methodology and Page 25 of 27 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Occupational Medicine and...
... Because of this high level of effectiveness, Botswana is exploring the future costs and impact of implementing safe male circumcision The purpose of this research is to estimate the overall cost and ... new infections by age and sex as a function of the current force of infection, coverage levels, and speed of scale up This model is intended to support policy development and planning for scaling ... services to provide male circumcision It allows analysts and decision makers to understand the costs and impacts of policy options, and is a part of a larger tool kit developed by UNAIDS/WHO that provides...
... important as precipitation runoff modifies the chemical and toxicological characteristics Page of 13 of wastewater in dependence on the spatial and temporal patterns of the respective rainfall events ... dilution of domestic raw sewage Figure Importance of flow conditions for wastewater quality Schematic representation of the impact of different flow conditions on the occurrence and behavior of dissolved ... http://www.enveurope.com/content/24/1/2 Page of 13 Figure Impact of precipitation on wastewater flow Summary of the relationship between the daily amount of precipitation in the area of Trier and the wastewater flow...