... oscillations and synchronization disrupt motor cortex and brain stem activity leading to akinesia and bradykinesia (core negative symptoms of the disease) The positive motor symptoms of Parkinsonism ... leading to the motor symptoms of PD, and especially to akinesia, is the death of midbrain dopaminergic neurons and their striatal projections The striatum (composed of caudate, putamen and ventral ... increase in the levels of truncated, full-length, oligomeric and aggregates (of high and various molecular weights) of a-synuclein andother proteins in the SNc (Baba et al., 1998; Tofaris et al., 2003)...
... They excised all or part of the motor cortex for treatment of athetosis and their work became a milestone in our understanding of scientific concepts of motor neuroanatomy and physiology This procedure ... Collateralization of Striatofugal Neurons and Co-localization of Dopamine Receptors One of the important series of data that challenged the concept of segregated direct and indirect striatofugal pathways ... are closely relatedto the sequencing and execution of movements (34) Motor output from SNr, on the other hand, reaches premotor areas that are more closely relatedto the planning of movement...
... types of apraxia, ideational (failure to pantomime correctly the sequence of events of a complex motor act, such as selecting and lighting a cigarette) and idiomotor (inability to on command an ... The Handbook of Alzheimer’s Disease andOther Dementias Edited by Andrew E Budson and Neil W Kowall The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language (2 Volumes) Edited by Miriam Faust The Handbook ... School, Boston, MA USA x Contributors Brandon E Gavett Department of Neurology & Alzheimer’s Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA Amanda M Gentile Department of Neurology...
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... transportation), construction of infrastructure and use of infrastructure for electronic distribution and material recycling of parts of the waste computer and screen Table The life cycle ofweb based newspaper ... rest of the upstream and downstream processes are presented in Appendix Process Input Description Source of data Editorial office Electricity Total energy needed for the editorial office Heat and ... is of less importance than in a full LCA It is important however to include all processes andmaterials that can be of major importance If however some processes or materials are known to be of...
... radioligand internalization to assay receptor internalization is based on the assumption that receptor and ligand are endocytosed together and that the intracellular receptor–ligand complex can be determined ... of CRFR1 and b-arrestin are explored Radioligand binding is applied to quantify receptor internalization and the effect of second-messenger kinases are explored using the PKA inhibitor H-89 and ... internalization of CRFR1 was demonstrated by visualizing CRFR1–EGFP conjugated receptor and by quantification of radioligand internalization As determined by use of radioligand, the extent of receptor internalization...
... also requires your doctor or one of the doctor’s office staff to fill out a special form and send it to Medicare to get approval for the equipment This is called a Certificate of Medical Necessity ... Medicare, and doctors or other health care providers, and suppliers of health care equipment and supplies (like durable medical equipment and prosthetic or orthotic devices) Doctors, providers, and ... surgical brassiere) after a mastectomy • Ostomy supplies for people who have had a colostomy, ileostomy, or urinary ostomy Medicare covers the amount of supplies your doctor says you need based on your...
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... captured using total minutes of delay to sleep and the total number of wake up times during the night ranged from minimum of time to a maximum of times We treated these predictors as continuous ... 0.06077* 14) instead of 0.748, corresponding to a difference of approximately 0.0289 unit of utility On the other hand, holding other variables constant and assuming changes to ISI item (e.g., ... instruments, and all other subject information and/ or recruitment materialsTo recruit participants, e-mail invitations were sent to approximately 90,000 panel members representative of the general...
... cornerstone of the Semantic Web ■ ■ Why XML has achieved widespread adoption and continues to expand to new areas of information processing ■ ■ How XML works and the mechanics ofrelated standards ... coverage of the Semantic Web, XML, and all major related technologies and protocols, Web services and protocols, Resource Description Framework (RDF), taxonomies, and ontologies, as well as a business ... Frame-Based KR, and Description Logics Logic and Logics Propositional Logic First-Order Predicate Logic Ontologies Today Ontology Tools Levels of Ontologies: Revisited Emerging Semantic Web Ontology Languages...
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... effect of therapy on the SGRQ domains, and an analysis of demographic and diseaserelated factors that may influence long-term changes in health status Methods Details of the TORCH study design and ... comments and approvals Editorial support in the form of development of draft outline, development of manuscript first draft, editorial suggestions to draft versions of this paper, assembling tables and ... lasted the entire duration of the study [9,10] In view of the pivotal nature of these studies, it is important to understand the nature of these improvements and factors that may influence them...
... cornerstone of the Semantic Web ■ ■ Why XML has achieved widespread adoption and continues to expand to new areas of information processing ■ ■ How XML works and the mechanics ofrelated standards ... source of statements is a key part of the Semantic Web Person A siblingOf Person B childOf uncleOf Person C Figure 1.7 Using rules to infer the uncleOf relation Aaron Swartz, “The Semantic Web in ... promise of the Semantic Webto build knowledge and understanding from raw data Many readers were confused by the vision because the nuts and bolts of the Semantic Web are used by machines, agents, and...
... agreement and adoption of the Web service protocols, it is now possible to leverage the work of your existing applications and turn them into Web services by using the standard Web service protocols ... addition to modeling knowledge and worlds, we will expand to model the rules and axioms of logic in order for computers to automatically use and manipulate those worlds on our behalf Finally, to apply ... data and why it is not enough to fulfill the goals of the Semantic Web The evolution of meta data will expand into three levels: modeling of things, modeling of knowledge about things, and, finally,...
... framework, andto provide scalable Web service mediation Together, both of these technologies have the potential to increase automated usability ofWeb services As we build ontologies (models of how ... WSFL and Microsoft’s XLANG will agree to submit a joint proposal to the W3C to create a standard orchestration language Securing Web Services One of the biggest concerns in the deployment ofWeb ... mechanism, that allows the user to only authenticate once to her client, so that she does not have to memorize many usernames and passwords for otherWeb sites, Web services, and server applications...
... levels of application -to- application trust This webof trust” forms the third and final web in Tim Berners-Lee’s three-part vision (collaborative web, Semantic Web, webof trust) Supporting this web ... Ontologies and ontology languages like the Web Ontology Language (OWL), discussed in Chapter 8, are layered on top of RDF Many see ontologies as the killer application for the Semantic Weband ... acronyms and terms that it is hard to keep up Some are more important to your understanding the big picture than others are This chapter aims to provide you with an understanding of some of the...
... sense, UDDI requires taxonomies and ontologies A directory or registry ofWeb products and services absolutely needs some way of classifying those products and services; otherwise, how can anything ... Automobile heading are many other subheadings or categories: Automobile Accessories, Automobile Body Repairing and Painting, Automobile Dealers (New or Used), Automobile Parts and Supplies, Automobile ... clearly and identified by standardized relationship indicators The primary purposes of a thesaurus are to facilitate retrieval of documents andto achieve consistency in the indexing of written...