components and subdivisions of the human respiratory system

... observed in 12 (50%) of the 24 dSSc patients and in 10 (41.7%) of these patients FVC and DLCO ≤ 69% occurred Of the 76 lSSc patients, FVC and DLCO ≤ 79% was observed in (5.3%) and FVC and DLCO ≤ 69% ... pg/ml) and CRP (> mg/l) were the components of the logistic regression model for alveolitis The cut-off values of the dependent variables considered in the analysis were based on ROC curves and ... 5% of the lobe, 2ground glass involving up to 25% of the lobe, 3- ground glass involving 25–49% of the lobe, 4- ground glass involving 50–75% of the lobe, 5- ground glass involving > 75% of the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... compares the studied network with randomized versions of it with the same size and degree distribution The so-called Z-score quantifies the difference between the studied network and an ensemble of randomized ... functions, and topological features retain functionality and phylogeny However, the nature of the connections between these factors needs to be understood at the level of the protein domain The global ... from any other If dmin (Pi, Pj) is the length of the shortest path connecting proteins Pi and Pj, then L is defined as: Compared with pure random ER and SF networks, biomolecular webs show the characteristic...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... indicated at the bottom of (A) (B, D) The cleavage of a number of substrates by HC The names and sequences of the different substrates are indicated above the pictures of the gels The times of cleavage ... sequence of nine random amino acids, followed by a His6-tag in the C-terminus of capsid protein 10 Thereby, the phages display a random nonamer on their surface, and by interactions of the His6-tag the ... specificity of HC Mutating either of the two basic amino acids in these positions partially disrupts the acidic P2¢ preference, and mutating both of them totally removes this preference The negatively...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:21

... Gly-Ser, in-frame with the codon for Pro2 of the receptor cDNA The codon for the last used amino acid of the receptor (Ser412 in case of the full-length receptor and Ala316 for the truncated receptor) ... concentrations of 10±20 times their Ki value Without ligand, a half-life of 33 days was obtained This increased to 77 days in the presence of NECA (agonist) and 53 days in the presence of theophylline ... temperature and using high concentrations of the weak antagonist theophylline combined with low ¯ow rates The ®nal ionexchange step allowed removal of theophylline, and a reduction of volume and detergent...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 00:21

... out of 44 variants and the passive system from 14 out of 22 The entire active system is learnable once examples of each form of each verb and each modal have been seen, plus one example to fix the ... force the separate tre.atment of active versus passive forms Then if, say on considerations of frequency of occurrence, exceptions were externally handled and the infrequent The auxiliary system ... inferential power and the proper handling of exceptions For l-reversible inference, 45 of the verb sequences of length three or shorter will yield the remaining nine such strings and nonc longer...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 01:21

... hear, and to distinguish the ugly and the beautiful, the bad and the good, pleasant and unpleasant It is the brain too which is the seat of madness and delirium, of the fears and frights which assail ... volumes of the head and medial surface of the hippocampus and the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the amygdala Volumes of these subregions declined with age in the GTS group but not in controls, so the ... disorders and diseases of the brain, the advances in brain research provide hope in the form of their own understanding of what is going wrong and in the form of advances in novel therapies which...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 11:20

... density foam box The foam collapses under their weight and when they step out of the box there is a fairly close negative of the shape of their foot left in the foam The box can then either be filled ... manufacture the orthotics, this approach reduces the number of steps in the process as well as removing many of the sources of human error There are alternative methods of obtaining the shape of the ... directly on the 3D representations of the foot obtained by surface scanning The software, as well as matching the shape of the foot sole, allows the user to alter the shape and thickness of the orthotic...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... analysis runs For the sake of clarity, we named the seven sub-populations identified in the K = analysis based on both the geographical location and hosts of the viruses assigned with the sub-populations ... ten of the minor sub-populations showed consistent clustering and no further population subdivision were supported by the data Both of the major eAf-CAS and Ch-J-SEA sub-populations consisted of ... genetic differences between the 34 minor sub-populations (40.96% of the diversity) and seven major subpopulations (30.65% of the diversity; Table 1) To further test whether the 34 identified minor...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... [24] and the extracted viral RNA was used for RT-PCR The Mon340 and Mon348 primers were used for the amplification of the ORF1a region, and the Mon269 and Mon270 primers for the amplification of ... HAstV-2, 3, 5, and For most of the isolates, all the nucleotide sequences of ORF1a and ORF2 belonged to HAstV-1 and were slightly distant from the references (the prototype and the Dresden and Oxford ... clusters (HastV-1, 7, and 3; HAstV-5 and 6; and HAstV-4 and 8) were found, and HAstV-2 was closer to the third cluster than to the other clusters [29] In the analysis of the ORF2 partial sequences...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... NRG and the Call 133 136 THE ORIGIN OF THE CALL 137 THE CONTROL OF THE CALL 139 DEVELOPING THE CALL AND THE MAGIC OF THE YAWN 141 THE PITCH OF THE CALL 143 131 xiii xiv Contents The Dynamics of ... front of the tongue gently touches the upper gum ridge and the front palate; for the NG sound, the back of the tongue gently touches the soft palate This gentle contact of the tongue to the palate, ... 271 257 261 263 xv To Michael and Fredi and To the Memory of Birdie THE OF USE THE AND TRAINING HUMAN VOICE Start Here Bridge Chapter ~ The duality of breathing and posture o Endswith I -1 Chapter...

Ngày tải lên: 14/04/2016, 18:42

... usefulness of such a preparation in mitigating a broader array of inflammatory and cytotoxic exposures to the upper respiratory system The upper respiratory epithelial mucosa, at the juncture of the ... investigate the effects of the oil preparation on the global system of antioxidant genes induced within the respiratory epithelium by the Nrf2 transcription factor, representative gene targets of Nrf2 ... associated with the protection observed in the nasal ozone intervention study Although seemingly unrelated in terms of their sources and the nature of their interactions with the respiratory system, ...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... attain high profits and develop stably This report focuses on the improvement of the quality management system at Viet A plastic and composite company In term of theory, it explores the theory involving ... involving in the management responsibility and human resource management following ISO standards to promote the role of leader as well as define the effect of human resource in applying these standard ... process of the system, the quality of products and services will be improve to satisfy high demand of customer, ensure the long-term development of organization.” 2.1.2 Quality Management System...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2013, 17:09

... region of human and rat CB1 receptor The CB2 antibody was raised against a sequence between the N-terminal and the first transmembrane domain of the protein of the human and rat CB2 receptor The ... supported by the observation that preabsorbing of the CB1 antibody with its corresponding blocking peptide eliminated almost all of the staining of these bands (Fig 3A) The most abundant band in human ... for AEA, PalEtn and 2AG, respectively Analysis of cannabinoid receptors and fatty acid amide hydrolase To determine the presence of the cannabinoid receptors (CB1 and CB2) and of the fatty acid...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20

... non-linear system of the locomotor's apparatus (as the super system for the femur), functionally dependent upon the other elements of the super system, being some time a subsystem, the elements of which ... and angle parameters of the femur does not allow the determination of the anatomic structure of the femur as a unit of the non-linear system, thus functioning on the basis of the heuristic self-organization ... of division of the meaning of each linear parameter on the meaning of the transverse diameter of the femoral diaphysis) In this case, the deviation of the measurement becomes unimportant Furthermore,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... total number of basal and suprabasal epithelial cells along the six microscopic fields and the number of basal and suprabasal cells stained to hMSH2 protein were assessed The percentage of cells ... (400x, Standard 20, ZEISS), which comprised almost all of the OLP epithelium The count was performed by two investigators without knowledge of whether the samples were control or experimental The ... consisted of omission of the primary or the secondary antibody or primary incubation in the presence of non-immunized rabbit serum instead of the primary antibody Cell quantification and Statistical...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:54

... called Theme and Rheme The Theme served as the point of departure of the message (Halliday 1994:37), which in English coincides with the initial element(s) of the clause; and the Rheme is the remainder ... which is one of the typical features of a narrative 3.4.3 The Theme - Rheme Pattern The analysis shows that most of the themes in the text belong to topical theme Of 33 clauses and clause complexes ... unit 10 with the topic of travel The title of the text is Torquay? But I said Turkey! Between two columns of the text, there is a picture of woman, two maps of United Kingdom and Turkey The woman...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:48

... decision It then depends on the situation whether the attitude or the subjective norms takes over in shaping the intention The Theory of Planned Behaviour is an extension of the Theory of Reasoned ... organisation of repair and maintenance of tools and their final disposal at the end of their life For the example of the tool library, the following attributes could be suggested in the above context ... evaluation of services from the customer side and unbiased representation of the weak point of the service The direct involvement in the process allows a better understanding of customer and service...

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2013, 10:15

... diversified (multiple form) The classification of parts of the human body according to the position In the system of the proverbs, the system of words referring to parts of the human body is divided ... understand the equality, sympathy of the husband and wise the function of education is to contribute to directing the peoples feelings towards the good orientation in the relationship of the husband ... body The position of proverbs referring to part of the human body Parts of the human body 21 21 21 The classification of parts of the human body according to position Graduation thesis...

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 00:03

... earth The hand of a child - The hand of a lock The heart of a man - The heart of a matter 37 The tongue of a man - The tongue of a shoe The tooth of a person - The tooth of a comb The head of a ... hands of a farm 13 The heel of a person - The heel of the hand 14 One's leg - The leg of a trip 15 One's brain - The brains of a family 16 The bosom of a person - The bosom of the church 17 The ... The head of the page The scar left on one's kin - The scars of war The arm of a person - The arm of jacket 10 One's breast - The chest 11 One's foot - The foot of sock 12 One's hands - The hands...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 21:45

... II The hood domain is mainly built up by residues from the C-terminus and consists of a two-stranded anti-parallel b-sheet composed of b2 and b9 and an a-helix from the C-terminus (Fig 1A) The ... Lys173 interacts with both O6 and N7 (Fig 1C) The 2¢OH of the ribose is hydrogen bonded to the main chain and the side chain of Asp142 (Fig 1C) Both hydroxyl groups of the ribose are involved in ... Asp142, 2¢ and 3¢OH of the ribose and three water molecules with ˚ coordination distances of approximately 2.4 A The phosphate of the GMP is hydrogen bonded to main chain and side chain atoms of amino...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 01:20