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... antibody for 30 minutes at 4˚C in the dark, washed and resuspended in 0.5 ml of PBS For intracellular measurement of HLA-DR the PBMC were fixed for 10 minutes in 1% paraformaldhyde, washed in PBS and ... Gratton and Andrea Fazakerley for recruiting patients into the study We would also like to acknowledge Dr S Jurcevic for the kind gift of the purified HLA-DR, Drs B Flanagan and D Newton for their ... than the level of HLA-DR in the cell lysates (5ul of a in 10 dilution, from x 106 PBMC) The shed HLA-DR therefore seemed to represent a small fraction of the total HLA-DR of the cell, however the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:57

... frames and therefore suitable for texture detection (e.g., the detection oscillatory/swinging components), whereas for α close to one, the frames are similar to wavelet frames and therefore suitable ... , α ∈ [0, 1), the associated voice transform (6) is indeed well defined and invertible on its range Hence, it gives rise to a mixed form of the wavelet and the Gabor transform, and it also provides ... whereas the Gabor transform is well-suited for the analysis of periodic structures such as textures Quite surprisingly, there is a common thread behind both transforms, and that is a group theory...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 01:20

... encompass only informatics and statistics; for example, it includes the development of tools not only for storing and mining the data, but also modeling of the data in the context of disease pathophysiology ... http://genomemedicine.com/content/2/11/83 Page of folding and thus formation and stabilization of protein secondary structure [36] The importance of understanding the structural and spatial context of AD-associated proteins and peptides ... conceived and wrote the manuscript JL and HS critically reviewed the manuscript and contributed to its writing Page of Author information MO is a Research Professor of systems biology and bioinformatics...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:21

... Figure 1, the land transformation elasticities are 0.3 for paddy, 0.5 for other annual crops, 0.25 for aquaculture, and 0.15 for perennial crops Transformation elasticities across crops in Stage ... crops However, the law also stipulates the formulation and enforcement of regular land use plans by different levels of government These plans explicitly specify the areas for rice land and for ... authorities” Other response options relate to crop productivity, suitability of the plot for other crops, and a number of other reasons The values reported for  in Table for each of the first five...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2015, 19:23

... Head of the Provincial Forestry and Estate Crops Office, South Sumatra Vegetation fires have undoubtedly become a more urgent focus of concern to the regional office of the Ministry of Forestry and ... environment: they use the forest as a source of timber and non-timber products, and the forest is their reserve of fertility for future crops Of course, this applies only when farmers have a say in the ... of land-use between the forest and the mono -crop plantation Thus the rigid dichotomy often presumed between forest and plantation is irrelevant to the understanding and management of such land-use...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 10:20

... by the vatman to remove superfluous stock over the far side of the deckle and ‘to close the sheet’ before the stock settles upon the cover of the mould-frame Having finished the forming, the ... removed the wooden deckle, and then passed the mould-frame with the newly formed sheet along the wooden platform, called the ‘bridge’, to the coucher After that, the vatman started to form another ... modifications The artisans of Fabriano have laid a solid foundation for the successful development of the European papermaking craft, and they propagated their art of making paper by hand in other parts of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20

... describe the overall framework of species change and demonstrate the intimacy of nature and crop evolution In the second half of the book, I focus on when and where crops were domesticated and the ... alleles exist in the populations, the Hardy–Weinberg formula takes the form of the polynomial square For three alleles whose frequencies are p, q and r, then p + q + r = and the equilibrium frequency ... When they compared the sequence of these duplicated regions to the rest of the genome, they found 70% of the genes to be present elsewhere The genes were duplicated in 18 large translocations and...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 12:10

... abab}, and {aa, ab, aab, ba, bb, bab} The first of these is the union of {a} and {b}, the second is the concatenation of {a} and {b}, the third is the union of the first and second, the fourth is the ... value of the result is The truth value of ¬p is the opposite of the truth value of p For the other four, the easiest way to present this information is to draw a truth table showing the four possible ... is just the other string (for every string x, x = x = x); and for every x, if one of the formulas xy = x or yx = x is true for some string y, then y = In general, for two strings x and y, |xy|...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 00:58

... be found who know very little about it; and on the Continent there are still some to be found who have never even heard of the disease" [2] The origins of the disease are vague [3] The first formal ... proof of causality although it may be seen as another piece in the puzzle On the other hand the absence of a temporal coincidence would provide a strong argument against any given hypothesis Unfortunately, ... rabbits and compared their reactions to those hypervitaminized with vigantol It was found that in both groups there was impairment of formation of complement-fixing antibody but that the formation of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... estimated using the UNICEF-WHO price projections [3] The unit prices used were 45 FCFA for BCG, 1,397 FCFA for Penta, 61 FCFA for OPV, 88 FCFA for measles vaccine, 326 FCFA for YFV, 38 FCFA for auto ... USD) for the outreach (Table 5) These two amounts equate to the total cost for vaccines for 122 FIC (7.6% of FIC during the period) The cost structure of this excess vaccine wastage was as follows: ... since no dose of Penta was administered With the cost of vaccines and consumables ignored, the cost per FIC for the district remains higher with the outreach strategy, and with the cost for DPT introduced...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... examine both the role of the press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism and the role of the press in the formation of the concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... town, the food stocks, and the mood of the garrison The tactics of the Daily Mail captured the attention of the nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation of the town by emphasizing the danger ... at the presentation of information about the camps as much as at the information itself Newspapers were the central source of information about the Boer War, for the British public in general and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... is waged after a formal demand for restoration, or unless it has been formally announced and declared beforehand’.59 The significance of these various rules for the commencing of wars should not ... achieved, the causes, the character of the parties engaged and so forth.3 For the most part, though, we must look to an eclectic range of sources for evidence of the most ancient ideas about the legal ... of individual, hand-to-hand combat Grand strategy, on the other hand, remained the preserve of Tiw.11 In India, too, much the same phenomenon was apparent in the role of Indra, the chief of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:02

... Strengthening informal finance Governments should exploit the informational comparative advantage of informal financial institutions and strengthen the complementarity between the formal and the informal ... Providers of customized information might operate for a profit and sell specialized reports for a fee If information is proprietary, its production can be profitable Providers of uniform information ... corporates, and effective incentives for information provision and rule enforcement should therefore accompany the development of universal banking in countries undergoing financial sector reform In the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:33

... the whole sample period are available for Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the US For, Belgium we link an older series for small and ... rate for Belgium, Sweden and the US, and a three-month commercial paper rate for Australia, Canada and Japan.13 All interest rates are from the OECD's MEI For Finland and Denmark missing data for ... Japan, Sweden and the US When using fewer lags, however, also for these countries the existence of cointegration could not be rejected We therefore specify the VAR models in the level of the variables...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40

... create the conditions for promoting and fostering the ability of the members: collect and provide them with information on related international organizations and inform timely recommendations, information, ... activities of freight forwarders, the quality of services has not met the requirements of the industry's development yet A lack of decrees stipulating activities of air and inland waterway freight forwarding ... freight forwarding activities of the S.R of Vietnam, and on this basis to integrate with such professional colleagues on the world The Association has the role of coordinating the activities of the...

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2012, 16:42

... coefficient for red meat was 0.52 and for poultry 0.48 The correlations between the FFQs were 0.48 to 0.51 for macronutrients and 0.47 for red meat and 0.49 for poultry [9] For women who developed type ... between the 24-hour dietary recall and the second FFQ ranged from 0.59 to 0.66 for macronutrients, 0.41 to 0.59 for micronutrients, and 0.41 to 0.66 for food groups The correlation coefficient for ... adjusted for in the analyses as potential confounders We also adjusted for the presence of the following chronic diseases at baseline: coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, and cancer and repeated the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 16:49

... where the consequences of infection can be very severe, while the risk of living with one’s beloved cat is practically nill References Angulo FJ, Glaser CA, Juranek DD et al Caring for pets of immunocompromised ... with the human immunodeficiency virus Clin Infect Dis.1994;18:14-24 Han K, Shin DW, Lee TY, et al Seroprevalence of Toxoplasma gondii infection and risk factors associated with seropositivity of ... women in Korea J Parasitol 2008; 94: 963-965 Grant S and Olsen CW Preventing zoonotic diseases in immunocompromised persons: the role of physicians and veterinarians Emerg Infect Dis 1999; 5: 159-163...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:06

... Programme should focus more on general information on REDD+ and less on promotional literature for the Programme, in order to be of more longterm utility for national stakeholders The Programme ... transparency and quality of the information, as required for REDD+ The UN-REDD Programme should build on the successful examples of previous multi-agency UN programmes Finally, financial flows and technical ... REDD? Over phase I, the Programme has made a significant impact on the domestic forestry sector, in terms of policy and practice, and has been the most significant initiative for REDD+ readiness...

Ngày tải lên: 23/01/2013, 22:06

... newer, brings the song back to the listener with the whole new style and the performance is completely like remaining the life for the song The cover music in Vietnam is the kind of music, which ... has Vietnamese lyric based on the melody of the song of other country Therefore, some people think the melody is stolen For that result, they don’t like this music There are some familiar faces, ... PART I: INTRODUCTION Background information: Today, the more Vietnam develops, the higher the standard of living is They are cared by the government so they live in better conditions and more...

Ngày tải lên: 21/04/2013, 20:53

... and the Art of Business five years ago It should be of comfort to the reader that, in the process of researching this book, I found more and more evidence of the soundness of its principles For ... his masterful handling of logistics for the Persian Gulf War, is another indicator of the robustness of the true military model The Six Principles and the Plan of This Book To make the transition ... is gone The proper rules of business conduct and ethics must be followed for business and society to function effectively and prosperously Therefore, ethical use of the principles put forth here...

Ngày tải lên: 18/08/2013, 12:22