... between CBER and ORA; an approach compatible with existing FDA structures and systems; oversight to ensure consistency of decisions and actions; and efficiency and evaluation of new methods of ... approach to FDA, DoD sent many representatives to meetings between FDA and BioPort OSD was been represented by the Office of the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological ... limited to the important but often overlooked issue of DoD-FDA interactions RAND undertook this study for the Office of the Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Chemical and Biological...
... space between the sensory retina and the Common Signs, Symptoms, and Complications Early symptoms of retinal detachment (photopsia and/ or a sudden shower of floaters due to tearing of a retinal ... Description and Classification of Retinal Detachment and Related Peripheral Vitreoretinal Disease Retinal Detachment a Rhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment b Nonrhegmatogenous Retinal Detachment ... Round hole of retina without detachment 361.31 Recent detachment, partial , with retinal dialysis Dialysis (juvenile) of retina (with detachment) 361.04 Horseshoe tear of retina without detachment...
... approximation is well within 10% in terms of the variances of y and y and u and ˆ u More details on stochastic linearization and its accuracy are included in Chapter ˆ It should be noted that stochastic ... theory of absolute stability was developed precisely to address the issue of global asymptotic stability of linear plants with linear controllers and sector-bounded actuators For the same class of ... indicators to predict the tracking capabilities of LPNI systems with saturating actuators These results, which transfer the frequency (ω) domain methods of LC to the frequency ( ) domain methods of...
... order to allow PLHIV and their DICGs to produce income [16,23] Social factors relating to poverty often increase the risk of HIV transmission and interfere with a person's ability to cope with ... family members of the PLHIV and ranged in age from 38 to 74 years Most were married and had children and a family to care for, apart from the PLHIV and, in some cases, the children of the PLHIV ... stigma attached to HIV/AIDS and increase community acceptance of those infected and affected by this illness: We must have people from the community come together and talk and discuss and share views...
... onset has been correctly detected is not straightforward The ideal situation would be to compare the detected onsets produced by an onset-detection system with a list of reference onsets An onset ... second to the energy with LP ODF (24) R= (26) where C is the number of correctly detected onsets, fp is the number of false positives (detected onsets with no matching reference onset), and fn ... library of onset-detection software, which includes a database of hand-annotated musical note onsets, which was created as part of this study This database was adopted to assess the performance of...
... onset has been correctly detected is not straightforward The ideal situation would be to compare the detected onsets produced by an onset-detection system with a list of reference onsets An onset ... second to the energy with LP ODF (24) R= (26) where C is the number of correctly detected onsets, fp is the number of false positives (detected onsets with no matching reference onset), and fn ... library of onset-detection software, which includes a database of hand-annotated musical note onsets, which was created as part of this study This database was adopted to assess the performance of...
... presence of CuO nanofluids On the other hand, the increase of viscosity Page of 13 may offset the benefit from enhanced thermal conductivity Optimum conditions between thermal conductivity and viscosity ... 0.8 cps at 23.5°C and that of MWNT nanofluid is 1.0 cps at 24.1°C On the other hand, Wensel et al [27] also reported that the nanofluid of CNT with Liu et al Nanoscale Research Letters 2011, 6:297 ... the characteristics of interface between CNT solid and base liquid need to be exploited for better understanding of the role of CNT on the nanofluid Therefore, fluid dynamic and convection play...
... the proof of achievability to Appendix B Again, to fix the ideas, consider the set of M active MSs at a given time, one per cell, which employ a fraction of time 1/J of both the uplink and the ... asymptotically (in the sense of Proposition 4) optimal and allows to gain insight into the performance of intercell conferencing This solution is based on the observation that, from Remark andfrom ... df , (21) log + P p H( f ) df + C , with constraint (9a) and definition (5) O Simeone et al A brief sketch of the proof of achievability is in order The details are worked out in Appendix C Each...
... whose values are about 0.237 nm and lie at an angle of near to 60°, are of regular parallelogram with a center and corresponding to the ð" Þ and ð1" Þ planes of the hex101 10 agonal Al2O3, respectively ... usually detected in amorphous Ti–O materials, and ascribed to Ti–O stretching and Ti–O–Ti stretching, respectively [12, 13] The latter stretching may also have contributions from a Ti–O stretch assigned ... proportional to the size of the nanocrystals In order to further understand the nature of the charge carrier trapping, migration and transfer in Ti0.25Al0.75Ox films with small nanocrystals and the...
... computation of the weight to apply to each wavelet subband for the rate allocation is detailed The weight can be introduced as in (5) and (6) as a multiplicative factor to get a precise distortion ... version of SPIHT is currently flying toward the 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet and is targeted to reach in 2014 (Rosetta mission) among other examples This modified version of SPIHT is used to compress ... that retains spatial and quality scalability requires significant changes of the transform and tree structure and search mode, and the addition of a post- compression rate allocation procedure To...
... by TYPEDIS and the PARITY by TYPEDIS interactions were important with p-values of 0.04 and 0.02, respectively Namely, 27% of the animals with purulent and fetid discharge and 13% with purulent ... association between CCE treatment with the formation of ovarian cysts Bonnett et al [5] found that a prostaglandin administration on day 26 p.p resulted in less inflammation and fibrosis of the endometrium ... Königsson et al [15] found that cows recovered faster from A pyogenes and F necrophorum infections with the intrauterine application of antibiotics A better functionality of the endometrium and a...
... advanced and it was set to obtain specimen's margins disease- free as a primary target An en-bloc resection of the mass, together with uterus, adnexa, bladder, distal part of right ureter and left ... treatment with CTX settings targeting mesenchymal cancers (as sarcoma chemotherapy protocols using doxorubicin, ifosfamide, cisplatinum and docetaxel) should be mandatory in the event of metastatic disease, ... survival of 7.6 when negative and 0.3 when positive [11] Largest series, by Rosser and coll (35 patients, with a diagnosis of LMS of the bladder) showed a years disease- specific survival of 62%, with...
... discriminating between tumor and atelectasia; Due to the number of uncertainties andof phenomena related to the tumor, the definitionof gross tumor volume 3) use of different tomographic windows and partial ... acquisition, analysis and interpretation of data, and helped to draft the manuscript RC and PEN conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination, and helped to draft the manuscript ... The differences between the measurements ranged from -466.27 to 26.23 with average of -31.35 and standard deviation of 101.27, thus we obtained a confidence interval of 95% equal to (-233.88; 171.18)...
... patients to 33 months after Hyalograft® C Autograft implantation for cartilage lesions of the knee Biopsies were divided between symptomatic and asymptomatic patients to identify the relationship between ... were snap-frozen and were cut into μm sections Cellular and histochemical characteristics of the repair tissue were evaluated histologically and immunohistochemically For routine histology, specimens ... Vol 10 No Brun et al Figure Histological and immunohistochemical analysis of a second-look cartilage biopsy with mixed (hyaline and fibrocartilage) characteristics Analysis of a of a second-look...
... of their distance from an exon junction, their position with the gene, and so on They also described a novel unbiased protocol for amplification and labeling of full-length RNAs, combining random-primed ... random-primed first-strand and second-strand synthesis steps with an amplification strategy that uses both PCR and in vitro transcription The method is reported to sample the entire transcript and thus prevent ... sensitive and reliable Clark et al [21] used a cDNA spotted array to demonstrate successful detection of experimentally induced intron retention in a number of genes containing introns Yeakley et al...
... removal of causative antibodies andto slow down the rate of hemolysis Splenectomy has been employed in patients with warm autoimmune hemolytic diseaseto slow down the hemolysis Recently, reports of ... lymphadenopathy, and there was no evidence of hypertension The complete blood count revealed anemia with a hemoglobin level of 4.5 g/dL, a reticulocyte count of 25.82% and normal white cell and platelet counts ... patients with cold agglutinin disease, 15 of whom had been previously treated, responded to a single course of rituximab, and six of 10 responded to retreatment with rituximab and interferon [2] In another...
... able to improve the stump contracture from 15 degrees to 10 degrees, and she was able to hop with the aid of a walker She was casted for a custom trans-tibial patellar tendon-bearing prosthesis with ... (ICEROSS) and sleeve suspension system with a dynamic solid ankle cushion heel (SACH) foot With further gait training, she was able to ambulate 200 feet with the aid of a walker and was discharged to ... a case of hip disarticulation and successful rehabilitation of an individual with COPD None of these papers reported the use of supplemental oxygen specifically for the purpose of prosthetic ambulation...
... times between typical and atypical hepatic carcinoids At the time of this writing, our patient has reached the eight-month post- operative milestone and is both symptom-free and disease- free Of course, ... currently stand as the only such designated entities Females are affected slightly more often than males (1.4:1), and the ages of the patients have ranged from 18 to 84 with an average age of 54 years ... average age of 54 years [1] The most common presenting symptom is upper abdominal fullness, with or without hepatomegaly Abdominal pain and discomfort, diarrhea, and weight loss can be invariably...
... with PNET with a level IV thrombus to undergo right radical nephrectomy and IVC tumour (level IV) thrombectomy with cardiopulmonary bypass and deep hypothermic circulatory arrest Chen et al [4] ... marker for PNET Karnes et al [6] reported, in 2000, the first case of a PNET with vena caval tumour thrombus (level II) Thomas et al Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Medical ... which replaced most of the kidney with only a small amount of uninvolved parenchyma at the lower pole Haematoxylin and eosin staining showed the tumour to comprise cohesive sheets of small, uniform,...
... (not present) to (extremely severe); scores range fromto 35; mean scores ≥ 20 clinically correspond to severe agitation [7] This set of items detects differences between drug and placebo when ... corresponded to median reduction of 58% on PANSS-EC; ratings of much improved corresponded to median reduction of 38% on PANSS-EC; and ratings of minimally improved corresponded to median reduction of ... concept, and validation is a scientific activity based on the collection on multiple and diverse types of evidence [26] From this perspective, and in order to assess the face validity of the tool,...