demonstration of feasibility through preliminary data and

... measure between a data point zk and the cluster vi is an indicator of the distance of the data points from their cluster prototypes V = [v1, v2, , vk] is the vector of prototypes of the c clusters, ... where se is the size of the SE, xse is the gray-level of the qth pixel of I T when the image is decomposed row by row, and R and C correspond to the size of the image Then, the data vector Z can ... relative importance of membership and typicality values in the computation of the prototypes, respectively The parameters m and h represent the absolute weight of the membership value and typicality...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... Additionally, the identification of proteins by MS/MS is Page of 14 based on the best fit of spectral data to databases of protein sequences Although current databases contain sequences for many ... 42 to 51% of each mature protein sequence (Table 2) Proline and glutamine make up between 74 and 82% of the amino acid residues and determine the repetitive nature of this region Four of the Butte ... sequences of the complement of proteins expressed in a given cultivar are included in the database used for analysis of MS/MS data, so that spectral data will yield a maximum number of peptide...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:21

... impression of the stability of results over time Also, the means and the standard deviations of the differences concerning each STAI item between test and retest were calculated and the plots of the ... S-Anxiety and the T-Anxiety scales can vary from a minimum of 20 to a maximum of 80 The aim of the current preliminary study was to assess the reliability and the psychometric properties of the ... the module of 'Process Analysis Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility' of the Statsoft-Statistica was used to further investigate the repeatability of the STAI with the use of Analysis of Variance...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... study and participated in the analysis of the data, interpretation and writing of the manuscript MS, KM, EP, SM, IC, KA, AC and SD participated in the gathering of the data, interpretation of the ... items 13, 17, 18 and 20 and reflects 'optimism' Factor includes items 5, 15 and 19 and reflects 'selfawareness Factor includes items 6, 9, 11, 13, and 17 and reflects 'lack of self confidence' ... assessment of the patient's subjective experience may be of use in the evaluation of the differential effects of antipsychotics and their dose in SWB and thus adherence to treatment [26] Page of (page...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... Fitchburg, WI, USA) and defined according to the criteria of the International Commission of Radiation Units and Measurement [5,6] As a rule to mm CTV to PTV margins were applied Data sets and structures ... radiation toxicity A critical review of published studies of IMRT and HT in the treatment of pediatric cancer patients is also presented Methods From April 2006 through May 2010, 66 consecutive children ... center of pediatric radiation oncology in the country In this article we report our initial experience of HT in the treatment of pediatric malignancies, focused on analysis of tumor response and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:21

... follow-up investigations of VEOS and EOS often have a minor sample size, as the incidence and prevalence of VEOS and EOS is very little Analyzing studies about the outcome of schizophrenia beginning ... probands' questionnaire was not possible to evaluate and was therefore dismissed from data analysis The data of the remaining 26 former patients showed that almost one third of them (8 out of ... of the paper and are entirely responsible for the scientific content of it: AR participated in the design, organization, and data collection of the study, performed the statistical analysis and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... the type of transference which has taken place The eye of a man - The eye of a potato The bowel of a person - The bowel of the earth The hand of a child - The hand of a lock The heart of a man ... percentage of the forms of each types of semantic transference and the percentage of the types of semantic transference used in these classes Table 2: The percentage of the forms of each type of semantic ... 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 of a farm 13 The heel of a person - The heel of the hand 14 One's...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 21:45

... for the exchange of information between the Office and recipients of grants, con- tracts, and agreements under subsection (c), and be- 10 tween the Office and health professionals and the 11 general ... Department of Health and Human Services’ offices, agencies, and regional ac- tivities regarding women’s health and stimulate ac- tivities and facilitate coordination of such depart- mental and agency offices ... authorized official, a court of competent jurisdiction, 17 or by operation of law 18 SEC CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVEN- 19 20 TION OFFICE OF WOMEN’S HEALTH Part A of title III of the Public...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 07:20

... CDC’s Office of Women’s Health + + The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) + The Children’s Bureau of the ACF + The Office of the ... indicators of fertility, parenting, and health for men 15–44 years of age, as well as sexual behavior and reproductive health of men and women (11–13) Strengths and Limitations of the Data The data ... indicators, data are also compared with earlier cycles of the NSFG Methods Descriptive tables of numbers and percentages are presented and interpreted Data were collected through in-person interviews of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... stimulates the phosphorylation of STAT3 at Tyr705 and translocation into the nuclei of cells Fig The region between amino acids 642 and 662 of Hsp105b is necessary for activation of the hsp70 promoter ... into COS-7 cells, and luciferase activities were measured To estimate the transfection efficiency of these plasmids, the levels of a series of C-terminal deletion mutants of Hsp105b and a-tubulin ... expression of Hsp70, and showed that Hsp105b induces the expression of Hsp70 through the transactivation of STAT3 in mammalian cells Indeed, it was found that STAT3 bound to the sequence between )206 and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 06:20

... partially overlapping segments, and embedding of segments Annotated texts are stored using stand-off XML, one file per source text and layer See Figure for a sample The software does not currently ... D Maynard, K Bontcheva and V Tablan 2002 GATE: A Framework and Graphical Development Environment for Robust NLP Tools and Applications Proceedings of the 40th Meeting of the Association for Computational ... to create a selection, and assign features to the selection Since stand-off annotation is used for both text and image, much of the code-base is common between the two applications The major differences...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 09:20

... intense band of 61 kDa (NrfA) and a band of weak intensity of 19 kDa (NrfH), confirming its hetero-oligomeric nature (Fig 1, lane 1) However, in the absence of boiling (Fig 1A, lanes and 4) high ... and 4) high molecular mass bands of approximately 110 kDa and > 200 kDa were visible, as well as a faint band at 37 kDa, suggesting the presence of dimers All of the bands stained positively for ... quinone molecule through the His ligand of heme b Asp, Gly, Met, Ala and the porfirine ring of heme b were also recognized in van der Waals contact with the quinone molecule [47] Quite often, an acidic...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 00:20

... value of class B - surface waters quality standard of Vietnam (TCVN 5942/95/B) [4, 9] The two reasons for this situation are the discharges of cattle waste into channels then to river and the ... observed data, calibrating, making scenarios and finally bring out predictions as well as recommendations [7, 8] VNU Journal of Science, Nat., Sci., & Tech., T.XXI, N02, 2005 Preliminary assessment and ... simulation of the water quality of Operating model with observed data for four components: DO, BOD, COD, N-NH4, we obtained result as follow: Table 2: Results of simulation with observed data Reach...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... existing information on the use of, and threats to, the Malaysian coastal and marine resources off the Straits of Malacca and the adjacent waters of the Andaman Sea and the Indian Ocean In the process, ... and sand, caused widespread degradation of areas with mineral deposits leaving behind sandy, barren and unfertile land, unattended water bodies, and silted waterways Landslips, particularly of ... scattering and absorption of light by particles and gases in the atmosphere Its effect to the water environment is through: • Emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2 ) and oxides of nitrogen (N0x ) and related...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21

... management is “the manner of implementation, of expertise, paraphernalia, knowledge and modus operandi to an extensive range of activities for the fulfillment of prerequisite of the specific project” ... beginning and an ending, and project management has corresponding initiating and closing processes The middle, or work of the project, is managed by planning, executing, and monitoring and controlling ... purchasing and acquisition of outside goods and services required to complete the project Identifying and managing project risks Ensuring timely and appropriate project communication Organizing and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 00:20

... field of research for studying the regulation of the physiological functions of individuals living under conditions of restricted or excessive food intake Materials and methods Cell cultures and ... treatment and amino acid starvation had similar effects on the expression of 12 genes and opposite effects on the regulation of eight genes These results suggest that rapamycin inhibition of TORC1 ... transcriptional profiling, the objective of this work was to gain a better understanding of the amino acid control of gene expression As our aim was to study the effects of short-term amino acid starvation,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20

... RNA was purified and analyzed by Northern blot and phosphorimaging densitometry The relative amounts of normalized messenger RNA were plotted as a function of time and the slope of this curve was ... levels of CTGF/CCN2 peaked after h of incubation with S1P and decayed progressively thereafter These experiments revealed a stronger and earlier increase of Cyr61/CCN1 mRNA levels than those of Fig ... A-fos and A-ATF-2 proteins Immunodetection of endogenous c-fos and ATF-2 was performed with anti-c-fos and anti-ATF-2 Igs, respectively, using the same cell lysates Detection of K-CREB and endogenous...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20

... were allowed to germinate and grow on the induction media for 20 days in the case of Arabidopsis and for weeks in the case of tobacco, at 25 °C, under 16 h of light and h of dark 2174 Microscopy ... severely deformed and dwarfed and did not set seed (data not shown) Molecular genetic approaches such as antisense RNA, loss of function, gain of function, ectopic expression and overexpression ... 2000 and 10 000 nm) Seeds were allowed to germinate and grow on this medium for 20 days at 25 °C, under 16 h of light and h of dark Three seedlings from each plate were collected separately and...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

... uptake of calcium through the uniport of calcium On the other hand, KCN and antimycin A, both inhibitors of electron transport, also inhibited the swelling induced by MccJ25 The inhibition of swelling ... of this reactive species precedes MTP opening and mitochondrial swelling The inability of RR and CsA, specific inhibitors of the calcium uniport and MTP respectively, to inhibit the increase of ... of time at 37 °C in the absence (h) and in the presence of 20 lM MccJ25 ( ) Cytochrome c was determined chromatographically, as described in the Materials and methods Data are the mean ± SD of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

... PB (k1 , k2 ) ≡ (2) αt and βt , the probability that a random member of Gt produces N and V examples as σ´ , are the σ ˆ ensemble averages of αt and βt over all members ˆ of Gt Because we have ... Baxter, R.A Blythe, W Croft, and A.J McKane 2009 Modeling language change: An evaluation of Trudgill’s theory of the emergence of New Zealand English Language Variation and Change, 21(2):257–296 ... probabilities of producing N and V examples ˆ as σ´ αt , βt are the expectation of αt and βt over σ ˆ ˆt ) αt and members of Gt : αt = E(ˆ t ), βt = E(β ˆ α ˆt are thus random variables (over learners...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20