... the writing of morphemically complex words like English buttercup, the third with the way in which the writing reproduces the grammar ofthe language as well as the meaning ofthe words All of ... must often have recourse to the speech, that is, to the language, that the writing writes In the case of Chinese characters at the time of their invention, that language was the language ofthe ... representation ofthe verb is non-standard What such a usage ofthe graph (8) shows is that the link between the graph and the semantic aspect ofthe original word, schematically the G-S leg ofthe G-P-S...
... prototype ofthe WCS were the limited field of view ofthe camera, lack of degrees of free- dom in the camera mounting, and the low quality ofthe image The field of view and lack of a pan-tilt ... photo of one end ofthe linkage mined the distance between the wheelchairs based on the number of rotations ofthe spool holding the string, and determined the angle between the leading wheelchair ... connecting the top ofthe spool to the trailing wheelchair Unlike the third prototype, there was not an encoder attached to the leading wheelchair and the orientation ofthe leading wheelchair was therefore...
... angiitis ofthe central nervous system: serial MRI of brain and spinal cord Neuroradiology 2001, 43:599-607 14 Moore PM: Diagnosis and management of isolated angiitis ofthe central nervoussystem ... Angiitis ofthe Central Nervous System: a Case Report and Review CNS Spectrums 2008, 13:209-213 Page of 10 Ozawa T, Sasaki O, Sorimachi T, Tanaka R: Primary angiitis ofthe central nervous system: ... presentation of primary angiitis ofthe central nervoussystem Ann Rheum Dis 2008, 67:1732-1735 doi:10.1186/1477-7819-9-97 Cite this article as: You et al.: Isolated angiitis ofthe central nervous system...
... Parasympathetic Division ofthe Autonomic NervousSystemTheparasympathetic division ofthe autonomic nervoussystem is named because its central neurons are located on either side ofthe thoracolumbar ... descends on the body, and the digestive system is more active The sympathetic output ofthenervoussystem originates out ofthe lateral horn ofthe thoracolumbar spinal cord An axon from one of these ... compose the output ofthe sympathetic system make it possible for these disparate effectors to come together in a coordinated, systemic change The sympathetic division ofthe autonomic nervous system...
... one ofthe key issues of gene therapy The expression level and specificity ofthe therapeutic gene is primarily determined by the activity ofthe promoter at the transcriptional level, and the ... in thenervous system, carrying out the fundamental tasks of receiving, conducting and transmitting signals Therapeutic protection of these cells is one ofthe main goals of gene therapy of neurological ... issue of gene therapy The tropism ofthe vector can essentially determine the cell type-specificity ofthe transgene expression at the transductional level, and the transduction efficiency of the...
... of Microfinance to stimulate efficiency access to the financial resources; to create work places; to grow of tax proceeds; to create a credit history for the further developmentof SMEs ... stimulation of goods and services production and distribution, and also for a mutuality of start-up enterprises in the acquisition of getting profits and a capital accumulation experience Main tasks of ... business development in Russia SMEs have been existing for 12 years; >5.6 millions (including 4.5 millions of individual entrepreneurs); 90 % ofthe total number of establishments; 44 % of...
... capital at the end ofthe 1860s as the Schaaffhausen, the first ofthe joint-stock banks The size of individual private banks was less important because of their habits of working together closely ... focus on the credit banks to the exclusion ofthe other parts ofthesystem Table shows the shares ofthe various bank groups in the financial system for the late nineteenth century, demonstrating ... Until the creation ofthe National Banking system in 1863, all banks in the U.S issued their own banknotes, and these notes formed the bulk ofthe money supply Gary Gorton’s (1996) study of reputation...
... that the lack of CCR5 does not protect from MS, but rather it may predispose to the chronic course ofthe disease [69] This would further imply that in view ofthe redundancy in the chemokine system, ... immunoneutralization of CCL3 [44], DNA vaccination [45], or genomic deletion ofthe CCR1 gene [22], reduces clinical disease Taken together, the results ofthe present study and from previous ones on the role of ... knock-out of CCR5 in humans per se confers no protection from MS, and the lack of effect of CCL3 deficiency in mice [67] illustrates redundancy in the chemokine system Although some ofthe data on the...
... vulnerable, population of patients Chemotherapy-induced cognitive decline in the absence of radiation The best data on the cognitive effects of chemotherapy alone have come from studies of children with ... support to boost the immune system, and either no craniospinal radiation or focused radiation to the tumor bed The increased risk of neurotoxicity associated with very high doses of chemotherapy is ... are planned that further reduce the dose of craniospinal radiation to 1,800 cGy, virtually no attention has been paid to the possible contribution ofthe chemotherapy to the cognitive decline...
... at the month time point, along with markedly decreased levels of MBP in the CC and in the white-matter tracts ofthe striatum of treated animals (Figure 10) In agreement with the majority ofthe ... nuclei; the distribution, morphology and size of these nuclei resembled those ofthe microvasculature endothelial cells ofthe CNS (Figure 11c-e) Double-labeling to visualize expression of Journal of ... contribute to the effects of chemotherapy on cognition The ability of irradiation to the CNS to suppress the generation of new neurons in the hippocampus has been suggested to be relevant to the understanding...
... is the first study of NOS expression in the goat brain with listeriosis The involvement of iNOS in bovine and caprine listeriosis has been reported previously, and the increased expression of ... Magnification A and B, ×66 C and D, ×132 Immunohistochmical study of nitric oxide synthase in the central nervoussystemof goat Enhanced expression of nNOS and iNOS in L monocytogenes-infected brain At ... were found in the neuronal processes Both nNOS and iNOS immunoreactivity were found in a proportion ofthe neurons in the brainstem and the staining pattern was similar to those of control brains...
... known that the nanoparticles will interact with the proteins present in the biological system, i.e the material surrounding the nanoparticles are proteins present in thenervoussystemofthe cockroach ... This correlation of activity and the effect ofthe nAuNPs on the CNS ofthe insect are due to how the brain ofthe cockroach controls its muscle response and locomotion [6] There is a significant ... in weather affect the activity of both groups The effects of these variables are diminished by presenting the activity ratio ofthe treated to the untreated group Although the treated/untreated...
... sides ofthe rod £1,000 was represented by a notch as broad as the palm ofthe hand; £100 by the breadth ofthe thumb £20 by the thickness ofthe little finger; £1 by that of a barley-corn; use of ... engage in the necessary labor The interests ofthe possessing class must be ignored and the interests ofthe workers only considered THE EVOLUTION OF BANKING 37 THE BANK OF VENICE The Bank of Venice ... for the agio seems to be offered by anyone One reason advanced is the difference between the value ofthe ducat and the coins then current in Venice The money of account ofthe bank was the ducat...
... the cascade of downstream events 1.2.4.2 Tau Another major hallmark of AD related changes in the brain is intracellular developmentof neurofibrillary tangles (NFTs) NFTs are primarily made of ... common mechanisms of action of these drugs are the inhibition ofthe rate limiting steps of Aβ generation i.e β- and/or γ- secretases processing of APP (Citron, 2010) Although the reasoning behind ... the neurons The research group detected the significant presence of H2S in the brain homogenate preparation of CBS-/- mice (Shibuya et al., 2009) Kimura further observed that 3-MST acts together...
... vectors for their transmission; therefore, the geographical distributions of these viruses follow the distributions of their vectors [5] With the worldwide presence ofthe Aedes mosquito in the tropics ... DEVELOPMENTOF LIVE BACTERIAL SYSTEMS FOR PRESENTATION OF DENGUE EDIII TO THE MUCOSAL IMMUNE SYSTEM LAM JIAN HANG B.SC (HONS), NUS A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY ... Schematic representation ofthe DENV genome Figure 1.1 (B): Schematic representation ofthe mature DENV virion Figure 1.1 (C): Organisation ofthe E glycoprotein on the surface ofthe mature virion...
... functions ofthe therapeutic genes 1.1.2 Non-viral and Viral Gene Delivery Systems Depending on the usage of vectors, there are two main types of gene delivery systems: non-viral and viral systems ... low efficiency of non-viral gene delivery remains a critical drawback ofthesystem On the other hand, viral gene delivery systems are favoured because ofthe high efficiency of infective viral ... should contribute to thedevelopmentof Central NervousSystem gene therapies as well as to the progression of various virus- and gene delivery-related studies VII LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Publications:...
... nervoussystem 13 1.2.1 The expression of Rag genes in thenervoussystem 13 1.2.2 A brief overview ofthenervoussystem 16 1.2.3 Questions about the neuronal function of Rag1 17 1.3 Advantages of ... 2001) These data indicate that the expression of Rag1 in thenervoussystem is conserved among vertebrate species and suggest a function 1.2.2 A brief overview ofthenervoussystemThenervoussystem ... According to these functions, thenervoussystem is categorized as sensory system, integrating system and motor system respectively (Delcomyn, 1998) The structural organization ofthenervous system...
... early stages ofdevelopment and use of tissue specific or inducible promoters require the establishment of transgenic lines 2.2 Aim ofthe project The project involved thedevelopmentof an easier ... help in the study ofthe role of EphrinB2 in vivo EphrinB2 expression has been detected in the visual system in other organisms The aim of this project was to study the expression pattern of EphrinB2 ... al., 1967) At least at the molecular level there seems to be a link between the immune system and thenervoussystem Rag1 plays a key role in the initiation of this process of genomic rearrangement...
... onto the cover glass beside the sticky tape, with the help of a second blunt needle The embryo was not lifted above the surface ofthe dissecting medium, as this caused dispersion ofthe tissue The ... and is the excitation intensity ofthe laser at the centre ofthe laser π wo beam with laser power P wo and zo are the radial and axial distances ofthe laser focus, respectively, at which the fluorescence ... introduction ofthe model organism, Drosophila melanogaster, is also given Chapter introduces the concepts and theory of FCS as well as the experimental setup of this instrument The calibration of the...