... pot of money, which is the major reason I oppose focusing CAN on any one disease or set of diseases Why not, instead, take CAN at its word? It wants to accelerate the finding of cures, so let s ... companies are abandoning their programs in central nervous system (CNS) diseases It is very difficult to predict the CNS availability of a compound in humans without doing actual trials The blood-brain ... civics to my non-US readers There are two major kinds of legislation that Congress can pass when it wants to establish new programs: authorizations and appropriations Authorizing legislation is...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:21
... lent significant insights into the progression of the disease In vitro analyses of the responses of murine and human macrophages to Mtb infection indicate a robust pro-inflammatory response of the ... framework of this thesis 1.6 TB Drug Development: NITD s Initiative and The genesis of this Thesis The Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases (NITD) based in Singapore aims to discover novel ... is an infectious disease caused by Mtb with humans being the only hosts for this pathogen TB usually infects the lungs and is spread through the air The infectious dose of TB is very low and inhaling...
Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:17
Factors influencing borrower’s behavior and decision making patterns in the success of a micro finance model
... medium sized businesses The research provides a comprehensive insight to the MFIs in Pakistan for addressing the borrower s concern and realigning their vision and mechanisms to suit the borrower s ... needs and expectations INTRODUCTION The success of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in developing ingenious financial products and services for their clients relates to the local dynamics of the ... educate their potential customers about micro financing by realigning their marketing mechanisms and strategies to attract less educated masses through staff trainings and holding open sessions in these...
Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 05:48
Connotative meaning in samuel taylor coleridge's poem the rime of the ancient mariner = nghĩa biểu cảm trong bài thơ the rime of the ancient mariner của tác giả samuel taylor coleridge
... In the poem, the ancient mariner killed the Albatross with his crossbow: Why look'st thou so ?' With my cross-bow I shot the ALBATROSS The Albatross used to be the close friend of the sailors, ... experiences everyday setbacks and emotions, and the ship must endure everyday issues as well The ship carries the ancient mariner and his crew, just as the body carries the soul From these analyses, the ... symbols and images emerging in the poem Design of the study Part A: Introduction Rationale Aims of the study Scope of the study Methods of the study Design of the study Part B: Contents Chapter...
Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 00:03
PET in the Evaluation of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders docx
... presence of feelings of guilt, hopelessness, helplessness; and somaticizing Clinicians should ask about passive thoughts of death (i.e., reports that life is not worth living or patients feeling ... screenings are brief in- office assessments of cognition that provide information regarding cognitive functioning Cognitive screening includes using validated screening instruments, such as the MMSE, ... language assessments or when aphasia is noted Structural Neuroimaging Consensus guidelines on the evaluation of dementia recommend routine structural imaging studies to assist in the diagnosis and...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20
THE DEVIL IN THE DETAILS potx
... However, the focus of the discussion has shifted in a natural way from the particular buckling of the steel strut in front of us to the understanding of buckling behavior of struts in general These ... systems for why many of the details that genuinely distinguish such systems from one another are irrelevant when it comes to the universal behavior of interest While most discussions of universality ... and Measures in Paris Given these standards we will have a system of units for length, mass, and time (where L is the dimension of length, M is the dimension of mass, and T is the dimension of time)...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20
MEED S.A. The Costs of Water Pollution in India potx
... gathers SSIs as well as larger polluting industries In these case, some cross subsidies may be set up by asking the larger industries to contribute to the development of the CETP while treating ... as loans from international organisations such as the world bank or Indian institutions such as IDBI or ILFS The subsidy effect in favour of SSIs may be increased in some cases when an industrial ... Loss of sustainable Deforestation timber supply 183 Unsustainable harvesting Coastal and marine resources of marine resources not estimated Loss of use, option, and Loss of biodiversity existence...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21
Báo cáo " Using Bloom’s revised taxonomy to design in-class reading questions for intermediate students in the context of Vietnam " ppt
... instructors’ awareness of high-level thinking skills in their question design in reading class and that my established questions could serve as a reference list for instructors of English in ... Pass another reading passage with no questions at all Ask them in six groups to design three questions in accordance with the six thinking levels Gather the questions and ask the whole class ... this year? (All these questions above are for illustration only) Steps in Using Bloom s Taxonomy Questioning in Reading Class a) Introduce to students six levels of Bloom s Taxonomy, focusing...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Huntington’s disease: roles of huntingtin-interacting protein 1 (HIP-1) and its molecular partner HIPPI in the regulation of apoptosis and transcription pptx
... Coexpression of HIPPI and BLOC 1S2 does not increase apoptosis but sensitizes apoptosis induction by staurosporin or death ligand In addition, the expression of BLOC 1S2 is increased in some tumors ... directly or indirectly alters gene expression comes from the observations that caspase-1, caspase-3, caspase-7, caspase-8 and caspase-10 expression is increased in cells expressing exogenous FEBS Journal ... heterodimer and increases apoptosis The role of caspase-1 in apoptosis is not known, but in some conditions it may increase apoptosis Different symbols representing different proteins are shown in the box...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "What’s There to Talk About? A Multi-Modal Model of Referring Behavior in the Presence of Shared Visual Information" potx
... performance of the models using hand-processed evaluations of the PUZZLE CORPUS data The following presents the results of the three different models on 10 trials of the PUZZLE CORPUS in which the pairs ... as those objects that had recently moved within the shared workspace These objects are added to the top of the linguistic-salience list which essentially rendered them as the focus of the joint ... about the state of the Worker s work area In this case, the pairs can make use of both linguistic information and shared visual information in order to successfully complete the task As Table...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:20
Differences by Mother''''s Education in the Effect of Childcare on Child Obesity pdf
... must satisfy restrictions of the null hypothesis, so the Wald statistics should be close to zero Table represents results for Wald tests of both hypotheses testing The p-value (p
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 05:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article New Technique for Improving Performance of LDPC Codes in the Presence of Trapping S" doc
... trapping set TS is already in the trapping sets list, TS List, then its weight is incremented by one; otherwise the identified trapping set is added to the trapping sets list, TS List, and its weight ... initiates a message through link (i.e., initiates message to v2 ) c2 initiates a message through link (i.e., initiates message to v4 ) v2 forwards incoming messages to all neighbors c3 forwards incoming ... neighbouring nodes This is because most of the extrinsic messages are correct in the error-floor regions (3) Neutralization is performed during BP decoding iterations as soon as a trapping set is detected,...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20
Báo cáo y học: "Cold hands — strained heart? Advances in the management of Raynaud’s phenomenon and pulmonary hypertension" ppt
... impressive in SScl Continuous intravenous administration of epoprostenol confers risks of infection and thrombosis More convenient routes of prostanoid delivery are also showing promise (e.g subcutaneous ... angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in SScl to prevent scleroderma renal crisis is well established [11] Studies in animal models have suggested that angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and ... as sildenafil inhibit the degradation of cGMP, which mediates the signalling of several endogenous vasodilators [15] Studies suggesting efficacy of PDE type V inhibitors in animal models of PAH...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:23
Báo cáo khoa học: " Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) in the treatment of children and Adolescents - a single institution''''s experience and a review of the literature" pps
... malignancies We tried to increase chances of cure the patients accepting possible risks in a matter of decades in case of success IMRT was feasible even if anaesthesia was necessary and resulted in good ... writing of the manuscript SN is responsible for the physical aspects of IMRT planning and treatment of the children HB is responsible for the anaesthesia management of the children PH is responsible ... benefits of IMRT like the sparing of organs at risk and the possibility of dose escalation were considered to be more important for the treatment success than the potentially increased risk of secondary...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20
Báo cáo y học: "Indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase-expressing dendritic cells are involved in the generation of CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells in Peyer''''s patches in an orally tolerized, collagen-induced arthritis mouse model" ppt
... examined the change in the expression of IDO in CD11c+ DCs of Peyer 's patches after repeated oral administration of CII and subsequent induction of CIA In freshly isolated Peyer 's patches, the ... cell sorting system The expression of IDO mRNA was analyzed using RT-PCR β2-Actin was used as an internal control Each value is the mean ± standard deviation of replicate determinations in one of ... for Windows (SPSS, Chicago, IL, USA) The differences between groups were analyzed using an unpaired Student 's t test, assuming equal variances P < 0.05 was considered significant Results Repeated...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:22
Báo cáo y học: "Do synovial biopsies help to support evidence for involvement of innate immunity in the immunopathology of Behçet’s disease" pot
... inflammatory cells On the other hand, those micro-organisms are also capable of stimulating an immune response in BD Most tissue studies of the pathophysiology of BD are conducted in skin One of the unique ... Suzuki N, Nara K, Suzuki T: Skewed Th1 responses caused by excessive expression of Txk, a member of the Tec family of tyrosine kinases, in patients with Behcet s disease Clin Med Res 2006, 4:147-151 ... arthritis (PsA) resembles BD clinically; a further similarity is the presence of neutrophils in SF from PsA patients Increased levels of intra-articular CD15+ neutrophils, CD3+ T cells, and perforin...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo y học: "Cytokines in the colon of a patient with Behçet’s disease" ppt
... chromosomal breakpoints impact the level of LMO2 expression in T-ALL Blood 2007, 110:388-392 Yazici H, Fresko I, Yurdakul S: Behçet s syndrome: disease manifestations, management, and advances in ... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 11 No Kappen et al in colonic tissue of a BD patient, IFN-γ, TNF-α, and IL-17A appear to be key cytokines, even in a treated patient Competing interests The authors ... they have no competing interests References Cañete JD, Celis R, Noordenbos T, Moll C, Gómez-Puerta JA, Pizcueta P, Palacin A, Tak PP, Sanmartí R, Baeten D: Distinct synovial immunopathology in...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22
Báo cáo y học: "Outcomes of highly active antiretroviral therapy in the context of universal access to healthcare: the U.S. Military HIV Natural History Study" ppt
... manuscript writing, and submission The content of this publication is the sole responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the NIH or the Department of ... TX, USA, 3Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 4Infectious Disease Service, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA, 5Infectious Disease Clinic, ... reflects the endpoint used in this analysis (50% increase) We also showed an association between the duration of HIV infection and CD4 reconstitution [48] in addition to increased AIDS events despite...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21
báo cáo khoa học: " Connectedness of healthcare professionals involved in the treatment of patients with Parkinson’s disease: a social networks study" pot
... Patterns in the professional contacts of health professionals involved in ParkinsonNet may influence clinical processes and outcomes in several ways Specifically, professional contacts may improve the ... patients was based on consensus among the clinical authors of this paper We hypothesized that health professionals treating many Parkinson patients and health professionals in specialized hospital settings ... care professionals yielded lower values for most network measures compared to professionals based in hospital settings We conclude that the analysis of the network of health professionals showed...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo y học: "Heel raises versus prefabricated orthoses in the treatment of posterior heel pain associated with calcaneal apophysitis (Sever’s Disease): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial" ppt
... recorded during the study The adverse events may include incidents such as skin reactions (e.g., blisters or rashes) from the prefabricated orthoses or heel lifts Analysis The intervention factors will ... weight-bearing gastrocnemius stretch Factor 1: Shoe orthoses The two levels of shoe orthoses to be investigated are: Heel raise (Figure 2) Prefabricated orthoses (Figure 3) Both of these interventions ... at no cost All participants within this group will be given standardised shoe wearing in instructions Schools within the study area allow the students to wear athletic footwear as the chosen footwear...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24