... during this period (ESSTI 2008). The cause of this increase is not clear. Potential explanations include a genuine rise in incidence, an increase and change in diagnostic testing, and/ or the introduction ... vaccination is in fact decreasing despite the much broader trend of increased vaccination: in the UK, MMR vaccination decreased from 99% in 2000 to 86.2% in 2007 andin Denmark from 100% in ... polio, in uenza, and Streptococcus pneumoniae in the elderly. Sex -and- age-specic data on basic vaccination coverage is currently minimal. However, as most vaccination occurs during infancy and...
... surface glycoproteins: hemagglutinin-neuraminidase (HN) glycoprotein and fusion protein (F protein) [1]. HN glycoprotein shows multiple biological functions that include hemagglutinin and enzymatic ... analysis of hemagglutinin-neuraminidase glycoprotein gene in human parainfluenza virus type 1 isolates from patients with acute respiratory infection between 2002 and 2009 in Yamagata prefecture, ... binding site. In particular, these substitutions affect, for example, the inhibitor in hemagglutination inhibition (HI) assays and infection of culture cells. However, the second receptor binding...
... by direct protein–protein interaction with NifL in A. vinelandii [25,26]; andin diazotrophs, w hich do notcontain NifL, there is evidence that GlnK or the paralogGlnB-protein directly modulate ... monitored by measuring the b-galactosidase activity duringanaerobic growth at 30 °C in min imal medium with glutamine (4 mM) as limiting nitrogen source (A) andwith 4 mMglutamine but in the presenceof ... synthesized and purified MBP-NifL in the p resence of oxygen ( Fig. 2) . T hisindicates a direct protein–protein interaction between MBP-NifL(–N, )O2) and NifA, which is consistent with thefinding...
... differences distinguish reasoning about in- tentional structures and discourse structures. But dis- course structure is linked to intentional structure in the following way. The above reasoning with ... Beliefs and Intentions in a Changing World, in Precedings of the hal Spring Symposium Series: Rea- soning about Mental States: Formal Theories and Ap- plications. Asher, Nicholas and Morreau, ... Reasoning, in Proceedings to the 12th Interna- tional Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Syd- ney Australia, August 1991. Asher, Nicholas and Singh, Munindar (1993) A Logic of Intentions...
... in rigidcapsules, capsuleglands and albuminglandsare pres-ent in acomplexof pallial glands. Thesediffer in theirorigin and function(Chukchin,1984).Oviductalglands in octopussecrete an adhesivecement,whilethoseofcuttlefish and squidsecrete ... cellsripenforspawning. In females,thisinvolvesformationofadditionaloocytecoverings and the process oftransferringoocytesintotheorgans fromwhichspawningwill take place. In males this involvesformationof ... Itincludestheirtransportandaccumulation in differentparts of the reproductive system and theirconversionintospermato-phores in males and eggs with protective coverings in females (i.e.physiologicalmaturity,func-tional...
... bityrosine signal was observed in allpeptides containing tyrosine 23 or 53 but not in peptidescontaining tyrosine 20 alone. According to these results,tyrosines 23 and 53 could be involved in ... mechanistic basis of LRET in proteins, systematicinvestigations on electron transfer between tyrosine and tryptophan in proteins and peptides have been conducted[710]. In this experimental system, ... SDS-containing gel.Proteins bands were stained with Coomassie blue R-250.Stained gels were scanned using an Ultrascan XL lasermicrodensitometer (LKB). The proportion of materialpresent in each band...
... oxidised to sulphoxide and finally, to the corresponding sulphone, and tyrosine forms dopaquinone (Tan et al., 1987a). Studies of 2 proteins (bovine serum albumin and casein) and 3 peptides (L-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine, ... chlorine dioxide disinfection byproducts in drinking water. Environ. Sci. Technol. 28: 592-599. Richardson SD (2003) Disinfection by-products and other emerging contaminants in drinking water. ... closely associated with the skin, even untrapped in inaccessible sites. Spray rinsing at several points along the processing line is an effective means of minimising contamination but is not...
... Constraint Propagation with Interval Labels. Artificial Intelligence 32,281-332 [Dean, 1987] T. Dean. Large-Scale Temporal Data Bases for Planning in Complex Domains. In: Pro- ceedings of ... by replacing x/__ in L with the lower bound of REFINE(Cj, Xi, L), and R+(Xi, Cj)(L) is formed by replacing x~ in L With the upper bound of REFINE(Cj, Xi, L). We say that these refinements ... wide. b. In fact, it is about seven times as long. The information given in (b) in (4)-(6) can be ac- counted for by simply modifying the terms intro- duced in (a). Hence, the differenceand factor...
... 8.1 Data Flow of Floating Point AdditionlSubtraction I85 8.2 Data Flow of Floating Point Multiplication 187 8.3 Data Flow of Floating Point Division I89 8.4 Example of Rounding in Subtraction ... andcomputerand mathe- matical sciences. It can also be used as a reference book for practicing engineers and computer scientists involved in the design, application and development of computer ... References Problems 8 Floating Point Operations 8.1 Floating Point AdditiodSubtraction 8.2 Floating Point Multiplication 8.3 Floating Point Division 8.4 Rounding 8.5 Extra Bits References...
... collectionôinterfaceằCollectionôinterfaceằIterator46 ProblemsãProblems with IntSet and StringSetTedious to write both versions: Copy and paste programming.Error prone to maintain both versionsãProblems with ... Node { int data; Node next;Node(int value) {this(value, null); / /data = value; //next = null; }Node(int value, Node node) { data = value; next = node; }int getData() { return data; ... next; }} The classes IntSetpublic class IntSet{ private int capacity; private static int DefaultCapacity = 10; private int[] store; private int next; public IntSet(int capacity) { this.capacity...
... cardiac intensive care with the cath-eter remaining in place for drug initiation and monitoringas per standard care. Exclusion criteria included exposureto intravenous inotropic support within ... ino-trope administration and dosing.ProceduresAll treatments including milrinone dosing was at the dis-cretion of the patient's attending physician, with initialdosing between 0.25 and 0.5 ... significant reductions in inflammatory and apoptotic signaling with milrinoneinfusion. This is the first data we are aware of to showimprovements in apoptotic markers with milrinone infu-sion.Table...
... previous data demonstratedactivity with estramustine-based combinations and theactivity of combined navelbine and mitoxantrone, sup-porting the testing of combination therapy with estra-mustine, ... estra-mustine, mitoxantrone, and vinorelbine in patients with CRPC. One study demonstrated a potential clinical ben-efit to adding estramustine with vinorelbine as secondline therapy in CRPC [13]. Another ... treatment with vinorelbine, mitoxantrone and estramustine yielded a response rate suggesting clin-ical activity in men with CRPC, and was well tolerated.The combination of CRA/IFN and paclitaxel, in...
... (Th2) cytokine pro-duction [3]. In humans, G-CSF increases interleukin(IL)-4 release and decreases interferon (IFN)-g produc-tion [4], induces immune modulatory genes in T cells,including the ... correlation between tumoralindoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase expression and tumor-infiltratinglymphocytes in endometrial cancer: Its association with diseaseprogression and survival. Clin Cancer Res ... stimulatingfactor treatment of Crohn’s disease is associated with the appearance ofcirculating interleukin-10-producing T cells and increased lamina propriaplasmacytoid dendritic cells. Clin Exp...