... Spontaneous IL-8 and MCP-1 production was low and ionomycin (1 μM) increased MCP-1 and IL-8 production 6–10-fold (figure 3a &3b) Mometasone (1 μM) and dexamethasone (1 μM) inhibited IL-8 and MCP-1 generation ... assistance in the design and drafting of the manuscript HK conceived the study, and participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final ... were incubated for 18 h and supernatants were collected and stored at -20°C and cytokines were measured by ELISA The lower limits of detection were 3.9 pg/ml for MCP-1 and 4.1 pg/ml for IL-8 Materials...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:21
... capacity between indolent and aggressive forms of prostate cancer Large GWAS among affected men contrasting more and less aggressive cases, and exploring association with disease progression and prostate ... prostate cancer explored the association between 16 established risk variants and prostate cancer mortality [52] In total, 2,875 patients diagnosed between 2001 and 2003 were followed up for prostate ... variants and an additional six variants at chromosome 7p15, 8q24, 10q26, and 17q12 in a population-based study comprising 1,308 cases and 1,267 controls for association with family history and clinical...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20
Báo cáo khoa học: " An Investigation of the Ability of the Glutaraldehyde Test to Distinguish between Acute and Chronic Inflammatory Disease in Horses" ppsx
... ability of GT to distinguish between acute and chronic inflammatory disease in horses During the trial we compared indicators of inflammation (the concentration of blood fibrinogen and serum globulin) ... to the diagnosis and etiology was also used to reinforce the distinction between acute and chronic disease (Table 1) The GT was performed by adding equal amounts of fresh blood and glutaraldehyde ... concentration of fibrinogen and/ or immunoglobulin based on GT-time (Table 2) The results of the GT and fibrinogen, globulin and albumin/globulin ratio were compared using regression and correlation The...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21
Pointers and Dynamic Arrays
... can add and subtract with pointers The ++ and - - operators can be used Two pointers of the same type can be subtracted to obtain the number of indexed variables between The pointers ... To declare multiple pointers in a statement, use the asterisk before each pointer variable Example: int *p1, *p2, v1, v2; p1 and p2 point to variables of type int v1 and v2 are variables of ... called dynamic variables Dynamic variables are created and destroyed while the program is running Additional examples of pointers and dynamic variables are shown in Display 9.2 An illustration...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 22:51
Pointers and Linked Lists
... Chapter 13 Pointers and Linked Lists Copyright © 2007 Pearson Education, Inc Publishing as Pearson Addison-Wesley Overview 13.1 Nodes and Linked Lists 13.2 Stacks and Queues Copyright ... Addison-Wesley Slide 13- 37 AssignmentWith Pointers If head1 and head2 are pointer variables and head1 points to the head node of a list: head2 = head1; causes head2 and head1 to point to the same list ... and a pointer that can point to another node of the same type The pointers point to the entire node, not an individual item that might be in the node The arrows in the drawing represent pointers...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 22:54
Financial liberalisation and the relationship between finance and growth
... Iceland, India, Israel, Japan, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad, the United Kingdom, Australia, and ... Eichengreen, and Wyplosz 2001, 11; Rodríguez and Rodrik 2000, 28-34; and Eichengreen forthcoming, We explicitly address the first and third round of studies of capital account liberalization and growth ... scores: trade (exports and imports) and invisibles (payments and receipts for financial and other services) We transformed each measure into a to 100 scale taking 100*(CAPITAL/4) and 100*(CURRENT/8)...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 08:50
Báo cáo y học: "Pathogenic Mechanisms Shared between Psoriasis and Cardiovascular Diseas"
... vessel and underlying tissue Also, inflammatory cells roll along the blood vessel wall by the interaction between selectins (E and P-selectin) expressed by endothelial cells and selectin ligands ... atherosclerotic plaque In addition to the critical role of interaction between LFA-1 and its ligand, ICAM-1, the interaction of CD2 and its ligand, LFA-3 is also important in facilitation of antigen-recognition ... retrieved and included in our discretion Results and Discussion Several lines of evidence indicated that psoriasis is associated with enhanced atherosclerosis and risk of cardiovascular disease, and...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40
How does ppp hold between australia and its trading partners.pdf
... trade barriers Australia has joined WTO and signed free trade agreements with the United States and Thailand in 2005, with Singapore in 2003 and with New Zealand from 1993 It is now in negotiating ... countries and areas such as Japan, ASEAN, Malaysia, China, Chile and Gulf countries This research project tests the PPP between Australia and its trading partners over the period from 1984 to 2006 and ... Enders (1988) and Ardeni and Lubian (1991) reject long-run PPP However, Diebold, Husted and Rush (1991), Cheung and Lai (1993), Edison (1987), Frenkel (1981), Branson (1981), Desai (1981), and Miller...
Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2012, 16:32
Xác định độ bám dính của gỗ cao su và keo dyno trong sản xuất ván ghép thanh determiation on adhesiveness between rubberwood and dyno glue
... CHISON, 1994 Properties and utilization of fast-growing trees China Forestry Publishing House CHAVALIT, U., 1989 Prodution and utilization of para-rubber wood in Thailand Royal Forestry Department ... rubberwood production No 12, ISSN 1394-6196 SUCHART THAIPETCH, 1993 Rubberwood production and utilization in Thailand Asean Timber Technology Centre (ATTC) ...
Ngày tải lên: 30/10/2012, 16:53
Báo cáo y học: "Application of Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) for Differentiation between Normal and Cancerous Breast Tissue"
... differentiate between normal and tumor breast tissues Furthermore, it is possible to differentiate between fibrocystic changes and carcinoma using this parameter The difference between adipose and tumors ... are 0.33, 0.36, 0.46 and 0.4 nm for carcinoma, fibrocystic changes, adipose and fibroglandular tissues respectively Comparison of the measured signatures between the fresh and frozen tissues is ... this parameter The difference between adipose and tumors is further highlighted and even though the fibroglandular and fibrocystic changes peaks are close, they are statistically separated Using...
Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 11:08
Báo cáo y học: "Discriminating between elderly and young using a fractal dimension analysis of centre of pressure"
... remain standing upright Difficulty lies in deciphering the information contained within these traces and distinguishing one from the other However, with recent advances in the area of chaos and mathematics, ... the Lyapunov exponent, and determined COP data to be chaotic while five participants both a) stood still, and b) swung their arms while standing still Earlier, Collins and De Luca [9] had determined ... dimension that lies between and When this is so, the participant is swaying about the stable point in a complex and dynamic manner with a high level of control of the degrees of freedom, and as such...
Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 10:09
A comparative study of criticism between american and vietnamese online newspapers
... employee to work harder and smarter This is because being open and direct in expressing opinions, desires, preferences, and feelings, or in discussing issues, events, and most ideas is considered ... years and is not updated in any dictionary 4.3.1.2 Culture difference Understanding culture is integral to learning and understanding a language Culture may be defined as "what" a society does and ... he does not know Chi and his personality In general, culture shock can be described as below: “A mismatch between the neuro - perceptual - cognitive map and the physical and sociocultural environments...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:44
HOW DOES PPP HOLD BETWEEN AUSTRALIA AND ITS TRADING
... trade barriers Australia has joined WTO and signed free trade agreements with the United States and Thailand in 2005, with Singapore in 2003 and with New Zealand from 1993 It is now in negotiating ... countries and areas such as Japan, ASEAN, Malaysia, China, Chile and Gulf countries This research project tests the PPP between Australia and its trading partners over the period from 1984 to 2006 and ... Enders (1988) and Ardeni and Lubian (1991) reject long-run PPP However, Diebold, Husted and Rush (1991), Cheung and Lai (1993), Edison (1987), Frenkel (1981), Branson (1981), Desai (1981), and Miller...
Ngày tải lên: 26/03/2013, 11:10
120 ACTUAL SITUATIONS ABOUT ASIAN STOCK TRADE BANK`S RETAIL (ACB) ACTIONS. COMPARE RETAIL ACTION ANALYST BETWEEN ACB AND VIET NAM HSBC
... Northland region: exchanges (Hai Phong, Ha Noi), branches and 22 public relations • Midland region: branches and public relations • Westland region: branches and public relations • Eastland region: ... Vietnam, while research and development of products and services to provide markets are and the new market situation requires the customer's increasingly sophisticated and complex In addition, ... currency and gold: fiduciary loan and security property loan • Agent services (realize payment internal and external country, fund service, transfer overseas national currency exchange internal and...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2013, 14:53
Differences and similarities between prescriptive and descriptive strategiesx
... Marketing and Customer Service Management , 15 (3), 169-190 T Shimizu, M M (2006) Concepts and History of Strategy in Oganizations In Strategic Alignment Process and Decision Support Systems: Theory and ... climate conditions • The Earth: conditions of the land • The Chief: virtues of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage, and righteousness • The Method and discipline: the correct deployment of the ... shown as a descriptive strategy, highlighting the areas or categories such as context, process and outcome The author investigated a Swedish company with the most satisfied customers to find...
Ngày tải lên: 17/04/2013, 10:02
Pointers and Strings
... Relationship Between Pointers and Arrays • Arrays and pointers closely related – Array name like constant pointer – Pointers can array subscripting operations • Accessing array elements with pointers ... Expressions and Pointer Arithmetic • Pointer comparison – Use equality and relational operators – Comparisons meaningless unless pointers point to members of same array – Compare addresses stored in pointers ... Multiple pointers require multiple asterisks int *myPtr1, *myPtr2; 2003 Prentice Hall, Inc All rights reserved count Pointer Variable Declarations and Initialization • Can declare pointers...
Ngày tải lên: 25/04/2013, 19:11
CFD model of air movement in ventilated façade: comparison between natural and forced air flow
... both summer and winter conditions: air permeability to reduce heat dispersion in winter and guarantee passive cooling effect by combining convective and heat transport between the outer and inner ... parts of wall and can be incorporated and tested to integrate nonpermanent thermal inertia References [1] Balocco, C A simple model to study ventilated façades energy performance Energy and Buildings, ... ventilated façades according to the CEN Standard 13790 method and detailed simulation 547 2nd PALENC Conference and 28th AIVC Conference on Building Low Energy Cooling and Advanced Ventilation Technologies...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58
A contrastive analysis of passive voice between english and vietnamese
... correlation between semantic roles such as agent and patient and between grammatical functions such as subjects and objects This view of passive voice is taken as the basis for the comparison and contrast ... example is the verb sinh and đẻ in Vietnamese ( deliver a baby and/ to be born ) which exit in both active and passive expressions The distinguishing feature between active and passive is the denotative ... phi công cụ) Nouns and noun phrases in part b and b in type one, b in type two and b and c in type three are often the subject of passive expressions Part a on the other hand are often the subject...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 12:58