... knowledge and ideas, their patience and understanding, and the many hours they have each dedicated to sit down with me in person to guide and advise me in scientific thinking, planning, writing and ... when in coculture in both in vitro andin vivo experiments and how it leads to increased vascularisation and bone formation This work will enhance the understanding of the specific interactions ... tissue graft remains a major challenge in inducing effective fracture healing and thus, a major thrust in this project The interactions of vasculogenic EPC and osteogenic hfMSC will be interrogated...
... to in businesses Foreign Direct Investment in Vietnam includes both direct and indirect investment The total amount of indirect investment in 2006 was billion USD, 6.3 billion USD in 2007 and ... not least, income in U.S dollars in the strata of the population is increasingly expanding and growing It is the income of Vietnamese people who working for foreign companies and international ... Constant Purchasing Power Accounting as defined in IAS 29 Constant Purchasing Power Accounting requires financial capital maintenance in units of constant purchasing power during hyperinflation under...
... during 2003-04, is expected to help in the revival of agriculture and increase in its contribution to GSDP in the State The value added from Forestry & Logging in GSDP has been declining in real ... very few industries like cashew processing, fruit and fish canning, laundry soap making, etc Now the State has over 6000 small-scale industrial units and 154 medium and large industries in the ... expenditures should not be included in GDP because they not contribute to well-being but are, in fact, a cost of maintaining social order GDP is not intended to measure well-being and therefore should...
... negative constraint between e1 and e2 and positive constraints between e1 and e3, e1 and e4, and e2 and e4 In terms of explanatory coherence, e1 and e2 could be thought of as competing hypotheses, ... America First printing, 2000 Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Thagard, Paul Coherence in thought andaction / Paul Thagard p cm.—(Life and mind) “A Bradford book.” Includes bibliographical ... supersede behaviorism in the mid 1950s Cognitive science has emerged as the interdisciplinary study of mind and intelligence, embracing artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, and neuroscience,...
... vii Introduction I Structure 23 Games and Rules 25 Defining Interaction 31 Defining Narrative 41 Combining Interaction and Narrative 47 II Presentation 67 Games as Moving Images 69 Cinema and Game ... operating it by switches Defining Interaction 33 and gazing at huge arrays of blinking lights, to greater and greater distances from the computer and direct interaction with it, then back again to ... human-computer interaction that saw programmers operating machines by physically adjusting knobs and dials Originally, knobs -and- dials interfaces were found, for example, in the analog machines build...
... http://www.josr-online.com/content/3/1/29 stained for minutes using 0.5% Safranine O (C.I.50240, Hopkin & Willianms, England) After quickly rinsed in tap water, the slices were washed in 70%, 95%, and three changes of ... staining techniques for imaging the collagen and other micro-components of AC in vivo shows the potential of developing the 3D imaging technique to be a tool for assessing early OA and evaluating ... cartilage, design and conducting the experiments, analyzing data and writing the manuscript TBK participated in initiating the idea cartilage and proof read the manuscript MHZ participated in design...
... Y A Aslandogan, and P R Bergstresser, “Mining biomedical images with density-based clustering,” in Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC ... data points Thus, in this setting, while we see clusters of red and green points in the thrombi (plus surrounding black cells), the 3D space is also scattered with many other red and green points ... voxels in every 2D image slice and classify the voxels using slice-specific threshold values Then, clusters of clot voxels are obtained in3D images using density-based clustering Since clots contain...
... mapping the elements with the indices 2, 3, 6, 8, and into the left bin and the remaining elements into the right bin to generate the stego object To minimize the distortion of cover object in ... within every bin Since the operations in one embedding unit are independent from those in the other units, we only discuss the operations in an arbitrary unit In the normal LSB hiding, a string ... is tiny because there are few coordinates in the same bin When there is no coordinate in one bin, no data can be embedded despite how many coordinates in the other bin of the same embedding unit...
... of would indicate testing of urinary microalbumin and serum LDL within a year, measuring BP and glycosylated haemoglobin within six months, and having active prescriptions for a statin and an angiotensin-modifying ... angiotensin-modifying agent For patients with IHD, a maximum score of would indicate testing fasting blood glucose within two years and LDL within one year, measuring BP within six months, and having ... fasting blood glucose, LDL = low density lipoprotein cholesterol, ACR = urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio, ASA = aspirin, ACE/ARB = angiotensin-modifying agent guidelines for glucose, LDL, and...
... effect in activating caspase in gels that were constrained from contracting (Figure 7B) Role of Smad2 and Smad3 in TGF-β induced apoptosis of fibroblasts in floating collagen gels To determine the ... trypsin/EDTA, penicillin G sodium, and streptomycin were purchased from Invitrogen (Life Technologies, Grand Island, NY) Amphotericin B was purchased from Pharma-Tek (Elmira, NY) The terminal ... contraction of collagen gels and the apoptosis of fibroblasts in contracting gels This contrasted with a slight inhibition of apoptosis in fibroblasts in three-dimensional gels that were constrained...
... Olsen DB: Inhibition of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase by a quinazolinone and comparison with inhibition by pyridinones Differences in the rates of inhibitor binding andin synergistic inhibition ... fitting of the data using the single ligand binding equation y = (Bmax × [ligand])/(Kd + [ligand]) The DEC formation by TFV-terminated DNA/RT in the presence of dCTP yielded Bmax = 49.2 ± 2.7% and ... FTC-TP or EFV, and by FTC-MP-terminated DNA and HIV-1 RT in the presence of EFV This study furthers our understanding of the mechanism of action for anti-HIV drug interactions and the efficacy...
... In this case, the strong photoluminescence of SrTiO3 using multi-photon excitation has been obtained at room temperature In addition, with a combination of above band gap, sub band gap and band ... in the formation of both (100) and (110) twins in the LAO crystal.32,33 It has been reported that the (100) twin is predominant in LAO single crystals.34,35 This lattice distortion of twins in ... E Choi, ―Photoluminescence induced by thermal annealing in SrTiO3 thin film,‖ Applied Physics Letters 97, (2010) 52 Y Yamada and Y Kanemitsu, ―Band-to-band photoluminescence in SrTiO3,‖ Physical...
... Prof Garland’s Advanced Reaction Engineering, Process Analytics and Chemometrics lab at the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences in Singapore (ICES) The scalar instruments include (1) ... Singapore and at Bruker Biospin AG in Zurich, Switzerland I am also grateful to Dr Fethi Kooli, Dr Anette Wiesmat and many others in the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences (ICES in ... Measurements in Multivariate Analysis Figure 3.1 A batch reaction with four kinds of on-line measurements according to the dimension of the individual measurements In chemical and engineering science,...
... to be grounded in the human body and its interaction with the environment, and thus in perception andaction Rather than being merely input and output devices, perception andaction are considered ... understanding of human behavior A growing number of researchers in the field are proposing that mental processes such as remembering, thinking, and understanding language are based on the physical interactions ... (1) The interaction between cognition and spatial andaction processes, (2) understanding emotional and abstract concepts, (3) the grounding of grammar in embodied experiences, (4) examining the...
... To start drawingin colour is to take a step into the area of painting, although in this volume we will mainly be looking at colour as an adjunct to drawing There are various methods and media ... from painting?’ Well, in this book I examine no fewer than four methods of drawingin various colour mediums, only one of which is connected with painting I will be showing examples – and how ... hard-edged line The main thing in holding an implement for drawing is not to grip it too tightly Your grip should be as light as is possible without losing control of the tool Drawing positions In order...
... perspectives in complex settings Moreover, everyone in the setting who should normally be included in shaping and focusing the project is likely to be very busy and concerned with meeting immediate demands ... became apparent that printing organizations that failed to invest in developing the capacity and capability to work with digital printing would have difficulty in surviving Printing organizations ... technology brought a demand for widescale retraining For many years, printing had been carried out by putting together separate letters to make words, inking these up and printing them directly onto...
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... were increased by 2.23 (95% CI 1.91 to 2.61) and 2.44 (95% CI 2.08 to 2.85) per two-fold increase in ProADM When both the initial and the timeupdated value of ProADM were included in the model, initial ... ultimate clinical utility of a biomarker is defined by the degree it improves clinical decision making and adds timely information beyond that of readily available information from clinical examination ... sepsis in a medical intensive care unit Crit Care Med 2000, 28:977-983 Lee RW, Lindstrom ST: A teaching hospital's experience applying the Pneumonia Severity Index and antibiotic guidelines in the...
... of cytokine-induced insulin resistance in obesity and other inflammatory settings Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care 2002, 5:377-383 15 Marik PE, Raghavan M: Stress-hyperglycemia, insulin and immunomodulation ... pre-existing increased insulin resistance and dysfunction of beta cells Insulin resistance is present in the acutely ill [13,15,18,28] in different intensity, but the factors determining the extent ... stress hormones They also alter insulin receptor signalling [12-16] and create insulin resistance Due to these actions, glucose uptake in fat and muscle cells is reduced and hepatic gluconeogenesis...
... 250) in the standard insulin group and 36.6% (93 of 254) in the intensive insulin group ICU mortality was similar for patients of the standard insulin group andin those from the intensive insulin ... standard insulin group and 83 of 254 (32.7%) in the intensive insulin group The mean calorie intake in 24 hours was 23.1 ± 12.7 kcal/kg in the standard insulin group and 25.5 ± 14.4 kcal/kg in the intensive ... 14 patients in the standard insulin group (5.6%) and 14 in the intensive insulin group (5.5%) The remaining patients received total-enteral feeding exclusively In the standard insulin group 47%...