... Working status was analysed based on work location by grouping regions into established regions (Addis Ababa; Amhara; Dire Dawa; Harari; Oromia; Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples States (SNNPR)); ... were analysed bymeansof SAS software Summary statistics were generated with gender, type of provider, type of facility, working status and reasons for leaving as the categorical variable Chi-square ... Ethiopia 's attempts to attain ambitious targets to scale up primary health care services, as well as to reach goals for universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment services by 2010 A...
... adequacy of the PG grammaticality indices to the measurements was investigated bymeansof resultant analysis We adapted the parameters of the model in order to arrive at a good fit based on half of ... associated with the input As shown above, such a description is made of sets of satisfied and violated constraints The idea is to take advantage of such a representation for proposing a quantitative ... subsets of the materials Constructions for which the judgements remain highly stable across subsets of sentences are marked by an asterisk (rs > 0.90; p < 0.001) The mean reliability across subsets...
... The asset manager is not constrained bya need to match the cash flows of the collateral assets to those of the debt tranches However, the asset manager has to maintain and improve the market value ... standard market model assumes in its simplest version that the copula correlations between each pair of assets are the same This assumption is frequently used in the market according to Burtschell ... of CDS margins available for an increasing number of reference assets As a result, CDSs are considered to be “plain vanilla” instruments, while CDS premia are used to calibrate pricing models...
... M Analytical methods Hydrolysis of ATP was assayed in microtiter plates essentially as described in [43] Protein was assayed using the BCA kit from Bio-Rad SDS/PAGE and immunoblot analyses were ... Enterobacterial MalK can be purified in fairly large amounts [15] and displays a spontaneous ATPase activity that is insensitive to inhibition by vanadate, a typical inhibitor of ABC transporters [16] ... MalE-maltosestimulated ATPase activity of MalFGK2-containing proteoliposomes Thus, MalK and proteoliposomes were incubated with excess mAbs and subsequently assayed for ATP hydrolysis The results...
... population It is an estimate of the average fitness of the search space This estimate has a statistical variance associated with it, since it is not the average of all KL points in the search space ... good as the estimated average for the search space, • 011 is 100% as good as the estimated average for the search space, and • 010 is 67% as good as the estimated average for the search space Page ... view these schemata as competing explanations, each of which has a fitness value associated with it In particular, the average fitness ofa schema is the average of the fitness values for each individual...
... University Press; 2006 Taché S, Kaaya E, Omer S, Mkony CAE, Lyamuya E, Pallangyo K, Debas HT, MacFarlane SB: University partnership to address the shortage of healthcare professionals in Africa Global ... registrars and primary care consultants at the Muhimbili National Hospital was also reviewed as part of the needs assessment Based on these findings, the CNIS curriculum was adapted with the overall ... has no dedicated time to supervise and teach practical skills outside of operating theatre cases Limited space and decreases in surgical case-load due to major hospital rehabilitation work has...
... including its anion on a Si-based substrate The substrate is an insulator and does not offer, unlike mica, any charges at the surface This leads to the SMM and its anions minimizing the contact with ... Spectroscopy, Faculty of Physics, Osnabrueck University, Barbarastrasse 7, 49069 Osnabrueck, Germany Authors’ contributions AG and HP carried out the AFM measurements supervised by AB and UH CD carried ... thickness of the layers Free islands which not have any lateral contact These show most often the tendency to appear in a circular manner Islands attached to a step edge Again these tend to form a...
... continuous data arrival, when data arrives in bursts, it can happen that a slot is scheduled to process data, but there is no data available This is the worst case scenario The general behavior is that ... is flexible, but also makes use ofa rigid framework Bymeansof Egyptian Fractions and binary trees, we can compose a TDMA schedule that allows sensors to send in specified slots during certain ... selection of slots ensures that collisions are avoided The fractional representation ofa slot, which is also an Egyptian Fraction, is scheduled bymeansofa binary tree The resulting allocation...
... share several advantages, such as modularity, reusability, predictability, and adaptability as well as a set of disadvantages, such as an increased configuration process, loss of optimality, and ... local, S S8 S5 Master : 288 packs to seg 0, S1 SA0 S6 S4 SA1 Master : 564 packs to seg 0, S2 SA2 Master : 376 packs to seg 1, S5 Master : 612 packs to seg 2, S7 Master : 300 packs to seg 2, S6 Segment ... Segment Segment Segment (a) S0 S1 Master : 430 packs to S Master : 300 packs to S S3 S2 Master : 2670 packs to S S4 S5 Master : 1700 packs to S S6 S7 S8 Master : 2460 packs to S Master : 288 packs...
... Distribution—continued Distribution of fresh-water productions— On the inhabitants of oceanic islands— Absence of Batrachians and of terrestrial Mammals—On the relation of the inhabitants of islands to those of the ... unusual manner are highly variable: specific characters more variable than generic: secondary sexual characters variable—Species of the same genus vary in an analogous manner—Reversions to long-lost ... natural selection—The term used in a wide sense—Geometrical powers of increase—Rapid increase of naturalised animals and plants—Nature of the checks to increase—Competition universal—Effects of...
... balance may easily lead to biased results and misleading conclusions The possibility of contrasting changes in the carbon Carbon sink of Finland s forests stocks of biomass and soils as a consequence ... forests and factors that caused it Based on these results, we analyse the importance of natural and human-induced factors for the carbon balance of these managed forests and discuss the rationality ... expansion of forested areas and the increased carbon density in Finland s forests were the results of forest management that aimed at increasing the potential of sustainable timber harvests by...
... orchards of black Natural stands of Spanish black pine (Pinus nigra Arn subsp salzmannii (Dunal) Franco, present in Spain and the south of France) pine from the Peloponesos have been planted; some ... times apical shoot was bifurcated ones analyses Two factor (clone and rootstock species) analyses of variance (ANOVA), based upon a fixed effects model, were undertaken for all the variables studied ... nigra Arn Comunicaciones INIA, Serie Recursos Naturales n°5, autóctonos MAPA-INIA, Madrid, Spain Schirone B, Piovesan G, Bellarosa R, Pelosi C (1991) A taxonomic analysis of seed proteins in...
... (DW/FW)100) and specific = dry weight (SDW DW/Area) All data are expressed as mean values, stan= dard deviation and correlations; a variance analysis with ANOVA-LSD test and discriminant analysis were ... performed The software used was Statistica Statsoft Inc and SPSS for Windows 6.0 RESULTS The data in table II show the yearly variations in the nutritional status and morphology of the needles over ... (Pinus nigra subsp nigra and Pinus nigra subsp laricio (Poiret) Maire), cypress (Cupressus sempervirens L.) and silver fir (Abies alba Mill.), with a sporadic presence of other species These stands...
... was a much smaller Transpiration percentage Results and Discussion The seasonal behavior of hpv and energy balance measurements together with the plant water status (predawn water potential) are ... calibration procedure for the hpv system consisted of measuring in the field the water uptake of sampled trees, which represented the averages of the size classes A plastic tank was attached around ... where transpiration rates are not limited by water stress and to forests with higher LAI hpv values ranged from to 50 m-hThese values are rather high if compared with those of conifers (Lassoie...
... hypertension Increased PAI-1 level seems to be the cause of, and not only the result of, cardiovascular diseases or atherosclerosis, because it was shown in an animal study that increased expression ... diabetes patients and those who had liver or pancreatic diseases as primary diseases were excluded Six patients had acute respiratory distress syndrome (four caused by panperitonitis, two after ... Morishita E, Yamazaki M, Matsuda T: Change in plasma levels of tissue plasminogen activator/inhibitor complex and active plasminogen activator inhibitor in patients with disseminated intravascular...
... that subjects were bothered by their lower back, as reported on a weekly basis Data analysis Data were transmitted from a spread sheet to STATA 10.1 (StataCorp, Texas, USA) When answers other than ... patterns, short message service (SMS) that is automatically sent to respondents' mobile phones has been introduced as a tool for frequent surveillance By sending standardized questions by text messages ... not need approval Clinical procedures Patients who agreed to participate had a standardised clinical examination and were assigned a mechanical diagnosis based upon this [26] Chiropractors were...
... Deltoids, Serratus anterior Hamstrings, Tensor fascia lata Pectoralis major clavicular, Sternocleidomastoideus Latissimus dorsi Subscapularis Rectus abdominis, Rectus femoris Peroneus, Tibialis anterior ... diminution of the RMS signal Already Discussion Caruso and Leisman described the AK test as one that evaluates a transitory state named 'quality of resistance' [9] The sEMG analyses we did support this ... excess In terms of muscle signals derived from sEMG, signals increase in tonification and decrease in sedation Surgical scars can cause interferences in manual muscle tests as well as in muscle...
... transfer RNA synthetases: crystal structure of yeast aspartyl-tRNA synthetase complexed with tRNA(Asp) Science 1991, 252:1682-1689 Lohman TM, Bjornson KP: Mechanisms of helicase-catalyzed DNA unwinding ... its own amino acid sequence Based on location and environment, a structural class is assigned for each residue A collection of reference structures is used as a control in order to calculate a ... molecular dynamics simulation course that followed, reflecting its high quality exhibited almost identical electrostatic surfaces, sharing common features such as a negatively charged ssRNA entrance...
... this article as: Ciscato et al., Vascular relaxation of canine visceral arteries after ischemia bymeansof supraceliac aortic cross-clamping followed by reperfusion Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, ... Pesquisa Estado de S o Paulo (FAPESP) and Fundação de Apoio ao Ensino, Pesquisa e Assistência Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de S o Paulo (FAEPA-HC/FMRP) ... discussion 919 Anagnostopoulos PV, Shepard AD, Pipinos II, Raman SB, Chaudhry PA, Mishima T, Morita H, Suzuki G: Hemostatic alterations associated with supraceliac aortic cross-clamping J Vasc Surg...