... contained 21 classes Twenty ofthe classes were of equal size with a difference of between the fewest and most animals in the class The within-class herd sizes in the these classes were modeled ... In this study, the sensitivity ofthe ELISA was modeled with a BetaPERT distribution with a minimum of 15%, a most likely value of 45%, and a maximum of 87% The specificity (SP) ofthe ELISA is ... If the number of infected animals detected was greater than then a was generated The total number of times was generated in each iteration was the total number of infected herds detected The...
... pandemic a decision needs to be made as to whether the severity of infection at the individual patient level is sufficient to offer antivirals to all of those with symptoms or even to attempt delaying ... developmentof new therapies Considerations should also be given tothe public health implications of ensuring appropriate prescribing practices in order to limit the risk ofthe emergence and spread of ... initially led tothe concept of stockpiling antivirals From what countries have reported, the antiviral stockpiles in European countries vary in coverage from a few per cent ofthe population to more...
... Moreover, Dr Nageshwaran, the Head ofthe Department of Languages of Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka and Prof Chandrasekaran, Dean ofthe Faculty of Education of University of Colombo enhanced ... achievement within the plantation sector Adequate reasons will be given to explain the rise ofthe Kanganis as a new social class within the plantation system and later into the business sector Moreover, ... Moreover, the role of caste will be taken into the discussion as a crucial factor that created social disparity within the community‟s upper castes, promoting a movement tothe top ofthe class...
... UK (the joint Group ofthe Royal Society of Chemistry and the Society of Chemical Industry), covers some ofthe advances in the Chemical AspectsofDrug Delivery Systems New materials for drug ... necessarily valid to correlate the dissolution behaviour of one drugwith that of another, as thedrug itself may alter the gel structure The Use o Bioadhesive Polymers as a Means of Improving Drug Delivery ... between the bioadhesive polymer and the receptor tissue must exist, resulting either from a good wetting ofthe bioadhesion surface or the swelling ofthe polymer b) The penetration ofthe polymer...
... removal of particles from the air; (b) they also govern their deposition within the respiratory system and (c) they are associated withthe chemical composition and sources of particles These properties ... review ofthe scientific quality ofthe project’s work EUR/03/5042688 page The CAFÉ Steering Group, which advises DG Environment oftheEuropean Commission on the strategic direction ofthe CAFÉ ... proposed the details ofthe methodology and timetable ofthe review of health effects of PM, NO2, and O3, taking into account the guidelines provided in the WHO document “Evaluation and use of epidemiological...
... briefly tothe consideration ofthe sacrifices that the father makes As is the case with mother so withthe father, the initial sacrifice in the division of a portion of his body is too small to be ... the moment ofthe emission or the ejaculation ofthe semen the numerous ducts empty their contents into the urethra to be mingled with and made a part ofthe semen The secretion ofthe prostate ... of these muscles at the moment of emission of semen, thus throwing the contents ofthe vesicles into the urethra at the same moment when the epididymis the vas [51]deferens and the ducts of the...
... upper, and the lower They closely resemble each other The arm corresponds tothe thigh; the forearm, tothe leg; the wrist, tothe ankle; the fingers, tothe toes The fingers and the toes are so ... I. THE SKELETON THE HEAD THE TRUNK THE LIMBS II. THE MUSCLES III. THE SKIN THE HAIR AND THE NAILS THE TEETH IV. RESPIRATION AND THE VOICE V. THE CIRCULATION THE BLOOD THE HEART THE ARTERIES THE ... producing the motions ofthe body, the muscles use the bones as levers We see an illustration ofthe _first class_ of levers in the movements ofthe head The back or front ofthe head is the weight to...
... function of s ∈ [1, n], the cardinality of A3 attains its maximum only for some s ∈ [s − 2k, s + 2] This, together with (8), completes the proof ofthe lemma Now we can prove the first conjecture of ... claimed in the statement ofthe theorem This completes the first part of our proof (II) For the second part note that we have just shown s ≥ l3 (12) Plugging (11) into the definition of l3 yields ... s = l3 and kl3 ≥ 2r3 − 1, the latter being a requirement for either ofthe two possibilities for I3 to be k-sum-free, then another computation similar tothe one in the Appendix yields that s...
... is limited The colour of needles is normal (Hurrle 1981) There is no reliable information on the toxicity of any ofthe elements totheEuropean tree species Tyler (1992) derived the toxicity limits ... unfavourable development in the forests ofthe NFR, two main questions have to be answered First, whether the contents ofthe respective elements are really extremely high in comparison withthe other ... level, near the frontier with Poland and Slovakia This area is exposed tothe greatest pollution because ofthe geographic exposition tothe industrial area of Northern Moravia and the important...
... against the entry ofthe outsiders into the village After the completion ofthe prohibitory indicators at the entry points they come back tothe village and they form a group consisting of 20 members ... virtue: The entire plant is placed ine corneer ofthe altar The tip ofthe plant and tip ofthe leaves of ‘Piro’ are tied together near the altar ofthe Dobur Uie Medicinal use: Juice ofthe rhizome ... are used in the main entrance ofthe Dobur Uie and in the four corners ofthe altar The head and the feathers ofthe Page of 13 sacrificed chickens are on the bamboo sticks near the altar Medicinal...
... limits of agreement in order for the study to confirm the efficacy ofthe new tool To allow a conclusion to be drawn from the data, the authors should have made an a priori description of what they ... related tothe magnitude ofthe least significant change (LSC) The LSC is the minimum change that needs to Table Effect ofthe number of measurements ofthereference technique on the percentage ... technique is to be validated against a reference, the precision ofthereference technique within the study be measured and quoted, thus enabling an estimation ofthe new technique to be made Then whatever...
... required to disrupt the viral envelope and capsid Irrespective ofthe answers to these questions, such nanoparticles would have advantages of their own For instance: (i) they help to increase the ... that may not be the case in the resultant nanoparticles (in situ evaluation ofthe composition ofthe nanoparticles is required) In addition, whether the molar concentrations ofthe respective ... disrupt the viral envelope and possibly the viral capsid, bringing the naked genome into contact withthe REase, one could nevertheless argue that the virus is no longer infectious by the time the...
... with respect tothe marker locus, linkage equilibrium and no effect ofthe marker on the trait locus The phenotypic value ofthe ith sib ofthe jth sib pair is assumed to be ofthe form: is the ... under the assumption ofthe availability of highly polymorphic marker systems THEORY The Haseman Elston test The linkage test of Haseman and Elston (1972) is based on the idea that the greater the ... and of sibships of size on the power ofthe Haseman-Elston test is examined Columns and of table V show the effect of using only fully informative matings on the power ofthe Haseman-Elston test...
... When assessing which ofthe key functions in the health system that seems to have fallen short of their potential, the questions often lie withthe planning, management and the operation ofthe health system. Many health systems have fallen short of its potential due ... ambitious to draw up some plans ofdevelopment for their own country which they had to convince the colonial masters in one way or other that they were able to govern and manage thedevelopmentofthe economy ... fairness in financial contribution at between 122 and 123 position. The attainment ofthe rest ofthe other goals rested inbetween these two. Before a thorough analysis ofthedevelopmentofthe Malaysian public health care ...
... process of giving it a centre or of referring it to a point of presence, a fixed origin… The history of metaphysics, like the history ofthe West, is the story of these metaphors and metonymies ... consciousness ofthe protagonist The blending ofthe protagonist’s voice withthe narrator’s, together with evidence in the text that contradicts the views of either or both, ironise and destabilise the ... particularthe early 1900s Therefore, this study intends to compare her aesthetics to those of Virginia Woolf because the aesthetics of Woolf are concerned withthe role of art, the artist and ways of...
... ofthedrugto bring the seizure to an end ahead ofthe time that was needed for the emergence of damage On the other hand, cardiomyopathy was not related tothe effectiveness ofthedrug treatments ... and symptoms of poisoning These studies also aimed to predict the extent of damage in the organs by monitoring the severity of clinical signs of poisoning should the correlation between histopathological ... ofthe animals) of convulsion Regardless ofthe type ofdrug or dose that was administered, prevention against thedevelopmentof neurological damage 22 was simply related withthe ability of the...
... node decides to (or not to) retransmit according tothe protocol’s PAF The nodes that lose the contention set their BCs to ∞, while the winners set their BCs according tothe policy ofthe specific ... unlike the delay, in the computation ofthe RE we are not conditioning on the fact of reaching the N -th node ofthe network, i.e., the last reachable node ofthe network Therefore, also the packets ... broadcast protocol, also the PAF of SIF “rewards” the farthest nodes (with respect tothe transmitter) However, unlike the polynomial PAF, the PAF of SIF also takes into accounts the (linear)...
... of a set of integers by a real number greater than 1, the result may not be a set of integers, and even if it is, the size ofthe set is the same as the size ofthe original set (as opposed to ... turn out to be the right end-point ofthe second component from the right in S Lemmas 2,3,and deal primarily 10 the electronic journal of combinatorics (1996), #R1 2 withthe value of u2 In ... considerations while the top half maximum sum-free set qualifies because of “magnitude” considerations: the sum of two numbers in the top half is too big There is an obvious way to take a “magnitude”...