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... for evaluation of hand function in the said population -0.519* 0.011 Informed consent for publication was obtained from patients or their guardians (in case of minors) during enrollment into ... Function Test (MAULF) [7] and Functional Hand Grip Test (FHGT) [9] and (2) evaluation of the subjects' per- formance in activities of daily living (ADLs) using the Functional Independence Measure ... sensation, and motor control in cerebral palsy patients affect hand function in activities of daily living This comprehensive documentation of upper limb deformity and hand function in cerebral...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... and Music Processing Perceptual Evaluation A panel of voice professionals perceptually evaluated the intelligibility of each patient while listening to a play back of the recordings A five-point ... hours of speech) and 48 utterances (1042 words) for the validation set (the training and validation corpora were the same as in [16]) This ASR system is integrated into the “Program for the Evaluation ... perceptual evaluation resulted in 2.9 ± 1.0 for the oral cancer group on the five-point scale and 2.5 ± 1.0 for the group of laryngectomees The effect of the language model is investigated in Table using...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... staining in part of the membrane in more than 10% of the tumor cells (1+); complete staining of the membrane with weak or moderate intensity in more than 10% of the neoplastic cells (2+); and ... analysis Page of Figure Immunohistochemical positive staining of p53 in a representative case of high-grade (G3) ductal carcinoma Immunostaining shows a clear and wide nuclear staining in an high ... expression value of 11% (median = 5%) (Figure and 2) Using this mean value as cut-off to distinguish high and low expressing tumors, staining was considered high in 11 (30.5%) out of 36 tumors in our series...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21

... totally, in the case of a dominant intervention, offset the costs of supplementation and also improve quality of life Adding supplements of micronutrients to the standard management of diarrhea ... Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2003, Background Diarrhea remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries with a significant proportion experiencing a depletion of zinc and ... were administered to the treatment and the control group only once in a day The intervention sachet contained 40 mg of Zinc sulfate and mg of Copper sulfate powder The control sachet contained 50...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... consist in sorting the dead and alive fish Conclusions This new selection scheme combines communal rearing of families, pre-selection of candidates, DNA pooling and genomic selection and makes ... Accuracy of selection of the SIB_TRAIT (accSIB_TRAIT), rates of inbreeding (ΔF) and genetic gain of the SIB_TRAIT (ΔGSIB_TRAIT) and GROWTH (ΔGGROWTH) in generation G5 with different numbers of families ... genotyping costs even in dairy cattle by pooling DNA samples from cows with high and low phenotypic values, instead of individually genotyping the large numbers of cows Selection accuracy of these...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... is extremely rapid and convenient: it allows determinations of nuclear DNA content [13] and of AT/GC base composition in a genome [15] Favre and Brown [ 12] developed a fast and simple flow cytometry ... estimation of nuclear DNA amount in diploid bananas (Musa acuminata and M balbisiana), Biol Plant 36 ( 1994) 351-357 [12] Favre J.M., Brown S., A flow cytometric evaluation of the nuclear DNA content and ... for the common beech and the tortuosa variety, after propidium iodide and mithramycin stainings Results are listed in table II In F sylvatica, the GC content was 40.0 ± 0.2 %; in the tortuosa variety,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... ploidy level of Quercus plants on the basis of genome size relative to a standard plant of known ploidy MATERIALS AND METHODS The plant material was leaves of in vitro cloned plantlets of Q petraea ... taking emissions of > 590 or 408-530 nm Each event was analysed for pulse versus integral to avoid doublets, as explained in a general review of the method by Marie and Brown (1993) Nuclear DNA ... of data can be useful in planning molecular procedures for DNA polymorphism analysis or the study of genetic architecture of genomes by RFLP and PFGE (choice of rarely cleaving restriction enzymes)...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... coordinated use of a range of CORFO programs It combines training activities, innovation, infrastructure, technical assistance, and business and finance networking In 2001, the PTI financed nine ... guarantees and interest subsidies The study focused on three assistance clusters in Northern Ireland (training, marketing and upgrading machinery and equipment), and two in the Republic of Ireland (marketing ... data, we find positive and significant impacts of treatment on intermediate outcomes— increased investments in training, introduction of new products and processes, ISO certification and links with...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20

... Monitoring of progress Both the local MTFs and MEDCOM have roles in monitoring the quality of health-care practices according to evidence-based standards defined in practice guidelines and providing ... MTFs, and there should be reductions in rates of use of emergency rooms and inpatient stays for exacerbations of asthma Introduction As part of the process of developing the asthma guideline, ... addressed: • Inconsistent coding of diagnoses and procedures Effective monitoring of performance in treating asthma (or some other condition) requires consistent coding of diagnoses and procedures in the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... Effects of DNA cis-platination on sequencespecific DNA binding of p73 proteins We tested the in uence of DNA modification with cisplatin on the binding of two p73 isoforms, p73d and p73b, to the p21 ... p53 binding (about 4% for mdm2 and PGM1 and 10% for p21) Sensitivity of the sequence-specific p53 DNA binding to DNA cis-platination depends on the incidence of cisplatin-reactive motifs within ... preferential binding to globally cis-platinated DNA [31,33,34] Binding of p73 proteins to the recognition elements is affected by DNA cis-platination in a similar way to p53 binding In agreement...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 05:20

... especially in the synthesis of products greater than four nucleotides in length Murine DNA polymerase a-primase is absolutely inactive in initiating SV40 DNA replication in an assay consisting of purified ... containing the SV40 origin of DNA replication (B) The JCV system uses JCV TAg and pJC389 DNA with the JCV origin The cell extracts were supplemented with 0.5 and 1.0 DNA polymerase units of the indicated ... facilitate initiation of replication in vivo but not in vitro, perhaps by alleviating nucleosome repression or by assisting in origin unwinding under conditions of altered template DNA superhelicity...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 03:20

... Inc., Arlington Heights, IL, USA) by electroblotting The transfer of protein and equality of loading in all lanes was verified using reversible staining with Ponceau S Cell culture and H pylori ... pylori- induced cell death and DNA fragmentation Soybean trypsin inhibitor (SBTI) suppresses H pyloriinduced activation of MAPK in gastric epithelial cells H pylori -induced increases in phospho-specific ... expression using PAR-2 AS ODN in AGS cells Additionally, inhibition of PAR-2 activity using trypsin inhibitor increased cell death and DNA fragmentation in H pylori-infected AGS cells These results...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... grasping, the correlation between the grasping and load force has been often employed in research of human motion and grasping [17,18] as a measure of the level of coordination between grasping and ... new ball rolls down the inclined table The task is a combination of catching, grasping, pick -and- place movement and releasing Ziherl et al Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2010, ... task We were interested in the impact of various haptic parameters included in the human-robot interaction Catching efficiency and pickand-place efficiency are chosen as the indicators of the task...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... performance of BMPs in addressing social and environmental issues and overall sustainability of the catfish farming sector in the Mekong Delta On the basis of this study and the key findings and conclusions, ... suffuse the industry and highlight the implicit and explicit roles of farmer associations in accessing and sharing information (and therefore likely role in BMP adoption and implementation going forward) ... schematic summary of the existing catfish market chain is provided in Attachment 4, showing differing levels of vertical and horizontal integration between catfish farming and processing sectors Table...

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... one of the better distance-independent (basal area of competitors) and the best distance-dependent (CRWD) index are provided in Tables IV and V and Figures and The combination of basal area and ... second and third in rank, followed closely by several distance-independent indices, basal area of competitors (CBA), Biging and Dobbertin’s [7] overtopping crown cover (CRCOV), and basal area of ... Evaluation of some competition indices for the prediction of diameter increment in planted white spruce, Can For Serv Inf Rep FMR-X-108, 1978 [3] Bartelink H.H., Effects of stand composition and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:21

... a vector of random full-sib family effects, c is a vector of random effects of clones within full-sib families, and e is a vector of random residual terms X, Z1, Z2 and Z3 are known incidence ... standard errors of σp i were obtained by the square root of the respective sampling variances, and these were calculated from the sampling (co)variances of the components in the denominator of ... maximum and minimum of the differences BM – E1, BM – E2 and BM – E3, between evaluations Parents and their cloned offspring were ranked on PBVs from BM and simpler models, and the best individuals...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:21

... of findings within CLAHRCs through recording and observations of these meetings, and the maintenance of an evaluation team critical event diary We will take a reflexive approach to meetings and ... and evaluation Page of 12 To determine whether and how CLAHRCs develop and sustain interactions and communities of practice To identify indicators that could be used for further evaluations of ... depends on a set of social processes that include sensing and interpreting new evidence, integrating it with existing evidence; reinforcement (or not) by professional networks, which in turn is mediated...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... consists of five stages: identifying the attributes of interest, assigning levels to the attributes, presenting profiles to individuals which involve different levels of the attributes, obtaining ... acquisition, and interpretation of data, and has been involved in drafting and critically revising the manuscript for important intellectual content All authors have read and approved the final submitted ... contributions to the conception and design of the study, the analysis and interpretation of data, and has been involved in drafting and critically revising the manuscript for important intellec- Patients...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... consists of five stages: identifying the attributes of interest, assigning levels to the attributes, presenting profiles to individuals which involve different levels of the attributes, obtaining ... acquisition, and interpretation of data, and has been involved in drafting and critically revising the manuscript for important intellectual content All authors have read and approved the final submitted ... contributions to the conception and design of the study, the analysis and interpretation of data, and has been involved in drafting and critically revising the manuscript for important intellec- Patients...

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