... the use of these acupoints induces changes in the strength of the muscle being examined which can be perceived by the examiner as well as by the patient When sedation is applied, muscle tone will ... of manual muscle tests for the evaluationof musculoskeletal disorders, only few studies have evaluated the effects of acupuncture on muscle function in clinical situations similar to those of ... state of resistance was recorded with superficial electromyography (sEMG) To demonstrate the principles of sedation and tonification of Applied Table 1: Mother-and-child Five Element acupoints of...
... for the morphological evaluationof the injured kidney [11-13] By performing radionuclide renography and scintigraphy, Wessells et al quantified the degree of preservation of renal function after ... and evaluated the function of the injured kidney on the basis of the uptake percentage They defined adequate renal preservation as the salvage of more than one third of the injured kidney and ... can be preserved by performing AE Renal function was assessed on the basis of the GFR of the injured kidney, the contralateral uninjured kidney, and both kidneys (as estimated by dynamic scintigraphy)...
... and Copyright Disclaimer Title of Thesis/Dissertation: Evaluationof the Odor Compounds Sensed by Explosive-Detecting Canines Master of Science For the degree of ... comparison of the flow rate of the nitroalkanes from sniffer tins to either one perforation of varying diameter or many perforations of the same small diameter From the generation of flux measurements ... Furthermore, the affect of molecular weight on the rate of evaporation (diffusion) of the explosive as well the effect of area on the rate of evaporation was confirmed RATE OF EVAPORATION (dn/dt)...
... role in the evaluationof LV diastolic function over the past two decades The purposes of this document is to provide a comprehensive review of the techniques and the significance of diastolic ... reporting of diastolic data in adults The recommendations are based on a critical review of the literature and the consensus of a panel of experts I PHYSIOLOGY The optimal performance of the left ... is approached by the cyclic interaction of myofilaments and assumes competent mitral and aortic valves Diastole starts at aortic valve Nagueh et al Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography...
... observation ofcyclic edema demonstrated the success of the treatment and the need for its control, but we had no idea of the high prevalence of edema in the more advanced grades of cellulite The lack of ... spironolactone and with the combination of drugs control of edema was attained Discussion This study illustrates the association of idiopathic cyclic edema with more advanced cases of cellulite ... excluded An evaluation for idiopathic cyclic edema is routinely made in the diagnosis of cellulite, in obesity and in other evident causes of clinical edema The diagnosis of idiopathic cyclic edema...
... rate of TN was significantly affected by plowing of paddy soils L(R) method L(R) method was developed in order to evaluate storm-runoff loads by using precipitations in cases of limited data of ... observation of storm-runoff events is not so easy to carry out sufficient times of the observation Then, the samples of storm-runoff loads were supplemented with the storm-runoff loads calculated by using ... collected monthly by two bulk deposit samplers laid on an open space in the University of Shiga Prefecture (Fig 1) Oneof them was consisted of a 20-cm diameter PE-funnel and of 20-liter PE-reservoir...
... water (Miura et al., 2007) Evaluationof denitrification activity of microorganisms Batch experiments for the evaluationof DNR, and a quinone analysis for the evaluationof the microorganism community ... knowledge or skills Thus, the quinone profiling has high affinity with analysts Moreover, quinone composition used in quinone profiling can achieve a qualitative evaluationof the biomass and biological ... MK-8(H2) These menaquinones are also the major ones in activated sludge (Hiraishi et al., 1996) The molar ratio of menaquinone to ubiquinone (MK/Q) is used as an indicator of the respiratory state...
... to be of some use Summary and Conclusions Evaluationof the quality of machine translations by means of a test of reading comprehension and by judgments of sentence clarity, was investigated Human ... according to the Friedman analysis of variance.* No practice effect is apparent for passages translated by humans TABLE Mean Number of Errors by Order of Occurrence of Translation Methods, Reading ... effects were largely absent In oneof these tests, the same subjects judged sentences translated by both methods; in the other the same subjects judged only one type of translation PFAFFLIN CONTINUOUS...
... percentage of area of surficial geology map units on portions of Prescott’s ground-water favorability map 30 Area and percentage of area of surficial map units on portions of Genes’s ... is known as a soil profile A welldeveloped soil profile reflects the environment under which it formed The character of the soil profile is influenced by external factors of climate (precipitation ... geology of portions of the Lower St John River Valley of Northeastern Aroostook County, Maine (figure 1) This area was chosen because of the availability of soil data and three different types of...
... review of complaint handlingby the NHS in England 2010-11 Tenth report of the Health Service Commissioner for England Session 2010-12 Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 14(4) of the ... Service Commissioners Act 1993 Ordered by The House of Commons to be printed on 17 October 2011 HC 1522 London: The Stationery Of ce £20.50 For additional information on complaint handling, please ... www .of cial-documents.gov.uk and is also available from our website at www.ombudsman.org.uk ISBN: 9780102975086 Printed in the UK by The Stationery Of ce Limited on behalf of the Controller of...
... assignment of eligibility in the Chaco region and matched comparison in the Resto Rural The choice ofevaluation design in each region was conditioned by resource constraints and the timing of the evaluation ... characteristics Number of beds Fraction of clinics with electricity Fraction of clinics with sanitation facilities Fraction of clinics with water Number of patient rooms Index of availability of medical ... Number of patient rooms Index of availability of medical equipment in good condition Index of availability of medical inputs Number of beds Health outcomes before intervention Fraction of women...
... NMR spectra of isomaltose before (Fig 2A) and after (Fig 2B,C) addition of the enzyme Fig Hydrolysis of isomaltose by baker's yeast a-glucosidase followed by 1H NMR (A) before addition of enzyme; ... in the rate of hydrolysis as for the a-glucosidase [40] This distinct preference for oneof the two diastereoisomers of the C-6 alkyl isomaltose derivatives re¯ects the fact that oneof the rotamers ... representatives of two categories of yeast a-glucosidases The study strongly demonstrates the advantage offered by enzymes with simple speci®city for application of substrate analogs in elucidation of the...
... included 100 volumes of 22 images, for a total of 2200 scans Page of 17 position of each marker, by collinearity equations [17] Then, the tracking procedure is performed by the operator, using ... comparability of motion parameters represent the main Page 14 of 17 advantage of using motion capture system with respect to EMG, where the level of noise of the recorded signal and the criticality of electrodes ... [28] For each acquisition, the center of mass of activated areas was calculated, weighting the intensity, of each cluster of voxels included into the areas of interest (motor ROIs) To estimate...
... a panel of 40 healthy individuals analyzed in this study revealed no amplification, thereby establishing the specificity of this assay Evaluationof Multiplex RT-PCR The feasibility of the assay ... and Ts4) Evaluationof multiplex RT-PCR The evaluationof the multiplex RT-PCR assay was carried out with 620 serum samples collected over a period of six years from India Preparation of RNA standard ... regions of C-prM gene junction is widely employed for precise confirmation of an infection [6] In routine practice, a two-step method with a RT-PCR followed by a nested PCR is used for serotyping of...
... of them with a nominal k spring constant in the range to N/m («Veeco Probes» manufacturer, USA) The average curvature radius (rt) of the diamond tip is of about 150 nm and the Pr/Ir tip oneof ... focused by another approach than [19], on the study of the radial contact resistance between a conductive tip and a single MWCNT, then between this CNT and a metal substrate By means of conductive ... the AuNPs are not enough numerous to induce a modification of the global electrical properties with CP-AFM Oneof the main problems of the measurement with the AFM tip is that an individual CNT...
... further evaluationof lifelong history of polycythemia She had mild fatigue but no other symptoms Past medical history was unremarkable Family history was significant for lifelong history of polycythemia ... obtained which included partial pressure of oxygen (venous pO2), venous pH and venous oxygen saturation Calculation of affinity of Hb for oxygen (P50) was done using the mathematical formula as ... This was followed by beta globin gene sequencing which was performed by ABI3730 96-capillary sequencer at the DNA Sequencing Core Facility at the University of Utah School of Medicine (primers...
... J., A dendrochronological evaluationof the effects of air pollution on the radial growth of Norway spruce, Mokuzai Gakkaishi, 43 (1997) 824-831 Nobori Y., An analysis of the relationships between ... information of 194 samples from a Picea glehnii Mast plantation in the Tomakomai district by X-ray densitometry, J Jpn For Soc 76 (1994) 89-94 [24] Ohta S The observation of tree ring structure by soft ... factors has not been evaluated by statistical analysis Thus, it is necessary to characterize the effects of nonclimatic factors on radial growth by a statistical elimination of the variance in ring...
... cycle of chemotherapy, with emphasis on patient acceptance and complications of the procedure b) Assays of apoptosis (Caspase-3 &Bcl-2) and proliferation index (Ki-67) in patients of carcinoma of ... immunohistochemistry (IHC) c) Quantification of extent of change in these biomarkers of response to chemotherapy one day and 21 days after first cycle of chemotherapy http://www.wjso.com/content/7/1/35 ... patients (13.3%) (one expired, one had progressive disease on chemotherapy, one refused surgery and one had surgery cancelled due to chemotherapy induced cardiomyopathy) Details of Miller-Payne...
... of the repaired tissue [10] Histology evaluation At the 24th week of the experiment, the quality of the repaired tissue was evaluated by two methods Repaired cartilage was blindly evaluated by ... assessment (ICRS Cartilage Injury Evaluation Package) of the two groups were analyzed by means of the Student t test Quantitative data of serum WF6 and HA were analyzed by a nonparametric Wilcoxon ... created at the medial side of the trochlea of the femur by means of a 4-mm-diameter dermal punch to outline the defect A customized curette was used to scrape Page of (page number not for citation...