... parallel-group, 13-week studiesof patients with OA of the knee and of identical design was conducted Methodology for the studies has previously been described elsewhere in detail [6,7] and both studies were ... provides an evaluation not only of the concept of 'feeling good' but also of 'feeling good as soon as possible.' Time taken to achieve sustained satisfaction combines the concept of 'feeling ... assessment of disease activity, and the WOMAC™ questionnaire total score) [6,7] Here, we report on a pooled analysis of the above two studies This analysis evaluated the effectiveness of lumiracoxib...
... amount of sequence but, for the platforms that produce short-sequence reads, greater than half of this sequence is not usable On average, 55% of the Illumina GA reads pass quality filters, of which ... region of chromosome 11 amplified by three long-range PCR products (red rectangles) (b) A heat-map colored matrix displays the coefficient of correlation of coverage across the entire 260 kb of analyzed ... indicative of the real performance of NGS platforms for de novo detection of variants in human sequences Interestingly, our analysis indicates that ABI Sanger has a false negative rate of approximately...
... Figure 8: Illustration of EOF inside a fused silica capillary 22 Figure 9: Illustration of the order of migration of ions in CE 22 Figure 10 Illustration of EOF profile 23 Figure ... (PUB) of Singapore’s national water agency, for their assistance in the collection of the water samples, Professor Hanry Yu and Ms Teo Siow Thing of Department of Physiology NUS for provision of ... INVESTIGATION OF MICROCYSTIN TOXICITY 84 4.0 Development of Metabolomics Approaches for the Investigation of the Effect of Exposure of a Human Cell Line to Non Cytotoxic Amounts of Microcystins...
... presentations iii Table of contents v Summary ix List of tables xi List of figures xiii List of abbreviations xvi Chapter 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Introduction Herbal medicines 1.1.1 Importance of herbal medicines ... 6.5 Effects of extracts of various Panax species on PT and APTT of human blood plasma in vitro (n≥3) 173 Table 6.6 Effects of fractions from steamed P notoginseng on PT and APTT of human blood ... medicines are often taken complementarily with therapeutic drugs, drug-herb interactions have been a major safety concern, especially when healthcare professionals are often unaware of the type of herbal...
... (B.Sc (Hons), University of Malaya) (M.Sc National University of Malaysia) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARMENT OF CHEMISTRY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE 2005 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ... stereochemistries of C4 and C5 In our group, we have been working on the synthesis of the isomers of C4 and C5 as NOE studiesof large rings is known to be unreliable.9 Later, the NMR data of the synthetic ... cultures of rat cerebellar granule cells In the latter study, morphological evidences of antillatoxininduced neurotoxicities included swelling of neuronal somata, thinning of neurites, and blebbing of...
... properties of semipermeable membranes, physiological condition of the organism, physical characteristics of the environment, kind and amount of food, level of its contamination, kind of organisms ... and type of pollutants Effective accumulators of pollutants are mollusks, often applied as bioindicators of water pollution with heavy metals [55,56] The properties of some populations of these ... most often in analyses of atmospheric depositions, soil quality and wa- ter purity Responses of trees and shrubs to the presence of pollutants are also observed The assimilatory organs of trees,...
... other studies [4-6] because of activity against key pathogens Consideration of the influence of appropriateness of empiric therapy against subsequently identified pathogens was beyond the scope of ... Discussion The results of this pooled analysis of two phase III studies indicated that initial use of doripenem in patients with VAP was associated with shorter durations of mechanical ventilation ... cost of hospitalization as demonstrated in a recent economic analysis ofstudies and [29] Using discrete event simulation, Kongnakorn and colleagues [29] estimated that use of doripenem instead of...
... observation of cyclic 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 ... were 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 ... 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 There are no...
... the prevalence of low back pain of 162% with an annual increase of 11.6% The widely held belief that most of the episodes of low back pain will be short-lived, with 80% to 90% of these attacks ... lumbar radiofrequency neurotomy.29-31 The exact mechanism of the therapeutic effect of lumbar facet joint nerve blocks is not known, whereas radiofrequency neurotomy causes denaturing of the nerves ... Classification of Chronic Pain; Descriptions of Chronic Pain Syndromes and Definition of Pain Terms, 2nd ed; Task Force on Taxonomy of the International Association for the Study of Pain Seattle:...
... in 88.4% of cases and in 93.8% of controls The informed consent document was signed by 98.4% of case mothers Personal identifiers (i.e name and address) were deleted from the record of cases ... keep them The personal data of controls are not recorded in the HCCSCA The fourth step was the evaluationof maternal infusion in five different aspects 1) The source of information All infusion ... of infusion according to the month of gestation in the case and controls groups is shown in Table There were two peaks of infusion treatments The first peak was connected with the treatment of...
... activity of disease in sarcoidosis or HP In addition, finding of encapsulated exudates may suggest desquamation of early stage of Masson body which implies possible diagnosis in a limited number of ... Patients’ group showing the highest rate of lymphocytes Of the 2260 patients, 488 (21.6%) showed a lymphocyte rate of higher than 40% Clinical diagnoses of these patients included sarcoidosis (22.1%), ... infiltration of mast cells implies histological feature of organization of collagenous matrices or interstitial fibrosis 10 Basophilic leukocytes were never found in the normal control and most of the...
... in materials evaluation including definitions of materials evaluation, purposes for materials evaluation, types of materials evaluation, materials evaluators, models for materials evaluation, ... purposes of the course as well as the available facilities and constraints of a particular situation 1.2 Materials Evaluation 1.2.1 Definitions of Materials Evaluation There are many ways of defining ... research 1.2.3 Types of Materials Evaluation In materials evaluation literature different authors offer different ways of categorizing it Robinson (1991:59) classifies materials evaluation into three...
... evaluation, etc Teacher evaluation task evaluation, etc Learners evaluationevaluationof sequencing practice, ect evaluationof levels of participation etc Figure 3: Macro- and micro -evaluation in language ... purpose of the evaluation 1.2.2 Types of programme evaluation According to Stufflebeam (1971), there are four types of programme evaluation which are identified as: context evaluation, input evaluation, ... ESP (definition of ESP, classification of ESP and the development of ESP), evaluation (terminology definition, types of programme evaluation, purposes for evaluation, criteria for evaluation and...
... the discretization steps of Ds became different in the course of the test For the next steps of Dsn calculated as above, excess of the pore water pressure Evaluationof consolidation parameters ... used formulae and the Fig Comparison of different methods of cv estimation in the context of theoretical analysis of the CL consolidation process Evaluationof consolidation parameters in CL tests; ... the changes of Hi length of the drainage path This point Fig Comparison of cv characteristics estimated by various methods A — estimation of cv value by different formula; B — changes of cv v l...
... INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR (2005) EVALUATIONOF INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS USED IN TEACHING OF ENGLISH IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF HARIPUR DISTRICT Submitted ... sphere of this mortal life APPROVAL SHEET The thesis entitled Evaluationof instructional method used in teaching of English In secondary schools of Haripur District Accepted by the faculty of ... 1-3 I 1.1 Background of the Study 1.2 Statement of the Problem 1.3 Objectives of the Study 1.4 Significance of the Study 1.5 Hypothesis 1.6 Delimitation of the Study II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE...
... works Evaluation is implemented in phases of investment process: Inception evaluation; Midterm evaluation; Completion evaluation; Impact evaluation or after project evaluation Monitoring and Evaluation ... implementation Evaluation - Internal evaluation - External evaluation - Implementation - Results - Impacts - Inception evaluation - Midterm evaluation - Completion evaluation - Impact evaluation ... Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism IS Information System IT Information Technology M&E Monitoring & Evaluation MPI Ministry of Planning and Investment MOF Ministry of Finance MBA Master of Business...
... 1. FT-IR spectra of PA (a) and pullulan (b) 500 Stability and in vivo evaluationof pullulan acetate 555 (2008) also reported that the smaller size of NPs may be in favor of longer circulation ... integration value of acetyl protons at 1.8–2.2 ppm and B is that of OH protons and H-1 to H-6 protons of pullulan moiety observed at more than 3.5 ppm Preparation and characterization of PANs and PA/EPI ... informahealthcare.com by University of Technology Sydney on 03/01/11 For personal use only Stability and in vivo evaluationof pullulan acetate 553 aqueous media The hydrophobic core of these selfassembled...