... entering mathematics education programmes, either because they have already passed a mathematical formation at university or because their teachereducation programmes emphasise the study of academic ... of Teachers of ´ Mathematics, Aguas de Lind´ ia, Brazil o Garegae, K G., & Chakalisa P A (2005) Pre-Service mathematics teacher preparation programs and early years of teaching in botswana Paper ... identity of who they are asa teacher, and what it is that they teach asa subject Research in Initial Teacher Education: Past, Present, and Future Research in initial teachereducation is vast,...
... the addresses are the particular values that they are later Each cell is annotated with its associated variable and the type of that variable The type indicates how to interpret the data The ... value was intended But initializing variables at least avoids the introduction of truly garbage data, data that can be any arbitrary value Here is a far more dangerous use of uninitialized variables: ... understanding, but we can use it asa “magic incantation” for now Briefly, main’s input is an array of strings from the command line, represented asthe number of elements (argc) and the actual array...
... ofthe antibody levels, with the treatment group and the study day as factors and the log ofthe baseline (prevaccination) antibody level asthe covariate For each antibody, point estimates and ... response against tetanus toxoid vaccine was expressed as absolute titers of antibodies Serum samples for the quantification of abatacept were collected at baseline, prior to vaccinations, and at the ... detectable levels Anti-tetanus and anti-pneumococcal (Danish serotypes 2, 6B, 8, 9V, 14, 19F and 23F) antibody titers were measured by ELISA at 14 and 28 days after vaccination by a central laboratory...
... organism [6,7] In the initial phase of infection, Listeria binds to splenic macrophages and is internalized; Listeria produces products that activate nuclear factor-kappa B and upregulate innate ... perhaps other RAGE ligands as well) HMGB-1 may stimulate interferon-γ (IFN-γ)-producing cells and thus mediate macrophage activation Furthermore, HMGB-1 may directly activate macrophages via RAGE ... pathogenic bacteria 12 Taguchi A, Blood DC, del Toro G, Canet A, Lee DC, Qu W, Tanji N, Lu Y, Lalla E, Fu C, et al.: Blockade of RAGE-amphoterin signaling suppresses tumour growth and metastases Nature...
... for the analysis of such data but it is more demanding in the quantity of available data In the LR analysis, the kinetic parameters were modeled based on sex, presence of CYP 3A5 *1 allele, age at ... values are analyzed based on the presence of CYP 3A5 *1 allele, sex, age, renal and hepatic function Material and Methods Patient population Forty renal transplant recipients (median age: 41 years, ... variable It assumes that the model depends linearly on the unknown parameters and the conditional mean of Y variable given the value of X is an affine function of X In GLM repeated measures approach,...
... food and bioproduct processing Membrane separation processes can be used for a wide range of applications and can often offer significant advantages over conventional separation such as distillation ... net-like material is placed to provide space for the permeate removal, and on the other side ofthe flat plate, another sheet membrane and another net-like material are placed in mirror to form a sandwich-like ... increasing cross-flow velocity leads to a higher permeate flux, as indicated in Equation (1.9) The mass transfer coefficient can be estimated on the basis of heat and mass transfer analogy (so-called...
... hospital staff was ease of access; for the health centre staff the quality of care offered in the staff clinic was said to be the most important factor The most important reasons for not attending ... JK, Hochgesang M, AberleGrasse J, Pasulani O, Schouten EJ, Kamoto K, Harries AD: A national survey ofthe impact of rapid scale-up of antiretroviral therapy on health-care workers in Malawi: effects ... creation ofanintegrated clinic that provides HIV care asapartofa comprehensive package of general healthcare such that the clinic is not perceived asan HIV clinic; the establishment of satellite/mobile...
... that oxalate was always the main organic anion (> 90%) produced by the fungi studied, with minor quantities of citrate, succinate, malate and tartrate (data not shown) Measurements of total oxalate ... 100% of elutant 1; 18 min, 70% of elutant and 30% of elutant Calibrations for retention times and peak areas were carried out with standard solutions containing oxalic acid or other organic anions ... of CaCO3 Expressed as CaC2O4,2H2O, the quantities of calcium and oxalate associated with the hyphae may then represent 20 to 25% ofthe fungal dry matter In the absence of CaCO3, the effect of...
... from the middle of November to the end of May The ’Carex’ site This site has a surface area of 2.6 The stand is also an old coppice-with-standards but less degraded than the Molinia site The standards ... structure ofthe stands, it was not possible to obtain a sample which was balanced for all the combinations ofthe treatments This was also due to the fact that the experimental design was originally ... take an important part in the total evapotranspiration ofthe forest (Loustau and Cochard, 1991) and therefore in the lowering ofthe water tables in the soil (positive role) This explains that...
... women) The mean ages ± SEM of RA patients and healthy controls were 52.9 ± 4.8 and 49.3 ± 1.9 years, respectively The mean disease duration was 12.4 years (range 1–53 years) The majority of patients ... also observed Materials and methods Cytokines and reagents Recombinant human IL-12 was purchased from R&D Systems (Abingdon, UK) Recombinant human IL-18 was from MBL (Nagoya, Japan) IL-18BP, kindly ... human IFN-γ, R&D Systems) The detection limit ofthe assay was 20 pg/ml IFN-γ values below this limit were regarded as Statistical analysis Results were expressed as mean ± SEM ofthe indicated...
... through mechanisms as diverse as improving mineral absorption and assimilation affecting hormonal balance in the plant, enhancing the Plant material contact between roots and soil, and pro- tecting ... lowthan that in the other treatments in February er Water and nutrient status No significant alteration in wp ψ was observed after transplanting in any ofthe treatments and all treatments had ... needle area) Gas exchange and water-use efficiency Table II gives the mean values of CO as2 similation rate (A) , stomatal conductance (g) and water-use efficiency (WUE A/ g) in the different treatments...
... other countries, the Ministry of Health officially funded the first pilot NEP in Guangxi and Yunnan province in 1999 [23,27,28] The program has expanded to other parts of China, with a total of ... governmental departments are needed to ensure the effective implementation ofthe harm reduction initiatives in China Asa substantial number of drug users are incarcerated and a proportion of them are ... harm-reduction and behavioralchange counseling Police often apply military management approaches to treat drug users while they are in incarceration sites The majority of treated drug users relapse and...
... significant In summary, SA did not significantly affect the transcript abundance of any ofthe BnWRKYs tested, whereas ET, ABA, JA and the cytokinin BAP did affect the transcript abundance of various ... these databases can be explained by the fact that the number of entries in these databases are different, based on their release frequency The Shanghai database http://rapeseed.plantsignal.cn/, ... treated canola plants with five phytohormones, JA, SA, ABA, BAP and ET and analyzed the changes in transcript abundance of these 16 BnWRKY genes using qRT-PCR To ensure that the hormone applications...
... findings of associations between anti-CRP and lupus disease activity as assessed by common clinical and laboratory disease activity measures, such as complement and anti-dsDNA levels Although the ... interpretation of data and manuscript writing AZ contributed to patient characterization, acquisition of data and statistics TS contributed to the original idea, interpretation of data and manuscript ... significantly with renal disease activity, as assessed by the classical British Isles Lupus Assessment Group (BILAG) index [32] using Spearman's rank correlation Analysis from baseline and follow-up...
... analgesic and sedative drugs (for instance, continuous infusion of sufentanil and midazolam) There was no difference in the dosage of analgesic and sedative drugs between groups No patient was paralyzed ... Reactive hyperaemia is the transient increase in organ blood flow that occurs after ischaemia In general, the ability ofan organ to exhibit reactive hyperemia reflects the autoregulative capacity ... design and coordination, carried out bedside measurements and documentation, performed the statistical analysis, and helped to draft the manuscript KHS participated in the design ofthe study and...
... based on the CHOP mRNA leader obtained from the RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Japan) database are as follows: sense 5’GCTCAAGCTTCTAACACGTCGATTAT-3’, antisense 5’TCATGAGTGCCATGACTGCACGTGG-3’ ... leads to enhanced protein processing capacity ofthe secretory pathway and the ER-Associated Degradation (ERAD) pathway that facilitates ubiquitination and proteasome-mediated degradation of ... the DNA fragment was amplified using Pfu Turbo DNA polymerase (Stratagene) with PTK-CHOP-Luc as template strand and the following primers: sense 5’GCCACCATGGCGTATAGCGGGTGGCAGCGACAGAGCCAGAATAAC-3’,...