... comments and helped inthe interpretation of the results SS helped in data collection and made critical comments that helped inthe interpretation of the results VM helped in obtaining funding for the ... study, inthe writing of the paper and interpretation of the results All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... used inthe past in other papers [9,10] Bullying is considered to be a continuous process and including inthe “bullying category” those pupils who had been involved once or twice during the past...
... the study and helped with data analysis and drafting the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... endothelial function in RA; one study reported no associationbetweenthe two vascular beds [33], while the other study did find an association [34] Inthe former study, microvascular endothelial ... function in healthy individuals have reported mixed findings, with some reporting an associationbetween microvascular and macrovascular endothelial-dependent function [22,23] and others reporting...
... transformation of an aliquot of thein vitro transposition reaction in DH5α and selection on plates containing kanamycin (cassette inthe mini-transposon) and spectinomycin (cassette inthe target vector), ... 80% of their length All the remaining CDSs were then annotated manually using the same procedure as for strain 8013, starting with Z2491 and transferring this new annotation to the remaining genomes ... occurred between cysG and cysN, leading to a gene encoding a composite protein of which the amino-terminal half corresponds to the amino-terminal approximately 34% of CysG andthe carboxy-terminal...
... became an independent country, Lee explained the role of the media in Singapore in an address to the International Press Institute in Helsinli: The mass media can help to present Singapore’s ... printing presses were the producers of information inthe mass media, and it was easier for the government to regulate the information producers But the Internet has severely blurred the distinction ... Understanding the ways the traditional mass media and Internet are regulated in Singapore is important, as the agenda-setting theory was developed inthe United States, where free speech and press...
... determined by creating an isotropic volume from the three input images closest to the knee joint, which were reformatted inthe axial plane The area was directly measured from these images The ... 3, both BML and cyst present aAssociation with cysts and BMLs inthe medial compartment bAssociation with cysts and BMLs inthe lateral compartment Mean, 95% confidence interval, and P value ... progression was defined simply as an increase in score, and thus included both those who had an increase in score and incident cysts Similarly, cyst regression was defined as a decrease in score, which...
... inclusion of IL-6 inthe model, the existing associations were weaker and became of borderline statistical significance, except inthe axial compartment for women and both sexes combined The interaction ... associations were in part dependent on each other, but independent of potential confounders, including age, sex, and BMI Furthermore, we found that the associations in women between hip JSN and BMI, fat ... obesity measures and JSN in this compartment remained positive after adjustment for leptin It is unknown whether mechanical loading can induce the expression of leptin within the joint, as Stannus...
... developed the study, performed the analyses, and drafted the manuscript KA participated inthe development of the study andinthe drafting of the manuscript SØ participated inthe data collection and ... examined theassociationbetween markers of inflammation in RA and BNP/NTproBNP It could be argued that theassociationbetween CRP and NT-proBNP identified in our study is a consequence of the inflammatory ... NT-proBNP inthe linear regression analyses (Table 2) This significant association was also maintained inthe multivariate linear regression analyses, which included the interaction between age and...
... for the analysis of the results In this way, the variability inthe number of active regions andthe specific activity of the enzyme, as parameters, were analysed within andbetweenthe Amy and ... represented by the number and position of the amylase activity regions inthe midgut [5] Inter- and intrapopulation variability exists both for the number and position of the active regions in adult ... similarities inthe protein structure, originate from changes inthe polygenic complex of regulatory genes, examination of their variability is of importance a-Amylase in Drosophila, active inthe midgut...
... intra-articular and tendonsheath injections) in one arm and nonexposure in a further study arm (that is, in which the only major difference betweenthe arms was the use of GC), and (3) reporting of infection ... explicit in describing the methods by which they captured infection, nonreporting of infection within the results was assumed to represent no infections in either group Absent reporting of infection ... nine case-control) were included inthe analysis Details of the studies are described in Tables and AF2 (Additional file 2) There were 1,963 patients included inthe 21 RCTs, and 526,629, in the...
... completing food and exercise diaries online, in return for a monthly subscription charge The service is a self-help tool assisting the user in recording diet and exercise and charting their progress ... and although many people seeking to lose weight so without the formal setting of a therapeutic intervention or clinical trial, few studies have examined utilisation patterns and weight loss in ... using the website most days and others only accessing it sporadically The mean number of days that entries were made to food and exercise diaries andthe percentage of participants posting on the...
... Conference, the 2009 EAA XXXII Annual Congress of the European Accounting Associationin Tampere (Finland), the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Spanish Accounting Association (AECA), andthe Accounting SEINCO ... the Business Reporting Research Project of the Financial Accounting Standards Board in 2001, the recommendations of the Enhanced Business Reporting Consortium (EBR) report published in 2005 and ... Advances in Accounting, incorporating Advances in International Accounting xxx (2013) xxx–xxx their independence andin turn, their ability to improve disclosure and effective monitoring However,...
... discussion on the relationship between accounting standards andthe public interest The remaining sections discuss the relationship between changes in accounting policies and their impact in financial ... changes in accounting standards inthe form of changes in firms’ accounting policies The equity valuation theory assists in estimating cost of equity by applying the CAPM, and assists inthe valuation ... Structure of the Thesis The thesis has seven chapters including this introduction Chapter explores the link betweenthe public interest, changes in accounting policies, decision usefulness and valuation...
... out inthe various cuisines of the world remains to be seen because it has sent international cuisines into a dizzying state of flux The French style has declined in prominence inthe face of international ... feeding the extra billion of us – even on the poor soils andinthe poor climates that characterize many of the developing countries.16 GM events have moved at blinding speed since 1994 when the ... crops (China and South Africa produce GM cotton) and have concentrated on modifying ripening characteristics, and developing resistance to herbicides and insect pests The focus was initially...
... by the PWHCE and is a synthesis of the policy recommendations arising from the research These are combined with the results and recommendations from two other, Exploringthe Intersections Between ... 19 Exploringthe Intersections Between Women’s Health and Poverty difference in their lives The problem is that too few of these programs are interested inthe histories of the women involved and ... Expand Thinking and Commit to Further Action on the Determinants of Health The reports identify gaps in policies and practices that highlight the need for expanded thinking, further action and...
... deficits inthe title and introduction; a lack of reporting about the allocation sequence, how it was implemented, and blinding; and inadequate discussion of the findings Kissane et al (2004) The ... involves integrating the results of trials that differ in their quality, primary outcomes, recruitment criteria, and sample sizes andinthe interventions being evaluated Integrating these disparate ... supplementary gatherings inthe cafeteria after formal sessions They also held meetings inthe homes of dying members and accompanied one another to medical appointments (Spiegel & Classen, 2000) The implications...
... Table in [7] and Table in this paper) In what follows we summarize the expected contributions of binding and electron transfer to DHà and DSà and estimate their relative importance inthe light ... DISCUSSION To our knowledge, the work described here andinthe related publications [1,7] is the first kinetic analysis of thein vitro interactions Cyt f–plastocyanin and plastocyanin– Fig Comparison ... and more reliable k¥ values (Table in [1] andin this paper) Although the curves are shallow, making extrapolation more difficult, andthe number of datapoints is smaller than inthe case of the...
... resulting from splitting off the nicotinamide ring, suggesting that the covalent bond betweenthe nicotinamide andthe ribose of the coenzyme is particularly labile The signal of the parental molecule ... identication of the peak of NAD+ inthe other chromatograms (indicated by the arrow) The amounts of contaminant NAD+ present inthe samples were calculated by peak integration using the MILLENNIUM ... puzzling; the mutations had been designed to facilitate binding of the phosphorylated coenzyme, and with the reduced coenzymes [23] there were indeed large shifts, as expected, inthe discrimination...
... adult living in them, we adjust standard errors by clustering them into the same family unit with the CLUSTER statement (SAS Institute Inc., 2008) Further, both the descriptive and binary regression ... University in St Louis andthe New America Foundation in Washington, DC The College Savings Initiative is supported by the Lumina Foundation for Education andthe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The ... separately for their youth Youth savings Youth were asked in 2002 whether they had a savings or bank account in their name If they had an account, they were also asked whether they were saving some...
... statement and suggests that the RNA binding site is still available and its binding affinity is not altered by the presence of DNA inthe DNA binding site Interestingly, when nM RNA and 10 nM ... substrate failed to inhibit RNA splicing, even when in 50- and 400-fold excess over protein and RNA, respectively (Fig 6B) Interpreting the data as being inconsistent with a single binding site model ... DNA substrate to inhibit RNA splicing (Fig 6B) and therefore it seems reasonable to make the working hypothesis that the RNA and DNA binding sites are not the same, rather that they are separate...
... signal was observed in all peptides containing tyrosine 23 or 53 but not in peptides containing tyrosine 20 alone According to these results, tyrosines 23 and 53 could be involved inthe dimerizations ... estimate the TrpÆ and TyrOÆ yields inthe lysozymes from the magnitudes of the absorbance changes at 510 and 410 nm andthe assumption that the extinction coefficients of the protein bound radicals and ... by changes inthe UV–visible region, were functionally first order, andthe rate constants were obtained by nonlinear least-squares fitting to the absorbance data The numbering of the amino acid...