fat distribution in the body and health

... CO participated in designing the sequencing strategy and methods and assisted in the initial analysis of the sequences, BF helped interpret the recombination and phylogenetic ... data from the Medical Research Council Laboratories Genitourinary medicine (GUM) clinic indicate that although HIV-2 infection fre- quency is declining in patients attending t he clinic, the HIV-1prevalencerosefrom4.2 %in1 988to17.5 %in ... document the AIDS epi- demic, to trace the infection history, monitor change s in infection patterns and to maintain sensitive and accurate viral diagnostics. Furthermore, whether future HIV-1 vaccine

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:20

... working in the KT area They have developed terms unique to their countries and disciplines Examples include Rogers’ work [5] in diffusion of innovations in rural sociology starting in the 1940s in ... be the foundations of KT They describe the theory, concepts, tools, or models of KT and delineate some of the issues and challenges of working in the area The following topics are examples of the ... between researchers and knowledge users which may vary in intensity, complexity and level of engagement depending on the nature of the research and the findings as well as the needs of the particular

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... this angular distribution. The angular distribution of diffuse PAR in the understory may be an important factor in shaping crown morphology and in influencing light interception from the understory ... defined in this study as being zero at the horizon and reaching 90 at the zenith. A tilt meter and a compass were used for setting the light sensor to the desired elevation and azimuth angles. The ... influence the varia- tion in angular distribution of PAR include: crown shape, branch and leaf distribution and orientation within the canopy, leaf area density within the canopy and the degree of overlap

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... determinant in studying stand growth and functioning. In forestry, stand structure mostly refers to the relative position of trees and to stem and crown dimensions. However, estimating the amount and ... step in the semi-empirical and ecophysiologi- cal modelling of Maritime pine ( Pinus pinaster Aït.) growth in the Landes de Gascogne, we undertook the determination of stand foliage area amount and ... to perform in forest stands, they have been replaced by sampling procedures. At the stand level, the plant area index (including the projected area of all aerial elements of the stand) can be

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... comparing the amino acid runs, while both plants contain many runs of glycine and proline (accounting for either the second or third highest amounts), they differ in what amino acid occurs in the ... rice. In the following, we discuss the similar- ities and differences both within and between the two genomes. The results on the SSR distribution show that for both spe- cies, the majority of the ... in the 5'UTR and much higher densities for SSRs of period 3 and period 6 in the exon regions in rice than in Arabidopsis (Fig- ures 2 and 4). Taken together, the 5'UTR and exons stand

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 16:21

... latency timings in the passive avoidance test, and higher number of errors in the attention set-shifting task, indicating deficits in working memory and attention, respectively Together the results ... 24kDa band in different regions of the adult brain, and high levels of sPLA2-XIIA protein expression were detected in the PFC, striatum and thalamus The enzyme was immunolocalized to neurons, and ... sPLA2-XIIA in lipid metabolism and cognition We postulate that sPLA2-XIIA may induce remodeling VII Summary of opposing neural cell membranes to facilitate axon pathfinding and neural plasticity in the

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 17:04

... scenography and emphasis on the body in Being Harold Pinter takes this new emphasis on minimalism, and bodies doing it themselves, constructing, deconstructing and battling with the set in reciprocal ... architectural theory could be extended and expanded In the introduction, literature and context review, this thesis established the problem of the body in the discipline of architecture As described in ... from the way the performances emphasised moving bodies and the political agency of motion in the body in comparison to the static and stoic body represented in architecture The third point came

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2017, 16:15

... caves in the body of dikes, dams through theoretical modeling and calculation based on the knowledge of Mathematics, Informatics, Physics in general and Geophysics in particular and also the information ... defined in the domain R - contained, fully and continuously enclosed by boundary Γ continuous with normal vectors outside; function P and the function f is continuous function in the domain by ... determine the lower boundary of the half-infinite space with any conductivity distribution, R is set by the domain boundaries instead of assuming away the infinite horizontal (x-axis) and vertical

Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2017, 12:05

... Basin, focusing on the geometry and kinematics of recent faulting, in order to interpret the present stress distribution and to discuss the age and evolution of the Bolu Basin, using new dates ... the fault is clear both in the northern plain and beyond the Bolu Basin, along the Kocasu Valley In the northern Bolu Basin the straight alignment and related step-like morphology of the Quaternary ... kinematic indicators in the basement rocks south of the basin Northern Sector – The northern and western margins of the Bolu Basin are formed by the Palaeozoic Bolu Massif, the Kızılağıl formation

Ngày tải lên: 13/01/2020, 15:20

... vaccine to fight TB is the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine, first administered in 1921 and, probably the most widely used vaccine in the world [2, 3] Although the efficacy of BCG against ... the cases and, from those, 91.9% were present at the time of the interview allowing the evaluation of their arm to see the scar post BCG vaccination (see Fig 1) Regardless of having the vaccination ... BCG vaccinated in the district of Manhiỗa, yielding a BCG coverage of 97.4% Table and Fig show the vaccination coverage for all EPI vaccines administered in the district of Manhiỗa in the first

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2020, 21:30

... season, 68 in the rainy season and 27 in both seasons In the rainy season, few marine fish species were found as the salinity was low and frequently changing In the dry season, salinity in the downstream ... stations and seasons are shown in table The Tien Yen River had a deeper intrusion and higher salinity than the Ba Che River, and the salinity in the dry season was higher than the rainy season at the ... (ca 20‒27‰), in the rainy season, this value in the lower reaches of the estuary is frequently changing due to the river discharge For instance, salinity in Mui Chua during the rainy season was

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2020, 02:41

... exposure to adipokines (leptin and adiponectin), insulin and insulin-like growth factors, having mitogenic and potentially genotoxic effects on target tissues The aggregation of colorectal and prostate ... unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate ... obtained from each participant locally Each participant completed an interview and physical examination at baseline and at years Women were deemed ineligible to participate in the OS at baseline

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2020, 03:43

... having feral swine populations (SCWDS 1988, Mayer and Brisbin 1991) Invasive swine have continued to expand their range and were present in more than 30 states in 2002 (Bergman et al 2002) and in ... Captain Cook in 1778 (Kramer 1971) Since their introduction, feral swine populations in the United States have increased both in size and distribution This expansion has been possible because of their ... WITH INCREASING FERAL SWINE NUMBERS AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES INTRODUCTION Feral hogs or “wild boars” come from several sources and include released or escaped domestic swine and the

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2022, 22:32

... sampling design The Uganda Demographic and Health Survey report provides details on the sampling approach [4] Deriving the study sample entailed merging the individual (woman’s) recode with the ... disabilities in the agriculture and manual occupations and in the poorer and rich wealth quintiles had increased odds of sexual intimate partner violence compared to nondisabled women in the same ... “Pentecostal and others” and the rest of the smaller groups were merged with Muslims to form the category “Muslims and others” because of similarities in beliefs and practices The richer and richest

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2022, 03:36

... Casting 1999, Niencheski et al 1999) and the input of fresh water from the most important tributaries of the upper zone (Niencheski et al 1999) During the later winter and beginning of spring and ... changes in the communities inhabiting that fauna in the Argentinean coast of the Río de la Plata estuary, which implies increasing of the specific richness and abundance of Hirudinea and Oligochaeta, ... (2002-2003) in the upper part of this basin suggested a progress of this invasive species in a short time-period In the Negro River Basin L fortunei was recorded in 1999 for the first time in the cooling

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2022, 10:36

... units in the study: medical, surgical and critical care units All registered nurses working in the selected hospitals were included in the study if they were providing direct patient care in medical, ... rotating shifts, including combinations of morning, afternoon and nights shifts and anti-stress shifts ▸ Nurse staffing was calculated as the mean number of nurses working in the unit on the last ... needs.30 Therefore, the main objective of this study was to determine the relationship between the characteristics of the nurses’ work environments in hospitals in the Spanish National Health System

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2022, 15:51

... area in the sche- matic drawing, bottom left) and acts as a continuous barrier between the two spaces separated by the cell layer – in the case of the gut, the intestinal lumen (dark blue) and the ... Plasma Proteins Having entered the blood, drugs may bind to the protein molecules that are present in abundance, resulting in the formation of drug-protein complexes. Protein binding involves primarily ... from binding sites on plasma proteins. Binding to plasma pro- tein is equivalent to a depot in prolong- ing the duration of the effect by retard- ing elimination, whereas the intensity of the effect...

Ngày tải lên: 22/01/2014, 00:20

... surprising because the bal- ance challenges during walking are quite different from those involved in maintaining upright posture. During standing, the goal is to main- tain the body& apos;s ... the horizontal momentum of the HAT results in inherent instability. The role of the ankle muscles in standing bal- ance is paramount, but in walking the role of the ankle plantar-flexor and ... end-point control task needs to be recognized. The length of the link-segment chain is over 2 m, starting with the stance phase foot and continuing up to the hip, across the pelvis, and down the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:21

... when living in damp air). If the induration of the right lung which was observed in A.'s case really commenced at the time he experienced pain in rowing in the College races, then possibly the ... their relations and friends, sustained more or less injury from the training and exertion connected with the University Race ; and, with a view of sifting more thoroughly the nature of that injury ... week before the race I felt a pain in my left arm as if I had got rheumatism, and it became rather stiff till after the race, and then severe inflammation set in, in the elbow-joint, followed...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20

... seclusion • Interpretation and investigation of violent incidents • Monitoring and investigating death in mental health services • Reducing imprisonment and fear of mental health services • Increased ... decades the issue of asylum in the UK has become increasingly controversial and emotive, successive governments have focused on reducing the number of asylum applications in the UK and on increasing ... in the mental health and social care sector is to incorporate the views, and whenever possible the users themselves in the planning and delivering of services. Ultimately the aim would be...

Ngày tải lên: 24/02/2014, 18:20