field studies on work related musculoskeletal disorders

... Rotation in normal position (neutral) Rotation in ante-/retroflexion Side-flexion Extension/Flexion Neck-compression/neck-traction Shoulder Elevation (painful arc yes/no) Inner-/Outer-rotation (with ... the two studies we were able to demonstrate the usefulness of systematic functional tests in the diagnosis of work- related musculoskeletal disorders of the upper limb of workers due to long-term ... examination and diagnosis of work- related musculoskeletal disorders should be devised to support ergonomic changes in the workplace and to avoid equivocal diagnoses in the future Discussion In the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... severe Presence (yes) or absence (no) of diagnoses Conditions from to 10, weight = Conditions from 11 to 16, weight = Condition 17, weight = Conditions 18 and 19, weight = Final score Sum of weights ... assigned to each condition that a patient has † CIRS = Cumulative Illness Rating Scale; FCI = Functional Comorbidity Index; Charlson = Charlson index * COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; ... Component Summary produced a substantial loss of information in the context of our study authors gave their final approval of the version of the manuscript submitted for publication Conclusion...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... suspension was centrifuged at 4,000 × g for 10 and 300 μl of the supernatant was inoculated onto a nonconfluent monolayer of BVDV-free PK15 cell cultures on multi-dish plates (Falcon 35; 3047) Concerning ... mononuclear interstitial nephritis between 12 hours and days after inoculation Only a small number of positively stained duct epithelial, endothelial and mononuclear cells were observed in one ... focal gliosis The lesions developed one day after inoculation Positive Experiment II In tonsils, the microscopic lesions consisted of some cystically enlarged or plugged tonsillar crypts with...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... search In the second section, we focus on object search, its concepts and some examples of realworld We then give the challenges to the research community in the field and some conclusions 1.1 Web-page ... plausible solutions, which have been proposed recently with focus on the novel machine learning framework to solve the problem 2.1 Information Extraction Systems One of the first solutions in object ... Definition 2: An object query is defined by a conjunction of n attribute constraint Q = (c1 ^ c2 ^ … ^ cn) Some constraints would be constant when the user does not care about the attributes Each constraint...

Ngày tải lên: 23/11/2012, 15:04

... Instrumentation and Methods for Chronic Studies of Sleep and Breathing in Rodents RICHARD L HORNER and RICHARD STEPHENSON University of Toronto Toronto, Ontario, Canada CHRISTOPHER PAUL O’DONNELL Johns ... and consequences of sleeprelated breathing disorders based on a solid foundation of basic science Accordingly, we have divided the volume into four sections First, we provide an introduction to ... Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A CONTENTS Introduction Preface Contributors Part One iii v vii OVERVIEW Pathophysiology of Sleep -Related Breathing Disorders: Unanswered Questions David W Carley and Miodrag...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 17:20

... electronic environment The nature and type of amino acids and their side-chain orientations around iron– sulfur cluster coordination sites are the likely cause of minor variations in the electronic ... solvent-induced conformational change, which is possibly because of changes in the chemical environment around the iron–sulfur cluster, the partial destruction of the cluster or its conversion to other ... order to acquire firm evidence for this observation, the total iron content of proteins purified under different conditions was measured The total iron content of the native and in-column refolded...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 12:20

... scavenging and remobilization when the cells are under stress and consequently mononucleotide phosphate concentrations are high 5862 Materials and methods Cloning and purification of St SurE The SurE ... buried on dimerization of A and B subunits of ˚ the monoclinic form is 7633 A2, which suggests tight association The area buried in the interface of the subunits related by twofold along a in ... R192 Stability of St SurE Urea denaturation studies were carried out by incubating the protein at a concentration of 0.5 mgÆmol)1 with varying concentrations of urea (0–7 m) for h after which CD...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 14:20

... conformations in E53QbsSHMT-Gly In one conformation, the carboxylate group forms hydrogen bonds with R357, as in bsSHMT-Gly [12] In the second conformation, the carboxylate forms hydrogen bonds ... present close to the position corresponding to the second conformation of the carboxylate group (Fig 2A,B) The hydrogen bonding between Q53 and the second conformation of carboxylate of Gly found ... illustrating electron density (omit map) corresponding to PLP and Gly in E53QbsSHMT-Gly The two conformations of Gly are shown A water molecule is present close to the second conformation of Gly with...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 16:20

... troponin-tropomyosin regulation of skeletal muscle contraction Annu Rev Biophys Biophys Chem 16, 535–559 Farah CS & Reinach FC (1995) The troponin complex and regulation of muscle contraction ... site to the inhibitory region) participates in the Ca2+-dependent activation In addition, at 15°C, similar activation is observed for the troponin containing the corresponding vertebrate TnI-fragment, ... molluskan muscles, the C-terminal region does not function and troponin regulates contraction only through the activation exerted by the N-terminal region of TnI Experimental procedures Muscle proteins...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 01:20

... containing mM dithioerythritol The column was developed with the same buffer Fractions were combined and concentrated using a Centriprep-10 concentrator (Amicon) The final protein concentration ... nonmevalonate pathway Tetrahedron Lett 41, 703 –706 Kuzuyama, T., Takagi, M., Kaneda, K., Watanabe, H., Dairi, T & Seto, H (2000) Studies on the nonmevalonate pathway: conversion of 4-(cytidine 50 -diphospho)-2-C-methyl-D ... by reversed phase ion pair HPLC monitored by scintillation counting HPLC analysis of phosphorylated metabolites Isolation of chromoplasts from N pseudonarcissus The isolation followed a procedure...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 07:20

... quality-control provisions, requiring preapproved systems and installers in addition to post-installation monitoring This intensive component is part of the overall program mission to monitor system ... summarizes observations and lessons learned about program effectiveness and the factors that influence it Finally, Chapter presents conclusions and recommendations Case studies on each of the 10 ... municipal utilities, nonprofit organizations and other nontaxable entities can serve as valuable technology-demonstration venues Finally, details on program participation, technology and capacity...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... and the fractional contribution of the additional lifetime was close to zero Figure shows the typical time-dependent donor decays for the D1–CFP bearing donor alone and with the donor and acceptor ... Saturation studies were carried out on a fresh membrane preparation (final protein concentration of 20 and 40 lgÆtube)1 for the D1 and D2 dopamine receptor, respectively) using concentrations of ... This conclusion is further justified by confocal microscopy analysis of receptor localization Analysis of the localization of dopamine D1, D2 and their genetic variant fusion proteins Confocal...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20

... application of this assay Under all conditions used, the reaction rate is directly proportional to the EcIPDC concentration and independent of the concentration of the auxiliary enzyme, confirming ... pseudo first-order rate constants of reconstitution calculated from these time courses show a hyperbolic dependence on the ThDP concentration (at saturating Mg2+ concentration), pointing to a two-step ... same conditions In the case of ZmPDC maximum enzyme concentration was 2.3 mgÆmL)1 Measurements with ScPDC were performed at an enzyme concentration of 90 lgÆmL)1 The plots of the reaction rate...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:20

... basis of per capita consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa, is estimated at 500 million kg Based on this calculation, there will be a minimum annual demand for one billion 14 million kg of milk to satisfy ... Insemination Center NGO =Non Governmetal Organization PA =Peasant Association PL =Pasture land RGDP =Regional Gross Domestic Product SAERP =Sustainable Agricultural and Environmental Rehabilitation ... 1998a the per capita consumption of milk is estimated at 19 liters per year, while meat consumption is about 13.9 kg a year Accordingly, about 495 thousand tones and million tones of milk is required...

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Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 12:20

... (viii) Foreign experts/specialists on a visit of short duration in connection with an ongoing project with the objective of monitoring the progress of the work, conducting meetings with Indian customers ... nationals coming to India as consultant on contract for whom the Indian company pays a fixed remuneration (this may not be in the form of a monthly salary) (ii) Foreign artists engaged to conduct ... Visa Such conversion would be considered subject to fulfillment of following conditions: (i) submission of a copy of registered Marriage Certificate , and (ii) report from the FRRO/FRO concerned...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... Pearson’s correlation coefficient Pearson’s correlation coefficient Pearson’s correlation coefficient Pearson’s correlation coefficient Pearson’s correlation coefficient Pearson’s correlation coefficient ... V2 Pearson’s correlation coefficient Sig (bilateral) V2 Pearson’s correlation coefficient Pearson’s correlation coefficient Pearson’s correlation coefficient * 216 Pearson’s correlation coefficient ... Education Area: responding to challenges in a globalised world, London Communiqué, 18 May 2007, from http://www.dfes.gov.uk/londonbologna/uploads/documents/LondonCommuniquefinalwithLondonlogo.pdf,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20

... above, these initial conditions were rapidly conducive to steady conditions where and were present in very similar concentrations, and the rates of the forward reaction (conversion of to 3) and the ... 4-phosphate (3c) Table S6 Conversion ratios and cycles for the IspC reaction containing hydroxyacetone Table S7 Calculated hypothetical cycles for the IspC reaction containing [1,2-13C2]glycolaldehyde ... (near-stoichiometric) concentrations Under these conditions, the substrate molecules should be engaged by enzyme molecules on a nearpermanent basis The residual enzyme activity after 24 h of incubation was measured...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 06:20

... denaturation ACP at 60 lm was used in all the uorescence studies Fluorescence spectra were recorded on a Jobin-Yvon Horiba uorometer (Kyoto, Japan) under computer control The excitation and emission monochromator ... transition (Fig 2C) Unfolding transitions were also monitored by following the tyrosine uorescence at 305 nm upon excitation at 280 nm This was done because PfACP is devoid of tryptophan but contains ... sedimentation analysis Forty micrograms of apo-ACP and holo-ACP were layered on top of a mL continuous 010% (w v) sucrose density gradient, and this was followed by centrifugation, fractionation and...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 10:20

... addition, our experiments demonstrated, for the first time, that mutations at other conserved positions of motif I also affect enzyme functioning (Fig 1) (Table 2) In fact, substitution at position ... severe effect However, while nonconservative substitutions (M53N) resulted in a strong decrease in catalytic efficiency, conservative substitution (M53I) led to effects on both enzyme activity and ... a conservative substitution (mutant T249S) yielded a kinetic behaviour more similar to that of wild-type enzyme In addition, the effect on enzyme activity exerted by a nonconservative mutation...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20