... and to all our patients The current state ofknowledge in this field makes it professionally unacceptable to continue without using these simple yet effective tools to improve all aspects of peri-operative ... http://www.josr-online.com/content/6/1/18 Page of Table Frequency of wrong site surgery incidents Category of wrong site surgery Nearmisses, n (% of total) Near-misses prevented by the checklist, n (% of individual category of wrong ... practice are now too complex for groups of healthcare professionals to carry out reliably from memory alone Surgery is one such example where clinicians are faced with high levels of uncertainty...
... and to all our patients The current state ofknowledge in this field makes it professionally unacceptable to continue without using these simple yet effective tools to improve all aspects of peri-operative ... http://www.josr-online.com/content/6/1/18 Page of Table Frequency of wrong site surgery incidents Category of wrong site surgery Nearmisses, n (% of total) Near-misses prevented by the checklist, n (% of individual category of wrong ... practice are now too complex for groups of healthcare professionals to carry out reliably from memory alone Surgery is one such example where clinicians are faced with high levels of uncertainty...
... importance of the directional variability of the gap fraction According to the size of the azimuth sectors, the quasi-random model partly takes into account clumping effects The ratio of L estimated ... adapted to our young plots, providing satisfying estimates of the gap fraction from every sector of the sky However, this technique is successful only if the considered sectors are small enough to ... quality of the estimates despite a moderate resolution (512 x 680 pixels) This also explains why a division into sectors of 90° was sufficient to take into account the directional variability of the...
... complementary to tRNAMet remained stable for use of tRNAMet throughout the complete culture period (in this case, up to 63 days post initiation of culture) Analysisof 34 individual TA clones of the PBS from ... was used to initiate viral infection in PBMCs PCR product that was sequenced directly Refers to TA clones of PCR product that is cloned into the Promega, P-Gem T-Easy Vector System I, to isolate ... complementary to tRNAMet As we had found in our previous studies, the sequence analysisof the PBS from both of these viruses at different times of culture revealed the reversion of the PBS to wild...
... all possible pairs of proteins belonging to the connected component of this graph (using the formula above and applying it to the list of protein interactors instead of the list of GO terms) The ... means of comparing gene functions as long as one is able to take into account the structure of the ontology in the comparison process We performed a pairwise comparison of the functions of the ... distances (ranging from the Repartition of the different PRODISTIN behaviors in respect toto 1) Repartition of the different PRODISTIN behaviors in respect to the distribution of the GO-based functional...
... models requires some knowledgeof each of the basic processes involved in the pathway from DNA to RNA to protein Over the past 30 years, numerous mathematical models of stochastic gene expression ... insight into the processes that lead away from the average to the developmentof disease phenotypes reviews may seem to be minor, it represents a significant gap in our knowledge if we are to construct ... Histogram of gene expression values (log(quant values)) of ACTB obtained from the limiting dilution experiment (a) Histogram of gene expression values (log(quant values)) of ACTB obtained from...
... Domestication of tomatoes has resulted in the increase of fruit size from a few grams to varieties 1000-fold larger [10] The physiological events leading to the expansion of the ovary wall of the tomato ... stages of tomato development, where cell division is most active, it is the most complete fruit development data set to date In order to identify genes involved in both apple and tomato fruit development, ... 60 50 Figure Comparison of apple and tomato expression Comparison of apple and tomato expression Expression of tomato and apple genes identified as changing during fruit development and similar...
... expeditiously A notable outcome of the Paris Forum was the adoption of a set of indicators of aid quality that should help with closer monitoring of progress and reinforcement of donor and recipient responsibilities ... Sub-Saharan Africa—the region that is furthest from the development goals and faces the toughest challenges in accelerating progress.3 But much of the analysisof SubSaharan countries is relevant for ... investments to promote growth and improve delivery of key services •Scaling-up scenarios Annual review of PRS implementation •Monitoring of progress •Feedback to PRS for any adjustments GLOBAL MONITORING...
... of these proteases is thought to be as virulence factors However, their contribution to pathogenesis cannot be properly assessed because of a lack of information about the dynamics of their production ... other positions, we took advantage of the apparent relaxed side-chain preference of PrtA to increase the solubility of the peptides (by choosing 1948 Fig Cleavage site analysisof PrtA on oxidized ... Fig Alignment of PrtA cleavage sites in three biological peptides and the N-terminal (inhibitory) peptide segment of four inhibitors of serralysin-type enzymes The sequence variants of the synthetic...
... appointed Scientific Director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Population and Public Health, located at the University of Toronto Frank’s main area of interest is the biopsychosocial ... perspectives brought to the study of determinants of health, but it also caused researchers to look beyond the barriers of their own disciplines and to think in new ways Over the course of fifteen years, ... hertzman is Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership, Professor in the University of British Columbia’s Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, and Associate Director of the Centre for...
... above results, from Figure it can be seen that the variation of pH of feed phase fromto exhibits a favorable influence of the selectivity factor, this parameter increasing fromto 3.1 in the ... variation of the selectivity factor with carrier concentration is opposite to that of the permeability factors (Figure 10) The maximum value of selectivity factor (S = 5) corresponds to the minimum of ... liquid membrane from 10 to 60 g/l Using the proper levels of the factors influencing the separation process (pH of feed phase of 8, pH of stripping phase of 3, rotation speed of the feed and...
... continents Thanks to them I have the honour to be the editor of this book Dr Angelo Carpi Clinical Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Male Infertility at the Department of Reproduction ... summation of the rates of mass transfer into i from relevant compartments or the external environment, and − R ji the summation of the rates of mass transfer from i to other compartments of the ... biotechnological tool Minimal life from the autopoietic perspective The starting point for the analysisof minimal living properties is the theory of autopoiesis (self-production) Developed by Humberto Maturana...
... the developmentof the gametophyte [39] Comparison of our data with the recently published transcriptome of haploid male gametophyte development [40] substantiates our staging of anther development ... adjacent stages of anther development, we aimed to identify the molecular components involved in switching from one phase ofdevelopmentto the next The results of this comparative analysis where ... PMA vs SAM Number of Genes 500 Figure Analysisof gene activation during anther development The transcriptomes of all four anther stages were compared to their preceding stage ofdevelopment SAM...
... transcripts of a total of 7796 distinct genes, with alternative transcripts of about 26% of them To find the number of new transcripts captured in this library, relative to the number of expressed ... effects of selected genes through regulation of their expression As an example, silencing of P-450 cytochromes has allowed the production of cyanogen-free transgenic cassava plants [22,23] One tool ... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/7/66 Figure profile of the assembly of cassava ESTs Cluster Cluster profile of the assembly of cassava ESTs The graph presents the number of clones per assembled scaffold;...
... surgery(defined as a history of knee surgery, including meniscal and ligamentous repairs and unilateral total knee replacement for OA), family history of total knee replacement (defined as a total knee replacement ... represents the probability of the co-occurrence of pixel values i and j in an image N represents the total number of pixel value co-occurrences in the image A pixel offset of pixel was chosen based ... to this study: it may have been useful to subdivide the cartilage into weightbearing and non-weightbearing regions This type of segmentation was not performed in order to minimize erros due to...
... regulating the developmentof pulmonary tolerance to repeated toxicant exposure [7] Significant genetic variability in the developmentof pulmonary tolerance to ZnO, endotoxin, and ozone was established ... contribution of genetic background to the developmentof pulmonary tolerance, and identify candidate genes that may be important regulators in the acquisition of tolerance Page of 12 (page number ... were determined to be tolerant to BAL protein following repeated ZnO exposure, suggesting a role for Tlr5 in the developmentof pulmonary tolerance to inhaled toxicants http://respiratory-research.com/content/6/1/73...
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... content analysis for the textbook I used one tool to collect, describe and analyze data: an analysis card The criteria to fit into four domains of the analysis card were designed in the light of the ... Culture is the evolving way of life of a group of persons, consisting of a shared set of practices associated with a shared set of products, based upon a shared set of perspectives on the world, ... Criteria for analysis 23 2.6 Content analysis procedure 24 2.6.1 Purpose of the analysis 24 2.6.2 Sample of the analysis 24 2.6.3 Elements of the analysis ...
... the supervision of Prof Tay Tong Earn throughout the course of my research While knowledge is the prerequisite to being a professor, Prof Tay has been one professor who is not only knowledgeable ... weight of the Boeing 767 was made of CFRP Today, this percentage has increased to 50% in the Boeing 787 Some modern military aircrafts contain 70% by weight of CFRP In the assessment of damage tolerance ... adopted by industries to be an important measure of damage tolerance of composite materials Extensive experimental research has been performed on the topic of low-velocity impact of CFRP laminates...