... infection and inflammation; the atrial-natriuretic peptide proANP and proET-1 as markers of cardiac and endothelial function, and the vasopressin precursor copeptin as a marker of stress and fluid ... PS, BM and MCC had the idea and initiated the study MCC, WZ, HCB, MW, PS, US, and BM designed the study and wrote the protocol PS, US, KR, RT, CF, IW, SN, CB, TF, RS, CH, TB, CH, MK, WZ and BM ... 91.1%, 87.6% and 86.1% of patients, respectively Calibration of PSI score and CURB65 score Both PSI and CURB65 significantly overestimated the mortality risk in CAP patients (P = 0.003 and 0.01 for...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02
... Upper and Lower Bounds on Put Options Proof of Put-Call Parity by No-Arbitrage Principle Example on Arbitrage Opportunity Sergei Fedotov (University of Manchester) 20912 2010 2/8 Upper and Lower ... Arbitrage Opportunity Three months European call and put options with the exercise price £12 are trading at £3 and £6 respectively The stock price is £8 and interest rate is 5% Show that there exists ... Arbitrage Opportunity Three months European call and put options with the exercise price £12 are trading at £3 and £6 respectively The stock price is £8 and interest rate is 5% Show that there exists...
Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 18:05
RKesneaorcwh arlteiclde ge and perception of pulmonary tuberculosis in pastoral communities in the middle and Lower Awash Valley of Afar region, Ethiopia docx
... and interpretation DS participated in data analysis, interpretation and write-up GB involved in study design and critically revised the manuscript FA involved in study design, data analysis and ... of latent and active TB in pastoralists and their livestock However, prior to the implementation of a survey on the prevalence of the disease, we attempted to assess the knowledge and perception ... person from the next household Study Design and Data Collection Between March and May 2009, a community-based cross-sectional survey was conducted in randomly selected pastoralists' kebeles of...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20
International consensus recommendations on the aesthetic usage of botulinum toxin type A (Speywood Unit) – part II: wrinkles on the middle and lower face, neck and chest pdf
... points should be used with a slightly lower dose per point nose, and ⁄ or extend to the lower eyelids and cheeks Bunny lines are usually dynamic wrinkles and appear when patients laugh or frown ... the largest and strongest muscle functioning in mastication Its superficial portion originates from the zygomatic arch and inserts into the ramus of the mandible and the side of the mandibular angle ... covers the chin and inserts transversally in the dermis below the lower lip Contraction of the mentalis raises the chin and makes the lower lip protrude Injection point, dose and technique A...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20
Aesthetic phenomena as supernormal stimuli: The case of eye, lip, and lower-face size and roundness in artistic portraits pptx
... demonstrates that larger and rounder eyes and lips, and a reduced and more pointed chin play a significant role in the perception of attractiveness (McArthur and Apatow 1983/1984; Berry and McArthur 1985; ... simplifications and transformations of the human face and form in African art and by Brancusi, Giacometti, Picasso, Moore, Bacon, and many twentieth-century artists were not arbitrary, and were perceived ... both artistic self-portraits, an exaggeration of eye and lip size and roundness, and a reduction of lower- face roundness with a more geometrical and V-shaped jaw ^ chin can be observed 3.3 Anthropometry...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Estimating Upper and Lower Bounds on the Performance of Word-Sense Disambiguation Programs" docx
... Upper and Lower Bounds 5.1 Lower Bounds W e could be in a better position to address the question o f the relative difficulty of interest if we could establish a rough estimate of the upper and lower ... London and Glasgow Smadja, F and K McKoown (1990), "Automatically Extracting and Representing Collocations for Language Generation," ACL, pp 252259 Small, S and C Rieger (1982), "Parsing and Comprehending ... insects and crustaceans, used for feeling, etc -> the illus at insect radio or TV aerial lack eyes, legs, wings, a n t e n n a e , and distinct mouthparts and The Brachycera have short antennae and...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20
Management of acute upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding potx
... standard of care Standards of care are determined on the basis of all clinical data available for an individual case and are subject to change as scientific knowledge and technology advance and ... National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in England and Wales The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) provides advice to NHS Boards and their Area Drug and Therapeutics Committees ... between gastroenterology and the referring consultant 11 Management of acute upper and lower gastrointestinal bleeding 4 Resuscitation and initial management 4.1 AIRWAY, BREATHING and CIRCULATION Patients...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20
New Developments in Upper and Lower Genital Tract Cancer potx
... necrotic tumor; and the essential support of family and her primary-care physician More recently, the tumor blocked her femoral veins, causing blood clots and lymphedema of her lower limbs She ... traditional management was surgery, first and foremost As well, the NCIC is also running OV14, where patients are randomized to carboplatin and paclitaxel, the current standard chemotherapy treatment, to ... elements of sexuality, fertility and femininity Cancer of the vulva, vagina and cervix directly impact on one’s self esteem For endometrial and ovarian cancer, and any disease treated with radiation...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 11:20
INFORMATION FOR SUCCESS - Customers Improve Data Warehousing Performance and Lower Costs with Oracle Exadata pdf
... hours and sometimes would fail to process GBS looked for a way to improve the performance and cost-effectiveness of its data warehouse environment and wanted to expand its analytical and brand ... television, and code 12 services for domestic and international long distance calls Algar divides its wide range of products and services into two segments: retail under the CTBC brand, and companies ... under the Algar Telecom brand Algar has more than 1.6 million customers—including approximately 700,000 landline phone, 500,000 cell phone, and 235,000 broadband customers and operates in major Brazilian...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 08:21
Báo cáo khoa học: A functional polymorphism at the transcriptional initiation site in b2-glycoprotein I (apolipoprotein H) associated with reduced gene expression and lower plasma levels of b2-glycoprotein I docx
... Lanes and are wild and mutant type probes without nuclear extracts or TFIID, respectively Lanes and are wild and mutant type probes incubated with nuclear extracts, respectively Lanes and are ... which is in linkage disequilibrium with the Trp316Ser mutation and is associated with significantly lower b2GPI plasma and mRNA levels and the low occurrence of APA Furthermore, this mutation reduces ... who were positive for APA but had lower b2GPI plasma levels (3.7, 4.3 and 7.3 mgÆdL)1) This indicates that the genetic basis of APA is complex and other genetic and/ or biological factors are involved...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20
DebT ceiling Deal ThreaTens Deep job losses anD lower long-run economic growTh pdf
... investments This would lead to slower long-run economic growth and lower living standards for future generations Thus, Congress is embarking on a path to lose both the future and the present In light ... prosperous and fair economy EPI stresses real world analysis and a concern for the living standards of working people, and it makes its findings accessible to the general public, the media, and policymakers ... incomes and raising living standards A recent and comprehensive review of the literature on this topic finds that a sustained 1% increase in the public capital growth rate (in other words, expanding...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 08:20
báo cáo hóa học: "The psychometric validation of a US English satisfaction measure for patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia and lower urinary tract symptoms" potx
... higher for patients with lower symptom severity on the IPSS and lower impact on the BII Similarly, patients reporting lower quality of life on the IPSS QOL item reported lower satisfaction on the ... arms – com- http://www.hqlo.com/content/7/1/55 bination (dutasteride and tamsulosin), dutasteride and placebo, and tamsulosin and placebo Responsiveness Responsiveness is the ability of an instrument ... QoL score and for the low medium and high impact categories on the BII The F statistics for the PPSM Total Score, PPSMGlobal and PPSM-Pain comparisons with the IPSS, IPSS QoL Item and BII were...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Computer simulations of neural mechanisms explaining upper and lower limb excitatory neural coupling Huang and Ferris" docx
... of contralateral CPGs (upper left and lower right, upper right and lower left) were in-phase while bilateral CPGs (upper left and upper right, lower left and lower right) were out-of-phase Grid ... generated alternating flexor and extensor muscle bursts of the upper left and lower right CPGs that were inphase (Figure 5) Likewise, the upper right and lower left limb flexor and extensor bursts were ... from upper to lower and from lower to upper CPGs) The upper limb CPG tonic descending drive was set to c up = and the lower limb CPG tonic descending drive was set to c lo = The lower limb sensory...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Quantitation of glucose uptake in tumors by dynamic FDG-PET has less glucose bias and lower variability when adjusted for partial saturation of glucose transport" potx
... with constants K m and Vmax and that the observed rate is corrupted by noise That is, K i = Vmax / ( K m + [ glc]) + ε , where ε is the random Gaussian with zero-mean and standard deviation σ ... semi-quantitative and full kinetic analysis Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 2011, 38:832-842 18 Flores JE, Mcfarland LM, Vanderbilt A, Ogasawara AK, Williams S-P: The effects of anesthetic agent and carrier ... (per second) and the MRGluc (in micromoles per minute per 100 cm3) We compared the glucose bias, test-retest, and between-animal variability of Ki, MRGluc, and MRGlucMAX Materials and methods...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20
CONSTRUCTION OF UPPER AND LOWER SOLUTIONS FOR SINGULAR DISCRETE INITIAL AND BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS potx
... Agarwal, D O’Regan, and P J Y Wong, Positive Solutions of Differential, Difference and Integral Equations, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1999 P Habets and F Zanolin, Upper and lower solutions ... Agarwal, D O’Regan, V Lakshmikantham, and S Leela, Existence of positive solutions for singular initial and boundary value problems via the classical upper and lower solution approach, Nonlinear ... Agarwal, D Jiang, and D O’Regan, A generalized upper and lower solution method for singular discrete initial value problems, Demonstratio Math 37 (2004), no 1, 115–122 R P Agarwal, H L¨ , and D O’Regan,...
Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo toán học: " Symmetric Sum-Free Partitions and Lower Bounds for Schur Numbers" potx
... [4], and the second follows from (2) and the bounds for R5 (3) given in S Radziszowski’s survey paper [6] For earlier work on lower bounds for S(k) see H Fredricksen [5] and A Beutelspacher and ... larger lower bound for S(6) by looking for symmetric sum-free partitions that have large depth and have one other set with large e-depth We currently have programs running to this Conjectures and ... since divides 45, multiplying by and -1 are not the same), and of the 24 have depth 13 For sum-free partitions of 13 into sets all three partitions are symmetric and equivalent Another interesting...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 06:20
Báo cáo toán học: "On the upper and lower chromatic numbers of BSQSs(16)" ppt
... coloured with the colours (1), (2) and (3) is 20 and the number of bi-chromatic blocks coloured with the colours (2) and (3) is at least and so |TX1 ∪X2 ∪X3 | ≥ 27 and this is absurd Let us consider ... C-edges and D-edges at the same time then it is called a bi-stable set A D-hypergraph is a classical hypergraph [1] and its lower chromatic number is the chromatic number introduced by Erd˝s and ... introduced by Erd˝s and Hajnal in 1966 [3] o In this paper the concepts of strict colouring and upper and lower chromatic numbers are applied to a particular t-design called a Steiner quadruple system...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 06:22
Báo cáo toán học: "Upper and lower bounds for Fv (4, 4; 5)" pps
... to show that F (4, 4; 5) 23 The lower bound For a graph G, a complete graph K and vertex set S ⊆ V (G), we say that S is (G, +v, K) maximal if and only if K G[S] and K ⊆ G[S ∪ {v}], for every vertex ... [{1, 2, · · · , 9}] ∼ C9 = Graphs F1 and F2 are shown in Figures and Our computational approach is based on the following lemmas and observations Lemma For r and positive integers a1 , a2 , · · ... 5) and G ∈ R(5, 3), G is (+e, K5 ) maximal, and H is / obtained from G by removing an independent set of order 3, then (1) H contains no K5 , (2) H → (2, 4)v , (3) δ(H) ∆(H) 7, and δ(H) = if and...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo y học: " Visor flap for total upper and lower lip reconstruction: a case report" pdf
... the first noma patient managed at our hospital, and the valuable lessons learnt This is also the first report of a total upper and lower lip, beard and moustache reconstruction using a scalp visor ... lost both his upper and lower lips, parts of the maxilla and some teeth, as well as the ability to open his mouth Concurrently, he had developed difficulties with eating and speech On examination, ... initially involved bilateral excision of the bony block between the mandible and maxillae, mobilization of the temporomandibular joint and soft tissue coverage achieved by use of bilateral pectoralis...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21
Báo cáo y học: "A descriptive study of a manual therapy intervention within a randomised controlled trial for hamstring and lower limb injury prevention" pdf
... associated with inter-professional acceptance and optimal standards of care [26] Methods Participation and randomization Full details of participation and randomisation have been published elsewhere ... improved hamstring and lower- limb muscle function and injury prevention in this study It supports the hypothesis that hamstring and lower limb muscle strain involves a local and distant model ... back and pelvis This is not surprising considering the incidence of low back injury and pain in Australian Page of footballers [40] The link between the low back and pelvis and hamstring and lower...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20