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... volunteering programs are increasingly being offered by businesses, either alone or in association with other businesses [15,16] For example, the Brookings Institute recently created an Initiative ... selection, training, and matching of Fellows to Organizations Other problems generally contributing to the lack of success in achieving Fellowship goals included: ▪ The Fellow did not have the skill ... and clinical care facility Creation of preventive maintenance schedules and routines, including budgets for necessary replacement parts Training in research methods, design of clinical trial management...
... overview of novel somatic and inherited mutations in melanoma The current experience indicates that the number of somatic variants is highly variable depending on the type of melanoma The highest ... and of human interleukin-2 The next challenge for melanoma therapy will be, fromthe gene signature, to optimize the treatment of individual patient using these active agents sequentially or in ... could result from intrinsic genetics ofthe patient rather than the specific genetics ofthe tumor In conclusion, clinical outcomes of patients treated by immune therapy are determined by multiple...
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... Multistain Imaging Module for the nestin stained brain tissue microarrays slides The TMAs were processed using the TMA specific imaging assay, TMA Multistain This allows the software to distinguish ... within individual cores ofthe TMA slide Both staining intensity and its relative area within a specimen were quantified Staining intensity was acquired in a continuous gradient and divided into ... Although initially identified in glioma, nestin expression has since been demonstrated in several other malignancies, including angiosarcoma, gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) [19], hemangioblastomas...
... involved inthe structural damage process of OA but also plays an important role in pain transmission Results fromin vitro studies and animal models of OA support the dominant role of IL-1β early in ... placebo at the main endpoint (month 1) A tendency for improvement was noticed inthe 150 mg group at day (in keeping with the short half-life of IL-1ra), suggesting that IL-1 inhibition may be therapeutically ... intervertebral disc: an in situ-zymographic and gene therapy study Arthritis Res Ther 2007, 9:R83 Le Maitre CL, Hoyland JA, Freemont AJ: The role of interleukin1 inthe pathogenesis of human intervertebral...
... observed in health survey data since the mid 1990s [44] Our finding of an independent association between obesity and internalising (emotional) difficulties is echoed by findings from a smaller, mainly ... wellbeing was restricted to the parentally reported SDQ, inthe absence ofthe SDQ impact supplement The use of SDQ internalising and externalising factor scores as the main outcome measure may ... and the instrument may be less useful as a metric of wellbeing However, the variation in published findings are unlikely to be wholly explained by the different measures employed Rather, there may...
... prolonged inactivity during the balance ofthe day Indeed, inactive men and women engaged in about three hours of total activity per day from all domains and hence spent most ofthe day inactive Had these ... intensity of activities performed Definitions of levels of intensity (1=inactive (mainly sitting); 2=light (mainly standing); 3=moderate (slight increase in heart rate and some light sweating); and ... P=0.0003) Inactive men were predominantly sedentary in their occupation Time spent in moderate-to-vigorous activity increased with PAL with very active men spending the majority of their timein moderate-to-vigorous...
... about each of these aspects ofthe market, but the market” studiously ignored these warnings There were other examples of intellectual incoherence One ofthe reasons for the drying up of interbank ... presumably justified their huge compensation But at the same time, they were using data from before the introduction of these new instruments to estimate the parameters of their models, including the ... government interventions in 2008 amount, in his view, to the public sector going into the credit insurance business in response to the crisis—by either writing credit insurance or taking over insurance...
... evolution ofthe ChEs, including the origins ofthe acyl pocket, the T exon, and the asymmetric forms of ChE inthe vertebrates Results The sequence ofthe ChE from C intestinalis suggests that the ... modeling of monomeric C intestinalis AChE catalytic subunits with the PRAD domain of ColQ indicates that the WAT domain ofthe C intestinalis AChE is capable of organizing the subunits into a ... are the Trps ofthe WAT domains, which all face inward and surround the PRAD (D) Cut away view showing the Trps (in space-filling format) of two WAT domains (colored as above) interacting with the...
... but the double mutant was completely inactive, demonstrating the predominant role ofthe redox site at the C-terminus inthe oxidative activity The action of PfPDO in catalysing interchange of intramolecular ... the absence ofthe recovery ofthe RNase activity inthe presence ofthe thioredoxin from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius was used as a negative control The refolding ofthe scrambled RNase in ... the protein inthe presence ofthe nucleotide These experiments indicate that the binding and/or hydrolysis of ATP not have any effect on the conformation of PfPDO, possibly because ofthe localization...
... curdlan or laminarin After binding ofthe carbohydrate to the receptor, the expression ofthe gene coding for the binding protein increases In turn, the potential scavenger molecule, a fibrinogen-related ... domain was selected for the design of degenerate primers Aligning different fibrinogendomain containing proteins, fibrinogens, fibroleukins/ techylectins, angiopoietins, ficolins and tenascins, the ... all fibrinogen domain-containing proteins found in Metazoa In consequence, the other vertebrate fibrinogens emerged fromthe sponge protein, probably by gene duplication [65] and domain shuffling [69]...
... building intheInternational Style, while to others it still holds onto characteristics of Streamline Moderne In can be considered to be intheInternational Style primarily because of its lack of ... the top, there were other avenues oftheInternational Style that were becoming very popular, and one of these was the furniture A principle ofthe Bauhaus was to cater to the development of contemporary ... 'grandfather chair' and is made possible by using steel and leather The best use ofthe specific character of material and form of each element is used in order to obtain both minimal weight and maximum...
... (HOMO–LUMO) of benzene This is a result ofthe confinement ofthe π electrons fromthe delocalized state of pristine graphene to small aromatic domain ofthe size of a benzene ring, that may support ... has the same form ofthe Fano fitting formula [12], showing thus the common origin ofthe onset ofthe phonon infrared activity (encoded in Wv ) and ofthe Fano lineshape asymmetry (encoded in ... mechanism leading to the formation of this nanocrystalline graphene is different fromthe one described for the graphite flakes/FLG The small size ofthe crystals and the absence of order in their orientation...
... share ofthe euro inthe bond portfolios of large international fund managers, on the one hand, and the rising share ofthe euro inthe stock ofinternational bonds, on the other Looking ahead, the ... confirms that the increasing role ofthe euro intheinternational arena has been most visible in terms of debt securities issuance (ECB, 2003a) Indeed, the share ofthe euro inthe stock ofinternational ... relative increase inthe information reported on investments fromthe United Kingdom on the primary market Interestingly, however, discussions with market participants suggest that, in their view, the...
... knee Reducing the swelling in your surgical leg Avoiding infection in your surgical knee Sleeping better at night Increasing the bend in your surgical knee Increasing the straightening in your surgical ... levels of importance at all four time points (i.e either or on the 7-point scale) The Friedman's ANOVA results are shown in Figure The mean rank ofthe importance rating changed over time (p ... respectively The Western Ontario McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) is embedded within the KOOS Therefore, scores for the subscales ofthe WOMAC were extracted fromthe KOOS Both the KOOS...
... drafted the manuscript TS participated inthe development ofthe focus group guidelines, the drafting ofthe manuscript and was involved inthe peer review AC participated inthe development ofthe ... third step, the concepts contained inthe meaning units were identified A meaning unit could contain more than one concept Linking to the ICF According to the purpose of multiple coding, the identified ... statements, the third person made an informed decision Saturation of data In this study saturation was defined as the point during data collection and analysis when the linking ofthe concepts of two...
... Protective functions ofthe skin b820 Repair functions ofthe skin b830 Other functions ofthe skin b840 Sensations related to the skin ICF, International Classification of Functioning, Disability ... clinically meaningful change in a domain or the syndrome as a whole The present study can help enhance the knowledge of FM by including the patient perspective Further research inthe context of ... total of 159 concepts linked to the ICF Core Set category sensation of pain (b280) Apart from pain, the most outstanding theme reported by participants was the attitude of others regarding FM The...
... asymptomatic with a normal umbilicus Before being discharged, the patient was again reminded ofthe risk of recurrence Discussion The deposition of fragments of uterine endometrium inthe skin is ... and was involved in editing the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Histological findings are characterized by irregular glandular lumina embedded inthe stroma with ... bleeding fromthe umbilicus for four months The bleeding would start two days before her menses and continue for the entire duration of her period It was accompanied by pain and swelling in the...