... will in fact generate an increase in HRQL Page of All ofthe functional ability measures were found to correlate tothe amount of PA, indicating that greater balance function and decreased motor ... Columbia & Rehab Research Lab, GF Strong Rehab Centre, Vancouver, Canada 2School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy, National Taiwan University, and Physical Therapy Center and Department of ... functional ability (motor impairments of lower extremity, balance and walking distance) of these individuals tothe amount of daily PA they undertake This will enhance our understanding and identify...
... oxidantinduced decrease of hexokinase and pyruvate kinase, andthe maximum activity of these enzymes was allowed to change according tothe ratio of GSH and GSSG The equations and parameters used are derived ... disposable cells never reach a mathematical steady state Thus, a model that can tolerate long-term simulation for analyzing the pathology of human diseases should not approximate the "mathematical ... Mathematical simulation and analysis of cellular metabolismand regulation Bioinformatics 1999, 15:749-758 Tomita M, Hashimoto K, Takahashi K, Shimizu TS, Matsuzaki Y, Miyoshi F, Saito K, Tanida...
... decades: Victoria Avetyan, Vyacheslav Kiyevskiy, Maya Yampolskaya, Valentina Mashkova, Galina Inyayeva, Elizaveta Vinogradova, Zhanna Bril, Boris Isayev, Alexander Shafir, and Oleg Karpilovskiy My ... both the theoretical and practical standpoints Among these problems is the problem of maximizing energy savings by optimizing the type of separation unit and by maximizing heat recovery andthe ... obtained by other researchers, have been putting a great deal of effort into elaborating general methods ofthe geometric theory to answer the fundamental questions listed above An analysis of thermodynamically...
... Poincar´ operator P and give the e relation between T0 -periodic P C-mild solution andthe fixed point of P After showing the compactness ofthe Poincar´ operator P and obtaining the boundedness of ... X As a result, P is a compact operator In order to use Leray-Schauder fixed pointed theorem to examine whether the operator P has a fixed point, we have to make assumptions H2.2 and H2.5 a little ... that the set K can be approximated to an arbitrary degree of accuracy by a precompact set Kε Hence K itself is a precompact set in X That is, P takes a bounded set into a precompact set in X As...
... Trx1 is cytosolic protein of Trx family Inthe reduced state, it binds toand inhibits ASK1, an activator ofthe c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) and p38 MAPK kinase pathway Intramolecular disulphide ... cysteine, methionine, lysine, arginine, threonine and histidine and proline The hallmark of oxidative damage tothe proteins is formation of protein carbonyls, and as a result, the protein carbonyls ... colorectal adenomas and carcinomas, ovarian carcinomas, malignant brain tumors and breast cancer tissues (Janssen AM et al, 1999) In addition to protein overexpression, increased activities of antioxidant...
... at each medical school focusing on a separate area: “examination and standards in examination,” “e-learning in medicine,” “evaluation of teaching,” “practical year,” and “preparation for final ... details about the amount of time they teach andthe kind of examination they give A standardization ofthe examination across medical schools would be desirable to guarantee a predefined level of ... 33 academic departments of CAP inthe German-speaking parts of Europe: 26 in Germany, in Austria, andin Switzerland After mailings and some personal reminders, the response rate was 100% Further...
... using LA Taq (Takara, Japan) ina total volume of 50 lL containing 55 pg of competitor At this concentration, the band intensity ofthe amplified product from the competitor was same as that of ... bands are indicated by solid arrowheads Fig Microsequencing analysis ofthe MREa-binding proteins (A) The N-terminal sequence ofthe 82-kDa band was identical to amino-acid positions 6–16 ofthe ... proteins that bind specifically to MREa play an important role as a basal regulator of WD gene transcription MATERIALS AND METHODS Cell culture The human hepatoma cell line HepG2 was obtained...
... wards Horizontal dotted lines indicate bottom quartile, median and top quartile from normative data inthe ProQOL manual [16] and Figure 3, the separate distributions of scores for the wards of ... problems, andtoa "natural briefing" ofthe staff, so that nothing is unexpected, and therefore fewer things are potentially traumatizing One can also speculate on if one ofthe treatment principles, ... making the patient treatable at a lower security level can explain the low compassion satisfaction scores at ward A, the admission ward At this particular forensic unit, patients transfer to a...
... out ofthe 20 knees had all the data of grade cartilage at sites A, B and E, the signal intensity ofthe grade cartilage of sites A, B and E was also compared inthe 11 knees using the nonparametric ... was maintained in cartilage ofthe lateral condyle (site Aand site B) but deteriorated in cartilage ofthe medial condyle (site C), in cartilage at the central load-bearing region inthe lateral ... than that of grade cartilage (Figure 3e), but that of grade cartilage and grade cartilage did not differ from that of grade cartilage Although these data for grade cartilage and grade cartilage...
... Quasars have theproperties as follows([5]) - Quasars have the high red shift, - Quasars have the sizes are small by observed data, - Quasars have the variation ofthe brightness inthe optical ... DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION With the strange propertiesofthe while holes as above discussion, what can the candidates of while holes be ? In our opinion, the candidates of while holes can just be quasars! ... WHILE-BLACK HOLE We this section we shall consider radial motion ofa particle into a while- black hole We consider a particle falling radially into the central body with the particle having a velocity...
... The working pressure inthe analysis chamber was maintained below × 10−7 Pa during the specimen analysis To eliminate the effect of sample surface charging the shift ofthe XPS peak of carbon (C ... sensitivities to TMA, C2 H5 OH gas, gasoline, CH4 , CO, and water vapor were measured A given amount of each gas was injected into the chamber and mixed by a fan for 30 s The sensitivity to gases, S, ... defined as S = V g /V a , where Vg and Va are the voltage drops across the load resistance in testing gases/air mixture andin air, respectively Fig X-ray diffraction patterns ofthe thin films annealed...
... perpendicular tothe grain (radial and tangential) is much lower than parallel tothe grain (longitudinal) The presence of different types of bonds, strong and stiff bonds along the chain axis and weak and ... load-sharing capacity ofthe lignin-hemicelluloses matrix, and increase ofthe relative amount of crystalline cellulose could contribute tothe increase ofthe MOE The increased cross linking ofthe ... level); and fiber -to- fiber bonding with the middle lamella acting as the adhesive (macroscopic level) According to Sweet and Winandy [45] wood fibres can be regarded as a composite material anda single...
... (5'!3') AGAGTTTGATCCTGGCTCAG GGCTACCTTGTTACGACTT CTGGAGTTTGGCAGAGGG GTTAGCTACGGCACTAAAAGG CCGTCATCTACWCAGGGTATTAAC CCCTCTGCCAAACTCCAG GTTAGCTACGGCACTAAAAGG GCTGCCTCCCGTAGGAGT GCAGCCACCCGTAGGTGT ... Quantification using Quantitative PCR and FISH method in Activated sludge The amount of Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ inthe laboratory-scale andthe full-scale activated sludge were quantified ... DNA extracted from activated sludge were evaluated In addition, the amount of Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ in laboratory-scale EBPR and full-scale activated sludge samples were quantified...
... and 365 respectively, N-terminal tothe unpaired cysteinyl residues observed in jararhagin and catrocollastatin Jarahagin and catrocollastatin are known to undergo post-translational processing ... associated with the structure ofthe adjacent proteinase and disintegrin-like domains andthe packing of those two domains together inthe structure Comparison ofthe sequences inthe spacer domain ... bond pairs located inthe center andinthe C-terminal region ofthe domains are shared between the disintegrin flavoridin and VAP1 The disulfide bond patterns ofthe disintegrins and disintegrin-like...
... method can be used ina number of applications, including human usage, thesaurus production (Hearst, 1992; Nakamura and Nagao, 1988) and natural language understanding in general a) binary trees, ... Proceedings ofthe 33rd Annual Meeting ofthe Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 189–196 Yuji Matsumoto, Akira Kitauchi, Tatsuo Yamashita, Yoshitaka Hirano, Osamu Imaichi, and Tomoaki ... Artificial Intelligence, pages 662–667 Dan Moldovan and Sanda Harabagiu 2000 The structure and performance of an open-domain question answering system In Proceedings ofthe 38th Annual Meeting of the...
... people, and organizations and all manner of relations among them The great richness of material andthe naturally evolving content in broadcast news has leveraged its value into areas of research ... obtained world domain of obvious value has lead to rapid technology transfer of speech recognition into other research areas and applications Since the variations in speaking style and accent as ... Japanese characters (Hira-gana and Kata-kana) Most Kanji have multiple readings, and correct readings can only be decided according to context Conventional language models usually assign equal...
... deregulation and forbearance would accrue tothe owners and managers ofthe savings and loans The S&L crisis overlapped several regional banking crises inthe 1980s and at first was similar tothe ... over its regulators and if the regulators have the ability to hire, train, and retain qualified staff In this regard, the bank regulatory agencies need to remain politically independent Third, the ... requirements andthe ability to acquire an institution by contributing in- kind capital (stock, land, or other real estate), invited new owners into the industry With a minimal amount of capital, an S&L...