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... constants kon and koff were measured at 25 °C with the Biacore instrument, with MalE–E3-H6 in the immobile phase and Fab4E11H6 in the mobile phase The mean and associated SE values of koff in measurements ... interface between a solid and a liquid phase, and calculated as the ratio of two rate constants However, values of DDG and DDG¢ for mutant Fab fragments, calculated from values of KD and KD¢, respectively ... (sc-ASA) of the wild-type residue in column 1, as measured in a three-dimensional model of Fv4E11 (see Fig 4) Column 5, variation DDG of the free energy of interaction between Fab4E11-H6 and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 07:20

... DeAngelo, and Douglas J Skinner, 1992, Dividends and losses, Journal of Finance 47, 1837-1863 Dechow, Patricia M., 1993, Accounting earnings and cash flows as measures of firm performance: The role of ... net cash flows and cash from operations to reflect firm performance Net cash flows will fluctuate with cash inflows and outflows associated with the firm’s investment and financing activities as ... (quintile 5), net cash flows has an R2 of 0.24 percent, while earnings has an R2 of 21.98 percent Thus, when earnings and cash flows differ by the greatest magnitude, earnings has a higher association...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... transformation of that constant gives the PD of a loan with the same characteristics as those of the excluded loan 12 The goodness of fit measure is based on the association of predicted probabilities and ... Y S and G KANATAS (1985) Asymmetric Valuation and the Role of Collateral in Loan Agreements, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 17, pp 85-95 CHAN, Y S and A V THAKOR (1987) Collateral and ... in this paper we consider them as control variables, together with currency of the loan and type of instrument, the industry and the region of the borrower as well as the macro environment, since...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20

... Catastrophes and lesser calamities The causes of mass extinctions Tony Hallam is Emeritus Professor of Geology at the University of Birmingham and the author of a huge range of scientific books and ... hypothesis’ to me As the spread of an epidemic disease has so often been invoked for the extinction of the dinosaurs (and indeed of other groups), the subject of disease as an extinction mechanism ... The same applies to pandemics, such as the outbreak of influenza that swept through Europe and America in 1918, reaching the remote wastes of Alaska and the most isolated of island communities It...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 00:54

... adriamycin; 8, 80 and 800 μM of carboplatin; 4, 40 and 400 μM of gemcitabine; and 0.6, and 60 μM of taxol Drugs were used at concentrations corresponding to peak plasma levels and were also tested ... vitro results Page of and clinical response was observed in 27 out of the 30 patients analyzed, with a predictivity of 85.7% in terms of sensitivity and of 91.3% in terms of resistance The important ... drugs and showed disease progression Patients treated with carboplatin (3 cases: primary and recurrent), carboplatin and gemcitabine (2 cases), or carboplatin, taxol and gemcitabine (2 cases)...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... adriamycin; 8, 80 and 800 μM of carboplatin; 4, 40 and 400 μM of gemcitabine; and 0.6, and 60 μM of taxol Drugs were used at concentrations corresponding to peak plasma levels and were also tested ... vitro results Page of and clinical response was observed in 27 out of the 30 patients analyzed, with a predictivity of 85.7% in terms of sensitivity and of 91.3% in terms of resistance The important ... drugs and showed disease progression Patients treated with carboplatin (3 cases: primary and recurrent), carboplatin and gemcitabine (2 cases), or carboplatin, taxol and gemcitabine (2 cases)...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... analysis and the number of cases of depression in 2000 For men, the prevalence of depression was significantly different between those responding Page of 10 “excellent”, “good” or “fair” (1.5%) and ... with a BMI of >25 Table shows the lifestyle variables for the subjects in the analysis and the number of associated cases of depression in 2000 For men, the prevalence of depression was significantly ... the mayors and staff of the Village of Komochi and the City of Isesaki for their support Author details Department of Public Health, Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine, Maebashi, Japan...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... level of 0.05 was defined as the level of statistical significance Pre-existing diagnoses of lung disease At the time of PFT and respiratory symptom assessment (Visit 2), patients were asked: 'Has ... Society of Rheumatology [19,21] This approach has limited the understanding of the natural history of RA-associated lung disease by identifying patients primarily later in disease, and has contributed ... be a marker of RA disease activity or a marker of lung disease Previous studies have reported association of symptoms and/ or patient and disease characteristics with lung Probability of abnormal...

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... beneficial and toxic effects of caffeine as well as the extensive group of carcinogens, drugs, and xenobiotics also metabolized through action of the regulation of the gene products of CYP1A2 and AHR ... of caffeine was 137 mg per cup of coffee, 47 mg per cup of tea, 46 mg per can or bottle of cola or other caffeinated carbonated beverage, and mg per oz serving of chocolate candy We assessed the ... dietary recalls [26] and asks about consumption frequency of 124 food items over the past 12 months, including the primary sources of caffeine: coffee, tea, and soft drinks For soft drinks, participants...

Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2015, 14:47

... Biogeograophical Ethics is defined as motivation based on ideas of right and wrong when dealing with the geographical distribution of animals and plants  This concept of can be used to explain the world’s ... Complications: -Arthralgia - ocular diseases (ocular pain, photophobia and hyperlacrimation) - hearing loss - unilateral orchitis( inflammation of one or both of the testes) ** These conditions are ... N’zara b Zaire, now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo In these two instances the mortality rate was between 50 –90% Following those epidemics, Ebola hit Africa in many other instances the worst...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:09

... levels of NO2 among the examined 319 mothers were increased by 21% if there was dust exposure found at the mothers' workplace There was an increase of 18% if they used cooking fuels such as kerosene ... function measurements showed no consistent Also, the SAPALDIA study examined the association between NO2 and chronic cough and it was reported that an increase of 10 μg/m3 in pollutant levels was associated ... winter and summer periods and household annual averages of the nitrogen dioxide concentrations were assessed as continuous variables and as four categories Multiple logistic regression analysis of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... CS: Differential expression of Fas and Fas ligand in acute and chronic graftversus-host disease: up-regulation of Fas and Fas ligand requires CD8+ T cell activation and IFN-gamma production J ... active participation of T cells in natural self-tolerance; deficit of a T cell subset as a possible cause of autoimmune disease J Exp Med 1985, 161:72-87 Kuniyasu Y, Takahashi T, Itoh M, Shimizu ... production of active TGF-β, and that the presence of this cytokine was critical for CD8+ cells to suppress antibody production (Figure 1) [40,41] Moreover, the suppression was cytokine dependent and was...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:24

... head of the pancreas It was initially diagnosed as a cystic lesion of the pancreas Laboratory examinations showed an increase in the levels of amylase (306 U/liter, normal to 130 U/liter), lipase ... for epigastric pain and vomiting Clinical examination showed evidence of jaundice An emergency ultrasound showed lithiasis of the gallbladder, dilation of the main bile duct (9 mm), and a 12 ... Figure lum of the second part of pancreas divisum Complete and incomplete the duodenum with diverticuComplete and incomplete pancreas divisum with diverticulum of the second part of the duodenum...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... contamination and 131 (2.5%) of the samples and 83 (10.4%) of the consignments were contaminated When result was split into different products 14.6% and 10.0% of imported consignments of soybean meal and ... human cases of salmonellosis in the EU [1] and out of the 38 feed associated serovars identified 78.9% or all but (S Bere, S Glowcester, S Llandoff, S Morehead S Obogu, S Ouakam,, S Tabligo and ... processing and pr oduction environments PhD-thesis Univ of Copenhagen, Denmark 2007 doi:10.1186/1751-0147-52-15 Cite this article as: Wierup and Häggblom: An assessment of soybeans and other vegetable...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... Germany) we scanned the heart and surrounding structures of 32 patients ECG-triggered in endexspiration and produced the standard views of the long and short axes, as well as the left ventricular outflow ... early diastolic SR (Sre) 0.60 ± 0.35 s-1 The analysis of tissue velocities demonstrated a gradient of systolic (S´) and diastolic (early E´ and late A´) velocities from the apex to the basis of the ... differences between basal, midventricular and apical myocardium (see Table 3) Table 3: Tissue velocities (S´, E´, A´) of basal, mid and apical segments as assessed by VVI S´ (cm/s) E´ (cm/s) Basal 3.64...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:15

... Fluorescence emission was recorded at 460 and 580 nm After a 20 sec baseline reading, 0.1 ml of PBS containing 10 µM of the compound investigated was added, and the fluorescence signal was recorder for ... S-analogs of natural O-glucosides involved in the biosynthesis of chrysomelidial and salicin These substances are synthesized and secreted as part of a defense mechanism used by larvae of beetles ... (A) and CHO cells expressing hSGLT2 (B) was determined by IC50 assessment Different concentrations of thioglycoside I and VII in log scale were plotted against [14C]AMG uptake as percentage of...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 10:04

... collidine mass injected into GCFID was 0.01 µg By this way, 2-AP content of the pandan leaves was quantified (Table 2) Table Peak areas of collidine and 2-AP in pandan leaves recorded by GC-FID and ... (RF) of collidine has been used to identify and quantify 2-AP in pandan leaf that was extracted by SDE and then analyzed by GC-FID By this method, retention time (Rt) of collidine and 2-AP in pandan ... rice with dichloromethane as solvent and collidine as internal standard Duration of extraction was 30 minutes from apparition of the first drop of water in the bottom of the condensed tube Volatile...

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Ngày tải lên: 13/12/2013, 12:15

... corners of the world, from the Fuegian of southernmost Chile to the Inuit of northernmost Alaska, and from the Maori of the remote Cook Islands to Siberian Yakut Some of them describe, of course, ... Sakalavas of Madagascar not tell their own name or that of their village to strangers to prevent any mischievous use The Todas of Southern India dislike uttering their own name and, if asked, ... both of the right kind, as in kontal-kontil, ‘the swinging of long earrings or the swishing of a dress as one walks’, and the wrong, as in jerangkang, ‘to fall over with your legs in the air’ Others...

Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2014, 10:51