insights from the factor proportions theory

... the Schwartz formula and dramatically improved the precision, bias, and sensitivity by reducing the constant from 0.55 to 0.47 At enrollment into CkiD, and using a measured GFR derived from the ... published by the investigators at the data coordinating center (10) The putative exposures of interest in the CKiD cohort have included glomerular diagnosis (estimated at 20% of the cohort), ... ventricular hypertension the within-individual correlation of GFRs year apart, loss to follow-up rates, and the rates of reaching renal replacement therapy in the first few years of the cohort study...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... that whereas men received the most emotional support from their wives, the women in the sample said they received the most emotional support from their children and from their friends and relatives, ... relatives to get the emotional support they need if it is not forthcoming from the spouse Even though the women in this sample reported fewer ties than men did, the support received from their broader ... 439.1 Table summarizes the sociodemographic and psychological characteristics of the sample at the time of the first interview The majority of the sample was White (83%; the remainder was African...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

... developing the technology? 6.7 Is the USA the place where it is happening? 6.8 What can we learn from the US market? 6.9 What are the market opportunities? 35 35 35 LOOKING TO THE HORIZON: THE CHALLENGES ... PRACTICAL INSIGHTS FROM THE USA orient them to the company and their role within it Productivity and ROI were the watchwords at this level, and as offers and customers changed continuously, there ... if they want their eLearning programmes to succeed, and recognise that the community that learners interact with helps them define not the physical or mental skills but rather the meanings of the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/04/2014, 11:11

... hydrophobic pocket, a discontinuous region at the interface between the inner and the outer domain of gp120 [52] On the other hand, the lateral face of the D1 CD4 domain is implicated in MHC-class ... then extracted from the PDB files of the compared structures (accession numbers 3CD4 and 2NXY for CD4 and CD4-gp120 complex, respectively) as on the x-axis,a according of the 203)(gray) and the ... form first and the secondCCD4 gp120 CD4 structure (within Regionsfactor between the( in red) theand the one complexed greatest changes in Regions of CD4 structure (within the first and the second...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20

... still active, and the extinct B4 element The Alu-like B1 element is still active in the mouse but probably became extinct in the rat soon after the mouse-rat split On the other hand, the ID element, ... minor in the mouse, is present in over 160,000 copies in the rat The remainder of the euchromatic rat genome includes rat-specific repeats or rodent-specific repeats that have been lost from the mouse ... neutral DNA Interestingly, the rate of base substitution is 5-10% higher in the rat than the mouse branch, leading to a relative increase in GC content in the rat; and the rat has also accumulated...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:20

... indicated for the first time that adjuvant systemic chemotherapy led to a superior survival as compared with the either the no-chemotherapy or the chemoradiotherapy groups Although the study methodology ... Anti-VEGF Antibody Therapy in the First-Line Treatment Fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy plus the anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) monoclonal antibody bevacizumab is the standard front-line ... chemotherapy alone, without the addition of radiation Therefore, adjuvant chemotherapy is regarded as the standard adjuvant treatment after surgical resection of the pancreas in Europe The recent...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... in the control arm There were no differences in the rates of congestive heart failure between the two groups although there was a higher rate of asymptomatic decrease in cardiac function in the ... pancreatic cancer Prothrombotic factors generated by the cancer cells, debility of the patients, dehydration and systemic chemotherapy have been thought to be the attributing factors DVT in pancreatic ... intervention rate Their findings support the use of upfront chemotherapy as initial management for patients with synchronous stage IV CRC without obstruction or bleeding from the primary site The ongoing...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... chemotherapy group received the planned cycles of chemotherapy The exploratory analysis of these results showed the patients with clinical stage II and T3N1 disease derived the greatest benefit from ... indicate that the development of a rash is important predictive factor than the specific grade of the rash The data depicted the OS to be far more superior when cetuximab was added to the standard ... Lastly, there is hope for improving outcomes in the Page of 11 second-line setting given the positive data from the ZODIAC trial The important finding in this trial has demonstrated the improvement...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:21

... dominance, but the search for synergies in order to achieve excellence Maximizing the best of the human and the technology is the real victory Hopefully the patient will be the ultimate victor Other lessons ... ‘reinvent the wheel’ However, the question, yet to be answered, is whether as a profession we have the insight, the will, or the humility So far, no other high-risk industry has waited, or expected the ... offer insights from the profession of engineering, the field of cognitive psychology, and even from games such as chess The conclusion should be obvious – diverse ideas already exist and, therefore,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... reduce the susceptibility of the virus to the host immune system http://genomebiology.com/2005/6/11/238 the coding sequence of the env gene, and then determine the effect of these mutations on the ... loaded while the other is degraded The miRNA or siRNA in the RISC finds and silences its target mRNAs through sequence-specific recognition The viral products that interfere with the pathway are ... balance the employment (in the case of SV40) and suppression (in the case of PFV and HIV) of the host RNA-silencing pathway Do other viruses that produce dsRNA molecules avoid triggering the antiviral...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 15:20

... regulators in other countries such as the FRC in the U.K., the CPAB in Canada, and the ASIC in Australia, although there are differences across countries in the manner in which the inspection ... Practice & Theory Supplement 1, 2013 Audit Quality: Insights from the Academic Literature 413 Fuerman, R 2006 Comparing the auditor quality of Arthur Andersen to that of the Big Accounting and the Public ... within the structure of the basic audit methodology, as applied by the auditor, using his/her best judgment The ability to make sound judgments directly influences the quality of the audit, so the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:43

... a dimer to the Fur-box in the promoter regions of iron-regulated genes (Hennecke, 1990) In the presence of low iron, Fe2+ dissociates from the Fur protein, which then releases from the Fur-box, ... found in the amebocytes and the hemolymph /plasma of the horseshoe crab are summarized in Table The horseshoe crab is heavily dependent on the coagulation cascade, lectins and other defense factors ... INFECTION: INSIGHTS FROM THE LIMULUS ONG SEK TONG DERRICK (Bachelor of Science (Hon)) A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES THE NATIONAL...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 17:06

... but not the extra GlcNAc residue, if the latter bisects the b-Man residue at the C4 position Finally, an H ion would be formed through concerted loss of the substituents on the 6-arm and the bisecting ... of LC1 and LC2, together with those of other homologues of factor IX/X-binding lectin-like subunits, are aligned in Fig They show the highest sequence identity (77–81%) to the corresponding subunits ... was established from several complementary ion series First, the D ion formed at the bisected 3,4,6-linked b-Man residue carried the extra bisecting GlcNAc residue together with the 6-arm substituents...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 06:20

... on the coordination of the metal cofactor in the active site as well as the changes it experiences in response to different metal cofactors Finally, by comparing ApeSOD with the SOD from the thermophilic ... His31, bound to the metal, in the company of a water oxygen, from the apical positions The manga˚ nese was only 0.06 A out of the equatorial plane (Table 3) The angles around the metal cofactor suggested ... ApeSODs (A–C) The orange map represents the rA-weighted Fo)Fc electron density map at the r level, where the indicated residues are excluded from the calculation of the structure factor The blue map...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 22:20

... center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Department of the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence ... Understand—Understand the nature of the conflict, the enemy, the battlefield, and the nature of the indigenous population and culture.4 • Shape—Create favorable conditions for the engage and consolidate ... Introduction Men make the city and not walls or ships without men in them.6 —Nicias the Athenian Syracuse, Sicily, 413 BC We write a lot of the lessons we’ve learned, but we don’t learn from the lessons...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 23:20

... the zwitterions comes from the long central a-helix to which the catalytic Cys belongs [49] The polarizing effect originating from the helix concerned facilitates the transfer of the proton from ... procedures The backbone of region 196–209 was traced from the electron density map Within region 196–209, the side chain of the last residue could not be located from the electron density map; the rest ... which occupies the active site cleft from the S1 to the S3 subsites of the enzyme Enzyme kinetic studies with chromogenic peptide substrates, along with the structural information from the enzyme–inhibitor...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 16:20

... submitting the graphic designer to their programmatic design system Müller-Brockmann asserted, The withdrawal of the personality of the designer behind the idea, the themes, the enterprise, or the ... Discourse | Katherine McCoy with David Frej | 1988 The Macramé of Resistance | Lorraine Wild | 1998 87 The Dark in the Middle of the Stairs | Paula Scher | 1989 Section One: Creating the Field Theory ... 128 Theory at Work | 51 Dmitri Siegel Urban Outfitters Blog, 2008 The UO blog is the first horizontal scrolling blog in the history of the internet It compiles brand inspiration from around the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 15:20

... warfare At the time the games were conducted there was a lack of clarity concerning both the future threats to the homeland and the evolving role of the Army in homeland security Indeed, within the ... warfare At the time the games were conducted there was a lack of clarity on both the future threats to the homeland and the evolving role of the Army in homeland security Indeed, within the various ... on the outcome of the wargame Although a number of unexpected insights were generated from the 1997 Winter Wargame, no mention was made of the potential threats to the United States in any of the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 17:20

... that the shift of the phosphate moiety from the aromatic purinetrione system to the periphery of the active site is restricted by the position of Arg128 from one side and the conformation of the ... if the ribityl chain in the other structures The distance between the pyrimidine ring and the phosphate atom in the phosphate moiety is 6.9 A The location of this group is the same as in the ... isotherms for the inhibitors (F) The lled circles in the binding isotherms represent the experimental values of the heat change at each injection; the continuous lines represent the results of the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 11:20

... Why did they pause from making their work and building their careers to write about what they do? Why should a young designer today stop and read what they wrote? Theory is all about the question ... that the mind ceases to respond to the exhausted theme; then the time is ripe for a new invention The so-called technical aspect is, however, inseparable from the so-called artistic aspect, and therefore ... printed matter It was there that they first started to shift the emphasis and make the word be the illustration of the picture, instead of the other way round, as in Europe Moreover, the highly developed...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:06