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... 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), ... clinical sites across the United States and Canada Two clinical coordinating centers (CCCs), a central biochemistry laboratory, the data coordinating center, and a representative from the NIDDK Division...

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

... the second digit in the United States (0.0079) Overall, the degree of deviation in Taiwan is larger than the degree of deviation in the United States The results reject the hypothesis H1, indicating ... of the samples in Taiwan was larger than that of the samples in the United States For example, the Cramer's V of the second digit in Taiwan was 0.0179, which is larger than the Cramer's V of the ... management The occurrence of the agency problem results from the separation of ownership and control The managers might pursue their self-interest to maximize their own wealth, perhaps at the expense...

Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 19:37

... 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 ... dihedral angles (Φ and Ψ) between the bound and the free state are plotted against the single residues whose local geometry is influenced by the binding of the two moieties The pheomenon of complex-dependent ... 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...

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 ... 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 ... months in the OFF arm Both regimens were tolerable, with the exception of higher neuropathy in the OFF arm The median OS in the OFF arm was 28 weeks, and that of the FF arm was 13 weeks, thereby...

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 ... 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 ... oteracil (which inhibits the phosphorylation of 5-FU in the gastrointestinal tract, thereby reducing the gastrointestinal toxic effects of 5-FU) and is widely used in Asia for the management of gastric...

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 ... 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 ... status In the updated results, the survival analysis continues to show the benefits from chemotherapy beyond 12 years and suggestive of cure (hazard ratio [HR} 0.78, p = 0.04) In comparison, the updated...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:21

... rescue either HIV-1 or SIV MAC from the antiviral state (Figure 4D and 4E) These experiments demonstrate that Vpx has the ability to rescue HIV-1, but not SIVMAC from the antiviral state 101 ... compared to the wild-type Vpx, the efficiency of HIV-1 rescue from the antiviral state in MDDCs by either mutant was reduced roughly 5-fold (Figure 5C) Nonetheless, both mutants retained the ability ... components of the DDB1/RBX1/CUL4A complex [12,13,15,35] To address the role of DCAF1 and the associated E3 ubiquitin ligase complex in rescue of HIV-1 from the antiviral state in MDDCs, the Q76A and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 01:21

... 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 ... 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 ... Pressures The quality of an auditor’s judgment is also influenced by pressures emanating from the firm itself These pressures can arise from immediate supervisors on the audit team or the overall...

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, ... 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 ... pool, they would be obvious targets for bacteria to pirate iron from the host Since the cytosolic counterpart may serve as a DNA protector, the plasma ferritin should be the first to ‘sense’ the...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 17:06

... 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 ... 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

... 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 ... about their dealings with civilian agencies in Afghanistan and Iraq Evidence supports the conclusion that there was similar aggravation with the military from the civilian agency perspective These...

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 ... maintained together in either the test set or the working set Although ˚ the data could be processed up to 2.5 A, there were some practical problems in using the full dataset in the refinement – the twin ... 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

... claim the credit, weigh the tax savings you’d receive from claiming the exemption against the tax savings to your child so you can then choose the option that provides the greater tax benefit for the ... exclude from their income state or local property tax benefits up to $30 per month (a maximum of $360 per year) The benefit can be in the form of a tax reduction or tax rebate In most places, the tax ... distributions from mutual funds, and capital gains from the sale of property While the 2010 threshold amount for the kiddie tax is $1,900, the first $950 of unearned income is tax free to the child and the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 22:20

... to produce ethanol from corn in the United States, the price of ethanol is determined by the price of gasoline and other factors, rather than the cost of producing ethanol from corn With recent ... reducing the supply of sugar for food use in the domestic market The purpose of this report is to investigate the feasibility of producing ethanol from sugar feedstocks in the United States In the ... ethanol from sugar feedstocks As a result, no data exist on the cost of producing ethanol from sugar feedstocks in the United States Brazil and several other countries are producing ethanol from...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20

... other elements of the JSOC to remain in the United States The Blue CJCS was surprised that these forces were even being considered for employment within the United States The fact was, given the ... 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 ... despite the degree to which the United States destroyed Iraq during the Persian Gulf War, the threat of massive retaliatory destruction did not keep the adversary from attacking the United States...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 17:20