... string of such co-ordinates A polygon is a closed line The grid-based format of data is captured as information of each quadratic cell ina screen and could be looked at asa photo of the area GIS ... provide maps which show the spread of the disease by displaying the maps asa movie The GIS can also be incorporated ina real time outbreak notification, as done in an eradication program of the Aujeszky’s ... because this is not yet a standard toolin the available GIS- packages The visualisation of the disease rates on digital maps can be misleading because the eye tends to interpret point patterns as...
... GACANNNNNNNNNNNNNNTGRTATAATNNNNAA GTAATAAAATATTCGGAGGAATTTTGAAATGAATA AACGTGTAAAAATCG-3¢) (N ¼ A, T, G, C) and pykback (5¢-CTCTACATGCATTTCAACAATAGGGCCTG TC-3¢) for amplification of pyk The resulting PCR products, ... close to (Clas % and Clas % 0) as can be inferred from the primary data However, it is interesting that a slight reduction in las activity resulted ina very strong decrease in growth rate and glycolytic ... AAGGATCCTTGTGTTTTTCTCCTATAATG-3¢) and downstream to pyk using primer pyk3 (5¢-GGAAGGA TCCTTTGTCAATTAATGATCTTAAAAC-3¢) and pyk4 (5¢-CTAGTCTAGATGAGCTCCAGAAGCTTCC-3¢) were amplified The PCR products...
... or as later invasive stage [46–48] Thus, in most cases, choriocarcinoma has the appearance of trophoblast, being predominantly syncytiotrophoblastic or cytotrophoblastic Some cytotrophoblastic ... island and cell columns, is formed which maintains the ability of proliferation and invasion Choriocarcinoma is a malignant neoplasm that represents the early trophoblast of the attachment phase ... IgG and ECL development [30] Reverse-transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction Total RNA from choriocarcinoma cell lines was isolated by using RNeasy kit (Qiagen, Vienna, Austria) Three micrograms...
... those measures that are being used in the target areas as well as foreign countries, such as Indonesia, China, Bangladesh, Germany, Mexico, Colombia, USA. Some of them are introduced as follows. ... pond area in the province. As shown in Fig. 2, the total area of brackish water shrimp culture has increased approximately 4 times, from 251 ha in 2000 to 902.5 ha in 2007. According ... different measures are shown in Table 7. Table 7. Standardized score for costs of combinations Measure A1 +A2 .3 A1 +B1 A1 +B2 A1 +B1+B2 A2 .1 +A2 .3 A2 .1+B1 A2 .2 +A2 .3 A2 .2+B1 A2 .3+B1 A2 .3+B1+B2 Standardized cost Standardized score...
... hematopoietic compartment using a CD34+ hESC-derived starting population has been considered asa potential AIDS therapy, and asa way to alleviate secondary effects produced by anti-retroviral ... Nature 460, 909–913 89 Hong H, Takahashi K, Ichisaka T, Aoi T, Kanagawa O, Nakagawa M, Okita K & Yamanaka S (2009) Suppression of induced pluripotent stem cell generation by the p53–p21 pathway ... cell anemia carrying the human mutant variant of the b-globin gene (bS) that is responsible for the disease Fibroblasts froma diseased animal were reprogrammed into iPSCs, and the sickle cell anemia...
... aware of the way I treat the world around me"; item difficulty = 0.81), all values are in the acceptable range from 0.2 to 0.8 Factor analysis Factor analysis revealed a Kaiser-Mayer-Olkin value ... P sub-scales, such as age, sex, marital status, educational level, religious affiliation, SpR attitude, disease and duration of disease Using the method of univariate analyses of variance we ... unconventional spiritual practice humanistic practice nature-oriented practice R+S- individuals conventional religious practice existentialistic practice unconventional spiritual practice humanistic practice...
... structures in lignins by cleavage of arylglycerol-β-aryl ether bonds Asa single method, thioacidolyse has a definite advantage in that it may be used to characterize unambiguously typical and prominent ... contain information about all chemical constituents of organic material This advantage eliminates the need to initially pinpoint the key factor that determines a specific characteristic NIRS instruments ... NIRS analysis is a fast, environment-friendly analytical method that has gained widespread acceptance in recent years It is based on vibrational spectroscopy that monitors changes in molecular...
... performed in September 1998, with the aim of estimating the maximum annual impact of water stress in areas at different levels of landscape degradation a Istanbul Ankara Bursa Izmir Antalya Adana c ... growing and water availability was likely high after winter rains Total precipitation during March, April and May 1998 at site H was about 130 mm and air temperatures were between 15 and 25 °C In ... potential, usually assumed to be in equilibrium with ΨL when measured as Ψpd [58] The significance of both Ψpd and Ψmin as indicators of plant water status has been questioned As an example, Ψpd has...
... information on an Ishikawa diagram can cultivate lifelong learning habits in medical professionals Medical educators can also apply Ishikawa diagrams to facilitate problem-based learning when teaching medical ... published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, which has substantiated information about ovarian cancers and amenorrhea [8] In this way, continually organizing and updating information ... relevant case reports and literatures are also indicated in the Ishikawa diagram so that readers can retrieve the case reports and relevant literatures easily The potential causes for secondary amenorrhea/oligomenorrhea...
... controls at 575 nm was used as background The final Ca2+ amounts were calculated according to the manufacturer’sprotocol and are given in μg per μl of the sample A standard curve was prepared using ... decrease in Ca2+ content was shown in the remaining floral organs, except the calyx, which suffered a slight increase in Ca2+ concentration (Figure 2A) For pistil, this decrease was more than 3-fold ... and animals [5] and is involved in multiple signal transduction pathways, which are fundamental for many intercellular and intracellular interactions [6,7] Calcium plays an essential role in pollen-pistil...
... interpretation, and drafted the manuscript LE was the lead for statistical analysis RT was involved in study design and data interpretation SR was involved in study design and data interpretation All authors ... Allmiral LE and RT are employees of GSK SR has consulted or participated in advisory boards for: Able Associates, Adelphia Research, Almirall/Prescott, APT Pharma/Britnall, Aradigm, AstraZeneca, ... measurements Bland Altman plots for sputum percentage and numbers/ ml at baseline and year are shown in Figure For percentages, the mean change was a 3.5% increase at year compared to baseline, with...
... Figure A: original data B: normalised data C: standardised data D: data after factor correction Note that normalisation, standardisation, and factor correction reduce the variation within each condition ... means among each other Note that in this approach part of the variation in the data set is attributed to a variation in factor effect within a session This is in contrast to the above ratio approach ... combination of session and condition Each condition was measured in different sessions In simulating data, the overall mean was set to 100 and the standard deviation was set to 10 Factors and...
... Preliminary data analysis revealed no significant main effects and only one significant interaction of day and aroma on the pleasantness ratings of the young, implicating an increase in pleasantness ... pleasantness ratings, the aroma concentration had a similar effect on both age groups in the first tasting session: the heightened aroma sample was rated as less pleasant than the regular aroma sample ... samples was created by a laboratory panel (n ¼ 9; females, males, aged 25 –41 years) trained to evaluate attributes selected in advance The attributes were evaluated on a 9-point scale that was...
... organization development which utilizes learning networks asa means for disseminating and generating knowledge of new practices, and examines opportunities for this approach in Finland by looking ... the paper examines learning networks asa model for interaction and cooperation at four different levels Towards a New Approach in Work Organization Development Bases for Innovation-Promoting ... depicting the ability of a project to function asalearning network In actual fact, a project’s ability to function asalearning network depends on many other factors too, as for instance the...
... signal transduction cascade that recruits an ADP-ribosylation factor guanine nucleotide exchange factor (such as ARNO) to the apical plasma membrane ARNO facilitates ADP-ribosylation factor activation ... disease Because HXA3 may play an important step underlying the pathophysiology of in ammatory diseases, such asin ammatory bowel disease, the investigation of human 12-LOX genes at mucosal surfaces, ... Protein kinase Calpha-dependent increase in Ca2+-independent phospholipase A2 in membranes and arachidonic acid liberation in zymosan-stimulated macrophage-like P388D1 cells Biochem Pharmacol 63,...
... measurements The VH domains in camelid heavy chain antibodies are most similar to the classical VH3 family and as such bind protein A with micromolar affinity Furthermore, the protein A binding ... that can be rapidly explored using a phage selection Design of a heavy chain antibody scaffold A conceptually similar approach was employed by Bond et al in the design of a camelid heavy chain ... that, at least in some circumstances, a quantitative correlation to biophysical data can be obtained froma statistical analysis of selected phage populations [16] We also discuss experiments addressing...
... final model Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) This statistical multivariate method is supervised It searches for the variables containing the greatest interclass variance and the smallest intraclass ... Data analysis All spectra were treated with in- house software working ina MATLAB environment (MATLAB 6, Mathworks Inc., Natick, USA) Spectra were separated ina training set constituted of 48 samples ... including several areas in lipid and in nucleic acid regions, and one area associated with proteins (amide II) Training set spectra were used for model building in LDA The model was tested with...
... Dewpura et al endogenous inhibitor, a catalytic domain characteristic of serine proteases and a C-terminal Cys- and His-rich domain implicated in enzyme stability and protein– protein interaction ... the prodomain, the common naturally occurring A5 3V variation that has no significant effect on plasma cholesterol levels and the R46L variation, a naturally occurring variant associated with hypocholesterolemia ... shots and masses were externally calibrated with All -in- 1 Protein Standards (Ciphergen Biosystems Inc.) All data were normalized for total ion current and peak areas calculated using the indirect...