... femoral and tibial angles, alpha and beta angles, and medial and lateral joint spaces as described by Villers and Cartier [7] Patients were additionally evaluated for the presence of patellar osteophytes ... standard deviation ap values were calculated based on Wilcoxon matched-pairs signed-ranks tests for continuous variables and chi-squared tests for categorical variables a mean of 95 (SD = 4) and ... the same patient (A) and Merchant view at radiographs of Antero-posterioras Figures and 2, taken(B) 41 month folAntero-posterior (A) and Merchant view (B) radiographs of the same patient as Figures...
... baseline Statistical Analysis Data is expressed as mean ± standard deviation (S.D.) or median (in case of violation of normality) for continuous variables and as percentages for categorical data ... pulmonary artery pressure proximal of the banding was double than pressure distally of the banding RVF following pulmonary artery banding was defined as a Materials and methods Surgical Preparation ... radius Because of the anatomical contiguity between pulmonary artery andleft atrium, the length of the PA-LA graft is always shorter than the RA-LA graft The pressure gradient PA-LA is always higher...
... delight of the bureaucrats, politicians, international bankers, multinational corporations, and some labor leaders The age of the managed fiat currency was born The M anaged Fiat Currency Standard As ... a seamless web They cannot be separated, and they stand or fall together Ron Paul understands that all three parts of this system of liberty have been under grave attack for decades, and that ... standard, the CPI increased 10 percent In his 1848 Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx urged: “Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means ofa national bank with state capital and...
... Correas I, Nieto A & Avila J (1988) Tau factor polymers are similar to paired helical filaments of Alzheimer’s disease FEBS Lett 236, 150–154 42 Mendieta J, Fuertes MA, Kunjishapatham R, SantaMaria ... shifts and negative values are upfield shifts NH and 0.10 p.p.m for aH) In general, the chemical shift of NH deviates was more than that of aH upon phosphorylation Notable chemical shift deviation of ... CD spectra for R4 and pR4 are characterized by a strong negative apex at 198 nm (Fig 3), which indicates a large amount of random coil structure [36] No remarkable structural perturbation is...
... La Jolla, CA, USA) with pET2 8a( +)-wild-type Ec DosH as a template and using the following respective 5¢-sense primers: 5¢-gatga gtcgggagACCcagctggagaaaaaag-3¢, 5¢-gatgagtcgggagTTTcag ctggagaaaaaag-3¢, ... Yokota et al Sato A, Sasakura Y, Sugiyama S, Sagami I, Shimizu T, Mizutani Y & Kitagawa T (2002) Stationary and timeresolved resonance Raman spectra of His77 and Met95 mutants of the isolated ... whereas Ala and Asn substitutions at Asp40, an amino-acid residue that interacts via two water molecules with the proximal ligand His77, markedly increased the rate of auto-oxidation [13] (Table...
... development ofa parallel object database server is given in [14] An early parallel object database project was Bubba [15], which had a functional query language FAD Although the Bubba model and languages ... optimization and parallelization are automatic, having as a result an operator tree that represents a query’s evaluation plan Although all of them implement some form of intra-transaction parallelism, ... Muralikrishna M Gamma a high performance dataflow database machine Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, Kyoto, Japan, August 1986 Morgan Kaufmann: San Mateo, CA,...
... is a constant for all of the as-produced a- Fe2O3 NWs Using the mean length and radius of the NWs, RNW (or Roverall) of samples A, B, C, and D was calculated as 1.25 1011, 1.4 1011, 1.4 1011, and ... Nanoscale Res Lett (2008) 3:330–337 331 thermally stable, resistant to oxidation, and have a high aspect ratio, a- Fe2O3 NWs are a candidate emitters for FE applications It has been reported ... process of the PR Figure 6a and b shows the morphology image and current image, respectively, taken at a ?10 V bias on a single NW The tip used for CAFM was an Au-coated silicon tip, with a diameter...
... key trading-partner areas Internal Audit 2012 14 • The CAE ofa global defense and aerospace company that buys parts from around the world said that vendor quality and standards are of primary ... internationalization of accounting standards may lead to a change in the language of accounting • The growth of outsourcing and an upsurge in the offshoring of services and manufacturing have made ... internal audit today and in the future As organizations expand to take advantage of global markets and supply chains, internal audit faces a burgeoning need for its services A majority of survey...
... CTTTATATTCATCCAGTGGCTGTATTCTGTGGGCCACACCAG CTGGTGTGGGCAGCAGAACTCAGCCATTGGATGAATATAAAG CTTTATATTCATCCAATGGCTGAGTTCTGCTGCCCACACCAG CTGGTGTGGGCAGCAGAATACAGCCATTGGATGAATATAAAG CTTTATATTCATCCAATGGCTGTATTCTGCTGCCCACACCAG ... Sense Antisense Sense Antisense Sense Antisense Sense Antisense CTGGTGTGGCCCACAGAACTCAGCCACTGGATGAATATAAAG CTTTATATTCATCCAGTGGCTGAGTTCTGTGGGCCACACCAG CTGGTGTGGCCCACAGAATACAGCCACTGGATGAATATAAAG CTTTATATTCATCCAGTGGCTGTATTCTGTGGGCCACACCAG ... LumiGLOTM was from Cell Signaling (Beverly, MA, USA), and AdvantageÒ polymerase mix was from Clontech (Palo Alto, CA, USA) All other reagents were of the best quality and commercially available Expression...
... early adopters reap the benefits of innovation in attracting authors and readers Eventually, many of the innovative features become generally adopted, and usually at a lower cost of adoption than ... well-known example of such an open access archive is PubMed Central, maintained by the National Library of Medicine Advantages of the Open-Access Approach for Science The practical advantages of true ... scientific and technical matters Dr Bruce M Alberts is president of the National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy...
... Ontario, Canada) or New England Biolabs (Pickering, Ontario, Canada) All other chemicals were of analytical grade and were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich and Fisher Scientific (Nepean, Ontario, Canada) ... kcat value compared with the methyl substituted substrate Discussion HPDA hydratase, an enzyme in the meta-cleavage pathway of aromatic compounds, catalyzes a hydration reaction via a proposed anion ... preparation after anion exchange (lane 2); preparation after hydrophobic column chromatography (lane 3), preparation after gel filtration (lane 4) The molecular mass of the proteins in the standard...
... the 4-kDa peptide N-terminal primer: 5¢-AACCATGGCTAAAGCAGATTGTAATGG TGCATGT-3¢; the 4-kDa peptide C-terminal primer: 5¢-AAGAATTCTTATTATCCAGTTGGATGTATGCA GAA-3¢ The amplified sequence was cloned ... were amplified by PCR strategy using the azuki bean and mung bean genomic DNAs as templates and the synthetic primers legF1 (5¢-AGC AGCAGATTGTAATGGTG-3¢) and legR1 (5¢-CAGC ACTTCAGAATCAGAGTC-3¢) ... studies revealed that a small amount of 4-kDa peptide is localized around the plasma membranes and cell walls [9] The subcellular localization of 4-kDa peptide is similar to that of the 43-kDa protein,...
... initiating transactions such as deposits and loans (Siebel, 2005) Some banks also shifted some activities traditionally offered by bank branches such as small-business loan approval and management ... the participating banks’ websites, press releases, annual reports, third-party databases, and online survey of Internet banking management The study described and evaluated six large banks and ... impersonal and emotionless The use of automated answering machines and computer robots that handled customer calls after working hours were impersonal, anda live person was not easily available...
... control, and some exponential stability criteria are established Finally, some conclusions and remarks are drawn in Section Problem Formulation and Preliminaries Consider a class of nonlinear uncertain ... ≥ to denote a positive negative, seminegative, and semipositive definite matrix P Journal of Inequalities and Applications Exponential Stabilization ofa Class of Uncertain Nonlinear System This ... stability criteria have been given in terms ofa set of linear matrix inequalities, and stabilization periodically intermittent state feedback controllers are proposed Finally, a numerical example...
... Combettes and S A Hirstoaga, “Equilibrium programming in Hilbert spaces,” Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis, vol 6, no 1, pp 117–136, 2005 A Moudafi and M Th´ ra, “Proximal and dynamical approaches ... spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 331, no 1, pp 506–515, 2007 11 S Takahashi and W Takahashi, “Strong convergence theorem for a generalized equilibrium problem and ... problems,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 344, no 1, pp 340– 352, 2008 10 S Takahashi and W Takahashi, “Viscosity approximation methods for equilibrium problems and fixed point...
... parameterized architecture dedicated to image analysis applications on FPGA All flows and data are analyzed to propose two generic NoC architectures, a ring for results and command anda dedicated ... packet and associated state information Several virtual channels may share the bandwidth ofa single physical channel [17] It allows minimization of the size of the router’s buffers a significant ... structure is dynamic in order to adapt to different types of data The length of packet and data, number and size of flits, and the depth of VC are all parameterized The size of flits can be 8, 16,...
... problems and fixed point problems in Hilbert spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 331, no 1, pp 506–515, 2007 Rabian Wangkeeree 17 12 K Aoyama, Y Kimura, W Takahashi, and ... W Takahashi, Nonlinear Functional Analysis, Yokohama Publishers, Yokohama, Japan, 2000 14 R T Rockafellar, “On the maximality of sums of nonlinear monotone operators,” Transactions of the American ... such scheme In this paper, motivated by Yao et al 10 , S Takahashi and W Takahashi 11 and Aoyama et al 12 , we introduce a new extragradient method 4.2 which is mixed the iterative schemes considered...
... is a constant for all of the as-produced a- Fe2O3 NWs Using the mean length and radius of the NWs, RNW (or Roverall) of samples A, B, C, and D was calculated as 1.25 1011, 1.4 1011, 1.4 1011, and ... Nanoscale Res Lett (2008) 3:330–337 331 thermally stable, resistant to oxidation, and have a high aspect ratio, a- Fe2O3 NWs are a candidate emitters for FE applications It has been reported ... process of the PR Figure 6a and b shows the morphology image and current image, respectively, taken at a ?10 V bias on a single NW The tip used for CAFM was an Au-coated silicon tip, with a diameter...