... introduced the novel
element of real-time characterization of events by the team at the
moment of consultation. This methodology captures important
opportunities for improvements in local care at a rate ... medical emergency teams (METs), known
widely in North America as rapid response teams, may
provide just such a method. The rationale for the development
of METs rose from observations that, in the ... [4,5]. All of these detection methods
require substantial investments of time and money. Moreover,
especially in the case of chart review, missing information often
limits the ability of reviewers...
... by treatment. RT-PCR
and Western blot assay showed that the mRNA and protein expression of Cx40 and Cx43
were elevated in the neointimal area atthe early stage of atherosclerosis. The mRNA ... involved in the injury or dis-
ease induced activation of vessel wall cells. It is indi-
cated that the expression of Cx43 in the smooth mus-
cle cells was markedly elevated atthe early stage of
coronary ... the normal group. Vessel wall is
in the condition of rugosity and the yellow athero-
matous plaques were found in the lumens of high fat
diet group. However, the vessel wall was expanded to
different...
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format? Is there an example ofthe kind of conference report they
like (and perhaps one they don’t)?
• At ... out ofthe mundane. Atthe same time try to make
sense of it all. What’s new? What’s interesting? What would the
readers like to hear about?
• After the conference, decide on a message. Lack of ... mountains, they
are there. Some of us cannot resist the challenge; but it’s hardly
rational behaviour.
Books, writing of chapters in
One ofthe great advan-
tages of multi-authored books is that they meet...
... Application Contexts
• Characterization Issue
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COMPUTATION PROBLEM
• Iterative descent
• Approximation
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... data, such as from other applications or
over the Internet. You could not do this easily with DAO.
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such as e-mail messages or file systems. You can even point the object to an URL,
provided the system has set it up in a consistent manner. This is another way that
ADO allows developers ...
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...
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components used to manage Microsoft SQL Server 2000. It is made up of ... is a brief description of each ofthe APIs. We will be using the last two directly
in the rest of this chapter.
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you can use to accomplish tasks in your applications.
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... within the GBD part of the
protein. Another possible explanation for the observed
autoinhibitory activity is that the Hth domain mediates
some intramolecular interaction, or affects the confor-
mation ... 7C, the Meis3.2 variant represented 25% of the
total Meis3 message in most human cell lines tested. In
the prostate cancer metastasis-derived cell line LNCaP,
the majority ofthe Meis3 was Meis3.2, ... bases
shaded black. The asterisk indicates the base that correlates with alternative or constitutive splicing. (B) The presence of alternative splicing
around the 5¢-end of exon 6 of Meis2 and Meis3 was...
... reported
that, in Drosophila, the function ofthe nuage might be
related to the protection ofthe genome via repression
of the selfish genetic elements in the female germ line
[3]. The nuage is ... localization and to mea-
sure the mobility ofthe components in the PGCs. The
medaka embryo was peeled off the chorion, and the
segment containing the part of PGCs was excised for
observation by microscopy ...
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nature ofthe nuage. Schematic diagram ofthe preparation of...
... site of E1, atthe bottom of which lies
the ThDP cofactor some 20–25 A
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[14]. Thus it may be that these mutations are affecting the
efficacy ofthe recognition ofthe ... affecting the ability of
E1 to catalyse the reductive acetylation ofthe tethered lipoyl
domain in the assembled PDH complex. It should be noted
that Tyr281 and Arg282 are located atthe mouth of the
funnel-shaped ... estimated
to have a dissociation constant in the millimolar range or
higher despite the fact that the K
m
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M
[37,38].
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substrate,...
... bullet-proof fashion that will
stand the test of time. The second, and for the working mathematician the
most important, aspect of proof is that the proof of a new theorem explains
why the result ... convincing another mathe-
matician that a given statement (the theorem) is true. Thus a proof can take
many different forms. The most traditional form of mathematical proof is
that it is a tightly ... we are able to acquaint the reader with the
culture of mathematics: who mathematicians are, what they care about, and
what they do. We also give indications of why mathematics is important, and
why...
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advocacy of their rights, development of empowering strategies and structures which promote the ... international commitments, such as those
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change in ellipticity at 222 nm at a constant heating rate of
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the linear part ofthe initial time-course.
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this residue could affect the FAD environment, modulating the catalytic
rate ofthe enzyme. Finaly, L315 affects the enzyme k
cat
, although it is not
located in the near vicinity ofthe ... they are situated at similar distances
from the hydroxyl ofthe docked substrate, they could
cooperate in facilitating the hydride transfer from sub-
strate to FAD. The decrease of activity of ... (re)-face ofthe isoalloxazine ring of
the FAD cofactor. This substrate location is shown in
Fig. 2A, which includes the 10 molecules of veratryl
alcohol clustering together after docking. The putative
substrate-binding...