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... microbial resistance; and (b) the design of potential coadjuvants of those antimicrobial agents that are already available after incubation for 18–20 h at 37 °C Antibacterial activity was expressed ... FL, Barra D, Campa M & Batoni G (2008) Comparative analysis of the bactericidal activities of amphibian peptide analogues against multidrug-resistant nosocomial bacterial strains Antimicrob Agents ... were purchased from Avanti Polar Lipids (Alabaster, AL, USA) FITC-Ds were purchased from Sigma All other chemicals were reagent grade For antimicrobial assays, the commercially available quality...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

... similar in relation to age, sex, severity of back pain and leg pain, and functional disability (Table 1) The median age for both groups was 48 years and there was almost an even distribution of ... R, Carrino JA, Deyo RA: Imaging strategies for low-back pain: systematic review and meta-analysis Lancet 2009, 373:463-472 Jarvik JG, Deyo RA: Diagnostic evaluation of low back pain with emphasis ... back problems with or without radiculopathy, (2) duration of the actual episode being a maximum of two years, and (3) appropriate treatment that was unsuccessful in the primary care setting A...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... ) and H2(xt )) are used to calculate a set of forecast observation points This set of points is used to estimate a mean and variance of the data forecasts • The mean and variance of the data ... The parameters ατ and β τ (and Ωs−t ) are defined in appendix 2, ¯ ∗ and are similar to ατ and β ∗ from equation (5) τ 3.1 Data and Model Implementation Data Four types of data are used: nominal ... unrealistic estimates of inflation expectations and inflation risk premia, however: ten-year-ahead inflation expectations are implausibly volatile and can be as high as percent and as low as −1 percent,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 07:20

... Christian.Wegner@oeaw.ac.at Marc Luy is Senior Scientist at the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Email: Mark.Luy@oeaw.ac.at Determinants of General Health Status and ... indicators of physiological health are based on prevalence of disabilities and causes of death In Germany the main causes of death are circulatory diseases, neoplasms, diseases of respiratory system and ... classified in detail All analysed health variables were dichotomised into ‘good’ and ‘bad’ in the case of the general health status and into ‘presence’ and ‘absence’ for each specific disease and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20

... this paper are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Reserve Bank of Australia Author: finlayr at domain rba.gov.au Media Of ce: rbainfo@rba.gov.au Abstract We estimate inflation ... ) and H2(xt )) are used to calculate a set of forecast observation points This set of points is used to estimate a mean and variance of the data forecasts • The mean and variance of the data ... parameters ατ and β τ (and Ωs−t ) are defined in Appendix B, and are similar ∗ to ατ and β ∗ from Equation (5) τ Data and Model Implementation 3.1 Data Four types of data are used in this analysis:...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20

... Instead, AGA was associated with IR, IGT and central obesity Because these conditions are linked with somatic diseases, they can explain this finding of an association of AGA with impaired physical ... point ≥ 10 Table 2: Mean and standard deviations (SD) of background characteristics among women with hair loss and normal hair Variable Hair loss n = 105 Normal hair n = 225 Mean Waist circ (cm) ... HRQOL as the dependent variables and AGA, BDI, IGR/QUICKI, marital status and education as independent variables were made The possible interactions of hair status with depression (AGA*BDI) and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... he has been there as an Assistant Professor of automata theory and programming language translation His main research topics are evolutionary computation applications and network optimization ... conditions are classified with respect to radar and aircraft characteristics because of the very different behavior of any tracker for varying input conditions Radar parameters represent the accuracy and ... respect to the radar (radial and tangential projection of velocity heading), magnitude of the transversal acceleration, and magnitude of the groundspeed change There are four quality parameters in...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... a substantially improved paper the electronic journal of combinatorics (2000), #R50 11 References [1] M Abramowitz and I .A Stegun, Eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs ... upon parameterizing C (z = e it ; t ∈ [0, 2π]) and using the symmetry of the integrand For an integer n ≥ and real numbers a, b and x, let b n I(n, x, a, b) := a =2 sin t xtn3/2 cos sin t dt and ... Formulas, Graphs and Mathematical Tables, Dover Publications, New York, 1966 [2] E .A Bender, Central and Local Limit Theorems Applied to Asymptotic Enumeration, J Combinatorial Theory A 15 (1973),...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 06:20

... the proof of Claim M By Subclaims M5, xu is not adjacent to b and is therefore adjacent to a and c In particular, we note that dG (b) = and that abcxu a is an induced 4-cycle in G that contains ... Sharpness of Corollary and Corollary To illustrate the sharpness of Corollary and Corollary 4, we define a cycle-unit to be a graph that is isomorphic to a cycle C8 and a key-unit to be a graph that ... Optimization 13 (2007), 353–363 [3] J Harant, A Pruchnewski, and M Voigt, On dominating sets and independent sets of graphs Combin Probab Comput (1999), 547–553 [4] J Harant and D Rautenbach, Domination...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 12:23

... and Q.H Wang, A quantitative aspect of non-unique factorizations: the Narkiewicz constants, International Journal of Number Theory, to appear [13] W.D Gao and J.T Peng, On the number of zero-sum ... subsequences of restricted size, Integers (2009), 537–554 [14] A Geroldinger and F Halter-Koch, Non-unique factorizations, Combinatorial and Analytic Theory, Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol 278, Chapman ... Numbers, Coll Math Soc J Bolyai 60 (1992), 97–117 [2] E Balandraud, An addition theorem and maximal zero-sum free set in Z/pZ, to appear [3] H.Q Cao and Z.W Sun, On the number of zero-sum subsequences,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:23

... dimethylated arginine residues for epitopes assay Assay performance characteristics of the anti-SmD3 peptide (SMP) assay (a) Intra-assay and interassay variability, (b) linearity, and (c) receiver operating ... http://arthritis-research.com/content/7/1/R19 (ANA) profile (Pharmacia Diagnostics; cutoff ratio 1) The latter assay contains the autoantigens U1-68 kDa, U1 -A, U1-C, SmBB', SmD, Ro-52, Ro-60 and La All ELISAs were performed in accordance ... from an east Indian patient, and one from an oriental patient The racial background of four patients was not known Of these patients, 13 were male and 86 female (in two the sex was unknown), and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... the samples and participated in the design and analysis of the study, MP-S, ML and JJG-R evaluated the patients, and AG coordinated the study and participated in its design and analysis Acknowledgements ... Kizawa H, Kou I, Iida A, Sudo A, Miyamoto Y, Fukuda A, Mabuchi A, Kotani A, Kawakami A, Yamamoto S, et al.: An aspartic acid repeat polymorphism in asporin inhibits chondrogenesis and increases ... Research of Galicia and all cases and controls gave their written informed consent to participate All participants were of Spanish ancestry and resided in the reference area of the hospital Genotyping...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... displayed mean values (and standard deviations) from at least independent determinations localized and transient changes of chromatin organization that would otherwise inhibit repair [34-36] Notably, ... DMSO before irradiation on ice and sample preparation Alternatively, cells were incubated for repair prior to lysis Data analysis involved quantification of the fraction of total DNA mass in electrophoretically ... MDC1 regulates intra-S-phase checkpoint by targeting NBS1 to DNA double-strand breaks Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2008, 105:11200-11205 19 Ayoub N, Jeyasekharan AD, Bernal JA, Venkitaraman AR: HP1-β...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... Perna L, Cattaneo GM, Calandrino R: Agreement criteria between expected and measured field fluences in IMRT of head and neck cancer: The importance and use of the gamma histograms statistical analysis ... between the "actual fluence maps" calculated using a DR of 100 MU/min and 600 MU/min showed a mean gamma index over all fields of 1.1 (PC) and 2.7 (SCCscalp) for a LV of 1.0 and of 0.2 (PC) and 0.7 ... number of monitor units applied Mean of the number of monitor units of all fields against the dose rate of both patient with prostate cancer and of both patient with squamous cell cancer of the scalp...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22

... study is part of an evaluation of the National Plan for Mental Health that was adapted to the study aims, the prevalence of SUD was measured by a composite adapted approach, and there was no structured ... out of the analysis An “Individual Plan” means a tailored, comprehensive treatment plan that all patients with a chronic disease are entitled to have according to Norwegian law Variables regarding ... several ways not often systematically met with adequate treatment approaches Our first findings are that the patients in the SUD group are more often male, less often in a relationship and more often...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... highlights a rare congenital association between fibular duplication and metatarsal diplopodia We feel that all babies with abnormal accessory toes should be evaluated for this particular anomaly and ... SAK identified the case and prepared the manuscript AK and MKV helped in manuscript preparation All the authors have read and approved the final version of the case report Consent We are thankful ... LM, Packard DS Jr: Anatomy of a duplicated human foot from a limb with fibular dimelia Teratology 1999, 60(5):272-82 Narang IC, Mysorekar VR, Mathur BP: Diplopodia with double fibula and agenesis...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... with two sites to an arbitrary small number of sites Preliminaries A member is an individual A set of members is called a family if it includes only two parents and their children; it is a parent-offspring ... is a finite alphabet and Σ* is the set of all strings over that alphabet The second component is called the parameter of the problem Practically, the parameter is a nonnegative integer or a set ... F: Algorithm Engineering for Optimal Graph Bipartization Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications 2010, 13(2):77-98 doi:10.1186/1748-7188-6-8 Cite this article as: Doan and Evans: An FPT haplotyping...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:20

... metabolic and/ or energy cost of physical activities Data for numbers and reasons for hospital admissions as well as the length of hospitalisation (that is, total days that a patient stayed as an inpatient ... via bioelectrical Page of impedance (Tanita BC 418 MA, Tanita Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) Using standardised laboratory procedures, contemporary serological inflammatory load and clinical disease ... the demographic or RA-related variables associated with hospital admissions and length of hospitalisation following Baron and Kenny’s criteria of mediation effects [13] All statistical analyses...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:22

... histamine release and Iikura et al [18] reported that immobilized secretory IgA on Sepharose beads was capable of inducing basophil degranulation and histamine release The presence of IgA containing-immune ... is a lipopolysaccharide component of the cell wall of Gram FK was a research assistant He participated in the bench work DF was a research assistant She participated in the bench work All authors ... pteronyssinus (Dpt) was the causative allergen in 62, Dermatophagoides farinae (Df) in 58, cat hair dander in 23 and dog hair dander in patients (some patients were allergic to more than one allergen) The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... temperature and arterial and central venous pressure by femorally introduced catheters connected to a standard anaesthesia monitor (AS/3, Datex Ohmeda, Helsinki, Finland) Surgical preparation and ... internal organs (lungs, heart, liver and kidneys) were removed and prepared for histological examination Blood sampling and analytical methods Blood was collected and arterial blood gas analysis ... IL, USA) Normal distribution of parameters was shown on the interpretation of Q-Q plots and histograms Differences between groups were analysed with a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21