... D, Aoyama N, Nakamura T, Okumura K, Azuma T, Kasuga M, Sakaeda T Favorable genetic polymorphisms predictive of clinical outcome of chemoradiotherapy for stage II/III esophageal squamous cell carcinoma ... Stoehlmacher J Pharmacogenetic analyses ofa phase III trial in metastatic gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma with fluorouracil and leucovorin plus either oxaliplatin or cisplatin: a study ofthe arbeitsgemeinschaft ... polymorphisms and survival in primary malignant glioma Clin Cancer Res 2004 Apr 15;10(8):2618-25 47 Okuno T, Tamura T, Yamamori M, Chayahara N, Yamada T, Miki I, Okamura N, Kadowaki Y, Shirasaka...
... domain like mathematics ora graphical display will require rather more elaborate design [16, 4] than just reading a text basically because there is no standard translation of math to text suitable ... teacher Walk in to a mathematics or physics classroom at the end ofthe lecture and see if you can read all the mathematics on the blackboard You probably can’t understand it all Expecting a computer ... understand it, devoid of mathematical or physical context is unrealistic Additionally, a computer post-processing ofa blackboard has another handicap compared to the student in the classroom The...
... forecasters in New Zealand, asking them for their forecasts of, among other things, inflation They then compute the average forecast of all respondents We use the Consensus average one-year-ahead ... assumes that the readily available for alternative measures of inflation, we also Taylor rule, as specified above, gives an unbiased estimate calculate ex post real interest rates using actual ... judgementally-adjusted model forecast as part ofa range of possibilities of how the future will unfold Recent authors have put this trade-off into an analytical framework that characterises inflation targeters...
... may, with the approval ofthe Finance Committee ofthe Knesset, guarantee on behalf ofthe State a loan as aforesaid (b) The Bank may, with the approval ofthe Government, lend money to a foreign ... Fiji, Haiti, Jordan, Nicaragua, Pakistan, and Yemen) and to local or provincial governments (like Canada, Costa Rica, India, Iran, Mauritania, and Uganda) Restricting central bank financing to ... the course ofthe fiscal year, neither of which shall last longer than 30 days, the total provisional advance may reach 3.2 percent ofthe total ordinary annual budget at that time; (2) a loan...
... indicate that alignment errors are less harmful with more training data We can therefore conclude the small magnitude ofthe gain using human alignment is not an artifact of small training Comparing ... on Large Corpus As discussed before, the gain using human alignment over GIZA++ is small on the small corpus One may wonder whether the small magnitude ofthe improvement is an artifact ofthe ... Knight, and Wei Wang 2009 11,001 new features for statistical machine translation In Proceedings of Human Language Technologies: The 2009 Annual Conference ofthe North American Chapter ofthe ACL,...
... observations for analysis Larger or smaller subsamples were available for the derivation and validation of each algorithm depending on the extent of missing data for the SF-36, NIHSS and Barthel ... anticipated that our transformations will prove to be a valuable tool for analysts and should allow the best use to be made ofthe available data; improving the quality and policy-relevance of ... was supported by a NHMRC Project Grant and the Centre for Health Economics at Monash University We acknowledge the assistance ofthe NEMESIS Collaborators in facilitating access to the data for...
... holding the arm below the level ofthe heart for more than 30 s prior to the application ofa tourniquet, and holding the arm below the level ofthe Figure Ultrasound of basilic vein with measurement ... If a branching point off the basilic vein was identified within the 2-4 cm area, it was also used as a landmark The skin marking and branch points were used to ensure that measurements ofthe ... Bothell, WA, USA) After the basilic vein had been identified, two skin Page of marks were made overlying the vein at a point of optimal vein visualization approximately 2-4 cm above the medial...
... ofthe abnormal plasma cells and normalize the increased activity of octeoclasts in patients with monoclonal gammopathies [18] Serum levels of IL-6 are indeed increased in myeloma and correlate ... progression of tumors to increased local invasion and distant metastasis Cancer Cell 2009;15(3):220–31 Marathe SA, Dasgupta I, Gnanadhas DP, Chakravortty D Multifaceted roles of curcumin: two sides ofa ... at the University of Strasbourg, France He worked as an associated professor in the University Hospital of Strasbourg, France In 1998 he worked as PhD in Molecular Biology in the Laboratory of...
... thuốc lá, l a vài A thaliana chuyển gene Kỹ thuật lai Southern cho thấy T-DNA gắn vào genome thuốc sử dụng chủng ,A. thaliana l a sử dụng Sinorhizobium Các có ch a 1-3 T-DNA phân tích hệ sau cho thấy ... Thêm hầu hết vector sử dụng CAMBIA (Center for the Application of Molecular Biology to International Agriculture), khỏi phải nói hứng thú có hội tham dự buổi seminar Richard A Jefferson, trưởng ... cứu CAMBIA, hỏi han trao đổi thêm với ông ngày sau Trước đây, người ta chuyển Ti-plasmid vào vi khuẩn khác để xem thử có khả tạo khối u hay không Khi đ a vàoE coli hay Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Ti-plasmid...
... monthly dose ofa protective, humanized mAb rather than daily treatment with antiviral drugs The advantage of such an approach is that the mAbs could be stockpiled ahead of time, instead of having to ... comparatively recent Any vaccine that is capable of some replication has the advantage that it can be used at lower titer, but the disadvantage that its safety is less secure than that ofa killed ... Collaborating Centers (London, Melbourne, Tokyo, Atlanta) and a host of National Laboratories A combination of RT- Journal of Biology 2009, PCR and rapid sequencing is used for the rapid characterization...
... islands, all characterized by a small area (< 10 ha), we sampled stems every meters along transects that were parallel to the coastline and which run across most ofthe area favourable to salal ... in the sites sampled on Reef, Ramsay and Burnaby islands, suggesting comparable histories of deer impact across most ofthe southern half ofthe archipelago On the southern tip of Moresby Island ... indications about when deer impact on the understory became prevalent, fraying scars can provide date estimates for the actual date of colonisation of an island Investigations on plant-herbivore...
... in other animal models of RA, the activation of JNK may be caused by another disease-relevant signalling pathway such as IL-1, which is a potential inducer of JNK phosphorylation in RA synovial ... human disease Recent data on the involvement of MAPKs provide a basis for the development of novel therapeutic strategies for human RA Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have ... with previous data, the results of Goertz and colleagues also emphasise the role of ERK1/2 as a key integrator of activation signals in synovial fibroblasts In contrast, the data may be interpreted...
... supports the universal use of anti-malarial Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Ruiz-Irastorza G, Olivares N, Ruiz-Arruza I, Martinez-Berriotxoa A, Egurbide MV, Aguirre C: Predictors ... disease drugs as standard of care for all patients with SLE without contraindications Competing interests The author declares that they have no competing interests References Anti-malarials have ... Predictors of major infections in systemic lupus erythematosus Arthritis Res Ther 2009, 11:R109 Cervera R, Khamashta MA, Font J, Sebastiani GD, Gil A, Lavilla P, Mej a JC, Aydintug AO, Chwalinska-Sadowska...
... Practice, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation; and Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ... analyzed using Mays’ narrative review method, based on verbatim reporting, rather than statistical summary or conceptual analysis of information [47] Data were examined to discuss the number of ... Domain Element Examples Usability Navigation Table of contents Evidence format Narrative, tabulated or both Recommendation format Narrative, graphic (algorithms) or both; Recommendation summary...
... No association between any ofthe explored variants and prostate cancer mortality was observed, either in exploring individual variants or in assessing the cumulative effect of all variants Additional ... cases and 1,267 controls for association with family history and clinical features of more aggressive disease [46] No association was observed between any ofthe evaluated risk variants and a ... Terada N, Tsuchiya N, Ma Z, Shimizu Y, Kobayashi T, Nakamura E, Kamoto T, Habuchi T, Ogawa O: Association of genetic polymorphisms at 8q24 with the risk of prostate cancer in a Japanese population...
... sequence, alignment and drafted the manuscript DB participated in the sequence, alignment and performed the statistical analysis, VM participated in the statistical analysis and draft ofthe manuscript ... medicine and that an ambulance should be called prior to the administration of naloxone A dummy ofthe naloxone minijet was available to dem- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Harm Reduction ... (x) administer naloxone and (xi) stay with the person until the ambulance arrives All ofthe options for risk factors were real risks and so a total score was created out of eight However, for the...
... transfusions JAMA 2003, 289: 1941-1949 Leal-Noval SR, Jara-Lopez I, Garcia-Garmendia JL, Marin-Niebla A, Herruzo-Aviles A, Camacho-Larana P, Loscertales J: Influence of erythrocyte concentrate storage ... G, Blajchman MA, Marshall J, Martin C, Pagliarello G, Tweeddale M, Schweitzer I, Yetisir E, the Transfusion Requirements in Critical Care Investigators for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group: ... that this was the case In the ABC study transfused patients were older, had a lower baseline hemoglobin, had higher Sepsis-related and Organ Failure Assessment scores and Acute Physiological and...
... inflammatory insults, and so some ofthe potential mechanisms for poor long-term health and quality of life may have been present in both the cases and the controls In summary, Granja and colleagues ... clinical trials, the simple act of bringing our knowledge and expertise to the ICU survivor once she has left the ICU may enhance the quality of care for that patient [14] and may provide important ... mechanism of action, have also proven helpful in analogous groups of patients, such as survivors of traumatic brain injury or stroke, and frail geriatric populations [11–13] Even outside the...
... E, Wood A, Patton DW: Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy: haemorrhagic complications and the vascular anatomy ofthe anterior neck A review based on 497 cases Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2000, ... parts ofthe procedure, they still observed a relatively high incidence of puncture ofthe posterior tracheal wall, puncture ofthe endotracheal tube, or subsequent oesophageal perforation or ... dilatation tracheostomy [13], comparing data with a prior report on 171 patients cannulated using the GWDF technique [14] In that report they have already concluded that these two techniques are...