... Figure articles have described an association between renal dysfunction and serum total antioxidant status, and a stronger association between renal dysfunction and serum UA [4,5] However, renal ... unknown More studies are needed to establish the association between UA and clinical severity in severe sepsis Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests References ... antioxidants (i.e TAC), rather than serum UA alone, are more reliable at reflecting the whole spectrum of sepsis Second, the kidney plays a major role in the excretion of urate [3] and some Page of (page...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 02:24
JACK HARKAWAY AND HIS SON''''S ESCAPE FROM THE BRIGANDS OF GREECE pptx
... offering." And then, to the porter's surprise, he dropped a coin into his hand The porter looked hard at the coin in his hand, and then at the cripple He was a man of no sentiment, this porter, and ... thick of the enemy The assassination of poor little Magog Brand had fired his fury, and his charge was something terrific He dashed into the midst of the half cowed bandits, and swinging his arms ... Brand, lately so full of life and animation On the other was his assassin, felled by the dead man's best friend, the doughty Jefferson, and with scarcely more life in him than his victim And...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20
Ensuring Financial Stability: Financial Structure and the Impact of Monetary Policy on Asset Prices
... equity and residential property price data: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the ... Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the US For, Belgium we link an older series for small and medium-sized houses to the residential property ... countries: the fall of residential property prices is significantly different from zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US Moreover,...
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40
Facts of Vietnam Freight forwarding industry and the role of Vietnam Freight Forwarders Association (VIFFAS) to the industry in international economic integration processhelpful to Oristar.doc
... the transaction standards and the quality of business activities for enhancing the efficiency of export and import activities, expanding the external economic relations and co-operate with other ... skills and abilities to contribute to the realization of the objectives and duties of the Association, may be invited to join the Association as Honorary members In general, this stipulation on the ... to protect the interests of the members and improve the position of Vietnam in the international freight forwarding industry Namely, VIFFAS establish the co-operative, associative and assisting...
Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2012, 16:42
Báo cáo y học: "The association of meat intake and the risk of type 2 diabetes may be modified by body weight"
... time of the interview, 74,942 women remained for the SWHS The major reasons for non-participation were refusal (3.0%), absence during the enrolment period (2.6%), and other miscellaneous reasons ... including an in-person interview for assessment of dietary intake, physical activity, and measurement of anthropometrics and other lifestyle factors Protocols for the SWHS were approved by the Institutional ... question on the amount consumed in lians (50g/lian) per unit of time A lian is the unit of weight in China equivalent to 50 g The reproducibility and validity of the FFQ was assessed in a random sample...
Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 16:49
Teachers’ and teacher evaluators’ perceptions of the current teacher evaluations and teaching assessment criteria
... clear and achievable - there is an awareness of student problems - the teacher understands and can explain the plan - the lesson plan shows a good understanding of the methodology During the lesson ... facilities and equipment well and adequately with the content of the lesson (2 points) Reasonable board presentation, clear handwriting and drawings, clear and standard speech; adequate lesson plan ... Aim: Before the lesson – preparation Clarity, usefulness and excellent very good average poor good understanding of the lesson plan - The plan is easy to understand and follow - the objectives...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:45
Tài liệu CHILDREN’S HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN EUROPE: A BASELINE ASSESSMENT doc
... accessible on the ENHIS web site (http://www.enhis.org).3 This baseline assessment aggregates the information and provides an evaluation of the status and trends in the first half of the current ... assessment reveals the existence of gaps in the priority data and the need to harmonize monitoring and data collection Together with the availability of ENHIS tools and the ENHIS network, it should ... HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN EUROPE: A BASELINE ASSESSMENT ABSTRACT This report summarizes the information gathered by the European environment and health information system (EHIS) EHIS was...
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu Produced jointly by the British HIV Association (BHIVA), the British Association for Sexual Health & HIV (BASHH) and the Faculty of Family Planning & Reproductive Health Care doc
... 01/06/2007 06:58:00 There is limited and controversial data on the effect of HAART on the natural history of disease and so management of women should be the same whether receiving therapy or not ... to minimise the risk of viral transmission to the uninfected partner and future child and ensure the safety of healthcare workers and other patients attending the fertility centre The risks of ... Sexual and reproductive health issues for men Male Condoms and Other Contraceptive Methods Prevention is still the mainstay of the response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic The male condom is the single...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Interaction between very-KIND Ras guanine exchange factor and microtubule-associated protein 2, and its role in dendrite growth – structure and function of the second kinase noncatalytic C-lobe domain docx
... cloned into pGEX-4T-2 The KIND domains of Spir-2 and PTPN13 were generated by RT-PCR and inserted into pEGFP-C1 and pGEX-4T-2 The N- and C-terminal regions of the v-KIND KIND2 and the MAP2 CD were ... Discussion The present study revealed the structural and functional determinants of the protein–protein interaction between v-KIND and MAP2 (i.e the MAP2-binding core module in v-KIND and the v-KIND-binding ... bind to this module These results suggest that the Leu461, 474 and 477 residues conserved in the KIND2 domain alone are indispensable for the v-KIND– MAP2 interaction The Leu474 residue of the KIND2...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 19:20
Tài liệu Cancer Pain Management: A perspective from the British Pain Society, supported by the Association for Palliative Medicine and the Royal College of General Practitioners docx
... ablation of the thyroid gland 4.2.1.4 Chemotherapy and hormone therapy Sections 4.1.3 and 4.1.4 describe the palliative role of chemotherapy and hormone therapy This section draws attention to their ... comprehensive assessment and reassessment of pain Wherever possible, the patient should be involved in the assessment and reassessment of their pain (Cleeland, 1994) • In an acute care setting, the initial ... included in the assessment An assessment of the psychosocial factors influencing the experience of pain will include: • the patient’s understanding of their condition • what the pain means to the individual...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20
Tài liệu Central Bank Announcements of Asset Purchases and the Impact on Global Financial and Commodity Markets docx
... identify “news” about their recent programs of asset purchases We concentrate on the programs of the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England These central banks both rapidly brought their policy rates ... percent and then used purchases of different assets as an additional policy tool Following the failure of Lehmann Brothers and the financial turmoil that ensued, the Federal Reserve announced the ... announcements, either statements by the FOMC or speeches by Chairman Bernanke, further describing aspects of the asset-purchase program The five announcements associated with the first round of the program,...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base ppt
... to alleviate the symptoms of the hepatitis C and the reflex sympathetic dystrophy Those symptoms are severe nausea and pain from the hepatitis C and pain and muscle spasms from the neurological ... of the scientific evidence to assess the potential health benefits and risks of marijuana and its constituent cannabinoids That review began in August 1997 and culminates with this report The ... also like to thank the people who hosted our visits to their organizations They were unfailingly helpful and generous with their time Jeffrey Jones and members of the Oakland Cannabis Buyers’...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 14:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Post-translational modifications of the linker histone variants and their association with cell mechanisms docx
... variants H1.1–H1.5 and Structure and function of the linker histone variants Location and structure of the linker histones Historically, the location of the globular domain of the linker histone has ... by blue dots and gene duplication by red dots HIST1H1C and HIST1H1E are the genes that code for human linker histones H1.2 and H1.4, respectively Note how the human HIST1H1C and HIST1H1E genes ... Hist1h1a_MOUSE HIST1H1B_HUMAN Hist1h1b_MOUSE XP_899364_MOUSE HIST1H1C_HUMAN Hist1h1c_MOUSE HIST1H1E_HUMAN Hist1h1e_MOUSE Hist1h1d_MOUSE HIST1H1D_HUMAN Fig Phylogeny tree of human and mouse linker histones...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 08:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khóa học: Further insights into the assembly of the yeast cytochrome bc1 complex based on analysis of single and double deletion mutants lacking supernumerary subunits and cytochrome b pdf
... segregation pattern, and some spores were prototrophic for both markers Haploid spores of VZ4, VZ6, VZ14 and VZ9 were then selected for Trp+ and Leu+, Trp+ and His+ , His+ and Ura+, or His+ and Leu+ prototrophy, ... with antibodies to the subunits of the yeast bc1 complex indicated on the left side of the blots The Western blots are shown in panels A and B and the relative amounts of each of the subunits determined ... with the double deletion strain VZ6 (D7/D8) The results with the deletion mutant lacking subunit further corroborate the interdependence among subunits 7, and cytochrome b and the role of this...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: The role of the ESSS protein in the assembly of a functional and stable mammalian mitochondrial complex I (NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase) pptx
... in the absence of all ND subunits (V79-G7) [7]) In other words, the synthesis, assembly, and accumulation of integral membrane subunits are integrated and interdependent process On the other hand, ... panel) The signal from the 18 kDa subunit of complex I (NDUFB6) served as another identification of the complex at the position of the histochemical stain in the left panel Antisera against the SDHC ... cloning into the unique EcoRI and NheI sites of the modified pTRIDENT-14neo vectors such that either the HA or the HIS epitope tag was added to the end of the ESSS ORF The forward primer was: 5¢-ACga...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20
Tài liệu Alan turing and his contemporaries: Building the world’s first computers ppt
... from the other two The object of the game for the interrogator is to determine which of the other two is the man and which is the woman He knows them by labels X and Y, and at the end of the game ... probabilities and the quantification of weight of evidence Because of this and other insights, Turing quickly became the person to whom all the other Bletchley Park mathematicians turned when they encountered ... gone on there during the war The mathematician Alan Turing was perhaps the most brilliant of the team of very clever people recruited to work there In the spirit of the time, let us keep the story...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 00:20
Tài liệu ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY ASSESSMENT OF THE TURIN-LYON HIGH-SPEED RAIL pdf
... construction of the HSR Turin-Lyon and other ones on the French side [report for instance] Beyond the technical problems related to the HSR, the Susa Valley has become in the recent years the most famous ... (92/43/EEC), within the Natura 2000 Network The Dora Riparia River runs through the valley, and there are abundant springs and superficial aquifers In the high part of the valley there are pastures, ... partridges and wolves) and a very rich diversity of flower The first HSR proposal dates back to the end of the eighties, and soon after the opposition in the Susa Valley started In 2011, the new...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 19:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: The RuvABC resolvasome Quantitative analysis of RuvA and RuvC assembly on junction DNA doc
... is the maximum response of RuvA binding, Rjunc is the response of the binding of the biotinylated Holliday junction, Mr RuvA is the molecular mass of RuvA and Mr junc is the molecular mass of the ... model) The residuals, the difference of the experimental data and the fitted values for the association and dissociation phase, are shown in (B) shown in Fig 3B indicate how well the mathematical ... retardation assays and indicate that the charge on the central pin of the RuvA has a substantial effect on the ability of the protein to bind to duplex DNA, and therefore to direct the structure...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:21
Báo cáo khoa học: Muramyl-dipeptide-induced mitochondrial proton leak in macrophages is associated with upregulation of uncoupling protein 2 and the production of reactive oxygen and reactive nitrogen species docx
... central nervous system, and the lack of induction of inflammatory responses [22] Despite a long-standing interest in the field of muramyl peptides, the impact of these molecules at the mitochondrial ... were applied to examine the impact of the other derivatives Figure 1C and Table summarize the effect of MB (non-toxic muramyl peptide) and lipopolysaccharide (LPS) on the mitochondrial bioenergetics ... and higher ROS levels than lean mice [28] These findings agree with the hypothesis [29] that an increase in the mitochondrial membrane potential would slow the transport of electrons through the...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20