... were used to sequence the PR and RT coding regions: forward primers H2Mp3, H2Mp6 and H2Mp9, and reverse primers H2Mp4, Page of 11 H2Mp5, H2Mp7, H2Mp8 and H2Mp10 [34] For the IN regions, forward ... assay for cellular growth and survival: application to proliferation and cytotoxicity assays J Immunol Methods 1983, 65:55-63 33 Savarino A: In-Silico docking of HIV-1 integrase inhibitors reveals ... GU966535 through GU966581 for group A and HM771234 through HM771239 for group B) were performed using TOPALi v 2.5 The Akaike information criterion (AIC) and the Bayesian information criterion (BIC)...
... correction in 62 out of 68 cases for syntax alone, and in 60 out of 64 cases using combined syntax and semantics In both cases, a large number of sentences (29% for syntax, 50% for semantics) received ... attempted to improve robustness by applying the parser to small substrings of the sentence When analyzing long word strings, the parser is more likely to fail due to factors unrelated to the repair For ... correlation for, and no significant difference between, the mean F0 of the matched words Pauses before X (only) and F0 of X greater than F0 of 1st M1 58 00 Table 6: Combining Acoustic Characteristics of...
... regulator of CTLA-4 function and dissociates from CTLA-4 upon ligand binding The ligands are the dimeric CD80 and the monomeric CD86 Binding of CD80 to the divalent CTLA-4 leads to the formation of ... pool of memory T cells [11,15] Control of apoptosis by CD28 and CTLA-4 The decision between the survival and apoptosis of T cells is of particular importance for adaptive immune responses to ensure ... the degradation of the cell cycle inhibitor p27 and expression of G1kinases, which ultimately leads to T cell proliferation [22] CTLA-4 seems to be an important downregulator of T cell activation...
... for E coli between times and 24 h after infection for IDL, INRA_J and PTP teams to be essential for microarray data analysis but a consensus for best practice still has to be reached It has to ... influx of neutrophils into the infected gland, including S100 calcium binding proteins A8, A9 and A12, colony stimulating factor and several chemoattractants for neutrophils, e.g interleukin and ... clinical symptoms and increased expression of the TLR and beta-defensin-encoding indicator genes in this third group of animals, infected over 72 h (n = 4) Assignment of the animals to become inoculated...
... alteration of environment [10,11] Therefore, the selectionof suitable culture medium is essential for the optimal development of the microalgae In this study, f/2, ESM and ASW medium were used for ... structure and function of photosystems in microalgae and higher plants, thereby on the photosynthesis productivity and their growth In this study, we investigated the change of Fv/Fm ratio according to ... Ryther, Studies of marine planktonic diatoms I Cyclotella nana Hustedt and Detonula confervacea Cleve Can J Microbiol 1962.pp 229-239 13 R.R.L Guillard, Culture of phytoplankton for feeding marine...
... inhibition of cancer cell proliferation and induction of apoptosis; (5) regulation of subcellular signaling pathways and modulation of transcription factors; and (6) inhibition of growth factors and ... aspects of study design, performance, and analysis, with a focus on randomization of the study subjects, blinding of the investigators and study subjects, and the handling of dropouts and withdrawal ... compared to placebo had an odds ratio (OR) for mortality of 0.98 with a 95% confidence interval (CI) from 0.89 to 1.09, for hospitalization of 0.68 (95% CI 0.61–0.75), andfor clinical deterioration of...
... either in too few workers and/ or too slow a rate of data acquisition Therefore it is often necessary to raise the reward and rely on efficient automatic validation of the data We have looked into the ... interesting material to produce a wide selectionof natural questions The articles varied in topic, degree of formality and the amount of details; from ”Horror film” and ”Christmas worldwide” to ”G-Man (Half-Life)” ... qualification was, in addition to the minimum HIT approval rate of 80%, a prerequisite for both the QRepHITs and the QAHITs A total of 2355 workers took the test, and 1571 (67%) of them passed it, thus...
... hypernym the entity belongs to (according to OntoCrime), and String is of the form (AdjlQual) * Head, where Head is the head of the noun phase and Adj and Qual are adjectives and nominal qualifiers ... system attempts to match each query triple with each indexing term of each photograph and a sum of the scores that each photograph receives is calculated and used for the final selectionof the most ... syntactic-semantic grammar Logical forms are mapped into the ontology using a lexicon attached to the ontology (implemented in XI (Gaizauskas and Humphreys, 1996)) and a number of rules After the "explicit"...
... transformations for uniformity (both translations and rotations) The standard way of describing these transformations is from the leaves (bottom) to the root node Therefore, when forming the total ... models and integration of information over time are discussed as a general tool for representing the evolution of processes observed A distinction between objects and subjects is made for forming ... for recursive road parameter and ego-state estimation while cruising Chapter 10 is devoted to the perception of crossroads andto performing autonomous turnoffs with active vision Detection and...
... hepatitis B and hepatitis C and related liver cirrhosis and cancer, the extent of ongoing risk behaviors, and the impact of HIV coinfection and other cofactors Assess the role of state and local ... assistance of Jeffrey Efird and Daniel Riedford, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention We appreciate the assistance of Ronald Valdiserri, of the Department of Veterans Affairs, for providing ... positioned to be the leader in the development and enforcement of guidelines to ensure that the people for whom it provides health care have access to risk-factor screening, serologic testing for HBV and...
... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Office of Minority Health, and the Department of Veterans Affairs) and by the Task Force for Child Survival and Development on behalf of the National ... Engineering at Stanford University; Victor Toy, Beverly David, and Kathleen Tarleton, of IBM; Shiela Strauss, of the New York University College of Nursing; Ellen Chang and Stephanie Chao, of the Asian ... Department of Transfusion Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland Margaret L Brandeau, Professor, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford,...
... restraints were obtained from analysis of dNa/daN ratios [38] The w angle restraint was set to )30° ± 110° for dNa/ daN ratios less than 1, andto 120° ± 100° for dNa/daN ratios greater than Initially ... dilutions of preCbnB2 (in Luria–Bertani broth) were spotted (20 mL) on to a BHI hard agar plate, allowed to dry, and overlaid with 7.5 mL of a 1% solution of the indicator organism in BHI soft agar ... maturation process to liberate the active peptide The goal of this study was determination of the 3D solution structure of preCbnB2 to assist in obtaining a molecular level understanding of the...
... the needs of society to the needs of the manufacturer A necessary but not suf®cient condition for the manufacturer to remain in business is to jointly satisfy the needs of its customers and society ... included in computing the total cost of the product Demand Demand and value are the key phenomenological variables to address in constructing a model of the Customer and Manufacturer loop because, ... a measure of the driving force for demand was suggested independently by Anderson and Naurus (1998), for example The reservation price for an individual is widely used as a measure of value (Plott...
... departments to support core surveillance for acute and chronic hepatitis B and hepatitis C, and conduct targeted active surveillance to monitor incidence and prevalence of hepatitis B and hepatitis ... Brandeau Professor, Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California Daniel R Church Epidemiologist and Adult Viral Hepatitis Coordinator, Bureau of ... people to receive blood testing for HBV and HCV and chronically infected patients to receive medical treatment Conclusion The current approach to the prevention and control of chronic hepatitis B and...
... fundamental aspects of testing and treatment of LTBI (see “Ten Points for Testing and Treatment of LTBI”) and provides a Five-Step Guide Topics covered include whom to test for TB, revised LTBI ... Points for Testing and Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection Target all testing for TB infection to persons at high risk for TB • Target testing to (1) those who are at high risk of being ... recorded as millimeters (mm) of induration; if there is no induration, the result should be recorded as “0 mm” Based on the size of the induration, there are three cutoff points for defining a positive...
... contract enforcement and the operationof businesses The potential of microfinance to reach large numbers of the poor is now well understood (Robinson 2001) Diversity of RMFIs and products is facilitated ... BOG and MOF to monitor the growth and performance of the sector GHAMFIN also has a simpler survey instrument that would give a basic profile of responding institutions In 2002-03 GHAMFIN and ... and reaching high levels of operational and financial sustainability The total number of recorded depositors in all RCBs is 1.2 million, with about 150,000 borrowers (some of them groups of to...
... Approach DOE asked RAND to support its effort to respond to the recommendations of the BRC andto focus on what organization should be created to manage and dispose of used fuel and defense high-level ... mission and structure Act of Congress defines mission and structure Direct oversight Board of directors (on behalf of stockholders) Board of directors (on Administrator, commission, behalf of executive ... will also need to make decisions as to which committees will exercise oversight over the operations and decisions of the MDO and through what types of testimonies and reports (on, for example,...
... to analyze the traffic induced air pollution of the City of Budapest In order to inform the public about ozone concentrations, the DYMOS system is currently in use for the operational daily forecast ... Institute of Meteorology of the Free University of Berlin and Inforadio Berlin, the predicted concentrations are presented as raster images for defined day times and as MPEG movie for the whole day and ... stations exceeded the standards The law was changed in 1998, making it possible to apply preventing measures according to the predictions of forecast tools Hereto, the forecast tool used is a statistical...