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... EBNA-1 and BHRF-1 DNA targets into plasmid vector pGEM and standard curve construction A novel feature of the assay was the design of a quantification standard incorporating both EBNA-1 and BHRF-1 ... blood and serum were collected between 2004 and 2007 This included 46 males and 172 females with a mean age of 39 (SD = 10) and 40 (SD = 9.5) years respectively These individuals resided in one of ... http://www.virologyj.com/content/7/1/252 Page of 11 Table Intra- and inter-assay co-efficient of variation for EBNA-1 and BHRF-1 QPCRs DNA Target (copies/5 ul) Mean CT Mean R-G 6000™ Results Standard Deviation of R-G 6000™ Results...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... city and country) which included estimation of haemoglobin, red blood cell count and indices; and white blood cell count both total and differential A peripheral blood smear for assessment of red ... with HIV Assuming a sensitivity of 50% and specificity of 75%, a sample of size 413 subjects would give a 95% confidence interval of plus/minus 0.048% for sensitivity and plus/ minus 0.042% for specificity ... clinics had a sensitivity of 38.1% and a specificity of 74.5% The positive predictive and the negative predictive diagnostic value were 52% and 62.5% respectively [Table 2] Of those who were presumptively...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... shown in [20], and reflects proximity of two distributions, in our case, the gold standard and the predicted grouping of sequences In the case of generated families we have the standard of truth given ... of specificity groups and identify SDPs using the SDPlight procedure Then we consider each sequence of the MSA as a sequence of unknown specificity, and use SDPprofile to reassign it to one of ... values of M ( MI i ,k ) and D( MI i ,k ) are pre-calculated and tabulated, and requiring time O(ia) and O (ia2), respectively We pre-calculate these values for k = 2, ,200; ia = 1, ,500 and store...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:20

... standard methods at SVA, which comprise fermentation of glucose, maltose, lactose, sucrose, starch, mannitol and fructose, and production of lecithinase, tryptophanase, urease and hydrolysis of ... the bottom of the muscle tissue storage bottle d) Blood sample (500 μL) Collection of samples from farms Manure, soil and silage Eleven dairy farms (A-K) from the island of Öland of south-east ... Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:8 Five g of each sample of manure, soil and silage were placed in a separate bottle, 10 mL of sterile physiological saline were added and these samples were...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... magnitudes of shift in X and Y, various levels of autocorrelation of X and Y, and correlation between X and Y should be investigated The shift sizes in X and Y are set to 0, 0.5, 1, and Further, ... statistic that measures some quality characteristic of interest, and suppose that the mean of x is μx and the standard deviation of x is δx Then the control limits of the X control chart are μx ... shift size of X (δx), mean shift size of Y (δy), autocorrelation of X (φx), autocorrelation of Y (φy) and correlation between the error terms of X and Y (ρxy) The desired outputs, δx and δy, represent...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 15:45

... endoscopic and radiographic Asymptomatic colonic and gastric carcinoma may present with IDA and exclusion of these conditions is of prime concern The upper endoscopic evaluation should include random ... yield of endoscopy in patients with IDA and to define predictive factors of gastrointestinal (GI) lesions causing IDA and identify clinical and biochemical variables that predict the outcome of ... presence of dyspeptic complaint and its severity calculated by presence of abdominal pain, abdominal pain with hungry and anxiety, abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting, poor appetite and symptoms of...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18

... (1996) and Watson and Blackwell (2000) reported The color of supernatant after vortex mixing and centrifugation was brown and that of the concentrate after membrane filtration was yellow, both of ... composition of silt and clay The low recovery rate was also because of the inhibition of nucleic acids extraction and PCR by humic substances extracted from sediment by high pH as Tsai and Olson ... Beads Beating (Nippon Gene, Tokyo) Detection of pathogens and fecal indicators by PCR and qPCR methods The concentration of (c)DNA of Poliovirus and Adenovirus was determined using real-time...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... (burned and unburned) The first law and state of thermodynamic equations are expressed in differential form and integrated by Runge-Kutta method The equations for the pressure and temperature of the ... pressure and temperature are Pu = 0.1 MPa, and Tu = 300K, respectively ul (cm/s) is the burning velocity at Pu and Tu αT And βT as well as ul , are functions of equivalence ratio ( ∅ ), and are ... Journal of Energy and Environment (IJEE), Volume 1, Issue 1, 2010, pp.31-52 41 because, the value of pressure and temperature of the mixture during sparking are higher at higher compression ratios and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... reversal of diabetes, control of hypertension, marked improvement in mobility, return of fertility, cure of pseudotumor cerebri, and significant Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass improvement in quality of life ... genotype and the environment Our understanding of how and why obesity occurs is incomplete; however, it involves the integration of social, behavioral, cultural, physiological, metabolic, and genetic ... physicians can and should engage the assistance of other professionals This guide provides the basic tools needed to assess and manage overweight and obesity for a variety of health professionals,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20

... Statistics of the BioScope corpus The 2nd and 3d columns show the total number of cues within the datasets; the 4th and 5th columns show the percentage of negated and speculative sentences 70% of the ... speculation and negation scopes could be concisely expressed as a 284 combination of lexical and syntactic patterns For ¨ u example, Ozg¨ r and Radev (2009) examined sample BioScope sentences and developed ... also manually compiled and used in a number of hedge scope detection systems, e.g (Kilicoglu and Bergler, 2008), (Rei and Briscoe, 2010), (Velldal et al., 2010), (Kilicoglu and Bergler, 2010), (Zhou...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

... about specific and tangible features Also, there are somewhat a fixed set of features of a specific type of product, for example, ease of use, durability, battery life, photo quality, and shutter ... Sources of Opinions with Conditional Random Fields and Extraction Patterns Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP-05 Esuli, Andrea and Fabrizio Sebastiani 2005 Determining the semantic orientation of terms ... Proceedings of COLING-04 pp 1367-1373 Geneva, Switzerland Kim, Soo-Min and Eduard Hovy 2005 Automatic Detection of Opinion Bearing Words and Sentences In the Companion Volume of the Proceedings of IJCNLP-05,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... activity • psychosocial distress and lifestyle, environmental, social and family factors – including family history of overweight and obesity and comorbidities • willingness and motivation to ... obesity and comorbidities • lifestyle – diet and physical activity • environmental, social and family factors that may contribute to overweight and obesity and the success of treatment • growth and ... health status and lifestyle Children 1.2.1.5 The care of children and young people should be coordinated around their individual and family needs and should comply with national core standards as...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 11:20

... of 2008 has aroused the interest of U.S policymakers in the mechanisms of corporate governance, compliance, and ethics, and their collective role in preventing and mitigating excesses and scandals ... options back-dating scandals and the mutual fund market-timing scandals of the mid-2000s Of course, the most recent set of corporate scandals has broadly swept across the mortgage and banking sectors, ... and Ethics? The current financial crises and fresh wave of corporate scandals have put the spotlight back on the role of boards of directors in overseeing the activities of management Legal and...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 22:20

... method in the case of particular products The harmonization of test methods cannot be immediate, and for certain groups of products International Standards and/ or national standards may already ... rules for the preparation of products other than milk and milk products, meat and meat products, and fish and fishery products [4] ISO/TR 11133-1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs ... preparation of test samples, initial suspensions and decimal dilutions for microbiological examination Terms and definitions For the purposes of this International Standard, the following terms and definitions...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20

... of CONLL-X, pages 149–164, New York [4] Sabine Buchholz and Darren Green, 2006 Quality control of treebanks: documenting, converting, patching In LREC 2006 workshop on Quality assurance and quality ... even larger number of errors, which could not be found The overall number of errors thus seems to be over 1% of the total size of a corpus, which is expected to be of a very high quality A fact that ... results different to gold-standard Substitution of the annotation of the error candidates by the annotation proposed by one of the parsers (in our case MSTParser) Parse of the modified corpus with...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 22:20

... presence of prefaces, the counts of types and tokens of discourse markers, extreme case formulations, disfluencies, person addressing events, and person mentions, and the normalized values of these ... set of prosodic features including pause, duration, and the speech rate of a speaker We also used pitch and energy of the voice Prosodic features were computed on words and phonetic alignment of ... sentence length We also include a set of features related to the DAT of the current utterance and preceding and following utterances We developed a set of “structural” and “durational” features, inspired...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 22:20

... positive and negative examples, one first builds the maximal canonical automaton (MCA) (Pernot et al., 2005) with one starting state and a separate sequence of states for each positive example and ... hyperonym and hf for xi where hxi xi is the most general hyperonym The same is done for yi Next, we use all negative examples to find Gxi and Gyi which are generalization types of the arguments of a ... presence of a general semantic category of one argument will require a more specific semantic category for the other Generalization per argument is, on the one hand, useful because none of the arguments...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20

... analysis of metabolites Reactions were initiated by the addition of 100 ll of a solution of enzyme (200 lgÆmL)1) to 0.9 mL of a solution of 50 lg of substrate in 10% (v/v) dimethyl sulfoxide and incubated ... 0.1 mL of EC or CY to 1.0 mL of VM containing 10 lg of GOU For HP and M, reactions were initiated by addition of 0.1 g of HP or M to 1.0 mL of VM containing 10 lg of GOU After incubation for 12 ... Scheme of 4-methylumbelliferone (4MU) released from guaiacylglycerol b-O-4-methylumbelliferone (GOU) and DHP-GOU Upon cleavage of the b-aryl ether linkage, 4-methylumbelliferone is released and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 03:20

... plantations, and already many of the smallholders rely on prospects of future sales of latex and thus depend on the dynamics of the global market The success story of Yunnan and the high demand of China ... First of all it should give the author an impression of the landscape and land cover, land use practices, distribution of settlements, etc With the collection of GPS points the classification of ... context of research projects of the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) at the Institute of Geography of the University of Berne The CDE is the executive agency of the NCCR North-South and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... (approximately, 20 periods) of the sensor response in the presence of the test gas, and the amplitude of the dc component and of the first four harmonics were extracted FFT coefficients of higher harmonics ... coil in the presence of a gas flow of synthetic air (80% N2 and 20% O2 ) introduced from the bottom of the induction coil The surface of the tungsten pellet was oxidised and at the chosen temperature ... evacuation pipe The WO3 films consisted of nanoparticles with a mean grain size of about nm and a log-normal size distribution with a width of about ±20% of the mean size The deposited films were...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 13:04