... Total RNA was used ă for first-strand cDNA synthesis using SuperScriptII for RT-PCR using primers specific for the MC proteases and SG Hypoxanthine–guanine phosphoribosyltransferase was used as ... proteases with low pH optima, possibly in lysosomal compartments Interestingly, several ‘lysosomal’ proteases, e.g cathepsin C, cathepsin D and cathepsin E, have been found not only in lysosomes ... mechanism by which SG PG promotes storage of these compounds, the strategy in the next set of experiments was to follow the fates of the SG-dependent proteases when SG was absent To address these issues,...
... universities and institutions in South Africa, Brazil and Egypt The Master s degree prepares graduates to engage in political consulting andto assume leadership positions in political administration ... is reflected in the use of case studies andin the integration of practitioners into teaching and research, as well as in a mandatory internship and a projectoriented Master s thesis The MPP programme ... taught in English Launched in April 1999, it was the first of its kind in Germany The programme covers two semesters of courses, including two months for writing and defending a Master s thesis The...
... reports are presented as pdf files on the webbpages of Master of Public Health Education at Karolinska Institutet Leif Svanström Professor and Programme Director ABSTRACT DEFINITIONS ... Report series of Master theses in Public Health These reports come from the Board of Education in Public Health Sciences at Karolinska Institutet The master education of Public Health at KI is a ... SEARCH STRATEGIES 20 5.3 SELECTION OF ARTICLES IN THE DATABASE SEARCH 20 5.4 ANALYSING PROCESS 21 FINDINGS 22 6.1HEALTH PROMOTION PROGRAMMES...
... in increased sulfation of HSPGs, sustained association of heparin-binding growth factors with their cognate receptors and augmented downstream signaling Expression of HSulf-1 in cell lines derived ... following diagnosis, whereas none of patients stained strongly for heparanase survived at 300 months [45] Somewhat surprising, heparanase upregulation in head and neck and tongue carcinomas was associated ... cell transformation Hereditary multiple exostosis provided the first direct evidence linking an aberrant HS structure to tumorigenesis Hereditary multiple exostosis is an autosomaldominant disorder...
... Small Businesses with Access to Banks Loans, 2007 Farming Households with Access to Savings Deposit Accounts, 2002 Farming Households with Access to Savings Deposit Accounts, PRD Area vs Non-PRD Area, ... by moving them to jobs, increasing their access to finance, and ensuring that their land rights are better protected The seventh section further assesses Guangdong s options for investing in people ... Scheme and TEOS for Junior Secondary Education per Student, 2006 and 2007 Subsidy for Miscellaneous Fees and Budgetary Revenues in Rural Areas, 2007 Miscellaneous Fees and Subsidies for Fees in Rural...
... base Employ a range of specialised skills and evaluate information using it to plan and develop investigative strategies Determine solutions to unpredictable problems Apply knowledge and skills ... tool for measuring and expressing learning equivalence It plays an important role in rewarding the incremental progress of learners, facilitating student transfer, recognising prior learning and ... contributing to the definition of academic standards This document is concerned with credit in this last role The attribution of credit values to modules and programmes helps to define the standards...
... issue will not always be found to be as extensive in all three systems under comparison This, for instance, becomes obvious in chapter as a result of the unwillingness of Italian law to devise ... nationals and/ or residents increasingly join, or seek to join, class actions in the United States of America This tendency leads to a need to know more about the law in Europe including, of course, ... one realises that in the case of these torts (such as trespass to the person, land or libel) the prime aim of the law is to vindicate legal interests and not just compensate harm caused by the...
... vacuum pumps that recycle used sealing water must have strainers and, in the case of a high recycling rate, cooling systems in recycling lines to maintain a high vacuum Some paper mills use clarified ... applications for adjusting stock consistency andin substitution of fresh water application such as paper machine showers The recovered stock is then re-use in pulp circuit preferably in the machine ... production andto eliminate the need for sludge dewatering and handling This requires smaller and less expensive installations than aerobic treatment with lower operating costs and energy saving through...
... incentives such as allowances, salary top-ups, and better working conditions [24], training and retraining, including shifting as many tasks as possible away from doctors, nurses and pharmacists to ... relevant and sensitive to potential resistance; actors such as professional councils need to be brought in into the process to make task-shifting acceptable The demonstration of regional variations in ... Chankova Sand Sulzbach S: Zambia health services and system program Occasional Paper Series Human Resources for Health number I Bethesda, MD: Health Services and Systems Program, Abt Associates Inc,...
... were assessed more frequently than responsiveness to change The MID was estimated for only instruments Some instruments defined an evaluative aim; however, responsiveness was assessed in less than ... possibility of having missed questionnaires Also, the decision about inclusion or exclusion of the instruments was sometimes ambiguous as for example for instruments assessing specific types ... regardless of the kind of aim, whereas test-retest was assessed for fewer instruments For 17 40.6% of the instruments with an evaluative aim, responsiveness was assessed and the MID for 6.3% 18 Discussion...
... The stems and leaves were mainly used for animal feed Tubers were partly used for animal feed, for food andfor other purposes Nevertheless, the processing products such as starch, chips and wines ... value-adding purposes Development and evaluation of processing methods for sweet potato, for example production of flour and starch for food processing and industrial applications, sweet potato chips, ... each district, communes were selected In summary, 27 survey points (communes) were selected In each survey points, farmers were randomly selected for getting information Method for getting information:...
... with increased risks factors for obesity and diet-related diseases such as Type II diabetes, cardiovascular disease and certain forms of cancer In contrast, starch that is digested slowly and starch ... corn flour - Salt 3.3 Technology transfer methods - Train and transfer to farmers the techniques to use vine-leaves and roots of sweet potatoes - Design experimentsto assess the processing by fermentation ... sweet potato biomass in 15 households in the towns of each province in order to recommend these processes to other households Prepare different ingredients for fermentation processes of the sweet...
... “On Mosco convergence for a sequence of closed convex subsets of Banach spaces,” in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Banach and Function Spaces, M Kato and L Maligranda, Eds., pp ... }; see, for example, [13] for more details Fixed Point Theory and Applications In the next section, we will see various types of sequences of nonexpansive mappings which satisfy conditions I and ... be a semigroup A family S {T t : t ∈ S} is said to be a nonexpansive semigroup on C if i for each t ∈ S, T t is a nonexpansive mapping of C into itself; ii T st T s T t for every s, t ∈ S We...
... packet Symbol σ denotes the slot size and Ri is the channel transmission bitrate in zone-i SIFS, DIFS, and ACK denote short interframe spacing, DCF interframe spacing, and ACK message transmission ... zones as agents to relay traffic for those out-of-coverage MSs The QoS requirements (e.g., bandwidth) of those MSs are considered in the selection process of corresponding TAs Analytical results, ... is currently working toward the Ph.D degree in the School of Engineering and Design, Brunel University, UK His research interest includes medium access control, QoS, and positioning in WLAN Hsiao-Hwa...
... suggest that the increased levels of sVAP-1 may be a clinically useful marker in liver diseases Materials and methods History and clinical properties were interrogated and serum samples were collected ... steatosis and stage fibrosis defined by modified Brunt criteria was necessary for the diagnosis [19] Patients with positive results for either HBsAg or HCV were excluded from this study Blood was ... according to the manufacturer s instructions The intensities of the chemiluminescence reactions in the wells were always measured after a 3-min incubation time Each sample was measured in triplicate...
... VDIPEN staining (k) and NITEGE staining (q,p) Arrows point to intense staining around chondrocytes FastG, fast green; SafO, safranin O Co-incubation of several dilutions of BMP-2 protein with the supernatant ... imaging system There was a significant (30%) increase in safranin O staining intensity in the patella on day When the data of all time points were pooled, a significant increase in safranin O staining ... Essex, UK) and exposed forto weeks Slides were developed in Kodak D-19 developer (Kodak, Chalon-sur-Saone, France) and counterstained with hematoxylin and eosin Immunohistochemistry: NITEGE Sections...
... Others (supplies, logistics, social mobilisation) Recurrent cost to patients and supervisors Total costs to patients: Opportunity costs Direct costs Other costs Total costs to supervisors, including: ... particularly in assessing the short-term cost implications of the scheme A sensitivity analysis of cost-effectiveness was performed to determine how the cost-effectiveness was sensitive to variations in ... opportunity costs) incurred by patients and supervisors Analysis was initially planned to focus primarily on costs to the health system and include social costs for comparison purposes only It was later...
... Measurements after 30 minutes b Circuit Flushing started at RR20 Measurements after 30 minutes c Circuit Flushing stopped and RR increased to 40 minutes-1 Minute ventilation increased to maintain a stable ... pressures were reduced while normocapnia was maintained The present study is the first in which ASPIDS and also Circuit Flushing was shown to modify PaCO2 This is also the first comprehensive ... foundation, Sweden for financial support We thank Gert-Inge Jönsson for the construction of the ASPIDS device, Elisabet Åström and Lisbet Niklason for valuable assistance during experimentsandin data...
... which information was missing (two cases of CS and nine controls) Multivariate analysis For each type of scrapie, we fitted multivariate logistic regression models to assess the risk associated to ... tests; the cases detected with the tests recommended for AS were typed in order to classify them as AS or CS; other positive cases were assumed to be CS During that period, 404 cases of AS and ... Results After exclusion of missing information on genotypes and dentition, 248 AS cases, 245 CS cases and 3,317 controls were used to estimate OR and prevalence (Table 1) Cases of CS and/ or AS...
... other causes, such as stochastic processes or subtle environmental effects, possibly fluctuating in time but frozen in these snapshots of expression patterns This is consistent with reports of variable ... developmental time points Differences in expression levels of genes on other chromosomes - about 85 genes whose expression increased and 100 whose expression decreased - were also observed Regions of human ... midbrain, in each case pooling RNAs from four individuals, aged 3-4 months Expression of 66 trisomic genes was detected in at least one of the nine tissues In eight tissues, overall levels of...