... Arlington to an official minor league contract with Reading Arlington again played second base and pitched the ninth inning The game was won by Reading 5–0, and among the 1,000 paying spectators ... barnstorming team in 1934 and as a promotional gimmick in exhibition games inthe “grapefruit circuit” during spring training There she pitched against minor and major league teams including the ... institutions providing masculine social interactions to counter the feminized domain of the home.1 The construction of femininity as inferior toand dependent upon masculinity was woven into the cultural...
... like to insist, however, that the improvement of the antinuclear antibody test substrate, which is the important diagnostic tool for SLE, is the foremost agenda to be dealt with Competing interests ... patents relating tothe IT-1 cell line References Mahler M, Ngo JT, Schulte-Pelkum J, Luettich T, Fritzler MJ: Limited reliability of the indirect immunofluorescence technique for the detection ... Research & Therapy Vol 11 No Jearn and Kim colleagues’ article We agree that anti-Rib-P, just like anti-Sm or anti-nDNA, could be considered an effective marker antibody inthe diagnosis of SLE...
... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 11 No Mahler and Fritzler the BioPlex 2200 ANA screen for the detection of antinuclear antibodies and comparison with conventional methods ... M, Boyes B, Hoy E: Detection and identification of significant ANAs in previously determined ANA negative samples Clin Lab 2005, 51:517-521 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) ...
... explore the latter notion, in order to motivate the general discussion in this study of the importance of reducing thebarriersto international trade in accounting services We will then turn tothe ... bookkeeping (measuring and recording the financial flows and positions of an enterprise), auditing (verifying and attesting/certifying the accuracy of the financial position and results of the enterprise, ... themselves, the tasks of the lenders and investors in comparing and assessing risks and prospects are made more difficult; inthe parlance of microeconomics, differing accounting frameworks increase...
... knowledge of how the existing applications manipulated the data, they worked solely with each other in defining the functional interface of the service Inthe end, the service interface contained ... exercise in trying to find something about the project to make the statement that they know better than the project team Meanwhile, the project team plays a guessing game trying to determine what the ... adopting a canonical model, service interfaces are defined according to it In this way, a consumer or a provider only needs to know how to map tothe canonical model, rather than having to know...
... clarified in detail and could play a key role inthe detoxification processes In this study we examined the role of Bcp2 in order to increase the knowledge of the enzymatic activity involved inthe ... of A pernix thioredoxin-like nor other types of thioredoxins were found In this study we examined the involvement of the peroxiredoxin Bcp2 in oxidative stressinthe hyperthermophilic aerobic ... solfataricus Furthermore, we report the cloning, the expression andthe characterization of the recombinant protein rBcp2 in order to shed light on its role inthe detoxification process and on its...
... activity inthe home They are also likely to be put to work helping their mothers with their jobs, increasing the risks to their health and safety Working in isolation, women are not likely to gain in ... agriculture and into expanding manufacturing, service, and commerce sectors These and concomitant changes inthe living situations of womenand families throughout the globe—including urbanization and ... factors will be involved Changes in productivity and incomes of men andwomen overall are one Another will be changes inwomen s incomes relative to men’s If women gain economically relative to...
... can be linked to incentives and monitoring systems The European Environmental Agency is seeking to move in this direction by linking monitoring and reporting systems directly to assessing progress ... with the transposition of existing EU law (the acquis communautaire) into the legal systems of the accession countries In relation tothe CAP, the focus is on the here and now and not on how the ... Europe and also in North America Growing interdependence of the economies and societies of the ACs with those of the EU and North America must be marked by a mutual interest in finding ways of maintaining...
... the DRC, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda) by sending peacekeepers to UN missions7 and taking lead roles in peace talks.8 Economically, Canada is the largest nonAfrican investor inthe mining ... GoC, or to convince the GoC to convince the UN, of the violent and deadly effects of allowing génocidaires and other armed groups to remain among andto receive aid destined for civilians The GoC ... have stopped defending local populations and exist solely to profit from mining.128 As long as certain FARDC commanders continue to profit from mining, it will not be in their interest to end the...
... Accordingly, we sought to investigate the effect of IPC in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty The primary objective of this study was to investigate the genomic response induced by IPC in ... from the antecubital fossa of the upper limb at the initiation of surgery and at hour of ischaemia to coincide with the muscle sampling Blood was then obtained 30 min, hour and 24 hours following ... from the Mater College, Dublin, Ireland The funding body had no input into the design, implementation or publication of the study The authors thank Dr David Murray for his help with the annotation...
... inthe surface; stress rapidly dropped We could believe that the stresses were mainly relaxed by producing cracksIn order to gain further insight into the nature of the cracks, we observed the ... respectively The determined and concluded data are shown in Table These results suggest that thestress decreases with increasing etching time The values of thestressand curvature in A and Af5 are ... perpendicular tothe film/ substrate interface; thecracks neither approached tothe surface nor extended tothe substrate; andthecracks appeared to be pinched off at several locations, and with well-rounded...
... explore the latter notion, in order to motivate the general discussion in this study of the importance of reducing thebarriersto international trade in accounting services We will then turn tothe ... bookkeeping (measuring and recording the financial flows and positions of an enterprise), auditing (verifying and attesting/certifying the accuracy of the financial position and results of the enterprise, ... themselves, the tasks of the lenders and investors in comparing and assessing risks and prospects are made more difficult; inthe parlance of microeconomics, differing accounting frameworks increase...
... self-harm? In recent years there has been a growing interest inthe issue of self-harm and wider recognition of its existence The increasing coverage of self-harm inthe mainstream media and within clinical ... behaviour of womenand it is very important whether this is seen as 'good' behaviour according tothe community since it is essential in gaining status and prestige for the family Thewomeninthe study ... grapevine often develops in Asian communities inthe UK due to this This grapevine then results in a lack of privacy and space for women Many womeninthe study felt as though they had nobody to...
... have included, ‘I’m flaring and don’t want to take another medication that might make me sick’, ‘I’m trying to get healthy’, and ‘I’m too sick and have too many doctor’s appointments already’ References ... Jansen-McWilliams L, D’Agostino RB, Kuller LH: Age-specific incidence rates of myocardial infarction and angina inwomen with systemic lupus erythematosus: comparison with the Framingham Study Am J Epidemiol ... normal individuals is simple and neat, but might be wrong or incomplete 10 11 12 Several questions remain unanswered in our search for a successful approach tothe prevention of ASVD in SLE The...
... [26] The purpose of the current study was therefore to investigate (1) Swiss methadone and buprenorphine-maintained patients' willingness to stop smoking cigarettes, (2) to investigate their ... motivation to quit smoking as assessed by a 10-point readiness to change scale The first study [24] investigating readiness to stop smoking with the Smoking Stages of Change Algorithm [25] in methadone-maintained ... being inthe "contemplation" stage, those who did not consider quitting were defined as "pre-contemplators" Patients who intended to stop smoking within the following 30 days were considered to...
... activators of mitogenactivated protein kinase and transcription factors involved in type I IFN and inflammatory cytokine signalling [20,22,23,35-37] Our previous study indicated that the NS1 protein ... mRNA export machinery [29-34] The N-terminal RNA binding domain binds to both single- and double-stranded RNA that might inhibit the activation and/ or signalling of antiviral proteins, such as RIG-I, ... decrease in A549 cells Expression of NS1 proteins in A549 cells To find out whether the difference in inhibition of IFNb promoter is duo to difference in- or insufficient expression of the NS1 proteins...
... performed the muscle biopsy sampling and participated inthe design and coordination of the study FK conceived the study and helped on the draft of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final ... geometry [21] To our knowledge CFPE-index and LC/PF have not been evaluated in COPD andthe question of whether muscle -to- capillary interface is altered in this patient group remains unknown Given ... This is in line with previous studies [3,7-9] and together with previous findings of a decrease in oxidative enzyme activities in COPD [6,7] our findings indicate the occurrence of a shift towards...
... appears to have worked since the staff concerned were mainly medical trainees in anaesthesia (who are used to working inthe ED and frequently move from one hospital to another as part of their training) ... Broadband access tothe Internet and satellite-linked devices (which not depend on telephone landline integrity) have become valuable in receiving information in more recent major incidents [4] and ... via the resuscitation room or the GICU In this incident the GICU was fully occupied making beds available and accepting the nonsurvivor in ED nonsurvivor in GICU 127 survivors brought to other...