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Báo cáo khoa học: "An overview of oak silviculture in the United States: the past, present, and future" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 08/08/2014, 23:22

... studies initiated in the 1940s by the US Forest Service to determine the growing space requirements of the upland oaks One of the most useful results of Gingrich’s work was the development of a ... second-growth stands of sprout origin Despite the high percentage of oak in these stands, most were understocked, unhealthy, and in a run-down condition as a result of indiscriminate cutting, grazing, fire, ... charts are routinely used to evaluate stand denstity in oak stands to determine the need for thin- ning In addition to developing the stocking chart, Gingrich also discovered that the greatest...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Cystatin C: unsuited to use as a marker of kidney function in the intensive care unit" pot

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 22:21

... EJ: Cystatin C improves the detection of mild renal function in older patients Ann Clin Biochem 2003, 40:648-655 Den Hollander JG, Wulkan RW, Mantel MJ, Berghout A Is cystatin C a marker of glomerular ... declare that they have no competing interests References 532 Villa P, Jiménez M, Soriano MC, Manzanares J, Casasnovas P: Serum cystatin C as a marker of acute renal dysfunction in critically ... thyroid-stimulating hormone, which confounds extrapolation of published data in this population We feel that future studies to evaluate this issue are warranted Competing interests The author(s)...

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Báo cáo khoa học: Essential roles of lipoyl domains in the activated function and control of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinases and phosphatase isoform 1 pot

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 09:20

... domain E3BP domains: L3, N-terminal lipoyl domain; B, E3 binding domain; I, inner domain which associates with the inner domain of E2 Dotted connections indicate binding interactions to the catalytic ... association involves the ATP-using C-terminal domains interacting near the base of that side of the wedge outside; the N-terminal domains form the outside of the wedges The wedge pockets have ... by an insulinactivated pathway [2] Impaired functioning in insulininduced down-regulation of PDK4 (due to lack of insulin or insensitivity to insulin) deleteriously leads to overexpression of PDK4...

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Báo cáo Y học: The expression of glutathione reductase in the male reproductive system of rats supports the enzymatic basis of glutathione function in spermatogenesis doc

Ngày tải lên : 17/03/2014, 17:20

... protein and the mRNA were faint Effects of inhibitors of cGCS and GR on primary cultured testicular cells To investigate the contribution of de novo synthesis and the recycling of GSH to the intracellular ... protein metabolism in these cells Histone is rich in the basic amino acids, lysine and arginine, but contains no cysteine Protamine, which is replaced for hitstone via transit proteins during ... level of GR in the epithelia of the epididymis (Fig 1) As the epididymis is rich in sulfoxidase, the oxidation of sulfhydryls in the sperm head and tail would be mediated by this enzyme in a speciﬁc...

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Báo cáo sinh học: " Improvement of cardiac contractile function by peptide-based inhibition of NF-B in the utrophin/dystrophin-deficient murine model of muscular dystrophy" potx

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 19:20

... blocks and used for the following staining procedures Page of 10 For viewing of gross histology, sections were fixed in 100% ethanol and then stained with hematoxylin and eosin using standard procedures ... efficacy of the NBD peptide in cardiac muscles of dko treated mice Both NF-B DNA binding activity, as well as nuclear levels of the p65 subunit of NF-B were elevated in the dko heart In general, ... contractile dysfunction in dko mice occurs through the inhibition of the NF-B signaling pathway Lastly, we investigated whether NBD treatment of dko mice resulted in an improvement in cardiac histopathological...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Contribution of cysteine residues in the extracellular domain of the F protein of human respiratory syncytial virus to its function" docx

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 01:20

... glycosylation These findings are intriguing given that these three cysteine residues are absolutely conserved not only in the F proteins of other Pneumovirinae, but also in the F proteins of the Paramyxovirinae ... To determine the contribution of the individual cysteine residues in the extracellular domain (ECD) to its functions, a panel of mutations in which each cysteine residue in the ECD of the HRSV ... cysteine residues in the extracellular domain in protein expression and cell fusion of the HRSV F protein and represents the first analysis of the contribution of the cysteine residues of the...

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báo cáo hóa học:" Improvement of cardiac contractile function by peptide-based inhibition of NF-B in the utrophin/dystrophin-deficient murine model of muscular dystrophy" doc

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 03:20

... blocks and used for the following staining procedures Page of 10 For viewing of gross histology, sections were fixed in 100% ethanol and then stained with hematoxylin and eosin using standard procedures ... efficacy of the NBD peptide in cardiac muscles of dko treated mice Both NF-B DNA binding activity, as well as nuclear levels of the p65 subunit of NF-B were elevated in the dko heart In general, ... contractile dysfunction in dko mice occurs through the inhibition of the NF-B signaling pathway Lastly, we investigated whether NBD treatment of dko mice resulted in an improvement in cardiac histopathological...

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báo cáo hóa học:" Revision of failed hip resurfacing to total hip arthroplasty rapidly relieves pain and improves function in the early post operative period" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 04:20

... components in the bearing couple when revising for this indication While it is too early to comment on the clinical outcomes of these prostheses, the main determinants of success in these patients ... absence of infection Cystic lesions were noted behind the acetabular component in cases but the cup was grossly loose in only one of these There was evidence of gross collapse of a segment of the ... bearing These should theoretically confer increased range of movement theoretically allowing a higher level of function Prior to having their primary procedures these patients were all involved in...

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báo cáo hóa học:" Revision of failed hip resurfacing to total hip arthroplasty rapidly relieves pain and improves function in the early post operative period" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 07:20

... components in the bearing couple when revising for this indication While it is too early to comment on the clinical outcomes of these prostheses, the main determinants of success in these patients ... absence of infection Cystic lesions were noted behind the acetabular component in cases but the cup was grossly loose in only one of these There was evidence of gross collapse of a segment of the ... bearing These should theoretically confer increased range of movement theoretically allowing a higher level of function Prior to having their primary procedures these patients were all involved in...

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báo cáo hóa học: " Audio segmentation of broadcast news in the Albayzin-2010 evaluation: overview, results, and discussion" potx

Ngày tải lên : 21/06/2014, 02:20

... successfully applied in [4,10,13] and many other studies Taking into account the increasing interest in the problem of audio segmentation, on the one hand, and the existence, on the other hand, of a rich ... using a hierarchical organization of the detection process One of the most important decisions when using this kind of architecture lies in the orderings of the detection modules, since some of ... “Music.” The second row of the confusion matrix indicates that 26.5% of the hypothesized speech is in fact “Speech over noise.” This is the main reason of the high proportion of false alarms for the...

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Báo cáo y học: "Decreased GABAB receptor function in the cerebellum and brain stem of hypoxic neonatal rats: Role of glucose, oxygen and epinephrine resuscitation" pot

Ngày tải lên : 10/08/2014, 05:21

... linear regression analysis by plotting the specific binding of the radioligand on X-axis and bound/free on Y-axis The maximal binding is a measure of the total number of receptors present in the ... half the specific binding was defined as EC50, which is same as IC50 The affinity of the receptor for the competing drug is designated as Ki and is defined as the concentration of the competing ... data was analysed according to Scatchard, 1949 [35] The specific binding was determined by subtracting non-specific binding from the total The binding parameters, maximal binding (Bmax) and equilibrium...

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báo cáo khoa học: " Review of "In the Eye of the Needle: Diary of a Medically Supervised Injecting Centre" by Ingrid van Beek Allen & Unwin 2004" potx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 20:20

... loss of life and thousands of injection episodes The most poignant moment in the book is the frustration of receiving an evaluation that minimized the success of the centre by giving it a marginal ... injection centres are taking the path of other interventions for drug users in that they will be adopted gradually at a glacial pace I would love to see a spate of books inspired by "In the Eye ... development of the medically supervised injection centre is a classic case of harm reduction struggling to assert its worth Despite the success of the centre, there is no intention of replicating the facility...

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Báo cáo y học: "Enhanced effector function of cytotoxic cells in the induced sputum of COPD patients" doc

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 11:22

... changes in the airway The first step of assessing the potential importance of these cells in the inflammatory process would be to assess their numbers and function within the airways Therefore, in ... this study we have extended the findings of our previous study to investigate, within induced sputum, the number and cytotoxic function of the three main classes of human killer cells; CD8 + ... Glucocorticosteroids The Nottingham Local Research Ethics Committee approved the study protocol and written informed consent was obtained from the 26 subjects before entering the blinded study Of these, the 11...

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Báo cáo y học: " Effects of cigarette smoke on endothelial function of pulmonary arteries in the guinea pig" ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 14:20

... that in non-smokers and COPD patients, thereby indicating that endothelial dysfunction is present at the origin of the disease [2] The impairment of endothelial function results from changes in the ... the effect of contraction to NE by including it in the model The significance of the independent factors was assessed by the common ANOVA F-test using the type-3 sum of squares The adequacy of ... funding support and contributed in the analysis of the data JAB conceived the study, raised funding support, participated in the design and implementation of the study, and in the revision of the...

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Báo cáo y học: "Identification of motifs that function in the splicing of non-canonical introns" doc

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 20:22

... motifs Strengthening the PY tract eliminates the role of the C-rich motifs We next investigated the role of the PY tract in LCAT intron splicing We mutated the PY tract to determine whether the C-rich ... lower affinities Binding of U2AF65 to low-scoring PY tracts In order to asses the relationship between the S65 score and observed U2AF65 binding affinities, we evaluated the binding of recombinant ... eliminates the role of the C-rich motifs Strengthening the PY tract eliminates the role of the C-rich motifs (a) LCAT intron with the mutations shown in blue above the WT sequence BPS, branchpoint...

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Role of SPHK2S1P signalling in regulating mitochondrial function in the MPTP induced mouse model of parkinsons disease and in the MPP treated MN9D cells

Ngày tải lên : 09/09/2015, 08:12

... 1.10.5.1 Sphingosine kinases and S1P in the brain 28 1.10.5.2 S1P receptors in the CNS 29 1.10.5.3 Role of Sphingosine kinases and S1P in neurodegeneration 30 1.11 Aims of the present ... underlying the cause of Parkinson’s disease (PD) has attracted the attention of manyresearchers in the last few decades In spite of the recent technical advances in the field of neuroscience, the ... implicated in PD pathogenesis, the expression pattern of TNFα and iNOS in the SNc of the MPTP-induced mouse model was analysed It was observed that there was an increase in the levels of XX TNF and iNOS...

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Seafood Supply Chain Quality Management: The Shrimp Supply Chain Quality Improvement Perspective of Seafood Companies in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Ngày tải lên : 23/04/2013, 09:34

... of Vietnam and the South of Vietnam The structure of Vietnam’s SFC organization The supply chain quality management of interviewed SFCs The fish chain in the Netherlands The shrimp chain in the ... (CDS), the Faculty of Economics of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and the School of Economics and Business Administration (SEBA) of Cantho University in Vietnam Numerous institutions, ... crucial Among the chain actors, the role of the SFC is vital – not only in ensuring the quality of the final product, but also in SFC’s material suppliers In order to control the quality of the supplier’s...

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LINH DAM NEW TOWN - SOLUTION FOR THE HIGH-DENSITY DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SETTLEMENTS IN THE SOUTH-WEST OF HANOI

Ngày tải lên : 29/08/2013, 08:15

... the central area for the purpose of resettlement Generally, getting along with the rapid expansion, the east bank of the Red River exhibited the beginnings of urbanization The south-west of the ... components: Bac Linh Dam (North of Linh Dam), Linh Dam peninsula in the middle and Linh Dam expansion (South of Linh Dam) The success of the project has set the stage for a series of New Towns that ... tropical climate Among these, the outstanding point is the area of highstorey apartments and office buildings in the center of Linh Dam peninsula, surrounding by low-storey buildings, parks, open...

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LINH DAM NEW TOWN - SOLUTION FOR THE HIGH-DENSITY DEVELOPMENT OF NEW SETTLEMENTS IN THE SOUTH-WEST OF HANOI

Ngày tải lên : 29/08/2013, 08:15

... nặng nhọc với mức thu nhập thấp, kéo theo điều kiện sống mức tối thiểu, tạm bợ khu nhà trọ rẻ tiền với điều kiện sinh hoạt an ninh không đảm bảo Đời sống tinh thần lao động hạn chế Họ thấy cô ... làm việc chợ lao động thuê trọ theo ngày (đêm), lại thuê nhà theo tháng Có khoảng 22,86% nữ lao động tự phải sống nơi có điều kiện sinh hoạt không đảm bảo, vệ sinh; 40,95% không sử dụng nước ... vật chất, tinh thần lao động nghèo nàn Họ thường tiêu tiết kiệm cho khoản chi phí sinh hoạt thiết yếu Có 22,86% nữ lao động tự phải sống nơi có điều kiện sinh hoạt thiếu thốn, vệ sinh Họ thường...

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Genotoxicity of 255 chemicals in the Salmonella microsome test (Ames test) and 8-hydroxyguanine (8-OH-Gua) assay for the detection of carcinogens

Ngày tải lên : 05/09/2013, 08:40

... Identification of C8-modified deoxyinosine and N2- and C8-modified deoxyguanosine as major products of the in vivo reaction of N-hydroxy-6-aminochrysene with DNA and the formation of the adducts in isolated ... recommend the Ames test using these sensitive strains (especially YG1041 and/or YG1042) in combination with the standard tester strains (TA98 and TA100 series), in order to detect the mutagenicity of ... ogttST::Cmr) strain (deficient in O6-methylguanine DNA methyltransferase) sensitive to alkylating chemicals These strains were kindly supplied by Dr T Nohmi of the National Institute of Health Sciences...

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