... one month Chemotherapeutic agents used included bleomycin, vinblastine, vincristine, etoposide, cyclophosamide, adriamyacin and prednisone There were no standard chemotherapeutic regimens; some ... determined using the AIDS Clinical Trials Group staging system that classifies tumour (T), immune (I) and systemic illness (S) status into good and poor risk [14] KS immune reconstitution inflammatory ... intellectual contentand writing of the paper The final version of the manuscript was seen and approved by all authors The corresponding author held the final responsibility for submitting the manuscript...
... ongoing discussion intrinsic to the doctor–patient relationship Establishing why rather than whether the patient accepts or rejects treatments gives insight into the individual’s world view and ... safeguards autonomous choice Competing interests The author declares that they have no competing interests References Tillyard ARJ: Ethics review: ‘Living wills’ and intensive care – an overview of ... effectiveness with the patient self-determination act and the SUPPORT intervention SUPPORT Investigators Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment J Am Geriatr...
... petroleum business involves many independent operations, beginning with the exploration for oil and gas and extending to the delivery of finished products, with complex refining processes in the middle ... planning and scheduling problems in the literature is first reviewed as follows 2.1 Planning in Refinery Refinery planning problems have been studied since the introduction of linear programming ... before Optimal scheduling of various operationsin a refinery offers significant potential for saving costs and increasing profits The overall refinery operations involve three main segments, namely...
... hydrophobins HFBIII of H jecorina and T longibrachiatum, and SRH1 and HFB1 of T atroviride, involving signal peptides, Kex2type processing, and C-terminal amino acid cleavage (Table 2) In addition, the recorded ... terminal amino acid residues of all six hydrophobins providing this single match A rapid means of identifying peaks corresponding to hydrophobins in MALDI-TOF mass spectra was elaborated, making ... mass peak was missing (Fig 3B) Deviating post-translational processing of hydrophobins in H jecorina strains To investigate strain diversity with respect to metabolite production and low-mass proteomics...
... with and without insurance For these sensitivity analyses, interaction terms between PM2.5 and urbanization and health insurance were examined in logistic models for the overall sample and for ... presentation of data, and assistance in drafting manuscript Both authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Received: ... questions about sinusitis and chronic bronchitis were used as outcomes in the study The prevalence of chronic bronchitis and sinusitis were obtained by asking respondents whether during the past...
... assess that, together with examining the modifications in water uptake and water conductivity during freezing and after thawing References Hammel H.T (1967) Freezing of xylem sap without cavitation ... decreased, coming to zero in about h similar to During thawing, the trend that observed in Eucalyptus plants was Discussion and Conclusions plants, it is generally single emission represents In water-stressed ... sensor and the sample, we used the sensor intermittently, switching it on only for out of 10 The acoustic emissions were counted using an instrument similar to the one described by Sandford and...
... in building design in Hochiminh city Danang is geographically located in the centre of Vietnam, consequently its climate in Fig is intermediate compared to those of Hanoi and Hochiminh city In ... CEN Standard EN15251: Indoor environmental input parameters for design and assessment of energy performance of buildings - addressing indoor air quality, thermal environment, lighting and acoustics ... humidity on cooling potential of air movement since this effect is rather minor 3.2 Passive cooling by Direct evaporative cooling In direct evaporative cooling, water evaporates directly into the airstream,...
... comics and single-panel cartoons within any single definition of comics’ Adopting a Wittgenstein approach to definitions (in which Wittgenstein considered the definition of games3), Varnum and Gibbons ... resources in comic strips hinging on the use of AEs and VLDs and how these have an impact on meaning making processes in comics However, as he too mentioned, the study of meaning making processes in ... certain human experience, that of an individual named Tom doing an action and propelling himself into a building The ideational metafunction, in a nutshell, is about what is being referred to in...
... for Veterinary Medicine for pork tissue containing incurred residues of melamine and cyanuric acid and FDA Forensic Chemistry Center for catfish containing incurred residues melamine and cyanuric ... procedure involves the determination of melamine and cyanuric acid by LC-MS/MS in animal tissue and infant formula using isotopically labeled internal standards for each compound in order to correct for ... melamine and cyanuric acid in China This is suspected of causing illness to many children in that country A procedure has been validated for the determination and identification of melamine and...
... learning may be associated with gains on the following variables: Achievement Liking for school Inter-ethnic relations Thinking skills Self-esteem Enjoyment Cooperative Learning and Thinking and ... opportunity to see how their peers think and create new ideas Witnessing this process can provide useful models 4 Discussing, creating, and thinking in a group, rather than in a whole class context, can ... Creativity Cooperative learning is believed to promote thinking and creativity in many ways (Hythecker, Dansereau, & Rocklin, 1988; Qin, Johnson, & Johnson, 1995; Webb, 1989), including: Compared to a...
... alluded earlier with the MRAP, providing quality training for soldiers in all three of those domains—defeating the device, attacking the network and, in fact, training in this environment—will return ... confidence interval And we have outstanding performance with those plates We are taking another set of plates, doing the same thing And these are going to be brand-new coming off of production line ... are doing and how we are doing it We are doing the same thing with Special Operations Command So, the three commands that are operating and generating new capability all the time, we are sharing...
... ages and are not used in our classification experiments We then pruned the list of interests by excluding any interest that occurred within a +/-10 window (based on its position in the list) in ... Figure 4: Style and Content: Accuracy from 19751988 using BOW, Online Behavior, and LexicalStylistic features online-behavior, lexical-stylistic, and BOW features We found accuracy to increase as ... accuracy of 79.96% and 81.57% for 1979 and 1984 respectively using BOW, interests, online behavior, and all lexical-stylistic features In addition, we show accuracy without interests since they are...
... become the norm in the remaining chapters, Solver is used both in the spreadsheet Advanced Modelling in Finance and automated in a VBA macro By using the array functions in Excel and VBA, we detail ... Advanced Modelling in Finance using Excel and VBA Wiley Finance Series Operational Risk: Measurement and Modelling Jack King Advance Credit Risk Analysis: Financial Approaches and Mathematical ... The following sections explain matrix notation, and describe the operations of transposing, adding, multiplying and inverting matrices The examples illustrating these operations are in the MatDef...
... should keep inflation expectations from declining, preventing a rise in real interest rates and bolstering demand Provision of extraordinary amounts of low-cost financing to financial institutions ... outstanding has been contracting, notwithstanding temporary increases following the announcements of the AMLF and the CPFF (Figure 16) This largely reflects a fall in demand for CP funding since ... (Figures and 9) In the United Kingdom, standards for corporate lending actually loosened slightly in the first half of 2009, but remain tight nonetheless In contrast to these swings, lending standards...
... upregulation of inflammation in this setting [181] Another RAGE ligand, AGE-CML, is present in endoneurial and epineurial mononuclear cells in chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy and vasculitic ... analysis and interpretation of published findings; 2) have been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) have given final approval ... acidic tail and only two AT-hooks HMGN proteins (formerly HMG14 and HMG17) have nucleosomal binding domains HMGB proteins (formerly HMG1 through HMG4) are distinguished by having two DNA-binding boxes...
... vegetative cuttings Capacity building will be via hands on training in both Queensland and Vietnam, development of small scale pilot hedge and containerised nursery infrastructure, and a study tour ... Research institutions relating to Pinus tree improvement and mass propagation systems via training in Queensland and Vietnam, development of small scale hedge and nursery infrastructure, and a study ... relevant Vietnamese institution (RCFTI) 4.3 Training Programs Nursery training (4 participants) involved practical and theoretical training in cuttings propagation techniques, health and hygiene practices,...
... building for Vietnamese Forest Research institutions relating to Pinus tree improvement and mass propagation systems via training in Queensland and Vietnam, development of small scale hedge and ... Review pine genetic resources and related breeding strategies and capabilities / resources in Vietnam, particularly for Pinus caribaea and related hybrids Objective 2: Provide practical training and ... participated in a wide range of capacity building activities covering: pine pollination, pine grafting, seed centre management, pine tissue culture, nursery and hedge management, genetic trials inspections,...
... including hybrids The project will also provide capacity building for forest research institutions relating to Pinus tree improvement and mass propagation systems via training in Queensland and ... Tum Province) and Ngoc Lac (Thanh Hoa Province), however plant shortages and difficulties in negotiating short and long-term in- kind resources prevented these sites being established In the longer ... Province and other Central Highland Provinces, although the growth and form of these plantations is inferior to that observed in natural stands (A3 & A4) Pinus kesiya from both natural forest and...
... Continue to maintain trial sites free from competing weeds and other interference • Periodic assessment and reporting as per responsibilities outlined in this document Table 1: Description of Pinus ... in Queensland and Vietnam, development of small-scale hedge and nursery infrastructure, and a study tour to Australia, involving innovative Vietnamese forest managers and researchers Finally, the ... material, including hybrids The project will also provide capacity building for Vietnamese forest research institutions relating to Pinus tree improvement and mass propagation systems via training in...