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... heavily on the use of mapping to estimate the cost-effectiveness of a number of interventions concerned with the care and management of osteoarthritis in adults [44] Further justification for the ... Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:51 http://www.hqlo.com/content/6/1/51 Figure Comparison of the actual EQ-5D scores and the prediction errors of Model E Comparison of the actual EQ-5D scores and the ... underestimated the mean QALY gain associated with the four compared interventions The ICER of each of the four interventions, based on actual data, also differed from that based on our preferred...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... message, the receiver synchronizes to the beginning of the sig nal of this user. We refer to the user to which the receiver is synchronized as the reference user, and the beginning of the signal of the ... 7–9 where the performances of the later users with one iteration are almost the same as that of the synchronous systems. Note that this fact holds even when the erroneous detections of the signals ... moves on to detect the signals for the second user. When the mth user is considered, the signals of the first m −1 users in the first iteration have been obtained. These signals are used to reconstruct...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 09:20

... assumption is that the knowledge of instantaneous channel information can be available at the BS only through the feedback from users. The drawbacks of the feedback approach are the reduction of the ... probability of SLR as performance metrics which are based on the concept of leakage power [7, 8]. In particular, the novelty of our work lies on the facts that we first derive an approximation of the ... criteria. In contrast to [7], we consider that the BS has only the knowledge of the second-order statistics such as the covariance matrix of the downlink user- channels. The motivation behind this...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... Modification of motion vectors distribution after the application of the waterscrambling (a) Distribution of the x component (right) and y component (left) of the original motion vectors (b) Modification ... the manipulation of the degree of video degradation: the higher the value of α, the higher the degree of video degradation We have also conducted some experiments on many sequences to check the ... decompression scheme The goal of this procedure first consists of extracting the waterscrambled motion vectors, and secondly in dewaterscrambling them to allow the visualization of the original video onto...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 01:20

... use. The names of the sequences consist of four parts: the abbreviation of the spe- cies' systematic name; the abbreviation of the protein; the class designation; and the variant designation. ... (see previousthe evolution of myosin diversity Schematic drawing of the evolution of myosin diversity The tree has been constructed based on the combination of the phylogenetic... ... Abbreviation of the protein The abbreviation of the protein is Myo. In the case of the class-II myosins, the abbreviations Mhc and Mys are used in the literature. As class-II comprises by far the most...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... appeared with the introgression of Mongolian i nto the huge and extensive area to the north of China [6,7,15]. These breeds gradually adapted to the l ocal environmental conditions and expanded ... results in consistent and rapid loss of genetic diversity b y d ilution of the autochthonous genetic makeup. The existence of genetic polymorphism or diversity in a population is the basis of genetic ... locus. The fixation indices at the 12 loci in the eight breeds were very low with a mean of 0.006. A principal components analysis and the construction of a neighbor- joining tree showed that these...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... company, or the number of production units expected to be obtained from the asset In the case of concession assets that revert, the useful life is the shorter of the concession period and the economic ... amount) of the cash flows of the asset received differs from the configuration of the cash flows of the asset transferred; or b) The present value of the post-tax cash flows from the activities of the ... during the production, construction or manufacturing period, they are based on the level of usage of normal production capacity, and are required to bring the asset into operating condition The...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... 10 kb corresponds to the interval with the highest clone coverage (b) Size distribution of gains (insertions and duplications) highlighting the detection range of each methodology The split-read ... (25.9%) of the Venter variants overlapped variants described in one or more of the other six studies Upon examining the size distribution of variants from different studies, particularly the size of ... deletions, and green bars represent inversions Additional file 19 A non-redundant set of Venter insertions and duplications Additional file 20 A non-redundant set of Venter deletions Additional...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:22

... fontanel, loss of sensation only observed in very few patients (1-2 patient) among the group infected with Banna virus Among them, seizures, myalgia, bulging fontanel and loss of sensation only ... and the migration of these birds enables the virus to spread to other areas Mosquito has been confirmed as Banna virus transmission vector in a number of Asian countries from isolation results of ... patients with AES excluding other viral-caused AES On the other hand, due to ecological characteristics of different regions, cases of AES mainly recorded in the Northern region of Vietnam Comparing...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 11:36

... French) on the back of the card and relied more on the Page 11 of 14 images on the front of the card to conduct sessions This is not surprising since not all lay nurse aides had strong literacy ... experience in operationalizing six of the 22 recommendations according to the scope and the experimental nature of the study The guidelines emphasize consultation and engagement of stakeholders prior ... indicators on quality of communication provided to women counseled by nurse-midwives as compared to lay nurse aides The determination of the margin of non-inferiority was based on what was considered...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... at the +2 plays an important role in reordering the structure of the region of the C-terminal lobe that interacts with these substrates In the absence of the phosphate group, the side chain of ... PDB code 2QO9); the juxtamembrane region is mostly disordered, concomitant with a greater degree of order found in the activation loop (AL) region (Fig 2A) The orientation of the Tyr742:Ser768 ... especially the b1–b2 loop (G loop) and aC regions Crystallization of the complex between the EphA3 kinase domain and the EPHOPT peptide did not result in the full ordering of the AL; instead, the N-terminal...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 02:20

... bond is in the cis conformation Therefore, the isomerization reaction of this peptide bond catalyzed by PPIases was measured by monitoring the change in the concentration of p-nitroaniline The ... reaction temperature for prior to the addition of chymotrypsin The reaction was initiated by the addition of 30 lL of 0.76 mM chymotrypsin In the presence of such a high concentration of protease, ... Furthermore, at the core of the dimerization domain, two methionine residues (Met38 and Met42) located in the a2 helix of one monomer make hydrophobic interactions with those of the other monomer...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 16:20

... Selection Criteria, contains a list of the patient conditions that the author is using to specify the selection of pieces of text The right-hand portion of the screen contains a window on the text of ... discuss the nature of these ‘repairs’ in Section below Because the repairs take place upon the abstract representation, and are guided by the additional information that it contains, the process ... convert to the corresponding surface form This permits expression of the content of the document These basic SPL structures are augmented with information for selection and repair An example of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:21

... changed the dielectric constant of the active site, the deletion of the hydrogen bond between R97 and E399 is probably a major cause of the shift in the pKa of E399 Therefore, R97 facilitates the ionization ... dielectric constant of the active site, although the deletion of the hydrogen bond between Y331 and E399 is probably a major component of that pKa increment Based on the DpKa of E399 between the wildtype ... hydrogen bonds with the side chain of E399 The hydrogen bond between R97 and E399 probably has a strong electrostatic component However, determination of the relative contribution of each component...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 15:21

... explanation of: The purpose and scope of the ISA, including how the ISA relates to other ISAs • The subject matter of the ISA • The respective responsibilities of the auditor and others in relation ... considerations assist in the application of the requirements of the ISA in the audit of such entities They not, however, limit or reduce the responsibility of the auditor to apply and comply with the ... enable the auditor to achieve the objectives specified in the ISAs, and thereby the overall objectives of the auditor The proper application of the requirements of the ISAs by the auditor is therefore...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... and Theorem O2 has strong convergence, but imposed condition lim infn→∞ d xn , F In 2005, Chidume and Shahzad also proved the strong convergence of the implicit iteration process 1.5 to a common ... arbitrarily, let the sequence {xn } be defined by 1.9 Then {xn } converges strongly to a common fixed point p of the mappings {Ti }N1 , where p Q f is the unique i solution of the following variational inequality: ... finite family of nonexpansive mappings They gave the following theorem Theorem CS Let E be a uniformly convex Banach space, let C be a nonempty closed convex subset of E Let {Ti }N1 be N nonexpansive...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... n−1 Proof The left-hand side of the equation in the lemma is the number of skew-merged permutations with at least one white point These permutations are exactly those which are the union of an ... the other statements follow by symmetry
To complete the proof of Theorem we have Lemma The white points of a permutation are either increasing or decreasing Proof From the definitions of red, ... justify the other relations
These lemmas have proved that the disposition of the red, blue, green, and yellow points in the graph of a skew-merged permutation σ is as given in Theorem The next...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 06:22