... Library of Medicine, was used to ascertain pertinent articles between the years 1990 and 2004 The use of keywords "obesity", "body mass index", "BMI" and "low back pain" was used to obtain relevant ... access to the U.S National Library of Medicine's MEDLINE or http://www.chiroandosteo.com/content/13/1/2 Table 1: Steps to asking the answerable question using EBP principles Step 1: Asking an answerable ... appeared to conclude what was already intuitively thought about low back pain and increased weight Body mass index Before an in-depth discussion of low back pain and obesity can ensue, the concept of...
... type of the database column If you don't know the type of a column, you can get it using Visual Studio NET's Server Explorer For example, Figure 9.1 shows the details of the ProductID column of ... Chef Anton's Cajun Seasoning unitPrice = 22 unitsInStock = 53 discontinued = False productID = productName = Chef Anton's Gumbo Mix unitPrice = 21.35 unitsInStock = discontinued = True Using ... Using the GetSql* Methods to Read Column Values In addition tousing the Get* methods to read column values as standard C# types, if you are using SQL Server, you can also use the GetSql* methods...
... how to use some of the methods shown in Table 9.7 AnExampleofUsing the GetSql* Methods Let's take a look at anexample that reads the ProductID, ProductName, UnitPrice, UnitsInStock, and Discontinued ... StronglyTypedColumnValuesSql.cs illustrates how to read column values as Sql* types using the GetSql* methods */ using System; using System.Data; using System.Data.SqlClient; using System.Data.SqlTypes; class StronglyTypedColumnValuesSql ... "server=localhost;database=Northwind;uid=sa;pwd=sa" ); SqlCommand mySqlCommand = mySqlConnection.CreateCommand(); mySqlCommand.CommandText = "SELECT TOP ProductID, ProductName, UnitPrice, " + "UnitsInStock, Discontinued...
... temperature A number of studies addressing plant and animal phenophases (recurrence of annual phenomena such as plant budding) have been performed Polar areas or areas of colder climates seem to be particularly ... Switzerland indicate that birch pollen appears weeks and ash pollen week earlier than 20 years previously.51 Researchers using a climate change model based on predicted meteorologic changes and past ... Oswalt and Marshall, Ragweed asanExampleof Worldwide Allergen Expansion tricolporate, with a spiny, granular surface.13 It tends to grow in large numbers, and a single plant can release about...
... patients with diabetes and other chronic comorbid conditions; and 5) advancing clinically-meaningful quality/performance measurement asan important tool for promoting and assessing quality improvement ... the research team was encouraging changes based on the evidence and an antic- Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Implementation Science 2008, 3:18 ipated changeto every-other-year ... has been shown that improvements in rates of adult immunization and cancer screening are most likely to occur through organizational changes in staffing and clinical processes [33] These changes...
... in poor areas of the cities has led to the formation ofan informal waste management sector The cities’ poor, who see waste rather as a potential source of income rather than as waste, take over ... to rising amounts of waste the waste management systems have to deal with Due to limited financial resources and organisational constraints the ability of the formal waste management system to ... avoidance mechanisms lead to the weakening of state institutions and the rule of law and further an informalisation of vast sectors of economic life The state’s logical reaction is to try to re-establish...
... blotted onto nitrocellulose membranes, and immunostained using antiHsp105 or anti-Hsp70 Ig (upper panels) Bands were quantified by densitometry, and relative levels of Hsp105a or Hsp70 are shown as ratios ... such as Hsp105a and Hsp70 in various mammalian cells Enhancement of thermoresistance of cells by SA Upon exposure to a sublethal heat treatment, mammalian cells acquire transient resistance to ... of SA seemed to be required for the induction of the transcription of hsp genes and the accumulation of Hsp in mammalian cells HSF is a transcription factor which is converted to a trimeric and...
... intrusion from sea to land Japan would not be proud "to have the spring cherry blossom", because climate change is causing any warm season Kyoto Protocol allows countries to exchange emissions ... Audit Assignment: Calculate the energy efficiency Topic 3: Recycling and Reuse Assignment: Calculate the volume of wastes and to propose the ability to recycle and reuse waste in the factory Topic ... Definitions Teaching problem- basedlearning (PBL: Problembased learning) is an overall approach to education, at both angles curriculum learning process: curriculum includes selected issues and carefully...
... plasmid construct was verified by sequencing Establishment of stable transfectants and the luciferase assay An aliquot of 0.4 lg of each plasmid was transfected into · 105 HeLa cells with lipofectamine2000 ... (luciferase) was secreted into the culture medium A 50 lL aliquot of culture medium from each transfectant was used to measure luciferase activity The luciferase activity was measured using the ... Metridia luciferase); TB, transcriptional blocker; KanR ⁄ NeoR, kanamycin and neomycin resistance gene (B) Luciferase activity of vector transfectants HeLa cells were transiently transfected with...
... is organized as follows First, a set of EORTC QLQ-C30 component items developed to assess the quality of life of cancer patients [11] was given to 115 patients who were diagnosed with nasopharyngeal ... designed and performed the statistical analysis and wrote the manuscript TW, SJ,WW and LF contributed to the development of the study design and advised on the performance of the statistical analysis ... groups of interest, particularly on misfit responses Strengths of the study Most data analysis of quality -of- life questionnaires is based on classic test theory (CTT) In recent years, CTT has been...
... proton wire mechanism, and has been shown to be subject toan isotope effect [8] Theory and Discussion Deuteronation of ATP synthase There is a pKa difference of 0.35 (difference between pH and ... cytoplasmic half-channel H+ H+ H+ mitochondrial intermembrane space H+ H+ Figure Proton/deuteron passage from F0 of ATP synthase in mitochondria Proton/deuteron passage from F0 of ATP synthase ... part of the "rotor" In E coli, there is an aspartic acid residue in the middle of the second helix of subunit c Subunit a of F0 binds to the outside of the rotor and forms part of the "stator"...
... Nunan and Lamb (1996: 142) as any classroom activity in which students perform collaborative tasks with one or more partners It has been considered one of the major changes to the dynamics of ... think, speak and act while working together It also helps members listen to other ideas and to brainstorm to make decisions in doing something, adjust to living and working together and promote ... cooperative learning, and cooperative learning structures, the benefits of cooperative learning, etc as background knowledge to plan the activities and materials were a good way to enhance students to...
... develop problem- solving skills” 1.1.2 The problem - success factors of problem- basedlearning 1.1.2.1 Concept of the problem: The problem is the basic structure unit and an important factor in ... Chapter THEORETICAL AND PRACTICE BASES OFPROBLEMBASEDLEARNING 1.1 Concept of Problem- BasedLearning 1.1.1 Some basic terminologies The terminologies asproblem posing instruction, problem solving ... develop problem- solving skills” 1.1.2 The problem - success factors of problem- basedlearning 1.1.2.1 Concept of the problem: The problem is the basic structure unit and an important factor in...
... prosperity of internal commerce, to the residence of inhabitants of means, and to the wealth of strangers Finance is the pivot on which turns the administration of affairs The least disturbance imposes ... houses, and filth collected at the back of them were a constant source of nuisance and disease Never was a measure voted with so much unanimity and general satisfaction as the removal of this ... wealth and prosperity of society, to take from it its hard cash and to give it in exchange rags of paper What incentive can they offer to persuade the public to give up to them valuable bills...
... Arabia, as well as their relations with the US and members of the European Union NB - COUNT and SVM - NORMF for perspective classification; Pang et al (2002) consider most and Yu et al (2008) all of ... classification due to the explicit reference to the upcoming vote 255 observed that boolean features are reliably better than count -based features, as reported for the sentiment classification task ... related tasks of movie review and political party classification We use SVMlight (Joachims, 1999) for SVM and WEKA toolkit (Witten and Frank, 2005; Hall et al., 2009) for both version of Naive...
... Isolation of anti-Cn2 scFv by panning of phage-antibody repertories The library of human scFv was displayed on filamentous phage and used for the selection of antibodies against Cn2 toxin Biopanning was ... ratio of toxin -to- antibody fragment Two LD50 of whole venom were also tested using the same quantity of antibody as the one used to neutralize LD50 of toxin All the mice injected with the antibody ... neutralizing variant named 6009F It was able to neutralize LD50 of toxin Cn2 and LD50 of whole venom Mutant 6009F was obtained after performing some modifications to the standard procedures of biopanning,...
... Donald, D Campbell, Towards experimental verification ofan automated compliant motion planner based on a geometric theoryof error detection and recovery, in: Proceedings of the IEEE International ... success of a simple position -based plan Contact between parts has to be monitored, and different actions are needed to perform a correct insertion Other approaches have tried to build a plan by ... the problemof target reaching by using visual information 2.2 Motivation Approaches based on geometric models are far from being satisfactory: most of them are restricted to planar problems, and...
... ˛ Anexampleof peptide splicing Table Association constants (Ka) of SFTI-1 analogues based on the double-sequence of SFTI-1 Ch and T in parenthesis indicate that the inhibitory activity was ... solution and gas phase binding of the complexes was not straightforward There was a notoceable difference in the strength of the complexes formed in the aqueous and gas phase, whereas their stoichiometry ... inhibitory activity that was at least one order of magnitude higher On the basis of these results, it can be assumed that compounds and inhibit two proteinases independently and simultaneously...