quality assurance systems in molecular genetic testing

... model based on principled malrule scoring In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on User Modeling, pages 59– 66, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, January 2-5 UM96, User Modeling, Inc Lisa N Michaud ... Recognizing syntactic errors in the writing of second language learners In Proceedings of the ThirtySixth Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the Seventeenth International ... contents addressed by these errors in an order according to how they fell into the distribution shown in Figure 3, assuming essentially that those errors falling primarily in the low-level group represent...

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... are increasing while death rates for all cancers combined, including the most common cancers (prostate, breast, lung, and colorectal), con- tinue to decline (6) Pancreatic cancer research funding ... recommendations that 18 were made by the Interdisciplinary Pancreatic Can- 19 cer Coordinating Committee for grant funding, in- 20 cluding exception funding, the number of such rec- 21 ommendations ... promoting a cadre of new investiga- tors in the field of pancreatic cancer research; and ‘‘(C) increasing physician and public awareness of pancreatic cancer ‘‘(2) CONSULTATION. In carrying out...

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... of rhinovirus serotypes in human cells in vitro [1921] Administration of soluble ICAM-1 and MAbs in human clinical trials had indeed achieved reduction in symptoms, but did not prevent the incidence ... Rhinovirus infections Human rhinovirus (HRV) causes over 80% of the common cold in the fall [14] Developing vaccines against HRV is unfeasible because HRVs have at least 115 antigenically distinct ... to issues relating to low potency and cost Peptide-based drug candidates are limited by insufficient efficacy and unfavorable pharmacokinetics MAbs have increasingly gained favor in large part...

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... of rhinovirus serotypes in human cells in vitro [1921] Administration of soluble ICAM-1 and MAbs in human clinical trials had indeed achieved reduction in symptoms, but did not prevent the incidence ... Rhinovirus infections Human rhinovirus (HRV) causes over 80% of the common cold in the fall [14] Developing vaccines against HRV is unfeasible because HRVs have at least 115 antigenically distinct ... to issues relating to low potency and cost Peptide-based drug candidates are limited by insufficient efficacy and unfavorable pharmacokinetics MAbs have increasingly gained favor in large part...

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... IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IMS Instructional Management Systems IMS GLC IMS Global Learning Consortium IO/RIO Information Object/Reusable Information Object IT Information ... Adaptive Intelligent- Computer-Assisted Instruction AI-Edu Artificial Intelligent in Education AIWBES Adaptive and Intelligent Web-based Educational System CBT/CAI Computer-Based Training/Computer-Assisted ... Technology ITS Intelligent Tutoring System KG Knowledge Graph LCMS Learning Content Management System LIP IMS Learner Information Package LMS Learning Management System LO/RLO Learning Object/Reusable...

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... within the savings bank group in France Although not independent institutions, they are invariably attached to the savings bank in the region in which they operate In this way, several savings ... shares in the savings companies, which in turn use all the funds obtained in this way to obtain shares in the savings banks As a result, the importance of a savings companies to its savings bank ... association of the savings banks In addition, the savings bank group consists of around 450 local savings companies at its disposal since 1999 These are not involved in the financial business but are...

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... scores (i.e., reached consensus to include/retain) Statements that were dropped were not included in subsequent rounds of ratings The remaining items were included in the next rounds, until a consensus ... (9 in PA for the elderly, in sports management, in quality management and in gerontology), non-PhD academics (1 in PA for the elderly and in sports management) and 21 senior technicians (17 in ... neglect to include any pertinent issues in subsequent rounds of rating However, this study has certain limitations Our results should not be interpreted as representing the views of all experts in the...

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... abnormalities by early surgical intervention without residual defects or minimal after effects In Hungary early surgical intervention has resulted in a complete recovery in some types of congenital ... abnormalities not represent a single pathological entity and therefore there is no single strategy for their prevention Conflict of interest The author has declared that no conflict of interest exists References ... excluded this approach from the term “prevention” In Hungary about 20% of major congenital abnormalities (8.7% in the total group) were terminated after the prenatal diagnosis of defects Tertiary...

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... that the resulting directed graph of preference relationships among the competing objects has no cycle Anyway, maximal (minimal) elements can be defined in the following way: Predefined rules are ... Multilingual System Under Development Computational linquistics 11(2-3): 155169 Krauwer, Steven and des Tombe, Louis 1984 Transfer in a Multilingual Machine Translation System In: Proceedinus ... 1984 On Parsing Preferences In: proceedinqs of COLING84 Stanford, California: 247-250 Shieber, Stuart 1983 Sentence Disambiguation by a Shift-Reduce Parsing Technique In: proceedinqs of IJCAI-8_/3...

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... of unintended pregnancy in the United States, 1994 and 2001 Perspectives in Sexual Reproductive Health, 38, 90-96 Finer, L.B & Zolna, M.R (2011) Unintended pregnancy in the United States: Incidence ... S.F & Lu, M.C (2010) Quality improvement opportunities in preconception and interconception care In March of Dimes Toward improving the outcome of pregnancy, III White Plains, NY: March of Dimes ... best intentions: Unintended pregnancies and wellbeing of children and families Washington, DC: National Academy Press Bukowski, R., Malone, F.D., Porter, F.T., Nyberg, D.A., Comstock, C.H., Hankins,...

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... enriched in the target recombinant protein [22] The distribution of side chains in the sequence, such as occurs in protein folding, plays a pivotal role in determining the conformational properties ... are found in soluble or insoluble cell fractions Interestingly, increasing evidence supports the presence of biologi2422 cally active proteins embedded in IBs, indicating that both folded and ... highly inefficient in vitro unfolding ⁄ refolding and controlled aggregation procedures necessary to obtain proteins in transmissible conformations Therefore, the infectious capacity of prion proteins...

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... for business ethics programs in leading business schools CSR, and sustainability •Highlights leading thinking about ethics in business schools model business ethics program practices In 1993, ... for stakeholders interested in implementing a successful business ethics program Shaping Tomorrow’s Business Leaders  Putting Business into Ethics The Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate ... reports analyzing business school rankings data, media groups, society, and business Some of the leading viewpoints are described herein Figure Selected perspectives in thinking on business ethics...

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... (2007) A meeting browser that learns In In: Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Interaction Challenges for Intelligent Assistants [Eisenstein and Barzilay, 2008] Eisenstein, J and Barzilay, ... segmentation In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of Emperical Methods in Natural Language Processing [Eisenstein et al., 2010] Eisenstein, ... S., and Blei, D M (2009) Reading tea leaves: How humans interpret topic models In Neural Information Processing Systems [Du et al., 2010] Du, L., Buntine, W., and Jin, H (2010) Sequential latent...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 18:20

... meets (default), starts, during /in, contains/dom, equals, ends, and some inverse relations The following examples give an idea of how individual query tokens can be combined by means of relation ... annotation information They can be queried by means of string matching and by means of attribute-value combinations A markable query token has the form string/conditions where string is an optional ... used to AND-connect several conditions relating to different attributes Obtained from the LDC and converted into MMAX2 format, preserving all original information The first letter of the participant...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22

... relevant elements and in assigning values to their attributes Using the route model, some elements missing in the text can be inferred For example, since every route segment contains one relay (which ... beginning of a way-landmark, e.g a street, respectively) Another aspect of modeling consists in specifying graphic objects corresponding to the entities in the route model For the time being, ... of the described element being possible to express in this mode Such transcription constraints, once defined and analyzed, should be taken into account in order to obtain a "faithful" graphic representation...

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... yearling in pair (0 – 0·25), yearling in group (0–3·75), older female in pair (0 – 4), older females in group (0–3) Sample sizes are 38 yearlings in pairs and 24 in groups, and 33 older females in ... breeding in groups, reflecting the lower survival of older females in groups None the less, in each case, females always better if breeding in groups rather than pairs as yearlings Breeding in a ... yearling, but otherwise in groups, would result in 6·0 fledglings in a lifetime (29% lower than the 8·4 for groups alone); breeding in group as a yearling, but otherwise in pairs, would result in...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 16:20

... 450 nm in length Viewing viruses     Special stains and an electron microscope Negative staining outlines the shape Positive staining shows internal details Shadowcasting technique Figure ... the host cell membrane in the form of an envelope  In the envelope, some or all of the regular membrane proteins are replaced with viral proteins  Some proteins form a binding layer between the ... particles, either active or inactive Obligate intracellular parasites Cannot multiply unless they invade a specific host cell and instruct its genetic and metabolic machinery to make and release...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 12:58

... 102 involved in subunit interactions Introducing a large, negatively charged amino acid at this position would probably change the positions of some of these side chains, thereby weakening interactions ... Hamuro Y & Kossiakoff AA (2006) The role of protein dynamics in increasing binding affinity for an engi- 28 29 30 31 32 neered protein–protein interaction established by H ⁄ D exchange mass spectrometry ... decrease subunit interactions? Glycine 376 is in a small loop: residues 373–381 This loop includes glutamate 379, whose side chain is hydrogen bonded to the side chain of asparagine 410 in the other...

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... N-terminal sequence of N-myristoylated proteins having Lys residue at position Amino acids at positions 3, and are in bold type Protein Ca2+ binding/EF hand proteins Aplycalcin Hippocalcin Neurocalcin ... demonstrates again that the specific interaction between an amino acid at a distinct position in the substrate protein and elements in the enzyme’s peptide-binding site will induce changes in the structure ... reside in these three distinct positions, or favorable amino acid combinations in these positions are not yet well characterized In a previous report, we showed that metabolic labeling in an in vitro...

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