... University of Chinese Medicine), Ministry of Education, Harbin China Introduction The long-term clinical practice of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) confirms its importance and essential role in the ... thousand years, is a complete ancient medical system that takes a deep understanding of the laws and patterns of nature and applies them Recent Advances in Theories and Practice of Chinese Medicine ... diagnosis in Chinese medicine were developed and tested in the last few decades and are promising tools in the clinical environment This chapter introduces the traditional methods of diagnosis in Chinese...
... making in- roads into traditional investment casting applications and also in novel materials production 10 Recent Trends in Processing and Degradation of Aluminium Alloys Fig Cross-section of ... appearance of volumetric shrinkage defect in an aluminium section 3.4 Pouring defects During pouring of the melt, there is considerable splashing and sloshing about of the melt This entrains significant ... structural integrity of the components The demand on quality and integrity of welding is increasing on military and commercial aircraft This includes improved toughness, lower weight and increased...
... questions of strain localization due to the formation and development of slip lines and slip bands as well as shear banding and twinning processes In the last decade the methods of intensive strain ... been identified and discussed In the light of a continually emerging understanding of alloy microstructure some general principles of inhibitor design and incorporation into paints systems have ... investigation of heat treating, quenching, and aging practices, and they are applied principally to alloys containing copper, magnesium, or zinc By measuring the potentials of grain boundaries and grain...
... detection of inflammatory and destructive changesin finger and toe joints, tendons, and entheses in patients with PsA by comparison with MRI, x-ray, and clinical findings Materials and methods ... determine the presence or absence of swelling and/ or tenderness of the finger and MTP joints (in all 34 joints per person) One patient with PsA had had joint replacement in MCP joints and total ... radial and ulnar side of the 2nd and 3rd PIP joints and the 5th MCP joints and at the medial side of 1st MTP joints In the finger joints, the size of the bone cortex defect was below 12 mm; in the...
... in the protein profiles of both organs In order to obtain further information, in this work we investigated protein accumulation changes induced by nitrate in both roots and leaves of Zea mays ... sucrose and chlorophyll content Total proteins, amino acids, reducing sugars, sucrose and chlorophyll content Time course of the changesin the content of total proteins, amino acids, reducing sugars ... sugars and sucrose in roots (A, C, E and G) and leaves (B, D, F, and H) and chlorophyll content in leaves (I) of Zea mays plants, previously grown in the absence of nitrogen for 17 days (T0) and incubated...
... areas of diseases as shown by Staubach et al (1998) in case of Echinococcus multilocularis in foxes Description of the sources of the data used in the GIS in the field of veterinary epidemiology in ... obvious and as a by-product of introduction of GIS, the system of collecting, storing and managing data can be improved Last but not least, keep in mind: The maps will never be better than the original ... The structure of a Geographical Information System models of the real world using points, lines and polygons Vector digitising captures a point as a x, y co-ordinate, while a line is captured...
... emergency in four regions of China: Beijing, Shandong, Guangxi, and Hainan BMC Public Health 2008, 8(1):319 15 UNICEF, Myanmar: Finding ofMonitoring from Health Center NOV-DEC 2008 in Cyclone Nargis ... Nargis in March 2009 (15 cases); according to EWAR reports following Cyclone Nargis Increasing incidence of diarrhea coincided with deterioration in population sanitary latrine coverage in study ... latrine coverage was increased from 78% in 2007 to 82% in 2009 in urban areas and from 67% to 71% in rural areas (see Table 4), however, coverage declined to 62% in urban areas and to 48% in rural...
... increase in ovary mass and shell gland mass between ages and years, while significant increases in all of the measured reproductive parameters in females occurred between and 11 years of age and ... precision and quality control in age determination, including a review of the use and abuse of age validation methods Journal of Fish Biology 59:197–242 Carlson, J K., and I E Baremore 2003 Changesin ... Bulletin of Marine Science 66:775– 798 GROWTH AND MATURITY OF BARNDOOR SKATE Muth, K M., and D R Wolfert 1986 Changesin growth and maturity of Walleyes associated with stock rehabilitation in...
... 2.3.3.2 Determination of oxidative markers in liver 48 2.3.4 Cryo-sectioning 50 2.3.5 Hematoxylin and Eosin staining 51 2.3.6 Oil red staining 52 2.3.7 Sirius red staining 52 2.3.8 Ferrozine assay ... of hemoglobin, myoglobin, and cytochromes Fe2+ (as in ferrous heme) can bind to oxygen and therefore serves as carrier of oxygen (as in hemoglobin, the main transporter of oxygen in our body) ... et al., 2008) Besides participating in synthesis of hemoglobin and other iron-containing proteins, the excess iron is stored in a protein called ferritin to minimize its toxicity yet keep it...
... for binding to proteins containing LXCXE motifs while the pocket-domain and the C-domain are involved in binding E2F proteins Mdm2 (as well as c-Abl) binds to the C-domain All pocket proteins ... expression of an E2F variant containing the DNA binding motif but not the pRb-binding or transactivation domain or introduction of a competitor plasmid containing multiple E2F binding sites, preventing ... for the loss of pRb, was shown in a series ofin vitro andin vivo experiments showing that in the absence of pRb, p107 and p130 confer tumor suppressor function through binding of “activator”...
... °C in Fig 9, and not shown here to avoid redundancy) In spite of the lack of overall sequence identity, a common PLP-binding motif consisting of clusters of conserved residues is present in decarboxylases ... representation of one monomer in white The predicted interface between monomers is shown in red The active site residues, K308 and H197, are shown in blue W and Y residues are depicted in green In (A) and ... long the enamine remains in the active site and its rate of attack on the aldimine bond, and can be modified by slight differences in the position of the residues [41] As covalent binding was proposed...
... of protein) or cytosolic (90 lg of protein) preparations were loaded onto an SDS/polyacrylamide gel Gels were then incubated in a medium containing tetrametylbenzidine in 10% isopropanol and 7% ... Matrix proteins release assay For the assay of the in vitro release of matrix proteins, mitochondria (10 mg proteinÆmL)1) were suspended in the swelling medium, above reported, and incubated at ... matrix proteins into the external medium Incubation of rat liver mitochondria, isolated at 24 h after PH, at 25 °C for in the swelling medium, resulted in an increased and nonspecific release of mitochondrial...
... Electrical and Computer Engineering National University of Singapore Engineering Drive Singapore 117576 Singapore Professor I Yamamoto Department of Mechanical Systems and Environmental Engineering ... University Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 Canada Professor T.H Lee Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering National University of Singapore Engineering Drive Singapore 117576 Singapore Professor ... Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Advances in Industrial Control Series Editors Professor Michael J Grimble, Professor of Industrial Systems and Director Professor...
... the district level in these districts [5] Increasing the proportion of healthcare providers who are PNS has the effect of increasing the cost of salaries and benefits (including their own health ... the total number of health staff has increased There was a small increase in the number of healthcare staff in full-time private practice and the proportion of the total remained virtually unchanged ... facilities, sector performance, and the direction in which the sector is heading Clearly any increase in the number of staff also increases the salary bill, already running at 40% of all public expenditure...
... community-dwelling older adults and those living in long-term care settings Conclusion The self-report of seasonal changesin mood and behavior andof poor illumination indoors seem to be relevant indicators ... having the intensity of fitness training The intensity of seasonal changesin mood and behavior has a negative effect on the HRQoL that was second to the intensity of depressive symptoms only and ... and the degree of these seasonal changes similar to that of winter blues yields the odds ratio of 2.97 for suffering from mental ill-being to a marked extent Of the seasonal changesin mood and...
... linearly Page of transformed to give standard scores in the range of 0-100 for each of the functioning and symptom scales Higher scores in the global and functioning scales and lower scores in ... ability to fulfill the activities of daily life justifying its use in clinical trials investigating new drugs or novel combinations of agents Clinical practitioners and investigators need to know what ... give informed consent or were unable to understand or cooperate with study conditions A trained clinical coordinator was responsible for determining eligibility, describing the study, and obtaining...
... resulting in partially collapsed cells and a loss of turgor This kind of bacterial-induced softening was observed in control samples but was inhibited by chitosan and CGC coating treatments The maintenance ... end of the storage Tao, Zhang, Yu, and Sun (2006) have reported an increase in SSC in button mushrooms stored at ± °C and 75% RH The effect of chitosan in reducing the increase in SSC during ... loss in CGC coated mushrooms contributed to maintaining better quality of mushroom during cold storage 3.3 Effect of CGC coating on texture The texture of shiitake mushroom is often the first of...
... that lives in semi-arid regions and on degraded soils Q ilex subsp ballota is the dominant tree in a large part of the inner Iberian Peninsula, supporting both low winter temperatures and summer ... seedlings had mature leaves, and ended in October 2002 Two independent trials were carried out, one with three contrasting levels of watering and the other with three levels of fertilization In ... failed to increase DMplant in all species, although DMstem of Q faginea was higher in MF and HF than in LF (Tab I, Fig 4) However, fertilization reduced C/N of Figure Final leaf, stem, root and whole-plant...
... of RA disease activity in daily clinical practice in a similar way to randomized clinical trials Disappointingly, we could not observe the amazing halt of radiological progression described in ... andand evolution of combination therapies (a) Percentage of patients treated with each of the different systemic treatments, by year of follow-up (b) Evolution of combination therapies used in ... 1.125 (interquartile range = 0.50 to 1.875) in 2000 to 1.25 (interquartile range = 0.50 to 1.875) in 2004 The median Larsen score in hands was 48 (interquartile range = 34 to 71) in 2000, and increased...