... the International AIDS SocietyOpen AccessResearch Variables that influence HIV-1 cerebrospinal fluid viral load in cryptococcal meningitis: a linear regression analysis Diego M Cecchini*1, ... Hoepelman AI: Cytokine Profiles in Cerebros-pinal Fluid of Human Immunodeficiency Virus-InfectedPatients with Cryptococcal Meningitis: No Leukocytosisdespite High Interleukin-8 Levels. J Infect Dis ... replication in addition to pro-moting an inflammatory response in the CNS. However, in the clinical setting of our investigation, no correlationwas found between CCPA titer and CSF HIV-1 viral loadin...
... described as brevinin 1HS,esculentin 1S, esculentin 2S, odorranin C7HSa andodorranin PB.Antimicrobial activity of nigrocin-related peptidesThe minimum inhibitory concentrations obtained foreach ... each peptide against both test organismswere assessed by incubating peptides in nutrient brothfollowing inoculation with 50 lL of overnight standardcultures (containing 104CFU) into 96-well ... feature of nigrocin-2peptides is reminiscent of the glycine ⁄ leucine-richdermaseptin orthologues from the skins of neotropicalphyllomedusine leaf frogs, named plasticins [30].Nigrocin-2 peptides...
... offronto-parietal networks by incrementing demand in a work-ing memory task. Cereb Cortex 1997, 7:465-471.35. Klingberg T: Limitations in information processing in thehuman brain: neuroimaging of dual task ... that occupying these areas with concurrent cognitiveprocessing (dual-tasking) may result in a brain resourcelimitation that affects gait in people with MCI.Strengths of our study include the ... reliableunder single and dual-task conditions. In line with previ-ous studies conducted in elderly with normal cognition,variability of time-related gait parameters increased whiledual-tasking in our...
... index. In the current study, the aim was to takethese clinical measures in combination in a single modelto predict the EQ-5D index. In this case, disease severitywas taken into account using ... angina, where a model mapping clini-cal measures on to the EQ-5D index explained 37% of thevariability in the EQ-5D index and also performed poorly in individuals with EQ-5D index values of about ... theestimation dataset are described in Tables 5 and 6. Therewere 1106 records in the estimation data with non-miss-ing covariates in the final model. The variablesin the basemodel - age, sex and...
... Electronics and Information Engineering, Beijing JiaotongUniversity, Beijing 100044, PR China2TEDA College, Nankai University, Tianjin300457, PR China3School of Computer Engineering, Nanyang ... falls withinC(O2)is surely a one-hop neighborof O2.WhenthatpartfallswithinA(O2),ithasacorresponding probability plthat it has a direct link with O2. Then Pr(dS) can be determined ... fall withinA(O2).ThenwecanobtainPr(dS) by (3).ã If d-aR ≤ r<d+aR, dS will cover bothC(O2)andA(O2). In this case, we can determine Pr(dS) by (6).2.2.3 O1falls within...
... distances. The remaining distance is the distancebetween a chosen next hop and a destination. Round-robinscheduling maintains per-flow queues. The flow can be iden-tified by a source and destination pair. ... priority index.output, priority index, is shown in the Figure 2. Here, theprocess is considered as multiple input and single output(MISO) system.The linguistic terms associated with the input ... formed. In ODMRP, as the num-ber of receivers increases, the number of forwarding groupnodes increases; this in turn increases the connectivity. With these results, the fuzzy scheduler is inserted...
... varying α(second row). In the first row n = 9 is seen in solid line,n = 25 in dashes and n = 49 in dots. The second row depictsthe situations α =−1 in solid line, α =−3 in dashes andα =−5 in ... G0Amodel, our mainobject of interest. Section 3 recalls the main algorithms in- volved in ML inference for the G0Amodel, with special em-phasis on their availability in the Ox platform. ... paper deals with numerical problems arising when performing maximum likelihood parameter estimation in speckled im-agery using small samples. The noise that appears in images obtained with coherent...
... (Wirtinger angles are constant along M) in the first case,which is very different from cases in Kăahler geometry.1. Introduction and Main TheoremWirtinger angles in contact geometry are something ... rearrangingindices in the last term and using (2.10) again we see that this term is equal ton sin θ cos θ. Similarlyα,kB(∇ekeα,eα),e3n+k = −n sin θ cos θ.Therefore(3.10) = 2 sin ... positive integern, M is either an invariant or an anti-invariant submanifoldofN if c>−3, and the common Wirtinger angle must be constant if c = −3.Moreover, without assuming it being closed,...
... scores, with the remain-ing 75% having scores greater than 1 (Table 1). No signif-icant differences were observed in body weight gain in treated mice during the study (data not shown), indicatingthat ... of diacerein in acute inflammatory modelssuch as carrageenin, zymosan, and dextran induced pawedema, as well as in adjuvant induced arthritis in rats. In addition to its anti-inflammatory effects, ... pathology in the Tg197 transgenic murinemodel of RA, in which inflammatory polyarthritis is clinicallydetectable at 4 weeks of age, with swelling and deforma-tion of the ankle joints. Daily administration...
... 1–4, weak staining; 5–8, moderate staining;and 9–12, strong staining. For the purpose of statistical analysis, the cohort was grouped into tumors with negli-gible or weak staining (N = 34) ... associated with increased acute and longterm morbidities [1,2]. Increasing effort has been directedtoward developing molecular targeted therapies for thetreatment of NPC with increasing interest in ... examples. A: Negative staining for COX-2 ì200. B: Weak staining for COX-2 ×200. C: Moderate staining for COX-2 ×200. D: Strong staining for COX-2 ì200. Publish with BioMed Central and every...
... 4Meta -analysis examining adjuvant radiotherapy in DCIS for patients with breast cancer: ipsilateral invasive breast cancer recur-rence.Meta -analysis examining adjuvant radiotherapy in DCIS ... recur-rence.Meta -analysis examining adjuvant radiotherapy in DCIS for patients with breast cancer: ipsilateral invasive breast cancer recur-renceFigure 3Meta -analysis examining adjuvant radiotherapy in DCIS ... local recurrence,invasive or intraductal. Histologically negative surgicalmargins were required in both groups, although inking ofmargins was not required, and a margin could be inter-preted...
... explored using logistic regression analysis – effects on risk being estimated by odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Since women could havemore than one pregnancy in the analysis, ... thus giv-ing a crude SLE prevalence of approximately 219 per 100,000 in females in Trinidad.Health services in Trinidad are mainly public sector with someprivate hospitals and clinics. Primary ... nonresponse in relation to obtain-ing the household listing or in relation to selecting suitablecontrol individuals were documented. Crude socioeconomicdata on status of nonresponders were compared with...
... sexually, with arthritis occurring within 4weeks of an urogenital infection (Table 1). UA was defined asa monoarthritis or oligoarthritis occurring without evidence ofa predisposing infection in ... USA), in accordance with the manufacturer's instructions. 16S rDNA-containing clones were grown in Nunc microtiter plates con-taining 150 μl of 2 × Luria-Bertani medium supplemented with 10% ... spondyloarthropathy, suggest-ing an infectious origin of this syndrome [37,38]. Our findingsalso suggest that this organism can access the joints.ReA-related genitourinary bacterial species, including chlamy-dial...
... [13], offspring with complete and incomplete marker information on paternal marker alleletransmission were included in the analysis. Inclusion of offspring with incom-plete ... additive QTL in the markerinterval when interference is complete and when there are no QTL in adjoiningmarker intervals (isolated QTL). Without complete interference, however, ... somebias is introduced.Whittaker et al. [13] showed that the information contained in the regression coefficients on flanking markers in F2 and back-cross designs is in fact...
... structure 383 In the 2 link sires design, 2 males per flock contributed to connectedness bybetween-flock mating, the other mating being within flocks. In the 1 link siredesign, between-flock mating concerned ... et al.is intermediate between the previous two. Therefore, in this case, the within-family variance was computed by combining both within- and between-flockgenetic variances according to the ... offspring stayed in their dam’s flock, so connections, when occurring, were only ensured by linksires. By and large, a part of the males and females were randomly matedwithin-flock (within-flock...