sensitivity of impact estimates to alternative model specification using various sample sets for student content knowledge in economics spring 2008 student cohort

Báo cáo khoa học: Increased sensitivity of glycogen synthesis to phosphorylase-a and impaired expression of the glycogen-targeting protein R6 in hepatocytes from insulin-resistant Zucker fa ⁄ fa rats pptx

Ngày tải lên : 30/03/2014, 11:20

... expression of GL and PTG, but not R6, in rat liver in vivo is insulin-dependent It declines during insulin deﬁciency and is restored by insulin treatment [22,40] Another glycogen-targeting protein expressed ... expression of R6 protein is markedly decreased in hepatocytes from fa ⁄ fa rats To our knowledge this is the ﬁrst report of adaptive changes in hepatic R6 protein The main distinguishing feature of hepatic ... metabolic studies were performed after culture of the hepatocytes for 18 h To determine glycogen synthesis, hepatocyte monolayers were incubated for h in MEM containing [U-14C]glucose and 10...

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báo cáo hóa học:" An in vivo evaluation of bone response to three implant surfaces using a rabbit intramedullary rod model" doc

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 04:20

... dehydrated in absolute alcohol and de-fatted in 50% mixture of ether and acetone before being placed in 100% alcohol again for 12 hours Methods Implants for intramedullary implantation in rabbit ... gas to produce coating with thickness ranging from 40-70 microns (nominal 50 microns) The coating had a minimum total crystallinity of 65% The minimum HA fraction in the crystalline phase was 90% ... response to three surfaces, which adds to the body of evidence that is useful for optimizing the osseointegration of implants and enhancing fixation It is important to identify factors that minimize...

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**Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Micrometeorological assessment of sensitivity of canopy resistance to vapour pressure deficit in a Mediterranean oak forest * " potx**

Ngày tải lên : 08/08/2014, 18:21

... to assess sensitivity of this parameter to air humidity in a Mediterranean oak forest Measurements of transpiration were also obtained by monitoring sap flow rate in some branches, in order to ... McNaughton, 1986), is of greatest interest in interpreting such a complex interplay between plant and its environment During this trial, as a consequence of the sensitivity of r to VPD, the forest ... heat in the morning, while an increasing amount of heat was released after midday Peak energy flux into the soil did not reach 70 W -2 m Heat stored into the canopy (biomass and air; not shown in...

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Báo cáo y học: "κ The roles of the classical and alternative nuclear factor-κB pathways: potential implications for autoimmunity and rheumatoid arthritis" ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 10:23

... implicated in the inflammatory stages of RA Inflammatory cells infiltrate the synovial sublining and produce proinflammatory cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors that stimulate synovial lining ... effects of nuclear factor-κB in rheumatoid arthritis Involvement of the alternative pathway at the site of inflammation RA is a chronic inflammatory disease of the joints in which infiltration of ... modulator; NF-κB, nuclear factor-κB; RIP, receptor interacting protein; TAB, TAK1-binding protein; TAK, transforming growth factor βactivated kinase; TRAF, TNF receptor-associated factor Alternative...

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cáo khoa học: " Barriers and facilitators to the dissemination of DECISION+, a continuing medical education program for optimizing decisions about antibiotics for acute respiratory infections in primary care: A study protocol" potx

Ngày tải lên : 10/08/2014, 10:23

... participation in the decisionmaking process In spite of the growing interest in SDM, few health professionals practice it, and only a few studies on implementing SDM in clinical settings exist [4] A way to ... facilitators to the dissemination of DECISION+, a continuing medical education program for optimizing decisions about antibiotics for acute respiratory infections in primary care: A study protocol ... has been shown to be useful for studying changes in the behaviour of health professionals [22] According to the Theory of Planned Behaviour, intention is the immediate determinant of behaviour...

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Báo cáo khoa hoc:" Absence of autoantibodies connected to autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type I and II and Addison''''s disease in girls and women with Turner syndrome" docx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 08:21

... Addison's disease, to screen for overlapping profile of autoantibodies Results Autoantibodies in Turner women No autoantibodies to 21-hydroxylase (21-OH), 17αhydroxylase (17-OH), side-chain cleavage ... screening for autoantibodies the only autoantibody overrepresented was that against TPO (40%), correlating to an increased incidence of thyroid dysfunctions among the Turner patients This is in ... only in two patients, not correlating to a hearing disability, TH does not appear to be an autoantigen connected to the sensorineural hearing loss seen in Turner syndrome One hypothesis, put forward...

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báo cáo khoa học: "Quantifying kinematics of purposeful movements to real, imagined, or absent functional objects: Implications for " doc

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 14:20

... edge) Event Bring spoon to bowl to scoop Pretend to scoop pudding from imaginary pudding bowl Event Bring spoon to mouth to eat pudding Bring imaginary spoon to mouth Event Return spoon to table Return ... cup Pretend to drink from imaginary cup Return imaginary cup to table Return to Rest Touch center of table (approx 10 inches from edge) Touch mouth Touch center of table again Return to Rest Feed ... invariant patterns in point -to- point human arm movements, the minimum jerk theory for multi joint arm movements have been shown to work well for point -to- point trajectory generation in many robotic...

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Báo cáo y học: " A polymorphism in the interleukin-4 receptor affects the ability of interleukin-4 to regulate Th17 cells: a possible immunoregulatory mechanism for genetic control of the severity of rheumatoid arthritis" doc

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 15:22

... Transforming growth factor-β induces development of the TH17 lineage Nature 2006, 441:231-234 Veldhoen M, Hocking RJ, Atkins CJ, Locksley RM, Stockinger B: TGFβ in the context of an inflammatory ... Enumeration of Th17+ cells We also performed intracellular staining of cultured cells for both IL-17 and IFN-g and examined the samples by flow cytometry A set of representative flow cytometry histograms ... and fixed overnight in 4% paraformaldehyde The cells were then permeabilized with 0.5% saponin in 2% NCS/PBS Intracellular cytokine staining was performed using fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-labeled...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Risk factors for low birth weight in Botucatu city, SP state, Brazil: a study conducted in the Public Health System from 2004 to 2008" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 21/06/2014, 19:20

... performed up to the time of the study Therefore, this study aimed at identifying LBWrelated factors in infants in Botucatu contributing to better understanding of this problem in the approach of ... collection for discussion about the care delivered This study revealed a reduction in the adequacy indexes for both groups according to the increase in coverage of the indicator used The increase in inadequacy ... This finding is a consequence of different socio economic realities in the study regions, since they are interconnected factors related to life conditions of the population such as, housing, income,...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Language Model Adaptation Using Machine-Translated Text for Resource-Deﬁcient Languages" docx

Ngày tải lên : 22/06/2014, 00:20

... attributes of the corpus are presented in Table None of the speakers in the evaluation speech corpus is included in the acoustic training corpus described in Section 3.2 EXPERIMENTAL SETUP In total, ... would like to thank Dr Edward W D Whittaker for his valuable input Special thanks to Stefan Briem for his English to Icelandic machine translation tool and allowing to use his machine translation ... Narayanan, “Selecting relevant text subsets from web-data for building topic speciﬁc language models,” in Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association...

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báo cáo khoa học: "Determination of the volume-specific surface area by using transmission electron tomography for characterization and definition of nanomaterials" docx

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 00:23

... The resulting surface was visualized using pseudo-coloring To reduce missing wedge artifacts, so-called streaks, the surface was smoothed using a × × averaging of voxels (downsampling) Using the ... amplitude (10 W) A total energy of approximately 6200 J was added to the samples Page of To obtain a maximal field of view, grids were mounted in a tomography holder (FEI, Eindhoven, The Netherlands) ... latter coincided with small zones in the original micrographs showing diffraction contrast, indicative for a confined crystalline organization In the original micrographs taken at a tilt angle of 0°,...

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Báo cáo y học: "Intensive care for the adult population in Ireland: a multicentre study of intensive care population demographics" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 11:22

... level of injury while in the ICU The incidence of AKI in elective surgery patients was 8.5%, versus 44% in emergency admissions overall and 27% in interhospital transfers The incidence of AKI in ... suffered a traumatic brain injury The time of discharge from the ICU was sought in order to define pressure of new admissions to the units out of hours A total of 197 (19.1%) of all discharges occurred ... possible to extrapolate from the dataset the reasons for this difference Limitations of the study include an inability to include all ICUs, and in relation to interhospital transfers an inability to...

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Báo cáo y học: "Novel gene and gene model detection using a whole genome open reading frame analysis in proteomics" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 16:21

... the coordinates for each of the novel OE and NE coding regions found within the 43 genes Protein features of encompassing genes We examined the annotated protein products of the genes having the ... the protein's domains A total of 11 diagnostic peptides overlapped in some way with a known protein domain Table summarizes the domains identified for the protein products of the genes In all cases, ... Beta-2-glycoprotein I precursor (apolipoprotein H; Apo-H; B2GPI; Beta(2)GPI; activated protein C-binding protein; APC inhibitor; anticardiolipin cofactor) APOL1 ENSG00000100342 5 0 Apolipoprotein-L1 precursor...

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INTEGRATION OF MULTIFOCAL MULTIPHOTON MICROSCOPE (MMM) AND SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION MICROSCOPE (SHG) FOR 3d HIGHRESOLUTION IMAGING IN LIVER FIBROSIS

Ngày tải lên : 09/09/2015, 08:17

... also permits in vivo imaging using invasive procedures such as implantable windows [56] SHG imaging has been using in two main biological areas of measuring neurons and collagen due to their special ... trained me the way of thinking and working with their great scientific passion and knowledge I am very grateful to Mr Alvin Kang Chiang Huen in Singapore and Dr Jaewon Cha in MIT for their mentorship ... substantial when performing grading and staging Based on autopsy and laparoscopy study, cirrhosis is missed on single blind biopsy in about 10% to 30% of cases [31-33] To avoid sampling error, at least...

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The agronomic qualities of the mexican sunflower (tithonia diversifolia) for soil fertility improvement in ghana an exploratory study

Ngày tải lên : 18/03/2016, 22:54

... diversifolia for agroforestry in Ghana The promising nature of T diversifolia for agroforestry and its underutilization, owing to limited research reports, makes T diversifolia an interesting plant for ... working partners in Canada and Ghana, I want to thank you for providing substantial funding through CIDA to execute my field research I want to thank Naresh again for being an academic mentor ... references to other people’s publications which have been duly cited, the contents of this research presented as a thesis for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Agroforestry, are the findings...

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Báo cáo y học: "Cost-effectiveness of micafungin as an alternative to fluconazole empiric treatment of suspected ICU-acquired candidemia among patients with sepsis: a model simulatio" ppsx

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 16:21

... introduced by two of the inputs contributing most to the uncertainty in the model Model inputs Incidence of ICU-acquired candidemia For the proportion of patients in the ICU developing candidemia, ... survivor in 2001 $US* Annual discount rate 3% Shorr and colleagues [29] to 6% Weinstein and colleagues [19] *Inflating to 2008 $US using the medical component of the consumer price index resulted in ... number of QALYs gained (0.44 to 0.80) resulted in the range of cost/QALY of $21,337 to $38,795 in the case of FLU and $22,221 to $40,402 for MIC each vs the watchful waiting strategy, and $27,310 to...

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Tài liệu Bringing Social Impact Bonds to New York City: The City of New York pdf

Ngày tải lên : 15/02/2014, 13:20

... Social Impact Bonds? • A Social Impact Bond is an investment vehicle designed to encourage private funding for promising social programs – Taps into new funding opportunities – Private investors ... achieved before investors can be paid • Concept is relatively new and New York City will be the first in the nation to implement this innovative financing model What are the Benefits? • Investing in ... outcomes to improve the lives of those in need • Government is able to preserve public resources for successful interventions while still encouraging innovation in a time of fiscal constraints – Savings...

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Tài liệu CHAPTER TwENTY ONE A BIOLOGICAL APPROACH TO A MODEL OF AESTHETIC ExPERIENCE OSHIN VARTANIAN AND MARcos NADAL pdf

Ngày tải lên : 19/02/2014, 17:20

... aimed to present an information-processing model of the stages involved in the aesthetic processing of visual artistic stimuli In this sense, the starting point of the model was their analysis of ... experience of success or failure in understanding can initialize top-down information processing In fact, monitoring other cognitive processes, as well as initiating top-down processes, has often ... runs parallel to the information-processing stream, and it receives continuous input from it This means that a subject interacting with a work of art can provide a preference rating for that artwork...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Identifying Agreement and Disagreement in Conversational Speech: Use of Bayesian Networks to Model Pragmatic Dependencies" docx

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 16:20

... available for training and testing, and performed two sets of experiments to evaluate the performance of our system The tools used to perform the training are the same as those described in section ... scale for monitoring levels of agreement during a conversation In Proc of the 26th Penn Linguistics Colloquium M Collins 2000 Discriminative reranking for natural language parsing In Proc 17th International ... data of a meeting for testing and the rest of the data for training Table summarizes the performance of our classiﬁer with the different feature sets in this classiﬁcation task, distinguishing...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "A Word-to-Word Model of Translational Equivalence" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 22/02/2014, 03:20

... re-estimated, the model' s hidden parameters come into play After initialization, the model induction algorithm iterates: Find a set of "links" among word tokens in the bitext, using the likelihood ... words in French Such errors could be overcome by a model that classifies each word token, for example using a 495 part -of- speech tagger, instead of assigning the same class to all tokens of a ... the word -to- word model was trained on less than one fifth the amount of data that was used to train the IBM model Since it doesn't store indirect associations, our word -to- word model contained an...

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