... the beginning of leaching, decreased after a peak, and then increased and decreased again This behavior indicates that the initial leaching is like Na+ leaching, and the surplus Ca2+ is drained ... transport of salts such as cations (Na+, Ca2+, Mg2+ and K+) and Cl- in a column were investigated by using a tensiometer and a four-electrode sensor, and the amounts of these salts in soil and leachate ... runoff rate of salts The four-electrode sensor consisted of four stainless steel rods inserted in parallel into an acrylic column with an inner diameter of 50 mm, outer diameter of 60 mm, and...
... species of benthos and about 33 species of fish According to Vietnam standard of water quality, the important parameters of water quality of West Lake, including: Phosphorous and Nitrogen concentration, ... of West Lake is controllable if a sufficient amount of fish (< 5g/l) is maintained in the lake To maintain a sufficient amount of fish, it is necessary to plan time to catch fish and amount of ... 6020.4 - 22942.2kg/year in the condition of rainy season and 5789.4 - 22106.2kg/year in the condition of dry season b Estimating loads of Phosphorous by Jorgensen model Jorgensen and Empirical models...
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... were included in the study Fifty five percent are males and 47.7% have early stages of HL and complaining of B-symptoms Most of the patients (76.2%) received cycles of ABVD regimen Other baseline ... CT and TT) and alleles (C and T) with patient’s baseline characteristics including patient’s age, gender, specimen histology, stage of the disease and presence or absence of B-symptoms (Table and ... no role in the progression free survival in the relapsed HL patients (17.6) cycles Page of Number of ABVD cycles a Adriamycin, Bleomycin, Vinblastine, Decarbazine; bIfosfamide, Carboplatin, Etoposide;...
... Discussion In 1993, HIV-1 infection of paid blood donors in the central Chinese province of Henan and Anhui provinces constitutes a major epidemic in China[15] In September 2003, the “Four Frees and ... analysis of gag and env genes of HIV type circulating in former blood donors of Fuyang city, Anhui province National medical journal of china 2007, 87(22) Wu Z, Liu Z, Detels R: HIV-1 infection in ... which blocking HIV-1gp120 from binding to CCR5, thereby preventing HIV-1 into the host cell It could effectively inhibit CCR5-tropic strain but not CXCR4-tropic strain, and is a promising agent...
... by 50,000 and one 101 with 100,000 IU doses of vitamin A daily in the first and second months of gestation, and later they delivered newborn infants without any CAs [25] Our finding is in agreement ... is different in the groups of case and control mothers and this recall bias can mimic an increased riskof drugs in the CA-groups up to an odds ratio of 1.9 (35) Thus a higher riskof less than ... reports and the positive findings of animal and human epidemiological studies This publication bias distorts the thinking of experts as well as the general population The false balance ofrisk and...
... additional testing and usage of different training methods We also developed similar prediction schemes for the remaining promoters and evaluated them in the same way as for WAF1 Training and testing sets ... from the rest of the promoters Of these, amino acid residues 243 and 275 are involved in DNA binding and 244 and 246 are in very close proximity to DNA binding This indicates that p53R2 either does ... correctly in 85% of cases and Table Effect of cut-off value on the prediction accuracy The prediction accuracy, specificity, sensitivity, number of mutants classified and MCC values on training data using...
... loads from basin (P1) is related to the type of land, land use and intensive cultivation of agricultural land - The amount of P loads from precipitation is associated with rainfall and lake's area ... from basin; X1,X2, ,Xn: areas of the forms of land use and the land use methods 1, 2, ,n; a1,a2, ,an: exporting coefficients of phosphorus 2) Point sources: the amount of P from sewage (P4) In the ... Fig Dynamic of PC, PD, PS, Pzoo in 12 months Fig Dynamic of PB, PE, PiN in 12 months Table Decrease of Cpl, PS, and content of PS Decreases of Cpl (%) Decreases of PS (%) Content of PS (mg/l)...
... the profiling of temperature and salinity during its excursions to the surface The expanding global array of profiling ALACE (PALACE) floats will in the coming years total some 3000 floats in all ... stirring, interleaving and mixing processes using Lagrangian platforms of observation and analysis Evolution of Lagrangian methods in oceanography 33 Floats have given us much insight into the ... arrayed to study such things as intrusions and straining of internal waves Floats have given us much diagnostic information about lateral (isopycnal) mixing, and almost certainly more can be discerned...
... ~ If input1 is MF1 and input2 is MF1 andand input4 is MF1, then output = ~3 :Y c ~ If input1 is MF1 and input2 is MF1 andand input4 is MF2, then output = ~4 :Y c ~ If input1 is MF1 and input2 ... input2 is MF2 andand input4 is MF1, then output = ~5 :Y c ~ If input1 is MF1 and input2 is MF2 andand input4 is MF2, then output = ~6 :Y c ~ If input1 is MF1 and input2 is MF2 andand input4 is ... ~ If input1 is MF1 and input2 is MF2 andand input4 is MF2, then output = ~8 :Y c ~ If input1 is MF2 and input2 is MF1 andand input4 is MF1, then output = ~9 :Y c ~ If input1 is MF2 and input2...
... dataset In our experiments, the data was split into two sets: one training set consisting of 176 background proteins and 291 signal peptides and one validation set consisting of 75 background proteins ... statistical inference and modelling Peter Nordin received his M.S degree in computer science and engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in 1989, and his Ph.D degree in computer ... subsidiary of Swedish telecom Dr Nordin is a Cofounder of Dacapo AB, a Swedish consulting and research company specialised in the stateof-the-art information technology, and an Inventor of the patented...
... THUS, IN TERMS OF PURCHASING POWER, T-BILLS ARE NOT RISKLESS ALSO, IF YOU INVESTED IN A PORTFOLIO OF T-BILLS, AND RATES THEN DECLINED, YOUR NOMINAL INCOME WOULD EXPOSED TO REINVESTMENT RATE RISK ... DOING SO, THEY CAN ELIMINATE ABOUT HALF OF THE RISKINESS INHERENT IN INDIVIDUAL STOCKS G SHOULD PORTFOLIO EFFECTS IMPACT THE WAY INVESTORS THINK ABOUT THE RISKINESS OF INDIVIDUAL STOCKS? ANSWER: ... WELL-DIVERSIFIED INVESTOR A RATIONAL, RISK- AVERSE INVESTOR IS MORE INTERESTED IN THE IMPACT THAT THE STOCK HAS ON THE RISKINESS OF HIS OR HER PORTFOLIO THAN ON THE STOCK’S STAND-ALONE RISK STAND-ALONE RISK...
... partly in Avignon and partly in Nancy on leafy shoots of the following species: Quercus robur L and Q petraea (Matt) Liebl (measurements in Nancy) Seedlings of these species originated from the Office ... Parker and Pallardy, 1987), these results indicate that the changes w in D without a change in Ψ are due to an oversaturation of intercellular volumes in leaves and stems during rehydration, and ... of apoplasmic and intercellular spaces in leaves and stems because of immersion Plotting the results obtained with an immersed sample on a Höfler diagram (fig 2c) shows the spurious effects of...
... method of an experimental design uncovering functionality of any protein of interest and elucidating its involvement in certain signaling cascades The integration process and analysis pipeline have ... curve of set e is slightly better than that of set a, indicating that the inclusion of evolutionary and structural information increased the recall and precision of the prediction to a minor degree ... 'gold standard', predicting novel phosphosites and matching kinase motifs on proteins of interest should be valuable for the design of biological experiments or for predicting a protein's role in...
... clustering and window size The aim of this paper was to investigate the effect of the number of surrounding marker alleles (window size) included in base haplotypes and the effect of clustering of ... number of haplotypes in the base population and non-base haplotypes are shown in Table Increasing window sizesand lowering limitIBD for clustering haplotypes decreased the number of base and non-base ... predicting total breeding values based on genomewide markers and for QTL mapping Intermediate window size led to more precise QTL mapping while increasing window size and decreasing clustering limit...
... rather indicate a relevance of the lipid anchor for the function of this protein, which is part of a family involved in transcriptional activation and chromatin formation, including histone binding ... linker) Prediction function and validation Following the approach already applied to the predictionof GPI and myristoyl anchors and PTS1-mediated targeting [810], a scoring function measuring ... folds back to protein core and reduces flexibility and accessibility of C-terminus Corr, correlation; LS, learning set; nrLS, nonredundant; prof, profile (and listed in Tables and together with...
... set results in a cross-validation design, thereby minimizing the riskof overtraining and irreproducibly optimistic performance evaluations that is inherent in the use of machine learning methods ... restarting the machine learning analysis with custom settings and selecting all available machine learning algorithms for inclusion (Figure 3c) EpiGRAPH's cross-validation results indicate that linear ... mining on the potentially large set of interesting regions in order to discover, test and interpret cor- Genome Calculators Genome Analysis Tools Data visualization Data processing Data mining...
... Appendices 97 Appendix A Proof of Theorem 98 Appendix B Proof of Theorem 101 Appendix C Proof of Theorem 105 Appendix D Proof of Theorem 107 iv Summary Knowing and understanding the environmental phenomena ... support inputs / a subset of observed inputs Dk a set of observed inputs that is local to agent k Ys random output variable of input s ys realized output value (measurement) of input s Zs log of random ... business hour and off-peak hour, and vary between central business district and residency district at certain time) and happening in large-scale domain (Figure 1.1 illustrates the road network of...
... exclusion of air during conventional or vacuum mixing of the noodle crumb or dough may affect translucency and whiteness of boiled WSN and surface characteristics, including gloss Mixing Experiments and ... * indicates ABNY is only an approximate value because of the loss of dry matter including salt during boiling; and ** indicates the moisture content of raw noodle includes moisture present in ... understanding of translucency and gloss An increase in water addition to dough from 30 to 35% resulted in a decrease in lightness (L*) and an increase in redness (a*) and yellowness (b*) values of raw...