... are: the murder of Wilson Pinheiro and Francisco “Chico” Mendes inthe Amazon rain forest, the massacre of Father Nery Lito Satur and several others inthe Philippines, and the public hanging ... been the rule rather than exception The “core” is generally described as a region of a world system (including the most powerful advanced industrialized nations) that dominates thesystem and the ... involved the skillful, strategic pursuit of political dominance by the numerical majority following the independence inthe 1960s As explained by Naanen (1995, 49), the political power gained by the...
... another way, with increasing temperature the bilayer gets thinner, with the minimal and the parallel surfaces of the polar/nonpolar interface approaching each other, again resulting in an increased ... results in a decrease inthe size of the unit cell This is interpreted to be an effect of an increase inthe curvature of the lipid bilayer affected by the increased mobility of the hydrocarbon chains ... present inthe MO bilayer, the shorter tail will only affect the part of the MO molecule from the head group to the double bond, leaving the rest of the MO hydrocarbon chain free, while introducing...
... individual boats Assuming that the ambiguous constant BOATS has the single instance BOATS and r that LIFTED has the single instance (Az: LIFTED (z)), the instantiation rules, constrained byrthe ... call the strong group readinq of the sentence, and the other one the weak group reading On the strong group reading the quantifier 'twelve' has a double function: it indicates both source involvement ... will now indicate how representations of the form (14) are constructed inthe TENDUM systemThe crane lifted the tubes there is no indication as to whether the tubes were lifted one by one (individual...
... determined by the level of virus replication inthe lung but not the nose The contrasting finding by Tompkins et al [9] that T cells contributed to protection against lethal IAV challenge in mice ... possible also that the G2a isotype provides a smaller advantage over other isotypes in inhibition of a descending infection by X31 virus – the endpoint used for the data in table – than in reduction ... statistical significance with the few mice used in these experiments Taken together, the results indicated that combined vaccination with M2e-MAP and infectious virus may improve the induction of HeLa-M2-reactive...
... America, China, Japan, Eastern Europe, Finland and the UK over the last 40 years Since, it is difficult to distinguish wild-type viruses in genotype A from vaccine strains, these reports must be interpreted ... isolates in Australia from 1971, suggest that genotype D1 may have been the endemic strain in Australia during the pre-vaccine era Sequences from SSPE cases in Northern Ireland and the UK indicate ... importations to the USA associated with travel to, or contact with, the Philippines have resulted inthe supposition that genotype D3 is the predominant circulating genotype inthe Philippines [6,44]...
... America, China, Japan, Eastern Europe, Finland and the UK over the last 40 years Since, it is difficult to distinguish wild-type viruses in genotype A from vaccine strains, these reports must be interpreted ... isolates in Australia from 1971, suggest that genotype D1 may have been the endemic strain in Australia during the pre-vaccine era Sequences from SSPE cases in Northern Ireland and the UK indicate ... importations to the USA associated with travel to, or contact with, the Philippines have resulted inthe supposition that genotype D3 is the predominant circulating genotype inthe Philippines [6,44]...
... antioxidant vitamins, chronic hepatitis B virus infection and urinary aflatoxin B1-DNA adducts Carcinogenesis 1997, 18:1189-1194 Ross AC, Hammerling UG: Retinoid and the immune systemInThe Retiniods: ... multiple, rather than single, vitamin supplementation slows HIV progression [15] Therefore, further studies on the association or effect of exposure to aflatoxin (and other mycotoxins) on other micronutrients ... aflatoxin and vitamin E; our finding of a lack of association between aflatoxin and vitamin E inthe HIV-positive population might be confounded by high prevalence of vitamin E deficiency in the...
... promoting (though not in initiating) the differentiation of TH17 cells, and more importantly, in inducing them to secrete the cytokine interleukin (IL)-22 (a cytokine implicated inthe defense of mucosal ... functional subsets, distinguished by the different cytokines they produce (indicated under each CD4 T cell type): the cytokines act on other immune cells, activating them in turn The four known subsets ... for their suppressive effect in this autoimmune model with a view to future application in treatment of the disease While the role of AhR inthe induction of the cytokine IL-22 is now defined in...
... reaction inthe cytoplasm of the PCV ORF1 gene inserted recombinant baculovirus infected insect cells The PCV ORF2 gene containing recombinant baculovirus infected insect cells showed intracytoplasmic ... of the Recombinant Proteins of Porcine Circovirus Type2 Field Isolate Expressed inthe Baculovirus System 23 novel strain of porcine circovirus in pigs with postweaning multisystemic wasting ... recombinant protein expressed inthe baculovirus system did not show any noticeable changes inthe molecular mass by tunicamycin treatment This may indicate that the ORF2 of the PCV has minor...
... shortening its length to the depth of the container and preventing the development of replacement taproots The confining of lateral roots inthe container and their downward growth lead to the generation ... slits on the cell inner walls prevent root spiralling, and holes inthe base facilitate drainage and encourage air pruning of roots Continual air pruning induces a limitation to the main root ... estimating the following parameters using the software WhinRhizo v.4.1: number of exterior root links (or magnitude, µ); number of root links inthe longest unique path from the base link to...
... to the first assessment and diagnosis In no case medication was interrupted in order to include the patient inthe study Be physically healthy with normal clinical and laboratory findings, including ... was kept inthe current study However some deviations from these conditions were inevitable These included the use of instead of electrodes, the recording every for 12 minutes duration instead ... movents every minutes, for 12 minutes in dark and subsequently 12 minutes in light The resulting recording is shown in figure 1(a) There is no difference of the recorded EOG curves between the two eyes...
... recombinant interleukin-2 (rec Il-2; 50 U/ml) or lipopolysaccharide (LPS; µg/ml) The amount of the secreted interferon-γ inthe supernatant was then tested in duplicate using the enzyme-linked ... protein 60 [62] Relevance of the findings The question of whether our findings are of any significance for the understanding of CIJD is justified and needs answering TLR ligands are found inthe ... auto-specificities) can respond to these signals, migrate to the joint, breach endothelial barriers, infiltrate the inflamed foci and sustain inflammatory processes by secreting cytokines in response to direct...
... but not in that of dt/dt mice (Figure 1) Sympathetic denervation inthe sweat gland of dt/dt mice To investigate sympathetic innervation, the skin of the footpad was immunoassayed using the antibody ... dt/dt embryos It suggests that the deficiency in BPAG1, the cytoskeletal linker protein, may induce neuronal death inthe sympathetic nervoussystem of dt/dt mice during development Tseng et al ... in dt/dt mice (F) To investigate the denervation effect inthe iris of dt/dt mice, the light-induced pupillary reflex was tested The pupillary diameter was narrower in wild-type mice during the...
... infections take on added significance when coupled with the extended dwell times of catheters xii Catheter-Related Infectionsinthe Critically Ill Finally, managing catheter infectionsinthe ... or other anatomical and clinical considerations that preclude removing the central catheter There are data to support leaving a catheter in place and treating through an infection in certain situations ... deriving from infection of the Catheter-Related Infectionsinthe Critically Ill percutaneous device used for vascular access or from contamination of the infusate administered through the device...
... remain on the insertion site and to dry before inserting the catheter Allow povidone-iodine to remain on the skin for at least minutes, or longer if it is not yet dry before inserting the catheter ... Catheter-Related Infectionsinthe Critically Ill Site Dressings The importance of the cutaneous microflora inthe pathogenesis of CVCrelated infection suggests that the dressing applied to the ... solution, inserting the guidewire, removing the old catheter and cleansing the site once more with the antiseptic solution, the operator should reglove and ideally redrape the site, as the original...
... CATHETER INFECTIONS Some clinical variables influence the rates of CRBSI by favoring catheter contamination by either the extraluminal or endoluminal routes These have been recently reviewed in ... controlled by inserting the subclavian catheters inthe operating room, by tunnelizing the subclavian lines, nor by improving skin antisepsis We then started a series of studies that included separate ... seeding of the intravascular segment accounted for the remaining 30% Bacteriological findings also demonstrated that when the hub was involved, the same microorganisms were recovered from the inner...
... improved the accuracy of the sonication culture results (14) 46 Catheter-Related Infectionsinthe Critically Ill Catheter Staining Because the results of the catheter cultures take several days, interest ... Randolph A, Weinstein RA Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections Pediatrics 2002; 110(5):e51 Mermel LA Defining intravascular catheter-related infections: a ... tenderness, in duration, or purulence within cm of the catheter exit site (1) In tunnel infections these signs overly the catheter and are >2 cm from the exit site (1) Inflammation at the catheter...
... CoNS infection inthe study by DiGiovine et al (13) likely contributed also to their negative findings Another problem, on which there is little information inthe above studies, is the timeliness ... Catheter-Related Infectionsinthe Critically Ill Cultures of the catheter hub (Table 2), which explore mainly the endoluminal mechanism, are more useful in patients with long-term catheters Indeed, ... fungal growth has occurred inthe bottle The higher the initial bacterial inoculum, the quicker this cutoff value is reached Inin vitro study,40 a linear relation between the initial concentration...