... treat- ment and lung function in further prospective studies. Conclusions Our findings are in line with previous observations show- ing an inverse association between blood pressure and lung function. ... allows only statements about a single point in time and does not allow evaluating the effect of long-standing high blood pressure. Another explanation for this lung function decrement could be that ... Relationship between lung function and blood pressure in Chinese men and women of Beijing and Guangzhou. PRC-USA Cardiovascular and Cardiopulmonary Epidemiology Research Group. Int J Epidemiol 1998,...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45
Date and Time Manipulation
... only increases when the date interval spans months or years. Date in Days The following script shows one way to make date and time calculations much easier. Because UNIX and Linux calculate time ... like to get those routine notices by page during the day and by e-mail at other times. The following script determines whether the current day and hour are within a certain time frame that you ... 's/0*//'` year= `date +'%Y'` 22 CHAPTER 3 ■ DATE AND TIME MANIPULATION Alternatives for Finding the Date in Seconds There are two other ways to calculate the number of seconds since the epoch....
Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2013, 08:51
... proteins indicating mainly 1 O 2 was involved [28]. In spinach thylakoids, illumination at low light intensity resulted in the degradation of PsaB gene product into two fragments of 51 and 45 ... better insight into the photo-induced changes in PSI. The submembrane particles used con- tain all the components of PSI, including the cyto- chrome b6 ⁄ f complex and plastocyanin [31,32]. In the present ... structural perturbations involved altered pigment–protein and protein–protein interaction, contributing to the observed decreased efficiency of energy migration and capture, and leading to Chl degradation. Experimental...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo sinh học: "Combination of cyclosporine and erythropoietin improves brain infarct size and neurological function in rats after ischemic stroke" potx
... Oxidative index and protein expression levels of cytochrome (Cyt) C in brain infarct area. A) Oxidative index determination by Western blotting of brain infarct area (BIA) (n = 6), showing notably increased ... substantially increased in group 2 than in other groups, remarkably higher in g roups 3 and 4 than in groups 1 and 5, and significantly higher in group 5 than in group 1. On day 21 following acute IS induction, ... laboratory assay and troubleshooting. SC, CKS, SL, and HKY participated in refinement of experiment protocol and coordination and helped in drafting the manuscript. Competing interests The authors...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Evaluation of deformity and hand function in cerebral palsy patients" pdf
... have difficulty in performing coordinated movements against spasticity [1]. Performances of hand tasks in these patients require gross and fine hand motion coordinated with vis- ual perception and postural ... deformity and function in cerebral palsy patients and to determine the correlation of deformity, spasticity, motor control, and sensation to hand function in the said population. Materials and methods: ... affect hand function in activities of daily living. This comprehensive documentation of upper limb deformity and hand function in cerebral palsy patients would allow us to better understand a difficult...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20
Reproductive System Structure, Development and Function in Cephalopods with a New General Scale for Maturity Stages pot
... in rigid capsules, capsule glands and albumin glands are pres- ent in a complex of pallial glands. These differ in their origin and function (Chukchin, 1984). Oviductal glands in octopus secrete an adhesive cement, while those of cuttlefish and squid secrete ... D. SHILIN. 1983. Morphology and characteristic features of sexual system functioning in Thysanoteuthis rhombus squid. In: Systematics and ecology of cepha- lopod molluscs, Leningrad, Nauka press, p. ... is one type in males and three in females which are order specific. These have provided a basis for examining possible evolutionary trends in reproductive system development and in reproductive...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo y học: "The Geography of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Across Time: California in 1993 and 1999"
... combination of factors, and may be influenced by population increase and/ or an increase in healthcare costs associated with COPD. For this same time period, estimated tobacco outlets in the ... among persons of color and the poor. In summary, the Los Angeles area had a marked increase in hotspots both in 1993 and 1999, and also experienced a significant increase in COPD hospi- talization ... Alcohol Health and Research World 1996; 20: 244-251 12. Gruenewald PJ, Stockwell T, Beel A, Dyskin EV. Beverage sales and drinking and driving: The role of on-premise drinking places. Journal...
Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:57
Báo cáo y học: "Different effect of exercise on left ventricular diastolic time and interventricular dyssynchrony in heart failure patients with and without left bundle branch block"
... heterogeneous termination LV isovolumic time intervals were found to be increased at the ex- pense of LV diastolic time in heart failure patients (17,18). Since our findings and other previous ... of increase in LV dyssynchrony during dobutamine stress in patients with wide QRS duration (20). In contrast, Kurita et al. reported on an increased mechanical dyssynchrony during pacing–induced ... systolic time and heart rate and expressed in seconds per minute. Diastolic time was calculated as the cardiac length (RR interval) minus the duration of systole. To define diastolic duration during...
Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2012, 11:32
3D Videocommunication Algorithms concepts and real time systems in human centred communication
Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2013, 10:21
FISCAL COMPETITION IN SPACE AND TIME: AN ENDOGENOUS-GROWTH APPROACH
... going to workers minus tax payments minus consumption minus investment into physical capital minus costs of investing into physical capital plus interest income from assets accumulated in ... that the optimum rate of investment, as expected, is increasing in the marginal productivity of capital and decreasing in the depreciation rate, the interest rate, and the cost parameter b . ... rate that is incompatible with low discounting and low intertemporal substitution in consumption. Finally Figure 3 shows a shift in the I 1 ( r ) line generated by an increase in b . With...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:18
Law and authority in space and time
... parents: the world begins and stops with them. The first people and things we learn to name are the most intimate, and the order of naming and hearing names gen- erally coincides with the unfolding of the ... ultimate reality and meaning. ‘Ultimate Reality and Meaning’ is actually a term of art used by interdisciplinary and cross-cultural scholars interested in collectively pursuing the idea in their studies. ... as culture is maintained by the universe of meaning in which the norms reside. That is, everything makes sense by reference to authoritative texts, teachings and upbringing within the culture, which...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20