technology convergence and the future role of competition and regulation

... 30 THE ROLE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING IN DEVELOPMENT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The data in the text and graphs are from the publications of the Ministry of Science, Research, and Technology, Office of ... to the sayings of the sages of old and modern times, I would like to offer my own definitions of culture and morality In my view, the mix of the beliefs and deeds of a society constitutes the ... scorching sun of their habitat by covering virtually all parts of their bodies On the other hand, the inhabitants of the wet tropics have to minimize their clothing to enhance the ventilation of the body,...

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... attempts, the ‘hands-off’ intervals between interruption of chest compressions and the delivery of the countershock should be limited to only a few seconds [8,20] In all of these areas of concern, ... mechanical ventilation, therapeutic hypothermia, and various intravenous pharmacological infusions [10,11] Therefore, with the rapid use of AEDs by random bystanders, the usual scenario of aggressive ICU ... fibrillation is one of the greatest causes of premature mortality in many societies, the magnitude of the public health impact of AEDs is potentially dramatic, in terms of both life-saving and ICU resources...

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... some of the weaknesses and problems that can affect the quality of studies investigating the potential causes of cryptorchidism and hypospadias Quality assessment of the various studies and of the ... registry-based and all were questionnaire-based, so the level of proof that they offer regarding EC exposure and the disorders is relatively poor Nevertheless, the best designed of these studies ... 2008, 2009) and by binding to and blocking the AR (Wilson et al 2008), and these will also induce some of the TDS disorders Male Reproductive Health Disorders and the Potential Role of Environmental...

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... is the relevance of the education to the professional future of a person Universities need to strengthen the causality between an education and a professional future, and given the nature of the ... together to share their visions for the future of communications and the future of the world URL: http://www.imaginingtheInternet.org 42 Methodology The survey results are based on a non-random, ... Hapgood, technology author and consultant, and writer for Wired, Discover, and other tech and science publications, said, The key challenge of the next five years—I say the because of the importance...

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... intermediate [11] The sum of these ndings points at the involvement of more than one active oxidant in the diverse types of P450-catalyzed substrate processing [1215] The goal of the present perspective ... which small alterations in the environment can cause drastic changes in the reactivity of the active species [76] Further support in favour of the idea of the involvement of a high-valent iron-oxene ... important role in the aromatization process in concert with a histidine residue through facilitating abstraction of the 2b-hydrogen in the A-ring of the C-19 substrate and donation of a proton to the...

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... Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility ... the Department of State and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, in the establishment in Washington of an effective interagency committee to coordinate the overlapping S&T interests of ... setting the stage for another swing of the pendulum back to the latter as a result of disappointments with the results of diffuse grassroots investments of the 1970s In the early 1980s the USAID...

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... selection and Watson and Crick’s discovery of the molecular structure of DNA The grand understanding of the logic of life would prove equally important for understanding its demise: the logic of aging ... together, whereas the farther away they are from each other, the more chance of their INTRODUCTION being separated by the process of crossing over The Morgan is now the unit of measurement of ... mismatch at the third position of each triplet With the evolutionary synthesis and the new understanding of its underlying molecular principles, the pursuit of the origin and perpetuation of life...

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... University and Prof Paul Tam of University of Hong Kong for their valuable advice and insightful comments We also thank Genome Research Centre of The University of Hong Kong for the technology ... using the Affymetrix GCOS and Genespring GX softwares as described in Methods To increase the stringency of the analysis, we combined the gene lists from the two software analyses Only the genes ... 1A and 4B) Moreover, the suppressive effect of the mixture of ginsenosides occurred in a dose-dependent manner (Figure 4B) To examine the comparable inhibitory effects of PGSE and the mixture of...

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... specialty, address, and place of work These reports are tallied and published as the Survey of Physicians [13] The number of medical doctors in our baseline year of 2008, stratified by sex and age, was ... in a serious doctor surplus in Japan The purpose of this study is to project the future growth of the Japanese medical workforce and to forecast whether the 80 000 65 + 15 - 64 60 000 - 14 40 ... especially after most of the baby boomers die Yet the Japanese government and the two major parties have given little thought to predicting long-term trends in the supply of and demand for medical...

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... data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analyses Study concept and design: CA and OB Acquisition of data: CA and OB Analysis and interpretation ... [35] Selection of these strategies depends, apart from the nature of the disturbance, on the subject’s state of attention and previous experience [31,36] Maintenance of posture and balance during ... influences the occurrence and mechanism of the fall and its consequences due to its action on postural balance system - i.e., CNS and muscles - would then be feasible Evidence of the effectiveness of...

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... subject and the location of the sensor within the magnetic field is detected When the sensor is place on the head or glasses of the person the orientation of the head and therefore the location of the ... between the head and the upper part of the cervical spine) were used to define the Frankfort plane and to calculate head position Other markers were placed on the back of the neck at the level of ... determine the motion of the head with respect to the trunk Motion of the shank was removed from motion of the trunk to reveal motion of the trunk with respect to the shank Motion of the shank...

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... the extent of the disease Diagnostic laparoscopy demonstrated a cm exofitic dark brown splenunculus attached to the diaphragm and indenting the surface of segment of the liver Multiple other typical ... search and wrote the first draft BZ wrote the case history and collected all clinical information JNP reviewed the article and made suggestions NWP was the surgeon, reviewed the paper and made ... appetite On examination he appeared jaundiced, there were signs of clubbing and on examination of his abdomen, there was a mild degree of ascites and the liver edge was palpable http://www.wjso.com/content/7/1/1...

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... cells and produced IFN-γ [23] The present study focuses on the regulation of the IP-10 secretion The aim was to investigate the pathways of IP10 secretion in a in vitro system including the cell ... contact, little is known of the regulation of the Th1 IFN-γ/ IL-12 pathway upon intercellular interaction between lung epithelial cells and leucocytes Since increased activity of the IFN-γ/IL-12 pathway ... response to IFN-γ, thereby attracting more lymphocytes to lung tissue and support the use of the A549 and CALU-3 cell lines as a model of the primary cell system As example, application of cigarette...

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... [8] Insulin initially binds to the insulin receptor causing autophosphorylation of the β-subunit of the receptor [8] The protein kinase domain of the β-subunit then phosphorylates tyrosine residues ... 24 hours and then exposed to media plus either vehicle or insulin (2.5 µg/ml) for an additional 1, 4, and 24 hours The cells were then rinsed and trypsinized, and nuclei from control and treated ... absence of insulin (2.5 µg/ml) The level of transcription in control cells at the 4hour time-point was made equal to one The data are the results of three experiments expressed as the mean ± SD (standard...

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... induce the secretion of chemokines and other immunomodulators by endothelial cells, epithelial cells, and cells of the interstitium creating an intense local inflammatory response [2,10] The subsequent ... know if there is a critical value over time that could predict the course of the disease in these patients However, the most interesting finding of this study is that the serum levels of the measured ... failure (d) the level of urea in the BALF should be more than 0.4 mmol The urea level was used as an index of BALF dilution [25,26] Predictive capabilities of mediators for the onset of ARDS The median...

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... function of the protein Confirm transmission of the phenotype and map it Identify the mutation, and thereby prove importance of the gene to the phenomenon Practical application of forward and reverse ... However, it is the cellular response to microbes that creates the septic syndrome, and a handful of specific receptors alert the host to the presence of an infection The effector limb of the response ... called Tube and Pelle (a homolog of the mammalian IL-1 receptor associated kinase [IRAK]), which in turn signal the activation of Dif (a homolog of NF-κB) and then the production of antimicrobial...

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... Surgery, Professor of Anesthesiology and Clinical Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota Dr Dries also holds the John F Perry, Jr Chair of Trauma Surgery at the University ... (TEG) TEG offers the advantage of providing a real-time graphic representation of clot formation and whole blood Unlike standard laboratory tests, TEG offers analysis of the whole Page 12 of 17 coagulation ... antibodies toward factor VIII or IX and it has been licensed in the United States and other parts of the world for this purpose There is significant off-label use of rFVIIa in surgical applications...

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... characteristic of the genus: the repression of conservons, the induction of antibiotic gene clusters, and the expression of the morphogenetic sapB, chaplin and rodlin genes While the exact regulatory ... production and morphological differentiation during growth The results extend the known involvement of ppGpp synthesis in the regulation of antibiotic and secondary metabolite production, and paint ... GeneSpring they exhibited subtly different expression levels for a minor subset of genes when compared to the other M600 samples These, and the M570 data from the corresponding times, were therefore...

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