... The last ofthe four kinds of parts is found in the center ofthe flower, and is called the pistil It is this part which forms the fruit and incloses the seed The stamens andthe pistil are the ... other time ofthe year The plan of branching, the position, number, size, form, color, and surface of buds, as well as the arrangement ofthe leaves within the bud andthe peculiarities ofthe scales ... other; the bark ofthe Chestnut opens in large longitudinal cracks quite distant from one another The color ofthe bark andthe character ofthe scales are quite different in the White and the...
... from data in the RCT The survival of patients receiving ASC/BSC was calculated from the survival ofthe patients in the cetuximab monotherapy arm ofthe RCT The data from the monotherapy arm NICE ... guide for healthcare professionals Information for people with metastatic colorectal cancer and their carers (‘Understanding NICE guidance’) Details of all the evidence that was looked at and other ... evidence from the bevacizumab studies and noted that the age ofthe population in the largest study was lower than the age of patients normally receiving chemotherapy in England and Wales However,...
... prerequisite for cleavage ofthe bond between C20 and C22 [1,14] Another difference between the metabolism of vitamin D3 and cholesterol by P450scc is that the dissociation of intermediates occurs forthe ... proliferation and differentiation of human epidermal keratinocytes cultured in vitro [10] Thus, the vitamin D3 derivatives produced by the action of P450scc are good candidates for use in the therapy of ... with the collection and interpretation ofthe NMR data Their spectra were recorded in CDCl3 and COSY spectra lacked fine detail HSQC and expanded COSY were not provided by Guryev et al [2] and, ...
... process of development (such as, for example, the formation of a heap of sand from a grain of sand andthe subsequent addition of further grains of sand), new qualitative stages arise and call for ... favour of restricting the exercise of this freedom These concern the legitimacy ofthe resources needed for cloning andthe status ofthe cloned human embryo 3.3.1 Use and consumption of female ... However, the dignity of even the earliest forms of human life on the basis ofthe Christian notion ofthe imago Dei is unanimously upheld by the Catholic Church (although admittedly in the context of...
... criteria being used in the selection process The aims ofthecriteria used in the checklists are to optimise the comfort and productivity of office workers and to minimise their risk of suffering musculoskeletal ... (adjustable by fore -and- aft movement ofthe backrest) is the horizontal distance, measured from the front edge to the foremost point ofthe backrest on the centre line ofthe seat's width The minimum ... on the range of heights ofthe mid lumbar region (L2 - L4) of users 1.16 Armrest height is the vertical distance between the centre ofthe compressed seat cushion andthe fore -and- aft centre of...
... investigators and members of their institutions are obliged to give forethought to the maximization of benefits andthereductionof risk that might occur from the research investigation In the case of ... selected, the person responsible forthe research, etc However, a simple listing of items does not answer the question of what the standard should be for judging how much and what sort of information ... patients who deliver themselves into the hand of a clinician for needed care It may be, that a standard of "the reasonable volunteer" should be proposed: the extent and nature of information should...
... lactis The results are presented in Table and Fig 4A Forthe cluster of lowest energy, both the position andthe conformation ofthe ligand are close to those observed in the 3D structure ofthe ... group ofthe ligand andthe NH2 of Asn470 (equivalent to Asn710 in DPP-IV) Another potential bond can be proposed between the OH atom of Tyr380 andthe carbonyl group ofthe ligand Finally, the ... comparison ofthe active and specificity sites ofthe two X-PDAP enzymes, the bacterial PepX (green) andthe human DPP-IV (orange) (B) Superposition ofthe active and specificity sites ofthe S9 enzymes...
... ofthe Paris Union forthe Protection of Industrial Property They have adopted and apply the Nice Classification forthe purposes ofthe registration of marks Each ofthe countries party to the ... respect of either the evaluation ofthe extent ofthe protection afforded to any given mark or the recognition of service marks (2) Each ofthe countries ofthe Special Union reserves the right ... registrations of marks the numbers ofthe classes ofthe Classification to which the goods or services for which the marks are registered belong Use ofthe Nice Classification is mandatory not only for the...
... respect of either the evaluation ofthe extent ofthe protection afforded to any given mark or the recognition of service marks (2) Each ofthe countries ofthe Special Union reserves the right ... registrations of marks the numbers ofthe classes ofthe Classification to which the goods or services for which the marks are registered belong Use ofthe Nice Classification is mandatory not only forthe ... country ofthe Special Union Article 13 Reference to Article 24 ofthe Paris Convention The provisions of Article 24 ofthe Stockholm Act of 1967 ofthe Paris Convention forthe Protection of Industrial...
... and demand for training and handling information, as well as for standardization and professionalization of training and handling methods The misapplication and incorrect handling of cadaver ... basics of understanding scent, canine olfaction, andthe ABC’s of training and training equipment Chapters and are focused on the forensic context, including the demands of professionalism andthe ... the dog’s behavior In other words, the dog’s efforts are only as good as the quality ofthe pre-search investigation, andthe handler’s skills; and they are dependent as well on the weather and...
... used in our laboratory forthe last four years We will show that the RAPET of silanes is yielding the smallest reported SiC particles having the highest surface area The RAPET of empty Coca Cola ... ability to reduce metals for which there is no reducing agent that can it For example, preparing metallic Mg nanoparticles .The last technique was named by us RAPET It stands for Reaction under Autogenic ... The main parameters that determine the particle size in sonoelectrochemistry are temperature, sonication intensity, andthe electric pulse width Its main synthetic advantage is the ability...
... |u|p−2 u and φp −1 φq , in which p > and 1/p 1/q With these configurations and with the aid ofthe Avery-Henderson fixed point theorem 34 , He established thecriteriaforthe existence of at least ... Difference Equations In the light ofthe five functionals fixed point theorem, they established thecriteriaforthe existence of at least three solutions forthe dynamic equation 1.1 either with conditions ... to the following discussion Section analytically establishes thecriteriaforthe existence of at least two positive solutions in the boundary value problems 1.9 and 1.10 with the aid of the...
... chondroprotection and slowing the progression of disease, and whether the MW ofthe HA formulation contributes to its efficacy Competing interests LWM has been a paid consultant for Wyeth, Genzyme and Sanofi-Synthelab, ... levels of prostaglandin F2α, 6-keto-prostaglandin F1α, and leukotriene C4 [72] In synovial fluid from the knees of patients with OA and RA, intra-articular HA reduced the levels of PGE2 [73,74] and ... significant reduction in the thickness ofthe synovial membrane and in the number of infiltrating mononuclear cells indicated reduced inflammation ofthe synovium [104] In a study where patients were randomized...
... Further studies are needed to address this question Major limitations ofthe study are the fact that the majority of patients received immunosuppressive therapies at the time of BAL Therefore, ... therapies Another limitation ofthe study is the low number of patients andthe heterogeneity ofthe control group In conclusion, we identified several abnormalities in the cytokine and chemokine ... [38] In another study, anti-CD3 therapy also diminished bleomycininduced fibrosis [39] Therefore, T-cell therapy could provide a useful target for further therapies Because most ofthe fibroblast...
... efficiency Another important point is the cohort of patients selected for such studies The main advantage of ACPA lies in their proven ability to predict the development of RA and their potential ... laboratories of several members ofthe Committee forthe Standardization of Autoantibodies in Rheumatic and Related Diseases, using the same substrate and using kits commercially available in Europe, and ... compare the specificity and sensitivity of ACPA (and other) tests is the initiative ofthe European AutoCure consortium to generate a large depository of sera from patients with RA and other rheumatic...
... with the technical aspects of data import and management, and refer the interested reader to the documentation ofthe software package prada for a thorough discussion of these [19] Selection of ... and cleaning up ofthe data, removal of systematic biases and drifts (a process often referred to as 'normalization'), and transformation to a format and scale that is suitable forthe following ... (SSC), and they measure cell size and cell granularity (the amount of light-impermeable structures within the cell) One ofthe fluorescence channels monitors emission from the YFP tag ofthe overexpressed...
... psychology of losing the customers ofthe credit organizations, checking the information, the origin ofthe exchanged money ofthe customers is usually formalism The habit of using the cash in ... seen that the majority of sales ofthe banks belong to the activity of drawing the cash; the next is the sales of transferring the account, the sales of payment at the merchants accepting the cards ... OVERVIEW OFTHE BANK CARD AND REAL SITUATION OFTHE CARD PAYMENT 1.1.1 Definition ofthe bank card and card payment The ancestor ofthe payment card is the purchase card when the shops sale the purchase...
... BETWEEN THE SPECIFICATIONS ANDTHE MEASUREMENTS OFTHE BANDPASS FILTER 82 TABLE 3.6: SPECIFICATIONS OFTHE SERIES-FED ARRAY 84 TABLE 3.7: COMPARISON OFTHE RELATIVE ERROR ANDTHE ... scheme forthe Green’s function for fast evaluation ofthe MoM matrix elements andthe computation ofthe radiation patterns Finally, a patch antenna is analyzed to demonstrate the accuracy ofthe ... + εr surface wave pole located on the real axis ofthe complex k ρ plane, andthe symbol Res denotes the residues ofthe integrand at the pole k ρ = k ρρ Forthe single-layer Green’s function...