... become the financial hub ofthe ASEAN region The Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) made significant investment in Thailand, both inthe financial institutions sector and the industry ... involving joint ventures, being concentrated inthe automotive and electronics industries (OECD, 1999a) Due to the economic recession in Japan inthe early 1990s, the share of Japanese investment in Thailand ... reviewed in this section, there are a number of theories that attempt to explain the flow of FDI The Eclectic Paradigm theory is the most useful for analyzing the implication of FDI in economic...
... ngrams beginning or ending with a stopword Using the Stanford Named Entity Recognition Tool3 we obtained the lists of persons, locations and organizations mentioned in each document Additionally, ... clusters of size >=3 son dataset inthe WePS corpus contains a total of 100 documents, and 10 of them belong to a British politician named James Patterson The WePS-2 corpus contains a total of 552 ... Artiles, Julio Gonzalo, and Satoshi Sekine 2007 The semeval-2007 weps evaluation: Establishing a benchmark for the web people search task In Proceedings ofthe Fourth International Workshop on...
... understand definition as well as functions of accounting clearly first 2.1.1 Definition of accounting In general, accounting is a process of collecting, recording, reporting information To go into details, ... needs ofthe organization Secondly, cost accounting can determine selling price that cost accounting provides detailed information about the composition of total cost for determining action ofthe ... According to Gary Hamel, he argues that “ business concept innovation is the foundation for value creation inthe new economy” These new business concepts will often relate a reconfiguration of the...
... whether the decrease inbinding affinity inthe other chimeras was the result of protein instability and misfolding or was merely a byproduct ofthe localization of chimeras inthe ER, cells expressing ... thawed on ice, the protein concentration was determined using BSA as standard Thebinding reaction was set up using theBinding Buffer (Hanks buffer, 25 mm Hepes, pH 7.5, BSA 0.1%) containing the ... of homo-oligomeric crosslinking for C5aR and AT1R-YFP Because the rate of cross-linking depends onthe proximity ofthe side groups, the flexibility ofthe structures containing the cysteine probes,...
... hypertension inthe early course of AIS [17], and promising results of current research on hemodynamic augmentation in AIS, a cautious approach to treatment of hypertension in AIS is the call ofthe ... improved outcome It is indeed the next step in clinical investigation, but not quite ready for implementation into clinical practice before the hypothesis is definitively investigated in a controlled ... hypothesis-generating study that asks whether pharmacologic control of these blood pressure fluctuations would result in improved clinical outcomes PATIENT CONSENT: This protocol was approved by the department...
... larger product showed the inclusion ofthe intron V, whereas the smaller one was found to contain a deletion ofthe first seven nucleotides of exon VI The presence ofthe intron V inthe longer ... reduced showing the intervention of NMD mechanism to prevent the production of a non functional protein The set ofthe three single and double null genotypes showed an increase in amylose content ... fragments was the probability of finding deleterious SNPs (mutations affecting splicing sites or introducing stop codons) considering the types of transition mutation generally induced by EMS...
... suggestion is supported by the finding of only 2% flat genomic profiles in another study in which a tumor content of 60% had been used for sample selection [6] Because ofthe rare occurrence of neuroblastomas ... chromosomal alterations, the clinical outcome of these patients has so far remained elusive Nevertheless, the routine application of array-CGH in clinical practice might be considerably limited by the ... hybridization Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Page of Authors’ contributions MF and FB drafted the manuscript and gave approval ofthe final version Acknowledgements...
... improve clinical outcomes In our study, each ofthe five interventions inthe 6-hour sepsis bundle and each ofthe four interventions inthe 24-hour sepsis bundle is backed by the SSC guidelines ... focus on increasing compliance with these evidencebased interventions in appropriate patients Additional files The following Additional files are available online: Additional File The sepsis care ... bundle are based on scientific evidence Clinically, the aim of introducing bundles into clinical practice is primarily to improve process reliability, although the final endpoint in bundle development...
... loading Second, lung injury associated with sepsis probably increased the presence of zone II Page of conditions inthe lungs, so this cause of PPV is not volume responsive These studies further ... but these swings should be minimally responsive to volume infusion because they are minimally related to right heart filling Based onthe above analysis, how can the poor predictive values of PPV ... This can be explained as follows When the lung is in West Zone III, lung in ation produces a negligible load onthe right ventricle [5]; but when it is in West Zone II, lung in ation can markedly...
... Some ofthe information is available on news wires and America Online the night before, but only after the close of trading inthe U.S Thus, if the IWS information is valuable, its impacton stock ... 75% ofthe companies mentioned inthe column In other words, inthe six months preceding the brokers’ Business Week scheme, the IWS column had an impactonthe prices of featured stocks In Panel ... out They can be explained by the fact that the information inthe IWS column is impounded into the opening price or the first few trades on Fridays Thus, the intraday returns show no impactof the...
... 2 Introduction Contrast Induced Nephropathy (CIN) is one ofthe most common complications of procedures that require the use of contrast media [1,2] and is commonly defined as an increase in ... species [12] The use of contrast media superimposed acute vasoconstriction, caused by the release of adenosine and endothelin, with the reduction in renal blood flow to the outer medulla, consequent ... solubility The use of contrast media superimposed acute vasoconstriction, caused by the release of adenosine and endothelin, with the reduction in renal blood flow to the outer medulla, consequent...
... downregulation of P-gp at both the mRNA and protein levels (Fig 4A) Inhibition ofthe PI3K/Akt pathway decreased the expression of P-gp induced by PrPC at both the mRNA and protein levels, suggesting ... releasing rates to each other because of their toxicity effect (P > 0.05) (Fig 3) The results indicated that inhibition ofthe PI3K/Akt signaling pathway leads to inhibition of PrPC -induced cell drug ... decreasing the transcriptional activation of P-gp Continuing from our previous work, it further reveals the function of PrPC inthe MDR of cancers Over recent years, many investigations have focused on...
... significant improvement in HRQoL over 12 months of HAART, with the bulk of this improvement occurring within the first three months on treatment Internationally, there is concern about theimpactof HAART-related ... and increasing survival among these patients, there is a growing need to understand theimpactof HAART use onthe quality of lives of HIVinfected individuals [4-8] There is a sizeable body of ... counsellors were trained inthe administration ofthe HRQoL instrument The quality of life questionnaire was administered at each ofthe following scheduled visits: screening, baseline, week 16, week...
... individual drugThe physician reports the major reason believed to be underlying the reason for stopping a drug Reasons include treatment failure, clinical progression/hospitalisation, patient decision/request, ... load at initiation of combination treatment, previous AIDS defining illness, calendar year, number of combination, type of treatment (d4T/3TC/NVP; combinations of ART with NNRTI no PI, other than ... Figure Duration of first, second and third combination treatment Duration of first, second and third combination treatment combination for a median of 3.2 (1.2 – 6.3) years Out ofthe 1846 patients,...
... that the induction of ICAM-1 promoter activity was critically dependent on up-regulation of NF-κB protein binding to the -187/-178 NF-κB binding site onthe ICAM-1 promoter The increase of ICAM-1 ... more conserved compared with the residues in other site ofthe surface These conserved sites have been shown to be thebinding sites ofthe receptors and thus block thebindingofthe neutralizing ... exacerbation ofthe Th2 response in HDM -induced allergic asthma Onthe basis ofthe RV -induced asthma exacerbation mouse model, we test the effects of anti-malarial drug Artesunate inthe treatment of...
... restricted for the first three days of therapy by NARP, the consumption of these quinolones was unsurprisingly high Besides that the use of oral quinolones for maintenance may contribute to the significant ... observe the full impactofthe NARP Fourth, we calculated antibiotic consumption in grams instead of using daily defined dose (DDD) to evaluate the consumption because of some concerns The DDD ... time after cessation or decline inthe level ofdrug use [30] Enne et al showed that a huge decrease in sulphonamide prescribing inthe UK did not have an effect onthe prevalence of resistance http://www.medsci.org...
... wavefront inthe direction of propagation [3] as shown in Figure 2.1 Consideration of wavelets originating from all points on XX’ leads to an expression for the field at any point on YY’ inthe form of ... Refraction Refraction is defined as the bending ofthe normal to the wavefront of a propagating wave upon passing from one medium to another where the propagation velocity is different [53] The most ... radiated from the antenna, which by definition is contained inthe far-field region ofthe antenna The far-field region is defined as the region in which the propagating waves exhibit local plane wave...
... damages incurred as a result of its use The designations employed and the presentation ofthe material in this overview not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever onthe part ofthe World ... estimation ofthe economic impactof chronic noncommunicable diseases in selected countries” WHO Working Paper Department of Chronic Diseases and Health Promotion (CHP), 2006 Size ofthe Problem: ... this impact It brings together findings from two recently completed studies that can inform international policy dialogue, including the UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs Their findings shed light on: ...
... asset portfolio rather than solely the poultry income, thereby providing a more accurate measure oftheimpactofthe disease If one looked only at theimpactof HPAI onthe income from poultry ... No information is available onthe costs of culling, diagnostic testing of samples, cleaning and disinfection, and other administrative costs (Obi, Oparinde, and Maina 2008) Regarding the impacts ... bird raised The Poisson regression model is the development ofthe Poisson distribution presented in Equation to a nonlinear regression model ofthe effect of independent variables x i on a scalar...