... all of these factors Given that the vast majority of those who will make up the older population in the United States in next 50 years are already born and living in the country, the size ofthe ... estimates ofthe prevalence of mild cognitive impairment in the general population, and allow researchers to track the development of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease The importance ofthe family The ... economics of aging provide some ofthe tools needed to plan for this future Note The preparation of this chapter was supported in part by Grant No P20 AG12857 from the Office ofthe Demography of Aging,...
... the way to the beginning ofthe experiment [23] (Fig 2C), which means that the observed lag time depends inversely on the growth rate of fibrils, as well as the nucleation rate A compilation of ... can impact the outcome ofthe struggle for monomers between several types of fibril due to modulation of their nucleation and exponential growth rates [23] Interestingly, another class of proteins ... fibrils The key to the properties of amyloid assemblies lies in the regularity and repetitiveness of their underlying molecular architecture of intermolecular b-strands stacked perpendicular to the...
... angle between the direction ofthe magnetic field H and the direction ofthe magnetization M ofthe bar magnet [11] The product pl is the magnetization M ofthe bar [13] The work done by the torque ... under the influence of an applied uniaxial tensile load The plot is elongated in the direction of magnetic anisotropy which in the case ofthe 0.03% deformation is also the direction ofthe applied ... minimum at the same time Formation of a certain magnetic domain configuration is the outcome ofthe sum ofthe five basic energies being minimized, although the energies themselves may not be at their...
... deflected The greater intensity increased the number of photon-particles, but not the amount of momentum carried by each On the other hand, changing the color ofthe light did change the angle ... demonstrated using the simplest particles of which our universe is built, the photon and the electron, the basic units of light and matter Measuring the spin of an electron, or the polarization of a photon—scratching ... opposite directions, measuring where one of them is also tells us where the other is Measuring one ofthe electrons also knocks the other one off its guide wave! The technical term for such a relationship...
... van den Berg-Huysmans AA, Huisman MV: Embolus location affects the sensitivity of a rapid quantitative D-dimer assay in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2002, 165:345-348 ... reliability ofthe confusion assessment method for the intensive care unit (CAM- ICU) JAMA 2001, 286:2703-2710 Tsuchiya, M, Asada A, Kasahara E, Sato EF, Shindo M, Inoue M: Antioxidant protection of propofol ... therapy in infants with acute bronchiolitis Pediatrics 2002, 109:68-73 Abid O, Sun Q, Sugimoto K, Mercan D, Vincent JL: Predictive value of microalbuminuria in medical ICU patients: results of...
... selenite, should therefore be further examined for their potential interests in the diagnosis and treatment of septic shock and related syndromes Competing interests XF is the co-inventor of patent ... syndromes, when there is additional risk of drug interactions [13,14] In fact, all selenocompounds are known to be more or less pro-oxidant compounds as selenium belongs to the same column ofthe periodic ... resulting in a transient peak of blood selenite concentration [19,20] The pro-oxidant effect is most probably transitory due to the rapid incorporation of selenium into the seleno-enzymes, causing...
... statistical methods and the use of large registries similar to the presented database [1] will help us to overcome this burden in the future Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing ... Melamed A, Sorvillo FJ: The burden of sepsis-associated mortality in the United States from 1999 to 2005: an analysis of multiple-cause -of- death data Crit Care 2009, 13:R28 Page of (page number not ... excess mortality rates of 10.0% in children and 14.5% in adults [8] Other studies report a candidemiaassociated excess risk to die in hospital of 19% to 24% [9] In the ICU, catheter-related infections...
... relationships with other mercantile men in distant places for their own 10 TheMany Panics of 1837 profits The particular urban geographies of three ofthe most important cities in the trade ofthe 1830s ... traces the evolution of this event into competing versions ofthe Panic of 1837 that all lost sight ofthe experience of panic But this tale of panic’s disappearance is the end and not the beginning ... Center, the Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, the University of Georgia, the Culture ofthe Market Network at the University of Oxford, the University of Liverpool, the University...
... and officials at the block and village council 17 level These groups of people provided more contextualized details, some of which often contradicted the claims of these NGOs Even some ofthe ... in their strategies and priorities over the years The third kind of informants were the ordinary people in the village, the community leaders, and the beneficiaries of these organizations and their ... or independent of, the other 2.4.2: The Modern Usage The modern idea of civil society emerged in the Scottish and Continental Enlightenment ofthe 18th century A host of political theorists, from...
... is the number the electronic journal of combinatorics 17 (2010), #A1 11 of one-factorisations of G The number of non-isomorphic one-factorisations of G is the number of types of Latin squares of ... Permute the columns of L; Permute the symbols of L; Permute the elements ofthe columns of L so equal elements not appear in the same row Then L and L′ can be extended to the same number of reduced ... Aut(G) × Sn corresponds to the type of L(C) Therefore the number of non-isomorphic edge-colourings of G is the number of types of Latin squares of order n A one-factor of a graph (in this case...
... completes the proof of Theorem 1.1 The CSP for facesof CP(n, d) for even d In this section, we shall prove Theorem 1.3 by verifying the condition (1) mentioned in the introduction The following ... algebraic proof from the point of view of representation theory Acknowledgements The authors thank the referee for the careful reading and many helpful suggestions the electronic journal of combinatorics ... vertices, the cyclic polytope CP(n, d) is the one with the greatest number of k -faces for all k d − (by McMullen’s upper bound, see [9, Theorem 8.23]) Let fk (CP(n, d)) be the number of k -faces of CP(n,...
... implies that the value to the firm ofthe call provision is greater for the newly issued bond Other things equal, the yield ofthe more recently issued bonds should be greater, reflecting the higher ... having the new debt rank ahead of theirs If the existing debt is senior, then debt the issuance of additional senior debt means that the same amount of equity supports a greater amount of debt; ... can be used to pay off debt In the extreme case, a dividend that is equal to the value ofthe assets leaves bondholders with nothing c If the existing debt is junior, then the original debtholders...
... and in terms ofthe placement ofthe photographs in the center ofthe page On the album cover there is a trace of a lost medallion that used to be attached there The photographs in the album are ... together different kinds of photographs (miscellaneous) that not fit into the themes of other albums The sizes ofthe photographs vary, and so the depicted subjects Based on the quality ofthe ... the history ofthe medium was based on technique and Western practice in the Western world, overlooking the practices in other parts ofthe world.40 The use ofthe camera within the context of...
... newspaper Neither the advent of television nor that of internet could affect the importance ofthe newspaper The reason for it is the width, breadth and the depth of news provided by the newspaper, ... “Structure is an art ofthe performance on content factors ofthe writers Structurally, the writers can change the orders ofthe contents ofthe news story” In fact, the paragraph of a news story ... shows the reader the information of a new online game, the next Internet phenomenon to emerge from computers of college students” The characters ofthe timeliness, the immediacy, the impact and the...