... constructing another model with the controls gathered inthe hospitals and with the same cases Finally, both models would be compared If Berkson’s bias 45 existed and following the ideas of Feinstein ... 2000-2004), andthe new controls were gathered in a prospective manner inthe Internal Medicine Service during 2003 From 2001 to 2003, the rest of the cases and controls in this investigation ... work in their respective facilities The investigators who collected at the hospital level (cases and controls) were specialists and training residents in internal medicine, neurology, allergy, and...
... agents) andthe notion of respecting the inherent “dignity” of all agents (treating people as ends -in- themselves and willing from the standpoint of the “kingdom of ends”) gave Kant, so he thought, the ... this inthe Metaphysics of Morals are not convincing on their own and require us to understand them inthe full context of the rest of his ethical thought in Terry Pinkard, “Kant, Citizenship, and ... having his rights independently of whether others would actually grant him those rights or be sympathetic to his having them) Indeed, the most striking thing about Kant’s thesis was that there...
... • In developing countries, 25% of homes have a computer and 20% have Internet access, compared to 20% and 13%, respectively, years ago The World in 2011 — ICT Facts and Figures Growth in bandwidth ... per user in Europe, compared with 2’000 bit/s per user in Africa 87’395 International Internet bandwidth (bit/s) per Internet user, 2011* International Internet bandwidth (bit/s) per Internet ... 72.1 Sweden 31.8 Singapore 69.7 Germany 31.7 Austria 67.4 United Kingdom 31.6 New Zealand 66.2 • The world’s top broadband economies are from Europe and Asia andthe Pacific Inthe Republic of...
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... research’ In investigating each case, the main research methods comprised in- depth interviews andthe use of documents and website information At a theoretical level, the original research proposal invoked ... Use-oriented (UIBR+PAR) In essence, I had arrived at the hypothesis that, in assessing the factors enhancing or inhibiting the research programmes andthe ‘third missions’ of the remaining seven use-oriented ... corporations and/ or universities, thereby leading electronic innovation inthe 1980s and 1990s 25 The contrast between the third industrial revolution and its link to more theory-driven science, and the...
... order the sentences that are chosen to be part of the summary In keeping with the plugin architecture of the system, the user can define own metric andplug it into the system using the Plugin Manager ... then finally be selected to be included inthe resulting summary The segments are then optionally re-ordered to the original document order before including them inthe summary, which is then ... matrix, the sets of features extracted from the text, andthe settings that were used for training the model The user can choose the model for classifying segments inthe target document The user...
... According to three climate change scenarios, there are increasing trends of flood season flow in Hong-Thai Binh basin In general, the increase in flood flow inthe A2 scenario is the highest in ... with the baseline period andinthe B1 scenario the lowest Meanwhile, the flow inthe months of flood season in Dong Nai basin has decreasing tendency The trend of change in monthly flow changing ... that: inthe three scenarios, the average flow has an increasing tendency in Hong-Thai Binh river basin and a decreasing one in Dong Nai river basin For seasonal flow, in Hong-Thai Binh river basin,...
... According to three climate change scenarios, there are increasing trends of flood season flow in Hong-Thai Binh basin In general, the increase in flood flow inthe A2 scenario is the highest in ... with the baseline period andinthe B1 scenario the lowest Meanwhile, the flow inthe months of flood season in Dong Nai basin has decreasing tendency The trend of change in monthly flow changing ... that: inthe three scenarios, the average flow has an increasing tendency in Hong-Thai Binh river basin and a decreasing one in Dong Nai river basin For seasonal flow, in Hong-Thai Binh river basin,...
... was no change inthe steady-state protein level in these cells as well Interestingly, neither MCF-12A nor human mammary epithelial cell (HMEC) cell lines exhibited a change inthe expression ... BRCA1 induced by hypoxia in MDA-MB-468 cells (Fig 2B), resulting in a 35% decrease in nuclear BRCA1 relative to the level in normoxic cells inthe presence of 2E5 The decrease in C Fig Hypoxia-induced ... thus were confident that the cells were being maintained in a low-oxygen environmentand were responsive to low oxygen There is also increasing interest inthe effects of hypoxia on TRAIL-mediated...
... the vectors based on their components’ relation inthe predefined order Inthe HSV color space: conditional ordering based filtering principles: (1) sort the color vectors in W based on v: order ... • • 1st approach: minimize the sum of distances between colors andthe centers of color clusters resulting inthe quantization process ( minimize the sum of distances within each cluster) 2nd ... time, but inthe HVS – the color perceived at a spatial location is influenced by the color of all the spatial locations inthe field of view! Future issues for color image processing: use the human...
... is the length of line OB; ǂ is the angle between line OA and plumb line; ǃ is the angle between line OB andthe line perpendicular to line BC; Fmin is the pre-setting pulling force of spring ... ǂ is the angle between line OA and plumb line; ǃ is the angle between line OB andthe line perpendicular to line BC; f is the friction between point A and ground; F is the presetting pulling force ... that pointsin space maintaining a fixed geometric relationship can be observed as behaving inthe same way as points on a rigid body moving through space When robots behave in this way, they...
... lipoproteins formed andthe length of apoB Bona fide VLDL2 is only formed with apoB100 The lipoprotein formed by apoB48 (which is produced only inthe intestine in humans but in both the intestine and ... Ca++/Calmodulin dependent protein kinase , and Nitric Oxide, and act as insulin mediators during and after exercise mediating increases glucose and fatty acid oxidation (Turcotte & Fisher, 2008) The main ... increasing the glucose uptake We demonstrated first in cells that fatty acids displace SNAP23 from the plasma membrane (and the fusion of GSV) to the interior of the cell, resulting in insulin...
... levels and usually resulting from insufficient production of the hormone insulin or an ineffective response of cells to insulin Type-2 diabetes is characterized by insulin resistance and relative insulin ... People who not drink alcohol during the day has the risk of diabetes as 0.5 times as that of people who drink alcohol during the day (p
... unilaterally inthe muscular system of both the left part of the back and left anterior thoracic wall On the basis of these rather atypical findings, we performed a total body CT in order to exclude the ... squamous epithelium (red arrows); carcinoma showing100×) Histology: a G3-grading (hematoxylin and eosin (HE) staining; Histology: normal squamous epithelium (red arrows); carcinoma showing immature ... radiologic diagnoses, which included the spreading of the neoplasia, could be made only for the intraoral findings within the limits of the primary diagnostics, because the patient's relatives did...
... research The coming year is full of exciting challenges and we all look forward to the next Joint Meeting of the British Societies for Cell Biology and Developmental Biology in 2006 reviews One of the ... emerging problems facing both cell and developmental biologists is to figure out the specific roles of individual genes as they relate to single cells, or inthe context of tissues, and then ... meeting: this is particularly true inthe area of imaging Further developments in functional genomics and bioinformatics as well as in systems biology will benefit future studies in all systems These...
... while also increasing agricultural production, the biggest increases in book publishing occurred inthe areas of engineering and technology, agriculture and 24 David Wei Ze, “China,” in International ... content-editing to printing and distribution, and to handle all instances of illegal publishing In terms of industry development, the GAPP is responsible for providing the general direction and plan ... ways, the political struggle for the nation was waged during this period inthe mass print media Disorder inthe political sphere was mirrored inthe publishing industry, both in terms of the content...
... andthe inability to cope with a waxing and waning ECG contaminant The use of robust filters-smothers to eliminate ECG contamination was introduced to cope with these problems (Larsen and Prinz, ... signal processing inthe human brain, Rao and Reddy (1995) introduced a non-linear on-line method to enhance the EEG signals inthe presence of ocular artifacts Their method, using the recursive ... chosen as the basis function, since it resembles the shape of the eye blink artifact This maximizes the amplitude of coefficients corresponding to the eye blink artifacts inthe lowest band of the...
... of the Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands (ICIN) Utrecht, the Netherlands Acknowledgements Over the years the cardiologists, residents, fellows and nursing staff, working ... occlusion(20) 3) The sinoatrial branch This vessel originates in 60% from the RCA, andin about 40% from the CX (11 in fig 2.3) 13 14 THE ECG IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION AND UNSTABLE ANGINA and rarely ... depression inthe inferior leads (53,54) In this situation there is ischemia inthe infero-apical part therefore the ST vector will point inferiorly (figure 2.18 left panel) The ST segment inthe inferior...
... pre-existing increased insulin resistance and dysfunction of beta cells Insulin resistance is present inthe acutely ill [13,15,18,28] in different intensity, but the factors determining the extent ... of cytokine-induced insulin resistance in obesity and other inflammatory settings Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care 2002, 5:377-383 15 Marik PE, Raghavan M: Stress-hyperglycemia, insulin and immunomodulation ... patients inthe normoglycaemia group and 93 inthe hyperglycaemia group who discontinued their assessments Also, we stopped the follow-up for 15 patients inthe normoglycaemia group andinthe hyperglycaemia...