... their appreciation and deployment ofthe technology and training provided by the project and sustainability ofthe process into the future is secure One issue that arose in the final review of ... enhanced the capacity ofthe collaborators to deliver highly effective, up -to- date training courses to this sector The Australian team were nominated in the original proposal and have worked together ... in both theory and practice, so as to be able to choose the most suitable method of fumigation for particular circumstances They must also be aware ofthe impact of their actions on the environment,...
... maintains the hegemony andthe gap between the poor andthe rich, the major and minority groups In order to redress poverty the adult education program needs to be aware ofthe social functions of language ... Setswana and English contributes to an assimilation of these groups into Setswana, killing their identities and ignoring the knowledge and experience embodied in their native languages and cultures The ... order to meet the responsibilities and obligations of a citizen Education refers tothe teaching and learning activities through which members of a society gain access to this information andto these...
... P1 is the price ofthe lth category of labor services and P'i is its relative price The relative price is the ratio ofthe price ofthe lth category of labor services tothe average price of labor ... x4 is the logarithm ofthe ith input per unit of output, P, is the logarithm ofthe "real" price ofthe jth input, mi's are the respective price = 0), v5 is the share ofthe jth factor in total ... II THE QUALITY OF LABOR AND GROWTH ACCOUNTING ONE ofthe earliest responses tothe appearance of a large "residual" in the works of Schmookler [50], Kendnck [39], Solow [56] and others was to...
... (42.34%, 95% CI 31.15% to 51.53%), complications of pregnancy and puerperium (17.12%, 95% CI 10.11% to 24.13%), and diseases ofthe genitourinary system (4.50%, 95% CI 0.64% to 8.36%) (Table 3) ... comorbidity,(6-8) and underrecognition and undertreatment of psychiatric comorbidity is an important issue in the field of mental health Twenty-six to thirty-eight per cent of patients admitted to general ... (e.g., health insurance system) limit the generalization of those findings The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical characteristics of obstetric and gynecologic inpatients referred...
... reliability to monitor and evaluate the volume ofthe Achilles tendon andthe mean intratendinous signal Furthermore, the same authors reported that both, eccentric and concentric loading ofthe Achilles ... nerve-mediated regulationofthe blood vessels supplying the tendon, at the level where they course in the loose paratendinous connective tissue The same authors also demonstrated an up -regulation ofthe ... area, at the patella tendon and in tendinopathies ofthe upper extremity such as in tennis elbow or in tendinopathies at the wrist level The diagnosis of tendinopathy ofthe main body ofthe Achilles...
... azaserine blocked the transfer of amide nitrogen from glutumate to glutamine (Fig 3c) The size ofthe glutamate pool did not increase over h, thus there was no incorporation of ammonia into glutamate ... glutamate to be important in the donation of nitrogen for the anabolism of nitrogenous metabolites Discussion and Conclusions Enzyme assays showed that the ECM fungus P tinctorius was capable of ammonia ... GS and GDH activities, and that both pathways were operative during the period of high ammonia availability Ammonia was assimilated primarily into the amide of glutamine by the activity of GS,...
... ofthe previously mentioned characteristics of SLPI and elafin as ‘alarm molecules’ involved in theregulationof early events in the inflammatory process, the overexpression of these inhibitors ... They are synthesized and secreted locally at the site of injury and are produced in response to primary cytokines such as IL-1 and TNF; they might therefore be part of a first wave of local, inducible ... Respiratory Research Vol No Sallenave is to eliminate the injurious agent and restore homeostasis To migrate from the vascular space and gain access tothe inflammatory site through the interstitium,...
... duration of time on a ventilator, and can thereby reducethe mortality associated with this intervention [9] They performed a dualcentre randomised controlled trial comparing standard ICU practice of ... In their blinded, randomised, placebocontrolled trial, the authors compared a total of 259 patients with a primary outcome variable as the development of ventilator-acquired pneumonia The use of ... the intensivists to study in their own time The study group comprised 44 patients in whom the intensivists were asked to first identify normal or abnormal left ventricular functionand then to...
... solely ofthe hazard ofthe event to which it refers Hypothesis tests for the cumulative incidence function not necessarily equate with the familiar log-rank test [56] How then are we to understand ... of current therapeutic efficacy would suggest analysis excluding the former study, the result of which was toreduce heterogeneity ofthe mortality effect by 40% andto reveal a probability of ... probability of an event is more appropriately estimated by the cumulative incidence function, which, for the particular event of interest, is a functionofthe hazards of all the competing events and...
... drafted the manuscript VS and AH carried out the adhesion assays JR and HAH participated in the design ofthe study and helped to draft the manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they ... under the condition of systemic inflammation • Together these mechanisms favor the maldistribution of leukocytes away from local sources of inflammation and towards areas with compromised flow and/ or ... selectin; SEM: standard error ofthe mean; TNF-a: tumor necrosis factor-a Acknowledgments The authors thank Alice Mager and Christof Zanke, technical assistants, Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive...
... decision-making field of strategic management has used the concepts of uncertainty from these disciplines and applied them tothe issues ofthe firm, including the existence andthe boundary ofthe firm Transaction ... resource-based theory also allows us to compare theroleof uncertainty in the two alternative theories ofthe firm There seems to be an imbalance with respect to a concept of uncertainty between the theories ... definition of uncertainty and answers the questions ofthe existence and boundary ofthe firm Transaction cost economics explains that the firm exists toreducethe threat of opportunism, or behavioral...
... potential and sending the impulse across the atria to cause both left and right atria to contract in unison The impulses then pass tothe atrioventricular (AV) node, andthe signal is further conducted ... and support I would like to extend my gratitude to all the members ofthe lab, past and present, for their help and support throughout the years I am especially grateful to Miss Ester Khin Sandar ... a key role in the intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis andtheregulationof cardiac function (Fabiato and Fabiato, 1977; Lederer et al., 1990) The SR Ca2+ release during each cardiac cycle is the determinant...
... suitable inoculum for the pathogen and determines the severity ofthe disease However, the genetic and biochemical control ofthe onset of conidiation, andtheregulationof proper morphogenesis ... within the ATG8 locus) to remove the fragment spanning approximately last 500 bp ofthe promoter and first 72 bp ofthe coding sequence of ATG8 The resultant vector was then ligated with the PCR-amplified ... Cvt and autophagy pathways are topologically and mechanistically similar and share most ofthe Atg (autophagy- Figure Schematic diagram of selective and non-selective autophagy Depending on the...
... ofthe most frequently used methods to study autophagy in yeast and fungal species and focus on the methods that are useful to monitor the induction and rate of autophagy in filamentous fungi The ... including Magnaporthe Further studies are needed to dissect the mechanistic regulationof conidiation, andto elucidate the exact physiological roleof autophagy in the process of asexual development ... indicator ofthe fusion of autophagosomes with the vacuole andthe subsequent processing therein (Kirisako et al., 1999; Wang et al., 2001) See the chapters by Noda and Klionsky, Cabrera and Ungermann,...
... glycogen and dependent on autophagy for getting access tothe substrate A cytosolic variant of Sga1 could bypass the requirement of autophagy for glycogen breakdown and thus restored conidiation in the ... autophagy was also found to be essential for Magnaporthe pathogenesis To uncouple the various functions of macroautophagy (such as pexophagy, cytoplasm to vacuole transport etc), the Atg20 (Autophagy ... available on the mechanism and functional roleof autophagy in such processes In this study, an essential role for autophagy-assisted glycogen breakdown (glycogen autophagy) is described in the rice-blast...
... the moderator effect of target-arousal that refers tothe different levels of arousal desired according tothe situation, the setting andthe characteristics ofthe customer The notion of goal-directed ... strengthened thereafter (Chase and Dasu, 2001; Pine and Gilmore, 1998) Chase and Dasu (2001) highlight the importance ofthe sequence andthe duration, as well as the trend ofthe sequence They ... satisfaction and loyalty all along the service experience and help service providers, especially in the travel and tourism industry, to identify the key moments of their customers’ experience and the...
... abortion theory, theory of abortion andthe combination of abortion and theory yielded 140 articles Many of these were qualitative in nature and none yielded a discrete theory of abortion There ... determined by their feelings of susceptibility tothe illness, the extent to which they perceive the occurrence as possible, and an individual’s perception ofthe consequences or severity of that illness ... number of live births, total number of stillbirths, total number of miscarriages, and total number of induced abortions Latina vs Hispanic For the purpose of this dissertation, the word Latino and/ or...
... as in the case ofthe present study The sample selection was a result of a combination ofthe random route sampling method andthe establishment of gender and age quotas to ensure that the sample ... aOn the diagonal the AVE of each factor is shown In the upper part, the square ofthe correlation between each pair of factors is detailed andthe confidence interval for every pair of factors ... The evaluation ofthe measurement scales led tothe elimination of some items due to problems of convergent validity Therefore, the final items employed to measure the variables involved in the...
... obesity to dampen the inflammatory tone SLPI stabilized IKBa expression in LPS treated adipocytes Due tothe importance of IKBa as a negative regulator of TLR signaling, we investigated the effect of ... 0.05 Therefore, we examined whether treatment of adipocytes with peptidoglycan and LPS, ligands for TLR2 and TLR4, could alter the expression of SLPI Both peptidoglycan and LPS (Figures 3A and ... (Cat# 7074, Cell Signaling, Danvers, MA, USA) To determine theroleof IKBa protein in theregulationof SLPI effect, the expression of phosphorylated and native IKBa was quantified by western blotting...