... excluded inthe target volume ofthe whole breast, whereas these structures are included inthe target volume ofthe chest wall Due to these differences inthe target volume, results of a dosimetric ... beams ofthe corresponding IMRT plan The PTV included the same PTV used for the 3D-CRT plans plus an extension into the air anteriorly ofthe chest of 1.5 cm to ensure appropriate opening ofthe ... whole breastin early breastcancer patients Data about the impact of IMRT on the adjuvant radiotherapy ofthe chest wall in postmastectomy patients are scarce inthe literature There are distinct...
... presence of lymphovascular invasion (LVI), and resection margin status A close margin was defined as the presence of invasive carcinoma within mm ofthe surgical margin of resection Patient grouping ... one ofthe most important factors affecting prognosis in patients with breastcancer [1] According to the current 7th edition ofthe American Joint Committee on Cancer staging system, N stage in ... breastcancer society BreastCancer Res Treat, in press 14 Fortin A, Dagnault A, Blondeau L, Vu TT, Larochelle M: The impact ofthe number of excised axillary nodes and ofthe percentage of involved...
... satisfactory inthe evaluation of nodal status in this patient group Since the highly cellular tissue in reactive lymph nodes may also show increased intensity, theroleof DWI and ADC in distinguishing ... enhancing cervical cancer (arrow) The tumor invades the cervical stroma (arrowhead) c DWI with b = 1,000 s/mm2 shows a well-defined hyperintensity mass inthe cervical area The shape ofthe uterine ... imaging technique (SENSE factor of 2) Imaging time of DWI was 90 s for 20 slices Detection of uterine malignancy The ADC values of uterine cancers are lower than of normal tissue On the other...
... Protein targeting to the microsomes requires the cotranslational insertion ofthe newly synthesized protein into the microsomal membrane, where the N-terminal hydrophobic signal sequence ofthe ... mitochondria-targeting signal inthe yeast system Mitochondrial localization of intact CYP2E1 in yeast cells Because ofthe existing ambiguity inthe literature on the nature and extent of CYP2E1 import into ... consistent with the model suggesting a transmembrane topology of CYPs with a single N-terminal membrane anchor and most ofthe remaining protein exposed to the cytosolic side [15,17,30,31] The intramitochondrial...
... lysine reduces the probability of forming the fully closed form ofthe protein The results obtained with the K22V/R120K double mutant protein point toward a central roleof arginine 120 inthe ... enthalpies of binding and stoichiometries were determined from the binding isotherm by fitting a : binding model to the data using the software provided by the manufacturer Results Reaction of fosfomycin ... chain of K22 participates in fosfomycin binding, thus providing a rationale for the loss of fosfomycin binding to the K22V and K22E mutant proteins However, two other positively charged amino...
... iron-peroxo intermediate [11] The sum of these ndings points at the involvement of more than one active oxidant inthe diverse types of P450-catalyzed substrate processing [1215] The goal ofthe present ... reect ring opening of an epoxide intermediate at either of its two C-O bonds [219,220] The sum of these ndings strongly invokes the notion of oxygen activation during redox cycling ofthe diverse ... alterations inthe environment can cause drastic changes inthe reactivity ofthe active species [76] Further support in favour ofthe idea ofthe involvement of a high-valent iron-oxene in P450...
... Regional Learning Alliance – workforce development and training/collaborations with business and industry; meeting the training and education needs of businesses within 60 mile radius in Northern Allegheny ... $28,000 in average annual salary) Preserving Value Continuing education is important to preserving the market value of specialized education – particularly in professional fields Continuing education ... Shippensburg University Small Business Initiative inthe Frehn Center for Management; offering information and assistance to individuals and groups planning to start a new business Best Practice Highlights...
... Amino–aromatic interactions in proteins FEBS Lett 203, 139–143 19 Chakrabarti, P & Samanta, U (1995) CH/, p interaction inthe packing ofthe adenine ring in protein structures Advan Protein ... determined as part ofthe investigation into the shielding from solvent ofthe electrostatic interaction between Asp113 and His210 With increasing NaCl, the maximum activity decreased, while the ... deviation, the solvent ASA ofthe side-chain of His210 increased with the decrease in size ofthe side-chain at residue 169 (Table and Fig 3A) However, the ASAs of Asp113 and His57 remained constant...
... Ala219 ofthe catalytic site and His135 ofthe Mg2+ binding site The most striking result was the loss ofthe psychrophilic character of mutant W260K/A219N (as reflected by a threefold increase ofthe ... value in this temperature range is considerably lowered On the basis ofthe model, the behavior ofthe G261A variant can be interpreted in terms of constraints introduced by the Ala side chain The ... our incomplete understanding ofthe relation between enzyme properties and conformational flexibility limits the exploitation ofthe full potential of protein engineering inthe redesign of psychrophilic...
... by the C domain ofthe initiation module of daptomycin That DptE and DptF are involved inthe lipidation process of daptomycin was first shown by Miao et al [1] In their work, the daptomycin gene ... is GLDSV, indicating that this putative ACP domain is one ofthe few ACPs in which valine replaces isoleucine (I) or leucine (L) inthe conserved sequence To determine whether DptF is the putative ... tryptophan ofthe nonribosomally synthesized peptide is necessary Here, we report the results of a steady-state kinetic analysis of DptE The aim of this kinetic study was to determine the specificity of...
... evaluate the OS-fitness ofthe clone, the ratio ofthe specific absorbance inthe presence of 10 lgÆmL)1 HEL to that inthe absence of HEL was taken as an index To analyze the effect ofthe type of each ... antigen binding, this ‘increasing the affinity by increasing the VH ⁄ VL interaction’ might represent a mechanism of increasing Fv affinity This is also supported by the kinetic study of purified ... to retain the specificity and affinity to antigen in itself [7,20] At least for these antibodies, theroleofthe VL domain might be to increase the affinity by supporting the VH domain The phenomenon...
... Cardie, Vincent Ng, David Pierce, Chris Buckley Examining theroleof statistical and linguistic knowledge sources in a general-knowledge que stion answering system In Proceedings ofthe 6th Applied ... hypernyms inthe answer semantic form Step 3: The assessment ofthe similarities of dependencies Inthe third step, two classes of similar dependencies are considered, generating unications ofthe ... example, inthe case of question Q209: Who invented the paper clip ?, the expected answer type is P ERSON and so is the subject ofthe verb invented , lexicalized as the nominalization inventor...
... change their brand attitude, may suggest an interesting implication for the new brand advertising strategy Instead of focusing on the content ofthe message which only emphasizes the benefits ofthe ... birthday This finding is just reverse ofthe finding of Belk (1973) Ruth, Brunel, Otnes (1999) classified categories of gift-giving into public occasion (i.e., Christmas, Chinese New Year), individual ... situational conditions of gift-giving may differ according to characteristics ofthe gift-giving occasion, whether the presentation ofthe gift is public, private, or anonymous, and whether the gift is...
... important for explaining wilt Inthe case of income, youth living in low-income households experience higher levels of wilt (45%) than youth living in either modest-income (35%) or high-income (23%) ... financing school Conley (2001) finds that a doubling of net worth results in an 8.3% increase inthe probability of attending college Further, when net worth is included inthe model, Black youth are ... youth Youth savings Youth were asked in 2002 whether they had a savings or bank account in their name If they had an account, they were also asked whether they were saving some of this money for...
... that the increase of Glc6P inthe presence of S4048 was caused by the inhibition of Glc6P hydrolysis inthe absence of detectable changes in glucose phosphorylation S4048 causes inactivation of ... [31], for evaluating theroleof Glc6P, we determined the effect of different inhibitor concentrations on the Glc6P content and the rate of glycogen synthesis in hepatocytes incubated with 15 ... Harndahl et al ¨ levels through the interaction of glucokinase with binding proteins [5,6] The glucokinase regulatory protein (GKRP) is a specific inhibitor of glucokinase [5] and also a nuclear...
... the short ones) have all zeroes in them In other words, none ofthe bigrams from the training set appears in these reviews This suggests that the main problem with the bigram model is likely to ... Following Pang et al (2002), we use frequency as presence In other words, the ith element ofthe document vector is if the corresponding unigram is present inthe document and otherwise The resulting ... relation is capturing two different situations, one in which the author himself likes the movie, and inthe other, the author’s cousin likes the movie The overgeneralization resulting from these “stemmed”...
... strong indications for the involvement of a bacterial P450 inthe hydroxylation of octane in Rhodococcus rhodochrous, theroleof bacterial P450s in alkane degradation in addition to the well-established ... biological functions The proteins displaying the lowest similarity to the other P450s are those involved in oxylipin biosynthesis (2–6% amino acid identity) This can be explained in part by their bifunctional ... enzymes The FUM6 protein (CYP505B1) intervenes in one ofthe first steps in fumonisin synthesis by hydroxylation ofthe polyketide-amino acid at C-14 and C-15 (Fig 3) Fum6 deletion mutants of F verticilloides...
... the transaction from the vantage point of firm A, the floatingrate payer The cost of synthetic floating-rate financing is determined by the cost of servicing fixed-rate debt plus the net cost ofthe ... to the desire on the part of firms to hedge cash flows against the effects of interest rate volatility The timing ofthe appearance of interest rate swaps, coming as it did during a period of volatile ... argue, trading in interest rate swaps has helped to complete forward markets and to lower the cost to firms of managing their exposure to interest rate risk TheRole for Hedging inthe Theory of Corporate...
... unfolding of one ofthe I27 modules inthe chain Unfolding then extends the overall length ofthe protein, relaxing the pulling force to a low value As the slack inthe length is removed by further ... bridging the A’ and G b-strands ofthe I27 protein during the main unfolding barrier.[39] To further validate this view and gain insight into theroleof solvent hydrogen bonds in protein unfolding, ... repeats ofthe I27 module, in D2O, showing a prominent hump inthe rising phase ofthe initial force peaks which cannot be fitted with the worm-like chain (WLC) model (thin lines) B) The hump begins...
... explains some ofthe key concepts and outlines some ofthe basic IdM processes The range of conceptions of identity is very broad The examination ofthe following concepts is for the purposes of ... to take into account inthe assessment ofthe security risks to − and privacy impact on − the delivery of online services, and in determining appropriate levels of security Inthe case of sensitive ... accounts within the organisation The organisation is in some sense wasting resources and duplicating efforts in maintaining separate profiles with (mostly) the same information Nonetheless, there can...