infectious diseases in context
... lipid bilayer with proteins—molecules that also act as receptor sites—interspersed within the phospholipid bilayer Varieties of channels exist within the membrane In eukaryotes (cells with a true ... section provides readers with a ready reference for contentrelated terminology In addition to defining terms within entries, specific Words-toKnow sidebars are placed within each entry • A bibliography ... miracles with skill, grace, and humor INFECTIOUS DISEASES: IN CONTEXT Introduction Humanity shares a common ancestry with all living things on Earth We often share especially close intimacies with...
Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 16:10
... Current microarray data analysis tools provided good predictive performance However, the markers produced by those tools have been found to be highly unstable with the variation of patient sample ... technology, phylogenetic profiles and global profiles of gene expression, are widely used in this approach Chapter Introduction Based on sequencing technology, phylogenetic profiles is a powerful computational ... Hierarchical clustering of gene expression profiles in rheumatoid synovium identified 121 genes associated with Rheumatoid arthritis I and 39 genes associated with Rheumatoid arthritis II (110) Unsupervised...
Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 08:20
... Determination of core proteins with the specific lectin epitope by the IGOT method In order to identify core proteins modified with specific glycans, glycoproteomic approaches coupled with lectin-mediated ... (HepG2 and HuH-7) with the probe lectin, AAL, are compared with those found in the sera of HVs Overlapping proteins are removed from the candidates The profiles are then compared with those of RCA120 ... our experiments with cultured cancer cells and cancer tissues obtained by microdissection Unfortunately, researchers often analyze the serum of patients with advanced cancer without paying much...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 08:20
Children''s Health and the Environment: WHO Training Package for the Health Sector World Health Organization potx
... simulations Range of precipitation levels and CO2 levels With adaptations (green) Without adaptations (red) Overall decreasing yields with increasing temperatures IPCC-AR4, WG II, 2008 (www.ipcc.ch/index.htm) ... possible within centuries leading to 15 meter rise Species extinctions 20-30% of plant and animal species at risk of extinction with >1.52.5o C average rise Massive extinctions likely with 4-5o ... conditions within a full ecosystem and found that it grew faster, bigger and better and produced a higher proportion of the more allergenic congeners of the noxious oils If this happens with aeroallergens...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20
Search Patterns: Design for Discovery potx
... their crown jewels behind firewalls and within tightly controlled information silos Design teams work hard to make search simple, but lack the skills and tools to ensure relevance and speed Once ... right stuff finds us We rely on people, tools, algorithms, and impatience as filters Still, junk gets in On the other hand, we often find what we need without leaving the house or lifting a finger ... Search isn’t always a solo sport We search on behalf of other people We search with other people We crowdsearch with Twitter and Mechanical Turk, distributing our queries (as whispers or shouts)...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 17:20
STRENGTHENING HEALTH SYSTEMS TO IMPROVE HEALTH OUTCOMES: WHO’S FRAMEWORK FOR ACTION pot
... requires sound logic and sufficient support Plans need to be costed; budgets have to balance ambition with realism The necessary processes have to be managed in an inclusive way, and linked with ... engage with communities, NGOs and the private sector Promising experiences, such as working with informal providers to expand TB care, the social marketing of bed-nets or contracting with NGOs, ... who know about oral rehydration, and who give it to children with diarrhoea; and more children fully vaccinated, compared with areas without LHWs Sources (see Annex 2, References): Oxford Policy...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20
CHILDREN AND FOOD SAFETY: WHO Training Package for the Health Sector doc
... and delivery 10–15% During breastfeeding 5–20% Overall without breastfeeding 15–25% Overall with breastfeeding to months 20–35% Overall with breastfeeding to 18 to 24 months 30–45% Cytomegalovirus ... contaminated with the feces from infected humans or animals Giardia is not spread by contact with blood Giardia can be spread: •By eating or accidentally swallowing something that has come in contact with ... ponds, or streams that can be contaminated with sewage or feces from humans or animals •By eating uncooked food contaminated with Giardia Thoroughly wash with uncontaminated water all vegetables...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20
Health Care for the Elderly - How Much? Who Will Pay For It pot
... impossible to cut back only on those services without affecting the delivery of other services that extend lives, improve functioning, or provide assistance with activities of daily living Furthermore, ... the result of inequality in earnings prior to retirement: Households with the same lifetime earnings approach retirement with vastly different levels of accumulated wealth.15 Even after adjustments ... Style,” New York Times, 11 November 1998, C1 Children with Medicaid insurance appear to make more emergency room asthma visits than children with capitated or fee-for-service coverage, according...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20
Children''''s Health and the Environment WHO Training Package for the Health Sector World Health Organization pdf
... mycotoxins is associated with some diseases in children To describe routes of exposure to mycotoxins To consider some of the options for prevention of diseases associated with these toxins
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "A Joint Model for Discovery of Aspects in Utterances" potx
... query logs as constraints on these latent aspects Our model can discover associations between words within a multi-layered aspect model, in which some words are indicative of higher layer (meta) aspects ... events }, as well as out-of-domain other class Each utterance has one dialog act (A) associated with it We assume a fixed number of possible dialog acts KA for each domain Semantic Tags, slots ... distribution over words that is specific to that author In our model, each utterance u is associated with domain and dialog act topics A word wuj in u is generated by first selecting a domain and an...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 17:20
who draft guidelines for adverse event reporting and learning systems
... correlated with elderly patients than with younger (and perhaps more alert) patients Risk analysis With adequate data, a reporting system can develop valuable information about risk With a large ... sent to the Ministry of Health within 48 hours, and 45 days later a satisfactory analysis with corrective actions must be submitted or else a follow-up consultation with the Ministry occurs The ... organizations These data are classified and fed back to health-care organizations with benchmarking from the entire database and with their own prior experience, to identify targets for improvement as...
Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2014, 18:05
I am malala the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the taliban malala yousafzai
... behind closed doors with my school friends Growing up, we children spent most of our time with our mother My father was out a lot as he was busy, not just with his school, but also with literary societies ... can’t live with our wives, he couldn’t be without his.’ Within a few months my mother was expecting Their first child, born in 1995, was a girl and stillborn ‘I think there was some problem with hygiene ... red mouth signs for dentists, the carts stacked with wooden cages crammed with beady-eyed white chickens with scarlet beaks, and jewellery stores with windows full of gold wedding bangles The last...
Ngày tải lên: 20/07/2014, 20:29
Báo cáo y học: "A functional variant of Fcγ receptor IIIA is associated with rheumatoid arthritis in individuals who are positive for anti-glucose-6-phosphate isomerase antibodies" doc
... 56.5% of patients with RA were homozygous or heterozygous with respect to FCGR3A-158V, as compared with 11.1% of healthy individuals; and 43.5% of patients with RA were homozygous with respect to ... 48.7% of patients with RA were homozygous or heterozygous with respect to FCGR3A-158V, as compared with 42.4% of healthy individuals; and 51.3% of patients with RA were homozygous with respect to ... from 187 Japanese patients with RA (mean age 46 ± 17 years; 33 females; mean disease duration 12.9 years [range 1–46 years]) including four with vasculitis and three with Felty's syndrome These...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20
Báo cáo y học: " TopHat-Fusion: an algorithm for discovery of novel fusion transcript" doc
... gap-free alignment with three mismatches is preferred over the fusion alignment with one mismatch If all alignments have gaps and mismatches, then the algorithm prefers those with fewer mismatches, ... that the ability to detect fusions using single-end reads, when used with TopHat-Fusion, was sometimes nearly as good as with paired reads For example, the reads aligning to the BCR-ABL1 fusion ... GAS6-RASA3, BCR-ABL1, ARFGEF2-SULF2, and BCAS4-BCAS3 With TopHat-Fusion’s ability to align a read across a fusion, the singleend approach is competitive with the paired-end-based approach RPM is the...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 23:20
Báo cáo y học: "Use of WHO clinical stage for assessing patient eligibility to antiretroviral therapy in a routine health service setting in Jinja, Uganda" pdf
... 680 (47%) subjects who had plasma viral load tested within 30 days of CD4 testing; p < 0.0001 for both, Spearman's correlation) Of 1321 subjects with CD4 count
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21
báo cáo khoa học: " Peritoneal mesothelioma in a woman who has survived for seven years: a case report" pptx
... patient underwent cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC, which is most effective for patients with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma (MPM) Only two peritonectomies with HIPEC were carried out in this ... tissue) stained blue B - Patient slide with heavy staining for ERb, stained brown may have a less aggressive form of MPM (low disease volume with no metastasis) that with complete cytoreduction is probably ... septum on the small bowel along with two nodules were also removed The patient refused to have postoperative chemotherapy Seven months later, the patient presented with a paraspinal mass, and microscopic...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:20
báo cáo khoa học: "Peritoneal mesothelioma in a woman who has survived for seven years: a case report" doc
... patient underwent cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC, which is most effective for patients with malignant peritoneal mesothelioma (MPM) Only two peritonectomies with HIPEC were carried out in this ... tissue) stained blue B - Patient slide with heavy staining for ERb, stained brown may have a less aggressive form of MPM (low disease volume with no metastasis) that with complete cytoreduction is probably ... septum on the small bowel along with two nodules were also removed The patient refused to have postoperative chemotherapy Seven months later, the patient presented with a paraspinal mass, and microscopic...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:20
Development and application of a high throughput assay for discovery of starch hydrolase inhibitors
... anion with an intense yellow color that can be easily measured with a spectrophotometer At the same time, the enzymes are deactivated at alkaline pH Since samples need to be periodically withdrawn ... the development of the novel HTS method In addition, the proanthocyanidin profiles of the grape seeds were determined With the aim of developing starch based foods for diabetes patients to both ... peroxide Hydrogen peroxide then reacts with o-dianisidine in the presence of peroxidase to form a colored product, before the oxidized o-dianisidine reacts with sulfuric acid to form more stable...
Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:01
Báo cáo sinh học: " Research Article A New-Fangled FES-k -Means Clustering Algorithm for Disease Discovery and Visual Analytics" pdf
... levels of BLL with regards to the age of housing units for the city of Chicago Since we observed that the untrained elevated BLL linked with the age of housing dataset had two clusters with several ... clusters Hence, the DBI will not serve a population of data with a very large number of clusters It is assumed that the k-d tree in combination with Mashor’s method will eliminate this problem also ... MIL-SOM trained version in conjunction with FES-k-means algorithm, was explored The third, shown in Figure 1(c), is a computer-generated synthetic dataset with a predetermined number of clusters...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 16:20