topical and regional anesthesia of the airway

... an estimate of oxygen consumption from the speed and slope of the treadmill and the weight of the subject protocols and assumed a ventilatory equivalent of 27L of ventilation per L of VO2 using ... Scores There was no significant difference in the HR, % of predicted maximum at and minutes on the day of the highest percent fall in FEV of 82.0% ± 5.0 and 87.4% ± 5.0 in adults, and 82.4% ± 5.1 and ... predicted maximum at and minutes of 82.1% ± 5.6 and 86.6% ± 8.9 on Day and of 81.5% ± 6.7 and 89.9% ± 6.5 on Day in adults (p = NS) and 81.9% ± 5.7 and 85.9% ± 10.3 on Day and 81.8% ± 6.3 and 86.7% ±...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... histology and FCFM The FCFM miniprobe has a fixed depth of view of 50 μm and therefore captures images at the level of the subepithelial layer Accordingly, elastic fibre patterns in the subepithelial ... specimens, and helped to draft the manuscript EHB participated in the design of the study and its coordination, and helped to draft the manuscript PJS participated in the design of the study and its ... tool to estimate the type and degree of airway remodelling in chronic airway diseases such as asthma in the near future Since FCFM has the ability to visualize the airway wall of the whole bronchial...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... thesis explores whether these communities matter for the contemporary economy of Chaoshan If the answer is yes, then the case of Chaoshan helps further the understanding of regional development ... outside their roles (both positive and negative) in the ebb and flow of regulation… The institutions and practices of local and regional government have their own histories and patterns of development ... If not, unpacking the reasons and changes provides rethinking of the role of these communities in regional development Third, the case of Chaoshan offers both international and domestic dimensions...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:21

... mentioned The men, especially the husband and the grandfather, sip alcohol and tell their family members what they see and hear or remind them of right or wrong things in life The others also ... denoting the objects covered by the scope of the notion expressed in the word, and the significative function is the function of expressing the content of the respective notion The function of rendering ... difficult The oldest or the husband of the family sits at the head of the table and others sit in descending order according to age or wherever they like The meal starts when everyone has their own...

Ngày tải lên: 15/04/2013, 15:11

... “Introduction” states the rationale of the study, Semantics can be simply defined as the study of meaning It defines the aims, objectives and the significance, presents the is central to the study of communication ... review of the research Chapter 3: “Methodology and Procedures” mentions the method and procedures of the research Chapter 4: “Findings and Discussions” is the main frame of need to understand semantics ... element of the meaning of a word; a description of the characteristic feature of what the word refers to E.g the sense of “grasshopper” is “an insect which can jump high the study, which describes and...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:21

... recognition of the field And the findings of semantic aspects often borrow the WDBs for not only conveying the denotative as well as analysis of pragmatic aspects of these kinds of words will ... understand their cases of Secondly, English considers the WDB “owl” as the symbol meaning, it is important to consider them in their collocations From of “wisdom” on the basis of their experience and ... pragmatic features of the WDBs The finding of the pragmatic features of the WDBs leads both teachers and learners of study may be in one way or another beneficial to the language English and Vietnamese...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2013, 13:30

... II The hood domain is mainly built up by residues from the C-terminus and consists of a two-stranded anti-parallel b-sheet composed of b2 and b9 and an a-helix from the C-terminus (Fig 1A) The ... Lys173 interacts with both O6 and N7 (Fig 1C) The 2¢OH of the ribose is hydrogen bonded to the main chain and the side chain of Asp142 (Fig 1C) Both hydroxyl groups of the ribose are involved in ... Asp142, 2¢ and 3¢OH of the ribose and three water molecules with ˚ coordination distances of approximately 2.4 A The phosphate of the GMP is hydrogen bonded to main chain and side chain atoms of amino...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 01:20

... position at the present day The present theories of the transmission of light and sound; of the production of winds, and sun-spots, and of the method of development and dissemination of heat, are ... except in the direction of other spheres These theories throw new light upon the character and extent of the atmosphere of the moon and planets, and the consequent availability of those and other ... intimate and inherent nature of those forces? Do they, or either of them, belong to the domain of the supernatural? Are they the products of some supreme force, or forces, heretofore unappreciated? The...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 01:20

... regards as the equivalent of thc npper part of t h e Portland Beds of southern England If, with ARKELL (1946, pp 24-28), we place the Portland Beds in the upper part of the Lower Volgian, they, the ... whorls of Tollia pnyeri Bitween 360 and 370 m, on the same flank of the moontain, the writer found similar doggers and platy-weathering sandstones, which contained occasional exarnples of Surifes and ... but further than this I am not prepared to go The dip of the rocks exposed in the 17all~gsides is often vcry nearly 1v Stratigraphy and Anr~noniteFauna of East Greenland 13 the same as the gradient...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 20:20

... cause of offence In these habits we resemble the Aborigines of our country They load their huge pipes with the dried leaves of this plant, and when lighted, they breathe the dark cloud of smoke ... men void of understanding; capable of soothing the sorrows of the afflicted, of healing the wounds of the spirit, and assuaging the anguish of a broken heart But how it fulfils these desirable indications, ... form or other, either to ease the pains of dyspepsia, to allay the horrors of tedium vitæ, or to drown the anguish of a guilty conscience And may not many of these patients say to those of the Faculty,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... component to the model of the choice of the length of stay The decision depends on the value of the unobservable taste We can now construct the probability of observing a series of stay decisions ... using the maximum of the expected value of the two coin flips—$0.50— rather than the expected value of the maximum—$0.75.) This approximation resulted in a model that the computer hardware and software ... Comparing the Dynamic Retention Model and the Annualized Cost of Leaving Family of Models 15 The key difference from the DRM is that the ACOL is computing the maximum of the expected values rather...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 23:20

... characteristics of the Internet; , Ko and DIKo are defined as the average diameter, K, and DIK of the original networks and df , Kf and DIKf denote the diameter, K, and DIK after 10% of the nodes are ... meaningful The other metric, S, is defined as the ratio of the number of nodes in the giant connected component divided by the total number of nodes One might notice the different characteristics of the ... snapshots of the real Internet topology.1 On the other hand, [42], [43] have shown that the clustering coefficient of the Internet has been growing and that the average diameter of the Internet...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20

... understanding of the structure of both the Ab monomer and its various assemblies could help in the design of new therapeutic strategies targeted at preventing the formation or ameliorating the activity ... increases the cost of the purification, and the require1276 ment for HPLC increases the length and complexity of the purification procedure Moreover, as with the studies by Lee et al [21] and Subramanian ... Subramanian and Shree [42], there was no rigorous assessment of the purity of the product or the correctness of the sequence In contrast, the purification protocol that we have developed is quick and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 13:20

... residues and hence does not conflict with the global interpretation of the data With the exclusion of the N-terminal octapeptidyl and C-terminal nonapeptidyl fragments of Glu17, Leu34 and Lys46, the ... Fig The localization of the experimental points in Fig along the correlation line is directly related to the distribution of the energy between the overall tumbling and the internal mobility, and ... and Ala60–Gln67), together with those from Arg58 and Gln59 in the C-terminal end of helix III, are located apart from the major cluster, towards the lower intercept of the theoretical curve and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 16:20

... a4-helix to the b4 strand and the b9 strand to the b10 strand at the bottom of the Zn-stem loop in the pRN1 prim–pol structure However, because the Zn-stem loop is a fairly self-standing structure ... 70 and 80 °C between 190 and 260 nm with a step increase of 0.2 nm, and a bandwidth of nm Thermal stability of Rep245 was measured by incubating the protein at 60, 70 and 80 °C for 30 and then ... the two-metal-ion mechanism of both RNA and DNA synthesis [17] In a previous study, we reported the findings of an analysis of the complete sequence of the cryptic plasmid pIT3 isolated from the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 18:20

... (M23L) by the addition of AAP, as described in the Materials and methods Completion of the hydrolysis was confirmed by the disappearance of the (Met1)-ONC (M23L) signal in the MALDI-TOF mass spectra ... analyzed by MALDI-TOF MS The addition of the protease is considered the zero time point The relative intensities of the peaks from the mass spectra were used to calculate the fraction of Pyr-ONC (M23L), ... simultaneously interacts with the main phosphate of the substrate [32] The closer positioning of the N-terminus to the main protein body is essential for the activity and, together with the 87–104 disulfide...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20

... Fragments of HSQC and HMBC spectra of compound Labels illustrate assignment of the amide linkage between the amino group of Asp and the carboxyl group of GalA residue E Scheme The structures of oligosaccharides ... monosaccharides present in the products and were identified, and the ratio of structures and was close to : All chemical shifts remained mostly unchanged with the exception of H/C-2 and H/C-3 of the glycerol ... because of the existence of branches in the molecule Similarly, the tandem MS was conducted for the doubly charged ion at m/z 1180.25 (data not shown) and the mass spectral data fully agree with the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... binding of NBD-IFP–wt at pH 7.4 and 37 °C Increased intensity and the blue-shift of fluorescence of NBD attached to the N-terminus of the peptide indicate embedding of the peptide in the apolar ... of for IFP–wt) and the shape of Ix/x vs x plot Specifically, the initial slow rise of the latter plot (from x ¼ 1) reflects that the self-association of the peptide is not tight (on the scale of ... the angle of insertion of the FP molecules into the bilayer || and ^ represent parallel and perpendicular polarized light, respectively The bottom panel displays the result of deconvolution of...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... the six MAPEG families and three further groups (Insect, E.coliMGST cluster and SynMGST cluster) A major subgrouping is visible with MGST1, PGES and Insect in the upper part of the tree and the ... that the origin of these forms dates back to before the occurrence of vertebrates, i.e more than 500 mya This dates the differentiation of the MAPEG forms back to the late Cambrian multiplicity of ... from the gel, yielded the expected sequence The partially purified protein constitutes a major part of the preparation and therefore the specific activities measured will be close to those of the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... ecdysis of an old cuticle and deposition of the components of a new cuticle that are synthesized in the hypodermis and are secreted across the hypodermal membrane into the space between it and the ... staining), and that the inhibition of PPasecatalyzed PPi hydrolysis by these inhibitors, is likely to prevent the synthesis of the new cuticle from the hypodermis and/ or ecdysis of the old cuticle ... of individual components were varied as indicated for the determination of Mg2+ and pH dependent rAsPPase activity The amount of Pi liberated from the hydrolysis of PPi during the course of the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 11:20