... parts of DNA extraction as well as parts ofPCR analysis Additionally IB performed transportation of samples HZ and JK conceived of the study and participated in its design and coordination and ... methods as described below DNA preparation methods Total DNA was prepared from SF spiked with C trachomatis EB and C trachomatis PBMO by each of five different methods; μl of each DNA preparation ... responsible for organizational aspects of the study, collection of clinical samples, culture of C trachomatisand performed DNA extraction, PCR analysis and drafted the manuscript IB and SM performed parts...
... Euro-English Part two tests the acceptability of ten features that have been claimed to be specific for mainland Europeans Results of this study reveal that there is little awareness of non-native varieties ... of standard norms, many comments indicate that teachers think about issues of identity and how their teaching could be affected by a broader scope that exceeds traditional methods i TABLE OF CONTENTS ... 77 Awareness of other Varieties of English 78 Awareness of Euro-English asa Topic of Discussion 80 Student Age Groups and Motivational Levels 83 iii CHAPTER page Varieties of...
... pH range from 5.3 to Tsuruga and Shikama [21] confirmed that the fast phase of oxidation was due to the a chains and the slow phase was due to the b chains Tsuruga et al found that the beta chain ... of pH on the auto-oxidation of Hb A0 has been the subject of several studies Mansouri and Winterhalter [5] reported that the oxidation of the a chains of Hb A0 was 10 times faster than that of ... initial fast phase of the reaction, but decreased the rate of the slow phase of oxidation in the presence of EDTA A comparison of rough and smooth LPSs of E coli and S minnesota in the presence of...
... observation that δz was a significant parameter in all cases, and that the magnitude and direction of this effect varied according to cell line and confluence, suggests that this variable is an ... flasks was calculated in the usual way For drug-treated flasks, surviving fraction was calculated using the mean, unirradiated, drug-free plating efficiency as the denominator This method revealed ... drug-treated case; and δx – where "x" is any of the parameters above – is the variation on x between the control and case under study General least square fitting was used and the significance of terms...
... triglycerides In addition, an enzymatic activity for the following proteins was measured: alanine aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase, aspartate aminotransferase, lactate dehydrogenase, and sorbitol ... USA) and serum was separated Clinical chemistry analysis was performed on all rats using a COBAS MIRA (Roche Diagnostics, Montclair, NJ, USA) using commercially available reagents from Equal ... The amount and quality of the cRNA was assessed using a NanoDrop ND-1000 spectrophotometer and an Agilent Bioanalyzer The cRNA was then fragmented and hybridized to the Rat Genome 230 2.0 Array...
... resonance decaying in a top-antitop pair, using ATLAS data at center -of- mass √ energy of s = TeV The latter analysis is repeated for ATLAS data col√ lected with s = TeV Performance studies of b-tagging ... described by a Lagrangian density that can be separated into a gauge term, a matter term, a Yukawa term anda Higgs term [30]: LSM = LMatter + LGauge + LYukawa + LHiggs The matter Lagrangian contains ... models, so that a comparison of the measurements and searches in data and simulation can be used to test proposed extensions of the Standard Model A comparison of the data and the simulated result...
... battle field to commercial enterprises, the microstrip antenna is fast replacing many conventional antennas The advantages and disadvantages of the Microstrip Antenna are tabulated below: Advantages ... theory and experimental results was close especially when the assumptions used in our formulation were adhered to iv List of Tables Table 1.1: The Advantages and Disadvantages of Microstrip Antennas ... Antennas It is actually the last advantage in the list above that makes microstrip antennas so popular today Many characteristics ofa single microstrip patch antenna can be modified and engineered...
... genotype, and negative affect on the cardiovascular responses of males and females of Indian, Chinese and Malay ethnicity 1) Trait anger and habitual anger expression styles potentially initiate negative ... Indian males in Singapore had an average heart disease mortality rate that was 1.81 times higher than Malay males and 2.69 times higher than Chinese males (Registry of Births and Deaths, 1991) Malay ... Chinese, Indians and Malays For Indians, cardiac output was a positive functionof hostility whereas vascular resistance was negatively associated with hostility, suggesting that Indians high in...
... PBMC was evaluated Calibration standard curve and linearity of dilution Due to the lack ofa standard reference material, calibration standard curves were not evaluated for quantification of cellular ... one patient, as an example, was detected by all three validated clinical assays, HLA -A2 MART-1 tetramer assay, IFNγ real time RT -PCR and ELISPOT (Figure and Table 10), demonstrating the assay utility ... Accuracy and precision The real time RT -PCR assay was examined for assay accuracy and precision by spiking 1000 copies of IFNγ plasmid per sample in 80 repeats (n = 80) for intra-assay and 18...
... HA and quantitative real-time PCR data employed for the determination of JC viral load A – C: Analysis of HA and quantitative real-time PCR data employed for the determination of JC viral load ... between real-time PCRand HA assays for the determination of JC viral load JCV(Mad1) was propagated in primary human fetal glial (PHFG) cells and purified in Dr Duard Walker's laboratory (I) ... agglutination and traditionally, hemagglutination (HA) and HA inhibition (HAI) assays have been employed for quantitation of JCV [8-14] However, the HA assay is poorly sensitive and the in vitro quantitation...
... HA and quantitative real-time PCR data employed for the determination of JC viral load A – C: Analysis of HA and quantitative real-time PCR data employed for the determination of JC viral load ... between real-time PCRand HA assays for the determination of JC viral load JCV(Mad1) was propagated in primary human fetal glial (PHFG) cells and purified in Dr Duard Walker's laboratory (I) ... agglutination and traditionally, hemagglutination (HA) and HA inhibition (HAI) assays have been employed for quantitation of JCV [8-14] However, the HA assay is poorly sensitive and the in vitro quantitation...
... low as ng of total RNAs extracted from dormant potato tubers or as low as 0.1 pg of PVM RNA was readily detectable by real-time quantitative RT -PCR (data not shown) Analysis ofPCR amplicons based ... RT -PCR followed by RFLP analysis for confirmation ELISA Potato tubers and leaves as well as indicator plants were screened for the presence of PVM by a standard double antibody sandwich ELISA ... identified and characterized, on the basis of bioassay and serological reactions (Table 1) All isolates were maintained in infected potato plants that were grown under greenhouse conditions and progeny...
... visualization, normalization and significance testingof pathogen detection microarray data R is a freely available statistical software package available for Windows, Unix/ Linux and MacOS, meaning ... asa package for R, a powerful, opensource software package for statistical programming [10] Many packages for R already exist for the analysis of biological datasets, including microarray data, ... published software on a publicly available microarray dataset DetectiV is available asa package for R, a platform-independent statistical software package, and requires little configuration or...
... Canada and four comparison nations, 2001 Canada Overall rank Seats in parliament (%) Female legislators, senior of cials, managers (%) Female professional and technical workers (%) Ratio female:male ... and US and to a lesser extent in Canada 9.1 Decline of the welfare state Teeple [11] sees increasing income and wealth inequalities and the weakening of social infrastructures within Canada and ... indicator of general quality of life and women’s quality of life as compared to the UK and the US Canada does not perform well in relation to the values on a number of indicators of Denmark and...
... concentrations result in earlier maximal pathway activation and an increase in signal amplitude [3,4] Furthermore, alterations in the activity ofa kinase or phosphatase may affect the speed of signalling ... using an RNeasy Plus Mini Kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) The RNA was used for the quantitative real-time PCRand microarray analysis To generate cDNA, lg of total RNA was transcribed using a QuantiTect ... initial and final concentration, as well as the time and height of the peak for each simulated species, had to fit into a ±20% threshold of the measured data Of 10 000 evaluated parameter sets, approximately...
... kanji katakana katakana-kanji kanji-hiragana hiragana kanji-katakana kat akana-symbol-katakana number kanji-hiragana-kanji alphabet kanji-hir agana-kanji-hir agana hiragana-kanji percent 45.1% 11.4% ... Table shows examples of common charto Chinese characters Hiragana and katakana are acter bigrams for each part of speech in the infresyllabaries: The former is used primarily for grammatical function ... < a l p h a > , < h i r a > , < k a t a > , and < k a n > represent a sequence of symbols, numbers, alphabets, hiraganas, katakanas, and kanjis, respectively < k a n - h i r a > and < h i r a...
... those at risk of heart failure found that the waltz was just as good as traditional aerobic exercise and that people were happier, which was demonstrated by increases in a measure of quality of ... for their assistance with this study This work was supported by a grant from the Marian Chace Foundation to Madeleine Hackney anda grant from the American Parkinson Disease Association to Gammon ... the task: Interference effects of functional tasks on walking in Parkinson’s disease and the roles of cognition, depression, fatigue, and balance Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,...
... be installed – The amount of data and the speed at which it must be transmitted – The cost of the media and installation 17 Local Area Network (LAN) Local Area Network (LAN) An individual network ... Frame Header IP Header Data App TCP Header Header Frame Trailer Data Message: Data Multiple protocols 26 Multiple protocols (encapsulated) HTTP Header Protocols Frame Header IP Header Data App TCP ... Data App TCP Header Header Frame Trailer Data Encapsulation – Process of adding a header to the data or any previous set of headers Decapsulation – Process of removing a header 27 Example: Protocol...