... Handling of missing SOFA scores in the total sample, calibration sample, and validation sample Type of missing SOFA data Interpolation and extrapolation rules used to fill in missing dataData ... direction of illness Although the inclusion of a measure of length of time in the hospital generally improved the prediction of the average SOFA scores of the surviving patients, the inclusion of a ... is the finding that the predictive ability of the component and total SOFA scores is not equivalent Of the two types of SOFA scores, the component scores appear to be better predictors of progression...
... modality into clinical practice [5] After our preliminary experience with this technique dealing with staging of colorectal cancer [6], in the current prospective study we aim to specifically determine ... head to avoid beam hardening artefacts as well as errors caused by truncation of the field of view A PET-CT scan of the whole body was performed using an acquisition time ofto (depending of the ... responder group than in the non-responder ROC analysis found SUV2 to be the best predictor of response Using SUV2 value of 4,24 as the cut-off threshold for defining response to therapy (AUC = 0.773,...
... service in the preceding three months, they were asked to identify the most important reason from one of five categories: 1) training issues including lack of training and lack of confidence in providers' ... retained products of conception Clinical training, including refresher training, should take into account both RH-specific and health systems approaches An RH approach to training would provide ... currently providing RH services with procedure-specific up -to- date in- service training A health systems response to training would include a review of basic medical, nursing and midwifery training curricula...
... waiting for a shop to open or waiting for a parking space at the furniture superstore If you ever decide to visit Britain, you will need to know some of the basic rules of the sport First of all, ... this Going on a diet is necessary to maintain good health Discuss with your partner about this What can we to protect the nation’s places of interest? Shopping is a waste of time and money To what ... workers were only interested in making money In contrast, in the early 20th century, researchers found that people went to work to satisfy a range of different needs, and not simply for financial reward...
... Research into the techniques used in teaching pronunciation To date, teachers make useof a great deal of techniques to teach pronunciation Pronunciation may be taught in isolation or in combination ... source of information Taken every factor into consideration so as to minimize the riskof invalidity and to ensure that every single participant was treated under the same conditions of the research, ... combination of different instruments used in this research would help to gain reliable data and help the researcher have a close investigation into the problems that the students were having...
... are used either to synthesize transitory starch in the plastids or to produce sucrose in the cytosol (Quick and Neuhaus, 1997) In order to maintain a balance between the photoassimilate export to ... Therefore, the useof bacterial genes to engineer crop and model plants has become commonplace, with expression of the Bt toxin of Bacillus thuringiensis (milky spore bacterium) being the most ... activity, photosynthetic rates were diminished by 36% Collected data suggest that SBPase is one of the primary limiting factors for RuBP regeneration in the Calvin cycle and that an increase in its...
... they are likely to contain topics of interest to learners, especially if students are given the chance to have a say about the topics of kinds of authentic materials to be used in class As a result, ... process of constructing meaning that involves producing, receiving and processing information (Brown,1994;Burn&Joyce,1997) Speaking is an interactive process of constructing meaning that involves ... second set of speaking skills: the interaction skills, which involve using knowledge and basic motor-perception skills in deciding what to say and how to say it, while maintaining the intended...
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... upon protein concentration, indicating that D2 is monitoring dissociation of the protein into monomers In the 4th derivative of the UV spectrum, the region of D2, 282– 288 nm, contains contributions ... large number of oligomeric enzymes, including phosphofructokinase [22], hexokinase [23], lactate dehydrogenase [24], and creatine kinase [25], have been examined by using pressure In these examples, ... was added in order to minimize losses of activity due to absorption of enolase to the sides of the cuvette during the 45 incubation under pressure Results Exposure of yeast enolase to hydrostatic...
... analyses in order to determine to what extent contextual information helps in discriminating between agreement and disagreement By integrating the interpretation of the pragmatic function of an ... training and testing, and performed two sets of experiments to evaluate the performance of our system The tools used to perform the training are the same as those described in section 3.4 In ... for monitoring levels of agreement during a conversation In Proc of the 26th Penn Linguistics Colloquium M Collins 2000 Discriminative reranking for natural language parsing In Proc 17th International...
... of individual signaling proteins, but also to quantitatively investigate protein– protein interactions The recruitment and localization of LAT and LAT-binding proteins to the sites of receptor ... have also examined the binding of LAT to other effector molecules important for intracellular signaling Phosphorylated LAT tyrosine 132 was demonstrated to be the principal direct binding site for ... ubiquitin ligases, c-Cbl and Cbl-b [15] In fact, LAT tyrosines 171, 191 and 226 were shown to be crucial for the indirect binding of LAT to Sos and Cbl-b (Fig 2) [18] Interestingly, two Grb2-binding...
... limiting TOC value at high concentrations of hydrogen peroxide In order to reduce the TOC, the concentration of Fe2+ and H2O2 show to be very important In all the experiments, after 24 h of reaction, ... are refractory to the biological treatments Two kinds of experiments were developed First type were conducted to the search of the stoichiometric coefficients, that is to know the moles of organic ... Æ 0.027 Useof Fenton reagent to improve organic chemical biodegradability 1049 Fig Remaining PHE, 4-CP, DCP and NB for initial concentrations of 300 ppm (Fe2+/organic=0.01 : 1) Fig Total organic...
... on Putin to put an end to human rights abuses in the North Caucasus, including the war-torn province of Chechnya Figure 1: Some examples of a French source sentence, the SMT translation used as ... sentences in one language tend to be translated into longer sentences in the other language, and that shorter sentences tend to be translated into shorter sentences We also use the same logic in our initial ... consuming task in the whole system The time taken depends upon various factors like size of the index to search in, length of the query sentence etc To give a time estimate, using a ±5 day window...
... important to set up appropriate management strategies, mainly in reforestation In this respect, this method of analyzing cotyledon storage proteins (glutelins) could be considered an additional tool to ... according to the method described by Fonseca et al (1997) Four fractions (albumins, globulins, prolamines and glutelins) were obtained, all of them were precipitated with ml of cold acetone, ... degree of polymorphism, finding up to 32 polymorphic bands in all the trees evaluated On the other hand, the understanding of the genetic diversity presents in a species and the distribution of this...
... molecule, with the binding of one mAb interfering with the binding of the second mAb These methods of analysis have been used effectively to develop a set of mAbs for usein alpacas and llamas ... Animals Rabbits being used in other studies were used as a source of blood and tissues They were housed and maintained according to the Institutional Animal Care and Use committee guidelines and Association ... Cumulative data obtained from international workshops convened to complete characterization of mAbs to LDM in humans have shown flow cytometry can be used to compare and cluster mAbs that appear to recognize...
... palynological information, were used to infer colonisation routes out of the glacial period refugia [16] The useof cpSSRs instead of PCR-RFLP could be of particular interest in the case of these ... the usefulness of these two sets of cpSSRs loci to detect intraspecific variation in oaks The level and pattern of inter- and intraspecific cpSSR variation is studied on 48 French populations of ... loci) of squared difference in the number of repeats (following Slatkin [25]) The program used to derive GST and RST (called CPSSR) is available at http://www.pierroton.inra.fr/genetics/labo/ Software...
... [18] Usein Planning Klesges LM, Estabrooks PA, Glasgow RE, Dzewaltowski D Beginning with the application in mind: Designing and planning health behavior change interventions to enhance dissemination ... been integrated into the development and testing of the majority of IBCTs In this article, we summarize key points of the RE-AIM implementation science model, and then describe how it was used to ... contributions to conception and design, or acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data, have been involved in drafting the manuscript or revising it critically for important intellectual...