... compare incidence rates in the poverty area groups, incidence rate ratios (RR) were calculated as the ratio of the incidence rate in a poverty area group to the incidence rate in the areas with ... http://nj.gov/health/ces/reports.shtml, including: • Cancer Incidence and Mortality in New Jersey 2000-2004; • Cancer Incidence Rates in New Jersey’s Ten Most Populated Municipalities 1998-2002; • Trends in Cancer Incidence ... high in saturated fat and/or red meat and low in fruits and vegetables • The lower incidence for whites and blacks in the areas with low poverty may be due in part to increased screening in those...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 21:20
... perform in rising rate environments Baird analyzed an index representing a broad mix of government and corporate bonds (the Barclays Capital Intermediate Government/Credit Index) to determine how ... impacts of rising interest rates Table shows the performance of various types of bonds during periods of rising interest rates For example, corporate bonds outperformed Treasury bonds in two TABLE ... preservation, providing income, diversification, or some combination thereof Our analysis of prior periods of rising interest rates suggests that increases in yield more than offset decreases in price To...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo Y học: Variations in receptor site-3 on rat brain and insect sodium channels highlighted by binding of a funnel-web spider d-atracotoxin pdf
... Brevetoxin-1 (PbTx-1) from a marine dinoflagellate, inhibits allosterically the binding of the scorpion a-toxin, Aah-II, to rat brain synaptosomes [27,28] To examine the similarity in binding to ... channels in polarized synaptosomes gains further support from the 1.9-fold increase in receptor site capacity for scorpion a-toxins binding in the presence of batrachotoxin, an alkaloid toxin binding ... s) and suspended in 0.2 or 0.6 mL binding buffer containing a low concentration of radiolabelled toxins (see figure legends) Standard binding medium composition was (in mM): choline Cl, 130; CaCl2,...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Kinetic deuterium isotope effects for 7-alkoxycoumarin O-dealkylation reactions catalyzed by human cytochromes P450 and in liver microsomes Rate-limiting C-H bond breaking in cytochrome P450 1A2 substrate oxidation pdf
... secondary kinetic isotope effects [19,27–29] The existence of a gem secondary kinetic isotope effect has the effect of attenuating the rate of C-H bond-breaking, so in principle the intrinsic kinetic ... effects are interpreted to mean that the step(s) involving the chemistry of C-H bond cleavage are ratelimiting in the reaction even in liver microsomes, as opposed to steps involving generation ... major enzyme involved in 7-OEt coumarin O-deethylation in human Apparent intermolecular noncompetitive kinetic isotope effects in human liver microsomes and a baculovirus-based recominant system...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 13:20
Lipid profile variations in a group of healthy elderly and centenarians pptx
... polymorphism of apolipoprotein(a) Am J Hum Genet 1991; 49: 1063-1065 11) LEE HC, PAZ MA, GALLOP PM Low density lipoprotein receptor binding in aging human diploid fibroblasts in culture J Biol Chem ... disease: The Framingham Study Am J Med 1977; 62: 707710 14) TRIEN VN, ZIONCHECK TF, LAWN RM, MCCONATH WJ Interaction of apolipoprotein(a) with apolipoprotein B-containing lipoproteins J Biol Chem ... catabolized fraction decreases with aging because of reduced LDL receptor activity, determining a rise in this lipoprotein fraction12 The reduction detected in our subjects may be a result of the...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20
Stochastic Calculus of Variations in Mathematical Finance potx
... Modeling, Valuation and Hedging (2002) Bingham N.H and Kiesel R., Risk-Neutral Valuation: Pricing and Hedging of Financial Derivatives (1998, 2nd ed 2004) Brigo D and Mercurio F., Interest Rate ... Science+Business Media springeronline.com c Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006 Printed in The Netherlands The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc in this publication ... Variations (or Malliavin Calculus) consists, in brief, in constructing and exploiting natural differentiable structures on abstract probability spaces; in other words, Stochastic Calculus of Variations...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Characterization of sequence variations in human histone H1.2 and H1.4 subtypes pptx
... sequence variations within linker histone subtypes from various human tumor cell lines By using HILIC we detected amino acid substitutions in H1.2 and H1.4 at the protein level In addition, sequencing ... Replacement of lysine with arginine may affect the secondary structure of the C-terminal tail and the binding of H1.4 to chromatin, as arginine offers additional hydrogen-bonding abilities to ... H1d probably resides in a C-terminal 34 amino acid stretch [37] Different H1 subtypes may have different chromatincondensing properties [38,39] On binding to DNA, the C-terminal tail probably adopts...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 20:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Targeting the hotspots: investigating spatial and demographic variations in HIV infection in small communities in South Africa" pot
... themselves, including using condoms, and encouraging them to test for HIV, as well as helping those already infected In this study, we investigated the geographical clustering of HIV infection using ... data were included in the study The main eligibility criteria were consistent across the trials and included: being sexually active; being HIV negative at screening at inclusion; willingness to ... devastating impact in this region, geostatistical approaches have received increasing attention as a way of determining possible “hotspots” of HIV infection and prioritizing areas for intervention...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Morphological variations in cadmium sulfide nanocrystals without phase transformation" docx
... towards the tip is 40 nm In Figure 2b, the SAED pattern is identified over all the rods, indicating the single-crystalline nature of the CdS nanorods It is also interesting to note that the tip ... shown in Figure 2a revealed that the length of the CdS nanorods is in the range of to μm The corresponding SAED pattern obtained from a field consisting of several tens of nanorods, as shown in ... pattern can be indexed for the zone axis of (111) singlecrystalline CdS Figure 3c shows a TEM image of CdS nanorods after the critical time under a TEM beam; the beginning of melting can also be...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article A Framework for the Assessment of Temporal Artifacts in Medium Frame-Rate Binary Video Halftones" pot
... diffusion is shown in Figure 16 In this system, each input pixel, from the continuous tone image, to the quantizer is compared against a threshold to determine its binary output in the halftoned ... video, through a dirty window In medium frame -rate binary halftone videos, the perception of dirty-window-effect depends primarily on both the continuous-tone and the corresponding halftone videos ... caltrain sequence halftoned using Ulichney’s 32 × 32 void-and-cluster mask [9] a sequence, if the change in their binary patterns does not “sufficiently” reflect the corresponding change in the continuous-tone...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo hóa học: "Research Article Electrophysiological Study of Algorithmically Processed Metric/Rhythmic Variations in Language and Music" pot
... temporal grains The most obvious time-stretching method is the so-called “blind” method, which consists in regularly duplicating and inserting segments of constant duration (French and Zinn [23]) ... (42) S3/S2 1.39(0.45) Letting α be the stretching factor, a lengthening of the signal (α > 1) can be obtained by crossfading elements KB and KA , and inserting the resulting segment KM between KA ... time-varying energy of the signal, leading to an improvement of the sound quality obtained using WSOLA Choice of the length K of the inserted segment The main issue here consists in determining the...
Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20
LOCATION OF THE PROXIMATES AND VARIATIONS IN THE ASHES OF PLANTS pps
... the most of one ingredient, and what kind requires another in large proportion, he can regulate his crops so as to prevent his soil from being exhausted more in one ingredient than in the others, ... points with a view to fixing them permanently in the mind Plants are composed of organic and inorganic matter.[Pg 57] What is organic matter? Inorganic? Of what does organic matter consist? Inorganic? ... the most prominent ingredient in[ Pg 56] the ash of the potato is potash; of wheat and other grains, phosphoric acid; of meadow hay,silica; of clover, lime; of beans, potash, etc In grain, potash...
Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Circadian variations in salivary chromogranin a concentrations during a 24-hour period in dogs" pps
... salivary CgA concentration obtained during the first sampling was remarkably high Moreover, the results were not influenced at the time of salivary sampling When interpreting these results, we considered ... 16 17 18 trophin, cortisol and thyroxine in dogs J Endocrinol 1984, 103, 219-226 Koyama T, Omata Y, Saito A Changes in salivary cortisol concentrations during a 24-hour period in dogs Horm Metab ... morning and low in the afternoon in many mammals However, Koyama et al [11] reported no circadian rhythm in salivary cortisol concentrations in dogs and proposed that the circadian mechanism in...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Sessile oak (Quercus petraea Liebl.) site index variations in relation to climate, topography and soil in even-aged high-forest stands in northern France" doc
... Liming in moderate doses on sites showing nutrient deficiencies can stimulate the absorption capacity of the sessile oak root system by enlarging fine roots and thereby improving uptake of mineral ... from seedlings Stands were selected according to official information on the origin of the stand (seedling or sprout) in the forest management plan (if available) and/ or by observing stem form ... Common as well as marginal site conditions must be sampled with the same intensity and, since marginal site conditions are sparse, sampling efforts must be largely devoted to finding those sites 4.2...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp:"Decline in relative growth rate of 3 juvenile radiata pine clones subjected to varying competition levels in Canterbury, New Zealand" pptx
... partitioning RGR into ULR and LAR, it was evident that the reasons for the decline in RGR for trees growing in weeded treatments were: changes in allometry due to increases in LA in the third growing ... model showing apparent lack of bias LWR changes during the same period (year 2–3) increased with increasing competition in clones and 2, but decreased in clone Trees in clones and in all weeding treatments ... the main factor influencing RGR changes in this study The main conclusions drawn were: RGR changed with time and tree size in all treatments with the latter being more important than age in influencing...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:21
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Variations in growth and virulence of Leptographium wingfieldii Morelet, a fungus associated with the bark beetle Tomicus piniperda L" pot
... the intra-specific variability between isolates obtained from the same forest We report on two experiments aiming at investigating the variations in growth and virulence of L wingfieldii in the ... surface in winter, thus preventing the roots from extending deeply into the soil, but can descend considerably in spring and summer, causing sometimes extensive water stress The original forest ... (Carpinus betulus L.) but pines, essentially Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.), have been planted extensively since the beginning of the 19th century, especially on bad soils As a result, Scots pine...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:22
Báo cáo khoa học: "Spatial and seasonal variations in stem respiration of beech trees (Fagus sylvatica)" potx
... maintenance respiration rates since an important proportion of the living cells are situated in the xylem 810 É Ceschia et al As in our study, Bosc [5] found that in maritime pine (Pinus pinaster ... throughout the year with maximum rates during summer and minimum rates during winter These variations, corrected to 15 ºC, were related to variations in diameter increment, but were not synchronised ... parameters vary within the tree, as in our study More information is also needed concerning variations in Stem respiration in a beech forest branch respiration rates and bark CO2 refixation, in order to...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Radial variations in wood mineral element concentrations: a comparison of beech and pedunculate oak from the Belgian Ardennes" pps
... concentrations of nitrogen incorporated in proteins in the outermost 11 rings of beech [34], most likely explained by a higher proportion of living parenchyma cells in those rings [23] It is noteworthy ... corresponding element In spite of the lack of a clearly differentiated sapwood, beech showed an increasing nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in the 10 to 15 outermost rings This finding is in agreement ... and environmentally induced variations in wood elemental concentrations can be distinguished [9, 14] In this paper, we compare radial patterns in mineral element concentrations in Pedunculate oak...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21
Báo cáo khoa học: "Variations in expression of episodic growth cultured shoots of oak (Quercus robur L.)" ppt
... also play a role in the control of the growth pattern under in vitro conditions In summary, the growth pattern of oak in vitro appeared to be mainly controlled by the cytokinins and nitrogen ... initial buds (Fig c) Therefore, 80-90% of the leaves were newformed leaves Finally, in these shoots, episodic growth seemed to be abolished These non-episodic shoots could be subcultured During ... Discussion and Conclusion These results point out the importance of components of the culture medium in controlling the shoot growth pattern and the potential for in vitro propagation The first component...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:21