... previously described methods [15] Primers for gene analysis in this study have been described previously [15–18] We determined transcript levels of: mCPT1, the rate-limiting mitochondrial fatty ... to play an important role in this process, and is proposed to signal its cardioprotection via the prosurvival kinase Akt [2,4] For example, higher levels of activated Akt were reported in premenopausal ... glucose is a more oxygen-efficient fuel substrate for the generation of ATP as compared to fatty acids Also, fatty acid-mediated uncoupling of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation may result in diminished...
... school children using scoliosis screening Only individuals suspected of having scoliosis undergo a radiograph, and therefore the distribution patterns of side curvature and the average curves of ... There was no significant difference in curvature pattern between adolescent and adult group There was no significantly difference in the curvature pattern between male and female in adolescent and ... negative value The curve pattern was organized in each collective three groups: neutral (from -1 degree to degree), right (> +1 degree), and left (< -1 degree) The curvature pattern difference in each...
... school children using scoliosis screening Only individuals suspected of having scoliosis undergo a radiograph, and therefore the distribution patterns of side curvature and the average curves of ... There was no significant difference in curvature pattern between adolescent and adult group There was no significantly difference in the curvature pattern between male and female in adolescent and ... negative value The curve pattern was organized in each collective three groups: neutral (from -1 degree to degree), right (> +1 degree), and left (< -1 degree) The curvature pattern difference in each...
... experimentally, via simulation, and using the developed models It was shown that via multi-scale modeling of the spatiotemporal locality of on-body link disconnection patterns, it is possible to attain better ... of Health and Human Services,” http://grants2.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-07-354.html [4] K Y Chen and D R Bassett Jr., “The technology of accelerometry-based activity monitors: current and ... Chipcon’s SmartRF CC1000 radio chip (http://www.chipcon.com/), and the sensor card MTS510 from Crossbow Inc (http://www.xbow.com/) The Mica2Dot nodes run from a 570 mAH button cell with a total sensor...
... “Adaptive equalisation in oversampled subbands,” IEE Electronics Letters, vol 34, no 15, pp 1452–1453, 1998 [12] A Gilloire and M Vetterli, “Adaptive filtering in subbands with critical sampling analysis, ... example to illustrate the limitations of the DFT filterbank FDAF A source signal s(n) is transmitted over a channel and is received as x(n) A delayed version of s(n) is available as a desired ... of the magnitude and phase within a filterbank bin is not sufficient to perfectly achieve any nontrivial delay In this paper, we present an analysis to quantitatively determine the degree to which...
... placement of an in vivo videomicroscope (epi-objective microscope with epi-illumination, Olympus Model BXFM; (Olympus America Inc Melville, NY USA) At each timepoint, the apparatus was reattached to ... depth of field of our in vivo microscope Likewise, bag-like folding and unfolding of the alveolus would be in the third dimension, invisible to our in vivo microscopic view Regardless of the mechanism, ... problems with our in vivo microscopic technique, it is the only tool available to directly observe the behavior of alveoli in a living animal Utilizing electron microscopy, we have previously confirmed...
... large individual differences, presumptive vitamin A-storing HSC were regularly seen with a single large vacuole (vitamin A-storing lipid droplet) and a dislocated nucleus HSC without a vitamin ... purposes) Comparative Hepatology 2006, 5:7 1a http://www.comparative-hepatology.com/content/5/1/7 1b Figure Vimentin Vimentin Normal canine liver, stained with vimentin antibody a) In the portal area, ... due to interspecies crossreactivity All antibodies have been used previously in multiple other canine studies [20-26] Variation in vimentin and desmin staining pattern was widely present This...
... far not been systematically compared in a dose-dependent fashion There is very little evidence on the direct in vitro effects of these agents on cardiac contractile function in sepsis, and the ... J, Ranieri M, Ramsay G, Sevransky J, Thompson BT, Townsend S, Vender JS, Zimmerman JL, Vincent JL: Surviving Sepsis Campaign: international guidelines for management of severe sepsis and septic ... to mg/kg xylazine hydrochloride A polymicrobial sepsis was induced via cecal ligation and a single puncture as reported previously in detail [12] After 20 hours of incubation, hearts were isolated...
... tribe—Thieving elephants CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VI Preparations for advance—Mek Nimmur makes a foray—The Hamran elephant-hunters—In the haunts of the elephant—A desperate charge CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VII ... XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CONTENTS CHAPTER I CHAPTER I The Nubian desert—The bitter well—Change of plans—An ... rascal in Central Africa—Legge demands another bottle CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVI The greeting of the slave-traders—Collapse of the mutiny—African funerals-Visit from the Latooka chief—Bokke makes a suggestion—Slaughter...
... Talon the intendant, that Marquette should join him or he Marquette upon this voyage of discovery, so consonant with Marquette's desire for divine ordering Marquette quieted his morbid conscience, ... until it has settled, when it is no better than that of the Ohio, for example If you let a pint of it settle you will have three-fourths of an inch of mud in the bottom His advice is to keep ... battle of the shoals, a battle in which General Eads, who had bridged the river at St Louis, compelled the river by means of jetties to run deeper and carry heavier burdens But the future battle-fields...
... Outcomes 2010, 8:14 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/14 Background Medical progress has lead to increased survival, as a result a progressively increasing number of patients are living with congenital ... through focus groups, cognitive interviews, pretesting, and field testing measurement development protocols Cognitive interviews were carried out with children attending the pediatric cardiology ... Generic Core Scales: Sensitivity, responsiveness, and impact on clinical decisionmaking Journal of Behavioral Medicine 2002, 25:175-193 16 Varni JW, Burwinkle TM, Jacobs JR, Gottschalk M, Kaufman M,...
... distemper virus in phocids Journal of Wildlife Diseases 2004, 40:53-59 Appel MJG: Reversion to virulence of attenuated canine distemper virus in vivo and in vitro Journal of General Virology 1978, ... ("strains") The viruses from year 2001 formed syncytia in vivo and in vitro Previously, an inverse relationship between the proficiency of syncytium formation and the level of CDV virulence was ... the 2001 viruses, which formed large syncytia in vivo and in vitro However, past notions concerning the inverse relationship between fusogenicity and virulence may be imprecise Indeed, virulent...
... distemper virus in phocids Journal of Wildlife Diseases 2004, 40:53-59 Appel MJG: Reversion to virulence of attenuated canine distemper virus in vivo and in vitro Journal of General Virology 1978, ... ("strains") The viruses from year 2001 formed syncytia in vivo and in vitro Previously, an inverse relationship between the proficiency of syncytium formation and the level of CDV virulence was ... the 2001 viruses, which formed large syncytia in vivo and in vitro However, past notions concerning the inverse relationship between fusogenicity and virulence may be imprecise Indeed, virulent...
... instrument is desirable since this may provide additional evidence not only on the limitations of the HADS, but also the development, enhancement and possible future revision of this widely used measure ... Hong Kong has also furnished compelling evidence for the tri-dimensionality of the HADS Hong Kong Chinese invariably speak Cantonese whereas in the Xi'an province of China Mandarin is spoken Due ... 4:6 http://www.hqlo.com/content/4/1/6 Table 1: Characteristics of each factor model tested Model Zigmond and Snaith (1983) Moorey et al (1991) Dunbar et al (2000) Friedman et al (2001)* Razavi...
... while sensitivity to change seems to be influenced by the type of intervention The SF-6D has better distributional properties than the EQ-5D, but that did not result in improved sensitivity to change ... within each trial http://www.hqlo.com/content/4/1/20 health domains: pain (6 levels), mental health (5), physical functioning (6), social functioning (5), role limitations (4) and vitality (5) The ... usual activities; PD: pain/discomfort; AD: anxiety/ depression SF-6D dimensions: PF: physical functioning; RL: role limitation; SF: social functioning; PN: pain; MH: mental health; VT: vitality...
... exercise time (ETT), Canadian Cardiovascular Society Angina Classification (CCS) and the Seattle Angina Questionnaire (SAQ), are generally gathered Such variables would be obvious candidates ... Goldsmith et al Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:54 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/54 this base model ETT, CCS class and individual SAQ scales were each added in a stepwise fashion to ... observed values Standardised residuals and fitted EQ-5D index values from fitting the final model in both the estimation and validation datasets were plotted against one another A Bland-Altman analysis...
... of attraction of the normal law, we will show that the ASCLT holds under a fairly general growth condition on dk = k−1 exp(ln k)α ), ≤ α < 1/2 Our theorem is formulated in a more general setting ... theorem Statist Probab Lett 9, 201–205 (1990) [5] Ibragimov, IA, Lifshits, M: On the convergence of generalized moments in almost sure central limit theorem Stat Probab Lett 40, 343–351 (1998) 11 ... rmann, S: Critical behavior in almost sure central limit theory J Theoret Probab 20, 613–636 (2007) o [9] Wu, QY: Almost sure limit theorems for stable distribution Stat Probab Lett 281(6), 662–672...
... left-scattered if r(t) < t and right-scattered if s(t) >t Definition 1.2: The set T is defined to be T if T does not have a left-scattered maximum, otherwise it is T without the left-scattered ... Feng et al Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:29 http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/29 Page of 14 A time scale is ... some t Î T, and a function f Î (T, R), the delta derivative of f at t is denoted by fΔ(t) (provided it exists) with the property such that for every ε > 0, there exists a neighborhood U of t...
... risks, 37 U.S states and Canadian provinces provide benefits to firefighters in whom certain cardiovascular diseases have developed.14 Nevertheless, the evidence linking firefighting to cardiovascular ... important questions The findings in our previous case–control study of 52 deaths from coronary heart disease among on-duty firefighters provided preliminary evidence that coronary events may be triggered ... 2001, terrorist attacks To extract study data, two reviewers independently examined the summary of each reported death that occurred while the firefighter was on duty A third reviewer resolved...