... that over-expression ofthe three proteins was significantly associated withthe genesis and progression of CRC The functional implications ofthe alterations in the levels of these proteins are ... S100A9 and LASP-1 may play an important role in the development and progression of CRC Further functional and clinical analysis ofthe proteins is necessary to elucidate their precise role in the ... Proteins withthe genesis and progression of CRC L Zhao et al evaluate the correlation between clinicopathological characteristics of CRC and expression of these target proteins,...
... in the experimental design and analysis of retroviral vector-associated recombination events, AB and PM helped withthe interpretation ofthe results and corrected the manuscript, AVDB was the ... not shown The translation products ofthe singly- and doubly-spliced transcripts andthe positions ofthe RT-PCR primers are indicated (B) Southern blot analysis following hybridization with a full-length ... HeLa cells were co-transfected with each pSGTax2531 construct together withthe pLTRLuc reporter plasmid containing the firefly luciferase gene under the control ofthe BLV promoter as previously...
... than 1% of profits Forward and support the charities ofthe 14 companies‟ ranked bottom ofthe list less than 0.01% ofthe profits Looking at the other side ofthe coin, according to the research ... understand the importance of reporting andthe implementation of CSR with business operations ofthe company And then, the following hypothesis is developed: : Managers’ attitude toward CSR and ... out the survey, I also interviewed the director and chief accountant ofthe company on the CSR ofthe company The question is to play a close look at the financial situation ofthe company and the...
... dimensions; 1) the use of pre-specified conceptual and measurement models; 2) the strength of empirical support for the reliability and validity ofthe scale(s); 3) the responsiveness of PRO to clinical ... statistical relationship between the latent construct andthe measured items, andthe ε1 represents the random measurement error in the ith measured item The Convenience scale ofthe Treatment Satisfaction ... with MEI and SEI models, the direction ofthe arrows is reversed andthe model lacks error term for each ofthe observed indicators A disturbance term (ς1) on the latent construct indicates the...
... licentiate thesis ofthe present kind is reminiscent ofthe storybook form The aim is not to provide a synthesis; rather, it provides a multitude of pictures of processes and activities The present thesis ... of studies have been conducted in Scandinavia from the ’70s onwards on technology and its relations to the work place andthe development ofworking life from the point of view of democracy and ... and others workingwith computer support on a daily basis A plan of action was worked out at a number of meetings and within the framework ofthe project It was my task to compile and direct the...
... management ofthe relationship with FDA must also be a high priority Interestingly, the nation recently faced the prospect of another war with Iraq, andthe threat of CBW agents, with only one ... drug and biologics development because ofthe increased appreciation ofthe threat of biological weapons The CBW threat, both to national and homeland security, raises the question of whether ... our understanding ofthe complex interagency relationships between DoD and FDA The substantial number of interviewees listed at the end of this report alone indicates the magnitude ofthe debt...
... measuring and understanding the roles of different kinds of organisms in the flux and storage of elements in ecosystems The total biomass per unit area, W, is simply the sum ofthebody mass of all ... quantitatively, withbody size and temperature The metabolic theory of ecology uses these scaling relations to make and test THE METABOLIC THEORY OF ECOLOGY predictions about the effects of energy and materials ... obvious We asked the author(s) of each paper to examine the importance and role ofbody size in the systems in which they work Essentially the book builds from the level ofthe individual and a consideration...
... cases lost to An Account ofthe Foxglove and some of its by William Withering the common run of practice, and only snatched from destruction, by the efficacy ofthe Digitalis; and this in so remarkable ... woman with a scrophulous tumour ofthe eye, a remarkable swelling ofthe upper lip, and painful tumours ofthe joints ofthe fingers, much relieved; but the medicine was left off, on account of ... notes I find the following memorandum "February 20th, 1779, gave an account of Doctor Withering's An Account ofthe Foxglove and some of its by William Withering practice, withthe precautions...
... survival and in preventing thousands of new cases ofthe disease, both in the UK and across the world Cancer Research UK has been at the heart of this progress thanks to the sustained support and ... progress and has saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the UK and many millions more around the world • We were the first to discover the breast cancer susceptibility gene BRCA2 and ... die from the disease Cancer remains people’s greatest health fear It is difficult to overstate the scale ofthe cancer problem andthe impact it has on the lives of hundreds of thousands of people...
... Association of Presbyterian Women of Aoteaora (New Zealand) (1998) Association of Refugees and Displaced Persons ofthe Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1997) Association of Support to HIV-Infected and ... Children and Their Families (2003) Association ofthe Bar ofthe City of New York (1997) Association of Third World Studies (1995) Association of United Families International (1999) Association of ... Centre for the Independence ofthe Judiciary andthe Legal Profession (2000) Arab Council for Childhood and Development (1991) Arab Lawyers Union (1971) Arab Mexican Chamber of Industry and Commerce...
... to the patient records therefore it was not possible to correlate the laboratory data withthe clinical findings Peripheral blood subset data ofthe patients were compared with a section ofthe ... the comparison ofthe absolute number of various peripheral blood lymphocyte subsets between the PTB patients and normal healthy individuals The absolute numbers of NK cells (p = 0.000) andthe ... than the normal individuals No significant difference in the absolute numbers ofthe rest ofthe lymphocyte subsets could be detected The mean helper suppressor ratio found in the patients with...
... what they are They will bow lightly and then come over and put the gentlest hand on a part ofyourbody where you are deeply wounded With their most loving care, let them touch the part ofyourbody ... called the Four Foundations of Mindfulness These areas of mindfulness are: awareness ofthebodyand senses, awareness ofthe heart and feelings, awareness ofthe mind and thoughts, and awareness of ... with ease Each dimension of our being, the body, the heart, andthe mind, is healed through the same loving attention and care Our attention can honor thebodyand discover the blessings of the...
... within the tattoo shop are essentially the same as I first described them The impact ofthe tattoo on the recipient’s personal and social identity andthe symbolic meaning ofthe tattoo for the ... Customizing theBody is to provide an account ofthe changes that have occurred within the artistic and cultural world of tattooing andthe larger world ofbody alteration in the past decade and a ... Peter P J., Flo andthe rest ofthe folks at the National Tattoo Association Butch, Dana, Ed, and ·all ofthe other colorful members ofthe tattoo community I have had the pleasure of knowing I...
... for the diagnosis of cancer (EGC) was 67% and 71% (cut-off value of 5.5 ng/ml), and 71% and 67% (cut-off value of ng/ml) The sensitivity and specificity of serum CEA levels for the diagnosis of ... from the greater curvature ofthe antrum andthe midpoint ofthe greater curvature ofthe gastric body via endoscopic biopsy In the patients with cancer two specimens were obtained from the cancerous ... 66% and 72% (cut-off value of 4.5 ng/ml), and 70% and 64% (cut-off value of ng/ml) There was no difference in sensitivity and specificity of serum CEA and HMGB1 levels among the cancer groups with...
... description ofthe protocol before signing it The procedures were according to the ethical standards ofthe responsible committee on human experimentation andwiththe Declaration of Helsinki, ... disorder withthe seasonal pattern is equal between southern and northern parts of Europe for example [26] Variations in the key circadian clock genes and in their regulation through the feedback the ... especially in the areas of anxiety and depression [12] According to the analysis of data derived from the Health 2000 Study, the threshold value of was taken to indicate ill health (the scores of to...
... along withthe participant name, sex and age were collected The sample size was determined withthe aim of measuring the reliability coefficients for the PCS and MCS scores ofthe SF-8 This used the ... recruited for the survey (8 men and women) who were all from the Acholi region of northern Uganda, spoke fluent Luo and English, and had experience of data collection in IDP camps in northern Uganda Six ... half ofthe SF-8 items [43] Questionnaires with or more incomplete SF-8 items were excluded from further analysis on the validity and reliability ofthe SF-8 The distribution of item responses of...
... Hungarian and UK English versions, and item ofthe South African, item ofthe "somnolence" dimension ofthe German and South African and item ofthe "sleep disturbance" dimension ofthe Hungarian ... correlated with their hypothesized dimensions than withthe other dimensions ofthe instrument Based on the results ofthe psychometric evaluation, the different language versions ofthe MOS-Sleep ... the average number of hours of sleep per night reported by the patient andthe "optimal sleep" is a dichotomized version, that is "yes" when the number of hours of sleep is or The scores of the...
... assess the strength of association between the low ficolin-3 and high CRP levels on the one hand andthe unfavorable outcome ofthe disease on the other hand, we repeated the analysis as above in the ... indirect measure ofthe severity ofthe stroke, the concentration ofthe S100β in the follow up samples as an indicator ofthe infarct size, andthe outcome ofthe disease assessed by the modified ... detection in these assays is ng/ml of ficolin-2 and ng/ml of ficolin-3 The inter-assay coefficient of variation (CV) is 7.1% and 4.7% andthe intra-assay CV 4.3% and 3.9% for the ficolin-2 and ficolin-3...
... represents the rate of conversion of nutrients into the reproduction ofthe predator Further, τ is a positive integer For the simplicity and convenience of exposition, we introduce the following ... direct corollary of Lemma of Xu and Teng 25 Lemma 2.3 Let u n, n0 , u0 be the positive solution of 2.6 with u > 0, then for any constants > and M > 0, there exist positive constants δ and n , M such ... holds This completes the proof of Theorem 3.2 In order to obtain the permanence ofthe component y n of system 1.3 , we next consider the following single-specie system with feedback control:...