... ofthe MMP family is the hallmark of several inflammatory disorders, including arthritis MMP-9, in particular, has been implicated in the degradation and damage of articular cartilage in RA and ... metalloproteinase (96-kd gelatinase B) in human rheumatoid arthritis Arthritis Rheum 1996, 39:1576-1587 Yoshihara Y, Nakamura H, Obata K, Yamada H, Hayakawa T, Fujikawa K, Okada Y: Matrix metalloproteinases ... La Fondation Armand-Frappier and the Canadian Arthritis Network 16 17 References Momohara S, Kashiwazaki S, Inoue K, Saito S, Nakagawa T: Elastase from polymorphonuclear leukocyte in articular...
... discriminate amongst those who rate the care as excellent Rasch analysis in particular can aid the selection of these additional items Rasch analysis can also further assess the unidimensionality ofthe ... equally tothe variance ofthe total score, and can be summed without weighting Item-total scale correlations for all scales were satisfactory implying that the items in each scale contain a similar ... Subscale scores were well targeted tothe sample indicating that this was an adequate sample of people with MS in which to examine the measurement properties ofthe MSRMS All indicators of reliability...
... have the help of sophisticated information systems and data warehouses been able to manage a great deal of data The challenge is to capture and measure soft and qualitative information For example, ... Skandia Navigator (Edvinsson and Malone, 1997) Value Chain Scoreboard (Lev, 2002) Description ofmeasure Sets of human capital indicators are collected and bench-marked against a database Similar to ... 2000; Kaplan and Norton, 1992) They not link the non- financial metrics to financial numbers (e.g Kaplan and Norton, 1992) Traditionally financial and non- financial measures have been seen as opposed,...
... methods to evaluate the quality and maturation of reparative tissue will substantially advance the field of cartilage repair These tests would potentially enable investigators and industry to develop ... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 11 No Gomoll thereafter Other endpoints included the gross visual evaluation ofthe reparative tissue as well as histologic grading Animals treated with ACs ... candidate factors to follow tissue maturation and healing: HA and CS Many questions remain to be addressed, such as the correlation of marker levels with defect size, number, and location as well as...
... safe antenatal and delivery care, and STI prevention and treatment Antenatal care, child health care and family planning are now relatively accessible tothe majority ofthe world’s population ... during antenatal care is now available in many countries, and since treatment for PMTCT became feasible and affordable, there appears to be increasing demand, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.75 ... euphoria ofthe early 1990s that have compromised the anticipated expansion of STI management as a mainstream sexual health service First, the validity of syndromic management for the most prevalent...
... relationships between AFQT and years of experience or additional training are linear Rather, the authors note that although the magnitude ofthe trade-off may vary, it is at least one -to- one and ... did any ofthe other variables In an effort to quantify the effect of AFQT on performance in their model, the authors note that the effect ofa one-level change in AFQT category appeared to equal ... of departure for a discussion of issues relating tothe performance benefits of experience, training, and innate ability and also as a summary ofthe research already completed in this area The...
... 106:1878 doi:10.1021/jp015532w 26 Hashimotoa H, Yokoyamab S, Asaokaa H, Kusanoc Y, Ikedad Y, Senoe M, Takadaa J, Fujiia T, Nakanishia M, Murakami R (2007) J Magn Magn Mater 310:2405 doi:10.1016/j.jmmm.2006.10.793 ... ofthe samples prepared in alcohol/water media with various volume ratios of alcohol to water: (a) 0:1, (b) 1:1, (c) 5:1 Fig TEM images ofthe samples prepared in alcohol/ water media with various ... in pure water and in alcohol/water media is also investigated, as shown in Fig The value of saturation magnetization of samples a, b, and c is 75.4 emu/g (Fig 3a) , 39.2 emu/g (Fig 3b), and (Fig...
... represents the national standard value for health and functioning The Japanese version ofthe SF-8 meets the standard criteria for content and for construct and criterion validity, based on the national ... We gratefully acknowledge the Board of Education of Nara City for its approbation of our survey We also would like to thank Dr Paul Matychuk for language support Page of Author Details 1Kyoto University ... environmental tobacco smoke at baseline **Passive smokers: Participants who were exposed to environmental tobacco smoke at baseline baseline (male, 29%; female, 1%) was substantially lower than that of...
... antenna array is modeled according tothe distribution ofthe AoA ofthe incoming plane waves at the BS from the ith user The AoA is assumed to be i Gaussian distributed with a standard deviation ... be available at the BS only through the feedback from users The drawbacks ofthe feedback approach are the reduction ofthe system capacity because ofthe frequent channel usage required for the ... often the transmit beamformer is not capable of maintaining the ratio ofthe signal power tothe leakage power above a certain threshold value The outage probability for the ith user is defined as...
... represents the national standard value for health and functioning The Japanese version ofthe SF-8 meets the standard criteria for content and for construct and criterion validity, based on the national ... We gratefully acknowledge the Board of Education of Nara City for its approbation of our survey We also would like to thank Dr Paul Matychuk for language support Page of Author Details 1Kyoto University ... environmental tobacco smoke at baseline **Passive smokers: Participants who were exposed to environmental tobacco smoke at baseline baseline (male, 29%; female, 1%) was substantially lower than that of...
... Sakai-Tagawa Y, Noda T, Sakabe S, Imai M, Hatta Y, Watanabe S, Li C, Yamada S, Fujii K, Murakami S, Imai H, Kakugawa S, Ito M, Takano R, IwatsukiHorimoto K, Shimojima M, Horimoto T, Goto H, Takahashi ... Goto H, Takahashi K, Makino A, Ishigaki H, Nakayama M, Okamatsu M, Takahashi K, Warshauer D, Shult PA, Saito R, Suzuki H, Furuta Y, Yamashita M, Mitamura K, Nakano K, Nakamura M, Brockman-Schneider ... The estimates follow an extrapolation ofthe notified number of cases from a total of 4800 randomly sampled sentinel hospitals tothe actual total number of medical facilities in Japan The cases...
... investigation Apart from these factors, these hypotheses are raised on the basis of personal experience and observation as a native speaker of Vietnamese and anon – native speaker of English Basing ... cashier, an accountant, a librarian, a guard, and a customer care All the respondents were asked to give their age, occupation, education, marital status and place where they live the longest of their ... language to culture is that of part to whole” and according to Goshgarian, “Language shapes our perception of reality” The socio-cultural context reflects the social and cultural practices of a...
... especially in the Vietnamese workplace, bosses and staff are aware ofthe fact that a suitable address term can establish and maintain a good relationship In international companies, there are many people ... Eastern languages use a different language from Indian-European languages such as Russian - general and inflectional language, English, American, Australian - analysable and inflectional languages ... solidarity or kinship of staff to their bosses There is an implication here that we can regard them as the familyorientation-one ofthe variables of dynamic relationship There are some factors that...
... (1997), Can Pragmatics Competence be taught?, Transcript of plenary address tothe 1997 Annual Meeting of Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages 22 Lakoff, R (1977), What you can with ... Scope ofthe study - Although the role of paralinguistic and non- verbal factors in real-life communication is fully conscious, the study focuses on the verbal aspects ofthe act of replying a greeting ... contrastive analysis - Conducting survey questionnaires enables the author to collect the data from a large population in a short period of time Recorded and videotaped face -to face conversations...
... culture appear beyond our expectation In Vietnam, especially in the Vietnamese workplace, bosses and staff are aware ofthe fact that a suitable address term can establish and maintain a good relationship ... on the use of addressing terms such as age, gender, marital status, occupation, power, social status, situation of interaction, academic qualification Other linguistic and cultural factors are ... this research Design ofthe study The study contains three parts Part 1, the introduction, includes the rational, the aims ofthe study, the methods ofthe study, the scope ofthe study and the design...
... Overhead view Fig - Schematic diagram ofthe AUFB reactor Reactor Setup and Operation for the Formation of Aerobic Granular Sludge Two AUFB reactors were used for the formation of aerobic granular ... a gas-solid separator), an internal diameter of cm, and a height of 3.2 m, were used for all experiments The schematic illustration ofthe AUFB reactor is shown in Fig Although the AUFB reactor ... (suspended biomass) to form aerobic granular sludge for all the experiments was obtained from an aerobic basin ofa municipal wastewater treatment plant (Tokyo, Japan) Table - Wastewater composition...
... use of additional easily interpretable meta-evaluation criteria oriented tomeasure different aspects of metric reliability We then apply this approach to find out about the advantages and challenges ... lexical, syntactic, and semantic In all cases, translation quality is measured by comparing automatic translations against a set of human references At the lexical level, we have included several ... positions: we associate the ith translation according tothe metric ranking with the quality value manually assigned tothe ith translation in the manual ranking Being Qh (t) and Qm (t) the human and metric...
... by affinity chromatography It yielded a 2000-fold increase in specific activity Analysis ofthe lectin on SDS/PAGE gave a single band at apparent molecular mass of 34 kDa The binding affinity ofthe ... inhibitory potency of BSM was mainly due to O-acetyl NeuAc showing a( 2–6) linkage The sialic acid affinity ofthe Paratelphusa lectin was further proved by its inability to inhibit sialidase-treated ... (1985) Purification and characterization of an O-acetyl sialic acid specific lectin from a marine crab Cancer antennarius J Biol Chem 260, 8850–8856 13 Kawai, T Kato, A Higashi, H Kato, S & Naiki, M...