... Development and application of a biomarker assay for determining the pharmacodynamic activity ofan antagonist candidate biotherapeutic antibody to IL21R in whole blood Journal of Translational Medicine ... for each of the donors, and subsequently the mean and standard deviation were determined for each gene shown A: Percent inhibition in presence of Ab-01 B: Percent inhibition in presence of control ... using log2 of the fold change paired with the log2 of (0) Arai et al Journal of Translational Medicine 2010, 8:51 http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/8/1/51 Page 11 of 13 Table 4: Inhibition...
... Yibin, Sichuan 644000, China College of Statistics and Mathematics, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, Yunnan 650221, China ∗ Corresponding author: Jing Quan (E-mail: quanjingcq@163.com), ... Strong and weak convergence ofan implicit iterative process for pseudocontractive semigroups in Banach space Jing Quan∗,1 , Shih-sen Chang2 and Min Liu1 Department of Mathematics, Yibin University, ... fixed point for pseudocontractive semigroups in Banach spaces The results presented in this article extend and improve the corresponding results of many authors 1 Introduction and preliminaries...
... introduction and spread of a single variant of 2.2.2 sub-clade H5N1 avian influenza viruses in the Baltic region The presented findings underline the importance of whole genome analysis Background ... detected in northern Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Scotland, and Nigeria, while clade 2.2.3 viruses were demonstrated in India, Afghanistan, Italy, and Iran [9] Simultaneous transmission of different ... manuscript MS and SL participated in sequencing and method optimization, and took part in data analysis and interpretation AL contributed to conception, organized data analyses, and revised the manuscript...
... order of few nanometers and organized themselves in weblike structures Magnetic nanoparticles with diameter in the order of few nanometers were attached to the nanofibrous structure Increasing ... of the femtosecond laser results in increasing the number of pulses and hence decreases size of the generated magnetic nanofibers Increasing repetition rate of the femtosecond laser results in ... generating smaller size magnetic nanofibers The magnetic strength of the generated nanofibers can be controlled by changing the repetition rate of the femtosecond laser These magnetic nanofibers...
... Manikin from inhaling contaminated air from the Infected Manikin sitting opposite After switching on the top-PE for infected manikin while switching off the PV for healthy manikin, a more than 70% ... pulling effect of combined PV-PE system, which can increase PV airin the inhaled air, thus protecting the Healthy Manikin However, as the PE flow rate for Infected Manikin increases, the advantages ... types of PE used for the Infected Manikin Before activating the PE for Infected Manikin, the PV or the combined PV-PE for Healthy Manikin plays an important role in protecting the Healthy Manikin...
... a sense of the impact of the background ventilation system on the flow pattern of the indoor air, thus influencing the concentration of exhaled contaminated air at the breathing zone of HP; it ... promoting intensive mixing and spread of exhaled air form IP to the surroundings Therefore, in case B, the 45 degree between the HP and IP with a short distance of only 0.45 m enables the exhaled air ... 0.00E+00 10mins 20mins 30mins Figure 7.16 Changes of iF over time in Case D with DV 7.3 Air temperature and velocity The room air temperature and mean velocity are recorded at heights of 0.1...
... concentrations of exhaled air at the mouth of the Numerical Infected Manikin as well as at the mouth of the Numerical Healthy Manikin are the output used for calculating the iF The simulated and experimental ... helpful in reducing the amount of exposure to the exhaled air, especially at lower flow rates of PE With the increase of PE flow rate up to more than l/s, the advantage of PV is not so significant ... much in terms of further reducing the exposure of the HP to the exhaled contaminant This implies that comparing between using PV alone and using PE alone, the latter gives better results and the...
... the PV air can be applied in any place with PV installed for better inhaled air quality The advantage of PE for infection control can be applied in any open area with the presence ofan Infected ... with the inclusion of more realistic scenarios such as a third person walking in the immediate vicinity, and changes in the postures of either IP or HP, changes in the skin temperatures of the ... “Determine the effectiveness of airborne infection control of the combined PV-PE system in conjunction with background MV or DV systems in terms of the localized extraction of the contaminated...
... healthy person than using PV After using the top-PE for infected manikin while switching off the PV for healthy manikin, a more than 70% reduction of exposure is found under MV and more than 75% for ... Contaminant concentration in the outdoor supply air (ppm) CI Contaminant concentration in the inhaled airof a person (ppm) CPV Concentration of the tracer gas in personalized air (ppm) CR Contaminant ... be inhaled by working people The LEV has been reported with good performance of protecting workers in some industry by extracting air and discharging the air into the atmosphere, sometimes having...
... be inhaled again 2.1.4 Study of temperature combination of PV supply air and background air According to American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Airconditioning Engineers (ASHRAE Standard ... minimize the risk of infection in the rooms ofisolated infectious patients They analyzed the influence of the position of the air inlets and outlets and concluded that the position of the air ... to the occupant with minimal entrainment of the airin the room Ho et al (2009) investigated the air velocity, temperature, and contaminant transport inan air- conditioned operating room It is...
... level of approximately 0.5 clo, which is a typical level of attire inair conditioning space in the tropics The joints of the manikin are movable and adjustable so that the manikin can be placed into ... Draft Rating of the inhaled air are recorded in the inhaled air region at heights of 1.35 m as shown in Figure 3.14b The local air mean velocity, turbulence intensity and Draft Rating of the face ... two types of PE in terms of preventing the airborne transmission disease during normal consultation procedure In this case, the Breathing Thermal Manikin and the Thermal Manikin are sitting face...
... dimensions of the simulated room were the same One manikin (Healthy Manikin) keeps inhaling at a velocity of 8.4 l/min through mouth (20 × 10 mm) and the other manikin (Infected manikin) keeps exhaling ... order of magnitude lower than without PE In terms of protecting the healthy manikin from pollutants exhaled by the polluting manikin, adding a PE device is much more effective than increasing the ... efficient in terms of protecting the Healthy Manikin from contaminated air than by increasing the PV air supply flow rate Lastly, the pressure of PE is an important factor Both the reduction of PEE...
... and off in the following manner to generate the PWh4 waveforms of the rectifier AC-side phase , voltages vjl, vi,, and vi, , d3vl: I v d and s, s, is ON when is ON and S, is OFF when is OFF and ... term of the n -th harmonic component of i,, Though the AC components are also contained in the output signal of the integrator, they can be made small by the integral action of the integrator and ... waveforms of u-phase input rectifier and currents i, and il, to the P W M nonlinearload, respectively It can be seen that the current i, has a nearly sinusoidal waveform in compliance with the sinusoidal...
... biomechanical characteristics of intact and two Association for the Study of Internal Fixation (ASIF) techniques for repair ofan oblique fracture involving the distal (inferior) diaphysis ofan ... Another advantage of this loading fixture design was that the same potting of the ends could be used to test a specimen in all three modes of loading: axial compression, torsion and bending In ... addition the bending fixtures were capable of applying uniform 4-point bending moment in any transverse plane over the entire length of the instrumented specimen with no point of load application...
... 47(4):392-396 Babincova M, Altanerova V, Altaner C, Cicmanec P, Babinec P: In vivo heating of magnetic nanoparticles in alternating magnetic field Med Phys 2004, 31(8):2219-2221 Wang J, Zhang K, Zhu ... Nili Jin and Dr Lin Liu (Department of Physiological Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Oklahoma State University) for help in measuring the transepithelial electrical resistance and Allison ... migration of the SWISS 3T3 fibroblasts into the SIS membrane somehow changed the localization of the pores in the SIS, possibly plugging some of the pores, resulting in the steep drop in permeability...
... audience The findings of this study complement the original findings of Benoit and Drew’s quantitative study assessing the appropriateness and effectiveness of image repair strategies inan interpersonal ... in terms of its financial problems The company reacted proactively when Alan Mulally, Ford’s CEO and Bill Ford, Ford’s Chairman “quickly refinanced the 37 company and created a line of credit ... level of confidentiality in the final reporting of the study results Procedures In order to better understand the importance of the audience in determining the appropriateness and effectiveness of...
... organization reform in Finland had negative effects on the appropriate use of ambulances, and the reform caused prolongation in the answering and processing times of emergency calls in Helsinki, ... Helsinki, the capital of Finland [5] EMCC organization and EMD in Finland - before and now There used to be 45 municipality-based centers taking emergency calls in Finland There were no official criteria ... communication centre organization in Finland - an evaluation, with performance indicators Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2011 19:19 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed...
... a number of safety-related conditions including hospitalized infections, myocardial infarction, stroke, gastrointestinal perforation, gastrointestinal bleeding, and fractures [5-14] In validation ... written informed consent VARA contains demographic, clinical and RA-specific information including disease activity scores (DAS), as assessed by physicians using the DAS28 [23] and the Clinical ... Ethnicity Caucasian, not Hispanic Non-Caucasian Hispanic Black, not Hispanic American Indian or Pacific Islander RA Drug Initiated Abatacept (5%) (3%) Adalimumab 74 (38%) 74 (24%) Etanercept 60 (31%)...
... or caffeine usage Subjects in the present study ingested 39 mg of p-synephrine and 528 mg of caffeine the day before testing followed by ingestion ofan additional 13 mg p-synephrine and 176 ... after capsule ingestion Three analyses of the data were performed using x analysis of variance (ANOVA) For the first data analysis, treatment and time were the independent factors using all 23 subjects ... contained C 193 aurantium extract (AdvantraZ®, 6% p-synephrine yielding 13 mg p-synephrine), 176 mg caffeine in the form of guarana extract, and 55.5 mg of green tea extract with small amounts of...
... maintain activated and clotting time of 250 to 300 s Patients received intracoronary nitroglycerin (0.1 to 0.2 mg) to achieve maximal vasodilatation before undergoing their initial and final angiograms ... glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor (Tirofiban) was administered at the operator’s discretion All patients maintained anti-platelet therapy following the procedure (aspirin 300 mg/d for months and 100 ... resulted in a significantly lower incidence of major adverse cardiac events, CABG and definite stent thrombosis then the PES The safety and efficacy of ZES and PES had previously been examined in ENDEAVOR...