... The class of problems 1.1 appears in many nonlinear phenomena, for instance, inthe theory of quasiregular and quasiconformal mappings 1–3 , inthe generalized reaction-diffusion theory , inthe ... 8–20 and references therein for more general nonlinearities inthe terms f and g which include the cases considered by them The principal theorem in considered, in problem 1.1 , f u um , u > 0, and ... turbulent flow of a gas in porous medium and inthe non-Newtonian fluid theory Inthe non-Newtonian fluid theory, the quantity p is the characteristic of the medium If p < 2, the fluids are called...
... 56% of the employees working at one of these companies at the time of the survey, assuming a constant workforce The broad range of new insurances, varying from 0-146% between companies, can be ... permanent and temporary employees; the latter group did not participate in any of the HIV surveys (Table 1) Exclusion of these six companies resulted in 3783 new insurances inthe remaining 18 ... conceived the project, collected data and edited the manuscript HMC analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript PJW conceived the project and edited the manuscript EG was responsible forthe HIV...
... expressed in high concentrations inthe infected organs 1.12.2 Affinity The affinity of an oligonucleotide for its target is usually inthe nanomolar range, both for antisense oligonucleotides targeting ... variety of these techniques have been established for investigating protein-protein interactions in cultured cells and several are now being validated for use in living animals, including the two-hybrid ... concentration can be relatively high for viral RNA in infected cells, but as a rule, the mRNA coding for a given protein is less abundant than the protein itself Abundant mRNAs such as the one coding for...
... substantial amount of training, including the reading of coding instructions forthe two versions of the scheme (6 pages forthe basic scheme and 17 pages forthe full scheme), four training papers ... sentences fall into the OWN category Studies I and II will determine how far we can trust inthe human-annotated training material for both learning and evaluation of the automatic method The outcome ... students and the first author) can be considered skilled at extracting information from scientific papers but they were not experts in all of the subdomains of the papers they annotated The annotators...
... for financial services Presents Optimising Performance and Efficiency Series Savings – AnEssential Service forthe Poor The Optimising Performance and Efficiency Series brings together key insights ... conclusions on the significant institutional changes required forthe management of voluntary savings systems including information systems, auditing systems, HR/ training, organisational culture and understanding ... saving inthe informal sector report that they have lost some of their savings and on average they had lost 22% of the amount they had saved inthe last year In other words, forthe poor savings...
... sets and show how the user can interact with thesystem while keeping track of improvements in parsing accuracy We will also explain how to interpret the output of the system, including the final ... which means that they are not comparable to the test results from the original shared task, which were obtained using the entire training set for training and a separate held-out test set for evaluation ... Turkish For most languages, the greatest improvement comes from feature selection in phase 3, but we also see sig5 Note that these results are obtained using 80% of the training set for training and...
... : Langmuir models The determined kd was used for calculation of ka, and the binding constants KD were determined from kd ⁄ ka We determined the binding constant KD for binding of ETBcHx to bET-1 ... the NTD and C131 inthe first cytoplasmic loop C1 These data are in agreement with the above-mentioned findings, and they further define TMS1 as a central determinant for ET-1 binding On the basis ... domain, which are both often involved either in ligand binding or G-protein coupling Owing to their key role in signal transduction in eukaryotic cells, GPCRs are estimated to represent the targets...
... resonance To confirm the binding of anti-cytokeratin monoclonal IgG to the nanoparticles, the nanoparticles were tested for their interaction with protein A, immobilized onto the surface of an SA ... inhibitors The efficacy of the invasion inthe absence of inhibitors was 29.6% Data are represented as the means ± SD of two independent determinations performed in triplicate nanoparticles can ... cystatin has a high potential for inactivating cathepsin B, however, free cystatin is unable to enter the cells and inhibit intracellular proteolytic activity Incorporation of cystatin into the...
... voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) and prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) were initiated in 2001 and the ART scale up began in mid-2004 Much of the new aid funding would initially ... Counselling and testing Provider-initiated HIV testing was progressively introduced into other PHC services as health workers were trained in CT CT is provided routinely in ANC and TB programmes, and ... surrounding sites were integrated The two integrated sites referenced in Figure are similar to the many other integrated sites inthe two provinces Data were gathered for both sets of sites over the...
... queuing delays weighted by their instantaneous and average rates [8] The associated decision metrics in these schemes are based on the combination of the delay and instantaneous channel rates Finding ... at the UTs, as shown in Figure This feedback is then provided to the BS inthe uplink duration of the frame j + and can be utilized forscheduling purposes at the MAC layer inthe downlink of the ... conditions, and (4) fairness analysis Furthermore, the results are compared to the SB and RR algorithms The window size plays an important role inthe performance of the SB algorithm [10] The performance...
... acts as an interpreter forthe messages it receives from the host over the USB link It translates these commands into IEEE-802.15.3 format and forwards them to the M-HDR MAC module for further processing ... index parameters The MAC frame prepared by attaching the MAC header and the payload is then sent to the transmitter forthe transmission over the air The transmitter block puts these frames into ... (CTA) The RX-frame processing module is responsible for receiving the frames from the baseband and forwarding them to the FCSL or DME The receiver upon receiving the frame from the baseband verifies...
... 1} the chip sequence, and g(t) the chip pulse Then, the spreading waveform pk (t) is given by (3) where ak,p and τk,p are the gain and the delay of the pth path, respectively, and δ(·) is the ... is performed by a line search: the ith term of (25) or (24) are evaluated over the points of a grid and the point attaining the maximum value is considered as the corresponding delay Since the ... matrix Indeed, by applying the matrix inversion lemma to (A.4), and taking into account the approximate orthogonality of the involved vectors, we end up with the following expression forthe inverse...
... policy to provide tunneling bandwidth WT , for connecting nonneighboring cores The reservation is uniform across every wire channel inthe core to maintain a uniform tunneling bandwidth It is proposed ... available RAM tiles WIN WIF Figure 1: The wire policy layer splits the channel wire bandwidth WFPGA into tunneling bandwidth WT , internal bandwidth WIN , and interface bandwidth WIF section ... over write the router nodes and the network handles the forwarding of packets around cores [13] Although this approach is robust, the computing performance is limited by the bandwidth of the network...
... transformer energizing induces resonance inthesystem Both even and odd harmonic components are produced during the transformer energizing Among them, the second harmonic is dominant harmonic The ... derived The selection of the equal sampling intervals between samples and the data length inan analysis window depends on the simulation time step and the estimated frequency range The equal sampling ... stationary and periodic forthe finite Fourier transform to be valid The following analysis explains why results from the Fourier transform are inaccurate for exponential signals The general form of...
... remain challenging in practice In particular, fast and efficient method for collecting and disseminating CSI in moderate and large sized networks remain an open problem Nevertheless, the theoretical ... we point out that inan uncontrolled environment, estimating channel state is not trivial Upon obtaining the link-state information, each relay and destination node will distribute such information ... Overhead An important consideration in our implementation is the overhead incurred in distributing link-state information inthe network This can be measured by comparing such overhead with the potential...
... Brand Asset Management Brand basics What is branding? Types of branding Branding is a disciplined process used to build awareness and extend customer Co-branding: partnering with another brand ... The product is defined and finite, but inthe minds of clients there are infinite possibilities Marketing penetrates into the psyches of customers The company that markets has its finger on the ... values and its heritage Brands now appear regularly on balance sheets in many companies The intangible value of the brand is often much greater than the corporation’s tangible assets Wally Olins The...
... that the breeding values of the base animals have the same mean and variance, and that the genetic variance of the base generation is twice that of the Mendelian variance In a Gaussian setting, ... can be defined: g, forthe selected base males and 92 forthe randomly chosen base females, both with different additive genetic means and variances Assigning a hypothetical base animal to these ... usual inverse of the relationship matrix -’ * o Otherwise, the calculation of G requires computing H introducing the segregation variance between groups and inbreeding, though these effects can...
... targeting single residues in Vpr indicated that amino acids inthe N terminal region including the helical domains are essentialfor stability and virion incorporation and a region comprising the ... through the p6 domain and packages into the virus particles in significant quantities [15,37-40] Therefore, we were interested in assessing whether Vpr-Gag interaction is detectable in BiFC based ... Thus, for A30 and L68 we chose L and E replacements, respectively, conserving hydrophobicity but changing the size of the position On the other hand, at position H71, we chose R, maintaining the...
... and the urinary volume, and the decrease in creatininemia and bilirubinemia In a second clinical trial, Heemann and colleagues [11] randomized 24 patients with severe cholestasis (bilirubin > ... transplantation [16] improvements in encephalopathy, a decrease in intracranial pressure, and an increase in cerebral perfusion pressure, mean arterial blood pressure, systemic vascular resistances ... improvements in hepatic-encephalopathy and arterial pressure, and a decrease in bilirubinemia, biliary acids, and creatininemia Recently, the results of a prospective randomized multicenter study including...
... better toolin assisting clinicians in making decisions for individual patients in specific clinical scenarios Conclusion There are very few interventions performed inthe ICU, whether for diagnostic, ... support forthe diagnosis and treatment of infectious diseases in intensive care units Lancet Infect Dis 2005, 5:305-312 The information obtained from the model may be useful in supplementing a clinician's ... Library of Medicine Training Grant # 2T15LM007092-16 The authors would like to thank Professor Roger Mark, Mauro Villaroel, Gari Clifford and Li-Wei Lehman for their assistance in using the MIMIC II...