... quality of life useful for predicting survival with hormone-Refractory prostate cancer? A pooled Analysis ofthree studies of the European organization for research and treatment of cancer genitourinary ... assessed to determine the relationship between survival and four 'non-anatomical' prognostic http://www.hqlo.com/content/7/1/102 indicators: symptomatic history, performance status, weight loss and age ... quality of life, mood, and appetite were significant predictors of survival [87] A study of 140 patients with advanced melanoma [90] found that a score of less than 75 points in overall quality of...
... induce instantaneous responses of several physiological processes at leaf level, namely stomatal conductance, transpiration and photosynthesis Stomatal function Although the physiology of stomata ... significant variations of values within the crown ofan isolated tree, i.e ranging from 0.2 to 0.6 As an alternative to the Penman-Monteith solution (Eq 8), numerical methods can also be used to ... induction of the photosynthetic apparatus is required to obtain significant amounts of carbon fixation [18] The kinetics of the response of leaf gas exchanges to sunflecks, and thus the efficiency of...
... merit to remove ambiguity and to lay down the definition of diversity on simple and rigorous principles In particular, the property of continuity in distances is of critical importance for any ... first group made of Northern dairy breeds (Frisonne, Flamande, Maine Anjou, Shorthorn) and ii) another group involving beef and hardy breeds of the Center and West part of France (Salers, Aubrac, ... they said to be endangered: e.g Bretonne Pie Noire, Ferrandaise, Vosgienne or the Shorthorn The Weitzman method allows us to quantify the loss of diversity caused by the extinction of any subset...
... as compared to genotypes E and G [48] The high prevalence of HBV genotype D and C in Pakistani population and its association with increased severity of the disease and resistance to the present ... limited to support advantage of one therapy to be more effective than the others However, the response rate of 30-40% was reported by the administration of IFN-a for 6-12 months as compared to 10-20% ... [30] Naeem and coworkers [31] reported that administration of 5MIU of recombinant IFN-a-2b for four months lead to response in 44% of Pakistani patients On the other hand, Zuberi and colleagues...
... technology grants which may amount to a maximum of 50% of the additional costs and must not exceed a total of 200k€ within a period ofthree calendar years and (c) development costs prior to market ... arrange for guarantees of origin to be issued in response to a request from producers of heating and cooling from RES Such an arrangement may be made subject to a minimum capacity limit A guarantee ... Kingdom Romania Slovak Republic Romania Slovak Republic Poland Portugal Poland Portugal Malta Netherlands Luxembourg Latvia Lithuania Italy Ireland Greece Hungary France Germany Estonia Finland Denmark...
... exceptional sunshine, most often, it has a very important rate of insolation (75% on average) and the mean annual of global solar radiation measured on horizontal plane exceeds 20 (MJ/m2) The ... sum of two solar components; direct (beam) and diffuse [3] Due to its geographical position in the solar belt, Algeria is blessed with an abundance of solar energy and has the opportunity to utilize ... the diffuse fraction and clearness index (Kt) Mustafa G [2] and Oturanc et al [13] performed an analysis of daily total horizontal solar radiation measurement for cities and for Konya city in...
... approach to the overall management of spasticity An overviewof the clinical management of spasticity treatment such as heat and advice on the use of hydrotherapy as well as the prescription of splints ... the leg and involve extension of the hip and knee with plantar flexion and usually inversion of the ankle Once again, such spasms can be triggered by a variety of stimuli and sometimes can be so ... problems and osteoarthritic change in the joints Any peripheral stimuli from problems such as ingrowing Anoverviewof the clinical management of spasticity toenails or small pressure sores can, in...
... Aeration is used to change iron content ferrous to ferric form (Fe3+) and to reduce tastes and odours • Depending on the financial and management capacity, water suppliers can choice one of filtration ... and cement-brick tanks or in large concrete containers is very common in rural, sub-urban areas and islands The advantages of rain water in the MD are almost clean, purpose, easy to collect and ... nations such as Finland, Denmark, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Australia, Sweden, South Korea and Germany Looking at urban markets anywhere, we can count more than 20 trade-marks of bottled drinking...
... surplus funds (savers) to those who have a shortage of funds (borrowers) • Direct finance vs Indirect finance 2-2 AnOverviewof the Financial System II 2-3 Structure of Financial Markets I Debt ... locations (e.g., Toronto Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange) Over-the-Counter (OTC) Markets • Dealers at different locations buy and sell 2-6 Structure of Financial Markets IV Money and Capital ... AnOverviewof the Financial System • Primary function of the Financial System is financial Intermediation • The channeling of funds from households, firms and governments who...
... Expectations of Specific Levels of Performance Determine Areas of Greatest Impact Provide Ongoing Quantitative Assessment of Performance Deliver Easy-toUnderstand Reports to Employees/Management What ... for me to determine what’s important to my customers? We believe that there is no single best way to assess the relative importance of specific aspects of performance and that the choice of a method ... company to your company Again this is very strategic for the company because this can be used to decide where to allocate marketing and advertising resources to convert potential customers into...
... attacks is highly correlated to the leakage vulnerabilities discussed before: static leakage and spoofing, linkage leakage and splicing and dynamic leakage and replay attack 2.2 Encryption Overhead ... other than through the database software, by physical removal of the storage media or by access to the database backup files Different security mechanisms can be categorized based on the level of ... increase in Internet usage, together with advances in software and networking, has resulted in organizations being able to easily share data for a variety of purposes This has led to a new paradigm...
... able to drive capacitances of interconnects of any length • High level of integration (>1010 transistors/circuit) • High reproducibility (better than ± 5%) • Reliability (operating time > 10 years) ... Carbon Nanotube • • Every atom in a single-walled nanotube (SWNT) is on the surface and exposed to environment Charge transfer or small changes in the chargeenvironment of a nanotube can cause ... composites, BN nanotubes CNT based sensors DNA transport Transport in nanopores Nanowires: transport, thermoelectric effect Transport: molecular electronics Protein nanotube chemistry * Quantum Computing...
... Spoofed portscanning A new breed of publicly available scanner is spoofscan.c by jsbach, which is available from http://packetstorm.securify.com/UNIX/scanners/spoofscan.c Spoofscan takes advantage ... needs to be managed to ensure ongoing improvement of security Management brings support to the organisations networked infrastructure and Information Security systems, including firewall and IDS ... Penetration Testing teams have to be relevant to the client and it’s business, many reports are hand-written to highlight serious vulnerabilities Many of the powerful scanning tools available run under...
... number of deaths is but the tip ofan iceberg of trauma and disability Spain Switzerland France Japan Norway Germany Greece Canada Finland Ireland Austria Australia Belgium Hungary Poland Czech ... percentage of national median income Norway Sweden Belgium Switzerland Czech Republic France Netherlands Germany Australia Greece Hungary Austria Canada Japan Poland New Zealand Portugal Spain Ireland ... children aged 12 to 23 months, and deaths from accidents and injuries among young people aged to 19 years The chart opposite (Figure 2.0) brings these components together into anoverview table of...
... gave an example of the tremendous benefits of cloud computing to a company, how a startup company call Animoto that allow people to turn a series of photographs into a 33 International Journal of ... controls and monitoring of access to the contents In the cloud environment, the enterprise may have little or no visibility to storage and backup processes and little or no physical access to storage ... corporate officers, a clear understanding of the enterprise's appetite for risk, understanding of compliance requirements, transparency about the significant risks to the enterprise and embedding of...
... activities of ANP and that the ANP receptor is coupled to guanylyl cyclase (GC), the enzyme that catalyzes the generation of cGMP In 1989, a segment of the sea urchin GC cDNA was used as a probe to screen ... cloning of the first mammalian GC (thus called GC-A) from rats and humans [17] Expression of the cloned enzyme confirmed that GC-A is an ANP receptor Soon after the discovery of GC-A, cloning of a ... binding affinities of ANP, BNP and CNP to the human or rat C receptor have been reported [21] Irrespective of the species examined, the rank order of affinity for the C receptor was ANP > CNP > BNP...
... Underlying the language of ‘supply and demand’ is the concept of the market The market analogy is implicit in and assumed in discussions of teacher supply and demand, and yet this analogy is often fallacious ... conditions and geographies shaped by history These constrain and enable the parameters of choice and decision-making, and they are critical toan analysis of failure to balance supply and demand Here ... solution and that any future planning needs to take into account the inevitable gap between policy and planning Policy and planning have to be flexible and sensitive to context More importantly,...
... correlated to the degree of the accompanied IT The transport mechanism of antigens to the thymus is a critical issue because of the remarkable capacity of IS which can recognize any antigen [4] ... biological barriers and can cause disease in animals but not in humans and vice versa [15] The role of RBC antigens transport in inducing tolerance to self-antigens is a feature that can be considered ... life, antigen stores of RBC are used to induce tolerance This may explain why tolerance is easier to induce in prenatal life Further, a pathogenesis mechanism of some autoimmune disease can be...