... in this group of patients is relevant for the treatment of COPD, and for the care and rehabilitation of patients To this end, the aim of the present study was to explore the determinants of subjective ... clinic Exercise capacity Exercise capacity was measured with the ISWT The ISWT is a standardized progressive walking test used to measure functional exercise capacity in patients with cardiorespiratory ... airway obstruction, which is most frequently the result of tobacco smoke [1] COPD is one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide Many people suffer from this disease for years and...
... system is often vital: too much of a compound may be toxic to the point of being lethal, too little may be equally harmful The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the importance of stoichiometry ... concepts is sufficient to get to grips with many of the key chemical principles that underpin biology Life is the result of thousands of different biochemical reactions occurring in every cell of our ... statistical treatment of the obtained data to determine the association constants with the knowledge of primary statistics is the main feature of this method When the complex stoichiometry is not to 1,...
... significance) with the accumulation of more facts There seems no need for the snobbery (it is said) of the highly quantitative founding biologists at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, in whose early history ... must be fed into the mathematics Nor should the value of facts and understanding on their own be dismissed The case for Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection would have been strengthened ... 34.2 Journal of Biology 2009, Volume 8, Article 34 mathematics; indeed Lewis argues cogently that the behavior of the Hes/her oscillator alone is beyond the reach of simple intuition Moreover...
... This emphasizes the unusual presentation in this case of an isolated attack of gout in the wrist Acute onset of polyarticular gouty arthritis is more frequently seen in older patients most of ... http://www.chiroandosteo.com/content/15/1/16 tis, psoriatic arthritis, xanthomatosis, and amyloidosis The definitive diagnosis of gout is made by examination of synovial fluid aspirated from the joint Joint aspiration isof prime ... been reported Discussion A review of the literature reveals that gouty arthritis of the wrist is rare in isolation although gout itself is the most common inflammatory arthritis in older patients...
... part of South Asia, and has an area of 147,570 km2 It is one of the most densely populated countries of the world, with a population of about 129 million in 2001(Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, ... family growth and to some families renting a part oftheir houses to other families History of a series of efforts in Bauniabad One of the authors (Bilqis Amin Hoque) has been involved in the water ... Each plant isconnected to about 100 existing household latrines Biogas plant consists of inlet tank, methane fermentation chamber with hydraulic chamber, and soak pit The total capacity of the fermentation...
... The NLP approach to eye contact is holistic and individualistic, but is soundly based on the premise that good eye contact increases rapport Save time and effort with specific messages delivered ... Research shows that there is a strong link between the amount of eye contact people receive and their degree of participation in group communication in the number of turns taken in a group ... invite responses by eye If the nominee is not watching, someone will give him/her a nudge Eye contact is, fundamentally, time and effort saving Much of the above is likely to seem transparently obvious,...
... Module Session 1: Issue Notes (E STYGER) SLM nhiệm vụ trung tâm Ngân hàng Thế giới Ngân hàng Thế giới cam kết thực ... dụ, với câu hỏi tham gia? điểm đa dạng xã hội tác SLM Ngân hàng Thế giới -2- Module Session 1: Issue Notes (E STYGER) hoạt động phát triển Tiếp cận với lôi kéo người nghèo tham gia đòi hỏi nỗ ... gia Trong nhóm người nghèo, phụ nữ chiếm số đông Rất nhiều vấn đề hạn chế -3- Module Session 1: Issue Notes (E STYGER) cá nhân, hộ gia đình cộng đồng thị trường quan hệ tổ chức tham gia có liên...
... Office of the Actuary, National Health Statistics Group; U.S Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis; and U.S Bureau of the Census 11 Soni A Personal health behaviors for heart disease ... diagnosed with diabetes at some point in their lives is estimated at 30 percent for boys and 40 percent for girls.18 Obesity also is a major contributor to heart disease, arthritis, and some types of ... These statistics are alarming and disturbing for the health of the nation The good news is that research has revealed that health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death...
... the probability of default of subsequently issued loans after controlling for borrower risk characteristics as well as internal and external credit scores This result is consistent with relationships ... customers with an existing relationship have a 1.0% lower default rate than customers with no existing relationship This difference in default rates is statistically significant at the 1% level This is ... example, an applicant is more likely to be rejected based on one variable and this characteristic is also positively associated with default probability This is consistent with the interpretation...
... 2000) In this paper we examine the proximate causes of variation in reproductive performance of overwintering animals and their offspring in cyclic populations of field voles (Microtus agrestis) We ... was weighted with the inverse of the estimated probability of survival in the estimation (see Littell et al 1996) Hence, the sum of weightings of animals of a particular characteristic divided ... together withtheir mate Breeding probability of peakarea females increased significantly with body mass at capture (logistic regression: x2 =5.15, df, p= 0.023) 190 Fig Body mass distributions of sampled...
... null hypothesis of no impact at all of health could be rejected The second column of Table 4.10 shows the probability values associated with this null hypothesis for men in each of the 11 countries ... individual characteristics in a reduced form analysis We make a distinction between three sets of explanatory variables A …rst set of regressors are yearly age dummies This level of detail allows ... this is the case for about 42 percent of the Europeans aged 50-64 A BMI that is above 30 indicates obesity, which is the case for 17 percent of the sample Taken together, about 60 percent of...
... his insurgency database and trends analysis with our project team Bruce Hoffman of RAND and Max Manwaring, Professor of Military Strategy, U.S Army War College, were the formal reviewers of this ... base of jihadist operations, reinstituting Ba’athist rule, and personal enrichment An in-depth exploration of counterinsurgency in Iraq is beyond the scope of this chapter.24 However, it is reasonable ... significant support to global terrorists The existence of Islamic insurgencies is also Counterinsurgency is likely to also require the United States to work effectively with the United Nations, other...
... GROWTH is defined as the annual This finding is consistent with Leuz et al (2003) where Greece (together with Austria) ranked highest in terms of earnings management for an international sample of ... Throughout the discussion, assessments of statistical significance are based on heteroskedasticity-corrected t-statistics.19 The first four columns of Table examine the effect of listing status, ... number of “small losses” A firm-year observation is classified as small profit (small loss) if positive (negative) net income falls within the range of one percent of lagged total assets EM2 is the...
... types of companies Strengths and weakness characteristics of SMEs in developing E-collaboration For a better understanding of SME activity, summary information of SME characteristics is listed ... this research, the authors attend to two areas of project management from nine existing areas, because of the operation of the conceptual model One is integration management and the other is ... order to prove this allegation, the distribution of published articles per year extracted from the Web of Science database is demonstrated in Figures and However, the tendency of publication has...
... proCPU-CHis but only 2.3 °C for YQ proCPU-CHis This indicates a role of H355 and ⁄ or H357 in the thermal stability of proCPU Furthermore, we digested WT proCPU-CHis and YQ proCPU-CHis with bovine ... comparison to WT CPU This hypothesis is supported by the use of a newly developed continuous coupled enzyme assay instead of the discontinuous HPLC assay that demonstrated similar Km values of the ... data, where y is percentage inhibition and x is the molar concentration of the inhibitor, A is locked to 0%, B to 100%, C is the IC50 value and D is the slope of the curve The IC50 value is the concentration...
... Table 2: Comparison of NA and PA with previous best results for Hindi Improvement in case of MST+MAXENT is greater than that of Malt One reason is because of more number of instances of multiple ... list of all the children with label „subject‟ we find the node in this list which appears left most in the sentence with respect to other nodes We assign „subject‟ to this node For the rest of ... We assign „subject‟ to this node For the rest of the nodes in this list we assign the second best label and remove the first best label from their respective k-best list of labels We check recursively,...
... Federal Register FR, Financial Times FT, Federal Bureau Information Service FBIS, TIME, CRANFIELD, CISI, CACM, MED and LISA This analysis consists on determining the amount and type of pronouns ... are presented by CRANFIELD collection with a 9,05 The reason of this level of pronominal use is due to text contents This collection is composed by extracts of very high technical subjects Between ... 22,16 is also high, the most important group of pronominal references used in these collections is formed by "it" and "its" pronouns In this case, TEXT COLLECTION LAT FBIS TIME FT CISI MED CACM LISA...
... bond with the phosphate oxygen of PLP In Y51F bsSHMT, this interaction is lost and the phenyl plane of F51 is rotated by 75° when compared with that of Y51 PLP 4610 B S Bhavani et al Fig Interaction ... the mechanism of the THF-dependent reaction of SHMT, not much is known about the mechanism of Fig Active site geometry of bsSHMT– Ser complex depicting the residues involved in catalysis The stereo ... positioning of Y61, and Y61 is involved in the abstraction of the proton from the Ca carbon of l-allo-Thr On the basis of these observations, a possible mechanism for the SHMT-catalysed cleavage of l-allo-Thr...