... in the size of the limb. Because of this need of constant adjustments, we noticed that treatment centers re-quire the services of a professional seamstress. Even so, many patients have been ... results. Success mostly depends on the results of treatment and so to achieve these objectives adaptation and the development of new forms of treatment are necessary. This team is composed ... lymphedema, filariasis, treatment Introduction The treatment of lymphedema continues to be a worldwide challenge for modern medicine due to the characteristics of the disease. Lymphedema generally...
... have been received.Step 8: The Exporter arranges for shipment of the goods, prepares and/or obtain the documents specified in the letterof credit and makes demand under the letterof credit ... remains the same preference for the irrevocable credit. However, it goes in more details by making it clearer that an irrevocable letter of credit is deemed as the default status: “A letter ... of Article 6 refer to revocable letters of credit. The limited usage of such instruments in today’s letterof credit business led to the general viewpoint that there was no necessity to remain...
... factor under the risk-based measure The Committee evaluated the case for lowering the 20% CCF under the Basel II standardised and FIRB risk-based measures. The CCF is relevant for short-term self-liquidating ... has been part of the Basel capital framework since their inception in 1988. The CCF expresses the likelihood of an off-balance sheet position to become on-balance sheet, ie it is not related ... item left to national discretion. The Committee further agreed to include, in the revised treatment, issued as well as confirmed letters of credit which are short term (ie have a maturity below...
... entrepreneurship, indeed, better-educated immigrants are more likely to be business owners: 5.4 percent of immigrants with a college degree or more are business owners, compared to 2.8 percent ... unincorporated self-employed are a large number of people who would not generally be considered busi-ness owners. A substantial share of the un-incorporated self-employed are freelance workers, independent ... make up 43 percent of hotel and motel owners, and 37 percent of restaurant owners.Other types of businesses where immigrants are strongly overrepresented include taxi service rms (65 percent...
... structures. The structures of theN-glycans of nLyc e 2 and their molecular percentagesare presentec in Table 2.The peptide analysis of nLyc e 2 identified 21 peptides of the natural allergen. One of ... histamine release experi-ments; to date our results give strong evidence for theallergenic activity of the carbohydrates in a subgroup of tomato allergic patients.Therefore the presence of highly ... reaction, i .e. specificdegranulation of basophils. The protein backbone of theallergen does not seem to play a role because the recom-binant protein did not induce the mediator release even...
... 280.12). Release Detection Determining whether a release of a regulated substance has occurred from the UST system,into the environment or into the interstitial space between the UST system and ... in the middle of the checklists. Because of these control breaks, there is intentional repetition of text (particularly “Note” Statcments) under the “Reviewer Checks” column to prevent oversight ... fuel is delivered under pressure, the overfill protection device must work compatibly with pumped deliveries. Also, overfill protection devices are effective only when combined with careful...
... analysed in triplicate. The data are reported as per-centage of the value obtained by incubation of Hpt alone, andexpressed as mean ± SEM. A single representative of at leastthree independent experiments ... incubation of Hpt alone. In eachpanel, a single representative of at least three independent experi-ments is shown. The interassay coefficient of variation from threeindependent experiments was ... H2O2system. The samples were analysed in triplicate.The data are reported as percentage of the value obtained by incu-bation of Hpt alone, and expressed as mean ± SEM. In each panel,a single representative...
... residues, correspondingly. Positions of the peptides in the sequence of the mature CP29 are indicated bycorresponding amino acid numbers. The sequences of the peptides1–4 were obtained after ... peptide extraction were made as described previously[22]. Phosphorylated peptides were obtained after treatment of the isolated thylakoids by trypsin, conversion of thereleased peptides to methyl ... subsequentpeptides originate from the minor LHCII-like subunitCP29. The positions of the sequenced peptides in thesequence of the mature CP29 are indicated in Table 1.These data also confirmed...
... treated bythe pressure as described under methods, where the pressurizationprocess was initiated after the inside pressure vessel reached the desiredtemperature. In method 2, the pressure vessel ... inside of the pressurevessel that was filled with kerosene and pre-equilibrated atdesired temperature. The pressure vessel was immersedinto a large refrigerated constant temperature water bath.After ... is a pressure-dependent phenomenon. It is evidentthat pressure-dependent inactivation becomes the predomi-nant event at the temperature below )10 °C.Reversibility of low temperature inactivation...
... survey methods, and completion of thequestionnaires. The proficiency of the questionnairesand interviewers wer e verified through pre-testing andthe deficiencies were corrected. Furthermore, ... hundred mothers/guardians of children under 5 years of age completed the questionnaire at the com-mencement of the study. These respondents weredivided into two groups: the control and experimental(intervention) ... werefollowed up for a period of 3 months when the knowledge and uptake of insecticide treated net was reassessed.Results: There was no statistically significant differences observed between...
... ethanoland methanol were removed followed by drying in a freeze-dryer. Thedry extracts (extractable phytochemicals) represented 24.8% of the ricegerm and 16.3% of the rice bran, respectively. The extract ... waspartitioned between water (200 mL) and dichloromethane 3 times (200mL ì 3). The aqueous layer and combined dichloromethane extractwere rotary evaporated under reduced pressure at room temperaturefollowed ... Microsoft Excel software.The concentrations of individual components in the rice samples weredetermined using calibration curves of their corresponding standard.The compounds were quantified...
... the impact of the weightincrease. 20 The Eyes of the FleetEmpennage (Tail Section)The empennage was tested as part of the E- 2C full-scale fatigue test;however, the test was originally intended ... large to be repaired before they are discovered, the test article (anairframe designed and built for specific types of tests) may requireadditional reinforcements before the test is completed ... thermal test of theOWP, the results of which have already been used to establish the life of the OWP on the E- 2C.ADDING COOPERATIVE ENGAGEMENT CAPABILITY TOTHE E- 2C FLEETTable 3.2 lists the equipment...
... forests (data not shown). Losses via surface runoff were lower than15those via seepage leaching and the difference between forests was minor relative tothe difference of seepage leaching (Table ... body of researchto assess the risk and consequence of N saturation has been carried out in temperateregions, where industrial development occurred earliest (e. g. Gundersen et al., 2006).Forest ... to explore how ecosystem N retention has been affected by at least15 years of high atmospheric N deposition. The impor tance of DON in the N budgetswere examined in the second year, since this...
... reliable estimates are often underestimated. This review addresses the criteria to take intoaccount whenworkingout thesamplingprocedure, from theselection ofequipment to implementationin the field. ... (Puckett, 1991). Brechtel(1989) recommended that the distance between adjacent gauges should be twothirds of the average spacing of the trees. When the number of collectors used islimited, however, ... Collectors were installed under a tree or a group of trees typical of the stand (average age, diameter, height)in such a way that the sampled area was representative of the respective gap andcanopy...