biological indicators in environmental monitoring programs can we increase their effectiveness
Báo cáo y học: " MAPK signalling in rheumatoid joint destruction: can we unravel the puzzle? " pps
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09/08/2014, 07:20
... N-terminal kinase is required for metalloproteinase expression and joint destruction in inflammatory arthritis J Clin Invest 2001, 108:73-81 Mengshol JA, Vincenti MP, Coon CI, Barchowsky A, Brinckerhoff ... protein kinases p38a and ERK in the synovial membrane in vivo Arthritis Res Ther 2005, 7:R1140-R1147 Han Z, Boyle DL, Chang L, Bennett B, Karin M, Yang L, Manning AM, Firestein GS: c-Jun N-terminal ... in the inflamed synovium In line with previous data, the results of Goertz and colleagues also emphasise the role of ERK1/2 as a key integrator of activation signals in synovial fibroblasts In...
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Báo cáo y học: "Gastrointestinal dysfunction in the critically ill: can we measure it" doc
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13/08/2014, 11:22
... system of interest Comprehensive measure of function in that system Sensitive to clinically important change in function Recognizable to clinician Increasing abnormality associated with increasing ... factors for clinically important upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients requiring mechanical ventilation Crit Care Med 1999, 27:2812-2817 Marshall JC: Clinical markers of gastrointestinal dysfunction ... 36:1304-1310 Reintam A, Parm P, Redlich U, Tooding LM, Starkopf J, Köhler F, Spies C, Kern H: Gastrointestinal failure in intensive care: a retrospective clinical study in three different intensive...
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Integrated local knowledge in implementing forest allocation policy in Central Vietnam: potential use of local indicators in forest monitoring
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12/08/2016, 22:03
... monitoring on specific forest type or a threatened wildlife species By using this source of knowledge, we can save our time in finding relationship among living things or non-living things in local ... link with their living environment If we can use local knowledge filtered and assembled in form of ‘local indicators , we may find out potential uses for a particular purpose such as forest monitoring ... Potential indicator species from interview of local people Total 118 key informant people were interviewed on plant species that can be used as indicators for forest status From preliminary survey, we...
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Báo cáo y học: "Translational Medicine and Reliability of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism Studies: Can We Believe in SNP Reports or Not"
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25/10/2012, 10:51
... studies analysing a determined polymorphisms between the studies examining it within 1-3 polymorphisms versus studies examining the same polymorphism among more than polymorphism Since the distribution ... usefulness of certain polymorphisms as prognostic genetic markers It may also have direct impact in medical research by guiding researchers and funding sources in investigating insignificant genes It ... Regarding number of polymorphisms examined, eligible studies were divided into two groups: those which examined the association between 1-3 polymorphisms and cancer outcome and those which examined...
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Arsenic speciation in environmental and biological samples extraction and stability studies
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15/03/2014, 23:49
... M 1.0 ml min−1 1.5 ml min−1 0.8 ml min−1 60 ml min−1 200 ml min−1 100 ml min−1 Arsenic 197.26 nm 27.5 mA 35 mA Forward 1350 W Reflected: 2.2 W Coolant: 14 l min−1 Nebulizer: 1.0 l min−1 Auxiliary: ... Arsenic compounds were determined in four powder candidate reference materials (prepared within the framework of a European project) of environmental and biological origin: rice, chicken, fish and ... were prepared from each sample 3.3 Total arsenic determination Total arsenic concentration was determined in each raw material and extracts after their mineralization by FI-HG-AFS The operating...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " Blood management in intensive care medicine: CRIT and ABC — what can we learn" docx
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12/08/2014, 20:20
... meticulously followed physicians’ adherence? Using recombinant human erythropoietin in intensive medicine resulted in clear reductions of allogeneic blood transfusion needs [12] Its use in daily clinical ... price but, sooner or later, recombinant human erythropoietin will find its place in intensive care medicine Artificial oxygen carriers are fascinating new drugs in clinical development Although perioperative ... you introduced it in your ICU? Establishing restrictive multidisciplinary transfusion guidelines may also appear trivial In the real world, however, it is not — and strictly implementing them in...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Can we predict septic shock in patients with hospital-acquired pneumonia" ppt
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12/08/2014, 23:20
... whether clinical deterioration truly resulted from pneumonia in all patients Competing interests So, can we predict deterioration of HAP to septic shock using biochemical means? Taking into account ... levels of proinflammatory cytokines, while currently used variables (such as C-reactive protein) could not However, bedside determination of interleukins using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay is ... is use of invasive diagnostic techniques (in order to avoid sampling of the colonized upper respiratory tract) with quantitative microbiological cultures (in order to distinguish true infection...
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Báo cáo y học: "Brain dysfunction in sepsis: what can we learn from cerebral perfusion studies" pdf
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13/08/2014, 08:21
... this entity The value of monitoring cerebral perfusion and cerebrovascular reactivity in this setting remains to be defined However, further experimental and clinical investigations on SAD are ... could inform on the extent of the effect of inflammatory mediators on the brain Investigations addressing SAD will remain difficult due to the problem of correctly identifying and quantifying this ... the age of the included patients, and in my opinion it is impossible to define a ‘normal’ CBF range for such a group of patients Moreover, ischaemic changes in relatively small brain regions could...
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Báo cáo y học: "Can we find the genes involved in complex traits" pptx
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14/08/2014, 14:21
... Jepsen (Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA) on bone fragility underscored the benefit of incorporating distinct disciplines, in this case engineering, in defining and understanding new phenotypes ... still being developed Mott introduced the idea that outbred mice could be used both to confirm and to refine mapping done in inbred strains, as http://genomebiology.com/2004/5/10/347 well as ... National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) for the resequencing of 15 additional strains of mice beyond the current C57BL6/J assembly was welcomed as a means of further defining haplotype...
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Transport connections in northern mountainous provinces project environmental monitoring report
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08/09/2015, 23:32
... Environment Training III.4 Arrange for Baseline Instrument Monitoring IV Environmental Monitoring of Construction Impacts IV.1 Conduct Baseline instrument monitoring IV.2 Periodic instrument monitoring ... Compliance with uEMP /Environmental Issue LC-PR151-01 during blasting LC-PR151B-01 during blasting LC-PR154-01 during blasting LC-PR156-01 during blasting LC-PR160-01 during blasting Plate 63 Workers ... for Environmental Monitoring 2.3.2 Roles and Responsibilities in EMP Implementation and Monitoring The roles and responsibilities of the different institutions in EMP implementation and monitoring...
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Composite indicators in energy and environmental modeling
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12/09/2015, 08:19
... developing an environmental performance index, and present their radial implementations in environmental performance measurement Since radial DEA type models often have weak discriminating power in ... approach in dealing with quantitative data This offers practitioners further evidence in applying the weighted product method to construct composite indicators In the final part, we present a linear ... and avoids the subjectivity in determining the weights for sub -indicators It can also easily incorporate additional information on the relative importance of sub -indicators when they become available...
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Investigation and application of liquid chromatography mass spectrometry in the analysis of polar, less volatile and thermal unstable organic pollutants in environmental and biological samples 6
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16/09/2015, 17:13
... ultrapure water, drinking water, rain water, river water and seawater under various pH and irradiation sources (sunlight, darkness, indoor incandescent lighting and artificial UV lighting) Hydrolysis ... Light intensity could prompt degradation significantly under mild alkaline conditions, while its influence was minor at higher pH (pH > 9) Furthermore, half-lives and degradation rates were obtained ... it was found that although higher recoveries were obtained by MAE, recoveries by SFE were good (for propoxur, methiocarb and chlorpropham) under their respective optimum conditions Therefore,...
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Investigation and application of liquid chromatography mass spectrometry in the analysis of polar, less volatile and thermal unstable organic pollutants in environmental and biological samples 5
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16/09/2015, 17:13
... power setting for the microwave heating This setting was proportional to the number of samples undergoing extraction during one run Furthermore, according to previous experience with MAE and intuition, ... obtained by scanning over a range of m/z 50 to 250 Maximum injection time was set at 150 ms Time scheduled mass conditions were shown as following scheme: 126 15 22 30 LC time (min) Full-scan ... pesticide residues in biological samples, except chlorinated pesticides, which can be detected in a freeze-dried mussel tissues using focused MAE [24] Based on the above considerations, in this study,...
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Investigation and application of liquid chromatography mass spectrometry in the analysis of polar, less volatile and thermal unstable organic pollutants in environmental and biological samples 4
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16/09/2015, 17:13
... temperature 300°C; initial oven temperature 80°C for min, increased to 200°C at a rate of 25°C/min, then maintained at 200°C for min; a second ramp 230°C at rate of 5°C/min, increased to 280°C ... 3) methanol 88 An interesting result observed from Fig 4-6 is that in the same solvent, the recovery increases in going from PAHs to PCBs, and then to triazines (i.e, increasing polarity of analyte) ... triazines For example, the recoveries of triazines progressively improved with an increasing degree of moisture in the tested soil This can be explained by the high solubility of triazines in water...
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Investigation and application of liquid chromatography mass spectrometry in the analysis of polar, less volatile and thermal unstable organic pollutants in environmental and biological samples 3
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16/09/2015, 17:13
... K increases and t½ decreases accordingly when the light intensity increases in the order of darkness, indoor lighting and sunlight This indicates that light exposure can prompt hydrolysis in ... Irradiation darkness indoor lighting a sunlight darkness indoor lighting a sunlight darkness indoor lighting a sunlight darkness indoor lighting a sunlight darkness indoor lighting a sunlight k (h ... (sunlight, darkness, indoor incandescent lighting and artificial UV light) by using LC-APCI-ITMS with selected ion monitoring mode; and (3) To investigate the degradation of propoxur in environmental...
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Investigation and application of liquid chromatography mass spectrometry in the analysis of polar, less volatile and thermal unstable organic pollutants in environmental and biological samples 2
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16/09/2015, 17:13
... 24 hours, the fine powders were accurately weighed and placed in polyethylene flasks Tortoises were removed from their shells after being submerged in liquid nitrogen, and tissues were then crushed ... 99.5%) were supplied by ChemService (West Chester, PA, USA) The stock solutions containing each compound at 1000 µg /ml were prepared in methanol and diluted with the same solvent to obtain working ... Ulva lactuca) were purchased in a local market In order to remove possible trace organic contaminants prior to preparation, all of them were washed in fresh running water and then rinsed with deionized...
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Investigation and application of liquid chromatography mass spectrometry in the analysis of polar, less volatile and thermal unstable organic pollutants in environmental and biological samples 1
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16/09/2015, 17:13
... commercially available and a growing interest in applications involving biological and environmental analysis In an APCI source, the column effluent is nebulized in a heated vaporizer tube (350-500 ... 1-3 Comparison of the boiling points of solvents in open and closed systems [64] Solvent Dichloromethane Boiling point (°C) in open system 39.8* Boiling point (°C) in closed system (175psi) 140 ... though commercialized, were often difficult to use, had limited sensitivity, and were not robust However, they were very useful for specific applications The overwhelming increase in LC-MS applications...
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Butch, femme and other labels in the singaporean lesbian community can we escape the heteronormative gender binary
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02/10/2015, 12:56
... that feminine/feminine pairings are becoming increasingly common and accepted within the community, although they are not as prevalent as masculine/feminine pairings; they are also often invisible ... that in Singapore [lesbians] have nothing to fight for, everything is quite okay, I feel like we re not being discriminated against, I feel like in certain situations [being a lesbian] is kind ... project was used in this thesis Interviews lasted between 45 minutes and hours, and some respondents were interviewed more than once Respondents were obtained through snowballing sampling due to the...
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Can we crop carbon a case study in north south climate mitigation
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07/04/2017, 15:45
... In practice, however, they cannot be completely separated from the carbon sinks with which this thesis is mainly concerned, as there is clearly no point in augmenting sinks in a manner that increases ... humanity That increased levels of CO2 will increase productivity in some cases is not in doubt, so it is worth considering this argument The IPCC also acknowledges that the resulting increase in NPP ... “Extensive experience makes clear that any increase in flooding will increase the risk of drowning” (IPCC, 2001c: 11) An indication of the uncertainty involved is the effect on food production...
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