... one night or more as a result of their injury Participants were also asked for their assessment of the seriousness of the injury in terms of threat to life and threat of disability The questions ... injury types The underlying hypothesis of this investigation is that, aside from the nature of injury, a range of other factors are important in explaining short- term functional outcomes Methods This ... as a score of ≤ 25 out of a maximum possible score of 40 Indication of a major depressive episode was assessed by using two DSM-III screening questions for depressed mood or loss of interest...
... derived by means of differences between mean and top heights A model of the development of mean diameters was derived in dependence on the age and yield class of stand, which was determined separately ... repeatedly The aim of the work on the example of Czechoslovak yield tables of beech is to compare and evaluate the development of their basic growth characteristics such as yield curves of mean and ... together The numerical evaluation of relative errors of yield tables according to formulas (2)–(5) is given in Table Development of mean height Development of mean heights of beech stands from production...
... critical discussion of short- term medical volunteer work by giving voice to the perceptions of a variety of persons who are involved in, work alongside, or are affected by short- term medical volunteer ... the perceptions of these individuals and not on the impact of short- term volunteer programs Its purpose is to identify and describe the range of perceived issues surrounding short- term medical volunteer ... government health officials, and a group of seven parents whose children were treated by short- term medical volunteers To understand the perceptions of those providing short- term medical services...
... recorded their intake of nutrition Table Comparison of pre-race training and experience of the participants Amino acids (n = 14) Table Comparison of pre-race age and anthropometry of the participants ... effects of a shortterm amino-acid supplementation on variables of skeletal muscle damage in ultra-runners during a 100 km ultra-marathon We hypothesized that Knechtle et al Journal of the International ... effect of short- term amino acid supplementation on variables related to skeletal muscle damage in 100 km ultra-runners - a randomized controlled trial Journal of the International Society of Sports...
... Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network (Elmhurst, IL, USA), approved by the Office of Research Page of 15 Affairs at Rush-Presbyterian-St Luke’s Medical Center and the Committee on Use of ... analyses Two days before termination of the bovine cultures, the medium of each disk was supplemented with μCi/ml Na235SO4 (Perkin-Elmer, Norwalk, CT, USA) as a measure of the rate of proteoglycan synthesis ... capable of removing the prodomain of ADAMTS-4 [27], while furin and PC7 have been shown to process pro-ADAMTS-5 [28] Thus, regulation of aggrecanase activation as well as mRNA levels of ADAMTS-4...
... project of the Institute of Economic Research and the World Bank Poverty prevalence was defined as the million VND income poverty line of set by the People’s Committee of HCMC Quartiles of district-level ... the growing literature on the health effects of air pollution in Asia This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first ever study of the health effects of air pollution in Ho Chi Minh City In addition, ... seasonal and long -term trends Distributed lag functions were used to examine the effect of pollutant and temperature lags Case-crossover analysis: The case period (the duration of time which a...
... doi:10.1186/1742-4690-7-78 Cite this article as: Bourry et al.: Effect of a short- term HAART on SIV load in macaque tissues is dependent on time of initiation and antiviral diffusion Retrovirology 2010 7:78 ... reductions of 0.4 × log10 and 1.1 × log10 after 14 and 28 days of treatment, respectively (Figure 1b) Interestingly, the level of SIV-DNA was not significantly reduced in the lymph nodes and spleen of ... were killed at the end of treatment (21 days pi) Initiation of HAART days after SIV infection conducts to a significant decrease of PVL (a) but non-significant reduction of CVL (b) Viral dissemination...
... organ shortage, the long waiting time worsens the clinical condition of waitlists, and because the medical urgency of waitlist patients is a preferred criterion for organ allocation, 10 of 11 ... was routinely instituted through the groin area instead of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) This report summarizes the short- term results of bilateral sequential lung transplantations (BSLTx) performed ... 55 years of age, a nonsmoker, with a clear chest radiograph (CxR), a clear bronchoscopy result, and a partial pressure of arterial oxygen (PaO2)/fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO2) ratio of 350...
... reservoir storage volumes Terminal reservoir volumes are generally set through midterm scheduling process This constraint implies that the total quantity of utilized water for shortterm scheduling should ... technique based shortterm hydro thermal scheduling”, Applied Soft Computing , 2007 [19] Yuan Xiaohui, Wang Liang, Yuan Yanbin, “Application of enhanced PSO approach to optimal scheduling of hydro system”, ... Optimization has been applied for shortterm hydroelectric generation scheduling of Cascaded hydroelectric system at Narmada river located in Madhya Pradesh, India The rest of the paper is organized...
... long -term memory and re-entered into short- term memory Memory in consecutive interpreting is fulfilled by the combination of sensory memory, short- term memory and long -term memory However, short- term ... deeply about short- term memory skill 1.2 Short- term Memory in Consecutive interpreting 1.2.1 Definition of Short- term Memory In order to understand thoroughly the study, the notion of STM should ... Characteristics of Short- term Memory Short- term memory is characterized by the temporary, limited capacity, loss of information, immediate recall, rehearsal maintenance and chunking First of all, STM...
... cytosolic PtdEtn-PLD resulted from a Ca2+ -dependent membrane translocation of an essential cofactor, an EGTA wash of the Ca2+ -lysed membranes was reconstituted with the Ca2+ -lysed cytosol However, the ... and extent of stimulation of the membrane and soluble yeast PtdEtnPLD activity by Ca2+ and their inhibition by other divalent cations is highly comparable The mechanism of action of Ca2+ ions ... PtdEtn in Ca2+ -dependent manner, strongly suggest that one mechanism of Ca2+ action is to stimulate the interaction of PtdEtn-PLD with its phospholipid substrate It is not yet clear how Ca2+ ions...
... Triton X-100 (0.3%) and determining dye fluorescence in the presence of a mixture of EGTA ⁄ Tris ( [Ca2+ ] < 0.2 nm) and 2.5 mm Ca2+ to calculate Fmin and Fmax, respectively [Ca2+ ]i was calculated from ... of P2X7 receptors in the regulation of neuritogenesis and in the fine control of the balance between proliferation ⁄ differentiation of neuroblastoma cells Results Molecular characterization of ... formation Moreover, we linked the activation of the P2X7 receptor with the regulation of Ca2+ ⁄ calmodulin -dependent kinase II (CaMKII) activity and some of its downstream effectors, including focal...
... Molecular mechanismsof Pin1 tPro213 Fig NOESY spectrum of the triply phosphorylated SRSRpT212PpS214LPpT217PPTR peptide of Tau The cis conformation for the Pro219 is below the limit of detection ... FEBS 5215 Molecular mechanismsof Pin1 G Lippens et al populations, as one of the forms would continuously disappear from the pool of free peptides Structural characterization of the MPM-2 antibody ... specificity of substrate and recruitment peptides for cyclin -dependent kinases Nat Cell Biol 1, 438–443 48 Kofron JL, Kuzmic P, Kishore V, Colon-Bonuilla E & Rich D (1991) Determination of kinetic...
... full recovery of plastic deformation [8, 9] I NTRODUCTION 1.3 Molecular background Independent of the stress level or amount of deformation involved, the origin of the deformation of polymer materials ... Incorporation of ageing kinetics 5.4 Results Characterization of intrinsic behaviour Validation of intrinsic behaviour Characterization of ageing kinetics Validation of ageing ... material This type of behaviour is termed 1.3 M OLECULAR BACKGROUND thermorheological complex, and the magnitude of the effect is mainly determined by the relative position of the transitions...
... shortterm timescale (in the range of seconds to minutes) and a long -term timescale (in the range of hours, days and seasons) Important abiotic determinants include the geographical latitude of ... 2008 FEBS 1081 Long -term light quality acclimation L Dietzel et al responses occur independently of the presence or absence of photoreceptors [13,14] However, an interaction of regulatory networks ... compilation ª 2008 FEBS 1083 Long -term light quality acclimation L Dietzel et al Possible functional relationships of state transitions and LTR Both short- term and long -term acclimation responses are...
... of Ab fibrillization [43–48] Hundreds of derivatives of this pentapeptide fragment have been investigated The results of studies of the various derivatives clearly indicate that the presence of ... presence of aromatic residues in specific structural contexts can accelerate this process by several orders of magnitude Therefore, from the practical point of view, understanding of the mechanism of ... one of the key parameters for predicting the rate of the fibrillization process [36] Molecular dynamics simulations of the stability of preformed amyloid fibrils clearly demonstrated the role of...
... virtual absence of ammonium They stopped shortof determining the actual composite rates of ammonium assimilation and of confirming that the system shifted between rates as effectively as often hypothesized ... about a short- term (metabolic regulation) redistribution of the flux over GS and GDH caused by (de-)adenylylation of GS (c) The degree of adenylylation of GS is the most important regulator of GS ... plateau value of 20% (for 1.0 mm a-KG) for ammonium in excess of mm (data not shown) The heights of both the peak in the dependence of the variation of the relative contribution of the two enzymes...
... context of lower overall immigration: How to encourage greater labor force participation among immigrant women, many of whom have young children In terms of education — one of the key determinants of ... numerical terms and as a share of the total population In relative terms, the foreign-born share is currently approaching, but remains below, levels recorded during the peak of the last great wave of ... level through the efforts of families, employers, schools, churches, and communities Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the US model of immigrant integration is the lack of public institutions...
... ejection fraction of 16%, pulmonary capillary wedge pressure of 30 mmHg and cardiac index of 1.81 L/min/m2 TnI and B-type Natri- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Translational ... Milrinone infusion Levels of IL6 and TNFα were reduced by roughly half after 24 hours of milrinone (IL6 ↓31 pg/ml or 56%, p = 0.0023; TNF↓149 pg/ ml or 53%, p = 0.028) In terms of apoptotic signaling, ... myocardial injury The lack of worsening of the TnI leak suggests that milrinone does not exacerbate the underlying pathologic process in these patients, at least in the shortterm This should be interpreted...