... does not have too much influence over its regulators and if the regulators have the ability to hire, train, and retain qualified staff In this regard, the bank regulatory agencies need to remain ... year-end 1982 to year-end 1985 was characterized by extremely rapid growth, as the industry responded to the new regulatory and legislative climate Total S&L assets increased from $686 billion to $1,068 ... able to buy political favor in order to keep regulators from interfering in their operations 180 History of the EightiesLessons for the Future Chapter The Savings and Loan Crisis and Its Relationship...
... KCl, mM dithiothreitol and 10 mM MgCl2) using a motorized mortar and pestle (Torsion Balance Co, Clinton, NJ, USA) Following centrifugation to remove nuclei, yolk platelets, mitochondria (10 000 ... eukaryotic mRNA are thought to represent destabilizing elements leading to rapid deadenylation and messenger breakdown [47,48] Thus, while CLAP appears to be somewhat refractory to protease degradation, ... and cloned into pCR2.1 (Invitrogen, Burlington, ON, Canada) Approximately · 106 plaques were screened using standard protocols [34], and six plaques, identified by hybridization to the 564 bp...
... Pressure to Invasion Process, 93 Relationship of Dispersal to Propagule Pressure, 94 Relationship of Human and Animal Transport to Propagule Pressure, 94 Relationship of Seed Banks to Propagule ... fiddleneck (Amsinckia spp.) is highly toxic to horses, while other livestock are relatively tolerant of it It is estimated that up to 10% of range-grazing livestock may become afflicted by poisonous ... tall growing vegetation to prevent power outages if trees contact power lines during storms and to increase access to downed power lines Reduce Risks to Human Health Toxicants or irritants produced...
... minimally parenthesize~ It will be useful to be able to refer to the components of a category, c We first define the immediate components of c G' In the combinatory rules, categories can be viewed ... produced according to this construction In this section, we examine derivation trees of CCG's and compare them with respect to those of formalisms that are known to be LCFRS's In order to compare CCG's ... this section we describe Combinatory Categorial Grammars, Tree Adjoining Grammars, and Linear Indexed Grammars 2.1 Combinatory Categoriai The entire category to which y is instantiated can be...
... study intended to explore psychosocial factors and quality of life, preparatory to embarking on a larger scale, longterm study Finally, we discuss clinical implications in an attempt to lend greater ... disrupt the relationship, and may result in an even closer relationship (Oktay & Walter, 1991) And yet, in a troubled relationship, the disease may prove too stressful for the couple to handle ... I have the resources to fight this disease and to continue to parent my children at the same time?” “How will this effect their growth and development?” “What will happen to them if I die?” (Oktay,...
... Laboratories, Ltd Cut-off points for reference values were determined at the Gerontology Clinical Research Laboratory of the UNAM, Zaragoza Campus, in Mexico City (9) TOTAL ANTIOXIDANT STATUS Total ... comparación los adultos y una actividad similar de la SOD, debido probablemente a que estos antioxidantes están neutralizando los niveles más altos de los LPO de los ancianos Por lo tanto, este mecanismo ... contra el aumento de lipoperóxidos (LPO) en adultos mayores sanos de la ciudad de México Se estudiaron 105 adultos residentes de la ciudad de México (44 ± 10,8 años) y 126 adultos mayores (68...
... decreased symptoms, some could have left work because of symptoms and among those not responding to the questionnaire, some nurses could have had more symptoms and therefore being reluctant to answer ... severely mentally disordered patients too difficult to manage in acute and long-term psychiatric settings Patients referred to Brøset are either sentenced to psychiatric care or referred from ... severe learning disabilities together with severe behaviour problems, mainly of a violent character The patients referred to Brøset are considered too difficult to treat in the ordinary health...
... results are in part attributable to factors such as hypoxia or infection prior to patient death This could account for our failure to identify clinical correlates to MHCII expression; however the ... destruction, and macrophages are known to be crucial players in the cytotoxic phase of an inflammatory response, it is of particular interest that they were found to be more prevalent in PD cases with ... and without a clinical history of parkinsonism or dementia [8] Attempts have been made to link the clinical progression of PD to the presence of aSN inclusions and an anatomical staging model has...
... summers produce increased litterfall Finally, relationships might be obscured because of delays in the response of variables to specific factors To overcome these problems, we used several time-series ... its relationship with meteorological data METHODS 2.1 Study area The Montseny forms part of a mountain range that runs parallel to the Mediterranean Sea about 30 km off the Catalonian coast The topography ... traps were placed at random in each plot [31] Collection took place monthly from July 1995 to December 2002 The samples were sorted into five components: cork-oak leaves, twigs, male catkins,...
... Douglas fir pollen and to relate these responses to actual seed set The study also considers the effect of pollen hydration on in vitro assay response and its relationshipto actual seed set MATERIALS ... the total leachate (hot conductivity) After cold (25 °C) conductivity was determined, the solution was boiled for 60 min, cooled to 25 °C, deionized water added as required to make the pleted total ... Ltd, Toronto, Ontario) with plastic windows were used for initial isolation Smaller brown "corn-tector" bags (product No 402, obtained from Lawson Pollination Bags, Northfield, IL) were used to...
... growth period of stump sprouts On the other hand, the initiation of and its acceleration seem to be linked to enzyme changes (GDH and growth Protein content decreased because of the synthesis of non-protein ... substances during growth (mainly lignin) Correlatively, activities of G6PDH (pentose phosphate pathway) and GDH (cellular detoxification of NH+) increased and ensured, respectively, the production of ... (PAL and chalcone synthetase) remains a high priority Discussion It will also be necessary to specify relationships nolic compounds, growth and between typical phe- their metabolism, rooting Ageing...
... to DNA, which eventually leads to autoimmune manifestations similar to SLE Treatment with a BAFF/APRIL antagonist (soluble BCMA-Fc) is able to inhibit these autoimmune manifestations [62] Authors' ... 48:3475-3486 Stohl W: BlySfulness does not equal blissfulness in systemic lupus erythematosus: a therapeutic role for BLyS antagonists Curr Dir Autoimmun 2005, 8:289-304 Koyama T, Tsukamoto H, Masumoto ... systemic lupus erythematosus patients It has been reported that the inflammatory cytokine IL-6 is raised in the CSF of NPSLE patients compared with SLE patients without CNS symptoms [40], and this...
... patients to 33 months after Hyalograft® C Autograft implantation for cartilage lesions of the knee Biopsies were divided between symptomatic and asymptomatic patients to identify the relationship ... snap-frozen and were cut into μm sections Cellular and histochemical characteristics of the repair tissue were evaluated histologically and immunohistochemically For routine histology, specimens were ... clinical outcome and patient symptomatology This knowledge would help us to understand how to modulate and optimize natural cartilage turnover in adults, and how to improve the clinical outcome...
... 2009, 4:12 • Motor NCSs: mMDL, median motor nerve conduction velocity (mMNCV), mCMAPa, median motor terminal latency index (mTLI), M-U LD, and the median-thenar to ulnar-hypothenar motor CMAPa ratio ... latencies to the fourth digit (D4M-D4U), the difference between sensory median distal latencies to second digit and ulnar distal latencies to fifth digit (D2M-D5U), and the median -to- ulnar SNAPa ... more sensitive than motor NCSs Usually; isolated abnormalities of median motor nerve conduction with normal median sensory NCSs are not due to CTS, extra care is required to exclude other causes,...
... 0.54 to 0.81; Figure 1) Of the 21 studies, showed a significantly reduced mortality in the treatment group When using an optimization protocol, 31 patients (95% CI 20 to 63) had to be treated to ... 1,142 patients) found a relative risk ratio of 0.41 (0.29 to 0.59; Table 4) In these studies, 10 patients (95% CI to 16) needed to be treated to save one life The quality control score of this subgroup ... combined was 0.61 (95% CI 0.46 to 0.81) with a relative risk of 0.75 (95% CI 0.62 to 0.90; Figure 1) However, the absolute risk reduction was only 0.4% (95% CI -1.7 to 2.6%) Moreover, of the 30...
... limit the elaboration of proinflammatory cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor-α [19], which can indirectly protect the endothelium from cytokine-mediated apoptosis or upregulation of endothelial ... binding to EPCR and PAR1 activation The mechanism of neuroprotection in this model was attributed to inhibition of the proapoptotic transcription factor p53, normalization of the proapoptotic Bax/Bcl-2 ... endothelial cell APC binds to EPCR, which then interacts with the S1P1 receptor leading to its phosphorylation by PI3-kinase S1P1 signaling through Rac1 leads to cortical cytoskeletal rearrangement...
... nt downstream of the stop codon, whichever is shorter In the case of terminators with tied scores, we choose the terminator closest to the stop codon of the upstream gene To determine the sensitivity ... constitute transcription terminators Function to evaluate the quality of terminators The search process assigns a hairpin score H and a tail score T to every potential terminator From these values and ... remove any terminator for which the bottom half of the stem appears to be a hybridization between the two tails of a bidirectional terminator Specifically, we discard any terminator that is a super-sequence...
... where entry into mitosis is controlled; and the metaphase -to- anaphase transition, which leads to sister-chromatid segregation, completion of mitosis and cell division, also known as cytokinesis The ... functions to remove the damaged cells and prevents them from contributing to tumorigenesis; if a cell is unable to undergo apoptosis, due to mutation or biochemical inhibition, it can continue to divide ... activate pro-apoptotic genes to promote apoptosis (Lane, 1992) This was first shown in studies of p53 knockout mice that are resistant to the toxic effect of ionizing radiation due to the inability...