... number of days that subjects were bothered by their lower back, as reported on a weekly basis Data analysis Data were transmitted from a spread sheet to STATA 10.1 (StataCorp, Texas, USA) When answers ... Spinal manipulative therapy for low back pain Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2004:CD000447 Hayden JA, van Tulder MW, Malmivaara A, Koes BW: Exercise therapy for treatment of non-specific low back pain ... local ethics committee which found that it did not need approval Clinical procedures Patients who agreed to participate had a standardised clinical examination and were assigned a mechanical diagnosis...
... data were analysed bymeansof SAS software Summary statistics were generated with gender, type of provider, type of facility, working status and reasons for leaving as the categorical variable ... Working status was analysed based on work location by grouping regions into established regions (Addis Ababa; Amhara; Dire Dawa; Harari; Oromia; Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples States ... national%20statistics%202006/Population.pdf] Ethiopian Ministry of Health: Health and Health Related Indicators Ethiopian calendar (2005/2006 Gregorian calendar) 1998 Kombe G, Galaty D, Gadhia R, Decker C: Human and Financial Resource...
... mean values, stan= dard deviation and correlations; a variance analysis with ANOVA-LSD test and discriminant analysis were further performed The software used was Statistica Statsoft Inc and SPSS ... covered by secondary meadows or by degraded broadleaf woods Today, the artificial stands cover an area greater than 500 The most widely used species are Austrian pine and laricio pine (Pinus nigra ... not merely from the aesthetic and landscape-planning point of view, but also as a guarantee of the ecological stability of the plantations and, as a conse- quence, of their ability to perform...
... seasonal behavior of hpv and energy balance measurements together with the plant water status (predawn water potential) are presented in Fig After an initial increase due to a large evaporative ... et al., 1980) A detailed analysis of hpv data taken every 10 (Fig 4) revealed several fluctuations a throughout the day ture and rapid variations of micrometeoro- logical parameters This particular ... calibration procedure for the hpv system consisted of measuring in the field the water uptake of sampled trees, which represented the averages of the size classes A plastic tank was attached around...
... strategic bonds are indicated by bold lines, and MASA strategic bonds based on twc are shown by dashed lines The hashed bonds are both heuristic and topological: b c aN cb c aa b a c N Nb b aa ... 18 of 34 4/14/2008 Rule Bonds within aromatic rings are not considered to have potential strategic character OH OH a Rule A If a cyclic arc linking a pair of common atoms contains a chiral carbon ... Page 26 of 34 4/14/2008 Dr P Wipf Page 27 of 34 4/14/2008 Dr P Wipf Page 28 of 34 Mathematics Applied to Synthetic Analysis A topological strategic bond is identified on the basis of purely mathematical...
... of “deconstructing” a target molecule into readily available starting materials bymeansof - imaginary breaking of bonds (disconnections) and by the conversion of one functional group into another ... (functional group interconversions) The following factors need be taken into consideration: Efficiency, e.g the “arithmetic demon”: “The arithmetic demon dictates one of the major axioms of synthesis: ... and in the highest yield.” (R E Ireland) A linear synthesis with 14 starting materials and intermediates: yield = (0.8)14 = 4% Dr P Wipr Chem 2320 4/16/2007 A convergent synthesis with 14 starting...
... paper makes it possible to give a quantified indication of sentence grammaticality This approach is direct and takes advantage ofa constraint-based representation of syntactic information, making ... We can see that, according to the fact that all evaluated constraints are satisfied, QI and SR equal However, the fact that only constraints among 14 are evaluated lowers down the grammatical index ... step of our work will be its validation on large corpora Our parser will associate a grammatical index to each sentence This information will be validated bymeansof acceptability judgments acquired...
... consider a homogeneous collateral pool of 125 defaultable assets with equal nominal value We assume that all assets have a default probability of 5% and a recovery rate of 0%, and we assume that their ... one-factor Gaussian copula approach are acknowledged by practitioners and academics alike Trading correlation was originally considered as simply trading a new asset class But still, market participants ... credit risk that can be easily accessed by many market participants Credit risk management, the traditional area of application for credit derivatives, has gained additional importance due to the...
... purified in fairly large amounts [15] and displays a spontaneous ATPase activity that is insensitive to inhibition by vanadate, a typical inhibitor of ABC transporters [16] The purified MalFGK2 complex, ... N-terminally his-tagged MalT was partially purified from strain JM109, harbouring plasmid pAS9 (malTE.c on pQE9, pT5, ampR) by Ni-NTA chromatography Preparation of mAbs Ten-week-old-female Balb/c mice ... (overlapping by amino acids) and peptide-substitutional analyses were synthesized All peptides are C-terminally attached to cellulose via a (a- Ala)2 spacer Epitope mapping The screening of cellulose-bound...
... start computing an estimate of average payoff p1 for arm and an estimate of average payoff p2 for arm But each of these estimates and σ22, respectively) of the actual payoffs has an associated ... initial random strategy in each of his four restaurants for one week The manager can expect that this random approach will achieve a payoff approximately equal to the average payoff available ... each ant as input and produces actions by the ants as output 2.13 Automatic Programming of Cellular Automata Automatic programming ofa cellular automaton requires induction ofa set of state-transition...
... 2006 Taché S, Kaaya E, Omer S, Mkony CAE, Lyamuya E, Pallangyo K, Debas HT, MacFarlane SB: University partnership to address the shortage of healthcare professionals in Africa Global Public Health ... of MUHAS medical graduates actually end up staffing district hospitals and working in rural areas, a study in 2003 to determine employment patterns of MUHAS graduates found that 76% of medical ... 4.0/ 5) (Table 4) Surgical training at MUHAS Although the acquisition and mastery of basic surgical procedures, trauma management and emergency obstetri- Page of 10 (page number not for citation...
... 56(9):930-933 Ikai A: STM and AFM of bio/organic molecules and structures Surf Sci Rep 1996, 26(8):261-332 Isoda AHS, Kurata H, Kobayashi T, Yamashita Y: Prediction of the Epitaxial Orientation of Ultrathin ... Figure Nc-AFM micrograph and image of [MnIII6CrIII](ClO4)3 on mica (a) Nc-AFM-micrograph of [MnIII6CrIII](ClO4)3 on mica (b) Histogram of height of the nc-AFM image Gryzia et al Nanoscale Research ... The islands cover approximately 30% of the surface and are mostly attached to an atomic step of HOPG At the atomic step, an agglomeration of [Mn III Cr III ](BPh ) with average height of 2.2...
... efficient use of the available bandwidth, the fractional part is approximated bymeansof an Egyptian Fraction, where the unit fractions have a denominator equal to a power of two The last fraction ... 1190 bytes has a similar flow as with the gradual arrival of packets, but with an offset that is the result of the packetized arrival of the data The flow of the packet size of 1200 bytes shows a ... maximum latency for two different packet rates (Figure 24), we notice a similar behavior as with the gradual arrival of the data The number of fractions that form the approximation plays again a factor...
... approaches share several advantages, such as modularity, reusability, predictability, and adaptability as well as a set of disadvantages, such as an increased configuration process, loss of optimality, ... location of the granted master and the target slave, taking a local arbitration unit as a reference point Thus, we have (i) a local master-local slave situation, which means that the master and ... [8] Bya reasonable organization of the hardware components and of the bus segments, one can increase the degree of parallelism of data transfers and in this way possibly improve the overall...
... isolation, number of individuals—Slow action—Extinction caused by Natural Selection—Divergence of Character, related to the diversity of inhabitants of any small area, and to naturalisation—Action ... importance to gain a clear insight into the meansof modification and coadaptation At the commencement of my observations it seemed to me probable that a careful study of domesticated animals and of ... productions of the same continent— Centres of creation Meansof dispersal, by changes of climate and of the level of the land, and by occasional means Dispersal during the Glacial period coextensive...
... orchard is located near Guadalajara, 70 km northeast of Madrid Its geographical position is 3°9’E and 41°37’N, 685 m in altitude Dryness of the site is remarkable, with an annual rainfall as low ... ramets displayed remarkable morphological dif- ferences, as indicated by mean values of the parameters included in table III Values are higher for P brutia grafts for all the variables analyzed, ... number of ramets bearing male strobili Relationships between all the form and branching variables and female and male flowering were determined with the help ofa correlation matrix All analyses...
... intestinal tumors Primary appendiceal malignancies are classified into three types: carcinoid tumors, mucinous cystadenocarcinomas and adenocarcinomas Primary adenocarcinomas of the appendix are approximately ... present as a palpable abdominal mass, acute intestinal obstruction or ascites Most appendiceal malignancies are diagnosed from histological analysis of surgically removed specimens after a simple appendectomy ... located at the right adnexal region with a broad vaginal cuff bordering a thickened bladder wall Page of Figure Low power appearance of the colonic type appendiceal adenocarcinoma arising in a villous...
... 631–636 Asakura H, Jokaji H, Saito M, Uotani C, Kumabashiri I, Morishita E, Yamazaki M, Aoshima K, Matsuda T: Study of the balance between coagulation and fibrinolysis in disseminated intravascular ... Judgement of probable disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)* and definite DIC* from Criteria of DIC proposed by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Japan [28] A- aDO2, alveolar–arterial oxygen ... in various disease states Blood Coag Fibrinol 1992, 3:389–393 Asakura H, Jokaji H, Saito M, Uotani C, Kumabashiri I, Morishita E, Yamazaki M, Matsuda T: Change in plasma levels of tissue plasminogen...
... therapy of scars Initial signal Scar 185 76,8% Scar after NT 125,4% Scar 89,7% The sedation influence of scar manipulation is also shown Repeated sEMG measures showed a variation of to 8% Page of ... Suntinger A: AK Meridiantherapie (AKMT) 1st edition München, Germany: AKSE; 2003 Costa LA, de Araujo JE: The immediate effects of local and adjacent acupuncture on the tibialis anterior muscle: a human ... 4, and show amplitude graphs of the sEMG data of each of the selected procedures Table displays the acutal RMS data obtained in each procedure The dimension of RMS signal change following sedation,...