... implanted for the relief of severe lower limb spasticity and flexor spasms The goals then are improved comfort and wheelchair posture, Intrathecal baclofen for the controlof spinal and supraspinal spasticity ... temperature and atmospheric pressure REFERENCES Albright, A L (1996) Baclofen in the treatment of cerebral palsy J Child Neurol, 11: 77–83 Intrathecal baclofen for the controlof spinal and supraspinal ... risk of low-pressure headache An initial intrathecal trial dose of 25 or 50 μg of baclofen is used The smaller initial trial dose should be used if the patient is not on oral baclofen, in case of...
... monocytes/macrophages and T cell subsets including Tr1, Treg, and Th1 cells It acts via activation of a transmembrane receptor complex, which is composed of IL-10R1 and IL-10R2, and controls the activities of several ... and Serhan 2003) Prostaglandins and leukotrienes are initially produced locally at the inflammation site and are key in promoting the cardinal signs of inflammation Of interest, another class of ... neutralization of toxic elements and elimination of replicating organisms and finally healing and remodeling of damaged tissues On one side pathogens evolved mechanisms to evade recognition and killing,...
... Kroger ¨ the 5¢-UTR and 3¢-UTR of CfNR allow controlof both the timing and level of expression of introduced genes in transgenic C fusiformis Results Increasing the efficiency of C fusiformis transformation ... the addition of both nitrate and appropriate concentrations of ammonium allows, within limits, the controlof the amount of induced protein The observed lag phase of h for Pnr ⁄ Tnr-controlled ... concentrations of ammonium and nitrate, it is possible to down-regulate, rather than completely shut off, the expression of genes that are under controlof the Pnr ⁄ Tnr cassette Decoupling of transcription...
... the EPA Office of Water/Office of Science and Technology/Standards and Applied Science Division To conduct the assessment required estimates of several factors The factors and the sources of the ... Humans, Terrestrial and Avian Wildlife, and Aquatic Life to Dioxins and Furans from Disposal and Use of Sludge from Bleached Kraft and Sulfite Pulp and Paper Mills Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances, ... lakes), and two dilution models Dilution factors provided by Office of Water publication and Regional EPA personnel One of the dilution models was developed by EPA/Office of Research and Development/Exposure...
... Y Takayanagi and T Onaka PrRP and RFRPs in metabolism and stress Table Summary of mammalian RFamide peptides and their receptors The effects of administration of RFamide peptides upon ... hypothalamus and the anterodorsal thalamic nucleus Roles of RFRP in the controlof food intake and stress responses The dorsomedial hypothalamus plays an important role in the controlof energy ... brainstem and hypothalamus, and induce neuroendocrine and behavioral responses Food intake also activates the brainstem and hypothalamus, resulting in the termination of meals and the induction of energy...
... cost The size of PLDs is, on the other hand, smaller than that of FPGAs Current PLDs offer complexity equivalent to hundreds of thousands of gates and speed of the order of hundreds of MHz 2.3 Field ... logic level control and/ or protection circuitry with power handling capability of supplying A and withstanding at least 100 V With the current 22 Neural and Fuzzy Logic Controlof Drives and Power ... open-loop control systems 4 Neural and Fuzzy Logic Controlof Drives and Power Systems (E) The method of generating the control pulses: • Single-channel control systems • Multi-channel control...
... PCR and ISH results show that 62 out of 67 (92.5%) and 64 out of 67 (95.5%) positively expressed varying levels of IGF2-P4 and H19, respectively Comparison of the expression levels of IGF2-P4 and ... sec and 72°C for 60 sec, and finally 72°C for The PCR reactions were carried out in 25 μl volumes in the presence of ng/μl of each of the forward and the reverse primers using 0.05 units/μl of ... the controlof IGF2-P4 and H19 regulatory sequences To evaluate the possible use of IGF2-P4 and H19 regulatory sequences for targeted therapy of bladder cancer, we determined the expression of...
... downregulation of other receptors is sensitive to HIV-1 Gag expression, we have now investigated the kinetics of lysosomal downregulation of CD4 and CXCR4, in the presence and absence of Gag CD4 and CXCR4 ... mutants of AIP1/Alix arrests HIV-1 budding at a late stage and blocks viral particle release [7,10] Likewise, depletion of TSG101 and other ESCRT components inhibits lysosomal downregulation of ligand-activated ... importance of both CXCR4 and CD4 for both normal cell physiology and HIV-1 biology, we have examined the role of ESCRT I in downregulation of these two cellular proteins SDF-1-induced downregulation of...
... observable and controllable, the position and the velocity of the mechanical part can be estimated and fed back to control the vibrations of the system This approach is applicable for voltagecontrolled ... better understanding of the application of the electromagnetic theory to control the vibration of machines and mechanical structures According to the theory basis, the modelling of the damping ... product of the voltage ( v ( t ) ) and the current ( i ( t ) ) flowing in the coil, and the mechanical power is the product of the force ( f ( t ) ) and $ speed ( q ( t ) ) of the moving part of the...
... combining ability (SCA) of the cross between the i-th and the j-th parent and εijk is the residual term The additive and dominance variances are:σ = 4σ and σ = 4σ andand the phenotypic variance ... traits x and y respectively; rgxy is the additive genetic correlation between traits x and y and σpy is the phenotypic standard deviation of trait y Finally, because of the high number of traits ... Bastien J.C., Genetic controlof stiffness of standing douglas-fir; from the standing stem to the standardised wood sample, relationships between modulus of elasticity and wood density parameters,...
... requires a greater understanding of the ontogeny of the endocrine pancreas Only then will it be possible to isolate the appropriate progenitor cells, and to expand and differentiate them in vitro ... Cambridge, USA) and Mary-Elizabeth Patti (Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, USA), who described their independent studies of the differential expression profiles of control, prediabetic and diabetic ... expression profiles from various models of adiposity led him and his colleagues to the finding that adipose tissue from obese rodents and human subjects not only carries the hallmarks of an ‘inflamed’...
... CECs and progenitors purified from healthy donors were used as control samples Isolation of total RNA, preparation of cRNA, hybridization, and scanning of probe arrays were performed Page of 15 ... Comparison of CECs and EPCs levels between healthy controls and patients affected by SSc with and without ulcers were performed by T-test and Pearson test Correlations between CECs and EPCs number ... accurate detection and enumeration of rare events in flow cytometry are the number of events acquired and the signal to noise ratio Collection of a large number of events is mandatory to identify...
... predictive of loss of LTNP status and/ or disease progression in of 8, and differentiated slow progressors from elite LTNP who retained potent virological control Sustained immunological suppression of ... genetic data JJZ and ADK assisted with analysis of T cell immunity data, and DM and PRG provided commentary on neutralising antibody and viral evolution and helped edit the manuscript AFG and JSS contributed ... cells/μl, and no history of ART [27,28] Subsequently, loss of LTNP status was defined by any of the following events: a consistent decline in CD4 T cell counts below 500/μl, commencement of ART, and...
... and Can use only a limited number of input determine membership function parameters variables Soft control requires large quantity of data Combination of soft controland classical/advanced control ... strategies Control strategy Advantages On/Off control PID control MPC Adaptive control Optimal control Fuzzy control ANN control Neuro-Fuzzy control Hybrid control Limitations Low initial cost, Simple ... attention The types ofcontrol systems and their advantages and limitations are listed and summarized in Table Table Advantages and limitations of building heating control strategies Control strategy...
... University of Singapore, Singapore V TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS LIST OF PUBLICATIONS LIST OF POSTER PRESENTATIONS TABLE OF CONTENTS SUMMARY LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ... quality of X botanicals and botanical health products The methodologies developed and applied are important to ensure the quality of health products and hence the safety of consumers XI LIST OF ... structures of 19 analytes investigated in this study 45 Figure 3.2 Typical HPLC-DAD chromatogram of the standards of 19 PDE-5 inhibitors and their analogues 50 Figure 3.3 Overlaid UV spectra of standards...
... MICROLITHOGRAPHY: CONTROLOF TEMPERATURE AND RESIST THICKNESS LEE LAY LAY (B ENG (HONS.), NUS) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING ... form of scrap, reduced yield and rework The major elements of any process control systems are process monitoring and advanced process control techniques In this section, the process monitoring and ... ISE for the first two cases of optimal feedforward controland a third case of feedback control are 3.25, 1.63 and 99.66 respectively Using the optimal feedforward controller, there is about 30...
... Controlof Gantry and Tower Cranes Hanafy M Omar (ABSTRACT) The main objective of this work is to design robust, fast, and practical controllers for gantry and tower cranes The controllers ... design of controllers (e.g., Auernig and Troger, 1987) The effect of the load weight on the dynamics is usually ignored However, Lee (1998) and Omar and Nayfeh (2001) consider it in the design of controllers ... equations of motion are similar to the equations of motion of gantry cranes The same controller can be used for controlling this motion The rotational equations of Hanafy M Omar 31 Chapter Design of Control...
... values of 0.09 and 0.18 for hSGLT1 and hSGLT2, respectively These data clearly show the electrogenic uptake of thioglycoside I and VII across the plasma membrane Discussion Figure Correlation of ... notion of using SGLT inhibitors as a means to control circulating levels of glucose The selective inhibition of hSGLT2 by thioglycoside I, which is responsible for most of the reabsorption of glucose ... therapies and emerging targets for the treatment of diabetes Current Pharmaceutical Design 2001; 7: 417-450 Wood IS, and Trayhurn P Glucose transporters (GLUT and SGLT): expanded families of sugar...
... L/day with 1,000 mg/L of biological oxygen demand (BOD), 50 mg/L of nitrogen and 25 mg/L of phosphorus The experiments were conducted at a sludge retention time (SRT) of 33 days and the hydraulic ... goals of adding such modified coagulants were to increase particle size, and to enhance the aggregation ability of the conventional coagulants MATERIALS AND METHODS Preparation of coagulants and ... mixture of polysilicate and Fe(III) was used in this study Behaviors of these materials on biopolymer (protein and carbohydrate) removal and fouling reduction were investigated by conducting batch and...
... of all oils tested The main component of one of the oils is pulegone The other is not yet identified and it is called SEM76 (Shaaya and Kostyukovsky, 2006) In our study of the mode of action of ... mortality of all adults tested at very low concentrations of 0.5 μL·L−1 air and exposure time of 24 h A higher concentration of μL·L−1 air was needed to kill larvae of Tribolium, Trogoderma, and Plodia ... SEM76 at a concentration of 70 μL·L−1 air (equivalent to 70 g·m−3 ) and days exposure time caused 100% kill of adults of Sitophilus and Oryzaephilus, but not of Rhyzopertha and Tribolium (Table 16.3)...