... senile cataract (79 female, 76 male) and the control one consisted of 155 of cases’ close relatives (79 female, 76 male) Mean age and standard deviation of patients and control group were 61.96±14.5, ... range of patients and controls were 44-85 year and 43-86 year respectively Table shows serum Na+, K+ of case and control groups, with a significant difference in serum + Na of case and control ones ... hypertension and any other systemic disease Then positive ones of both groups were excluded from the study Case and control groups were both examined by an expert ophthalmologist and routine ophthalmic...
... representing the culmination of a two -and- a-half-year investigation, charges that ABACUS, its employees, and its managers engaged in a conspiracy involving the regular and systematic falsification of ... federally-chartered deposit and lending institution headquartered at Bowery Street in Chinatown The Bank operates seven branches across New York City, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and primarily serves ... loan applications and often authored falsified documents themselves According to the indictment, originators coached borrowers to inflate their income, assets, and job titles, and to falsify Verification...
... overconfidence and points above would show underconfidence Fig contains these scatters for both older and younger subjects, along with standard errors and significance tests for differences in accuracy and ... offer was randomly determined and not based on the actual value of the item (Becker et al., 1964) For sellers, if WTA was less than or equal to the random offer, they gave up their item and received ... Fellowship, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation are gratefully acknowledged.For their reading of and helpful responses to early versions of our paper, we thank an Associate Editor and an anonymous...
... mediastinal and/ or hilar lymph nodes and in some cases, no radiographic alterations (Haramati and Jenny-Avital, 1998; Shah et al., 1997; Keiper et al., 1995; Naidich and McGuinness, 1991; Pitchenik and ... metachromatic cells 0.04% and epithelial cells 4.4% Female gender and atopy are associated with a significant elevation of eosinophils, male-to-female ratio was 0.3% and between atopic and non-atopic patients ... cavitation, mediastinal and/ or hilar lymph nodes and their associations Siemens X-ray device was used for postero-anterior and lateral chest radiography, using 120 Kv and to mAs Sputum samples...
... n-dimensional random variable, then n H(ξ) ≤ i=1 H(ξi ) (2.6) Recovering Set on Boolean lattice Bn In this section, we study recovering sets on Boolean lattices where we use ∩ and ∪ instead of ∧ and ∨ ... than the cardilattice, and we give a bound nalities of a general recovering pair discussed in [1], [9], and [10] Proof Let us define a random variable ξ = ∩ aj , where and aj are independently ... [1] A Sali, G Simonyi: Recovering Set System and Sandglass Conjecture, Combinatorics, Probability, and Computing (1997) 6, 481-491 ´ ´ [2] Csakany Rita: Some results on the sandglass conjecture...
... social, psychological and health dimensions, suitable for healthy and clinical populations, and (b) disease-specific instruments, measuring specific areas of health, functioning and QoL relevant to ... environment Financial resources Health and social care: availability and quality Opportunities for acquiring new information and skills Participation in and opportunities for recreation/leisure ... consumption-related psychopathology and multiple acquired deficits in physical and psychological health, in social life, family, work and financial well-being [3437] Regarding physically ill individuals, the assumption...
... status of MAPKs and the NF-κB cascade by multiparameter intracellular flow cytometry (Figs and 2) To assess phosphorylated and thus activated MAPKs, R2G6 cells were fixed, permeabilized and stained ... healthy individualsand persons with systemic lupus erythematosus Arthritis Rheum 2002, 46:1417-1429 Peng SL, Gerth AJ, Ranger AM, Glimcher LH: NFATc1 and NFATc2 together control both T and B cell ... cytometry κ The role of NF-κB and MAPKs in B cell differentiation leading to humoral immunity and autoimmunity The signaling cascades involving MAPKs (ERK, JNK, p38) and proteins involved in regulation...
... steroid and thyroxine replacement doses were progressively withdrawn under close monitoring There was full recovery of her adrenal, thyroid and gonadal axes and she was off all medication and clinically ... findings, histology from liver and lymph nodes and PET scan results Pituitary lymphomas are described as firm, vascular and adherent to surrounding structures and needing piecemeal dissection ... which on T 1and T2-weighted images is either iso- or hypodense and enhances with contrast [9] Unlike other brain tumors, T2-prolongation is not present owing to the dense cellularity and high nucleus...
... GDM and JJ designed the study, collected and analyzed the data, and wrote the first draft of the paper WHY collected the data and assisted data analysis RCKC conceived and designed the study, and ... our results and the original as well Peng et al BMC Psychiatry 2011, 11:129 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/11/129 Page of Table Means and Standard Deviations for subscales and total scores ... expert committee review on the relevance and representation of items used for the final outcome setting, and (5) pilot testing and probe to get at understanding of item [18] After having received...
... P(αn ) = mmax lmax ∑ ∑ PlQm (2) m=0 l≥η′ Here Pl and Qm are the probabilities that a neuron will receive l and m EPSPs and IPSPs respectively, and are given by (3): PI = exp (-αn (1-h) µ+) (αn ... where lmax and mmax are given by equation (4) < αn+1 > = (1 − αn )[ma ities that the instantaneous neural thresholds are equal to or less than θa and θb in subsystems a and b respectively and are ... − h) and m = αnµ − h The distribution of en+1 is therefore also normal, since the probabilities for l and m are mutually independent, and its variance is the sum of the variances of l and m...
... gender, hormones, and craniofacial configuration) and environmental (climatic conditions and local inflammations) factors control the frontal sinus configuration within each population and contribute ... HD Head and neck imaging In: Som PM, Shugar JMA, Brandwein MS, eds Anatomy and Physiology, 4th ed St Louis: Mosby; 2003:98-100 Dodd G, Jing B Radiology of the Nose, Paranasal Sinuses and Nasopharynx ... intra-observer reliability were 0.89 and 0.93 for the first and second observer, respectively The weighted kappa value for inter-observer reliability between observers and was 0.86 Fig Unilateral absence...
... Phatisawad, and Rapee Trichavaroj; Sean Hill, David Troelstrup, Erik Anderson, Andrew Williams, and Wichitra Apateerapong; and as well as acknowledge the SEARCH participants for their support and commitment ... subtype B) and V3 CM242 (subtype E) peptides, which distinguishes HIV-1 subtype B and E infection in Thai individualsand confirmed by sequencing, when indicated [19, 20] Specimens and HIV DNA ... clades A, E, and B; and demonstrated equivalent amplification of the target gene Separation of PBMC Subsets and HIV DNA Analaysis Because HIV DNA is present in both lymphocytes and monocytes,...
... Class Structure I In 66% of all households, both husband and wife are employed in working-class jobs and in 33% of households both husband and wife are co-owners of small businesses employing ... are pure working-class households, 33% have a working-class husband and a small employer wife and 33% have a small employer husband and a working-class wife For a strict adherent of the view that ... families over labor market participation and job choices there is minimal struggle, negotiation and bargaining, and as a result the interests linked to the husband's job always pre-empt those of the...
... illness in 1950 and 1996: what is mental illness and is it to be feared? Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 41, 188–207 197 Public attitudes, stigma anddiscrimination Pickenhagen, A and Sartorius, ... stronger in individuals who have a relatively authoritarian personality, and among people who believe that the world is basically just (and so people get what they deserve) (Crandall and Eshleman, ... stigma anddiscrimination Appelbaum, P S (1998) Discrimination in psychiatric disability coverage and the Americans with Disabilities Act Psychiatric Services, 49 (7), 875–6 Becker, D R and Drake,...
... in the normal weight and underweight BMI categories, adequate energy and protein intake were reported for 64 and 22, and 47 and 17%, respectively Similarly, for minerals and vitamins, even lesser ... Pakistan [15] Mean and standard deviation (SD) of energy, protein, selected minerals (Ca, Fe, Page of Zn) and vitamins (A and C) were determined from dietary intake data The vitamins and minerals selected ... challenging in terms of health and nutritional care Essential information about individuals food intake and habits, activity, cultural influences, and the economic and social situation provide...
... assigned to the asymmetric stretching of CH3, and the band at 2873 cm)1 to its symmetric mode The bands at 2926 and 2853 cm)1 can be assigned to an asymmetric and symmetric stretching mode of CH2, respectively ... between 1300 and 900 cm)1 arise mainly from phosphate associated with nucleic acids, i.e DNA and RNA The absorption bands at 1245 and 1087 cm)1 are characteristic of asymmetric and symmetric ... cm)1 (amide II) [15] The 1450 and 1400 cm)1 bands arise from the side chain of proteins [15], but the C–H bending vibration of fatty acids at 1467 and 1450 cm)1 [3] and the carboxylate vibration...
... guidelines and Journal reference; Medical photographs and graphs; Patient education videos and printouts Widely used, Reliable Saves Life, Time and Money No learning required Hospital pack, and excl ... alcohol and use of non-smoked tobacco were found to be risk factors of hypertension BMI more than 25 was risk factor for hypertension and diabetes On the other hand risk of respiratory diseases and ... shopping and walking Height and weight of the subjects were measured using standard procedures The weight was measured using SECA balance with minimum of cloths to the nearest of 100 gms and height...
... higher animals and in Archaea), and NADP+-specic members, respectively Most of these are evolutionarily and structurally related, in many cases quite closely, despite the functional and classicational ... coenzyme, and with the reduced coenzymes [23] there were indeed large shifts, as expected, in the discrimination factor, 150 fold and 272 fold, respectively, for example, for P262S and D263K ... triplicate and the kinetic parameters and their standard errors ( SE) were calculated by a nonlinear regression method [36] with ENZPACK version 3.0 (Biosoft Ltd, Cambridge, UK) The discrimination...