... appendicitis, cholecystitis, and peritonitis At the time of laparoscopy, 800 ml of fresh blood and 0.5-cm fundal defect ofthe uterus were noted (Fig 2) The placenta and amniotic membrane were ... myometrium up to the serosa, confirming the diagnosis of placenta percreta (Fig 3) The length ofthe fetus measured from the crown to rump was 9.0 cm, and fetal weight was 69.3 g; these measurements ... laparotomy At the beginning ofthe laparotomy, the fetus was spontaneously delivered through the ruptured site We preferred total abdominal hysterectomy to conservative management because ofthe large,...
... discussion and editing ofthe manuscript; IB, FMS, MS were involved in clinical management ofthe patient and interpretation of data, PED was supervisor of clinical management ofthe patient and interpretation ... management of CML in pregnant women may be individualized based on the relative risks and benefits ofthe patient and fetus and that the patient must be involved in decisions Competing interests The ... that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions MC was responsible ofthe clinical management ofthe patient, acquisition of data, drafting the manuscript; SS was responsible of the...
... taking into account that the ratio ofthe area ofthe intestinal stroma to the area of surface epithelium Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling ... seminoma [21] and in the seminomatous components of 7/14 cases of mixed germ cell tumours ofthe testis [22] Suster et al detected the CD30 antigen in 6/25 yolk sac tumours ofthe testis and mediastinum ... confirmed their results and have detected CD30 in these carcinomas at the protein [17-20] andthe mRNA [10] level Two reports demonstrated CD30 expression in 4/21 and 4/63 cases of testicular and mediastinal...
... establishing the pathways at the level of intermediates and enzymes that catalyze their formation The subsequent step is the selection of targets for further studies at the level ofthe genes This ... easy to perform One ofthe major applications of genome sequencing of plants is functional genomics In simple words, an understanding ofthe function of genes and other parts ofthe genome is known ... molecular biology and biochemistry led to rapid advances in the identification of biosynthetic genes, the elucidation of specific biosynthetic enzymes, andthe identification of end-products The complete...
... manner [25] The expression of HBV mRNA is also decreased signifying that these agents can decrease the synthesis of virally encoded components ofthe HBV virions The antiviral effect of these agents ... long and whether combination therapy with other immunological therapy or nucleoside/nucleotide analogues will further enhance its efficacy A more rational form of therapy should entail the use of ... clearance of serum HBV DNA and HBeAg, of 40.6% vs 9.4% in the control group (p=0.004) 18 months after the completion of treatment, although the response rate between the two groups are similar at the...
... suspected, it is the appearance of serum markers of HBV infection that establishes the diagnosis ofthe disease Of these, HBsAg is considered to be the sentinel marker for the confirmation of acute infection ... decrease the number of handling steps, reduce contamination, and increase throughput andthe accuracy of quantification will further enhance the utility of these assays [2,5] Given the varied technologies ... Management of HBV Drug Resistance Given the recent approval of adefovir dipivoxil, andthe probability that other antivirals could also become available in the nottoo-distant future, the management of...
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... courses; andthe third phase, the full membership phase, was determined by the members’ confidence in the brand as a quality systemand their perception of brand membership benefits The focus of this ... happened and not just describing them, namely in this case study, understanding the impact ofthe dynamics ofthe second phase of brand membership on those ofthe third phase To this successfully, the ... quality brand network appeared to be confidence in the brand as a quality systemandthe perceived benefits from brand membership The major focus ofthe following discussion concerns the impact of the...
... thousands of years for the benefit of mankind, the application of enzyme technology to assist industrial and process chemistry is more recent In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century there ... to assist in the synthesis of pharmaceuticals and final product purity will determine application Regardless ofthe final biocatalyst form, the process begins with the production ofthe cell mass ... domestic and industrial detergent additives for cleaning clothes The application of enzymes for industrial use is perhaps the widest definition ofthe term enzyme technology The term has in the past...
... network There is a flow of resources within the network Points of Difference: • SN theorist (and early marketing researchers) seek to describe individual actors and their relations/patterns of connections ... buyers and sellers improve the likelihood of a transaction? – How does the value of information moderate the effect of social structure on relationship outcomes? • Typical Methods – Surveys and ... thought and practice? • • How does the marketing perspective compare to the sociological perspective? What are the three key perspectives of SNT that have influence marketing theory and practice?...
... decided by the user, and these groups can merge and separate, which results in the number of groups varying in the range of [Y, X] Based on the rules of determining the number of pairs of groups ... based in the recommendations ofthe ITU-T A recommendation ofthe Model of Mapping MP3 for the environment ofthe testbed can be defined to VolP applications With the implementation ofthe MP3 ... environment, and others According to these trends, the intention ofthe conference was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and findings in a wide range of areas related to the above mentioned...
... to give the subjects the views ofthe documents they are authorized to see, making at the same time the subjects able to verify the authenticity and completeness ofthe received answer The W3C ... synchronisation ofthe end-user’s view ofthesystem between that which is required on the PDA and / or laptop andthe servers There are particular problems with wireless communications because of interception ... Berners-Lee threw down the challenge ofthe semantic web andthe web of trust [1] The EC (European Commission) has argued for the information society, the knowledge society andthe ERA (European Research...
... position, and is the last known velocity vector ofthe focal object ofthe query tm is the time at which the position andthe velocity vector ofthe focal object was recorded (by the focal object ofthe ... query identifiers M and N denote the number of rows andthe number of columns ofthe Grid corresponding to the Universe of Discourse of a MobiEyes system stores the identifiers ofthe queries whose ... that they differ We define the similarity, of B and C as The larger their similarity, the more similar the filters In the case of multi-level Bloom filters, we take the sum ofthe similarities of...
... is the number of DCF entries at the leaves ofthe tree, then the AIB algorithm takes time In our experiments, so the CPU cost is low Phase 3: The I/O cost of this phase is the reading ofthe ... not in the Eps-neighborhood of A On the other hand, if B is within Scor, A and C are not contained in Scor as they are both in the Eps-neighborhood of B The actual processing order ofthe objects ... studies the effect ofthe safe period Fig 13 Effect ofthe safe period opti- optimization on the average query processing load mization on the average query process- of a moving object Theof the...
... leave after the beginning ofthe computation This is handled by a list, which contains the processes that are member ofthe group The list is called the view ofthe group The history ofthe group ... summarization andthe compactness ofthe model (number of leaf entries in the tree) it produces For large values of S and small values of we obtain a fine grain representation ofthe data set at the end of ... assume that the probability ofthe crash of a server is independent ofthe number of servers, the chance of violating the ACID properties decreases when the number of servers increases So, the chances...
... true Then, we evaluate the costs ofandand let be the one with the minimum cost In the case of we build two new configurations and is obtained by dropping and from and respectively, and adding the ... diagonal matrix Then, the new diagonal matrix of can be derived by dividing the entry by Therefore, we have: The other eigenvalues ofand Thus, the co-variance matrixes of remain the same: and may be ... each group The ijth entry ofthe co-variance matrix is the co-variance between the attributes andofthe set of records in The eigenvectors of this co-variance matrix are determined These eigenvectors...
... graph of is an undirected, bipartite graph with node set and edge set The set of nodes is where andandandandand There is a undirected edge if and only if andandThe density of a subgraph is the ... external elements Then, a collection of XML documents is represented by the union ofthe graphs where is the union oftheand is the union ofthe We represent both document–internal and cross–document ... vertices andthe edges ofthe document graph are augmented with weights: the vertex weight for the vertex is the number of elements that document contains, andthe edge weight for the edge between and...
... write the notation the first ofthe three points corresponds to the one that holds the relation with the other two points andthe other two points are defining a line This order in the arguments of ... by the fact that they also are tangent to the convex hull ofthe union of B and C (see Fig 8(a)) Common internal tangents intersect inside the convex hull ofthe union of regions B and C and ... The part ofthe plane corresponding to the collinearity region of B and C Fig The construction to obtain the collinearity region: (a) the common external tangents make up the convex hull of the...