... muscle trauma than the standard posterolateral approach Therefore a comparative analysis was performed to answer the question if minimal invasive posterior approach leads to lower muscle enzyme levels, ... blinded for the examining author (A.M.) with respect to the chosen surgical approach and the radiological assessments blinded for the two assessing authors (A.M and M.S.) Reliability for the ... analyses were conducted using the computer program SPSS for Windows (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL) For comparison between the two groups of surgical approach the Mann-Whitney test was used in the case of...
... hydrophobic drugs, and drug- loaded PLA-PEG polymer micelles broke up to result in drug precipitation For this reason, it was suggested that the obtained polymeric micelles might be freeze-dried for a ... influence the pharmacokinetics of drugs [39, 40], while much more drug would be accumulated in the solid tumor region due to delay of the circulation time of drugsfor polymeric micelles [22, 27, ... ethaselen-loaded polymeric micelles would also be a superior formulationfor other tumor models Nevertheless, ethaselen, as a poorly water -soluble drug, might be physically incorporated into the inner...
... the separation result We can exploit the performance improvements due to beamforming principles For the signal separation, we have to employ some form of dimension reduction in order to map the ... that the PCAbased approach also emphasizes the wider sensor spacing in the same way as the geometry-based method However, for high frequencies, while both approaches still perform similarly if ... similarly if we only account for reverberation, the PCA-based approach works better than the geometrybased approach if noise is added (Figure 13) We confirmed the superior performance with additional...
... lateral approachfor performing ISB fulfills the modern criteria for this block, which are, first, reducing the occurrence of severe complications and, second, offering good conditions for the ... catheter placements were performed by an anesthesiologist, who had performed more than 80 interscalene catheter placements Performance and evaluation of the block were performed by the same anesthesiologist ... subcutaneously tunneled for –5 cm through an 18-gauge intravenous cannula and was fixed to the skin with adhesive tape.11 ISB was performed with 30 or 40 ml ropivacaine 0.5% for patients weighing...
... General iv 16 linkage 4.2 AHP Model Formulation 16 4.3 The AHP Model for Overall Linkage 17 Figure I.3 : Hierarchy for overall linkage 18 4.4 The AHP Model for Individual Linkage 18 Figure I.4 ... into Formal and Informal types Formal Cooperation Formal linkage refers to institutional built linkage Activities are carried out based on “contract or Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)" Formal ... Nazrul Islam for his invaluable advice and effort in guiding me at the first steps All the respondents and contributors for the work in data collection period in Vietnam are acknowledged for their...
... electrode For starch extraction, pellets for ethanol extraction were solubilized by heating them to 95 °C in 0.5 m NaOH for 30 After acidification with m CH3COOH, the suspension was digested for h ... described forsoluble acid invertase, but without centrifugation of the homogenized suspension and subsequent subtraction of soluble acid invertase activity The control of each assay was boiled for ... search method for bound constrained gloabal optimization J Glob Optim 39, 197–219 34 Schmidt H & Jirstrand M (2006) Systems Biology Toolbox for MATLAB: a computational platform for research in...
... is essential in order to highlight potential targets for antiviral therapy and to obtain key information for the rational design of antiviral drugs Virus structure and replicative cycle The structure ... pathway to the cell surface for release Dengue vaccine: a possible solution to DENv infection In the absence of effective antiviral drugs, vaccination offers a good chance for decreasing the incidence ... effort has recently been made towards inhibiting the viral replication of DENv Much remains to be performed to achieve results suitable for experimentation in clinical trials and to produce a drug...
... model down into its component parts for further study Our model is comprised of seven sections: Biological Formulation, Psychological Formulation, Social Formulation, Differential Diagnosis, ... Biological Formulation RT4170.indb 19 19 6/4/08 1:04:29 PM RT4170.indb 20 6/4/08 1:04:29 PM The Psychological Formulation The psychological formulation is often the most difficult for beginning ... with a practical approach to organizing the wealth of data obtained from a patient into a meaningful formulation Using the suggested format, trainees can learn to construct a formulation that...
... care for the infant Preparation for parenthood to begin early in pregnancy and to include: • Information on services and choices, maternal/paternal rights and benefits, use of prescription drugs ... before discharge from hospital • Parents and carers of formula fed infants should be offered appropriate and tailored information on how to safely prepare and store formula milk • Provide information ... Child, Healthy Future A Framework for the Universal Child Health Promotion Programme in Northern Ireland indicate the need for further assessments to be undertaken for example, a statutory assessment...
... retail banking markets Therefore, country-speci…c shocks to money demand will lead to country-speci…c variations in the supply of loans For instance, suppose that, for a given level of output ... additional source of …nancing for banks Therefore, output should also increase assuming the imperfect substitutability between bank loans and other sources of …nancing for …rms and households In ... …nance their activities, and inversely on interest rates on loans Therefore the demand for loans takes on the following functional form: d lit = rt where it it + !yit + it ; (4) denotes state-speci…c...
... 463 Motion for Bill of Particulars 464 Bill of Particulars 465 Arraignments 466 Motion for Discovery in Routine Case 466 Motion for Discovery in Murder Case 468 Motion for Sanctions for Failure ... education and criminal law For professors, the text provides the opportunity for a variety of teaching approaches FEATURES OF THE TEXT ■ ■ ■ ■ Ethical and Performance Standards for Criminal Justice ... Clifton Park, New York 12065-2919 For additional information, find us online at: www.westlegalstudies.com CRIMINAL LAW AND PROCEDURE FOR THE PARALEGAL A SYSTEMS APPROACH Third Edition James W H...
... filter) The amplifier gain was set at 1.00 for forward scattering; the detector voltage was set to E00 for forward scattering and 600 V for FL1, and the forward-scattering threshold was set at 52 ... Fellowship for Young Scientists from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and in part by Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology, Creation of Innovation Centers for ... pairs, it is not sufficient for screening for affinity-enhanced variants from a pool of original interacting pairs, suggesting that another approach is required for efficient screening of affinity enhancement...
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... nonliteral precision; similarly for average recall For overall performance, we take the f-score of average precision and average recall We calculated two baselines for each word The first was a simple ... ones For the purposes of this paper we will take the simplified view that literal is anything that falls within accepted selectional restrictions (“he was forced to eat his spinach” vs “he was forced ... of their primary sources for metaphor processing information (e.g (Dolan, 1995)) Corpus-based systems primarily extract or learn the necessary metaphor-processing information from large corpora,...
... grammar for COMPOUND NUMBERs Conclusions This approach presents the advantage of a higher flexibilily in the analysis of words Moreover such a method has requested a strong initial effort in the formalization ... This information might hc represented in form of Prolog facts In this way, data mighl be directly accessed by the program, because the homogeneity of their structure The disadvantage is a performance ... catego~ (e.g masculine, singular, indicative ) A possible approach to the problem is to store in a data base a list of all the declined forms for every lemma of the language, as well as their morphologic,...
... Pharmacopoeia; for noncompendial items and new drugs, the endotoxin limit should be calculated by the user The Maximum Valid Dilution (MVD) provides an upper bound for dilution that still provides for endotoxin ... Circulation 2003, 108(18):2212-2218 Food and Drug Administration: Guidance for Industry: Potency tests for cellular and Gene Therapy Products Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research US Department ... membrane, uniformly coated with Matrigel Matrix The matrix provides a barrier to non-invasive cells while presenting an appropriate protein structure for invading cells Page of (page number not for citation...
... http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/8/1/51 Page of 15 survivor to the performance of the feedback (aiming for the ideal form) rather than the performance of the movement itself For example, the participant may move faster ... external information for real-time correction, to reliance on internal models only [77] Accordingly, feedback can provide information for online control (modification of ongoing performance); ... a lack of a unified approach that connects these key components into an integrated design and can form a basis for a generalizable interactive rehabilitation methodology for stroke This paper...
... Typical procedure for the formation of oxime A mixture of aldehyde/ketone (1 mmol), hydroxylamine hydrochloride (1.2 mmol), and Bi 2O3 (0.6 mmol) was grounded in a mortar with a pestle for the required ... of the synthetic applications of oximes They are also useful for selective a-activation [9] and are extensively used as intermediates for the preparation of amides by the Beckmann rearrangement ... developed for the synthesis of oximes Basic aluminia [15], CaO [16], and TiO2/(SO42-) [17] coupled with microwave irradiation under solvent-free condition have been claimed to be efficient methods for...
... waveform [33] EFT permeability is essential for CO2 detection In our ICU, we ensure this permeability by removing the guidewire, insufflating and then exsufflating air with a 50-ml syringe, before ... circumstances This is true for most mechanically ventilated patients and for ensuring proper placement of devices, such as feeding tubes and central venous catheter This restrictive policy for ordering bedside ... alternative to CXR For example, ultrasonography is more accurate than CXR for detecting pneumothorax However, short training courses must be organized to reach a basic level of competency for every physician...