... heparin and amiodarone With reconvalescence ofthe patient, anticoagulation (warfarin or coumadin) and antiarrhythmic therapy (amiodarone 200 mg/d) were switched to oral medication and maintained ... for a postoperative pacemaker implantation was low [6] An appropriate postoperative management is important after AF surgery Since the maturation ofthe transmural lesions andthe electrical isolation ... this article as: Schopka et al., Ablation of atrial fibrillation with the Epicor system: a prospective observational trial to evaluate safety and efficacy and predictors of success Journal of Cardiothoracic...
... One approach to increase the duration of PNA binding to DNA is to conjugate it toa DNAalkylating reagent so that the PNA becomes covalently bound to its target sequence To this a DNA alkylating ... molecular mass markers be further accumulated within the mitochondria due tothe mitochondrial membrane potential [11] From the known plasma and mitochondrial membrane potentials andthe cell and ... that mitoDC81 alkylates mtDNA in mitochondria or cells The reasons for the lack of alkylation of mtDNA within mitochondria by mitoDC-81 are unclear The local concentrations of mitoDC-81 and DNA,...
... circular plate of variable thickness,” Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol 11, no 2, pp 258–267, 1980 10 H D Conway, The bending of symmetrically loaded circular plates of variable ... results ofthe paper References G Reyes and J L V´ zquez, A weighted symmetrization for nonlinear elliptic and parabolic a equations in inhomogeneous media,” Journal ofthe European Mathematical ... 2 Journal of Inequalities and Applications ∗ where C is a constant depending on a x and h x , whereas Ω∗ and fμ denote μ symmetrizations of Ω and f, with respect tothe measure μ, respectively;...
... from a feather quill It also means that they tend to be pragmatic (pragmatism is the American national culture), hence forward-looking rather than slaves to history Anyway, they are lawyers rather ... than historians, and, being lawyers, treat history not as a guide but as a trove of anecdotes and rhetorical flourishes And because they are trained in the common law, which is a body of law made ... sense of what the case is about and what the statute is about before starting to parse the statute Judicial bias in the pejorative sense means taking account of considerations, such as a litigant’s...
... design ofthe data, participated in the data analysis and drafted the original text MAM participated in the data analysis and made significant comments on progressive drafts MAM was supported in part ... such as mandatory cotrimoxazole prophylaxis regimens, and 3) case review and approval by a multidisciplinary committee designed to improve coordination and quality assurance Delays at any of these ... proportional hazards regression was also used to evaluate the bivariate association between the intervention andthe promptness of starting HAART, as well as with other variables (study site and study...
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... human cells J Cell Sci 108, 635–644 10 Jagatheesan G, Thanumalayan S, Muralikrishna B, Rangaraj N, Karande AA & Parnaik VK (1999) Colocalization of intranuclear lamin foci with RNA splicing factors ... 5¢-CATGAACCGGTTTGGTAC-3¢ as the 5¢ primer, and C, 5¢-CTATCCCACGGTGACAA AGC-3¢ as the 3¢ primer The sequence between these primers was amplified by PCR using Ex Taq DNA polymerase (Takara, Tokyo, ... IgG), and developed as in (A) The arrowheads indicate ISP36 The bars at the left of panels indicate the positions of marker proteins of 97, 66, 43 and 29 kDa from top to bottom 4332 FEBS Journal...
... The data structure is dynamic in order to adapt to different types of data The length of packet and data, number and size of flits, andthe depth of VC are all parameterized The size of flits can ... packet to several flits (iii) Adaptor pack adds header and Tail flits tothe initial data (iv) Fifo NA stores the completed packet (v) Adaptor flit cuts the whole packet into several 8-bit flits Adaptor ... parameterized architecture dedicated to image analysis applications on FPGA All flows and data are analyzed to propose two generic NoC architectures, a ring for results and command anda dedicated...
... various signal degradations and error performance analysis, Section overviews a UWB and TR-UWB simulation, together with a comparative analysis ofthe theoretical and simulated results for a timereversed ... SIMULATED AND ESTIMATED RESULTS All-RAKE and TR-UWB simulations were adapted from atime hopped PPM UWB simulation by Di Benedetto and Giancola [32] The cardinality and periodicity of each time ... illustrated in Figures 10 and 11 The plots indicate the maximum, minimum, and average BER rates over all users for both All-RAKE and TR-UWB simulations, and also the average performance as based...
... if the kernel is too narrow, suppression of IT also takes away some ofthe AT energy leading to smearing ofthe TFD On the other hand, if the kernel shape is too broad, it cannot suppress all the ... constructing TFDs according tothe application in hand, that is, to tailor the TFD according tothe properties ofthe signal being analyzed It is appropriate to call such TFDs as adaptive TFDs In the present ... properties The vectors are selected from a family of waveforms called a dictionary The signal x(t) is projected onto a dictionary of TF atoms obtained by scaling, translating, and modulating a window...
... superior to radiotherapy alone in the treatment of locally advanced anal cancer: results ofa phase III randomized trial ofthe European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Radiotherapy ... physical examination findings were favorable Statistical Analysis The Kaplan-Meier method was used to calculate and estimate rates of overall survival and freedom from any disease relapse Data were ... Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy for Squamous Cell Carcinoma ofthe Anal Canal: Efficacy ofa Low Daily Dose to Clinically Negative Regions Jason A Call1, Michael G Haddock1, J Fernando Quevedo2,David W Larson3,...
... concentrations of competitor peptides were added to each assay Data are expressed as the percentage of response in the absence of competitor and are representative of at least two separate experiments ... the manuscript, and also interpretation and discussion ofthe data 12 13 14 15 16 17 Acknowledgements The authors are indebted to Drs Orly Amar and Alexandra Doncarli for help with the initiation ... T-cell reactivities of hybridomas A2 G10, A9 E5 and A8 E2, and clone A9 .2 to several CII256–270 analogues T cells were stimulated with increasing A2 G10, A9 E5 and A8 E2, and clone A9 .2 to several CII256–270...
... laboratory reporting of at least some CD4 counts and viral loads at thetimeofthe study andthe third had an established, clinically-based HIV reporting system that had been in place and integrated ... facilitate entry into adequate care Key advantages include the ability to draw inference tothe population of patients in care for HIV infection, and beginning in 2008, the availability of annual ... AIDS case tothe health department; some providers of care may have been left off the sampling frame if they had never reported an HIV case However, two ofthe participating states had laboratory...
... multivariate analysis of cancer-related survival in the total populationa Risk factor Multivariate analysisc Univariate analysis p valueb R-status Masaoka stagingd Presence ofa pseudocapsula WHOd classificatione ... Okumura M, Ohta M, Tateyama H, Nakagawa K, Matsumura A, Maeda H, Tada H, Eimoto T, Matsuda H, Masaoka A: The World Health Organization histologic classification system reflects the oncologic behavior ... case each in patients with an incomplete encapsulated thymoma or a missing capsula Neo-Adjuvant and Adjuvant Therapy As far as a neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy is concerned two major aspects...
... 8-3-33, Kamiochiai, Chuo-ku, Saitama, Saitama, Japan 2Department of Pathology Saitama Red Cross Hospital, 8-3-33, Kamiochiai, Chuo-ku, Saitama, Saitama, Japan Authors’ contributions MY conceived the ... YK and RM performed the literature review AA and KK performed histopathologic and immunohistochemical analyses All authors read and approved the final version ofthe manuscript Competing interests ... of soft-tissue perineuriomas are hypocellular, and 20% are markedly hypercellular The stroma can vary from a more collagenous toa myxoid appearance Figure Structure ofthe mass (a) Cut surface...
... and participated in its coordination AMB participated in the drafting ofthe manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have ... kidney, and suggest that management of these high-grade injuries to ectopic kidneys can be treated similarly to that of kidneys in a normal anatomic position Specifically, these injuries can be managed ... is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal Authors’ contributions ABB participated in the design ofthe study andthe drafting ofthe manuscript MBB conceived ofthe study and...
... 8-3-33, Kamiochiai, Chuo-ku, Saitama, Saitama, Japan 2Department of Pathology Saitama Red Cross Hospital, 8-3-33, Kamiochiai, Chuo-ku, Saitama, Saitama, Japan Authors’ contributions MY conceived the ... YK and RM performed the literature review AA and KK performed histopathologic and immunohistochemical analyses All authors read and approved the final version ofthe manuscript Competing interests ... of soft-tissue perineuriomas are hypocellular, and 20% are markedly hypercellular The stroma can vary from a more collagenous toa myxoid appearance Figure Structure ofthe mass (a) Cut surface...
... professional/paraprofessional, anda CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) rather than educational model [10] Self-management approaches can increase dissemination of evidence based interventions to large ... the relative is in They are given the trial allocation by telephone RA2 contacts the relative by telephone and post to inform them which arm ofthe trial they have been allocated to RA2 contacts ... Categorisation and thematic analysis ofthe data will be developed by cycling between the analysis and transcripts and periodic ‘testing’ ofthe analysis by discussion amongst the entire team...