... for completeness and accuracy Problems such as incomplete and inaccurate CT registers (including missing patient identifiers and missing or inconsistent testing information) were queried and ... association between STIs and the risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV [8,18,19], improving HIV detection and treatment among STI patients is a pressing issue Studies in highincome countries have found ... can reduce risk behaviour and transmission rates, especially among sero-discordant couples [9-11] Evidence from both low- and high-income countries, mainly from antenatal and tuberculosis (TB) settings,...
... for completeness and accuracy Problems such as incomplete and inaccurate CT registers (including missing patient identifiers and missing or inconsistent testing information) were queried and ... association between STIs and the risk of acquiring and transmitting HIV [8,18,19], improving HIV detection and treatment among STI patients is a pressing issue Studies in highincome countries have found ... can reduce risk behaviour and transmission rates, especially among sero-discordant couples [9-11] Evidence from both low- and high-income countries, mainly from antenatal and tuberculosis (TB) settings,...
... found and treated, quality of life improves This is the case withblood transfusion in older people, or when haemoglobin levels rise upon treatment with erythropoietin in cancer [55] or renal disease ... 21 patients with small bowel enteropathy and iron deficiency anaemia showed a rise of 15 g/l in haemoglobin with misoprostol, as compared with no change without treatment [45] It is interesting ... large differences between individuals, with some individuals losing significant amounts of blood on a daily basis, up to 50 ml or more [27,28] The clinical significance of low-level blood loss is...
... Materials and methods Patients The demographic and clinical characteristics of six patients with RA who were analyzed at the onset of the disease, six patients with longstanding RA and receiving ... sample stimulated with this peptide were used for immunoscopy analysis In our analysis we studied a total of 288 spectra (encompassing The complete analysis of CDR3 length distribution is shown in ... following motif: C A S S X X SVG G DSG T D T Q This motif is characterized by the presence of a G and a T spaced by one amino acid residue; this amino acid is either S or D in patients OE, ST and VR...
... Photochemical system consists of photosynthetic microorganisms such as algae and photosynthetic bacteria (Ike et al., 1997; Melis and Happe, 2001) Fermentative system, on the other hand, is carried out ... mM) of nitrogen were significantly lower than at high level (11 mM) of nitrogen (Table 2) This was in contrast with the findings of Kim et al (1980), Oh et al (2004), and Vijaraghavan and Soom ... injector and detector temperatures were 200 and 250 ºC, respectively The carrier gas was nitrogen; with the flow rate set at 20 ml/min Prior to analysis, 1.5 ml of pineapple waste extract was centrifuged...
... decreases as it passes through the lowlands A wetland has a natural purification function for nitrogenandis therefore considered important in the curtailment of nitrogen loads flow into the lake ... amount of nitrogen removal continued to fall gradually This is because the non vegetation period is under the influence of low temperature of winter And algae generation is low during this period ... degree C After a week, the solution is exchanged with a new solution When the amount of nitrogen removal is almost lost, nitrate nitrogen solution is replaced with glucose so that it might become...
... by rice is closely related with growth Assuming Monod-type nitrogen uptake kinetics (Selim and Iskandar, 1981) and ignoring the temperature effects, the NH4-N and NO2+3-N uptake by rice is described ... Consideration of organic nitrogen production and decomposition processes is desirable, which was not included in this model In addition, it is likely better that nitrite -nitrogen and nitrate -nitrogen are ... supply rate on the dynamics of nitrogen in VF constructed wetlands cultivated with forage rice This was done both by experimental and model analysis approaches MATERIALS AND METHODS Pot Experiment...
... g(t)f (t) Then t is separable ifand only if f (t) = and this is equivalent to d = Since dimF (f )/(f ) = 1, this is also equivalent to the injectivity of d, and this last condition is equivalent ... essentially of finite type, J ⊂ n an ideal of B Then B is a smooth A-algebra ifand only if it is J-smooth ifand only if it is n-smooth By definition, it is enough to show that n-smooth implies smooth ... A is a smooth A-algebra b) If A is a ring and S a multiplicative subset of A, then S −1 A is a smooth A-algebra, since if N is a square zero ideal of a ring E and e ∈ E is such that e + N is...
... coordinatewise nonincreasing) such that this covariance exists An infinite sequence of random variables {Xn , n ≥ 1} is NA if every finite subcollection is NA Definition 1.2 A finite collection of random ... distribution, negatively correlated normal distribution, random sampling without replacement, and joint distribution of ranks The notion of NOD random variables was introduced by Lehmann [3] and ... dependent (NOD) if they are both NUOD and NLOD An infinite sequence {Xn , n ≥ 1} is said to be NOD if every finite subcollection is NOD The concept of NA random variables was introduced by Alam and Saxena...
... Campus, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institutes of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK #2R01DK61848 and 2R01DK53041 (JAN)), and National Heart, Lung andBlood ... promote cardiac injury IR assisted in stem cell isolation and Flow cytometry MC provided umbilical cord blood samples discarded form the St Louis cord blood bank and reviewed data AK performed ... b2m null mice with AMI were transplanted with ALDHloLin- or ALDHhiLin- sorted human UCB cells or PBS Frozen sections were stained with a mouse specific CD31 antibody and visualized with DAB+ chromagen...
... tracheitis, and BALT or GALT hyperplasia, suggestive of viral disease [18] An understanding of the molecular and biological characteristics of APMV -2 to-9 is of general interest andis important ... APMV-4 specific gene start and gene end (GE) sequences were identified and APMV-4 specific sense primer APMV-4 GS-F and antisense APMV-4 GE-R primers were designed For subsequent amplification, ... was also amplified using primer GS consensus and HN481 antisense The HN gene end and L gene start regions were amplified by sense HN4-1758F primer and L consensus A (L-revA) antisense primer...
... pad Systemic blood parameters andblood gas analysis were assessed before starting measurements using a Coulter Counter (AcTdiff, Coulter, Hamburg, Germany) Fifteen gastrocnemius and soleus muscles ... significant differences in capillary blood flow between right and left Achilles tendon at baseline (70 ± 41 Figure tendon capillary blood in anesthetized column) tendon before suture withand ... tendons of Wistar rats could be used because of carotid cannulation dislocation with consecutive fatal bleeding and exitus letalis after measurement of a single tendon in one case Tissue was allowed...
... distribution, negatively correlated normal distribution, random sampling without replacement, and joint distribution of ranks The notion of NOD random variables was introduced by Lehmann [3] and ... random variables X1, X2, , Xn is said to be negatively orthant dependent (NOD) if they are both NUOD and NLOD An infinite sequence {Xn, n ≥ 1} is said to be NOD if every finite subcollection is ... Hence, {Xn - EXn, n ≥ 1} is also a sequence of acceptable random variables The following lemma is useful Lemma 1.1 If X is a random variable such that a ≤ X ≤ b, where a and b are finite real numbers,...
... (u − 1)v+4 with either one or two permutations If v > this needs permutation with one odd and one even gap If v < this needs permutations with two odd and one even gap If v = we it with one permutation ... unchanged and reduces both n0 and n2 by Conditions (i) - (iii) remain satisfied Otherwise all tj ≥ If n1 > then let u = and τ = (0 2) If n1 = let u = then if n2 ≥ let τ = (0 2)(1 3) andif n2 = ... 4.1 since n1 ≥ k If n3 = and tk = 5, then we are covered by Sublemma 4.3 If n3 = 1, n2 ≥ and tk ≥ let u = and τ = (0 2)(1 4)(3 5) and apply Sublemma 4.1 If n3 = 1, n2 = or 2, and tk = 5, let σk...
... embeded into agricultural landscape with three villages within the distance of 1.5 km from the stand and two local minor roads within 0.5 km The spruce stand in Bílý Kříž is quite detached in a mountainous ... M Remeš and L Jura for sample handling and dedicated work in the field and in the laboratory and K Jackson for language revision References Andersson F., Persson T (1988): Liming as a countermeasure ... corresponds well with the reduction of total emission of SO2 and NOx in the Czech Republic within the course of 1980–2000 In 2000 the sulphur dioxide and NOx emissions, were times and 2.4 Table...
... result when nitrogen fertiliser is added is an increase in leaf area index, L, [1, 5, 15, 18, 54] This is accompanied by an increase in the rate of photosynthesis, A, at the leaf and canopy scales, ... to New Zealand, but those that have been measured show that there is a wide range in maximum rates of photosynthesis and stomatal conductance (Tab I) [24, 57] Consistent with this is the range ... experimental work is required to quantify the interactive effects of nitrogenand phosphorus supply on photosynthesis and respiration at the canopy scale CONCLUSION Our analysis suggests is that annual...
... four week periods and reported to an annual basis; Different number of asterisks show significant differences before and after the harvest; Different letters show significant diffrences between ... show significant differences between before and after the harvest; Different letters In brackets: standard deviation Different number of symbols show significant differences between inside and outside ... moisture and temperature did not play a major role in net nitrogen mineralisation or net nitrification It should also be noted that nitrification and mineralisation fluxes in 1995 were not different...
... contains precisely c double3 critical edges ifand only if G is decomposable into two graphs G1 and G2 , where G1 is the complete 2-graph and G2 is an odd cycle of length The conjecture, if true, ... G is k-chromatic double-edge-critical ifand only if it is the complete k-graph Proof It is straightforward to verify that any complete graph is double-edge-critical Conversely, suppose G is ... distinct vertices a complete 6-graph is obtained, and so G K7 (iv) If ℓ = 8, then by contracting the edges y1 y5 and y3 y7 of Gx into two distinct vertices a complete 6-graph is obtained, and...
... tender and swollen joint count, and concentrations of C-reactive protein (CRP) and of RF IgM Six patients had recent-onset RA (disease duration less than years) and had not received therapy with disease-modifying ... Twenty patients with non-active disease (CRP below 10 mg/l and not more than swollen joints) were identified from a pre-existing institutional serum bank and compared with 20 patients with intermediate ... given (P < 0.05, significant difference compared with untreated patients) compared with control cultures containing culture medium supplemented with FCS (Fig 3a) This is in line with previous observations...
... Association of blood groups with HBV infectionand fibrosis severity in HCV infection has been reported earlier [13] The studies defining the relationship between blood groups and CHIKV is limited and hence ... statistical tools such as, Odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (C.I) is presented to know the likelihood of acquiring CHIKV disease with respect to different blood groups: O, A, B and ... the statistical significance at p < 0.05, which suggests that there exists an association between the blood groups and the risk of acquiring CHIKV The Odds ratio is one of the familiar statistical...