... The last ofthe four kinds of parts is found in the center ofthe flower, and is called the pistil It is this part which forms the fruit and incloses the seed The stamens andthe pistil are the ... little study ofthe roots of trees is practicable, some knowledge of their forms, varieties, and parts is importantThe great office ofthe roots of all plants is the taking in of food from the soil ... other time ofthe year The plan of branching, the position, number, size, form, color, and surface of buds, as well as the arrangement ofthe leaves within the bud andthe peculiarities ofthe scales...
... from data in the RCT The survival of patients receiving ASC/BSC was calculated from the survival ofthe patients in the cetuximab monotherapy arm ofthe RCT The data from the monotherapy arm NICE ... guide for healthcare professionals Information for people with metastatic colorectal cancer and their carers (‘Understanding NICE guidance’) Details of all the evidence that was looked at and other ... evidence from the bevacizumab studies and noted that the age ofthe population in the largest study was lower than the age of patients normally receiving chemotherapy in England and Wales However,...
... prerequisite for cleavage ofthe bond between C20 and C22 [1,14] Another difference between the metabolism of vitamin D3 and cholesterol by P450scc is that the dissociation of intermediates occurs forthe ... production of biologically active derivatives with potential physiological and therapeutic implications The present study aimed to determine the pathways forthe metabolism of vitamin D3 by P450scc and ... proliferation and differentiation of human epidermal keratinocytes cultured in vitro [10] Thus, the vitamin D3 derivatives produced by the action of P450scc are good candidates for use in the therapy of...
... process of development (such as, for example, the formation of a heap of sand from a grain of sand andthe subsequent addition of further grains of sand), new qualitative stages arise and call for ... favour of restricting the exercise of this freedom These concern the legitimacy ofthe resources needed for cloning andthe status ofthe cloned human embryo 3.3.1 Use and consumption of female ... violation ofthe protection of dignity (see Section D3 above) There is no evidence ofthe existence of objectives other than those of research – which, forthe purposes of this Opinion, includes therapeutic...
... one ofthe N-best POS tagging result ofthe sentence is: T = NN VBD RB CD NNS NN NN For this POS sequence, the 2nd pass will try to determine the baseNPs as shown in Figure The details ofthe ... the 25 sections of Penn Treebank We divided the whole Penn Treebank data into two sections, one for training andthe other for testing (3) P (ni | ni − ni −1 ) and (4) P ( wi | t i , bmi ) The ... Table summarizes the average performance on both baseNP tagging and POS tagging, each section ofthe whole Penn Treebank was used as the testing data andthe other 24 sections as the training data,...
... (adjustable by fore -and- aft movement ofthe backrest) is the horizontal distance, measured from the front edge to the foremost point ofthe backrest on the centre line ofthe seat's width The minimum ... on the range of heights ofthe mid lumbar region (L2 - L4) of users 1.16 Armrest height is the vertical distance between the centre ofthe compressed seat cushion andthe fore -and- aft centre of ... experience ofthe members ofthe Ergonomics Unit and consultation with other ergonomists The Australian Standard listed above had only just been published at the start ofthe development ofthe checklists...
... investigators and members of their institutions are obliged to give forethought to the maximization of benefits andthe reduction of risk that might occur from the research investigation In the case of ... selected, the person responsible forthe research, etc However, a simple listing of items does not answer the question of what the standard should be for judging how much and what sort of information ... patients who deliver themselves into the hand of a clinician for needed care It may be, that a standard of "the reasonable volunteer" should be proposed: the extent and nature of information should...
... ofthe Paris Union forthe Protection of Industrial Property They have adopted and apply the Nice Classification forthe purposes ofthe registration of marks Each ofthe countries party to the ... registrations of marks the numbers ofthe classes ofthe Classification to which the goods or services for which the marks are registered belong Use ofthe Nice Classification is mandatory not only forthe ... country ofthe Special Union In particular, the Classification shall not bind the countries ofthe Special Union in respect of either the evaluation ofthe extent ofthe protection afforded to...
... registrations of marks the numbers ofthe classes ofthe Classification to which the goods or services for which the marks are registered belong Use ofthe Nice Classification is mandatory not only forthe ... country ofthe Special Union In particular, the Classification shall not bind the countries ofthe Special Union in respect of either the evaluation ofthe extent ofthe protection afforded to ... The competent Offices ofthe countries ofthe Special Union shall include in the official documents and publications relating to registrations of marks the numbers ofthe classes ofthe Classification...
... and demand for training and handling information, as well as for standardization and professionalization of training and handling methods The misapplication and incorrect handling of cadaver ... basics of understanding scent, canine olfaction, andthe ABC’s of training and training equipment Chapters and are focused on the forensic context, including the demands of professionalism andthe ... the dog’s behavior In other words, the dog’s efforts are only as good as the quality ofthe pre-search investigation, andthe handler’s skills; and they are dependent as well on the weather and...
... used in our laboratory forthe last four years We will show that the RAPET of silanes is yielding the smallest reported SiC particles having the highest surface area The RAPET of empty Coca Cola ... ability to reduce metals for which there is no reducing agent that can it For example, preparing metallic Mg nanoparticles .The last technique was named by us RAPET It stands for Reaction under Autogenic ... The main parameters that determine the particle size in sonoelectrochemistry are temperature, sonication intensity, andthe electric pulse width Its main synthetic advantage is the ability...
... chondroprotection and slowing the progression of disease, and whether the MW ofthe HA formulation contributes to its efficacy Competing interests LWM has been a paid consultant for Wyeth, Genzyme and Sanofi-Synthelab, ... levels of prostaglandin F2α, 6-keto-prostaglandin F1α, and leukotriene C4 [72] In synovial fluid from the knees of patients with OA and RA, intra-articular HA reduced the levels of PGE2 [73,74] and ... [70] and IL-1αinduced PGE2 production [71] in a dose- and MW-dependent manner; the higher the MW and concentration, the more potent the inhibition Intra-articular injection of HA in the temporomandibular...
... Further studies are needed to address this question Major limitationsofthe study are the fact that the majority of patients received immunosuppressive therapies at the time of BAL Therefore, ... therapies Another limitation ofthe study is the low number of patients andthe heterogeneity ofthe control group In conclusion, we identified several abnormalities in the cytokine and chemokine ... of SSc patients, suggesting an important role of these mediators in the pathogenesis of ILD According to our results, CCL2, IL-7, and probably IL-8 and IL-4 appear to be the most-promising candidates...
... supported by the Centre for Medical Systems Biology (CMSB) in the framework ofthe Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI) Furthermore, this project was sponsored by the VIDI grant ofthe Netherlands Organization ... for higher ORs ofthe individual polymorphisms When, for example, 15 was taken as the threshold risk score, the sensitivity was 67%, 91% and 97% andthe PPV was 36%, 49% and 53% when the OR of ... percentage of individuals at high-risk to examine the impact ofthe frequency ofthe high-risk group on the relationship between the sensitivity, specificity, PPV and NPV Note that the frequency of the...
... be the most abundant and immunogenic of all VZV gps eliciting both, the formation of neutralizing antibodies andthe mediation of cellular cytotoxicity [10,11] The relative importance ofthe ... development and validation of VZV antigens in Line format AL, JH, HN and GJ participated in the design ofthe study AB conceived the study, and participated in its design and coordination and wrote the ... with the cutoff band provided on the strip Additional material Additional file 1: Systematic pipeline fortheidentificationof novel serological markers of VZV infection A) Nested PCR for the...
... accession of C myriocarpus, of C metuliferus, of C africanus, of C zeyheri, of C dipsaceus, of C prophetarum, of C meeusei, of C anguria, of C ficifolius andof Cucumis spp.) Among the C melo ... locus studied and, therefore, restricts the necessity of sequencing the complete locus but only regions around the polymorphism In our case, these reasons together with the low number of different ... to be different for MNSV-264 On the one hand, there is an apparent contradiction between the results ofthe bombardment experiments andthe phenotypic screening: bombardment of C zeyheri plants...
... efficiency Another important point is the cohort of patients selected for such studies The main advantage of ACPA lies in their proven ability to predict the development of RA and their potential ... laboratories of several members ofthe Committee forthe Standardization of Autoantibodies in Rheumatic and Related Diseases, using the same substrate and using kits commercially available in Europe, and ... compare the specificity and sensitivity of ACPA (and other) tests is the initiative ofthe European AutoCure consortium to generate a large depository of sera from patients with RA and other rheumatic...
... algorithm Wang and Wu [21] derived a closed form forthe EM algorithm to obtain the maximum likelihood estimates (MLEs) ofthe haplotype frequencies, and therefore the allele frequencies and linkage ... the marker-QTL genotype frequencies are identical forthe two groups, the effects ofthe QTL may be different because ofthe impact of environPage of (page number not for citation purposes) Theoretical ... in [16]) The basic principle of these models, called functional mapping, is to characterize the genetic effects of QTLs on the formation and process of a biological trait by estimating and testing...
... with the technical aspects of data import and management, and refer the interested reader to the documentation ofthe software package prada for a thorough discussion of these [19] Selection of ... and cleaning up ofthe data, removal of systematic biases and drifts (a process often referred to as 'normalization'), and transformation to a format and scale that is suitable forthe following ... (SSC), and they measure cell size and cell granularity (the amount of light-impermeable structures within the cell) One ofthe fluorescence channels monitors emission from the YFP tag ofthe overexpressed...