... concept of concordance and discordance which informally says that a pair of random variables are concordant if large values of one tend to be associated with large values of the other and small ... estimates the standard error of the parameter estimate by the empirical standard deviation of the B replications The result is called the bootstrap estimate of standard error and is evaluated ... Value-atRisk and related measures of risk (expected shortfall, volatility) for major equity market indices using standard methods as well as the most recent state -of- the-art methods The analysis of the...
... 129(3):177-9 30 Langhoff O, Andersen JL: Consequences of late immobilization of scaphoid fractures J Hand Surg Br 1988, 13(1):77-9 31 Sjolin SU, Andersen JC: Clinical fracture of the carpal scaphoid– ... positive effect on the grip strength and range of motion of the wrist joint [33-35] The duration of immobilisation varies, depending on the type of fracture and the outcome on repeated radiological ... and grip strength Additional complications in case of an operation are malalignment, failure to place the screw, re-operation, infections and soft tissue injuries In case of a delayed union of...
... light and micrographs of the best R-banded metaphases were taken using Kodalith film and printed on Valca No paper RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The R-NOR sequential banding technique permitted identification ... identificationof the positive Ag-NOR chromosomes of sheep (fig 1) The nucleolus organizer regions are located the telomeric ends of acrocentric (4 and 25) and metacentric chromosomes (1p, 2q, and 3q) ... MATERIALS ANDMETHODS Blood samples were collected from the jugular vein of 12 Spanish Merino sheep and cultured with autologous plasma as a modification of the original whole blood...
... Switzerland) Once suspicious colonies are identified, confirmation of the isolates as E coli O157:H7 is dependent upon biochemical identificationand demonstration of the presence of somatic and ... strains), C1-6 (strains of Cornell Univ.) and P1-7 (strains from E coli reference center of Pennsylvania State Univ.) b The presence of Stx1 and Stx2 “-” and “+” indicate negative and positive, respectively ... assessment of the risks difficult, and the options for management and control unclear The objectives of this study are (i) to examine the prevalence of E coli O157:H7 in slaughterhouses and retail...
... common standards for high quality IS annotation used in ISfinder at both protein and nucleotide levels It is a web-based service that includes an ensemble ofmethods for IS identificationand is ... several chromosomes and plasmids that may constitute the genome of interest) Page of IS-associated ORF identification The first step in the ISsaga pipeline is identificationof IS-associated ORFs ... direct identificationof ISs from individual transposition events (for example, insertional mutation of cloned genes) is important in improving IS identificationand extending the accuracy of annotation...
... techniques during induction and maintaining of mild hypo- and normothermia in terms of efficiency and cooling performance Materials andmethods Study population A total of 50 consecutive adult patients ... cooling consisted of rapid infusion of 30 ml/kg ideal bodyweight of lactated Ringer's solution at 4°C, followed by surface cooling using ice and/ or coldpacks The timing and amount of ice and coldpacks ... control module of the cooling device The primary endpoints of the study were the initial rate of temperature decrease, expressed as °C/h and the percentage of time the temperature was out of range...
... genomic studies This kind of highthroughput gene expression profiling requires the use of high quality mRNA Likewise is the quality of mRNA of major impact on the reliability of the results in quantitative ... and wrote the first draft of this manuscript JIJ performed the IHC and co-wrote the first draft of this manuscript BB and BAS did the molecular analysis TSGAMvdI evaluated the histology LCP and ... analysis of separated alleles in yeast: comparisonof snap-frozen and RNALater((R)) solid tissue storage methods Clin Chem Lab Med 2007, 45(10):1283-1287 Roos-van Groningen MC, Eikmand M, Baelde...
... endoscopic and radiographic Asymptomatic colonic and gastric carcinoma may present with IDA and exclusion of these conditions is of prime concern The upper endoscopic evaluation should include random ... yield of endoscopy in patients with IDA and to define predictive factors of gastrointestinal (GI) lesions causing IDA and identify clinical and biochemical variables that predict the outcome of ... presence of dyspeptic complaint and its severity calculated by presence of abdominal pain, abdominal pain with hungry and anxiety, abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting, poor appetite and symptoms of...
... miscarriages, and livedo reticularis Materials andMethods We focused on the secondary prevention of stroke with APS, and compared single antiplatelet therapy and a combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation ... combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation therapy group showed an INR before the recurrence of 2.0, so the possibility of inadequate treatment can not be ruled out Table Baseline characteristics of ... [7] recently reported the results of the first randomized, double-blind, controlled trial of two different intensities of warfarin treatment on the prevention of recurrent thrombotic events in...
... in winter and early spring, and viral infections in the mother during the second and third trimesters of gestation A strong association between hypofrontality and negative symptoms of schizophrenia, ... passivity and apathy, difficulty in abstract thinking, lack of spontaneity and flow of conversation, and stereotyped thinking (N1 to N7); and health concerns, anxiety, guilt, tension, mannerisms and ... MRI and CT, creating a single image that combines anatomy and physiology Three dimensional surface and volume- rendered images add perspective and facilitate the localization and sizing of lesions...
... frequency of use of refusal strategies are similar between speakers of Egyptian Arabic and NSEs, whereas Kwon (2004)) found that the frequency of use of this speech act is different between speakers of ... Spanish, and Thai) and those by NSEs She found that NSEs and NNSs used the components of a refusal (expression of regret, excuse, offering alternative) with similar frequency However, the result of ... NSs of English and sometimes their strategies are different from both groups of NSs 2.4 Interlocutor’s status and the choice of refusal strategy 12 One of the contextual variables which many of...
... Investment Cooperation and Trading Limited Company and the current situation of advertising in the company Chapter 3: Proposals and Solutions Purposes andMethodsof study 2.1 Purposes of study My purposes ... “Advertising methodsof Quang An Investment Cooperation and Trading Limited Company” as the topic of my assignment Apart from acknowledgements, table of contents and references, my assignment consists of ... TABLE OF CONTENTS A INTRODUCTION 1 Reasons for choosing subject Purposes andMethodsof studying .2 2.1 Purposes of the studying 2.2 Methodsof the studying...
... (adjective) and (adjective) It is getting hotter and hotter (Trời ngày nóng) His voice became weaker and weaker (Giọng nói ngày yếu) Đối với tính từ dài: more and more adjective The storm became more and ... beautiful Harry is older than William Alice is more careful than her brother III Thể so sánh (Comparison of Equality) Bằng: as adjective as Không bằng: not so (as) adjective as This garden is as ... hôm qua) David is not so (as) careful as Kathy (David không cẩn thận Kathy.) IV Thể so sánh (Comparison of Inferiority) less adjective (than) It is less cold today than it was yesterday Ngày hôm...
... are many kinds of language: language of music, language of science, language of art, etc And they are used to communicate Speech (and words) is the fastest and simplest method of communication ... aims of providing users of English a system of greeting and ways of greeting so that they can use greeting actively and correctly in certain contexts By comparing the greeting of Vietnamese and ... by kissing her hand 3.2.2 Handshake Shaking hands is one of the most popular greeting gestures in the world It has been with human for thousands of years Originally, men shook hands with each...
... the mid- and tall-sized cylinders have diameters of 3.0 cm, heights of 2.5 and 3.7 cm, and masses ofand 12.5 grams, respectively (see Figure 2) We measured the dimensions and masses of the parts ... 0:5] in step sizes of 0.1, and we examined vibration amplitudes of 0.06 and 0.1 cm Each experiment consisted of a suite of 500 trials for a fixed set of parameter values for each of the three initial ... Conference on Robotics and Automation IEEE, May 1995 [3] Geoffrey Boothroyd, Corrado R Poli, and Laurence E Murch Handbook of Feeding and Orienting Techniques for Small Parts Department of Mechanical...
... the sample bottles and, if residual chlorine is present, add 80 mg of sodium thiosulfate per liter of sample and mix well EPA Methods 330.4 and 330.5 may be used for measurement of residual chlorine.9 ... standard chromatograms The width of the retention time window used to make identifications should be based upon measurements of actual retention time variations of standards over the course of ... ASTM Annual Book of Standards, Part 31, D3694-78 “Standard Practices for Preparation of Sample Containers and for Preservation of Organic Constituents,” American Society for Testing and Materials,...
... and 6.7 It is recommended that the secondary dilution standard be prepared at a concentration of 15 µg/mL of each internal standard compound The addition of 10 µL of this standard to 5.0 mL of ... concentration of the stock standard Optionally, stock standard solutions may be prepared using the pure standard material by volumetrically measuring the appropriate amounts and determining the weight of ... program The minimum requirements of this program consist of an initial demonstration of laboratory capability and an ongoing analysis of spiked samples to evaluate and document data quality The...
... Problem of Overweight and Obesity .5 Treatment Guidelines Assessment and Classification of Overweight and Obesity Assessment of Risk Status 11 Evaluation and ... Study of Obesity (NAASO) and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) It is based on the Clinical Guidelines on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity ... adopted by the Expert Panel on the Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults and endorsed by leading organizations of health professionals, are shown in Table...
... and molecular function (Fig 3) To better understand the probable roles of the membrane proteomes in terms of their biological functions, the subcellular localization and molecular functions of ... 25 (SLC25) consists of proteins that are functionally and structurally related and that construct the transporters of a large variety of molecules [30] Following LC-MS ⁄ MS and western blotting ... quantitative analysis of membrane proteins of the CRC samples and reveals 215, 299, 191 and 208 proteins from four 4-plex iTRAQ LC-MS ⁄ MS experiments, respectively Statistical analysis of the expression...