... used at the thoracolumbar junction where compressive forces act more anteriorly, whereas in the more lordotic middle and lower lumbar spine where the compressive forces act more posteriorly, no implant ... instability criteria of kyphotic deformity of more than 20° and /or vertebral body height loss of more than 50 compared to vertebra below The senior author (KJC) performed all surgeries At surgery, ... of more than 50% of the vertebral body height or angulations of the thoracolumbar junction of more than 20° [8], acute spinal instability results, and the spinal segment will eventually fail with...
... however are too dangerous for use in human vaccines (because of the inflammatory responses they invoke), and for many vaccines adjuvants are unnecessary, because the killed organisms themselves have ... vaccines, once solved, will answer some important outstanding questions about how innate immune responses fine-tune adaptive ones Miranda Robertson, Editor editorial@jbiol.com References Doherty PC, ... lymphocytes bearing receptors that recognize specific antigens, including, but not exclusively, molecules expressed by pathogens Lymphocytes however cannot be activated by antigen alone, and require a...
... kinase inhibitors was correlated withmore apoptotic [30], or less invasive tumor cells [31], and aiming at interfering TrkB activation might be helpful in the development of effective anticancer therapies ... higher expressed in multiple HCCs, which was positively correlated with tumor progression Secretory BDNF in supernatant of HCCLM3 cells with high metastatic potential were much more than that in ... the present study More cases of intrahepatic multiple tumors were found in HCCs with BDNF higher expression (p = 0.002) Likewise, HCCs with negative TrkB tended to be solitary tumors (p = 0.049)...
... research phase In conclusion, chorioretinal involvement, frequently asymptomatic and self-limited, is present in almost 80% of patients with WNV infection associated with neurologic disease The unique ... disease The unique pattern of multifocal chorioretinitis can help establish an early diagnosis of the disease while serologic testing is pending Therefore, an ocular examination, including ophthalmoscopy ... States Annu Rev Med 2006;57:181-94 Khairallah M, Ben Yahia S, Ladjimi A, et al Chorioretinal involvement in patients with West Nile virus infection Ophthalmology 2004;111:2065-70 Garg S, Jampol LM...
... reported The aim of the present study was to identify the clinical characteristics and symptoms obtained from patient histories that best correlate with significant bradycardic events recorded ... challenge for physicians especially when the initial workup such as HUTT, electrophysiology studies, 24 hour holter monitor or 30 day event recorder is inconclusive Implantable loop recorders have ... presented as mean ±SD and categorical data as percentages T-test for comparison of means and chi-square test for categorical data was used Significance was achieved with P value < 0.05 Results Total...
... of large corporations worth more than $5 billion), which include the stocks of corporations like Coca-Cola, Alcoa, and Johnson & Johnson, because they feel that the stocks of these corporations ... make sense for corporations They nothing to increase the value of the corporation, however Splitting the stock is purely an accounting (or marketing!) procedure designed to make a stock more enticing ... market for only one reason: to make money It doesn’t matter whether you go long or short as long as 42 UNDERSTANDING STOCKS you make profits It’s neither un-American nor unethical to short stocks...
... synonymous words that everybody knows, not use the words the listenersor readers not know and not understand -using synonymous words when a word is repeated over three times for a short passage ... Many words were borrowed from Greek, Latin and French and they became synonyms to native words forming the synonymic groups For example: Native English words Borrowed from French Borrowed from Latin ... synonymous words could be understood as the words or phrases with the same denotative meaning in a certain language and interchangeable in some contexts II Sources of synonyms II.1.Borrowings Many words...
... household chore you in your house You should mention: - What the chore is - Why it needs to be done - How often you it And say if you get a feeling of satisfaction from doing this chore or not, and ... are working or studying You should say: - What things you - How long you spend doing those things - What the most difficult thing you have to is And say if you usually enjoy those days or not, ... the problem is - Why it happens - How it can be solved And say if you think it will be solved in the near future or not, and why Talk about something to for ecological reasons You should mention:...
... legends, withor without 0.1 mm ATP, withor without 10 lm oligomycin, and withor without mm ouabain The control experiment for the oligomycin effect was performed in the presence of 1% ethanol without ... EDTA, 10 mM NaCl, 0.3 mM KCl, withor without mM ouabain and (A) 0–30 mM pNPP with 0.1 mM ATP (n) or 0.1 mM [32P]ATP (m), or (B) 2.5 mM pNPP with 0–3 mM ATP (n) or [32P]ATP (m) n and m represent ... Tris ⁄ Tes (pH 8.4 at 23 °C), mM [32P]pNPP or 0.3 mM 32Pi withor without the ligands shown For phosphorylation by ATP, Na+ ⁄ K+-ATPase was incubated for 30 s at °C in the presence of mM MgCl2,...
... Clin Cancer Res 7, 2076–2084 Workman, P & Maloney, A (2002) HSP90 as a new therapeutic target for cancer therapy: the story unfolds Expert Opin Biol Ther 2, 3–24 Srethapakdi, M., Liu, F., Tavorath, ... Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 27 Nathan, D.F & Lindquist, S (1995) Mutational analysis of Hsp90 function: interactions with a steroid receptor and a protein ... therefore more responsive to RD administration (ÔresponsivenessÕ measured as HSF activity) Losses of Hsp90 system cochaperones and plasma membrane ATP binding cassette (ABC) transporters can sensitize...
... understanding More detailed Easy to memorise More refined Good pedagogic tool, especially for introductory marketing Broader perspective Parsimony Includes participants/ Useful conceptual framework people ... activities most marketing practitioners would add two more elements in this mix in order to position their products and achieve the marketing objectives Two more factors must be added to the 4P mix: ... products represented a larger portion of the economy Today, with marketing more International Journal of Marketing Studies May, 2009 integrated into organisations and with a wider variety of products...
... reason that dependency TPs can only model how one dependency in the target structure is transformed, we consider more complex transformations for the other two kinds of scoring parts of the target ... conjoined with the related words and POS tags, such that the QG-enhanced parsing models can make more elaborate decisions based on the context Then, the score contributed by the QG features can 679 ... deactivating the extra parts Dependency Parsing with QG Features wpart · fpart (x, t, p) p⊆d where p is a scoring part which contains oneormore dependencies of d, and fbs (.) denotes the basic...
... unemployed for one year or more, by age unemployed for one year or more, by age overall unemployment rate, by education unemployed for one year or more, by education unemployed for one year or more, ... rate for adults with a bachelor’s degree or higher is less than half that of workers with just a high school diploma in December 2009, the overall unemployment rate for workers with a bachelor’s ... INITIATIVE many Americans owe more on their mortgages than their houses are worth: in the fourth quarter of 2009, more than 11.3 million, or 24 percent, of all residential properties with mortgages had...
... break the horizon, or perhaps is placed where lines within your picture converge You can also give it prominence through its contrasting color or tone, or by the way the subject is shown within some ... digital file After photographing the file is stored on a memory card held within the camera For more details on how sensors work, see page 44 Unlike with film, there are no chemical steps involved ... include or exclude – for example, deciding whether the horizon in a landscape should appear high or low, or how much of an expanse of color to leave in or crop out The edge of the frame can crop...
... observed On the contrary, for insulator or semiconductor is a negative coefficient The symbol of is therefore can be used to distinguish between metal and semiconductor or insulator Metallic-like conductivity ... mechanisms of organic solid states photoconductors, conductors, superconductors and ferromagnets as well as conducting polymers I was fortunate to enter the laboratory recommended by Professor Qian, ... these water molecules form hydrogen bonds with the acid sites in the emeraldine salt form of PANI [94] More recent work suggested that reversibly absorbed water consists of two forms, that is, the...
... showed similar correlations except for Emotions and Symptom Severity, which were poorly correlated Categorical improvement on the PPBC was correlated with improvements in KHQ domain scores in the ... scored on a scale from (best) to 100 (worst) The Symptom Severity scale is scored from (best) to 30 (worst) Decreases in KHQ domain scores indicate an improvement in HRQL The minimally important ... scores, and KHQ scores were evaluated using Spearman correlation coefficients Changes in UUI episodes were used for this analysis because they were a defining symptom for this population Correlations...
... Actually, for RVQ-based DF, the angle distortion measure in [20,21,25] seems more reasonable than the MSE distortion measure in [27], which will be discussed in this paper Second, a more thorough ... to the distortion measure (Equation 12) used in AF in our work; therefore, the analysis based on MSE distortion measure in [27] can be easily incorporated into our AF analysis framework Page of ... scale with the downlink SNR With Theorem and Corollary 4, we can derive the following sufficient and necessary conditions on the scaling to ensure nonzero and full multiplexing gain: Theorem For...