... solicited Inthe age of information technology, online journals provide novel ways of disseminating medical information We are grateful to our publisher BioMed Central for providing us with the opportunity ... related to both the clinical treatment of allergic and immunological disease and the molecular biology of inflammatory cells, cytokines, and other factors Mini reviews, commentaries and editorials ... Clinical and Molecular Allergy The submission, peer review, and publication of manuscripts will be done by an efficient, online process This method will shorten the time for publication of the...
... radiation The extent ofthe effect of its presence on the radiation spectrum, together with the resolution and signal-to-noise ofthe instrument, determine the accuracy ofthe measurement Inthe UV, ... the knowledge of these sources and removal processes by means of inverse modelling techniques Also the quality ofthe satellite retrievals is a point of concern Presently the uncertainty ofthe ... is the final result of a study on the applicability of remote sensing inthefieldof air pollution requested by the DG Environment The objectives of this study were to: • Have an assessment of...
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... economic standing and social class.29 Also inthe USA, the Bulletin ofthe History of Medicine in 1984 marked the changing position inthe history of nursing by including a review article by the historian ... concept of nursing practice focused on caring through the processes of ʻbeing-for -the- otherʼ is the focus of analysis inthe following section NURSING KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND CARING Analysing the ethics ... and the glorification of sacrifice are all enmeshed in an account that juxtaposes traditional masculine values with a disturbing incursion ofthe feminine In Britain since the Crimean war and in the...
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... completes our proof since the manipulations at the beginning ofthe section prove that the two quotients in (5.42) have the same Hilbert series References [1] Yu Berest, P Etingof and V Ginzburg, Cherednik ... gives that the rational function in (5.43) gives the Hilbert series of Q[u, v, y]/ (Bm , Cm , v 2m ) The extra factor of (1 − t) inthe denominator accounting for the presence ofthe extra variable ... from a more elementary point of view In this vein we find particularly intriguing in (1.4) the degree shift of each isotypic component of QI m expressed by the presence ofthe factor n q m ( )−cλ...
... zones of sympatry (codes are listed in Tab II) Crosses are plotted at the coordinates ofthe four phenotypes inthe first two dimension ofthe SCA (the first number inthe brackets represent the ... Seed characteristics The percentages of germination obtained for populations ofthe two species and from the zone of sympatry (Tab II) reinforced the results obtained by Raquin et al [19] with ... microsatellite-derived marker Then we assessed the utility of two of them, together with germination tests of intact untreated seeds and embryo/seed length ratios measurements, for distinguishing between these two...
... during infection in light ofthe short half-life (the drug could be discontinued during infection, allowing inflammatory cells to migrate to the site of infection), and the potential of inhibiting ... on the available in vivo data, which may provide more insight into the chances that disrupting one single factor ofthe complicated chemokine network could be clinically effective in chronic inflammatory ... inhibiting the migration of cells that are able to produce an array of proinflammatory cytokines at the site of inflammation The identification ofthe best targets will be the subject of future...
... seemingly paradoxical result can be explained inthe following way The chance of finding a seed-match and of producing a local alignment of significant similarity rises with the length ofthe ... tractable for informative ancient DNA shotgun sequencing Results To assess the biases introduced inthe analyses of ancient DNA, we use a subset ofthe sequence data generated as part ofthe Neandertal ... the nucleotide misincorporation inthe Neandertal sequence) Assuming a molecular clock, the ratio ofthe number of changes specific to the human lineage to those specific to the chimpanzee lineage...
... section) The first finding is that the functional profiles of sets of domains lost and gained at most branching points differ drastically: on the path leading from the LECA to mammals, domains with ... to the functions of lost and gained domains enabled us to obtain a more detailed view ofthe interplay between domain losses and gains (Tables and 4) Within an overall increase in domains involved ... helicase) In case of overlapping domains, only the domain with the lowest E-value was retained Based on these preprocessing steps, a list of domains was created for each ofthe 114 genomes and, together...
... different in another establishment Nevertheless, the size ofthe sample that participated in this study guarantees stability inthe results inthe event of future replications Competing interests The ... more ofthe answers were missing were eliminated, bringing the final number of respondents to 364 practitioners Among these respondents, 243 were women and 120 were men, yielding 27.9% ofthe initial ... were included inthe study because they represent 29% ofthe establishment's clinicians and are involved inthe same activities as those with full-time positions From the initial number of practitioners...
... half-life and the complexity ofthe cytokine network, it remains to be determined whether they can be used as biomarkers in a clinical setting IL-18 is a member ofthe IL-1 cytokine superfamily ... capture the complexity ofthein ammatory process: the shedding of membrane IL-18Rα as a marker of enhanced proteolytic activity; the activation and release of IL-18 by thein ammasome as a marker of ... apolipoproteins inthe blood [6] In principle, carbohydrates, lipids and proteins (including enzymes, matrix proteins or their neoepitopes, autoantibodies, acute-phase proteins, chemokines, growth...
... focused on the ontogenetic and phylogenetic origin ofthe tissue from the dorsal area ofthe ancestral chordate neural tube Along these lines, the rewiring ofthe genes involved inthe neural ... evolution in particular Individual analysis ofthe function of these peptides during the development ofthe neural crest demonstrates that they control the commitment of precursors to the different lineages ... of gene emergence inthe neural crest relates to the rate of innovation in other tissues, we plotted the cumulative number of genes appearing in each category In these graphs, the tissue-specific...