... remained motionless until the doctor had left the room Then he slipped out of bed and went to the door On the other side of it was a living room A swinging door of the type that opens into kitchens ... significant, no flashes of light, no strange odors Nothing Fred Grant got the flash on his hot rod radio on the way home from high school At the end of the report Fred wrote down Mark Smythe's address on ... have an hour or two of work yet before bedtime." The two men went to the front door John said, "Thank your wife again for me Wonderful dinner You're lucky, Martin, to have such a good cook." That...
... mission The charts also allow for scoring of the three components of the revised trauma score (RTS) [14]: systolic blood pressure, respiratory rate and Glasgow coma score (GCS) [15] Data collection ... therefore, uncertain However, our finding that a large proportion of patients with an indication for pre-hospital ETI did not receive it deserves further attention Conclusions This audit of pre-hospital ... Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2010, 18:30 http://www.sjtrem.com/content/18/1/30 Page of Table Distribution of patients according to National Committee on Aeronautics severity of injury or illness...
... the confusion of colors was somewhat over, all of a sudden there appeared a wooded slope close to the bay, and high up above stood a magnificent old church, with two high pointed towers From out ... if you were not to know your lesson tomorrow morning You have aided me, I therefore will now help you; and the loving God will so at all times.’ And all of a sudden the book under Tuk’s pillow ... were often obliged to wait a long time for a favorable wind, ‘the most tiresome of towns.’ The poet Baggesen was born here Little Tuk looked, and all was red and green before his eyes; but as soon...
... you have been enticed into one of the dives of literature and had the counterfeit coin of the Bowery passed upon you The 'argot' to which you doubtless refer was the invention of certain of your ... policeman on the corner whom Rivington knew "Hallo, Donahue!" said my guide "How goes it? My friend and I are down this way looking up a bit of local colour He's anxious to meet one of the Bowery ... steps in earnest conversation "And by what process of ratiocination," said one of them, "do you arrive at the conclusion that the division of society into producing and non-possessing classes...
... Policeman Fogarty forces his way through them to the side of their prospective victim "'Hello, Mike,' says the motorman in a low voice, 'nice day Shall I sneak off a block or so, or would you like to ... pocket to his mouth "When the bloodthirsty mob of maddened citizens has closed in on the motorman, some bringing camp stools and sitting quite close to him, and all shouting, 'Lynch him!' Policeman ... for Willie's nickel." "I never heard of a mob in our city doing violence to a motorman because of an accident," said the New Yorker "You are not liable to," said the tall man "They know the motorman's...
... both shown to specifically hydrolyse 9-Odue to a reduction in O- acetylation and not, for example, acetyl groups, with complete de -O- acetylation of oligo-Othe increased expression of mucin protein ... GC-MS bound; represents the average proportion of glycoconjugate-bound sialic acids isolated from the microsomal and cytosolic fractions Neu2,7an5Ac is a by-product of sialoglycoconjugate hydrolysis ... levels of OAT to OAE-L activity might regulate the level of glycoconjugate-bound O- acetylated sialic acid in human colonic mucosa As shown in Table 1, a small but reproducible amount of free mono -O- acetylated-Neu5Ac...
... Identi®cation of Proteus penneri sp novum formerly known as Proteus vulgaris indole negative or as Proteus vulgaris biogroup J Clin Microbiol 15, 1097±1102 List 11 (1983) Validation of the publication of ... characteristic for the effects of O- acetylation of this monosaccharide at position [21] This conclusion was con®rmed by higher-®eld positions of the signals for H6a and H6b of GalNAcII at d 3.70±3.85 ... O- acetylation at this position was estimated as 55% The sites of attachment of other, minor O- acetyl groups were not determined Judging from the ratio of integral intensities of the signals for the O- acetyl...
... Taylor, R.L & Conrad, H.E (1972) Stoichiometric depolymerization of polyuronides and glycosaminoglycouronans to monosaccharides following reduction of their carbodiimide-activated carboxyl groups ... information may not be biologically relevant to in vivo conditions Application of CE-ES-MS methods for direct analysis of cells from experimental models of infection can overcome these limitations ... of Aeromonas salmonicida Ssp Salmonicida FEMS Microbiol Lett 78, 65–71 Hirono, I & Aoki, T (1993) Cloning and characterization of three hemolysin genes from Aeromonas salmonicida Microb Pathog...
... respectively, corresponding to one Kdo per 70 sugars or two per 35, i.e a significant amount of Kdo Treatment of the upper phase with acetic acid buffer of pH 4.2 followed by gel chromatography on a Sephadex ... mass of the repeating unit containing two hexoses and one acetamidohexose The first series corresponds to a multiple of the repeating unit, thought to be derived from the expected hydrolysis of ... pellet (2) obtained on ultracentrifugation of the Hafnia alvei lipopolysaccharide For comparison lipopolysaccharide from a smooth (Shigella flexneri, 3) and a rough bacterium (Salmonella typhimurium...
... therapeutic tools, off-the-shelf games cannot replace customized tasks because of the inflexible gaming content, absence of strict requirements for defining and monitoring the precision of motor performance, ... Ustinova et al Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2011, 8:61 http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/8/1/61 Arm-postural coordination The movement coordination and relative contribution ... http://www.jneuroengrehab.com/content/8/1/61 Some of the items were altered to fit the type of game we used and three questions were added to address the motion/fatigue aspects of the project Data Collection...
... of frames Chroma format GOP size GOP structure Number of reference frames Slice mode Rate control Macroblock partitioning for motion estimation Motion estimation algorithm Early skip detection ... proposed by the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE) at the University of Texas at Austin The LIVE Video Quality Database [4] consists of a set ofvideo sequences corresponding to ... into account to correct his/her own scores, but also the overall mean across all test conditions and subjects An example of the effect of the normalization over the scores distribution is shown...
... ROI (region of interest) coding concept is introduced in the proposed application ROI coding is used to improve the quality in specific regions of interest only by applying lossless or low compression ... it supports lossy-to-lossless ROI compression The simplicity of the latter ROI coding requires low computational complexity allowing the usage of the method in real time and even on mobile devices ... video compression For[RS10] the evaluation of H.264 video coding, two video sequences have been used for transmission corresponding to the two defined patient statuses The media access control...
... slope vector should be monotonously decreasing However, because of the introduction of the loss recovery function, even though the R-D function of data vectors is convex, elements of the slope ... Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society He serves in the Editorial Boards of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology and the Journal of Visual Communications ... percentage of parity bits for different UEP The authors would like to thank Dr Feng Wu from Microsoft Research Asia for many fruitful discussions on the implementation of the proposed protection scheme...
... him down in life? We reached the door One more question, I said “One mooore,” he sang, “at the doooor…” How you not get cynical? He stopped “There is no room for cynicism in this line of work.” ... Your pastor Your rabbi Your imam Now picture him tapping you on the shoulder and asking you to say good-bye to the world on his behalf Picture the man who sends people off to heaven, asking you ... belly so large in front of him, he seemed to hook his elbows over the pew for balance “I‟m not sure why you‟re here,” he said politely You take care of homeless people, right? “Yes, a couple of nights...
... Taylor) o A vertex t-coloring of a hypergraph H is panchromatic if each of the t colors is used on every edge of G Thus, an ordinary 2-coloring is panchromatic Some results on the existence of ... the same color, and f is a coloring from the lists of vertices in G This proves that N(k, r) ≥ p(r, k) Proof of Theorem Let H = (V, E) be an r-uniform hypergraph not admitting any k-coloring with ... otherwise G would have an edge with all vertices of color v Thus, f produces a k-coloring gf of V as follows: we let gf (v) be equal to the smallest i such that v is not a color of any vertex...
... electronic journal of combinatorics 14 (2007), #R37 This combinatorial approach to orthogonal functions is due to Viennot [10] He gave to general (classical) orthogonal polynomials, following Flajolet’s ... interpretation of Jacobi type continued fractions (J-fractions) [3], a combinatorial interpretation using Motzkin paths Specifically, he showed, for general orthogonal polynomials pn (z) which are orthogonal ... [6] W.B Jones and W.J Thron, Survey of continued fraction methods of solving moment problems and related topics, in: Analytic Theory of Continued Fractions, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Vol 932,...
... Distortion refers to the variations of the faithful representation in scale and perspective of the various elements of the object and its plane of context[15] There are various forms of distortion ... examination of the physical properties of magnification and distortion found in endoscopes of any size, let alone bronchoscopes specific for the pediatric sized airways [1-6] Some understanding of ... inward (pincushion) or outwards (barrel) curves This form of distortion is a result of asymmetry of lens configuration and is a feature of bronchoscopes and indeed most endoscopes in general[2,5,16]...
... Figure Morphological change of foot processes of podocytes in glomerulus is correlated with the change of a-actinin Electron microscopic appearance of glomerular capillary (A, B) and immunoelectron ... cytoskeletal proteins O- GlcNAcylation of proteins is a common type of posttranslational modification The in situ PLA was developed to image protein-to-protein interactions and posttranslational ... immuno-electron microscopic localization of a-actinin in microvilli (C, D) and in the adherins junction (F, G) of tubules (A, B) Comparison of electron micrographs of proximal tubules from nondiabetic...
... Teachers who enjoy watching video themselves will know how to make use of the available source ofvideo as a rich source of materials for their teaching There is a wide range of types ofvideo recording ... ability ofvideo to cover nonverbal aspects of communication and its cross-cultural comparison potential (Stempleski & Tomalin, 1990) In addition, using video in the classroom allows differentiation ... the behaviour of the characters in a video clip and that of their own families and friends The application ofvideo in language teaching The application ofvideo in the classroom has offered exciting...
... Figure 2.8: Overview of the process of indexing a video segment The VideoGIS project combines video and geographic information for the sake of producing hypervideos based on geographic content with ... Same direction for two videos to compute viewpoint 56 3.10 Opposite direction for two videos to compute viewpoint 57 3.11 General case for two videos to compute viewpoint ... based on the location and direction information Figure 2.19: Transfer of corresponding points 30 2.5.4 Video Compression There exist some topics corresponding to compression and rendering of free...