... Considering these findings and the possible postoperative coughing and barking of the dogs, 50 cm H2O pressure was applied intra-bronchially to test for air leakage In cases of air bubbles occurring ... technique The incidence of BPF following manual suture plus autogenic tissue coverage is 3.9% in humans [1] The main focus of this study was not to determine the incidence of BPF in dogs, but ... BJ Air leaks after surgical stapling in lung resection: a comparison between stapling alone and stapling with staple-line reinforcement materials in a canine model J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1998,...
... scores of ICU patients at rest and without painful stimuli In the ideal study design in which different pain scoring systems in the ICU are compared, the pain scores in the absence and presence of ... measurement of clinical pain intensity: a comparisonof six methods Pain 1986, 27:117-126 14 Kremer E, Atkinson JH, Ignelzi RJ: Measurement of pain: patient preference does not confound pain measurement ... attending nurse involved in daily care should score the patient's pain The BPS should be used only in conjunction with the NRS nurse to measure pain levels in the absence of painful stimuli Competing...
... single subcutaneous injection of about 105 live bacteria in 50 μl saline Animals received a single-dose of an intramuscular injection of 2.5 mg of microspheres in 50 μl saline into each quadriceps ... The kinectics of protein release from microspheres was evaluated by ressuspending 30 mg of proteinloaded microspheres in ml of PBS containing sodium azide (0.05% w/v) The suspension was maintained ... increase veterinarian and patient acceptance of vaccination by reducing the number of injections and avoiding the use of boosters containing live vectors Using this technology, vaccinologists could...
... called the singular values of the matrix C: The number of positive singular values of C is equal to the rank of the matrix C: In the ideal setting, without perturbation and rounding errors, the ... found to be approximately singular, the value of its determinant becoming uncomputable, thus revealing the high degree of ill-posedness of the Cauchy problem being investigated Thus, a direct ... pseudo inverse of a matrix On substituting the matrices W; V and X into equation (18), we obtain the regularized solution, as a function of the left and right singular vectors and the singular...
... drinking and unsafe sexual activities [32, 33], requiring the frequent use of counselling and care [34] In the context of HIV epidemic driven by PWIDs, combining health services care into a single ... items in the scale, which aimed to increase the interpretability of these factors A value of 0.55 was utilized to be a cut-off point for factor loadings We also performed a crossloading in one ... selection of MMT sites was primarily for the comparisonof various service develivery models indifferent level of health administration We invited all patients who were present at seclected MMT clinics...
... binding of the xylose ring in the active site The binding of glycerol to a single site may suggest that this site is the strongest binding subsite for the xylose subunits of xylan Structural comparison ... The effect of the large-scale increase in the number of arginines was tested experimentally in T reesei xylanase II [39] These results showed that the introduction of five arginines into the Ser/Thr ... occurrence of arginines in the thermophilic xylanases Large-scale sequence comparisons have shown that thermophilic proteins contain more arginines on the protein surface than mesophilic proteins [36–38]...
... clearly identifying the different types of training programmes for health workers from different institutions, having different entrance criteria, curricula and durations of training, and oversight ... compiled in advance This would entail strengthening of routine administrative human resources information systems, including the completeness and timeliness of facility staffing returns, which are often ... [19,20] atic sharing of experiences across and within countries in planning and implementation ofdifferent types of HRH data collection, both routine and periodic in nature, in order to build...
... studying reaching and grasping in healthy subjects and in individuals with hemiparesis by comparing movement kinematics of identical tasks made in a physical and a virtual environment Since reaching ... Cirstea M, Levin MF: Compensatory strategies for reaching in stroke Brain 2000, 123:940-953 Levin MF: Interjoint coordination during pointing movements is disrupted in spastic hemiparesis Brain 1996, ... while increased elbow extension at the end of the second phase of the movement (at the time of placing the ball) in the VR condition Discussion Figure Interjoint coordination Interjoint coordination...
... Delgrossi, and H Hartenstein, “Overhaul of IEEE 802.11 modeling and simulation in NS-2,” in Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems ... Figure 7: Comparisonofmodel to simulated scenario The scenario involves a traffic density of δ = 150 veh/km all transmitting at a rate of f = Hz The simulation traces were not included in the model- building ... configuration is obtained when the application’s constraints are fulfilled with a minimum amount of occupied resources in order to minimize the impact on surrounding vehicles In the following, we assume...
... Problem in Fuzzy Type (SOFCP) what was offered in [5] ACKNOWLEDGMENT Trang Science & Technology Development, Vol 9, No.2 - 2006 This work is a part of research supported by The Research Fund of Ministry ... ) exp(MT) + p ⎤ + m ⎣ ⎦ (■) THE COMPARISONOF SHEAF SOLUTIONS IN THE SFCP Lemma For A, B ≥ there exists a real number K such that e A − e B ≤ K e A − B Proof of Lemma 2: We have eA − eB = e ... sheaf-solutions of Sheaf Fuzzy Control Problem (SFCP) If μ(H t,u ) is a measure of the set H t,u then μ(H t,u ) is called a cross-area of sheaf trajectory at (t,u), in particular it is a square of set...
... population in GDR Because of the lack of information about the family connections of the fattening pigs analysed and with the aim of verifying the estimate of frequency 461 A.I boars ofdifferent ... Landrace of GDR The increased local use of an aberrant boar in artificial insemination can lead to higher frequency, as could be observed in the present study in a local herd of fattening pigs ... characterized by having a single centromeric block (fig 3) of Cbanded constitutive heterochromatin The detailed karyotype analysis of the fattening pigs examined is summarized in table The translocation...
... (net OD in the presence of urea/net OD in the absence of urea) × 100% In each test, control sera of high, intermediate, and low AI were included Based on our previous study [40], an AI of less ... Gynecology, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China 2Departments of Infectious Diseases and Laboratory Medicine, Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Nanjing University ... nested PCR using a different set of primers and obtained the identical results (data not shown) Therefore, the high sensitivity of this nested PCR in detecting HCMV DNA observed in the study...
... – Borg Comparisons Bradykinin × Exercise Bradykinin × Methacholine Exercise × Methacholine Dyspnea – VAS Comparisons Bradykinin × Exercise Bradykinin × Methacholine Exercise × Methacholine CI: ... could increase the sensitivity of the test by increasing cough intensity In addition, during challenge tests, cough and dyspnea were significantly more intense in subjects with higher baseline ... methacholine or bradykinin resulting in a 20% fall in FEV1 (PC20 MCh or PC20 BK, respectively) was calculated by linear interpolation of dose-response curves [11] Exercise challenge test After one minute...
... but less for routine HE and reticulin staining Indications for possible overfixation by formalin were present in K-7 and possibly in MRP2 staining Signal reduction in K-7 stained biopsies was ... results in routine HE and reticulin staining, but was suboptimal for the tested immunohistochemical staining methods RNAlater fixation yielded poor morphology in routine histology and in immunohistochemistry ... evaluated in HE and reticulin staining turned out to be of insufficient quality; furthermore, for the antibodies tested either the background staining was too high or central staining appeared...
... to be located in neuronal axons: β-actin, tropomyosin (Tpm3), cofilin, vimentin, immunoglobulin heavy chain biding protein (Bip), heat shock protein 60 (HSP60), heat shock protein 70 (HSP70), ... UCUAACAAUAAAAACA 316 * Cofilin is a cytoskeleton modulating protein; it is also known as actin depolymerizing factor (ADF) The potential role of cofilin is to modulate the changes of actin organization ... located using the following GeneBank accession numbers β-actin; NM_031144, tropomyosin (Tpm3); NM_057208, cofilin; NM_017147, vimentin; NM_031140, immunoglobulin heavy chain biding protein (Bip);...
... dictating”, “showing - dictating”, while the task of students is “listening - dictating” or “seeing - dictating”, etc Thus, the teaching of reading comprehensionin Secondary and High schools of Vietnam ... sensing, reading method, independent reading ability with critical thinking and application of obtained knowledge into real life In addition, they directly or indirectly orient toward reading ... TEACHING METHODS OF TEXT READING COMPREHENSION 3.2.1 Teaching method of text reading comprehension in Philology 3.2.1.1 Teaching method of text reading comprehension in general Text reading comprehension...
... help in inocula collecting of Prof Dr Nguyen Viet Anh, from the Centre for Environmental Engineering of Towns and Industrial areas (CEETIA), Hanoi University of Civil Engineering and the help in ... 3-2: Description of the batchtests for investigating the quality of six inoculums Table 3-3: Description of the batchtests for investigating the biogas potential ofdifferent substrates ... speed, the inhibitory effect of these wastes in Dai Lam village – a representative craft village of wine production and pig breeding in Bac Ninh province which is located in the North of Vietnam...
... or Y2 and Z are two disjoint cycles ofdifferent length in D Since D is a subdigraph of D, these two cycles are also two disjoint cycles ofdifferent length in D This final contradiction shows ... Claim III in [4] are just the same So, we omit the proof of Claim here The readers who are interested in its details can see the proof of Claim III in [4] Now we complete the proof of Theorem ... has a cycle C of length 2, then as in Claim of Section we can show that D contains a cycle C of length at least 3, which is disjoint from C , i.e., D contains two disjoint cycles ofdifferent length...
... basing on dry matter of the sample (MET-methionine, CYS-cysteine, LYSlysine, THR-threonine, ARG-arginine, ILE-isoleucine, LEU-leucine, VAL-valine, HIS-histidine, PHE-phenylalanine, GLY-glycine, ... imbalance of amino acid in feeds will lead to waste a lot of EAAs The efficiency of using protein will be reduced either lacking or excessing any amino acids 3.5 ADC of EAA of ingredients The ADC of ... Means in the same row with different letters are significantly different (P≤0.05) (MET-methionine, CYS-cysteine, LYS-lysine, THR-threonine, ARG-arginine, ILE-isoleucine, LEU-leucine, VALvaline,...
... social understanding, again suggesting a cautious interpretation of inability in gesture tests This indirect effect of social difficulties in some motor assessments is also seen in a gross motor ... child-experimenter interactions or the understanding of social cues, suggesting that basic motor problems in ASD are not artefacts of social deficits and misunderstandings of social cues in testing situations ... difficulties in almost every aspect of movement, however systematic investigation of this is lacking A clearer picture would be gleaned from studies involving a number ofdifferent motor skills in a single...