... 2E8{chunnam,rgreiner,hsiuchin}@ualberta.caVickie BaracosDepartment of OncologyUniversity of AlbertaEdmonton, AB T6G 1Z2vickie.baracos@ualberta.caAbstractAn accurate model of patient survival time can help in the treatment and care of ... survival analysis, and the Kaplan-Meier Curve. Journal of the AmericanStatistical Association, 83(402):414–425, 1988.[14] D. Gamerman. Dynamic Bayesian models for survival data. Applied Statistics, ... lung cancer that s/he has a 50% 5-year survival rate.In general, today’s cancer survival rates and median survival times are estimated from a large group of cancer patients; while these estimates...
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... theoretical and empirical research in organizational change and employees’ reactions to 3 Organizational change can be considered as a class of organization theory. 4 Note that it is important ... (Haveman, 1992); and (4) management team change (Castrogiovanni, Baliga and Kidwell, 1992). 13 As mentioned earlier, research on organizational change is one of the areas in organization ... study of employees’ reactions to privatization not only has to deal inclusively with reactions to privatization but also with reactions to a set of changes that come along with the privatization...
... Folding and Chemical Reactions Lorna Dougan,* [a] Ainavarapu Sri Rama Koti,[b]Georgi Genchev,[c]Hui Lu,[c]andJulio M. Fernandez* [a] 1. IntroductionThe structure and dynamics of proteins and ... in chemical reactions, at a resolution currentlyunattainable by any other means. The present experiments il-lustrate that the sub-ngstrom resolution of the transitionstate dynamics ofachemical ... constantvelocity and constant force SMD.AcknowledgementsWe are grateful to Sergi Garcia-Manyes for careful reading of themanuscript and Pallav Kosuri for assistance in figure preparation.This work was...
... heterogeneous chemical reaction, and reactions involving catalysts). Compared withother available techniques, EESI-MS allows a better control of chemical and pharmaceutical reactions due to ... of trace amounts of chemicals.We have extended the application of EESI to instantlyfollow organic chemicalreactions in a straightforwardmanner, with a rather simple setup. Two important chemical reactions ... chemical reactions were monitored in real-time: a one-step Michaeladdition reaction of phenylethylamine (PEA) and acryloni-trile in ethanol, and a multiple-step acetylation reaction of benzyl alcohol...
... date technology to ensure vital information can be shared quickly among professional staff, duplication eliminated and that the latest diagnostic and treatment tools are available. Changes ... that organising emergency care separate from elective care makes better use of the infrastructure in hospitals. Information is key. As a system we have a huge amount of data but poor data ... Northern Ireland average; • 50% higher rates of smoking related deaths; and • 120% higher rates of alcohol related deaths. Health and Social Care alone cannot fully address the inequalities...
... Average Kd(nM)AAAGACATG + + 0.25 A GAGACATG ND –AAGGACATG ND –AAATACATG ––AAAGCCATG ––AAAGAGATG + + 1.5AAAGACCTG ND –AAAGACACG ND + 4AAAGACAT A ND –8p=0.01765Fold increase ... was similar (3.0 ± 1.1) to that A BCshifted123123456bandProbe1.00E+008AAAGAGATGAAGGACATGAAAGACCTGAAAGACATGKd=1.2 nMAAAGAGATGKd=0.29 nMAAAGACACGKd=4 nMAAAGACACGAAAGACATAAGAGACATGAAAGACATGAAAGCCATGAAATACATG8.00E+0076.00E+0074.00E+0072.00E+0070.00E+000141612108Fluoriscence340Fluoriscence340640.00 ... oligo-nucleotides, namely A GAGACATG (P2), AAGGACATG(P3), AAATACATG (P4), AAAGCCATG (P5), AAAGAGATG (P6), AAAGACCTG (P7), AAAGACACG(P8), and AAAGACAT A (P9), and their complementarysequences CATGTCTCT...
... Ennis,Janna Hastings, Martin Zbinden, Alan McNaught,Rafael Alc´antara, Michael Darsow, Micka¨el Guedj,and Michael Ashburner. 2008. ChEBI: a databaseand ontology for chemical entities of biologicalinterest. ... of the variables has a domain, which is the set of pos-sible values the variable can take. For the reasonsnamed above, we are working with graph variablesand graph domains. The number ofchemical ... supporthumans by means of research in the area of infor-mation retrieval, data mining and information ex-traction. Term identification is of great importancein these tasks. Krauthammer and Nenadic...
... tetraoxomanganate(l—) tetraoxomanganato(l—) tetraoxomanganate(vii) tetraoxomanganato(vii) Mn042 manganate manganato tetraoxomanganate(2—) tetraoxomanganato(2—) tetraoxomanganate(vi) tetraoxomanganato(vi) Mo ... magnesium magnesium magneside Mn manganese Mn2+ manganide manganese(2+) manganese(ii) Mn3 manganese(3+) manganese(m) Mn04 Mn04 permanganate permanganato tetraoxomanganate(l—) tetraoxomanganato(l—) ... concept of conformational analysis has led to a better understanding of thespatial arrangements of cyclic alkanes and of the chemical reactivity of functional-ized derivatives. A specific terminology...
... for at fair values, andwhile it has the advantage of presenting currentvaluations on assets and liabilities of banks ratherthan historic cost valuations, it also has somenegative implications. ... thecapital to be held against assets? This is a ques-tion of accounting as much as regulation. Since1998 the Financial Accounting Standards Board(FASB) in the U.S. Statement of FinancialAccounting ... capitalagainst loans, while off-balance-sheet vehicles of banks—the SIVs and conduits—are not. Thisarrangement offers banks a clear incentive tominimize the capital requirements by creatingoff-balance-sheet...
... sediment–water, andother natural water systemsw11x. Active alumina, dueto its high surface area, mechanical strength and thermalstability has found several applications as an adsorbentand catalyst. ... 335.w213xT. Hano, H. Takanashi, M. Hirata, K. Urano, S. Eto, Wat. Sci. Tech. 35 (1997) 39.w214xS. Tanada, M. Kabayama, N. Kawasaki, T. Sakiyama, T. Nakamura, M. Araki, T. Tamura, J. Colloid Interf. ... treatment; Catalytic ozonation; Catalytic wet air oxidationContents1. Introduction 202. Classification of alumina 203. Physical and chemical properties of alumina 213.1. Surface of alumina...
... object-relational database system Illustra [I11941 provides database support for time-series data along with relational data. A time-series is an ADT(Abstract Data Type) value implemented a& amp; a large ... and Par- adise [DKLPY94] allow an attribute ofa relational record to belong to an Abstract Data Type (ADT). Each ADT defines methods that may be inyoked on values of that type. An ADT can ... between data items. Sequence data” refers to data that is ordered due to such a relationship. Traditional relational databases provide no abstractionof ordering in the data model, and do...
... of the general nature of a candle that I can possibly give. The fuel provided, the means of bringing that fuel to the place ofchemical action, the regular and gradual supply of air to that ... me a source of heat, and I am about to shew you what that vapour is. Here is some wax in a glass flask, and I am going to make it hot, as the inside of that candle-flame is hot, and the matter ... only need a little shaking, and out they fall. In the same way are made these candles of stearin and of paraffin. It is a curious thing to see how wax candles are made. A lot of cottons are hung...
... reducedforms are similar but not identical (Fig. 4A) . A fit of experimental data with a three-parameter negative expo-nential curve (R > 0.99, data not shown) gave an apparentrate constant value of ... structureelements. A qualitative analysis of the spectra suggests theabsence of helical structure, and a dominant component of irregular structure in all the peptides. A quantitative analysis of secondary ... peptidesf2–f6 was carried out on the same Gilson chromatographicapparatus using a PrePak Cart ridge 25 · 100 m m (Agilent)casted on a PrepLC Un iversal Base apparatus (Waters) and a Zorbax 300SB-C18...