... with AIDS-KS, the high mortality and loss to follow up at one year, the relationship of advanced KS disease to mortality, and the incomplete access to chemotherapy for those with advanced disease ... because the effects of advanced KS disease (T1 and S1 stages) were much stronger than CD4 count Advanced T and S stage were strongly associated with mortality, while chemotherapy and cART use were ... radiotherapy Median follow-up time was 278 days (IQR 45-747) Observation time totalled 234 person years The mortality and lostto-follow-up rates were, respectively, 29 (95% CI 23-37) and 16 (95% CI 11-22)...
... Low Interest Rates andHigh Asset Prices: An Interpretation in Terms of Changing Popular Economic Models By Robert J Shiller October, 2007 Low Interest Rates andHigh Asset Prices: ... values is low, and hence present values should be high This pair of phenomena, and their connection through the present value relation, is often described as one of the most powerful and central ... not compelling, and seems to apply only in comparisons with the relatively brief period of anomalously high interest rates and inflation in the late 1970s to early 1980s And the high dividend yields...
... Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the ... output and the long-run growth of output • Section divides the 34 current IMF advancedeconomies into two groups – those defined as small (with average tax and government spending rates of below ... a positive relationship between entrepreneurial activity and growth; and therefore also between low taxation and growth In some cases, lowering tax rates can even actually increase tax revenues,...
... BoE, and BoJ targeted at short-term corporate financing Both the highest and the lower tiers of CP rates are falling,18 although there is still a wide positive spread between the higher and the lower ... Unconventional Times: Credit and Quantitative Easing in Advanced Economies1 Prepared by the Research and Monetary and Capital Markets Departments (Vladimir Klyuev, Phil de Imus, and Krishna Srinivasan) ... Taylor and Williams (2009) concluded that it was not effective, but other studies by Sack and Meyer (2008) and McAndrews, Sarkar, and Wang (2008) refute that conclusion A fourth study by Hooper and...
... adder and the design in [13] is the slowest full adder Proposed low power dynamic carbon nanotube full adder is 46% slower than the design in [15], 12% slower than the design in [6], 39% slower ... [13], and 89% less than the design in [6] The PDP of the proposed full adder is 90% lower than the design in [6], 81% lower than the design in [13], 82% lower than the design in [14], and 3% lower ... using MOSFET and CNFET technologies In “Proposed full adder cell designs,” we introduce two novel high- speed and low- power carbon nanotube full adders in dynamic logic “Simulation results and comparison”...
... below 10MU and with negligible deviations for higher values iv Depth Doses and beam profiles Figure showed depth dose curves and profiles in the X direction for the fields 3x3, 10x10, 20x20 and ... Commissioning and early experience with a new-generation low- energy linear accelerator with advanced delivery and imaging functionalities Alessandro Clivio, Giorgia Nicolini, ... and kV detectors to minimize gantry movements The average results were respectively for UNIQUE and Clinac iX 1.0±0.3 and 0.5±0.3 mm at 90° 1.2±0.3 and 0.4±0.3 mm at 180° for step 1, 0.8±0.3 and...
... (although considered to be low compared to current standards) EBRT was delivered in two phases The planning target volume (PTV) for the initial phase included the prostate gland and seminal vesicles ... treatment One hundred and eleven patients consented and participated in the survey Eighty-eight patients of 111 received EBRT alone and 23 patients received combined EBRT and HDRBT The survey ... treatment with highdose-rate brachytherapy boost for locally advanced prostate cancer Brachytherapy 2005, 4:202-206 Al-Salihi O, Mitra A, Payne H: Challenge of dose escalation in locally advanced unfavourable...
... hyperglycemia and lower RPE and RQ [17] Moore et al [38] administered lowandhigh GI foods 45 prior to a 40 km cycling trial and found a significantly improved performance following the LGI trial Higher ... where lowandhigh GI foods were consumed 15 minutes prior to exercise LGI food resulted in higher glucose levels at the end of exercise and performance was greater compared to a HGI food and a ... vein before the meal, at 15 and 30 after the meal, every 20 during exercise (20, 40 and 60 min) and at exhaustion Blood was allowed to clot at room temperature for 20 and centrifuged at 1500 ×...
... and weeks prior to parturition in groups A1*, A2* and B and in animals delivering a stillborn or weak calf from groups A1 (animals no 58 and 716) and A2 (animals no 145 and 465) 145 and 465 and ... in groups A1*, A2* and B and in animals no 58 and 716 were lower than 10 nmol/L, whereas in animals no 145 and 465, the cortisol levels were numerically the highest Acta vet scand vol 45 no 1-2, ... larger calves and a higher degree of calving difficulty The bull "Patron", on the other hand, gave rise to smaller calves and minor calving difficulty but with low calf viability The higher calf...
... (yjl or yih), the high density class (subscript ‘h’) andlow density class (subscript ‘l’), between two shrimp i, nested in the high density environment and shrimp j, nested in the low density environment, ... both cases was done on demand, using a commercial pellet (40% protein) and tray-feeding For the low density tank, food was added to the trays three times a day and for the high density raceway every ... all animals in the low (high) density environment, xjl (xih) is the vector of covariates and fixed effects (i.e., age, sex) for the jth individual (ith individual) in the low (high) density environment,...
... with lowandhigh larval densities The average longevity, fecundity > 10 d, last d of egg laying, age of peak fecundity and laying rate were higher in the low density population than in the high ... source Density dependent selection The following summarizes the method of selection used to obtain the low density, high density and control populations The low density regime was designed to be ... one-generation selection for early and late reproduction in populations maintained for 10 generations at lowandhigh levels of larval density work on MATERIALS AND METHODS Life history of Acanthoscelides...
... energy band alignment between Ge and In0.53Ga0.47As is illustrated, showing the conduction band offset of 0.2 ± 0.1 eV and valence band offset of 0.5 ± 0.1 eV The bandgap narrowing effect due to high ... and holes, respectively; g c (E ) and g v (E ) are the density of states in the conduction band and the valence band, respectively Therefore, a high electric field at the tunneling junction and ... TFETs and (b) p-channel TFETs 1.2.2 Working Principle of TFET and Band-to-Band Tunneling TFET is essentially a gated p-i-n diode, which works on the principle of gate- controlled band-to-band tunneling...
... Kasapis S and Tongdang T (2009) “Morphology and Mechanical Properties of Bicontinuous Gels of Agarose and Gelatin and the Effect of Added Lipid Phase” Langmuir, 25 (15), 8763-8773 Shrinivas P and Kasapis ... down to 0oC and a nitrogen DSC purge cell at 25mL/min Samples were loaded into and sealed in hermetic aluminum pans The DSC heat flow was calibrated using a traceable indium standard and the heat ... agarose (triangles) and gelatin (circles) at and25 C (closed and open symbols, respectively) from data recorded at the end of the isothermal runs in Figure 4.1 and 4.2 33 The lowest experimentally-accessible...
... silicide Ec, EF, Ei and Ev are the conduction band, Fermi, intrinsic, valence band energy respectively q is the electron charge, хd is the depletion width and Фi is the amount of band banding ... Ec, EF, Ei and Ev are the conduction band, Fermi, intrinsic, valence band energy of n-Si respectively q is the electron charge, хd is the depletion width and Фi is the amount of band banding The ... Meeting 1999, pp 509-512 [1.8] S Talwar, G Verma, and K H Weiner, “Ultra-Shallow, Abrupt, and HighlyActivated Junctions by Low- Energy Ion Implantation and Laser Annealing,” in International Conference...
... add a new menu command to a set, highlight the command you want on the Menu tab and click the Add button Adding a menu command to a set gives you one-click access to a command you’d normally ... midtones, and highlights in an image) When the Adjust Levels dialog box appears, you set the shadows, midtones, and highlights of the image by clicking and dragging the left, center, and right ... 304 Part IV: Advanced Tips and Tricks If you find you made a mistake when recording your action, you can go back and delete it from the program Just highlight the offending step and click the...
... of attacks • New techniques and security devices are helping to defend networks and systems • The most recent developments and announcements are listed on pages 458 and 459 of the text Exploring ... attacks, and speed at which they spread continues to grow • Recent attacks include characteristics listed on pages 457 and 458 of the text • Defenders are responding to the increase in the level and ... forensics is heightened: – High amount of digital evidence – Increased scrutiny by legal profession – Higher level of computer skills by criminals Forensics Opportunities and Challenges • Computer...
... Read the whole text - Group 1: read first lines and answer question - Group 2: read 2next lines and answer question - Group 3: read next lines and answer question - Do as requested * Task 2: ... to work in new group and answer the Group 1: Phuong Linh_Dinh Hang_Hai New group: each Unit 6: An excursion questions - Goes through these questions and make sure Ss understand them - Asks some ... lesson better and many of them have never been inside a cave Its only over 20 km They are going to make a two- day trip and have a night campfire They are bringing their own food and sharing buses...