... made substantial contributions to conception and design, and to the analysis and interpretation of the data TRM and GWC handled acquisition of data All authors contributed to the manuscript revision ... diseases (DMARD) and with registry follow-up at one year, VARA and administrative data were used to create a gold standard and claims-based effectiveness algorithm The gold standard outcome was ... Ethnicity Caucasian, not Hispanic Non-Caucasian Hispanic Black, not Hispanic American Indian or Pacific Islander RA Drug Initiated Abatacept (5%) (3%) Adalimumab 74 (38%) 74 (24%) Etanercept 60 (31%)...
... many authors studied the performance of quantum refrigerator using ideal quantum Bose and Fermi gases [36-38] Bartana and Kosloff [39] and Wu et al [40] studied the thermodynamic performance of ... irreversibilities of heat resistance, internal friction and bypass heat leakage, and studied the optimal ecological performances of the quantum heat engines Besides performance of harmonic and spin-1/2 quantum ... working medium of the refrigerator The frequency of the thermal phonons of the hot and cold reservoirs are ωh and ωc , respectively, and the creation and annihilation operators of ˆ+ ˆ− ˆ+ ˆ−...
... Mechanical Engineering, in 2007, for the Faculty of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering under the Department of Plant and Automotive Engineering He is now the Head for Department of Plant and ... Maheswar D., Reddy K.V.K Comparision of diesel engine performance and emissions from neat and transesterified cotton seed oil Jordan Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 2009, 3, 190–197 ... performance and emission characteristics of diesel engine with sunflower oil methyl ester Jordan Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering 2009, 3, 306–311 Sayin C., Ilhan M., Canakci...
... in Myanmar, 84% in Indonesia and 62% in Thailand (10) It was D N Fernando and R de A Seneviratna 14 Table Self-assessed "health status" by some psychosocial factors and indicators of use of health ... included: semi tandem stand, full tandem stand, rising from chair without using arms and shoulder external rotation (full) A younger member of the household present at the time of the interview ... prepare own meals and handle money A limited number of tests of physical performance for assessing the functioning of upper and lower extremities were carried out, using standard procedures These...
... Tage Erlander Professorship for 2002 Further support for HK came from the NSF under Grant DMS9970943 and from Eurandom HK thanks Eurandom for appointing him as Eurandom Professor in the fall of 2002 ... left-hand sides of (3.31) and (3.60) are the same for this choice of Λ We leave it to the reader to check that the right-hand side of (3.60) is at least as large as the right-hand side of (3.31), ... prepare for the desired precise form of (3.35) we shall prove that there exist constants K1 and s2 such that for t ≥ s ≥ s2 , Λ any nonrandom subset of Zd , and any fixed v ∈ Zd , (3.40) P {A2 (s,...
... death of God: “We are indeed the last man in the Nietzschean sense of the term, and the overman will be whoever can overcome the absence of God and the absence of man in the same gesture of overtaking.”49 ... pursuit of the subject’s True nature, the origins of which can be found in Christianity and its hermeneutics of the subject, and on the other hand the constitution of the subject as obedient and ... weaknesses of their nature and then fit them into an artistic plan until 56 www.parrhesiajournal.org ALAN MILCHMAN AND ALAN ROSENBERG every one of them appears as art and reason and even weaknesses delight...
... blue) and standard (magenta) substrates after ns of MD (C) Overlay of positions of N-propionyl modified (light blue) and standard (magenta) substrates after ns of MD (D) Molecular surface of the ... carbohydrates (left panel), protein (middle panel) and for enzymatic activity (right panel) Lane 1, PoHex; lane 2, PoHex plus Endo H; lane 3, PoHex plus a-mannosidase; lane 4, Endo H; lane 5, a-mannosidase ... buffer system of Laemmli [21] (Fig 1C, lanes and 9, respectively) Another protein band with a 2470 Fig Optimization of PoHex production and purification (A), (B) Time course of secretion of PoHex from...
... consisting of six exons and five introns The Fig Comparison of the genomic organization of IL-18 and IL-1b genes in human, rainbow trout and the predicted Fugu/tetraodon organization GenBank accession ... twice with an equal volume of phenol/chloroform (24 : 1, v/v) and once with chloroform Genomic DNA was precipitated with two volumes of cold ethanol, washed with 70% (v/v) ethanol, and dissolved ... have an important role in regulating IL-18 expression and processing in this species, the first report of such a phenomenon for this cytokine Materials and methods Cloning and sequencing of genomic...
... of the ISA, and definitions The entire text ofan ISA, therefore, is relevant to an understanding of the objectives stated in an ISA and the proper application of the requirements ofan ISA ISA ... identification and assessment of risks ofmaterial misstatement at the financial statement and assertion levels by performing risk assessment procedures and related activities;21 and • Use testing and other ... Achieve an Objective OVERALL OBJECTIVES OF THE INDEPENDENT AUDITOR AND THE CONDUCT OFAN AUDIT IN ACCORDANCE WITH INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ON AUDITING Application and Other Explanatory Material An...
... myotilin, and palladin [30–35] As Ig-C2 domains may serve as molecular spacers and bind to a diversity of ligands, it is believed that they have important physiological and structural significance ... from Takara Company (Kyoto, Japan), and all antibodies, including secondary antibody and antibody to green fluorescent protein (GFP), were purchased from Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Santa Cruz, CA, ... mitochondria of the EDL and diaphragm muscles The white arrow indicates an incomplete mitochondrial membrane (B) Upper panel: O2 consumption measurements during states and with succinate and rotenone...
... patient and is the senior author HA managed the patient and wrote the manuscript VR assisted with the literature review and manuscript preparation All authors have read and approved the final manuscript ... curettage and phenolisation 11 of the13 lesions displayed clinical and radiological consolidation at a mean of 4.6 months, and patients had good return to normal function [31] Another study of 23 ... continue to have regular clinical and radiological implant surveillance Figure Fluoroscopic image of the left knee showing the introducing cannula and simultaneous venting of the medial tibial condylar...
... polymers or surfactants and harsh reductants Results and discussion Gold nanoparticles were synthesized by mixing appropriate concentrations of solutions of AuCl - and Page of 12 detergent at ... the shapeof the nanoparticles obtained The TEM analysis clearly reveals the formation of triangular, spherical, and a smaller number of hexagonal and pentagonal nanoparticles The careful analysis ... the transverse (out -of- plane) absorbance, approximately concurring with the surface plasmon resonance of spherically shaped AuNPs, and the longitudinal (inplane) surface plasmon resonance band,...
... diagrams of nanosystems: sizeandshape effects Ph D thesis University of MonsHainaut; 2009 15 Wang ZL, Petroski JM, Green TC, El-Sayed MA: Shape Transformation and Surface Melting of Cubic and Tetrahedral ... energies of platinum nanoparticles of different sizes and shapes Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2010, 114:1534-1538 37 Narayanan R, El-Sayed MA: Shape- dependent catalytic activity of platinum nanoparticles ... theory and modelling to investigate shape at the nanoscale Journal of Materials Chemistry 2006, 16:813-815 Yacaman MJ, Ascencio JA, Liu HB, Gardea-Torresdey J: Structure shapeand stability of nanometric...
... Yibin, Sichuan 644000, China College of Statistics and Mathematics, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, Kunming, Yunnan 650221, China ∗ Corresponding author: Jing Quan (E-mail: quanjingcq@163.com), ... Strong and weak convergence ofan implicit iterative process for pseudocontractive semigroups in Banach space Jing Quan∗,1 , Shih-sen Chang2 and Min Liu1 Department of Mathematics, Yibin ... writing of the present article And they also read and approved the final manuscript References Deimling, K: Zeros of accretive operators Manuscripta Math 13, 365–374 (1974) Xu, HK, Ori, RG: An implicit...
... Goebel and Kirk , Liu , Wittmann , Reich 10 , Gornicki 11 , Schu 12 Shioji and Takahashi 13 , and Tan and Xu 14 in the settings of Hilbert spaces and uniformly convex Banach spaces There are many ... Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, vol 73, pp 516–519, 1967 M K Ghosh and L Debnath, “Convergence of Ishikawa iterates of quasi-nonexpansive mappings,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and ... Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 178, no 2, pp 301–308, 1993 15 H.-K Xu and R G Ori, An implicit iteration process for nonexpansive mappings,” Numerical Functional Analysis and...
... resource management framework and can perform effective end-to-end adaptation and yield a predictable and scalable DRE system under varying operating conditions and input workload 5.1 Hardware and software ... algorithms and middleware platforms and improve flexibility (iii) Design of a framework determines its performance and applicability The design of key modules and entities of the resource management ... monitoring and actuation delay when the monitors and effectors are structured hierarchically and the number of nodes in the system increases Although individual monitors and effectors Nishanth Shankaran...
... the rectangular pulse waveform with unit amplitude and duration τ, ωq and φq are the frequency and random phase of the qth subcarrier, respectively, and c(k) (t) is the spreading sequence of user ... zero mean Gaussian random variable and its variance is given by σn = Var Z (1) where p(γ) is the probability density function of γ and is given by [30] N −1 nt = (25) Assuming that any bit can be ... Communications and Networking ACKNOWLEDGMENT The authors would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments REFERENCES [1] L Hanzo, L.-L Yang, E.-L Kuan, and K Yen, Single- and Multi-Carrier...
... supported by an institutional grant from HHMI (F.P.R.), the Milton Fund of Harvard University (S.L.W and F.P.R.), and grants from the CIHR (B.A and C.B.), Genome Canada (B.A., C.B and H.B.), Genome ... the number of corresponding subgraphs in the real network, and Nrand describes the number of corresponding subgraphs in a randomized network, represented by the average and the standard deviation ... the number of corresponding subgraphs in the real network, and Nrand describes the number of corresponding subgraphs in a randomized network, represented by the average and the standard deviation...
... living orangims, and the release of ROS from hepatocytes induces apoptosis [2,10,15] An overdose of ethanol or chronic alcohol intake increases these toxic compounds and this results in acute and/ or ... mean ± SD (n = 5) The data was assessed using one-way analysis of variance coupled with Duncan's test using the SAS system A p < 0.05 was considered significant Results Change of body weight and ... (TGS, Japan) and had, by weight, a total flavonoid content of 80-95% and 28-32% sylibin content In addition, a liquid green bean-rice bran fermentation extract was purchased (Toyo Hakko, Japan) along...