... the elucidation of the nature ofpolymers His classification ofpolymers as condensation or addition polymers persists today Following a better understanding of the nature of polymers, there was ... Impact Experiments III StressStrain Behavior ofPolymers A Elastic StressStrain Relations IV Deformation of Solid Polymers V Compression vs Tensile Tests VI Effects of Structural and Environmental ... classes ofpolymers will be discussed when we treat the structure ofpolymers Homopolymer or Copolymer Polymers may be either homopolymers or copolymers depending on the composition Polymers...
... models tracking a larger number of immune components are often desirable when studying the progression of an infection or disease Given our need to study the dynamics of immune responses to infection ... by the current state of empirical data, here we discuss the applications of simple versus complex models, and explore the use of discrete dynamic models Excellent reviews of mathematical modeling ... pathogen time-courses The number of components [7,36] that can be modeled is smaller than in discrete models because of the increase in the number of parameters The state of the variables may not be...
... by recording the occurrence of documented infection, treatment in ICU, start of antibiotic treatment, development of sepsis, severe sepsis or septic shock, length of hospital stay, diagnosis ... predictor of infections, severity of disease, organ failure and outcome in ICU patients[9,11], and we accordingly found a 2.2 times higher proportion of infection, a 5.5 times higher risk of septic ... arrival prospective design with identification of symptoms and infection on arrival, and the possibility of following up on all patients with the aid of the unique personal identification numbers...
... effect of the variants studied in all timepoints, probably due to the presence of several parameters affecting tacrolimus kinetics The presence of CYP3A5*1 allele does not predict the amount of CYP3A5 ... Hospital of Patras, Rion for their help throughout this study Conflict of Interests The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists References Fredericks S, Holt DW Pharmacogenomics of ... kinetics of tacrolimus in renal transplant recipients The drug dose and level, the drug dose-adjusted level and the drug volume of distribution values are analyzed based on the presence of CYP3A5*1...
... all of its business over the Internet cannot In addition to preventing denial of service attacks, the administrator of an online commerce network must be aware of a more dire threat—the theft of ... price of the hardware NAT device and the license for the IPSec software client Small Service Businesses Small service business networks, with a typical computer count of around a dozen or so, often ... intruders over the Internet Tip Because of the sensitivity of the information and the attraction this type of network presents to hackers, the network administrator of a small confidential practice...
... telephone company’s central office However, with the advent of IP telephony, those systems are rapidly migrating to some form of packetized transport Telephony is exiting the days of circuit switching ... the possibility of higher operational costs down the road Truck rolls and technicians are a large part of operational costs so, simply put, upping the reliability lowers the number of service calls ... building the headend of the future One path is to use modular components that enable operators to easily expand their systems to offer the best performance The high density of these system components...
... result of early marriage and early pregnancy Further, currently, 50% of all new people living with HIV are young people between the ages of 15-24, of which over 60% are girls.12 A UNICEF study of ... exploitation, often increases in crisis situtions, in cases of forced displacement and breakdown of law and order In spite of this, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) often go unrecognised, ... status and standards of living through stimulation of women’s awareness of realities and develop their capabilities for self-actualisation, strengthening of the participation of rural women in development...
... identification of plasma proteins induced after Spatzle-C108 injection ¨ Fig S1 Sequence of the region of the M sexta proSpatzle gene encompassing the ORF ¨ Fig S2 Alignment of amino acid sequences of insect ... is a truncated form of proHP8, cleaved after Arg59 As the activation site of proHP8 is at Arg90 [31], this truncated form of proHP8Xa was not expected to be active Incubation of proHP8Xa with factor ... form of proHP8Xa and the catalytic domain of active HP8 are marked with arrowheads The size and position of molecular weight standards are indicated on the left (B) The catalytic activity of activated...
... articulated in the First Amendment of the U.S Constitution, is built on an understanding of the benefits of a “marketplace of ideas,” where the free expression of a variety of competing perspectives furthers ... Prevention of Hate Violence (CPHV), Director, Stephen L Wessler This manual is part of a series of resources outlined under Partners Against Hate, a project funded by the U.S Department of Justice, Office ... counteraction strategies for the wide range of community-based professionals who work and interact with children of all ages n iv To increase awareness of the problem of bias crime To help individuals...
... PS-ODN-mediated inhibition of gene expression warn against erroneous interpretation of results caused by the protein-binding capacity of PS-ODNs [27,28] The lack of reactivity of HEK293 cells in our ... 3A shows the effect of 20 h Fig In vitro RNase H assay with whole cell extracts of cell lines HEK293 (A) and MiaPacaII (B) The amount of extract (XT) used is indicated on top of the lanes The lanes ... assayed (three of which are shown in Fig 6) had the same low level of antisense inhibition as the parental and vector control cells ( 10% reduction of target mRNA) The high level of activity in...
... Lewis (Education Officer, Ministry of Education, Sports and Youth, Antigua); Glenda Rolle (Senior Education Officer, Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture, Commonwealth of the Bahamas); ... presented to the July 2007 CARICOM meeting of heads of governments: The Port -of- Spain Declaration, which signified the commitment of CARICOM Ministers of Education and other participants at the ... service assessment of the implications of changes in the size of the school age population and the proportion of orphans and vulnerable children for education demand The effects of the epidemic...
... of pre-obesity would lead to a doubling of the estimated direct costs Finally, none of the studies considers the cost of the consequences of overweight in children Expressed as a proportion of ... about 80% of cases of type diabetes, 35% of ischaemic heart disease and 55% of hypertensive disease among adults in the Region and cause more than million deaths and 12 million life-years of ill ... Nevertheless, at least three quarters of type diabetes, a third of ischaemic heart disease, a half of hypertensive disease, a third of ischaemic strokes and about a quarter of osteoarthritis can be attributed...
... role in the tightening of credit standards and have actually contributed to an easing of these standards in the second half of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010 Fears of a credit crunch, as sometimes ... broad set of non-standard measures after the intensification of the crisis in the autumn of 2008, fully in line with its primary mandate of maintaining price stability 15 See Section of this article ... towards assets offering a higher return Unless banks can compensate for the decline in deposits via other sources of funding, the downward adjustment acts as a constraint on the asset side of banks’...
... Department Office of Domestic Preparedness (U.S Department of Justice) Office of Emergency Preparedness Office of Emergency Services ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS xv OMB OSHA OSLDPS Office of Management ... president of the National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding ... achievements of engineers Dr Wm A Wulf is president of the National Academy of Engineering The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of...
... president of the National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding ... achievements of engineers Dr Wm A Wulf is president of the National Academy of Engineering The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of ... University of California, San Diego School of Medicine ROBERT E SHOPE, Professor of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas LESLEE STEIN-SPENCER, Chief, Division of Emergency...
... cost of TARP $341 trillion billion Office of Management and Budget, August 2009 CNNMoney.com January 27, 2009 Estimated cost of TARP “ U.S pledges top $7.7 trillion $356 Congressional Budget Office, ... outstanding Remaining Investment Outstanding As of March 2012 Value of remaining Stake Value of Remaining stake As of March 2012 U.S DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Response Reform Cost Challenges ... illustrate the breadth of the crisis response, but is not meant to be a complete depiction of all the actions taken by the government or their effects Source: Treasury, Office of Management and Budget...
... O 3.21 The C&AG is an Officer of the House of Commons and head of the National Audit Office, and is independent of Government 3.22 The NAO is held accountable in a number of ways that reflect ... head of an organisation is appointed as its Accounting Officer An Accounting Officer has the personal duty of signing the accounts described in his or her letter of appointment and, by virtue of ... of machinery needed to realise A requirement for an annual review of the potential of the SIC the importance of internal control and associated reporting in a the process of external review of...
... levels and enhances the phosphorylation of BRCA1 [11] Thus, these data provide a precedent for the involvement of BRCA1 in the cellular response to stress One stress common to multiple solid tumors ... Table Effect of hypoxia on the induction of apoptosis in MDAMB-468 cells Percentage of apoptotic cells 8h Normoxia Hypoxia 24 h 4.49 ± 1.41 4.52 ± 0.89 3.48 ± 1.05 3.53 ± 0.36 cytometry of normoxic ... h) of cells to severe hypoxia (0.01% oxygen) resulted in decreased levels of BRCA1 [18] and impaired ability of cells to repair damaged DNA [17] However, no data are available on the effects of...
... Induction of the Msn2 ⁄ target genes in response to one form ofstress gives rise to the phenomenon of cross-protection against an aggravated form of the same stress or to a different type of environmental ... only with activation of FRM2 transcription, but also with growth in increasing concentrations of cadmium but not of H2O2 Because of the high degree of homology to Yap1, the role of the Yap2 cysteine ... yeast response to stress expression programmes common to all environmental stress responses are at play [1] Specific forms ofstress such as heat shock and some forms of oxidative stress [2] demand...
... percentage of the untreated cell lines at the time of 24, 48 and 72 hours are showed in Figure 1a and p-values in Additional File In absence of the treatment, the percentage of viability at 72 hours of ... http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/8/1/15 Page of Table Comparative study of the percentage of viability among Caco-2, SW-480 and HT-29 cell lines at different time of treatments may be one of the genes responsible ... However, not all of the wild type K-Ras and B-Raf patients are responding to cetuximab Therefore, the identification of additional genetic determining factors of the action mechanism of EGFRtargeted...