... survival estimation of female patients with relapsed ovarian carcinoma In multivariate analysis only the variation of blood levels of CA125 and the free disease interval from the finalization ofthe ... survival As preoperative CA125 levels increased, the risk of death increased except atthe highest values of CA125 [55] One study determined the importance ofthe rate of decline of CA125 relative ... [57] A study evaluating the prognostic importance of preoperative CA125 in patients with stage I epithelial ovarian cancer found that in univariate analysis, overall survival decreased significantly...
... further assess the riskiness ofthe bank Finally, the inadequacy ofthe static accounting framework, underpinning the capital ratios approach, in tracing the dynamics ofthe bank’ trading strategy; ... offsetting changes in individual or sectoral savings somewhere inthe economy that leave aggregate saving unchanged It can be shown that the invariance of aggregate saving for a given aggregate investment ... is offered in India by the non-banking financial companies sector (Pahwa, 1998) Another important advantage of any informal-formal link is that formal financial institutions would have an incentive...
... practice in Botswana is that illiterates inthe adult education program are taught in Setswana even in environments where it is not the native language Setswana is not the native language for at least ... environmental enhancement and sustainable population by providing skills that are needed for the day to day activities of individuals and their communities Maruatona (1995) states that the adult education ... Maruatona and Raditloaneng (1997: 276)), however, state that the department could not complete the eradication of illiteracy inthe years as projected Adult education cannot eradicate illiteracy...
... ina marketing program will vary depending on the situation facing the organization and what information needs to be communicated Part II : theroleof advertising in society Economic effects of ... need of more Inthe absence ofthe massive and artful persuasion that accompanies the management of demand, increasing abundance might well have reduced the interest of people in acquiring more ... product ata reasonable price often find a way to break in Moreover, they usually find that advertising actually facilitates their market entry by making it possible to communicate the benefits and...
... innovation are increasingly being framed within an international arena The links between sub-regional, regional, national and international systems of innovations imply hat analyses should include ... the idea of systems of innovation and interactive learning (Lundvall 1992) Their point of departure was that innovation should be regarded as a gradual and cumulative process and that interactive ... strengthen the technical learning ability ofthe economy ina period of radical technical change They concluded that the capability of national economies to learn abou, adapt and change their instiutional...
... an approach is beginning to transform life in rural Indian villages Example 12: Wireless internet access in rural India In Tamil Nadu state in India, the Sustainable Access in Rural India (SARI) ... particular area This yes/no information can be entered into a mobile phone and sent to a central database By creating an up to date database of health information, health workers can track infectious ... broad categories that incorporate these pillars: improving the functioning of health care systems by improving the management of information and access to that information, including: • management...
... ofthe National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter ofthe National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding ... Berlin National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Engineering Institute of Medicine National Research Council The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit, self-perpetuating ... Administration (HCFA), as mandated inthe Balanced Budget Act of 1997 The committee was charged with the task of analyzing available information, holding a workshop, and making recommendations regarding technical...
... ground water was published by Dr Abdel-Azzem & Gab Allah investigating the physical, chemical and microbiological properties of groundwater in Saint Katherine, South Sinai, Egypt and exploring the ... Said American School, Zamalek to test the water and analyze the results then initiate the call to have the Nile as a protectorate We aimed at supporting participatory assessment exercises among ... exploring marine biodiversity, measuring turbidity of water and cleaning the beach Water Pollution in Port Said – A Case Study The current situation of fresh water canal in Port Said, as case of...
... suppressing network’ and ‘canonical Wnt-b-catenin signaling’ appear to play a central rolein hepatocellular carcinogenesis New experimental data incriminating senescence- and differentiation-related ... for the generation of pre-b-HDL Our goal was to characterize gene regulatory networks and ABCA1 associated lipid pathways in human macrophages in cardiovascular disease and under atherogenic and ... S3.4-2 The metabolic syndrome and adipocytokines Y Matzuzawa Department of Internal Medicine and Molecular Science, Graduate School of Medicine Osaka University, Osaka, Japan Visceral fat accumulation...
... higher in fractions and than in fraction (Table 1) These results indicate that fraction contains a significant number of mitochondria, and that fraction is the main lysosomal fraction The DNAcleavage ... resulting inthe release ofthe putative DNase as well as divalent cations Prolonged incubation enhanced DNA cleavage, thereby generating fragments of approximately 150–400 bp (Fig lanes 3–5) Although ... by Lu and Wolfe [23], who used a combination strategy of 4,6-diamino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) staining for the detection of DNA and Azo dye staining for the identification of acid phosphatase activity,...
... develop agriculture?: The case of Ghana Shashidhara Kolavalli, Kathleen Flaherty, Ramatu Al-Hassan, and Kwaku Owusu Baah, 2010 1005 The new Nicaraguan water law in context: Institutions and challenges ... to using nationally representative data to study theroleof poultry in households’ livelihoods and the impact of HPAI First, having nationally representative data enables us to investigate the ... countries in SSA The study countries include Ethiopia and Kenya in East Africa and Ghana and Nigeria in West Africa The HPAI virus has been circulating in SSA since February 2006, when the first case...
... [7], the temperature at which P laminosum is cultured When the resulting data were plotted together with the spinach data at 298 K (an acceptable growth temperature for spinach), the point of intersection ... mutant P laminosum plastocyanin reacting with wild-type P laminosum photosystem I at 298 K All measured data points are shown; for the fits to the Watkins equation the first data point was excluded ... purification and characterization ofthe plastocyanins has been described [1] Representations ofthe electrostatic surfaces showing the changes introduced by the mutations are displayed in Fig The...
... [1978] A Formal Approc~k to Discourse Anaphora Technical Report 3761, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge MA Winograd, Terry [1971] Procedures as a Repraentatian for Data ina Computer Program for ... Charles J [1974] Conceptual Memory: A Theory and Compufer Program for Processing Ihe Meaning Content of Natural Language Utterances Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab Memo AIM-233 Sidner, Candace ... of Computer Science TR-70, Rutgers University, New Brunswick,N.J Reinhart, T;mya [1976] The Syntactic Domain of Anaphora unpublished Ph.D dissertation, Department of Foreign Literature and LinBuistics,M.I.T...
... interannotator reliability, the author and external annotator labeled the same 757 examples taken from non-training data; the resulting inter-annotator reliability as measured with the kappa statistic ... equal sharing of initiative — the expert had initiative for 60% ofthe turns in finance ADs and 51% ofthe turns in software ADs This is because inthe ADs, the novice must communicate the details ... paper and another human annotator (not a project member) corrected the automatic annotations The annotators had a reference manual and trained on trial sessions ofthe dialogues To test interannotator...
... trial participants that the apparent clinical benefit of corticosteroids was maintained even 10 years after treatment Although it may not be a valid interpretation, it seems that the clinical benefit ... corticosteroids in TBM They T Kadhiravan and S Deepanjali observed that treatment-limiting adverse events that necessitated a change in ATT were less common inthe corticosteroid arm, and such changes in ATT ... Following the publication of this trial, Prasad and Singh12 updated their Cochrane systematic review on the efficacy of corticosteroids in TBM.12 The combined mortality inthe control arms (anti-tuberculosis...
... Pain Polarizing discussions during the past 10 years have made theroleofthe dentist in diagnosing and treating pain inthe head and neck region increasingly obscure rather than more clear In ... * Continuous pain Neuropathic pain Deafferentation pain Manual functional analysis Dental primary diagnosis Other disciplines Neuritic pain Traumatic neuralgia Atypical tooth pain Postherapeutic ... of soft tissue Tooth position Degree of abrasion Need for restorations Panoramic radiograph Mucosal changes 11 Anatomy ofthe Masticatory System A rational clinical examination ofthe masticatory...
... without any price data If one has data by state and industry for the two-digit manufacturing industries inthe United States (and assumes that o's are approximately the same for all these industries, ... differences in wages and income, even holding many other things constant.8 Also, rational behavior on the part of employers would lead to the allocation ofthe labor force in such a way that the value of ... provide any support for such a hypothesis, partly because of lack of relevant data They used the education ofthe total labor force ina state for the measurement ofthe quality ofthe labor force of...
... Inthe case of CeMT2, the single C-terminal histidine appears to play no major rolein divalent metal coordination, although there is some hint of partial participation ina subset ofthe metal ... present in our preparations Theroleof histidine in metal ion coordination in MTs is a subject that has gathered increasing importance inthe field, especially because the 3D structure ofthe Zn and ... spectra revealed a loss of absorbance at wavelengths of approximately 240 nm (Fig 5), C elegans CeMT1 and CeMT2 metallothioneins whereas the ESI-MS data indicated that, at pH 4.2, most ofthe complexes...