... Cambodian government of cials will be able to build enough confidence in the riel to suppress the use ofthe U.S dollar and of gold as the prevailing means of exchange and stores ofvalue Cambodia’s ... unfairness ofthe terms and the cycle of debt they produced created animosity Farmers kept only small sums of money to purchase essentials at village markets There was some fear of theft, but for the ... had nothing to with its London value Records of shipments to China of hundreds of tons of endangered animal products and teak logs show a pattern of exploitation; the dependency theory model...
... attributes considered, and the vectors of coefficients to n are attached tothe vector of attributes (Z) The assumptions about the distribution of error terms implicit in the use ofthe CLM impose a particular ... the number of household specific characteristics employed to explain the choice ofthe wastewater treatment programme alternative, and the vector of coefficients to l are attached tothe vector ... ofthe public‟s preferences with respect to improvements tothe STPs and hence tothe quality ofthe water in the Ganga 11 The choice experiment survey was administered to be representative of...
... affect the intrinsic fluorescence ofthe DK9 variant, the higher the surface exposure and flexibility of their side-chains tothe solvent the smaller the intrinsic fluorescence ofthe enzyme The smaller ... expresses the acylation rate By contrast, the decrease in the DK9 Km value is consistent with better accommodation ofthe substrate into the catalytic pocket ofthe unprotonated form ofthe mutant, ... thrombin after 180 of treatment is reported in the middle ofthe figure, whereas the chromatogram of DK9 form is given at the bottom The primed numbers refer tothe stable B-chain isomers of DK9 thrombin...
... labs were asked to store the samples in liquid nitrogen upon arrival The method used for thawing and counting of vials was left tothe discretion ofthe participating labs The total cell number ... staining, in collaboration with the CIC executive office and the steering committee ofthe CIC Immunoassay working group The authors of this group acknowledge the concept ofthe Minimal Information About ... the experience level ofthe operator as reported by the participants Ten labs reported more than years of experience in the use ofthe technique whereas 10 labs reported less than two years of...
... labs were asked to store the samples in liquid nitrogen upon arrival The method used for thawing and counting of vials was left tothe discretion ofthe participating labs The total cell number ... staining, in collaboration with the CIC executive office and the steering committee ofthe CIC Immunoassay working group The authors of this group acknowledge the concept ofthe Minimal Information About ... the experience level ofthe operator as reported by the participants Ten labs reported more than years of experience in the use ofthe technique whereas 10 labs reported less than two years of...
... suggestive of some type of derangement ofthe posterior elements ofthe spine [16] Imaging studies used to evaluate patients with low back pain include: radiographs, bone scintigraphy, computed tomography ... sequence) through the area of abnormality on SPECT, is recommended to confirm the diagnosis and stage the lesion If SPECT is negative, pars stress is unlikely to be the cause ofthe low back pain ... predict the probability of ultimate bone healing [22,23] However, CT ofthe spine results in higher ionizing radiation exposure compared to bone scintigraphy [24] Furthermore, there are reports in the...
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... changing these tothe corresponding amino acids in the H2q sequence makes the H2p mice susceptible to CIA [70] Interestingly, the binding groove ofthe H2q MHC strongly resembles that ofthe human ... study tothe other subunits ofthe NADPH oxidase complex We hypothesized that single nucleotide polymorphisms in any ofthe other subunits could cause the same reduction in ROS production and thereby ... knowledge is needed to understand these genetic regions Animal models and their relevance to rheumatoid arthritis Thevalueof mapping in animals is dependent on there being good models of human diseases...
... lower in the responder group than in the non-responder ROC analysis found SUV2 to be the best predictor of response Using SUV2 valueof 4,24 as the cut-off threshold for defining response to therapy ... Actadministered is the administered activity corrected for the physical decay of FDG tothe start of acquisition, and BW is body weight Dedicated software was used to calculate the SUVmax within the tumour ... for SUV2 values (Table and Figure 3) Results of ROC analysis for SUV1, SUV2, DSUV, and RI adjusted tothe group of responders are resumed in Table To elaborate the informative valueof PET with...
... of ancestors, because ofthe bottleneck in generation The effective number of founder genomes is rather close tothe effective number of ancestors, because ofthe large number of progeny in the ... explained by the other ancestors, should be considered We now present an approximate method to compute the marginal contribution ) k (p of each ancestor and to find the smallest set of ancestors The ancestors ... number of founders In any other situation, the effective number of founders is smaller than the actual number of founders The more balanced the expected contributions ofthe founders, the higher the...
... sampling, the correct transport and storage of samples, and the type of cells used In addition, the technique has a turnaround time of several days to weeks, and is therefore unable to guide initial ... considered the gold standard for the detection of respiratory viruses, but its limitation is that it can only detect a small number Furthermore, the yield of viral culture depends on the quality of sampling, ... sepsis at the time of admission The study described here was conducted as part of normal patient care; therefore, according tothe Medical Ethical Research Council of our institution, there was...
... and the biomarkers, the rapid appearance ofthe biomarkers, the correlation between the biomarkers and the severity ofthe disease, the provision of prognosis, and the ease of performing the ... infrequent There are a number of reasons for this, including the high sensitivities ofthe new-generation assays, the use of low cutoff points and the imprecision ofthe assays In view of this uncertainty, ... sampling time, the cutoff points chosen), the clinician’s belief and approach, as well as the clinical context The main attractions of using biomarkers are the close link between the Page of (page...
... transfer tothe ED was 11 (6) minutes The total time from arrival at the scene to arrival in the ED was 27 (10) minutes Before pre-hospital treatment (T1) Ofthe 124 patients who were included in the ... that a cut-off valueof 3.5 mmol/L for the out -of- hospital setting is close to 4.0 mmol/L, which was found to have prognostic significance in the ED [7,9,19] The prognostic accuracy of pre-hospital ... level of 3.5 mmol/L was the best cut-off value in the pre-hospital phase to discriminate survivors from non-survivors • The prognostic valueof pre-hospital blood lactate level was superior to that...
... Skills • Be able to compute the future valueof an investment made today • Be able to compute the present valueof cash to be received at some future date • Be able to compute the return on an ... able to compute the number of periods that equates a present value and a future value given an interest rate • Be able to use a financial calculator and a spreadsheet to solve time valueof money ... I • For a given interest rate – the longer the time period, the lower the present value – What is the present valueof $500 to be received in years? 10 years? The discount rate is 10% – years:...
... believed that other research services providing short recommendations were too widely disseminated to provide maximum value (i.e the 21 valueofthe signal is inversely related tothe size ofthe client ... ofthe formulation ofthe time-series forecast) and timing (utilization of information available subsequent tothe time ofthe formulation ofthe time-series forecast) advantage relative to time-series ... equity offerings and that analysts employed by the lead underwriters ofthe offerings make the most optimistic growth forecasts Taken as a whole, the literature supports the hypothesis that the value...
... management of their patients in the present study; instead, we observed whether abnormalities on the CXRs led to a change in therapy We believe that this is a more accurate way to determine thevalueof ... one of these findings would have resulted in a change to therapy, thevalueof this diagnostic tool remained low (for example, 4.8% of all daily routine CXRs would have resulted in a change to therapy) ... antimicrobial therapy in case of unexpected infiltrates on the CXR; repositioning of tubes in case of malposition of orotracheal tubes (ignoring planned extubations); ultrasound ofthe thorax in case of...
... since none of them alone is useful for the majority ofthe BC and none of them is specific for cancer or breast tissues No biomarker has been suggested to date for the early diagnosis of BC (24) ... method to evaluate the actual performance of these markers Jinang Li, from the John Hopkins Hospital, is the first to explore proteomics in early diagnosis of BC, who also enabled the advance of ... response rather than malignancy Another study by Mathelin et al included a total of 89 patients Bc1a and Bc1b defined by the authors corresponded tothe Bc1 and Bc3a and Bc3b corresponded to Bc3 of Li...
... strength) ofthe wave length According to survivors of near-death experiences, the higher the level ofthe spirit the brighter the light shines, and the lower the level the darker the light seems to ... childhood In the dream she was a boy of about eight years old She stood with her mother in a line of people They got to a table where a man told some people to go tothe left, and others tothe right ... of perceiving, of thinking, of understanding and of interacting spring out ofthe boundaries of ”humanity,” spring out ofthe boundaries of ”nationhood,” and spring out ofthe boundaries of the...
... estimate We have Main result Main Theorem Let µ be the 5−fold convolution ofthe standard Cantor measure, then the lower extreme valueofthe local dimension of µ is α5 = | log 3.25 √ arccos 145 ... are the values in Corollary From Lemma 2, Corollary and Proposition 2, we have Theorem Let µ is the 5−fold convolution ofthe standard Cantor measure, then the lower extreme valueofthe local ... Thanh et al / VNU Journal of Science, Mathematics - Physics 25 (2009) 57-68 65 From (13), (14) and (15), the assertion ofthe corollary follows 2.2 The proof ofthe main theorem Lemma Let x = (x1...