... attenuates VILI and renal hypoperfusion and dysfunction, by maintaining endothelium -dependent vasodilation and decreasing inflammation and tissue injury Materials and methods Animal preparation The experimental ... (Harlan CPB, Zeist, The Netherlands) with a mean weight of 310 ± 10 g, were anesthetized with a bolus of 60 mg/kg pentobarbital sodium (Nembutal; CEVA Santa Animale BV, Maassluis, The Netherlands) ... intraperitoneally (ip) and 70 mg/kg ketamine (Alfasan, Woerden, The Netherlands) intramuscularly Anesthesia was maintained with pentobarbital at 15 mg/kg every 30 minutes through an ip catheter and ketamine...
... study was the Christian creed and particularly the Lutheran Catechism The ultimate goal was a deeper understanding of andan ability to independently reproduce the content in these texts The interest ... pre-school, school, and leisure-time center Organization, content, and methods in three integrated groups are compared and analyzed The analysis is based on staff and parent understanding and evaluation ... constraints and built-in obstacles for collaborative selforganizing and, what they call, “expansive learning.”17 These are the sociospatial structure, the temporal structure andthe motivational-and...
... cells transfected with P450c17 and cyt b5 (A) [3H]standard preg (left panel), 17a-OHpreg (middle panel) and DHEA (right panel), (B) nonlabeled preg (left panel) and androstadienol (right panel) ... human and porcine P450c17 in the presence of various substrates – preg, 17aOHpreg and DHEA – and analyzed androstadienol formation from each substrate As observed in Fig 3, the biosynthesis of androstadienol ... procedures The results are the mean ± SEM of three independent experiments androstadienol from preg in the pig andthe human As illustrated in Fig 4, both human and porcine enzymes have the ability...
... participated in the conception and design of the study andthe drafting and revision of the manuscript PD and DD contributed to the interpretation of the data and revision of the manuscript All ... 1.25) and low information across the construct These items concerned using a walking stick andan item about bending, kneeling and stooping These items were removed from the item pool The total and ... information and so they were also removed from the item pool The IRT analysis indicated that the model fitted using the pool of candidate items for P_irt had poorer fit than the I_irt and A_irt...
... ratio and no reflections in the vicinity of the direct path Along the angular axis, the main lobe and side lobes of the antenna are visible, and along the time axis, the effects of windowing and ... for the sharp peak in the Laplacian angular distribution The location of the line of sight andthe back wall reflection is very dependent on the specific arrangement of transmitter and receiver, and ... range of angles using an antenna with a narrow angular resolution, measure the time domain impulse response of the channel, rotate the antenna, and repeat this until the antenna has rotated an...
... such factors as the political, economic, and technological advances of the country); the available teaching aids and materials ; andthe constant demand to prepare students for the standardized exams ... Malaysian context and its interrelationship with contemporary changes and advances in the political, economic and technological climate in Malaysia and in the world in general For instance, the ... to raise the educational level andthe economic standards of the Jengka settlers The majority of the settlers in Jengka grow palm oil and rubber trees under the government's Federal Land Development...
... in the first place The oldest female elephant in the herd usually leads the other elephants The other female elephants are ranked below her in age The puppy pulled all the slippers from under the ... than a few weeks or they don't make resolutions in the first place, (shows choice) The oldest female elephant in the herd usually leads the other elephants; the other female elephants are ranked ... best expresses the relationship between the main clause andthedependent clause Arrange the clauses to achieve logic, coherence, rhythm, and polish 183 Strictly Speaking Conjunctions and conjunctive...
... The age of information and technology has brought mankind lots of the “breakthrough” inventions, in which the appearances of mobile phones with the cheap costs and high application has made the ... phones have played an important role in our lives and become one of the basic of our lives due to the enormous benefits they has brought: “They are life-saving tools when we are alone and encounter ... distraction and off task behaviors Because whenthe cell phone rang during class, everyone’s attention was drawn away from the lesson, andthe flow of learning was disrupted More importantly, it...
... amended and modified again to acknowledge the right of foreign investors to merger and acquire companies and branches, andthe right to transfer the form of investment Most recently the Unified ... important for US, European and Taiwan investors only For Japanese and Singaporean investors, the labour cost does not seem to be important factors in their location decision Our analysis of the ... useful comments and suggestions Doan Quang Hung and Nguyen Van Anh provided excellent research assistance in collecting the data The authors alone are responsible for all errors and omissions FOREIGN...
... Dan King,‡ Daniel Miller,† Robert Newman,*,‡ Linda Peerey,‡ Eva Tai,† and Richard Wolf† Dowpharma Department, The Dow Chemical Company, 1710 Building, and Department of Analytical Sciences, The ... characterize the polymorphic behavior of an organic compound API over a temperature range of hundreds of degrees This allows the simultaneous measurements of thermochemical and thermophysical events, ... through the center of the sample and reference sensors of the DSC cell Thermal isolation was maintained by using beryllium metal foil to seal the X-ray optical path identification and understanding...
... expectancy at birth and healthy life expectancy for European countries For men and women, the lower the life expectancy, the longer is the life expectancy with bad health The age at which the prevalence ... enable the elderly to pay for any services required (Lithuania, Poland and Slovenia) This tends to be the case whenthe community cannot provide the services needed The other solution is to pay the ... from the others, as its share of young persons is above 18% andthe elderly represent more than 13% Among the EU-15, Lithuania’s ageing characteristics resemble those of Denmark andthe Netherlands...
... by Changes in the Ratio between the Supply of Money andthe Demand for it The Quantity Theory 124 The Stock of Money andthe Demand for Money 13 The Consequences of an Increase in the Quantity ... needs and does not have to procure through exchange the goods in which the wages are paid, and so long on the other hand as the employee consumes the goods he receives and does not sell them Such ... media of exchange, there was an increase in the difference between their marketability and that of all other commodities, and this in its turn further strengthened and broadened their position...
... participants and matched controls, interviewed pre- and post-intervention TRY participants were interviewed when they entered the program, at the time of registration and again when they exited the ... respondents and their matched controls on economic and financial indicators, gender attitudes, and reproductive health knowledge, behavior and negotiation While TRY participants and their controls ... current and future generations around the world and to help achieve a humane, equitable, and sustainable balance between people and resources The Council conducts biomedical, social science, and...
... SJS133 and SJS134 as the external primers andthe constructs pTETGLOPAI)2 and pTETGLOARE II-MUT as the templates Mutation of the ARE I-AUUUA and ARE III-AUUUA sequences used primers SJS172 and SJS173, ... SJS173, and SJS174 and SJS175, respectively Mutation of the atypical AU-rich sequence used primers SJS259 and SJS260, andthe creation of the ARE II ⁄ ARE IV double mutant used primers SJS261 and ... function as an independent PAI-2 mRNA destabilizing element To determine whether the adjacent elements (ARE II and IV) could destabilize the transcript in an additive or cooperative manner in an analogous...
... pathetic in The Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972), loud and bombastic in Freebie andthe Bean (1974), comically manic in The In-Laws (1979), and believably graspy and ambitious in Joshua Then and ... Casablanca (1942) and To Have and Have Not (1944), but as the 1940s progressed andthe film noir became a movie staple, actors such as JOHN GARFIELD and ALAN LADD joined the antihero ranks The rise ... grow any further as a comedian and filmmaker At a Labor Day party, a young woman named Virginia Rappe took ill and died Arbuckle was accused of rape and manslaughter The scandal rocked Hollywood and...
... using IMAGEQUANT software, and depurination was calculated by relating the amounts of the small aniline-fragment and 5.8S rRNA and expressing values as a percentage Reassociation and quantification ... structure of the hexanucelotide is, on the whole, unchanged andthe majority of the interactions that were seen in the first model are maintained However, the interaction between G4 and Asn122 can no ... of the N122A substitution are shown as stereo images in thick ball and stick andthe position of the Asn122 side-chain of the wild-type enzyme is overlayed and shown in thin ball and stick The...
... the antibody and particularly to appreciate the size of the cavity left around the iron atom and which kind of ligands it can accommodate; second, to measure the in¯uence of an axial ligand of the ... monoclonal anti-porphyrin Ig, with an iron(III)-DoCPP cofactor and imidazole as an axial ligand of the iron which, respectively, mimick the heme cofactor andthe axial histidine ligand of the iron ... AI and A0, AI, and A are the absorbances of the initial, ®nal and mixed species, respectively The linearity of the graph representing 1/DA as a function of 1/[L]n was then assayed with n and...
... cytosolic and membranebound PtdEtn-PLD activity Cytosolic and membrane-bound fractions were prepared as described in Materials and methods PtdEtn-PLD activity measured without addition of EDTA, EGTA and ... in the following potency order: Co2+ > Mn2+ ¼ Zn2+ > Ba2+ (Table 1) These data indicate that the pattern and extent of stimulation of the membrane and soluble yeast PtdEtnPLD activity by Ca2+ and ... and repeated three times in the presence of Ca2+ we lysed the yeast cells in the presence of Ca2+ (10 mM) or EGTA (1 mM) and examined PtdEtn-PLD activity in the 100 000 g pellet (membranes) and...
... and on the other, the need for an ecological interdependency and balance between the individual andthe environment [82] Finally, there is a need for research that considers the development and ... starting point for the development of a richer understanding of the links between physical activityandthe health and well-being of girls and women A Project Purpose and Limitations The Health Benefits ... different and complementary ways of understanding the links between physical activityand health for girls and women, and validates the ways different kinds of knowledge contribute to our understanding...
... into classes of verbs and nouns On the one hand, their model is asymmetric, thus not giving the same interpretation power to verbs and arguments; on the other hand, the model provides a more ... p(concept) p(n) = |concept| The higher the concept within the hierarchy, the more nouns receive an equal probability, andthe greater is the data length The probability of the concept class in turn ... expansion step allows the selection models to become more and more detailed, as the training proceeds andthe verb clusters (and their selectional restrictions) become increasingly specific (b) The...