... design and construction SB performed the supervision ofthe PLAL-AuNPs generation IN and KF, head ofthe Small Animal Clinic andthe Equine Clinic, participated in the conception design ofthe study ... basic and therapeutic research The critical points in these experimental approaches are the achieved transfection efficiencies andthe reproducibility ofthe performed experiments Therefore, ... out the construction ofthe expression vectors, the cell culture and DNA preparation, the transfections, the fluorescence and immunofluorescence microscopy analysis, the statistical analysis and...
... K = 3, the thresholds determining categories were the 1/3 and 2/3 quantiles ofthe empirical distribution of sire means This is just one ofthe many possible forms of categorization, and it does ... with the largest output value of sire means The two thresholds used were determined by , such that one was the 100 × % quantile ofthe distribution of sire mortality means, andthe other was the ... This procedure broke the association between SNPs and phenotype, if any, and produced a distribution of PRESS values under the hypothesis of no association The proportion ofthe 1000 permutation...
... samples.134 Are there treatments for anal pre-cancer, and are they effective? The current definitive treatment for CIN is excision ofthe cervical transformation zone Unfortunately the anatomy and complex ... condition for which there is no restriction for use ofthe method A condition where the advantages of using the method generally outweigh the theoretical or proven risks A condition where the theoretical ... HIV, the duration ofthe relationships, or chronic liver disease may be independent cofactors increasing the risk of transmission Ensuring that people living with HIV are aware ofthe risk of HCV...
... information concerning the effects of a substance on the 204 integrity and performance ofthe male and female reproductive systems, and on the growth 205 and development ofthe offspring, including ... evaluated in terms ofthe 257 observed effects, necropsy and microscopic findings Because ofthe short period of treatment 258 ofthe male, the histopathology ofthe testis and epididymus must ... 640 andthe transferability ofthe bIVM test was analyzed for a set of eight chemicals, andthe 641 statistical analysis ofthe data obtained from the two laboratories demonstrated that there...
... PD and their partners (spouses or caregivers) get together with others like them because ofthe supportive and therapeutic aspects They requested that they have lunch together at the end ofthe ... ongoing basis The touch of others, the rhythm ofthe music, andthe novelty ofthe experience all contributed to the beneficial effects The sense of community spirit was evident when the tango group ... independent t-test, p = 0.022) See Table for means and standard errors for all items on the Exit Questionnaire On the One Leg Stance, the Functional reach test, the Falls Efficacy Scale, and the...
... recall here that the quality ofthe watermarked image depends on the choice ofthe quantization step Δ The smaller the value of Δ, the higher the PSNR ofthe watermarked image [24] For an original ... represents the low frequency band, (HH) the high frequency band, (LH) the low-high frequency band, and (HL) the high-low frequency band For image quality purpose, the frequency bands (LL) and (HH) ... rotation, and JPEG compression Forthe cropping, we choose to crop only the first row of pixels ofthe watermarked image (leaving all the other rows untouched); forthe scaling we choose the factor...
... on the review forms are similar to those for Journal ofthe Geological Society The referees' forms and comments must be available to the Society's Book Editors on request Although many ofthe ... RANDELL STEPHENSON (Netherlands) Geological Society books refereeing procedures The Society makes every effort to ensure that the scientific and production quality of its books matches that of ... Published by The Geological Society London THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY The Geological Society of London (GSL) was founded in 1807 It is the oldest national geological society in the world andthe largest...
... resources They should understand the research processes, the application of emerging information and how new knowledge is developed Certainly the application of these skills requires a backbone of medical ... retrieve and interpret data and to use and understand the significance of informatics, probabilities and decision-making assumptions Medical students should also be taught to navigate and evaluate ... the Health Professions in Toronto, Canada Conclusions The growing field of genomics provides the most visible example ofthe explosion of medical data, but it is still only one component of the...
... recommended for ring shear testing; (B) worked examples ofthe ICP method’s use in sands and clays; and (C) the notation and symbols employed ICP design methodsfor driven piles in sands and clays ... performance • Guidance on applying themethods to a wider range of soil types Page ICP design methodsfor driven piles in sands and clays Details ofthe experimental research, background theory ... updating and applying their work in the light ofthe research by Chow (1997) The recommendations have been applied world-wide by the Authors and others in dozens of offshore, marine and onshore projects...
... boundary is the extracted ROI forthe vertebra, the red ”x” is the guess forthe vertebral body centroid, the blue ”o” is the centroid ofthe spinal canal The green line is the line connecting the two ... process andthe way in which this pathology can be overcome using various therapeutic methods Image understanding constructs a semantic understanding ofthe underlying medical condition, therefore ... Correction The HU ofthe CT image may differ based on the properties ofthe beam used to perform the CT scan The energy spectrum ofthe X-ray beam affects the subsequent beam hardening when the X-ray...
... dimensions Another family of numerical methodsforthe multi-fluid flows is volume of fluid (VOF) methods VOF methods define volume fractions of fluid components and use them to reconstruct the material ... comprehensive view of bubbles deformations For example, in the case of a shock interacting with a heavy R22 cylinder, the refracted shock is well identified and it is found, forthe first time, that the shock ... on the interfaces However, themethods are easier to implement and can handle drastic topological changes As methods developed in this thesis also belong to the diffuse interface methods, in the...
... iterative methodsfor finding a common element ofthe set of fixed points of quasi φ-asymptotically nonexpansive mappings, the set of solutions of variational inequalities, andthe set of solutions of ... element ofthe set of fixed points of a weakly relatively nonexpansive mapping T andthe set of solutions of a variational inequality Parallel hybrid iterative methodsfor VIs, EPs, and FPPs ... finding a common point ofthe set of solutions of variational inequalities, the set of fixed points of (asymptotically) quasi φ-nonexpansive mappings, andthe set of solutions of equilibrium problems...
... by the choice ofthe representation andthe similarity metric Other factors, such as the origin, composition and size ofthe compound data set under investigation also affect the analysis of ... available SAR information from compound data sets of different sizes and origins.30 The combination of these methods provides a basis forthe exploration of SARs The activity landscape concept ... graphical methods have gained prominence for analysing SARs The choice of molecular representation andthe method of assessing similarities affects the outcome ofthe SAR analysis Thus, alternative methods...
... 0, σn gn → 0, Swn − wn → The proof ofthe first two limits is the same as the proof ofthe first step of Theorem 3.1.1 On the other hand, let x∗ ∈ SolEP (f, C) ∩ F ix(S) Then, from Proposition ... product ofthe space · : the norm ofthe space domf : the domain of a function f ∂f : the subdifferential of a convex function f ∂C: the boundary of a set C F ix(S): the set of fixed points of operator ... algorithms for finding a solution of a variational inequality problem whose constraint set is the set of common elements ofthe set of fixed points of a mapping andthe set of solutions of an equilibrium...
... capacity The extensive list of contributors is a measure ofthe size and complexity ofthe task The Organization is greatly indebted to all ministries of health andofthe environment in the Region for ... groups of countries, and a decrease for industry and an increase for services in the third 1.2.3 The CCEE and NIS The domestic economies ofthe CCEE andthe former USSR were characterized by a The ... preparation of this report andthe project office at the WHO Regional Office coordinating the development of this book Further, joint use has been made of some ofthe data available for these two...
... present in the glucan binding domains of GTFA and GTFO [4,5]; black and white bars, predicted locations ofthe a-helices and b-strands, respectively, corresponding to the relative position of these ... precisely the role of these two different regions and their amino acid residues in glucosidic linkage specificity The ratio of glucosidic linkages in the oligosaccharide and polymer products of these ... catalytic domains ofthe GTFA and GTFO reuteransucrases are the main determinants for glucosidic linkage specificity Within these N-termini, the A1 ⁄ A2 and O1 ⁄ O2 parts ofthe reuteransucrase...
... the words before/after the start ofthe entity Bigram boundary features ofthe words before/after the end ofthe entity Trigram boundary features ofthe words before/after the start ofthe entity ... surrounded by quotes For example, The Day They Shot John Lennon, the name of a band, appears in the running example Dene to be the index of any double quotation marks in the candidate, to be the index ... data, andthe set of candidates for In this paper, the top outputs from a maximum entropy tagger are used as the set of candidates Without loss of generality we take to be the candidate for which...
... the case ofthe pension system in Brazil Depending on earnings and on when individuals enroll and retire, they receive a subsidy or pay a tax to the system andthe level of both the tax andthe ... Source: Rofman, Lucchetti, and Ourens 2008 Note: Data are forthe year that comes closest to 1995 (for the 1990s) and 2006 (for the 2000s) The State of Social Protection in Latin America andthe ... benefits for health priority groups (such as mothers and children) They are administered by theThe State of Social Protection in Latin America andthe Caribbean Figure 1.6 21 The Share ofthe Formal...
... Authentication The second type of authentication supported by the IEEE 802.11 standard is shared key authentication Under shared key authentication either a 40 bit or 104 bit key in the form of ... family of IEEE wireless LAN standards Those standards were developed under the IEEE 802.11 umbrella and define the operation of wireless LANs The selection ofthe IEEE for defining wireless LAN standards ... possible for an infrastructure BSS to have an area of coverage quadruple or four times the coverage of an independent BSS This results from the fact that the relay function ofthe AP can double the...
... Elution was performed with the same buffer at a flow rate of ml/h and ml fractions were collected The void volume ofthe column was determined by the elution of Blue Dextran (Pharmacia) Other analyses ... compared to the other methodsThe SDS-extracted polymer included a small amount of material other than protein Furthermore, the steaming- and washing-extracted polymers contained large amounts of phosphorus ... demonstrated the same mobility in both stains, suggesting that these bands were complexes of protein and saccharide These included the band corresponding to a molecular weight of 103,000 in the steaming-extracted...