... control bymeansof AP, related to the limited number of the patients in our study, or related to the origin of the parameters PAI-1 is synthesized not only by the endothelium, but also by the ... score and parameters related to coagulation and fibrinolysis The mMOF score (mMOF score = MOF score – the points of coagulopathy of MOF score) was positively correlated with (a) the DIC score, (b) ... method bymeansof AP We consider that better understanding of the aforementioned relationships and confirming the useful parameters will be helpful for the early diagnosis of the severity of sepsis...
... three-dimensional structureof the helicase enzyme of Usutu virus was modelled by applying homology modelling techniques and using the crystal structureof the Murray Valley Encephalitis virus helicase of the ... domains one and two of the Usutu helicase and most specifically, by loops between secondary structure elements of the latter domains More detailed (i.e per residue) comparison of the ssRNA interaction ... template structureby calculating the root mean square deviations (RMSd) between equivalent atoms for the full MD course Large RMSd values are indicative of systems of poor quality The Cα RMSd of the...
... ConstN P {Det, AP, N, Pro} (set of possible constituents of NP) In PG, each category of the grammar is described with a set of properties A grammar is then made of a set of properties Parsing an input ... these objects are described bymeansof a set of properties (see (Blache05b)) In terms of parsing, the mechanism consists in exhibiting the potential constituents of a given construction This ... ratio of satisfied properties with respect to the total set of evaluated properties This information is computed as follows: Let C a construction defined in the grammar bymeansof a set of properties...
... Derivatives byMeansof Evolutionary Algorithms GABLER EDITION WISSENSCHAFT Svenja Hager Pricing Portfolio Credit Derivatives byMeansof Evolutionary Algorithms With a foreword by Prof Dr.-Ing ... List of Figures 2.1 Structureof a CLN 2.2 Structureof a CDS 2.3 CDO transaction with cash structure 14 2.4 Structure ... to be managed bymeansof dynamic delta hedging 2.2.3.6 Effect of Correlation For structured credit derivatives that tranche the credit risk of the collateral assets into products of different seniority,...
... according to [42] Suitable concentrations of mAbs were first determined by adding various amounts of antibody to microtiter wells, coated with various amounts of MalK, under experimental conditions ... Protein–protein interactions of MalFGK2 (Eur J Biochem 269) 4077 Fig Location of epitopes in the amino acid sequence of S typhimurium MalK (A) and in the modelled 3D structureof E coli MalK (B) (A) ... localization of the epitopes in the tertiary structureof MalK [5] (Fig 1B) but also suggests that complex assembly is not accompanied by a significant change in accessibility Nonetheless, the use of synthetic...
... Evolution of Constrained Syntactic Structures 479 20 Evolution of Building Blocks 527 21 Evolution of Hierarchies of Building Blocks 553 22 Parallelization of Genetic Programming 563 23 Ruggedness of ... This is the concept of survival of the fittest and natural selection described by Charles Darwin in On the Origin of Species byMeansof Natural Selection (1859) Over a period of time and many generations, ... Oakley of the Isle of Wight • John Perry of Vantage Associates in Fremont, California • Craig Reynolds of Symbolics Incorporated • Rick Riolo of the University of Michigan • Jonathan Roughgarden of...
... the loss of those providers requires managers to train new providers as replacements The data were analysed bymeansof SAS software Summary statistics were generated with gender, type of provider, ... Somali) We also reviewed working status by qualification and by number of courses taken Results Of the 6353 service providers with information provided, a total of 1744 service providers were followed ... standard level of trained providers Other options include task shifting of certain care responsibilities to lower-level cadres of health care workers or creation of a specialized cadre of HIV/AIDS...
... presence and availability of teaching faculty versed in pedagogical methods for surgical skills are essential to the effectiveness of the training Cost of training bymeansof simulation We used ... [7] The role of simulation in surgical training One way to improve surgical skills training has been to transfer parts of the surgical apprenticeship to laboratory settings, bymeansof simulation ... ratio of 3:1 to ensure the optimum recommended by current research [13] For each of the five skills being taught each day, faculty members gave a five-minute introduction followed by 55 minutes of...
... explained by a neutralization of charge of [MnIII6CrIII]3+ caused by the mirror-charge effect in the first layer but by anions in the other ones (Figure 10c) a) 4.9 nm b) fraction of the area ... Germany) The surface topography of the samples was analyzed bymeansof non-contact atomic force microscopy in ultra-high vacuum (UHV) (Omicron UHV-AFM/STM) The pressure of the vacuum chamber was approximately ... 95% of the whole area is covered with molecules Two layers can be seen The upper layer covers 23% of the surface The layer thicknesses were estimated out of the histogram of the heights by Gaussian...
... usage of a slot bymultiple sensors Bymeansof calculation of the common factor between requested bitrates, a scheduling scheme can be found that allows the sharing of a single slot bymultiple ... The fraction of the number of full slots over the total number of slots in a frame is represented bymeansof Egyptian Fractions, where the denominators are a power of two Bymeansof a binary ... of 1190 bytes has a similar flow as with the gradual arrival of packets, but with an offset that is the result of the packetized arrival of the data The flow of the packet size of 1200 bytes shows...
... inclusion of the processing time and of the packet size in future versions of the algorithm comes as a necessity Impact of Topology A further improvement of performance is represented by a circular ... Work As shown by the practical implementation of the segmentation results, the expected performance figures are affected by the size of the data packets and by the processing time of individual ... the quality of this paper The research of the first author has been partially supported by the DOMES Project at the University of Turku (no 8123518, 2008-2010), funded by the Academy of Finland...
... of barriers—Affinity of the productions of the same continent— Centres of creation Meansof dispersal, by changes of climate and of the level of the land, and by occasional means Dispersal during ... differences—Causes of the sterility of first crosses and of hybrids—Parallelism between the effects of changed conditions of life and crossing —Fertility of varieties when crossed and of their mongrel offspring ... the structureof this parasite, with its relations to several distinct organic beings, by the effects of external conditions, or of habit, or of the volition of the plant itself The author of...
... components of variance were analyzed bymeansof the BrownForsythe statistical test (1974), although this is less powerful than the classic ANOVA Influence of rootstock species on the frequency of the ... length (NL, mean length of five needles taken from the top of terminal shoot), stem diameter (SD, measured above graft union), number of total branches (TB), number of branches of first, second and ... between form variables of the ramets and flowering of both sexes The number of female strobili was found to be related to the variables concerning the size of vegetative structures: crown and...
... flexibility, was one of the species most widely used Today the forest landscape of many Italian regions is characterized by the presence of stretches of conifer forests surrounded by broadleaf woods ... the metropolitan area of Florence (Tuscany, central Italy), and showing severe crown yellowing The purpose of this study is to assess the vegetational conditions bymeansof foliar diagnostics ... mountain flora typical of the Apennines Most of the spontaneous stands consist of mixed deciduous xerothermal oakwoods, typical of the sub-Mediterranean horizon, with a prevalence of Quercus pubescens...
... (Vhpv) The coincidence of many of the peaks of the fluctuating patterns shows that the technique is reliable and the observed irregular transpiration stream could be determined by other factors related ... sapwood cross sectional area was determined by adding a blue dye to the water and counting with a microscope the number and area of vessels filled by the solution The relationship between the ... calibration procedure for the hpv system consisted of measuring in the field the water uptake of sampled trees, which represented the averages of the size classes A plastic tank was attached around...
... collected bymeansof automatic test messages Description of the total individual course pattern Nine of the 13 possible course patterns were observed in this study sample (Table 4) Examples of the ... number of days with LBP (questions 2) and severity of pain (question 1) on a group level Moreover, days off work (question 3) were too infrequent to be suitable for the analysis of course profiles ... previously that the identification of distinct subgroups of LBP patients is a necessary step in order to advance our understanding of the causes of LBP and thereby also the indications for treatment...
... stimulus of each of the three abdominal scars tested led to a diminution of signal intensity of the rectus femoris (Figure 5) Correction of this sedating effect could not be achieved by the use of ... the element acupoint of the son Element acupoint of the generating meridian Element acupoint of the son meridian Element acupoint of the grandchild meridian Element acupoint of the grandparent ... effects can be achieved via acupoints of the same meridian or of associated meridians according to the theory of the Five Elements The use of additional acupoints of tonification or sedation show...
... approved by the Institutional Committee for Animal Care and Use of the School of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo Twenty-seven male mongrel dogs from kennel of School of Medicine of ... concentrations of MDA and NOx showed no significant difference among the three groups (Tables and 2) Discussion The results of the present study indicate that 60 minutes of ischemia bymeansof supraceliac ... from rats submitted to 90 minutes of cerebral ischemia with 24 hours of reperfusion [17] Joviliano et al (2005) investigated different times of I/R bymeansof infrarenal aortic cross-clamping...
... ecificity Figure Results of protein-protein interaction prediction by PIC Results of protein-protein interaction prediction by PIC (a) Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves of PIC for S cerevisiae ... of P falciparum is of special interest, showing that codon usage is a powerful tool for prediction of interactomes within a wide range of G+C compositions Figure 1b compares the performance of ... and methods for the details of the analysis) Finally, for the sake of comparison, the predictive power of the absolute difference of CAI (see [16] for the definition of CAI and to compare it with...