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... allowed all labs to use their own protocol for thawing, staining, gating, and data analysis Each laboratory performed two parallel assays, one with and one without the inclusion of dump channel markers ... data generated and provided by individual laboratories In addition, to minimize the impact of individual laboratory gating, analysis, and interpretation strategies, a censored analysis was also ... available upon request Data Analysis and Interpretation Data generated by individual laboratories were evaluated in ways Initial analysis was performed ina non-censored manner using the numerical...
... allowed all labs to use their own protocol for thawing, staining, gating, and data analysis Each laboratory performed two parallel assays, one with and one without the inclusion of dump channel markers ... data generated and provided by individual laboratories In addition, to minimize the impact of individual laboratory gating, analysis, and interpretation strategies, a censored analysis was also ... available upon request Data Analysis and Interpretation Data generated by individual laboratories were evaluated in ways Initial analysis was performed ina non-censored manner using the numerical...
... times before and after treatment.13 Linear spline fit analysis was used to measure and compare PSA values before, during and after therapy.12 Prostate cancer patients who had failed standard therapy ... plotted against time in weeks fitted with a linear spline with knots at -60 weeks, the start of Apatone therapy and end of therapy ( ) indicate where patients went off Apatone or started alternative ... demonstrate that oral Apatone significantly increased the PSADT of almost all the patients without concomitantly decreasing PSA, while co-administration of Apatone with known chemotherapeutic agents...
... were administered to mothers attending antenatal clinics in rural and urban parts of Mbarara, a district in southwestern Uganda The PMTCT program in Mbarara district started in August 2002 at Mbarara ... district Additionally, the survey was based at the health facility and therefore only mothers seeking antenatal care at a health unit were eligible forthe study Whereas this may be a limitation, it ... were offered at the time were interviewed The antenatal clinic in Mbarara University Hospital is located in an urban setting, while Page of (page number not for citation purposes) AIDS Research and...
... comparable with the CAP/CTM assay with regard tothe power ofthe test and is appropriate for blood-donor screening and laboratory diagnosis of HCV infection Materials and methods Standards A dilution ... deviation (SD), as appropriate The intra-assay and inter-assay variations are expressed as SD and coefficient of variation (CV), based on the mean Ct values Probit analysis was performed to determine ... Intrinsic performance ofthe duplex real-time RT-PCR assay Linearity Linearity ofthe duplex real-time RT-PCR assay was determined using serial 10-fold dilutions ofa clinical sample at the following...
... inhabiting the several islands ofthe Galapagos archipelago, and of all of them tothe inhabitants of South America As far as I can judge of myself, I worked tothe utmost during the voyage from ... waste paper, and he objected, half in fun, tothe habit of throwing a spill into the fire after ithadbeen used for lighting a candle He hada great respect for pure business capacity, and often ... that he must have had an appreciation ofa portrait as a work of art, not as a likeness Yet he often talked laughingly ofthe small worth of portraits, and said that a photograph was worth any...
... al Prevalence of lumbar facet joint pain in chronic low back pain Pain Physician 1999;2:59-64 Manchikanti L, Pampati V, Fellows B, et al The diagnostic validity and therapeutic value of lumbar ... de-innervation ofthe joint and removal ofthe entire end-plate receptors that adhere tothe bone and capsular tissue Limitations ofthe current study include a lack of comparison group and lack of blinding ... incision of between ẵtoắof an inch is madein 121 the skin at the entry site A guide wire is inserted down tothe facet joint and then secured into the joint surface A dilation system is inserted...
... addition to an amplitude histogram, which generates a large inventory of normalized mathematical indexes of abnormality It is the pattern of these mathematical indexes of abnormality, obtained from ... device The resulting mathematically integrated patterns ofthe abnormal indexes are then compared for their degree of abnormality tothe abnormal index patterns inthe reference database to reach a ... radical deviation away fromthe baseline angle of at least 80° with peak amplitude of ≥5 mm measured fromthe baseline A marginal tracing was defined by significant baseline fluctuations that...
... And in Indonesia, the changing spending patterns within the Jakarta area are contributing to an increase inthe use of department stores and supermarkets Theproblemof slow sales in Vietnamese ... itself as the top quality supplier forthe upper end ofthe market and tries to present an international image (Kawahara and Speece, 1994) Singapore is the easiest placein Asia for international ... stores are now in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Mainland China, South Korea, the Philippines; Macro is in Thailand and Taiwan, Carrefour from France is in Taiwan; and Wellcome is in...
... came to know the benefit ofhavingthe connection of their latrines to biogas plants At the installation, the community agreed to share the 20% ofthe installation cost and the 100% of cleaning ... Bauniabad One ofthe authors (Bilqis Amin Hoque) hasbeen involved inthe water and sanitation project in Bauniabad since 1993 The activities are divided into four phases: (i) Water and sanitation ... the share ofthe installation cost ofthe plants Biogas technology is known from many years ago Regarding the small-scale biogas technology, many cases have been reported in China and India It is...
... Formation of Aerobic Granular Sludge Two AUFB reactors were used forthe formation of aerobic granular sludge Air was introduced fromthe bottom ofthe reactor, and aeration rate was gradually increased ... respectively Aerobic granular sludge used for characterization of sludge washout and retention was obtained from another AUFB reactor that hadbeen operated using ammonia-rich wastewater Details ofthe ... nitrifying bacteria can be retained inthe reactor Actually, biomass was not excessively washed out in this study, and therefore, nitrification performance was stable, as shown in Figs and The value of...
... have understood the language being used ina situation and then go on to gain an understanding ofthe culture at work, this is for them one ofthe most absorbing and exciting parts of any language ... University (NEU) 2.1 The teaching and learning materials The official teaching and learning materials forthe majority ofthe first-year non-major students at National Economics University (NEU) includes ... the same cultural background Furthermore, it hardly has any culture-based activities ready madefor teaching and learning in order to help students have cultural awareness, an integral part of...
... knowledge about the disease, linked to more socially disadvantaged Parents’ knowledge of disease, GFD, and managing a menu Interviews of attitudes towards health generally, attitudes towards CD, barriers ... protocol by Mitrofan, Paul and Spencer (2008) and adapted for this review, including the introduction ofa numerical numbering system to aid data analysis As such, a score of denotes no available evidence ... evidence for such a feature, indicates partial evidence, and indicates there was definitely evidence for such a feature inthe study A further adaptation was sorting ofthe categories to be scored As...
... available, affordable and attractive involves taking account of mainstreaming nutrition and physical activity into all relevant policies at local, regional, national and European levels, creating ... different parts of society It is designed to stimulate other initiatives at national, regional or local level, and to cooperate with similar fora at national level At the same time, the Platform can ... only to tobacco as a theoretically preventable cause of cancer Consumption of adequate amounts of fruits and vegetables, and physical activity, appear to be protective against certain cancers...
... Instead of saying 20% of Native American children have ‘ever been told they have asthma’ inthe U.S., personalize the data to: in Native American children have been told they had asthma Immediately ... regarding asthma, variation within Latino subgroups is also evident Community surveys of 160 Latino adults in Hartford, CT; Edinburg, TX; Guadalajara, Mexico; and in rural Guatemala; a 142-item ... Pediatric Asthma African-American Communities In an attempt to reduce the gap in asthma prevalence, morbidity, and mortality among African Americans as compared with Caucasians, the study was designed...
... long-distance transport for acclimation The requirement for photosynthetic activity has also been demonstrated [21], and it was shown that acclimation does not take placein total darkness Strand et al ... natural accessions of Arabidopsis, varying raffinose concentrations in accession Col-0 by overexpression of galactinol synthase or knockout of raffinose synthase did not affect freezing tolerance ... described in [31] Gas exchange was measured inthe growth chamber shortly before plant harvesting Means of raw data for gas exchange were converted to flux rates per gram of FW obtained at the end of the...
... States This vaccine was transferred froma strain that was maintained at the University of Montreal (Montreal, Canada) Vaccine Efficacy Reported rates ofthe protective efficacy of BCG vaccines ... IMPLEMENTATION OF BCG VACCINATION Inthe United States, the use of BCG vaccination is rarely indicated Beforea decision to vaccinate aperson is made, the following factors should be considered: a) the variable ... was demonstrated in persons who hadbeen vaccinated as adolescents or adults (39 ) The renewed interest in examining the indications for BCG vaccination inthe United States included consideration...
... that if (1.3) has probability in then ithas probability inthe original process (with one particle added at the origin at time 0) By translation invariance (1.3) will then have probability in ... and therefore on the movement of all the other particles Inthe present case we can take πB = A , which hasthe great advantage that the path of ρ does not depend on the paths ofthe other particles ... Eurandom for appointing him as Eurandom Professor inthe fall of 2002 He also thanks the Mittag-Leffler Institute and Eurandom for providing him with excellent facilities and for their hospitality during...
... has necessitated a frequent revision of this work, and it is gratifying tothe writer that the attempt which hasbeenmadetokeep these Outlines abreast of bacteriological advance hasbeen appreciated ... and thus impairs the quality ofthe milk The rapid determination of acidity may be madein an approximate manner so as to serve as a test at the weigh-can or intake The test is best made by the ... differentiated, and that is, that practically all of them are capable of producing their characteristic chemical transformations under anaesthetic conditions, as ina saturated ether or chloroform atmosphere...
... managers to biases that are based on their backgrounds and the singular choice of edu cation, marketing, or force of law as a paradigm of choice Each paradigm hasa role to play in behavior management; ... recreation available to them Cell students may have no motivation to stop because they not have the ability to deal with the resultant social situation within their peer group Marketing and/or education ... education to inform and persuade relevant populations as to appropriate behavior The predicted and tolerable level of externalities for tobacco use have changed dramatically inthe past years, and...