... substantial contributions to analysis and interpretation of data; have given final approval of the version to be published PO have made substantial contributions to conception and design, analysis and ... substantial contributions to analysis and interpretation of data; have given final approval of the version to be published BD have made substantial contributions to analysis and interpretation of data; ... survival [7] In conclusion, our data indicate that the preoperative presence and severity of concomitant AR has no influence on long- term postoperative outcome, LV function and functional capacity...
... potentially beneficial effects due to the inhibition of leukocyte activation, cell adhesion and migration, as well as by diminishing the magnitude of plasma extravasation and protecting the gut ... the involvement of transglutaminases in cell adhesion, for example, they can influence adhesion of monocytic cells on fibronectin [33] Factor XIIIa promoted adhesion and spreading of different cells, ... in addition to its effects in the coagulation system: it plays a role in cell adhesion and migration [5], prevents edema formation due to its influence on endothelial barrier function [6-8],...
... short -term rates to fall and leads to lower short -term and long- termrates Evidence on the relationship between policy actions andinterestrates In the standard view of the monetary transmission ... transmission mechanism relies on a simple version of the expectations theory of the term structure ofinterestrates In this theory, longterm rates are an average of current short -term ratesand expected ... rection of policy The third section presents new empirical estimates of the relationship between policy actions and long- termrates MONETARY POLICY AND LONG- TERM RATES: THEORY VS REALITY The standard...
... and for long- terminterest rate rules of maturities 4, 12 and 40.8 The coefficients on inflation, ρπ , andon output, ρy , vary; the remaining ones are fixed The regions of uniqueness for long- term ... endogenous and examine two kinds of unconventional monetary policy: long- term nominal interestrates as operating instruments of monetary policy andannouncements about the future path of the short -term ... is money demand and bL,t long- term real bond holdings Equation (A4) gives the restricted agents’ first-order condition for long- term debt accumulation Equation (A5) combines the restricted and...
... our observation on the accumulation of pre-germinal center B cells long after rituximab treatment Table Absolute numbers of B cells in bone marrow (per 106 mononuclear cells) Long- term CD27-IgD(Immature) ... representative plot of short -term and treatment changes of the B cell expression of CD27 and IgD on B cells in bone marrow from patients with rheumatoid arthritis receiving rituximab long- term rheumatoid ... affected by rituximab (Table 2) Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Long- termeffectsof rituximab treatment To evaluate long- termeffectsof rituximab, we divided the patients...
... report on the effectsof plasma concentrations of 5-FU on long- term survival in cases of esophageal cancer Page of Methods Patients Forty-nine ESCC patients were enrolled in this study based on the ... with T4 or M1a [5,6], and a long- term evaluation of efficacy and toxicity with 139 patients resulted in a complete response (CR) rate of 56%, along with a 5-year survival rate of 29% [7-9] Currently, ... radiation [8,9] Here, 2-5 of 49 patients seemed to have died from late toxicity This might affect the association of the plasma concentrations of 5-FU with long- term survival Conclusions Japanese...
... intratra- Demonstration of activation in the lungs of 92 day smokeFigureon NF-κB the impact of local administration of decoy exposed1mice ODNs Demonstration of the impact of local administration of decoy ... Activation of transcription factors and induction of cytokines from macrophages in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease National Medical Journal of China 2001, 22:1360-1364 Conron M, Andreakos ... structure of pulmonary parenchyma and the expression of pro-MMPFigure or TIMP-1 administration NF-κB decoy ODNs on The effect of administration NF-κB decoy ODNs on the structure of pulmonary parenchyma...
... so far has been on SBRs and activated sludge reactors, with less than a handful of work done on MBR systems Wang et al., 2014 studied the longtermeffectsof mg/L of ZnO-NPs on MBR performance ... product) and the consequent added concentration and releases in the Dutch reaches of the Rhine and Meuse (The number of applications per year refers to the average number of applications per person ... nanomaterial (ENM) concentrations; for soil, sludge treated soil and sediments the annual increase of ENM concentration Other studies on the applications of common nanoparticles and estimates of their potential...
... glycopeptides only, and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, sensitive to ofloxacin only Polymicrobial wound contamination also included contamination with fungi (for instance, Candida albicans as well as non-albicans ... distribution in all tissues, including bone and body fluids [48] This was of particular interest as one out of four patients presented with open fractures and was thus at high risk for bone infection ... this unique cohort of patients, in particular with respect to complex wound management, infection and psychoemotional control According to the concept of a trimodal distribution of medical problems...
... results Page of 4 10 11 12 Conclusions Repeated PCI increases risk for long- term prognosis of subsequent CABG Authors’ contributions GS carried out the acquisition of the data and drafted the manuscript ... was obtained on 93% of patients and the mean length of follow-up was 58 ± 43 months Continuous variables were presented as means with standard deviations (SD) Comparison of the clinical characteristics ... J, Boersma E, Flather M, Booth J, Stable R, Rodriguez A, RodriguezGranillo G, Hueb WA, Limos PA, Serruys PW: Long- term safety and efficacy of percutaneous coronary intervention with stenting and...
... admission, community or hospital-acquired pneumonia on admission, admission diagnostic category (medical, surgical nontrauma, trauma, neurological), ICU length of stay, SOFA score on admission andon ... studies looking at longterm outcomes of patients with ICU-acquired infections as a whole Most of the published studies deal with long- term mortality from specific infections, often ones acquired before ... pneumonia on admission 59 (27.2) (9.1) 0.004 Hospital-acquired pneumonia on admission 32 (14.7) (12.7) 0.83 Sepsis on admission 30 (13.8) (5.5) 0.11 APACHE II score on admission Severe sepsis on...
... of Exchangeable and Carbonates Fig 18 Comparison of metal extracted by DTPA and the sum of exchangeable + carbonate fractions acids in municipal solid waste These variations in the quantity and ... represents one standard deviation) Metal speciation of digested sludge 953 Table I The effect of factoring in the dilution by red mud addition on total metal content in sludge compost and the metal content ... Fe oxide fraction includes the exchangeable and carbonate fractions in our research Like Cu, Zn was not greatly fixed on sandstone oxyhydroxydes and clay (Duquet and V6dy, 1991), and similarly...
... definitions of motivation Lightbown and Spada (1999) consider motivation a complex phenomenon and define it in terms of two factors: learners’ communicative needs and their attitudes towards the second ... Richards,J.C and Platt, J.,H.(1992).Longman Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics Longman 16 Richmond,E.M.(1985).Composition and Grammar 11 Laidlaw Brothers 17 Sagor,R.(1992) How to Conduct ... collected by means of three sets of questionnaires, one on the teachers and the others on the students in pre – improvement stage and post – improvement one The questions are of the three – kinds:...
... chemistry and climate model indicate multiple, regionally variable and partially-offsetting, effectsof BC on absorption and reflection of sunlight, reflectivity of clouds, and the strength of lower ... 4.1 Effectson concentrations 4.2 Effectson ecosystems 4.3 Economic effects 10 4.4 Effectson temperature and sea level 11 Summary and Conclusions ... our conclusions, future work should include: (1) the effectsof air pollution policy on overall demand for fossil fuels and individual demands for coal, oil and gas; (2) the effectsof caps on...
... unifications in Israel However, Hauser and Lauterbach (2004) focus on the compensation offered to controlling shareholders upon unification andon the implied price of See Adams and Ferreira (2008) and ... Burkart and Lee (2008) for a discussion of earlier studies from the 1980s and early 1990s voting rights, whereas the present study examines the long- termeffectsof unifications on firm control and ... the study is to examine the long- term impact of share unifications on the voting power of controlling shareholders andon the firm’s control structure This is in some contrast with the existing...
... Transcription and Understanding Workshop, pages 287–292 L Mangu, E Brill, and A Stolcke 2000 Finding consensus in speech recognition: Word error minimization and other applications of confusion networks ... measure the parsing performance in terms of extraction accuracy on the two non-filler slots: SearchTerm and LocationTerm Extraction accuracy computes the percentage of the test set where the string ... query logs consisting of 18 million queries to the two text fields: SearchTerm and LocationTerm In addition to these logs, we have access to 11 million unique business listing names and their addresses...
... the Australian and New Zealand Environment Conservation Council Trust Fund and the New South Wales Environment Protection Authority (now Department of Environment and Conservation) This work also ... production, rely heavily on various chemicals, insecticides, herbicides, conditioners, and defoliants [49] Concentrations up to g LϪ1 of endosulfan [50] and 0.24 g LϪ1 of chlorpyrifos and its ... healthy conditions with regard to food and water quality such as pH, dissolved oxygen, and conductivity [23] Concentrations of chemicals used in the tests (Table 1) were based on the lethal concentration...
... 22 Kwon OB, Longart M, Vullhorst D, Hoffman DA & Buonanno A (2005) Neuregulin-1 reverses long- term potentiation at CA1 hippocampal synapses J Neurosci 25, 9378–9383 23 Stefansson H, Sigurdsson ... Yanagihara D (1995) Studies on the structure and function of glycosylated and nonglycosylated neu differentiation factors Similarities and differences of the alpha and beta isoforms J Biol Chem 270, ... Neuregulin isoforms in dorsal root ganglion neurons: effectsof the cytoplasmic domain on localization and membrane shedding of Nrg-1 type I J Neurosci Res 84, 1–12 34 Hu X, Hicks CW, He W, Wong P,...
... actions were observed, depending on the concentration The addition of DiS-C3(5) £ 10 lM caused deceleration of mitochondrial oxygen consumption but > 20 lM caused acceleration These actions of ... substrates and measured their ratesof oxygen consumption The maximum rate of oxygen consumption was induced by the addition of 50 nM SF6847, and this value was utilized as the noninhibited rate of ... Effects of DiS-C3(5) on the turbidity of mitochondrial suspensions (A) andon permeability of mitochondrial inner membrane (B) (A) The effect of 50 lM DiS-C3(5) on the turbidity of mitochondrial...
... second, the enzymatic modification of histones, via acetylation, methylation and phosphorylation [15–18] Acetylation by histone acetyltransferases (HATs) occurs on specific lysine residues on the ... The action of HDACi could therefore be either on the Timp-1 gene itself, or on the expression of a protein(s) required for induction of the Timp-1 gene Time course of TSA action upon PMA- and TGF-b1-induced ... loss of band a, and partially blocked b with the subsequent appearance of a supershifted complex; anti-Sp3 Ig blocks formation of bands b and c This suggests that band a contains Sp1, band b contains...