... Municipal Hospital, and had the informed consent of the patients and volun-teers. The patients and serum samples were then di-vided into two groups: the ‘‘training’’ set and the blinded ‘‘test’’ ... 2870.7Da, 3084Da, 9180.5Da, and 13748.8Da, respectively. Among the four proteins, two proteins with m/z 2870.7 and 3084 were down-regulated, and the other two with m/z 9180.5 and 13748.8 were up-regulated ... examination of the colon remains to be the gold standard for diagno-sis, which is however invasive, unpleasant and carries associated risk of morbidity and mortality. Identifica-tion of high-risk...
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... manuscriptediting and support.Conflict of interest The study was sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company. AS and RE are employees and shareholders of Eli Lilly and Company. RE and TW were employees of Eli Lilly and ... between 1 and 2% if all visitswere taken into account. The sub-domains SS (baseline),EC (baseline and for all visits), IRA (baseline), FI (baseline and for all visits), and SPS (baseline and for ... sub-domains and domains and between domains and the total score were similar atbaseline and endpoint. The correlations for change frombaseline were usually slightly smaller. The RA and the PAsub-domains...
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... the combined and thedistributional weighting schemas.The combined weighting schema thus showedrelative improvement on the distributional one:1.5% (BNC) and 2.3% (AP) in terms of precision and ... relativeimprovement).ReferencesE.Alfonseca and S.Manandhar. 2002. Extending aLexical Ontology by a Combination of Distribu-tional Semantics Signatures. Proceedings ofEKAW-2002:1-7.A.Budanitsky and G.Hirst. 2001. ... of ACL Workshop on WordNet and Other Lexical Resources.U.Hahn and K.Schattinger. 1998. Towards text know-ledge engineering. Proceedings of AAAMAAI:524-531.B.Roark and E.Charniak. 1998. Noun-phrase...
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... Figure3.4Projectteammembers‐fromLtoR:Datamanager;laboratory;projectteam(Kisumu)(Photocredit:BruceN,2009)Inrespectofthecurrent(integratedW&S and HHE)project,SWAPhasonefieldoffice,locatedinNyando and managedbytheFieldOfficer,MarthaGembo.ThefieldofficerworkscloselywithNICHE and withthecommunities,beinginvolvedwithcommunitymobilization and ETLtraining,promotion and selling(atwholesale)tovendors, and incounselling, and alsoinimplementing and supportingtheresearchactivities.Promotion and sellingofproductsisviaHIVsupportgroups and othercommunityselfhelpgroupswhoareengagedasvendorsofhealthproducts,followingcapacitybuilding(seeSection3.4).Thevendorsdrawnfromthesegroupsaremostlywomen,becausewomentraditionallyhavebeenthecaretakersofthesick,orphans, and aretheoneswhotakeresponsibilityforobtainingwater and cooking.Thereareafewgroupswhoaremixedwithbothmen and womenparticipating.Menarealsoinvolvedduringorientationworkshops and communitymeetings.Thisevaluationwasnottaskedwithcarryingoutdetailedassessmentofproject and financialmanagementprocedures,etc.However,alloftheseaspectswerereviewedthroughtheinterviews,viewingofsomerecordsofactivity, and observation.Theprojectappearstobewellmanaged,staffaremotivated and happy and goodrecordsarekeptatboththeKisumu and Nyando(field)offices.Initially,SWAP and NICHEweremanagedquiteseparately,butarenowmoreintegrated.Thespecificmethods,fieldactivities,datavalidityforNICHEwerealsonotevaluatedcomprehensively,althoughsomeaspects–notablythoserelatingtoHAPassessment,HWT ... Figure3.4Projectteammembers‐fromLtoR:Datamanager;laboratory;projectteam(Kisumu)(Photocredit:BruceN,2009)Inrespectofthecurrent(integratedW&S and HHE)project,SWAPhasonefieldoffice,locatedinNyando and managedbytheFieldOfficer,MarthaGembo.ThefieldofficerworkscloselywithNICHE and withthecommunities,beinginvolvedwithcommunitymobilization and ETLtraining,promotion and selling(atwholesale)tovendors, and incounselling, and alsoinimplementing and supportingtheresearchactivities.Promotion and sellingofproductsisviaHIVsupportgroups and othercommunityselfhelpgroupswhoareengagedasvendorsofhealthproducts,followingcapacitybuilding(seeSection3.4).Thevendorsdrawnfromthesegroupsaremostlywomen,becausewomentraditionallyhavebeenthecaretakersofthesick,orphans, and aretheoneswhotakeresponsibilityforobtainingwater and cooking.Thereareafewgroupswhoaremixedwithbothmen and womenparticipating.Menarealsoinvolvedduringorientationworkshops and communitymeetings.Thisevaluationwasnottaskedwithcarryingoutdetailedassessmentofproject and financialmanagementprocedures,etc.However,alloftheseaspectswerereviewedthroughtheinterviews,viewingofsomerecordsofactivity, and observation.Theprojectappearstobewellmanaged,staffaremotivated and happy and goodrecordsarekeptatboththeKisumu and Nyando(field)offices.Initially,SWAP and NICHEweremanagedquiteseparately,butarenowmoreintegrated.Thespecificmethods,fieldactivities,datavalidityforNICHEwerealsonotevaluatedcomprehensively,althoughsomeaspects–notablythoserelatingtoHAPassessment,HWT ... usedinthisprojectwereanimprovedstoveknownastheMambandaMultiStove(MMS), and WaterGuard®(WG),achlorine‐basedwaterdisinfectant. Figure2.1MapofDouala and Mambanda(ExtractedfromGTZ,2009)Mambandaisdividedinto20blocks,with8ofthepooreronesbeingchosenasbeneficiariesoftheSmoke&Drinking‐waterintervention(seefigure2.1).Theseblockswerecomprisedofatotalof1348households,consistingofapproximately4,700individuals(GTZ,2009).Projectstructure and participantsThemajorpartnerorganizationwastheAssociationCamerounaisepourleMarketingSocial(ACMS).TheACMSisanationalbranchofPopulationServicesInternational(PSI),aninternationalnot‐for‐profitorganizationspecialisinginhealthsocialmarketing.InMambanda,theprojectinvolvedlocalwelders and localprojectimplementersthatconsistedoffourgroups:communityworkers,healthcentrestaff(involvedincommunitymobilization),shopkeepers and specializedwatervendors.AllthreegroupssoldWG.Communityworkers and watervendorsalsosoldMMSstoves.Healthcentrestaffsupportedcommunityworkersinmobilization and awareness‐raising.WaterprovisionTheACMSwerechargedwiththeprovisionofWG.TheysoldWG (and otherproductssuchascondoms and insecticidetreatednets)atawholesalepricetothelocaldistributors(shopkeepers,watervendors and communityworkers),whomadeasmallcommissionfromtheirsales.Theyalsoprovidedtrainingonusage and best‐practices.TheirknowledgeofsocialmarketingextendedbeyondthedistributionofWGtoawareness‐raisingactivitiesforthewholeproject.LEFTMapofDouala.Bonaberi,theislandseenonthetopleftoftheimageiswhereMambandalies.RIGHTMapofMambanda,withitslocalsub‐divisions,labelledbyGTZ.Inredarethe8interventionblocks....
... (12.5–14.9)kcat⁄ Km(s)1ÆlM) 5.89 0.59 2.79Table 3. Potency and selectivity of RXP407 and RXPA380 towardthe N-domain and C-domain of human, mouse and rat somaticACE. Ki(app)values were determined ... at positions 955 and 956 and smaller polarresidues at positions 357 and 358 in the N-domain. Thisconservation in the S2¢ binding pocket of ACE fitswith the similar potency and selectivity ... to 100, 5 and 0.5 kcalÆmol)1ÆA˚)2for the ions and their chelating residues, theatoms of the protein situated at a distance greater than 5 A˚of the inhibitor, and the backbone and Cb atoms...
... This development of the character through visuals and roleplaying is important as it draws links between the character and appearance, actions and role, which are difficult to anticipate orexpress ... world, and in response the drugsdealerhas adopted an opportunistic attitude in his pursuit of money and power. Attitude towards appointments.— The drugsdealer has twoagendas, one legal and ... boring. We believe that aesthetics and interaction are tightly interwoven, sothat the aesthetics of a product must be shaped according to itsfunctions and roles, and its interactions must be judged...
... Nivre and McDonald, 2008; Attardi and Dell’Orletta, 2009; Surdeanu and Manning, 2010).Essentially, all of these approaches combine dif-ferent dependency parsing systems, i.e. transition-based and ... Dell’Orletta, 2009; Surdeanu and Man-ning, 2010), or their training is integrated, e.g. usingstacking (Nivre and McDonald, 2008; Attardi and Dell’Orletta, 2009; Surdeanu and Manning, 2010).Our ... outperforms all of the individ-ual models and does so very consistently across bothfirst-order and second-order dependency models.Error Analysis To better understand the contri-bution of each model...