... Statistical analyses Time taken off work was calculated as the number of days of leave taken from the timeof the injury (including time in hospital), with a week off work equaling seven days of ... leave Where subjects who had previously been full -time employees returned toworkona parttime basis, the days on which they worked less were added to the total days of leave ona pro rata basis ... workplace, household, or leisure -time accidents) as a predictor into the multiple regression analysis, this categorical variable was converted into asetof three new variables so that a deviation...
... combination of IFNa and TRAIL, relative to TRAIL alone In view of the cleavage of caspase substrates such as BID and PARP, the effect of IFNa and TRAIL on the DNA content of MCF-7 cells was also assessed, ... TRAIL is characterized by elevated caspase-8 and caspase-9 activity, with enhanced degradation of BID and translocation of Bax to mitochondria [15], and we have also observed similar phenomena ... cascade of activation of effector caspases that ultimately leads to the multiple changes in cells characteristic of TRAIL-induced apoptosis [27] The process of activation of caspase-8, and the...
... utilizing advanced algorithms Improvement of this method in the earlier stage can be found in the literature (Tanaka and Asia, 198 4a, 1984b; Jajuga, 1986; Tanaka, 1987; Tanaka and Watada, 1988; Tanaka ... Chang Table Plant no Database of all industrial wastewater treatment plants in Taiwan Location of wastewater treatment plant Total Levelg Treatment process Year C.C.I.f Normalized total Operation ... 115Á72 a: EQ: equalization tank; CS: contact-stabilization; AS: activated sludge; OD: oxidation ditch; RBC: rotating biological contactor; CO: coagulation; SF: sand ®lter; A2 /O: anaerobic-anoxicaerobic...
... min) Add vegetables back to heat Eat plain or over salad to make a great fajita salad Or serve in corn tortillas made with only corn, lime, and water Another variation:serve with tomatoes, guacamole, ... chopped meat 99% fat free Add unsalted stewed tomatoes and unsalted tomato sauce, garlic, basil, and oregano toa saucepan (use a potato masher to mash up stewed tomatoes in the pan) Let simmer ... Spinach Salad 21 Chicken Salad 22 Chicken Rice Salad 22 Danish-Style Carrot Salad 22 Tomato-Basil Pasta Salad 22 Easy Chicken Salad 23 Charlie's Chicken Salad 23 Cole Slaw 23 Blender Mayonnaise...
... owning a car and travelling by motorised means to work) A further limitation of this analysis concerns the nature of the data available; in particular, information on alternative characteristics ... importance of individual demographic and socio-economic characteristics, travel times and costs, as well as regional and travel variables such as rail availability and home and work location in ... Geodirectory, matched with a dataset of rail station geo-locations, is employed for this estimation The An Post Geodirectory is a complete database of the geographical locations of all addresses in Ireland,...
... introduction for your integration of ideas, critical analysis and application, in relation to the issue, topic and task Integration of information and critical and analytical thinking are central to ... opinion and an academic position You may havea personal opinion on any topic with or without evidence, and your opinion may be logical and rational or not An academic position is the considered ... examinations Calculators are permitted if specified on the examination paper, but some units may havea calculator restriction Students are advised to familiarise themselves with any calculator...
... relevance as a negative predictor of response to Aurora inhibition, can be a powerful tool to enrich patients that can potentially respond to GSK1070916 Additional material Additional file 1: Additional ... relation to Aurora inhibition by GSK1070916 Expression profiles of Aurora A, B, and C were evaluated in terms of response to Aurora inhibition and no association was observed (p-value = 0.79 and ... NOTCH1 To investigate this further, we collected additional mutation data from public databases for T-ALL cell lines (Additional File 1, Table S4) For this dataset, a notable association with...
... MS patients' response to therapy, with a surrogate marker, may have additional value as particularly effective immunomodulatory activity, such as that observed with natalizumab, may havea potential ... Stone LA, Frank JA, Albert PS, Bash CN, Calabresi PA, Maloni H, McFarland HF: Characterization of MRI response to treatment with interferon beta-1b: contrast-enhancing MRI lesion frequency as a primary ... elevation of saliva sHLA-II after six month of therapy Such a pronounced response may indicate that IFN β- 1a up-regulates the expression of HLA class II genes/molecules The elevation of saliva...
... relevance as a negative predictor of response to Aurora inhibition, can be a powerful tool to enrich patients that can potentially respond to GSK1070916 Additional material Additional file 1: Additional ... relation to Aurora inhibition by GSK1070916 Expression profiles of Aurora A, B, and C were evaluated in terms of response to Aurora inhibition and no association was observed (p-value = 0.79 and ... NOTCH1 To investigate this further, we collected additional mutation data from public databases for T-ALL cell lines (Additional File 1, Table S4) For this dataset, a notable association with...
... transformational strategies and units of analysis are in play Scalability of evaluation may increase, i.e., be scaled up, division-wide and organization-wide, to aggregate impacts and interactions of ... Backoff RW: Organizational Transformation Journal of Management Inquiry 1997, 6:235-254 Van Tonder C: 'Organisational transformation': wavering on the edge of ambiguity SA Journal of Industrial ... phrases organizational transformation and transformational changes For example, King defined organizational transformation as, 'a planned change designed to significantly improve overall organizational...
... transformational strategies and units of analysis are in play Scalability of evaluation may increase, i.e., be scaled up, division-wide and organization-wide, to aggregate impacts and interactions of ... Backoff RW: Organizational Transformation Journal of Management Inquiry 1997, 6:235-254 Van Tonder C: 'Organisational transformation': wavering on the edge of ambiguity SA Journal of Industrial ... phrases organizational transformation and transformational changes For example, King defined organizational transformation as, 'a planned change designed to significantly improve overall organizational...
... unimmunized control protein HA, which are time- consuming on preparation and have been proved to be low immunogenic Adjuvant addition and increased dose of antigen haveto be adopted to increase the ... Compared with these conventional vaccines, DNA vaccine has lots of advantages It induces balanced immune responses and can be prepared in a short time and ona large scale, with high purity and ... immunity against seasonal influenza viruses is useful in offering protection against H5N1 infection, as has been demonstrated before [14] It also suggests that DNA vaccination may be at least a good...
... survival of intramacrophage pathogens is linked to activation and deactivation of intracellular kinases Studies with Leishmania have shown that entry of organisms into non-activated macrophages ... macrophages, MAP kinases are activated with concomitant production of proinflammatory mediators IbataOmbetta reported that Candida was able to prolong survival in macrophages by specific activation ... production We report that both of these pathways are activated by BCG alone and that opsonization of BCG with SP -A leads to enhanced activation of both pathways, contributing to increased intracellular...
... different chronic conditions, aged to 18 years All children obtained a score above 80 on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT), and mental health was assessed by the ASEBA screening questionnaires ... indicate normal function The CGAS is considered a valid and reliable tool for rating a child’s general level of functioning ona health-illness continuum, and is recommended as a supplement to ... way: First, the main effect of each predictor was explored (Model A) As the FSIQ-level variable had three categories and our focus was on the impact ofa normal to high FSIQ-level, separate analyses...
... Creation of an integrated database composed of a) spatial and temporal databases for ICM, b) a legal information database, and c) an environmental information system for Straits of Malacca; Use ... projects aimed at enhancing and maintaining a global dialogue on coastal and ocean issues, as well as those aiming to enhance regional networks and cooperation without greatly reducing national responsibility ... LME of East Asia IA Approved 2700 ASIA-UNDP Implementation of Sustainable Development Strategy for the Seas of East Asia - PEMSEA 15 IA Approved 396 ASIA-UNDP Prevention and Management of Marine...
... depicts a series of images of an ice crystal formed in solution at )0.46 °C; the crystals had a bipyramidal structure due to adsorption of nfeAFP8 onto their surfaces Adsorption of the AFP stopped ... was sealed using mineral oil (approximately lL each) to prevent vaporization of the sample solution (approximately 0.75 lL) The sample-containing capillary was then loaded into a custom-made copper ... (Sony, Tokyo, Japan) (Fig 1A) , and the temperature status was simultaneously viewed ona display and saved as a video file ona personal computer (Fig 1A) We determined Tf and Tm by monitoring a slower...
... with varying and available action density values At each run, each algorithm was evaluated using the same transition probabilities and available actions To assess how the algorithms respond to environmental ... for NAC, IAC and LS-SARSA have the major drawback of the size of the table representing Q(x, a) or P (x, a) that is needed to store state-action values This is a disadvantage that practically ... 2008) is a variation of SARSA(λ) that uses the least squares method to find the optimal policy Incremental Actor Critic (IAC) (Bhatnagar et al., 2007) and Natural Actor Critic (NAC) (Peters et al.,...