... of Helicobacterpyloriinfectionand coronary heart disease Br Heart J 1994; 71: 437-9 Patel P, Mendall MA, Carrington D, et al Association of Helicobacterpyloriand Chlamydia pneumoniae infections ... ischemia and cytotoxin-associated gene-A-bearing strains of Helicobacterpylori Stroke 2004; 35: 1800-4 31 Grau AJ, Buggle F, Lichy C, et al Helicobacterpyloriinfection as an independent risk factor ... the routes from H pyloriinfectionto gastric atrophy and from low folate concentration to hyperhomocysteinemia are well established But the routes between H pyloriinfectionand hyperhomocysteinemia...
... H pyloriinfectionand serum hsCRP levels, supporting that H pyloriinfection may increase the serum CRP The possible attribution of H pyloriinfectionto CRP elevation could be a route to H pylori ... the molecules to connect both H pyloriinfection stimulates the production of proinflammatory cytokines such as tumor necrosis factor (TNF), interleukin (IL) -6, and IL-8 [31, 32] H pylori was detected ... symptoms of chronic bronchitis, H pyloriand Chlamydia pneumoniae infections, and BMI were all associated with raised concentrations of CRP [24] The present study demonstrated that H pylori infection...
... expected to be supplementary to the other well known health benefits of PA [5] and our results emphasize the importance of PA after stroke PA has been reported to improve motor function, ADL and decrease ... the factors reported to contribute to HRQL are not modifiable (e.g age), other factors are more difficult to modify after stroke (e.g severity of neurological impairment) and some factors are ... of the SF-36 and were not entered into the regression models Using linear regression, lower extremity impairment was first entered to control for the stroke motor severity and found to account...
... immunogenic, 15 common to most H pylori strains and absent from other bacteria They have to be easy to prepare and purify and they must bind to the wells of microplates and be stable upon storage Many different ... bacterium H pyloriandits role in gastritisand peptic ulcer disease 1.1.2 Microbiology H pylori is a gram-negative, spiral shaped, microaerophilic bacterium, measuring to µm in length and 0.5 to µm ... considered to be the most accurate test for detection of H pyloriinfection [185, 186] The UBT indicates active H pyloriinfection based on the ability of H pylorito split urea into ammonia and CO2...
... preferred to undergo to subtotal gastric resection The histological examination revealed complete remission of the lymphoma and absence of Helicobacterpylori He did not receive additional treatment and ... infiltrated until to the serosa Staging was completed with neck, chest and abdominal computed tomography and with bone marrow biopsy There were not other lymphoma-deposits outside the stomach, and a clinical ... patients including present case underwent subtotal or total gastrectomy, after endoscopic confirmation that Helicobacterpyloriinfection was cured and lymphoma regressed [15,22] Other patients...
... cytokine and growth factor receptors and T- and B-cell antigen receptors Blood 1999; 93: 1809-1816 23 Hamajima N, Matsuo K, Saito T, et al Interleukin polymorphisms, lifestyle factors, andHelicobacter ... [23,24] and tumor necrosis factor A [25,26] and H pylori seropositivity have been reported Gab1 may affect the H pyloriinfection through the level of cytokines which are advantageous to eradication ... that bind to the SH2 domains The tandem SH2 domains bind to Tyr-627 and Tyr-659 simultaneously in a specific orientation, in which Tyr-627 binds to the N-SH2 domain and Tyr-659 binds to the C-SH2...
... (PAO462, PAO651 and PAO846) and an FITC-labeled EUBMIX (EUB338, EUB338 II and EUB338 III) probe (Table 1) The targets of PAOMIX and EUBMIX probe are Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis and most eubacteria, ... suitable for routine monitoring or measurement of a large number of samples, and lead to better understanding of the contribution of Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ to phosphorus removal ... activated sludge was related to those of Candidatus ‘Accumulibacter phosphatis’ Standard curves were constructed from 1.0×103 to 1.0×107 copies of the DNA quantification standard per reaction A linear...
... related to how and why, so as to enhance Webbased natural language understanding Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank NOVA, Inc for their support with the Nova dictionary and Katunobu Itou ... choice can be performed to improve the coverage to 100% Thus, for each knowledge resource we compared cases without/with random choice, which are denoted “w/o Random” and “w/ Random” in Table 1, respectively ... method (see Sections and 3), and evaluated the quality of the encyclopedia itself Second, we applied the generated encyclopedia to our QA system (see Section 4), and evaluated its performance The...
... value has lead to rapid technology transfer of speech recognition into other research areas and applications Since the variations in speaking style and accent as well as in channel and environment ... between July 1992 • and May 1996, and comprised roughly 500k sentences and 22M words To calculate word ngram language models, we segmented the broadcast-news manuscripts into words by using a ... identification, and a noisy part, and were separately evaluated name extaction, topic c l a s s i f i c a t i o n and The clean part consisted of utterances with no information retrieval background noise, and...
... regulators used supervisory tools and enforcement actions to limit growth and raise capital levels at commercial banks and mutual savings banks But both banks and S&Ls, and their regulators, ... does not have too much influence over its regulators and if the regulators have the ability to hire, train, and retain qualified staff In this regard, the bank regulatory agencies need to remain ... competitors, all eager to lend to developers, had a negative effect on existing commercial banks, on their underwriting standards, and on the quality of their loans Field examiners and bank regulators...
... 61129/2004) and the Health Research Board (RP/ 2006/294) to J.V.F and Health Research Board Grant (RP/2005/107) and Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Investigator Grant (05/IN.3/13859) to MMC The ... antigen binding and presentation to CD8 + cytolytic T cells In HFE, the proximity of the two a helices and the presence of amino acid side chains that project into the groove appear to prevent peptide ... reported to co-localize and interact with the type transferrin receptor (TfR1) [5,18] TfR1 mediates the endocytosis of iron-loaded transferrin into acidic endosomes where the iron is released and...
... oxidative pentose phosphate pathway had to be reversed to maintain the target fluxes Then, the NADPH needed to drive the reactions of the oxidative pathway into a backwards direction andto form hexose ... enzymes, metabolites) can be used to build up mathematical models of the gene-regulatory, signal-transducing and metabolic networks of a cell andto integrate them into whole-cell Ôin silicoÕ models ... defence against toxic compounds and repair of molecular damage, are ultimately linked to metabolic processes Metabolic processes can be grossly subdivided into chemical reactions and membrane transport...
... dithiothreitol and 10 mM MgCl2) using a motorized mortar and pestle (Torsion Balance Co, Clinton, NJ, USA) Following centrifugation to remove nuclei, yolk platelets, mitochondria (10 000 g, 20 min) and ... yielded both CL and CLAP in a high state of purity However, dissociation of CLP toits subunits (CL and CLAP) required incubation of CLP at pH for at least h at °C prior to chromatography on Mono ... thought to represent destabilizing elements leading to rapid deadenylation and messenger breakdown [47,48] Thus, while CLAP appears to be somewhat refractory to protease degradation, its mRNAs...
... engineering and is not in general amenable to latent variable problems A simpler alternative to this two step approach is to use a generative model of synchronous derivation and simultaneously segment and ... from nodes in es to nodes in et or We therefore sample in the direction from source to target In particular, we visit every tree pair and each of its source nodes i, and update its alignment by ... of rule c → e, and K is the total number of ways to rewrite c, we now take into account our DP(αc , P0 (· | c)) prior in (1), which, when truncated to a finite grammar, reduces to a K-dimensional...
... Kohno, takes a critical attitude toward China, and asks France to understand Japan's position d6: The prime minister of New Zealand asks the French Government not to restart nuclear testing dT: ... reference toits source document, an identifying id, genus and differentia words, and other information on the article The tag < f o l l o w s > is used to denote arcs from the article to related ... the story of the articles For example, the word "state" is the differentia word for dT, and is in its adjacent articles ds, dg, anddlo This means that d7 is a starting point of the new topic...
... type to the least upper bound, and point the other's type representation to it, and (3) recurse on respective pairs of feature values The frame does not need to be resized, only the types need to ... — we would need to look in a table to see what value to assign it An alternative would be to place that value in the frames for a and b from the beginning But since the value itself must be of ... when it comes to unification, due to appropriateness Nevertheless, unbounded subtyping chains and acquiring new features conspire to force most internal representations of TFSs to perform extra...
... increasingly, integration into the global economy Women (like men) shift out of agriculture and into expanding manufacturing, service, and commerce sectors These and concomitant changes in the ... more strongly to community randomized designs; when randomizing over communities, true randomization is more difficult to achieve, and the number of communities must often be large to detect significant ... and control over resources Legislation that guarantees women’s rights to own and inherit property, that makes divorce and child support easier to obtain, and that provides social assistance to...
... Japanese and the morphological analyzer has to segment the sentence into words as well as to decide the POS tag of the words So in this section, we describe how to apply revision learning to Japanese ... combines a stochastic model and a binary classifier to achieve higher performance with lower computational cost We applied it to English POS tagging and Japanese morphological analysis, and showed ... i := to l − begin Call the stochastic model to obtain the ordered indexes {n0 , , nk−1 } such that P (cn0 |xi ) ≥ · · · ≥ P (cnk−1 |xi ) for j := to k − begin if cnj = yi then Add xi to the...
... bivector rotates vectors in its own plane by 90 , but forms trivectors (volumes) with vectors perpendicular to it The trivector 1^ 2^ commutes with all vectors, and hence with all multivectors ... unit vector a into another unit vector b, leaving all vectors perpendicular to a and b unchanged This is accomplished by a re ection perpendicular to the unit vector half-way between a and b (see ... given help and support over the last three years and I am grateful to them all I owe a great debt to my supervisor, Nick Manton, for allowing me the freedom to pursue my own interests, andto my two...
... protease-deficient protein and potent inhibitor of death receptor-mediated apoptosis In addition to Fas ligand and Fas, decidual cells abundantly express c-FLIP, which may serve to prevent autoactivation of ... However, tissue androgen levels and conversion of androstenedione to testosterone are higher in secretory than proliferative endometrium [32] Moreover, a rise in circulating androgen levels in ... surface receptor for Fas ligand and a member of the TNF/nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor family [50] Fas-induced cell death is, however, tightly controlled by various cytoplasmic regulators, amongst...