... circulation and may act systemically, as opposed to many of the known mediators of sepsis, which are released locally and often act in an autocrine or paracrine fashion An important feature of ProCT and ... 80–140 g (Harlan Animals, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA) were housed in a controlled environment and were exposed to 12 h light–dark cycles The animals had unrestricted access to water and standard rodent ... Their sera were analyzed for serum total iCT per the radioimmunoassay described below, as well as for total serum total calcium and serum albumin using a standard serum multichannel analyzer 13 60...
... A total of patients with SEMS migration lacked significant symptoms and required no further management These patients were considered successfully managed but were included in the analysisof ... College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, No 259, Wun Hua 1st Rd., Gueishan Township, Taoyuan County 333, Taiwan Authors’ contributions FTC and SML developed the idea for this manuscript and wrote ... allows for mucociliary clearance, and a greater ease of placement [16] Granuloma formation and stent fracture have been reported around stents in benign airway obstruction with a frequency of up to...
... prevalence of pain in advanced cancer is about 70% with ample variations according to the cancer type and disease stage [2] Despite the existence of published and well-known guidelines forcancer ... comparative randomized studies is scanty This study will investigate the epidemiology ofcancer pain and of its treatments, the quality of analgesic-drug therapy and the effect of alternative analgesic ... physicians according to the usual practice (standard of care) and followed over time using standardized methods and forms to make possible a valid and reliable description of case-mix, pattern of...
... REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE Gastriccancer epidemiology and clinical features Gastriccancer etiology 21 The African and Asian enigma 50 Possible molecular pathogenetic attributes ofgastriccancer ... It ranks fourth as a cause ofcancer mortality, having an ASR of 10.5 in males and 5.6 in females, respectively15 Figure 1-5 Age-standardized cancer incidence and mortality rates of common cancers ... 3-2 Univariate analysisof ethnicity as an independent risk factor Chapter Table 4-1 Cytogenetic analysisof GC tumors and cell lines (to date) Chapter Table 6-1 General information of 17 GC cell...
... capability for data analysis without over fitting The challenge of incorporating MDL into sequence analysis lies in (a) quantification of appropriate model costs and (b) tractable computation of model ... with the goal of improved identification and analysisof biologically meaningful sequence—particularly miRNA targets relatedto breast cancer MDLcompress The new MDLcompress algorithmic tool retains ... between mutant mRNA and miRNAs are called “Texel-like.” The authors performed a preliminary analysisof known human SNPs and their potential for perturbing 14 EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems...
... SH, Wang LB, Noh SH: The impact of total retrieved lymph nodes on staging and survival of patients with pT3 gastriccancerCancer 2007, 110:745-751 Wu ZY, Li JH, Zhan WH, He YL, Wan J: Effect of ... detection ofgastriccancer whereas in India, many patients present in an advanced stage due to the lack of such screening programmes Second, it has been observed that node-negative gastriccancer ... Deng J, Liang H, Sun D, Zhang R, Zhan H, Wang X: Prognosis ofgastriccancer patients with node-negative metastasis following curative resection: Outcomes of the survival and recurrence Can J Gastroenterol...
... to describe the successful implementation of SMAs for patients with diabetes (right side of the figure; see below for discussion) Methods of evaluation and analysis We used an in-depth case analysis ... understanding and using Too vague and many unknowns; not easy to explain Explain and sell it and take advantage of a trial period with small numbers of patients to highlight success and have observers ... factors included the mandate for action to address performance deficiencies, the so-called 'burning platform' and the simultaneous freedom and flexibility to pilot test to secure buy-in [43]...
... to describe the successful implementation of SMAs for patients with diabetes (right side of the figure; see below for discussion) Methods of evaluation and analysis We used an in-depth case analysis ... understanding and using Too vague and many unknowns; not easy to explain Explain and sell it and take advantage of a trial period with small numbers of patients to highlight success and have observers ... factors included the mandate for action to address performance deficiencies, the so-called 'burning platform' and the simultaneous freedom and flexibility to pilot test to secure buy-in [43]...
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... curve analysis (Analyse-it Software, www analyse-it.com) was performed on the ELISA results of individual antigens to determine the optimal cut-off point (at which the serum of the sensitivity and ... (Bio-Rad, USA) Antibody response to five recombinant antigens and sero-diagnosis with 35 kDa for M avium subsp paratuberculosis 113 Dialysis of proteins and removal of endotoxins The recombinant proteins ... Western blot analysis has also been used for the identification of MPT infection However, it is too labor extensive to perform western blot analysis especially if there are too many serum samples...
... liquid chromatography with ultraviolet detection Statistical Analysis A repeated measures analysisof variance was used to test the effect of treatments on QTc (within subject factor: time of ECG examination, ... recruited and assessed participants and conceived of the study, and participated in its design and coordination AV and GMD read ECGs and measured the QTc and analysed the results CM ran the statistical ... samples of patients, comparing QTc intervals, plasmatic levels of antipsychotics and daily doses of psychotropic drugs are necessary to perform statistical comparisons for each kind of antipsychotic...
... were to retrospectively clarify the efficacy and toxicities of the docetaxel and S-1 combination as a first-line treatment for patients with advanced or recurrent gastriccancer and to analyze ... Hatake K, Imamoto HME: Randomized phase III study of irinotecan plus S-1 (IRIS) versus S-1 alone as first-line treatment for advanced gastriccancer (GC0301/TOP-002) Gastrointestinal Cancer Symposium ... S-1 and docetaxel (TXT) for advanced or recurrent gastriccancer Anticancer Res 2004, 24:1843-1851 Yoshida K, Ninomiya M, Takakura N, Hirabayashi N, Takiyama W, Sato Y, Todo S, Terashima M, Gotoh...
... University, Tochigi, Japan Authors’ contributions TK, SM, SU and RU diagnosed, investigated, followed-up and managed the patient, and determined the medical significance SM and TK wrote the manuscript ... the adhesion of the abdominal wall to the perforation sites, which masked typical symptoms and signs ofgastric ulcer perforation [7] We note the similarity between these two cases and the present ... cesarean: a case series and review of the literature Am J Perinatol 2009, 26(10):739-744 Kurdoglu M, Kolusari A, Yildizhan R, Adali E, Sahin HG: Delayed diagnosis ofan atypical rupture ofan unscarred...
... current study was to determine whether multi-symptom asthma is relatedto signs of severe asthma, and to describe the association between multi-symptom asthma and different symptoms of nasal disease ... individual symptom was a significant risk factor for multi-symptom asthma *** P < 0.001 60 Number of symptoms of chronic rhinosinusitis Prevalence (%) 50 Four symptoms 40 Three symptoms Two symptoms 30 ... severity of asthma [13] In addition to the number of nasal symptoms, several other factors appear to distinguish the multi-symptom and fewer symptom asthma populations A family history of allergy...
... Mingjiang Yang, Mr Kong Wah Wan, Mr Lingyu Duan, Mr Xin Yan, Miss Min Xu, Miss Jenny Ran Wang, and Mr Xi Shao for many useful discussions and detailed comments Thanks to Mr Tze Sen Hay and Mr ... Definitions of Selected Ball -Related Events of Soccer 77 4.2 Event detection performance 94 4.3 Team possession analysis performance 95 4.4 Play/break analysis performance ... the trajectory generation and management Most of the techniques of trajectory management, for example trajectory forking, merging, and comparison, will be used in our ball detection and tracking...
... seen that second language learners tend to transfer the forms, meanings and the distribution of forms and meanings of their native language and culture to the foreign language and culture (Lado, ... to I cant get any reliable information and it is anaphoric; in (c), this refers forward to I cant get any reliable information, in this case this is cataphoric (2) THE According to Halliday and ... into second language Clearly this explanaion is relatedto a view of language as some sorts of habit-structure (Corder, 1971, p.158) The language transfer is a common phenomenon in language learning...
... finance their operations Indirect finance is many times more important than direct finance Financial intermediaries are the most important source of external funds Eight Basic Facts About Financial ... Separation of ownership and control of the firm – Managers pursue personal benefits and power rather than the profitability of the firm Tools to Solve the Principal-Agent Problem • Monitoring (Costly ... willing to skew their judgments and opinions to win consulting business – Auditors may be auditing information systems or tax and financial plans put in place by their nonaudit counterparts – Auditors...
... Jason Alexander Joan Allen Tim Allen Woody Allen Pedro Almodovar Robert Altman Anthony Anderson Gillian Anderson Paul Anderson Paul Thomas Anderson Wes Anderson Jennifer Aniston Penelope Ann Miller ... Kretschmann Kris Kristofferson Diane Kruger David Krumholtz Lisa Kudrow Ashton Kutcher Neil LaBute Martin Landau Diane Lane Nathan Lane Jessica Lange Anthony LaPaglia Ali Larter Sanaa Lathan Queen Latifah ... Taylor Hackford Gene Hackman Anthony Michael Hall Philip Baker Hall Regina Hall Lasse Hallstrom Colin Hanks Tom Hanks Daryl Hannah John Hannah Alyson Hannigan Curtis Hanson Marcia Gay Harden Tom Hardy...
... economic aspects of FDI protection and to advance our understanding of these important issues 1.1 International Law and Economics The economic analysisof law is by now an integral part of many if not ... lenders and borrowers into an MNE As these examples illustrate, the key question for the existence of MNEs and thus FDI is why the organisational form ofan MNE for the cross-national transaction ... (party B) for a hostage, that is, anything that is of value for party B The hostage is ideally of no or little value to party A or anybody else, but at any rate of less value to party A than to party...
... performance of SB gets significantly worse (3.5 to 6.5 BLEU-score reduction in comparison to loose phrases) The performance of SG also gets worse but the degree of BLEUscore reduction is less than ... English-Arabic annotations not The details of how the annotations are done can be found in (Ayan et al., 2005) and (Ittycheriah and Roukos, 2005) 3.1 Align SU SG SI SA SB Phrase Lengths of and Table ... in decoding In order to investigate this, we did ananalysisof the phrases used to decode the same test set The bottom row of Figure shows the percentage of phrases used to decode the Chinese...