... did the final approval ofthe manuscript. MK, MP, LMcN, TC, JY, KO and
AH were driving the conception and designofthe study, selected the
donors forthe study, interpreted the data and wrote the ... using the irrelevant MULTIMERS in four donors stratified by
DUMP channel use and further subdivision by the use of dead cell marker.
The table also indicates the number of labs (N) for each ofthe ... in the interpretation ofthe data and manuscript writing.
SJ did the overall project management, coordinated the distribution of
material forthe study, helped to interpret the data, wrote the...
... did the final approval ofthe manuscript. MK, MP, LMcN, TC, JY, KO and
AH were driving the conception and designofthe study, selected the
donors forthe study, interpreted the data and wrote the ... using the irrelevant MULTIMERS in four donors stratified by
DUMP channel use and further subdivision by the use of dead cell marker.
The table also indicates the number of labs (N) for each ofthe ... S2
Acknowledgements
The organizers of this study are indebted to all the participating labs for
their constant support ofthe proficiency panel program. The organizers also
thank Beckmann Coulter and ProImmune for...
... considering the endoscopic surgery option. Of
these 26 patients, 14 patients had 50 to 100% relief
with a median period of pain relief being 5 months.
The range of relief forthe radiofrequency ... 16 months for all 26 patients who
underwent the radiofrequency procedure. Ofthe 14
patients who revealed 50% or greater improvement
from the radiofrequency procedure, the length of im-
provement ... the direct visualization
of the joint allows better de-innervation ofthe joint
and removal ofthe entire end-plate receptors that
adhere to the bone and capsular tissue.
Limitations of the...
... laminoforaminoplasty forthe treatment of thoracic
radiculopathy: report of 12 cases
Scott M.W. Haufe
1,2
, Ryan A. Baker
3
and Morgan L. Pyne
3
1. Chief of Pain Medicine and Anesthesiology ... to evaluate the efficacy of endoscopic laminoforamino-
plasty (ELFP) in the treatment of thoracic radiculopathy.
Methods: Twelve patients with radicular pain involving the lower thoracic levels ... were treated with endoscopic
laminoforaminoplasty (ELFP) ofthe thoracic spine for
radicular pain. All patients were diagnosed with
radicular pain involving the lower thoracic levels (at
or...
... [1,14]. The lack of hydroxylation of vitamin D3 at
position 22 now provides a clear explanation for the
inability of P450scc to cleave the side chain of vitamin
D3. Hydroxylation ofthe side chain of ... difference between the metabolism
of vitamin D3 and cholesterol by P450scc is that the
dissociation of intermediates occurs forthe metabolism
of vitamin D3, but not forthe metabolism of choles-
terol ... purifying them and determining the
substrates from which they arose by the action of
P450scc, as well as the products that they gave rise to.
This revealed both the major and minor pathways for
the...
...
wei(a), the calculated from step 4 sum ofthe context
weights for a,
N the size ofthe corpus in terms of number of words.
3 Future work
Our future work involves
1. The investigation ofthe ... and Ananiadou,
1996), incorporating information gained from the
textual context ofthe candidate term.
2
Context information
for terms
The idea of incorporating context information for
term ...
tion, or should they be assigned different weights?
2. The investigation ofthe assignment of weights
on the parameters used forthe measures. Currently,
the measures contain the parameters...
... of YidC had no major effect on the insertion
of MscL, but formation ofthe pentamer was almost
completely abolished under these conditions, suggest-
ing a novel role for YidC in assembly ofthe ... criti-
cal for membrane insertion of MscL. In the absence of YidC, assembly of
the homopentameric MscL complex was strongly reduced, suggesting a late
role for YidC in the biogenesis of MscL. The data ... Fig. 5, depletion of
SecE did not have a significant impact on the level of
the MscL–HA complex, suggesting that the Sec tran-
slocon is dispensable forthe oligomerization of the
MscL subunits.
Discussion
We...
... Results ofthe test of identifying the manual summariser
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Figure 1: Illustration of some ofthe restrictions on Q, K
is reliable, or the evaluation outcome may change
by adding, for instance, additional ... capture the essential features ofthe mod-
els. Therefore, we need to estimate the quality of
similarity metrics in order to use QUEEN effec-
tively.
3.3 KING: estimation ofthe quality of a
similarity ... con-
trastive summary, the number of fragments of
the reference summary which are also in the
contrastive summary, in relation to the size of
the contrastive summary.
DocSim: The number of documents used...
... be
the reference); 2, docked into the active site
of the human DPP-IV; 3, docked into the
active site ofthe crystalline structure of
PepX from L. lactis;and4, docked into the
active site ofthe ... Sites forthedesignof inhibitors of PepX activity
FEBS Journal 272 (2005) 20502059 ê 2005 FEBS 2051
The structural comparison ofthe bacterial PepX and
human DPP-IV reveals sites forthedesign ... known for
the bacterial PepX. One ofthe immediate conse-
quences ofthe structural similarities between the two
active sites is to search for putative inhibitors of PepX,
using the knowledge of...
... whole
conversation or forthe most part of it). These two
knowledges inform the rest ofthe modules about the
situation ofthe conversation and which one is the goal
expressed by the user.
Then, the Dialogue ... system, related to
the dialogue management. The rest of the
configurable modules are adjusted to the design
ofthe different services using the
Fast
Environment Generation of Speech
Applications (SQUEL ... Tool;
"SQUEL", forthedesign and development of a
complex SLDS, is based on the basic architecture
of AGORA and it has tools and facilities for the
Design, Generation, Configuration and
Administration of...
... account ofthe selection
of these features is beyond the scope of this
paper, an example of an input word and the
appropriate attribute values should give the
reader a better grasp ofthe word-level ... basis ofthe feature values ofthe word or
cluster under consideration. The transcription
rule "test "6 is evaluated and the proper branch is
then selected on the basis of values ofthe ... itself and, therefore,
cannot be reconstructed "a posterlori."
The training set now consists of all ofthe
entries from the SCL and the SEL, as well as
all ofthe features for each...
... assessment of which residues of
the labeled molecule are perturbed by the formation of
the complex. One then repeats this procedure with the
second molecule labeled. Under the assumption that
the perturbed ... because ofthe rigid nature of the
linker. There are several examples ofthe combination
of NMR information with rigid body docking. Rigid
body docking in x-plor [79] has been used to model the
dynamic ... probes, as they induce broadening ofthe NMR
signals forthe residues they contact. In a complex, the
interface residues will be protected from such effects,
allowing a reliable detection ofthe interface...
... take the view that the computation
of partial semantics in the first step should not be
seen as violating the strong separation; rather, we
distinguish the two steps ofthe process in terms of
the ... semantics ofthe expression.
The role ofthe recognition process is then to
compute as much ofthe semantic content of a tem-
poral expression as can be determined on the basis
of the expression itself, ... representation ofthe semantics. The role of
the interpretation process is to ‘fill in’ any gaps in
this representation by making use of information
derived from the context.
3.2 Data Types
We view the temporal...
... after
three. The detection limit ofthe system was then estab-
lished in 1-10 colonies. At the end ofthe incubation
period, subcultures in agar plates were performed for all
the microbial growth: all the ... responsible forthe development of
the vascular system and are one ofthe main mechanisms
leading to improved cardiac function after the injection of
BM-MNC [10]. Among the CD34+ cells, the CD133 ... produced in the reaction
of the lysate in the presence of endotoxin. The system con-
sists of LAL reagents and endotoxin controls in the form
of a single-use polystyrene cartridges. The cartridges are
potency...
... of
performance at the end ofthe adaptation phase as com-
pared to the final portion ofthe wash-out phase. One
subject (S8) did not complete the second half of the
trial, for reasons unrelated to the study ... achieve a consistent pattern of force to either
enhance or reduce the subjects’ errors. A comparison of
the errors made during the early force trials and those
made during the late catch trials clearly ... sub-
jects caused not by the treatment itself but by variation
of the clinical scale at the beginning ofthe therapy.
To test the overall effect of adaptive training, we com-
pared the primary outcome...