... global pandemic with almost million new cases and approximately million deaths each year (1) An estimated one-third of the population of the world is infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and ... presentation and mortality associated with patients with tuberculosis who were admitted to the ICU The records of a total of 33 patients with tuberculosis requiring admission to the ICU during a period of ... symptomatology and contributory factors of the disease is vital Diagnoses may be challenged by atypical clinical presentations along with the lack of sensitive and rapid diagnostic tests Early diagnosis of...
... and the sensor; and r, d, u, y, and ym are the reference, disturbance, control, plant output, and sensor output, respectively In the framework of this system and its multipleinput multiple-output ... are the reference, disturbance, error, controller output, actuator output, plant output, and measured output, respectively These notations are used throughout this book In the framework of the ... u, v, and e denote the reference, disturbance, plant output, sensor (or measured) output, control signal, actuator output, and error signal, respectively Let the quasilinear gains of f (·) and...
... phosphorylation of STAT5B and c-Jun, with levels of phosphorylated STAT5B and c-Jun significantly increasing h, and peaking h, after stimulation with Ang II, whereas total c-Jun and STAT5B were ... incubated with nuclear extracts from VSMCs treated with Ang II for 0.5, 1, and h, and the DNA-binding activity of STAT5B andof AP-1 increased in a time-dependent manner The specificities of two ... with h (n = 3) (C) VSMCs were pretreated with or without AG490 (10)5 M) for 16 h before stimulation with Ang II (10)7 M) for and h Cell extracts were immunoprecipitated with anti-STAT5B IgG and...
... indicates that increase of vapor pressure of the solute and decrease of the CO2 density are compensating each other On the other hand, the solubility of PEG600 in CO2 falls with temperature, which ... both the amount of CO2 released to the atmosphere and the utilization of fossil carbon Therefore, besides efficiency technologies (in the production and use of energy) other routes must be discovered ... distribution of the molecular weight of PEG, generation of a peroxide intermediate as detected by KI/starch test, and the suppressing effect of TEMPO on the reactions In summary, the utility of this...
... widespread use of standardized health measures may improve clinical practice [9,10] The purpose of this study is to determine the outcome of percutaneous endoscopic discectomy in terms of the North ... literature review and wrote article WY performed case and data collection SBT supervised and helped in manuscript preparation All authors read andapproved the final manuscript References 10 11 ... local anesthesia The skin, subcutaneous tissue, fascia and muscle layers were infiltrated with per cent lidocaine For relaxation and comfort of the patient, sedation with intravenous midazolam or...
... Integro-differential inequality and stability of BAM FCNNs with time delays in the leakage terms and distributed delays Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011 2011:43 Page 18 of 18 ... effect and delay effect on the stability of neural networks To the best of our knowledge, few authors have considered impulsive BAM FCNNs with time delays in the leakage terms and distributed delays ...
... leads to the method of compression and lossless decoding of X with the knowledge of side-information Y and the correlation between X and Y The transmitter can compute Sx and send to the receiver ... y, and k are n-tuples with elements from Galois field, GF(2m ) for any positive integer m 2.2 Correlation under substitution operation An S-box in AES performs substitution of a symbol with another ... the substitution process as well On the other hand, if ith bytes of the two blocksof M A Haleem et al plain text are different, then they will remain different following the substitution Therefore,...
... use of graph cuts permits the segmentation of the objects at a modest computational cost, leaving the computational bottleneck at the level of the detection of objects andof the computation of ... formal definition of tracked objects andof observations 3.1 Description of the objects Let P denote the set of N pixels of a frame from an input image sequence To each pixel s ∈ P of the image at ... tracking of an object with a relatively small computational time On the other hand, these approaches not deal with topology changes Tracking by minimizing an energy functional allows the handling of...
... formation of chlorophyll and/ or the acceleration of its decomposition) of weeds without chlorosis of useful crops Hence, these compounds are most suitable as high selective herbicides of chlorosis ... planted with seeds of certain plants For example, application of 4000 ppm of compound IV (Fig 3) resulted in emergence inhibition of crabgrass (50% of the www.intechopen.com Synthesis and Evaluation ... Evaluation of Pyrazine Derivatives with Herbicidal Activity 585 control) and barnyard grass (Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P Beauv.) (45% of the control) Due to the treatment with a dose of lb per acre of...
... Lipsky) stand with the average growing stock 320 m3/ha The slope of the compartment was 20 to 60% and the aspects of the slopes were northern The total volume of production was 1,900 m3 and the ... clear cutting to single-tree selection and the proportion of basal area removed was used to measure harvest intensity Lortz et al (1997) conducted a further analysis of southern pine felling with ... harvesting planted pine stands in the south Kluender and Stokes (1994) conducted a time study on a southern pine harvest consisting of manual felling, grapple skidding, and cable skidding The harvest...
... symptoms and course of disease between this type of HAE and the classic type of HAE, HAE-C1-INH (Appendix 1) The clinical manifestation of HAE type III is highly variable, and penetrance of the ... causative mutations are in the FXII gene, and FXII is part of KKS; (b) KKS activation with the release of bradykinin at the end of the cascade is known to cause the acute attacks of HAE due to ... elements of the kallikrein-kinin system and the downstreamlinked coagulation, complement, and fibrinolytic systems Page of in the plasma of six patients with HAE caused by the Thr309Lys mutation and...
... SS andof normal donors Table Mutational frequency of Vκ gene rearrangements of B cells from the peripheral blood and from the parotid gland of a patient with Sjögren’s syndrome (SS), andof peripheral ... the gland A large number of silent mutations was observed within the FR2 and FR3 of productive Vλ gene rearrangements of the parotid gland Vκ gene rearrangements Mutational ‘hot spots’ of replacement ... rearrangements of B cells obtained by minor salivary gland biopsies from two patients with SS [6] Detailed analyses of the frequency of occurrence and mutations of the highly mutable motifs RGYW and WRCY...
... to other stands of Scots pine without additional information on the relationships between growth conditions, tree vigour and susceptibility to L wing- fieldii A last but interesting result of ... in standing trees and logs by Fomes annosus and extracts of infected wood, Eur J For Pathol (1976) 372-381 [8] Coutts M.P., The formation of dry zones in the sapwood of conifers II The role of ... the trees felled, and three stem discs were cut in the middle and close to both ends of the inoculated section of each stem Areas of bluestained, dried and resin-soaked sapwood were were measured...
... loss of hair with absent dorsalis pedis and posterior tibial pulses were noted The popliteal pulse was palpable but weak General strength was graded to 4+ out of a maximum of in both upper and ... ambulated and performed activities of daily living with the use of her prosthesis Discussion This case highlights a satisfying functional outcome for a patient with trans-tibial amputation with severe ... optimized with inhaler therapy consisting of bronchodilators and inhaled corticosteroids Oxygen therapy was utilized during rehabilitation exercises and ambulation, with the goal being to keep percutaneous...
... 2004 Pharmaceutical Industry Profile Washington, DC: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America; 2004 Bodenheimer T: Uneasy alliance — clinical investigators and the pharmaceutical industry ... benefits to researchers and institutions, potential conflicts must be carefully monitored Sometimes the protection and respectful treatment of subjects and the integrity of research require that ... carried out by independent investigators elsewhere Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests References 310 Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America:...
... characteristics and outcome of children and adolescents with conversion disorder Indian Pediatr 2002, 39:747-752 Ghosh JK, Majumder P, Pant P, Dutta R, Bhatia BD: Clinical profile and outcome of conversion ... the patients and 57% of controls stated to have a partner; out of the subjects with partner 100% of the patients and 95% of the controls reported to be mainly or throughly content with their partnership) ... the statements of patients and controls with respect to their family of origin, to friendship and social contacts as well as to partnership and sexuality Most of the patients and controls reported...
... discordant predictions with regard to futility of survival and quality of life between doctors and nurses in 21% of ICU patients Only to 15% of survivors of ICU stay where health care professionals had ... predictor of outcome Compared with a control group of patients with shorter LOS, the authors demonstrated that age, injury severity, and the presence of burn injuries were determinants of prolonged ... patients with ICU LOS of more than 30 days accounted for 8% of total ICU admissions but 48% of occupied beds [7] in another study Not surprisingly, age and injury severity were associated with prolonged...
... 12.1—Design of plain concrete slabs 12.2—Design of slabs with shrinkage and temperature reinforcement Chapter 13—References, p 440.1R-28 13.1—Referenced standards and reports 13.2—Cited references ... (reinforcement area and member size), load characteristics (age of concrete at the time of loading, and magnitude and duration of sustained load), and material characteristics (creep and shrinkage of concrete, ... reduction in pullout (bond) strength of 20 to 40% at a temperature of approximately 210 F (100 C), and a reduction of 80 to 90% at a temperature of 390 F (200 C) (Katz, Berman, and Bank 1998 and 1999)...
... advancement of the micelle formation points of F127 in the presence of homopolymers (PEO and PAA), and two gel phases behavior of F127+L64 mixture are observed, and a greater understanding of the ... applications andother industries as well ix List of Tables LIST OF TABLES Table 3.1 Effects of molecular weight of PEO on CGT, tgel, τco and G0 of 20% F127 53 Table 3.2 Effects of PEO ... associated with large endothermic heat which is linearly dependent on the size of PPO block.12 The endothermic heat is attributed to the dehydration of PPO blocksand it is called the heat of micellization...