... Preface The common idea for many people is that forests are just a collection of trees However, forests are much morethanjust that They are complex, functional systems of interacting and ... finite collection rather than H´ However, if the number of individuals is large, H and H´ are nearly identical (Krebs, 1989) The indices N1 and N2 Forest Ecosystems – MorethanJust Trees from Hill`s ... Forest Ecosystems – MorethanJust Trees Edited by Juan A Blanco and Yueh-Hsin Lo Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000...
... that CD4+CD25+ Tregs isolated from joints of patients with active arthritis had a more powerful suppressor activity than peripheral CD4+CD25+ Tregs [46] There is a disparity between the number of ... to the numbers of Tregs isolated from the joint of the same individuals, with more Tregs in the inflamed joints than in circulation, suggesting that compensatory mechanisms take place at the ... nTreg development but normal Foxp3+ iTreg numbers, and these mice develop a less severe disease than Foxp3deficient mice, suggesting that, early in life, iTreg cells may be vital due to the delay...
... WHO [20] EGIR [22] IDF [21] Number of criteria Three or more of: Three or more of: And two or more of: And two or more of: And two or more of: Obesity WC ≥ 102 cm (men), WC ≥ 88 cm (women) WC ... unadjusted model Model a = adjusted for age and sex Model b = adjusted for age, sex, disease duration, erythrocyte sedimentation rate and health assessment questionnaire score Model c = adjusted ... the metabolic syndrome, apart from the EGIR classification, which diagnosed significantly more males than females (P < 0.001) These findings differ from those observed in the general population,...
... 305:1437-1441 doi:10.1186/gb-2010-11-3-109 Cite this article as: Sato K, Siomi H: Is canalization morethanjust a beautiful idea? Genome Biology 2010, 11:109 ... Siomi MC: On the road to reading the RNA interference code Nature 2009, 457:396-404 Ghildiyal M, Zamore PD: Small silencing RNAs: an expanding universe Nat Rev Genet 2009, 10:94-108 Girard A, Hannon ... Hsp90 mutants could be due to de novo mutations produced by activated transposable elements rather than to the buffering of pre-existing cryptic genetic variation For example, among the abnormalities...
... that distribute the supplies Over 20 products are currently available for distribution to the morethan 150 ordering sites in BC Preliminary analysis of the data revealed wide variations between ... water was increasing The demand of water is not comparable, in terms of, people will take more needles than they will take water, in fact we ask them specifically every time they ask for needles, ... throughout the province Spittal et al found Aboriginal youth in Northern BC had more difficulty accessing clean syringes than Vancouver youth [5] No official harm reduction distribution on First Nations...
... Critical Care October 2004 Vol No Corwin difficult to determine More importantly, the pathophysiology of tissue injury in the critically ill can be quite complex,...
... will give varying results, the most obvious being the calibration for whole blood and plasma And just what is the standard reference method for glucose [10], and should there not be a reference...
... would expect these duplicates to encode more similar proteins than non-redundant duplicates Indeed, we found that pairs of redundant duplicated genes are more similar to each other at the amino ... We found that just as single copy worm genes are more likely to have a nonviable RNAi phenotype if they are orthologous to an essential gene in yeast, duplicated worm genes are more likely to ... targeting multiple genes by combinatorial RNAi To investigate whether we could target effectively morethan one gene in a single animal using bacterial-mediated RNAi, we used three tests First, we...
... early years after independence, more overt moralizing as a justification for punishment was associated with concerns for survival; this gradually shifted towards more internalized disciplining ... divorced from the social context, and as Johnston and Donahue (1998:2) relate, “water scarcity is morethan a matter of decreased supply or increased demand Water scarcity is influenced by a variety ... (Asthana 2009) Even though policies with regards to the management of water for the urban context are most commonly seen as mere technical solutions to water issues, the reality is often much more...
... depositional environments make a larger contribution to the model than soil variables Young organic-rich sediments (λ ¼ 1.46) play a larger role than recent deltaic deposits (λ ¼ 0.60), which PNAS ∣ January ... areas Moreover, the As concentrations at a depth of 20–30 m show a better match with the probability map for 10–20 m, which is supported by a better classification result (Fig 4D) Furthermore, ... Pleistocene aquifers below Hanoi Groundwater exploitation from the deep aquifers in Hanoi began morethan 110 y ago (1894) (3) to meet the water needs of the growing city under the French administration...
... looking for graduates who can fit into their organizations; can add value and learning quickly More and more organizations and employers are looking to employ graduates, who not only are experts ... Identifying and managing ethical issues The expectations of the graduates are also changing More and more graduates are beginning to realize that there is no job for life in our modern world Their ... course and relate them to their jobs This makes the above comments more substantial as an assessment of the course success Even more important is the fact that the students felt able to make this...
... free." Jeff's offer was generous and morethan we would have asked for, or expected He proceeded to reclean all the ducts in the house After the job was done, he thanked me for calling him and telling...
... by morethan one examiner This supports that argument, posited by Haber and Haber, that, if “verification” is not conducted blind, the “verifier” is more likely to ratify misattributions than ... that fingerprint evidence is around forty-two times more reliable than microscopic hair comparison and around eighty times more trustworthy than serology However, before reaching any such conclusion, ... better to let ten guilty people go free than to falsely convict one innocent person.51 This would suggest that false positives are ten times more catastrophic than false negatives.52 In addition,...
... that possess shorter NSs ORFs than PUUV and TULV [2] Interestingly, even the more resistant of two TULV isolates, TULV/Lodz, failed to survive in MRC5 cells for morethan five consequent passages ... on function(s) of the NSs protein in vivo TULV/Lodz isolate was expected to be more resistant to the IFN response than TULV/Moravia This appeared to be the case indeed, supporting our earlier ... Acknowledgements Olli Vapalahti is thanked for providing the virus titration protocol and Satu Kurkela for help in virus titrations Rick Randall and Dan Young are thanked for the MRC5 cells Elisabeth...
... death, sooner than those men who did not die from prostate cancer Kaplan-Meier curves cannot be adjusted for competing risks [7] However, cumulative incidence of mortality can be adjusted for competing ... BC population Figure shows the cumulative incidence of non-prostate cancer mortality unadjusted and adjusted for prostate cancer mortality Deaths from prostate cancer are a competing cause of ... from non-prostate-cancer deaths for men who are treated with radiation for prostate cancer is morethan ten years, up to age 80 at the time of starting radiation treatment Our results suggest...
... gives greater weight to smaller studies than does the fixed effects model, and results in wider confidence intervals and a more conservative estimate of effect than the fixed effects model This is ... is responsible for 5–10% of the total of new HIV infections in many developing countries, with morethan 500,000 children being infected each year [1] In many industrialized countries, the introduction ... population with which we would aim to generalize http://www.aidsrestherapy.com/content/2/1/4 Morethan 95% of HIV-1-infected children acquired their infection from their mother [1] Mother-to-child...
... world people have paid more attention to the environmental protection A Nowadays more attention has been paid to the environmental protection by the world people B Nowadays more attention have been ... similar meaning to the first sentence You must not use morethan five words or change the word given 96 We won’t get to the airport in less than 30 minutes (least) -> It will _take (us) at least ... including the tiger- to (39.) Perhaps this is not much, but it is a start If more people give more money – and if more governments wake up to what is happening (40.) the natural world, and all...
... and Social Justice For morethan a generation, public health practitioners have been guided by the work of Daniel Beauchamp (1976), who argues that the ethic of public health is social justice “Public ... Publications 322 Health Education & Behavior (June 2005) Table Market Justice Values Compared to Social Justice Values Market Justice Social Justice Self-determination and self-discipline Rugged individualism ... programs), 69% chose the more tangible list Small differences in the poll question elicited significantly different responses, illustrating the power of language But morethanjust the word, it is...