... desert, farther and farther from the lost track where the pilot lay in his blood; and still the mocking spirits of the desert, the afreets of the mirage, led them on, and the hike glistening inthe ... and there, inthe distinct forms in which the camels had gasped their last The dry desert air had converted the hide into a coffin There were no flies here, thus there were no worms to devour the ... ago The conversation of the Arabs is inthe exact style of the Old Testament The name of God is coupled with every trifling incident in life, and they believe inthe continual action of divine...
... that of a room at the Sorbonne." There was the incident of the wandering of Nicolas Aubry, "more skilled inthe devious windings of the [Latin Quarter] than inthe intricacies of the Acadian Forest," ... home, gathered the tribes of the west into a confederacy against the Iroquois, as Champlain had done inthe east, gave up for the present the building of the vessel, and in 1681, the river being ... wool of the buffalo then roaming the woods and prairies and plains from one side of the valley to the other; the Indians would gather about these centres for gain and protection; and inthe midst...
... A and C Roburin A increases in concentration during the first 10 years of ageing and roburin C over the first 30 years, before each declines again in older wood Grandinin and roburin E show less ... occur during ageing is similar in all trees DISCUSSION The increase inthe concentrations of roburins A, C and possibly other dimers during the first 10-30 years of ageing are due to their synthesis ... concentration of individual ellagitannins responded in different ways to heartwood age They proposed a series of reactions as occurring during heartwood ageing During the first 30 years of ageing, there...
... live in polar places Penguins live in polar places all year Their fat helps keep them warm They also have thick coats of feathers Penguins live in polar places Some people live in polar places ... warm inthe day and at night Tropical places are the warmest placesinthe world There is a lot of rain Most rain forests and some beaches are tropical places Different plants and animals live in ... little sun shines inthe winter It is hard for living things to be where it is so cold Not many people live in polar places People in polar places need to wear clothes that keep them warm Only...
... Results and Discussion The main finding of this study is the identification of a metabolic gene switch from fatty acids to glucose inthe murine female heart at baseline linked to enhanced mitochondrial ... additional insights into this interesting question Conclusions In summary, we have identified a novel metabolic gene switch (decrease in fatty acid utilization, increase in glucose utilization) inthe ... oxygen results inthe emission of light The intensity of the bioluminescence was detected using a luminometer, and the mitochondrial ATP concentration was determined Mitochondrial protein concentration...
... for motivating others to get involved Include your friends and family in your event selection The more involved they are in planning, the more supportive they’ll be on event day Hosting your Live ... of the value of the gift and $75, then the value of the advantage is considered to be zero For example, if the price to attend the benefit dinner is $200 and the value of the dinner is $15, then ... requests that organizations donating a gift -in- kind provide an invoice stating the value (not cost) of the item as of the date of the donation A gift -in- kind does not include a gift of service Can...
... face burning, his limbs tingling Did they know? Were they staring? The infamous grapevine of Starr Industries was quite clear on the matter Although not an official policy, John knew that there ... the ideas in this book in three main categories: Training and development services: direct training for teams and individuals Train the trainer services: Strength Deployment Inventory (SDI) certification, ... Army officer and then spent twenty years in a variety of sales, marketing, and training roles inthe pharmaceutical industry Mike is also a speaker and adjunct professor teaching inthe doctoral...
... training, are mained similar in magnitude and close to the associated with significant increases in risk range of our original confidence intervals Final Supported in part by grants from the ... physically inactive persons.32-35 Also consistent with the triggering hypothesis and with research documenting increased heart rates among firefighters responding to alarms8,9 was our finding that the ... nonemergency duties, the risk was significantly elevated during physical training This finding is consistent with investigations implicating intense physical activity as a strong triggering factor, especially...
... confirm that the macronutrients remaining in a heartwood ring probably made up the fraction the most strongly bound to the wood inthe year when the mean are ent concentration across the heartwood ... translocations inside the tree would probably conceal the effects on the ring mineral content of possible temporal decrease of their concentration inthe soil Even if the mineral content of the last ring ... could be interesting, in particular when investigating macronutrients, i) to pay special attention to the mineral content of the rings inthe heartwood; ii) to work on oaks, which are ring-porous...
... level The challenge rests on integrating the initial antibody insult with the final cardiac injury, and on reconciling the facts that the target antigens are intracellular and that most infants ... suggesting a diminished role in inflammation as the pathologic process evolves The fibrosing end of the line Perhaps CHB occurs as a consequence of unresolved scarring of the AV node secondary to the ... calcification inthe inferior portion of the atrial wall where the AV node is likely to reside Inthe full-term neonate dying at birth of CHB, myofibroblasts were observed in areas of scar In contrast, these...
... Since there are commonalities inthe pathophysiology of PAH and RP, particularly inthe context of connective tissue disease, inhibition of the renin–angiotensin system may prove effective in ... than nifedipine in reducing both the frequency and the severity of attacks [14] PDE type V inhibitors such as sildenafil inhibit the degradation of cGMP, which mediates the signalling of several ... year Other medications that may combine vasodilator and antiproliferative activity include angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers and PDE type V inhibitors [5] The...
... Hoppenbrowers [14] directed their investigations mainly toward the study of fetal heart rate changes during the mother's sleep Our findings agree with Hellbrugge's [13] results indicating the occurrence of ... both the mother and the fetus It is possible to suggest that the process involved inthe intrauterine development of the fetus requires the availability of a relatively persistent homeostasis; the ... conducting investigations on fetal rhythmicity since 1978 with three major goals: Determination of rhythmicity of the heartbeat and locomotor activity of the human fetus, including the interdependence...
... 110029, India Authors’ contributions RG and RR were involved inthe signing out of the histopathology report, conducting the literature review and drafting the manuscript MH was the clinician -in- charge ... clinician -in- charge of the daily care of the patient, provided the clinical background, assisted inthe drafting and critical review of the manuscript All the authors have read and approved the final manuscript ... intra-myocardiac location [11] Other causes of calcification intheheart include chronic renal failure and, rarely, thrombi [2] Inthe absence of distinctive clinical and imaging features, a pre-operative...
... working within the existing structure of the network as we conducted the intervention Our original intent was to use a lagged design, introducing the intervention to the comparison half of the ... only inthe intervention hospitals The reminders were installed inthe intervention hospitals within a month after the kickoff meeting, although there was considerable variation among the intervention ... measure their perceptions of organizational readiness to change, and discussed the aggregate findings inthe context of preparing system change They were trained inthe installation and use of reminders...
... bias, reducing the measured impact of the intervention and biasing the findings towards the null hypothesis Furthermore, our statistical methods will specifically address the degree of intraclass ... receiving on-going care from their PCPs They received a folder at the conclusion of the baseline visit including handouts from the American Heart Association containing basic information about ... assignments At the baseline/randomization visit, each eligible and willing participant was instructed to take the envelope inthe very front of the appropriate container, open the envelope inthe presence...
... 110029, India Authors’ contributions RG and RR were involved inthe signing out of the histopathology report, conducting the literature review and drafting the manuscript MH was the clinician -in- charge ... clinician -in- charge of the daily care of the patient, provided the clinical background, assisted inthe drafting and critical review of the manuscript All the authors have read and approved the final manuscript ... intra-myocardiac location [11] Other causes of calcification intheheart include chronic renal failure and, rarely, thrombi [2] Inthe absence of distinctive clinical and imaging features, a pre-operative...
... demonstrated Vasopressin inhibits the synthesis of iNOS, blunts the increase in cGMP induced by NO and directly inactivates KATP channels in vascular smooth muscle [10] Moreover, vasopressin is able to ... epinephrine administration being titrated http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/2/1/36 up to 0.3 mcg/kg/min Arginine-vasopressin (Pitressin; Monarch Pharmaceuticals, Bristol, United Kingdom) ... acidosis can maintain all the described pathophysiologic mechanisms and induce a relative deficiency in vasopressin plasma concentration further amplifying the vasoplegic scenario [5] Despite the presence...
... Purified recombinant GST-RELA peptides (amino terminus, DNA binding domain; carboxyl terminus, transactivation domain; inthe left panel, the arrow indicates the GST-RELA 428-551 amino acid peptide) ... the cooperation between three transcription factors in a multi-protein complex may control gene expression program inheart failure Understanding the way that different DNA binding proteins interact ... p53RELA interaction was direct and dependent on the carboxy-terminal transactivation domain of RELA because a purified recombinant GST fusion protein of the RELA carboxy-terminal domain, but not the...
... working within the existing structure of the network as we conducted the intervention Our original intent was to use a lagged design, introducing the intervention to the comparison half of the ... only inthe intervention hospitals The reminders were installed inthe intervention hospitals within a month after the kickoff meeting, although there was considerable variation among the intervention ... measure their perceptions of organizational readiness to change, and discussed the aggregate findings inthe context of preparing system change They were trained inthe installation and use of reminders...
... 0.28 Therapy in patients with OSA, indicating a causative role of OSA inthe inflammatory process Since inflammation might play a central role in renarrowing of the vessels in OSA patients, the ... point ("minimal luminal diameter") The renarrowing occurring from immediately after the intervention over the following months as determined and quantified by the follow angiogramm conveys the ... different aspects of the late result of coronary intervention: the outcome of the patients, and, from the anatomical point of view, the angiographic result determined by the diameter of the vessel/lesion...