... the equation Taking the effect of age on cost as an example, the equation includes indicators for the age range of the individual (< 25, 25 to 34, 35 to 44, 45 to 54, 55 to 64, 65 to 74, 75 to ... calculated using the home zip code of the individual and the zip code of the facility or CBOC.8 We used these variables to explore whether the availability of other health care resources in the county ... of the costs the VISN would be expected to incur based on the characteristics of the individuals they treat and the characteristics of their facilities The VISN-level predicted costs could then...
... annotation parser to extract the 5Ws English-function used the function tags from the parser to map parser constituents tothe 5Ws First the Who, When, Where and Why were extracted, and then the remaining ... from another English-treebank trained parser, the Charniak parser (Charniak 2001) After the parses were both converted tothe 5Ws, they were then merged, favoring the system that: recognized the ... Consider the sentence: “He went tothe store yesterday and cooked lasagna today.” A system might return erroneous Who and What answers, and return Where as tothe store” and When as “today.”...
... accumulation during late spermatogenesis appears to be detrimental tothe germ cells and, hence, antizyme apparently functions to limit any ODC expression tothe early spermatogenesis The transgene-derived ... prostate carcinoma cells [127] The failure of spermine to inhibit the latter cells is believed to be attributable tothe inability of the polyamine to induce antizyme in the highly metastatic cells ... normally tothe blastocyst stage, but died shortly thereafter or during the early stage of gastrulation at the latest They developed distinctly further than did embryos cultured in the presence...
... proton transfer The spectra reveal the contributions of residues addressed by the redox reaction and are specific for their protonation state For the cytochrome c oxidase from P denitrificans the ... E101 has been considered to be the dominant entry point for protons going into the K channel [21] Electrochemically induced FTIR difference spectroscopy is a tool to study the reorganization of ... contributions of the m(C¼O) vibrational mode of glutamines can be expected at 1668 to 1687 cm)1 and of the d(NH2) at 1585 to 1611 cm)1 407 Proton access to Paracoccus cytochrome c oxidase [32] The increase...
... susceptible If the difference is less than or equal to days, then the isolate is considered resistant However, for the test to be valid, the time to growth in the control bottle has to be between ... measuring the height of the bubbles, characteristic of the catalase reaction, in the tube If the height of the bubbles is > 45 mm, the reaction is considered high and if the height of the bubbles ... the disease, making it very difficult to eradicate Once in this stage, the bacilli can be transmitted to other persons and the development of clinical symptoms is very progressive Therefore the...
... lineages to be placed sister tothe wild progenitor populations Evolutionary History of the Domesticated Sunflower 37 from which they were derived, and this is not the case On the other hand, given the ... not easy to conceive of Ireland, Denmark, and Russia without potatoes However, both tomatoes and potatoes are of New World origin (figure 1.1) At the time of their introduction into the Old World, ... to help renovate and update the germplasm storage facilities However, as the new government in Russia adjusts tothe new economy, the vir is finding itself cut off from government funds, and the...
... Maynard Keynes and the Great Depression The Prelude to Disaster The Speculative Bubble The Great Crash The Aftermath The Depression of the 1930s The Neoclassicals Address the Issues Keynes’s ... begin, then, the long journey on the road to today’s capitalism and to modern economics Our first major stop-after a short detour through the Ancient World-will be real-world Feudalism, the dominant ... tenants-in-chief to subtenants, who actually did most of the work on the land The right to farm the land obligated these subtenants (called serfs, or “free” peasants) to render military and other services to...
... to apply ATP tothe specimen iontophoretically The image of the specimen is recorded with the imaging plate (IP) (Sugi et al , 1997) Current Basic and Pathological Approachestothe Function ... representing the position of the particle, were also taken to represent the position of the myosin head The position of the myosin head, determined by the above method, was compared between the two ... 34] Ca2+ oscillators were classified into two main types, the membrane oscillators and the cytosolic oscillators [48] Membrane oscillators are those which generate oscillations at the cell membrane...
... deep into the lateral orbit allows retraction of these tissues to expose the frontozygomatic suture Figure 30 Dissection tothe level of the frontozygomatic suture The tissues superficial tothe ... limb of the lateral canthal tendon The bulk of the lateral canthal tendon attaches tothe orbital tubercle, to mm posterior tothe orbital margin Following canthotomy, the superior limb of the canthal ... attached tothe orbital tubercle It is important to place the suture as deep behind the orbital rim as possible to adapt the lower eyelid tothe globe If the suture is not properly placed, the eyelid...
... 10 to 15 mm above the upper eyelid margin The levator muscle usually becomes aponeurotic at the equator of the globe in the superior orbit The aponeurosis courses anteriorly to insert onto the ... Nerve The temporal branches of the facial nerve are often called the frontal branches when they reach the supraciliary region The nerves provide motor innervation tothe frontalis, the corrugator, ... from the galeal aponeurosis and insert into the dermis at the level of the eyebrows An extension of the galea separates the two quadrilateral frontalis muscle in the middle of the forehead The...
... either of these wide exposure methods The vascular and neural supply tothe masseter muscle courses from the medial side of the mandible through the sigmoid notch into the masseter muscle Therefore, ... method to identify and cauterize the artery is to strip the periosteum along the roof of the orbit and inferior to where the artery pierces the medial orbital wall With a periosteal elevator on ... lateral tothe capsule of TMJ An incision through the periosteum just inferior tothe insertion of the TMJ capsule at the condylar neck will expose the neck of the condyle Wider access below the...
... tightened to examine the effect of the medial pull of the alar bases on the nose (Fig 7-7) Another method is to evert the tissue into the incision area by pressing the thumb or finger into the alar ... the midfacial skeleton, from the zygomatic arch tothe infraorbital rim tothe frontal process of the maxilla The greatest advantage of the approach is the hidden intraoral scar that result The ... Once the lateral wall and floor of the nose are stripped of mucosa, the elevator is placed at the junction of the floor of the nose and the nasal septum A tenacious attachment of the mucosa to the...
... retractor, sigmoid notch retractor)(Figs 10-10 to 10-12) Figure 10-9 Subperiosteal dissection of the masseter muscle The periosteal elevator is used to strip the muscle fibers from the top tothe ... Posterior tothe parotid gland, the nerve trunk is at least cm deep tothe surface of the skin The two divisions proceeds forward in the substance of the parotid gland and divide into their terminal ... of VII The retractor is on the neck of the condyle (*) Note the path of the retromandibular vein (RV) The inferior division of VII can be retracted farther inferiorly to allow access tothe gonial...
... throughout the surgical procedure When the rhytidectomy approach tothe mandible ramus/angle is used, the structures that should be visible in the field include the corner of the eye, the corner of the ... than the posterior (3 mm) and anterior (2 mm) bands The upper surface of the disk adapts tothe contours of the fossa and eminence of the temporal bone, and the lower surface of the disk adapts to ... facelift The deeper dissection is the same as described for the retromandibular approach The main advantage of the rhytidectomy approach tothe ramus is the les conspicuous facial scar The disadvantage...
... Failure to develop the flap close tothe cartilaginous external auditory canal increases the risk of damage to these structures Below the zygomatic arch, dissection proceeds bluntly adjacent tothe ... Dissection above the zygomatic arch tothe level of the superficial layer of the temporalis fascia Dissection below the zygomatic arch along the external auditory meatus tothe same depth 171 ... layer of the temporalis muscle is used to strip periosteum off the lateral portion of the zygomatic arch, and continues the dissection below the arch just superficial tothe capsule of the temporomandibular...
... inflammation He showed that the mouse has distinct advantages over the rat in that it provides the opportunity to dissect the mechanisms involved in inflammatory responses using the molecular (transgenic ... immunological (antibodies) tools, which are more readily available for the mouse than rat To further explore the advantages conferred by using mice the same author also described the development and ... in the study of smoking-related inflammation Mice were exposed to smoke for one to three days and the inflammatory response was studied First he demonstrated the development of an inflammatory...