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... factor-1 The aim of the present study was therefore to determine and compare the ability of normal and OA chondrocytes to modulate the GLUT-1 content and glucose transport in responsetohighand ... identical toand reflects that in the plasma, both under normal conditions and in noninflammatory and inflammatory types of arthritis, excluding those associated with infections [12] To our knowledge, ... chondrocytes [1] Among other responses, ROS have been shown to decrease the synthesis and induce the degradation of cartilage matrix proteins [18], to promote cell death [19], andto alter the regulation...
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... to formal transfers Given the high branch density in Germany, Volksbank and Raiffeisenbank institutions, savings banks and other banks should be the first place migrants go to send money totheir ... which are cheap and slow—or, in the worst case, expensive and slow In development policy terms, and also taking into consideration customer protection it is unfortunate that MTOs and even informal ... decided to stay in Germany for the medium or long term, andto bring their families over Since the end of the 1980s, there has also been an increasing flow of Moroccan students coming to Germany to...
... metalloproteinases and venom complexity J W Fox and S M T Serrano proteins are synthesized in the cytoplasm of secretory cells in the gland and transferred to the rough endoplasmic reticulum, and then ... von Willebrand factor promotes site-specific proteolysis of von Willebrand factor and inhibition of von Willebrand factormediated platelet aggregation FEBS J 274, 3611–3621 50 Kishimoto M & Takahashi ... spacer region, or linker as per their terminology, appears to be accessible to the solvent and contributes to the flexibility observed between the proteinases and the disintegrinlike domains [33]...
... ATP-NADH kinase; it was shown to be localized in the mitochondrial matrix andto be important to several NADPH-requisite mitochondrial processes, e.g resistance to a broad range of oxidative ... pos5 cell on SG solid medium and on and in solid and liquid media lacking arginine (Fig and Table 6), thereby supporting the partial contribution of Utr1p and Yef1p to mitochondrial functions (Fig ... carrying each gene on a high- copy vector or high- copy vector alone were treated as in Fig 4A and spotted on SD solid media (glucose) with (control) and without (–Arg) arginine and SG solid media (glycerol)...
... computes an update to the weight vector based on the current example The resulting weight vector tends to be overfit to the last few examples; one way to reduce overfitting is to use the average ... label, and for an incorrect link Since the history-based feature set used in the parsing algorithm makes it impossible to use independence to factorize the scoring function, an exact search to find ... and OPA There has been some work on machine learning methods where this parameter is tuned automatically (Tipping, 2001), and a possible extension to our work could be to adapt those models to...
... which limits Kanji candidates, is carried out in the course of the segmentation and its evaluation by the cost 3.1 Prototype System A We first developed a prototype Kana -to- Kanji conversion system ... conceptual words (131,66 I) 3.2 System B, C and D , hitoh.a/kigqkikunikositagotol, taarimasen (there is nothing like being watchful) hitohdv'Mga/Idkimi/ko3itcv;kotoha/arimasen In the above examples, ... (b-cost) of a segmentation candidate By this, the collocation tends to have priority over the ordinary word The standard and initial value of each segment cost is 2, and it is increased by for...
... researchers, e.g (Zanzotto and Moschitti, 2006) have utilized a tree kernel method to calculate the similarity between T and H, and (Wang and Neumann, 2007) chose subsequence kernel to reduce the computational ... aspect is very important and we plan to address it in our future work However in this paper we investigate the first and more basic issue: how to successfully use rules in theircurrent form obj X ← ... discovery and data mining, pages 323–328, New York, NY, USA ACM We thank Dekang Lin and Patrick Pantel for providing the DIRT collection andto Grzegorz Chrupała, Alexander Koller, Manfred Pinkal and...
... proteinases, andtheir function suggested to contribute totheir allergenicity Thus, a proteinase function of group I allergens could explain the high prevalence of allergic individuals sensitized to these ... dithiothreitol) and 0.3 mU N-glycosidase A were added to 10 lL expression supernatant (25 lg total protein) and incubated at 37 °C overnight Buffer alone served as the negative control Deglycosylated and ... cysteine residues and other essential amino acids are numbered Areas of high similarity exist around Cys69 and Cys72 and around Trp186, Trp193 and Trp197 The positions of Cys41, 57, 69 and 72 are especially...
... research study was twofold; 1) to explore and identify health supportive design factors in Swedish elderly care homes 2) to understand their usefulness and suggest their application in Korean elderly ... study has intended to examine and identify health supportive design factors of Swedish elderly care homes andto explore the implications to Korean counterparts To directly transfer and apply design ... the elderly persons’ relationship to the outdoors are mostly connected to feeling of trust and safety (Ottosson & Grahn, 1998; Ulrich, 1999) Benches, handrails, and arm supports are some examples...
... first to respond to the Enron crisis Unfortunately, and sadly reminiscent of financial disasters in the 1970s and 1980s, this response will likely be viewed by investors, creditors, lawmakers and ... followers to support flexibility in the accounting field and it will act so as to restrict it It is unreasonable and difficult to suggest to the management boards of all companies to waive immediately ... on the IFRS standards the research and development are capitalized and depreciated Standards development committees of the two agencies recognize the need to bring closer the standards, but nowadays...
... the cisplatin mode to bind with G-rich sequences is vast; in principle, there is the possibility to bind within each guanine, to form intrastrand and interstrand bifunctional and monofunctional ... positive band at approximately 263 nm and a negative band at approximately 240 nm, whereas antiparallel G4 structures, such as basket and chair forms, show two positive bands at approximately 295 and ... and a small amount of interstrand cross-links [20] It is unclear how cisplatin induces cytotoxicity but it is widely attributed to the formation of the major 1,2-GG adduct because the tumor response...
... and in Section 4, a second proof implementing tool (2) above Section discusses the Szeg˝ and quasi-Szeg˝ integrals as entropies and the o o associated semicontinuity, and Section implements tool ... 2π −2 2π dµac /dE − E2 and (5.5) Q(J) = 4π √ −2 log − E2 2π dµac /dE − E dE Our main result in this section is to view Z and Q as functions of µ andto 290 ROWAN KILLIP AND BARRY SIMON prove if ... one -to- one correspondence between µ’s and J’s, it is natural to ask how properties of one are reflected in the other One is especially interested in J’s “close” to the free matrix, J0 with an = and...
... when the company has to pay overtime Recent Advances on Meta-Heuristics andTheir Application to Real Scenarios nal The objectives to minimize the total production time” andto minimize the internal ... evolutionary game theory, and particle swarm optimization The editor would like to eagerly thank the authors for their contribution to this book, and especially the editorial assistance provided ... Advances on Meta-Heuristics andTheir Application to Real Scenarios http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/3434 Edited by Javier Del Ser Contributors Fernando Francisco Sandoya, Dalessandro Vianna, Igor Carlos...
... decision trees, and by growing the trees the context can be extended (or the states can be split) We have named the resulting models SelfOrganizing Markov Models to reflect their ability to automatically ... the subtree for the branch corresponding to v; end end else set the current node to a leaf node; store the probability distribution of t over E; end return current node; UG V Training UG P E G P ... from ti and is estimated by using Good-Turing estimation (Gale and Samson, 1995) If the word, w i is an unknown word, ki is set toand the first term is ignored ei represents suffix of wi and we...
... and brother-in-law Steve, although all younger, earned their doctorates in their chosen fields before I started Their success inspired me My parents whose wisdom and values I try to emulate and ... location, and it may take less time to get to a customer 120 miles away in one direction than to reach a customer only 45 miles away in another direction In general the 60 and 120-mile radii seem to ... various agents who seek out and manage these flows through participating in networks of peers and customers while operating their firms according to routine but historically and geographically specific...
... nurses leads both to a higher exposure to violence, and therefore to higher rates of post traumatic problems, andto a "natural briefing" of the staff, so that nothing is unexpected, and therefore ... is a high secure forensic unit for severely mentally disordered patients too difficult to manage in acute and long-term psychiatric settings Patients referred to Brøset are either sentenced to ... related to higher risk for burnout The compassion fatigue dimension (CF) relates to work-related secondary exposure to extremely stressful events High scores indicate that you are exposed to frightening...
... d2 ≤ · · · ≤ dm−2 ≤ λm−1 ≤ dm−1 ≤ λm (2) When the vector c and the real number b in (1) are taken into consideration, a lower bound of λ1 and an upper bound of λm were developed by using the ... −1 is a factor of the polynomial det(λI − Q) For a vector a ∈ Rn , its Euclidean norm is defined to be n a := i=1 |ai | The first result is about the determinant of an arrowhead matrix and is stated ... elements to be ordered so that d1 < d2 < · · · < dm−1 Furthermore, we may assume that all To apply Theorem for estimating eigenvalues of an irreducible arrowhead matrix Q, we need to decompose Q into...