... using the 7500 Clinical Analyzer (Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) LDH was assayed using an enzymatic rate method with lactate as the substrate (lactate-pyruvate direction) ALT ... study and prepared the manuscript ME and MK participated in the study design MK analyzed clinical data MN and RT drafted the paper All authors read and approved the final manuscript 18 19 Acknowledgements ... Sugimura M, Nishihira J, Matsuura T, Kobayashi T, Kanayama N: Recombinant adenovirus vector bearing antisense macrophage migration inhibitory factor cDNA prevents acute lipopolysaccharide-induced...
... accurate estimation of soil loss or evaluation of erosion risk has become an urgent task Erosion prediction can help to address long range land management planning under natural and agricultural ... 38.2 % of which natural forests is account for 80 % and plantation forests is account for 20% (FPD, 2007) [23] Data sources used for spatial analysis include: National Elevation Dataset (90m x ... integrating a sample ground data set, TM images, anda slope map and showed that the geostatistical method performed significantly better than traditional stratification in terms of overall and...
... Reprinted 2004 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gleadle, Jonathan History and examination ata glance/Jonathan Gleadle p ; cm.Ð (At a glance) Includes index ISBN 0-632-05966-4 (alk.paper) ... Vaginal examination Consider performing a vaginal examination Urine and faeces examination Consider examining urine (dipstick Æ microscopy) and faeces (faecal occult blood) The gastrointestinal ... neglected part of the examination and can feature as an instruction in clinical examinations Inspection Palpate for popliteal aneurysms, ausculate for femoral bruits Examine for oedema, calf swelling,...
... Leiomyosarcoma Melanoma Ovarian carcinoma Ovarian sarcoma Pancreatic cancer Pharyngeal cancer Plasmocytoma Pleural mesotelioma Prostatic cancer Rectum carcinoma Thymic carcinoma Thyroid carcinoma Tonsillar ... lymphatic leukaemia (B-CLL) B-cell Lymphoma (NHL) Breast cancer Bronchial carcinoma (NSCLC) Carcinoma unclear primary (CUP) Cervix carcinoma Colon carcinoma Gallbladder carcinoma Hypernephroma Leiomyosarcoma ... resilience in dealing with cancer disease and formation of perspective According to our experience in cancer patients, we also integrated items on heat regulation, because a feeling of comfort and...
... self-efficacy) At T1 we measured the full SMAS-S Analyses Internal consistency of the three subscales (SMAS and SMAS-S) at T0 was assessed by calculating Cronbach’s alphas At T1 we calculated Cronbach’s ... somewhat less favourable but still acceptable fit indices and comparable factor loadings Internal consistency and inter-correlations Internal consistency as represented by Cronbach’s alpha ranged ... were screened for univariate and bivariate normality, and to detect outliers Data screening information was taken into account in the stepwise procedure of the item reduction analysis In general,...
... HBV and HCV is a complicated issue commonly encountered in an area where HBV is prevalent, such as Asia Dual HBV and HCV infections have been found to accelerate the clinical deterioration of patients ... dual HBV and HCV infections Consent Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report and any accompanying images A copy of the written consent is available ... Sharma RK, Bansal SB, Gupta A, Gulati S, Kumar A, Prasad N: Chronic hepatitis C virus infection in renal transplant: treatment and outcome Clin Transplant 2006, 20:677-683 Yen TH, Huang CC, Lin...
... Linear discriminate analysis NADH Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide NBI Narrow Band Imaging NHG National Healthcare Group NIR Nearinfrared NNCLSM Non-negativity-constrained least squares minimization ... detection of precancer and cancer in the colon 1.3 Challenges for Colonoscopy Screening To date, colonoscopy is the accepted gold standard for the screening and surveillance of colon cancer In general, ... Autofluorescence AJCC American Joint Committee on Cancer ANOVA Analysis of variance ANSI American National Standards Institute CCD Charge coupled device CT Computed tomography DR Diffuse reflectance FAD...
... statistical multivariate method is supervised It searches for the variables containing the greatest interclass variance and the smallest intraclass variance, and constructs a linear combination ... 900 cm)1 arise mainly from phosphate associated with nucleic acids, i.e DNA and RNA The absorption bands at 1245 and 1087 cm)1 are characteristic of asymmetric and symmetric phosphodiester vibration ... reduction that builds linear combinations between variables (wavenumbers) varying together The first linear combination is called the first principal component, and contains almost 98% of the variance...
... VMR, a lack of increase in the O2Hb concentration, and an uncompensated increase of the CO2Hb concentration Page 10 of 13 (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of NeuroEngineering and ... pattern constantly moves in the 2D plane towards the increasing CO2Hb concentration direction and the increase in the O2Hb concentration is insufficient As a consequence, the VMR pattern is never ... strong O2Hb increase; 3) end of the vasoreactivity and plateau region for the O2Hb concentration, with increasing CO2Hb concentration Chromophores concentration changes were acquired continuously...
... Tonner PH, Paris A, Nienaber CA, Scholz J, Schulte am Esch J: Induced arterial hypotension for interventional thoracic aortic stent-graft placement: impact on intracranial haemodynamics and cognitive ... not for citation purposes) Critical Care Vol 10 No Bein et al PM performed the transcranial Doppler studies and analysed TCD data EC carried out anesthesia and instrumentation of the animals and ... and severe complications have been described [4] Nearinfraredspectroscopy (NIRS) is a non-invasive technique capable of detecting changes in cerebral oxygenation and cerebral blood volume continuously...
... data, analysis and interpretation, and drafting the manuscript MP contributed to conception, design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation, and drafting the manuscript Competing interests ... magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which indicated that dobutamine has the ability to increase cardiac output and limb Možina and Podbregar Critical Care 2010, 14:R42 http://ccforum.com/content/14/2/R42 ... Near- infraredspectroscopy during stagnant ischemia estimates central venous oxygen saturation and mixed venous oxygen saturation discrepancy in patients with severe left heart failure and additional...
... NEAR- INFRARED CONFOCAL RAMAN SPECTROSCOPYFOR REAL-TIME DIAGNOSIS OF CERVICAL PRECANCER SHIYAMALA DURAIPANDIAN 2014 NEAR- INFRARED CONFOCAL RAMAN SPECTROSCOPYFOR REAL-TIME DIAGNOSIS OF CERVICAL ... 4.6 Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves of discrimination results for cervical precancer classification using in vivo confocal Raman, NIR AF and the composite NIR AF/Raman spectroscopy, ... with precancer transformation The study disclosed that the complementary information obtained from FP and HW confocal Raman spectroscopy can enhance the in vivo diagnosis of cervical precancer It...
... autofluorescence analysis of variance American National Standards Institute basal cell carcinoma back focal length band-pass back-illuminated CCD classification and regression tree congenital cystic adenomatoid ... and Treatment of Cervical Cancer Cervical cancer has a defined premalignant phase for many years This allows a long time for screening or diagnosis of premalignant changes or malignancy at early ... and cancer is based on the fact that a big amount of molecules in biological tissues are Raman-active and meanwhile show significant changes accompanying tissue premalignant and malignant transformation...
... Jasna Mastilović and Nineta Majcen Chapter 12 Vis/ Near- and Mid- InfraredSpectroscopyforPredictingSoilNandCataFarmScale Haiqing Yang and Abdul M Mouazen 185 Chapter 13 The Application ... cortical activation, brain oxygenation and haemodynamic activation The second section, Cereals, Fruits and Plants includes chapters In this section one can find applications of MIRS and NIRS in ... Spectroscopy in Life and Biomedical Sciences Theophile Theophanides Section Brain Activity and Clinical Research Chapter Use of Near- InfraredSpectroscopy in the Management of Patients in Neonatal Intensive...
... generation In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing ... schemas and their participants In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural ... modelling In Proceedings of the Fifth international Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pages 1222–1225 Dan Klein and Christopher D Manning 2003 Accurate unlexicalized parsing In...
... changes included a decrease in the a- helix at 1658 cm)1 and an increase in the b-sheet at 1631 cm)1 In addition, MgATP significantly altered the denaturation pattern of cat-f because it protected ... correlation spectrum of dynamic spectral intensity variations represents the simultaneous occurrence of coincidental changes in spectral intensities measured at m1 and m2 Correlation peaks appear at ... significant change in the synchronous contour map because the autopeaks were now centred at 1617 and 1648 cm)1, indicating that the component which decreased due to denaturation was now the one assigned...
... research made use of Montage, funded by the National Aeronautics and SPace Administration’s Earth Science Technology Office, Computation Technologies Project, under Cooperative Agreement Number NCC5-626 ... between NASA and the California Institute of Technology Montage is maintained by the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive C Boersma acknowledges support by an appointment to the NASA Postdoctoral ... column we compare cation, neutral, and anion contribution to the fit previous spectroscopic laboratory and quantum chemical calculation studies by e.g Hudgins & Allamandola (1999); Hony et al (2001);...