a statistical model of morphology and context

... Trang 1R E S E A R C H Open AccessBifurcation analysis of a diffusive model of pioneer and climax species interaction Jianxin Liu and Junjie Wei* * Correspondence: weijj@hit.edu.cn Department of ... Department of Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang 150001, PR China Abstract A diffusive model of pioneer and climax species interaction is considered We perform a detailed ... the existence of positive equilibrium are given The critical values of the para-meter for Hopf bifurcation occurring are also searched And the stability and direction of the bifurcating periodic

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... 5'-GCCTCCAGCATGAAAGTCTC, 3'-TAAAACAGGGT-GTCTGGGGA), IL-1β (5'-TGCACGATGCACCTGTACGA, 3'-AGGCCCAAGGCCACAGGTAT), IL-6 (5'-GTTCCTGCA-GAAAAAGGCAAAG, 3'-CTGAGGTGCCCATGCTA-CATTT), matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-3 ... TNF-α-induced nuclear translo-cation of NF-κB, and does not inhibit phosphorylation and degradation of IκB, or a c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) and a caspase-activating pathway in Jurkat T cells [20,21] ... affects nearly 1% of the population worldwide and can lead to significantly impaired quality of life Mortality rates are also significantly increased in patients with RA, and currently available

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... Hayes-Skelton and Graham 2013) Hayes-Skelton and Graham (2013) have investigated the relationship between mindfulness, decentering, and social anxiety and found support for the model of Shapiro and colleagues ... to as partial correlations, namely, r2XY M, as the squared partial correlation of Y and X, partialed for the influence of the mediator M, and r2MY X representing the squared par-tialed correlation ... not to speak German as their first language and that they have lived in Germany for less than 5 years Based on the Mahalanobis distance statistic (Kline 2011) none of these participants was identified

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 13:59

... cell carcinoma: the role of vacuolar ATPases Cancer Lett 2010, 295(2):135 –143. 9 Perez-Sayans M, Suarez-Penaranda JM, Pilar GD, Barros-Angueira F, Gandara-Rey JM, Garcia-Garcia A: Hypoxia-inducible ... hand-drawn around each tumor and within dorsal cervical muscles, to determine maximum and average tumor uptake (Tmaxand Tav), and average muscle uptake (M) These are standardized uptake values ... uptake of tumor to uptake of muscle were calculated (Tmax/M and Tav/M) as relative measures of tumor hypoxia Statistical analysis All numerical variables were tested for deviation from a normal

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2020, 06:22

... survive and the average fish is larger The natural mortality rate of salmon in the fishery, (s, a), is a function of salmon and alewife biomass We assume the salmon mortality rate is a decreasing, ... function of alewife biomass, (s, a)/a < 0, 2(s, a)/(a)2  0, so that as alewife biomass increases, ultimately salmon reach a minimum mortality rate We also assume that   a a 0 and  ... that this is not a helpful approach and can actually lead to the wrong conclusions Trang 16candidate programs and comparing them” (Dasgupta and Maler 2003) We therefore now turn toa numerical

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2022, 18:58

... COE faculty and administrators are alumni of the ADVANCE seminar and, as such, each has developed an Action Plan These plans are informed by the new understandings of difference and systems of ... personal and professional lives; a critical history of engineering; and exploration of team roles and the importance of understanding one’s own personality and inclinations when participating on a ... transformational education, (3) research and innovation, and (4) partnerships Goal 1 in particular commits the college to becoming a national model of Trang 4inclusivity and collaboration, as

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2022, 00:21

... range of data nSTART builds on this foundation to explain data about conditioning and memory consolidation, as it is affected by early and late amygdala, hippocampal, and cortical lesions, as ... basal ganglia to sim-ulate its targeted data, even though the basal ganglia and amygdala work together to provide motivational support, focus attention, and release contextually appropriate ac-tions ... Eq.4) Habituative transmitter gates The habituative transmittergate at each sensory cortical cell accumulates at a constantrate up to a maximum value, and is inactivated at a rate pro-portional to

Ngày tải lên: 26/07/2023, 07:40

... ACLT and saline treatment; (d) ACLT and BQ-123 treatment; (e) ACLT and R-954 treatment; (f) ACLT and BQ-123+R-954 dual treatment Red arrows indicate articular cartilage Sagittal views Scale bar, ... leg × 100 All values are given as mean ± standard deviation (SD) per experimental group Statistics Static weight bearing data were analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA), which ... material Additional file 1: Rat anterior cruciate ligament transection and intra-articular injection Detailed descriptions and macro photographs of rat anterior cruciate ligament transection and

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:23

... Rüttinger1†, Margareta Rusan1, Robert Kammerer2, Wolfgang Zimmermann3, Rudolf A Hatz1and Hauke Winter1 Abstract Background: Active-specific immunotherapy used as an adjuvant therapeutic strategy is rather ... 95 and 105 days of age and we detected no difference between vaccinated mice and untreated controls (data not shown) The efficacy of LRAST is accompanied by a decrease of Tregs Several publications ... Trang 1R E S E A R C H Open AccessCombination immunotherapy and active-specific tumor cell vaccination augments anti-cancer immunity in a mouse model of gastric cancer Natasja K van den

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... using Axiovision 3.1 software Digital images were analyzed using KS300 analysis program (Zeiss) Percentage of immunostained area (area of immunostaining/total image area × 100) was Table 1: Summary ... Single ANOVA statistical analysis was used to assess the significance of the differences in plaque area, glial and C3 activation products reactivity among the animals groups A second method of quantification ... thioflavine and anti CD45 reactivity Figure 2 Immunization of animals at 12–16 months with MAPA β1–33 decreases thioflavine and anti CD45 reactivity A Representative photomicrographs of thioflavine

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... Program of Shanghai Municipality (S30202), Shanghai Key Project of Basic Science Research (10411954500), and Program for Outstanding Medical Academic Leader of Shanghai (LJ 06003) Author details ... TNFalpha, and INFgamma concentrations are elevated in patients with atypical and idiopathic parkinsonism Neurosci Lett 2008, 441:158-162 Nagatsu T, Sawada M: Biochemistry of postmortem brains ... performed according to the NIH Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals and were approved by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine Animal Care and Use Committee (2009087) Male

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... The AMALGHMA (Advanced Measurement Algorithms for Hardware Architectures) tool has been implemented for automating the measuring activities AMALGHMA adopts a set of statistical methods, such as ... the proper platform and software that satisfy a given set of requirements Measurement of the actual performance and energy consumption characteristics on real hardware is often not feasible, since ... is applied to model a real platform, namely, NXP LPC2106, and a theoretical multiprocessor platform The high level of abstraction of the proposed models allows for fast but accurate estimates Additionally,

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... pine) and Pinus radiata (radiata pine) stands under a range of silvicultural alternatives, harvesting scenarios and stand productivities that are common in South Europe, and re-late this values ... each state of the standard stands over time allowed to estimate the stand table before and after thinning, and also the temporal dynamics of nutrient content in tree biomass A full cov-ering of ... thinnings and clear-cutting as a function of thinning intensityand site quality for radiata pine stands, in the case of conventional harvesting (no debarked wood) and rotation length of 30 years 3.4

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:21

... Cavitation of the gray matter was seen within cranial and caudal lesions of the SCI site Vacuolar formations and cavitation acted as a physical barrier to the growth of anatomically intact axons ... positive areas Statistical analysis used SPSS 12.0 software (SPSS, USA) Kruskal-Wallis analysis for Olby scores and one- way ANOVA for SEP values and Luxol fast blue positive areas were used p-value ... (Sigma, USA) to 293FT cells (Invitrogen, USA) Cell culture media was changed the day after transfection and supernatant was harvested at 48 and 72 h after transfection Viral supernatant was filtered

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... Trang 1Original articleA generic model of forest canopy conductance dependent on climate, soil water availability and leaf area index André Graniera,*, Denis Loustaub and Nathalie Brédaa a ... Two examples are Quercus petraea, for both the control and thinned stands, and Simarouba amara (tropical) In other tree species (Abies bornmulle-riana, temperate, and Eperua falcata, tropical), ... effects of solar radiation (R), vapour pressure deficit (D), leaf area index (LAI) and extractable soil water Canopy con-ductance was calculated from transpiration measured in 21 broadleaved and

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22

... anti-ssDNA antibodies in mice before and 7 days and 14 days post-injection of LPS Values are expressed in arbitrary ELISA units (AEU) related to a standard positive sample that was assigned a value ... erythematosus (SLE) is a disease character-ized by the production of a variety of auto-antibodies against ubiquitous intracellular and cell surface antigens Detailed analysis of these autoantibodies ... incubated for 72 hours at 37°C DNase activity in the supernatants was measured by DNA-MG assay, as set out below DNA-methyl green assay DNase I activity in urine and supernatant samples was quanti-fied

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... idea and participated in its design, data analysis, and the writing of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Trang 9Additional filesAcknowledgements The authors thank ... guidelines of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Autoantigen microarrays Antigens were printed in ordered arrays on FAST slides (Whatman, now part of GE Healthcare, Piscataway, NJ, USA) Arrays ... Inc (South San Francisco, CA, USA) and XDx, Inc (Brisbane, CA, USA) and is a cofounder of and consultant to Bayhill Therapeutics (San Mateo, CA, USA) DLT is currently an employee of Genentech,

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... in a rat model of Parkinson's disease Abstract Although gait change is considered a useful indicator of severity in animal models of Parkinson's disease, systematic and extensive gait analysis ... Histological evaluation of stem cell transplantation At four weeks after 6-OHDA-lesioning and at eight weeks after transplantation, animals were perfusion-fixed transcar-dially with a fixative (4% paraformaldehyde ... features of Parkin-sonian gait are probably manifestations of adaptive mechanisms to avoid unsteadiness and falling during walk-ing In conclusion, the CatWalk-assisted automated gait anal-ysis

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... All statistical analysis was performed in Matlab R14 (Nat-ick, MA) and Statistica v7 (Tulsa, OK, USA) An alpha level of 0.05 was considered statistically significant for all anal-yses Analysis of ... was measured by Imagene™ software (BioDiscovery, El Segundo, CA) PCR validation of array data Reverse transcription Three cord blood samples (C1, C2, and C5) and three adult samples (A1, A5, and ... cytometry was analyzed by non-parametric t-test (Mann-Whitney test) An alpha level of 0.05 was considered statistically signifi-cant Statistical analysis Microarrays were normalized and tested for

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:21