collectively referred to as adipokines

... equal to 0.05 was assumed to indicate statistical significance As far as multivariate analyses in the total sample were concerned, two models of linear regression analysis were developed, both assuming ... disability referred to the same geriatric service the prevalence of depressive disorders was found to be even greater (i.e over 70%) [35] Dimensions of QOL associated with frailty status As far as the ... validated assessment tools: the SOF criteria for frailty status, which were dem-onstrated to be applicable to the whole sample, and the OPQOL The OPQOL has excellent applicability to cog-nitively

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... sau: Asenic florur (AsF3), asenic chloride (AsCl3), asenic(III) bromide (AsBr3),asenic Iodide (AsI3), asenic Hidide (AsH3), asenic Oxide (As2O3), asenic sulphide(As2S3), asenic selenide (As2Se3), ... nhiên asen cĩ trong nhiều loại khống vật như realgar As4S4,orpoment As2S3, asenolite As2O3, asenopyrite FeAsS (tới 368 dạng) Trong nước,asen thường ở dạng asenic hoặc asenate (AsO33-, AsO43-) ... asenic telluride (As2Te3) Tính chất chung của cáchợp chất As (III) là thể hiện tính khử 1.3.3.2 Các hợp chất của Asen(V) Trong tự nhiên, As (V) thường tồn tại ở các dạng sau: Asenic floride(AsF5),asenic

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2016, 10:18

... at TASTH assessed incidence of RTA and factors associated with road traffic injury(12) Other studies also assessed the burden of RTA and some of them identified factors contributing to crashes ... risk factors in Ethiopia remains unknown So this study is aimed to assess factors affecting injury severity levels of RTA victims referred to selected public hospitals of Addis Ababa based on ... the whole research process and to aid as guide for tool development and analysis The most important factors are classified based on Haddon Matrix Host related factors  Urbanization status of

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2017, 16:47

... progresses to more advanced topics We hope that it will prove useful as a textbook in universities, as a self-instruction manual for beginners and as a reference for practitioners No attempt has been ... to occur where there is triaxial tensile stress This in turn is most likely to occur in heavily welded, wide, thick sections where the last part of a weld to cool will be unable to contract as ... cover plates were welded to the bottom flanges of the bridge girders to increase their capacity in areas of high bending moment 3 These cover plates were correctly tapered to minimise the sudden

Ngày tải lên: 08/12/2018, 07:55

... total bilirubin was analysed using diazo-nium salt, total protein was tested by a Biuret method and albumin was measured using bromcresol green The mean inter-assay and intra-assay coefficients ... reference range as well as ele-vated) are negatively associated with age We observe neither a decline in serum albumin, nor an increase in bilirubin with increasing age as it was reported by values ... disease), hypertension, DM, metabolic syndrome, and cancers (prostate, colon, gastric, breast, leukemia) in contrast with increased adiponectin levels in ad-vanced liver disease, including NASH-related

Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2020, 21:37

... analysis we found cytopenia (anemia, leukopenia and thrombocytopenia) to be significantly associated with haematological cancer, leucocytosis, thrombocytosis and elevated CRP were associated with ... survival Predictors of cancer Age was found to have a strong association with a can-cer diagnosis which is well known [36, 37, 40] No single non-specific symptom was significantly asso-ciated with ... prior to referral may provide us with better tools to differentiate who to refer and who not to refer Our results suggest that deviations in basic biochemis-try levels could be useful predictors

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2020, 03:32

... reason why the study has been carried out lies in the author’s desire to polish up her teaching skills. To be a future teacher of English, the author hopes to have a good knowledge as well as ... above, the study has been done in order to present some ideas about questioning techniques. The study also aims to provide some ways to exploit eliciting questions to teach English to 11 th form ... also make students more motivated to study. The study of “Using eliciting questions as a technique to teach English to 11th form pupils” is an attempt to provide a basic understanding about English

Ngày tải lên: 27/12/2013, 20:26

... courteously •  That you want to help them •  To see you as the solution to their problem, and not be seen as your problem •  To be treated as mature adults, not as children •  That you will ... of 1-5, “1” denoting Never to “5” denoting Always Develop a list of those areas you need to improve and some steps you could take today to be the success you want to be 1 ... once Good luck! Trang 8R.O.I Your value is a factor of how much you help increase bottom-line profits by either increasing revenues or decreasing costs Profits = Revenues – Costs Trang 10It’s

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 14:20

... that documents about the Oasis band and the Oasis fashion store deal with unrelated topics, but it may as well detect a group of documents discussing why one of the Oasis band members is leaving ... test case (every document) has been manually assigned to some Wikipedia sense. But in our Web Search scenario, 44% of the documents were not assigned to any Wikipedia sense: in practice, our classification ... 2009. Di- versity in Photo Retrieval: Overview of the Image- CLEFPhoto task 2009. CLEF working notes, 2009. M. Ruiz-Casado, E. Alfonseca, and P. Castells. 2005. Automatic Assignment of Wikipedia

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

... 2.5% to maintain anesthesia) prior to and during ultrasound treatment A ligature was used to prevent retraction of the testes into the abdomen by the cremaster muscle during treatment Ultrasound ... bottom of the chamber to dissipate any heat built up in the transducer The transducer was affixed to an offset cam to allow it to rotate in a horizontal plane against the bottom of the ultrasound ... Co., Easton, MD) was used to measure the power output of our transducers at or MHz frequency, at intensities indicated by the Mettler Sonicator 740 to be W/cm2 and W/cm2 The transducer face was

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 17:20

... exposure to beryllium is through inhalation, which in-duces specific sensitization and nonspecific effects leading to chronic berylliumdisease (CBD) CBD is an immunologically mediated granulomatous ... industrial technologies emerged, the risk of occupational exposure to beryl-lium became widespread The environmental burden also increased as a result mod-of emissions from plants producing and processing ... fi-brotic pulmonary disorder with increased numbers of lymphocytes in bron-choalveolar lavage fluid similar to that found in hypersensitive pneumoconitis It has been hypothesized that epithelial

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

... h of treatment, caspase 3 activity was determined Asshown in Fig 4F, Atz and CA9 ASO significantly increased PYM-induced caspase 3 activity in Tca8113⁄ -PYM cells (P < 0.01) as compared with ... of caspase 3 shown was cal-culated from the average of three experiments Each value is expressed as ratio of caspase 3 activation level to untreated level, and the untreated level was set to ... Then, Hoechst33258 was used to detect apoptosis according to a standard procedure, a fluo-rescence microscope was used to observe apoptotic cells, which were typically identified as cells possessing

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 22:21

... and release of ROS from NADPH oxidase and mitochondria, sus- tained increase of the cytosolic Ca 2+ concentration and finally nuclear translocation of mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase ⁄ extracellular ... cells exposed to tumor necrosis factor-alfa (TNF-a) [43]. Taken together, these findings point to basal PARP-1 activity as central to homeostatic regulation of endothelial function, whereas its hyperactivation ... their anti-inflammatory properties [46]. Indeed, PARP inhibitors decrease expression of inflammatory markers ⁄ mediators such as CD11b, cyclooxygenase-2, inducible nitric oxide synthase, TNF-a, IL-1b,

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 03:20

... Less risk-tol-erant investors may want to either hold or enter positions ofour Top 2013 investment idea “Beyond cash,” a broadly diver-sified basket of AA- to BBB rated financials and A to BB ratedcorporates ... ter-ritory and banks are still reluctant to lend to private equity, we do not expect an LBO wave to be unleashed anytime soon Allthe same, we take the case of Dell as a clear warning sign ofmore to ... do not expect yields to increase sharplyfrom here For more risk tolerant investors, we recommend fo-cusing on BBB and BB credits up to around four years matur-ity as well as selected Italian,

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20

... phase [35] The mechanisms highlighted above conceivably also operate in the present case The heat-induced activation of kinases such as Akt has been shown to increase HSF1 activity Enhanced Ras ... the increase in intracellular free Ca2+ level that occurs during the cellular responses to heat shock, serum or growth factors is due to the release of the Ca2+-regulatory compound inositol 1,4,5-triphos-phate ... multiple growth factor recep-tors [10] Following such a typical scenario, the activa-tion of growth factor receptors may in turn activate the Ras⁄ Rac1 pathway, which has been shown to play a critical

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20

... TO ACHIEVING FINANCIAL SUCCESS AS AN ENERGY AUDITOR Trang 2What Is An Energy Audit? History: Energy auditing has been around since the 1970’s but has recently increased in popularity due to ... Software You Need to Calculate Savings and Provide a Professional Report In addition to learning how to conduct an Energy Audit, you need to be able to have the tools to easily calculate and ... elimination of the $10,000 to $20,000 cost in equipment by the energy auditor, there is no longer the need to try and pass those charges onto the client This means energy auditors that conduct “low-cost”

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... of TOR mTOR exists in mammalian cells as two distinct complexes: mTORC1 (composed of mTOR, mLST8 and raptor) regulates cell growth via the effectors S6K1 and 4E-BP1, whilst BIM as a mediator ... Pharmacological inhibitors of the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) kinase ⁄ MAPK cascade interact synergistically with UCN-01 to induce mitochondrial dysfunction and apoptosis in human leukemia ... Pharmacologic mitogen-activated protein ⁄ extracellular signal-regulated kinase kinase ⁄ mitogen-activated protein kinase inhibitors interact synergistically with STI571 to induce apoptosis in Bcr

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

... Before asking your students to form discussion groups, be sure chat they understand how to behave in small groups You might want to ask four to eight students co come to the center of the class to ... had learned to watch and listen as her students talked about the difficult task of adapting to the United States The more she understood, the more she was able to adjust her lessons to their needs ... and books - To listen to the radio and watch TV Trang 29- To talk to people in English - To get a job that requires English skills - To move to an English speaking country - To understand

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 07:20

... The rainy season starts in September, ends in  Trang 2January  and  accounts  for  75%  to  85%  of  the total  yearly  rainfall,  whereas  the  dry  season  lasts  up  to  6  months,  from  February  to  ... by the shrimp farmers. The river water has a  tendency to be polluted due to the wastewater  from the shrimp farms and from other sectors  such as industry and agriculture.  Another  problem  for  the  shrimp  farmers  is  to  ... the  related  actors,  every  actor  has  his  main  interests,  which  are  important  to  find  a  measure, or a combination of measures that is  suitable  for  all  the  actors.  Thirdly, 

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... the next question last-deceased? STOP The customer may not request payment The bond belongs to the estate of the last-deceased Does the customer have evidence of his/her Go to the next question ... Identification Identification as a Customer YES NO Does the customer have an account at your financial institution? Go to the next question Go to the Another Person tab Has the customer’s name been on ... the customer an attorney-in-fact (acting under a power of attorney)? Go to the next question Refer the request to your servicing FRB Savings Bond Processing Site; you may NOT pay to an attorney-in-fact

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20