modeling of the brain for injury simulation and prevention

... Structure of the Thesis The structure of the thesis or the sequence of arguments is illustrated to explain how the three different approaches result in supporting the main aim of the research This thesis ... reductionism is the approach of seeing the parts as paramount and seeking to identify the parts, understand the parts and work up from an understanding of the parts to an understanding of the whole ... complete and more reliable understanding of the world in comparison with the other schools of thought Ackoff (1999) compares the systems school of thought with the erstwhile ones and shows that the

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2016, 15:29

... On the basis of the coordinates of the ROC-curve and the consideration of the Youden-index [69], a cutoff value of 41.5 was suggested for the total scale (see Table 3) The sensitivity (0.806) and ... allow for best comparability with the adult version of the questionnaire, the results for the total scale and for all subscales of the SASKO-J are presented Figure 1a shows the ROC-curve for the ... instrument for the assessment of social anxiety in youths, the SPAIK When directly comparing the correlations of the anxiety and the deficit scales of the SASKO-J with the SPAIK, in three of the four

Ngày tải lên: 14/01/2020, 19:06

... product and stabilization of the carbon cation by the catalytic nucleophile The new reducing end is then transferred to the hydroxyl group at the 3-position of the nonreducing end of another acceptor ... influence the protonation state of the carboxyl group of their side-chain [7] The aim of the present study was to express Gas1p at high levels for biochemical and structural characterization of the ... was determined The effects of the replacement of C74, C105 and C265 with a serine residue on the expression and complementation of the mutant phenotype of the gas1 null mutant of S cerevisiae

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20

... 18,669 brain cancer and 1,105 other CNS cancer Jill S Barnholtz-Sloan, Andrew E Sloan, and Ann G Schwartz Chapter 25 Cancer of the Brain and Other Central Nervous System Trang 2Brain Other CNSReason ... histologic type and sex and histologic type and race Size of tumor information was not analyzed because of the large amount of missing data (46.8%) (Table 25.3) Race and Sex For the analyses of relative ... because the other category is made up of a mix of racial groups As with the brain cancer group, the proportion of whites with other CNS cancer was much higher than the proportion of blacks with the

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20

... Potential issues for the 112th Congress as it examines reauthorization of the Ex-Im Bank include the following: • The economic rationale for the Bank, including the role of the federal government ... 20 Structure of the Ex-Im Bank 20 Maintain Status Quo 21 Reorganize the Functions of the Bank 21 Privatize the Functions of the Bank 22 Terminate the Bank’s Authority 22 Length of Reauthorization ... Congress appropriated $2.5 million for the OIG, and it authorized a limit of $58 million for the Bank’s credit and insurance programs and a limit of $83.88 million for its administrative expenses

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... and Ramey 1995; Katz and Revenga 1989; Murphy and Welch 1991) Blackburn, Bloom and Freeman (1990) evaluate these hypotheses in their study They look into the shifts in the demand and supply of ... measures of shifts in labor demand The authors model the relative labor demand as a function of time (quadratic), the logarithm of real GDP (to control for the business cycle), and the ratio of net ... over the period from 1963 to 1987 (particularly during the 1980s) Across the three decades, differences in the rate of the growth of the supply of college graduates as a fraction of the labor force

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 05:22

... powers whether by reason of the combination of states or otherwise, but with the limitation that in a federal state the State for these purposes shall be the federal organisation and the constituent ... policies of the other in such way as to inhibit the pursuit of separate interests: 12.3.1 the key management (including trustees and nominees) of the reporting entity and the key management of all ... other reporting entities 7 Control means the ability to command the management of a reporting entity either by reason of votes, or by the exercise of influence, or by the right to acquire the

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... motif at the tip of a loop protruding away from the core of the protein This amino-acid motif mimics RGD in terms of charge and is positioned at the tip of a loop and is therefore reminiscent of RGD ... illustrated by the superimposition of the 3D structures of kistrin [32] and cardosin A (Fig 8) The importance of both motifs and in particular their basic residues was fur-ther emphasized by the complete ... bind to the C2 domain, thereby confirming the selectivity of PLDa for cardosin A (Fig 5, lane 4) Pull-down assays with GST-C2 and cardosin A per-formed in the presence of 0.2 mm Ca2+with and with-out

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 11:20

... observations for the human and rat I-FABP, and other members of the FABP family, that the N-terminal halves of these proteins are more highly conserved than their C-terminal halves [27] Mapping of the ... FABP/ligand interaction [14] The essential roles of DHA in CNS development [1,2], the spatial and temporal expression pattern of the B-FABP gene [11–13], and the ligand specificity of B-FABP for DHA ... sequence and the coding capacity of each exon is the same as that for the human and mouse B-FABP genes A 1249 bp sequence 5¢ upstream of exon 1 of the zebrafish B-FABP gene was cloned and sequenced

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 07:20

... adoption of RTOS and the support of multiprocessor Zhu et al (2011) have compared multiple generations of chips for the IWSN, but the software architecture of the stack, especially RTOS and multi-processor ... point-of-view, requires the compression ratio at the order of 102-103, so that the data rate of compressed acceleration data is at the same level of that of the other sensors like temperature and ... attractive if the mobile and wide area deployment is emphasized first For another example, the third-party device and service interface of the IHH terminal is determined by the form of business

Ngày tải lên: 11/05/2014, 17:28

... features of the RNA pol I promoters and rRNA genes from other mammalian species In the genomes of human, mouse and rat, the dis-tance from the beginning of the 18S rRNA sequences to Trang 3the RNA ... upstream from the start of the 18S rRNA gene sequence The resulting MDCK clone then would be tested for RNA pol I promoter activity in vitro. The sequence of the region upstream of the canine 18S ... were derived from isolates of the H6N1, H7N3 and H9N2 subtypes (Table 2) The wt virus which was the source of the HA and NA for the H6N1 reassortant was isolated from teal and con-tains seven segments

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... sources of energy, and components of the physical structure of the cell Today, we understand many aspects of the behavior of the cell and many fragments of the network, but not how it all fits together ... On the biological significance of the properties of matter: L J Henderson’s theory of the fitness of the environment Journal of the History of Biology, 29, 155–96 Fry, I (2000) The Emergence of ... consideration For chemistry, the much lighter surrounding swarm of electrons is the key to a deeper understanding of these fitness properties With the discovery of the nuclear structure of the atom and the...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20

... the National Science Foundation, in part by the U.S Army Signal Corps, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Office of Naval Research, and in part by the National Bureau of Standards ... first and compared among the four languages: 1) the category of gender, 2) the category of animateness, 3) the category of case and number The product of this comparative analysis is a set of formation ... parts of speech of * This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, and in part by the U.S Army Signal Corps, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Office of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... mutant toxins and the analysis of their binding activity to the receptor to investigate the role of mutated amino acid residues; (b) the analysis of the influence of the modification of the cysteine ... followed by pore formation on the cell membrane [14,15] This induces osmotic swelling and bursting of the cell, leading to disruption of the midgut tissue and death of the insect [16] The three-dimensional ... From the results of the IAsys binding analysis, the cysteine substitutions at R281, Q293 and G442 did not seem to influence the conformation of Cry1Aa toxins, as the binding abilities of these...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:21

... quite d Paris > c 138 They went often for walks together in the streets when the weather was fine a often b together c when d was > a 139 In England nobody under the age of eighteen are allowed ... village on the south-west coast of the island a live b is c on d of > b 184 I stop for passengers and empty the five post box along the road a for b and c box d along > c 185 I pick up the school ... lawyer and before he entered politics a served in the Navy as an officer b an officer in the Navy c the Navy had him as an officer d did service in the Navy as an officer > b If one of the participants...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... Improvement of the PSNR of the reconstructed GOF of the original sequence “foreman” when we lose the horizontal subbands of the second spatial resolution level at each temporal resolution level and we ... allowing to transmit information by decreasing order of importance The decoder receives, therefore, the coarser spatiotemporal resolution levels first and then, with the help of the spatiotemporal ... into account the sign of the coefficients As the sign of the coefficients remains an important piece of information, data partitioning can be used to separate it from the magnitude of the coefficients,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 01:20

... (DNA) the hope that an understanding of the complex interplay belonging to a particular organism of genes and the environment will lead to new avenues Genomics: The study of the structure and for ... for Environmental Health and the Office of Genomics and Disease Prevention, or could become a core task of designated academic groups, such as the Centers for Genomics and Public Health or other ... research effort could lead to better ways to classify asthma patients, with implications for prevention and treatment, and to the identification of candidates for innovative prevention strategies The...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20

... membranes of the brain capillary endothelial cell Fig The BBB as a selective sieve With these two functions of the blood brain barrier, the brain capillaries allow the passage of oxygen and other ... to cross the BBB because it may overcome the biological barrier and increase the bioavailability of the drug in the brain and CNS The aim of this thesis is to develop nanoparticles of biodegradable ... growing in the brain [94] There are two basic kinds of brain tumors: primary brain tumors and metastatic brain tumors [95] Primary brain tumors start, and tend to stay, in the brain metastatic brain...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 22:48

... each of the chapters will demonstrate, reinforce, and validate the ever-changing plasticity of the brain So, why combine brains and games? Recently, the media seem to be infatuated with the brain how ... starting with the cerebrum The word comes from the Latin for brain and is the area that most of us think of when we think of the brain it is where all our thinking, memory, language, speech, and movements ... It’s approximately the size of your two fists pressed together and has been described as having the consistency of firm cottage cheese and the texture of soft tofu It consists of approximately...

Ngày tải lên: 22/05/2016, 12:22

... accountants and lawyers in Vietnam in May 2005; and, Discussions with and reviews by officials of the World Bank and the IMF who were well versed in the subjects and/ or the region 1.3 The Structure of the ... suggestions on the draft of the Action Plan for Securities Market Development for the period of 2006-2010; and to comment on the Prime Minister’s Decision No 163 on the Strategy for the Development of Vietnam’s ... Chairman of the SSC, and Mr Pham Phan Dzung, Director of Banking and Financial Institutions Department of the MOF for their guidance and support Mr Nguyen Doan Hung, Vice Chairman of the SSC,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 12:59