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... but in line with others [33] This difference between our study and others could result from differences in the EMG recording technique or in the sharpness of the between-groups weight matching In ... that, in OSAS patients studied awake, the MEPgg latency was inversely correlated with the AHI In other words, the more severe was the OSAS and hence the instability of the upper airway, the more ... Cz-AL-TMS in the OSAS patients, but not in the nor-mal individuals In both groups the amplitudes of the MEPgg in response to AL-TMS and Cz-TMS increased dur-ing tongue protraction in comparison

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... the study of eicosanoid release in equine synovial joints To evaluate the relative abun-dance of these lipid mediator species in normal and inflamed joints and investigate the effects of COX inhi-bition ... first peak of the main trace, confirming the identity of this analyte as PGE 2 rather than PGD 2 Note the difference in scales of the left y-axis (showing ion count for PGE 2 ) and the right ... (as was done in the present case for TXB2and PGE2) could aid in definitive identification The recovery of analytes in this study was estimated by comparing peak areas of the IS in spiked and

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:22

... Asp299Gly/Thr399Ile variation There have been conflicting reports on the influence of this SNP on severity of infections or outcome in prospective trials [11] Two SNPs within the gene coding for the intracellular ... were either hospitalized in the Depart-ment of Critical Care of the Evangelismos' General Hos-pital or in the second Department of Critical Care of the ATTIKON University Hospital of Athens, ... homozygous The distribution of SNPs in the studied patients and the cohort of healthy controls is shown in detail in Table 1 Clinical influence of genotypes on postoperative infection severity in surgical

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... signaling and adaptor proteins.ECM binding initiates clustering of integrins in the plane of the membrane andreorganization of the actin cytoskeleton, which further stimulates the organization ofintegrins ... regulated in patients with Kindler syndrome, an autosomal recessive skin disorder.They therefore defined a family of kindlin-related proteins namely Kindlin-1, Kindlin-2 (mig-2) and Kindlin-3 (Siegel ... against different drugs in 4 cell lines A) One-Step RT-PCR showing the expression status of mig-2 in the 4 cell lines B) The absolute value oflogGI50 of anticancer drugs against these 4 cell lines,

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 22:15

... a factor influencing extent of resection in IDH-mut astrocytomas To our knowledge, this is the first study investigating the clinical factors and extent of re-section in relation to the mismatch ... on MRI examinations Areas attributed to mainly edema without convincing signs of tumor invasion were excluded In the gliomas with T2-FLAIR mismatch sign we used the outer margin of the peripheral ... le-sions) The rationale for “blindly” including these pa-tients was to enable the evaluation of the mismatch sign in a group with rather similar MRI appearance, but also differential diagnoses of LGG,

Ngày tải lên: 30/05/2020, 21:50

... differences in the detection rate of LVI could be due to variations in the detection methods The use of H & E staining, an elastic fiber stain and immunostaining are currently ac-cepted methods in the ... have investigated the prognostic sig-nificance of LVI in relation to GC in small selected co-horts The results of these studies indicated that the presence of LVI, either in the blood or lymphatics, ... system of GC as stated in the NCCN Guidelines for Gastric Cancer of 2013 [21] In this large-scale retrospective study, through the use of H & E staining, LVI was determined to be present in resected

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2020, 10:45

... BCLXL [15] The formation of heterodimers be-tween BAX and other members of the BCL2 family is in-volved in the regulation of apoptosis [16,17] The high importance of BAX for the control of apoptotic ... variety of tumors can arise in the nasopharynx, the most common being the nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) NPC belongs to the family of lymphoepithelial carcinomas; these morphologically distinctive ... mixture containing 2 μg of total RNA, following the manufacturer’s instructions Quantitative real-time PCR Since the four coding splice variants of the BAX gene encode proapoptotic protein isoforms,

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2020, 06:43

... rewarding for elu-cidating the ‘yin-yang’ role of these factors in breast cancer As DC-SCRIPT can inhibit ERa and PR activity, a sec-ond aim of the study was to address whether DC-SCRIPT affects the ... therapy The significant relationships ofDC-SCRIPT as a continuous variable in these univariate analyses justified the use of the previously identified cut point that dichotomized the cohort in ... 2000 The study was performed in accor-dance with the Code of Conduct of the Federation of Medical Scientific Societies in The Netherlands [10], and consent was not required Wherever possible, the

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2022, 09:03

... ‘Poultry of the Middle’ The purpose of this study is to offer a first attempt at a description and analysis of the businesses of ‘Poultry of the Middle’ in the U.S We believe that the group of businesses ... processing, the role of the farmer/growers in the business structure and the niche marketing characteristics of products from poultry businesses of the Middle The study seeks to better understand these ... study involved basic research using the Internet and interviewing key informants Multiple key informants were identified through contacts in the industry and on the Internet Informants were interviewed

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20

... andpassing by the "Standing Stone of the Lunatics" (Cloghnagalt) Of these waters they drink, and eat the cressesgrowing on the margin; the firm belief being that the healing water, and the ... 1Chapters in the History of the Insane inby Daniel Hack Tuke The Project Gutenberg EBook of Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles, by Daniel Hack Tuke This eBook is for the use of ... from the kindly doctrines of the good Pinel." "I am not here detailing what happened in the Middle Ages It is of the nineteenth century of what living men saw that I write." In the Inverness

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 23:20

... quality of life possesses implica-tions for theory development Findings of this study pro-vide preliminary support for the qualitatively-derived theoretical underpinnings of the instrument The PLA ... This study was part of a series of studies designed to eval-uate psychometric properties of newly developed instru-ments In determining sample size, the number of items contained in the target instruments, ... aloud in English Scoring of the Participation in Life Activities Scale is completed by computing the mean scores for each of the three indicators before summing the indicator scores Figure 1 Scoring

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... each of the three indicators before summing the indicator scoresFigure 1 Scoring of the Participation in Life Activities Scale is completed by computing the mean scores for each of the three indicators ... lection. Power analysis In determining sample size for psychometric testing, the number of items contained in the target instrument, sen- sitivity of other instruments being used, and data analysis ... advertising the studies were offered to families through physicians' offices and schools. Families interested in learning about the study contacted the PI. After being informed of the purpose

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... complexes The liver is the main source of these proteins in peripheral blood, but they are also synthesized in other organs including the brain [31] Protein fragments generated during activation of the ... between the entorhinal cortex and the molec-ular layer of the dentate gyrus [106,107], systemic admin-istration of the excitotoxin kainic acid [108,109], or injection of the neurotoxin colchicine into ... mouse strains [94], and the decreased efficiency of binding of mouse C1q by the human Aβ within the SPs in these animals [95] It is not known whether a similar decrease in the efficiency of acti-vation

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... recently shown differences in the Akt and Erk signalling pathways in dominant compared to subordinate follicles The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of inhibiting Akt and Erk phosphorylation ... with subordinate follicles [21,22] The objectives of the studies reported here were to examine the interactions of the gonadotrophins and IGF with the Akt and Erk signal-ling pathways in theca and ... fluid concentration of 50 μM of the inhibitors, and 50 μM (0.005%) of the DMSO Concentrations of the inhibitors were based on the treatments used in vitro in Experiment 2. The ewes recovered from

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... is very interesting as it is connected with the fixed point problem for nonlinear mapping and the problem of finding a zero point of an accretive operator in Banach spaces, see9 11 and the references ... recently, in 2009, Yao et al 5 introduced the following system of general variational inequalities in Banach spaces For given two operators A, B : C → X, they considered the problem of findingx∗, ... sequences in 0, 1 and u ∈ C. In this paper, motivated and inspired by the idea of Yao et al.5 and Cheng et al 6 First, we introduce the following system of variational inequalities in Banach

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... algorithms for finding fixed points of nonexpansive mappings have received vast investigationcf 1,2 since these algorithms find applications in variety of applied areas of inverse problem, ...  Then, as t → 0, the net {x t } converges strongly to a fixed point x∗of T which solves the variational inequality: Ax∗, x∗− u ≤ 0, u ∈ FT. 3.17 SettingF  I, the identity mapping, inTheorem ... 0, the net {x t } converges strongly to a fixed point x∗of T which solves the variational inequality: Fx∗, x∗− u ≤ 0, u ∈ FT. 3.4 Proof We first show the uniqueness of a solution of the

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... harness aesthetic considerations in the service of the moral, rather than simply ignoring the role of the aesthetic in motivating action or seeing morally charged situations in terms of bald conflict ... it. The relative neglect of the domain of the everyday within the discipline of aesthetics is unfortunate, for this domain offers the prospect of significant satisfactions that are different in ... Discussions of the role of the aesthetic in everyday life are not entirely unheard of: in a recent article in this Journal ( In Search of the Aesthetic’, British Journal of Aesthetics, vol....

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20

... cost-effective way of as- sessing health risks; the identification of all risk points along the chain of events from the origin of the wastewater to the consumption of the produce (e.g. the farm-to-fork ... Ho- epner,2008). There is scope to improve the sustainability of the desalination process. The process results in the discharge of a concentrated brine into the receiving waters. Temperature and salinity ... approach of the HAPPC meth- od in food safety); the design of a combination of health risk management mea- sures, to be applied along the same chain of events, with the aim of ensuring health...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

... and market malfunctioning in the crisis. In the remainder of this section, I will explain these flaws, their origins and their effects, and indi- cate how they interacted in the crisis. 4.2 Excessive ... short of the claim of the senior tranche, the holders of the mezzanine tranche get nothing. If the return on the mortgage portfolio lies be- tween the claim of the senior tranche and the sum of the ... of the senior and mezzanine tranches, the holders of the mezzanine tranche get the entire excess of the return over the claim of the senior tranche and share it according to the shares of the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20

... for drafting the outline of the document following recommendations from the meeting of experts held in Manila, the Philippines, in 2010. The document was revised and updated after an international ... overcome by increasing the penicillin dose). Tetracyclines rapidly met the same fate as penicillins. Fluoroquinolones, such as ciprofloxacin, became the drug of choice for treating gonococcal infections ... engaging with international and national media to highlight the issue of STIs in general and AMR in particular. Some of the actions to be pursued include the following: ã building the capacity of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20