the role of medical engineering and information technology

... 9rel-evant parameters in vivo have lead the medical imagingfield.218,229 XIII ULTRASONIC THERAPY The topic of ultrasonic therapy and the role of medical physics therein is too large to cover adequately ... thickness and speed of sound Rather, the skull varies in thickness, density, acoustic absorp-tion, and speed of sound, resulting in deformation of the path of the longitudinal transmitted sound These ... preinjection of Optison® Isotherms drawn at 3 and 4 °C are superimposed on the T1-weighted images in the insets With Optison®, the length of the focal zone was reduced, and the heating was centered at the

Ngày tải lên: 19/11/2022, 11:38

... participants use to interact and solve problems The other is technology affordance: the strengths and weaknesses of technologies in terms of the usefulness they offer to teams when performing ... communicate using text, and the body of the document was available for members of high technology affordance teams to input and view task information There were two phases to the study In the first phase, ... arguments on all the decision information in the discussion, not just on the individual information held In addition, each individual again ranked the suitability of all of the candidates, and all members

Ngày tải lên: 10/01/2020, 05:23

... 4Abstract of Dissertation Presented to the Graduate School of Argosy University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Business Administrati THE ROLE OF IMPORT ... was the relationship of economic growth and the development strategies of import substitution and ©€XDOFE OFICfIEAÍOTi con n ng se 63 What was the relationship of foreign direct investment and ... owing two-fifths of the change to traditional exports (agriculture and the other primary commodities) and three-fifths to the expansion of manufactured exports The structure of merchandise exports

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... cells or in vitro, but in the presence of p21/waf1, the amount of cyc-lin D/cdk4 complexes increased They also reported that only p21/waf1 and not other members of the CIP/KIP family performed ... dependent on the CREB binding motif of Tax [5] This up-regulation of p21/waf1 by Tax appeared to be in conflict with the role of Tax in promoting tumorigenesis For this reason, the role of p21/waf1in ... + TNF Trang 6cycle To observe the expression of cyclin D2 and p21/waf1 during the various stages of the cell cycle, a time course study for the expression of these proteins was per-formed Cells

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... Trang 1ELUCIDATING THE ROLE OF REDOX EFFECTS AND THE KU80 C-TERMINAL REGION IN THE REGULATION OF THE HUMAN DNA REPAIR PROTEIN KU Sara M McNeil Submitted to the faculty of the University Graduate ... wasn’t sure of myself and for unwavering support of my goals Trang 5ABSTRACT Sara M McNeil ELUCIDATING THE ROLE OF REDOX EFFECTS AND THE KU80 TERMINAL REGION IN THE REGULATION OF THE HUMAN DNA ... removal of the C-terminus of Ku80 the kinase activity of DNA-PK is drastically decreased Due to the highly flexible nature of the C-terminus of Ku80 36), it is not present in the crystal structure of

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2014, 11:02

... proliferation and apoptosis Many of these processes are hallmarks of cancer and NF-κB has been hypothesised to have a role in tumorigenesis The aim of the current study was to investigate the role of both ... and to the members of his team and others in SIPBS who helped me during my time there, particularly Katy and Emma Many thanks to all my family and friends for being there when I needed them and ... bibliographic details including the author, title, awarding institution and date of the thesis must be given Trang 2The role of IKKalpha, IKKbeta and NF-kappaB in the progression of breast cancer Lindsay

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 21:49

... decentralization and diversity Where RM theory stresses resources and organization and downplays the role of culture and identity, the French School views the “formulation of grievances and the articulation ... NSM theories tend to over-emphasize the genesis of, and the factors that lead to, the birth of social movements and, consequently, neglects the dynamics of movement processes such as the role of ... possible and deepened our understanding of the evolution of social movements Cognizant of the key theories reviewed above, the existing theoretical gaps and the increased prevalence of new media

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:52

... Sathyavageeswaran, and Dr Esther Wong for all the cell lines and reagents, and constructive suggestions that they have given me for the completion of the NF-κB and WIP1 project, and also not forgetting ... cell surface, and further promote clonal expansion of cancerous cells In the case of the IL-1 and TNF cytokine, interaction of these cytokines to their respective receptors on the cancer cell ... al., 1993) On the other end of the spectrum, the gain of function of the oncogene Bcl2 promote cancer Its antiapoptotic effect was shown in transgenic mice, whereby the overexpression of Bcl2 promoted

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 08:45

... which mediate the intercellular transport of sterols and other lipids, cannot pass the blood-brain barrier Nervous tissue is capable of cholesterol synthesis and the synthesis rate and cholesterol ... neurodegeneration Our study aims to contribute to the understanding of cholesterol in the process of neurodegeneration and the development of effective prevention and therapeutic intervention for neurodegenerative ... well-described, the fate of LDL-derived cholesterol is the subject of much investigation (Alberts et al., 2002; Brown and Goldstein, 1986) At the final stage of endocytosis, both proteins and lipids enter the

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:06

... by the availability of substrates and cofactors Mainly for these reasons the constitutive and inducible isoforms of NOS are often referred to as low- and high-output pathways of NO generation respectively ... results show for the first time that both NOF and 1400W are able to downregulate the biosynthesis of pro-inflammatory H2S most probably via the inhibition of transduction of the proteasome – ... with either equivalent volume of vehicle, flurbiprofen or nitroflurbiprofen of either saline (sham), E.Coli LPS (LPS) or LPS pre-treatment with either equivalent volume of vehicle, flurbiprofen

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 14:16

... after the end of the experiment The descending thoracic aorta was removed, avoiding the fats and connective tissues and placed in a petri dish of oxygenated Krebs solution The whole length of the ... via the right femoral vein for administration of fluids and drugs After cannulation at the artery, the distal end of the cannula is tunneled under the skin to exteriorize at the nape of the Trang ... were calculated by the integration of the distance of the chosen sections The presence of cerebral edema was corrected by dividing the total lesion volume by the ratio of the total right hemisphere/left

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 15:54

... Prolonged hemorrhagic shock model: the role of NO and angiotensin II and the therapeutics effects of conservative fluids, NOS donor and inhibitors Paper 4 Chapter 6: Role of NOS inhibitors in rats ... 4: Prolonged hemorrhagic shock model: the role of nitric oxide (NO) and prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) and the therapeutic effects of conservative fluids, NOS and COX-2 inhibitors Paper 3 Trang 2Chapter ... Pathophysiology of prolonged hemorrhagic shock Papers 1 & 4 Chapter 3: Prolonged hemorrhagic shock rat model: the role of nitric oxide (NO) and the therapeutics effects of conservative fluids and NOS

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 15:54

... transit; and 2) tegaserod could improve bloating and intestine transit in these patients Therefore, the objective of this study is to investigate the symptomatology of bloating, the role of gastrointestinal ... diffusion into the blood and for bacterial consumption Therefore, the rate of gas transit is a critical factor that influences the volume and composition of gas in the different regions of the gut (El ... stability of the internal environment and to assure the survival of the organism (Mayer et al, review, 2001) Numerous reports provided evidence for a prominent role of stress in the pathophysiology and

Ngày tải lên: 26/09/2015, 10:05

... the development of test constructs and stimuli to the setting up of suitable scales and tests for the various dependent measures to the establishment of the detailed experimental procedures The ... eagerness-related prompting the maximization of their gains and profits and prevention-focus individuals prefer vigilance-related means prompting the minimization of their losses, the former’s goal distance ... tend to sell off their existing investments more readily, after the period of the turning point in the market trend Hypothesis 5 – In a losing-then-winning trend at the period after the trend changes,

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 16:12

... recently, the region was severely hit by the effects of the global financial crisis of 2008-09 because of their close ties with the economies of the U.S., Canada, and Europe which are their main ... sample of countries and show that greater volatility increases the Gini coefficient and the income share of the top quintile, while it reduces the income share of the other quintiles The challenges ... at the behavior of two key variables over the business cycle – the volatility and cyclicality of real interest rates and fiscal expenditures The reason is that the dynamics of these variables often

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2016, 04:50

... large for the smaller republics of the USSR, while trade outside the area wasvery small The breakdown of the CMEA and the collapse of the USSR therefore causedtremendous disruption in the international ... PR2LIB andDLTPR1 DLTPR2 These are interaction terms between LIB and DLTALIB, on the onehand, and PRIN1 and PRIN2 on the other Finally, to look at how the impact of PRIN1and PRIN2 on LIB and performance ... greatly The clearest differences are between the East Asiancountries, China and Vietnam, and the countries of the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)and the former Soviet Union (FSU) China and Vietnam

Ngày tải lên: 30/08/2016, 07:40

... and part of their literature review 1.7 Scope and Limitations of the Study The research was mainly based on the roles of service providers and field agents in the sustainability of NHIS in the ... significance of the study, limitation of the study, and lastly the organization of the study Chapter two focuses on the review of related literature on concepts and theories and also other authors’ ... checked then the future of the National Health Insurance Scheme would be bricked In the light of these developments, the research hopes to look at the role of service providers and field agents in the

Ngày tải lên: 01/01/2017, 09:04

... partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering in the GRADUATE DIVISION of the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY ... Workflow- The Role of Production Planning and Control by Farook Ramiz Hamzeh Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering - Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley Professor ... goals and objectives, then presents research questions, and concludes with the research methods employed to accomplish the stated goals and objectives The chapter also presents the structure of the

Ngày tải lên: 14/10/2017, 22:06

... position 13 of the other subunit [25,26], yielding a covalently bridged dimer The 4170 oxidized and reduced forms of the Y74C mutant had very different thermal stabilities While the stability of the ... and in the presence of denaturants [27] Extending these studies, we examine here the effect of increasing the bulk of the residue at position 74 Surprisingly, the Y74W mutant exhibited loss of ... across the dimer interface, while T75 interacts with N10 and E97 of the second subunit The backbone NH group of R98 forms a hydrogen bond with the backbone CO of F102 Furthermore, the orientation of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... patterns of B2wt and of B1 ⁄ B2 chimeras reflect their agonist-inducible internalization The segment between the NPXXY motif and the conserved cysteine represents one of the regions with the highest ... influences the formation of a helical structure These authors proposed that activation of the receptor, and subsequently of the G protein, leads to a change in the environment of helix resulting in the ... to enhance their adherence Expression vectors The sequence of the human B2wt starting with the third encoded methionine [9], the sequence of the human B1wt, truncations and chimeras of both were...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 16:20