... determining the extent ofthe particles to cross the BBB To further investigate the potential forthe nanoparticles to cross the BBB, animal testing is important and necessary The second part ofthe thesis ... rate ofthe PLGA copolymers are dependent on the molar ratio ofthe lactic and glycolic acids in the polymer chain, molecular weight ofthe polymer, the degree ofthe crystallinity, and the Tg of ... presence of an intact blood brain barrier at the proliferating edge ofthe tumor has been suggested to be one ofthe major contributing factors to the failure of chemotherapy in the treatment of central...
... part ofthe study were the same as forthe first part ofthe investigation [18] The diagnostic criteria for inclusion ofthe cases were positive endoscopy and biopsy; those of exclusion were the ... collaborators The fruit of that qualitative examination was the rejection of a total of controls and cases at the defining moment ofthe construction ofthe data package The fundamental cause was the lack ... piece of evidence forthe control ofthe classification bias of this article (with regard to the selection ofthe controls) has been shown in the work Varol et al [27], where the normality of CA...
... upstream, others think that is by sedimentation The losses of clam stocks were one ofthe biggest problems in the coastal area The reason forthe losses was unknown and this creates a lot of frustration ... water reaches the depth of 2-4 meters The flood of 2000 caused losses of 2150 of rice, decrease of rice yield from 60 to 70 percentages In the year of 2002, 70 villages and 11.120 of fruit trees ... millions of people to whom water provides directly or indirectly the source of livelihood The Mekong immense water resources are one ofthe key factors for social and economic development in the region...
... basic tools Conditions for mothers and their children they need to break the cycle of poverty and in the bottom countries are grim On average, improve the quality of life for themselves, woman in ... permeated the forgotten communities in the mountains It’s the kind of poverty that we often associate with other parts ofthe globe It was thinking about this gap between my mother’s hopeful, forward-looking ... to break the cycle of povChina, Norway, Thailand and the United Kingdom erty and improve the quality of life for themselves, their use some form of modern contraception children, and for generations...
... protection ofthe interests of members and others, are required by Member States of companies within the meaning ofthe second paragraph of Article 58 ofthe Treaty, in respect ofthe formation of public ... 0.02 % ofthe amount by which the value ofthe portfolios ofthe AIFM exceeds EUR 250 million Irrespective ofthe amount ofthe requirements set out in the first and second subparagraphs, the own ... order to reflect the net asset value ofthe shares or units ofthe AIF The rules applicable to the valuation of assets and the calculation ofthe net asset value per unit or share ofthe AIF shall...
... construals ofthe same information in the process of conventional imagery (thesis 5) LEVEL OF SPECIFICITY The level of specificity of conventional imagery addresses the issue ofthe degree of detail ... DEPICTIONS Here the x-axis points direction ofthe halfaxis ofthe particular side ofthe reference axis in the DCS; and in the case of "in front of" y is the perpendicular direction in the horizontal ... addition to the constraint on the proximity ofthe LO and RO, projective prepositions place a constraint on the position ofthe LO relative to a particular side ofthe RO In the case ofthe intrinsic...
... abolished the internalization ofthe GFP-fused Tat protein but did not alter the uptake ofthe Tat CPP These biochemical evidences con®rmed a pathway forthe entry ofthe Tat peptide unrelated to the ... lgámL)1 in the presence of 100 lM chloroquine in the cell culture medium For FACS analysis, the concentration ofthe recombinant protein was increased to lgámL)1 The internalization ofthe GST±Tat ... rightward shift ofthe signal was observed signifying a reduction ofthe uptake ofthe Tat peptide at low temperature Likewise, a threefold reduction ofthe uptake at °C has been reported forthe Antennapedia...
... magic These are the lonely outposts ofthe farthest planets, and here when the outlanders gather to yarn the idle hours away their tales conjure up from the past that raw, lusty period before the ... acceptance ofthe astounding fact; he was too busy to make comment He was observing the buildings, the nature of them, the exits from the dome, how they could best be reached T HEY stood on the roof of ... In the middle of that night, when the pleasures of Porno were in full stride, there emerged suddenly, from one ofthe dark, crooked byways that angled off the Street ofthe Sailors, a squad of...
... positioned in the ÔupÕ position rows and shows that in the presence ofthe substrate, rotation of Asp142 towards Glu144 lowers the pKa ofthe latter by 0.8 pH units The calculated effects ofthe D140N ... forthe position of residue 142 [34] The pKa calculations indicate that the only candidate for a residue determining the basic arm ofthe pH-activity profile ofthe D142N mutant is Glu144 The ... Mutation of subsets of these conserved residues in various family 18 chitinases has shown forthe majority that they are important for catalysis [20,26–31] However, the mechanistic roles of several of...
... GST of D02 was 4.0 nm and the KD of DNS 9.2 nm, that is double that of D02 This larger KD was accounted for by the twofold larger kd of DNS than that of D02 and their nearly similar ka values The ... expressed for 22 h The cells were then fused with 3T3 cells and cultured for another h in the presence of cycloheximide Arrows point out the murine nucleus Panels a–f, fluorescent signals ofthe GFP- ... essential forthe nuclear import Results on mt9 suggested that phosphorylation ofthe tyrosine residue is not related to the nuclear import Then, the role of these two residues PY in nuclear import of...
... permutation ofthe composing words for each index entry, looks up the frequency of that permutation in the book, and then chooses the one with the highest frequency as the correct reconstruction ofthe ... reduce the size ofthe data set, possibly eliminating the training instances that will have the least negative effect on the usability ofthe data set The first step to reduce the size ofthe data ... way, we identify the form ofthe index entries as appearing in the book, which is the form required forthe evaluation of extraction methods Entries that cannot be found in the book, which were...
... rules> For instance, the optionality of minor phrase formation follows from the inclusion of and in SPI the prosodic category word (0)) It is the prosodic word rather than the minor ... argued for by Briscoe (pc) on the basis of English These functional equivalence classes correlate closely with the relative heights ofthe two pitch peaks - - the tighter the connection between the ... degrees of accuracy Formulating and testing the predictions of diverse hypotheses with the system is easy due to the basic generative approach Further cycles of phonetic experiments and modelling of...
... activity in HepG2 cells The relative positions ofthe MREs within the promoter region ofthe WD gene are indicated in Fig The four MREs are located in the proximal region ofthe WD gene promoter ... in the forward orientation, and MREc and MREd in reverse orientation The effects ofthe mutiple MREs on promoter activity ofthe MT gene have been shown to be dependent on the position ofthe ... response ofthe MT gene to heavy metals [10,12], the presence of MREs in the promoter ofthe WD gene suggests that MREs and their cognate binding proteins function in the regulation of WD gene...
... somewhat lower for AMRO and EMRO The estimates for these two 33 regions are being reviewed in more detail as part ofthe revision ofthe cancer burden estimates for Version ofthe GBD 2000 34 ... cancer ofthe trachea, bronchus and lung was the 10th leading cause of death in the world in 1990, being the third in the developed regions Smoking was estimated to be responsible for another 20% of ... numbers of cases forthe year 2000 These data have been used to estimate the global burden of cancer as part ofthe Global Burden of Disease 2000 project (GD 2000) (12) Version estimates of cancer...
... 25.10) For patients with other CNS cancer, the spine was the most common primary site (53.9% of total), followed by thebrain (41.3% of total) and other (4.8% of total) Other CNS cancers in thebrain ... category is made up of a mix of racial groups As with thebrain cancer group, the proportion of whites with other CNS cancer was much higher than the proportion of blacks with the same disease However, ... 80 Brain cancer occurring in the frontal lobes (25.8% of total), temporal lobe (20.1% of total), parietal lobe (14.6% of total) and overlapping lesions ofthebrain (19.8% of total) were the...
... requires that they be popped only when they are either the root clause or they are the immediately embedded clause ofthe previously popped structure Before extending this approach to the extraposition ... the matrix clause, and then pop Vz** in the usual manner The grammar corresponding to the BEPDA of Figure is shown in Figure (the arrows again show the sequence of adjunctions): we see that the ... new stack on top ofthe stack of stacks, or a fixed number of stacks below and above a designated stack on the stack of stacks is removed and a new symbol is pushed on the top ofthe designated...
... dramatically decreased by the deletion of GC-box1 The activity was further decreased by the deletion of GC-box2 (Fig 3B) As shown in Fig 3C, the transcriptional activity ofthe kb ofthe 5¢-flanking region ... decreased by the deletion of GC-box3, the GC-rich Fig Alignment ofthe 5¢-nucleotide sequences ofthe human, rat and mouse NOX4 genes The numbers on the left are nucleotide positions relative to the putative ... essential for transcriptional activation ofthe human NOX4 promoter Figure shows the alignment ofthe 5¢-flanking and 5¢-noncoding sequences ofthe human, rat and mouse NOX4 genes Compared with the...