... HZ and JK conceived of the study and participated in its design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the manuscript 14 15 16 Acknowledgements The ... fluid tion of the joint, the organism is present in the SF and synovial tissue in the intracellular, aberrant body form, which lacks a particular cell wall To determine whether the methods used ... storage of DNA at a temperature of -20°C because this leads to loss of sensitivity to detect the organism A storage temperature of -20°C was chosen due to practicability reasons In our and other...
... INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent on the quality of the copy submitted In the unlikely event that the author did not send a complete manuscript and there are ... one investigates the background of the teachers, their attitudes towards different varieties of English, and their awareness of the research regarding Euro-English Part two tests the acceptability ... have been claimed to be specific for mainland Europeans Results of this study reveal that there is little awareness of non-native varieties and many find it hard to accept the features of Euro-English...
... from 5.3 to Tsuruga and Shikama [21] confirmed that the fast phase of oxidation was due tothe a chains andthe slow phase was due tothe b chains Tsuruga et al found that the beta chain of the tetramer ... difficult to understand its involvement in the oxidation process Another potential binding site, the b-93 sulfydryl, is close tothe heme [27] and thus more likely to be involved in the oxidation ... of the structure of the LPS on the oxidation reaction were extended to native human Hb A0 to determine whether the above effects were general or specific to cross-linked Hb A comparison of the...
... survival and (3) the relative significance of these changes The main features of the method are the inclusion of an indicator term in the model to indicate the presence of the drug and a factor δx ... model [6] and used to express survival at a given dose, but the approach is general and may be applied to any other expression of survival To test the applicability of the approach, the model ... the very low dose component of the survival curve and αR from the overall linear component of the curve To reduce correlation between the model variables andto facilitate implementation of the...
... diquat the damage was expected to extend into the midzonal region, and with galactosamine it was expected to be randomly distributed throughout the liver The histopathology data confirmed these ... hepatotoxicity andthe similarities and differences in the type and location of the damage resulting from exposure Since the compounds in this study are acute hepatotoxicants resulting in hepatocyte ... underlying the molecular response tothe exposure to these acute hepatotoxicants Not surprisingly, categories like 'response to chemical stimulus' and 'response to wounding' were found to be enriched...
... coupling tothe Higgs field, therefore, the most massive particle in the Standard Model, the top quark, would be strongly connected tothe Higgs boson 2.2 The Standard Model andthe top quark The top ... enhances the decay of the top quark into a W -boson and a b-quark, while the small values of the other elements in the same row suppress the decay of the top quark into the other flavours In fact, the ... matter particles andthe gauge boson fields W ± , Z, the photon andthe gluons While the photon andthe gluons are massless, the electron, muon, tauon, the six quarks, the W ± and Z are not Including...
... Factors Finding the Q-factor of the antenna is an important part of studying the antenna via the cavity model The total quality factor of the antenna, Q may be expressed in terms of the Q-factors ... • the cavity is bounded by perfect electric conductors at the top and bottom (ie patch and ground plane) • the current in the coaxial probe is independent of z With these assumptions, we can then ... for the antennas to be on the same plane; (ii) to verify the formulation developed through the fabrication of the microstrip patch antennas andthe measurement of their Sparameters with the use...
... the BP cuff andthe carrying pouch were then removed from the participant The research assistant uploaded the information from the ambulatory equipment onto a laptop computer and reset the equipment ... address to contact Participants were contacted to confirm the location and time for attachment to ambulatory monitors They were advised to wear loose clothing with a collar and a jacket, so as to ... of the polymorphism to be associated with elevated systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) both at rest and in response to acute mental stress Other studies have found the l allele to...
... remained the same Compared tothe Low PBMC Assay, IFNγ secreting cells among the same number of TIL cells were found to be slightly higher in the High PBMC Assay, probably due to a higher number of antigen ... baseline sample The binding resembles the tetramer positive cells specific for foreign antigens (Flu) in Figure 1, demonstrating breaking of tolerance to self antigen (MART-1) On the other hand, positive ... us and others in the field to validate similar assays for assessment of patient T cell responses to not only to cancer vaccines but to other therapeutic proteins as part of immunogenicity and...
... 3:3 and inter-run coefficients of variation for the standard curve varied from 0.06% to 4.8% and 2.6% to 5.2%, respectively, and thus appeared to be consistent for detecting and quantitating the ... error bars are represented as standard deviation The slopes were Y = × 106X - 350714 and Y = × 106X + × 107 andthe r2 were 1.0 and 0.95 for JCV(Mad1) virus stocks I and II, respectively Page of ... two-fold (64 HA to HA) and then 10-fold (1 HA to 0.001 HA) in DMEM, to obtain HA titers ranging from 64 HAU to 0.001 HAU per 100 µL of the suspension DNA was extracted from 100 µL of the above suspension...
... 3:3 and inter-run coefficients of variation for the standard curve varied from 0.06% to 4.8% and 2.6% to 5.2%, respectively, and thus appeared to be consistent for detecting and quantitating the ... error bars are represented as standard deviation The slopes were Y = × 106X - 350714 and Y = × 106X + × 107 andthe r2 were 1.0 and 0.95 for JCV(Mad1) virus stocks I and II, respectively Page of ... two-fold (64 HA to HA) and then 10-fold (1 HA to 0.001 HA) in DMEM, to obtain HA titers ranging from 64 HAU to 0.001 HAU per 100 µL of the suspension DNA was extracted from 100 µL of the above suspension...
... the sap from RTPCR positive samples was re-tested to confirm the initial results All PCR amplicons were subjected to restriction digestion andthe RFLP pattern was used to determine whether they ... group I might be further divided into two sub-groups - Ia, and Ib PVM isolates from China and Poland formed the group Ia and group Ib consisted of isolates from Italy, Germany and Russia Isolates ... dormant potato tubers without the need to treat the tubers for breaking dormancy or to grow the tubers in greenhouse for leaf testing by ELISA In this paper we report on the analysis of the coat...
... distinction between the top hit andthe rest of the hits below; there are orders of magnitude between the values for both the p value andthe mean normalized log ratio The other hits in the table are ... represented on the array, the top hit was a very closely related virus In the case of GSM40845, we report a correct result if both viruses were at the top of the reported hits, tothe exclusion of other ... hybridization by the virus and host RNA to non-specific probes on the array However, the clear distinction in both the p value and mean log ratio identify human papillomavirus type 18 as the top, and only,...
... indicator of general quality of life and women’s quality of life as compared tothe UK andthe US Canada does not perform well in relation tothe values on a number of indicators of Denmark and ... bases in the US—actively apply their increasing power to oppose reforms associated with the welfare state to reduce labour costs The forces that led tothe development of the welfare state at the ... being applied to national approaches tothe formulation of health policy [8,9] This is especially the case in the Scandinavian nations In this paper, we consider the extent to which these quality...
... in response to ligand binding tothe receptor, and these kinases phosphorylate signal transducers and activators of transcription STAT1 and STAT2 In contrast to other JAK ⁄ STAT signalling pathways, ... regulatory factor (IRF9 ⁄ p48), which, together with phosphorylated STAT1 ⁄ STAT2 dimers, forms the interferon-stimulated gene factor (ISGF3) complex ISGF3 is translocated tothe nucleus and activates ... JAK1, the background signal (defined as the signal for the immunoblot in areas other than the protein bands) was subtracted to better distinguish background noise from the actual signal The background...
... coincides with other word in the dictionary, it is very likely to be decomposed into the dictionary word andthe remaining substring We find the reason of the decomposition is that the word 279 ... C(.) represents the counts in the corpus To estimate the probabilities of the combinations of word type and part of speech that did not appeared in the training corpus, we used the Witten-Bell ... character unigram and bigram for each word type and part of speech, f(ci) and f(cilci_l) are the relative frequencies of the character unigram and bigram V is the number of characters (not tokens but...
... get together with others like them because of the supportive and therapeutic aspects They requested that they have lunch together at the end of the sessions During the dance classes, they were ... new people and having the regular opportunity to socialize and ‘work together’ were appreciated They felt the exercises were not boring, and neither did they ‘feel’ like exercise The afternoon ... partner dancing The instructor suggested the students ‘‘allow their weight to fall into the floor,’’ ‘‘reach their ears toward the ceiling,’’ ‘‘their spine is a ‘‘pearl necklace’’ and thus ‘‘imagine...
... Connect their customers tothe Internet The Internet – ISPs connected to other ISPs 20 The Internet – A Network of Networks •Although there are benefits to using a LAN or WAN, most of us need to communicate ... connector or outlet) Interface - Connect to individual networks 22 Protocols Protocol A protocol stack shows how the individual protocols within the suite are implemented on the host The protocols ... protocol suite The terms are often used interchangeably Strictly speaking, the suite is the definition of the protocols, andthe stack is the software implementation of them 24 Network Protocols...