... interpretation and analysis ofthe data and drafted the manuscript LT participated in interpretation and analysis ofthe data and helped to draft the manuscript WL conceived ofthe Page 15 of 19 hypothesis ... in the process of atherosclerosis [126,127] Both cellular and humoral pathways ofthe immune response contribute to an important part in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis [128] Markers of inflammation, ... of 1.31 and 4.1 [62,72] There was a considerable heterogeneity in measurement of osteoporosis It is shown that the specificity and sensitivity ofthe densitometry tests differs greatly, and the...
... includes both the variability ofthe structural Amy locus andthe variability of tissue-specific expression [9] The latter type of variability is represented by the number and position ofthe amylase ... of either genotype (H 5.727, P > 0.05) Analyses oftheassociationbetweenthe number of active regions andthe enzyme-specific activity through compensation ofthe enzyme quantity in S/S and ... standard errors (SE) from the mean value ofthe observed parameter In this way, three categories of lines were made for the number of active regions and three for the specific activity of the...
... Separating the position of CEO and chairman ofthe board avoids a conflict of interests and helps to improve the monitoring function ofthe board (Jensen, 1983) Therefore, when the chairman andthe CEO ... together with the proportion of independent directors we control for other governance variables: the size ofthe board of directors, the doubling up of executive and Chair responsibilities, the ... request the calling of board meetings or the inclusion of new business on the agenda; to coordinate and give voice to the concerns of external directors; and to lead the board's evaluation of the...
... the strategic plans and policies established by the board of directors As the leader ofthe firm, the CEO has an astounding impact on the performance ofthe firm and many believe this to be the ... industry propels the economic takeoff of our nation It is the great enabler, knitting together all corners ofthe country, facilitating the movement of people and goods that is the backbone of economic ... managers andthe governance of corporations in the United States and legislators and regulators have been quick to respond to the latest corporate scandals Despite the debate among the academic and...
... throughout the body ofthe cell, andthe substrate at the basal surface ofthe ECs Interestingly, forces acting at one surface may be propagated internally or even to other surfaces ofthe cell, or they ... blood flow and effects from other neighboring cells and matrix The biophysical aspects ofthe endothelium through which the leukocytes transmigrate, in addition to the biophysical aspects ofthe leukocytes ... the ECs In (A), the force acting on the EC (black arrow) has components both in the direction of shear stress and in the direction of pulling by leukocytes In (B), the force on the EC is in the...
... identify the forms that are generally split off from the rest ofthe word A thorough analysis is made ofthe accuracy ofthe rules given when applied to the 12,000 words ofthe Government Printing Office ... course ofthe oral presentation ofthe paper Some ofthe devices generate measures ofassociation among index terms used to characterize a document collection, andbetweenthe index terms andthe ... 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, andthe Office of...
... test further the specificity ofthe interaction, native cardosin B was used in the binding assays Despite the high similarity betweenthe two pistil aspartic proteinases, neither the RGD nor the similar ... illustrated by the superimposition ofthe 3D structures of kistrin [32] and cardosin A (Fig 8) The importance of both motifs and in particular their basic residues was further emphasized by the complete ... of charge and is positioned at the tip of a loop and is therefore reminiscent of RGD sequences present in integrin-binding molecules because of its exposed location On the basis of these structural...
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... political fact is the corruption of officials and legislators Think of a product so vital to the future as the forests; and then picture, if you can, the waste and despoiling of this strictly ... forced to the logic ofthe socialist, —that the city or state should take these monopolies out ofthe categories of private property, owning and managing them directly for the people? The socialist ... deposits, and ground areas in large towns These are the sure nesting-places of monopoly, and therefore, of all the fantastic extremes of wealth which make puppets of our politicians and set before the...
... of 3.7% The findings from this study showed the lifetime rates of depression were less in all Asian countries than that ofthe US andthe Netherlands, with the exception of Thailand Results of ... depression The fourth section includes estimates ofthe prevalence of depression in a range of countries Theassociationbetween SES and depression, andthe connection between SES, depression and health ... Kenny’s framework Estimates ofthe size and significance ofthe mediated effects are then examined The chapter ends with a summary ofthe percentages ofthe total effects of SES on depressive symptoms...
... 154 C Hoff and S Rambal fall and leaf quantity [33, 43] Important then are the timing of rainfall and drought events, the quantity of rainfall, the storage capacity ofthe soil and quantity and ... assimilation Thus, there is a trade-off between water loss and carbon assimilation at the scale ofthe leaf [9, 10] At the ecosystem scale, there should also a tradeoff or balance between LAI’s role ... ofthe retention properties ofthe soil andofthe rooting depth ofthe vegetation The range of LAI obtained with varying water availability is in agreement with data of Damesin et al [12] Our...
... participated in the development ofthe study and in the drafting ofthe manuscript SØ participated in the data collection andthe drafting ofthe manuscript PM gave statistical advice and helped in the drafting ... remodelling These and other inflammatory cells release TNF-α and interleukin-6, thereby increasing CRP levels through upregulation of hepatic synthesis [27] The strength ofthe present study is the prospective ... drafting ofthe manuscript DA conceived the study, participated in its design and development, and helped in the drafting ofthe manuscript TKK conceived the study, participated in its design and...
... rates of disease), consistency ofassociationand biological plausibility supported a cause-effect relationship between CMT and VADS The criteria of strength ofassociation (the size ofthe relative ... risk of developing VADS [44] Therefore the presence of one of these disorders should raise the clinician’s level of suspicion However the majority of patients with VADS not have any of these ... incidental to it, with the link betweenthe two being the presence of neck pain and/ or headache The issue for practitioners now is one of differential diagnosis The responsibility ofthe practitioner...
... without reference to the content ofthe diaries Use ofthe peer-support forums was less widespread than use ofthe diaries, although the number of users who Page of read the forums without posting ... website most days and others only accessing it sporadically The mean number of days that entries were made to food and exercise diaries andthe percentage of participants posting on the support forum ... self-monitoring of diet and physical activity and provision of social support through an online message forum The analysis tests the hypothesis that greater engagement either with self-monitoring tools or the...
... relationship betweenthe disclosure ofthe audit committee andthe quality of share-option disclosure for U.K companies McMullen (1996) provides support for theassociationbetweenthe presence of an ... board and two industry dummy variables In addition, the directions ofthe signs of all significant coefficients in the regression model are in agreement with the hypotheses On the other hand, the ... of overlapping checks and balances.” Therefore, the hypotheses about the effect of internal governance mechanisms in the current study are mainly predictions of a positive association 2.3.1 The...
... when they must take investment decisions The rest ofthe paper is organized as follows In the next section, we review some relevant literature and then we describe our hypotheses, the data and ... governance regime, on the strength ofthe multitude ofthe considered variables They found a strong correlation between corporate governance and stock returns during the 1990s Thus, the authors developed ... period The sample consisted between 1,400 and 1,800 companies, a part of them being included in the S&P 500, and representing more than 90 per cent ofthe total U.S stock market capitalization Thereby...
... budget, on the one hand, andofthe cohesion policy, on the other hand At the same time, the changes brought about by the accession of new Member States are described and analyzed, as well as the multi-annual ... first change in the architecture ofthe structural and cohesion funds andofthe cohesion policy was the redesign ofthe policy objectives Following the accession of Sweden and Finland in 1995, ... assess the general health ofthe company we used the Conan-Holder model based on the calculation ofthe Z score indicating the likelihood of bankruptcy of this company The Z score ofthe Conan-Holder...
... all the organs ofthe animal andthe bacterium The fact that the first three enzymes are present only in the trophosome raised the question of whether these enzymes belong to the bacterium Therefore, ... via the biosynthetic pyrimidine and arginine pathways (Fig 3) The first step ofthe pyrimidine and arginine metabolic pathways involves the uptake and utilization ofthe inorganic compounds NH3 and ... ofthe symbiosis between vestimentiferans and their bacterial endosymbiont raises the question ofthe transmission ofthe bacteria from one worm generation to the following one In some cases the...
... prevalence of two ofthe components ofthe metabolic syndrome (high TG and hypertension), but not any ofthe other components (low HDL, obesity, and glucose intolerance) or the presence ofthe metabolic ... participated in the conception and design ofthe project and in the analysis and interpretation of data and contributed substantially to the drafting ofthe manuscript VFP participated in the acquisition, ... [35], andthe European Group for the Study of Insulin Resistance [36], in order to ensure that the definition used would not affect the outcome of this study The lack of any association between...