... protein produced by the cells of the prostate gland. The most frequently used PSA - prostate-specific antigen test - is the total PSA, which measures the sum of the free PSA andthe cPSA (complex ... PSA what is thedifferencebetween total PSA and free PSA?What is the normal range? In addition, how can it be that if there is ANY prostate specific antigen in the blood that there is no prostate ... method. Differences between test and comparison methods were estimated at 2.5, 4.0, and 10.0 ng/mL (2.5, 4.0, and 10.0 µg/L) for tPSA and 15%, 20%, and 25% for percentage of fPSA. Relative differences...
... to the increase in aggregatedemand, while also being instrumental to the strengthening of the exchangerate via the UIP schedule. The latter strengthening in turn helps ease excessdemand and ... line with the backward-looking natureof etin (15). The initial interest rate increase o¤sets the excess demand in the goods market and thereby the in‡ationary pressures stemming from the shock. ... stand the chance of matching the empirical evidence forEMEs. Future theoretical and empirical work could more clearly establish towhat extent linear models of the type used here can explain the...
... (2004), Dwyer and Korablev (2007), and Dwyer and Qu (2007). 12 between credit spreads and interest rates (level and slope) differ based on the maturity, credit ratings, andthe sign of the relation ... over the change in the 10-year Treasury bond yield, the change in slope (defined as thedifferencebetween 10-year and 2-year Treasury bond yields), the convexity, the change in leverage, the ... displays the Pearson’s correlation coefficients and their p-values for the paired variable in each time region. The null hypothesis is that the correlation is equal to zero. The alternative hypothesis...
... 1b and 1c indicates that the benefit of formingCH···S and SH···p H-bonds, even weak ones, is worth the stretching and bending of the SH···O in 1b. The next minimum on the surface, ... transferred from the N lone pair into the s* anti-bonding orbital of the SH bond. This transfer is facili-tated by the overlap of the N lone pair with the lobeof the s* orbital proximate to the S atom, ... sets[38,53,54] and in excellent agreement with exper-imental energetics.[55]Binding energies were computed as the dif-ference in energy betweenthe dimer andthe sum of the opti-mized energies of the...
... attribute and did not follow the same or similar trend, the data produced led to nonsignificant differences. These irregular trends in the interaction among panelists could mean that the panelists ... (Murray and Delahunty 2000) and the Cheddar cheese lexicon (Drake et al. 2001). Some of the referenceterms, definitions and food references from these lexicons were screened and modified by the panel ... cheeses. According to the eigenvalues (percent-age by which variation is explained in the biplot), 70% of the variation isexplained by dimension 1, and almost 15% of the variation is explained bydimension...
... in the level andthe slope. I measure the level of the Treasury term structurewith the three-month Treasury bill yield, denoted YT,104, t, and measure the slope with the spread betweenthe ... rating and maturity band. The x2~4! test of equality ofbs,i,m,1 and bs,i,m,2across the three sectors is reported in the final column ofTable II. The x2test does not reject the hypothesis ... thaninnovations in the Treasury slope in explaining the variance of future Baayield spreads. When the ordering of the bill yield andthe slope are reversed, the explanatory power of the bill yield...
... companies from the rest of the pack. They are in a position to view their marketing mix in the form of 4+1P and 1R, and thereby customize their offerings to the rural market. Further, to ensure ... admit that they actually sell their products in areas they would otherwise find difficult, simply because there are other uses for them. For instance, 15 APPENDIX 1. Some Facts about the rural ... is the application of the marketing concepts and not the concepts themselves that need to be looked at. Often, in the rural marketplace it is the application of these concepts which differs the...
... society. Because of this reason, the research focuses on understanding the value of the corporate culture, in particular, understanding the relationship betweenthe corporate culture andthe innovation ... managers and accountants for different choices and opinions. This is also the primary data. The finding of this survey is theprimary source of data providing the significant answers for the queries ... managers or accountants about the relationship between corporate culture andtheuse of management accounting innovations. Moreover, this survey also focuses on the purpose and role of this relationship....
... for binding GST-IjBa in the presence and absenceof ATP, andthe value of a indicates whether the bindingof one substrate (ATP) affects the affinity of the enzymefor the other substrate (GST-IjB ... andthe plates left to incubate for15 min. The plates were inverted to remove the detergentafter the 15 min incubation period andthe wells werewashed twice with wash buffer by inverting the ... wellbe the case that IKK is not the only point of regulationin the NF-jB pathway [55], and that IjBa phosphory-lation and degradation, andthe subsequent transloca-tion of NF-jB into the nucleus...
... rather than of para. 1 of Article 4. Likewise,by considering only the competitive relationship that exists betweenthe licensor andthe licensee on the product market before they conclude theiragreement, ... second, the reasons for their benign control under Article 81(3) EC; and third, the limits of their favourable treat-ment.In the Guidelines, the Commission takes the view that, with the exceptionof ... not the equipmentbut the technology supplied by the principal which constitutes the essence of the contract.However, the essence of sub-contracting is neither the supply of equipment nor the...
... spectra and in the rest of the mutants the probewas not significantly affected by the sTF–FVIIa complexformation.As the purpose of our study was to map the interaction between FXa and sTF in the ... cysteine replacement and used the cysteines ashandles to which we attached the fluorescent probeIAEDANS. The residues were chosen on the basis ofX-ray data [7], which showed that they were not in ... sTF andthe effect of the modified sTF–FVIIacomplex on FX activation. In another study [17], theseauthors also examined the interaction between FXa and sTF–FVII in a similar way by observing the...
... four years after theymove, so thedifference in results is not due to differences in the time elapsed since the move. Giventhat both our study and theirs usethe nlsy79, thedifference in results ... Bruce K. Wylie, and Nick Van Driel. 2001. Completion of the 1990s National Land Cover data set for the conterminous United States from Landsat Thematic Mapper dataand ancillary data sources.Photogrammetric ... relationship betweenthe residential landscape and weight because we measure the wrong aspect of landscape. There are three reasons tobelieve that this is not a problem. First, the existing literature and...
... BRIDGE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN BUSINESS STRATEGY AND DESIGNFINALLYA brand is not a product.A VISUAL PRESENTATION BY MARTY NEUMEIER The three most important words in differentiating your brand:SECONDA ... for whichpeople believe there’s no substitute.SOLUTION:BE DIFFERENT.IT’S NOT WHAT YOU SAY IT IS. AND HOW.A modern definition of brand The five disciplines of brand-buildingWHAT YOU’LL LEARN:21It’s ... because peopleare emotional, intuitive beings.It’s a PERSON’S gut feeling, because brands are definedby individuals, not companies, markets, or publics.PREDICTIONBRAND WILL BECOME THE MOST...
... from other neighboringcells and matrix. The biophysical aspects of the endo-thelium through which the leukocytes transmigrate, inaddition to the biophysical aspects of the leukocytesthemselves, ... the body of the cell, andthe substrate at the basal surfaceof the ECs. Interestingly, forces acting at one surfacemay be propagated internally or even to other sur-faces of the cell, or they ... transmigration.Concluding remarks The mechanical state of the endothelium is influencedby many external factors, both chemical and mechani-cal. Because the mechanical state of the endothelium isprobably...