... Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the following individualsfromthe International KIT Validation Group for their contribution tothe study: Carol Beane, Estela Citrin, Agustin Dabezies, ... During each debriefing, the debriefer recorded whether or not each of the items was reported to be problematic in terms of the comprehension of the concept, the wording of the question, or the ... hematologist, fluent inthe source and target languages, to participate in a teleconference to facilitate the reconciliation process We found the role of the clinical experts to be essential to the...
... Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the following individualsfromthe International KIT Validation Group for their contribution tothe study: Carol Beane, Estela Citrin, Agustin Dabezies, ... During each debriefing, the debriefer recorded whether or not each of the items was reported to be problematic in terms of the comprehension of the concept, the wording of the question, or the ... hematologist, fluent inthe source and target languages, to participate in a teleconference to facilitate the reconciliation process We found the role of the clinical experts to be essential to the...
... understanding of the precision of a new device is vital prior to accepting it into clinical practice and prior to using it for significant therapeutic interventions Therefore, measuring the error of the studied ... above) to how one monitor compares with another in terms of accuracy, and the second relates to how the monitor performs in normal clinical practice If we assume that the CE for ITD in normal clinical ... to interpret studies and therefore in whether (or not) to accept new measuring or monitoring devices into routine clinical practice Validation of cardiac output monitoring devices Ideally, any...
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... pH relative tothe maximum value of each enzyme Thermal stability To determine whether the mutations producing a change inthe temperature dependence of XI activity also affected the thermal stability ... Kinetic analysis demonstrated that the increase inthe relative activity inthe mutated XIs for xylose at low temperatures was indeed caused by an increase in kcat and not by a decrease inthe ... Each monomer comprises two domains: the larger N-terminal domain (domain I, residues 1±321), which folds into a (b/a)8 barrel, and the smaller C-terminal domain (domain II, residues 322±387), which...
... cytokine secretion in response to LPS inthe three TR APOE astrocyte cultures We screened for changes in medium cytokine concentrations using the LiquiChip™ Mouse 10-Cytokine assay and a Luminex ... [12,38], the pathophysiologic significance of apoE isoforms appears to go beyond interacting with Aβ since these other diseases of brain are not thought to involve Aβ peptides in their pathogenesis Indeed, ... added to conditioned media samples Bead-bound cytokines are detected using a mixture of biotinylated cytokine -specific monoclonal antibodies and Streptavidin-PE Thespecific bead code assigned to...
... play an important role in signal processing, especially inthe study of sampling theorems For this purpose, one usually uses stochastic processes which are stationary inthe wide sense as a model ... average sampling theorem for bandlimited stochastic processes,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol 53, no 12, pp 4798–4800, 2007 10 P P Korovkin, Linear Operators and Approximation Theory, ... their sincere gratitude to Professors Liqun Wang, Lixing Han, Wenchang Sun, and Xingwei Zhou for useful suggestions which helped them to improve the paper This work was partially supported by the...
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... is initiated by dissociation of the hemoprotein from its binding tothe inner mitochondrial membrane Oxidation of cardiolipin during oxidative stress reduces the binding of cytochrome c and increase ... out into investigate the therapeutic effects of Braintone on middle cerebral artery occluded rats In this study, Braintone was showed to have ability to decrease the level of apoptosis in rats ... also named “Chinese Motherwort”, belongs to Labiate family inthe plant kingdom The major known ingredients in HL include stachydrine, leonuridine, leonurinin, benzenoid (leonurine), phenylpropanoid,...