... did the final approval ofthe manuscript. MK, MP, LMcN, TC, JY, KO andAH were driving the conception and designofthe study, selected the donors forthe study, interpreted the data and wrote the ... using the irrelevant MULTIMERS in four donors stratified byDUMP channel use and further subdivision by the use of dead cell marker. The table also indicates the number of labs (N) for each ofthe ... in the interpretation ofthe data and manuscript writing.SJ did the overall project management, coordinated the distribution of material forthe study, helped to interpret the data, wrote the...
... did the final approval ofthe manuscript. MK, MP, LMcN, TC, JY, KO andAH were driving the conception and designofthe study, selected the donors forthe study, interpreted the data and wrote the ... using the irrelevant MULTIMERS in four donors stratified byDUMP channel use and further subdivision by the use of dead cell marker. The table also indicates the number of labs (N) for each ofthe ... S2Acknowledgements The organizers of this study are indebted to all the participating labs for their constant support ofthe proficiency panel program. The organizers alsothank Beckmann Coulter and ProImmune for...
... considering the endoscopic surgery option. Of these 26 patients, 14 patients had 50 to 100% relief with a median period of pain relief being 5 months. The range of relief forthe radiofrequency ... 16 months for all 26 patients who underwent the radiofrequency procedure. Ofthe 14 patients who revealed 50% or greater improvement from the radiofrequency procedure, the length of im-provement ... the direct visualization of the joint allows better de-innervation ofthe joint and removal ofthe entire end-plate receptors that adhere to the bone and capsular tissue. Limitations of the...
... laminoforaminoplasty forthe treatment of thoracic radiculopathy: report of 12 cases Scott M.W. Haufe 1,2 , Ryan A. Baker 3 and Morgan L. Pyne 3 1. Chief of Pain Medicine and Anesthesiology ... to evaluate the efficacy of endoscopic laminoforamino-plasty (ELFP) in the treatment of thoracic radiculopathy. Methods: Twelve patients with radicular pain involving the lower thoracic levels ... were treated with endoscopic laminoforaminoplasty (ELFP) ofthe thoracic spine for radicular pain. All patients were diagnosed with radicular pain involving the lower thoracic levels (at or...
... [1,14]. The lack of hydroxylation of vitamin D3 atposition 22 now provides a clear explanation for the inability of P450scc to cleave the side chain of vitaminD3. Hydroxylation ofthe side chain of ... difference between the metabolism of vitamin D3 and cholesterol by P450scc is that the dissociation of intermediates occurs forthe metabolism of vitamin D3, but not forthe metabolism of choles-terol ... purifying them and determining the substrates from which they arose by the action of P450scc, as well as the products that they gave rise to.This revealed both the major and minor pathways for the...
... wei(a), the calculated from step 4 sum ofthe context weights for a, N the size ofthe corpus in terms of number of words. 3 Future work Our future work involves 1. The investigation ofthe ... and Ananiadou, 1996), incorporating information gained from the textual context ofthe candidate term. 2 Context information for terms The idea of incorporating context information for term ... tion, or should they be assigned different weights? 2. The investigation ofthe assignment of weights on the parameters used forthe measures. Currently, the measures contain the parameters...
... of YidC had no major effect on the insertion of MscL, but formation ofthe pentamer was almostcompletely abolished under these conditions, suggest-ing a novel role for YidC in assembly ofthe ... criti-cal for membrane insertion of MscL. In the absence of YidC, assembly of the homopentameric MscL complex was strongly reduced, suggesting a laterole for YidC in the biogenesis of MscL. The data ... Fig. 5, depletion of SecE did not have a significant impact on the level of the MscL–HA complex, suggesting that the Sec tran-slocon is dispensable forthe oligomerization of the MscL subunits.DiscussionWe...
... Results ofthe test of identifying the manual summariser287 Figure 1: Illustration of some ofthe restrictions on Q, Kis reliable, or the evaluation outcome may changeby adding, for instance, additional ... capture the essential features ofthe mod-els. Therefore, we need to estimate the quality of similarity metrics in order to use QUEEN effec-tively.3.3 KING: estimation ofthe quality of asimilarity ... con-trastive summary, the number of fragments of the reference summary which are also in the contrastive summary, in relation to the size of the contrastive summary.DocSim: The number of documents used...
... be the reference); 2, docked into the active site of the human DPP-IV; 3, docked into the active site ofthe crystalline structure of PepX from L. lactis;and4, docked into the active site ofthe ... Sites forthedesignof inhibitors of PepX activityFEBS Journal 272 (2005) 20502059 ê 2005 FEBS 2051 The structural comparison ofthe bacterial PepX andhuman DPP-IV reveals sites forthedesign ... known for the bacterial PepX. One ofthe immediate conse-quences ofthe structural similarities between the twoactive sites is to search for putative inhibitors of PepX,using the knowledge of...
... wholeconversation or forthe most part of it). These twoknowledges inform the rest ofthe modules about the situation ofthe conversation and which one is the goalexpressed by the user. Then, the Dialogue ... system, related to the dialogue management. The rest of the configurable modules are adjusted to the design ofthe different services using the FastEnvironment Generation of Speech Applications (SQUEL ... Tool;"SQUEL", forthedesign and development of acomplex SLDS, is based on the basic architecture of AGORA and it has tools and facilities for the Design, Generation, Configuration andAdministration of...
... account ofthe selection of these features is beyond the scope of this paper, an example of an input word and the appropriate attribute values should give the reader a better grasp ofthe word-level ... basis ofthe feature values ofthe word or cluster under consideration. The transcription rule "test "6 is evaluated and the proper branch is then selected on the basis of values ofthe ... itself and, therefore, cannot be reconstructed "a posterlori." The training set now consists of all ofthe entries from the SCL and the SEL, as well as all ofthe features for each...
... assessment of which residues of the labeled molecule are perturbed by the formation of the complex. One then repeats this procedure with the second molecule labeled. Under the assumption that the perturbed ... because ofthe rigid nature of the linker. There are several examples ofthe combination of NMR information with rigid body docking. Rigidbody docking in x-plor [79] has been used to model the dynamic ... probes, as they induce broadening ofthe NMRsignals forthe residues they contact. In a complex, the interface residues will be protected from such effects,allowing a reliable detection ofthe interface...
... take the view that the computation of partial semantics in the first step should not beseen as violating the strong separation; rather, wedistinguish the two steps ofthe process in terms of the ... semantics ofthe expression. The role ofthe recognition process is then tocompute as much ofthe semantic content of a tem-poral expression as can be determined on the basis of the expression itself, ... representation ofthe semantics. The role of the interpretation process is to ‘fill in’ any gaps inthis representation by making use of informationderived from the context.3.2 Data TypesWe view the temporal...
... afterthree. The detection limit ofthe system was then estab-lished in 1-10 colonies. At the end ofthe incubationperiod, subcultures in agar plates were performed for all the microbial growth: all the ... responsible forthe development of the vascular system and are one ofthe main mechanismsleading to improved cardiac function after the injection of BM-MNC [10]. Among the CD34+ cells, the CD133 ... produced in the reaction of the lysate in the presence of endotoxin. The system con-sists of LAL reagents and endotoxin controls in the form of a single-use polystyrene cartridges. The cartridges arepotency...
... of performance at the end ofthe adaptation phase as com-pared to the final portion ofthe wash-out phase. Onesubject (S8) did not complete the second half of the trial, for reasons unrelated to the study ... achieve a consistent pattern of force to eitherenhance or reduce the subjects’ errors. A comparison of the errors made during the early force trials and thosemade during the late catch trials clearly ... sub-jects caused not by the treatment itself but by variation of the clinical scale at the beginning ofthe therapy.To test the overall effect of adaptive training, we com-pared the primary outcome...