... pain cases presenting earlier during an episode of care-seeking, or more likely as a generalist to serve as a main source of care overall for an entire chest pain epi-sode. Along that same line, ... competencies,and standards for referrals and sharing of clinical informa-tion that may improve current and future cross-discipli-nary coordination of care for chest pain patients.Clinical and health ... objective was to gain insightinto the care and management of patients with muscu-loskeletal chest pain as experienced by both those withchiropractic training, medical training or combined train-ing.MethodsData...
... insertion of endotra-cheal tubes, intravenous lines and chest drains, but not afterinsertion of nasogastric tubes. In addition, CXRs wereobtained in the case of worsening of oxygenation. As ... clinically relevant and irrelevant findings, and simplyreported on all abnormalities [12]. At present, in many ICUsCXRs are still routinely obtained on a daily basis, at least in TheNetherlands ... design and statistical analysis of thestudy. MS conceived and coordinated the study and wasinvolved in the interpretation of the data and manuscript revi-sion. All authors read and approved...
... and paging system, and a detailed log of all calls is maintained.Criteria for medical emergency team activationCalling criteria for our MET service are based on acutechanges in heart rate (<40 ... reduction for in- hospital cardiac arrest over a 4-month period [4]. Analysis of the pattern of activation of the MET service in that studyrevealed a trend toward increased activation during theCI ... analyzed thefrequency of MET activation at half-hourly intervals over a 24-hour period and related this to aspects of nursing and medicaldaily routine.Materials and methodsThe hospitalAustin...
... cisplatin-damaged DNA: a clue toanticancer activity of cisplatin. FASEB J 12, 791–799.30 Kasparkova J & Brabec V (1995) Recognition of DNAinterstrand cross-links of cis-diamminedichloroplatinu-m(Ii) ... Katayama H, Sasai K, Kawai H, Yuan ZM, BondarukJ, Suzuki F, Fujii S, Arlinghaus RB, Czerniak BA &Sen S (2004) Phosphorylation by aurora kinase A induces Mdm2-mediated destabilization and inhibition of ... DNA are regulated mainly via post-trans-lational modifications (phosphorylation, acetylation)within the protein C-terminal domain [3,13,14]. Trun-cated forms of p53 lacking a negative-regulating...
... semantic analysis, and pragmatic analysis. Each stage has been designed to use linguistic data such as the lexicon and grammar, which are maintained separately from the engine, and can easily ... resources into our natural language understanding system. Client- server architecture was used to make a large volume of lexical information and a large knowledge base available to the system at ... Integration of Large-Scale Linguistic Resources ina Natural Language Understanding System Lewis M. Norton, Deborah A. Dahl, Li Li, and Katharine P. Beals Unisys Corporation 2476 Swedesford Road Malvern,...
... signal peptide (amino acids1–36), we retained amino acid 36, an alanine, ratherthan using amino acid 37, a lysine, because it isknown that, after a post-translational processing of theN-terminal ... major increase in activity upon removal of the C-terminal extension bytrypsin was found, namely an approximately 50-foldincrease in mono- and a 100 -fold increase in dipheno-lase activitiy (Table ... a black pigment when streaked onto M9agar plates containing tyrosine and copper, whereas a strain lacking a tyrosinase construct remained white(Fig. 2A) .The activity observed on the M9 agar...
... bioavailability. The goal of these enriched soybeans is to create an affordable, land-based, renewable source of omega-3s that can be used as an alternative to fish to create great-tasting ... with a safe, nutritious and sustainable food supply. For example, in Argentina, the economic gains resulting from a 140 percent increase in soybean area since 1995 are estimated to have contributed ... consuming soy, including: alleviating menopausal symptoms29 30, reducing cardiovascular disease risk31 32, reducing risk of certain cancers33 34 35 and increasing the bone density of...
... were also obtained.2. Materials and methods2.1. Soil sample and characterizationAn uncontaminated reddish brown tropical soilsample was obtained from a site in the western part of Singapore ... potential groundwater and surface water contami-nation by these contaminants.Arsenic can exist in inorganic form, organic form,and gaseous state. The oxidation states of As in thenatural systems ... processes involving As and Se are con-sidered to be rapid. According to Prasad (1994), it wasfound that the removal of As(V) from aqueous solutionwas rapid in the initial stages of contact and reached...
... [19] catalytic activity. Interestingly,maximal activity of domain 2 was achieved only whendomain 1 was functional, reinforcing, once again, theidea that catalysis at one active site is affected ... mutants).Fig. 2. Impact of C fi S mutations of individual domains and com-binations of domains on Vmax. Percentage values represent the per-centage of wild-type Vmax. Vmaxvalues are mean ... monomersthat contain three apparently complete CK domains.Recently, a number of other enzymes with multiplecatalytic domains have been identified – two-domainarginine kinases [19–21], a two-domain carbonic...
... [8] indicate that its alanine-glyoxylate aminotransferase activity is not favoredover aminobutyrate-pyruvate, b-alanine-pyruvate anddimethylarginine-pyruvate aminotransferase activities. In ... alanine-glyoxylateaminotransferase knockout; Aldh2, aldehydedehydrogenase 2; Car3, carbonic anhydr-ase 3; Cat, catalase; Dao1,D-amino acidoxidase 1; Eno1, enolase 1, a non-neuron;Fah, fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase; ... enolase and carbonic anhydrase 3 were downregu-lated. Comparable amounts of b-actin were present in AgxtKO and wild-type cytosolic fractions, and theabsence of AGT1 protein in AgxtKO samples was...
... Comput- ing Research Laboratory, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces NM. Yamanashi, Masa-aki. (1987). Metonymic interpretation and associative processes in natural language. In Language and ... that the main factors for treating metonymy correctly ina multil- ingual machine translation system are 1) its universality, which can be a guideline for the analysis component, 2) language ... sign said fishing was prohibited here." AN APPROACH TO TRANSLATING METONYMY An important point to realize is that actual computational treatment of metonymic expressions is determined...
... postnatal, family planning and laboratory services. The study subjects include Nigerians aged 8 years and above residing in Zaria, Kaduna State, Nigeria since there was subject less than 8 years ... strategy in 2001 following the training of its staff and provision of laboratory reagents, equipment, anti-TB drugs and other materials. The data were collected using a proforma and two-year ... Nigeria National Demographic Health Survey Report 2003. Nirupa CG, Sudha GT, Santha TC, Ponnuraja CR, Fathima RV, Chandrasekharan VK, Jaggarajamma K, Park K (2005). Textbook of Preventive and...
... LinguisticsIdentification of Domain-Specific Senses ina Machine-Readable DictionaryFumiyo FukumotoInterdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering,Univ. of Yamanashifukumoto@yamanashi.ac.jpYoshimi ... Magnini and G. Cavaglia. 2000. Integrating SubjectField Codes into WordNet. InIn Proc. of LREC-2000.Y. Matsumoto, A. Kitauchi, T. Yamashita, Y. Hirano,Y. Matsuda, K. Takaoka, and M. Asahara. ... SuzukiInterdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering,Univ. of Yamanashiysuzuki@yamanashi.ac.jpAbstractThis paper focuses on domain-specific sensesand presents a method for assigning...