... sexual behavior, use of contraception, and use of abortion An important reason that European youth have better sexual health outcomes is that adults approach teenage sexuality differently than adults ... adults, both at home and in other social institutions such as health care and education, conceptualize and approach adolescent sexuality Dutch and U.S Parents and Teenagers A qualitative interview ... methods than are their American peers As noted, they are less likely to be poor and they have greater access to sexual and reproductive health care services Dutch policy makers and health care providers,...
... GPR1CN, 5'-ATGGAAGATTTGGAGGAAACATTATTTGAA-3' (sense, 1st–30th); and GPR1CR, 5'-TTATTGAGCTGTTTCCAGGAGACACAGATT-3' (antisense, 1,039th–1,068th) [U13666] Detection of GPCR mRNA Total RNA was isolated ... Fukasawa M, Kodama T: Isolation and characterization of HIV-2 from an AIDS patient in Ghana AIDS 1988, 2:383-388 Guyader M, Emerman M, Sonigo P, Clavel F, Montagnier L, Alizon M: Genome organization ... from human cells using an RNA extraction kit, SepaGene (Sanko-Junyaku Inc., Tokyo, Japan), in accordance with the manufacturer's protocol cDNA for the total cellular RNA was constructed as described...
... enzymes in human metabolism Enzymes such as superoxide dismutase and ceruloplasmin serve as antioxidants Ceruloplasmin also plays an important anti-inflammatory role (Calabrese and Carbonaro, 1986) ... repair Zinc is an important component of many metalloenzymes such as collagenase and DNA and RNA polymerases Some integrins expressed by basal layer keratinocytes play an essential part in healing ... topical anti-microbial agents and their associated products used for wound management Class Anti-microbial agent Products (Manufacturer) Mechanism of action Quaternary ammonium compounds, surface-active...
... log-rank test A P value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant RESULTS Baseline clinical, coronary angiographic and lesion characteristics are shown in Table and Table No significant ... Turkish patients Abbreviations ACC: American College of Cardiology; AHA: American Heart Association; CABG: coronary artery binding graft; CK: creatine kinase; MACE: major adverse cardiac events; ... 30 days; late, >30 days and very late, >1 year) Myocardial infarction was defined asa creatine kinase (CK) elevation >2 times above the upper limit of normal levels with any associated elevation...
... many people have got accustomed to the Company s AVS product name, LiOA The Company has also spent a lot in advertising in the local TV, newspapers and magazines The Company has planned an annual ... task for any company in a highly competitive market Although acompany gets many benefits from its brand name, it is not easy to manage a strong brand To understand more how acompany builds and ... competitive market Although acompany gets many benefits from its brand name, it is not easy to create and maintain a strong brand To understand more how acompany builds and manages its brand to get...
... and a Grant in Aid for Natural Sciences Research (to T Toraya) from the Asahi Glass Foundation, Tokyo, Japan We thank Y Kurimoto for her assistance with manuscript preparation References Banerjee ... it can be assumed that the reactivase mediates the exchange of enzyme-bound damaged cofactor for intact AdoCbl witha rate constant (kcat,cbl-release) of 0.14 min)1 This value is about half of ... reactivating factor while it exists asan active holoenzyme The glycerol dehydratase-reactivating factor reactivates the inactivated hologlycerol dehydratase in a similar manner Both dehydratase-reactivating...
... a- amino-b-carboxymuconate-e-semialdehyde decarboxylase J Am Chem Soc 129, 9278–9279 Fukuoka SI, Ishiguro K, Yanagihara K, Tanabe A, Egashira Y, Sanada H & Shibata K (2002) Identification and expression of a cDNA encoding human 6622 ... potential interest to reduce life-threatening complications of cerebral malaria, and asan important tool in validating our proposal of hACMSD asa novel drug target for the treatment of diabetes and ... a- amino-b-carboxymuconate-e-semialdehyde decarboxylase (ACMSD) J Biol Chem 277, 35162–35167 Tanabe A, Egashira Y, Fukuoka SI, Shibata K & Sanada H (2002) Expression of rat hepatic 2-amino3-carboxymuconate-6-semialdehyde...
... and the appearance of a base at each position in a motif was presented asa percentage frequency of all four kinds of base The base witha frequency higher than 50% (bold) was defined as the selected ... of a three-stranded antiparallel b-sheet and an a- helix, packed approximately parallel to the b-sheet, with the seven thoroughly conserved amino acids (Arg6, Arg8, Trp10, Glu16, Arg18, Arg26 and ... induce transactivation of the reporter gene The control in the transient assay was the same as the experiments without the addition of an effector The results are shown as relative luciferase activity...
... partners, a human fetal liver cDNA library was screened in a yeast twohybrid assay using Rev-erbb as bait A screen of approximately 106 yeast transformants revealed that ZNHIT-1 interacted with ... cotransfected with pGL3-apoCIII-pro and pRL, as well as the plasmid or plasmids as indicated Plasmid pRL was used to normalize the transfection efficiencies, and the empty vector pCMV-HA was used ... ZNHIT-1 and Rev-erba was assessed using HepG2 cells cotransfected with Myc-ZNHIT-1 and pCMVHA-Rev-erba Anti-HA and anti-Myc were used for precipitation and detection, respectively The Co-IP assay was...
... Left-peripheral ellipsis wlth two NP remnants: (22) Max gave a nickel to Sally and a dime to Harvey (23) Max gave Sally a nickel and Harvey a dime (24) Jack calls Joe Mike and Sam Harry A3 (Gapping)Left-perlpheral ... Sunday, and Alan to Sandy A5 The right conjunct is a complete clause: (30) I played football and John watched the television A6 The right conjunct is a verb phrase to be treated asa clause with ... constituents as in Albert Max spoke fluently, and Albert M a x wrote a novel, and Alex a (18) John drove his car through and completely demolished a plate glass window Max wrote a novel, and Alex Bob saw...
... correlation coefficient, prediction accuracy as defined by Tan et al (2005), and adjacent accuracy Adjacent accuracy is defined by Heilman et al (2008) as “the proportion of predictions that were within ... 1988 La lisibilit´ : essai d’application e de la formule courte d’Henry au francais langue ¸ etrang` re Canadian Modern Language Review, ´ e 44(2):261–273 B .A Lively and S.L Pressey 1923 A method ... vector machines and statistical language models Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics, pages 523–530 M Heilman, K Collins-Thompson, J Callan, and M...
... the same features The implementation is in Java, and we interface with the Hadoop cluster via the native Java API It can be easily adapted to a wide range of NLP tasks Incorporating new features ... vector After map workers have finished, the MapReduce framework guarantees that all local weights associated witha given feature are aggregated together as input to a distinct reduce worker Each ... Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat 2004 Mapreduce: simplified data processing on large clusters In Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Opearting Systems Design and Implementation, San Francisco, CA, USA...
... computers Just as translators can translate English into both Japanese and Swahili, so can translating computer programs translate a high-level language into a low-level language for a particular computer ... the city is wonderful, and the rain isn’t nearly as bad as people lead you to believe Finally, thanks to Laura for always understanding Owen Astrachan Vancouver, Canada 1999 June 7, 1999 10:10 ... more akin to that associated with putting a man on the moon, i.e., managing a massive amount of detail In addition to being important and intellectually challenging, programming is a great deal...
... cross-functional internal and external research partners and experts that can be leveraged as needed (Chapter 11 features practical advice from internal and external strategic research partners) Asa connector, ... your data and be passionate about it You need to have the conviction to defend your statement and the data and understanding to back it up You need to balance the rational and explainable parts ... Qualitative Multivariate Analysis Kannapon Lopetcharat and Jacqueline Beckley Consumers not know what they want, really Really? 6.3.2 Introduction 6.3.3 Qualitative Multivariate Analysis in practice...
... to handle updated salience http://chasen.naist.jp/stable/ipadic/ features such as CHAIN NUM in proceeding cache updates Antecedent identification and anaphoricity determination models Asan antecedent ... features ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing (TALIP), 6(4) R Iida, M Komachi, K Inui, and Y Matsumoto 2007b Annotating a japanese text corpus with predicate-argument and coreference ... tournament-based or ranking-based approaches to anaphora resolution (Iida et al., 2003; Yang et al., 2003; Denis and Baldridge, 2008) To solve it, we use a ranker trained on the instances created...
... man with (AND (telescope) (umbrella))'; Ex2, 'The man with (AND (telescope) (umbrella witha handle))'; Ex3, '(AND (man with telescope) (woman))' and Exh, '(AND (man with telescope) (woman with ... The man with the telescope and the woman with the umbrella kicked the ball Ex5 The man with the child and the woman kicked the ball Ex6 The man with the child and the woman with the umbrella kicked ... Exl3 The man kicked the child and threw ball Exlh The man kicked and threw the ball ExlS The man kicked and the woman threw ball the CASSEX PACKAGE III CASSEX (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences;University...
... Microsoft and their partners • Nokia brings proven capability and talent in critical areas • Ongoing share growth and the synergies across marketing, branding, and advertising Nokia • Be the best path ... organizations or companies join together to become a new business • In an acquisition: one business buys a second and generally smaller company Goals Increase in top line revenue Expand in a declining ... the regular basis on the combination Geography • • • • Affect adverse selection and moral hazard problems in M &A Hinder acquisitions’ efforts to assess the true value Hamper acquisitions’ ability...
... go, search and social media are like peas and carrots Wait, strike that Who really eats peas and carrots together? Let’s go witha classic Search and social media are the peanut butter and jelly ... demographic data Asa B2B marketing superstar, you have clear and detailed personas for every prospect you are working to reach Having this level of familiarity and clarity is a major advantage ... generate leads and brand recognition for your company sales team witha short-handed staff and less budget than you really need B2B marketers are always looking for value on a quest to maximize...
... images that are sensed and translated to multidimensional signals These travel along the visual pathways forward and backward, in parallel and serially, thanks to a fascinating chain of chemical ... to layers and 3, whereas cells in layers and project to layers and Layers and also provide inputs to adjacent cortical areas Cells in layer provide inputs to adjacent cortical areas as well as ... space asa vector space A scalar product for matrices, which can easily represent discrete images, can also be defined Most important, however, is that the space of all images can be viewed as a...