... possible to determine the type of antibody (3). Obtaining negative results in agglutination tests is a common phenomenon. One of the reasons for this is blocking antibodies. One of the methods ... since the brucellacapt could determine all three of the antibodies and blocking antibodies that form against brucella, the titers that it has determined were higher in number than STA and ... place in diagnosis of brucellosis. Antibodies begin to form 2 weeks after the beginning of disease. Those who engage in animal husbandry may have normal antibodies at 1/80 titer. Im-munglobulin...
... and interrogative statements. In English, the intonation may function as the only means of distinguishing various types of sentences; for example, “He is coming.” versus “He is coming?” In ... In terms of functions of intonation in English, there are four main functions namely attitudinal, grammatical, accentual and discourse. First, intonation is used to convey our feelings and ... the listener what kind of response is expected. 4. Aspects of intonation that are different in English and Vietnamese In comparing Vietnamese intonation and English intonation, a big difference...
... 1982“International Accounting Standards and the EEC”, International Lurnal of Accounting, Spring,48. 33ConclusionInternational accounting harmonisation would bring major benefits to international ... Colbe W 1983"A Discussion of International Issues in Accounting Standard Setting", in Bromwich M &Hopwood A "Accounting Standards Setting - an International Perspective", ... were uncertain and indeterminable in the future. (Altenburger, 1989,quoted by Loidl, 1994). The translation of a true and fair view introduced in the CommercialCode by the RLG of 1990 and currently...
... abstracts and the lan-guage used in the body of a document. For ex-ample, authors may use general language in an 603 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Linguistics and ... Meeting of the ACL, pages 601–608,Sydney, July 2006.c2006 Association for Computational LinguisticsA Comparisonof Document, Sentence, and Term Event Spaces Catherine Blake School of Information ... theoretical and practical ramifications. From a theoretical standpoint, the success of TFxIDF is problematic because the model combines two different event spaces – the space of terms in TF and of...
... theirhistory, location, faỗade and interior, I will investigate how they arrive at this goal in contrastingstylesLocation of a building is significant, often giving an insight into the edifice's ... are the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum.Both continue the metaphor of New York being a world within a world and possess the latentfusion of form and function, one dependent ... Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by wealthy American businessmen and artists of the time with the sole purpose to create a museum bringing art and education fromaround the world to the citizens of...
... 1996a for more details) includes a mapping function between the source and target nodes of the frag- ments. Valid transfer mappings are defined in terms of a tiling of the source dependency ... The following non- deterministic actions are involved in the tiling pro- cess: ã Selection of a bilingual entry given a source lan- guage word, w. ã Matching the nodes and arcs of the source ... The cost of a solution (i.e., a possible trans- lation of an input string) is the sum of costs for all choices in the derivation of that solution. Discriminative cost functions, including likelihood...
... grain yield and protein content of two winter wheat cultivars (Ludwig and Sulamit) grown in organic and conventional farming were studied during 2004/05 and 2005/06, in the Czech Republic. Grains ... 65 ng/mL of equol and traces of formononetin and daidzein in organic skimmed milk whereas conventionally produced milk contained 62 16 ng/mL of equol and no formononetin or daidzein. Igbokwe, ... content (in 7 cultivars) and α-solanine and α-chaconine (in cv. Karin). A higher nitrate content (145.1 mg NO3-kg fresh weight) was found in tubers from drier and warmer lower regions in comparison...
... thefunction of protein and ligand binding. TM4 and TM10, being parts of the portals, could be involved in weaker interactions with the entering ligands that arelost during the transport cycle. In Table ... specific interactions canbe outlined. The residues in the ligand-binding sites in Fig. 6. (A) A front overview of the P-gp binding cavity with theinhibitors QZ59-RRR and QZ59-SSS (in space-filling ... dockedinto the two binding sites and superimposed on the P-gp backbone(grey line). (B) Closer view (from the bottom) of the protein–ligandinteractions and the surface of the binding site in the...
... acan be decomposed in the3.2 TrainingDuring training, we proceed over all sentence pairs and estimate the probabilities by determining therelative frequencies of applying an alignment tem-plate. ... ratio of the sum of deleted, inserted, and substituted conceptsw.r.t. a Levenshtein-alignment for a given ref-erence concept-string, and the total number of concepts in all reference strings.The ... from different decompo-sitions of Pr(fif ,a.i! 4). For training the align-ment model, we train a sequence of models of in- creasing complexity. Starting from the first modelIBM1, we...
... one of the founders of proba-bility theory. In his days, there was much interest in games of chance1 and the likelihood of winning a game. In most of these games, there was a finitenumber q of ... 4 Introduction is certain level of stringency and kQ(p) is the number of hops towards themost nearby of the p serversinanetworkwithQ routers.The popularity of the Internet results in a ... variableproperly. Let us introduce the concept of a normalized random variable vi Contents4.4 Examples of the non-linear transformation method 744.5 Linear combination of independent auxiliary randomvariables...
... in vivo without provoking antigeninduced cell death. This method also may be advanta-geous in maintaining CCR7 expression on expandingCD8 cells in settings where central lymphoid trafficking of ... rkurlander@mail.cc.nih.govDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, NIH Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USALi and Kurlander Journal of Translational Medicine 2010, ... past.BackgroundWith advances in the methods for selecting and manip-ulating T cells there is increasing interest in the adop-tive transfer of bioactive T cells as a treatment forinfections and cancer. This...
... theinfluence of 2 different types of resistance training and acontrol on changes in measures of quality of life and self-efficacy in older adults. The data indicate that the mode of training ... functioning.Therefore, an inclusion criterion included self-reporteddifficulty with at least one of the following: walking aquarter mile, climbing stairs, getting inand out of a car,rising from ... changes in quality of life in older adults. Following Stewart and King's [16] concep-tual framework of quality of life (QOL), we view QOL asconsisting of both function and well-being. Furthermore,well-being...
... participated in the planning and design of the study, interpretation of the results and in drafting the manuscript. AG helped in the interpretation of the results and participated in drafting the ... draft-ing the manuscript. SB planned and designed the study,participated in the interpretation of results andin drafting and revising the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final ... aspects of health and comparisons with groups of individuals known to differ in theirfunctioning according to existing evidence.Conclusion: Data quality, internal consistency and discriminative...
... Path and sequence distribution of haptic training and vision training.Number of Subjects Haptic training protocol Vision training protocolGroup 1 5 Path A, 1st training set Path B, 2nd training ... forgetting: forgetting occurred bothearly and late in training, although the starting error fromwhich forgetting commenced was smaller later in training(Fig 3). Journal of NeuroEngineering and ... consisted of a sequence of ninecycles. Each of the nine cycles consisted of two phases, atraining phase, and a recall phase, with each phase con-sisting of seven separate movements. During the trainingphase,...
... 4.DiscussionKarnofsky and Tokuhashi scoring systems are currentlyused to determine the prognosis of the patients with met-astatic spinal tumors before and after surgery [9,10]. Theprognosis of spinal ... scoring methods should bechosen with determination without any delay.Here, anterolateral and combined approaches were per-formed in 33.3% of patients (19/57)with Karnofskyscores of 80–100 and ... 80–100 andin 26.3% of patients (15/57) withmodified Tokuhashi scores of 0–1. Posterior approachwas performed in 22.8% of patients (13/57) with Karnof-sky scores 80–100 andin 17.5% of patients...