... precipitates The spectrum ofthe material reveals peaks for Ca and Sb The strong decrease ofthe Ca2+ pool in the pistil at the last stages of pistil development coincides with the degradation ofthe ... cells as well as in the intracellular spaces between them The stigmatic surface is the main place for signal exchange between pollen and stigma Ca2+ ions are more abundant in the receptive stigmas ... maximal values just after anther dehiscence (stage 4) At the latest analyzed stage (stage 5) a significant decrease of Ca2+ levels was observed in the upper parts ofthe pistil (stigma and style)...
... range of each measure across included footwear was also reported Intra-rater and inter-rater reliability for all categorical data was evaluated using percentage agreement, and kappa (κ) statistics ... reliability for all categorical items, use of these items from thetool to assist clinical footwear assessment can be recommended fora range of populations Qualitative evaluation ofthetool and ... Categorical measurements of heel height, forefoot height, and longitudinal profile demonstrated at least substantial intra-rater reliability and at least moderate inter-rater reliability for all measures...
... overcome its barriers 1.3 Why team-teaching asa valuable means for professional development? The study of team-teaching asa viable alternative to traditional teaching asa way to increase students’ ... is to obtain information on teachers’ actual team-teaching practice as well asthe atmosphere in the classroom; their partnership and the role of each teacher in the team-teaching classes Besides, ... teacher said: “ Other thing that was beneficial about it was that it was able to work with different teacher in the same classroom The class was easily controlled and there was time for us to...
... ceramic then 32 measurements ofthe sample) was obtained for each sample The absorbance spectrum, represented asa log value(1/R), was obtained by averaging these measurements and comparing them ... content of 6% The meal was mixed and then 15 g was removed with a spatula for disk samples and about g for extreme value samples and placed in a sample cup After the samples had been scanned under a ... available and the number of samples used in the calibration and validation sets for all criteria The descriptive statistics for criteria analysed in the laboratory for these powder samples are...
... human salivary gland cancer cells Oral Oncol 2006, 42:593598 44 Hayashi M, Sakata M, Takeda T, Tahara M, Yamamoto T, Okamoto Y, Minekawa R, Isobe A, Ohmichi M, Tasaka K, Murata Y: Up-regulation ... fitness assays They found that KRAS mutant cells are hypersensitive to loss ofthe polo-like kinase PLK1, components ofthe anaphasepromoting complex/cyclosome, and the proteasome Note that all of these ... ofthe most frequently mutated human oncogenes Cancer-relevant KRAS mutations lead to loss of K-Ras GTPase activity, leading to constitutive signaling So far K-Ras has not proven tractable as a...
... transcends any particular database schema or file format This means it can be used equally well as an external data-exchange format or internally as an integral component ofa database Genome Biology ... searching and querying capa- interactions SO also greatly facilitates the automatic validation of annotation data, asthe relationships implied by an annotation can be compared to the allowable ... CG14478-RA CG14478-RB 3′ CG14478-RA CG14478-RB These data afford many potential analyses, but as our motivation was primarily to demonstrate the practical utility of SO asatoolfor data management,...
... PEA) and liking ofthe vanilla beverage at any phase ofthe study The aim ofthe present study was to examine the effects of heightened aroma concentration on the pleasantness and intake ofa ... first and half ate the heightened aroma samples first The subjects were asked to rate one sample a day at any time ofthe day they wanted Similarly to the tasting sessions, Asthe final task in the ... Preliminary data analysis revealed no significant main effects and only one significant interaction of day and aroma on the pleasantness ratings ofthe young, implicating an increase in pleasantness of...
... turning cardiovascular system abnormal cardiac development o cardiac development is normal prior to thedevelopmentof vascular defects abnormal vasculature o abnormal vascular dilation noted at E8.5 ... extensively for gene annotation [14] In addition, MGD has adopted the Mouse Embryo Anatomy Nomenclature Database [15] and the Anatomical Dictionary forthe Adult Mouse [16] for annotating data that include ... dilation noted at E8.5 o vascular dilation was associated with an increased endothelial proliferation rate o in addition to the dilation, narrowing ofthe rostral dorsal aorta was observed in E 8.5...
... camelid heavy chain antibody scaffold for use in constructing naı¨ ve antibody libraries [15] Here, the association ofthe variable heavy chain (VH) with protein A was used asa surrogate for direct ... irrational, but that can be rapidly explored using a phage selection Design ofa heavy chain antibody scaffold A conceptually similar approach was employed by Bond et al in the design ofa camelid ... for target can be measured by standard methods (immunoassay or surface plasmon resonance) at the temperature ofthe phage selection (or at temperatures at which the variants are fully folded);...
... final model Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) This statistical multivariate method is supervised It searches forthe variables containing the greatest interclass variance and the smallest intraclass ... The data were analysed with a window of five Fig K562 cell spectrum and spectral areas selected by genetic algorithm A smear of about · 105 cells was dried on an area of cm2 on the germanium surface ... LDA The results obtained show 100% of correct classification forthe training set Forthe test sets (Table 2), the global accuracy was 93% LDA was applied to discriminate the two cell lines The...
... define asa billable entity (a distinct user with a set of applications, a business unit, or a company)—can load one or more databases A database has one or more tables, and an associated workload, ... Minhas, A Aboulnaga, K Salem, P Kokosielis, and S Kamath Automatic virtual machine configuration for database workloads ACM Trans Database Syst., 35(1), 2010 [17] G Soundararajan, D Lupei, S Ghanbari, ... Damiani, S D C di Vimercati, S Jajodia, S Paraboschi, and P Samarati Balancing Confidentiality and Efficiency in Untrusted Relational DBMS CCS, 2003 [7] S Das, D Agrawal, and A E Abbadi ElasTraS:...
... In all cases, the optimal amount of arachidonic acid was determined and used to analyze the effect of S10 0A8 /A9 on oxidase activation After an incubation of 10 at 20 °C, the oxidase activity was ... an optimal amount of arachidonic acid determined for each assay of oxidase activation [12] The rate of O2– production by the activated NADPH oxidase was calculated from the rate ofthe superoxide ... high affinity for Ca2+, S10 0A8 /A9 had a full charge of bound Ca2+ To check whether the potentiation of oxidase activation by S10 0A8 /A9 was due to a change in affinity ofthe flavocytochrome b for NADPH...
... verb form werkte (worked) (Records for citation forms contain pointers to the different forms belonging to their paradigm, and information relevant to all forms ofa paradigm: e.g case frames and ... is ~ d ~ to the system, and we want to add all inflected forms (the paradigm ofthe verb) to the dictionary with their pronunciation Asa first hypothesis, the system assumes that the inflection ... has an explicit notion of meaning: each con- cept has a referent (comparable to the notion of ~ o n ) and may have a definition, which is a Lisp form that can be used to compute the referent of...
... optical shift The optical measuring ofthe diameter at various heights of stem using the wedge prism asatoolfor measurement is a sufficiently accurate method for measurement and can be used for ... ratio between the stem volume and the diameter at breast height The method of measuring the diameter at a certain height ofthe tree is also appropriate forthe sorting in standing trees For sorting ... on the borderline The method was also described for determining the tree diameter at breast height (Bitterlich 1996) For testing the accuracy ofthe method the laser telemeter was used and then...
... sclerophylls as typical components of vegetation of Mediterranean drylands; and b) assess the reliability ofa relatively easily measured ecophysiological parameter to estimate the degree and duration ... coccifera can be considered as suitable candidates to natural reforestation of degraded areas ofthe Mediterranean Basin region Moreover, Carob tree is a species of increasing economic interest for ... by Duhme and Hinckley [9] Because O oleaster maintained its relative frequency approximately the same for site D3 asforthe other sites (table I), on the basis of our data and in accordance with...
... pulses of predefined height were applied and the required voltage measured The pulse height measured far away from the sample surface was used to define the basal resistance Then, the probe was approached ... of frame A from frame J (Fig 1) Here green areas denote areas without any changes in height, red areas correspond to areas of increasing height and blue areas represent areas of decreasing height ... Figure of Analysis the topographical changes ofthe neurite shown in Fig Analysis ofthe topographical changes ofthe neurite shown in Fig (A) Top view ofthe first scan ofthe terminal part of the...
... or "floating" support staff who are not based at the unit are excluded Ethical approval aspects ofthe institution (such asthe décor and homeliness) by the interviewer A later stage ofthe study ... previous work, we have found that small payments of this kind greatly facilitate the work of researchers and preserve the dignity of participants as partners in research Such an approach has received ... systems for quality assessment and review Cross-validation ofthe toolkit ratings against service users' quality of life, autonomy and markers of recovery tests whether it can deliver a proxy-measure...
... AAA GGA CCA GCA AAG CTC CTC TGG AAA GGT 3') and WS3 (5'TAG AAT TCA AAC TAG GGT ATT TGA CTA AT) The same PCR was performed on DNA from a vpU-deletion construct [pDR2484, [39]] The PCR fragments ... (vpU startcodon inactivation) and rtTAΔ6B (vpU deletion) As part ofthe vpU inactivation strategy, the Y2 6A inactivating mutation in the tat gene of HIV-rtTA is replaced by the wt tat gene ofthe ... left panel) Surprisingly, replication ofthe minimized rtTAΔ 6A and rtTAΔ6B variants is significantly faster than that ofthe parental HIV-rtTA virus and even faster than the wild type LAI virus...