... treat-ment and lung functionin further prospective studies.ConclusionsOur findings are in line with previous observations show-ing an inverse association between blood pressure and lung function. ... allowsonly statements about a single point intimeand does notallow evaluating the effect of long-standing high bloodpressure. Another explanation for this lung function decrement could be that ... Relationship between lung functionand blood pressure in Chinese men and women of Beijing and Guangzhou. PRC-USACardiovascular and Cardiopulmonary Epidemiology Research Group. Int JEpidemiol 1998,...
... only increases when the date interval spans months or years. Date in DaysThe following script shows one way to make dateandtime calculations much easier. Because UNIX and Linux calculate time ... like to get those routine notices by page during the day and by e-mail at other times.The following script determines whether the current day and hour are within a certain time frame that you ... 's/0*//'`year= `date +'%Y'`22CHAPTER 3 ■ DATEANDTIME MANIPULATIONAlternatives for Finding the Datein SecondsThere are two other ways to calculate the number of seconds since the epoch....
... proteins indicating mainly1O2was involved[28]. In spinach thylakoids, illumination at low lightintensity resulted in the degradation of PsaB geneproduct into two fragments of 51 and 45 ... better insight into the photo-inducedchanges in PSI. The submembrane particles used con-tain all the components of PSI, including the cyto-chrome b6 ⁄ f complex and plastocyanin [31,32]. In thepresent ... structural perturbationsinvolved altered pigment–protein and protein–proteininteraction, contributing to the observed decreasedefficiency of energy migration and capture, and leadingto Chl degradation.Experimental...
... Oxidative index and protein expression levels ofcytochrome (Cyt) C in brain infarct area. A) Oxidative indexdetermination by Western blotting of brain infarct area (BIA) (n = 6),showing notably increased ... substantially increased in group 2 than in other groups, remarkably higher in g roups 3 and 4 than in groups 1 and 5, and significantly higher in group 5than in group 1.On day 21 following acute IS induction, ... laboratory assay and troubleshooting. SC, CKS, SL, and HKY participated in refinement of experiment protocol and coordination and helped in drafting the manuscript.Competing interestsThe authors...
... havedifficulty in performing coordinated movements againstspasticity [1]. Performances of hand tasks in these patientsrequire gross and fine hand motion coordinated with vis-ual perception and postural ... deformity and functionin cerebral palsy patients and to determine the correlation of deformity, spasticity, motorcontrol, and sensation to hand functionin the said population.Materials and methods: ... affect hand functionin activities ofdaily living.This comprehensive documentation of upper limbdeformity and hand functionin cerebral palsy patientswould allow us to better understand a difficult...
... in rigidcapsules, capsuleglands and albuminglandsare pres-ent in acomplexof pallial glands. Thesediffer in theirorigin and function (Chukchin,1984).Oviductalglands in octopussecrete an adhesivecement,whilethoseofcuttlefish and squidsecrete ... D.SHILIN.1983.Morphology and characteristicfeatures of sexual system functioning in Thysanoteuthisrhombussquid. In: Systematics and ecologyofcepha-lopodmolluscs,Leningrad,Naukapress, p. ... is one type in males and three in femaleswhichareorderspecific. These have provided a basisforexamining possibleevolutionarytrends in reproductive system development andin reproductive...
... combination of factors, and may be influenced by population increase and/ or an increase in healthcare costs associated with COPD. For this same time period, estimated tobacco outlets in the ... among persons of color and the poor. In summary, the Los Angeles area had a marked increase in hotspots both in 1993 and 1999, and also experienced a significant increase in COPD hospi-talization ... Alcohol Health and Research World 1996; 20: 244-251 12. Gruenewald PJ, Stockwell T, Beel A, Dyskin EV. Beverage sales and drinking and driving: The role of on-premise drinking places. Journal...
... heterogeneous termination LV isovolumic time intervals were found to be increased at the ex-pense of LV diastolic timein heart failure patients (17,18). Since our findings and other previous ... of increase in LV dyssynchrony during dobutamine stress in patients with wide QRS duration (20). In contrast, Kurita et al. reported on an increased mechanical dyssynchrony during pacing–induced ... systolic timeand heart rate and expressed in seconds per minute. Diastolic time was calculated as the cardiac length (RR interval) minus the duration of systole. To define diastolic duration during...
... going to workers minus tax payments minus consumption minus investment into physical capital minus costs of investing into physical capital plus interest income from assets accumulated in ... that the optimum rate of investment, as expected, is increasing in the marginal productivity of capital and decreasing in the depreciation rate, the interest rate, and the cost parameter b. ... rate that is incompatible with low discounting and low intertemporal substitution in consumption. Finally Figure 3 shows a shift in the I1(r) line generated by an increase in b. With...
... parents:the world begins and stops with them. The first people and things we learn toname are the most intimate, and the order of naming and hearing names gen-erally coincides with the unfolding of the ... ultimatereality and meaning. ‘Ultimate Reality and Meaning’ is actually a term of artused by interdisciplinary and cross-cultural scholars interested in collectivelypursuing the idea in their studies. ... as culture is maintained by theuniverse of meaning in which the norms reside. That is, everything makes senseby reference to authoritative texts, teachings and upbringing within the culture,which...
... for all. There is noise in the subject, in the object, in the observed, in the observer, in the transmitter andin the receiver; it is in being, in appearing andin knowing as well; moreover, ... multiplicity. And this multiplicity, this noise, is the song of my being and my becoming. I would not be here - breathing, thinking, living, touching, reading, writing - without it. And now ... under- stand that comprehension always remains incomplete and that this is no failure. There is wisdom in understanding this, just as there is wisdom in understanding that clear thinking is never...
... [21],England [27] and Scotland [22] had reported a trendtowards an increased PA in individuals older than 60years of age. In fact, the increase in PA has been foundto be higher in people ... 2001, 2003, and 2006. The SNHS is anongoing, home-based personal interview examining anational representative sample of non-institutionalizedpopulation residing in main family dwellings (house-holds) ... study, and participated in its design and coordination and draft the manuscript. CAB carried out the acquisition of the data,analysis and interpretation of data. She has been involved in revising...