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... is the relevance ofthe education to the professional futureof a person Universities need to strengthen the causality between an education and a professional future, and given the nature ofthe ... together to share their visions for thefutureof communications andthefutureofthe world URL: http://www.imaginingtheInternet.org 42 Methodology The survey results are based on a non-random, ... Hapgood, technology author and consultant, and writer for Wired, Discover, and other tech and science publications, said, The key challenge ofthe next five years—I say the because ofthe importance...
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... Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health ofthe public The Institute acts under the responsibility ... the Department of State andthe Office of Science andTechnology Policy, in the establishment in Washington of an effective interagency committee to coordinate the overlapping S&T interests of ... setting the stage for another swing ofthe pendulum back to the latter as a result of disappointments with the results of diffuse grassroots investments ofthe 1970s In the early 1980s the USAID...
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... University and Prof Paul Tam of University of Hong Kong for their valuable advice and insightful comments We also thank Genome Research Centre ofThe University of Hong Kong for thetechnology ... using the Affymetrix GCOS and Genespring GX softwares as described in Methods To increase the stringency ofthe analysis, we combined the gene lists from the two software analyses Only the genes ... 1A and 4B) Moreover, the suppressive effect ofthe mixture of ginsenosides occurred in a dose-dependent manner (Figure 4B) To examine the comparable inhibitory effects of PGSE andthe mixture of...
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... cells and produced IFN-γ [23] The present study focuses on theregulationofthe IP-10 secretion The aim was to investigate the pathways of IP10 secretion in a in vitro system including the cell ... contact, little is known oftheregulationofthe Th1 IFN-γ/ IL-12 pathway upon intercellular interaction between lung epithelial cells and leucocytes Since increased activity ofthe IFN-γ/IL-12 pathway ... response to IFN-γ, thereby attracting more lymphocytes to lung tissue and support the use ofthe A549 and CALU-3 cell lines as a model ofthe primary cell system As example, application of cigarette...
... [8] Insulin initially binds to the insulin receptor causing autophosphorylation ofthe β-subunit ofthe receptor [8] The protein kinase domain ofthe β-subunit then phosphorylates tyrosine residues ... 24 hours and then exposed to media plus either vehicle or insulin (2.5 µg/ml) for an additional 1, 4, and 24 hours The cells were then rinsed and trypsinized, and nuclei from control and treated ... absence of insulin (2.5 µg/ml) The level of transcription in control cells at the 4hour time-point was made equal to one The data are the results of three experiments expressed as the mean ± SD (standard...
... induce the secretion of chemokines and other immunomodulators by endothelial cells, epithelial cells, and cells ofthe interstitium creating an intense local inflammatory response [2,10] The subsequent ... know if there is a critical value over time that could predict the course ofthe disease in these patients However, the most interesting finding of this study is that the serum levels ofthe measured ... failure (d) the level of urea in the BALF should be more than 0.4 mmol The urea level was used as an index of BALF dilution [25,26] Predictive capabilities of mediators for the onset of ARDS The median...
... function ofthe protein Confirm transmission ofthe phenotype and map it Identify the mutation, and thereby prove importance ofthe gene to the phenomenon Practical application of forward and reverse ... However, it is the cellular response to microbes that creates the septic syndrome, and a handful of specific receptors alert the host to the presence of an infection The effector limb ofthe response ... called Tube and Pelle (a homolog ofthe mammalian IL-1 receptor associated kinase [IRAK]), which in turn signal the activation of Dif (a homolog of NF-κB) and then the production of antimicrobial...
... Surgery, Professor of Anesthesiology and Clinical Adjunct Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Minnesota Dr Dries also holds the John F Perry, Jr Chair of Trauma Surgery at the University ... (TEG) TEG offers the advantage of providing a real-time graphic representation of clot formation and whole blood Unlike standard laboratory tests, TEG offers analysis ofthe whole Page 12 of 17 coagulation ... antibodies toward factor VIII or IX and it has been licensed in the United States and other parts ofthe world for this purpose There is significant off-label use of rFVIIa in surgical applications...
... characteristic ofthe genus: the repression of conservons, the induction of antibiotic gene clusters, andthe expression ofthe morphogenetic sapB, chaplin and rodlin genes While the exact regulatory ... production and morphological differentiation during growth The results extend the known involvement of ppGpp synthesis in theregulationof antibiotic and secondary metabolite production, and paint ... GeneSpring they exhibited subtly different expression levels for a minor subset of genes when compared to the other M600 samples These, andthe M570 data from the corresponding times, were therefore...