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... placing ads on a website which is not a member of an industry body or regulator Mainstream ad agency An agency which places ads on a website which is a member of an industry body or regulators Payment ... they offer, and how large their user bases are The aim of this study is to provide quantitative data to inform debate around infringement and enforcement Although a large amount of quantitative and ... the data collection and metric calculation for the websites in five stages: User journey URL and search URL capture Automated data capture Manual data capture Third party data capture Metric calculations...
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... technicians All data were saved for further analysis Even though the ATS recommendations require three or more acceptable curves for an adequate test, this is not practical for a large-scale examination ... the classification of the National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association of the USA (14) Statistical analysis Comparisons between variables were tested using the chi-square test or Student’s ... fibrosis and inflammation may play important roles TB infection is associated with airway fibrosis and the immune response to mycobacteria could cause airway inflammation, a characteristic of obstructive...
... appearance of abnormal, large mitochondria Once a mitochondrion starts to enlarge (due to initial oxidative damage and disturbed fission), it may be, as mentioned above, less likely tobe autophagocytosed ... overall production of Æ) O2 As a result, the membranes of defective mitochondria may suffer less oxidative damage than those of normal mitochondria, may be less targeted for autophagocytosis and ... in fact, such an accumulation does occur, implying that either cells autophagocytose defective mitochondria at a lower rate than normal mitochondria, or that these damaged mitochondria have a replicative...
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... interaction of biological, behavioral, and environmental factors places certain youths at greater risk than others for emotional and behavioral disorders that can range from mild to severe—and may be ... information on the nature ofa traumatic event and symptoms related to posttraumatic stress Some are specific toa particular kind of trauma, such as a natural disaster ora specific kind of abuse ... who are not trained as mental health or substance abuse professionals However, staff need tobe trained to administer these tools, and mental health or substance abuse professionals need tobe available...
... jardinei, the corallimorpharian Ricordia florida and the alcyonarian Dendronepthya sp [10,12,27] An unusual, green -to- orange variant was recently described from an orange color morph of L hemprichii ... Florida under Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary permit number 2003-053 -A1 and adapted to aquarium conditions at the Whitney Laboratory (St Augustine, FL) L hemprichii was purchased via the ... Proteins belonging to the green -to- red photoconverting GFP-like proteins have also been found as major colorants in the scleractinian corals M cavernosa, Scolymia cubensis, Catalaphyllia jardinei,...