withdrawals as it was suggestive of an account being used to plan for and to respond to normal households contingencies in a short time period and it has been labelled as the contingency account
... (Continued) Spain Hypertension United States Hospice patients Scotland Asthma United States Smoking cessation Croatia Asthma Spain Cardiovascula r disease Finland Diabetes Spain Vaccination rates ... have a conversation Forms of payment and market potential The standard way of paying fora mobile phone service inthe United States and Europe is on the basis ofa minimum use ofa certain time ... texting study All subjects received asthma education, self-management plan, and standard treatment All measured PEF three times daily and kept a symptom diary Inthe study group, therapy was adjusted...
... and Cwf , CL and CL max are the smaller andthe larger ofthe two capacitance rates CL and Cwf , CIm inand CIm ax are the smaller andthe larger ofthe two capacitance rates CI and Cwf N H ... temperature is TK The heat exchangers between the working fluid andthe heat reservoir, the regenerator andthe intercooler are counter-flow andthe heat conductances (heat transfer surface area and ... pressure ratio andthe total pressure ratio by taking the maximum dimensionless profit rate asthe objective Effects of design parameters on the optimal performance are analyzed in detail andthe thermal...
... ofthe ring Let us use spherical co¨rdinates, taking the centre ofthe ring as origin and o the axis ofthe ring asthe polar axis To obtain the value ofthe potential function at any point in ... from the base; we shall attempt to find the temperature at any point ofthe plate Let us take the base asthe axis of X and one end ofthe base asthe origin Then to solve the problem we are to ... instantaneous andto permanent heat sources and sinks, andto heat doublets Examples Application tothe case where there is leakage.—Arts 55–56 Transmission ofa disturbance along anin nite stretched elastic...
... overlapping PCR using oligonucleotide primers N8517 (Forward: 5¢-ACAAGGG TAGACCAAACACCAAGAACAGCAACAAAAGAG ACGGGCGAATCACTGACCATCAACgccGTCCTGA GAGAT-3¢) and N8518 (Reverse: 5¢-TTTCACGGTTAA TGCGGTGCCAGCTCCCCAACTGTAATAAATACC ... The VNAR library was transformed into E coli TG1 and phagemid particles rescued and panned against the immobilized Tom70 antigen Four rounds of biopanning were performed with an increase inthe ... generate anin vitro library of VNAR domains, containing both synthetic and natural CDR3 loops, and then to isolate specific binding molecules using asan initial target antigen the mitochondrial outer...
... G A G AAAAA AT T TA A G AT C T AT T T G AA C T A G A C C A AT G C T G G G A G AAAAA AT T TA A G AT C T Mut A AT T T G AA C T G T G AA G AT G C T G G G A G AAAAA AT T TA A G AT ... population of cells in S phase As shown in Fig 2A, LIN54 depletion results inan accumulation of cells in G2 ⁄ M andina reduction inthe fraction of cells in S phase Staining with an antibody against ... CMV-b-gal were transfected with Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) Luciferase and b-galactosidase activities were determined The luciferase activity was normalized tothe b-galactosidase...
... Functional cAMP assay The activity ofthe mature INSL3 and its precursor was measured using a receptor-activating assay Chemically synthesized INSL3 wasusedasthe standard As shown in Fig 7, the recombinant ... B-chain and A- chain were linked by an eight-residue linker sequence For insulin and insulin-like growth factor-1, the C-terminus ofthe B-chain and N-terminus ofthe A- chain can be linked by an ... of INSL3 and its analogues has relied on solid-phase chemical synthesis ofthe separate A- and B-chains and subsequent chain recombination [17] To establish an alternative source of INSL3, in...
... (data not shown) Biochemical analysis ofthe blood Twenty-one days after the injection of GCV, the values of alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and total bilirubin ... analysis ofthe GCV-treated HSV-tk rat model of Kawasaki et al [10] revealed moderate hepatocyte vacuolation andan increased number ofin ammatory cells In this study, we found that there was ... than that ofthe rat andthe cost of producing and maintaining transgenic mice is less than for rats The high conservation and strong liver-specific regulatory machinery ofthe mouse serum albumin...
... ecotoxicology and toxicology for measuring effects of stressors and understanding mechanism of their toxicity - wasa perfect place to gain theoretical and practical knowledge, applicable tothe planned ... goals, the upgraded and strengthened LECOTOX will have an important task inthe future, as well asthe capability and capacity to offer its expertise and advice to policy and decision makers as well ... asa tool for monitoring the effects of toxic agents inthe environment The exchange and mobility at the level of permanent, senior, and junior staff of LECOTOX and partnering institutions was...
... seed layer and organic material was planar, and most ofthe photo generated excitons were unable to reach the interface This resulted ina large recombination probability in locations distant from ... dissociation interface area was greatly increased, and most ofthe photogene rated excitons were able to reach the interface before recombination A second possible reason is a higher mobility ofthe ... a larger area between ZnO andthe active layer is favorable for increased exciton diffusion and separation events For IOSCs with a ZnO seed layer, the exciton dissociation interface between the...
... DQMAC performance and that ofthe standard facto 802.15.4 MAC andthe BSN-MAC is portrayed BSN-MAC hasbeen selected asa reference benchmark for its similarity in terms of design as well as structure, ... Communications and Networking star-based BSNs, where a body area network (BAN) coordinator is elected Ina hospital BSN, the BAN coordinator can be a central care unit linked toa number of ward patients ... Nevertheless, ithas already been proved that the CSMA/CA mechanism, used within the CAP, hasa significant negative impact on the overall energy consumption, asthe traffic load inthe network steadily...
... perform a transmission attempt We denote with AOB-CR the standard AOB protocol enhanced with the capabilities of collecting credit and using these credits to regulate the duration of frame transmission ... procedures invoked at the end of 802.11 frame transmission and reception events The firmware was realized in such a way to maintain the maximum possible level of abstraction andto minimize the software ... permits to further increase the MAC protocol efficiency A final remark is on the implicit capability ofthe AOB scheme to mitigate the negative impact of external interferences In fact, the standard...
... The authors are grateful forthe financial support ofthe Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) We also wish to thank Axiocom Inc for its technical and financial assistance ... (x) and (x) define the real and imaginary parts of x, and Rre and Rim represent the accumulation registers for real and imaginary parts Figure 6(b) illustrates the scheduling and register-transfer ... respectively He was two times the Laureate ofthe Governor General of Canada’s Academic Medal (gold medal—graduate level) anda Fellow ofthe Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of EURASIP...
... along the leaching procedure by using Inductively Coupled Plasma analysis (ICP) of leachates, leached and unleached samples Analyses of boron amount remaining before and after leaching were realized ... Before being submitted toan oil-heat treatment, the transverse sections ofthe specimens were coated with epoxy resin to forbid exchanges in longitudinal direction as we want to study radial and ... placed in each jar Tests jars were finally incubated at 26 ◦ C for 12 weeks Mass loss of specimens was calculated asthe difference of final and initial oven-dried weight of each sample RESULTS AND...
... built in our laboratory andhas certain similarities toa lathe The log was maintained between a fixed headstock anda moving tailstock mounted on slides and moved by an endless screw in order to ... vertical plates By means ofa cog-wheel andan endless screw attached tothe axis ofthe fixed headstock, the log could be rotated and maintained at a chosen angular position An angular coder measured ... tree andinthe second one related tothe AMEB The details are presented in Annex The transformation was applied to all points measured with AMEB including the targets ofthe discs Using this transformation...
... recombination to other displayed markers andthe 206 associated markers, an integrated map of 1182 markers was achieved with an average of 99 markers per linkage group 3.3 Associations of linkage ... SSRs and ESTs into linkage groups for both parents, itwas possible to assign all 12 homologous chromosomes for P1 and P2, andto obtain in this way an integrated consensus map with a total of ... multipoint linkage analysis andthe EM algorithm for handling missing data were performed as described in [16, 17] The MAPRF program [17] was applied forthe computational methods Firstly, linkage...
... analysing the data and writing the paper AL participated inthe genetic and statistical analysis HSA participated in designing the study, analysing the data and writing the paper GB participated ... participated inthe statistical analysis and wrote the paper KNF conceived the study, carried out the literature search and analysis and participated in writing the paper ZR participated in analysing ... this type of analysis Item analysis was performed, andthe value of Cronbach’s afor each scale was calculated The sensitivity (Sn) and Specificity (Sp) were also calculated Results In all, 19 (13.76%)...
... usedan intensity-based method adopting the sum of square distance asthe similarity measure In that pioneering paper, the registration was performed only in two patients with lung cancer andwas ... ofan atlas-based automatic segmentation software forthe delineation of brain organs at risk ina radiation therapy clinical context Radiotherapy and oncology 2008, 87:93-99 28 Jaccard P: The ... di Muzio N, Fazio F, Calandrino R: Treatment planning comparison between conformal radiotherapy and helical tomotherapy inthe case of locally advanced-stage NSCLC Radiotherapy and Oncology 2008,...
... physiotherapists and occupational therapists, and involvement of therapy assistants Role sharing and expansion are examples of organisational interventions [35] A more in- depth examination of how therapists ... conceptualised and planned the study, collected and analysed the data, and drafted the manuscript The second author advised on study design and writing ofthe manuscript Both authors read and approved ... content ofa workshop Education A half-day workshop was run in August 2007 The workshop was lead by AM First, we presented a critical appraisal ofthe original randomised trial by Logan and colleagues...
... Loading The loading was always divided into two load cases: a force perpendicular tothe patch surface (normal force) and parallel toit (shear force) Ina real situation, the mandibles ofan attacking ... and Rhadinoceraea Recently, the mechanical strength of dissected pieces of larval integument was measured ina calibrated manner The force needed to damage the integument can vary in more than ... attacking predator, typically a small arthropod, apply the loading [10] The diameter ofa mandible's tip was measured on workers ofthe ant Myrmica rubra and reached 20 µm asthe smallest value...