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pH responsive nanoparticles have generated significant interest for use as drug delivery systems due to their potential for inducible release at low pH. The pH variation from the blood stream (pH 7.4) to intracellular compartments of cells called endosomes/lysosomes (pH < 5.0) has been of particular interest. However, ... |
IT is a pleasure to welcome the third edition of Dr. John Morris's Cases on Private International Law. Since the last edition of this well-known casebook in 1951 the subject of private international law has seen a number of far-reaching and significant developments which the author has now carefully traced through the ... |
Findings of intraoperative rolandic cortex mapping during awake craniotomy for a tumor in a patient with a contralateral upper-extremity amputation are presented. This patient sustained a traumatic amputation at the mid-humerus 24 years previously. Initially he had experienced rare painless phantom limb sensations but ... |
Abstract Over the last century, there have been four major peacetime crashes in aggregate nominal spending in the United States. We argue in this paper that these great spending crashes can be best understood from a monetary disequilibrium perspective. We examine this hypothesis using a structural vector autoregression... |
Increases in seawater temperature are expected to have negative consequences for marine organisms. Beyond individual effects, species‐specific differences in thermal tolerance are predicted to modify species interactions and increase the strength of top‐down effects, particularly in plant–herbivore interactions. Shifts... |
World Youth Day, a youth‐focused Catholic celebration, is the largest recurring youth event in the world. The 10th International World Youth Day (WYD) was held from 15–20 July 2008, in Sydney, Australia and attenders participated in a week‐long series of religious events and activities. Little research in English has b... |
Representation-based classification (RC) methods, such as sparse RC, have shown great potential in face recognition (FR) in recent years. Most previous RC methods are based on the conventional regression models, such as lasso regression, ridge regression, or group lasso regression. These regression models essentially i... |
In this Account we have compiled a list of reliable bond energies that are based on a set of critically evaluated experiments. A brief description of the three most important experimental techniques for measuring bond energies is provided. We demonstrate how these experimental data can be applied to yield the heats of ... |
Kodak recently introduced new packaging for its X-Omat V verification film, including a label on the exterior of the packet. Patient images taken using the film in an image intensification cassette showed artefacts which appeared to be related to the label. Investigation showed the effect was only observed in condition... |
Telecommunication Laboratories (TL, Taiwan) developed a new controlling algorithm to improve the short-term and mid-term stability of TL's time scaling system. The controlling algorithm is used for controlling a micro-phase stepper to constrict its output followed a reference paper clock, Taiwan's local atomic time sca... |
This paper presents a unified framework for understanding the determinants of both CEO incentives and total pay levels in competitive market equilibrium. It embeds a modified principal-agent problem into a talent assignment model to endogenize both elements of compensation. The model's closed form solutions yield testa... |
To study the relationship between extracellular potassium concentration and renal excretion of potassium, seven chronically adrenalectomized dogs were maintained on a constant intravenous infusion of aldosterone (50 micrograms/day), and constant sodium intake (30 meq/day ) while they received four levels of potassium i... |
The DAZL gene and its homologues are required for the development of male and female germ cells in different species. However, their role in other aspects of human reproduction is not known. We have generated a polyclonal antibody to the DAZL protein and developed a sensitive standard curve quantitative-competitive-RT-... |
adjustment of the future situation in Palestine’ the resolution in effect implied the free hand which Bernadotte felt he had in conceiving his own suggestions. Persson rightly points out that the first truce in June 1948 came about by Bernadotte acting ’almost as an arbitrator rather than as a mediator’. He also descri... |
Ten healthy adult volunteers inhaled 50% nitrous oxide in oxygen while dental treatment was simulated for a period of 30 min. During this time 15 ml of radio-opaque dye was placed at the back of the tongue. A similar control study was performed 1 week later, the subjects inhaling pure oxygen without nitrous oxide. X-ra... |
Objective: Computerized fetal heart rate (FHR) analysis revealed that antenatal corticosteroids transiently suppress multiple parameters of fetal well-being, potentially leading to the erroneous diagnosis of fetal distress and to unnecessary iatrogenic delivery of premature infants. Our aim was to determine whether cli... |
of policy completely ... on the other hand, and not unrelated to this, the increase in destructive power does not mean that violence becomes more effective as an instrument of policy. It becomes too gross and crude, much like the increase in ocean drilling technology which does not contribute to dentistry ... The secon... |
The faults occurred in the receiving terminal AC system of an HVDC transmission link may cause commutation failures of the inverters. When the receiving AC system is weak, the AC/DC system may be difficult to restore to a stable operation state due to continuous commutation failures even after faults clearance. Optimiz... |
Although much research has focused on the technical or measurement issues involved in employee performance management, this study investigates the mutual influence of practices and context on performance management effectiveness. From a sample of 312 private and public sector organizations with 200 or more employees, t... |
We report on surface-engineered microarrays that provide in situ cell sorting, localization, and immobilization of various subsets of human primary lymphocytes, followed by an on-chip bioassay for ionizing-radiation-induced cytogenetic damage. The microarray format eliminates the necessity of separating cell sub-popula... |
Practical education about information security is needed for system developers and administrators in Web service suppliers. We propose a hacking contest CTF as attack and defense style with a website for a multiple online game. The contest organizer prepares a game server site as a contest environment which contains se... |
We produced and analyzed oasis structure information, and evaluated oasis functional stability using the multiple indicators based on Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographical Information System (GIS) in the arid region of China in 2015. The results showed that the oases area was 193,734 km2, accounting for 8.17% of the ari... |
npHE official introduction of federal revenue sharing, incorporating an index of revenue effort, has not reduced the problem of how best to measure (or make meaningful comparisons between) the capacity and effort of governments to finance public services. The recent discussion in this Journal illustrates important aspe... |
Agile or not agile is no longer a question as almost every company boasts about being agile and thereby more efficient. Being agile introduces new requirements and areas of development for companies and teams. Cooperation ideally is done on a level playing field in all areas. Because of this the classical hierarchical ... |
Several hepatitis B virus (HBV) subtypes (subgenotypes), HBV/Aa (A1 : Asia/Africa), Ae (A2 : Europe), Bj (B1 : Japan) and Ba (B2 : Asia), have been reported with respect to clinical differences between patients infected with these subtypes (subgenotypes). HBV genotype distribution among patients with chronic liver dise... |
Organizations are under increasing pressure to apply digital technologies to renew and transform their business models. A great deal of research has examined specific phenomena, such as adoption antecedents and design methods. However, it is unclear what we know in totality, including what research streams exist, how t... |
1 A double-blind trial with parallel treatment groups was conducted to compare the safety and efficacy of mianserin with amitriptyline. 2 This was a six week trial with weekly visits. Measurements at each visit included: 21 item Hamilton Depression (HAMD) Scale. Clinical Global Impression (CGI) Scale and Treatment Emer... |
Objectives: We sought to evaluate the efficacy, efficiency, and physiologic consequences of automated, endpoint-directed resuscitation systems and compare them to formula-based bolus resuscitation. Design: Experimental human hemorrhage and resuscitation. Setting: Clinical research laboratory. Subjects: Healthy voluntee... |
We discuss the large deviation principle of stochastic processes as random elements of~$l_{\infty}(T)$. We show that the large deviation principle in $l_{\infty}(T)$ is equivalent to the large deviation principle of the finite dimensional distributions plus an exponential asymptotic equicontinuity condition with respec... |
We explore search behaviors during a new kind of search unit -- the query reformulation interval (QRI). The QRI is defined as an interval between two consecutive queries in one search session that contains at least two queries. Our controlled, web-based study focused on examining behaviors associated with querying and ... |
This study was based on observations of 117 patients suffering from motor disturbances. Among them 42 cases with hemiparetic syndrome, majority of them after cerebral stroke, 52 cases affected by acute sciatic neuralgia and 23 patients with recognition of Parkinson - disease symptoms. To the control group 16 healthy ad... |
Recent studies have shown that disaster risk can generate asset return moments similar to those observed in the U.S. data. However, these studies have ignored the cross-country asset pricing implications of the disaster risk model. This paper shows that standard U.S.-based disaster risk model assumptions found in the l... |
ABSTRACT A new noise regulation for the mining industry became effective in 2000, providing a consistent regulatory requirement for both coal and non-coal mining divisions. The new rule required mines to implement hearing conservation programs, including a system of continuous noise monitoring, provision of hearing pro... |
The volume consists of seven essays by different authors including one by the editor himself. Twitchett's essay introduces the subject and discusses the bases for the external relations, competences found in the EEC Treaty. The second piece is by Roger Morgan who examines the transatlantic relationship between the Euro... |
Educational literature is richly provided with research confirming the benefits of video-based multimedia (VBM) in education. So, understanding learners’ attitude about learning using video-based multimedia makes sense. A convergent parallel mixed methods research design was used to analyze and interpret learners’ atti... |
We investigated demographic determinants for cesarean delivery based on a database of 25,829 singleton births at Pattani Hospital from October 1, 1996 to September 30, 2005. This database includes demographic information about the mother and delivery type outcomes. Using logistic regression analysis to adjust each fact... |
Glucose-dependent insulinotropic hormone (GIP) is an intestinal hormone considered to be an important mediator of the incretin effect, i.e. the augmented insulin release observed in response to orally, compared with iv, administered glucose, despite isoglycemic glucose profiles. Stimulation of beta-cell secretion of in... |
The modern university teaching, of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery typical of the Italian university organization, at least for clinical matters must pursue the aim to develop in the students a clinical and responsible sense of the seriousness of the profession they intend to embrace, both for medical that for surg... |
This paper presents a novel multicast routing protocol for wireless mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) that uses distribution trees to efficiently forward multicast traffic. The proposed multicast routing protocol is built as a MANET extension to the popular Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) routing protocol used in wi... |
The intracellular localization of two families of neurotropic drugs: flunitrazepam and flurazepam (benzodiazepine), triflupromazine and trifluoperazine (phenothiazine) has been studied by ion microscopy. The molecules have been incubated with C6 glioblastoma cells from rat origin and with astroglial primary cultures. T... |
Zr–2.5Nb alloy are used as pressure tubes in Canadian Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) nuclear reactors, and the typical starting microstructure consists of α-Zr grains elongated in both transverse and longitudinal directions and thin layers of partly decomposed β-Zr lying between the α-Zr grains. In this study, we have used ... |
Maximum amplitudes of accelerating fields are restricted by electron breakdown and Joule heating losses in conducting walls in traditional accelerating structures. In this paper, we presented a resonant composite accelerating cavity, which utilizes a periodic structure with a dielectric sphere located at a spherical co... |
A variety of current models of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) suggest a common engine: a black hole of several solar masses accreting matter from a disk at a rate of 0.01 to 10 M☉ s-1. Using a numerical model for relativistic disk accretion, we have studied steady state accretion at these high rates. Outside about 108 cm, the... |
The sensitivity and specificity of amylasemia, the ratios of amylase/creatinine clearance and amylasuria/creatininuria were determined in four groups of patients: a control group (n = 43), patients with acute pancreatitis detected on computed tomography (n = 30, 25 cases of alcoholic pancreatitis), patients with an acu... |
The transmission of haptic information over the network has recently received significant attention. The wide spectrum of haptic applications makes it difficult to capture the widely varying requirements of these applications into one generic protocol. In this paper, we introduce ALPHAN (application layer protocol for ... |
The goals of the well-child examination in school-aged children (kindergarten through early adolescence) are promoting health, detecting disease, and counseling to prevent injury and future health problems. A complete history should address any concerns from the patient and family and screen for lifestyle habits, inclu... |
Aim: Periodontal diseases remain a challenging clinical condition and hence existing literature showed no consensus on the best treatment option for disease control. The aim of this review was to provide a comprehensive overview of exciting clinical evidence on the effect of photodynamic therapy (PDT) in the treatment ... |
This article reports on a domain‐specific software development venture at Nordea. We explore organizational constraints, challenges, and corrective actions undertaken when scaling the agile development approach of their Core Banking Platform program. The fit and required customizations of the rather complex and rigid S... |
ABSTRACT Studies were undertaken to determine the genetic needs for the survival of Pseudomonas fluorescens Pf0-1, a gram-negative soil bacterium potentially important for biocontrol and bioremediation, in soil. In vivo expression technology (IVET) identified 22 genes with elevated expression in soil relative to labora... |
A 37-year-old man with a known history of neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1) presented within 2 days of diarrhoeal illness followed by encephalopathy, facial twitching, hypoglycaemia, hypotension, tachycardia and low-grade fever. Examination showed multiple café-au-lait spots and neurofibromas over the trunk, arms and legs and ... |
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