Sucre municipality is a large, densely populated marginal area in the eastern part of Caracas, Venezuela that consistently has more cases of tuberculosis than other municipalities in the country. To identify the neighborhoods in the municipality with the highest prevalence of tuberculosis, and determine whether the Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain distribution in this municipality is different...

The luteinizing hormone (LH) receptor plays a pivotal role in reproduction. The high-molecular-weight (HMW) human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and LH are the endogenous ligands of this receptor and bind to its large N terminus. The present study characterizes the binding of a new low-molecular-weight (LMW) radioligand, [H]5-amino-2-methylsulfanyl-4-[3-(2-morpholin-4-ylacetylamino)-phenyl]-thien...

We conducted this study to determine the use of Japanese municipal information sources about the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic among 109 pregnant Japanese women during October and November 2009 and to determine their attitudes regarding the pandemic. During November 2009, the number of municipality information users increased significantly, however, the percentage of public magazine users remain...

Many important biologically active compounds contain quaternary carbon centers. Efficient asymmetric syntheses of these compounds represent a significant challenge in organic chemistry.1 Some catalytic synthetic methods directed toward this problem include prolinecatalyzed aldol reactions,2 Michael additions,3 alkylations with phase-transfer catalysts,4 palladium-catalyzed allylations,5 Heck re...

The molecular basis of the growth-inhibitory effects of progestins or antiestrogens in human breast cancer has not been fully elucidated. Both direct actions and indirect actions, where the growth inhibition results from modulation of the production of, and/or the response to, growth factors, have been proposed. In this study the ability of some growth factors to modulate progestin-induced inhi...

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Seven groups participated in the STEP 2008 shared task on comparing semantic representations as output by practical wide-coverage NLP systems. Each of this groups developed their own system for producing semantic representations for texts, each in their own semantic formalism. Each group was requested to provide a short sample text, producing a shared task set of seven texts, allowing participa...

BACKGROUND An intermediate care hospital (ICH) was established in a municipality in Central Norway in 2007 to improve the coordination of services and follow-up among elderly and chronically ill patients after hospital discharge. The aim of this study was to compare health care utilization by elderly patients in a municipality with an ICH to that of elderly patients in a municipality without an...

Faculty Association [10] The Faculty Association is the representative for all persons employed by the University of Guelph in the City of Guelph, at the Kemptville campus in the Municipality of North Grenville, at the Ridgetown campus in the Municipality of Chatham-Kent, at the Vineland Research Station in Relevant documents are available through the Office of the Provost and Vice-President (A...