Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 5.1 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 6.1 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 8.0 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 6.9 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

The aim of this study was to determine human papillomavirus (HPV) type distribution in women with and without cervical neoplasia from Asia and to estimate the potential future impact of an HPV 16/18 prophylactic vaccine in this region. A meta-analysis was conducted including 79 studies using polymerase chain reaction to detect HPV types. A total of 5954, 1653, 958, and 16,803 women with invasiv...

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 6.0 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 6.0 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 6.0 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 8.7 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

vi CHAPTER 1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES 7 THESIS ORGANIZATION 7 LITERTURE REVIEW 9 REFERENCES 21 CHAPTER 2. CRACKING THE GENOMIC PIGGY BANK: 35 IDENTIFYING SECRETS OF THE PIG GENOME ABSTRACT 35 INTRODUCTION 36 MAPPING EFFORTS 37 DATABASES 38 QTL AND CANDIDATE GENES 39 FUNCTIONAL GENOMIC ANALYSIS 46 PIGS AS BIOLOGICAL MODELS 47 CONCLUSIONS 48 REFERENCES 49 CHAPTER 3. SNP DETECTI...

A region of the brain called the perirhinal cortex represents both what things look like and what they mean.

The "illusory truth" effect refers to the phenomenon whereby repetition of a statement increases its likelihood of being judged true. This phenomenon has important implications for how we come to believe oft-repeated information that may be misleading or unknown. Behavioral evidence indicates that fluency, the subjective ease experienced while processing information, underlies this effect. This...

................................................................................................ ix CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION ..............................................................1 1.1 Area Overview ................................................................................... 1 1.2 Thesis Objective ................................................................................ 4 1...

Schwa deletion is an important issue in grapheme-to-phoneme conversion for IndoAryan languages (IAL). In this paper, we describe a syllable minimization based algorithm for dealing with this that outperforms the existing methods in terms of efficiency and accuracy. The algorithm is motivated by the fact that deletion of schwa is a diachronic and sociolinguistic phenomenon that facilitates faste...