Gagal jantung telah menjadi masalah kesehatan masyarakat karena insidensi dan prevalensi yang terus meningkat. Sebagian besar pasien dengan gagal jantung datang ke pelayanan kesehatan primer dan dikelola oleh dokter umum. Diagnosis yang akurat sangat diperlukan untuk manajemen penyakit ini. Umumnya gejala dan tanda saja tidak cukup spesifik untuk mendiagnosis penyakit gagal jantung. Beberapa st...

Pengambilan logam berat (kuprum, zink, nikel, kadmium dan kromium) oleh Hydrostemma motleyi (Hook.f.) Mabberlay dan htydrilla verticillata Casp. telah dikaji. Umumnya pengambilan logam bertambah bila kepekatan logam bertambah. Faktor pertambahan yang menghubungkan paras logam dalam tubuhan dengan paras logam dalam iarutan ber&urang bila kepekatan logam bertambah. Tindakan antagonistik diperhati...

An innovative and versatile strategy of Solid Phase Microextraction (SPME) is shown by using a new type of β-cyclodextrin-modified nanocellulose (CD-NC) as a sorbent material. β-cyclodextrin (used as an inclusion-type selector) was covalently bonded to amine-modified nanocellulose by an amidation reaction. Such novel nanocavities were successfully applied to the selective recognition of danoflo...

The effect of D2O and dantrolene-Na (DAN) on the electrical and mechanical responses of single muscle fiber (mouse EDL and frog semitendinosus), Ca2+ uptake and release of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) and contractile proteins was investigated to elucidate the coupling mechanism between depolarization and contraction. Both agents inhibited tension development induced by depolarization and caffein...

The bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) are secreted ligands largely known for their functional roles in embryogenesis and tissue development. A number of structurally diverse extracellular antagonists inhibit BMP ligands to regulate signaling. The differential screening-selected gene aberrative in neuroblastoma (DAN) family of antagonists represents the largest group of BMP inhibitors; however,...

Mixture of Probabilistic Principal Component Analyzers (MPPCA) is a seminal work in Machine Learning in that it was the first to use PCA to perform clustering and local dimensionality reduction. MPPCA is based upon the mixture of Factor Analyzers (MFA) which is similar to MPPCA except is uses Factor Analysis to estimate the covariance matrix. This algorithm is of interest to me because it is re...

Antidiscrimination policies play an important role in public discussions. However, identifying discriminatory practices in the labor market is not an easy task. Correspondence testing provides a credible way to reveal discrimination in hiring and provide hard facts for policies. What is this instrument? What does it show and how reliable is it? Should it be widely used for policymaking? Answers...

This document is not that specification of the system, but more of a conceptual overview of what the pieces are that will need to be specified, along with some initial proposals for specifying things. In fact after some internal discussion of the proposals and initial work on a specification I chose to set the specification aside for now and instead implement a prototype of the proposals that w...

Developing non-invasive brain stimulation interventions to improve attentional control is extremely relevant to a variety of neurological and psychiatric populations, yet few studies have identified reliable biomarkers that can be readily modified to improve attentional control. One potential biomarker of attention is functional connectivity in the core cortical network supporting attention - t...

Dan has nearly 20 years experience in the financial services industry having specialized in the areas of wealth management and estate planning. Since joining MD Management in 1998, Dan has worked in Toronto and was most recently the Regional Manager for MD’s Lakeshore office serving Hamilton, Mississauga, and St. Catharines. Prior to joining MD Management, Dan held various senior level manageme...