Macro creatine kinase (Macro CK), a macro enzyme, is a major cause of misdiagnosis of myocardial infarction upon determination of total creatine kinase and creatine kinase isoenzyme levels. It presents in elderly female patients with an approximate prevalence of 1 %. Based on composition, there are two major types of macro CK Type 1 macro CK is a complex of Type 1 being an immune complex of cre...

The idea of a yardstick or selection index for measuring the net merit of breeding animals is probably almost as old as the art of animal breeding itself. In practice several or many traits influence an animal‟s practical value, although they do so in varying degrees. The information regarding different traits may vary widely, some coming from an animal‟s relatives and some from the animal‟s ow...

Price indexes are summary statistics meant to convey a comparison of prices at one time (or place) to another. The raw ingredients from which a standard price index is constructed are the ratios of the price of an item at one time period to the price of the same item at another. Goods which disappear after the initial time period, or first appear in the second, thwart constructing these ratios....

We present a generalization of spatial power indexes able to overcome their main limitations, namely: i) the excessive concentration of power measures; ii) the too high sensitivity to players’ location in the ideological space. Voters’ propensity to support an issue is modeled via a random utility function with two additive terms: the deterministic term accounts for voters’ preference-driven/pr...

Index data structures such as B+ trees and hash tables are used widely as the core of databases andfile systems. In a world where concurrent systems are common as servers and largely increasing aspersonal computers, we need a way to make sure concurrent implementations do not contain bugs.We use the fact that multiple implementations share a common high-level specification and use<l...

This paper demonstrates the use of generalized partial indexes for efficient query processing. We propose that partial indexes be built on those portions of the database that are statistically likely to be the most useful for query processing. We identify three classes of statistical information, and two levels at which it may be available. We describe indexing strategies that use this informat...

The newly emerging Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) encodes the conserved macro domain within non-structural protein 3. However, the precise biochemical function and structure of the macro domain is unclear. Using differential scanning fluorimetry and isothermal titration calorimetry, we characterized the MERS-CoV macro domain as a more efficient adenosine diphosphate (AD...

The macro-pore sizes of porous scaffold play a key role for regulating ectopic osteogenesis and angiogenesis but many researches ignored the influence of interconnection between macro-pores with different sizes. In order to accurately reveal the relationship between ectopic osteogenesis and macro-pore sizes in dorsal muscle and abdominal cavities of dogs, hydroxyapatite (HA) scaffolds with thre...

XML is originally designed for the use in document processing. Every classical document processing system supports a mechanism which is called macro. In general, a macro is a named collection of actions. These actions are executed whenever the name of the macro appears in a document instance. We describe a very small but powerful macro language for XML. The presented language supports macros wi...

The main purpose of the presentation is to outline some alternative approaches on how a superlative annual consumer price index could be constructed using the monthly price information that is presently collected by statistical agencies. The first issue that must be addressed is: how should the monthly price information at the lowest level of aggregation be aggregated up (over months) to form a...