Empowerment is the process through which individuals, communities and organizations increase their self-determination, mainly by augmenting the ability of the powerless to make choices that improve their lives (1– 3).
Taken together, these findings indicate that β3 integrin-mediated recruitment of Src facilitates the tyrosine phosphorylation of TβR-II in MECs, and that this phosphorylation event may act to enhance their proliferation, invasion, and EMT by augmenting the ability of TGF-β to activate MAPKs.
The Th1 cytokine IFN- γ (originally called macrophage-activating factor) is well recognised for its capacity to stimulate phagocytic activity of macrophages and dendritic cells, and for augmenting the ability of these cells for antigen processing and presentation by increased quantity and diversity of peptides presented on their surface in the context of MHC (Schroder et al, 2004).
But in many situations they are augmenting the abilities of human workers freeing them to do tasks that require manual dexterity and ingenuity rather than extreme precision and stamina.
One guiding idea has always been that as machines take care of menial work (be that manual labor, augmenting the abilities of skilled professionals such doctors, lawyers, and engineers, or making routine decisions), humans will be free to spend their time on leisure or creative pursuits.
THRIVE (Transnasal Humidified Rapid-Insufflation Ventilatory Exchange) refers to the use of high-flow nasal cannula to augment the ability to oxygenate and ventilate a patient under general anesthesia.
By supplying an airbase support advisory team, India can augment the ability of the Afghan air force to support ground operations with troop and cargo movements and deploy Afghan forces across the country.
Engineering OVX-BMSCs with the hybrid vectors persistently attenuated the cellular miR-140*/miR-214 levels, which promoted the OVX-BMSCs osteogenesis and augmented the ability of OVX-BMSCs to repress osteoclast maturation in vitro.
It appears that CC may have the potential to increase the frequency and diversity of behaviours, to express different types of behaviour when desired, and to augment the ability of the animals to exert some control over their environment, findings that may improve their welfare.
The potential of a direct measurement of the distal ureter on the voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG) normalized to the L1-L3 vertebody bodistancence (ureteral diameter ratio – UDR) to augment the ability of IRGS to predict the ultimate clinical outcome has previously been reported in a group of 79 children.
Surprisingly, CPF produced similar actions, a decrement in betaAR and m2 muscarinic receptor binding and a loss of the cholinergic AC response, and also augmented the ability of betaARs to stimulate AC.
