Video editing is a virtuosic medium in Omer Fast's hands, and history a malleable, volatile subject composed of flickering bits and pieces.
His best-known work, La Jetée (1962), is a short subject composed almost entirely of still photographs, with the exception of a brief film shot; the "plot" later served as the inspiration for the cryptic time-traveling drama Twelve Monkeys (1995).
Khomyakov was known as a gifted writer and a brilliant controversialist; he dealt with a wide range of subjects, composed poetry, and wrote philosophical and political essays and treatises on economics, sociology, and theology.
A total of 130 dyads (260 subjects) composed of AYAs 14 20 years old with cancer and their family decision maker (≥ 18 years old) will be recruited from pediatric oncology programs at Akron Children's Hospital and St . Jude Childrens Research Hospital.
Thus, the experimental dataset was obtained by assessing the gene expression levels of the 20 genes by real time PCR in a cohort of 104 subjects, composed by healthy controls and patients with MS (see Table 1 for details of the clinical characteristics and Table S1 for statistically summary of gene expression levels).
The training set of subjects composed of 20 children with invasive S. aureus infections (median age 7.5 years; 11 methicillin-resistant S. aureus, MRSA, and 9 methicillin-susceptible S. aureus, MSSA) and 10 healthy controls (median age 6 years) matched for age, sex, and race, were initially analyzed to identify the gene expression profile in PBMCs from S. aureus-infected patients.
All participants provided written informed consent Three population samples were recruited and phenotyped in Jamaica: 177 healthy blood donors from Kingston (Afro-Caribbean group, AC); 631 healthy subjects composed of families and unrelated individuals (Afro-German group, AG) from Seaford Town, Westmoreland; and 75 healthy European expatriates.
Fifteen healthy subjects composed a control group.
Overweight subjects composed 21.3% of the total sample population, whereas obese subjects composed 5.9% of the above sample.
The population was ethnically diverse, with 45.9% of subjects composed of nonwhite racial/ethnic groups.
Undernourished, overweight and obese subjects composed 12.9%, 21.3% and 5.9% of the participants, respectively.
