... recruit physicians and nurses to
underserved regions but also to train community health workers to supervise care
for AIDS and many other diseases within their home villages and neighborhoods. ... in its
many dimensions is far and away the greatest barrier to the scale-up of treatment
and prevention programs. It is possible to remove many of the social and
economic barriers to...
... officers, attending and
consulting physicians, and many others. They may be transported to special
laboratories and imaging facilities replete with blinking lights, strange sounds, and
unfamiliar ...
Hospitalized patients find themselves surrounded by air jets, buttons, and glaring
lights; invaded by tubes and wires; and beset by the numerous members of the
health care tea...
...
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Chapter 016. Back and Neck Pain
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Harrison's Internal Medicine > Chapter 16. Back and Neck Pain
Back and Neck Pain: Introduction
The importance of back and neck ... column length (Figs. 16-1 and 16-2).
The disks are largest in the cervical and lumbar regions where movements
of the spine are greatest. The disks are elastic in youth and a...
... nerves and nerve roots. Sitting stretches the sciatic nerve
(L5 and S1 roots) because the nerve passes posterior to the hip. The femoral nerve
(L2, L3, and L4 roots) passes anterior to the hip and ... spine disease. Hip pain
can be reproduced by internal and external rotation at the hip with the knee and
hip in flexion (Patrick sign) and by tapping the heel with the examiner...
... psoriatic arthritis, and chronic inflammatory bowel
disease.
minimal, and large osteophytes can be seen in asymptomatic patients.
Radiculopathy occurs when hypertrophied facets and osteophytes ... young age and back pain improving with exercise are
characteristic. Loss of the normal lumbar lordosis and exaggeration of thoracic
kyphosis develop as the disease progresses. Infla...
... lowers self-esteem and reduces motivation among
poor students, 2) restricts friendship choices, and 3) widens the gap between good
students and the poor ones (Vaughn, Hughes, Moody, and Elbaum, 2001). ... strategies and
techniques of writing, theoretically and practically that can help the students to learn
and practice writing.
B. Learning from Past Experience in Facing Fut...
... charges and
commitment fees) materialize and upfront charges for grants are levied
(to replace foregone principal reflows) it would reduce the need to
harden the credit terms for both IDA only and ... 17 percent after 20 years and 47 percent after 40 years.
in order to enable countries in debt distress to receive grants is
questionable for reasons both of equity and creating ex...
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k
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M
k=0
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e
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1 −
N
j=1
d
j
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(13.5.2)
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Chapter 13. Fourier and Spectral Applications
Sample ... a
straightline throughthe first and lastpoints(i.e., make the first and last pointsequal
to zero). If you are segmenting the data, then you can pick overlapping segments
and u...
... of equation 18.5. 26), then it can be shown that
the convergence condition (18.5.22) is unmodified, and the iteration will converge
to minimize the quadratic functional (18.5 .6) subject to the ... Remote Sensing and Indirect
Measurements
(Amsterdam: Elsevier). [3]
Craig, I.J.D., and Brown, J.C. 1986,
Inverse Problems in Astronomy
(Bristol, U.K.: Adam Hilger).
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Tikhonov, A.N., and...