... cannot be determined as it has not been mentioned in recent studies There is also no information in English to indicate the use of hot stones in Chinese and Indian women 2.4.4 Staying indoors Raven, ... publically-funded clinic; (2) residing in Singapore, and (3) able to communicate in English, Mandarin, or Malay Women who had serious complications during pregnancyand birth, and or experienced ... embedded in Chinese culture and is practised not only in China, but also by Chinese living in other parts of the world Studies in Hong Kong (Holroyd, Fung, Lam, & Sin, 1997a), Taiwan (Heh, Fu, & Chin,...
... study and comprises another section relating to medication [3] Page of (rs) as a measure of the responsiveness, validity, in terms of well-being, and clinical usefulness of the instruments in a ... Ronning TW, Shambrook JG Authors’ contributions BP conceived the study, participated inits design andits coordination BP, AK and MW supervised the student chiropractors in the collection and ... Paterson C, Vindigni D, Polus B, Browell T, Edgecombe G: Evaluating a massage therapy training and treatment programme in a remote aboriginal community Complementary therapies in clinical practice...
... been instrumental in understanding the factors that are associated with well-being For example, we now have considerable insight into the role of personality and sociodemographic factors in influencing ... key terms like subjective and psychological well-being, meaning, flow and strengths and have developed a range of corresponding measures Based on the outstanding work of authors such as Alan Waterman, ... well-being is warranted Springer, a world leading publisher in social sciences, has astutely identified and attended to this need by introducing Psychology of WellBeing: Theory, Research and Practice...
... additive, dominance and interaction terms a 2360 , d 2360 , a 960 d 960 and int, against H1: regression coefficient ≠ H0: a960 - a2360 = 0, against H1: a960 - a2360 ≠ Note that since the two ... heterozygous in c.960 and otherwise, x5 is for compound heterozygotes and otherwise, and the other terms are defined as in the model above To test the impact of the two MSTN-mutations in the first ... comprising all known ancestors in six generations In the statistical model, the effects of sex, rearing class and age of dam were factors that we a priori believed to affect the traits since they...
... immediate and long- term negative effects on the overall development and well-being of youth, their families, and our society These behaviors include using illicit drugs, smoking cigarettes, drinking ... 2006 and 2007 only included the fourth quarter Human papillomavirus (HPV) coverage level indicates females initiating the 3-dose series Routinely recommended vaccines for administration beginning ... Institute on Drug Abuse, Monitoring the Future Survey Smoking has serious long- term consequences, including the risk of smoking-related diseases and premature death Each day in the United States, approximately...
... health, and environmental quality In addition, the Forum’s Research and Innovation Committee is examining innovative ways of addressing existing gaps in our systems of collecting, reporting, and ... poverty line (low income), and families with incomes 200 percent or more of the poverty line (medium and high income) The Forum continues to work on reporting consistent data on family income and ... continuing a decline briefly interrupted in 2005–2007; the longterm decline began 1991–1992.8,9,11,28 In 1991, the rate was 38.6, and it declined to 21.4 births per 1,000 in 2005 There remain substantial...
... well-being or happiness has not been prominent in that literature; hence, in part, the dearth of references from the continental canon in standard surveys of work on well-being and happiness In recent ... authority on the individual in determining what’s best for her Chapter examines the most interesting rivals to my view, Aristotelian and other theories that cash out well-being in terms of perfection ... meaning, denoting some broad and typically lasting aspect of the individual’s state of mind: being happy (Note that the well-being and psychological senses of happiness refer to distinct kinds,...
... array (a) Photoresist coated and patterned on the silicon substrate (b) after 3-min etching, (c) after 4-min etching, and (d) after 6-min etching (e) After 10-min etching, a pyramid-like tip was ... nanotips, including evaporation deposition, electroplating, anisotropic wet etching method, and dry etching method [14-18] Huang et al used porous anodic alumina membrane as the mask and obtained ... property Interestingly, the exterior appearance of the tip is transforming with etching time As seen in Table 1, the top-view appearance of the initial PR is rectangular, while after 4min etching...
... other hand, genes belonging to other functional classes such as 'electron transport', 'amino acid and derivative metabolism' and 'RNA binding' seem to have been retained in particular following ... here andin previous studies, and the fact that in particular such genes are considered important for introducing phenotypic variation and increase in biological complexity, makes it tempting ... species-specific duplications in zebrafish outshines the number of retained WGD duplicates in this proteome This explains why many genes of GOs resulting from WGDs are retained in excess in all species except...
... which are to be built up in immediate intuition Phenomenology proceeds by 'seeing,' clarifying, and determining meaning, and by distinguishing meanings" (Husserl 1992) Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), ... understand my thinking and disagree with me in developing their own self-awareness What I find most valuable is the joy and well-being inherent in the unending process of discovery If you experi- Introduction ... of all things For Spinoza, the unity of being is the infinite substance from which all things originate and to which they return In this way, everything is both free and necessary, one and many,...
... admission and treatment in the ICU has produced as a consequence the under reporting of severe tuberculosis, factors leading to admission, and induced toxicities, with resultant diminished disease ... our intensive care unit in a period over six years and to examine the characteristics, presentation, underlying risk factors, outcome of patients and to highlight the possible causes of delaying ... symptoms included cough (14%), dyspnea (8%), night sweats (6%) and fatigue in 21% of cases Other less common symptoms, including hemoptysis, weight loss, severe respiratory insufficiency, anemia, and...
... designed using linear control (LC) Finally, the content of the book is outlined 1.1 Linear Plant/Nonlinear Instrumentation Systems and Quasilinear Control Every control system contains nonlinear instrumentation ... tracking deterministic references (e.g., step, ramp) are also included According to stochastic linearization, the static nonlinearities are replaced by equivalent or quasilinear gains Na and Ns ... stochastic linearizations (Figure 1.2(c)) Since the quasilinear gain of an actuator, Na , depends on the standard deviation of the signal at its input, σu and, in turn, σu depends on Na , the quasilinear...
... may be involved in Ang II-induced AGT mRNA expression (Fig 1C) DNA-binding activity of STAT5B and c-Jun increases in Ang II-induced AGT expression To find out whether the increase in STAT5B and c-Jun ... oligonucleotide probes containing the AP-1-binding site (A) and the STAT5B-binding site (B) in the AGT gene promoter Protein–DNA complexes were separated by nondenaturing PAGE and then visualized by ... assays (EMSAs) using radiolabeled oligonucleotides containing either a STAT5B-binding site or an AP-1-binding site in the rat AGT gene promoter As shown in Fig 2A,B, DNA–protein complexes were...
... polarity, and the concentration of CO2 in the PEG-rich phase increases with increasing pressure; second, an increase in pressure results in an increase in the solvent power of CO2 in the vapor ... chemistry, catalysis, chemical engineering, and others Chang Jiang Distinguished Professor School of Chemical Engineering and Technology Tianjin University Tianjin, China Chang-jun Liu Acknowledgments ... obstacle to establishing industrial processes for CO2 conversion would be due to its low energy level [12] In short, its inherent thermodynamic stability and kinetic inertness hinder the development...
... exiting nerve root and this avoids the risk of inducing spinal instability [2,3,15] Also the spinal canal is not violated and therefore there is less epidural bleeding and epidural scarring However, ... punctured into the disc and an intraoperative discogram is performed with a mixture of ml of contrast media and ml of indigo carmine The indigo carmine stains the pathologic nucleus and the annular ... prolapsed intervetebral disc A left L4L5 endoscopic discectomy was initially performed for him but on followup, he complained of increasing back pain and had L4L5, L5S1 transforaminal lumbar interbody...
... processes in which states are changed abruptly at certain moments of time, involving such fields as medicine and biology, economics, mechanics, electronics and telecommunications Many interesting results ... following two conditions are satisfied (i) (x, y)T is piecewise continuous with first kind discontinuity at the points tk, k Î K Moreover, (x, y)T is right continuous at each discontinuity point ... Pk and Qk satisfy (referring to [28-37]) Zhang and Li Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:43 http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/43 Pk (x∗ ) = and...
... positive if and only if all its initial minors are positive The initial minors are minors that are contiguous and include the first row or the first column This approach reduces the number of minors ... shown in Figure The row shifting and column mixing operations in the first round is replaced by the syndrome encoding of HD codes Similarly, during the decryption, the inverse-column mix and inverse-row ... segmented into bytes in order to directly apply GF(28 ) arithmetic during the joint encryption and compression process Since this approach maintains synchronization among the data corresponding to...
... constants α1 and α2 are included in the data termin (9) to give more or less in uence to the observations In our experiments, they were both fixed to 5.2.2 Binary term Following [37], the binary term ... explained in next subsections 4.1 Tracking each object independently 4.2 We propose in this work a tracking method that is based on energy minimizations Minimizing an energy with mincut/max-flow in ... decomposed in three main steps First, a grid G of moving pixels having valid motion vectors is selected Each point is described by its position, its color, andits motion Then these points are...
... Lemna minor in indoor microcosms According to findings of Campbell et al (2000) diquat has a minimal ecological impact to benthic invertebrates and fish; on the other hand, aquatic plants in the ... 6-substituted 5-ethylamino and 5propylamino-2,3-dicyanopyrazines and tested their herbicidal activities against barnyard grass using pot tests In general, these compounds induced chlorosis against young ... observable in the dark (see Fig 8, full line) and it belongs to the D• intermediate, i.e tyrosine (TyrD or YD) radical which is located on the donor side of PS II in the 161st position in D2 protein...