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... staff to help the interviewer (7.3%) In total, 14,611 inter- A weighted logistic regression was used to identify risk factors One regression identified the risk factors for blindness (blind versus ... blind person per year was US$ 11,896 in 1990 in the USA and totalled US$ billion [3] Therefore, it is crucial to obtain nationwide estimates of low vision and blindness prevalence to allocate the ... SAS Institute (North Carolina) software release 8.2 Weights for extrapolating data to the entire population were estimated by INSEE from the 1999 national census These weights were applied to the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... are thereby eliminated by the host [10] These findings have led to the hypothesis that the host range of spirochaete strain is restricted by its repertoire of genes that encode ligands with the ... deer farm indicated that the presence of the farm had no influence on the level of B burgdorferi s.l The overall infection rates in ticks were 33.3% in 2006, 6.9% in 2007 and 5.2% in 2008 The capacity ... [14,40,46] Migrating birds have also been considered important in the dispersal of A phagocytophilum infected I ricinus in Europe and in the distribution of HGA [17,38] In contrast to infection with...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

Ngày tải lên: 21/08/2012, 16:18

... Terminal H.323 cña Cisco Locall Area Network Intererface Admission Control With Cisco IOS MCM Gatekeeper – Call Across WAN May I call 2111 with a bandwidth of 384K? Call flow H.323 RAS signaling ... you can! IP WAN zone zone Admission Control Via Zone BandWidth in the Cisco IOS MCM Gatepeer H×nh4: Admission - Cisco A B Setup Alerting Connect TermCapSet TermCapAck mSDet mSDetAck mSDetConfirm ... Video Conference Architecture a typical H.323 Terminal Video I/O Equipment Audio I/O Equipment User Data Applications System Control User Interface Video codec H261, H263 Audio condec G711,...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2012, 21:11

... However, the lesson of the hero-tale is that these things are useless if the hero doesn't believe in himself In The Matrix, the Oracle tells Neo that he isn't "The One," meaning the guy who's going to ... and the others are waging a war against A.I run rampant, the creators of that AI were their own ancestors Star Wars is decidedly less complex, and doesn't bother to give us much back-story; the ... explicit in terms of the kind of worldview it advocates The first thing anyone says to Neo in The Matrix is in a message that comes to him via his computer: "Wake up, Neo." It so happens that the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:51

... smoking, physical exercise other than walking and walking (Model 3), the lower HRQL was independently linked to overweight only in females Similar results were obtained in model which also included ... possible to ascertain the subtle differences which contribute to a change in the perceived quality of life in individuals with increased body weight, and particularly in the obese Conclusion The SF-36 ... compared to identify the factors leading to increased body weight and obesity and, consequently, to the impairment of health-related quality of life Competing interests The authors declare that they...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... smoking, physical exercise other than walking and walking (Model 3), the lower HRQL was independently linked to overweight only in females Similar results were obtained in model which also included ... possible to ascertain the subtle differences which contribute to a change in the perceived quality of life in individuals with increased body weight, and particularly in the obese Conclusion The SF-36 ... compared to identify the factors leading to increased body weight and obesity and, consequently, to the impairment of health-related quality of life Competing interests The authors declare that they...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... visible symptoms of yellowing needles in the soil substrate from the air-pollution plot Hliníky (10 seedlings); – Spruce seedlings with symptoms of yellowing needles in the soil substrate from the beech ... seedlings); – Spruce seedlings from the nursery in the soil substrate from the beech stand (10 seedlings) The primary goal of the pot experiment was to study the influence of soil properties on the ... toxic influences of manganese and mainly of aluminium The low content of potassium also indicates the insufficiency of water regimen both in soil and in individual spruce trees The generally hypothesised...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

... started in 2002 Defoliation due to this insect, locally in association with Tortrix viridana L., continued to increase in 2003 and 2004 in the north-eastern regions [21, 32] In Switzerland, the extent ... populations may come from indirect factors such as trophic interactions One difficulty relates to the complexity induced by the interaction of the various factors in uencing insect performance and ... type (in relation to the feeding guild, ecology and population levels the previous years), and host type (in relation to its tolerance to stress) DIRECT EFFECTS OF DROUGHT AND HEAT ON INSECT...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... corresponding to the amount of ash m found on the soil in Monte Pedroso after -2 -2 an experimental burn and the rainfall m in that region during the first rains after the burn [29] The ash treatment involved ... unknown The aim of this experiment was to analon the seed germination of Pinus pinaster Aiton, Pinus radiata D Don and Eucalyptus globulus Labill and yse the effect of ash to determine whether ash ... respectively) In the three species studied, it was found that the higher the concentration of ash to which the the seeds were exposed, the more germination was reduced The ash treatment had the most inhibitory...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... (94.2% on the left and 89.2% on the right side) Regarding the percentage of presence of every slip in the autopsy material, the slip to the fifth rib on both sides always existed The slips to the fourth ... one of the bodies [12] After initial midline incision on the anterior thoracic wall, the skin and the subcutaneous tissue were dissected back to expose the underlying muscles and bones The sternoclavicular ... the ITA (the highest muscular attachment is to the 5-th rib) On the left side, in 53.3% the bare area reaches below the second rib and intercostal space; in nearly half of the cases (46.7%) the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:23

... mentioned anything about the ventilator rate and tidal volume setting in their particular case in relation to capnogram recording Hypocarbia can result from several causes Most common of them is hyperventilation ... (iatrogenic or induced by patient due to inadequate anesthesia) [1] Again premature respiratory effort due to painful electrical stimulus can lead to hyperventilation leading to reduction of ... progressive reduction in ETCO2 level in subsequent capnogram tracings But they have not given any valid explanation to the cause of this occurrence Ventilator setting here is very important They have not...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... of melatonin, prolactin, ACTH, and cortisol in pigs J Anim Sci 1992, 70, 492498 Heuther G: The contribution of extrapineal sites of melatonin synthesis to circulating melatonin levels in higher ... melatonin secretion in a pig stable environment Although always higher than the daytime base levels, the increase in melatonin secretion during the night is small in some animals Furthermore, the ... into the tubes, followed by 100 µl of anti-melatonin antiserum (Kennaway G280; caprine against melatonin conjugated to bovine thyroglobulin, see Vaughan, 1993), and 100 µl of the 125I-melatonin...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... participating in synthesis of hemoglobin and other iron-containing proteins, the excess iron is stored in a protein called ferritin to minimize its toxicity yet keep it available for future usage The ... 2008) The iron absorbed is then transferred to the vascular side of the intestinal cells and released into the circulation via ferroportin, being oxidized to Fe3+ by hephaestin and bound to transferrin ... studying atherosclerosis, as their plasma lipoprotein profile closely mimics that of humans This study initially attempted to further investigate the changes in iron and zinc levels in the atherosclerotic...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:18

... balance in weight-bearing within the joint Therefore, the motion in the sagittal plane is beyond that of a simple hinge joint The complexities involve the coupling motion in the other axes The kinematics ... that is involved in either maintaining static equilibrium or initiating dynamic activity for the joint In the knee joint the loading is as much as three times body weight during walking [Morrison ... elements provide the integrated approach to the investigation of tibiofemoral joint mechanics in relation to osteoarthritis For the present study these ‘ingredients’ principally involved anatomical,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 09:10

... acknowledge the risk of influential interaction between the interviewer and the interviewed during the interviews that could influence the statements of the interviewed e.g., the use of leading questions ... and between herds At the farm level, the veterinarians seemed to integrate farm-related information into the decision as to how to treat an individual cow for metritis When taking decisions on this ... certain scores (see examples in table 1) They find the definitions incorrect If the veterinarian strictly follows his/ her own scoring guidelines, the data will be internally valid, but clearly...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45

... reported four main integrated rubber farming systems in the South of Thailand emerging during the financial crisis in the late 19 1990's The major systems included 1) Rubber intercrop farming, 2) Rubber-rice ... On the other hand, in the far Northeast, along the Mekong River, over 2030 mm is received annually Variation in the average amount of rainfall is therefore notable in the Northeast During the ... rubber in new areas Therefore research on the performance of rubber in these new areas is needed Rubber grows best in a climate similar to that in its area of origin in the Amazonas, where the rainfall...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

... and peat facies in the direction from the plain to the modern  coastline.  The fourth  sequence  consists of swamp clay, lagoonal clay and peat.  In the direction towards the center of the plain,  each of these sequences appears more and more  ... contains  coarse  to medium  grained  sand  of  plain  river  bed  facies  and  changing  upwards  into  finer  sediments  consisting  mainly  silty  clay  mixed  with fine sand of flood plain facies and clay of  ... and  marine facies (formed in the final stage of each  cycle).  Based  on  this  point  of  view,  the Quaternary sediments in the Red River Delta can  be  divided  into  the following  hydrogeological ...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 15:20

... similar to the results of previous studies conducted in Sweden These studies, however, were confined to women living in Sweden without considering their immigrant status Our findings of disparity in ... and covariates We classified foreign-born individuals into six groups by the continents We further subdivided continents into world regions, as defined by the United Nations Population Division ... results into four categories of calendar period follow-up The incidence increased slightly with increasing year of follow-up in that incidence was 20% higher during most recent years; 2001 to 2007,...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20