a behavioral approach to drug abuse treatment

... What determines how available a particular environmental hazard is? Two factors are particularly important: the observed frequency of the hazard and its salience Thus, if a particular hazard has ... May 1998] BEHAVIORAL APPROACH TO LAW & ECONOMICS 1521 EPA, concerned about an apparent gap in federal law and eager to consolidate their authority over issues of public health, began to draft ... Love Canal created significant health risks at any stage The behavioral account of Superfund is that the availability of “Love Canal” as a symbol for the problem of abandoned hazardous waste dumps...

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 18:21

... liver parenchyma Br J Surg 1999, 86:784-788 Kokudo N, Tada K, Seki M, Ohta H, Azekura K, Ueno M, Ohta K, Yamaguchi T, Matsubara T, Takahashi T, Nakajima T, Muto T, Ikari T, Yanagisawa A, Kato Y: ... Preoperative portal vein embolization for extension of hepatectomy indications Hepatology 1996, 24:1386-1391 Imamura H, Shimada R, Kubota M, Matsuyama Y, Nakayama A, Miyagawa S, Makuuchi M, Kawasaki S: ... M, Miyagawa S, Kakazu T: Radical operation after portal embolization for tumor of hilar bile duct J Am Coll Surg 1994, 178:480-486 Kawasaki S, Makuuchi M, Kakazu T, Miyagawa S, Takayama T, Kosuge...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... look to larger meetings and collaborative actions with a broader range of participants The goals of this approach include: • To create a Think Tank or what Franklin Roosevelt described as "A Brain ... Alanko T, Kataja V, Asola R, Utriainen T, Kokko R, Hemminki A, Tarkkanen M, Turpeenniemi-Hujanen T, Jyrkkio S, Flander M, Helle L, Ingalsuo S, Johansson K, Jaaskelainen AS, Pajunen M, Rauhala ... (Cyclophosphamide, Methotrexate and Fluorouracil), FAC (5 Fluorouracil, Doxorubicin and Cyclophosphamide), Tamoxifen and Ovarian ablation Innovative strategic thinking and approaches should be encouraged...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... heparin administration as rapidly as necessary? How can dosage of the drug be titrated to achieve maximal local effects without the risk of systemic complications? What is the adequate duration ... Critical Care Vol 12 No Suter The translation of a potentially beneficial effect of inhaled heparin in experimental models of ALI to clinical practice has not yet been achieved; important additional ... remains to be done The following questions need to be answered As the pro-coagulant state in the alveolar space begins in the early phases of ALI, how can it be assessed in order to initiate...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... this comparison, we are able to address the head pressure contours as part of a family of solutions Thus, quantitative arbitrary values of pressure always result in the same qualitative features ... through appendages such as hair follicles and sweat glands Although the relative importance of each is still not clear, there is a general consensus that the intercellular pathway plays a major ... media as applied to groundwater flow modelling [15,16] Following such an approach, geologic materials -and in our case the SC- may Page of 25 Marquez-Lago et al Theoretical Biology and Medical...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... vivo XII ABBREVIATION AAV Adeno-associated virus ABC ATP-binding cassette AcMNPV Baculovirus Autographa californica multiple nucleopolyhedrovirus Ad Adenovirus BBB Blood-brain-barrier BV Baculovirus ... combining baculovirus gene therapy with HDAC inhibitor treatment to achieve enhanced therapeutic effects for brain gliomas in vitro and in vivo NaB was used as a HDAC inhibitor candidate, and baculovirus ... sclerosis, as well as brain tumors such as neuroblastoma and Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) (Hsich et al., 2002) This is largely undesirable because these diseases are potentially amenable to gene therapy...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:15

... scores as a 'diagnostic tool' related to each individual treatment decision rather than being part of a collaborative data collection For example, they could add rectal temperature and other parameters ... able to create meaningful data valid in large scale analyses (across herds and veterinary practices) Such veterinarians would generally want to focus on possibilities for across-herd data analyses ... context That is, treatment data as an indicator of a certain disease manifestation may only be valid within the herd When veterinarians used standard treatment decisions and included population level...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45

... (INR), and a liver panel Although the serum aminotransferase level correlates poorly with liver histology, the ratio of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) to alanine aminotransferase (ALT) >1 is a dependable ... regardless of treatment candidacy Alcohol abstinence should be recommended to all patients as this may accelerate the progression of liver disease Hepatotoxic drugs should also be avoided, as patients ... linked to a variety of extra-hepatic manifestations such as autoimmune diseases, lymphoma, monoclonal gammopathies and cryoglobulinemia Some of these extra-hepatic complications could lead to severe...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2012, 09:51

... years, ALT has been used as a standard surrogate for the activity of CHB Thus, ALT level in combination with HBV DNA level and histological activity has been used as a determinant for HBV treatment ... normal transaminases have historically not been considered as candidates for HBV treatment based on the assumption that these patients usually have a slow progression and evidence that these patients ... predictors of response to LAM and ADV therapies are similar to those for IFN except that baseline HBV DNA may not be very important Individualization of HBV Treatment As summarized in Table and...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:41

... However, Feynman soon learned that there was a great obstacle to this delayed action-at -a- distance theory: namely, if a radiating electron, say in an atom or an antenna, were not acted upon at all by ... xn (a) and which leaves the action invariant (for example, the transformation may be a rotation) The transformation is to contain a parameter, a, and is to be a continuous function of a For a equal ... the usual treatment, this principle leads to the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian equations of motion Feynman illustrates how this principle can be extended to the case of a particle (perhaps an atom)...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 11:21

... time available/ in the available time.(1) We have to exploit all available potential/ all potential available in our country (2) As we know that when changing the position of adjective available ... should be washed everyday Nguyễn Thị Nga K 1 1A 19 Graduation paper 2.2.5 Exclamatory adjective sentence An adjective as head of an adjective phrase or as its sole realization can be an exclamation: ... up to now C .A plays an important role in learning a foreign language as a main subject at most language universals According to C James (1980;19), C .A is a form of inter-language study and a central...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 14:46

... the American Nurses Association, the American Psychological Association, and Sigma Theta Tau International She is a board member of the International Council on Women's Health Issues and a charter ... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publkation Data Thomas, Sandra P, Listening to patients : a phenomenological approach to nursing / Sandra P Thomas, Howard R Pollio p cm Includes bibliographical ... the man as a nurse and Ginger as a physician, whereas still other reactions identify the man as a nurse and Ginger as a patient You don't have to be a philosopher of language or a communications...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2013, 11:15

... team The database analysts and the programmers are unable to agree on the proper ways to pass information back and forth between the interface and the database, and the requirements analysts and ... software packages), hardware and software implementation (implementing new computers or software), database management and revision (ensuring proper data storage and access), hardware and software ... Project managers usually employ a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) such as the sample in Table (PMI, 2000), and OD scholars have advocated similar approaches in teambuilding and organizational...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... into manageable size—say to make a presentation about the Vietnam War or locate the best marketing strategy for a hypothetical business venture—consider making a quick visual map to see what ... number of audiences equals the number of students in class Write one per slip of paper and place in a hat and let each student draw an audience out of a hat Each now write a paragraph to the audience ... makes a permanent record to be reread and studied in your absence And if you want to maintain a certain tone or coolness of demeanor, this can be accomplished more easily in writing than in face-toface...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 17:33

... the Sandia National Laboratory study on enterprise transformation serves to bring the dangers that managers and administrators face when attempting to impose a transformational change into their ... Sandia National Laboratories approach, a four-level transformation model that focuses on identifying a transformation trigger, and an eight-factor public management model A Need for Transformation ... the earlier actions are integrated into the organization’s culture The Sandia Laboratories management team, for example, warned that a transformation initiative should not demand more than the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 20:20

... competitive advantage over its rival and is on the path to high performance The key is for banks to evaluate their business model now against scenarios ranging from best case to worst case, and to act ... program initiatives1 As Figure shows, a tactical cost-cutting approach will quickly yield substantial savings which rapidly level off after the first year A bank taking a more strategic, transformational ... Accenture’s approach to efficiency contains a portfolio of tools and assets—the Accenture High Performance Bank Framework—that can help a bank achieve high performance We believe there are significant...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... contrast, the studies by Kawabata and Zeki (2004) and Skov ef al (2005) attempted to isolate those cortical structures that are actIvated more when a stimulus is evaluated as beautiful Presumably, ... network than before, again including the occipital, temporal, and the frontal lobes, but in particular bilateral orbital frontal corlex What the results of Kawabata and Zeki (2004) and Skov ef al (2005) ... neural correlates of preference and beauty, two variables that have affective and cognitive components The areas activated by Vartanian and Goel (2004b) may have highlighted those cOrlical structures...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20

... unlimited raw corpus compensates for the modest recall As a result, large quantities of NE instances are automatically acquired An automatically annotated NE corpus can then be constructed by extracting ... fourDigitNum, containsDigitAndAlpha, containsDigitAndDash, containsDigitAndSlash, containsDigitAndComma, containsDigitAndPeriod, otherNum, allCaps, capPeriod, initCap, lowerCase, other Benchmarking and Discussion ... example: IsA(man) Æ PER IsA(city) Æ LOC IsA(company) Æ ORG IsA(software) Æ PRO Automatic Construction of Annotated NE Corpus In this step, we use the parsing-based first learner to tag a raw...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20

... identify critical components that are key to success G HAZOP and FMEA approaches Hazard and Operability studies and Failure Modes Effects Analysis are quantitative technical failure analysis techniques ... N 17 Risk appetite, tolerance and constraints Sources of assurance available to the Board A structured approach to Enterprise Risk Management Appendix B: Implementation summar y The table below ... they enable an organisation to identify accumulations of similar risks A risk classification system will also enable an organisation to identify which strategies, tactics and operations are most...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 12:20

... a Natural Language Interface to Complex Data", SRI International, 1976 hltman,D.J., and Allen, J.F., "A Plan Recognation Model for Clarification Subdlalogues", Proceedings of the International ... exlsting plan may contain constant instantiatlons in place of former variaOles A term fragment still associates with such constant terms A constant fragment can only associate with terms whose semantic ... utterance Allen views the speaker's utterance as part of a plan which the speaker has constructed and is executlug to accomplish his overall task-related goals To interpret elliptical fragments, Allen...

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