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... peer review to ensure that they meet high standards for research quality and objectivity Stress and Performance A Review of the Literature and Its Applicability to the Military Jennifer Kavanagh ... (NSRD) of the RAND Corporation NSRD conducts research and analysis for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Commands, the defense agencies, the Department of the Navy, ... that battle fatigue and other stress reactions may account for as many as 50 percent of the casualties in a given war As a result of the effect that stress can have on service members and their...

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... vegetative propagation, and the ease of its establishment in plantations Growth traits, stem and crown habits (basal sweep, stem straightness, branching habits), wood quality, and pest resistance ... rates comparable to other vigorous species such as Douglas fir and an apparent wide soil adaptability on Rational use of the parental populations and their evaluation through hybridization as ... than the F progenies and show a comparable variabi- lity The greater uniformity of the F genera1 tion progeny over the parental progenies has also been recognized as an advantage in favor of...

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... RNA that contains the retroviral packaging signal (ψ) and so made amenable to molecular manipulation The genetic structure of the virus is such that the viral cis (sequences that are biologically ... experimentation (principally the laboratory mouse), or are of commercial significance (such as farmed animals such as chickens, horses, goats, cattle and fish, and pets), where they cause a number of ... pathogenic and have been shown to be the causative agent of several slow progressive diseases in animals including arthritis and encephalitis in goats, leukemia in cattle, anaemia in horses, and immunodeficiency...

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... lots of Vietnamese readers Apart from The Last Leaf, the readers have known The Gift of the Magi as a typical short- story by O Henry It is translated into Vietnamese by many translators and each ... of The Magi, and two translated versions, the author has been attracted with the idea of comparing two translated versions on textual equivalence According to Callow (1992) each language has its ... the reasons for success of this translation and the failure of the other There have been some works that analysed and contrasted cohesion between English and Vietnamese so far The purpose of these...

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... may be related to salt and NOC, in enhancing carcinogenesis after the epithelium is damaged[8] The aim of this article is to review and evaluate the available epidemiological evidence about the ... M, Natsukawa S, Shaura K, Koizumi Y, Kasuga Y, Hanaoka T, Tsugane S Association of Helicobacter pylori infection and environmental factors in non-cardia gastric cancer in Japan Gastric Cancer ... study Int J Cancer 1999; 80: 852-856 van Loon AJ, Botterweck AA, Goldbohm RA, Brants HA, van Klaveren JD, van den Brandt PA Intake of nitrate and nitrite and the risk of gastric cancer: a prospective...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21

... studies may have been lost These analysis and interpretation decisions were applied as the review was designed to make the best use of all available data and to present the data in a standardised ... Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable paper Unobtainable ... Authentication paper Authentication paper Authentication paper Authentication paper Authentication paper Authentication paper (comparing isotopes) Authentication paper (comparing fertilisers) Authentication...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:20

... as calculated by the reviewers (mean of word recognition and word attack measures; also mean of comprehension measures, mean of spelling measures, and synthetic versus analytic, where applicable), ...  Reading and spelling et al. Total instructional time = specific data not N/S – whether supplementary or additional or part replacement etc  available (reviewer estimate = approx ... measures used in calculation of effect sizes by the reviewers: word reading accuracy (reading comprehension; spelling) Effect size, as calculated by the reviewers (mean of word recognition and...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:22

... the greatest part of that delay was attributed to the purchase of therapeutic material by patients and their families [48] The overall evaluation of professional skills, together with the quality ... remainder of the analysis was carried out using the data extraction form and the analytical framework presented in the following section Analytical framework The concept of "quality of care" was defined ... obstetric* care OR maternal mortality" AND "quality health care OR quality care" AND "developing countries" Based on the advice of one of the authors (PF), an expert in the field of maternal health and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... urban and rural areas in the same way, or that they value the opportunity to work in the private sector equally in rural or urban areas These are strong assumptions that could be investigated ... M: Health workforce issues and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: An analytical review Human Resources for Health 2006, 4:1-12 Mauritius Ministry of Health and Quality of ... use a constant job scenario against which all other choice sets were compared The choice of attributes and levels was usually based on preliminary qualitative work and some literature review (Additional...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... with advice from DR and SL The data were extracted by JC and AL JC wrote the first draft of the paper, and all authors contributed to the analysis and interpretation of the data and reviewed and ... research Malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia are of huge public health importance in sub-Saharan Africa and if ITNs, Page of 11 antimalarials, antibiotics, oral rehydration solution and other simple ... al.: Thirty years after Alma-Ata: a systematic review of the impact of community health workers delivering curative interventions against malaria, pneumonia and diarrhoea on child mortality and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... organic acids such as oxalic acid (pKa = 1.3) and tartaric acid (pKa = 3.0) also catalyze acetalization, but acetic acid (pKa = 4.7) does not catalyze this reaction (Adams and Adkins 1925) Oxalic and ... alcoholates Noncatalytic salts for this reaction include carbonates and chlorides of sodium and potassium; calcium and sodium sulfates; and calcium and sodium acetates (Adams and Adkins 1925; Adkins ... that catalyze the polymerization of olefins and the addition of mercaptans to olefins The organic acids and the elements commonly found in the char can act as catalysts for many of these reactions...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 14:02

... at a ward geographical level The air pollution index of each participant is equal to the level of their residential ward Geographical level and SES variables Main results Social class of head of ... health and 5.4% of depression after having controlled for age, sex and marital status and found that provision of gardens and other amenities substantially reduced the percentage variance in each ... pollution and survey air quality A rich database of information is now available and offers studies and research opportunities The last few years or decade have seen the development of several tools...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20

... related to addiction such as tolerance, sensitivity, dependence and so on, are the results of a molecular and cellular adaptation which takes place in specific brain areas as a results of repeated ... model of the parents, especially the parent of the same sex seems to be significant Operant conditioning is related to the increase of satisfaction and the decrease of unpleasant feelings (uneasiness, ... mesolimbic pathway is considered crucial for the reward procedure This pathway starts from the ventricular area, which is an area rich in dopamine in the midbrain (the ventral tegmental area (VTA)) [1,22]...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... in the parametrial areas [35], whereas Levenback found 9% of the sentinel nodes in the paraaortic area, 11% in the common iliac, 71% in the external iliac, and 9% in the parametrial area in a ... Although majority of the nodes are located in internal iliac and external iliac areas, nodes have been found in also presacral, parametrial and pararectal areas [33] In a sentinel node study carried ... Of the cases, 90% are squamous cell carcinomas, while the rest are melanoma, adenocarcinoma, basal cell carcinoma and sarcoma [7] Nodal metastasis in vulva cancer is the main prognostic factor,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... (LPS)-induced GAG release [69] It also affected the activities of lysosomal enzymes, decreasing the activities of arylsulfatase A and arysulfatase B, an N-acetylgalactosaminidase-4-sulfatase, but increasing ... risk of developing OA in their near future Appendix Comparative discussion on the value of the Jadad and OA scores to evaluate the quality of clinical trials on OA To evaluate the quality of the ... boron, a cocktail of vitamins and selenium, and a cocktail of minerals), on plant extracts (bromelain, Rosa canina, Harpagophytum procumbens, Uncaria tomentosa, and Uncaria guianensis, Salix sp.,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... Germany Authors’ contributions FR participated in data acquisition, literature review and drafted the manuscript CTI, FZ and CTH participated in data acquisition and literature review MB, JD and ... that, malignant transformation and sarcoma induction have also been reported in patients treated without radiation at all For example Dahlin et al [22] reported the development of sarcoma in of ... wide variations in fractionation, total dose and radiation techniques [1-4,15-20] Beside the limited data for this treatment approach, radiotherapy has been criticized in the past also because of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... Malignant Intracerebral Nerve Sheath Tumor A case report and review of the literature Cancer 1998, 82(3):545-552 10 Hanabusa K, Morikawa A, Murata T, Hanabusa K, Morikawa A, Murata T, Taki W: Acoustic ... wrote the part of the paper concerning radiotherapy and followed up the patient at his out-patient clinic AK was the radiologist performing the preoperative and postoperative CT and MRI scans and ... indicates the beneficial role of the radiotherapy in local control of disease after a total or a near total resection of extracranial MPNSTs [14,33-38] Anghileri et al found adjuvant radiotherapy...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... fibroelastoma On echocardiography papillary fibroelastoma usually arise via a pedicle from mitral valve tissue or adjacent endocardium, and have a characteristic frond-like appearance [31] A remarkable ... lupus erythematosus Lancet 1990, 335:1541-4 Takayama T, Teramura M, Sakai H, Tamaki S, Okabayashi T, Kawashima T, Yamamoto T, Horie M, Suzuki T, Asai T: Perforated mitral valve aneurysm associated ... participated in the design of the manuscript and they revised and critically reviewed the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... these grounds) As an overall summary measure of effectiveness, the risk ratio and RDs were calculated using meta-analysis for both of the main outcomes of the review Page of 17 2010 yielded a ... reliability and validity, type of interventions, sample size, statistical power, primary and secondary study findings, statistical tests used, and associated statistical and clinical significance ... local community pharmacy Study personnel provided counselling about fall prevention and intake of calcium and vitamin D; educational materials from osteoporosis Canada provided and patients asked...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... developed from the transformation are retained and transferred to other problems and parts of the healthcare organization The two exceptions to the question of sustainability are Furman and Caplan's report ... Station, Texas LG is Director of the National Science Foundation and industry supported Center for Health Organization Transformation and Professor and Head of the Department of Health Policy and ... size of the intervention decayed and eventually disappeared over time Lastly, Furman and Caplan's examination of Lean at Virginia Mason Medical Center [40] warrants specific comment because it was...

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