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... keeping the collecting bag below the bladder and maintaining good hydration in residents Urinary catheters coated with antimicrobial materials have the potential to decrease urinary tract infections, ... Gentamycin, Tobramycin, Amikacin Quinolones Glycopeptides Ciprofloxacin, Ofloxacin, Norfloxacin Vancomycin Tetracyclines Tetracycline Rifamycins Rifampicin Streptogramins Virginamycins, Quinupristin, ... Kumarasamy KK, Toleman MA, Walsh TR, Bagaria J, Butt F, Balakrishnan R et al (2010) Emergence of a new antibiotic resistance mechanism in India, Pakistan and the UK: a molecular, biological and...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 09:20

... experts and information sources using ongoing information-gathering processes such as assigning metadata, assessing data sources, gathering historical reference data, assessing and mitigating biases, ... computation, data management, quantitative analysis, and visualization Humans are best at pattern recognition, natural language interpretation and processing, intuition, and qualitative analysis A welldesigned ... of the National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... BOWEN, Administrative and Financial Associate JENNIFER T ESTEP, Financial Associate TANJA E PILZAK, Research Associate CAETLIN M OFIESH, Research Assistant JAMES B DAVIS, Program Assistant JARED ... regional hazard maps (earthquake, flood, and landslide) have been incorporated into zoning laws and land use planning in some areas Formal geohazards risk assessment is becoming an integral part of ... of a Global Economy The main recommendations in that report are for increased investments at the federal and state levels, especially for fundamental research; upgrading and expanding laboratories,...

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Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 13:20

... this regard, international collaboration by Mexican, Canadian, and American scientists led to the rapid identification of the influenza A( H1N1)v strain leading to the early institution of aggressive ... vaccine production efforts Experts are advocating new vaccine adjuvants, an intradermal route of administration to optimize amounts of vaccine, and new vaccine production strategies such as mammalian ... of curbing the viral spread of influenza viruses History teaches the great value of non-pharmacological interventions against influenza pandemics, and these measures have immediate applicability...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:21

... the unique challenges that lie ahead In a perfect world there would be a perfect balance of supply and demand between health care providers and the public; a balance between the health care the ... critical care Largely due to the media, the general public is aware that current technology is capable of indiscriminately maintaining some vital bodily functions, but they may not understand that ... notion that the skills to approach and resolve ethical dilemmas are innate in all intensivists, and instead strive to create and develop our ability to think critically in bioethics so as to confront...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... dispersers may be particularly critical in managing the forests of Madagascar The present-day Malagasy fauna lacks many of the mammalian frugivores, such as ungulates and large rodents, and avian frugivores ... Evolutionary Anthropology information on the average annual number of animals consumed per capita in the Amazon Peres calculated the total game harvest in the Brazilian Amazon by multiplying these values ... obtained at Ranamafana National Park in Madagascar ap- ARTICLES pears to have benefited conservation of the area Kremen, Merenlender, and Murphy171 evaluated 36 projects that had attempted to integrate...

Ngày tải lên: 13/06/2016, 09:33

... identifying the areas that discharge high pollutant loading into receiving waters METHODS Our area of interest was Marina del Rey and its vicinity in the Santa Monica Bay Watershed Santa Monica Bay ... were classified as transportation land use in the SCAG data and USGS classification system Vegetated areas inside the institutional areas were also identified as low pollutant loading areas, which ... with official land used data obtained from SCAG land use data The pollutant loading maps of all water quality parameters show that the low pollutant emitting areas correspond to open land use due...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

... Set the reading task: make questions • Ask the learners to read the passage in silence and find the answers, • Ask learners to read again aloud and ask for the answer • Explain difficulties they ... trained in English teaching-training courses and two others in an English teaching workshop They also admit they have applied CLT in their speaking teaching but not others such as Audio-lingual ... investment in preparing the lessons In summary, we can see from the findings that the interview can really provide in depth the information about the reality of speaking teaching to 10 th grate at Gia...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 10:33

... and their expressions as ratios of a covariance to a variance indicate that they can also be obtained from a linear approximation This comment makes it possible to extend easily the approximate ... means and standard deviations over generations of canalising selection Several aspects appear: with a high heritability h!, the population mean tends in a linear manner towards the optimum in a ... At variance with the present work, changes in genetic variances and covariances should be taken into account Further research is needed in this area, keeping in mind that the approach used, according...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Acknowledgements The mannitol challenges (Aridol) were kindly provided as a gift (Pharmaxis, Sydney, Australia) CB ... histamine and methacholine in humans J Appl Physiol 1983, 55(2):541-6 Koskela HO, Hyvarinen L, Brannan JD, Chan HK, Anderson SD: Coughing during mannitol challenge is associated with asthma Chest ... likely that it mediates its effect indirectly via activation of mast cells in the superficial airway to release mediators, which in turn activate local cough receptors An earlier study in asthma demonstrated...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... Streptavadin (LSAB kit, DAKO) for 60 min, and further incubated with hydrogen-peroxidasediaminobenzidine (H2O2-DAB) to visualize the PCNA-positive cells Finally, they were counterstained with Mayer’s ... daily for 14 and 28 days Tumor areas were measured every days using a caliper, and the tumor area was calculated according to the formula: tumor volume (mm3) = d2 x D/2, where d and D were the ... compounds including lunasin and lectins that were shown to induce apoptosis in malignant cells [13] As CKBM contains these compounds, this would partially explain why it inhibits tumor growth in the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:54

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Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 14:42

... and making you want to the activity again, as soon as possible You get the positive reinforcement again, and again, and again, in a constant cycle of positive reinforcement, and soon you’re addicted ... inspiration in what others have done, you get ideas, you gather the raw materials for creating But consuming and communicating aren’t creating They aid creating, they lay the groundwork, but at some point ... general idea Again, start with half a day or a day — something manageable Do it once a week, and gradually expand the time you spend on the cleanse Reducing the Stream If you’ve done the cleanse,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/01/2014, 15:25

... branding, and means that rather than broadcasting messages to audiences and target groups, in the era of social 10 web that we live in today, branding and marketing is about participating in ... fram att utmaningen ligger i att vara relevant i sociala medier och i alla andra kommunikationskanaler, vilket handlar om att hitta den räta balansen mellan att presentera intressant material ... managing the brand portfolio The traditional definition of a brand used in brand management literature was formulated by the American Marketing Association in 1960 and identifies a brand as a kind...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 08:20

... residential segregation and material inequality along race-group lines renders the Valley both typical and atypical at the same time It is typical in the sense that post-apartheid South Africa as a ... using apartheid-era categories, but rarely reflect on precisely why and how they are using them The South African state and Statistics South Africa claim that their reasons for retaining apartheid-era ... however, many features of the apartheid era persist, as the legacy of apartheid shapes everyday life after apartheid itself has died Material inequalities persist and the distribution of income has...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 04:20

... Fig 3A showing only the rates obtained in the absence of a Du In this case, the impairment of the ATP synthesis rates in the mutant was higher than twofold, especially in the low DpH range Again, ... concentration in each sample was measured in a luminometer (LKB 1250) with the ATP-Monitoring Kit (Bioorbit) The small amount of ATP synthesized in the dark (due to the adenylate kinase reaction) was ... mutation aE210K was introduced into the atp2 operon of Rb capsulatus, containing the F0 genes, cloned in an E coli strain The mutated operon was then transferred into a broad-host-range vector and the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 03:20

... at Metz In the meantime we taught him, at the same place, the manual of arms and Infantry tactics which had been introduced into the army after he was graduated at the Military Academy In practical ... to chaparral | | Page 20 relinguished changed to relinquished | | Page 21 chapparal changed to chaparral | | Page 22 chapparal changed to chaparral | | Page 27 chapparal changed to chaparral | ... supervising the construction of batteries against Chapultepec I was placed in charge of Battery No 1, on the Tacubaya road, against the southern face of the Castle; and Lieutenant McClellan in charge...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 08:20