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... flows of ODA loans (Kenya and Tanzania), trade (Kenya) and resource FDI (Morocco, Tanzania) Nine ODA loan recipients (apart from Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, and Uganda) are also the destinations of ... international organisations, which have headquarters heavily concentrated in Europe Korea put forward a case for an Asian location, which contains half of world’s population.25 Seoul’s strategy ... increases in trade not necessarily benefit African partners due to their trade deficit with Korea (see Table 6) Korea-Africa trade weighs heavily in favour of Korean exporters Korea’s balance of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:45

... substances that respond in a similar way to variables such as extracellular fluid volume or renal clearance enables calculation of urinary excretion ratios, thereby eliminating the effect of these ... volume may also be increased in ICU patients by the presence of mechanical ventilation, hypoalbuminaemia (increased capillary leakage), extracorporeal circuits, postsurgical drains, or burn injury ... have suggested that small intestinal [12] and gallbladder motility [13] may be inhibited by a hyperglycaemic state Glucose control may thus be important for optimal tolerance and absorption of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... security in the Pacific The United States entered the war in nineteen forty-one after Japanese planes attacked the Navy base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii The surprise attack sank many ships After that, Congress ... of dollars in defense spending for Alaska Today, federal spending is one of the most important parts of the state economy After the war, Alaskans were more serious than ever about statehood They ... Historians say Congress was also unsure about the loyalties of native Alaskans the Aleuts, Indians and Eskimos But during World War Two, national leaders recognized the importance of the territory...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 09:25

... manifestations of OA: unilateral or bilateral osteoarthritis of the knee and /or hip, which is an advantage and a drawback: an advantage because it can be seen as a real-life population, increasing ... trial was funded by Laboratoires Phythea Laurent Mallet is an employee of Laboratoire Phythea Alain Jacquet is the main clinical investigator, and was compensated by Laboratoire Phythea for the ... Bordeaux, in charge of quality assurance and data monitoring; LM is Medical Director, Phythea Laboratories; NM is Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, Head of the Department of Pharmacology, and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... Crit Care Med 2005, 33:1001-1007 Tomaru Ki K, Arai M, Yokoyama T, Aihara Y, Sekiguchi Ki K, Tanaka T, Nagai R, Kurabayashi M: Transcriptional activation of the BNP gene by lipopolysaccharide ... in the others This result suggests that mechanisms other than cardiac wall stress (such as inflammatory mediators or neurohormonal activation) could be involved in the initial upregulation of ... Loundou A, Perrin G, Auffray JP, Portugal H, Papazian L: NH2 terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide plasma level as an early marker of prognosis and cardiac dysfunction in septic shock patients...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... can be defined while using a ‘safe’ extracorporeal lung support system that enables gas exchange Competing interests MQ is a member of the advisory board of Novalung GmbH (Talheim, Germany) and ... lower tidal volumes obviously requires higher PEEP to avoid alveolar derecruitment In addition, in the context of extracorporeal gas exchange, the weakness of the concept of setting PEEP according ... oxygen/fraction of inspired oxygen] ratio after interventional lung assist insertion) was induced after hours and had to be corrected after 24 hours Second, cannula size matters when an arterial vascular...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:22

... something about him, I let out a mighty Graham Kennedy-style “Faaaaaaaark,” pressed eject and threw the tape out of the window The next tape that came to hand was The Eagles, and of course it was cued ... GeorgienHeathcliff, or Georgienheath, or Heathngeorgie or Fuckfacencockhead, or – and then the phone rang and rang and rang and rang and rang I took this incessant ringing as a sign, not that ... know if there was a smirk, a raising of the eyebrows or a sideways glance, but she did something Like those images of the Virgin Mary that appear on pieces of Latin American toast or those crappy...

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2015, 14:00

... return The first wave of intruders arrived on the deck of the Minnesota just prior to the Captain officially hailing the planet’s leader The Iotian’s President appeared on the view screen just as the ... statistical analysis of the growth rate of competing bacteria in a lab class, had ever bothered to the math Until that is, a second Earth was discovered Miri’s planet, named by Captain Kirk for the ... UFO’s or alien abductions taking place The media will continue their misinformation campaign about sleep paralysis theories and mass hysteria Meanwhile, Star Fleet maintains minimal contact while...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 16:13

... turning to advantage As soon as the captain and naval men had gained the quarterdeck they threw off the lashings of the guns, and had all in readiness for running them in and taking them aft to the ... sea, the king and the Prince of Hesse Darmstadt accompanying it The winds were contrary, and it was not till the 11th that they anchored in Altea Bay, at the mouth of the Guadalaviar, on the Valencian ... he said to two of the other sailors, "lend a hand and get a bucket of fresh water and a pannikin, and half a dozen buckets of salt water, and let these lads have a drink and a wash." It was soon...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 15:20

... places of their hearts The day was beautiful, the audience quiet and attentive, as there, beneath the very shadow of Gaudama, in the waters of a lake consecrated to the rites of heathenism, the new- born ... swung off from the wharf amid the prayers and tears of the spectators The vessel had a safe passage, and all the attention of Captain Spaulding was given to render the voyage pleasant and cheerful ... Gibraltar; the stay at Malta; the visits to convents, temples, and other places of Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission 38 resort; the city of Alexandria; the Mahometan Sabbath; the grave of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20

... -Octanoic, nonanoic or decanoic acids, for use in the manufacture of driers for paint, printing ink or varnish; For use as petroleum refining catalysts, or for use in the manufacture of animal or ... monostearate; Lead stearate; Lead stearate, dibasic; Lithium stearate; Magnesium stearate; Potassium palmitate; Sodium palmitate; Sodium stearate; Zinc stearate 10 - - - - -Calcium stearate ... KGM - -Naphthols and their salts 2907.15.10 00 - - -For use as a starting material in the manufacture of synthetic organic dyes or pigment dyestuffs; For use in the manufacture of animal or poultry...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:20

... athletes can give way to the extra pressures placed upon them The pressure they feel often leads them to cross the line between what is legal and illegal according to the NCAA, as in the Florida State ... However, they are unreasonable Instead of restricting their athletes from having all jobs, for fear of unregulated corruption, why not regulate a job they have already? Why not pay the athletes for the ... loyal fans in football, this year the Cleveland Browns left the city of Cleveland and became the Baltimore Ravens The Cleveland Browns had a long history and a rich tradition Nevertheless the material...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 18:00

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 10:20

... Diagnosis was made based upon the International Association for Study of Pain criteria:[3]Absolute: pain extending outside the area of trauma, impaired extremity function, and either cold or warm perceptions ... elbow (1) and wrist(4), and neuromas were resected from the radial sensory (5), lateral antebrachial (7), posterior cutaneous nerve of the forearm (3), medial brachial (1), medial antebrachial nerves ... the ankle and /or the sural must be resected[31,32] (approximately 25% of patients have dual innervation of the sinus tarsi).[23] For the knee joint, both the medial and the lateral retinacular...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... ventilatory management of patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) Animal and human evidence to support the hypothesis that ventilator-induced lung injury causes distant organ damage through ... value of the combination of sigh ventilation and prone positioning in 10 ARDS patients, and added to the body of evidence that supports further investigation of this theoretically attractive strategy ... and colleagues [7] reported on the effects of of cardiopulmonary resuscitation prior to defibrillation in out-ofhospital cardiac arrest In the majority of patients, whose response time was more...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... Long SM, Kaza AK, Cope JT, Laubach VE, Kern JA, Kron IL: Lung transplant reperfusion injury involves pulmonary macrophages and circulating leukocytes in a biphasic response J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg ... immediate clinical implications, they certainly add another piece to a complex puzzle Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests References 28 Van Putte, Kesecioglu ... 121:10691075 Breda MA, Hall TS, Stuart RS, Baumgartner WA, Borkon AM, Brawn JD, Hutchins GM, Reitz BA: Twenty-four hour lung preservation by hypothermia and leukocyte depletion J Heart Transplant 1985,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:21

... haemodynamic data that require invasive cardiovascular monitoring are not immediately available However, although the authors report rather low peripheral oxygen saturations and a high respiratory rate ... Critical Care Vol 13 No Stahl et al effects of mechanical ventilation are rather unpredictable, especially in severely compromised haemodynamic states Indeed, the lack of precise data on haemodynamics ... demand and thus increase SCVo2 via a net decrease in oxygen extraction ratio These two mechanisms should outweigh the potential disadvantages of mechanical ventilation in terms of cardiovascular...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... Administration approved therapy for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis but not for OA due to its limited and short-term effectiveness Maintaining a balance in levels of IL-1β might be important as a ... radiation-induced inflammation-associated skin diseases including skin cancers [9,10] The physician and the patients want to understand the real targets and mechanism of action of GTPs that lead to the prevention ... treatment approach for OA, and agents such as GTPs could fill the gap In fact, complete deletion of the Il1b gene leads to disease exacerbation in a mouse model of OA, suggesting both a catabolic...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 17:22

... in the year before the homicide Thus, we gathered calendar information on the lethal sample for one year prior to the attack that resulted in death, and on the non-lethal sample for a year before ... case-by-case in more qualitative analysis The second goal was made possible by the collection of detailed information about a wide variety of variables over a two-year time span Risk Factors The ... several sub-analyses, separate high-risk profiles for African/American/Black, Latina/Hispanic, and white or other women; and a separate profile for pregnant women In addition, we conducted a comparison...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 23:20

... aetiology of AD ADAM10 and tumour necrosis factor a (TACE): the ill-matched couple Three members of the ADAM family have been shown to act as a- secretase [8,36,37]: ADAM9, ADAM10 and ADAM17 (TACE) ... decrease for ADAM10 and APPs -a was confirmed in human platelets [88,89] as well as for APPs -a in the cerebrospinal fluid of AD patients Additionally, a recent study revealed that colocalization of ADAM10 ... cleavage has been reported [104,105] The same holds true for the tetraspanins: tetraspanin 12 increases maturation and activity of ADAM10 [22] and ADAM10 has been suggested as a component of the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 09:20