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... Verdaguer Martin JJ, Escrig de Teigeiro M: Tratamento de lãs deformidades dentofaciales clase II y clase III In Tratado de cirug a oral y maxilofacial Edited by: Navarro Vila C, Garcia Martin ... http://www.head-face-med.com/content/3/1/15 Figure Radiographic comparison Radiographic comparison A Lateral extra-oral radiograph for preoperative cephalometric investigation of a retrognathic patient ... angle and submental regions Advancement and rotation of the maxilla results in projections at the malar and paranasal regions Interlabial relationship improved Elevation of the nasal point, resulting...

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... carried out the study and drafted the manuscript AF, MA and BS carried out the study and participated in the analysis of data GE, DS, IF, MS and NW participated in the analysis and interpretation ... physiology score Data are shown as absolute numbers or mean values ± standard deviation 4: patients Repeated placement was performed in seven cases and resulted from tube withdrawal by the patient (n ... (no.) Male 16 Female 11 SAPS II score1 44 ± 13 Diagnosis (no.) Abdominal/liver surgery Trauma Pancreatitis Aortic disease/surgery Cardiac surgery Intracranial bleeding Others SAPS: simplified acute...

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... hyperuricemia [21-24] Contemporary use of alkalinization, hydration and rasburicase at 0.10 mg/kg for 3-5 days maintains the same efficacy [25] Anyway, we may have favourable issues by changing the ... prevent and treat hyperuricemia include allopurinol and alkalinization, associated with an aggressive hydration Rasburicase presents various features that give it a more favourable profile than standard ... because each metabolic derangement is associated with remarkable clinical manifestations Hyperuricemia and hyperphosphatemia severely worsen renal functionality; hyperkalemia and hypocalcemia...

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... NaAc conc vs the “E Time” Figure 5: Comparison of CO2 profile of TAD supernatant and NaAc additions Table 2: TAD supernatant VFAs estimation based on “E Time” approach Estimated VFAs Analytical ... supernatant and NaAc addition Observed CO2 evolution rates were similar in both cases, and the TAD supernatant VFA estimations are shown in Table Estimations showed a substantial overestimation, ... BNR enhancement, as the sodium acetate addition cases A higher P/VFAs molar ratio, observed in TAD addition case, suggested there were other potential carbon substrate available for P release (Li,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... lives AFFIRMATIONS Jeff Staniforth, the creator of Sculptor 3, an amazing software that can make affirmations work for anyone, has this to say about affirmations: “By definition, an affirmation ... poem like a mantra as often as I can remember: Thank you for the abundance, Thank you for the wealth; Thank you for all the happiness, Protections and Good Health Repeat this mantra consistently ... a certain prejudice towards certain people or race, try to make an extra effort to love them unconditionally For example, if you are biased against Muslims in general, make an extra effort to...

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... Billinton and C Singh, ''Generating capacity reliability evaluation in interconnected systems using a frequency and duration approach, Part I: Mathematical analysis,'' IEEE Trans on Power Apparatus ... node are shown in Table The calculations have made by Matlab version 6.5 The cutsets of this graph have calculated in 0.8 second This algorithm also has applied to a part of Iran transmission and ... Enumeration of Minimal Cutsets Separating Vertices in a Class of Undirected Planar Graphs," IEEE Trans on Reliability, Vol 41, No 1, March 1992 Li Yan, Hamdy A Taha, Thomas L Landers, "A Recursive...

Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:35

... component on a PC is that there are a wide variety of devices available for the PC platform, as opposed to the UNIX platform This also has an important practical advantage in that a much Fig 14.2 ... this as an input to a separate "playback" application The "playback" is not strictly a playback in the sense that users are still allowed to move about and interact in the virtual world An example ... used for VR applications Currently, all major UNIX workstation vendors have specific platforms targeted to the VR market These workstations usually have a enhanced graphics performance and specific...

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... Upgrade, and Increase Monitoring, Data Analysis and Management; • Plan for and Adapt to Sea Level Rise; and • Identify and Fund Focused Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Research and Analysis ... changes associated with climate change are already having a significant biological impact across a broad range of natural systems For example, across North America, plants are leafing out and ... the capacity of many organisms to adapt in this classical sense U.S natural resource managers and conservationists are accelerating their plans and actions for climate change adaptation, in large...

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... Command ASB Aviation Support Battalion ASL Authorized Stockage List AVIM Aviation Intermediate Maintenance AVN Aviation AWCF Army Working Capital Fund CASCOM Combined Army Support Command CTASC Corps/Theater ... MR-1150 -A, 2002; Marygail K Brauner et al., Dollars and Sense: A Process Improvement Approach to Logistics Financial Management, Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, MR-1131 -A, 2000; and Marygail ... parts that are unavailable at the SSA might not arrive for a week or more But despite the advantages of having parts available from the supporting SSA, Army inventory managers determining what to...

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... SV40T Ag and the 3¢ portion of the tsA58T Ag cDNA carrying the A4 38V mutation were PCR-amplified from COS-7 cDNAs using the following primers: LTA-1F, 5¢-CTC GAGATGGATAAAGTTTTAAACAGAG-3¢ and LTA1R, ... GAGATGGATAAAGTTTTAAACAGAG-3¢ and LTA1R, 5¢-TGAAGGCAAATCTCTGGAC-3¢ for the former, and LTA–M2F, 5¢-CAGCTGTTTTGCTTGAATTATG-3¢ and LTA–2R, 5¢-GAATTCATTATGTTTCAGGTTCA GGGG-3¢ for the latter The PCR products were ... Dong QG, Bernasconi S, Lostaglio S, De Calmanovici RW, Martin-Padura I, Breviario F, Garlanda C, Ramponi S, Mantovani A & Vecchi A (1997) A general strategy for isolation of endothelial cells from...

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... academic patents awarded to academic researchers in each state, relative to the number of science and engineering doctorate holders in academia California, Massachusetts, Florida, Maryland, and ... Research Triangle Park The idea for a research park in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area began in the 1950s, spawned by a disparate cast of characters that included bankers, professors, real ... Utah Iowa North Carolina Alaska 10 Alabama Based on state and local spending per capita on higher education For details see Table 10 Rockefeller Institute Page 47 www.rockinst.org Higher Education...

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... sexual behavior, use of contraception, and use of abortion An important reason that European youth have better sexual health outcomes is that adults approach teenage sexuality differently than adults ... adults, both at home and in other social institutions such as health care and education, conceptualize and approach adolescent sexuality Dutch and U.S Parents and Teenagers A qualitative interview ... European levels without fundamental changes in adult social in adult social norms norms regarding access to health information and to reproductive regarding access to health services health information...

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... interventions A New Tool for Scaling Impact 15 15 outcomes (such as smoking cessation) are achieved Foundations could act as payor via performance-based grants on projects that have large societal value, ... Collaboration with relevant government agencies will also be necessary to gain access to administrative data, such as Medicaid records Administrative data will allow evaluators to assess program ... risks, as well as financial and social returns, are properly articulated and managed They will require tools, such as a credit scorecard, that reflect an intermediary’s methodical and careful...

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... cathepsin D activity J Pept Sci 11, 166–174 31 Yasuda Y, Kageyama T, Akamine A, Shibata M, Kominami E, Uchiyama Y & Yamamoto K (1999) Characterization of new fluorogenic substrates for the rapid and sensitive ... Tsukuba T, Yamamoto S, Yanagawa M, Okamoto K, Okamoto Y, Nakayama KI, Kadowaki T & Yamamoto K (2006) Cathepsin E-deficient mice show increased susceptibility to bacterial infection associated with ... Hayakumo T & Nakajima M (1996) Expression of cathepsin E in pancreas: a possible tumor marker for pancreas, a preliminary report Int J Cancer 67, 492–497 22 Uno K, Azuma T, Nakajima M, Yasuda...

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... 2: Example of a simple grammar lattice All grammars generate a common lexicon for all the grammars) A Grammar Lattice as a Search Space for Grammar Induction a Rule generalization steps a c s ... constraint-based grammars for natural language specifically designed to enable learning from representative examples annotated with semantics We have presented a new grammar learning model and showed ... representative examples associated with a LWFG conformal w.r.t a sublanguage , and as then can always be learned from ) the grammar lattice top element ( Based on the theoretical foundation of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21

... booth and other health and safety games and arts booths Another parent was in charge of sharing information about the health fair at Café el Director, a monthly bilingual L to R: Juanita (with granddaughter ... before her, identified the Russian/English language barrier as a huge challenge for health and healthcare Instead, for the first time, Dr Inessa recognized that her native language was an asset ... local radio station 1430AM and operates the Diaspora Newspaper in the Greater Sacramento region The only group of its kind in the area, Afisha is a major source of news and information for the...

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... free A1 A2 D4 A3 mandatory Skip mandatory R2 mandatory restricted mandatory D1 D2 D3 Fig Abstract example introducing the schema level of the case handling meta model mandatory for A1 , A2 and A3 ... definitions As indicated above, D1 is mandatory for A1 , A2 and A3 , D2 is mandatory for A2 , while D3 is restricted for A3 D0 and D4 are free data elements, which appear in form definition F3, associated ... each activity with which they are associated There are activities without forms to cater for automatic activities, for example automated queries to external database systems Fig assumes that at...

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... the particular health conditions of the countries it serves Member States Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark ... Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Monaco Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Republic ... information and data so that they can make informed decisions to prevent harm Nationally collected data can be compared with international norms and standards to ensure that public health is at...

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... and drain and the silicon substrate as a back-gate, a transistor configuration can be defined as shown in Fig 5 (a) Transfer characteristics at different temperatures for a constant drain voltage ... surface concentration taking this depth as a reasonable value for substantial tunneling This gives an energy lowering similar to the experimental data as given in Ref [10] Schottky barriers at nanowire ... The values in regime A are found in the range of 0.15 eV, while regime B has a sharp maximum at 0.55 eV and regime C again decreases the activation energy to about 0.25 eV All these values are...

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