... Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs: Drugs such as acetaminophen, aspirin, and ibuprofen used to treat pain and inflammation Metastasis (plural: metastases, verb: metastasize): The spread of cancer cells ... produce and release a hormone (PTHrP) into the bloodstream that can increase the rate at which bones release calcium Lung cancer that has spread to bone can also cause an increased release of calcium ... compound that reduces inflammation and can decrease growth or survival of some types of cancer cells Tumor: An abnormal mass of tissue Tumors are either benign (noncancerous) or malignant (cancerous)...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 05:20
... costs variation in health services and to assess outputs of rural health facilities The aim of this study was to evaluate and analyse the nature, performance and costs of a sample of periurban and ... India, AWARE in Andhra Pradesh, CINI in Kolkata, CRHP in Jamked, RUHSA in Tamil Nadu, and SEARCH in Maharashtra (Antia & Bhatia, 1993) Pakistan Impression drawn from interview with various officials ... abbots and ecclesiastical heads A sample of 1600 Buddhist abbots and 400 ecclesiastical heads were selected and interviewed Peter A Berman (Berman, 1984) Indonesia An evaluation of coverage and...
Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20
Internal audit independence and objectivity: a review of current literature and opportunities for future research ppt
... Foundation: Altamonte Springs, FL, 97129 Arena, M., M Arnaboldi and G Azzone 2006 Internal audit in Italian organizations Managerial Auditing Journal 21 (3): 275-292 Bailey, A. D., A. A Gramling and ... Australia and Nava Subramaniam Faculty of Business and Law Deakin University, Victoria, Australia ABSTRACT: This paper reviews the recent European and international literature on i nternal audit independence ... internal audit activities; and (v) internal audit as a management training ground For As previously noted, for a detailed review of external auditors’ evaluation of and reliance on the work of internal...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:20
A Review of Qigong Therapy for Cancer Treatment pptx
... College of TCM explored the anti-tumor mechanism of Qigong therapy in a study of 104 different cancer patients (mainly comprised of esophagus cancer, stomach cancer, rectum cancer and lung cancer) ... follow-up exam The protein levels (AAG, AAT and CER) were studied among 46 patients, and the cell immune function (LAI and ANAE) was studied among 58 patients before and after Qigong The Journal of International ... not hard to draw a general picture that Qigong therapy for cancer may be a powerful alternative to what we are using today Unfortunately, this is an area that is often neglected by mainstream medicine...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 17:20
Mechanical impedance to root growth: a review of experimental techniques and root growth responses pot
... (1986), and by Hettiaratchi & O’Callaghan (1974, 1978) who also analysed theoretically the mechanics of the changes in cell size and shape that can occur in mechanically impeded root tips It is clear ... decreased by increasing mechanical resistance to growth, and ceases at root penetration resistances of about MPa Resistance to root elongation within a ballotini cell confined by an externally applied ... soil particles of a diameter comparable to the probe The result is that, particularly where there is an abundance of coarse sand or larger material, the effective diameter of the probe is greater...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 05:20
Stress and Performance - A Review of the Literature and Its Applicability to the Military pdf
... performance by helping reduce uncertainty associated with stress and improving the accuracy of individual expectations and performance of certain tasks (Glass and Singer, 1973) Moderators can also act ... X and Y (and X and Y are correlated), then X will be correlated with A and will have an effect on Y independent of X A moderator variable is one that affects (usually reduces) the causal relationship ... military personnel For example, Mareth and Brooker (1985) find 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...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20
a review of concepts indicators and empirical evidence
... 42 Authors Jejeebhoy and Sathra (2001) Al Riyami, Afifi and Mabry (2004) Country and year of the data collection Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, India and Punjab, Pakistan Data collected by authors, ... aspects of individual agency and (b) used direct indicators of agency Authors Acharya and Bennet (1983) Schuler and Hashemi (1994) Country and year of the data collection Nepal Data collected by authors ... employment, sharing of roles and decisionmaking, family structure amenable to empowerment, equality in marriage, devaluation of women, women‟s emancipation, marital advantage and traditional marriage Logit...
Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:22
báo cáo sinh học:" A review of the application and contribution of discrete choice experiments to inform human resources policy interventions" docx
... 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 ... Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 2003, 2:55-64 Ryan M, Gerard K, Amaya-Amaya M: Using Discrete Choice Experiments to Value Health and Health Care Springer; 2008 Lancaster K: A New Approach ... increasing primary care physicians in rural areas Fam Med 1990, 22:350-355 Inoue K, Hirayama Y, Igarashi M: A medical school for rural areas Medical Education 1997, 31:430-434 Lea J, Cruickshank...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20
A review of the chemical and physical mechanisms of the storage stability of fast pyrolysis bio oils
... 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 ... formed and phase separation occurred 4.3.2 Esterification and Acetalization Adding alcohol (methanol, ethanol, and propanol) and a mineral acid catalyst to pyrolysis tars and bio-oils caused esters,...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 14:02
Environment and health risks: a review of the influence and effects of social inequalities pptx
... socioeconomic and demographic variables) page 32 Authors Population /country Poznan and Wroclaw (Poland) a Health variables Air pollution variablesa Geographical level and SES variables Methods to evaluate ... environmental justice, housing, deprivation and environmental quality was searched in a number of health, environmental and geographical databases, and reviewed and evaluated to summarize the ... “naturally” favour the segregated metropolitan areas pattern and that only strong national and local public policies may succeed in maintaining or re-establishing a greater mix of activities and...
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 23:20
Báo cáo toán học: "Carbon allocation among tree organs: A review of basic processes and representation in functional-structural tree models" pot
... appropriate, as the basic mechanisms and modelling approaches are similar in all kinds of plants WITHIN-TREE ALLOCATION: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND MECHANISM In the last 50 years assimilate allocation ... considerations regarding the relationship between sapwood area and leaf weight (and its actual variability), but also because of the variable relationship between hydraulic properties and carbon ... source-sink distances and the further assumption that N allocation is ruled by a process similar to C allocation 530 A Lacointe As another example, a number of models belonging to a particular class include...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:22
báo cáo khoa học: "A Review of Metallothionein Isoforms and their Role in Pathophysiology" ppsx
... endometrial, skin, and pancreatic cancers, as well as in melanoma and all, where in some cases MT-I and II expression correlates with tumor grade/stage, chemotherapy/radiation resistance, and poor ... proliferative activity of breast, colon and prostate human cancers [3] Page of In Papillary Thyroid Cancer MT isoforms have not been much studied in papillary thyroid cancer The function of MT1 and ... was originally reported as specific to brain has been demonstrated in normal human kidney, renal carcinoma, bladder cancer and prostatic adenocarcinoma [3] In Prostate Cancer In normal prostate...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24
Báo cáo y học: "Clinical review: High-frequency oscillatory ventilation in adults — a review of the literature and practical applications" ppsx
... Germany and Canada found a system that oscillated gas into and out of an animal’s lungs was effective at CO2 elimination [28,29] Commercial products are now available for children and for adults ... several patient-specific factors [25] Lung protective strategies in ARDS are currently aimed at reducing plateau airway pressures and tidal volumes, and at attempting to have an open lung [26] Based ... Critical Care October 2003 Vol No Ritacca and Stewart time cycled and achieves flow rates of 175–250 l/min The respiratory rate is usually 60–100 breaths/min and achieves Vt values of 3–4 ml/kg Although...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22
Báo cáo y học: "Chronic granulomatous disease: a review of the infectious and inflammatory complications" pot
... on a fatal granulomatous disorder in boys and described this as a “new Page of 14 syndrome” [3] Since these early descriptions, a rather amazing and accelerated understanding of the disease and ... interferon gamma and appropriate antimicrobials (such as trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole/TMP-SMX and itraconazole), and management of infections using appropriate antimicrobials based on pathogen likelihood ... culminated in terminal uremia and fatal pulmonary Aspergillosis and Pseudomonas septicemia Diffuse infiltration of renal and other tissues by pigment-containing macrophages may also result in pathology...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22
Báo cáo y học: " Diagnostic peritoneal lavage: a review of indications, technique, and interpretation" docx
... for abdominal fascia following Figure the approach DPL a midline tolinea alba and anterior an open or semi-open View of the linea alba and anterior abdominal fascia following a midline infraumbilical ... 18-guage needle is elevating the anterior abdominal fascia, an While grasping and inserted at a 45-degree angle toward the While grasping and elevating the anterior abdominal fascia, an 18-guage ... unless indicated for a separate Blunt Abdominal Trauma Hemodynamically Abnormal Hemodynamically Normal FAST Availability CT Availability Yes Positive Laparotomy No Negative or Equivocal Yes DPL...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20
Báo cáo sinh học: "The use of retroviral vectors for gene therapy-what are the risks? A review of retroviral pathogenesis and its relevance to retroviral vector-mediated gene delivery" pptx
... macrophages and microglia, and causes demyelination, vacuolation and gliosis Again, the mechanism by which HIV causes CNS pathology is not well understood The gp120 (Env) and Tat proteins have ... the causative agent of several slow progressive diseases in animals including arthritis and encephalitis in goats, leukemia in cattle, anaemia in horses, and immunodeficiency in cats, cattle, ... and BLV and related viruses form a separate class of complex retroviruses that cause leukemia in a small percentage of infected individuals after very long latency periods Retroviruses have also...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 19:22
INVESTIGATION ON CLINICAL FEATURES, BRAIN IMAGING, a NUMBER OF RIKS FACTORS AND THE VALUE OF d DIMER IN DIAGNOSIS OF CEREBRAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS
... diagnosis of CVT which is considered as a gold standard and can replace invasive conventional cerebral angiography and is used as a leading mean of diagnosis in case with clinical suspicion of ... brain and lie in the subarachnoid space They pierce the arachnoid mater and the meningeal layer of the dura and drain into the cranial venous sinuses Blood from both brain is drained by cerebral ... hypercoagulable state; vascular injuries Most of the main factors causing thrombosis are venous congestion and hypercoagulable state 1.2 CLINICAL Clinical symptoms of CVT are diverse, non-specific and...
Ngày tải lên: 21/10/2014, 21:52
ewelt-knauer et al - 2013 - mandatory audit firm rotation- a review of stakeholder perspectives and prior research [mafr]
... corporate governance, Advances in Accounting, 22(2), pp 1–27 ˜ Arrunada, B and Paz-Ares, C (1997) Mandatory rotation of company auditors: a critical examination, International Review of Law and ... disagreement (Iyer and Rama, 2004) O’Leary and Radich (1996) found that the majority of auditors and publicly listed companies were against mandatory audit firm rotation due to a misbalance of ... important to consider methodological limitations, such as a lack of external validity of analytical and experimental research, and survey results can be biased by personal motives and experiences Also,...
Ngày tải lên: 06/01/2015, 19:42
Private Tutoring in Vietnam A Review of Current Issues and Its Major Correlates
... scale, intensity, form, cost, and legality of these classes In particular, the paper offers a comparative analysis of the trends in private tutoring between 1998 and 2006 where data are available ... undergraduate education and graduate education The two major legal documents governing education in Vietnam are the Law on Universalization of Primary Education (1991) and the Education Law (2005 and ... households—which are calculated to 19 Notable exceptions are Buchmann, Condron, and Roscigno (2010) and Byun and Park (2012) who analyze data from the US The former finds that Asian and black students are...
Ngày tải lên: 30/08/2016, 07:46
Báo cáo khoa học: In vitro gamma-secretase cleavage of the Alzheimer’s amyloid precursor protein correlates to a subset of presenilin complexes and is inhibited by zinc potx
... indistinguishable from that of e-3FLAG standard (Fig 3B, lane 1) but a slightly faster mobility than the c-3FLAG standard (Fig 3C, lane 1) Using C101-3FLAG, c-3FLAG and e-3FLAG standards as molecular mass ... indicated by the arrow marked ‘c std’ Lane 2, lysate sample alone Note that a separation between c-3FLAG standard and e-CTF-3FLAG was achieved in lane An uncharacterized anti-FLAG immunoreactive ... HindIII creating the plasmid c-3FLAG standard Finally, the primer pairs forward, 5¢-GGGGGGCCATGGTGATGCTGA AGAAGAACAG-3¢ and reverse 3FLAG HindIII were used to generate the plasmid e-3FLAG standard D...
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 23:20