a review of recent literature

... paper and wood pulp.29 Any one of several types of particles and rays given off by radioactive material, high-voltage equipment, nuclear reactions and stars Alpha and beta particles, X-rays and ... for blacks A black man has four times the risk of dying of nasopharynx cancer as a white woman Studies of occupational exposure to metals have documented increased risks of nasal and nasopharynx ... derivative of 2naphthylamine previously used in the treatment of polycythemia), as well as the manufacturing of auramine and magenta dye are well-established causes of bladder cancer, and one of the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 01:20

... especially for older drivers Casualty crash analyses, even those encompassing casualties of all severity, have a sampling bias: the so-called ‘frailty bias’, which exaggerates any apparent age-related ... rates based on US Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) data for 1997, National Highway Transport Safety Administration (NHTSA) (see Table 1.) Table 1: Number of driver fatalities and fatality ... Newstead and O’Hare (2003) As noted by these authors: “… it may not be entirely accurate to label such behavioural adaptations as ‘compensation’ While these changes may reflect a behavioural adaptation...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... 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 ... 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 ... 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

... *Manuscript Accounting Anomalies and Fundamental Analysis: A Review of Recent Research Advances September 2009 Abstract: This paper surveys recent research advances in the areas of accounting anomalies ... accounting anomalies and fundamental analysis This citation analysis lets the “academic research market speak” on which research papers on accounting anomalies and fundamental analysis have attracted ... Financial Analysts Journal, and Journal of Portfolio Management, rather than academic publications such as the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Accounting and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... 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 ... more dramatic physiological responses to stressors than those who are classified as “low anxiety” (Pearson and Thackray, 1970) Additional information can act as a moderator between stress and performance ... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 18:20

... the basis of the location of their workplace To exemplify, in the NIPA, a marketing manager working in a car factory will be counted as a ‘manufacturing’ employee, whereas a marketing manager ... (which are higher in these industries) 17 on the basis of the Comparative German American Database For the sake of comparability, this database classifies occupations and industries in the US and ... distinctively information-processing economy The United Kingdom, Canada and France have nearly the same ratio as the US, and although Germany and Italy have substantially lower ratios, their informationprocessing...

Ngày tải lên: 02/06/2014, 09:22

... task shifting, assistant medical officer, assistant clinical officer, assistant nurse, auxiliary nurse, enrolled nurse, auxiliary health worker, health care assistant, assistant Page of 11 pharmacist, ... pre-service training was generally not associated with the appropriate assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of young children in Bangladesh, Brazil, Tanzania, and Uganda [30] Lekoubou and colleagues reviewed ... HIV/AIDS treatment and care provided by lay and community health workers in Africa, maternal and child health care as well as the management of infectious diseases by lay health workers, and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... radiographs revealed bony union with acceptable alignment There were no Page of Figure a - External appearance of proximal tibia LCP applied as an external fixator b - Postoperative radiograph ... in Case can be attributed to the nature of LCP application and characteristics of the LCP that make it stand apart from traditional external fixation First, while traditional external fixation ... Cite this article as: Woon et al.: LCP external fixation - External application of an internal fixator: two cases and a review of the literature Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2010...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... in several QOLI domains compared to monotherapy with lithium or valproate Limitation – only acute QoL outcome data available Majority of sample report 'fair/average' QoL Small sample of patients ... (Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness) IPA (International Pharmaceutical Abstracts) (1965– 2004) Key words used for the search included: bipolar disorder or manic-depression, mania, ... of group cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) in patients with BD Although baseline SF-36 data was available for 42 patients (see Table 2), pre and post intervention data was only available for a...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... related to sampling was the lack of representativeness of female participants (one third of the studies had all male participants) For example, after a cardiac event, men have been found to have ... Coronary Heart Disease Patients; ACS: Acute Coronary Syndrome; CAD: Coronary Artery Disease; CABG: Coronary Artery Bypass Graft; CABS: Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery; PTCA: Percutaneous Transluminal ... increased awareness about the prevalence of depression in this population has led to further research in this area in recent years In light of the contemporary management of cardiac patients, and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... was resolved by the majority opinion of this panel Data were entered by a research technician into a Microsoft Access database Data analysis Data were analyzed using Stata®, version 11 Data are ... investigator had any questions about a data element, the article was reviewed by a panel of investigators consisting of the lead author and two additional investigators The coding of the data element ... content of the paper SJ, KAS, STW contributed to the conception and design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, statistical analysis, drafting of the manuscript, critical revision...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20

... 18:321-355 World Health Organization: The ICD-10 Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders Geneva; 1992 American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ... original data, and addressed cases of induced delusional disorder, shared delusional disorder and 'Folie Deux' A comprehensive search from a range of databases including BNI, CancerLit, Cochrane ... visual In 1993–2005 one of the secondaries developed hallucinations not shared by the primary Management (Tables and 6) Information on management was only available in the years 1993–2005 and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... example, Mielonen et al [38] found in their analysis of cost that at a rate of 20 patients per year, the cost of VC was lower than that of the conventional alternative of traveling, and at a ... self, and usefulness of VC as either ‘average’ or ‘above average’ as compared to a typical in person interview Graham [6] indicated that patient acceptance of VC for healthcare delivery was almost ... articles); satisfaction and acceptance (12 articles); and clinical trials (2 articles) The small number of articles precluded quantitative analysis, but careful review allowed for qualitative assessment,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... middle and proximal phalanges of the fingers as well as carpal bones, radius and ulna, and described that in various cases it either appeared or disappeared between the baseline and year magnetic ... inflammatory arthritis (RA and SpA); MRI of wrists and fingers, at baseline and after year Not stated 0.2 and 1.5 1997 PsA patient with enthesitis of elbow; MRI evaluation Not stated Tehranzadeh ... had reactive arthritis or PsA MRI of the wrist and finger joints (metacarpophalangeal [MCP], proximal interphalangeal [PIP] and distal interphalangeal [DIP] joints) was performed using 0.2 T and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20

... T, Banavali S, Arora B, Sharma D, Kurkure PA, Ramadwar M, Viswanathan S, Rangarajan V, Qureshi S, Deshpande DD, Shrivastava SK, Dinshaw KA: Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma in Children: Comparison of ... Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) in Pediatric Population Technol Cancer Res Treat 2006, 5:591-596 Penagaricano JA, Papanikolaou N, Yan Y, Ratanatharathorn V: Application of intensity-modulated ... medical aspects of treatment planning and application, idea for this paper, literature research and proof reading All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements The work was...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... associates [14] suggested that this severe vascular toxicity may be related to hypomagnesaemia, autonomic dysfunction, alteration in platelet aggregation, elevated plasma von Willebrand factor and ... injury and possible alterations in the clotting cascade, chemotherapy agents such as cisplatin have the ability to affect coagulability and cause vascular injury, two aspects of Virchow's triad Thus, ... than reported cases of severe thrombotic events out of the 1424 patients described in Table In addition to the increase of thromboses as a result of malignancy, a review of chemotherapy associated...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... Srikumar R, Parthasarathy NJ, Shankar EM, Manikandan S, Vijayakumar R, Thangaraj R, Vijayananth K, Sheeladevi R, Rao UA: Evaluation of the growth inhibitory activities of Triphala against common bacterial ... Andrographolide (Andrographis paniculata), [62] neem (Azadirachta indica), [57] and the Siddha combination therapy RAN (Rasagandhi mezhuga, Amukkara chooranum and Nellikkai lehyam)] should be replicated ... (Andrographis paniculata), [62] and neem (Azadirachta indica), [57] as well as the Siddha combination therapy RAN (Rasagandhi mezhuga, Amukkara chooranum and Nellikkai lehyam).[6] The reader is referred...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... the normal reference range HIV, hepatitis B and C screening, and ANA analysis were all negative The possibility of a platelet transfusion was offered and discussed in case of aggravation of the ... International Normalized Ratio (INR) of 1.9 due to warfarin prophylaxis for congestive heart failure Warfarin was discontinued to help control Case one A 60-year-old African-American male was diagnosed ... recognized as a rare adverse outcome of oxaliplatin infusion and has been identified in approximately 7% of allergictype reactions to oxaliplatin in a retrospective analysis [11] We have summarized all...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... differential diagnosis can be narrowed down to AAM, AMF, and SFT as follows: (1) AAM has a highly infiltrative pattern Conclusion Cellular AF is a benign neoplasm of the scrotal and inguinal area, is ... Cellular angiofibroma: clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical analysis of 51 cases Am J Surg Pathol 2004, 28:1426-1435 Canales BK, Weiland D, Hoffman N, Slaton J, Tran M, Manivel JC, Monga M: Angiomyofibroblastoma-like ... fibroblasts, and of vascular origin A safe initial diagnosis is difficult because of its location, nature, and correlation with other structures of the area It can easily be confused with a hernia,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20