alterations in hormonal and metabolic regulation

... forested landscape, perhaps following Indian trails and sticking, as much as possible, to the open, sandhill scrub forest and longleaf pine–dominated uplands, avoiding the more difficult terrain of ... aquatic invertebrates As a result of reintroducing or regenerating appropriate native species, restoring natural hydrological cycles in the lowlands and regular burning in the uplands, controlling ... Carolina Extension Service 1951) Forest use, in the form of land clearing, logging, and turpentining, increased dramatically between 1865 and 1950 U.S Census records and other records (Frothingham...

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... neuropathic pain In completing these questionnaires patients are asked to describe their pain in terms of quality (i.e pricking, tingling, pins and needles, electric shocks/shooting, burning) and context ... evoked pain are uniquely represented in the brain [53] Spontaneous pain associated with chronic back pain and PHN induce increased activity in the mPFC and amygdale while acute thermal pain and allodynia ... ruboxistaurin Protein kinase C (PKC) is a ubiquitous serine/threonine kinase of numerous isoforms and cellular functions Observations in retinal and glomerular tissues from diabetic animals in vitro and...

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... support work, information regarding local services, training in managing clinical aggression, Mental Health First Aid Training [24] and suicide risk management training (Applied Suicide Intervention ... work on building rapport, developing and maintaining contact, and assisting the young person with mental health issues and service information It is expected that most contact will be in- service ... offered A phased intervention approach will be adopted whereby contact in the initial and final months will be minimal compared to the time around discharge During the first two months (initial phase)...

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... allocating tasks differently, transferring information and scheduling appointments more effectively, case management, using new types of health professionals, redefining professionals’ roles and ... indicating a good global fit of the overall model The final short model on imputed data resulted in comparable factor loadings and its model indices showed good fit Internal consistency and inter-correlations ... subscale (’informing patients about guidelines’) was missing in the baseline measurement Eighty-nine professionals filled in the questionnaire at T0 and fifty-three respondents filled in the questionnaires...

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... Sg Pinang, Sg Perak, and Sg Klang are short and steep Open water bodies, natural wetlands, and manmade lakes such as dams, and ex-mining pools are mostly found in the Klang and Kinta Basins These ... three-fold increase in domestic and industrial water demand With many catchments areas on the under intense pressure from land development activities, and the rapid rise in domestic and industrial demand ... (7%), and agro-based industries (2.7%) One interesting feature that needs investigation is the rapid increase in BOD loads from the other sectors over the years, resulting in a decline in the...

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... of financial instruments and protected inefficient and poorly managed firms; and in the natural gas industry, where uniform rates prevented conservationenhancing seasonal and time-of-day pricing ... deregulation in the electrical industry space The role that the natural gas industry played in creating some of the problems found in California during the electricity industry crisis in 2000 and ... Perrin, 1997), and involving organizational members in the marketplace (Schlesinger & Heskett, 1991a, 1991b) as new core competencies emerge to expand its foundation for recognizing and seizing incipient...

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... methodology is having a sufficient validity and reliability in observing physicians in different medical settings [7] Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' ... classification should be easy to handle in training and using Figure Ultra mobile PC Ultra mobile PC Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology 2008, 3:35 ... physicians perform in different care settings (Internal Medicine, Paediatrics, Neurology, Surgery and Psychiatrics) To obtain these, a literature review was done for job tasks performed in these medical...

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... altered His abdominal pain and clinical features resembled acute pancreatitis (epigastric pain radiating to back, lack of hard abdominal signs despite severe pain) and interestingly the serum ... monitoring of serum creatinine and urine output Though dialysis is ineffective in clearing copper from the body, it will be an essential requirement to sustain life in event of acute kidney injury[1] ... upper gastrointestinal bleeding, methaemoglobinaemia and hepatitis The investigation results are summarized in table Within the first four days since admission, he became anuric and oedematous...

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... both in rural settings using a community-based treatment model[21] and in urban settings using a clinic-based approach.[22] These different experiences in integration of TB and HIV care and treatment ... hospital increased HIV counselling and testing of TB patients and improved TB screening and case detection in HIV-infected individuals enrolled into care.[19] In rural KwaZulu-Natal, once-daily ... Screening in People Living with HIV Attending ART Clinics in Rwanda HIV/AIDS Implementer's Meeting 2007, Kigali, Rwanda 2007 Chimzizi RB, Harries AD, Manda E, Khonyongwa A, Salaniponi FM: Counselling,...

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... well-being simultaneously and in a mutually reinforcing way); (5) self-efficaciously manage resources (gain and maintain a belief in personal competence to achieve well-being); and (6) maintain a ... of resources in an environment of increasing losses and declining gains [2], and depends on individuals’ abilities to self-manage their lives and aging processes Although such self -regulation is ... being the process of neutralising losses and discrepancies, successful aging focuses on individuals’ reserve capacities to realize and sustain physical and social well-being using external and...

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... businesses in the financial sector As soon as vouchers came into being in 1993, favorable conditions were created for interregional arbitrage Later, private financial and investment companies and ... shadow activities, and to resort to state capture and rent seeking in their relations with governments using the weakness of public institutions and the remaining soft budget constraint The causes ... study and discusses the remaining issues and agenda for future research We are hopeful that this volume will provide an insight into firm organization and management in Russian business and stimulate...

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... level were originally quite similar in Russia and in Eastern Europe in the 2000s, the East European and Russian models of a firm were divergent in their development, and Russia was inclined to an ... concentration and restructuring and business development policies (Figure 2.3) In Successful introduction of essentially new products and services 70% Increasing volume of exports 50% Introduction ... facilities 30% Increasing R&D expenditures Increase inexpenditures on marketing and advertising 10% Horizon of planning is more than years Successful introduction of new technologies Making of significant...

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... banks and investment firms play a critical role in the field of investment financing and financial consulting services for the corporate sector, and the development of these local financial institutions ... to 30 in Nevada and Delaware and to 50 in Georgia and Wisconsin), as in Russia.3 This suggests that the Russian company law had broken away from the tradition of continental law and boldly incorporated ... managers interviewed in this survey perceive the main factors determining their firm’s choice of their current legal form of incorporation As reported in the Introduction, an investor who intends...

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... mechanism in joint-stock companies, including placing a lower limit on board size, prohibiting the vesting of the two titles of company top manager and board chairman in one person, and not allowing ... chapter In this research field, Hermalin and Weisbach (1998) propose a bargaining hypothesis in which the structure of a corporate board is determined through a bargaining process between the CEO and ... fund-raising activities, and financial performance Furthermore, the governance variables are divided into bargaining variables, which reflect the bargaining power of managers and that of interested...

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... mainly Russian oligarchs and business groups, who have a strong incentive to monitor the management because they have a large share in ownership and can easily obtain definite and reliable information ... difference in the behavioral patterns between Russian and foreign investors Large shareholding may also play a significant role in inspiring dominant shareholders to conduct intensive monitoring over ... their bad financial performance because foreign shareholders are more ineffective in pinpointing company problems than dominant shareholders because higher information asymmetry results in higher...

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... This demonstrates that, in an unstable institutional environment and with an increased involvement of the state in the economy, business owners are interested in developing necessary relationships ... enhancing the business efficiency and extend the restructuring terms thereof In the context of this reasoning, we intended to check a hypothesis according to which activity in modernizing those ... owners, making decisions on launching modernization programs and requesting large-scale and long-term investments are easier and faster, since there are no longer outdated procedures for obtaining approvals...

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... protective or active gains Protective gains include the strengthening of bargaining positions in relationships with the state and protection against hostile takeover Active gains involve the improvement ... certification according to international standards, significant capital investments, and an increase of R&D expenditures.6 Presumably, the intensity of restructuring in nonregulated industries is influenced ... were more actively involved in restructuring in 2001–2004 than independent enterprises Participation in competition and access to additional financial and business resources within the framework...

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... Russian Business Concluding remarks The above analysis clarifies certain aspects of the corporate financing mechanism now evolving in Russia Since 2000, the financial institutions, in particular, ... Organization and Development of Russian Business Who joins and why: Main findings from the empirical studies of BAs in Russia Researchers started to explore the institute of business associations (BAs) in ... Long-term credit Credit line Long-term financial credit Long-term credit Credit line Credit line Credit line Lease project Credit line Credit line Credit line Credit line Credit line Credit agreement...

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... constraints and bank lending policies, stronger competition of imports, and introduction of a system of incentives for SOE managers Explaining similar results for Singapore public companies in 1990–2000, ... institutions in some countries and the catastrophic incapability of the government in others (Kolodko 2002) If such institutions are inherited from a preceding regime, such as in China, they can ... fuel and energy] [2 = iron and steel and non-ferrous metals] [9 = telecommunications] [4 = chemicals and petrochemicals] [5 = timber, woodworking, and pulp -and- paper industry] [6 = light industry]...

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