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... All analyses used SPSS software version 15 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, USA, 2007) RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Forty percent of households had or more family members, and 40% of the studied households had monthly ... 2009) Septic tanks and pour-flush latrines connected to a sewer line were considered as sanitary latrines for the purpose of this study Unsanitary types consisted of cesspools, pit latrines and storage ... may serve to facilitate discussions on the immediate, underlying causes of health implications and ways to address these causes CONCLUSIONS DALYs lost varied considerably among the durations as...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... standards and must report their standards to the State Council.80 Using the WEQ standards and the country s economic and technological conditions, the State Council shall establish national standards ... local standards for items not covered.84 The development of these standards is similar to the standards in the United States The EPA sets treatment standards by regulation according to industry.85 ... Discharge Permit Systems.51 Under these different systems, permits have been issued in increasing numbers In 1996, over forty thousand permits were issued in the cities that implemented a system.52...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 04:20

... companies adress CSR in their supply chains: - None of the companies – besides Ikea – were found to adress rubber producers, such as plantation estates, in CSR policies Ikea adress CSR issues according ... as well as the focus on these challenges by some of the rubber brands used by most consumers and in the Danish health sector Methodology This research is based on desk as well as field investigations ... plantation estates Smallscale rubber farmers and price fluctuations Addressing CSR issues in supply chains 7a Mattress brands 7b Rubber glove brands 7c Rubber boots brands 7d Condom brands ...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

... the survey because of newly instituted computer-assisted interviewing techniques and/ or because of the change in the population controls to the 1990 Census-based estimates, with adjustments A ... courses in both biology and chemistry as well as those who had taken courses in biology, chemistry, and physics Increases in the percentages of graduates who had taken other mathematics and science ... The America s Children series provides accessible compendiums of indicators drawn across topics from the most reliable official statistics; it is designed to complement other more specialized,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 14:20

... Γ0 u s+ 2 ≤ C( Ek u s + u s0 ) Its proof is exactly analogous to the proof of Proposition Replacing u by S u the same proof as of Lemma using XSδ instead of X gives S Γ0 Xu s+ 1 = ( s Sδ Γ0 ... estimates? Such estimates depend on localizing the right-hand side and (because of the loss of derivatives) the errors that arise are apparently always larger then the terms one wishes to estimate ... √2 L and Y = √2 L Thus it is one of the simplest operators that satisfy H¨rmander s condition and it is well understood Nevertheless, it is o ¯ instructive to write it in terms of L and L and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20

... These results indicate that these agents suppress intracellular degradation of 3 5S- labeled small proteoglycans, whilst simultaneously increasing the loss of 3 5S- labeled small proteoglycans into ... has been shown to modify both the symptoms and the progression of osteoarthritis in both humans and animals [21] We and others have shown that the calcium salt of pentosan polysulfate (CaPPS) ... polysaccharides have been shown to suppress the catabolism of proteoglycans by cartilage [25], the effects of these agents on joint fibrous connective tissues such as tendon where the small proteoglycans...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:21

... BRIDSON AND FRITZ J GRUNEWALD The point about this last set of words is that it satisfies the c(5) small cancellation condition; any other such set of words would serve the same purpose (see [15]) ... have subgroups of finite index S1 ⊂ H × {1} and S2 ⊂ {1} × H such that Si ∩ Ni = Li for i = 1, Thus S := S1 S2 intersects N1 N2 in L1 L2 ⊆ R ∩ N1 N2 Consider p ∈ P R Since P and R ∩ S have the same ... aspherical case) and the Rips-Wise construction Although they are explicit, our presentations are not small: the presentation of P has ten generators and seventy seven relations, and the sum of the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 22:20

... it was composed of scattered small glandular structures and also scattered bizarre single tumour cells The tumour cells expressed cytokeratin CK7, and CA 19.9 There was no expression of CK20, CDX2 ... gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST), benign leiomyomas and less commonly gastric or intestinal adenocarcinomas Tumours in Meckel 's present non-specifically with gastrointestinal complaints such as ... neuroendocrine markers (CD56, synatophysin and chromogranin), and specific islet cell markers insulin and glucagon Carcinoid markers serotonin and gastrin were negative These appearances are consistent with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... radiotherapy was a possible strategy This case illustrates that this hypothesis was successful and should be considered as a strategy in case of irresectable unicentric disease The question remains which ... no systemic symptoms, since most reports describe unicentric CD as a slowly progressive disease, which does not metastasize In the case where a recurrence of residual disease is found, a resection ... structures or because of the systemic effects associated with the multicentric form such as fever, weight loss, excessive sweating, hemolytic anaemia, splenomegaly, oedema and neuropathy CD can also...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... both, is a rare and serious complication of Behçet s disease, these authors from a University Hospital in Turkey presented 30 cases of Budd-Chiari syndrome, of whom patients with Behçet s disease ... diagnostic possibilities in cases of Budd-Chiari syndrome because the third most common cause from a total of 75 patients diagnosed with Budd-Chiari syndrome was Behçet s disease [14] Thus, although ... others in the Middle and Far East, evidence suggests that this disease should be included among the diagnostic possibilities in cases of Budd-Chiari syndrome Severe vascular complications of Budd-Chiari...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... lesions within MD, such as lipomas, have also been recognized as a potential cause of torsion [12] Complications associated with this presentation include intussusception, with the tumor as the ... calculi simulating gallstones [8] Ultrasound may exclude intussusception, which can avoid unnecessary interventions such as attempts at reduction by the use of enemas The MD appears similar to ... diagnosis, while other diagnoses include small bowel obstruction, acute cholecystitis, and liver abscess [2,18,20] Macroscopic intra-operative observations have been reported as torsion, ischemic...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:23

... enolase (NSE) A diagnosis of primary small cell carcinoma of the distal third of the esophagus arising from dysplastic Barrett 's esophagus was made The patient received another month course of postoperative ... because of the paucity of cases and the lack of large studies, chemotherapy remains the treatment of choice given the systemic nature of the disease [1,2] Since small cell carcinoma of the esophagus ... the same agents (cisplatine and etoposide) and was free of disease at review after 12 months Discussion Small cell esophageal carcinoma is a rare neoplasm [1,2] Although the rarity of this tumor...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... variable signal sizes and intensities among 5S rDNA sites Discussion Molecular cytogenetic analysis of ribosomal RNA genes by FISH has been performed in many plants, yet studies spanning an extensive ... tetraploid species shared the same numbers of rDNA sites, which were four for 5S and twelve for 2 5S rDNA (Figures 3B-3D) These numbers are twice the numbers of two 5S and six 2 5S sites detected in most ... arrays in Fragaria species, and to assess the changes in rDNA site number that are associated with polyploidization in Fragaria Results Numbers of 5S and 2 5S rDNA sites visualized by fluorescence...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... at some time in their disease process Endoscopic views of gastrointestinal lesions consistent with vasculitis: A oesophagus, B gastric mucosa, C duodenal mucosa Figure Endoscopic views of gastrointestinal ... progressive or mild and indolent Generalised symptoms such as fever, weight loss, fatigue and malaise may be present Specifically, pulmonary manifestations such as cough, haemoptysis and pleuritis ... progressive and ultimately fatal form of WG Thus lingual infarction as a result of vasculitis may indicate more aggressive disease The severity of oral mucosal lesions, even in the absence of systemic...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... the absence of deep inspirations, using stepwise increasing doses of methacholine All subjects started with 0.025 mg/ml and increased the dose by a factor of at each visit until an at least 15% ... the absence of deep breaths (in terms of IVC and FEV1) and the morphometric variables Unpaired t-tests were used to assess differences between groups In all analyses, two-tailed values of p = 0.05 ... http://respiratory-research.com/content/6/1/55 References Conclusion The results of our study support the hypothesis that the attenuation of airway stretch due to loss of alveolar attachments represents...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... effects of the intervention on different subgroups (women as well as men, smokers as well as nonsmokers, diabetics and nondiabetics) and to assess the effects of concurrent medications and various ... period), and, in some cases, retrospective studies of the effects of the intervention in humans The focus of this text is the final or Phase III clinical trial These involve large numbers of subjects ... The subsequent Phase II or efficacy trials are used to establish minimum effective dose levels and to obtain some idea of the nature of secondary responses to the intervention and possible adverse...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:20

... decisions He or she is responsible for establishing milestones, making personnel asignments, and tracking progress Procrastinators need not apply A Manager s Guide to the Design and Conduct of ... disaster Track Progress With the assignment of personnel to the team, begin to establish milestones and track progress If multiple projects are underway, progress should be tracked across as ... trials based on interim findings The committees appointed to review and interpret angiograms, X-rays, EEGs, and ECGs should consist of experts in the specific diagnostic area The assignment -of- cause...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:20

... easy to see that baseline measurements offer two opportunities for reducing person-to-person variation First, some components of the baseline measurements such as demographics and risk factors ... vessels? and would be a future source of • Restrict the study to patients confusion.) with only a single diseased epicardial vessel? Although your ultimate decision must, of necessity, be somewhat ... be used to obtain estimates both of the effect and of the variance in response, and, thus, to determine the size of the samples to be taken at subsequent stages See, for example, Jennison and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:20

... Overview should present the strengths and limitations of the development program and study results, analyse the benefits and risks of the medicinal product in its intended use, and describe how the study ... electronic submissions, for the format and organization of reports, for the format and contents of tables, and for the format and naming of files and directories The CTD provides for analysis of trial ... (as is the entire submission), and you as the manager are responsible for seeing that its pledges are honored Study Committees Possible study committees include an executive board (consisting of...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:20

... newsletter should be distributed on at least a quarterly basis (and more often if there is actual news) The contents of such a newsletter might include current statistics on the study s progress, ... pills because I was throwing up.” Such responses should trigger calls from your staff to the subject s physician for further investigation As the “blindness” of the treatment must be preserved, ... consistent predictors of success (See, for example, some of the articles in Haynes, Taylor, and Sackett, 1979, and in Shumaker, Schron, and Ockene, 1990.) Keep the interval between screening and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:20