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... average duration of clinical symptoms The assessment of family psychosocial burden will include the number of hours of sleep missed by the child, and the stress experienced by the primary caregiver ... To determine which of the three intervention strategies are most effective at lowering the rate of hospital days per 1,000 disease episodes The null hypothesis is that none of the intervention ... http://www.implementationscience.com/content/1/1/10 Epidemiology & burden of the disease It most commonly affects children between the ages of months to years.[21] The disease peaks biannually, with the largest peak between September...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... XmlReader that contains the results of the SQL query The ExecuteXmlReader( ) method can only be used with SQL statements that return XML data, such as those with a FOR XML clause The ExecuteXmlReader( ... Discussion SQL Server 2000 introduced support for retrieving data in XML format using the FOR XML clause The NET SQL Server data provider SqlCommand object has an ExecuteXmlReader( ) that allows ... also be used to return ntext data containing valid XML For more information about the FOR XML clause, see Microsoft SQL Server Books Online [ Team LiB ] ...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 05:15

... [18] Taken together, the results of various signal intensities of the three PrPC bands are accredited to the development of the truncated isoforms, to the epitope recognition of the antibodies ... analyzed by calculation of the percentages of the di- (d), mono- (j) and nonglycosylated (m) isoform as arithmetic means of separate gel runs The number of gel runs for the analyses are given ... using the antibodies indicated (B) Signal intensities of the di- (d), mono- (j) and nonglycosylated isoform (m) of PrPC were quantified and calculated as percentages of the total signal The glycoforms...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 02:20

... underestimate of the true burden of illness resulting from exposure to the combined mix of pollutants This analysis likely underestimates the true burden of illness given the limited number of morbidity ... University of Toronto and the Health Professionals Task Force of the International Joint Commission The Toronto Environment Office provided the estimates of the contribution of traffic-related emissions ... heavy traffic The closer one is to the tailpipe of vehicles, the greater the exposure to pollutants, and the greater the health risk Given there is a finite amount of public space in the city for...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... but was allowed until the birth of the child Out of the total number of eligible children in the study area, 61 percent participated in the study at birth In total, 9778 mothers with a delivery ... quality of the modelling approach [14,15] In this paper we describe the design of studies focused on the effects of air pollution exposure on various health outcomes in mothers and children in the ... concentrations at these stations are considered as the sum of the background concentration and the contribution from local emission sources We modelled the contribution of local emission sources to the PM10...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... would you describe the role of the author with respect to the paper, e.g The author _ _ s The author is user the paper, or of the paper? walter _of Can the author be the writer of other papers? ~ ... fourth specifies the semantic subeategorization of the word (in the case of nouns) or its subject (in the case of verbs), and the last subeategorizes the objects or other postmodifiers the word may ... of assertions to be made Each of these dictionary entries has five components The first is the name of the word, the second is the propositional meaning, the third a variable denoting time, the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 01:20

... was the case with the small sample sets, the consistency of profiles from this large number of plasma samples was excellent To illustrate the performance of the LC-MS platform at this scale of ... 1, there is more variability in these hydrophobic peptides eluted off the column after 40 min, compared to the peptides eluted off the column earlier The consistency of the platform is further ... controlled The consistency of the platform across multiple samples was assessed with samples from 10 individuals in each of two groups The average CV of all peptide peak areas detected in plasma samples...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... and the pairs of two dentists in the same clinic at the same time with regard to the year when all the use of copper amalgam had ended, the year the use of Dentomat started, and the year the ... year they reported having ended using the specific method Thus, the methods used in the same clinic at the same time, and the year for the start and end of the use of a method should have been the ... spills of mercury, whether the amalgam was soft or firm, and whether they were the ones who filled the Dentomat with mercury and alloy In the questionnaire they were also asked about spills of mercury...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... one was contacted directly to the sample and grounded as a cathode, and the other was placed an arbitrary distance, d, apart from the edge of the sample as the anode The tungsten tips were connected ... Fig Graphene sample a optical image of graphene sheets on SiO2 The color of graphene sheets determines thickness of the graphene layer Scale bar: lm b SEM image of a graphene sample with tungsten ... of tungsten tips controlled by the nanomanipulator After adjusting the position of the tips, a positive potential was applied to the second tip The current was then measured during a voltage...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... implies that the dimension of the row space of R is |S| − So the dimension of the solution space of Rx = is equal to |ES | − |S| + Next we consider the case when Γ(S) = ∅ Assume v av Rv = By the definition ... v av Rv = 0, then av = (∀v ∈ S), and so, the dimension of the row space of R is |S| Therefore the dimension of the solution space for Rx = is |ES | − |S| Remark Let us consider the case when ... Let NG (S) = (VS , ES ) be the neighbor graph of a subset S Then we define the S-matching polytope PS of S to be the convex hull in RES of the characteristic vectors of all S-matchings: PS := conv{χM...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 11:20

... evaluation of living human cartilage of the elbow and knee during mosaicplasty for osteochondritis dissecans of the elbow: an in vivo study Am J Sports Med 2008, 36:2345-2353 Page of (page number ... Ikeuchi K, Tsutsumi S, Nakamura T: Estimation of the mechanical property of meniscus using ultrasound: examinations of native meniscus and effects of enzymatic digestion J Orthop Res 2007, 25:884-893 ... Y, Tomita N, Ikeuchi K: Measurement of the mechanical properties of regenerated articular cartilage using wavelet transformation In Tissue Engineering for Therapeutic Use Edited by Ikada Y, Umakoshi...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:21

... y was the H2O2 concentration and x1-x2 was the difference between the A610 of a sample with NaN3 (x1) and A610 of a sample with catalase (x2) being the blank (all H2O2 was decomposed by the enzyme) ... area under the chemiluminescence intensity curve after the addition of fMLP until its return to baseline and peak time – the time (seconds) from the addition of fMLP to the appearance of pCL were ... of sample incubation in their contribution to FRAP Therefore, we additionally analyzed the effect of apneas-induced IH events on FRAP obtained after various times of incubation Figure shows the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:21

... stability/instability of the genetic locus at which the HA was inserted and the host cell responses to the HA protein are some of the factors that might affect the stability of the HA transgene or the loss of the ... speculate that the structure of the inserted HA transgene, the promoters driving the HA expression, the direction of the inserted HA transgene relative to the surrounding genes, the inherent stability/instability ... corrugated surface similar to the structure of VACVWR [28] The virions of MVA-HANP are pleomorphic with half of the virions being brick shaped and the other half round The observation is in concert...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... stability/instability of the genetic locus at which the HA was inserted and the host cell responses to the HA protein are some of the factors that might affect the stability of the HA transgene or the loss of the ... speculate that the structure of the inserted HA transgene, the promoters driving the HA expression, the direction of the inserted HA transgene relative to the surrounding genes, the inherent stability/instability ... corrugated surface similar to the structure of VACVWR [28] The virions of MVA-HANP are pleomorphic with half of the virions being brick shaped and the other half round The observation is in concert...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... the analysis of cost we added the SMST-Q license and the cost of the SMS The estimate of the cost for the same volume of questionnaires as the number of SMS sent to the patients is based on the ... and Therefore, the plausible total for the whole year could have ranged from the sum of the obtained week's data plus for the missing weeks to the sum of obtained weeks plus times the number of ... the longer periods of recall In relation to the 1-year recall there were some missing answers obtained via SMS-T-Q over the 1-year trial period For example, if one of the weeks was missing, the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... effectiveness of GDY as a sampling algorithm To measure the effectiveness of the samples, we look at the proximity of the samples in respect to the optimal set of partitions positions which produces the ... least one of the partition sets of an optimal segmentation and bad otherwise We observed that one run of GDY often finds at least 50% of good samples Because of the stochasticity of the GDY, if ... explained as follow The top left graph shows the number of samples vs the number of segments The number of samples produced by DnS is χB = (n/B)2/3 B = n2/3 B 1/3 The number of samples produced...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 17:56

... (Figure 1) The image data were processed in pairs (baseline and one year follow up), the readers being blinded to the order of the image acquisition Because of the higher rate of change in the medial ... relations with at least some of the outcome measures of medial cartilage loss, all of these representing measures of relatively advanced disease Whereas in the entire cohort the greatest SRM was -0.33 ... which these analyses relied) have so far only been performed for the subsample used in this analysis The statistical power of the current study is therefore limited by the relatively small sample...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:21

... for the presence of at least mild plaque (Agatston score of greater than 10) The choice of these cutoffs was dictated by the statistical distribution of Agatston score in our young population The ... model The second objective of the analyses was to test the hypothesis that, among those with CAC, Agatston scores will be directly proportional to sUA concentration The distribution of these ... conceived of the manuscript idea, designed the analysis plan, performed statistical analysis, interpreted the results, and wrote the first draft of the manuscript with assistance from all other authors...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:23

... citation purposes) The underlying cause of death is "the disease or injury which initiated the train of morbid events leading directly or indirectly to death or the circumstances of the accident or ... are also grateful to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and to the Department of Preventive Medicine of the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine for financial ... not appear on the death record if the clinician completing the certificate were unaware of the diagnosis, or did not believe the condition to be an important contributor to the death The frequency...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:22