an epidemiologic approach to evaluating the importance of immunoprophylaxis

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20

... confirm the safety and the reproducibility of such a therapeutic approach; this approach may also be influenced by the use of the multi detector row helical CT scan, which can depict accurately the ... arteriography This approach was applicable to 75% of our patients and led to an immediate control of bleeding in more than 80% of them Although the median cumulated volume of haemoptysis averaged ... and CT scan findings when performed, severity of haemoptysis, and pre-ICU and in-ICU management The persistence or recurrence of bleeding, the patients' ICU and hospital lengths of stay and their...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... STATEMENT Due to the fast change in the global market and increase competition, management of brand has become of importance Building of strong brand equity is the top most priority of many fast food ... understanding of the research topic Therefore, the most suitable method in this case, were the aim of our thesis is to indicate the importance of customer based-brand equity on consumer perceptions of brand ... a slogan is a visible feature of a brand There can be a strong link between a slogan and a brand The slogan and jingle are powerful and can be a great change for a brand • Be different and memorable:...

Ngày tải lên: 24/09/2012, 17:19

... department of Sitaram Bhartia Institute as a preparatory step prior to the survey These involved asking the mothers to identify the most important positive and negative areas of their lives and to rate ... number of areas identified to six, to keep the scoring points at 10, to allow 12 spending points and to allow the mother and child counselors to administer the index if requested by the subject To ... subject was reviewed and it was decided to adapt the index to the Indian setting, possibly at the expense of limiting its comparability to other settings In an attempt to keep the index as simple...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... volume changes during the course of the treatment Graph analysis of anatomic (VA) and functional (VF) tumor volume changes during the course of the treatment Functional volume following the first ... increasing the volume of the FLR [2] First reported by Makuuchi et al [3], the aim of PVE is to bring about atrophy of the segments to be resected and induce a compensatory hypertrophy of the remaining ... course of the treatment becomes too low to be depicted on this graph Figureanalysis of left and right hepatic lobe volumes during the course of the treatment Graph Graph analysis of left and right...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... between the expression levels of specific MMPs and cartilage destruction may explain the limited success of MMP inhibitors in clinical trials, and emphasizes the importance of measuring the NPA of ... USA) The blocking antibody specific for human MMP-9 was obtained from Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA, USA), and the recombinant MMPs and their inhibitors were from Calbiochem (San Diego, CA, USA) The ... represent the mean ± standard error of the mean The statistical significance of differences between means was determined by either Student's t test for comparisons between two groups or Spearman rank...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... The two groups of nurses and the two groups of rats were significantly different in terms of their IS values The ratio of the mean IS values for the two groups of nurses (2.6) and the ratio of ... times of rest and, usually, darkness Although many analyses of the activity and of the transformed CS data are possible, the data in Figure were used to develop a quantitative measure of circadian ... range of the circadian system, from threshold to saturation (Figure 3) The transformation was employed to estimate the functional input to the human circadian system, which appears to apply to...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20

... code the rest of the data Additional analyses will include identification of subthemes and descriptions of the range and salience of themes Established procedures to enhance the trustworthiness of ... permit us to test the efficacy of the modified healthcare manager intervention or to identify mechanisms of change We plan to use the results of the pilot study to inform the design of a more ... Margin of error is half the width of a confidence interval of an estimator The smaller the margin of error, the tighter the confidence interval and the more precision we achieve for an estimator...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... for the development of the proposed method and carried out the simulation analysis ME and OF equally contributed to the writing of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... is the length of the membrane between cell xi and the extracellular medium This term is equal to if the extracellular medium is not in the neighbourhood of xi While the length of the membrane ... M corresponds to the set of the possible cell types (or marks), and where Hϕ ({xi, τi}) represents the contribution of the marked cell {xi, τi} in the expression of the Hamiltonian H(ϕ), i.e Hϕ...

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Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... eigenvalues and the matrix C is reduced to a standard eigenvalue problem [19] Choosing the eigenvectors of the standard eigenvalue problem to be orthonormal, and the requirement on the order of the eigenvalues, ... has an advantage and zero otherwise The enhancement concept was used in addition to the I-MMSE approach in order to attain the upper bound in (30) The primary usage of these two concepts came together ... capacity of the general MIMO Gaussian wiretap channel (1) can be reduced to characterizing the secrecy capacity of the canonical version (7) For full details the reader is referred to [7], and [17, Theorem...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... added and the flask was closed with cotton than with aluminum foil and put in an autoclave After this step, the pH of sample was adjusted to 6.5 and 4.5 with sodium acetate and HCI and the volume ... 1986) and 150 ml ethanol was added to the sample One twenty five milliliter of hexane was added into an Erlenmeyer flask and then heated in a water bath Thus, evaporated hexane condensed onto the ... explain analyses of triplicates ± standard deviation The F-test was applied since variances of the vitamin C and folic acid were homogeny (P > 0.05), the variances of the thiamin, riboflavin and niacin...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 11:20

... standard ruler and a standard clock along the orbit of the particle.But when the ruler and clock move along the orbit in the gravitational field, the length of ruler and rate of the clock vary ... TO THE METRIC TENSOR OF SPACE-TIME WITH THE PRESENT OF THE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD In this section, we introduce an approach to the Schwarzschild metric tensor, it is similar to an approach from the ... etalons, then we convert measured results at each point with its etalons into measured results with the standard etalon is the synchronizing of the rulers and the clocks as the synchronizing of clocks...

Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2014, 06:21

... change among healthcare providers In the light of the theories of professional behaviour change [37], we may conclude that the intervention has specifically contributed to the acceptance of change ... random test A first analysis of the data revealed that some of the questions included in the questionnaire could not be answered by NPs and GP assistants, because they were not applicable to their ... scores of the respondents of the intervention and control groups and the results of the ANOVA analysis on each of the four scales at T0 and at T1 At baseline, no significant differences were found...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:22

... the manuscript TK, JB and SHZ assisted with the editing of the manuscript, the subject matter content and the conclusions MY and MK assisted with the development of the manuscript outline, the ... ADA and TNF2 to 12 to 12 [17,35,36,38,45,50,53] 320 15.2 ADA, ETN and TNF2 to 6 to 12 [35-37] Loss of efficacy 515 16.9 ADA, ETN and TNF2 to 6 to 12 [35-37] Intolerance 467 69.5 ADA and TNF2 to ... ADA and ETN to to 12 [34,36,37,53] Loss of efficacy 537 12.0 ADA and ETN to to 12 [34,36,37,53] DAS28

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... vice versa, and that ANuA are exhibited prior to anti-dsDNA antibodies So, it also became clear that the mass of anti-dsDNA antibodies and antihistone antibodies not have distinct antibody specificity, ... with the University of Lübeck and were investigated using the anti-dsDNA ELISA, antinucleosome ELISA and the Anti-dsDNA-NcX ELISA The female:male ratio of healthy donors was 13:87, and their mean ... responsible for overall project management RB had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis Competing interests...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... coefficients involving the sires, the dams and their ancestors till the base population Let A be the matrix of relationship coefficients linking this population and the population of planned matings If ... brought by vector x concerning planned matings is then merged up to the immediate ancestors and processed recursively and collectively up to 412 J.-J Colleau the base Then, this transformed information ... self-relationships) and the average pairwise relationship coefficients If vector p denotes the positions filled in vector x, then the first vector corresponds to positions p of m Ax and the scalar cor1 responds to...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:21

... 4.5: View of earthwork at the southern end of the site with the ruins of the Tower of the Hospital (with person standing on top) and ruins of another possible tower, facing north (A Charland) ... for ease of reading I have translated the French sources only when deemed crucial to the understanding of the analysis, otherwise an explanation of the quotations is offered within the thesis’s ... figure 1.1) I began sketching the general shape of the tower and the relative placement of the columns when I noticed the tower’s facing stones They were not all arranged in a blatantly obvious...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 18:04

... background to allow the students to make their own discoveries about the language and the best way to learn it To handle these problems properly demand, the teacher need map out beforehand an overall ... asked to offer them in front of the whole class so their anxiety and fear of failure may reduce Time to think and receive feedback form group members, and the greater likelihood of success can reduce ... be rather difficult to draw students‟ concentration back on the activity together with the time that is likely to be lost Therefore, the use of the existing arrangement seems to me to be the best...

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