and even loathing is okay if it is justified

... definition, and if a treatment is not futile by the strict definition then it is ethically and even legally mandated if patient or surrogate desires it [5] The only way to change this mandate is ... Crippen Patients and surrogates are allowed to demand life support without giving any justification as long as that care is effective in sustaining vital signs Quality of life is not clearly defined ... emotions, and even drama, life support at its core is no different from other medical interventions and is clearly not worthy of ‘special status’ Such cold truths are seldom acknowledged and rarely...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... with late mortality? The study by Ulvik and colleagues does not answer this question, but the point is crucial Is it the efficacy of the resuscitation, or the treatment of sepsis that affects ... identification of patients who, developing MOF, are at major risk of poor longterm survival and impaired functional status Is this a suggestion for a standardisation of scoring MOF in trauma? This ... score, SOFA Max, and the changes in SOFA over the first 48 hours are correlated with mortality [9] Ulvik shows that measuring SOFA score on admission and SOFA max may categorise trauma patients,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... given him, that he even does miracles! Isn’t this the carpenter? Isn’t this Mary’s son and the brother of James, Joseph, Judas and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” And they took offense ... news for you, it isn’t the American worker I conclude the book with a philosophical note as to what people in this country may have learned from this crisis If the citizens survive it, it will make ... John McCain admits taking money from the telecommunications companies that his committee regulates, but his defense is that it does not influence his voting If this were true, it would certainly...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 12:21

... business what the top priority is and how people should behave every day And yes, they hire better, train harder and monitor more closely They only employ people with enormous empathy, pour ... companies that don’t just ‘get’ great customer service but live it with every fibre of their corporate body – and deliver it with outrageous consistency Here’s the crux of the problem: In most businesses, ... thwarted, delayed, frustrated and ignored on our twisted route to resolution The bad news is that expectations are rising fast Some innovators have seized market share quite visibly on the back of fantastic...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2016, 18:38

... Let's hope it' s a good one Without any fear And so this is Xmas For weak and for strong For rich and the poor ones The war is so wrong And so happy Xmas For black and for white For yellow and red ... So this is Xmas And what have you done Another year over A new one just begun And so this is Xmas I hope you have fun The near and the dear one The old and the young A very Merry Xmas And a ... have fun The near and the dear one The old and the young A very Merry Xmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it' s a good one Without any fear And so this is Xmas Another year over And what have we...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2013, 01:27

... more options and make things precise, like, nippy Or freez ing Or Ch illy as ice ’re words They e, toss lik and pitch and throw, comprehend and grasp and know Yell and holler Jump and leap r, ... lives in Cleveland, Ohio BRIAN GABLE is the illustrator of Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What Is an Adverb? and the Make Me Laugh joke books He lives in Toronto, Ontario, with his wife and two children ... leap r, soa nd ya Fl and doze an d sle ep Richness and depth are what synonyms raise when they’re used in a paragraph, Sentence, or phrase A lovely and pretty and beautiful city A cat Or a feline...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2014, 04:25

... behaviors and attitudes of Americans in key realms of their lives – family, community, health, finance, work and leisure Reports analyze changes over time in social behaviors and probe for differences ... READ) ASK IF DRIVER (Q8=1): Q.12 Within the last 12 months, have you done any of the following while you were driving a car? [INSERT ITEM; RANDOMIZE] IF NECESSARY: Have you done this within the ... responses to this open-ended question 5 (10% each) and a laundry list of other complaints Overall, there is not much difference across socio demographic groups in enjoyment of driving Men and women...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 12:20

... is the story of a young couple's trip to Haiti, where their wedding is to take place But, this is no vision of Haiti as an idyllic Caribbean island; almost immediately after arriving on the island, ... content (see Dengler, 1974 for a discussion of this possibility) Examining films with less explicit neuroscience content may promote a more critical analysis from discussion participants Further, ... course and area of neuroscience, a number of possibilities might exist and coordinate well with the instructor's interests (see Table 1) One such choice that this author has used with success is...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 17:20

... acceptability (i.e., truth) of a scientific hypothesis has been its simplicity (cf Hempel, 1966) This view has a long tradition and some theorists suggested that the aesthetic value of simplicity motivated ... evaluation (as is the case for symmetry, prototypicality, and so on, which are characteristics of the stimulus itself), the experience is considered informative and used as a basis of judgment This conjecture, ... beautiful that he did not wish to abandon it and so he kept it alive for the sake of its beauty But much later, it did turn out that Weyl's instinct was right after all, when the formalism of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 18:20

... every situation Moreover, this d a t a disproves B/~uerle's explanation of (1), clarifies Smith's definition of a viewpoint and motivates the need for a neutral viewpoint in German It is obviously ... showed that Smith's notion of a neutral viewpoint is crucial for German In particular, we investigated the effects this viewpoint has on a discourse level and compared it with English It may be concluded ... the proposed formalisation provides an account which can handle the discussed phenomena within an implementation; this is ongoing work ACCOMPLISHMENT Figure 2: The complete event type ¢ References...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 09:20

... nitroreductase activity for nitrobenzene, dinoseb and nitrofurazone, with the highest activity for nitrofurazone The flavin reductase activities of DrgA protein for FAD and FMN were 7.41 and 6.95 UÆmg)1 protein, ... and Fe(III)-EDTA The enzyme turned out to be DrgA protein and its catalytic activities for ferric reductase, nitroreductase and flavin reductase were demonstrated Enzyme characterization and its ... gel electrophoresis and DNA bands were visualized on the gel by staining with ethidium bromide Steady-state kinetics The values of Km and kcat for Fe(III)-EDTA, FAD, FMN and nitrofurazone was...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 09:20

... individuals – it can change our worldview and even our personality DEFINITION Language Worldview Personality Learning a foreign language Learning a foreign language helps you understand your mother ... understand your mother tongue and culture The American lifestyle is open than the Vietnamese lifestyle American Family Vietnamese Family THE NEW OPPORTUNITIES Understanding the world where you ... everywhere and not having trouble with translation  Co-operating or negotiating with other foreign companies or countries Changing your personality  Feeling more confident to communicate with other...

Ngày tải lên: 31/05/2014, 13:04

... more options and make things precise, like, nippy Or freez ing Or Ch illy as ice ’re words They e, toss lik and pitch and throw, comprehend and grasp and know Yell and holler Jump and leap r, ... lives in Cleveland, Ohio BRIAN GABLE is the illustrator of Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What Is an Adverb? and the Make Me Laugh joke books He lives in Toronto, Ontario, with his wife and two children ... leap r, soa nd ya Fl and doze an d sle ep Richness and depth are what synonyms raise when they’re used in a paragraph, Sentence, or phrase A lovely and pretty and beautiful city A cat Or a feline...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... Facilitation and inhibition levels were measured for each trial, at each time window, as the difference between the integrated rectified EMG after the conditioning stimulation (conditioned EMG) and ... of analysis Mean facilitation and inhibition of soleus voluntary EMG were assessed on ten trials of isometric contraction Statistical analysis For the coactivation assessment, Mann-Whitney U-tests ... that joint This concept of a greater recruitment of a muscle group during its synergistic coactivation than while attempting to specifically recruit it has been used in clinical rehabilitation in...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... , fast and slow and high and low, as well as wh ite and black Up and down are antonyms just like excite and sooth e, left and righ t and dark and light, and also r o ugh and smooth If it weren’t ... INNEAPOLIS Antonyms are opposites— they’re words like stop and g o S Th ey’re just like e? fferent those word di sa how r ee yes and no Big and small are antony ms, and so ar e f r ont and back ... dangerous, heavy is to light, y to bold sh and young to old and even dim to brigh t, th ey’re opposite in meaning as in quie tly and loudly Th ey show a total contrast just like shamefully and proudly...

Ngày tải lên: 26/06/2014, 23:20

... more options and make things precise, like, nippy Or freez ing Or Ch illy as ice ’re words They e, toss lik and pitch and throw, comprehend and grasp and know Yell and holler Jump and leap r, ... lives in Cleveland, Ohio BRIAN GABLE is the illustrator of Dearly, Nearly, Insincerely: What Is an Adverb? and the Make Me Laugh joke books He lives in Toronto, Ontario, with his wife and two children ... leap r, soa nd ya Fl and doze an d sle ep Richness and depth are what synonyms raise when they’re used in a paragraph, Sentence, or phrase A lovely and pretty and beautiful city A cat Or a feline...

Ngày tải lên: 26/06/2014, 23:20

... kinase (CamK2) and protein kinase C (PKC) This pathway also uses the PDZ and DEP domains of Dsh to modulate cell adhesion and motility Note that for the PCP and Ca2+ pathways Dsh is proposed to ... adhesion and cell movements during gastrulation Signal specificity With such a daunting number of Wnt ligands and Frizzled receptors, two challenging questions that remain unanswered are whether (and ... its receptors, Frizzled and LRP Development 2004, 131:5103-5115 21 Axelrod JD, Miller JR, Shulman JM, Moon RT, Perrimon N: Differential recruitment of Dishevelled provides signaling specificity...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:21

... composition of the two populations that we identified with the multivariate statistical techniques, would have been quite different according to the inheritance of the leaf morphological traits and ... to discriminate between the species [9, 10, 14] Dendrologists require classification criteria for taxonomic purposes [3, 17, 18, 22, 25] Forest biologists and ecologists seek unambiguous traits ... initial problem Even for molecular markers to be used, there is a need for clarification of species distinction between Q petraea and Q robur based on morphological traits Our contribution is...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... serologic responses and viral loads Understanding the timing and directionality of the EBV–RA relationship is crucial to distinguishing inciting from secondary events in RA pathogenesis and to advancing ... correlate with disease activity and severity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis Ann Rheum Dis 2000, 59:533-538 99 Scotet E, David-Ameline J, Peyrat MA, Moreau-Aubry A, Pinczon D, Lim A, Even J, ... arthritis in the United Kingdom: results from the Norfolk Arthritis Register Br J Rheumatol 1994, 33:735-739 Yelin E, Henke C, Epstein W: The work dynamics of the person with rheumatoid arthritis...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:20