... conglomerates such as AstraZeneca, GE Healthcare,
and Pharmacia (now absorbed by Pfizer). The big pharma company AstraZeneca
alone accounts for the bulk of private bio-based research and development. ...
(Australian Research Council 2002).
Health and medical research is also an area of traditional strength and in the 1990s
biotechnology and pharmaceuticals emerged as fields of relative specialisation ... research sector and the big
pharma companies are of very recent vintage and remain weak and fragile by
comparison to Sweden, the UK and the USA. According to the pharma industry its
aggregate...
... and the abolition of dual financing for hospitals were killed off by the opposition in the
Bundesrat. All the government was able to ob tain was a reform of hospital finance.
Instead ofa standard ... Affairs ofthe Land of Bavaria encour-
aged the local health care funds to do exactly this.
The year 2003 became the year of health care reform. Scandals involving financial
conspiracies between ... Bundesrat was accompa nied by a large-scale
campaign involving all the major players in the health sector: doctors’ associations,
the pharmaceutical industry, and the health insurance funds,
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not...
... approach, in a sense, tries to capture the societal
debates about environment and politicaleconomy rather than just the
academic debates over the theories ofthepoliticaleconomyofthe
environment.
Naturally, ... science
and international relations. They share many ofthe broad assumptions
and arguments of market liberals—especially the belief in the value of
economic growth, globalization, trade, foreign ... divides the world into arti-
ficial territories, aggravates the effects of too many humans, because it
violates the principles of ecology and creates what academic Garrett
Hardin famously called a “tragedy...
... Goad,
Joshua Gordon, Jeca Glor-Bell, and Sanushka Mudaliar also helped
immeasurably with the research. We are grateful to the Australian
Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council ... the theories ofthepoliticaleconomyofthe
environment.
Naturally, given the breadth of our labels, many disagreements exist
among those in each category. We have tried to show the range of ... divides the world into arti-
ficial territories, aggravates the effects of too many humans, because it
violates the principles of ecology and creates what academic Garrett
Hardin famously called a “tragedy...
... provincial departments (and not just the Department of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and
Tourism), as well as the work of local government, national departments, parastatals and the many other
stakeholders ...
providers, Iafrica.com and M-Web, are based in the province, and more than 50 call centres are located in
the larger Cape Town area. One ofthe most successful integrators of traditional media and Internet ... competitors, unless the
knowledge transfer takes place under circumstances that hold clear and immediate advantages for them.
Such advantages have classically taken the form ofthe relatively low cost...
... introduced the
main areas ofthe virtual economy and described the
dierent business models that are used in them. In
each ofthe areas it was found that at least some part
of the economic activity ... to obtain virtual goods and make full use
of the features ofa game or a community.
A key capability that all work aggregators share is
the ability to not only contact a large number of
people, ... detail the main areas ofthe
virtual economy, their economic impact, business
models and value chains. e two major areas ofthe
existing virtual economy are identied as 1) third-
party gaming...
... number of borrowers and outstanding loans
(ii) analysis of overdues
(iii) the average effective rate of interest, the average cost of
funds and the average margin earned
(iv) analysis ofthe ... clients,
and 63.6% ofthe loan portfolio of Microfinance provided by all MFIs. We
also examined the financials for the same year of two smaller MFIs. The
results of that analysis are as under:- ... private equity has entered the
sector. On the one hand, there was a huge unsatisfied demand for
microfinance credit and on the other, there was a limitation on the
capacity of not-for-profit...
... N- and C-termini [33] and a
transmembrane a helix in the central region (Fig. 1 ). On this
basis, and in view ofthe finding that the C-terminal part of
the LH1 a polypeptide plays an important ... via the
plasmid pRKX (in trans) into the host Rb. s phaeroides DQ
x/g, deprived ofthe chromosomal copy ofthe puf operon.
Table 1. Bacterial strains and plasmids. The plasmid host strain in all
the ... between that
of the monomeric and the dimeric form ( see above) in
mutant PufX54*. As in these last two mutants a short lag
was observed (see Table 2), apparently the presence of a
stable dimer...
... ii.]
With the rise of this system, and the attendant increased importation of slaves, came the end ofthe helpful
contact of servants with their masters. Slavery was thereby changed from a patriarchal ... did not
reach all parts ofthe colony.[2] The Quakers of North Carolina, however, had local schools and actually
taught slaves. Some of these could read and write as early as 1731. Thereafter, household ... advocates ofthe education
of the Negroes endeavored to give them such practical training as their peculiar needs demanded. In the
agricultural sections the first duty ofthe teacher ofthe blacks was...
... and habit required at the start ofa war a declaration to that effect, a
declaration accompanied by the withdrawal of ambassadors. But neither Peking nor London had
ambassadors positioned and ... more about
Americans in China in the early nineteenth century than any man alive, made available to me xerox
copies ofa portion ofthe Carrington papers and read a large part ofthe manuscript ... was at its height, the admirers still imagined (as they had always and with
perfect accuracy imagined) that the object of their admiration was as powerful as it was advanced. Yet
for all that...
... analyses. AB drafted the manuscript and
participated in the statistical analyses. JWV and GM revised the manuscript
critically. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Berkes et al. Health ... part in the adaptation process
for the PedsQL™ 3.0 Cardiac Module only; the Hungar-
ian Generic Core Scale was already available through
the MAPI Research Institute.
Statistical analysis
Feasibility ... gender.
It was the mother who answered the questionnaire in
89.5% ofthe sample, it was the father in 4.57% of the
sample, and it was someone else in 6.28% ofthe sample.
Distribution of all participants...
... several
clinical variables: 1) laboratory indicators: fasting plasma
glucose, 2-hour postprandial plasma glucose, and HbA1c,
and 2) complications of diabetes: retinopathy, neuropa-
Health and Quality of ... Baltimore, MD, USA,
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Tainan Hospital, Department of Health, Tainan, Taiwan and
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Department
of Educational Psychology, College of Education, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Email: ... distribution-based approach, we estimated a stand-
ard error of measurement (SEM) which accounts for relia-
bility ofthe DQOL and standard deviation of patients
under the investigation. SEM was estimated by a...
... SMP, IAP, JWV and PJA conceptualized the rationale
and design ofthe study. MLRJ contributed to the statistical
analysis and interpretation ofthe data. ACS and SMP
drafted the manuscript. All authors ... USA
Email: Ana C Scarpelli - anascap@yahoo.com.br; Saul M Paiva* - saul.paiva@mcgill.ca; Isabela A Pordeus - isabela@netuno.lcc.ufmg.br;
Maria L Ramos-Jorge - mlrjorge@hotmail.com; James W Varni ... was no report by the patients or guardians of any
lack of comprehension regarding the questions.
The lack of validation studies on assessment scales of the
quality of life among children and adolescents...
... score
interpretations from these data [15]. Additionally, the way
each rating scale is constructed has great influence on the
quality of data obtained from the scale [16], and a rating
scale may not be used ... in the way it was
intended by the developer ofthe scale [15]. Thus, the
assumptions about both the quality ofthe measures and
utility ofthe rating scale in facilitating interpretable meas-
ures ... citation purposes)
aration are low, while item reliability and separation are
high. As we mentioned earlier, these results indicate that
the sample has a narrow spread and the sample size is
large...
... groups. In addition, the
patterns during early and late phases of phrenic neuro-
gram were almost the same as those of gasping. As matu-
ration proceeds, the similarity between the late phase of
phrenic ... piglets. After the first week of postnatal
age, the duration ofthe phrenic neurogram burst significantly increases and the patterns during the
early phase ofthe phrenic neurogram are different ... neurogram is
not a periodic signal and that its characteristics change
rapidly during maturation. The dominant burst type activ-
ities disappeared during the early phase ofthe phrenic
neurogram although...