applications to pathogens and highly toxic agents

... 0.50 to 1.67 0.77 Preferential COX-2 inhibitors (1.0%) 12 (4.2%) 0.22 0.03 to 1.71 0.20 Proton pump inhibitors 14 (13.5%) 77 (27.1%) 0.42 0.23 to 0.78 0.005 H2RAs (3.8%) (3.2%) 1.22 0.37 to 4.06 ... NSAIDs, NSAIDs with concomitant therapy to prevent gastrointestinal toxicity, and COX-2 specific inhibitors in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis Rheumatol Int 2005, 25:9-14 El-Serag HB, Graham ... Verburg KM, Geis GS: Gastrointestinal toxicity with celecoxib vs nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis The CLASS study: a randomized controlled trial JAMA...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... 0.50 to 1.67 0.77 Preferential COX-2 inhibitors (1.0%) 12 (4.2%) 0.22 0.03 to 1.71 0.20 Proton pump inhibitors 14 (13.5%) 77 (27.1%) 0.42 0.23 to 0.78 0.005 H2RAs (3.8%) (3.2%) 1.22 0.37 to 4.06 ... NSAIDs, NSAIDs with concomitant therapy to prevent gastrointestinal toxicity, and COX-2 specific inhibitors in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis Rheumatol Int 2005, 25:9-14 El-Serag HB, Graham ... Verburg KM, Geis GS: Gastrointestinal toxicity with celecoxib vs nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis The CLASS study: a randomized controlled trial JAMA...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22

... 2003 to advise the Commission on the development of Community activities to improve nutrition, to reduce and prevent diet-related diseases, to promote physical activity and to fight overweight and ... need for these to be translated into food-based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) FBDGs need to be based on customary dietary patterns, and take socioeconomic and cultural factors into account V.9.3 ... information to the consumer, what are the major nutrients, and categories of products, to be considered and why? – Which kind of education is required in order to enable consumers to fully understand...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20

... speakers of the same age; and • the ability to understand, use and reflect on written texts in order to achieve one’s goals, to develop one’s knowledge and potential and to participate in society ... skills through story reading and discussion, particularly in the early stages of learning to read; exposure to interesting picture and story books to encourage early reading and to develop children’s ... Teachers have to be trained and employed It costs no more to train teachers to use effective teaching practices than to train them to use ineffective teaching practices And it costs no more to employ...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20

... infrastructure and may look to the private sector to bear the capital cost of this investment Where the demand for the service is uncertain, the state may wish to share this risk with a private sector partner ... into a partnership with CMG plc jointly owned company to complete a project which to provide IT infrastructure and to market the Agency's skills in radio wave management to brings benefits to ... potential wireless customers Franchises The private sector is permitted to provide In Argentina, the right to provide utilities to the public was granted to private licence and charge the public...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 05:20

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... specifically designed to identify the routes of PRRSV transmission and to develop  protocols of biosecurity to reduce this risk.  All protocols have been, and continue to be  validated during an on­going experiment that has been in process over the past 2 years at  ... biological vectors of the virus.  In regards to its capability for survival outside of the pig,  PRRSV is susceptible to high temperatures, changes in pH ( 7.65), and prolonged exposure to UV light as well as chemical inactivation.  ... as the team member who delivers science­based biosecurity to the farm but  also as a teacher to educate personnel and an auditor to insure compliance is maximized.  By practicing the above protocols, it is hoped that producers can effectively reduce the ...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... questions needed to be answered to allow these tools to handle longitudinal data and dynamic network simulations, as well as to use sampled and incomplete data to parameterize, model and simulate ... Morris and Kretzschmar papers, a large multi-disciplinary group of statisticians and social scientists took the approach of setting out to develop the statistical models and programming tools ... the methods were highly cumbersome, and not easy to further generalize in ways that would allow them to handle the full complexities of behavioural, biological and demographic data There is one...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... halftoning method to reduce flicker, and (4) a new video halftoning method to reduce dirty-window-effect The rest of the paper is organized as follows Flicker and dirty-window-effect in binary halftone ... frame of the standard caltrain sequence [10] was independently halftoned using Ulichney’s 32-by-32 void -and- cluster mask [9] Figures and show the first continuous-tone frame and first halftone frame, ... binary halftone videos, the perception of dirty-window-effect depends primarily on both the continuous-tone and the corresponding halftone videos Consider two successive continuous-tone frames and their...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... parameters and on cutting tools Its scheme is shown in Fig The measuring equipment consists of two parts, i.e cutting and feeding parts The cutting part provides development and transfers the torque to ... electric motor by means of a safety clutch and a feed screw An HBM S2 force sensor is placed between the nut and the plate Cables transmit measured signals of the force and torque Torque (N.m) ... construction and they are most frequently used in crosscutting lines when handling thin and medium stems (up to 40–50 cm) Their advantages are high cutting ability, maintainability and long lifetime...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

... positive integer and (u, n) = Then G(∞, u/n) contains a triangle if and only if m | n, u2 ∓ u + ≡ (mod n), a rectangle if and only if 2|m, m|2n, and 2u2 ∓ 2u + ≡ (mod n), and a hexagon if and only if ... A and B −1 SB have the same order and therefore T and S have the same order That is, the two circuits have the same length A circuit of length 3, 4, and is called a triangle, a rectangle, and ... ˆ Lemma Let S ∈ N (Γ0 (N)) and let N (Γ0 (N)) act transitively on Q If S(v) = v ˆ and S(w) = w for different v and w in Q, then S = I In particular, if S(v) = T (v) and S(w) = T (w) for T ∈ N...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:20

... tendency for more rural women to seek their husbands' approval prior to testing compared to their urban counterparts This may be an inhibitory factor to the willingness to accept VCT This study reinforces ... location of women and willingness to accept HIV testing In the assessment of factors associated with the willingness to accept HIV testing, no confounding factors were identified and therefore only ... consult their husbands before they were tested for HIV, were 40% less likely to express willingness to accept the test compared to those who thought they not need to consult their husbands, but this...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20

... midline incision and transperitoneal exposure of the Figure Pre-operative computed tomography angiography of a 59-year-old patient revealed an asymptomatic abdominal aortic aneurysm, and a solitary ... through small arteriotomies The distal common femoral artery was clamped to improve retrograde perfusion to the kidney Diuresis was induced with mannitol (12.5 g intravenously) and anticoagulation ... SAM, EK, AC and ND planned and performed the operation TGV interpreted the CT angiography and gave specific information about the vascular anatomy of the pelvic kidney All authors read and approved...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... provides the opportunity to establish the benefit of prevention, and also to increase knowledge about the etiological factors that predict conversion to GAD The study protocol presented here provides ... number of factors have been identified that can improve adherence to e-health programs, including push factors, or ‘tracking’, which include reminders to visit or return to websites, and personal ... human and automated support and which goes beyond research directed at effectiveness– although this is also a goal to research focusing on process variables, such as predictors of adherence and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... weeks for clinical evaluation to record any exacerbations and adverse events, and to dispense the medication course Adherence to treatment was assessed by collecting and counting remaining pills ... conducted for a total study duration of 72 weeks Clinical laboratory assessments, including blood chemistry and haematology, were performed pre-treatment, 24 weeks after randomization, and at the ... isolates were processed locally and then transported to a central laboratory where isolates were re-identified and the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) to a range of antibiotics were determined...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:20

... appropriate nebulizer, ventilator and administration technique compared to nonstandardized ways of administration of antibiotics into the respiratory tract In addition to patients who receive care ... metronidazole and cefuroxime, regardless of their randomization to receive prophylaxis or not via the respiratory tract Greenfield and colleagues [11] reported that 88% of the polymyxin-treated patients and ... reported in the analyzed studies, if any Toxicity In five of the included studies no data regarding toxicity were reported In two RCTs it was reported that no toxicity was observed during the trials...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... was well tolerated among patients aged 50 years and older and induced an immunogenic response not inferior to that of subjects 60 and older and thereby provided an immunological bridge to vaccine ... only those aged 50 to 59 results in ICERs of £12,539 and £9,043, vaccinating only those aged 60 to 69 results in ICERs of £10,639 and £9,742, and vaccinating all persons aged 65 and older results ... and PHN is likely to lead to substantial health and economic benefits for the UK The model predicts that the most cost-effective strategies for the NHS are to vaccinate people between 60-64 and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... alterations in coagulation and fibrinolysis, which are almost ubiquitous findings in acute lung injury, or possibly from diminishing the enhanced apoptosis of epithelial and other cell populations ... Weiler H: Endotoxemia and sepsis mortality reduction by non-anticoagulant activated protein C J Exp Med 2007, 204:2439-2448 Bae JS, Yang L, Rezaie AR: Receptors of the protein C activation and activated ... Taylor FB, Esmon NL, Lupu F, Esmon CT: Extracellular histones are major mediators of death in sepsis Nat Med 2009, 15:1318-1321 Kerschen EJ, Fernandez JA, Cooley BC, Yang XV, Sood R, Mosnier LO, Castellino...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... backgrounds, teachers and community leaders to identify local barriers, difficulties and influencing factors of the predefined target behaviors The focus group protocol was developed and coordinated ... Bartholomew and colleagues [13] was used In a next step, practical strategies had to be identified to put the theoretical methods into practice [13] Special efforts were made to search for and select ... municipality, social services and welfare sector, private actors) had to be represented Special emphasis was placed on the inclusion of community members having access to low SES and/ or migration groups...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20