are ace inhibitors better than arbs or is it the other way round
Management of chronic kidney disease
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09/08/2016, 18:13
... whereby the presence of CKD emerges as a risk multiplier of the morbidity and mortality of the other major chronic diseases The risk of each disease increases in the areas of their overlap with CKD, ... and conversely the severity and course of CKD are aggravated by that of the disorder with which it overlaps In areas where there is overlap of more than one circle, the risks are further magnified ... familiarity with its guideline is essential for the care of CKD patients who are the subjects most susceptible to AKI and sustain its poorest outcomes of morbidity, mortality, the additional...
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Assessing France’s Joint Audit Requirement: Are Two Heads Better than One?* pot
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23/03/2014, 04:20
... with a lower quality auditor-pair Panel A compares firms with two Big auditors with all other auditor-pairs; Panel B compares firms with two Big auditors with firms having only one Big auditor ... owners, the firm is more likely to have a Big auditor as one or both auditors In addition, two Big auditors are more likely to be used than one Big auditor (paired with a non-Big auditor) as international ... Big auditors is assumed to denote the highest level of audit quality; the second highest quality is the use of one Big auditor paired with a non-Big auditor; the third highest quality is the use...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Are alcohol gels better than liquid hand rubs" pot
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13/08/2014, 03:21
... activities with a high risk of cross-transmission and was performed in a highworkload setting, both conditions being typically associated with an increased risk for lower compliance [2,6,7] Further ... Long-term monitoring of practices is also critical [7,8] Compliance in this study cannot be compared with previous reports, including our own [2,6,7], for several reasons In particular, the present ... on the tolerance and acceptability of hand rubs that meet microbiological efficacy criteria are critical to the longterm success of hand hygiene promotion, a worldwide priority challenge for...
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Are there lives not worth living. When is it morally wrong to reproduce
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01/11/2013, 08:20
... consider neither the wishes of parents nor the welfare of the children – no parents or children suVer in the ‘worse world’ where disabled children are born (In the ‘worse world’ it is only morally wrong ... show more than the fact that such exercise would result in disutilities to either the parents of the child or the wider society Moreover they must show more than that the exercise in question is ... worth living, or worthwhile, it should count equally with any other life, whatever the quality that life has If the person whose life it is values it, then it is worth the same as any other valued...
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Do Some Business Models Perform Better than Others? A Study of the 1000 Largest US Firms doc
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23/03/2014, 03:20
... Market Capitalization than Creators and Distributors could be the following: Creators and Distributors need only enough capital to create or acquire the assets they sell, and then their customers ... selling other companies While these other measures are useful for evaluating the overall performance of a company and its management, they are not as direct a measure of the operating performance ... distributed error term Two other types of controls are also used: E is the number of employees in the firm, and Ii is if the firm is classified in industry group i, otherwise For these industry classifications,...
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Is it a preposition is it a conjunction or is it an adverb
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25/08/2016, 20:08
... clause Furthermore, there are often adverb or preposition versions of the same word In this case you have to look for complete clauses, with subject and verb etc It the word in question is followed ... this: How are you progressing at work An opportunity has arisen for a Twitter correspondent at Sky News Board and the expected answers are: How are you getting on at work An opportunity ... so) The problem comes with the numerous subordinating conjunctions - before, after, since, until, becauseetc These are the start words of subordinate clauses, which can come before or after the...
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Tài liệu Is It the Network? Solving VoIP Problems on a Wireless LAN ppt
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24/01/2014, 09:20
... an authenticator (AP) The time it takes for the handset to communicate with the server and wait for its authentication to be processed could be enough for call quality to be compromised or even ... number The principles for configuring those settings are the same whether wireless VoIP is being used or not; therefore, they are outside the scope of this paper It may seem counterintuitive to ... percentages are seen or if large amounts of data send at low speeds is observed, there may be a problem with the network When such problems arise, the first place to look is the configuration of the...
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bankruptcy, is it the right solution to your debt problems 2nd (2004)
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18/04/2014, 14:03
... system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without prior written permission Reproduction prohibitions not apply to the forms ... what’s called the meeting of creditors This is a coming together of the debtor, all the creditors interested enough to show up, and the trustee, who presides The creditors and trustee are allowed ... without the car, the trustee will happily take the car in place of the canoe If you have nonexempt property but it isn’t worth very much, or it would be cumbersome for the trustee to sell, the...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Why is early goal-directed therapy successful – is it the technology" ppt
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12/08/2014, 22:22
... MA, Marshall J, Martin C, Pagliarello G, Tweeddale M, Schweitzer I, Yetisir E, The Transfusion Requirements in Critical Care Investigators for the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group: A multicenter, ... Critical Care August 2005 Vol No Chapman et al delivery on mortality in high-risk surgical patients JAMA 1993, 270:2699-2707 Wilson J, Woods I, Fawcett J, Whall R, Dibb W, Morris C, McManus ... Fawcett J, Whall R, Dibb W, Morris C, McManus E: Reducing the risk of major elective surgery: randomised controlled trial of preoperative optimisation of oxygen delivery BMJ 1999, 318:1099-1103 Hebert...
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is it the bus
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29/10/2014, 13:53
... on it? Is_ it_ the_ Bus.indd 1/25/07 8:44:06 AM It is a cab, Ed It is not for us Is_ it_ the_ Bus.indd 1/25/07 8:44:09 AM There is a bus, Jen Can we get on it? Is_ it_ the_ Bus.indd 1/25/07 8:44:12 AM It ... It is a van, Ed It is not for us Is_ it_ the_ Bus.indd 1/25/07 8:44:15 AM There is a bus, Jen Can we get on it? Is_ it_ the_ Bus.indd 1/25/07 8:44:18 AM Yes Ed, we can get on it Hop on the bus! Is_ it_ the_ Bus.indd ... photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher Requests for permission to make copies of any part of the work should be...
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My Botnet is Bigger than Yours (Maybe, Better than Yours) : why size estimates remain challenging pot
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23/03/2014, 13:20
... product of the two vectors d mi,j = wk (xi,k · xj,k ) k=0 where wk is the weight assigned to dimension k and the product of the two vector fields is one if they are identical, or zero otherwise Considering ... size for the same set of botnets Clearly, there is an even more substantial discord in this case While botnet footprint sizes can exceed 100,000 infections , their live populations are normally ... channel on the same server Obviously, the population count in this case is not indicative of actual bots Coupled with the issue of bot migration, this may be one of the underlying reasons for the wide...
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Why is their recovery better than ours? (Even though neither is good enough) pptx
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29/03/2014, 09:20
... months than in the UK Why is that? It seems to me that there are three sets of explanatory factors: Corporate investment rebounded much more in the US than the UK because o o there were more ... rapidly than the Dollar did The vast majority of these factors are temporary or cyclical in nature, with the exception of the structural failures of the UK financial system for domestic credit, whose ... What is happening then is that the US is getting more private investment than the UK (as a percent of GDP) for the same amount of growth in bank credit and other forms of securities (as a share...
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Creativity Thinking Or the ability to connect to what is outside the box when you are inside it
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03/06/2014, 16:38
... “seeing”: there is no boundary Thirty spokes coverage upon a single hub; It is on the hole in the centre that the use of the cart hinges We make a vessel from a lump of clay; It is the empty space within ... on the assumption that neither technology nor end use is a foundation for management policy They are limitations The foundations have to be customer values and customer decisions on the distribution ... competition is irrelevant because the rules of the game are waiting to be set Blue ocean is an analogy to describe the wider, deeper potential of market space that is not yet explored A conversation with...
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Our life is better than it was for ourforefathers? potx
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22/07/2014, 04:20
... instance In the time of our forefathers, there were no railways or steamships or aeroplanes, no bicycles or motor-cars, or even no good roads They traveled slowly on horseback or in carts and carriages, ... village and town There were no fully equipped hospitals, no trained nurses, but few qualified doctors Most of the poor could neither read nor write, for education was the privilege of the rich Books ... superior Are we, however, really happier than our forefathers? I doubt it In this mechanical age, life is all noise and bustle, hurry and racket, roar and rush There is a fever in our blood We are...
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Báo cáo y học: "Survival of TNF antagonists in spondylarthritis is better than in rheumatoid arthritis. Data from the Spanish registry BIOBADASER" docx
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09/08/2014, 08:22
... for her careful monitoring of the registry and to Rocío Gonzalez for her help in the statistical analysis and data management BIOBADASER is supported by the Spanish Society of Rheumatology This ... statistically greater for chronic seronegative arthritis than for the other types of SpA (HR = 6.7 [95% CI, 1.6–28.2]) Compared with patients with RA, patients with SpA treated with TNF antagonists have fewer ... rheumatoid arthritis with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors may predispose to significant increase in tuberculosis risk: a multicenter active-surveillance report Arthritis Rheum 2003, 48:2122-2127...
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Báo cáo y học: "Synovial fluid level of aggrecan ARGS fragments is a more sensitive marker of joint disease than glycosaminoglycan or aggrecan levels: a cross-sectional study" pps
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09/08/2014, 14:21
... the ARGS ELISA respectively Sensitivity = the proportion of positives (diseased) correctly identified by the test Specificity = the proportion of negatives (healthy) correctly identified by the ... osteoarthritis (OA), we quantified the SF levels of the aggrecan ARGS neoepitope with a modified sandwich ELISA [19], and compared it with aggrecan assays not specific for this neoepitope We hypothesized ... monitor aggrecanase activity in joint disease, and to monitor the efficacy of interventions to inhibit this protease activity in joint disease or model systems Competing interests 10 The authors...
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Báo cáo y học: "Pro/con clinical debate: High-frequency oscillatory ventilation is better than conventional ventilation for premature infants" pps
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12/08/2014, 19:22
... ventilator pressures with CV [15] The other trial, conducted under rigorously controlled conditions, is the only study that has shown a benefit of HFOV in infants at high risk for BPD [10] In addition ... influenced more by factors other than the mode of ventilation Furthermore, any potential advantage must be weighed against the known risks of neonatal transport, even between tertiary centers Transported ... output, or for increased central venous pressure that might lead to intracranial hemorrhage Second, the pathogenesis of BPD is complex, and mechanical injury is only one factor Other factors that...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Pro/con debate: In patients who are potential candidates for organ donation after cardiac death, starting medications and/or interventions for the sole purpose of making the organs more viable is an acceptable practice" doc
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13/08/2014, 03:20
... donate organs [16] or the desire that donation will ease their grief [17], these reasons are also not for the benefit of the patient Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Is there potential ... evident in the published literature, where the common justification for DCD is to increase the supply of organs Furthermore, the organ most likely to be recovered in DCD is the kidney, which will ... performed) the onus is on us to institute these measures to prevent any organs from going to waste This is all the more crucial when one considers the last moral principle of justice, and the...
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Báo cáo y học: " Modeling the signaling endosome hypothesis: Why a drive to the nucleus is better than a (random) walk" ppt
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13/08/2014, 23:20
... demand, and therefore this analysis awaits either a more efficient algorithm or more computer time Our current and future goals are to parallelize the random walk algorithm in order to perform massively ... dephosphorylation probability, Kp is the first-order rate constant for the activity of the relevant phosphatase, L is the cell diameter, D is the diffusion coefficient, x is the distance from the ... in the text Arrows along the plasma membrane surface denote the sites of signal initiation ability in the diffusion paths, but it is clear that the incorporation of dephosphorylation into the...
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