... (Ed.) )1990(. Wetland Conservation: A review of current issues and required action. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. 96 pp. 8. Ramsar Convention.1971. http://www.ramsar.org/ Wetlands International ... functions and human values in wetlands: A framework for assessing forestry impacts. Wetlands 14:1-9. 11. Mitsch, W.J. and Gosselink, J.G. 1993. Wetlands (2nd ed.). Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. ... C.J. and N. A. Hussain. )2006(. Restoring the Garden of Eden: An Ecological Assessmentof the Marshes of Iraq. Bio Science. Vol. 56 (6):477-489. 10. Richardson, CJ. 1994. Ecological functions and...
... part of both the smallholder and the large scale private sector operator to the poverty of the landscape of economic institutions. It reflects the lack of alternative finance institutions and ... of seeds and all other inputs, various tasks in crop husbandry, and all tasks in harvesting and transport. The efficiency of this service delivery depended much on the general management of ... share of small-scale producers has declined, and with that the volumes of company input credit to smallholders. 106. The second and even more important issue is the case of side-selling and...
... 24 months of follow-up.Sample sizeFor an alpha of 0.05, a power of 80%, and in order todetect an reduction of HbA1c of 0.3 percentage units,with a common standard deviation (SD) of 1.15, in ... lipid levels,weight management, and times of the day when thepatient was most vulnerable to overeating, and givenimproved understanding of the relative effects of certainfood choices on blood ... of 7% in the risk of mortality owing to cardiovascular dis-ease, and 10% in the risk of mortality owing to ictuswith every 2 mmHg decrease in SBP.The slight decrease in the lipid profile of...
... theabsence of DC-SIGN–Fc. As shown in Fig. 9B, the threemajor bands (i.e. 1, of 160 kDa; 2, of 75 kDa; and 4, of 55 kDa) were present on a silver-stained gel, as well as anextra band (band 3, of 65 ... should help our understand-ing of the previously unknown mechanism of the func-tions of the DC-SIGN-related lectins.ResultsQuantitative analysis of glycan-bindingspecificities of DC-SIGN-related ... DC-SIGNR and NGA2-Fmoc for LSEC-tin (Fig. S2). As shown in Fig. 1, the Bt and appKdvalues were 1.72 nmol and 49.4 lm for DC-SIGN,4.25 nmol and 136.4 lm for DC-SIGNR, and 0.39 nmol and 8 lm...
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... include a high workload,a lack of equipment and materials, lack of training and skills updating, the common fear of the type of patients who may present with HIV, and little support to improvetheir ... 2007.4. Medical Committee of the Netherlands Vietnam: Towards a Continuum of Care in Prevention of Mother-to-child Transmission Programs: Mid-termFindings of Rapid Assessment Action-research ... NTT: Rapid Assessmentof the PMTCTProgram Hanoi: Vietnam Ministry of Health; 2006. 14. Stringer JS, Stringer EM, Phanuphak P: Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Thailand: Physicians'...
... Quality of life in parents of chronically ill children: standardized Regression Coefficients and Percentage of explained variance of the modified model. The model explains 21% and 20% of the ... Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and 2Department of Pediatrics, Emma Children's Hospital, AMC; University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsEmail: Janneke Hatzmann* ... education and a partner,born in the Netherlands. Hence, parents at risk for lesssupport, and thus a lower HRQoL are single parents withlower education, not born in the Netherlands, and parentswho...
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... article as: Farin and Meder: Personality and the physician-patient relationship as predictors of quality of life of cardiac patientsafter rehabilitation. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... 20]). Julkunen and Ahlström [21]foundinalargesampleofpatientswithanincreasedrisk of cardiovascular disease that cynicism and angercorrelate with HRQOL. The impact of cynicism and anger was, ... the modelFarin and Meder Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:100http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/100Page 6 of 11 21. Julkunen J, Ahlstrom R: Hostility, anger, and sense of coherence aspredictors...
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... we study the flexibility of embeddings of bouquets of circles onthe projective plane and the Klein bottle. The numbers (of equivalence classes) of embeddings of bouquets of circles on these two ... theargument in the proof of Theorem 3.2, the number of ways of embeddings of the n − i − juntwisted edges is 2n−j−i(n − j − i)!G(n, j + i). Hence, for the given i and j, the number of embeddings is ... obtain the genus distribution of Bn[4], Kwak and Lee obtained the total embedding polynomial of Bn+1from that of Bninductively and derive the total genus distribution of Bn+1from it in [7],...
... ORF1a and 1b are located immediately downstream of the 5’ untranslated region (UTR) and involved in virus transcription and replication. ORFs 2 to 7 are located at the 3’ end of the genome and ... characterization of Korean PRRSV from 1996 to 2006 based on ORF5 and ORF7 [7,8,43]. Genetic analysis of ORF5 of recent Korean PRRSVs 129ATCC VR-2332) in North America and experimental reproduction of ... Osorio FA. Serologic marker candidates identified among B-cell linear epitopes of Nsp2 and structural proteins of a North American strain of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus....
... 1979,140:629-33.17. Rochon-Edouard S, Pestel-Caron M, Lemeland JF, Caron F: In vitrosynergistic effects of double and triple combinations of b-lactams, vancomycin and netilmicin against methicillin-resistant ... purposes)Annals of Clinical Microbiology and AntimicrobialsOpen AccessResearchIn vitro activity effects of combinations of cephalothin, dicloxacillin, imipenem, vancomycin and amikacin against ... and cephalothin plus amikacin were synergistic or partiallysynergistic in 84.6% and 100% respectively. For nearly half of the isolates the mean concentrations of dicloxacillin, cephalothin and...
... for the Study of Obesity (JASSO) [14] wasalso used in this study. Based on an area of 100 cm2 of intra-abdominal fat, the cut-off value for waist circumfer-ence is 85 cm for males and 90 cm for ... 61:71-77.18. Statistics and Information Department Minister’s Secretariat, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare: Patient Survey Tokyo, Japan: Ministry of Health,Labour and Welfare; 2008.19. ... between January 2007 and December 2008. Subjects were 759 inpatients (355 males and 404 females) and 427 outpatients (215 males and 212females) from 7 psychiatric hospitals in Japan who werediagnosed...