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... 42 Authors Jejeebhoy and Sathra (2001) Al Riyami, Afifi and Mabry (2004) Country and year of the data collection Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, India and Punjab, Pakistan Data collected by authors, ... programs does empower women 39 Authors Malhotra and Mather (1997) Mason (1998) Zaman (2000) Country and year of the data collection Kalatara- Sri Lanka Author‟s data collection 1992 Pakistan, ... sharing of roles and decision-making, family structure amenable to empowerment, equality in marriage, devaluation of women, women‟s emancipation, marital advantage and traditional marriage (Table...

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... (NSRD) of the RAND Corporation NSRD conducts research and analysis for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Commands, the defense agencies, the Department of the Navy, ... that battle fatigue and other stress reactions may account for as many as 50 percent of the casualties in a given war As a result of the effect that stress can have on service members and their ... Hosek, Laura Miller, Laura Castaneda, and Terri Tanielian for their comments throughout the writing process Bryan Hallmark and Brad Stein gave constructive reviews of an earlier draft of the report...

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... urban and rural areas in the same way, or that they value the opportunity to work in the private sector equally in rural or urban areas These are strong assumptions that could be investigated ... M: Health workforce issues and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: An analytical review Human Resources for Health 2006, 4:1-12 Mauritius Ministry of Health and Quality of ... preferences Although increased salaries always come up as a key determinant of job satisfaction, studies based on traditional questionnaires have failed to provide evidence of the relative importance of...

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... organic acids such as oxalic acid (pKa = 1.3) and tartaric acid (pKa = 3.0) also catalyze acetalization, but acetic acid (pKa = 4.7) does not catalyze this reaction (Adams and Adkins 1925) Oxalic and ... alcoholates Noncatalytic salts for this reaction include carbonates and chlorides of sodium and potassium; calcium and sodium sulfates; and calcium and sodium acetates (Adams and Adkins 1925; Adkins ... that catalyze the polymerization of olefins and the addition of mercaptans to olefins The organic acids and the elements commonly found in the char can act as catalysts for many of these reactions...

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... at a ward geographical level The air pollution index of each participant is equal to the level of their residential ward Geographical level and SES variables Main results Social class of head of ... environmental quality was searched in a number of health, environmental and geographical databases, and reviewed and evaluated to summarize the existing evidence on environmental inequalities in relation ... health and 5.4% of depression after having controlled for age, sex and marital status and found that provision of gardens and other amenities substantially reduced the percentage variance in each...

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... Germany and Canada found a system that oscillated gas into and out of an animal’s lungs was effective at CO2 elimination [28,29] Commercial products are now available for children and for adults ... in the ventilator circuit and is therefore only a surrogate of the actual pressure oscillations in the airways These pressures are generally greatly attenuated through the endotracheal tube and ... may also lead to loss of Paw Other potential disadvantages include loss of the ability to auscultate the lung, the heart, and the abdomen, and difficulty in recognizing pneumothorax, right mainstem...

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... on a fatal granulomatous disorder in boys and described this as a “new Page of 14 syndrome” [3] Since these early descriptions, a rather amazing and accelerated understanding of the disease and ... production of a plethora of mediators that assist in immunity and are shown in Figure Several of these are also essential aspects of the antimicrobial function of the macrophages The NADPH oxidase system ... disorder of phagocytes, and is characterized be repeated infections with bacterial and fungal pathogens, as well as the formation of granulomas in tissue The disease is a disorder of the NADPH oxidase...

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... Transport Research Library and is Australia’s major transport database As well as the holdings of the ARRB Transport Research Library collection, it also includes the holdings of a number of other ... that achieve an acceptable balance between safety and access to critical services and amenities The evidence suggests that provision of safe travel options that allow easy access to services and ... match the characteristics and travel needs of the road users that use it It is recommended that: Road design and operation standards be adopted that reflect the needs and capabilities of older road...

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... president of the National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Engineering was established in 1964, under the charter of the National Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding ... for integration, systems approaches, and collaboration in the conduct of research and the gathering of data However, the identification of important linkages among the six major themes and multidisciplinary ... six thematic areas for clarity and appropriateness of thematic research priorities (Task 3a) ; balance among substantive research areas as well as among research activities such as observations,...

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... associated with the increased activity of carbonic anhydrase, improving the quality of egg shell and the presence of manganese has an activator influence on the calcification and resistance of ... www.arpnjournal.com Arias, J.L., D .A Carrino, M.S Fernandez, J.E Rodrigues, J.E Denis and A. I Capln, 1992 Partial biochemical and immunological characterization of avian eggshell extracellular matrices Arch ... biochemical and pharmaceutical industries (Ogawa et al., 2004) Collagen used has been isolated mainly from bovine and swine skins and bones After the outbreaks of bovine spongioform encephalopathy (mad...

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... their toxins and are capable of activating the alternate complement pathway 55 The normal flora of the intestinal tract of the breastfed infant, as well as the offspring of all other mammalian ... defense of the neonate and the intestinal flora Acta Paediatrica Scandinavica 351(Suppl.):122–125 Pisacane A, Graziano L, Zona G, Dolezalova H, Cafiero M, Coppola A, Scarpellino B, Ummarino M, Mazzarella ... Nagata I, Shiraki K, Tanimoto K, Harada Y, Tanaka Y, Okada T 1992 Mother-to-infant transmission of Hepatitis C virus Journal of Pediatrics 120:432–434 78 Ogasawara S, Kage M, Kosai K, Shimamatsu...

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... to a standardized amount of carbohydrate in a food The glycemic load takes into account the amount of food eaten An international table of the glycemic index and glycemic load of a wide variety ... cancers of the mouth and pharynx, esophagus, lung, stomach, and colon and rectum; evidence of probable risk reduction was found for cancers of the larynx, pancreas, breast, and bladder [1] Many of the ... vitamin E, and 69 percent less of the minerals (USDA Food database, data not shown) Concentrated sugars and refined flour products make up a large portion of the carbohydrate intake in the average...

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... Assessment of National Laboratory Capability The ability of the nation’s analytical laboratories to respond to a toxic attack will depend on the nature and scope of the attack Most of the potential toxic ... National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine The National Research Council is the advisory arm of the National Academies 14 A Review of the EPA Water Security Action Plan Is the ... in the Action Plan and evaluates their prioritization and timing A Review of the EPA Water Security Action Plan OVERARCHING ISSUES The Action Plan contains an extensive list of drinking water and...

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... than the national average—16.7 new cases versus 16.1 per 100,000 per year African American and Latino children in Massachusetts had approximately 25% more diagnosed cancers than white and Asian and ... benzo (a) anthracene, benzo(b)fluoranthene, and benzo (a) pyrene as probable human carcinogens, and the U.S Department of Health and Human Services has classified benzo (a) anthracene, According to Rao, ... carcinogen based on the study data described above, and on limited evidence of carcinogenicity in male rats During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the National Cancer Institute and the National...

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... the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal Despite the existence of these agreements and conventions, the transfer of WEEE from the United States, Canada, Australia, ... other leaching activities or mercury amalgamation Dumped materials containing heavy metals and brominated and chlorinated ame retardants can affect soils (Fig 1) The mobility of these substances ... as polyhalogenated dioxins and furans They are among the most hazardous anthropogenic pollutants (Allsopp et al., 2001; Tohka and Lehto, 2005) and one of their most important formation pathways...

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... strategic planning and policy making The ISTEA legislation also mandated that the National Academy of Sciences [National Research Council (NRC)] review the statistical programs and practices of ... policy analyses and management and investment decisions, and the analysis and mapping of spatial patterns of commodity and vehicle flows Despite their many uses, CFS data are inadequate for some applications ... years, BTS operated primarily BTS is also charged with more specific tasks relating to the National Transportation Library, the National Transportation Atlas Database, international data, and aviation...

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... in traditional external fixation Nonunion in Case can be attributed to the nature of LCP application and characteristics of the LCP that make it stand apart from traditional external fixation ... traditional frames are often bulky and ambulating with a lower limb fixator frame in-situ is awkward Some patients are self-conscious of these fixators and find them less aesthetically acceptable, ... Page of Advantages We agree with Kloen [4] that the LCP has certain advantages when used in this manner First, the LCP fixator imparts a lower profile than a traditional fixator and can be concealed...

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... LA, Alarcon GS, Triana-Alexander M, Alexander RW, Martin MY, Alberts KR: Perceived physical and emotional trauma as precipitating events in fibromyalgia Associations with health care seeking and ... stress and fibromyalgia We have shown that activities of several endocrine axes and neurotransmitters change in parallel in both fibromyalgia and stress In particular, there are decreased basal levels ... McBeth J, Silman AJ, Ray D, Macfarlane GJ: A population based study of chronic widespread pain and the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis: results from a pilot study [abstract] Rheumatology...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... Malignant Intracerebral Nerve Sheath Tumor A case report and review of the literature Cancer 1998, 82(3):545-552 10 Hanabusa K, Morikawa A, Murata T, Hanabusa K, Morikawa A, Murata T, Taki W: Acoustic ... wrote the part of the paper concerning radiotherapy and followed up the patient at his out-patient clinic AK was the radiologist performing the preoperative and postoperative CT and MRI scans and ... indicates the beneficial role of the radiotherapy in local control of disease after a total or a near total resection of extracranial MPNSTs [14,33-38] Anghileri et al found adjuvant radiotherapy...

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... T, Banavali S, Arora B, Sharma D, Kurkure PA, Ramadwar M, Viswanathan S, Rangarajan V, Qureshi S, Deshpande DD, Shrivastava SK, Dinshaw KA: Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma in Children: Comparison of ... ago as part of multimodality treatment of an acute lymphoblastic leukaemia About four years later he presented with an anaplastic astrocytoma and therefore received external beam radiation to the ... patients received adjuvant radiotherapy and two patients radiotherapy only (cases #29, #7) One boy with alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma of the nasal cavity was treated twice due to local relapse (case...

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