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... understand them better Since the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, the sources of security threats, the composition and cohesion of alliances, and the shape of regional orders have been in flux The ... appreciation of the range of the possible and the consequences of various policies also requires a grasp of the circumstances under which the policy instruments are available and malleable, and of the ... depends on the type and magnitude of the economic costs imposed on the target, controlling for the extent of the initiator’s and target’s respective economic dependence on each other and the comparative...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 00:53

... is the cut-off value in the Recommendations of the American Heart Association [35] and the trigger for initiation of insulin treatment for ICU patients recommended by the American College of ... involved in the analysis of results and writing the manuscript All the authors read and approved the final version Acknowledgements The authors are very grateful to Edita Lukić, Goran Madžarac and Alen ... definitions for sepsis and organ failure and guidelines for the use of innovative therapies in sepsis Crit Care Med 1992, 20:864-874 Gornik et al Critical Care 2010, 14:R130 http://ccforum.com/content/14/4/R130...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... gives the readers of the journal the sort of words and the sort of thoughts they are used to—so, on a larger scale, the writers of an age, without thinking of it, give to the readers of the age the ... to read, in the frame of each man the result of a whole history of all his life, of what he is and what makes him so, of all his fore-fathers, of what they were and of what made them so Each ... view of the primeval condition of the human race which is known as the Patriarchal Theory There is no doubt, of course, that this theory was originally based on the Scriptural history of the Hebrew...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 13:20

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Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:22

... become more and more a part of who and what we are With WAP-enhanced cell and access to our own personalized versions of the web in hand we see farther, organize better, know more The temporary ... we write, the hand that holds it while writing, or the various neural subsystems CYBORGS UNPLUGGED 29 that form the grip and guide the fingers All three items, the pen, the hand, and the unconsciously ... Space The year is 1960 The pulse of space travel beats insistently within the temples of research and power, and the journal Astronautics publishes the paper that gave the term “cyborg” to the world.1...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 00:24

... events The more such events being reported by the patient, the more likely the clinician rated the patient as more severely ill The authors concluded that these reports can threaten validity of the ... perspectives: the treating therapist (THER), the team of therapists concerned with the patient (TEAM), and the patient him- or herself (PAT) The team of therapists concerned with the patient performed ... necessary More precisely, the question of whether the CGI provides a valid measure of the patient’s condition and if so whether it is more appropriate to use CGI-I or a difference score of CGI-S...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... result of the decision to withhold or withdraw care, so there is a need for objective measurements of standard of care The needs of the patient, their family, and those of the nurses and physicians ... Outcome at the end of life: J Randell Curtis J Randell Curtis drew attention to the difficulties of assessing the quality of care that occurs at the end of life In the USA, the majority of ICU patients ... content/5/2/053 After the excitement of the PROWESS trial results, attention returned to the second major theme of the symposium, namely the need for a shift from the short-term aim of patient survival...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... rather than serum UA alone, are more reliable at reflecting the whole spectrum of sepsis Second, the kidney plays a major role in the excretion of urate [3] and some Page of (page number not for ... with severe sepsis or septic shock could not be a consequence of renal failure (creatinine > 3.0 mg/dl) and whether hyperuricemia is a risk factor for severe sepsis is unknown More studies are needed ... Whether serum UA can reflect the outcome of septic patients with or without renal dysfunction is undetermined Correlation between serum total antioxidant capacity (TAC) and Acute Physiology and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 02:24

... Gornik et al Critical Care 2010, 14:444 http://ccforum.com/content/14/5/444 Page of 2207 patients admitted to medical ICU 385 with a history of DM, IFG or IGT 1822 274 died ... 14 DM 326 normoglycaemic finished follow-up 66 died 93 discontinued follow-up started steroid treatment 193 47 IGF / IFG 33 DM 113 normoglycaemic Figure Flow diagram showing the loss of patients ... participation - 203 terminally ill - 29 receiving corticosteroids 669 436 NORMOGLYCAEMIA HYPERGLYCAEMIA 76 excluded: - newly diagnosed DM, IGT or IFG 669 360 started follow-up 102 died 154 discontinued...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 21:21

... relevant for this thesis are the sexualisation of the bodies of women, and the importance of sexuality for the purposes of reproduction, where the sexuality of adults becomes an object of scrutiny ... law for the whole of India” (Bhaskaran, 19) The binary notions of the East and the West slowly started emerging and “women were made into the regulatory site of tradition and the management of ... homosexuality and the rise of queer theory in Western academia, although the influence of these Western theorists cannot be ignored The next section will give a brief history of lesbianism in India in order...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 12:00

... views of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/World Bank and its affiliated organizations, or those of the Executive Directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent ... that the bank cannot verify the existence of income and assets not reported to the tax authorities This is analogous to the assumption in corporate finance in Hart and Moore (1995) and Bolton and ... takes the value if the firm reported that the sum of Family, Informal (e.g moneylender), and Other financing of new investments or working capital is 50% or greater Informal Financing takes the...

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Ngày tải lên: 20/07/2016, 10:44

... investigated the role of uric acid in the occurrence of CIN Therefore, the aim of the current study was to evaluate whether high level of serum uric acid in patients undergoing elective coronary angiography, ... study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis Please cite this article in press as: Barbieri L, et al., Uric acid levels and the risk of Contrast ... less, (as calculated by applying the CockroftGault formula) [17] undergoing coronary angiography and/ or angioplasty at Catheterization Laboratory of AOU Maggiore della Carità, Novara, from January...

Ngày tải lên: 24/08/2016, 14:06

... town, the food stocks, and the mood of the garrison The tactics of the Daily Mail captured the attention of the nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation of the town by emphasizing the danger ... examine both the role of the press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism and the role of the press in the formation of the concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... arose not simply from the ruling class persuading the working class of the importance of imperialism and of the Boer War for the nation Rather, the South African mine-owners and British government...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:54

... WAR AND THE LAW OF NATIONS to trace the whole process of transformation of the legal nature of war, insofar as records enable us to so, from the earliest periods of recorded history up to the ... eagle feathers, in the territory of the enemy (or in the house of the enemy chief, or in the enemy’s chief city or temple).50 Other methods of indicating the outbreak of war have included the seizure ... present the formal demands to the other side and then to inform the other side straight away that Rome was making war against it in the event of their rejection.58 The obsolescence of the fetial...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:02

... institutions and strengthen the complementarity between the formal and the informal sectors The poorest people of rural and urban societies live beyond the frontier of formal finance, or outside the formal ... in the business of information provision Governments can greatly improve incentives for optimal provision of information The discussion of SROs has underscored the importance of information for ... component of financial sector reform is thus the improvement of the information generation and dissemination process Investors need to know about the creditworthiness of financial intermediaries and the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:33

... zero even at the 95% level in Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US Moreover, while in some countries, (including Finland, the UK and the US) residential ... Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US The sample starts in 1986 in order to avoid the more turbulent, higher inflation period that ended in the first half of ... the whole sample period are available for Australia, Canada, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the US For, Belgium we link an older series for small and...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:40

... distributing import & export goods Around the world, the average cost of freight forwarding service for imports and exports equals about 15 percent of the value of import or export goods, the highest ... Association has the role of coordinating the activities of the members in order to protect the interests of the members and improve the position of Vietnam in the international freight forwarding industry ... interest of the members in the import-export goods freight forwarding activities of the S.R of Vietnam, and on this basis to integrate with such professional colleagues on the world The Association...

Ngày tải lên: 27/10/2012, 16:42

... micronutrients, and 0.41 to 0.66 for food groups The correlation coefficient for red meat was 0.52 and for poultry 0.48 The correlations between the FFQs were 0.48 to 0.51 for macronutrients and 0.47 for ... anthropometrics and other lifestyle factors Protocols for the SWHS were approved by the Institutional Review Boards of all institutes involved in the study Dietary intake and other exposure information ... frequency of consumption were 1.00 for never, 1.20 for

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 16:49

... Medical Director of BPL for his his help and support, the staff of the ITU at the RLUHT in particular the research nurses, Neal Gratton and Andrea Fazakerley for recruiting patients into the study ... Jurcevic for the kind gift of the purified HLA-DR, Drs B Flanagan and D Newton for their advice and technical assistance with the PCR assays and Western Blotting Conflict of interest The authors have ... than the level of HLA-DR in the cell lysates (5ul of a in 10 dilution, from x 106 PBMC) The shed HLA-DR therefore seemed to represent a small fraction of the total HLA-DR of the cell, however the...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:57