... severity of pneumonia and need for hospitalization The incidence of pneumonia and risk of severe pneumonia are greater in infants and young children The attack rates are 35–40 per 1000 infants ... management of febrile infants and young children Pediatr Emerg Care 2006; 22:145–9 Doan QH, Kissoon N, Dobson S, et al A randomized, controlled trial of the impact of early and rapid diagnosis of viral ... level of severity are not well characterized for children living in resource-rich areas of the world At the more severe end of the spectrum of clinical presentation, most experts and professional...
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... after each dose of RV5 (93) Vaccine virus was detected in 17 (12.7%) of 134 infants after dose 1, zero of 109 infants after dose 2, and zero of 99 infants after dose Shedding of vaccine virus ... (SAEs) and deaths were evaluated in infants enrolled in phase III trials (10,97) Among RV5 and placebo recipients, the incidence of SAEs within 42 days of any dose (2.4% of 36,150 and 2.6% of 35,536, ... postvaccination of any dose of RV5, the incidence of fever reported by parents and guardians of RV5 recipients and placebo recipients (42.6% and 42.8%, respectively) was similar, as was the incidence of hematochezia...
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Prevention of Pneumococcal Disease Among Infants and Children — Use of 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine and 23-Valent Pneumococcal Polysaccharide Vaccine pdf
... Unvaccinated Older Infants and Children In an open-label, nonrandomized and noncontrolled study of PCV13 conducted in Poland (Study 3002), children aged 7–11 months, 12–23 months, and 24–71 months ... use of PCV13 to prevent pneumococcal disease in infants and young children aged
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Báo cáo y học: "Ultrasonography, magnetic resonance imaging, radiography, and clinical assessment of inflammatory and destructive changes in fingers and toes of patients with psoriatic arthritis" pot
... ST that was half of the acquired ST Projection radiography X-ray of hands and feet in a posterior-anterior projection was performed within a month of the US X-rays of both hands and feet (2nd–5th ... ultrasonography, x-ray, and clinical examination, with MRI as standard reference method Sensitivities and specificities of US, x-ray, and clinical examination, with MRI as the standard reference method, ... (6 of 16) and Wakefield and colleagues [16] in 1% (1 of 100) of the examined MCP joints Five of the erosion-like changes found in our study were located at the radial or ulnar side of the 2nd and...
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Báo cáo y học: "Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), psychiatry and the Clinical assessment of Skills and Competencies (CASC)Same Evidence, Different Judgement" ppsx
... that have investigated the validity of the use of OSCEs in clinical examinations of medical students and a full review of all of these is outside the scope of the current discussion In the main, ... episode of psychosis He has supervised and aided junior doctors sitting the CASC examination List of abbreviations OSCE: Objective Structure Clinical Examination; CASC: Clinical Assessment of Skills ... Skills and Competencies; MRCPsych: Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists UK Acknowledgements and Funding SM would like to acknowledge and thank Dr Matthew Broome (Associate Clinical Professor...
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Báo cáo y học: "because I am something special" or "I think I will be something like a guinea pig": information and assent of legal minors in clinical trials – assessment of understanding, appreciation and reasoning'''' pot
... objective of the trial were not well understood and appreciation was low – by both children and adolescents and often by parents The capacity to understand the nature of placebo was low and children and ... feasibility of providing information about clinical trials according to informed consent criteria and the understanding of information related to clinical trials The appreciation of children and adolescents ... 19 children also had a very precise understanding of possible side-effects But most of the children (n = 13) failed to understand that the primary objective of the clinical trial was research and...
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Assessment of pretreatments and enzymatic hydrolysis of wheat straw as a sugar source for bioprocess industry
... content of esterified and etherified p-coumaric acids is 3.78 and 1.72% respectively, and the content of esterified and etherified ferulic acid is 1.02 and 2.2%, respectively [23] Dimerization of ... economic, and energetic costs and benefits of biodiesel and ethanol biofuels PNAS 2006, 103(30), 11206-11210 [6] Taherzadeh M.J., Kamiri K Pretreatment of lignocellulosic wastes to improve ethanol and ... conversion of lime-treated wheat straw into bioethanol: quality assessment of bioethanol and valorization of side streams by anaerobic digestion and combustion Biotechnology for Biofuels 2008,...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Assessment of porcine and human 16-ene-synthase, a third activity of P450c17, in the formation of an androstenol precursor doc
... assays with increasing amounts of DNA fragments encoding cyt b5 and monitored the formation of androstadienol and DHEA As shown in Fig the stimulation of DHEA and androstadienol production from ... transformation of preg into androstadienol, a precursor in the biosynthesis of 1354 P Soucy et al (Eur J Biochem 270) Fig Influence of increasing amounts of P450red on the relative formation of DHEA and androstadienol ... also in the production of androstadienol which is considered to be an intermediate in the 16-androstene pathway leading to the biosynthesis of androstenol and of 5a(16)androsten-3-one, a pheromonally...
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Fact Sheet No.23, Harmful Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children docx
... feeding and care of female infants and/ or higher rates of morbidity and malnutrition have been reported in most of the countries already listed and also in Bolivia, Colombia, the Islamic Republic of ... the right of the child to the "enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health", as laid down in article 24 (paras and 3) of the Convention on the Rights of the Child The origin of FGM has ... disparities which exist at each stage of the life cycle of girls and women; (b) promotion of ratification and implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women,...
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Báo cáo " Assessment of OPRM1 and HRH2 gene variants in Vietnamese using RFLP-PCR " ppt
... analysis of IVS2 +691C/G SNP M: marker 1kb; Lane 1, and 7: homozygote CC; lane and 4: GG; lane and 5: heterozygote C/G From that, we calculated allele frequencies of +691C and +691G as 0.75 and 0.25, ... binding and activity Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 95 (1998) 9608 233 [5] Paul Roy Heath et a.l, Allenle of Human histamine H2 receptor and methods of detection of H2 receptor ... to Assoc Prof Trinh Dinh Dat from Faculty of Biology, Hanoi University of Science, for his continuing expertise support and proof-reading the manuscript D.D Long et al / VNU Journal of Science,...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20
Water Quality Guidelines, Standards and Health: Assessment of risk and risk management for water-related infectious disease docx
... Standards and Health: Assessment of risk and risk management for water-related infectious disease This page intentionally left blank Water Quality Guidelines, Standards and Health: Assessment of ... exposure assessment is an important input to both the assessment of risk and to risk management Exposure assessment is a formal component of the risk assessment process (Chapter 8) Exposure assessment ... Harmonised assessment of risk and risk management: an overview 11 While the general public may prefer the idea of 'zero risk', in a world of limited resources and competing demands some idea of tolerable...
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RUBBER PRODUCTION IN LIBERIA: An Exploratory Assessment of Living and Working Conditions, with Special Attention to Forced Labor docx
... history and context of five key areas of inquiry of this study: the place, product, people, politics, and programs (the 5P‟s); followed by a brief summary of previous allegations of human and labor ... history and development of the rubber sector in the country, and the impact of severe poverty and social and economic instability on the labor force and employment patterns The civil war and subsequent ... Exploratory Assessment of Living and Working Conditions, with Special Attention to Forced Labor 11 Tapping rubber trees The clearing of land, breeding in the nursery, and the weeding and pruning of fields...
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Solid Waste Management and Greenhouse Gases A Life-Cycle Assessment of Emissions and Sinks potx
... Comparison of Recycling, Landfilling, and Incineration: A Review of Recent Studies”; Annual Review of Energy and the Environment 21:6:191-237 32 Microsoft Excel and Web-based versions of this tool ... of action by EPA • 1.4 The landfill recovery scenario is based on estimated recovery rates and percentages of waste disposed in landfills with no recovery, landfills with only flaring, and landfills ... reduction and recycling of paper products, for example, reduce energy consumption, decrease combustion and landfill emissions, and increase forest carbon sequestration ES.4 GENESIS AND APPLICATIONS OF...
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INTRODUCTION: ASSESSMENT OF SPEAKING AND LISTENING SKILLS IN ENGLISH (ASL) pptx
... Role of Assessor: An assessor is a person who is assigned the job of assessing a candidate’s performance in any of the skills that is to be assessed For the purpose of the Summative Assessment, ... Therefore, due care and attention must be given to each of the following: Size of the room Seating arrangements Acoustics of the room Equipment used Quality of the recording of the Listening ... comprises of a variety of task These tasks are graded according to the length of the task and the difficulty level Schools may download the sample tasks and reorganize them in two parts transcripts and...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 1 pptx
... Programme officers in the development of new projects The participation of civil society, government, and business stakeholders in the diagnosis of environment and health problems and in the design and ... development of computational technologies, land use trends and impacts analyses, and socio-economic aspects of environmental and natural resource conservation and management Dr Gitau received her B.S and ... of well-being, and takes into account the multiple goals and multiple perspectives of the primary managers of these systems Issues of human values (such as economics and aesthetics), scale, and...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 2 potx
... sum of the cross products of cumulative percentage of land-use units and lagged cumulative percentage of the resource T2 is the sum of the cross products of lagged cumulative percentage of land-use ... boundaries of Gikabu-naButi village of Tigoni Division are socioeconomic The village adjoins another, and both are sandwiched within two vast tea estates The land was part of one of the tea estates and ... Casley and Lury (1982) as (T1-T2)/ 10,000 where T1 is the sum of the cross-products of cumulative percentage of land-use units and lagged cumulative percentage of the resource T2 is the sum of the...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 3 potx
... production and agroforestry Tour of fields Livestock production Tour of pens and sheds Marketing End of tour of fields, pens, and sheds End of tour of fields, pens, and sheds Beginning of discussion ... of the agenda of the workshop, a description of the steps of an action research process and of the objectives and proposed methods of the project was provided Table 3.1 shows the sequencing of ... strategies Graphs of trends and time lines Graphs Graphs of transect profiles showing resource location and land-use characteristics Lists of income and expenditure types Key inputs and outputs Venn...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 4 ppt
... 1976), (4) assessment of stability (Roberts, 1976a), (5) calculation of the strong components, (6) assessment of connectedness (Roberts, 1976b), and (7) assessment of the effects of different ... [3, 12] and [12, 3] Increases in the weight of any one of these arcs increase the number of oscillating impacts of community goals A weight of 10 resulted in oscillations of all but nine of the ... Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems Klee, V (1989) Sign-pattern and stability In Applications of Combinatorics and Graph Theory to the Biological and Social Sciences...
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Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems - Chapter 5 pptx
... bounding of a problem situation and the concept of a system’s boundary in soft systems methodology Journal of Applied Systems Analysis 16: 35–41 Checkland, P., and Scholes, J (1990) Soft Systems ... Agroecosystem health project Integrated Assessment of Health and Sustainability of Agroecosystems TABLE 5.2 Activities, Measures of Performance, and Targets Negotiated and Agreed On to Resolve Four Problem ... 80% of households Soft System Methodology in the Management of Agroecosystems Measures of performance and their ranges 141 © 2009 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 142 Integrated Assessment of Health...
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