clinical studies on treatment for diabetic retinopathy

... of study discontinuation for any reason were higher for Early Non-responders than for Early Responders (25.0% versus 17.5%, p=.007) LS mean change from baseline in PANSS Total score for patients ... Thoughts were more likely to continue being non-responders at Week Compared to Early Non-responders, the Early Responders were not only more likely to respond to continued treatment with olanzapine ... criteria for response at Week 4, in went on to meet the criteria for response at Week A regression model to identify characteristics that distinguish Early Non-responders who and not respond at...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factor; MNC: Mononuclear cell; GVHD: Graft Versus Host Disease Authors’ contributions FZ performed the clinical observations procedures, designed and coordinated the ... respond, and died Therefore, the efficacy rate was 88% The median follow-up time was 35 months (range 13-47 months), and the 3-year overall survival rate was 92% Patients rapidly achieved reconstitution ... transfusion Treatment regimen ATG 2.5-3.0 mg/(kg·d) × 5d and cyclophosphamide CTX 50 mg/(kg·d) × 2d + cyclosporine A were combined with an unrelated umbilical cord blood transfusion The mononuclear...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... groups The information extracted was used in a logistic regression to determine whether there was a significant interaction between treatment Available online http://ccforum.com/content/9/6/R607 ... severity (e.g one to five organ dysfunctions) and predicted risk for death (between 20% and 60% mortality at 28 days from the start of treatment) Additionally, current recommendations for the treatment ... population in order to allow more robust assessment of treatment effects across clinically relevant subgroups The use of power calculations conditional on a statistically significant treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... are Information Extraction Systems and Text Information Retrieval Systems Each solution based on its approach with different advantages, however, they also have some shortcomings Information Extraction ... initial success on Vietnamese language However, Google search engine is still main one of searching for information on the web in Vietnam Therefore, some companies only focus on specific domain ... boosting algorithm for information retrieval In SIGIR ’07: Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACMSIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval [13] Kim Cuong Pham Object...

Ngày tải lên: 23/11/2012, 15:04

... production tax-credit legislation for large-scale systems of at least 50 MW and 20 MW, respectively Oregon also has a performance-based component in its residential tax-credit program Variations among ... quality-control provisions, requiring preapproved systems and installers in addition to post-installation monitoring This intensive component is part of the overall program mission to monitor system ... the state’s environment The credit is allowed for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 1998 Included in the legislation is a provision for the net metering and interconnection of the photovoltaic...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... basis of per capita consumption in Sub-Saharan Africa, is estimated at 500 million kg Based on this calculation, there will be a minimum annual demand for one billion 14 million kg of milk to satisfy ... namely focus group discussion, data collection by developing formats, persosnel observations and administration of semi-structured questionnaires on milk and meat production practices were employed ... Appendix 9: correlation between milk consumption versus cropland 136 Appendix 10: Regression table for milk yield 136-137 Appendix 11: ANOVA for beef production ...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 23:20

... chlorination and used for the evaluation of UV absorbance removal efficiency Results and discussion 3.1 Comparison of sorption behavior of NOM onto IOP and PAC Fig shows UV removal efficiencies for treatment ... was measured using an electronic balance and recorded simultaneously on an on- line personal computer to calculate permeation flux Table Quality of raw water from the Nakdong River Parameter pH Value ... chlorine, while no reduction in UV removal efficiency occurred for PAC adsorption A possible explanation of the difference between IOP and PAC adsorption abilities after chlorination is that chlorine...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:07

... required for low consistency operation Water is now considered as one of the valuable resource, and mills are forced to reduce their water consumption levels Charter on corporate responsibility ... required for treatment of effluent 3) Less storage areas, energy for pumping etc., Besides environmental effect, reduced energy consumption is associated with reduction in water consumption Energy consumption ... based on reliable calculations The amount of energy saved should be sufficient for 0.8 million tons of additional capacity By and large in all the pulp & paper making sections there is scope for...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... to the formation of a new aggregate [35] In Fig 5, a simple schematic is shown, which provides reaction mechanism for formation of such kind of structures In the present case, formation of polymer ... aggregation These mechanisms depend on the dispersion of colloidal particles at lowsolid volume fractions (ϕ0 → 0) having with (a) diffusion-limited cluster aggregation (DLCA), and (b) reaction-limited ... aggregation (RLCA) In DLCA every collision between two clusters results in the formation of a new cluster, the aggregate of the two colliding clusters In RLCA only a small fraction of all the collisions...

Ngày tải lên: 20/03/2014, 13:08

... four months Long term Fistula formation In the 1960s and 1970s, with the earlier forms of cryosurgery technology, fistula formation was the most significant complication and continued to be a concern ... replaced by argon-based cryosurgery in which pressurized argon gas allows for rapid temperature drops by the free expansion of gas (Joule-Thompson effect) Real-time control of ice-ball formation improved ... Inc.® 12 procedure or may only require an overnight stay, it is an option for patients seeking shorterduration treatment of clinically organ-confined prostate cancer For patients who desire minimally...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... Brynjolfsson, E., and L M Hitt 2000 Beyond computation: Information technology, organizational transformation and business performance The Journal of Economic Perspectives 14 (Fall): 23-48 Brynjolfsson, ... to control for various contextual factors to provide useful information for potential IT amortization policies The study concludes with a summary in section IX II BACKGROUND AND MOTIVATION Accounting ... an IT production function: Understanding routines as fundament of IT value creation Forthcoming Journal of Enterprise Information Systems Zwass, V 1998 Foundations of Information Systems New...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 14:04

... pharmacologic responses Until recently, monitoring NAAG levels in biological matrices (e.g CSF, plasma, and urine) was considered the PD marker of choice to monitor GCP inhibition [19] For clinical studies, ... are only a surrogate marker of enzyme inhibition Quantifying GCP enzymatic activity on the other hand, provides a direct measurement for monitoring enzyme inhibition and is relatively straightforward ... 7.5 h incubation respectively These values corresponded to 0.6 and 10% conversion of reactant to product indicating that sufficient substrate concentration was used and that if additional GCP activity...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... pharmacologic responses Until recently, monitoring NAAG levels in biological matrices (e.g CSF, plasma, and urine) was considered the PD marker of choice to monitor GCP inhibition [19] For clinical studies, ... are only a surrogate marker of enzyme inhibition Quantifying GCP enzymatic activity on the other hand, provides a direct measurement for monitoring enzyme inhibition and is relatively straightforward ... 7.5 h incubation respectively These values corresponded to 0.6 and 10% conversion of reactant to product indicating that sufficient substrate concentration was used and that if additional GCP activity...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 03:20

... Component Summary produced a substantial loss of information in the context of our study authors gave their final approval of the version of the manuscript submitted for publication Conclusion ... severe Presence (yes) or absence (no) of diagnoses Conditions from to 10, weight = Conditions from 11 to 16, weight = Condition 17, weight = Conditions 18 and 19, weight = Final score Sum of weights ... those of the FCI for the SF-36 scales of Physical Functioning, Role Physical and Social Functioning as well as for the Physical Component Summary; whereas the Charlson correlation coefficients...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... the Si–O vibration absorption peak of the 1044 cm-1 shifted to 1079 cm-1, which might be contributed to the integration of Si–O vibration absorption and C–O/C–N vibration absorption peak The above ... the formation of the emulsion is the key aspect Emulsions can be classified in macroemulsions, microemulsions and miniemulsions (or nanoemulsions) The o/w microemulsion method is easy to scale ... to form the nanocarriers Preparation of PHPP-SMNPs Characterization of PHPP-SMNPs Considering the size of the emulsion droplet is directly related to the final nanoparticle size, the formation...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 01:20

... to develop a consensus on optimal treatment parameters, including prescribed dose and fractionation, especially for hypofractionated SRT This lack of consensus applies as well to contouring of ... neither consensus in contouring nor planning in these area, so that in fact it is only simulation examination Thirdly, although we confirmed precision of fusion software by visual inspection at ... plan) in the comparison contours Therefore, contour deviation could cause an unintended higher dose delivered to the OARs Case meningioma (d) (c) Figure Contours superimposed on the default CT image...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... http://www.ro-journal.com/content/4/1/19 low-up in the 21 patients was 62.3 months (range, 8.9 to 301.7 months) and 71.9 months (range, 3.8 to 292 months) in the control group For patients with synchronous bilateral ... Metachronous disease: second breast cancer occurred more than six months after the first Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Radiation Oncology 2009, 4:19 http://www.ro-journal.com/content/4/1/19 ... Abbreviations: RT, radiotherapy; LVI, lymphovascular invasion Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Radiation Oncology 2009, 4:19 http://www.ro-journal.com/content/4/1/19 Discussion The...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22

... system on IMRT-based SBRT dose distributions, the impact of MLC system was also investigated for commonly utilized static three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3DCRT), and dynamic conformal ... lation grid of 2.5 mm3 Tissue heterogeneity was taken into account All treatments were planned for five fraction delivery (10 Gy/fraction for liver tumors, and 12 Gy/fraction for lung lesions) ... dose [12,20] On a final note, the current work is purely a treatment planning study on a single treatment planning platform Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Radiation Oncology 2009,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... expected for secondary / traits : + 0.30 g/l for fat content, + 0.10 g/I for protein content, + 0.003 for F %/ P % rion a V Conclusion study was the first on- farm estimation of genetic parameters for ... difference could be due to the lack of selection on milk concentration in dairy ewes, while a selection on fat content has been applied on dairy cows for a long time It may also be explained by a difference ... choice On the one hand, the low level of milk production with a high concentration necessitated the fast development of a selection scheme On the other hand, recording the milk concentration on the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22

... West, Hamilton, ON, Canada 4Hamilton Health Sciences, 1200 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON, Canada Authors’ contributions RBH was responsible for study conception and design; acquisition, analysis ... health-related conditions (6 trials) Studies in this category covered various CCDSSs for screening and management of mental health conditions in primary, secondary, and tertiary care settings Only one trial ... of primary preventive care (Continued) Apkon, 2005 [16] Screening, preventive care, / 12 / and recommendations for 1,902* management of acute or chronic conditions for ambulatory care patients...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20