... both twins 31.0% of male twins and 25.5% of female twins reported living in the same household as one another These twins will necessarily share aspects of their ‘standard of living’ rating (structural ... constructed and regression analyses were performed in Stata version 10.1 for Windows These analyses were corrected for the non-independence of twins within pairs, using the ‘cluster’ option in Stata ... responsible for questionnaire design and training YK contributed to data analysis and its interpretation All authors contributed to and have approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22
... support being the least informed decisions in health care, and precludes any notion of informed consent Moreover, rates of success [6–8] are grossly inflated whereas the discomforts are rarely portrayed ... psychologically It is only by accepting and explaining that life-sustaining interventions are not ‘special’ that we can begin to discuss in an intelligent manner these important questions among ourselves ... understand prognoses and preferences for outcomes and risks of treatments (SUPPORT) The SUPPORT Principal Investigators JAMA 1995, 274:1591-1598 Daniels N: Why saying no to patients in the United States...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20
Tài liệu Why Should I Stay?...or How to Engage Hearts and Minds of our People in this Chaotic Period pptx
... Asda and in Boots In net, We want to have people excited about winning and delighted about what is in it for them They will then believe they should stay working for P&G because it is great for ... clear exciting and shared vision, including our reason for being, what we stand for and a sense of direction We will need to work with a small team, may be the barrier busters to start with and then ... joined P&G in the first place and this is currently perceived as missing Have a plan for each team and each function focused towards building capability Make it very explicit It is working in...
Ngày tải lên: 25/01/2014, 00:20
Báo cáo khoa học: K182G substitution in DevR or C8G mutation in the Dev box impairs protein–DNA interaction and abrogates DevR-mediated gene induction in Mycobacterium tuberculosis doc
... fluorescence of M tuberculosis cultures expressing WT DevR protein and harbouring either WT or mutant fdxA promoter in GFP reporter vector GFP fluorescence was assessed in standing cultures in ... function was assessed in vitro and in vivo using DevR K182G or K182A mutant protein and fdxA promoter harbouring mutations in C8 or ⁄ and T9 base in the primary DevR binding site, P The expression ... analysis and in vivo assays, it appears that DNA bending ⁄ distortion is crucial for recruiting DevR cooperatively to weak binding sites and for target promoter induction Keeping in mind the overlap...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:20
FARMERS OF FORTY CENTURIES OR PERMANENT AGRICULTURE IN CHINA, KOREA AND JAPAN ppt
... possible as a means of maintaining soil fertility in China, Korea or Japan, nor can it be continued indefinitely in either Europe or America These importations are for the time making tolerable the ... wheat or barley in the winter and spring may be followed in summer by large or small millet, sweet potatoes, soy beans or peanuts At Tientsin, 39 deg north, in the latitude of Cincinnati, Indianapolis, ... cultivated fields and these contributions in the aggregate have been large In China, in Korea and in Japan all but the inaccessible portions of their vast extent of mountain and hill lands have long...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 13:20
Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House pptx
... cabin, with a letter in his hand He was a kind master in some things, and as gently as possible informed my parents that they must part; for in two hours my father must join his master at Dinwiddie, ... by telling her that he was simply going to town with the wagon, and would be back in the morning Morning came, but little Joe did not return to his mother Morning after morning passed, and the ... from where I stood; and Chase and Seward, with their austere features at work; and senators, and ambassadors, and soldiers, all struggling with their tears great hearts sorrowing with the President...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:20
Land grab or development opportunity? Agricultural investment and international land deals in Africa pot
... bring macro-level benefits (GDP growth and government revenues), and create opportunities for raising local living standards For poorer countries with relatively abundant land, incoming investors ... communications, and global demand for food, energy and commodities have fostered foreign investment in many parts of Africa – particularly in extractive industries and in agriculture for food and fuel In ... implementation, whether or not it is legally required Principles and procedures for free, prior and informed consent particularly as developed in the forestry and extractive sectors will increasingly provide...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 12:20
An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections, and Others, Which Have Occurred, or Been Attempted, in the United States and Elsewhere, During the Last Two Centuries. pptx
... and in the meantime, whilst we are preparing to get ready to begin to repent, every thing that in us lies to extinguish every good feeling, and cultivate and bring into action every bad feeling ... stir, or move, or begin to act, either in support of slavery, or in opposition to its immediate abolition, without committing crimes or sins of some sort or other." He cannot be neutral Therefore, ... individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are located in the United States, we not claim a right to prevent you from copying, distributing, performing, displaying or...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Comparison of three rapamycin dosing schedules in A/J Tsc2+/- mice and improved survival with angiogenesis inhibitor or asparaginase treatment in mice with subcutaneous tuberous sclerosis related tumors" docx
... Rapamycin levels for the asparaginase plus rapamycin and vincristine plus rapamycin cohorts are not reported due to the treatment schedules of asparaginase and vincristine Asparaginase and vincristine ... Single agent mTOR inhibitor (all agents and doses were more effective than no treatment) ** Combination containing mTOR inhibitor that was more effective than single agent mTOR inhibitor # Single ... mTOR inhibitors as either single agents or in combination with an mTOR inhibitor Single agent drugs which are FDA approved for other indications that are effective in mouse TSC tumor models include...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " The effects of diabetes and/or peripheral neuropathy in detecting short postural perturbations in mature adults" pptx
... using the Sliding Linear Investigative Platform for Assessing Lower Limb Stability (SLIP-FALLS), a horizontal translating force platform and data collection system [14] The SLIPFALLS platform ... aided in data analysis and drafting Page of 10 and revising the manuscript SM performed data analysis and aided in drafting and revising the manuscript CMS performed data acquisition, aided in data ... Weinstein monofilaments have high reliability and validity for determining sensory impairment in people with diabetes [24,25] A trained research assistant performed Berg Balance and SWM testing...
Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Molecular analysis of hprt mutation in B6C3F1 mice exposed to ozone alone and combined treatment of 4-(N-methyl-N-nitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone and/or dibutyl phthalate for 32 and 52 weeks" ppsx
... (Takara, Japan), and 22.7 µl of sterile H2O The reaction mixture was overlaid with mineral oil, and incubated for at 94oC, followed by 30 cycles at 94oC for min, 55oC for min, and 72oC for min, with ... resulting in base-pair substitutions, deletions, insertions or frameshifts may lead to mutation Mutation induction has been implicated in several other debilitating disorders, suggesting the importance ... 1×105 cells/ml using mutant plating medium supplemented with µg 6-thioguanine (TG)/ml, and were then seeded in 96well plates at 100 µl per well for incubation Plates were scored for colony growth...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:20
Báo cáo y học: "Psychogenic or neurogenic origin of agrammatism and foreign accent syndrome in a bipolar patient: a case report" pdf
... seen on the brain imaging, involving the left insular and anterior temporal cortex, two brain regions frequently involved in aphasic syndrome but also in FAS, a cerebrovascular origin must be considered ... normal scores in the word reading and colour naming but his performance was impaired in the colourword conditions FG also showed abnormal performance on the Trail Making [21], a test exploring mental ... Test Working memory and executive functions - Brown-Peterson test - no interference - mean of interference scores - Stroop Test - Color name reading - Color naming - Interference - Trail making...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo y học: "Predicting hospital admission and discharge with symptom or function scores in patients with schizophrenia: pooled analysis of a clinical trial extension" doc
... schizophrenia or a DSM-IV diagnosis of substance abuse within months before screening (not including nicotine and caffeine addiction) Additional inclusion and exclusion criteria are presented in the ... in the inpatient setting, they may help to identify which patients are ready for discharge As experience is gained using symptom and functioning instruments, their use in remission criteria and ... symptomatology for PANSS scores, high functioning for PSP scores and ex-US sites for country Figure Hazard ratios for significant variables in the two Cox proportional hazard regression models predicting...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21
Báo cáo y học: "Osteogenic protein 1 in synovial fluid from patients with rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis: relationship with disease and levels of hyaluronan and antigenic keratan sulfate" ppt
... provide important information for the formulation and delivery of growth factors into target areas Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests 10 Authors' contributions ... truly normal joints (Collins grade 0–1) and from degenerative joints (Collins grade 2–4 and Mankin grade and above) [28] In contrast to the situation in normal cartilage matrix, the majority of ... prognostic and /or diagnostic value for the inflammatory processes in articular joints a prior history of joint disease, the majority of these joints displayed moderate degrees of morphological...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22
Báo cáo y học: "Relationship between physical activity and stiff or painful joints in mid-aged women and older women: a 3-year prospective study" pot
... activity and stiff or painful joints in each cohort, after adjusting for the other factors For each confounding variable for which some respondents' data were missing, a missing category was included ... living in a small rural town or remote area, reported being born in Australia, reported not having a diagnosis of depression, reported having one or no chronic diseases, and reported never having ... stiff or painful joints in cohorts of mid-age women and older women Our main findings were that physical activity did not increase or decrease the odds of self-reported stiff or painful joints...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20
Domesticating or foreignizing translations of titles and honorifics in hong lou meng
... consulting latest findings in studies of HLM, clarifying numerous inconsistencies and mysteries, and securing their understanding, just in order to produce a complete translation of the novel In this perspective, ... identifying and signposting a term of address in its context and determining its position within the system of politeness is very informative for a learner or reader 1.2.5 Hypothesis and questions ... also be excused for the incompleteness that lies in their work Given the constraints set by their respective publishers and editors, and the enormity of time and energy the translating requires,...
Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 06:28
Efficient search of general and or keyword queries in XML data
... is the original motivation of our work that we intend to develop an efficient approach of processing AND -OR keyword search queries in general form, i.e any combination of AND and OR operators without ... type information (whether it is an AND operator, an OR operator or a keyword) is stored in the node For each operator node we also maintain its child node list If the query node is a keyword, ... with operators other than AND Therefore, in this thesis we introduce a novel approach for processing general form keyword search queries that are any combination of AND and OR operators 1.1 Contributions...
Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 19:02
Mobile labour and worker resistance strategies a study of waste collectors in singapore
... domestic workers in Vancouver (Pratt, 1999), and in Singapore (Yeoh and Huang 1998, 1999), and ‘foreign talents’ in Singapore (Coe and Kelly, 2000, 2002; Yeoh and Chang, ... example of labour exercising agency in its desire to influence their own destinies Integral to understanding the ability of workers in shaping their destinies has been ... activities of and monitoring the performance of their workers Workers employed in this form of mobile work may also engage in different resistance strategies and coping tactics...
Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 12:00
The University of Labour and Social Affairs
... such as ‘recognising opinions and view point’, ‘recognising main ideas’, ' interpreting information', and making inferences' - Task III is a kind of ‘filling in the gaps’ task including sentences ... questions that demanded them to use such skills as recognising opinions and view point’, ‘recognising main ideas’, ' interpreting information', and making inferences', 'inferring from context' ... Improving reading speed Scanning and skimming Practising scanning Practising skimming From this point of view, knowing what you want from reading is not of much important if you are reading for...
Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2013, 08:49