deficits a critical review of the clinical evidence

... may be related to salt and NOC, in enhancing carcinogenesis after the epithelium is damaged[8] The aim of this article is to review and evaluate the available epidemiological evidence about the ... M, Natsukawa S, Shaura K, Koizumi Y, Kasuga Y, Hanaoka T, Tsugane S Association of Helicobacter pylori infection and environmental factors in non-cardia gastric cancer in Japan Gastric Cancer ... population: a 6-year survey Jpn J Cancer Res 1992; 83: 568-575 Inoue M, Tajima K, Kobayashi S, Suzuki T, Matsuura A, Nakamura T, Shirai M, Nakamura S, Inuzuka K, Tominaga S Protective factor against...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:21

... in the parametrial areas [35], whereas Levenback found 9% of the sentinel nodes in the paraaortic area, 11% in the common iliac, 71% in the external iliac, and 9% in the parametrial area in a ... Of the cases, 90% are squamous cell carcinomas, while the rest are melanoma, adenocarcinoma, basal cell carcinoma and sarcoma [7] Nodal metastasis in vulva cancer is the main prognostic factor, ... Although majority of the nodes are located in internal iliac and external iliac areas, nodes have been found in also presacral, parametrial and pararectal areas [33] In a sentinel node study carried...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... risk of developing OA in their near future Appendix Comparative discussion on the value of the Jadad and OA scores to evaluate the quality of clinical trials on OA To evaluate the quality of the ... (LPS)-induced GAG release [69] It also affected the activities of lysosomal enzymes, decreasing the activities of arylsulfatase A and arysulfatase B, an N-acetylgalactosaminidase-4-sulfatase, but increasing ... the Jadad score in discriminating the quality of the trials Indeed, several trials, despite a maximal Jadad score and point allocated to the three criteria of the OA score evaluated in the Jadad...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... developed from the transformation are retained and transferred to other problems and parts of the healthcare organization The two exceptions to the question of sustainability are Furman and Caplan's report ... and Management in the School of Rural Public Health at the Texas A& M Health Science Center in College Station, Texas Additional material Additional file Table S1 Summaries of organizational transformation ... Backoff RW: Organizational Transformation Journal of Management Inquiry 1997, 6:235-254 Van Tonder C: 'Organisational transformation': wavering on the edge of ambiguity SA Journal of Industrial...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... developed from the transformation are retained and transferred to other problems and parts of the healthcare organization The two exceptions to the question of sustainability are Furman and Caplan's report ... and Management in the School of Rural Public Health at the Texas A& M Health Science Center in College Station, Texas Additional material Additional file Table S1 Summaries of organizational transformation ... Backoff RW: Organizational Transformation Journal of Management Inquiry 1997, 6:235-254 Van Tonder C: 'Organisational transformation': wavering on the edge of ambiguity SA Journal of Industrial...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... they are generally downplayed and not affect the decisiveness of the conclusions Interpretation of the findings is often biased and obvious caveats and alternative explanations for the data are ... asked them, among other aspects of their experience, about addiction and loss of autonomy The claim that participants could validly report physical addiction to nicotine was based on the observation ... that “When asked what exactly it was they were addicted to, participants readily answered that it is the nicotine in cigarettes.” Clearly, the responders had no way of knowing this for a fact and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... most of the triage scales developed in the 1990s and 2000s being designed as 5-level scales Of these, the Australian Triage Scale (ATS), Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS), ... clear, internal validity is good while sample size is of uncertain adequacy ATS = Australasian Triage Scale; CTAS = Canadian Emergency Department Triage and Acuity Scale; MTS = Manchester Triage ... but many patients All studies are observational triage levels, we could not evaluate the validity of the triage scales across all triage levels as regards the risk of early death To estimate the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... from an efficiency perspective Critical appraisal of the economic analysis of IABP therapy in AMI patients The factors which we consider when critically appraising an economic analysis are summarized ... care Intracoronary thrombolysis was used in 42% of patients later randomized to IABP therapy compared to 46% of patients in the standard therapy arm Intravenous heparin was used for a mean of ... intervals In determining the clinical application of an article on therapy, we ascertain if the results are useful in practice The results of the Randomized IABP Trial [10] are applicable to patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... Because of the relatively poor quality of the available data and the lack of other important information, the question of preferred treatment still remains unanswered, and there is clearly a need ... Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial 1997; 35: 230-6 Talwar RM, Ellis III E, Throckmorton GS Adaptations of the masticatory system after bilateral fractures of the mandibular condylar process J Oral ... recent advances in prevention, diagnosis and management Int J Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 2005; 34: 823-33 27 Banks P A pragmatic approach to the management of condylar fractures Int J Oral Maxillofac...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 17:20

... Ichikawa S, Kasama S, Takahashi T, Sakamoto H, Kumakura H, Takayama Y, Kanda T, Murakami M, Kurabayashi M: Relationship between brachial arterial endothelial function and lumbar spine bone mineral ... H, Ichikawa S, Kasama S, Takahashi T, Sakamoto H, Kumakura H, Takayama Y, Kanda T, Murakami M, Kurabayashi M: Relationship between carotid atherosclerosis and lumbar spine bone mineral density ... Sumino H, Ichikawa S, Kasama S, Takahashi T, Kumakura H, Takayama Y, Kanda T, Sakamaki T, Kurabayashi M: Elevated arterial stiffness in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis Maturitas 2006, 55:212-218...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... Perioral paresthesia, numbness in the hands, weakness, ataxia, lightheadedness, shortness of breath, apnea 6/23 pts renal impairment; 7/23 pts albuminuria Nausea, itching of the face, hands, and arms ... facial and peripheral paresthesia, partial deafness, visual disturbances, vertigo, confusion, hallucinations, seizures, ataxia, and neuromuscular blockade The last of these usually produces a myasthenia-like ... (48 cases E coli and 45 cases Shigella spp.) Episodes of ptosis, muscular weakness of the face and of the extremities Page of 13 Vol 10 No Medical wards 12 Critical Care 1965 [23] 11 Falagas and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... known about the variation in hemodynamic goals in clinical trials and whether this variation is associated with patient outcomes To better understand the hemodynamic goals in clinical trials in the ... that report hemodynamic goals of therapy, there are wide variations in the measures followed and the goals chosen If hemodynamic goals are related to outcomes and to specific agents, the variation ... of the trial, and mortality rates To summarize the hemodynamic goals of each trial, both measure(s) of the blood pressure and/or filling pressure used and/ or the cardiac index, and the target...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... be established as follows: A1 A2 An A1 a1 /a1 a1 /a2 a1 /an A2 a2 /a1 a2 /a2 a2 /an An an /a1 an /a2 an/an 149 where ai/aj = aj/ai for all i, j = 1, 2,, n (ai/aj expressed in another ... that matrix The following is a brief summary of the mathematical theory of the AHP, as reference to Saaty and Vargas (1991) and Harker (1989) The matrix of pair-wise comparisons A = (aij) can ... Underpinning mathematical theory The application of the Analytic Hierarchy Process is (1) to establish a matrix of pair-wise comparisons A = (aij), and (2) to establish weights of a set of criteria (w1,...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29

... GBC, as expressed in equation (12), include the total site area (Asite), building footprint area (Af), percentage of hard-paved area of the site (P), and total net usable area of the building (Anet) ... (Af) and the percentage of hard-paved area of the site (P) should be kept as low as possible, and the total net usable area of the building (Anet) should be as large as possible In Singapore, scarcity ... being the third lowest among the scores of all case studies This is due to the large surface parking area, resulting in small percentage of greenery area in the total site area, and the rather large...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29

... potential sustainable performance of the project, based on the information available at the end of the Design phase Because the information available during the Pre-Design and Design phases are likely ... practice into their established ways of designing (Hagan, 2003) The Integrated Framework encourages and facilitates architectural students to engage in a truly interdisciplinary approach as early ... potential sustainable performance of the project, based on the information available at the end of the Pre-Design phase." The Design phase assessment is intended to indicate the future potential...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29

... data for further discussions in Part III Part III compiles a set of empirical analyses and discussion in order to substantiate the theoretically critical review of the practice of BEAMs and the ... discourse (Hagan, 2001) As a result of the analysis above and the contestation between the three domains, the approaches towards sustainable built environment from the three domains are often fragmented, ... places, they had easy access to plant food and water Small animals that came to drink and feed there were easy prey The humans had only to protect themselves from attack from predatory animals...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:29

... higher rates than usual radical rearrangements [98,312] On the other hand, the timing of radical rearrangement (radical clocks) may depend critically on the tightness of the radical cage and the ... [68], the enzyme variant still mediated N-oxygenation of the tertiary arylamine at a rate less than half that of the wild-type-catalyzed reaction [142], so that reasonable interpretation of the data ... permit the unmasking of radical intermediates that rearrange at a rate faster than that of the recombination step [16,93] Despite the apparent predominance of the hydrogen transfer mechanism as the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... Psychiatric Research, USA; Faiza Anwar, Women’s Health Educator, Australia; Victor Aparicio Basauri, WHO Collaborating Centre, Spain; Lara Asuncion Ramon de la Fuente, National Institute of Psychiatry, ... Ahmed G Abou El-Azayem, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Council of the World Federation for Mental Health, Egypt; Mlay Akwillina, Reproductive Health Project, Tanzania; Mary Jane Alexander, Nathan ... gather state of the art information on reproductive and mental health issues from a variety of researchers and interested parties Valuable data from consultant reports, national programme evaluations...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 02:20

... INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND Fiscal Affairs Department Chart of Accounts: A Critical Element of the Public Financial Management Framework Prepared by Julie Cooper and Sailendra Pattanayak Authorized ... Note: Sailendra Pattanayak is a Senior Economist in the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund; Julie Cooper was a Technical Assistance Advisor in the Fiscal Affairs Department ... prepare useful financial reports and even then the accuracy of data may be questionable Account types (also called natural accounts) Revenue and expense accounts are netted off at year-end and the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21

... in Kazakhstan are provided by the Almaty branch of Dechert Kazakhstan Limited A list of the names of the directors of Dechert Kazakhstan Limited is available for inspection at its registered office: ... the meaning of the draft of the GIC In contrast, in the scope of application of the Regulation on European venture capital funds (still in the draft phase), what are known as ‘semiprofessional’ ... requirements already given in the InvA (e.g., verification of the legality of the AIF management company’s instructions) Impact on Taxation According to the reasoning of the draft of the GIC, the revision...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20