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... Generous thanks to… National Science Foundation’s Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) Pictures from http://www.magazine.ucla.edu UCLA Marching Band Photo by Clint Karlsen ... Yadda, Yadda, Yadda • Platitudes & Clichés I want to cure cancer Knowledge is power • Quotes & Passages Social sciences and humanities applicants overuse this strategy (i.e., passages from Shakespeare ... impression of a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy (NASA/MAXIM) Andrea Ghez, Astronomer, answered one of astronomy’s more important question by reporting that a monstrous black hole...

Ngày tải lên: 28/05/2014, 15:13

... the alpha site, with the second wave of KT intervention taking place in Calgary and Halifax The phased approach has several advantages For instance, it allows us to train the research assistants ... assistants sharing site organization and local chart audit evaluation These research assistants will come to the first KT site to undergo standardized training on the chart audit and chart-stimulated ... incorporate measures into clinical reasoning, and recognize and address personal and organizational barriers and facilitators of change Group assignment procedure A randomized design is usually the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... rights, the regulatory and taxed (both inland and at the gate), satisfaction level of infrastructure, the operation of financial markets, the phenomenon of corruption and many other factors This ... private sector and privatization of state enterprises; rights, warranties and incentive structure and operation of the market; the international agreements on trade and the legal system in general ... legal - administration; geographic location and infrastructure; Economic and financial; Labor The second frame, which is the process, indicates the data gathering, evaluation through questionnaire...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2013, 10:57

... journals articles and conference papers The database is produced by the ARRB Transport Research Library and is Australia’s major transport database As well as the holdings of the ARRB Transport ... Newstead and O’Hare (2003) As noted by these authors: “… it may not be entirely accurate to label such behavioural adaptations as ‘compensation’ While these changes may reflect a behavioural adaptation ... drivers Casualty crash analyses, even those encompassing casualties of all severity, have a sampling bias: the so-called ‘frailty bias’, which exaggerates any apparent age-related risk increase The...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the Air ... basic research and Living With a Star (LWS) for targeted basic research and applications and operations activities in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Department ... between the National Academy of Sciences and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Purchase Order No 40-AA-NR-111308, National Science...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 11:21

... Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the Air ... basic research and Living With a Star (LWS) for targeted basic research and applications and operations activities in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Department ... between the National Academy of Sciences and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Purchase Order No 40-AA-NR-111308, National Science...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:20

... Alternative Dispute Resolution: Panacea or Anathema? by Harry T Edwards, 99 Harvard Law Review 668 (1986), is an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of arbitration and other dispute resolution ... Court The Bailiff The bailiff, often classified as a peace officer and commonly uniformed and armed, is an official of the court As part of a wide range of duties, the bailiff: • maintains order and ... “appeal” a case means to go to an appellate court and ask it to review and overturn the lower court’s decision Usually, you can appeal only if you think the trial court made a mistake about the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2014, 14:10

... the paradigm case of the abetting cause An artisan can be understood as a midwife rather than an imposer If we think of any maker or craftsman not as a laser beam but as a Michelangelo, as a respecter ... passive and active; they must 24 The Gods and Technology be presented with an occasion to make war, and they must actively take up that occasion and make it effective as a motive for war The same activity ... proof In the modern age, however, the final cause, the material cause, and the formal cause are laughed out of court, and so is the notion that matter may be pregnant with a form 28 The Gods and Technology...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:45

... Nishimura D, Morita K, Yoshida N, Katada N, et al: Case report: multiple cancers: hepatocellular carcinoma and adenocarcinomas of the common bile duct and the gall-bladder in a woman with primary ... primary malignant tumors: A survey of the literature and a statistical study Am J Cancer 1932, 16:1358-1414 Suzuki T, Takahashi H, Yao K: Multiple primary malignancies in the head and neck: a clinical ... was a hepatocellular carcinoma These findings might also support the fact that these two cancers occurred in a random and synchronous manner There was one case reported in the literature who had...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:20

... analysis of data All authors have read and approved the final manuscript Additional material Additional file Table S1 Characteristics of the radiation-induced head and neck cancer patients (n = ... laryngeal cancer and esophageal cancer) which arose near the radiation field from the analysis of radiation-induced cancer according to the criteria that Sakai et al proposed, even though these cases ... Calcaterra TC, Abemayer E, Fu YS, Parker RG: Postirradiation Sarcoma of the Head and Neck Cancer 1993, 72(3):887-893 Lagrange JL, Ramaioli A, Chateau MC, Marchal C, Resbeut M, Richaud P, Lagarde...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... plantar surface Acral lentiginous melanoma on the plantar surface A database search was undertaken to identify all cases of ALM treated at the tertiary care melanoma centre located in a central ... that male gender, increasing age and a low educational level were all risk factors for a later presentation to physicians In a second paper[31] examining physician delays, acral locations and ... Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) & Australasian Association of Cancer (AACR): Cancer in Australia: an overview 2006 Canberra: AIHW; 2007 Soong SJ, Shaw HM, Balch CM, McCarthy WH, Urist...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... References Capelastegui A, Astigarraga E, Fernandez-Canton G, Saralegui I, Larena JA, Merino A: Masses and pseudomasses of the hand and wrist: MR findings in 134 cases Skeletal Radiol 1999, 28:498-507 ... hand and forearm J Hand Surg 2005, 30B:509-512 4 Grivas T B, Psarakis S .A, Kaspiris A, Liapi G: Giant lipoma of the thenar – Ccse study and contemporary approach to its aetiopathogenicity Hand, ... rate in the hand region is not known Case Presentation: We present the case of a 63-year-old Greek Caucasian woman with a giant lipoma of the hand and palm which was not initially diagnosed After...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... hepatis was also free of lymph nodes Significant lymphadenopathy was seen along the celiac trunk and the lesser curvature of the stomach along the gastric artery The para-aortic and para-caval regions ... an extremely rare case of a patient having carcinoma of the esophagus and the breast at the same time In this case, the histopathology of the breast tumor was an infiltrating ductal carcinoma ... esophageal cancer Dis Esophagus 2000, 13:226-230 Ahsan H, Neugut AI, Gammon MD: Association of adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus with tobacco-related and other malignancies...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... of the forearm shaft and distal radius (B) Image of the fracture of the forearm shaft and distal radius after fixed-plate osteosynthesis (C) Image of the fracture after the screw osteosynthesis ... fix the metacarpal and phalanx fracture with Kirschner wires The postoperative X-ray (Figure 1) showed a stable osteosynthesis of the forearm and distal radius allowing immediate mobilisation The ... (Figure 2) The massive tumescence of the injured forearm and hand observed in the first postoperative days was attributed to tissue damage Even at this early stage, physiotherapy and ergotherapy proved...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... statistical analysis All authors participated in the interpretation of the data and the drafting of the manuscript, and all authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests All authors ... Impact of Arthritis on Australia in 2007 Sydney: Arthritis Australia 2007 Access Economics: The Prevalence, Cost, and Burden of Disease of Arthritis in Australia Canberra, Australia: The Arthritis ... strategy can be found in Table All participants received the same materials and instructions, but participants in the threeday walking group were asked to walk three days per week and participants...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:23

... olecranon and distal end of styloideal process, and “b” describes the straight line between these points The ratio between a and “b” was used as a value for the curvature Standard errors were calculated ... The authors evaluated the radiographs together The number of calcified discs was calculated and their location in the vertebral column was recorded Every visible calcification was included, also ... groups according to their sires, and to get offspring from as many sires as possible without explicit and detailed stratification The main disadvantage of this method is the accuracy of the estimates,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... detects head rotation through the semicircular canals, 2) the translational vestibulo-ocular reflex, which detects linear acceleration of the head via the utricle and saccule, and 3) the ocular counter-rolling ... information regarding eye alignment and stabilization [44] This is an important part of the visual postural control pathway, as this pathway may compensate for visual deprivation such as in darkness ... projecting to the primary visual cortex [29] The primary visual cortex is located on the medial surface of the occipital lobe in the walls of the calcarine sulcus [29] The visual field and pathway are...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:22

... restricted and painful in abduction, internal, and external rotation Plain film radiographs of the right shoulder (AP with internal and external rotation views) and thoracic spine (AP and lateral views) ... destruction of the lateral scapular cortical margin Metastatic liver disease Subsequent bone scintigraphy revealed abnormal increased accumulation of radiopharmaceutical along the lateral aspect of the ... of the right scapula lateral scapular cortical lucency lytic destruction of thereveals a focal indistinct AP radiograph AP radiograph of the right scapula reveals a focal indistinct lucency and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... also based on the law of conservation of mass: Atot = [A 3 ]e + [HA−2 ]e + [H2 A 1 ]e + [H3 A] e Based on the acid-base equilibrium reactions of Na2HPO4 and H2O and the above mathematical relationships, ... derived the mathematical model and drafted the manuscript LK and IK conducted the buffer titration experiments All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript Competing interests The ... although charge balance is a convenient mathematical tool that can be utilized to calculate and predict the equilibrium pH, charge balance (electroneutrality considerations) is not a fundamental physicochemical...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... risk a like to trade with variable-length moving-average systems a No,l Disagree a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a D a a a a 14 Principles of Trading System Design Six Cardinal Rules Once ... provide a measure of variability in system results The standard deviation per trade is naturally smaller when we trade one contract at a time rather than all at once The standard deviation in trade ... calculations require assumptions about the probability of winning, the payoff ratio, and the bet size The payoff ratio can be defined as the ratio of the average winning trades to the average losing...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 00:02