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... Aggravation of Allergic Rhinitis by Air Pollution: Demonstration by an Animal Model of Pollenosis Takeshi Nabe and Nobuaki Mizutani Chapter 24 The Impact of Asthma and Allergic Diseases on Schoolchildren: ... concentrate mainly on the ideas of violation of model assumptions, model shopping and multiple subgroup analyses, and reliance on significance levels or p-values 5.1 Violation of model assumptions Relative ... Dilemma’ and suggests initiating a branch of science called Regulatory Science In this new branch of science the norms of scientific proof would be less demanding than in standard science Instead of...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 05:20

... iteration and consensus Statistical analysis We used the annual change in the rate of FEV1% pred reported in the studies to conduct the primary analyses Annual changes in FEV1% pred were calculated by ... Capacity Enhancement: Bridging Excellence in Respiratory Disease and Gender Studies), which is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (IGH / ICRH), the Canadian Lung Association, and the ... proportionality of women, duration of follow up, and annual decline rate of FEV1 % pred stratified by gender and smoking status (Table 1, Table 2) Any questions or discrepancies regarding these data...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... initiated and designed the study and was helpful in the drafting of the manuscript PL initiated and designed the study and was helpful in the drafting of the manuscript LB drafted the manuscript and ... number of substances 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 Number of substances Figure risk relationship between The for heroin overdoses number of substances used and The relationship between number of substances ... similar numbers (both median = and mean = 1.73 and = 1.90 respectively) This is an underestimate of the mean number of drugs that contributed to suicide death, as more suicides than undetermined suicides...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... to be of lower quality primarily due to a combination of a lack of biochemical validation of passive smoke exposure, lack of representativeness of the study sample, and/or lack of adjusted analyses ... categorised by methodological quality, date of publication, and by study design Effects of paternal smoking Meta-analysis of the 21 studies of paternal smoking demonstrated a statistically significant ... Services Northern Ireland, The Scottish Office Department of Health and Welsh Office: Report of the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health London: The Stationery Office; 1998 Strachan DP, Cook DG:...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 13:22

... whole blood and the charcoal and anion exchanger columns Clinically important, platelet loss was not accompanied by deterioration of platelet function According to the study by Doria and colleagues ... significantly between TP1 and TP3 (p < 0.05) and TP2 and TP3 (p < 0.05) but not between TP1 and TP2 (p > 0.05) This means that the changes occurred later than 30 minutes after the beginning of MARS ... significant decrease in platelet count and the standard MA, MARS induces coagulopathy through a platelet-mediated mechanism caused either by a mechanical destruction in the filters and lines or by an...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... when thalidomide was detected as a human teratogen, and animal experiments may be difficult to interpret In the case of loratadine, both negative and positive animal findings have been published ... between maternal use of loratadine in early pregnancy and birth of infants with hypospadias was the result of multiple testing Acknowledgments The study was supported by a grant from K A Wallenberg ... significant As there is no prior hypothesis and at the surveillance process we study a large number of “exposures” (in this case drugs) and many outcomes (in this case different types of congenital...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 17:03

... there is a constant state of remodeling with repeated cycles of resorption followed by the deposition of new bone [3] The cellular process of bone activity by which both cortical and cancellous bone ... between RANK/RANKL- osteoprotegerin is lost, there is an increased incidence of loss of bone mineral density Interactions between cells of skeletal and immune system are important for the maintenance ... scientific advances are need to be made in an environment of legal and ethical safeguards that are acceptable to the general public [44] Fig Normal variation (mean and 8D) and change in BMD with...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:54

... extensive reading, reading in quantity with the aim of getting an overall understanding of the material Readers are more concerned with the meaning of the text than the meaning of individual words or ... and terms in an ESP reading process is not the most important task for the teachers and students because of other more important ones such as understanding general meaning of a text; understanding ... issues relevant to the topic of the research: reading and reading comprehension, classification of reading, the importance of improving reading skills, roles of reading teachers and those of reading...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:50

... deal of backup Of primary importance has been the role of my supervisor, Ms Nguyen Thu Hien, M.A, Teacher of Department of English and American Languages & Cultures, College of Foreign Language, ... Numbers of Percentage tested items of Coaching new employees Company profile Company song Town planning Time managing Planning for tourism The role of Public 4 3 department The role of Marketing ... constructed more relevant to the course objectives and syllabus and if test items are designed and withdrawn from an item bank of good p-value and discrimination value by an efficient testing...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2013, 14:46

... been enhanced by the availability first of phonograph records, then of tape recorders and language labs in the mid-twentieth century, and more recently of audio- and video-cassettes and compact ... collected and coded in pages of transcripts, tables, field notes, descriptive statistics and interpretations This coding, sorting and grouping of data by categories allowed a balanced description of ... the importance of pronunciation in the teachers’ English teaching, most of them argued that it is very important or quite important (32 % very important and 36 % quite important) 32 % of the teachers...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:45

... extensive reading, reading in quantity with the aim of getting an overall understanding of the material Readers are more concerned with the meaning of the text than the meaning of individual words or ... accurately and efficiently, so as to get the maximum information of a text with the minimum of understanding” ( Swan,1975: 1) This means that the student can show his understanding by re-expressing ... issues relevant to the topic of the research: reading and reading comprehension, classification of reading, the importance of improving reading skills, roles of reading teachers and those of reading...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:45

... dog denotes a kind of animal; more specifically, a common, domestic carnivorous mammal; and both dank and moist mean slightly wet A less obvious component of the meaning of an item is its connotation: ... high levels of proficiency Word lists and flash cards can be used for the initial exposure to a word, and can be arranged to create logical groupings of the target words (Gairns and Redman, op cit; ... common prefixes and suffixes: for example, if learners know the meaning of sub-, un-, and -able, this will help them guess the meanings of words like substandard, ungrateful and untranslatable They...

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Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 18:20

... 12-point standard curve was used The detection limit of the assay was 0.008 ng/ml of human recombinant MMP-1, 0.04 ng/ml of human recombinant MMP-3, 0.24 ng/ml of human recombinant MMP-9, and 0.031 ... mechanisms associated with AD pathology In general, the CSF levels of MMPs are influenced by the production of MMPs by neurons and glial cells, the release of MMPs by inflammatory cells and extravasation ... MMP-9, and 0.031 ng/ml of human recombinant TIMP-1 with an inter-assay variation of less than 10% The results are presented in ng/ml The ratios of MMP-1/TIMP-1, MMP-3/TIMP-1 and MMP9/TIMP-1 were...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... 11 Risk of Arrhythmia and Sudden Death Box 2.1 ● Hinkle and Thaler classification of death Arrhythmic death (abrupt loss of consciousness and disappearance of pulse without prior collapse of the ... averaged P wave Antonio Michelucci, Luigi Padeletti, Andrea Colella, Maria Cristina Porciani, Paolo Pieragnoli, Alessandro Costoli and Gian Franco Gensini 180 16 Non-invasive investigation of Wedensky ... Paris, France Harry JGM Crijns Department of Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, University Hospital Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Daniel M Bloomfield Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 18:20

... Christiane Malke Taxation of European Companies at the Time of Establishment and Restructuring GABLER RESEARCH Christiane Malke Taxation of European Companies at the Time of Establishment and Restructuring ... of Mannheim, in the beginning led by Prof Dr Dr h.c mult Otto H Jacobs and later by Prof Dr Christoph Spengel It was accepted by the Faculty of Business Administration of the University of Mannheim ... 1.2 Aim of the thesis and object of examination 1.3 Organization of the thesis Relevance of the European Company in practice 2.1 Basic features of the European Company ...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20

... Seminar: Public Finance Public Finance: Application of advanced theoretical and empirical methods on topics of public finance Public Finance: Exercises and case studies on the basis of the current ... Defense of Master Thesis § Type, scope and short description of the courses of the mandatory and elective modules inclusive of ECTS-credit points (1) Mandatory modules referred to in § (1): a b Mandatory ... Objectives: Acquisition of advanced knowledge in public finance, development of skills for the critical and autonomous discussion of advanced problems in the field of public finance Requirement for...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 03:20

Ngày tải lên: 12/06/2014, 11:18

... levels of IL-1b and HMGB1 (A), IL1b and IL-6 (B), IL-1b and TNF-a (C), and IL-6 and TNF-a (D) in febrile patients (N = 82) IL-1b levels are significantly correlated with HMGB1, IL-6, and TNF-a ... injury [25], and acute pancreatitis [26] HMGB1 is highly expressed in human epileptogenic brain, and antagonists of HMGB1 and TLR4 have been demonstrated to retard seizure precipitation and to decrease ... the latency and shortened the duration of hyperthermia-induced seizures, suggesting an anti-convulsant effect to febrile seizures [46] On the other hand, intranasal administration of IL-6 in adult...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... professional and associate professional, advanced clerical and service workers and intermediate and elementary sales and service workers Both the mean BMI and the prevalence of overweight and ... in professional and elementary clerical and sales and services jobs and in trades and laboring occupations have lower BMI Females in professional, associate professional, managerial and advanced ... for transport and socioeconomic factors [10] The aim of this study was to conduct secondary analyses of the recent NHS to examine differences in BMI and prevalence of overweight and obesity by occupation...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20