... The procedures used to diagnose prostate cancer may cause significant side effects, including bleeding and infection. Prostate cancer treatment often causes incontinence and impotence. For ... rates, but this remains controversial.[2] Current American Cancer Society guidelines for prostate cancer screening recommend a digital rectal examination and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) ... the benefits and risks of diagnostic procedures and treatment be taken into account when considering whether to undertake prostate cancer screening. PSA circulates in the blood in two forms...
... are incurred by accident, can effectively induce learning and technological upgrading in the motorcycle industry. IV. THE SUCCESS AND FAILURE OF GOVERNANCE AND POLICY OPTIONS FROM A LEARNING ... the China shock, there was no clear distinction between a handful of local firms, which had sufficient financial resources and the capabilities necessary to be incorporated into the Japanese and ... policy, which was originally introduced at the end of 1998 but came into effect only at the beginning of 2001. Secondly, it was necessary to reduce production costs in order to compete with Chinese...
... of Education and Training of Vinhphuc, 5 Professional Training officials of Department of Education and Training of Vinhphuc; 7 rectors of Colleges in Vinhphuc province, 7 Head of Training Departments ... mechanism of Colleges, which require to have section taking charge of consulting, controlling, checking, maintaining cooperation, at once, restrict some sections to accord with assigned tasks. Inter-relation ... Education and Training of Vinhphuc, 5 Professional Training officials of Department of Education and Training of Vinhphuc; 7 rectors of Colleges in Vinhphuc province, 7 Head of Training Departments...
... overstatestheir progressive incidence. Using final incomes including transfers gives a clearer picture of actual incidence and coverage and shows that the poorest quintile of elderly with incomes of one million ... looking after themselves, sharing their costs through co-residence, giving them money and receivingback both nominal andin kind resources from the elderly in the process.336. Summary and Conclusions ... remittance receipt and giving with public transfers - supporting elderlysupports reciprocity by resourcing household income pooling and inter-household exchange. But paying forthis through contributions,...
... large gains in broad categories, such as all-cause mortality (infant, child and adult), vaccinationrates, and decreasing incidence of highly prevalent dis-eases (e.g., tuberculosis) in countries ... multiple comparisons.Countries were divided into PEPFAR focus and non-focus countries. Using the year 2000 as the baseline com-parator, a fractional change was calculated for each indi-cator in ... menin-gococcal conjugate vaccine (MCV); one year olds immu-nized with three doses of diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccine; population with sustainableaccess to improved drinking...
... f and other commonparameters of duty-cycling techniques. In particular, weshow how the parameter f can be properly chosen in orderto cope with possible duty-cycle mismatching.4. Duty-Cycling ... splitting procedure can be performedcorrectly [1].8.2. Reliability and Duty Cycle. In this subsection, weintroduce a model for the reliability in order to take intoaccount possible duty-cycle ... mentioning that TAMAXcan be evaluatedtaking the speci c MAC protocol into account.For instance, in the case of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard[12], the maximum backoff time is 27.4 ms and assuminga...
... butyrate,ethyl caproate, 1-octen-3-one, acetic acid, methional, propionic acid, butyricacid, valeric acid, caproic acid, capric acid and lauric acid.Consumer AcceptabilitySignificant differences (P ... (Schilling et al. 2003). Such statistical modeling may be useful in determining the consumer acceptability of Cheddar cheese, and its usefulness in explaining consumer acceptability should be compared ... sensory characteristics of speci c Cheddarcheeses.Both logistic regression and preference mapping may be useful in explaining the relationship between consumer acceptability, trained descrip-tive...
... of: ã Convenient online submissionã Thorough peer reviewã No space constraints or color gure chargesã Immediate publication on acceptanceã Inclusion in PubMed, CAS, Scopus and Google Scholarã ... suddendemographic shift can be very challenging in terms ofhealth and nutritional care. Essential information aboutindividuals’ food intake and habits, activity, culturalinfluences, and the economic and ... nutrition and health. Asia Pacific J ClinNutr 2001, 9(Suppl):S41-S54.41. Institute of Medicine: Dietary Reference Intakes for Vitamin A, Vitamin K,Arsenic, Boron, Chromium, Copper, Iodine, Iron,...
... recruitment and follow-up.Baseline data 15 Baseline demographic and clinical characteristics of each group.Numbers analyzed 16 Number of participants (denominator) in each group included in ... of multiplicity in clinical trials. Journal ofStatistical Planning and Inference, 42, 209 –221.Sinclair, J. C. , & Bracken, M. B. (1994). Clinically useful measures ofeffect in binary analyses ... which there are no significant group differences cansignificantly influence outcomes, particularly when acting in acumulative or synergistic fashion: In a RCT, the balance of pretreatment characteristics...