... shallow water that have firm substrates and high concentrations of small fish.6 Great blue herons forage in lakes, rivers, brackish marshes, lagoons, coastal wetlands, tidal flats, and sandbars, as ... incorporation of aspects of contaminant environmental fate and transport as well as remediation activities to estimate the long-term impacts of contaminant exposure on subpopulations This will not only ... based on the overall advantage that a heron would derive by foraging at that location Habitat quality is a site-specific parameter and dependent upon estimates of the quantity of available forage...
... 101:52 Milsom I, Abrams P, Cardozo L, Roberts RG, Throff J and Wein A How widespread are the symptoms of an overactive bladder and how are they managed? A population- based prevalence study BJU Int ... Elinoff V and Roberts RG Validation of an OAB screener in a primary care patient population in the US; Poster Paris, France: International Continence Society Annual Meeting 2004 10 Cheung WW, Khan ... may not be high The OAB-V8 questionnaire has only been validated in a primary care setting Validation in a high risk population is still pending Our study showed that among those with OAB, only...
... participation, the recruitment procedure was repeated Among population controls the participation rate was 44.3% A total of 710 case- control pairs were included in the analysis Data collection ... the manuscript ES is the data manager of the German lymphoma studyand participated in the statistical analysis and in the critical revision of this manuscript AN and NB who is the PI prepared, ... about among carbon tetrachloride-exposed persons, which was of borderline statistical significance This is in accordance with the results ofa Canadian case- control study, including 517 cases and...
... perform analysis and interpretation of the data DHa and PA helped to perform analysis and interpretation of the data and to draft the manuscript VHT and UW (and the European Consortium on Rheumatoid ... MICA-210: CCTTTTTTTCAGGGAAAGTGC, CCTTACCATCTCCAGAAACTGC [22], and bioCCATGTTTCTGCTG(L)TGCTGCT; MICA-300: GGAAGGCTGTGCAGTAATCTAGG, TCCCTTTTCCAGCCTGCC, and bioCTGTGCAGT(L)ATCTAGGCTGAAGG; and MICA-250: ... two-marker haplotype consisting of MICA-25 0A anda certain HLA-DRB1 allele should have the same transmission rate as a two-marker haplotype consisting of MICA-250G and the same HLADRB1 allele A...
... such as typhoons, earthquakes, and environmental contamination We have established extensive contingency planning including the establishment of 6.2 Management of Financial Operations processes and ... implement changes as necessary for TSMC has adopted the International Standard on Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001) as its standard for environmental compliance management TSMC Fabs 2, ... liabilities increased as a result of the issuance of corporate bonds 1.2 Major Impact on Financial Position: There was no significant impact on financial position 1.3 Future Plan on Financial...
... to sex Occupation Male Female Total % Male % Female % Total Managers and Administrators Professionals Associate professionals* Tradespersons and related workers Advanced clerical and service ... McLennan W, Madden R: The Health and Welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples In ABS Catalogue no 4704.00 AIHW Catalogue no IHW Canberra, Australian Bureau of Statistics ... the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; 1999 National Advisory Committee on Health and Disability: New Zealand Acute Low Back Pain Guide Wellington, New Zealand, Page 10 of 12 (page number...
... presence of intensional substitution failure is one of the important tests ofa theory of propositional attitudes This mechanism is a correlate of that of Thomason [1980], with the addition of meaningful ... ~-expression and the ima6e of its denotation in the current stage of the dynamic model When the domain of the ~-expression expands, the correct denotational relationship is maintained by expanding ... example, if "John and Mary" was not identified to be the same as "Mary and John", it would be possible to have the model contain the inconsistent information that "John and Mary talk" is true and...
... international tax problems Many colleagues have made fairly useful comments about my articles I wish to thank the late Aldo Chiancone, as well as Gianni Amisano, Antonio Guccione, Vesa Kanniainen, Alessandro ... worse and the rm can abandon its business activity and realize the resale value (if any) of its capital on second-hand markets; As Dixit and Pindyck (1994) point out undertaking investment takes ... the overall investment project consists ofa sequence of stages: each of them can be considered as an option on the value of subsequent stages;1 an option to abandon, when market conditions get...
... land Parking demand is highly variable, depending on demographic (income and age), geographic (land use density and mix), and management factors (how parking spaces are assigned, regulated and ... cheaper materials, shared walls, standardized design and materials, avoid special amenities such as elevators Fewer parking spaces, smaller spaces and driveways, surface lots rather than garages, ... For example, aging population, rising fuel prices, increasing traffic congestion, and improved urban livability are all increasing demand for urban housing and business location A rational real...
... Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Panama, Republic of Panama; and Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, National Institute for Amazonian Research (INPA), Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil Tina ... side At Cairns the heavy rainfall began at and following landfall, when winds with a warm air advection profile reached Cairns Radar Radar images of Rona and Steve as they both approached the coast ... Himantandraceae, Myristicaceae and Winteraceae of the order Magnoliales; Atherospermataceae, Gyrocarpaceae, Hernandiaceae, Idiospermaceae, Lauraceae and Monimiaceae of the order Laurales (DASETT 1987) Stork-01.indd...
... through local, regional and international food chains that have a turnover of billions of dollars The growth of the dairy industry and the collection of milk from small-scale producers demand an improvement ... and Gerber, P., Mooney, H A. , Dijkman, J., Tarawali, S and de Haan, C Livestock in a changing landscape: Experiences and Regional perspectives (Volume 2) Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice ... production on nutrient management Regulatory systems with a regional approach, including utilization of animal wastes and increased storage time, are advocated The policy regarding nutrient loads...
... a simplified version of an FPGA accelerator for the Smith-Waterman algorithm used for pairwise alignment of DNA sequences with a linear gap penalty and an 8-bit datapath [28] The performance of ... provide an absolute wire assignment for each signal in an interface Mapping an interface to a set of interconnect channels each with a finite number of available wires gives an allocated interface, a ... iterations as proportional to TP and the change in critical path length proportional to a change in TEn We will assume a routing iteration takes 20 nanoseconds and that TT is 50 ms We will assume...
... Comparison of hardware and simulation results (Speed Ratio: 0.2) 50 Figure 5.12: Comparison of hardware and simulation results (Speed Ratio: 0.3) 50 Figure 5.13: Comparison of hardware and simulation ... behaviour-based system with other navigational behaviours so that a robotic team can reach navigational goal, avoid hazards and simultaneously maintain in their intended formation The other common architecture ... their paper, sometimes a shape of constant diameter like a Reuleaux triangle (see Figure 2.1) rather than a circle is formed In a Reuleaux triangle, arcs ab, bc and ca are drawn with radii equal...
... than rural males, both study groups revealed a consistent pattern of the effect of smoking on risk of cancer deaths TABLE Characteristics of cases and two control groups: Population- based case- control ... spouse control design as an alternative control selection for a nationwide population- based case- control study is valid and feasible, and can produce highly acceptable research results for a fixed ... death certificate Third, social class, which is also associated with both smoking and cancer deaths, was not measured in this study, and the separate calculation of risk patterns in urban and...
... erythematosus are associated with accelerated atherosclerosis and premature coronary artery disease [6-8] Chronic inflammation is considered a major risk factor for both coronary and noncardiac vascular ... Research & Therapy Vol 11 No Warrington et al Table Risk of developing peripheral arterial disease in polymyalgia rheumatica and non-polymyalgia rheumatica Model adjustors Hazard ratio (95% confidence ... levels are associated with greater functional impairment in patients with PAD [21] In the general population, patients who have PAD and increased inflammation are at high risk for adverse cardiovascular...
... other maternal and infant risk factors – to neonatal brain injury Methods This study was based on information in two national databases held by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, and ... diagnostic accuracy of neonatal brain damage MRI in a small clinical series of asymptomatic newborn infants has revealed a high prevalence and high spontaneous resolution of small intracranial hemorrhages ... Intracerebral (non-traumatic) haemorrhage of fetus and newborn 52.5 Subarachnoid (non-traumatic) haemorrhage of foetus and newborn 52.6 Cerebella (non-traumatic) and posterior fossa haemorrhage of...
... Grønlien, and Jan Nystuen from the area of Innlandet, Unni Eskeland and Olav Østebø from the area of Stavanger, and Leif Landa, Kari Hauge Nilsen, and Trond Kibsgaard in the area of Haugesund We want ... of or lower, one was dead The 256 extra patients, all interrupted missions, allocations of ambulances, and support to Zakariassen et al Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency ... For data collection we chose and cooperated with a strategic sample of three EMCCs, located at Haugesund, Stavanger and Innlandet hospitals, covering Rogaland, southern part of Hordaland, Hedmark,...
... estado de São Paulo, Brasil: estudio poblacional Palabras clave 27 Organização Pan-Americana da Saúde Saúde nas Américas: 2007 Washington, D.C.: OPAS; 2007 (Scientific Publication No 662) 28 Wang ... functioning scales Depression/ anxiety made a considerable impact as well, with large differences in mean score, particularly affecting mental health and role-emotional Arthritis and backpain had ... Lima et al • Chronic diseases and quality of life among elderly in Brazil Noncommunicable chronic diseases are conditions that tend to stay with individuals for a long period of time These diseases...
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