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... providing a written informed consent, completing an interviewer-administered questionnaire and supplying a blood sample for HIV and hepatitis C testing All SEOSI participants provide informed ... participate in other health and social services The association between intensive cocaine use and HIV infection has been well described in this community and injection cocaine is consistently found to increase ... residence in the Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, daily heroin injection, daily crystal methamphetamine injection, public drug use, requiring help with injecting, sharing other drug using equipment,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... stage-defining conditions could be of practical importance for patient counseling and for clinical decision-making in resourcelimited settings The prognostic value of these markers in patients receiving ... we interviewed patients for new symptoms and examined for new clinical findings We also did a CBC at each regular visit Community Agents We employed secondary school graduates with basic training ... million AMH has been doing HIV counseling and testing since the early 1990s Since January 2002, the HIV unit has been upgraded to serve as a clinic for opportunistic infections Since August 2003,...

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... the persistence of gender violence remains a worrying continuity that shapes and binds forms of femininity and masculinity Jewkes and Morrell Journal of the International AIDS Society 2010, 13:6 ... hegemonic masculinity involve sexual and other forms of risk taking These include driving cars fast and dangerously, and heavy alcohol consumption; indeed, social norms around alcohol drinking are such ... individual behaviours In real terms, this means focusing attention on building more gender-equitable and caring masculinities, and less acquiescent femininities In so doing, interventions are needed...

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... (age and CD4+ cell count) Table Number and incidence rates of opportunistic infections in the initial 24 months after ART initiation, and percent underreporting of OI events in routine clinic ... discontinuation and modification This gives a total error rate (comprising missing and incorrect items) of 67% for OIs, 52% for ART-related toxicities, and 83% and 58% for ART discontinuation ... patients in the routine clinic database who also initiated ART between April 2004 and April 2005, and who were not enrolled into the research cohort; and the 6421 patients in the routine clinic database...

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... the formation of lamellar instead of micellar structures in aqueous solutions and is therefore suitable for intravenous administration In a first in vivo study in healthy rats, repeated intravenous ... Perifosine, and Erufosine, induce apoptosis in tumor cells in vitro Depending on the cell type, the induction of apoptosis involves ligand-independent activation of the death receptor pathway in ... cell lines Our results constitute the basis for the design of preclinical investigations with Erufosine alone and in combination with radiotherapy in murine tumor models, in particular in nude...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... sensing and GIS as tools for communicating land-use needs for reindeer herding in Northern Sweden Ambio 2003, 32:557-567 18 Moller H, Berkes F, Lyver PO, Kislalioglu M: Combining Science and ... between locals and these animals, resulting in their extermination and a lack of public support for their conservation This persecution has already and will continue to result in the deaths of ... JE: The role of taboos in conserving coastal resources in Madagascar SPC Traditional Marine Resource Management and Knowledge Information Bulletin 2007, 22:15-23 Jones JP, Andriamarovololona M,...

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... dairy industry of New Zealand Wellington: New Zealand Diary Board; 1975 Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry: New Zealand Submission: Competition and regulation in agriculture: Monopsony buying and ... Co-operative Group Ltd Decisions in industry made in terms of capital return for shareholders 2006–07 Increased global demand for dairy produce nutritional guidelines) increasing in price Furthermore, milk ... powerful marketing and advertising strategies relative to milk (the reported advertising spending for SSCBs in New Zealand in 2005 was almost twice that of milk [89]) resulting in a strong, albeit...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... factors for CVD and evaluation of VO2peak should be incorporated in clinical practice Finally, these finding represent an urging need for developing effective physical training interventions for ... monitoring and management guidelines for second-generation antipsychotics J Clin Psychiatry 2007, 68:14-18 20 21 Ware JE, Kosinski M, Gandek B: SF-36 health survey: manual & interpretation guide Lincoln, ... The test started from warm-up speed (with minimum 5% inclination) after which the speed or the inclination was increased every minute (0.5-1 km—h-1 and 1-2%, respectively) to a level that brought...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... clean injection supplies, injection Page of paraphernalia vending machines may be considered as further novel intervention In addition, the dynamic of ingrained injection routines and assisted injection ... engage in this practice in outdoor venues In the present study, we demonstrated that being female was associated with receiving assistance with injecting in outdoor settings This finding is consistent ... responsibility for the preparation and administration of drugs [23] Further, in our setting, Shannon et al recently demonstrated that individuals involved in sex trade work are being pushed to work and inject...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... PA and TBW determinations in patients infected with HCV Investigations into other non-invasive modalities for the assessment of alterations in body composition in patients with hepatitis C infection ... performed BIA measurements JE and AW acquired clinical data and assisted in statistical analysis MP revised the manuscript for important intellectual content GG obtained funding, gave administrative ... HCV infection and BMI were independent predictors of insulin resistance (IR), respectively HCV infection was associated with a 35% increase in IR [30] The present study was conducted to investigate...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:20

... therapy and to define the potential for recovery in the individual patient Imaging techniques Plain computed tomography Despite being surpassed by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in versatility and ... provides information that is both useful in clinical trials and in the individual patient, even within the current 3-hour window In the future, practical implementation of PCT with whole-brain coverage, ... clinical benefit even within the 3-hour window (see below) Expanding the time window for thrombolysis For several reasons, including poor public knowledge about stroke, ineffective delivery of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... RBC formation and destruction In so doing it shows the cause for hitherto unexplained observations [13] and predicts other clinical applications for routine blood analysis The model shows that in ... Changes 1in Hb and RDW-CV% with iron deficiency Changes in Hb and RDW-CV% with iron deficiency RDW-CV% indicated by -+Hb indicated by -x- This method cannot distinguish between folate and Vitamin B12 ... stabilizes and the RDW-CV% returns to normal levels The critical finding is that the RDW-CV% becomes abnormal while the Hb and MCV are still within normal range This explains the findings [2,3]...

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... of forming and using compound nouns Exercises and aim at testing how students understand and use compound nouns in a sentence Precisely, they provide information for student's ability to form and ... nouns Linguists working in the field are interested first and foremost in how compounding being classified, however, classification of English compounding in general and compound nouns in particular ... collection instruments 33 4.3.4 Findings and discussion 33 4.4 Implications for teaching and learning vocabulary in the textbook: “English for the hotel and tourist industry”...

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... In any industry, a decline in profitability usually results in exit from the industry (often by widespread bankruptcies) and a shrinkage of market share This occurred in the banking industry in ... banking institutions Indeed, banks’ loan losses in these countries as a fraction of GNP exceeded losses in both the banking and the savings and loans industries in the United States The International ... losses (Boyd and Gertler 1993) Thus, banks appear to have maintained their profitability (and their net interest margins—interest income minus interest expense divided by total assets) by taking greater...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... violence during armed conflict and consider such acts war crimes; • enact and enforce laws prohibiting all forms of violence against women, including unwanted or forced sex; and • reform laws and practices ... legislative and other measures to eliminate such practices, including: a) creation of public awareness in all sectors of society regarding harmful practices through information, formal and informal ... educational information to help to ensure the health and well-being of families, including information and advice on family planning” as a key component of women’s right to equality in education.41...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20

... the one hand and policy for implementing and sustaining those changes These are discussed in the following section 4.1 Interventions A wide range of interventions can contribute to reducing exposure ... carefully targeted financial support for technical development and production of appliances, and for infrastructure for marketing and transport may be justified For example in the case of the ... both kinds of patients ETS not significant for either 9.9 (1.8 to 31.4) for charcoal heat for in- patients 1.6 (1.3 to 2.0) for any heating fuel in in-patients 2.2 (1.2 to 3.9) for gas cooking in...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

... example, the monomeric single-domain AMPM protein [3] In the case of AMPP, the N-terminal domain appears to have a function in protein folding Clearly, the singledomain AMPM protein has found another ... C-terminal domain The figure was generated from published data [27] the protein may be necessary to maintain the structure of the C-terminal domain in a conformation that allows the metals to bind ... consists of an N-terminal domain (1–174 amino acids) and a C-terminal domain (174–439 amino acids) C-terminal domain AMPP#2 has a 157 amino acid deletion, AMPP#12 has a 212 amino acid deletion,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 07:20

... insulin receptor substrate-1 expression leads to insulin resistence, hyperinsulinemia, and increased adiposity Endocrinology 2005, 146:1428-1437 Hsu SM, Raine L, Fanger H: Use of Avidin-Biotin-Peroxidase ... pro-apoptotic and anti-apoptotic proteins of Bcl-2 [31,32] and Caspases [33,34] families to evaluate intrinsic and extrinsic pathways of apoptosis in normal ileal pouches Even in such optimal clinical, ... showing that pro-inflammatory cytokines like TNF-a, IL-1b, IL-6, IL-8, IFN-g are elevated in UC patients, but poorly studied in FAP [4,27-30] The inflammatory and apoptosis pathways are linked and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... macromolecules and migrating cells implicated in HIV binding and uptake Schematic representation of cell surface macromolecules and migrating cells implicated in HIV binding and uptake The inset to ... to work with tonsil and study HIV virion binding and infection and established fundamental protocols for consistent immunocytochemical staining MCH provided critical insight into the design of ... pre-existing infections and increased susceptibility to exogenous infection [61] Conclusion For the cell surface markers examined in this study, no differences were identified for tissue donors ranging...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... Electrical Engineering, and Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science He has also held visiting appointments at a number of universities, including recently Imperial College, Stanford, and ... Philadelphia, in 1980, and the Ph.D degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, in 1983 From 1983 to 1986 he was with INRIA, France, and from 1987 ... Associate Professor and Head of the Signal Processing and Communications Laboratory His research interests include fast algorithms for adaptive filtering, and signal processing for communications...

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