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... clinical and pathological characteristics in these patients with steatosis and their diagnostic values in hepatic fibrosis Patients and methods Patients A total of 204 HBeAg-negative CHB patients ... from the Research and Therapy Center for Liver Diseases of China Southeast Hospital from May 2005 to March 2009 Most patients did not drink alcohol, and alcohol consumption in the remaining patients ... years) and the remaining 98 patients were excluded from hepatic steatosis (79 men and 19 women, mean age 39.4±9.81 years) Their diagnoses were finally confirmed by clinical presentations and pathological...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:48

... Introduction More and more people are leaving their homeland in the hope of finding greater security and prosperity elsewhere Today, almost 200 million people live outside their country of origin.1 ... in Deutschland und ihre Beiträge zur Entwicklung ihrer Herkunftsländer (Egyptian, Afghan and Serbian emigrant communities in Germany and their contributions to the development of their countries ... Switzerland and Serbia Bern USAID (2005): Private Remittances Flow to Ghana (A study combining results from 91 Remittances Houses and 254 Remittances Recipients) World Bank (2000): Conflict and Change...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20

... doctors and patients diverge in their perspectives and concerns, and it’s a mistake to expect your doctor to always understand you Doctors, too, have their strengths and weaknesses, and your ... least those worth their salt – also understand that anger, fear, and distrust come with the territory of illness, and that it’s part of their job to accept and respond to their patients emotional ... Patients and Their Families This book serves as a tool to help patients and their families deal rationally with the perplexing and often irrational world of health care It covers the topics and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 10:20

... about this disease and the treatments designed to ameliorate it Patients, their families, and their friends will benefit [viii] Foreword by Henrietta Aladjem from The Lupus Book, and so will nurses, ... bewildered, suffering not only from the relentless attack of the disease, but also from the fear of death and dying and the lack of understanding about what this disease can and will to a human life ... for them and their physicians Rheumatology textbooks and lupus monographs are available at medical libraries, but the information in them is not presented in a way that patients and their families...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 00:38

... patients were not fluent in German and patients had severe visual disorders) Thus, data from 110 patients were available Additional ratings from significant others could be collected for 42 patients ... Standard deviation; WHO: World Health Organisation; Taking our own findings and those from similar studies into account, the assessment of QOL in brain cancer patients through ratings from their ... points was at least 50% For further details see Table and Figure The comparison of patients' rating on their QOL with proxy-ratings obtained from their significant others is of importance to the decision...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... of, and perceived facilitators and barriers to, HRQOL for pediatric LT patients and their families The objectives of this study were to explore such elements of reported HRQOL among children and ... discussion of these considerations, first from the vantage point of children and then from the perspective of their parents Child and Adolescent Perspectives Children and adolescents with a LT reported ... medicine and everything.’ Oh the joy because they’re crap! I don’t trust them, I really don’t And since they had to try five times, I was like screaming and crying and they wouldn’t give up And I...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... were to assess the HTC uptake and willingness of MMT patients to refer this service to and become peer educators for their sexual partners and relatives In addition, patients willingness to pay ... Testing and Referral amongst Methadone Maintenance Patients Table Factors associated with the use of and WTP for HTCs and referrals for sexual partners and other relatives among MMT patients ... primary partners, casual partners, and sex workers without condoms was 71.9%, 42.6%, and 15.9%, respectively In addition, the mean percentage of condom use with primary partners among MMT patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/01/2017, 22:10

... liver from patients who underwent liver transplantation In this retrospective study of 47 patients with liver diseases of unknown etiology, B19 DNA was detected in the liver obtained from 17 patients ... three major viral proteins: VP1 and NP2, the viral capsid proteins, and NS1, a nonstructural protein Both VP1 and VP2 are derived from overlapping reading frames and share substantial amino acid ... AAA GC-3', nt 2143-2162) and PV1R for the 1st PCR and PV6 (sense, 5'-GGC GCC TGG AAC ACT GAA AC-3', nt 2208-2227) and PV2R for the 2nd PCR; for fragment C (1297 bp), PV1 and PV3R (sense, 5'-TAC...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 10:03

... and Environment Technology, Vol 9, No.2, 2011 In this study, runoff characteristics of materials such as organics, nutrients and inorganic matters from a citrus grove were investigated, and their ... Seto Inland Sea on its west, which is one of the largest closed water areas in Japan and has required water purification for a long period Aside from this, there are many small reservoirs in and ... in detail and material balances around reservoirs were considered RESEARCH PROCEDURE Location: Matsuyama region and periphery of the Seto Inland Sea The location of the research area and the distribution...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17

... purposes and to improve knowledge about words from names I hope that from the comparative study between English and Vietnamese words from names in Nguyen Nhat Anh’ stories, we can find similarities and ... enrich their vocabulary and have a comprehensive understanding about words from names, I have been trying my best to develop the graduation paper through a descriptive and comparative analysis, and ... usage of English and Vietnamese names in Nguyen Nhat Anh’s stories basing on the metaphor and simile Helping the learners avoid dogmatic and misunderstanding in communication and translation,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 23:57

... Ødegaard and Øyvind Norli for supplying Norwegian data, and Andy Naranjo for providing us with data from Datastream Ongena thanks the Center for Financial Studies in Frankfurt for their hospitality and ... CAR of –4.4% for firms borrowing from the distressed banks; and Djankov, Jindra, and Klapper (2000) demonstrate that announcements in Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand of bank closures during the ... charters from limiting minority shareholder rights, and encourages shareholders to use legal counsel and court action to assure that their opinions are heard at shareholder meetings (Bøhren and Ødegaard...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 10:20

... yellow-bellied toad (B variegata) and the subsequent cloning of their precursor cDNAs from a skinderived cDNA library In addition, both peptides were chemically synthesized and tested for bioactivity ... MATERIALS AND METHODS Identification and structural analysis of novel bradykinins Specimens of B variegata (n ¼ 12) were obtained from a commercial source as captive-bred metamorphs and were raised ... charged ions from each peptide were used for MS/MS fragmentation, the resultant spectra contained both singly and doubly charged fragment ions The theoretical and observed fragment ions from each...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 15:20

... mixture, and tunicamycin were obtained from Sigma Culture media and fetal bovine serum were purchased from Life Technologies Heparin-HiTrap (5 mL), Mono Q HR5/5 and Superdex 200 HR 10/30 were from ... of posttranslational modifications of plasma-derived and recombinant human HCII from CHO cells and their effects on heparin binding MATERIALS AND METHODS Outdated citrated human plasma was a gift ... amidase F (from Flavobacterium meningosepticum) from recombinant Escherichia coli was bought from Roche Molecular Biochemicals Vibrio cholerae sialidase was from Calbiochem Stable expression and amplification...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20

... regions was 21%, and the combined identity and similarity amounted to 34% The identity between Hol l and CP2 was  22%, between Phl p and CP1 as well as CP3 19%, and between Phl p and CatB  15% ... cysteine residues and other essential amino acids are numbered Areas of high similarity exist around Cys69 and Cys72 and around Trp186, Trp193 and Trp197 The positions of Cys41, 57, 69 and 72 are especially ... among a and b-expansins, which is  25% Furthermore, high similarity is detected between regions surrounding the active sites of the proteinases and their expansin counterparts [4], and their comparable...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20

... purification UDP-Glc, KCl, Hepes and dithiothreitol were purchased from Sigma UDP-[U-14C]glucose (320 mCiÆmmol)1) and [U-14C]glucose (3 mCiÆmmol)1) were purchased from Amersham Pharmacia Biotech, ... resin was obtained from BioRad Crude methylisatoic anhydride, obtained from Aldrich, was recrystallized twice from hot acetone prior to use C difficile toxin A (TcdA) was purchased from Tech Laboratory, ... properties of MUG and the TcdA–MUG complex The excitation and emission spectra of MUG are shown in Fig 1A As expected, this compound is highly fluorescent and yields excitation and emission spectra...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 22:20

... between their homes and the homes of their providers affected the care that they received from those providers; whether providers thought that the distance between their homes and the homes of their ... gaps in care they got by with help from family and friends (79%), did not get things done (63%), and got by on their own (53%) Merging Transportation, Land Use, and Caregiving The transportation ... west and east regions From U.S Census Bureau (2000) and consumer surveys The four parts of the county were ordered by decreasing density and accessibility: from far west as the highest density and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... References  [1] J. Besse and V. Courtillot, Revised and synthetic  apparent  polar  wander  paths  of  the  African,  Eurasian, North America and Indian Plates, and true  polar  wander  since  200  ... [23] Z.  Yang  and J.  Besse,  Paleomagnetic  study  of  Permian  and Mesozoic  sedimentary  rocks  from Northern  Thailand  supports  the  extrusion  model for Indochina, Earth and Planetary Science  ... Chen,  H.  Pen,  and A.M.C. Sengor, Mesozoic overthrust tectonics in  south China, Geology 16 (1988) 418.  K.  Huang  and N.D.  Opdyke,  Paleomagnetic  results  from Cretaceous  and Jurassic ...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... Jews and 40.8% of sporadic and 37.0% of familial PD in North African Arabs [10,11] The mutation accounts for  1–7% of familial patients from European and US origin and for 1–3% of sporadic PD from ... of unrelated families from Italy, Portugal and Brazil with PD and with autosomal dominant inheritance harbor the mutation Gilks et al [8] analyzed 482 sporadic PD patients and reported 1.6% of ... in five families from England and Spain The authors named the protein dardarin because dardar is derived from the Basque (i.e where families of LRRK2 are found) word for tremor, and it was a common...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20

... sentences onto their meanings, in contrast to the work mentioned above and that of Gibson and Wexler (1994), Siskind (1992) Sakas and Fodor (2001), and Yang (2002) These all evaluate their learners ... addressed by Zettlemoyer and Collins (2005, 2007, 2009), Kate and Mooney (2007), Wong and Mooney (2006, 2007), Lu et al (2008), Chen et al (2010), Kwiatkowski et al (2010, 2011) and B¨ rschinger o ... addresses a misunderstanding about statistical learners—that their learning curves must be gradual (Thornton and Tesan, 2007) By demonstrating sudden learning of word order and fast mapping, our...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 20:20

... standardof-care in patients with diabetes and a foot ulcer, pressure ulcers and venous ulcers, to remove necrotic and infected tissue and stimulate healing In this study, we used debrided tissue from venous ... originating from actual patients and establishing cellular tests that can help evaluate potential therapy on target wound cells In this report, we demonstrate that cells grown from patients' wounds ... locations from which biopsies were taken Fibroblasts deriving from each location are shown Cells from location B exhibit different phenotype (larger in size; clumped) whereas cells from Locations C and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 15:20