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... array of files • Instead of using an array, you can also provide a space separated list of file names—if your file names not contain spaces Here is a small example that creates a mini PHP distribution: ... // Set up the warnings area $this->warningsArea =& new GtkText(); $this->warningsArea->set_editable(false); $this->warningsArea->set_word_wrap(false); // Add a button to clear the warnings area ... Evans Data specializes in The data is fascinating: it shows that developers are heavily investing in MySQL, PHP, and Perl, which is a good leading indicator This is substantiated by the success of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/12/2013, 02:15

... array of files • Instead of using an array, you can also provide a space separated list of file names—if your file names not contain spaces Here is a small example that creates a mini PHP distribution: ... // Set up the warnings area $this->warningsArea =& new GtkText(); $this->warningsArea->set_editable(false); $this->warningsArea->set_word_wrap(false); // Add a button to clear the warnings area ... Evans Data specializes in The data is fascinating: it shows that developers are heavily investing in MySQL, PHP, and Perl, which is a good leading indicator This is substantiated by the success of...

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 18:20

... affordable, land-based, renewable source of omega- 3s that can be used as an alternative to fish to create great-tasting foods rich in this essential nutrient High Stearic Acid Soybeans Saturated ... enters streams and waterways A gene for production of phytase has been successfully incorporated into soybean and wheat, and is biologically active when the plants are used as animal feed.44 In a ... the substantial equivalence approach to safety assessment, this approach provides equal or increased assurance of the safety of food products derived from genetically modified organisms as compared...

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... furniture classes, 20 color classes, 243 color instances and various classes defining styles and similar concepts • A cocktail ontology, defining 13 cocktail classes with ingredients and tastes in 21,880 ... access to several knowledge bases and is able to handle questions (and later conversations) about a much larger domain called the “gossip domain” which enables conversation about pop stars, movie ... platforms since only the avatar interfaces have to be adapted The integration architecture also has the advantage that the necessary services can be easily distributed in a networked multi-platform...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... noncommunicable diseases linked to environmental conditions and disasters Despite the progress achieved so far, addressing major preventable determinants and diseases, such as obesity, respiratory and ... other stakeholders We will ensure that youth participation in national as well as international processes is facilitated across all Member States by providing them with assistance, adequate resources ... and promoting training on risk assessment tools in the health sector and risk management techniques, including rapid assessment tools; • developing a health strategy across agencies with a common...

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... wealth was 0, i.e., a shortest nonempty initial segment that contains equally many heads and tails Let s be the string obtained by changing all heads to tails and all tails to heads in this initial ... visualize the following, it helps to think of the pairs (n, m) as arranged in the plane as follows (This corresponds to one of the standard ways of drawing Pascal s triangle, a way that emphasizes ... strings arising in the game is ps q w +s , because, apart from the initial w left parentheses representing the initial wealth, there are s left and w + s right parentheses arising from the coin flips...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 08:22

... local acupoints that are used for treating facial paralysis in human Oriental medicine [14,16] These acupoints were treated bilaterally at each point with a filiform stainless-steel needle (AP needle ... to increase skin sympathetic nerve activity [7] In this study, the present case was diagnosed according to specific clinical signs of idiopathic Horner s syndrome, and was treated twice by ST-4 ... therapeutic plan for neurological disorders, including Horner s syndrome Our findings also suggest that ST-1 and GB-4 are useful acupoints for idiopathic Horner s syndrome cases Acknowledgments...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... reporting, and evaluation) and the User s Manual using a 7-point scale Outcomes and analyses Primary measures Two performance measures served as the primary outcomes First, the Performance - Distance ... less experience in health methods or PGs In contrast to pass rates of 86% reported in this study, the initial pass rates for those participants was 73%, suggesting the training may be better suited ... a series of post-test Learner s Scales and a demographics survey Participants were blinded to the study conditions, our research questions, and hypothesis measure, a 7-point response scale was...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... Page of American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders edition Washington DC: APA; 2000, text revision Arana-Lechuga Y, Sanchez-Escandon O, de Santiago-Trevino ... began to be reported Her parents also referred to a significant difficulty in making and maintaining friends They suspected she may have a specific learning disorder, since a cousin of our patient ... important in those situations that involve planning, decision-making, error correction, and troubleshooting They are also involved in the following scenarios: (a) unfamiliar situations, that is,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... nodes and PET scan results Pituitary lymphomas are described as firm, vascular and adherent to surrounding structures and needing piecemeal dissection This is in contrast to necrotic adenomas which ... months after initiation of chemotherapy Early diagnosis is important as aggressive disease is potentially rapidly fatal and treatment can be effective Page of Consent Written informed consent was ... was normal, which we presume indicates a diffuse infiltration by lymphoma cells rather akin to a hypophysitis with infiltrating lymphocytes Differential diagnosis of a pituitary mass has been...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:20

... provided adequate exposure for both the femoral canal exploration and intraabdominal access Alternative approaches such as Cooper s ligament repair and a preperitoneal approach [6] have been described ... delay in diagnosis In this case, the operation was performed immediately and no abscess was found in the hernial sac There was no evidence of perforation and the patient was more than 60-years-old ... manuscript ES was involved in acquisition of data and review of the literature AS was involved in acquisition of data and review of the literature KK was involved in drafting the manuscript and revising...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 23:21

... the syndrome is usually of the classic, ‘para-infectious’ subtype and in most cases follows a respiratory or a gastrointestinal infection The most frequent nosologic entities that have been associated ... characteristic papillomatous surface) Skin biopsy is the laboratory test that usually confirms the clinical diagnosis of Sweet s syndrome Edema and a diffuse and perivascularly attenuated inflammatory ... In such cases thorough search for common infectious causes and complete examination for extracutaneous manifestations are mandatory and, after confirming the diagnosis, a step-by-step examination...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:21

... the syndrome is usually of the classic, ‘para-infectious’ subtype and in most cases follows a respiratory or a gastrointestinal infection The most frequent nosologic entities that have been associated ... characteristic papillomatous surface) Skin biopsy is the laboratory test that usually confirms the clinical diagnosis of Sweet s syndrome Edema and a diffuse and perivascularly attenuated inflammatory ... In such cases thorough search for common infectious causes and complete examination for extracutaneous manifestations are mandatory and, after confirming the diagnosis, a step-by-step examination...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 07:20

... findings Conclusion Figure Bone scan of the same patient showing areas of radiotracer uptake in the humerus, ulna, femur, tibia, metacarpal, metatarsal and phalyngeal tubular bones, all located ... progresses, there is an increased probability of malignant transformation into chondrosarcoma [4] Synchronous multicentric chondrosarcomas arising from Ollier s disease have also been previously ... criteria [6] In our case, as there was no cortical destruction or soft tissue extension, the histopathological diagnosis of benign lesions was reliable Retrospective assessment of our patient revealed...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:20

... underlying malignancy, as was reported in a Romanian study where such a case was the unique sign of a lower rectal adenocarcinoma [7] Fournier s gangrene may still have an idiopathic origin that usually ... perianal or genital regions is a challenging situation in the field of surgical infections Tissue ischemia is the main pathogenetic factor and it is usually characterized by rapidly progressing ... appropriateness of the content Do you have a case to share? Submit your case report today • Rapid peer review • Fast publication • PubMed indexing • Inclusion in Cases Database Any patient, any...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... Langerhans cells and inflammatory cells, especially eosinophils, can vary among different lesions and in various areas of the same lesion Langerhans cells in a typical case are mononuclear histiocyte-like ... cell histiocytosis arising after Hodgkin 's disease Pediatr Hematol Oncol 1997, 14:585-8 Shin MS, Buchalter SE, Ho KJ: Langerhans' cell histiocytosis associated with Hodgkin 's disease: a case report ... physical examination A thoracoabdominal spiral CT scan was performed and showed mediastinal, cervical, right axillary and retroperitoneal lymphadenopathies, pulmonary nodules and hepatic and splenic...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 19:21

... abrasions on the upper layers of the skin Since this pathogen is a slow growing fungus in its parasitic stage, L loboi should possess a yet to be described adhesive mechanism to maintain close ... Lobo 's disease year after she had been to Guyana and Venezuela [12] A bizarre case of experimental human Jorge Lobo 's disease in a laboratory assistant inoculated with the yeast-like cells collected ... characteristic of viable L loboi yeast-like cells Methenamine silver staining showed spherical to oval yeast-like cells mostly uniform in size and arranged singly or in small chains of cells linked...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... due to solid tumors including breast, genitourinary and gastrointestinal malignancies [7] Other causes of Sweet 's syndrome are listed in table Only a few cases of Sweet 's syndrome associated with ... gastrointestinal tract infection, vaccination or associated with inflammatory diseases such as autoimmune disorders, infections, hemoproliferative disorders, solid malignant tumors or pregnancy, ... collagen vascular diseases Rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, mixed connective tissue disease, hashimoto thyroiditis, Sjogren 's disease, behcet 's disease Medications Furosemide,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... Yamaguchi M, Ohta A, Tsunematsu T, Kasukawa R, Mizushima Y, Kashiwagi H, Kashiwazaki S, Tanimoto K, Matsumoto Y, Ota T, et al.: Preliminary criteria for classification of adult Still 's disease ... 20:1788-1792 Sono H, Matsuo K, Miyazato H, Sakaguchi M, Matsuda M, Hamada K, Tatsumi Y, Maeda Y, Funauchi M, Kanamaru A: A case of adultonset Still 's disease complicated by non-Hodgkin 's lymphoma Lupus ... Rheumatol 1995, 34:984-988 Kojima M, Nakamura S, Miyawaki S, Yashiro K, Oyama T, Itoh H, Sakata N, Sugihara S, Masawa N: Lymph node lesion in adultonset Still 's disease resembling peripheral T-cell...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:21

... positivity were also examined in separate analyses Patients were then categorized on the basis of the presence of risk factor pairings (GSTM1-SE, GSTM1smoking and smoking-SE), and associations ... was measured using second-generation enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs) in VARA (Diastat, Axis-Shield Diagnostics Ltd., Dundee, Scotland, UK; positive ≥5 U/ml) and SONORA (Inova Diagnostics, ... (80% in the VARA Registry and 65% in SONORA; P < 0.05) Age- and gender-adjusted associations Associations of GSTM1, smoking, and HLA-DRB1 status with ACPA positivity in the VARA registry and SONORA...

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