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... [16,-18] and indicates that the lifetime of MNBs formed in pure water was long enough to prepare the samples with quenching In order to examine the interaction between MNBs and additives in the ... solution containing O2 MNBs Scale bar indicates 200 nm (a) Precipitated fine impurity particles (10 to 60 nm in diameter) and MNBs (200 and 300 nm in diameter) coexisted at the grain boundary of ... during the sample quenching process, and the fine particles were the agglomeration of condensed salts dissolved in the original solution due to the freezecondensation mechanism The remaining...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... phenotype in rats by aggravating Th2 inflammation, increasing AHR, and inducing airway remodeling [34] Previously, a few mouse models have induced airway remodeling following repeated and chronic ... the AHR testing, lungs were inflated and stored in 10% formalin Lungs were paraffinembedded and sections were stained with hematoxylin and eosin (Sigma-Aldrich, St Louis, MO) Under blinded conditions, ... fumigatus and/ or DEP can induce airway remodeling in adult sensitized offspring, pulmonary arterial remodeling was assessed in the mice offspring Offspring from mothers who received A fumigatus and/ or...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... Brief Pain Inventory in patients with oncological pain Med Clin (Barc) 2003, 120:52-59 26 Cleeland CS, Gonin R, Hatfield AK, Edmonson JH, Blum RH, Stewart JA, Pandya KJ: Pain and its treatment in ... function (FIQ) and the intensity and interference of pain which these subjects have in their daily lives (BPI) The linear relationships found using the FIQ illustrated that an increase in the impact ... between the total, indirect, and health care costs and the degree of interference in daily activities caused by the pain as measured by the 11-point numeric rating scale Finally, when patients were...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... By combining data for several TFs, we predicted protein-protein interactions and sites of co-binding, which were validated in Co-IP and ChIPreChIP experiments By reading the sequence in ChIP-DNA ... detect and verify possible co-bindings and to further understand whether these are due to binding of different FOXA molecules at the same site in different cells or due to co-binding in the same ... ChIP-reChIPs Correlation of FOXA binding and H3K4me3 FOXA TFs are known to be involved in opening of compacted chromatin Accordingly, we examined the H3K4me3 footprint pattern in the regions with FOXA1-2-3,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:21

... assessment in the ICU were included Patients of all units were included, resulting in a mixed intensive care population in this study A trained nurse researcher included the patients once daily in the ... manuscript, and participated in discussing the results and revising the article LB participated in designing and coordinating the study, discussing the results, and revising the article ME assisted in ... analysis and participated in discussing the results and revising the article MJS, ST, and LMS-B participated in discussing the results and revising the article All authors read and approved the final...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... evolution by genetic drift in this island species In any case, sequencing of the elements of the sibling species will be necessary to determine their fine structure and the relatedness between ... sequences in these subgroups The first proposes a single introduction of hobo elements into the common ancestral lineage The second proposes two introductions, one into the common ancestral lineage and ... II among strains suggests differences in the number and location of hobo elements which might be due to their mobility In D mauritiana, a former experiment made in order to obtain inter-specific...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... perspectives and shared meanings leading to insights into situations (Wellington 1996) These methods involve looking at the effects of human intervention and interaction Perspectives and instincts are ... they had a genuine concern for their needs Training the children in a trade enabled them, in later life, to earn their own living and not be dependent on charity Viewing beliefs and attitudes ... still maintain the principle of a continuum of provision As previously stated, the new Code of Practice for SEN has been criticised for concentrating on within-child needs and covertly maintaining...

Ngày tải lên: 11/10/2014, 04:18

... Arbeit und Gesundheit von Mitarbeiterinnen in Kindertageseinrichtungen Regionalfallstudie in saarländischen Kindertageseinrichtungen Saarbrücken: Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft für Gesundheitsförderung ... analysis instrument for monitoring physicians' job tasks in different medical settings Analyses revealed methodology's validity and reliability for evaluating physicians' working routines as well ... to spent in different body positions, recording of different body positions and movements will be part of the intended monitoring Work ability of educators Aims and objectives Ilmarinen and Tempel...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... by Saka and colleagues, however, included additional data from the clinical course before they entered the intensive care unit (age, gender, and ethnicity), thus ‘recreating individual patients ... expanding the use of simulations Microsimulation in critical care is no experiment, no hobby; it is present and part of the very near future If intensivists remain at the barrier, they will definitely ... of the Working Group on Sepsis-related Problems of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Intensive Care Med 1996, 22:707-710 Clermont G, Kaplan V, Moreno R, Vincent JL, Linde-Zwirble...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... difference in the incidence of stroke and coma In summary, there remains uncertainty concerning optimum Hb levels for neuroprotection of patients undergoing cardiac surgery Many intensivists routinely ... Materials and methods To describe the physiologic and clinical implications of anemia and transfusion in neurocritical care patients, we used the OVID interface to search MEDLINE from its inception ... these findings can be broadly applied to neurocritical care patients Accordingly, it remains common practice for clinicians to set target Hb levels at a minimum of to 10 g/dl in this setting [27-29]...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... of 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 ... fixed in buffered formalin, embedded in paraffin, and stained with hematoxylin-eosin-safran and Masson's trichrome Hepatic steatosis, stage of fibrosis and grade of disease activity were determined ... 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

... McPhail and Haines Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:65 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/65 approaches[2,3] Increasingly, funding decisions in health care are being based upon ... evaluation of change in self-reported outcomes involves completion of a standardised measurement instrument at a certain time point (e.g pre-treatment) and then again at a later time point (e.g post ... Participants and setting This investigation included a sample of 103 participants taking part in larger randomised controlled trial at a tertiary hospital in Brisbane, Australia The larger trial investigated...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... message) These messages are presented in the AWGN channel model The rest of the messages are mixed continuous and discrete messages These mixture messages are continuously valued messages without ... concept Instead of the investigation of the single message, we analyze all μPS → ϕ and μϕ → PS messages jointly It means that all of the analyzed messages are approximated in the simulations and ... again A similar point might be seen in Figure 10 for both KLT and Fourier representations, where the 3component messages outperform the 4-component messages We can remind the point discussed in...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20

... regeneration in both stands (76% Jamy, 98% Legnica) and Q robur was in the minority in both (16% Jamy, 1% Legnica) Morphologically intermediate or mosaic individuals were noted in different amounts in analyzed ... established from seeds gained from oak selected seed stands of mixed composition We were interested in changes in species composition of such mixed oak stands depending on natural or artificial ... 10’ E) and in Jamy (53◦ 34’ N, 18◦ 55’ E) Species composition of both stands is given in Table I Although the origin of adult stands is unknown, in both stands any RESULTS The most striking results...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:21

... applying these to spina bifida patients This understanding would aid the healthcare worker in developing programs suited to a growing population of spina bifida patients, especially in the low income ... multifactorial theory, a combination of any of Figure Marjolin’s ulcer with sinuses extending into the thigh and labia majora One sinus was found in the anus, and another in the vagina Note benign appearance ... ‘Acute’ Marjolin’s ulcers drainage [17] Unfortunately, most spina bifida patients lack sensation, and they and their caretakers may not recognize any significant changes in their ulcers Health education,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:23

... concentrations and s-creatinine, this could in part be explained by an impaired renal function in elderly patients, which is in line with previous findings demonstrating an association between increased ... Tumourassociated trypsin inhibitor, carcinoembryonic antigen and acute-phase reactant proteins CRP and alpha1-antitrypsin in patients with gastrointestinal malignancies Clin Biochem 2004, 37:56-60 ... trypsin inhibitor (TATI) using the streptavidin-biotin system J Immunol Methods 1993, 161:97-106 Goldstein NS, Bosler D: An approach to interpreting immunohistochemical stains of adenocarcinoma in...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:21

... necessitating a major surgical procedure (laparatomy, colostomy, long stay in hospital); and grade = death Grades and rectal bleeding is defined as incidental or intermittent bleeding requiring no ... reported in 13 (14%) patients, and were graded as grade in 12 (13%), and grade in the remaining (1%) This latter patient was presented at the 9th month after 3DCRT and fared well following two ... assessed on randomly selected 10 sample patients by a blind repetition of rectum contouring on randomly chosen CT scans The mean intra-observer variability was 0.7 mm in the cranial and 0.9 mm in the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22

... rifampicin, amphotericin B, cephalothin, cephalexin, acyclovir, foscarnet, pentamidine, zidovudine, indinavir, cyclosporine, tacrolimus, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, angiotensin-converting ... oliguria and hypervolaemia) were more common in these patients The finding that there were different independent risk factors for death in the ischaemic and mixed groups and for all patients combined ... rates in patients with ischaemic and mixed ARF to be three times the rate in patients with nephrotoxic ARF It is conceivable that ischaemia is a determining factor in mortality rates in patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... factors in back and neck pain Spine 2000, 25(9):1148-56 Buer N, Linton SJ: Fear-avoidance beliefs and catastrophizing: occurrence and risk factor in back pain and ADL in the general population Pain ... patients in the public and independent healthcare sectors and whether there is a relationship between this and outcomes Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests ... pregnant and to not have pain below the knee If the patient remained eligible and willing to join the study, s/he was asked to attend the clinic 20 minutes prior to their scheduled appointment...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... of stroke and with cognitive impairment They had diagnosed depression in the patients using Hamilton depression scale and clinical examination of the patients Jong-ling et al 55 in their cross ... 83, 86 urinary incontinence 83 and depression 73, 80, 82, 86 Most falls occurred during transfers or from sitting in a wheelchair or on some other kind of furniture 79 Urinary incontinence: Post ... 3760 patients from 96 rehabilitation facilities constructed a predictive index using logistic regression to achieve the following, viz eating, grooming, and dressing the upper body, continence in...

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