... offshore independent statistician To strengthen our methodological rigour, personnel who recruit patients (CRAs), research interviewers who undertake the CATIs, and the offshore statistician who ... and speech pathologist responsible for education of nurses on each ASU as identified at the first multi-disciplinary workshop The nurse and speech pathologist will conduct further education events ... 1), category A and B hospitals have access to more comprehensive acute-care services, such as on-site computerised tomography (CT) scanning and intensive care/high dependency beds Category A hospitals...
... insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) HOMA-IR was calculated by means of the homeostasis model assessment (HOMA-R) previously described, where HOMA-R=insulin/(22.5 e - ln glucose) (7) Histological evaluation ... compared the clinical and histological features of HBeAg-negative CHB patients with or without hepatic steatosis, so as to evaluate the predictors of clinical and pathological characteristics ... significantly higher levels of BMI, FBG, FINS, TG, TC, GGT, ALP, Glb and HOMA-IR (all P
... University of California, Davis, Sacramento, California He is the author of Strange Bedfellows: How Medical Jurisprudence Has Influenced Medical Ethics and Medical Practice (Kluwer Academic/Plenum ... Norcross providing preventive health care Consequently, fewer and fewer U.S medical school graduates are choosing careers in primary care, and those primary care physicians in practice are pushed ... PhD, is Professor of Medical Education and Director of Bioethics Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate School, City University of New...
... methods Antiphospholipid antibodies react against phospholipids, which are components of the cell membrane There are several antiphospholipid antibodies, the most important of which is anticardiolipin ... Foundation of America, have made attempts to educate the lupus patient Each year, they mail thousands of easy-to-understand, well-researched educational pamphlets and medical papers to patients ... (e.g., cyclophosphamide) were first shown to be effective in mice Three types of mice are used by researchers: breeds which spontaneously develop lupus, those in whom it can be induced, or mice...
... living in partnership/with children and/or with children living with family of origin nursing home 3% 86% 7% 3% Education Compulsory school Apprenticeship, professional school A-level University ... the assessment of QOL can prove difficult not only due to physical condition but also because of cognitive impairments such as lack of concentration, thought disorder, communication deficits and ... life: an empirical study Medical Care 2008, 46(2):209-216 Publish with Bio Med Central and every scientist can read your work free of charge "BioMed Central will be the most significant development...
... et al [29] Older patients hospitalised with mobility impairment Winograd et al [29] Hospitalised older medical and surgical patients Hospitalised older medical and surgical patients 88 Discriminant ... et al [29] Older patients hospitalised with mobility impairment Winograd et al [29] Hospitalised older medical and surgical patients Hospitalised older medical and surgical patients Total PPME ... deficits who had a median score of (range – 20) Smith also reported higher EMS scores for hospitalised patients who were discharged to home (range 14 – 20 points) compared to those discharged to home...
... Although this mean difference was statistically significant with and without adjustment for recall bias, the magnitude of the mean difference only exceeded reported minimal values for clinically ... recall bias as well as offering an alternate method for change score calculation A response shift and recall bias sensitivity analysis could be conducted to examine whether the different methods ... also calculated (Table 3) To specifically investigate the effect of recall bias on patient perceived change, agreement between patient perceived change with and without adjustment for recall...
... they and their caretakers may not recognize any significant changes in their ulcers Health education, with an emphasis on ulcer prevention and care, should be taught to healthcare workers and ... degeneration of scars have been demonstrated in burn scar Marjolin’s ulcers Ultraviolet rays theory Ultraviolet rays theory - UV rays cause a reduction in Langerhans cell population leading to a reduction ... methods A chart review of two young adults with spina bifida who had presented to the author’s hospital between 2004 and August 2010 with chronic pressure ulcers found to be squamous cell carcinomas...
... participates in cancer cell-mediated degradation of extracellular matrix Cancer Res 1991, 51:2107-2112 Yamamoto H, Iku S, Adachi Y, Imsumran A, Taniguchi H, Nosho K, Min Y, Horiuchi S, Yoshida ... J Clin Pathol 2007, 127:273-281 American_Cancer_Society: Colorectal cancer: facts and figure 2008-1010 Tramonti G, Donadio C, Ferdeghini M, Annichiarico C, Norpoth M, Bianchi R, Bianchi C: Serum ... University, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden 5Department of Clinical Sciences, Division of Urological Cancers, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden Authors’ contributions...
... control of the local tumor and reduction of distant metastatic rates can be achieved by escalating the dose beyond that of conventional doses without additional toxicities [9,21,22] However, toxicities ... patients with localized prostate carcinoma Cancer 1999, 85:2460-2468 Schultheiss TE, Lee WR, Hunt MA, Hanlon AL, Peter RS, Hanks GE: Late GI and GU complications in the treatment of prostate cancer Int ... were obtained with the technique used in method The minimum and mean rectal doses significantly differed in each method Similarly, statistically significant differences were established for the...
... typical school day in your child’s life? Are any parts of your child’s school day affected by the fact that she/he has had a transplant? Explain Walk me through a typical weekend or non-school ... life? Tell me about your child’s daily medical management? Does your child any medical things independently? Explain 10 Do you need to assist your child with any medical things? 11 What effects ... your child feel from their daily medications? 12 How does your child feel about coming to the hospital for: clinic appointments? blood work? procedures such as biopsies, ultrasounds, CT scans?...
... as a measure of psychological distress At week follow-up, pain impact was measured as at baseline, along with satisfaction with care on a 5-point numerical scale http://www.chiroandosteo.com/content/15/1/5 ... convenient time for them to be contacted by telephone This was also the case regarding where they were to be contacted, i.e at home, work or on their mobile telephone The patient was asked to keep the ... or school was, however, low in light of these levels of bothersomeness The range and mean baseline psychometric scores are shown in Table These generally tended toward the low end of all scales...
... patients who were shifted back (unplanned discharges) to acute care hospitals because of the complications they had developed during their hospitalization: (1) Diagnosis of the medical complication/s ... St Luke’s Hospital In both the community hospitals stroke patients are referred from the acute care hospitals In community hospitals post acute, step down medical and rehabilitation care is given ... Discharge- Destinations: (Figure 1) Acute Hospital 11.0% Nursing Home 8.5% Own Hom 80.5% Discharge Destination: Number (%) Own Home Nursing Home Acute Care Hospital 161 (80.5%) 17 (8.5%) 22 (11%)...
... • Birthday attack: attack on a cryptographical system that exploits the mathematics underlying the birthday paradox Examining Identity Attacks • Category of attacks in which the attacker attempts ... Develop attacker profiles • Describe basic attacks • Describe identity attacks • Identify denial of service attacks • Define malicious code (malware) Developing Attacker Profiles • Six categories: ... attack because it exploits the SYN/ACK “handshake” Identifying Denial of Service Attacks (continued) • Another DoS attack tricks computers into responding to a false request • An attacker can...
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... (20% protein, 3250 kcal ME), grower (17.5% protein, 3150 kcal ME), finisher (16.5% protein, 3050 kcal ME), and boar (18% protein, 3150 kcal ME) MATERIAL AND METHODS 2.2 Methods 2.1 Animal The ... Nakhon Rat - Thailand Luc, D.D., H.X Bo, P.C Thomson, D.V Binh, P Leroy, F Farnir (2013) Reproductive and productive performances of the stress-negative 222 Piétrain pigs in the tropics: the case ... and used as terminal boars under industrial conditions (Hao and Chi 2010) as well as household farm conditions (Binh et al 2008) However, far too little attention has been paid to genetic constitution...
... small values between the two cases of Q>268 m3/s) and Q>120%, as shown in Fig The compensated values in the case of Q >268 m3/s became a little larger than those in the case of Q>120% for most pollutant ... flooding became larger in the dry year of 2005, than in other years, and became the largest for TOC The values for inorganic ion loads became smaller than those for organic matters because - 99 ... periods became larger than those during only routine observations during the flooding periods (shown in Table1) In particular, peak times of flow and pollutant concentrations were occasionally...
... Sargassum fusiforme Calliarthron yessoense Sargassum horneri Grateloupia turuturu Phyllospadix iwatensis Undaria pinnatifida Crustose coralline algae Cladophora sakaii Rhodymenia sp Herpochondria elegans ... some loss of macroalgae on the reef, however, Scytosiphon lomentaria and Saccharina japonica were naturally recruited due to the reduction of migration by sea urchin, 0.8 ± 1.8 ind m-2, using the ... rocky shore inhabited by U pinnatifida in Line Others indicate the biomass of Ulva sp and Sargassum horneri Fig shows the algal biomass between the artificial buoyed reefs and natural rocky shore...
... variety developed for whole-crop silage It can produce a larger quantity of biomass, and has a higher tolerance for nitrogen loading than the commonly used rice variety (Zhou and Hosomi, 2008a; Sakai ... (data not shown), and the soil density and water content were determined based on the physical properties of the soil mentioned above Nitrification and Denitrification The nitrification at the ... experimental case as calculated with the finally calibrated parameters is shown in Fig along with the measured values Underestimations and overestimation were occurred in the low-water-supply case and...
... nitrogen and phosphorus in high concentrations because of fertilization (Nishimura et al., 2010) Study area Field surveys were conducted in Taisanji area, as shown in Fig 1, which is located in the ... that the nitrate concentration became mg-N/L in both cases, and glucose was also added only in one case Both cases were setup for measuring the potential of denitrification activity All of them were ... leachate can remove pollutants through biological reactions Biological conversion of nitrate and its kinetics According to the chemical reaction formula expressed above, nitrogen compounds can be...