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... Int. J. Med. Sci. 2009, 6 http://www.medsci.org 130The major causes of visual acuity loss are: - se-vere vitreitis (52.6% of the cases), - cystoid macular edema (47,4%) ... highly immunogenetic antigens. The severity of the disease might be related to the number of the larvae present in the eye and by the immune response of the host. Figure 1: Ocular toxocariasis ... presence of specific IgG in the serum (ELISA test, 90% specificity and 91% sensibility). Nevertheless the absence of specific antibodies in the serum does not exclude the diagnosis of ocular...
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... Institute of Medicine of the U.S.National Academy of Sciences.Christopher J. L. Murray is the Richard Saltonstall professor of public policy, professor of social medicine, and director of theHarvard ... Causes ofGlobal Burden of Disease, DALYs(3,0), 2001 88Table 3.15 The 10 Leading Causes of Burden of Disease by Broad Income Group, 2001 89Table 3.16 The 10 Leading Causes of the Burden of Disease ... chief,International Programs, of the National Library of Medicine of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, graciously offered thecompetent services of the Information Engineering Branch of the National...
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... Support of this dataset is provided by the Office of Science, U.S. Department of Energy. Source: Maps are based on data developed at the MIT Joint Program for the Science and Policy ofGlobal ... sector assessment of a number of soft measures such as water harvesting in the adaptation measure “irrigation reform”. 30 impact of climate change and affect the type and extent of adaptation ... average of the GDP growth projections of the three major integrated assessment models ofglobal emissions growth—Climate Framework for Uncertainty, Negotiation, and Distribution (FUND; Anthoff and...
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... the range of theyears of takeoff across the same set of countries. Con-vergence in the year of takeoff may occur due to tworeasons. First, there may be a convergence in the year of commercialization ... parentheses.∗Significantly lower than mean of rest of countries (p<010 or p<005);∗∗significantly higher than mean of rest of countries.Chandrasekaran and Tellis: Global Takeoff of New Products: Culture, ... Welch 2003, Van den Bulte 2000)H9: Products of recent vintage take offfaster than products of older vintageChandrasekaran and Tellis: Global Takeoff of New Products: Culture, Wealth, or Vanishing...
... postcodesthatcomprisethebottom25% of thepopulationagedbetween15to64yearsatthedate of 1MeasuringtheSocio‐economic Status of HigherEducationStudentsDiscussionPaperDecember 2009 8.2 AnIndex of SES?As discussed above, there are multiple dimensions of SES, all of which ... of thesedimensions of SEScouldbeused tomeasuretheSES of highereducationstudents.4.1 EducationThe education dimension of SES is usually measured throu gh the level of ... 2008fullyearenrolments 2009 4SEIFAIndicesatCDlevel 2008fullyearenrolments 2009 Centrelinkincomesupportrecipients MarchandSeptember 20092009 Datafromsurveys of students 2010enrolments...
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