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... and the initial UF rate is two times the ratio between the remaining UF and the remaining time (remaining UF/remaining time) The factor is a coefficient between and determined according to the ... follows: Kr = excretion rate C urine Vurine ΔM r = = Ce Turine C e Turine C e (25) where Vurine is urine volume, Curine is solute concentration in urine, Turine is time of urine collection, Ce is plasma ... and in the dialyzer Using solute kinetic modeling one is able to evaluate dialysis efficiency The question concerning dialysis dosing has been debated and remains controversial since the beginning...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 03:20

... is nevertheless important in putting MPs center stage as disease markers and showing how the components in the blood can be mined in new and intriguing ways Competing interests The author declares ... Nevertheless, the finding of increased platelet MPs is important since these diseases all have a vascular component, with increased MPs potentially promoting thrombosis in a manner similar to that postulated ... inversely released to extraglandular disease in primary Sjogren’s syndrome, for example Among explanations for this surprising finding, Sellam and colleagues suggest the possibility that an increase...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... 38 INTRODUCTION 39 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK 43 2.1 From Identifying New Knowledge to Choosing a Knowledge Partner 44 2 From Assimilating Knowledge to Assimilating from ... properties or attributes, and is stored in terms of its autobiographical reference to the already existing contents of the episodic memory store In contrast, inputs into the semantic memory system ... Therefore, in our results, we expect episodic memory processes to be more subject to biases In the choice model literature, there has been increasing efforts to incorporate behavioural theories into...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 11:11

... responses to intrabrachial artery infusion of acetylcholine, some [11-14] but not all investigators [15] have shown impaired endothelial function in RA Endothelial dysfunction was related to inflammation ... conducted in the RA patients only (see below) Blood samples drawn for determination of cytokines and biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction were stored at 70°C before laboratory testing Cytokines and ... biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction in RA patients In univariate analysis, VCAM-1 was related to rheumatoid factor titres and low GFR, ICAM-1 to rheumatoid factor titres and IL-6, and ELAM-1 to IL-6...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 06:22

... Combine in jar  close lid ; Submerge in hot water Stir to blend Cool before applying Blend until pureed Strain; reserve liquid Store in refrigerator blend my own toner fl oz (175 ml) rubbing ... ½ lemon Cut into thin slices 100 210 Combine fruit and alcohol To personalize, add: tsp lemon juice (acne-prone skin) tsp evening primrose oil (dry skin) tsp witch hazel (oily skin) whip up facial ... doctor if the problem persists heal a zit Grind aspirin Add lemon juice Dip in a cotton swab Apply mixture to zit switch lanes Look for traffic in the rearview mirror Check for cars in your blind...

Ngày tải lên: 15/01/2014, 12:15

... adjusting its programmes in line with the Action Plan’s objectives, and by taking innovation into account in the Community-level rules for doing business, in particular the rules for competition, intellectual ... Every business sector, whether in manufacturing or in services, in traditional or “new economy” sectors, should aim to benefit from innovation For this to happen, enterprises need access to knowledge, ... favourable to innovation and to regular reporting on progress in improving this environment (see Objective 2: A regulatory framework conducive to innovation) To continue and extend activities to encourage...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from RAND Published ... end in Somalia and were further diminished by events in the former Yugoslavia In both instances, UN-led peacekeeping forces were inserted into societies where there was no peace to keep In both ... Union had begun to disengage from proxy wars in Latin America, Africa, and Asia and were finally prepared to work together in pressing former clients to resolve their outstanding differences The...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 00:20

... relative to rice from 1989 to 2006 The relative price of pork versus rice increased from about in 1989 to in 1997, and then decreased to 4.5 in 2006 This finding suggests the protein/fat rich foods ... finding in Smith et al (2005) based on data from 36 developing countries This study may be subject to some limitations First, due to data limitations, we mainly use anthropometric indicators to ... percentage points can be explained by the observed factors, and the remaining are attributed to the unobserved factors There are similar findings for the outcome of being underweight (Insert Table...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... is at the top (B) The total RNA isolated from several tissues, including the pancreas (lane 2), small intestine (lane 3), liver (lane 4), kidney (lane 5), large intestine (lane 6), stomach (lane ... generating a thermally stable enzyme form from a thermally unstable one: frog, toad and newt DNases I all have a Ser205 insertion in a domain that contains an essential Ca2+binding site in the ... actin in complex with actin-binding proteins J Biol Chem 267, 11661–11664 35 Ulmer, J.S., Herzka, A., Toy, K.J., Baker, D.L., Dodge, A.H., Sinicropi, D., Shak, S & Lazarus, R.A (1996) Engineering...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 23:20

... request to think in new directions required an open-minded look at the food sector, some elements of the “real-world” configuration had to be taken into account from the beginning This was in particular ... technologies in this area might lead to new combinations in the way how food is being bought, stored, and put together into meals, also in the context of food safety and health First prototypes of “intelligent” ... in the development of new packaging formats adapted to specific consumer segments A synergetic effect in maintaining food quality and increasing sustainability is obtained by means of packaging...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 05:20

... and existing chemicals are treated differently by the regulators, thus creating a bias in the law against bringing new chemicals into the market It is easier to continue to use existing chemicals ... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both ­Academies and the Institute of Medicine ... (EMSs) are initially implemented to maintain compliance with regulations, they often have implications for lowering environmental costs, training employees, and developing indicators to measure...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 23:20

... goes hand in hand with an increase in the credit to GDP ratio This is demonstrated on Figure when moving from point A to C through B The depicted trajectory of the increase in the credit to GDP ... This in turn leads to an increase in the supply of bank credit, all thing being equal Our baseline speci…cation includes per capita GDP, bank credit to the public sector, nominal lending rates, in ... liberalisation index of the banking sector and that of the …nancial sector provided by the EBRD from 1990 to 2004 are used (rescaled from to 4+ to to 20, which corresponds to the scaling used in Abiad...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 04:20

... the interatomic spacing The interatomic spacing can determined through laser interferometry The method is currently limited to a precision of about 10−5 because of uncertainties in the isotopic ... beryllium target at GSI laboratory are momentum selected [12] and then injected into a storage ring [13] About 10 fully ionized ions are injected into the ring where they are stored for several hundred ... distributions of photons emitted in transitions that are important in determining the spins and parities of states Ground state nuclear spins are also manifest in the hyperfine splitting of atomic atomic spectra...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 14:37

... training To insure access to psychosocial services, continuing education opportunities are needed for social workers and other mental health providers In addition, efforts are need to maintain ... happened I think particularly speaking to the research community, but also to the clinical community, we tend to focus particularly as researchers or clinicians on victories You want to win You want ... Professor of Medicine and Health Policy and Professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University I am delighted to introduce them both here to you today INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Sandra Horning, President,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:21

... manager including hiring and building great teams, planning and executing your work, motivating people, making great decisions, handling the inevitable attrition and building an inclusive place to ... something happen Stopping something from happening Educating and making people aware Helping to prioritize Increasing commitment Showing the path – adds confidence, lowers anxiety Planning cycle A ... skills in Bangalore, India, and then in Silicon Valley, USA working for Oracle Corporation He now works as Director of Engineering at Intuit India Rahul finds management in everything, such as a game...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... not to inject in front of non-injectingdrug users and not to talk about the ‘benefits’ of injecting drug use in front of non-users Preliminary findings show that adolescents who would like to ... prevention interventions Intervention Evidence Abstinence from sex and from injecting drugs Effective in preventing transmission Programmes promoting sexual abstinence are effective when abstinence ... public-sector distribution of female condoms from 400,000 in 2005 to million in 2008, and increased sales from 900,000 to million in the same time period.112 Preventing HIV from early adolescence to...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... Marketing Mix Managing the marketing mix makes marketing seem to easy to handle and organize Marketing is separated FROM MARKETING MIX TO RELATIONSHIP MARKETING: TOWARDS A PARADIGM SHIFT IN MARKETING ... but the point is well taken An interest in turning anonymous masses of potential and existing customers into interactive relationships with well-defined customers is becoming increasingly important ... relationships and marketing networks We start thinking mostly about how to hold on to our existing customers Our thinking therefore is moving from a marketing mix focus to a relationship focus”...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 20:20

... the story of the Bidwell family to- day related on another page of the Herald, all European critics would have told him that the story was too 'American,' too vast in its outlines, too high in its ... Fenian Leader" A "Story" Told in the Dark Maloy Helps My Escape on an Irish Jaunting Car Eggs A Policeman Anxious to Obtain the Five Hundred Pounds Reward Dublin Again A Jewess' Blessing I Turn Russian, ... Going into the Interior 312 36 CHAPTER XXXI 37 CHAPTER XXXI On the Caribbean A Motley Cargo Turning Turtles and Shark Fishing A Dinner Party in Havana Proves a Surprise Party Capt John Curtin...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 00:20

... but not R6, in rat liver in vivo is insulin-dependent It declines during insulin deficiency and is restored by insulin treatment [22,40] Another glycogen-targeting protein expressed in rat liver ... leptin in hepatocytes from Wistar rats The activity of phosphorylase-a was decreased by culture of hepatocytes with leptin and insulin (Fig 8A) in agreement with previous findings [38] R6 protein ... than unity at low glucose [32], and this is explained by glucokinase binding to an inhibitory regulator protein [39] Phosphorylase-a, like glucokinase also has a very high flux-control coefficient...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 11:20

... management of risk factors Leading to Diabetes (SHIELD) This investigation will ascertain whether the burden of having risk factors for diabetes impacts HRQoL in a similar way as having diabetes SHIELD ... diabetes) Using the methodology of Cavrini and associates and Sitoh and colleagues [18,19], an ordinal variable for the EQ-5D index was created by categorizing the continuous variable into levels, ... HRQoL instruments and its usefulness in identifying determinants of health states [15-17] The following sociodemographic factors were included: age, gender, race, geographic region, household income...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20