... inside the aorta The duration of myocardial ischemia and extracorporeal circulation was and 152 min, respectively (Fig 3) The postoperative course was favorable, andthe patient was discharged ... Aberrant subclavian artery and Kommerell aneurysm: surgical treatment with a standard approach J Thoracic Cardiovasc Surg 2007, 133:888-892 Imagawa H, Kadoba K, Taniguchi , Sawa Y, Takahashi ... thoracic aorta because cervical branch bypass was required, the proximal landing zone peripheral to theright subclavian artery was short, and aortic curvature was severe Conclusion With regard to...
... 5) andthe two transgenic lines (lanes and 8) but the mutant L -chain was undetectable in the cocoon protein sample from the Nd-sD mutant (Fig 5B, lanes and 6) The anti-L -chain polyclonal antibody ... 3A, lane 1) The 30-kDa fhx/P25 was converted to the 27-kDa single band by digestion with the bacterial a1 ,2-mannosidase (Fig 3A, lanes 4–6), andthe 30- and 27-kDa fhx/P25 were converted to the ... (Fig 1D) When fractions 13–15 (bracketed) were pooled and analyzed by the quantitative ELISA, the molar ratio of H- and L-chains, and fhx/P25 was shown to be close to (H -chain) : (L -chain) : (fhx/P25)...
... organizations are to improve the quality of care and enhance patient safety, it is essential that there isa more indepth understanding of how these teams are established, the barriers and facilitators ... safe team initiatives, the evidence about their impact, andthe barriers and facilitators to establishing teams and team initiatives Methods Data sources and searches We searched MEDLINE (1980-November ... survey and interview senior leaders and team members of quality and safety teams across Canada, a scoping review of the literature was undertaken to understand the types of quality and safe team...
... Cor, meaning heart It means to give courage, confidence or hope Having courage is having the ability to disregard fear and to be brave The easiest way to be brave and fearless is to listen to and ... flexibility and social knowledge and experience of managers The objective of this skill is to enhance mutual understanding and respect on the basis of identification and recognition of the values and ... promoted if the manager has time to improve his public capacity Give your employees the knowledge and experience of themselves so that they can learn and develop further 5)wise in the handling of document...
... when assessing cloud value AMS isthe paradigm where a predefined level of demand is managed internally andthe remainder augmented with cloud services The apothegm is ‘Own the base and rent the ... solution The latter hasthe additional attributes of being available anywhere, at anytime and on any device If it was only a simple as a mouse-trap The complication is that for most customers they already ... customers have this tumour, and they should actively avoid growing it In another ebook, I explain a new business paradigm, Augmented Managed Services (AMS) This is yet another approach businesses...
... implicitly assumes that there isa corresponding neutral level for the exchange rate, such that the exchange rate neither stimulates nor contracts demand, and that the exchange rate is at this neutral ... implying that the NRR also changes slowly rather than varying of the sources of currency risk premia); and • rate as being the structural factors that affect savings and significantly over the business ... estimates Of course, the disinflationary impact of the Asian crisis of of the NRR Hawkesby et al assume that there is no default the late 1990s may counter-balance the impact of these or liquidity premium...
... for PSA on the same sample Although lack of an equimolar response was in part responsible for this phenomenon, the other problem was the lack of calibration against a universal standard In an effort ... PSA is problematic because PSA is really an organ-specific marker for the prostate rather than a specific marker for cancer Controversy exists regarding the medical decision levels for tPSA and ... enlargement, inflammation, infection, age, and race If there are no other indicators that suggest cancer, the doctor may recommend repeating DRE (digital rectal examination) and PSA tests regularly...
... microfinance programmes within Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Uganda and Zimbabwe, and include both rural and urban initiatives Synthesis results ... interventions, and two were of savings schemes alone They include evaluations of programmes within Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania (Zanzibar), Uganda and Zimbabwe ... Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe One study also included data from Haiti Of these 35 studies, 33 evaluated the impact of microcredit,...
... controversies afflicting the recent and multidisciplinary debates Whatis AE for? Is AE an adaptation or a by-product? Whatisthe relationship between AE andthe goal of knowing? Has AE a mental distinctiveness? ... ideological bias about the nature of art And this isa sticking point I take it that issues germane to theories in aesthetics andthe philosophy art can be peeled apart There are questions about the aesthetics ... conceive of a neural system in which landscape paintings would not activate the parahippocampal place area and that facial portraits not activate the fusiform face area, parts of the brain that respond...
... of a separate approach is that a clear distinction is drawn between more classic health and life issues and specific safety issues This view only strengthens the argument that the case-law-based ... in the market at issue for such trailers and therefore hinder[ed] their importation.”132 Thus far, the judgment is coherent in its approach Then logical reasoning disappears andthe Grand Chamber ... of the Treaty rules rather than to remove them from the scope of the Treaty.79 In the light of these three reasons, he concluded that the Keck criteria were inappropriate and that the Italian...
... size statistic relates change over time to the standard deviation of baseline scores The standardised response mean compares change to the standard deviation of change The responsiveness statistic ... between the final and initial state, should show a positive correlation with the final state and an equal negative correlation with the initial state [19] We therefore also calculated Pearson's ... perform a mental subtraction Patients may be unable to recall their initial state, andthe judgement is based on their present state and working backwards Any measure of change that reflects the unbiased...
... matrix These crystalline grains can be either ‘beta-Sialon’ , or a mixture of ‘alpha’ and ‘beta’ , but generally it can be said that as the ‘alpha’ phase increases, the hardness of the ‘Sialon’ ... ceramics is their low thermal conductivity, making them highly susceptible to thermal shock (i.e the hot and cold thermal cycles that can occur when interrupted cutting takes place) These thermal ... in the plant and to amortise such costs (i.e pay-back), isthe most advantageous way forward This strategy can create ‘bottlenecks’ and disrupt the harmonious flow of production at later stages...
... Human resource management help looking good staff actively involved in the success of the company and help recruit theright people for the company, human capital is guaranteed, saving time and ... Recruitment and training Staff training is an integral part of the overall development strategy of the business Staff are not trained or not trained fit isthe main cause leading to the current state ... maintain working excellence atmosphere Because the performance of an individual in a large organization where the air is due to work or the work culture of the organization that brings Increase...
... This study was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) (Australia) andthe Shepherd andthe Colonial foundations AEW isthe recipient of an NHMRC Public Health (Australia) ... ensure that no significant abnormality is present and that this should be factored into the study, as has been our practice Where, as in Australia, there is universal health care, there isa facility ... malignancy, and so on), which may also have Available online http://arthritis-research.com/content/10/1/R18 significant clinical ramifications In contrast, other imaged areas, such as the hand and wrist...
... defined as the thickness between the skin-fat interface andthe linea alba, andthe VAT was defined as the distance between the anterior wall of the aorta andthe internal face of the recto-abdominal ... of the study, TG drafted the manuscript FC, MND, CD and PF helped to draft the manuscript TM and TG performed ultrasound TG participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical ... increased strengthens this hypothesis and proposes this measurement as a non-invasive parameter to weigh the grass-roots low-grade chronic inflammatory process Discussing the limitations of the...
... surfactant function is aggravated by preservation of the graft, ischaemia and reperfusion Therefore, substitution of surfactant may bridge the patient to recovery of the graft The combination ... According to the case report [1], extracorporeal circulation was instituted when right heart failure occurred after implantation of the left lung and clamping of the contralateral pulmonary artery, ... syndrome patients However, both therapeutic strategies failed to show efficacy in prospective randomized trials, so what justification is there for the use of these approaches in lung transplantation?...
... feelings, they will be able to help each other learn when they work in pairs and groups, when the teacher can’t hear whatis said (p.26) Teacher correction If neither the student who made the error, ... know the purpose of the study or in other words, the information andthe data was gathered as unobtrusively as possible When observing the lessons in progress, the researcher and her associate paid ... Inter-lingual interference There always exist some similarities between the mother tongue andthe target language For the similar part, the learner may transfer concepts from the mother tongue into the...
... Hypothesis The higher level of satisfaction with rewards at the primary/focal store, the greater the SOW at the primary/focal store” REJECTED Hypothesis was rejected The higher the satisfaction ... loyalty card for their most frequented supermarket lead to a higher SOW than if they did not have a card, as can be seen in the following graph andthe statistical data in Table Hypothesis “Having ... attitudinal loyal a customer is towards their focal store the more visits and purchases will be made at that store It is therefore hypothesized that: Hypothesis 4: The more attitudinally loyal a card holder...