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... difficulties into perspective, alter their priorities and feel enriched by the experience [15] These women might show impressive resilience and feelings of greater pleasure in life and personal relationships ... circumstances evolve [44] Qualitative methods of inquiry provide an in- depth insight into the lived experience of people However, predominantly standardized QoL-questionnaires are being applied A distinct ... are necessary to define the severity and pattern of treatment-related change and subsequently guide intervention strategies [92] QoL measures incorporating assessments of appraisal processes...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20

... state, respectively The third term represents the instability due to the remaining charge in the globule Q and R are the remaining electronic charge and radius of the condensed particle The constants ... similar intrachain segregated structure in giant DNA molecules The stability of a segregated structure induced by polycations has been interpreted in terms of the incomplete charge neutralization ... Broken line, 30 lM T4 DNA in the absence of ascorbic acid We now consider the stability of the intrachain segregated structure induced by ascorbic acid In general, the free energy of a condensed...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20

... which were identified as protein aggregates in our subsequent experiments, were observed in the cells (Fig 2A,B) The fluorescent particles accumulated in a time-dependent manner Nine hours after transfection, ... Centrifugation was performed after each treatment step The supernatants were subjected to western blot assay to measure the amount of recombinant proteins These experiments were repeated independently ... development of 4Ig aggregates To investigate whether other ingredients existed in the aggregate, we stained the aggregates in cells with phalloidin, and this revealed the presence of strong actin-staining...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20

... experiments Zero time represents the ATP concentration in the culture medium containing serum, before the experiment Broken line, observed increase in ATP concentration after exchange of the medium ... counted in five independent images for every experimental setup In each image, 100–150 total cells were counted (H) Single glioma C6 cell cultivated in the presence of serum (I) Single glioma C6 cell ... antisera coupled to horseradish peroxidase by enhanced chemiluminescence, and then densitometry analysis was performed (B) Bars represent mean integrated band intensity taken from three independent...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 08:20

... consecutive measurements Urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction are the most prominent side effects of radical prostatectomy [6] The severity of patient-reported symptoms can be very different ... All patients treated with a NS-RP used several ED treatments (including vacuum device, penile injections, and recently PDE-5 inhibitors), used subsequently or in combined therapies, with the aim ... continence [22,23] The lack of a correlation in our series may be related to the advanced age at follow-up and the consequent age-related incontinence of our cohort Interest- Page of (page number...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... instruments in the evaluation of breast cancer and its treatment in long- term BCS The QoL instruments used in these studies were also identified These QoL instruments were then reviewed for their validation ... in long- term BCS The literature search process is illustrated in Figure Page of 36 Inclusion and exclusion criteria Instruments were included in the review if they were used in at least one long- term ... age, gender, and race/ethnicity [3] Breast cancer incidence and death rates generally increase with age; women older than 45 years are at the greatest risk [3] In developed countries, there has...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... Atika, in Lebanon, in 1973 He obtained the Engineering degree in electrical and electricity from the Faculty of Engineering, Lebanese University, Tripoli, Lebanon, in 1995 He received the D .E. A degree ... images Jacques Duchˆ ne received the Engineer e degree in electronics from the Ecole Sup´ rieure d’Electricit´ , France in 1973, e e and the doctorat d’´ tat in sciences in 1983 e He joined the ... He received his HDR (Habilitation a diriger des recherches) degree from UTC in 2006 He is currently a Researcher at several universities in Lebanon including the Lebanese University His current...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... sub-systems were then identified; the poultry farm households were selected for the interviews through the stratified sampling method Over 64 poultry farms and veterinary agents were eventually interviewed, ... values between species (chicken and ducks) and production types (meat birds, layers, breeders) due to different breeding times, selling weights and selling prices were accounted for in the calculations ... birds are vaccinated two doses per campaign for the layers, breeders The broilers, having a life cycle below 60 days are vaccinated one single dose (Long An Veterinary Service, 2007) 3.4.2 Farmers’...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:22

... with increasing dbh for the other tree species, result- Ingrowth model Table The tree species proportion in percent of volume/ha for the experts expectation according to Starlinger (in Lexer 2001) ... of site factors, tree size factors and distance independent competition factors ing in large trees never dying Therefore the results of the long term simulations became unreliable Thus, in this ... pubescens Ehrh The presence of birch species in general is plausible due to its wide ecological range The potential stronger presence of Betula pubescens at sites influenced by ground water may...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

... receptive to them Similarly, over time, repeated unchanged audit with feedback may cease to be effective even if it was effective initially In LTC settings, the existence of readily available ... the three predictors of intention to change behavior, as well as the intervention and perception of intervention boxes to show where we believe social networks are likely to exert effect Page ... continence, nutritional problems, oral care, or skin treatments Related outcomes include unmanaged pain, continence status, or presence of pressure ulcers The specific items included on the feedback...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... have been conducted in long- term care (LTC) settings to date In general, the effects are modest at best, although in settings where there has been little history of audit and feedback, the effects ... infeasible to assess the degree of uptake of the intervention We have discussed the rationale for measuring intent to change behavior earlier Including intent to change behavior as an intermediate ... DICE project, implementing a feedback intervention in home care settings using the RAI instrument designed to assess clients receiving long- term home care services (RAI-HC) will begin in fall...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... often are used to refer to the same concept between the three provinces For example, in Alberta there are a several terms used to refer to unregulated workers (e. g., personal care attendant, healthcare ... (trained TREC research staff and contracted interviewers) administer the CAPI survey to healthcare aides The interviews are completed during the healthcare aide's work time, or if they prefer, ... role of one of these elements, context, on promoting knowledge translation and improving outcomes We define context as " the environment or setting in which people receive healthcare services,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... expresses an interest in being involved during periods of observation The family caregivers will be asked to take part in an interview in which we will explore their experiences and perspectives ... developed to represent the interplay and interdependence of the many factors influencing the successful translation of knowledge into practice; explained by a function of the relation between ... knowledge use in practice On the other hand, the development of the interview guide for the healthcare aides will evolve as on-site observations are made to ensure that the questions asked will be...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... University Medicine Berlin and the Rehabilitation Centre Seehof, Teltow/Berlin, Germany 3Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co KG, A Medizinische Wissenschaft, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany 4Dept European ... their initial medication for depression, 50.3% were switched due to inadequate effectiveness of their previous medication The remainder named different reasons for their switching to duloxetine ... suicide attempt was reported Two patients had fatal TEAEs: renal cancer; cerebral hemorrhage At each post-baseline visit, mean weight had decreased compared to baseline, but mean decreases were not...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... expresses an interest in being involved during periods of observation The family caregivers will be asked to take part in an interview in which we will explore their experiences and perspectives ... developed to represent the interplay and interdependence of the many factors influencing the successful translation of knowledge into practice; explained by a function of the relation between ... knowledge use in practice On the other hand, the development of the interview guide for the healthcare aides will evolve as on-site observations are made to ensure that the questions asked will be...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... cigarette smokers who were compared to the larger population[17] These studies did not comprehensively investigate the genetic variations observed in the ADAM33 gene and were not performed in a ... the first stage we evaluated the association between the SNPs and COPD assuming an additive genetic model In the next step we explored their relationship between the SNPs that reached a nominal ... Chi-square test for trend, assuming that the risk of the heterozygote genotype is between the risks of the major and the minor homozygote genotypes: additive genetic model Generalized linear models...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:20

... been a prominent concern of many theorists and researchers in the field Accordingly, numerous types of approaches, techniques, exercises and practice have been introduced into the field to teach ... order to achieve the above purposes, the study was designed to test the following hypotheses:  Null hypothesis: The students who take part in the experiment get the same result measured in the ... questionnaires were delivered to teachers who currently teach other 11th grades to investigate how they have dealt with vocabulary teaching, especially the ways they encourage repetition and recycling...

Ngày tải lên: 04/08/2015, 09:41

... phase change in the beam occurs resulting in a corresponding change in the interference pattern This change in the inteference pattern can be measured using a photodetector and the photovoltage ... A decrease in the ESi reduces the f0 of the resonator and therefore material softening also contributes negative temperature dependence to the f0 of the device The thermal expansion coefficient ... interferometry Laser interferometry utilizes wave inteference to detect device motion In a typical interferometer system, a single laser beam is split into two identical beams, a measurement beam and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:58

... centered at 'k- Since A ^ determines the extent of the shrinkage, setting i/ large along w ith a large location value in 'If_1 results in high degree of shrinkage Conversely, small values for 7See ... firm To set the stage for the inferences in the next section, five year returns to these IPOs are calculated versus the five year return on the NYSE-AMEX value-weight index The purpose of this ... examine whether the covariations th at were estimated within each industry earlier have any effect on my inferences Table 10 below gives the the predictive distributions generated by constraining...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 16:34