... universe inthe 1920s If the universe has been expanding since its creation (some 15 billion years ago) then at some time inthe past the objects within it were very close together and interacting ... shows that all the energy transferred is passing to the electrons, but the increase inthe kinetic energy is not reflected inthe expected increase inthe velocity of the electrons Kinetic energy ... Consequently the charges of the quarks must add up inthe combination that composes the proton but cancel out inthe combination that composes the neutron Calling the charge on an up quark Qu and the...
... drink, which is above average inthe Southeast andin areas of the West In New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska andin many counties inthe Plains and Mountain states, the mortality rates are high, in ... uninterested in point-counterpoint He just wants to keep going, studying ways of improving the vaccine and of developing others That is the credo of the institute, he insists: “It is the search for the ... of the intestinal wall arise at the base of the “fingers” and, over several days, travel to the tip They die there and are sloughed off Skin Skin cells begin life inthe deepest layers and then...
... of the universe, theBig Bang, was dead: "Big Bang Theory Goes Bust" read one inthe Washingxv ■ PREFACE TO THE VINTAGE EDITION ■ ton Post But in April 1992 another headline inthe New York Times ... hypotheses—something BigBang cosmologists are fond of doing (see Chapter Four) The latest idea is somehow to push theBigBang farther back in time by maintaining that expansion was slower inthe ... many of the dominant ideas of today's science, while incorporating what is valid into a new and wider synthesis TheBigBang theory of cosmology the idea that the universe originated in a single...
... combines the terms thoranee (land), the god Indra, and ratchathirat (the great king) This term literally means the great king of the land”; the king is akin to the god Indra.13 By contrast, there ... of the king include the Coronation Ritual, the Oath-Taking Ceremony, the Royal Procession on land and by boat, the drinking of the Water of Allegiance, andthe Ceremony of the Viewing of the ... urbanization inthe region influenced by the increase in commerce inthe Indian Ocean and from China inthe 15th century, as well as the period of economic and cultural decline and political...
... educational intervention The local people were using pit latrines and hand pumps which were installed at thebeginning of the establishment of Bauniabad area The main activities included; (i) a baseline ... However, they have gradually increased the proportion of the installation cost share This is because the people were involved from thebeginning of the installation and they understood the benefit ... connecting households • To operate and maintain the biogas plant system continuously, it is necessary to establish the operation and maintenance system including the maintenance cost sharing by the...
... represent the absolute range between the maximum nursing cost of CRRT andthe minimum nursing cost of IRRT on the right, and between the maximum nursing cost of IRRT and minimum nursing cost of ... represent the range between the maximum cost of each domain for CRRT andthe minimum cost for IRRT andthe maximum cost of each domain for IRRT and minimum cost for CRRT The box represents the 1st and ... on the left The box represents the 1st and 3rd quartiles of the nursing-cost range The thick solid line represents the median difference in nursing costs for CRRT and IRRT across all centers in...
... conveyed The above part of the iceberg inThe Old Man andthe Sea is the man, the marlin, the sharks, the sea andthe effort of the man to take the marlin offshore 2.2 The hidden part and its ... observes, the language of seed time and harvest, bread and wine, heat and cold, the rising up and going down of the sun, andthe slow turn of the seasons.‖ Finally, though The Old man andthe Sea ... out and briefly analyze the significance of language used inThe Old Man andthe Sea exposing Hemingway‘s striking writing style The finding of this would help the students of linguistics , the...
... interesting, liked the drawings and said that the drawings helped them understand the words inthe stories Students also enjoyed the humor of the comic, especially that the characters were interesting ... that the physical form of the comic strips which give clues inthe pictures to the meaning of the printed text, was and aid in assisting poor readers Following is the instructional methods and ... content and/ or the process that is their conduit for acquiring new knowledge During the process of conducting an action research on using Calvin and Hobbes in teaching and learning English, the following...
... the concept of an extensible operating system is once again gaining acceptance this time as the solution to the unconstrained growth of UNIX During the last 20 years operating systems and their ... summarizes these operations As in other Mach interfaces, these calls are implemented using IPC; the first argument to each call is the port to which the request is sent, and represents the object ... which the data should be returned To clean dirty pages, the kernel performs a pager_data_write call specifying the location inthe memory object, and including the data to be written When the data...
... literature in promoting the collision of mind with mind’, rather than simply communicating the epiphanies of inspired individuals – or what amounted to the same thing, unexamined ideas – to the reading ... of their mix of promise and threat, anticipation and dread, resound inthe writings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Britain – a time and a place when the newly disturbing ... on, in light of their self-understanding, without identifying the rules of the games they have been playing as being selective and revising them.’24 This approach is markedly different from the...
... flows increases output in most countries, andthe increase in output is mostly due to a boom in consumption and investment The findings, especially for the case of the full sample including the ... Korea and Singapore make up one group, and Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, another group These results indicate that there are two different business cycles inthe region, even though the East ... correlation in general increased inthe 1990s from the previous periods This is mostly due to the industrial countries inthe sample In conclusion, we can summarize the main characteristics of the business...
... pre-existing increased insulin resistance and dysfunction of beta cells Insulin resistance is present inthe acutely ill [13,15,18,28] in different intensity, but the factors determining the extent ... of cytokine-induced insulin resistance in obesity and other inflammatory settings Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metab Care 2002, 5:377-383 15 Marik PE, Raghavan M: Stress-hyperglycemia, insulin and immunomodulation ... patients inthe normoglycaemia group and 93 inthe hyperglycaemia group who discontinued their assessments Also, we stopped the follow-up for 15 patients inthe normoglycaemia group andinthe hyperglycaemia...
... occur inthe lower limbs and are usually monoarticular with up to 50–60% occurring at the first metatarsophalangeal joint [2,4,14] Gout may occur in any joint including the ankle, knee, hand, ... sacroiliac joint and other joints of the spine, however most commonly occurs inthe lower extremity In this case, although the patient had suffered two previous gouty attacks inthe first metatarsophalangeal ... publication was obtained from the patient The authors wish to thank Dr William Hsu and Dr Tania Pringle for their contribution to the interpretation of the radiographs and providing key information relevant...
... introduced the potential for bias inthe results and is a limitation of the study Medical errors are among the leading causes of death inthe United States In its highly publicised report, the Institute ... reduction inthe probability of treatment being timely and effective or an unintentional significant increase inthe risk of harm when compared with generally accepted practice [8] During the monitoring ... causing no harm or an increase in patient monitoring with no change in vital signs and no harm noted Moderate errors were classified as those causing an increase in patient monitoring, a change in...
... (Tegretal and others), clozapine (Clozaril), droperidol (Inapsine and others), gabapentin (Neurontin), haloperidol (Haldol and others), lamotrigine (Lamictal), lithium (Eskalith and others), metformin ... pre-dialysis and 2–3 hrs following the post-dialysis dose There is a case report in which lithium levels were maintained inthe therapeutic range by intraperitoneal administration of lithium during continuous ... portacaval shunting, thereby decreasing first pass metabolism; decrease in quantities and affinity of plasma proteins, thereby increasing free-drug levels; increase in volume of distribution in patients...
... improve insulin sensitivity and help in wound healing (16,17) Along with others, the investigators have used microcurrent for treatment of chronic wounds and ulcers (18-20) In an earlier work, The ... poor capillary refill The left foot was red and inflamed up to and including the medial malleolus The lateral aspect of the great toe and second toe turned black Laboratory investigation revealed ... obesity andthe metabolic syndrome (30) In these conditions there is an elevation of both glucose and free fatty acid levels inthe blood and an increase in oxidative stress (30,31) The high degree...
... glucosamine and chondroitin, one month prior to study and during the study, other than multivitamin and mineral supplements containing vitamins and minerals as the sole medicinal ingredients Use of ... Subjects inthe UC-II group were instructed to take two “sugar pills” inthe morning to protect blinding and two UC-II capsules inthe evening accounting for a daily dose of 40 mg UC-II containing ... arthritis or other types of pain) or is unwilling to stop taking other medications for the treatment of OA Any other condition that, inthe opinion of the investigator, would adversely affect the subject's...
... implicates the damaged DNA binding protein heterodimer in damage recognition, because the complex binds damaged DNA with high affinity [43] and can dramatically increase the repair rate of certain DNA ... responsible for removing UV-C photoproducts and bulky adducts from DNA Among the NER enzymes, ERCC4/XPF and ERCC1 are also uniquely involved in removing DNA interstrand cross-linking damage The ERCC4/XPF-ERCC1 ... position -4 preceding the AUG codon may affect ribosomal binding and thus alter the efficiency of XPA protein synthesis To investigate whether the transition from G to A changes the translation...
... temporary dose discontinuation in 3/20 (15%) Forns and colleagues used relatively high-dose interferon/ribavirin therapy in their cohort of 30 patients awaiting transplantation in Spain in an effort to ... low initial dose, with increases every two weeks toward standard target doses Duration of therapy was intended to be 24 weeks in genotypes andand 48 weeks in genotype infection Hematologic inclusion ... factors, specifically G-CSF and erythropoietin, has allowed more aggressive dosing of interferon and ribavirin [13, 14] Finally, growing experience with antiviral therapy in this high-risk group...
... is therefore possible that CKBM could induce cytokine release including TNF-α in these animals and inhibit tumor growth However, further study is needed to determine how they are induced andthe ... compounds including lunasin and lectins that were shown to induce apoptosis in malignant cells [13] As CKBM contains these compounds, this would partially explain why it inhibits tumor growth inthe ... through the induction of apoptosis and inhibition of proliferation of gastric cancer cells However, further clinical trials in humans are needed to examine the pharmacokinetics andthe therapeutic...