lead in the indoor environment

Indoor Environmental Quality - Chapter 6 pptx

Indoor Environmental Quality - Chapter 6 pptx

... Paecelomyces variatii Mycotoxin Patulin Ochratoxin A Citrinin Citroviriden Emodein Egliotoxin Verruculogen Secalonic acid D Aflatoxin (B1) Aflatoxin (B1) Sterigmatocysin Ochratoxin A Patulin T-2 Nivalenol ... suffering and death In the past two decades there has been a significant decline in skin disease, and a significant increase in systemic disease, caused by fungal infections This is due, in the latter ... syndrome (AIDS) is the most prevalent of such infectious diseases The epidemic increase in AIDS infections has resulted in a corresponding increase in life-threatening fungal infections, most notably...

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Tuberculosis Care with TB-HIV Co-management: INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF ADOLESCENT AND ADULT ILLNESS (IMAI) pptx

Tuberculosis Care with TB-HIV Co-management: INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF ADOLESCENT AND ADULT ILLNESS (IMAI) pptx

... nurse, ART Aid or other counselor, or other health worker can provide the pre-test information, obtain informed consent, and the HIV test on-site in the clinic (after a short training) This is more ... abdominal pain • Joint pains • Burning sensation in the feet Continue isoniazid and: • Give isoniazid at bedtime • Give aspirin • Increase pyridoxine 100 mg daily Major side effects • New itching ... number (depending on the patient’s weight) of the combination tablet of isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide and ethambutol In the continuation phase, the TB patient would take a certain number of...

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Personal recovery and mental illness pdf

Personal recovery and mental illness pdf

... something with the patient and 11% the person doing something for themselves74 Treatment involving the clinician doing something to the patient is the norm The problem with this approach is that the ... viewed in a highly negative way by others  People in these roles increasingly associate only with others in the same group, leading to impoverished social networks  The person is defined by others ... illness’34 In other words, and not surprisingly, the structure of the mental state examination influences the results obtained If the questions implicitly locate the problem as an illness in the person,...

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Báo cáo Y học: Recombinant pronapin precursor produced in Pichia pastoris displays structural and immunologic equivalent properties to its mature product isolated from rapeseed pptx

Báo cáo Y học: Recombinant pronapin precursor produced in Pichia pastoris displays structural and immunologic equivalent properties to its mature product isolated from rapeseed pptx

... peptide in the correct folding of the protein The strategy of synthesizing precursors of proteins by recombinant technology instead their mature forms has been used with different goals Interestingly, ... by combining the isolated chains failed [39], which supports the important role of the IPF region not only in the appropriate processing but also in the correct folding In this context, the expression ... sera with both proteins as inhibitors (Fig 7) Complete inhibition was obtained with each form of the napin, indicating that they share the IgE epitopes These results corroborated the immunological...

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Báo cáo sinh học: "Shipping blood to a central laboratory in multicenter clinical trials: effect of ambient temperature on specimen temperature, and effects of temperature on mononuclear cell yield, viability and immunologic function" potx

Báo cáo sinh học: "Shipping blood to a central laboratory in multicenter clinical trials: effect of ambient temperature on specimen temperature, and effects of temperature on mononuclear cell yield, viability and immunologic function" potx

... recorded the maximum and minimum temperatures attained inside the packages during shipment Blood drawn at UVa was processed either the same day or the following day, depending on when in the day ... C) The effects of extreme high ambient temperatures on maintaining internal temperatures within the range of 15-35°C was tested on the newly designed JVI shipping container The shipping container ... placed inside and taped shut The shipping container was set inside a 45°C chamber for forty-five hours and the internal package temperature recorded as described in Methods The red line indicates the...

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Báo cáo y học: "A prospective observational study of the relationship of critical illness associated hyperglycaemia in medical ICU patients and subsequent development of type 2 diabetes"

Báo cáo y học: "A prospective observational study of the relationship of critical illness associated hyperglycaemia in medical ICU patients and subsequent development of type 2 diabetes"

... pre-existing increased insulin resistance and dysfunction of beta cells Insulin resistance is present in the acutely ill [13,15,18,28] in different intensity, but the factors determining the extent ... Mediators 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 ... wrote the manuscript AVB and VG participated in patients' inclusion and follow-up IPR was involved in the analysis of results and writing the manuscript All the authors read and approved the final...

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Public attitudes, stigma and discrimination against people with mental illness

Public attitudes, stigma and discrimination against people with mental illness

... closely linked to personal control In other words, how far is the individual directly or indirectly at fault in developing the condition? In an important conclusion, the authors stated, ‘Severity ... devaluing, rejecting and excluding the labelled group Interestingly, more recently, the authors of this model have added a revision to include the emotional reactions which may accompany each of these ... legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities Act in the USA and the Disability Discrimination Act in the UK, have been applied relatively infrequently to cases involving mental illness...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 09:20

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Tài liệu Psychometric properties of the quality of life scale Child Health and Illness Profile-Child Edition in a combined analysis of five atomoxetine trials pdf

Tài liệu Psychometric properties of the quality of life scale Child Health and Illness Profile-Child Edition in a combined analysis of five atomoxetine trials pdf

... data from clinical trials studying atomoxetine and using the CHIP-CE in the Lilly data base were included The total number of patients included in the combined analysis was 794 Three of these studies ... Item-domain correlations Within the various CHIP-CE domains, the highest and the lowest Spearman’s correlations between the individual items and the respective domain are reported in the following The ... from baseline The same was found to be true for the Comfort domain regarding the correlation of the domain with the total score The Achievement domain, the Satisfaction domain, and the Risk avoidance...

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Tài liệu A sociology of mental health and illness Third edition pptx

Tài liệu A sociology of mental health and illness Third edition pptx

... post-structuralism The neo-Weberian approach Symbolic interactionism The in uence of the sociology of deviance The in uence of the sociology of knowledge The in uence of feminist sociology The impact ... end of the distribution but not at the other Being bright will not lead, in itself, to a person entering the patient role, but being dim may well so In spite of these conceptual weaknesses, the ... explained by a tainted gene pool in the lower social classes This degeneracy theory, which characterized early biological psychiatry, linked together the mad, the bad and the dim However, during the...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Molecular characterization and allergenic activity of Lyc e 2 (b-fructofuranosidase), a glycosylated allergen of tomato pdf

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Molecular characterization and allergenic activity of Lyc e 2 (b-fructofuranosidase), a glycosylated allergen of tomato pdf

... protein All sera reacting with the natural protein in the ELISA were positive in the immunoblotting experiments For the recombinant protein, 24 of 28 sera were negative in both assays, four of the ... demonstrated that the IgE-binding capacity of nLyc e mainly depends on the glycan structure MMXF that was identified as the main glycan structure on the protein The IgE-binding to the allergen was ... well as recombinant proteins were investigated concerning their IgE-binding capacity and their ability to induce histamine release from human basophils The glycan structure of the natural b-fructofuranosidase...

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Tài liệu Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Caring for Newborns and Children in the Community doc

Tài liệu Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Caring for Newborns and Children in the Community doc

... (http://www.who.int/about/licensing/copyright_form/en/index.html) The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the ... been taken by the World Health Organization to verify the information contained in this publication However, the published material is being distributed without warranty of any kind, either expressed ... colour: Convulsions? Swelling of both feet? Difficulty drinking or feeding? If yes, not able to drink or feed anything? Vomiting? If yes, vomits everything? Any other problem? IDENTIFY PROBLEMS:...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 14:20

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DIAGNOSTIC HINTS AND TREATMENT GUIDELINES FOR LYME AND OTHER TICK BORNE ILLNESSES pdf

DIAGNOSTIC HINTS AND TREATMENT GUIDELINES FOR LYME AND OTHER TICK BORNE ILLNESSES pdf

... can bind these toxins include cholestyramine resin and Welchol pills When take orally in generous amounts, the neurotoxin present in the intestinal tract binds to the resin, is trapped, and then ... enterohepatic circulation, where the toxin is excreted via the bile into the intestinal tract, but then is reabsorbed from the intestinal tract back into the blood stream This forms the basis for treatment ... is definitive in ruling in or ruling out infection with these pathogens, or whether these infections are responsible for the patient's symptoms The entire clinical picture must be taken into account,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

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Air Pollution Burden of Illness from Traffic in Toronto: Problems and Solutions potx

Air Pollution Burden of Illness from Traffic in Toronto: Problems and Solutions potx

... are highest during the morning and at lower levels later in the day, increasing again in the early evening (Kaur et al 2005b) However, it has been suggested that this is due to the greater traffic ... changes in exposure and daily symptoms in the study population, particularly in exacerbating symptoms in asthmatics as well as inducing asthma in otherwise healthy individuals (Sarnat and Holguin ... decline in the last decade, current levels are similar to levels in the 1980s, prior to the upward trend during the 1990s Of greatest concern is ozone, which is showing a steady increase in the...

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Phase II: Estimating Health and Economic Damages (ILLNESS COSTS OF AIR POLLUTION) pdf

Phase II: Estimating Health and Economic Damages (ILLNESS COSTS OF AIR POLLUTION) pdf

... comments on some of the inputs included in ICAP Jack Donnan at the Ontario Ministry of the Energy was helpful in identifying critical relevant information for Ontario Despite the many individuals and ... encompassing a number of the recommendations from the OMA This initiative established the principle of preventative health care through improvements in environmental quality The OMA has continued in these ... derive these estimates measures WTP An alternate economic measure of the value people assign to avoiding pain and suffering is their willingness to accept (WTA) payment for incurring increased pain...

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Medical and Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic Illness and Disability pptx

Medical and Psychosocial Aspects of Chronic Illness and Disability pptx

... rather expressed through quarreling, arguing, complaining, or being excessively demanding in an attempt to gain some control Helping individuals express anger in appropriate ways and enabling them ... failure in the workplace (Cusack, 2000) The extent to which individuals incorporate change into their body image is also dependent on the meaning and significance of the change to the individual The ... stigma by helping individuals establish a sense of their own intrinsic worth, despite the characteristics of their medical condition THE IMPACT OF UNCERTAINTY Uncertainty in the lives of individuals...

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TRAUMA PSYCHOLOGY Issues in Violence, Disaster, Health, and Illness docx

TRAUMA PSYCHOLOGY Issues in Violence, Disaster, Health, and Illness docx

... various training courses for their own staffs Universities began looking into developing courses as the demand for trauma training increased In the early 1990s, I was often asked to define the term ... after the planes struck the towers One of us was at the WTC site when the buildings collapsed Later in the day, the other led the first organized mental health team to the site in search of the ... about the usefulness of PFA as the intervention of choice in the immediate aftermath of disaster Five years after the attack there are more formal trainings in this early intervention The elements...

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Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe doc

Illness and Healing Alternatives in Western Europe doc

... through the medium of bad angels; thus it might, in fact, be possible to make warts disappear by saying good morning to them in the morning and good evening to them in the evening So convinced ... of the Ain Some, like Borianne and J.-Charles Voisin, had trained in Paris and then set up a practice in their home provincesBrittany, in Voisins casewhich they observed with the keen eye of the ... linear accounts of these transformations It has also inspired them to further theorizing, of which Keith Thomass Religion and the Decline of Magic remains the most outstanding example.1 At the...

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The effect of Qigong on general and psychosocial health of elderly with chronic physical illnesses: a randomized clinical trial doc

The effect of Qigong on general and psychosocial health of elderly with chronic physical illnesses: a randomized clinical trial doc

... (five-point scale with indicating very negative feedback, indicating neutral feedback, and indicating very positive feedback) tapping their perceived improvement in physical health, activities Int ... domains, including physical health domain, psychological domain, social relationship domain and environment domain The Cronbach alpha values Int J Geriatr Psychiatry 2003; 18: 441–449 445 a clinical ... Questionnaire indicated very positive feedback from the participants in the intervention Most of them felt that the practice of Qigong could improve their health in different aspects, including psychological...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:21

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Economic Implications Of Chronic Illness And Disability In Eastern Europe And The Former Soviet Union pptx

Economic Implications Of Chronic Illness And Disability In Eastern Europe And The Former Soviet Union pptx

... Illness and Disability in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union Another example is the finding that in Bosnia and Herzegovina, after the onset of the disability, the decline in the number of hours ... important insights into our understanding of the challenges involved in defining and measuring disabilities Pia Helene Schneider also contributed to the overview chapter, focusing on the main causes ... 1980) The 2002 ICF revised the definition, with a major difference being the linkages to the environment in which an individual functions—be that the physical, institutional, or cultural environment and...

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