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LORD NEUBERGER OF ABBOTSBURY, MASTER OF THE ROLLS JUSTICE IN A TIME OF ECONOMIC CRISIS AND IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET ppt
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo y học: "A Comparison of Immuncapture Agglutination and ELISA Methods in Serological Diagnosis of Brucellosis"
... Almuneef M, Mah MW, Qassem LA, Osobad AO. Comparison of the Brucella Standard Agglutination Test with the ELISA IgG and IgM in patients with Brucella bacteremia. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious ... Serodiagnosis of Human Brucellosis. Clinical And Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology 2003;4:612-5. 4. Ordun A, Almaraz A, Prado A, Purıfıcacıo M, Gutıerrez N, Garc a- Pascual A, Duen A, Cuervo M, Abad R, ... Apr;13:54-9 15. Araj GF, Kattar MM, Fattouh LG, Bajakian KO, Kobeissi SA. Evaluation of The PANBIO Brusella immunglobulin G and IgM enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays for diagnosis of human...
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Báo cáo y học: "Mirror-Image Arachnoid Cysts in a Pair of Monozygotic Twins: A Case Report and Review of the Literature"
... Microar- ray-based gene expression profiling and DNA copy number variation analysis of temporal fossa arachnoid cysts. Cerebro- spinal Fluid Research. 2010; 7: 6-13. 20. Helland CA, Aarhus M, Knappskog ... trauma, infection, intrauterine catastrophes 16 or head surgery 17 . In our case, the lack of a previous history of trauma, infection and head surgery leads us to believe that the AC was ... that MZ with discordant handedness showed opposite brain activity patterns in language and a mental rota- tion task. Sommer et al. 14 have suggested that late splitting of the egg may play...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00
A study of lexical, syntactic and pragmatic features of company slogans in english and vietnamese
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Tài liệu Explaining Ethnic Minority Poverty in Vietnam: a summary of recent trends and current challenges ppt
... regard for market demand and often required capital investment that farmers cannot afford. Often models are based on lowland agriculture and are promoted in upland and mountainous areas without ... sustainable. Participation in decision-making Reviews of the first phase of P135 indicate gaps in participatory processes and inadequate decentralization that have sometimes resulted in inappropriate ... participatory forest land use planning and land allocation (often involving combinations of individual household and village allocation). There is clearly scope for applying these approaches...
Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 21:15
Tài liệu Freedom of Expression on the Internet - A study of legal provisions and practices related to freedom of expression, the free flow of information and media pluralism on the Internet in OSCE participating States ppt
... participating States”, “make it their aim to facilitate the freer and wider dissemination of information of all kinds” and “encourage co- operation in the field of information and the exchange ... over 80% of the OSCE participating States do not have legal provisions in place yet to guarantee net neutrality. Finland and Norway stand out as best practice examples with Finland having anchored ... their data gathering and keeping and make such data publically available. C. Blocking, Filtering, and Content Removal Despite the introduction of new laws or amendments to existing laws, and...
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Tài liệu Design, Lifestyles and Sustainability. Aesthetic Consumption in a World of Abundance pptx
... tourists and organizations. In the words of Barbara Czarniawska, today’s organizations are faced with the frantic production of images which are circulated; a frantic translation of incoming images into ... reducing our use of material and nonrenewable energy and a myriad of tools and concepts embracing presented as tools for achieving sustainability (including initiatives such as LCA, dematerialization, ... under- standing of sustainable development in general and sustainable consumption in particular. Contemporary Studies of Sustainable Consumption A vast number of articles focusing on sustainable...
Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 17:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Using Automatically Transcribed Dialogs to Learn User Models in a Spoken Dialog System" doc
... dialogs. Each generated dialog d in each training/test set consisted of a sequence of values for all the observed and unobserved variables: d = (S 0 , U 0 , A 0 , ˜ A 0 , . . .). For a training/test ... confirms a slot value. Here we assume that it can be easily hand-crafted. Formally, given a set of dialog transcripts X , our goal is find a set of parameters θ ∗ that maximizes the ˜ A t GFED@ABC A t GFED@ABC U t ONMLHIJK U t+1 S t S t+1 OO OO ?? OO !! D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D D (( Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q // OO Figure ... true actions and internal states. To handle this uncertainty, we employ an EM algorithm that treats this information as unobserved data. Although this approach does not directly employ manually...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 09:20
Tài liệu Executive coaching: Developing managerial wisdom in a world of chaos doc
... EXECUTIVE COACHING and sometimes unknowable situations, and our training, conceptual models, and professional skill are often insufficient in the face of a chaotic organizational landscape. I have ... individuals, dyads, or groups to learn about and change behaviors influenced by the shadow side. The best training and experience available can be obtained in programs preparing mental health ... the change strategy and the maintenance of the gains made over several years. The ability to weave the knowledge and skills of psychodynamic and emotional management into the ongoing challenges...
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 16:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "MACHINE-READABLE COMPONENTS IN A VARIETY OF INFORMATION-SYSTEM APPLICATIONS" potx
Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20
Subjective memory complaints and cognitive performance in a sample of healthy elderly pot
... 2008;2(1):42-45 Memory loss is one of the most common complaints arising in consultations with elderly people, being reported by 25% to 50% of these individuals. 1 However, whether these subjective memory complaints (SMC) are related to objective memory deficits or to subsequent development of dementia, remains a matter of debate. A recent review found that SMCs are not consistently associated with current cognitive impairment, but rather are associated with a greater risk of future cognitive de- cline. 2 Indeed, the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which entails an increased likelihood of conversion to dementia, demands the existence of SMCs, preferably confirmed by an informant. 3 High age, female gender and low educational level are generally associated with a higher prevalence of memory complaints. 1 In an autopsy study, SMCs were found to be related to the presence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathol- ogy in elderly with and without dementia, suggesting that memory complaints in older persons may be a sign of self awareness of a degenerative process. 4 However, SMCs might also be related to depression and some personality traits, such as neuroticism. 2 It is also pos- sible that these complaints vary according to the culture of the people studied. In a recent Brazilian study, Minett et al. found that subjects with and without SMCs performed similarly in a series of cognitive tests, although the former had higher scores on the Geriatric Depression Scale. 5 The present study aimed to further investigate this topic in a group of cognitively healthy Brazilian elderly subjects which were divided into two subgroups according to the presence of SMCs and submitted to brief cognitive tests. Methods Sixty cognitively intact elderly individuals (39 females and 21 males), aged 69.9±6.3 years (ranging from 60 to 91 years), and with mean educational level of 8.5±5.5 years (ranging from 1 to 20 years), were included in the study. These individuals were family caregivers of demented pa- tients followed at the Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Unit of the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil, and also volunteers recruited from the community. Inclusion criteria were absence of neurological or psy- chiatric diseases according to a clinical interview, absence of depression (see below), and no use of benzodiazepines, antidepressants or neuroleptics. All participants were submitted to the Mini-Mental State-Examination (MMSE) 6,7 and to the Cornell scale of depression. 8,9 Performance on the MMSE was adjusted for educational level and had to be greater than or equal to 21 for 1-3 years of schooling, greater than or equal to 24 for 4-7 years and greater than or equal to 26 for individuals with 8 or more years of schooling. 10 Scores on the Cornell scale of depression had to be less than or equal to 7 points in order to rule out depression. 8 Cognitive evaluation was carried out with the follow- ing tests: the Brief Cognitive Screening Battery (BCSB) 11,12 , digit span forward and backward and the Frontal Assess- ment Battery (FAB). 13,14 The BCSB includes a memory test of 10 simple figures and yields different scores, namely: incidental and immediate memory, learning, delayed recall and recognition. 15,16 The battery also includes a category fluency test (animals per minute) and clock drawing and has proven very sensitive in the diagnosis of mild AD. 12 The FAB is a brief diagnostic instrument for the assessment of executive functions in patients with suspected frontal lobe syndrome. 13 All individuals were given a structured self-report memory questionnaire, the MAC-Q. 17 This questionnaire was devised to assess age-related memory decline. It is composed by six questions related to memory function- ing in everyday situations (e.g., to remember a telephone number that he/she uses at least once a week) in which the subject is asked to compare and rate his/her current ability to when he/she was 40 years’ old. The total score on the MAC-Q ranges from 7 to 35, where greater scores in- dicate subjective memory loss. Scores greater than or equal to 25 have been found to be suggestive of age-associated memory impairment. Accordingly, in the present study, the individuals were divided into two groups: absence of SMCs (MAC-Q scores <25) and presence of SMCs (MAC- Q scores ≥25). The performance of the two groups on the different cognitive tests was compared. One of the authors administered the MMSE, the Cor- nell scale and the MAC-Q. Subsequently, the other inves- tigator, blinded to the subjects’ results for these three mea- sures, administered the cognitive evaluation. Descriptive analysis of the data and statistical compari- sons between the performances of the two groups on the different cognitive tests were carried out with MedCalc software. Student’s t-test was used for comparison of age, educational level and MMSE scores, as well as for the results of the other cognitive tests (digit span, BCSB and FAB). Chi-square was employed for comparing gender distribu- tion of the two groups. Level of significance was set at 0.05. The study was approved by the Research Ethics ... 2008;2(1):42-45 Memory loss is one of the most common complaints arising in consultations with elderly people, being reported by 25% to 50% of these individuals. 1 However, whether these subjective memory complaints (SMC) are related to objective memory deficits or to subsequent development of dementia, remains a matter of debate. A recent review found that SMCs are not consistently associated with current cognitive impairment, but rather are associated with a greater risk of future cognitive de- cline. 2 Indeed, the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which entails an increased likelihood of conversion to dementia, demands the existence of SMCs, preferably confirmed by an informant. 3 High age, female gender and low educational level are generally associated with a higher prevalence of memory complaints. 1 In an autopsy study, SMCs were found to be related to the presence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) pathol- ogy in elderly with and without dementia, suggesting that memory complaints in older persons may be a sign of self awareness of a degenerative process. 4 However, SMCs might also be related to depression and some personality traits, such as neuroticism. 2 It is also pos- sible that these complaints vary according to the culture of the people studied. In a recent Brazilian study, Minett et al. found that subjects with and without SMCs performed similarly in a series of cognitive tests, although the former had higher scores on the Geriatric Depression Scale. 5 The present study aimed to further investigate this topic in a group of cognitively healthy Brazilian elderly subjects which were divided into two subgroups according to the presence of SMCs and submitted to brief cognitive tests. Methods Sixty cognitively intact elderly individuals (39 females and 21 males), aged 69.9±6.3 years (ranging from 60 to 91 years), and with mean educational level of 8.5±5.5 years (ranging from 1 to 20 years), were included in the study. These individuals were family caregivers of demented pa- tients followed at the Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology Unit of the Faculty of Medicine of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil, and also volunteers recruited from the community. Inclusion criteria were absence of neurological or psy- chiatric diseases according to a clinical interview, absence of depression (see below), and no use of benzodiazepines, antidepressants or neuroleptics. All participants were submitted to the Mini-Mental State-Examination (MMSE) 6,7 and to the Cornell scale of depression. 8,9 Performance on the MMSE was adjusted for educational level and had to be greater than or equal to 21 for 1-3 years of schooling, greater than or equal to 24 for 4-7 years and greater than or equal to 26 for individuals with 8 or more years of schooling. 10 Scores on the Cornell scale of depression had to be less than or equal to 7 points in order to rule out depression. 8 Cognitive evaluation was carried out with the follow- ing tests: the Brief Cognitive Screening Battery (BCSB) 11,12 , digit span forward and backward and the Frontal Assess- ment Battery (FAB). 13,14 The BCSB includes a memory test of 10 simple figures and yields different scores, namely: incidental and immediate memory, learning, delayed recall and recognition. 15,16 The battery also includes a category fluency test (animals per minute) and clock drawing and has proven very sensitive in the diagnosis of mild AD. 12 The FAB is a brief diagnostic instrument for the assessment of executive functions in patients with suspected frontal lobe syndrome. 13 All individuals were given a structured self-report memory questionnaire, the MAC-Q. 17 This questionnaire was devised to assess age-related memory decline. It is composed by six questions related to memory function- ing in everyday situations (e.g., to remember a telephone number that he/she uses at least once a week) in which the subject is asked to compare and rate his/her current ability to when he/she was 40 years’ old. The total score on the MAC-Q ranges from 7 to 35, where greater scores in- dicate subjective memory loss. Scores greater than or equal to 25 have been found to be suggestive of age-associated memory impairment. Accordingly, in the present study, the individuals were divided into two groups: absence of SMCs (MAC-Q scores <25) and presence of SMCs (MAC- Q scores ≥25). The performance of the two groups on the different cognitive tests was compared. One of the authors administered the MMSE, the Cor- nell scale and the MAC-Q. Subsequently, the other inves- tigator, blinded to the subjects’ results for these three mea- sures, administered the cognitive evaluation. Descriptive analysis of the data and statistical compari- sons between the performances of the two groups on the different cognitive tests were carried out with MedCalc software. Student’s t-test was used for comparison of age, educational level and MMSE scores, as well as for the results of the other cognitive tests (digit span, BCSB and FAB). Chi-square was employed for comparing gender distribu- tion of the two groups. Level of significance was set at 0.05. The study was approved by the Research Ethics ... envelhecimento,memúria,cogniỗóo,testesneuropsicolúgicos. BehavioralandCognitiveNeurologyUnit,DepartmentofInternalMedicine,FacultyofMedicine,FederalUniversityofMinasGerais,BeloHorizonte, Brazil. Paulo Caramelli – Department of Internal Medicine / Faculty of Medicine / Federal University of Minas Gerais - Avenida Prof. Alfredo Balena, 190 / Room 246 - 30130-100 Belo Horizonte MG - Brazil. E-mail: caramelp@usp.br Received 01/30/2008. Received in final form 02/19/2008. Accepted 02/19/2008. ...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20
Báo cáo khoa học: Role of the C-terminal extension in a bacterial tyrosinase Michael Fairhead and Linda Thony-Meyer doc
... acids 1–36), we retained amino acid 36, an alanine, rather than using amino acid 37, a lysine, because it is known that, after a post-translational processing of the N-terminal methionine, which often occurs ... compilation ê 2010 FEBS 2089 Role of the C-terminal extension in a bacterial tyrosinase Michael Fairhead and Linda Tho ă ny-Meyer EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, ... tyrosinase domain [1]. One proposed function of the C-terminal extension in plant and fungal polyphenol oxidases is a role in membrane binding, making them similar to the mam- malian tyrosinases,...
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THE CONSTITUTION OF LAW Legality in a Time of Emergency potx
... the Reports and found that he was right in every particular, and a page and a half of that judgment is really in that way the work of General Smuts rather than myself. 15 Foxton continues that Shaw was ... crux of the caseinamoment,andinformedmethatthesamepointhadbeen settled in a case decided in the Privy Council on an appeal from Pondoland. I asked the date, and he gave me the date within six months. ... looks mainly to cases decided in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada in order to show that law provides a moral resource that can inform a rule -of- law project capable of responding to situations...
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THE CONSTITUTION OF LAW Legality in a Time of Emergency docx
... But my argument is in part based in the fact that the kinds of claims that are made about states of emergency occur also in quite ordinary situations, for example, claims that the rule of law does ... constitution of Commonwealth countries. It looks mainly to cases decided in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada in order to show that law provides a moral resource that can inform a rule -of- law project ... the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. Together they present a fertile ground for testing my claims because, until quite recently, Canada and Australia had what I will refer to as a ‘division of powers...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Age Prediction in Blogs: A Study of Style, Content, and Online Behavior in Pre- and Post-Social Media Generations" ppt
... Kumar, Jasmine Novak, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Andrew Tomkins. 2004. Structure and evolu- tion of blogspace. Commun. ACM, 47:35–39, De- cember. Amanda Lenhart, Kristen Purcell, Aaron Smith, and Kathryn ... (Pennebaker and Stone, 2003; Robins et al., 2002). Goswami et al. (2009) add to Schler et al.’s approach using the same data and have a 4% increase in accu- racy. However, the paper is lacking details and it ... in- terests since they are not always available. 770 age and gender. In International AAAI Confer- ence on Weblogs and Social Media. Mark Hall, Eibe Frank, Geoffrey Holmes, Bernhard Pfahringer, Peter...
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