life long learning of categories

... deficiency, often in the setting of long- standing ethanol abuse Diabetes insipidus is a consequence of posterior pituitary dysfunction Korsakoff's psychosis, characterized by prominent impairment of short-term ... choreiform movements D Any future male offspring of the patient will have a 50% risk of mental retardation D Any future male offspring of the patient will have a 50% risk of mental retardation Correct ... patient's future offspring have a 50% chance of developing the disorder C Any of the parents' future offspring have a 50% chance of being carriers of the mutation D The fact that neither parent...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 16:21

... male offspring of female carriers As the disorder is maternally transmitted, the father's side of the family would not have a history of the disorder 22 Fifty percent of male offspring of female ... three contiguous segments of the spinal cord and most of the transverse extent of the cord Other typical features of the disease are the presence of neutrophils and absence of oligoclonal bands in ... over the course of to 21 days, with more than 80% of patients reaching their clinical nadir within 10 days of symptom onset Progression to nadir within hours of symptom onset is one of the exclusion...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 16:21

... cessation Nonsmoking spouses of smokers have an increased risk of stroke compared with nonsmoking spouses of nonsmokers The risk of stroke is directly proportional to the quantity of cigarettes smoked ... difference in risk of stroke, reduced risk of myocardial infarction, no significant difference in risk of major bleeding D Reduced risk of stroke and myocardial infarction, increased risk of major bleeding ... the risk of future stroke? A The patient's current level of alcohol use is likely beneficial in reducing risk of future stroke B His current level of alcohol use increases his risk of hemorrhagic...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 16:21

... predilection of hypertensive encephalopathy for certain regions of the brain is thought to be due to regional variation in which of the following? A Concentration of glutamate receptors B Extent of collateral ... opening pressure of 200-mm H2O, 200/mm3 white cells (70% polymorphonuclear), a glucose concentration of 60 mg/dL (CSF-plasma ratio of 0.8), and a protein concentration of 100 mg/dL Which of the following ... 1% of cases of infectious mononucleosis Acute EBV virus infection is confirmed by detection of antiviral capsid antigen-positive IgM antibodies in serum or CSF The history, time of the year of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 16:21

... comes to the office because of a 6-year history of episodes of dizziness, left-sided tinnitus, and hearing loss He has had a total of 10 attacks of dizziness, consisting of several hours of vertigo ... inflammation of nonnecrotic muscle fibers High elevations of CPK (greater than 10-fold of normal) are characteristic of PM but not of IBM A steroid-induced myopathy is unlikely given the pattern of both ... Inflammatory infiltration of muscle C Age-related degeneration of myofiber D Elevated mevalonate levels E Hydrophilicity of statin agent Correct Answer: The correct answer is A The cause of toxicity to...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 16:21

... months of age E Absence of symbolic play at years of age Correct Answer: The correct answer is E Absence of symbolic play or the presence of repetitive, nonfunctional play are abnormalities of adaptive ... evaluation of these children Lack of babble should raise concern at year of age, not months 102 Lack of single words should not raise significant concern until age 18 months of age, and lack of two-word ... the development of MOH? A History of concomitant depression B Prior history of a systemic disease C Prior history of daily NSAID use D Prior history of episodic migraine E Use of opioids for pain...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 16:21

... (aMCI), including use of several cholinesterase inhibitors, use of rofecoxib, and use of vitamin E The author of chapter 1, Mild Cognitive Impairment, notes a great deal of variability in these ... 16 A 34-year-old woman comes to the office for evaluation of a 2-year history of cognitive problems, progressive unsteadiness of gait, and abnormal movements of her arms and legs Her father had ... drugs can usually be taken for long periods of time with only minimal side effects Because of the greater risk of side effects from neuroleptics, including the risk of tardive syndromes, these non-neuroleptic...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 16:21

... has the classic features of a disorder of arousal: event in first third of the night, no memory of the event, age of onset in childhood, and family history of disorder of arousal The event was ... scheduling of sleep times, stimulant and alcohol use prior to sleep, and engaging in alerting activities prior to sleep Idiopathic insomnia is a long- standing, often lifelong, form of insomnia ... sudden loss of skeletal muscle tone brought on by the occurrence of sudden emotion, is the most specific symptom of narcolepsy Obtaining a history of cataplexy facilitates the diagnosis of narcolepsy...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 16:21

... of the risk of causing delirium 23 A 28-year-old man comes to the office for evaluation of a 1-year history of episodes of posturing of both arms, described by his wife as flexion of one arm and ... doses of oral baclofen, she became difficult to arouse Which of the following therapies is most likely to improve this patient's quality of life? A Addition of benzodiazepines B Addition of tizanidine ... but not prolonged loss of consciousness Hypoglycemia is unlikely because of the absence of risk factors for hypoglycemia (eg, diabetes), the brief duration of the event, and the absence of prodromal...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 16:21

... with improvement of her symptoms Which of the following mechanisms of action accounts for the beneficial effect of the drug? A Blockade of M1 muscarinic receptors B Blockade of serotonin 5-HT3 ... agenesis of the corpus callosum is evaluated for episodes of severe hypothermia associated with profuse sweating Which of the following drug effects is most likely to reduce the severity of these ... episodes? A Activation of histamine receptors B Blockade of [alpha]2 receptors C Blockade of [beta]-adrenergic receptors D Blockade of muscarinic receptors E Inhibition of serotonin reuptake Correct...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 16:21

... conditions for the organisation of health care systems We therefore propose to use the term ‘Chronic Life- Long Condition’ (CLLC) and define it as life- long conditions requiring long- term medical interventions ... linked with many other resources of which the professional is one Locus of Control Professional Patient and professional, shared responsibility Patient, supported by professionals and other resources ... such as the burden of disease, the availability of professional health staff, the capacity and quality of health services, the availability of tools and infrastructure, the spread of technologies,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... Quality of life in adult survivors of critical illness: a systematic review of the literature Intensive Care Med 2005, 31:611-620 Granja C, Cabral G, Pinto AT, Costa-Pereira A: Quality of life 6-months ... Vincent JL: Long- term outcome in ICU patients: what about quality of life? Intensive Care Med 2003, 29:1286-1293 22 Pettila V, Kaarlola A, Makelainen A: Health-related quality of life of multiple ... from a public health survey of the county of Östergötland were used for comparison of HRQoL and pre-existing disease This reference group consisted of a random sample of the general population...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... the theories of second language learning: definitions of language acquisition and theoretical background of language learning factors in specific such as intelligence, personality, learning strategies, ... well as environment and context of learning 2.2 Definitions of language acquisition “Language acquisition is one of the most impressive and fascinating aspects of human development” (Lightbown, ... meaning of a new language item) Metacognitive strategies: involve planning for learning, thinking about learning and how to make it effective, self-monitoring during learning and evaluation of how...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:04

... summarized below: Compilation of the material inventory for the total PV system life Compilation of the life cycle energy It is an inventory of the energy inputs The life cycle energy requirements ... estimation of GHG emissions for the present study, life time of the projects is considered to be 20 years Estimation of GHG emissions is given as: GHG emissions = Total CO emissions throughout its life ... Compilation of the life cycle GHG emissions which is estimated from the each component of SPV system which is studied Estimation of the electricity generation by the PV system Estimation of environmental...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... awareness in teaching and learning spoken English of the teachers and the students of 10 th grade at NTT school; the cultural obstacles such as different ways of thinking, lack of cultural background ... role of culture in mastering speaking skills? - What typical cultural obstacles should be overcome in the teaching and learning of speaking skills? I.5 Methods of the study To realize the aims of ... the accepted ways of behavior of a given people belonging to some particular group; it is that part of learned behavior shared with others The concept include a group’s way of thinking, feeling,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:00

... completely different object in the same piece of memory Either way, the outcome of using dangling reference would be undefined All bets would be off You'd try and destroy the same object more ... there are good reasons why the designers of C# decided to forbid you from doing it If it was your responsibility to destroy objects, sooner or later one of the following situations would arise: ... for writing a destructor is a tilde (~) followed by the name of the class For example, here's a simple class that counts the number of live instances by incrementing a static count in the constructor...

Ngày tải lên: 15/12/2013, 00:15

... VII we develop the theory of Ext in terms of long exact sequences The exactness of the connected sequence is proved without the use of projectives or injectives The proof is by Steven Schanuel ... particular he has suggested a proof of IX, 7.2 along the lines given here This has replaced a clumsier proof of an earlier draft, and has led me to make fairly wide use of the projective class theory ... The Group Valued Imbedding Theorem An Imbedding for Big Categories Characterization of Categories of Modules Characterization of Functor Categories Exercises 93 93 97 101 104 106...

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 02:19

... importance of the half -life of scFvs for activity in an intracellular context is not well documented, except for the report in [7], which shows that the short turnover rate (2 h of half -life) of a ... amplification of the 3¢ end of the b-gal gene The presence of similar amounts of genomic DNA in the reactions was controlled by concomitant addition of primers that amplify a 200 bp region of the RNA ... useful platform for the building of functional intrabody libraries [4,29] The initial aim of this study was to investigate whether the modification of the half -life of an active intrabody could simultaneously...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 18:20

... of our findings on the basis of an entrainment theory of life span development of timing and event tracking Figure provides a conceptual summary of our findings in terms of the two proposed life ... whereas the structure of environmental events modulates the resulting set of manifest oscillations (P values) as a function of learning Although specifics of the growth profile remain to be sketched ... narrowest at the two ends of the age spectrum Discussion In this article, we have offered a novel assessment of life span development of timing and event tracking and an evaluation of two theoretical...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 18:20