limitations of pharmacotherapy behavioral approaches to chronic pain

... tools of the trade, we will be unable to know the place of economics within the broader community of INTRODUCTION ideas, much less be able to explain it to the uninitiated We will be unable to ... Economic Science jointly to Douglas C North of Washington University and Robert Fogel of the University of Chicago, two important innovators in economic history At the core of North’s work is the ... ”On the Historiography of Economics,” Journal ofthe History of Economic Tholight 12 (Spring 1990):27-37 Nobelist Paul Samuelson used the more evocative ”Whig history of thought” in “Out of the Closet:...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 09:20

... self-administration of a pain assessment tool J Pain Symptom Manage 2004, 27(5):417-424 34 Herr KA, Spratt K, Mobily PR, Richardson G: Pain intensity assessment in older adults: use of experimental pain to compare ... patient's populations (chronic or acute pain, different ages, and different levels of cognitive impairment), types of pain (usual background pain, breakthrough pain) , different settings of care (clinical ... example: corresponding to "None", 1-4 to "Mild pain" , 5-6 to "Moderate pain" , and 7-10 to severe pain1 [14,27-29]), should be interpreted cautiously in clinical practice due to relevant individual...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... suffering from chronic pelvic pain Moreover, it is important to emphasize that one of our objectives was to investigate the role of endometriosis in addition to pelvic pain as a determinant factor for ... study we can speculate that management of pelvic pain of CPP patients, independent of the causal factor, is the best approach to improve quality of life of these patients Additional material Additional ... the effect of endometriosis itself in quality of life of patients that presented with CPP Pain is one of the major concerns of patients with endometriosis and its effect upon quality of life has...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... IMS’s CEO travelled to Boston to meet with manager of Analog’s Central Applications function in order to discuss the possibility of developing an application to identify the causes of product failure ... to the design of systems with decision-support models that operate on narrow sets of data According to Pentland (1995, p 2), the limitations of this narrow view ‘can be attributed, in part, to ... Husserl’s exasperation at trying to give a detailed account of the experience of the everyday lives of social actors Husserl (1960) termed social actors’ representations of their experiential knowledge,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 19:15

... (Wilkins, 1972, p.111) Rationale Aims of the study Scope of the study Methods of the study Design of the study Research questions: What is the present situation of teaching and learning vocabulary ... learning 1.3 Approaches to language teaching and their relevance to vocabulary 1.4 Recent research about teaching and learning second language vocabulary 1.5 Advantages of the use of games in ... Definition of Vocabulary 1.1.2 Concept of words 1.1.3 Words and their meanings 1.1.4 Words use 1.1.5 Form of words 1.2 Vocabulary in language teaching and learning 1.2.1 A neglect aspect of foreign...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 14:36

... growth monitoring Multi-sectoral platform: Linking health efforts to those of other sectors in order to address determinants of ill health and sustain improvements in health The multi-sectoral platform ... were able to maintain control over recruitment, training, and supervision of DRF volunteers, and provision and restocking of supplies While World Relief (together with the Synod of Livingstonia) ... Integrating promotion of key family practices critical for child health and nutrition Multi-sectoral Platform: Linking health efforts to those of other sectors to address determinants of ill health and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... remodeling of modifications such as glycosylation Endoglycosidases and glycosyltransferases have been used to modify 1950 existing glycoforms, e.g in the creation of a single unnatural glycoform of enzyme ... [73,74] This ligand is involved in the initial homing of leukocytes to sites of inflammation [73,74] The binding of PSGL-1 to P-selectin is largely due to two PTMs, namely an O-glycan that contains tetrasaccharide ... subsequently used for the monitoring of acute and chronic inflammation in mammalian brain tissue both in vitro and in vivo, including in the detection of cerebral malaria Retooling of this reporter system...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 17:20

... portion of the input file by the MR scheduler to process If there are M such distinct portions of the input file, then there are R files on disk storage for each of the M Map tasks, for a total of M ... sharing of MR code fragments to common tasks, such as joining data sets To alleviate the burden of having to reimplement repetitive tasks, the MR community is migrating highlevel languages on top of ... Task Data Set (1TB/cluster) Since Hadoop needs a total of 3TB of disk space in order to store three replicas of each block in HDFS, we were limited to running this benchmark only on 25, 50, and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 12:20

... the results ofof the global monitoring of progress towards MDG target C: C: to halve, by 2015, results the global monitoring of progress towards MDG 7 target to halve, by 2015, results of the global ... Ghana) or lack indicators to assess performance of the instruments (China) This lack of monitoring tools to assess the performance of indicators will continue to impact the ability to measure progress ... of the global monitoring of progress towards MDG 77target C: to halve, by 2015, the global monitoring of progress towards MDG target C: to halve, by 2015, the proportion ofof the population without...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 12:20

... absence of a clinical evaluation, a simulator was developed to simulate 70 days of data and test the ability of the system to store large amounts of data and to manipulate these data to produce ... Review of Approaches to Mobility Telemonitoring Telemonitoring data logging systems allow the person to be monitored regardless of their location and allow complex analysis to be performed off-line ... monitoring of a variety of pathological conditions, such as COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease).5,25 Accelerometer-based systems have been shown to accurately measure both A Review of Approaches...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... Symptoms of local spread Into nasal cavity: Unilateral epistaxis Into orbit: Ocular dysfunction, proptosis, diplopia Into oral cavity: Pain/ loosening of upper teeth; “dentures don’t fit” Into ... Paranasal sinuses: 3% of HNC Salivary glands Nir Harish, HMS III Agenda Meet the patient: Mr R Common signs/symptoms of sinus disease Radiological Menu of Tests Normal anatomy Differential diagnosis ... HMS III Radiologic Menu of Tests CT: Modality of choice MRI: Complementary X-Ray Nir Harish, HMS III Radiologic Menu of Tests: CT CT: Modality of Choice #1 for both inflammatory and neoplastic processes...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 13:20

... (Fig 2B) Next, we performed an in vivo injection of rMeMIH-B into females to further confirm its gonadstimulatory effect To demonstrate the specificity of rMeMIH-B in gonad maturation, a control group ... injection of 6.6 nmol of rMeMIH-B stimulated an increase (2–3-fold) in MeVg1 expression by the hepatopancreas * 1.2 Concentrations of rMeMIH-B Fig Histogram showing the relative expression levels of ... study of crustacean neuropeptide S H.-K Tiu and S.-M Chan whereas the MIH-like neuropeptide (i.e MeMIH-B, type II) may be a vitellogenin-stimulatory factor of shrimp Because of the existence of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20

... potential of increasing robustness of future NER work by enabling discovery of new and unknown transliterated NE’s Our study shows that resolution of transliterated NE variations can be fully automated ... following characteristics of a transliterated NE’s in CGC are exploited to allow discovery of transliteration variations without referring to original NE • frequent co-occurrence of named entities within ... representation of foreign named entities in Chinese Due to the nature of Chinese script, NE transliterations can be realized very differently The following is a summary of several problems that have to be...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 04:20

... (2002)’s database of coherenceannotated texts 3.1.2 Kinds of coherence relations We assume a set of coherence relations that is similar to that of Hobbs (1985) Below are examples of each coherence ... speakers of English and were naïve as to the purpose of the study (i.e none of the subjects was familiar with theories of coherence in natural language, for example) Participants were asked to read ... tree- and non-tree based In order to illustrate both data structures, consider (9) as an example: (9) Example text Susan wanted to buy some tomatoes She also tried to find some basil The basil would...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20

... revitalization of communities and the augmentation of resilience And in the final chapter in the text, McIntosh takes the analysis deeper into the process of recovery in an examination of the provision of ... environmental factors or processes, which increase the susceptibility of a community to the impact of hazards The characteristics of a person or group in terms of their capacity to anticipate, ... stability of a region endangered by a a loss of production, decrease of income or consumption of goods due to the occurrence of a hazard); (3) the social dimension (relates with the presence of human...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 12:20

... power trains 15 to 21 Up to 24 to 24 to to 50 Aerodynamics Auxiliary loads Rolling resistance Mass (weight) reduction Idle reduction Intelligent vehicle to 15 to 2.5 4.5 to to 5 to to 15 NOTE: Potential ... TECHNOLOGIES AND APPROACHES TO REDUCING THE FUEL CONSUMPTION OF MEDIUM- AND HEAVY-DUTY VEHICLES FIGURE 1-5  Total revenue of for-hire transportation services compared with revenue of other sectors of the ... duty or driving cycle, to deliver a given transportation service, for example, the amount of fuel a vehicle needs to go a mile or the amount of fuel needed to transport a ton of goods a mile For...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... the Germline of Animals Germline refers to the lineage of cells that can be genetically traced from parent to offspring It is possible to access the germline of animals using one of five methods ... members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the National Academy of Sciences ... scientific methods to assess the safety of GE foods before they are sold to the public The task presented to the committee by the sponsors was to outline science-based approaches to assess or predict...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... effort of a diverse group of scientists to review the stateof-the art in the field of scaling of fluxes of greenhouse gases and ozone and aerosol precursors It focuses on identification of gaps ... resolution of one year is similar to that of most of the global inventories 3.2 Atmospheric models It is difficult to be definite about the current state of the art in CTMs since they continue to be ... cover of this book) and for preparing some of the figures in the book Finally, I wish to thank Fred Langeweg of RIVM for giving me the opportunity to work on this projectl Lex Bouwman, editor October...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 17:20

... the conversion of spermidine to putrescine while spermine is readily converted to spermidine in the absence of SSAT [6] The conversion of spermine back to spermidine in the absence of SSAT activity ... This male turned out to be infertile and subsequent histological examination of testes revealed greatly reduced amount of germinal epithelium and total absence of ongoing spermatogenesis resembling ... sensitized the cells to the antiproliferative actions of etoposide, an inhibitor of topoisomerase II inducing single and double strand breaks in DNA [147] The drug inhibited the growth of spermine-deficient...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20