long term trends in global governance from westphalia to seattle

... the remaining concentrations did not have any increasing or decreasing trends DISCUSSION In previous studies analyzing long- term trends regarding water quality and/or pollutant load in rivers, ... is the largest river flowing into Lake Shinji and the population in the watershed had been decreasing The purposes of this study were to analyze the long- term trends in the water quality of an ... affected by the long- term trend of precipitation Comparison of five-year data sets Long- term trends in water quality were also analyzed by comparing three data sets, each containing data collected...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... begin However, the results varied strongly to the type and/or the concentration of the cytokinin used (table I) Use of 2iP proved to be ineffective and Z did not allow the culture to initiate elongation; ... made directly from shoots taken in the forest be in the nursery, due to better decontamination efficiency Otherwise, the use of nodal explants taken from source-plants maintained in active growth ... some influence during the first steps of the cloning, in the long term, the management of the culture media, together with the clonal effects (Juncker and Favre, 1989), appeared to be the main...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

... ranges from only 7% in Portugal to 44% in Belgium If we look at the combined “very easy and fairly easy” scores we find a range from 54% in Hungary to 92% in Austria 14 QA4.1 Thinking again about ... Shopping Getting in and out of a bed or chair Light housework 7% 4% 4% C ooking\ preparing meals 4% Moving around at home 3% Bathing or showering 3% Dressing and undressing 3% Taking care of finances ... Care” INTRODUCTION Confronted with rising long- term care needs due to an increasingly ageing population, the European Union is supporting the Member States in their efforts to improve health and long- term...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... the controlling shareholders’ voting rights from year +4 onwards can be attributed to marketwide trends: in these later years, changes in voting rights in unifying firms seem to move in tandem ... the bottom line is that the mean Q of unifying firms increased from 1.08 in year -2 to 1.17 in year +7, whereas the corresponding mean Q of non-unifying firms decreased slightly from 1.12 to 1.08.11 ... ante by more than in late unifying firms, and, in the long- term, experienced a small (0.3 percentage points) and statistically insignificant decline in their voting power relative to the control...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 01:20

... value from the MPI scale "pain severity" to dichotomize the patients into those who reported more intense pain, and less intense pain The result showed that lower pain severity tended to be associated ... with long- term pain using multidisciplinary collaboration and approaches The patients in this study are identical to those contributing to a companion study[7] in which life satisfaction in patients ... Bodin L, Jensen IB, Linton SJ, Nygren AL: Long- term, non-specific spinal pain: reliable and valid subgroups of patients Behav Res Ther 2001, 39(1):75-87 Bergström G, Jensen IB, Bodin L, Linton...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... recommendation to obtain weight loss has been from 800 to 1.000 kcal/day In this light, adherence to these calorierestricted diets requires intensive and continuous monitoring of intake by caregivers ... with regard to balance and oversimplified the functions to be trained, mainly targeting muscle strengthening and sensory-motor integration Also, the dose of exercise, in terms of intensity and ... for weeks in order to make sure they would be able to perform them properly at home in the following 6-month training period Our initial hypothesis was that balance is mainly reduced in PWS because...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... decreased by increasing θ D until it touches the intersection Therefore, a = c should be used to find the index b corresponding to the minimum of the set φc,b Q M Chaudhari and E Serpedin (1) Compute ... helps in maintaining long- term synchronization among the nodes and subsequently less frequent communications and energy savings Since it has been reported in [15] that the energy required to transmit ... only which is in reality an intersection of 4D curves as explained above The MLE (θ D , d, θ S , θ O ) can be derived by the following observations (3) Starting from zb corresponding to b {wb }...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... prohormone that is split into the active hormone BNP and the inactive N-terminal fragment (NT-pro-BNP) BNP has a number of systemic effects, including vasodilation, increases in urinary volume and sodium ... smoking status; information came from medical records, directly from patients, or both In the morning of the day that angiography was performed with the patient in the supine position, fasting ... lipids, and creatinine One sample was allowed to stand for 30 minutes for coagulation; the remaining serum was immediately frozen in plastic containers at ¡80°C NT-pro-BNP was measured in January 2004...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 00:20

... appears to be insufficient to explain the trends observed, especially in sessile oak Moreover, CO appears to be the most impor2 tant predictor principally explaining the longterm growth increase ... RESULTS Pointer years Practically speaking, there were no real missing rings in the initial data, although some rings were very narrow and especially hard to distinguish This was rather surprising ... According to an opinion widely held in France, the use of dendrochronology in physiological studies eco- (dendroecology) is mainly applicable to mountain coniferous species, especially in the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

... images of joint cartilage from region of interest (a) Rabbit region of interest MCP joint sections were stained with iron hematoxylin, safranin O, and fast green This combination of stains identifies ... the increase in proteoglycans was localized to the deep zone of cartilage This is in agreement with a previous finding in vitro [27] in which proteoglycan synthesis increased by 102% to 114% in ... exhibit birefringence Bars = 100 µm superficial zone was designated from the joint surface (at µm) to µm from the joint surface The mid zone was from to 53 µm, and the deep zone was from 53 to 100 µm...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... subcutaneous late toxicity in our series This finding opens the possibility to develop new predictor assays taking into account the initial DNA damage and radiation-induced apoptosis levels, and introduces ... explain this inverse relation [14] According to the above observations, high initial DNA damage [17] or low radiation-induced apoptosis [14,20-22,25,51] would confer sensitivity to long- term toxicity, ... increasing numbers of radiation induced DSB were related to severe late subcutaneous toxicity in LABC patients treated with HF [18] In the other hand, determination of radiation-induced apoptosis...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... calcineurin inhibitor plus mycophenolate mofetil (n = 2), or none (n = 3) The calcineurin inhibitor included cyclosporine administered to 33 patients and tacrolimus to six patients End points ... Reduced-intensity + cytoreductive chemotherapy 14 (33.3) GVHD prophylaxis None (7.1) Calcineurin inhibitor alone Calcineurin inhibitor + sMTX (11.9) 32 (76.2) Calcineurin inhibitor + MMF (4.8) Donor ... patients received cytoreductive chemotherapy in the three weeks before conditioning Prophylaxis for acute GVHD was a calcineurin inhibitor alone (n = 5), calcineurin inhibitor plus short -term methotrexate...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21

... following years Worsening of outcome was based on changes to a worse cluster from baseline to 1-year postbaseline and staying in that cluster or shifting to an even worse cluster the following ... explored during the threeyear period Improvement of outcome was based on changes to a better cluster from baseline to 1-year postbaseline and maintaining the same improved cluster or moving to an even ... hospitalizations, and emergency services) to be included in the cluster analysis at each time point In addition to characterizing patients by sustained favorable long- term outcome in the second step of the analysis,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... immunosuppression consisting of a calcineurin inhibitor, prednisone and mycophenolate mofetil in addition to induction therapy with an interleukin-2 receptor antagonist Within 48 hours after transplant ... was no increased eosinophil count Figure Renal allograft dysfunction (serum creatinine including the 1-year follow-up) following cholesterol-crystal embolism in two kidney recipients from the ... 13 post-transplant revealing cholesterol-crystal embolism (CCE) acute asthma attack In addition, he had a history of smoking and needed insulin therapy while in the intensive care unit Based...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:21

... leap in the fight against infectious diseases," yet the Fund continues to lack a long- term financing mechanism It relies instead on periodic replenishment meetings that in effect involve passing ... needed to reduce health inequities within and between countries Globalization tends to be associated with a long- term trend toward increasing economic inequality and increasing attachment to markets ... policy is redefined in radically individualistic terms, as helping households "to smooth their consumption patterns" in response to exogenous events ranging from natural disasters to financial crises...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... than or equal to cm Six Figure intraperitoneal fluid mass in Couinaud segment and segment of the liver and Abdominal computed tomography on admission showing a Abdominal computed tomography on ... admission showing a mass in Couinaud segment and segment of the liver and intraperitoneal fluid Figure magnification ×100) (original2 round nuclei cells abundant granular eosinophilic cytoplasm, ratio ... chromatin(nucleus -to- cytoplasm) 2a: Polygonal cells with higher N/C (nucleus -to- cytoplasm) ratio than normal, abundant granular eosinophilic cytoplasm, round nuclei with coarse chromatin and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... staining and thinning down of the lateral superficial layer; = depletion of staining and thinning down of the central superficial layer; = severe and mostly complete depletion of staining in ... were defined on slides stained with hematoxylin and eosin Lesions were evaluated quantitatively on each slide using a 3-point scale ranging from to 3, where = normal articulation; = slight inflammation ... both in clinical symptoms and in the histological indicators for arthritis Additionally, in these experiments, we evaluated the effect of TNFα blockade over a long- term period and showed the long- lasting...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22

... contained in the SRI Of course, HRQL can be no more than one factor in the multivariate panel determining the clinical state and prognosis of patients with CHRF Conclusion In summary, our findings ... categorized according to their primary diagnosis upon initiation of HMV The diagnosis of COPD relied on symptoms and airflow limitation (ratio of forced expiratory volume in one second to inspiratory vital ... SRI-SS (Table 2) Long- term survival and prognostic factors in the total population In the total population (n = 231), the mean observation time was 28.9 ± 8.8 months, ranging from 0.2 (death one...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:21

... coordinates Men were not recruited for the study, to avoid bias due to occupational exposure from working in the mining and steel industry Questionnaire: diagnoses, symptoms and risk factors Together ... two ways to assess air pollution exposure, first, we used data from monitoring stations maintained by the State Environment Agency They cover the area in an km grid and are designed to mainly reflect ... industry) and non availability of address-coordinates for GIS- based exposure estimation All women aged 54 to 55 residing in the selected areas were asked to participate in the study, which took...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... hours of injury Groups were well balanced at baseline with respect to clinically relevant variables The CRASH investigators initially planned to enroll 20,000 subjects The trial was stopped early ... also higher in steroid treated subjects (25.7% vs 22.3%, p=0.0001), with a trend toward increases in the combined endpoint of death or severe disability (38.1% vs 36.3%, p=0.08) [6] In neither ... by injury severity or time since injury This well-done study was remarkable for many reasons The sheer size of this trial is staggering, especially considering the logistics of conducting a blinded,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22