... Page of that might explain the increased risk ofmyocardialinfarction For the whole patient group, regardless of ABC use, evidence of a prothrombotic state was observed Thirty-three percent of ... non-ABC-containing regimen Nevertheless, VEGF levels were reduced in a significant proportion ofthe whole group of HIV-infected patients with long- termuseof cART This might be suggestive of a decrease in ... according to useof ABC are shown in Table There were no significant differences between the groups except for longer duration of cART use in the patients treated with ABC (p = 0.01) The median...
... - Collection of data, wrote the manuscript in draft SKK -Contributed to drafts ofthe manuscript SS - Supervised and assisted in all ofthe statistical analysis KID - Conceived ofthe idea, participated ... distribution, duration of symptoms and in the proportion of patients with rectal cancer having pre-operative chemoradiation (neo-adjuvant therapy) (Table 1) The median time of follow up for the young patients ... 0.05) The longest duration for a particular symptom was considered in determining duration of symptoms In the young, the most common presenting symptom was alteration in bowel habit (47; 89%) Other...
... recombination of photons, the difference in QYs indicate the highly effective capping qualities ofthe gelatine To examine the quantity of gelatine on the QD surface we analysed the QDs using thermogravimetric ... Following on, we can now see the weight loss due to the removal ofthe organic molecules from the QD surface We can see a clear difference in the profiles ofthe two QD types The gel QDs show an additional ... expected for the (111) plane of cubic zinc blend CdTe [50] We have previously shown that although the presence of gelatine during the synthesis ofthe QDs can influence the rate of QD growth...
... brothels’ or in private homes of their pimps or agents Figure 2 Brothels in Singapore Front of a brothel The interior of a brothel Back alley of a brothel where clients gather A room in the brothel ... condom use among brothel-based sex workers so as to control the spread of STIs and HIV among them It is important to evaluate the effectiveness ofthe interventions, particularly their longterm ... an infected person; (ii) the mean rate of change of sexual partners, and (iii) the average duration of infectiousness ofthe person with the disease Each of these determinants is significantly...
... endothelial cells through an endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition during early development [33] The presence of these cells may cause a dysfunctional cardiac flow and cause the sudden death ofthe ... examine the endothelial cell biology ofthe mouse, and will accelerate the molecular and cellular analysis of ECs and their heterogeneity in various vascular beds 1994 Construction ofthe transgene ... signal sequence ofthe Pgk gene, and a portion ofthe multiple cloning site of pMCS5 XhoI–EcoRI-digested tsA58T Ag cDNA was blunted and cloned into the SwaI site of pCGX, and the direction was...
... part of museums now, not of everyday phenomena Consequently, they are stable in terms of preferences for them and major design characteristics assigned to them, with the exception of safety After ... changed the instruction for the participants in Study by providing them with information on the production time ofthe respective car models and asking them to evaluate them on the basis ofthe historic ... change the ultimate role of curvature for assessment of liking, but still, curvature was the most important predictor for liking To further analyze the impact ofthe adaptation routine of Study...
... speci…cations for the long- term perception ofthe monetary authorities’in‡ ation target to explain, with the Fisher relationship, the presence of shifts in the long- term perception ofthe short -term interest ... expectations of each variable ofthe model The second stage is to include these endpoints in the autoregressive model for forecasting Theuseof these endpoints serves to anchor thelongterm forecast of ... second, the presence of some shifts in the short -term nominal endpoint stochastic process, or in other words, in the long- term perception ofthe level ofthe short -term interest rates In the appendix...
... weeks and the flexion angle ofthe brace was allowed to step decreased 10° per week Progressing loading and strengthening are permitted for the late of to months At 24 months after surgery, the patient ... to the midline ofthe capitellum Discussion Neglected or under-diagnosis the posterolateral rotatory instability ofthe elbow is possible because plain radiographs are commonly nondiagnosised The ... symptom of radial head subluxation and lost concave deformity of radial head without symptom of forearm rotation and the sign of plain radiographs showed arthrosis ofthe elbow joint with the radiohumeral...
... comparison Microsoft Excel (Microsoft, Redmond, Washington) and MedCalc statistical software (MedCalc Software bvba, Mariakerke, Belgium) were used for the analysis Results Ofthe original 30 ... replacements; all were in the navigated group Two knees had been revised after one year because of continuing pain and one knee after years because of disease progression Cumulative survival after years was ... and may represent the effects of weightbearing The mechanical axis crossed the tibial plateau at a mean or 42.63% ofthe tibial width (range 3.33% to 77.50%) with a SD of 19.75% There was no significant...
... comparison Microsoft Excel (Microsoft, Redmond, Washington) and MedCalc statistical software (MedCalc Software bvba, Mariakerke, Belgium) were used for the analysis Results Ofthe original 30 ... replacements; all were in the navigated group Two knees had been revised after one year because of continuing pain and one knee after years because of disease progression Cumulative survival after years was ... and may represent the effects of weightbearing The mechanical axis crossed the tibial plateau at a mean or 42.63% ofthe tibial width (range 3.33% to 77.50%) with a SD of 19.75% There was no significant...
... but remained on their farms because of fears of their houses being looted, the need to care for their livestock, and had missed any aid subsequently offered Short -term evacuations of towns occurred ... Conclusions The impacts from the ashfall and ash storms resulted in evacuations out ofthe area in the short and longtermThe following types of responses were identified from interviews: • Short -term ... feed The poor condition of livestock often made evacuation uneconomic as well as reducing the resilience of livestock to cope with the eruption impacts and the stresses of transport The lack of...
... but remained on their farms because of fears of their houses being looted, the need to care for their livestock, and had missed any aid subsequently offered Short -term evacuations of towns occurred ... Conclusions The impacts from the ashfall and ash storms resulted in evacuations out ofthe area in the short and longtermThe following types of responses were identified from interviews: • Short -term ... feed The poor condition of livestock often made evacuation uneconomic as well as reducing the resilience of livestock to cope with the eruption impacts and the stresses of transport The lack of...
... vulnerable, population of patients Chemotherapy-induced cognitive decline in the absence of radiation The best data on the cognitive effects of chemotherapy alone have come from studies of children with ... tumors, especially for the very young Because ofthe rapid myelinization that occurs in infants, the finding by Noble and colleagues [1] ofthe adverse effects of chemotherapy on oligodendrocytes ... are planned that further reduce the dose of craniospinal radiation to 1,800 cGy, virtually no attention has been paid to the possible contribution ofthe chemotherapy to the cognitive decline...
... experiment ofthe Office National des Forêts designed for other objectives That explains some ofthe unsatisfactory aspects ofthe design such as the unbalanced number of plots between the cut and the ... when the vegetation had reached its ‘maximum’ or peak of growth To estimate the diversity ofthe plots before clear-cut, we used the mean diversity ofthe ten available years (1994–2003) ofthe ... [12, 27] The low number of therophyte species could be explained by the environment around the site which is composed essentially of forests Another hypothesis could be the strong presence of hemicryptophytes...
... recurrent tumor on the vertical surgical margin at the fascia lata ofthe right thigh B: PET-CT mages in coronary (1) and sagittal (2) sections ofthe right thigh and hot spots indicate the recurrent ... adjuvant therapy to prevent distant metastasis However, no effective chemotherapeutic regimen exists Here, we applied AFTV from the start of postoperative radiotherapy instead of chemotherapy, ... consideration ofthe patient’s uncontrolled DM Details ofthe AFTV have already been reported [5] We used a mixture of both paraffin-embedded primary tumor and formalinfixed secondary tumor as the vaccine...
... radiological evidence of OA ofthe affected knee on a radiograph obtained within six months ofthe outset ofthe study Finally, patients had to have a minimum JSW ofthe medial compartment of between and ... seen, either between the level ofthe biomarker and the loss of cartilage volume assessed by qMRI (global, medial, and lateral compartments), or between the level ofthe biomarker and the changes ... constitute a subgroup of patients in a quiescent phaseofthe disease Many consider the measurement ofthe change in the minimal JSW of standardized knee radiographs to be the best available methodology...
... review ofthe manuscript SN was responsible for the evaluation ofthe patients' records, collection ofthe data, letters to the patients and the referring doctors, and the entry ofthe data to the ... the study, check ofthe data, statistical evaluation, and writing ofthe manuscript JF was responsible for the treatment ofthe majority ofthe patients, control of documentation of treatment and ... place in median at the end of radiotherapy, the second one after in median 139 days (4 1/2 months) while the third set of information was obtained in median 3.9 years after therapy The detailed data...
... being deleted RK: If there is a good chance that the data are going to be used by others, then yes, there is a good case for storing them Just storing the raw data for the sake of it, however, is ... For all of these applications, however, there needs to be more attention focused on the specifications/ guidelines/requirements ofthe derived data, which will become the primary object of study, ... archiving project, one needs to con sider the cost of storage relative to the potential future reuse In the course ofthe 1000 Genomes project, for example, the raw sequencing reads have been realigned...
... as: Clarke and Helft: Long- term survival of a woman with well differentiated papillary mesothelioma ofthe peritoneum: a case report and review ofthe literature Journal of Medical Case Reports ... large embolism of tumor cells to the pulmonary artery [7] A second case describes a patient who died of diffuse malignant mesothelioma approximately nine years afterthe diagnosis of WDPMP, suggesting ... described in only 14 ofthe cases that we reviewed [2,4,8,10-12] In the largest series, three patients received a combination of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, one of these with intravenous...
... to the then heads of nutrition and agriculture at FAO that we undertake a joint piece of long- term work that aimed to consider what the agricultural supply should look like in a world ofthe ... value all of your insights! There is broad consensus about the need for nutrition interventions to give priority to young women and children under or years of age if the long- term effects of stunting ... talking to each other, are slowly giving way to the development of creative ways of interacting The emergence of new business models that tackle social problems while remaining profitable offers promise...