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... results, the following pre-operative and intra-operative clinical parameters were analyzed: • FMPS; • FMBS; • PPD (periodontal pocket depth) [fig 2]; • R: gingival recession, i.e the position of the ... All patients underwent non surgical periodontal treatment to reduce the FMPS (full mouth plaque surfaces); and FMBS (full mouth plaque surfaces) indexes Radiographic Examination Pre-operative periapical ... both its physicochemical and biological properties HA has a primary role in the principal biological processes such as cell organization and differentiation It is postulated that the morphogenetic...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:35

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Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 16:45

... EXAMPLE There are three main approaches: frequency, spatial, and temporal approaches: frequency, spatial, and temporal No space before a colon, but one space after it Put a comma between the listed ... The experiment took 10 to complete O: The process takes 10 Source: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/index.html 15 5.3 SI Unit rules EXAMPLE The spectrum analyzer used to capture the Power Spectral ... integral photography, is one of the most attractive technologies in the field of 3D displays Modified source: J.-H PARK et al.: Jpn J Appl Phys., Vol 44, No 1A (2005) p. 216 © 2005 The Japan Society...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2014, 08:20

... principal vs principle Principal as an adjective means first in order of importance: For example: The Mississippi is the principal river of the United States Principal as a noun ... Council is a group noun It refers to a group of people elected or chosen to make decisions or give advice on a particular subject, to represent a particular group of people, or to run a particular ... private parts of someone's life, including their relationships and feelings For example: If you have personal problems, it means you have problems that are private and sensitive to you Perhaps...

Ngày tải lên: 27/07/2014, 10:20

... of death In-hospital mortality was the primary end point in our study This was also the primary end point for previous prospective randomized [15] and observational studies [1,3] Possible deleterious ... not, based on propensity scores The best-matched propensity score was five digits long Once a match was made, the control patient was removed from the pool This process was then repeated using ... matched pairs These patients may be more likely to benefit from blood transfusion, a hypothesis supported by the subgroup analysis in our study The optimal transfusion trigger in ICU patients...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... identified improved outcomes with rapid administration of blood products to appropriate patients even if equivalent amounts of FFP and PRBCs were employed [43] This important analysis of retrospective ... difference between treatment groups was observed in either blunt or penetrating trauma patient populations with respect to administration of FFP, platelets or cryoprecipitate Despite the reduced need for ... Registry In comparing patients who appeared to be responders to non-responders to rFVIIa, the Maryland group noted poorer outcomes in acidotic patients consistent with previous preclinical work...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20

... for special purposes NP : Noun phrase O : Object Od : Direct object Oi : Indirect object Oprep : Object of preposition P : Verb or Verb phrase (Predicate) S : Subject S1 : Subject of English passive ... for present participle, and in passive voice for past participle For example, in (6), noun phrase developing countries is translated into cỏc nc ang phỏt trin, that is noun phrase cỏc nc plus ... with participial phrases as modifiers, especially post-modifiers with present participles 2.1.6 Noun phrases consisting of a head noun with infinitive phrases as 34 modifiers These noun phrases...

Ngày tải lên: 03/03/2015, 14:00

... analogy For example, the learner, encountering a particular preposition with one type of verb, will attempt to apply the same preposition with similar verbs by analogy To be specific, students ... my parents, I went home As in example (1) the student used present simple tense instead of past simple tense In (2), simple present tense is used instead of present perfect tense In (3), the past ... or unnecessary prepositions - errors wrong, omitted or unnecessary pronouns (including personal/ possessive/ relative pronouns, and other types of pronouns), spelling errors Group 5: Sentence...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2015, 09:37

... instruments The principles of two-phase and three-phase LPME are further illustrated in Chapter while two-phase and threephase LPME-based experiments are demonstrated in Chapter and Chapter respectively ... detail in chapters and Without the complicated experimental set-up, the easy-to operate single-step procedure of LPME proves to be an attractive technique for sample clean up and preconcentration ... opposite charge with the appropriate hydrophobic moiety under that particular pH is added to ion-pair with the ionized analytes The ion-pair then diffuses across the membrane In three-phase LPME,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/11/2015, 11:00

... Clinical Ophthalmology Philadelphia: Lippincott - Raven publishers, 2000:2-8 Sperduto RD Epidemiological aspects of age-related cataract In: Tasman W, Jaeger A, eds Duane’s Clinical Ophthalmology Philadelphia: ... Hiller R The prevalence of nuclear, cortical and posterior sub-capsular lens opacities in a general population sample Ophthalmology, 1984, 91: 815-818 35 Clayton RM, Cuthbert J, Phillips CI, Bartholomew ... Symposium on the Lens Princeton, NJ: Excerpta Medica 1980:19-25 38 Raven J Physiology of the lens In: Tasman W, Jeager A, eds Duane’s Clinical Ophthalmology Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven Publisher,...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:49

... systolic-diastolic phase proportion during exercise in heart failure patients Principally, alterations of the two principal components of the entire systolic phase may have contributed to its prolongation ... calculation) Phase image analysis was applied to the scintigraphic data using the above mentioned computer Int J Med Sci 2008, routine The phase program assigns a phase angle to each pixel of the phase ... immediately before the exercise Peak and mean pulmonary arterial pressure (MPA) as well as mean pulmonary arterial wedge (PCWP) pressure were recorded Right atrial pressure was measured at baseline...

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2012, 11:32

... community peer reviewed and published immediately upon acceptance cited in PubMed and archived on PubMed Central yours — you keep the copyright BioMedcentral Submit your manuscript here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/publishing_adv.asp ... NEML) Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Neuroinflammation 2004, 1:13 the identical common receptors (i.e TNF receptors p5 5 and p7 5) [14-16] The generation and development ... the pro-form of IL-18 All concentrations below the detection limit of pg/mL (IL18) or pg/ml (TNF) were assigned a value of pg/mL, and pg/ml respectively All samples were run undiluted in duplicate...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... topographic involvement Study Procedure Our Occupational Therapy Department developed a structured assessment protocol for the Upper Limb Cerebral Palsy Clinic This protocol had parts: (1) Physical ... this paper was to describe the upper limb deformity and function in cerebral palsy patients with upper extremity involvement, based on the topographic area involved – diplegia, hemiplegia, triplegia, ... affected upper limb of each patient Presentation of Results and Data Analysis The study population was grouped based on topographic area of involvement (diplegic, hemiplegic, triplegic, tetraplegic)...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... excretion has been reported The pharmacodynamic (PD) properties of colistin, such as minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC), mutation prevention concentration, population analysis profile, bacterial-killing ... be approximately days Toxicity probably or possibly related to the topical administration of colistin is noted in approximately 15% of patients Colistin’s clinical efficacy in critically ill patients ... are scarce in ICU patients, recent evidence shows that the PK/PD properties of CMS and colistin are different in critically ill patients compared with other groups, such as patients with cystic...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20

... each patient Ten patients (24% of all participants) exhibited one problem behavior; patients (11% of all participants) exhibited behavioral problems and patients (19% of all participants) exhibited ... impact of so many problem behaviors over so short a time span may be very disruptive to staff, and we have previ- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry ... biomedical community peer reviewed and published immediately upon acceptance cited in PubMed and archived on PubMed Central yours - you keep the copyright Submit your manuscript here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/manuscript/...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23

... antipsychotic and PPAE: Risperidone × PPAEs Clozapine × PPAEs Olanzapine × PPAEs Quetiapine × PPAEs Ziprasidone × PPAEs Haloperidol × PPAEs Perphenazine × PPAEs Age Male gender Used another antipsychotic ... of antipsychotic and hyperprolactinemia: Risperidone × hyperprolactinemia Clozapine × hyperprolactinemia Olanzapine × hyperprolactinemia Quetiapine × hyperprolactinemia Ziprasidone × hyperprolactinemia ... averaging 2.54 episodes per patient The antipsychotics did not differ appreciably with respect to the proportion of patients with multiple episodes Overall, there were 69,873 episodes with risperidone,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... regarding symptoms at presentation, sample size 41: Acute abdomen patients, Bleeding 14 patients, Pain 14 patients, No symptoms patients (Logrank test, significance P = 0.0471) Even if symptoms cannot ... GISTs, the surgical procedures and prevalence of symptoms in our population study group We observed an higher prevalence of symptomatic patients in the “high risk/malignant group” of both the Fletcher’s ... (p 0.096) No peri-operative mortality was recorded; mean hospitalization was 6.9 days (range: 3-15 days) Post-operative course after laparoscopy was mildly shorter if compared with standard open...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... different prognostic factors, with a view to applying these to spina bifida patients This understanding would aid the healthcare worker in developing programs suited to a growing population of spina ... spina bifida patients may be partially explained by the fact that not many spina bifida patients have survived long enough to develop this complication in the past, these peculiar presentations ... number of proponents, attempts to explain the poor prognosis of Marjolin’s ulcers [10,11] The hereditary and ultraviolet rays’ theories were proposed after genetic changes were found in patients...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:23

... after repopulation 1.62 40.9 6.46 24 months after repopulation APRIL (ng/ml) 0.04 Repopulation BAFF (ng/ml) 13 Baseline Depletion CD19+ B cells × 109 per litre 18 1.24 0.40 2.53 23.8 APRIL = a proliferation-inducing ... compared with baseline was observed in BAFF at depletion (p < 0.01) and at repopulation (p < 0.05) In APRIL, a significant decrease (p < 0.05) occurred at depletion compared with baseline Left panels: ... (the next following sample [2 to months] after repopulation) Three patients were followed for 12 months after repopulation and two patients for 24 months after repopulation Patients with RA were...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23