... investigate delays in the diagnosis andtreatment of hospitalized patients with smearpositive pulmonary tuberculosis and to identify the factorsaffecting these delays MATERIAL AND METHODS Güneylioglu D ... delayed treatment diagnosis interval treatment interval admission to hospital diagnosis initiation of treatment Table shows the distribution of the diagnosis intervals and initiation of treatment ... smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis andfactorsaffecting these delays The present study indicated that there were several delays between the onset of symptoms and initiation of treatment in our patients...
... 125- and 20- bp bands (lanes 1, 2, 3, 6, and 9) and CYP3A5*1/*3 genotype gives 168-, 148-, 125- and 20- bp (lanes 4, 5, and 10) CYP3A5*3/*3 genotype is not seen in this picture The 20- bp band ... and fixed effects exist, the effects of between- and within-subjects factors as well as the interaction between factorsand covariates and its effects are analyzed The difference between LR and ... CYP3A5*1/*1 genotype gives 148-, 125- and 20- bp bands, CYP3A5*3/*3 genotype gives 168- and 125-bp bands and CYP3A5*1/*3 genotype gives 168-, 148-, 125- and 20- bp [19] Statistical analysis Tacrolimus...
... pathophysiology of osteoporosis and the local and global environment in which the bone operates The local environment includes muscle and connective tissue attachments and the adjacent intervertebral ... lowest BMD, lowest trabecular number and greatest trabecular separation Generally vertebrae are less dense anteriorly and superiorly and more dense posteriorly and inferiorly with heterogeneity ... dysfunction, adaptation and enhancement J Spinal Disord 1992 5:383-389 Parfitt AM Bone remodelling: Relationship to the amount and structure of bone, and the pathogenesis and prevention of fracture...
... Chapter 4: Findings and Discussion This chapter is entitled “Findings and discussions” which analyzes the results of the questionnaires and gives the assessment on the factorsaffecting students’ ... should use stress and rhythmic patterns, and intonation patterns of the language clearly enough so that people can understand what is said Rhythm, stress and intonation are important factors to express ... spelling, semantics and sentence formation It focuses on the knowledge and skill needed to understand and express the utterances’ meaning Grammatical competence is the ability to recognize and produce...
... followed by Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal The Free State and North West have fewer learners per school compared with Gauteng, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal Factorsaffecting teaching and learning Figure ... Limpopo the figure stands at 27 per cent The richer provinces, such as the Western Cape and Gauteng, have low 13 Factorsaffecting teaching and learning percentages – per cent and per cent respectively ... Cape Factorsaffecting teaching and learning than per cent In 2001 the City of Cape Town had 31.3, whereas Boland had 29.1 Similarly, in 2002 the City of Cape Town had 42.9 compared with Boland...
... Barton and Michael Benatar, 2003 SurgicalTreatment of Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders, edited by Daniel Tarsy, Jerrold L Vitek, and Andres M Lozano, 2003 Myasthenia Gravis and ... Wichmann and Jerrold L Vitek Basal Ganglia Circuitry and Synaptic Connectivity 19 Ali Charara, Mamadou Sidibé, and Yoland Smith SurgicalTreatment of Parkinson’s Disease: Past, Present, and Future ... in the Neurosurgical Treatment of Movement Disorders 213 Alexander I Tröster and Julie A Fields SurgicalTreatment of Secondary Tremor 241 J Eric Ahlskog, Joseph Y Matsumoto, and Dudley...
... addition to demographic factors like age and gender the demand for health and elderly care is affected by dependency, social and housing conditions of the elderly Fiscal and resource constraints ... labelled as MADL1, MADL2 and FADL1AGE, FADL2AGE and MADL1AGE, MADL2AGE, where F and M are shortcuts for female and male respectively, ADL1 and ADL2 shortcuts for instrumental and personal disabilities ... ordered logit models the impacts of age, dependency and other factors on probabilities to use home and community care for the elderly With these models and the age profile of the institutional care,...
... skills and personal qualities of audit partners and staff; the effectiveness of the audit process; the reliability and usefulness of audit reporting; andfactors outside the control of auditors affecting ... Ethical Standards 1-5 London: Auditing Practices Board APB (2004b) International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland) London: Auditing Practices Board APB (2004c) ISA (UK and Ireland) 260 Communication ... firm size; and, lastly, International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) and audit inspection In addition to the activities of the audit committee, risk factors for the auditor (both economic and certain...
... three factors namely, the vocal tract response, pitch period contour, and g l o t t a l pulse shape contributed s i g n i f i c a n t l y to the unnatural q u a l i t y Each of these factors ... B.S Atal and S.L Hanauer, J Acoust Soc Amer., vol 50, pp 637-655, 1971 J.D Markel and A.H Gray, Linear Prediction of Speech, Sprtnger-Verlag, 19/6 J.L Flanagan, Speech Analysts, Synthesis and Perception, ... Seneff, IEEE Trans Acoust., Speech and Signal Processing, vol ASSP-30, no 4, pp 566-577, August 1982 R.H Cotton and J.A Estrie, Elements of Voice Quality in Speech and Language, N.J Lass (Ed.), Academic...
... followed by Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal The Free State and North West have fewer learners per school compared with Gauteng, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal Factorsaffecting teaching and learning Figure ... Limpopo the figure stands at 27 per cent The richer provinces, such as the Western Cape and Gauteng, have low 13 Factorsaffecting teaching and learning percentages – per cent and per cent respectively ... Cape Factorsaffecting teaching and learning than per cent In 2001 the City of Cape Town had 31.3, whereas Boland had 29.1 Similarly, in 2002 the City of Cape Town had 42.9 compared with Boland...
... Talay F et al Risk FactorsAffecting the Development of Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in Household Contacts of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis (such as uncle, grandfather, cousin) The ... VOLUME • ISSUE 35 Risk FactorsAffecting the Development of Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in Household Contacts of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis Talay F et al Table Factors associated ... contacts to be infected and become ill APRIL 2008 • VOLUME • ISSUE TURKISH RESPIRATORY JOURNAL Talay F et al Risk FactorsAffecting the Development of Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in Household...
... of these factors This study set out to explore the perceptions of mid-level providers regarding the factorsaffecting their performance and retention within the Malawian health system and addressed ... management and supervision; training and career progression; incentives http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/7/1/14 and retention factors; resource constraints; motivation; and status ... What factors affect the quality of their working environment? • What structures and systems exist for MLP support and supervision? • What possibilities MLPs feel are available for training and...
... socioeconomic and political factors, including corruption and political will; 2) community factors such as location and infrastructure and health beliefs; 3) health system factors such as remuneration and ... at the time of the survey incentives, and training supervisory personnel on how to identify and address causes of attrition Factorsaffecting retention and attrition overlap, but are not necessarily ... a complex set of trade-offs between different factorsaffecting different individuals differently We need to understand how these factors interact and how the process is triggered In this paper,...
... section examines Page of 14 factors that influence recruitment and retention, including income, working conditions, management and supervision, career development andfactors linked to living conditions ... emphasis on the rural and remote areas Key informant interviews × provinces Doctors In remote areas and at lower levels (district Understanding the reasons why they stay and preventive department, ... two provinces: Lao Cai and Thai Binh The former was chosen as representing a highland province with low density of doctors, and difficulties of retention linked to a remote and difficult location...
... using standardized QoL instruments among women presenting for surgicaltreatment but no post -treatment data or only change data (no absolute values) and 14 studies presented data before and after ... Non -surgical intervention for SUI = 27 Include = 21 Figure incontinence) Results of search (quality of life and distress and urinary incontinence) and search (quality of life and bother and urinary ... (quality of life and distress and urinary incontinence) and search (quality of life and bother and urinary incontinence) Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life...
... Beneux J, Pasteyer J, Merckx J, Guyonvarch G: Surgicaltreatment of scoliosis of 100 degrees and greater in children and adolescent (neurological and myopathic scoliosis excluded) Apropos of a ... fusion and instrumentation plus wedge resection The vertebral osteotomy was done from T7 to L2 SEP and wake-up test were used in all patients during operation Principal Surgical Techniques and Highlights ... size of the osteotomy space and the extent of spinal cord shrinkage Some epidural and bone bleeding is to be expected and can be controlled with gel foam, bone wax, and bipolar cautery A total...
... osteotomy (HTO), is a common surgicaltreatment for monocompartmental knee disease The initial pain relief and function restoration achieved by UKA appear to be comparable to TKA and HTO [1] Compared ... 1B), with measurement of femoral and tibial angles, alpha and beta angles, and medial and lateral joint spaces as described by Villers and Cartier [7] Patients were additionally evaluated for ... on most standard follow-up radiographs Radiolucencies were evaluated at post-operative follow-up visits using the zone system described by Kennedy and White [8] Surgical Technique and Postoperative...
... and using drugsparticularly injecting heroin 1.5 Factorsaffecting the risk of HIV infection and STIs Those factors can be classified into categories: individual factor, socio-environmental factors ... have not understood correctly and sufficiently about ways of tranmission and risk -factors of HIV and STIs 4.2.3 Sexual behavior and drug use Having sex with both male and female partners Male homosexual ... the treatment is important in responding to the epidemic, accessing to HIV and STIs diagnostic andtreatment services among MSM group is still restricted 4.3 Prevalence of HIV infection and STIs...
... want to reduce transportation cost and save time (Table 2) CONCLUSION AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS There were several factorsaffecting the lychee productivity and the choices of fresh lychee marketing ... prices, distance to markets, gender of producers and participation in the lychee association Then, the 125 Factorsaffecting lychee productivity and the choices of fresh lychee marketing parameters ... processing, marketing and distribution of fresh lychee These included growers, collectors, processors, wholesalers, retailers and consumers The study mentioned factorsaffecting lychee productivity,...