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... completed questionnaire on the specified date Shabila et al Conflict and Health 2010, 4:19 http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/4/1/19 The survey was conducted between April 15 and July 15, ... professionals’ perspectives on challenges and priorities for improvement Conflict and Health 2010 4:19 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and take full advantage of: • Convenient online ... et al Conflict and Health 2010, 4:19 http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/4/1/19 development of an efficient health system that was considered one of the best in the Middle East region This...

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... campaign One of the early target countries was the island nation of Borneo in Indonesia, which had 10 PERSPECTIVES ON DISEASES AND DISORDERS Introduction a significant incidence of malaria infection ... a year and this vaccine can potentially save hundreds of thousands of lives, and avert billions of dollars in economic losses PERSPECTIVES ON DISEASES AND DISORDERS 43 With a $29 million grant ... causes and effects, PERSPECTIVES ON DISEASES AND DISORDERS Foreword treatments, cures, and medical advances The second chapter presents a substantial number of opposing viewpoints on controversial...

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... education on TB recognition and screening is and should continue to be prioritized in Afghanistan, similar to observations from other settings (Wandwalo & Morkve 2000; National Tuberculosis Control ... is increasing and should be included in National Tuberculosis Program continuing education endeavours Clinical classification of probable pulmonary TB and other respiratory conditions was similar ... representative Clinical classification n % n % URI ⁄ sinusitis Acute bronchitis Chronic bronchitis ⁄ bronchiectasis Pneumonia Asthma Emphysema ⁄ COPD Probable pulmonary TB Other 377 ⁄ 1398 408 ⁄...

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... people recover spontaneously and develop a life18 PERSPECTIVES ON DISEASES AND DISORDERS Understanding Hepatitis long immunity to the virus About one percent of adults who contract HAV develop ... Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, and Washington) and suggested in states where the rate was 1.5 times the national average (Arkansas, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Texas and Wyoming) 30 PERSPECTIVES ON ... turns to Perspectives on Diseases and Disorders will find a wealth of information in each volume that offers not only basic information, but also vigorous debate from multiple perspectives PERSPECTIVES...

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... De Montfort University He has published extensively on professionalisation, health care and complementary and alternative medicine and given many presentations at national and international conferences ... postregistration health care practitioners across a wide range of conventional and CAM professions A lawyer by training, Julie has advised many CAM bodies on ethical and legal responsibilities and has contributed ... Traditional, folk and cultural perspectives of CAM 11 Andrew Vickers and Tom Heller 261 Chapter Investigating patterns of provision and use of CAM 12 Andrew Vickers, Tom Heller and Julie Stone 289...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 09:20

... juries and legal decision-making, aspects of criminal responsibility, mistaken convictions, employment and discrimination, family law and child protection, and scientific and ethical aspects of ... 1993) and The Psychology of Criminal Conduct by Donald A Andrews and James Bonta (Cincinnati, OH: Anderson, 3rd edn, 2003) For an historical overview of the relationship between psychology and ... penalties Peter Raynor and Maurice Vanstone Understanding psychology and crime James McGuire Understanding psychology and crime Perspectives on theory and action James McGuire Open University Press...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 12:54

... from content they consider harmful, on the one hand, and the (evolving) rights to communicate and seek information freely, on the other hand, demonstrates how old issues reappear again and again ... Hong Kong, the Caribbean and Oceana Islands, and Spain until 1945—companies like International Telegraph and Telephone or Cable & Wireless stayed on as national private monopolists In addition, ... Xerox and IBM; public data networks like Telenet, TYMNET, UUNet, USENET, and BITNET; commercial online and conferencing services like Compuserve and the WELL; and on and on With time lags and constraints...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 14:09

... Stone sans and Stone serif by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong Printed and bound in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Perspectives on free and ... microlevel decisions that allocate programming resources both within and among F/OSS projects They comment on the impact of reputation and community norms, and on the economic rationale for “early ... information society based on the open creation and exchange of information and knowledge Other drivers include concerns about security, privacy, and overreliance on a small number of monopoly...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 15:25

... collider on the paths ECF and EDCF even though it is still a collider on the path ECD As we have seen, conditioning on a confounder removes confounding bias In contrast, conditioning on a ... sample to R=1 (condition on R), the confounder C will not be associated with E, and the confounding path will no longer exist (Figure 3, Diagram B) Fig Deconfounding by conditioning on R, a modifier ... the right hand side of a regression model 3.3 Deconfounding by randomization A confounding path (ECD) may be eliminated by another method, besides conditioning on the confounder C, or on some...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 10:20

... working on oneself One one’s own interpretation On one’s way of seeing things (And what one expects from them)” Wittgenstein, Culture and Value, p 16 70 See Charles Spinosa, “Derridean Dispersion and ... Cavell, Conditions Handsome and Unhandsome: The Constitution of Emersonian Perfectionism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990) and Stanley Cavell, “What’s the Use of Calling Emerson a Pragmatist?”, ... vital contribution of the later Wittgenstein to the pragmatic clarification of questions concerning human practices (thus, ones concerning human identity and involvement), questions unquestionably...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 09:20

... slavery, conscripted 2898_book.fm Page Monday, July 26, 2004 12:14 PM PERSPECTIVES ON GOLD AND GOLD MINING and convict labor, unhealthy and shortened life span, and degraded living conditions (Anikin ... emphasis on jewelry, bullion and coinage, medicine, dentistry, and electronics; properties, including geological, physical, chemical, and biological; sources and production; concentrations in field ... Biogeochemical, Health, and Ecotoxicological Perspectives on Gold and Gold Mining Ronald Eisler, Ph.D CRC PR E S S Boca Raton London New York Washington, D.C 2898_C00.fm Page iv Friday,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... approximately million dollars (Petralia 1996) Fluctuations in the price of gold are considered irrational and based on fear, greed, and anxiety rather than on industrial production and associated ... hydrosulfides, and complex compounds, and deposited in sediments with high carbon, sulfide, and iron content However, it can also be mobilized by hydrothermal solutions and granitic intrusion; deep ... during exsolution of magmatic fluids and sites of gold deposition are considered to be particularly favorable for either the liberation, concentration, transport, or precipitation of gold and, hence,...

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... J., A von Bohlen, F Alt, and R Klockenkamper 2000 Separation and enrichment of palladium and gold in biological and environmental samples, adapted to the determination by total reflection X-ray ... absorption spectrometry [AAS] (Brown and Smith 1980; Kehoe et al 1988; Niskavaara and Kontas 1990; Ohta et al 1995; Begerow et al 1997), fire assay (Gasparrini 1993), and neutron activation [NA] and ... metal–metal bonds in which it is difficult to assign formal oxidation states Additional information on stereochemistry, stability of complexes, oxidation– reduction potentials, current theories, and other...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... 2004 12:14 PM GOLD CONCENTRATIONS IN FIELD COLLECTIONS 57 Table 5.2 Gold Concentrations in Selected Plants and Animals* Taxonomic Group, Species, and Other Variables Concentration Referencea Plants ... Students Construction workers 2898_book.fm Page 59 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:14 PM GOLD CONCENTRATIONS IN FIELD COLLECTIONS Table 5.2 (continued) 59 Gold Concentrations in Selected Plants and Animals* ... 12:14 PM 62 PERSPECTIVES ON GOLD AND GOLD MINING Hannington, M., P Herzig, S Scott, G Thompson, and P Rona 1991 Comparative mineralogy and geochemistry of gold-bearing sulfide deposits on the mid-ocean...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... macdonaldi) was severely inhibited in a dose-dependent fashion by monovalent gold ions and other strongly oxidizing metal ions — especially Ag+, Cu+2, and Hg+2 — at concentrations of 100 mg/L and ... sulfur and sulfide oxidation by ferric ions from bacterial oxidation of ferrous ions The maximum concentration of attached Thiobacillus increases with increasing concentration of Fe+2 and decreases ... (Ag+)-induced contractions in skeletal muscle and that intracellular Au+3 activates the sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca+2 release channel to partially contribute to the tonic contractions (Nihonyanagi and Oba...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... union personnel, and others, also lack information about mercury transformations in the environment Education on the toxicological properties of mercury and its transformation products is strongly ... ago (de Lacerda and Salomons 1998) Contamination is reflected by elevated mercury concentrations in air, water, and diet, and in hair, urine, blood, and other tissues However, only a few studies ... order to conform to recognized safe occupational levels, implementation of more frequent medical examinations with emphasis on early detection and treatment of disease states, and continuation of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... affects eosinophil differentiation, adhesion, effector function, and survival, and is considered the most important cytokine in eosinophil regulation High concentrations of sodium gold thiomalate ... of his hands and fingers (Suarez et al 2000) At work, he handled, without gloves, a solution containing 5% gold trichloride and 0.006% cobalt and nickel He had no dental restorations and no previous ... Goldschlager (one of several brands of a cinnamon-flavored 2898_book.fm Page 122 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:14 PM 122 PERSPECTIVES ON GOLD AND GOLD MINING schnapps containing 53% ethanol and 10 to 23...

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... massive and often contain acid-forming rocks and metal contaminants, they pose environmental hazards when exposed to air and water At present, billions of tons of waste rock left on the American landscape ... Environ Contam Toxicol., 61, 548–556 U.S National Academy of Sciences (USNAS), National Research Council, Committee on Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands 1999 Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands National ... erosion and sedimentation, acidic mine drainage, and tailings wastes Suspended solids in wastewater and runoff 2898_book.fm Page 184 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:14 PM 184 PERSPECTIVES ON GOLD AND...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... cyanide concentrations >20 µg/L and adverse effects on swimming and reproduction at >5 µg/L Exclusion from cyanide solutions or reductions of cyanide concentrations to nontoxic levels are the only ... where both inflow and evaporation are moderate and there is an outflow of evapoconcentrated water containing high concentrations of toxic constituents (Atkinson 2002) Questions that commonly arise about ... ultraviolet radiation, aldehyde treatment, ozonization, acidification–volatilization–neutralization, ion exchange, activated carbon absorption, electrolytic decomposition, catalytic oxidation, treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:21

... Korea Abandoned Au-Ag-Mo mine; maximum concentrations; Songcheon Tailings Farmland soil Cabbage Stream waters 2898_book.fm Page 228 Monday, July 26, 2004 12:14 PM 228 PERSPECTIVES ON GOLD AND GOLD ... Table 12.1 (continued) Arsenic Concentrations in Biota and Abiotic Materials Collected Near Gold Mining and Processing Facilities Location and Sample Abandoned Au-Ag-Cu-Zn mine; Dongil Tailings ... nutrition Extent of animal adaptation to arsenicals and the mechanisms of action Identification and quantification of mineral and chemical forms of arsenic in rocks, soils, and sediments that constitute...

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