physiological calculation of renal blood flow and gfr

... .80 2.1.2 Physiological calculation of renal blood flow and GFR 81 2.1.3 Inulin clearance and the measurement of true GFR 82 2.1.4 Serum Creatinine Clearance and estimated GFR (eGFR) ... The number of white blood cells (WBC) in the blood is often an indicator of disease There are normally between 4×109 and 11×1010 white blood cells in a litre of blood, and ranging from and 21 microns ... made to Chapter of this thesis for methodology of GFR determination) A GFR of

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2014, 21:25

... research and treatment of juvenile cancer, support organization for the families and friends of cancer patients 3.2 - Weaknesses Lack of control over franchisees and violence of quality standards: ... and wellness” to suit with awareness of customers and offering nutritional items on the menu Possibility of creating a policy that will address the health and wellness concern; - Positive brand: ... Strong international brand;  Lack of control over franchisees;  Wide international presence and wide chain of local suppliers (e.g farmers);  Violence of quality standards;  Narrow target...

Ngày tải lên: 03/03/2014, 22:42

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 23:22

... of broadband availability and take up, historic trends of broadband availability and take up, reference to other published material and modelling of estimated future availability and demand The ... Luxembourg, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden and Malta 78% (Sweden) – 98% (Denmark) Group Italy, Germany, Finland and Ireland 62% (Ireland) – 85% (Germany and Finland) Group Spain, Portugal, Cyprus and Slovenia ... 2.6 Potential broadband demand remaining unserved 22 2.7 Availability and take up of terrestrial broadband - conclusion 25 Combined system and user costs of broadband connection ...

Ngày tải lên: 21/08/2014, 15:25

... SX ¯ S the field of real numbers; the set of N × M -dimensional real matrices; the feature matrix of a set of samples; a label vector of a set of samples; the Euclidean norm of a vector x; the ... centers of minority and majority classes can be expressed ¯ and x ¯ We can estimate two circles with radius r1 = std(X1 ) and by x r2 = std(X2 ) where X1 and X2 are feature matrices of positive and ... where ni > 1, i = 1, are numbers of samples in the positive and negative classes, and the covariance matrices of positive and negative classes are denoted by S+ and S− We can see that if n2 n1...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 05:56

... The size of rhizomes and the number of stems growing from rhizomes are also different between this study and the natural environment This means that the ratio of the above-ground part of the reed ... Inamori R., and Kondo T (2009) A simulation model of nitrogen transformation in reed constructed wetlands, Desalination 235(1-3), 93-101 Yalcuk A and Ugurlu A (2009) Comparison of horizontal and vertical ... every day The effects of age and weight of giant reeds on phosphorus uptake were estimated by using one-year-old plants and several-years-old plants The seasonal variation of phosphorus uptake...

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Ngày tải lên: 09/12/2013, 18:15

... will be complex when status of land use changes very strongly The fast identification of landuse areas will be helpful in making plans of management and exploitation of land This issue may be carried ... Techniques of Remote Sensing Images for Land-Use in Mekong Delta (a) (b) Figure 4: SPOT4 image (a) and fusion image (b) in Camau region (between SPOT4 and RADARSAT images) after image fusion of SPOT4 and ... processes of recognizing landuse were done in Figure In this process, 20 training areas and 25 sites were chosen for the supervised classification of the Travinh and Camau images, respectively List of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/12/2013, 06:16

... profile of a patient before placement of implants at the mandibular symphysis reveals an anteroposterior discrepancy between the maxi ll a and the mandible To limit the vestibular offset, and ... offset is a part of a tripod arrangement, it is favorable Fig 3-21 The offset placement of the implant relative to the center of the crown is a biomechanical risk factor Fig 3-22 Radiograph of ... be proposed unless a sufficient number of implants can be placed Etiology of the edentulism Often implant candidates arrive for the initial consultation and their dental history is unknown to...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 15:20

... are 3,260 km of coastline, 12 lagoons, straits and bays, 112 estuaries, canals and thousands of small and big islands scattered along the coast In the land, an interlacing network of rivers, canals, ... (i) an efficiency rating of θ* =1 and (ii) si* # and/ or s r* # for some i and r Where θ is the DEA efficiency score obtained from model and s i and s r are input and out put slacks Definition ... from secondary data of Khanh Hoa Agriculture and Rural Development Department, Khanh Hoa Statistic Office and some newpapers 3.2 Input and output Total production and size of commercial Black...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 17:40

... completely dried a sheet of paper is formed and can be peeled off of the screen The history of the paper making process is extensive and gives insight to how the evolution of the industry to today's ... hundreds of thousands of varieties of paper The first stage in the pulping process, detailed best by author Gunnar Gavelin is, "the preparation of a furnish or stock- a suspension of fibers and filler ... below 31 Professor Mark Lewis 34 Historical Context of the Paper and Pulp Industry In order to understand the paper and pulp industry it is vital to explore the historical development of the industry...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20

... minimum values required of a, b and c and, in fact, have values A, B and G, where A ‡ a, B ‡ b and G ‡ c While these values contribute to the fitness of a set, the size of the set plays a much ... [4–14] and nucleic acid sequence-based amplification (NASBA) assays [15,16], and microarrays of cDNA [17] and oligonucleotides [18] These methods are both quick and easy to use, while offering ... regardless of their serotype, (c) unique to each serotype of the virus (present in all strains of the serotype), and (d) unique to each individual viral strain’s genome (present in the strain and absent...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20

... differentiation of forelimb foot faults (DOFFF) is the difference between the number of faults for the right and left forelimbs SOFFF and DOFFF were used as an index of motor deficit CSF aspiration 80 μL of ... 7, day 14 and day 28 by counting the number of foot faults in the left and right forelimbs The sum of foot faults (SOFFF) in the forelimbs is defined as the number of faults of right and left ... staining of nestin and BrdU were performed to assess the property of NSC in cultures and track the migration and homing of allogeneic BrdUlabeled NSC in the host brain In addition to the expression of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... researcher and a UK researcher Ethical clearance for the research was granted by the ethics committees of the University of Zambia and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Results and ... made up of academics, representatives of nongovernmental organizations, a Zambian clinician and a representative of a network of people living with HIV/AIDS Interviews were semistructured and used ... provided treatment to a population of 363 734 (GRZ 2000) with a staff of three doctors, one pharmacist and a changing number of technical (also called clinical) officers and nurses In the second focus...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... efficiency and improving access and affordability [32] In a pilot in Rwanda, the demand for physician time in providing HIV care and treatment was reduce by 76% by expanding the role of nurses ... to acknowledge the support of Jere Mwila and Charmaine Pattinson, and the technical contributions of Joy Sun and Emily Wu in the development of the HRH model The work of the Center for Strategic ... cadre based on the annual inflows and outflows of each cadre in the public sector health workforce The annual number of staff leaving the workforce includes the number of health workers going back...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... T-score of 2.3 and a body mass index of 28 kg/m2, which was revised to a THA at two months post-operatively; the other case was in a female patient with a T-score of -2.1 and body mass index of 28 ... model and the explanatory variables of Tscore and body mass index demonstrated that the femoral failure rate could be as high as 87% if a patient has a T-score of -2.4 and a body mass index of 43 ... variable and was divided into the two groups of Osteoarthritis and Not Osteoarthritis; femoral implant fixation type was included as a categorical variable and divided into the groups of Cemented...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... method because of its ease of implementation and straightforward analysis We applied this orthogonal method of parameter identifiability to determine the set of identifiable parameters and then applied ... f, X and Y are as described in (1) and (2), h describes an incomplete and noisy observation model, and both w and v are uncorrelated white noises of the system and measurement model, respectively ... order of the highest to the lowest sensitivity To make the adjustment of the net influence of each of the remaining parameters on the already selected parameters, all of the original columns of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... statistical data For A1 (o) and A2 (o), we can see that the CAD* of each hop is larger than that of CAD because of the impact of the border effect (24) and ⎡ Page of 11 n i=1 twi n i=1 wi Table ... algorithm of EWLS to two classical LSbased localization algorithms namely LS [26] and PDM [27] 6.1 Impacts of boarder effects and dependence We first illustrate the impacts of the boarder effect and ... localization errors of EWLS, LS, and PDM in Figure Apparently, the accuracy of EWLS is higher than that of the two classical algorithms where the average localization errors of EWLS, LS, and PDM are...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... common element of the set of solutions of a mixed equilibrium problem, the set of fixed points of an infinite family of nonexpansive mappings, and the set of solutions of a general system of variational ... tq-1Jq(x), and Jq(-x) = -Jq(x) for all x Î Page of 14 Chen and Wan Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:49 http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/49 Page of ... constants, and (x*, y*) Î E × E Then (x*, y*) is a solution of the problem (2.1) if and only if Chen and Wan Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:49 http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/49...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 00:20

... Theory of Vector Optimization, vol 319 of Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Springer, Berlin, Germany, 1989 14 J.-P Aubin and I Ekeland, Applied Nonlinear Analysis, Pure and Applied ... number and m > Definition 3.1 see 15 Let x ∈ C ⊆ X and u1 , , um−1 be elements of X The set b m x, u1 , , um−1 is called the mth-order adjacent set of C at x, u1 , , um−1 , if and only ... um−1 , vm−1 x , and the proof is complete ∈ Obviously, Example 3.4 can also show that the weak domination property of P x is essential for Proposition 3.8 8 Journal of Inequalities and Applications...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 07:20