... of Women of Reproductive Age inthe UN Projection and the No- AIDS Scenario, Botswana Mortality Effects on Population, Relativetothe No- AIDS Scenario, inDifferentProjections Projected Life Expectancy, ... beneficial tothe health of thepopulation (such as economic growth and increasing access to health interventions), whereas others are associated with increasing exposure to risk factors that lead to increased ... enough to provide valid estimates of the IMR (Rob Dorrington, personal communication 2004) These estimates are not used here, since there is no satisfactory way of knowing at what point in the...
... time at the scene from arrival to departure of the ambulance was 16 (8) minutes Mean duration of the subsequent transfer tothe ED was 11 (6) minutes The total time from arrival at the scene to arrival ... cardiac arrest To test the hypothesis that blood lactate levels remained predictive for outcome in a population that is not obviously in circulatory shock, we repeated the analyses inthe subgroup ... Rady MY, Rivers EP, Martin GB, Smithline H, Appelton T, Nowak RM: Continuous central venous oximetry and shock index inthe emergency department: use inthe evaluation of clinical shock Am J Emerg...
... distinction In other words, I am interested inthe ways that these poets mobilized existing cultural assumptions in order to highlight the importance of the poet rather than in exploring their ... autonomy without necessarily reproducing the myth of the selfdetermining subject.31 Having stressed the ongoing centrality of Enlightenment thought inthe 1790s, I want to insist that I am not ... Individuals may still not be able to transcend history, but as a growing body of recent work demonstrates, they are none the less able to inscribe themselves within it, and in doing so, to gain a limited...
... effectuate nothing, absolutely nothing, at the moment when the present war broke out, to prejudice inthe least the fidelity of the Citizens of the Amstel, or to shake them inthe observance of their ... of their King, as their sovereign lord, and to him they were willing to render homage: but tono mesne and subordinate lords, nor were they willing to submit to any of the baser services. In ... souls, having no other object than to give loose to their avidity, and to their desire of amassing treasures, in defrauding the public revenues, and in transporting articles, against the faith...
... 3.3 The following argument shows in more detail why j can be assumed to take values in U Let us slightly shrink M by enlarging the puncture in T and shortening the interval [−1, 1] Denote the ... points (a, x), the “entrance”, and (b, y), the “exit”, are on the same characteristic, then x = y In other words, for a characteristic that meets both the bottom and the top of the plug, its top ... similar to those of Schweitzer’s plug By the symplectic neighborhood theorem, a neighborhood of M in W is symplectomorphic to that of M in R4 This will allow us to turn the embedding M → W into the...
... response tothe crisis A blank cell indicates no policy response tothe crisis (not no response tothe survey) Table A.1 Policies targeting financial contributions tothe health system inthe context ... by lowering health outcomes and increasing health and other costs inthe longer term In addition to introducing new inefficiencies, cuts across the board are unlikely to address existing inefficiencies, ... concerns about the solvency of financial institutions, deepening the crisis and causing it to extend well beyond the financial sector Although the crisis to some extent originated inthe United States...
... measures, to be undertaken by both the international community and African countries, include: ■ Monitoring the impact of the crisis; ■ Restoring confidence in, and continuing to monitor and regulate ... manufacturing (e.g., through diversification agro-industries) • Promote tourism • Invest in infrastructure Banking system strengthening • Expand access to finance • Encourage financial innovation ... undertaken to restore growth inthe advanced economies are vital The sooner industrialized countries recover, the better for Africa Moreover, this needs to be done without resorting to protectionism, now...
... = The node X2 & &Xn represents the proposition according to which the n − individuals inthe database other than the suspect have profiles that not correspond to that of the crime stain The node ... is shown inthe node X2 & &Xn The evaluation of the denominator is shown in ¯ Figure 7ii Here, the node H1 is set to H1 This implies that the state H1 inthe node H is zero Accordingly, probability ... to considering X2 to be true Introducing this information into the Bayesian network leads tothe result shown in Figure 3ii As may be seen, the probability that the suspect is the source of the...
... breast, lung, skin or bone marrow) continue to grow indefinitely, without reference tothe needs of the body Many cancers have the capacity to spread to other parts of the body and to kill the patient ... required to track changes in incidence, outcomes and responses to cancer inthe EU is reviewed, along with the optimal indicators for assessing progress against cancer in Europe, including the benefits ... of the incidence rate) is divided by thepopulation from which the cases arose (the denominator) The use of incidence rates facilitates the comparison of incidence between populations because the...
... brief tour to Ponagar towers , one of the consist of towers They are located on Cu Lao Marble Hill, 2km north of Nha Trang They were built between 8th and 13th centuries Each tower dedicated to ... a different god The largest tower is 22.5m high It was built in honour of Lady Thien Y It is a sandstone statue It is sat on Buddha's throne Statue which is 2.6m high, with 10 hands, holding ... high, with 10 hands, holding objects, which illustrate the Buddha's power It is a strange , beautiful statue My visit tothe Ponagar Cham Towers lasts about hours I felt tired but enjoyable...
... enabling regulatory framework and credentialing system, to drive the implementation of relevant policies and to resource, guide and support training institutions to not only upgrade training but ... depending often on external, short-term donor funding Task shifting, while driven by the urgencies of conquering the HIV /AIDS epidemic, holds the potential of enabling countries to build sustainable, ... Crucially, it requires the integration of the concept and roles of new cadres, changed scopes of practice and regulatory frameworks, enhanced training infrastructure, etc., into the mainstream health...
... SAS Institute (North Carolina) software release 8.2 Weights for extrapolating data tothe entire population were estimated by INSEE from the 1999 national census These weights were applied tothe ... staff to help the interviewer (7.3%) In total, 14,611 inter- A weighted logistic regression was used to identify risk factors One regression identified the risk factors for blindness (blind versus ... blind person per year was US$ 11,896 in 1990 inthe USA and totalled US$ billion [3] Therefore, it is crucial to obtain nationwide estimates of low vision and blindness prevalence to allocate the...
... of domains, D, that are convex inthe direction of the imaginary axis and that admit a mapping ψ z so that ψ D D and satisfies the normalization 1.1 , then we have the following result Theorem ... on the following theorem of Clunie and Sheil-Small Theorem 1.1 see A harmonic function f h z g z locally univalent in D is a univalent mapping of D onto a domain convex inthe direction of the ... proved the following theorem Theorem 1.3 see If ψ z is analytic for |z| < and satisfies Re − z2 ψ z 1−r ψ r r ≤ ψ 1−r ≥ 0, then 1.2 To be able to obtain this result for functions that are in the...
... type inequality with critical Sobolev space and BMO,” Mathematische Zeitschrift, vol 259, no 4, pp 935–950, 2008 19 J Serrin, The initial value problem for the Navier-Stokes equations,” in Nonlinear ... Galdi, “Regularity criteria involving the pressure for the weak solutions tothe Navier-Stokes equations,” Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, vol 130, no 12, pp 3585–3595, 2002 12 Q ... for the Navier-Stokes equations in R3 ,” Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, vol 134, no 1, pp 149–156, 2006 15 M Struwe, “On a Serrin-type regularity criterion for the Navier-Stokes...
... represents the evolution of the germination rate inthedifferent treatments applied to P pinaster, P radiata and E globulus according tothe age of the seeds Although the trajectory of P pinaster is not ... populationto another and between individuals inthe same population, even tothe point where a non-serotinous tree may become serotinous as it gets older [30] Once they have been liberated, the viability ... behaviour of stored seeds, whether in a canopy seed bank or in laboratory conditions, has not been studied a great deal inthe past This study was designed to define the germinative behaviour of the seeds...
... placed either in insulin-type syringes (for the inorganic ion analysis) or in 1.5 mL microtubes (for the soluble sugar and amino acid analysis), immediately frozen in liquid nitrogen and stored ... at the bottom of each syringe Severed tissue was inserted into the syringe tube and the piston put back into it After thawing, tissue sap was collected by pushing the piston back and diluted with ... of π [4] In pine seedlings, thedifferent composition of cell sap in TR and LR and the modifications induced by the mineral constraints may be related todifferent functions of these two types...
... present inthe joint months after the injection and generated no inflammatory response or damage tothe synovial lining Influence of magnetic field on microparticle retention Based on their good joint ... results obtained for the uptake of 99mTc Discussion using a scale ranging from to sections for the total joint inflammation Histological grading of the knee4 using a scale ranging from to (-) indicates ... that the i-a injection did not lead to synovial inflammation Moreover, we expected no systemic toxicity related to SPION presence inthe joint due tothe fact that the SPION quantity used in microparticles...