pressure ulcers in neonatal and pediatric populations

... using TTO or SG techniques) and indirect (i.e using pre-existing questionnaires) measurements are commonly used when performing CUAs in adult populations, collecting utilities in children and ... our findings with, our review complements the recent review of generic and disease specific instruments in children and adolescents [5] by identifying studies reporting utilities in children and ... study conducted in the Netherlands by Willems et al [15], administered the EQ-5D instrument to children and adults enrolled into a RCT examining the effect of nurse-led telemonitoring versus usual...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... analyse II Materials and methods A Drosophila populations Wild living females, collected with a fermenting bait, were isolated in culture vials initiate isofemale lines These lines were used to ... the amount of rainfall during the wettest month of the year But, as pointed out in that paper, the possible mechanisms underlying this relationship remain obscure Finally, both clines here observed ... mediterranean sea and in the southern hemisphere Third, to correlate Adh frequencies and alcohol tolerance since, up to now, such measurements have been done independently and often on different populations...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22

... analysis (see Materials and methods), in which all strains from each population were grouped into a single node An interesting finding was that genes encoding proteins involved in muscle formation ... over-expressed in the African population, including those encoding myosins, troponins, tropomyosins, and the gene Zeelin1 In contrast, we saw the opposite pattern for genes involved in fatty acid ... file by sampling with replacement within each hybridization (that is, randomizing within a column), thereby maintaining the underlying data structure (for example, missing data) within each hybridization...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... detect and describe the characteristics of CNVs and ROHs in these two populations A total of 292 samples from three Singaporean populations (99 Chinese, 98 Malay, and 95 Indian individuals) and ... Xueling, Chia Kee Seng Genome-Wide Mapping of Copy Number Variations and Loss of Heterozygosity Using the InfiniumHuman1M BeadChip Illumina Technical Note (2008) Other publications during Ph.D candidature ... sequencing NHGRI - National Human Genome Research Institute NUS-IRB - National University of Singapore-Institutional Review Board PARK2 - parkinson protein 2, E3 ubiquitin protein ligase (parkin)...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:47

... labour and other markets and their income and assets [18,19] This affects women’s health and health-seeking behaviour in several ways, firstly, by Page of controlling behaviours and decision-making ... mortality in Bangladesh in mind, BRAC has initiated a large communitybased programme to reduce maternal, neonatal and child mortality in 2005 in Nilphamari and has taken a decision to scale up in three ... districts (Rangpur, Gaibandha and Mymensingh) in 2008 There is limited literature to inform our understanding of what happens at a micro level in terms of men’s knowledge and practice in relation to antenatal,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... essential integrated PMTCT, pediatric HIV, and MNCH services • Design, integrate and/ or coordinate training curricula and accompanying materials (including pre-service and ongoing in- service training) ... capacity in two sectors for a marginal cost increase, as demonstrated in Haiti with syphilis and HIV testing training 6+ Integrating new HIV services into the existing health system and the resulting ... integrated package The strengthening includes developing or enhancing existing policies and guidelines, leadership and governance, financing, human resources, information systems, supply chains,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... care services including IMCI, routine and expanding immunization, vitamin A supplementation, management of drowning, injury and accident, and limited care for eye, ear and skin infection Source: ... services (including neonatal care) will have the largest payoff in averting deaths and reducing disability among women and children in Bangladesh For scaling up of these tasks, building a functioning ... Monitoring and supervision for union level supervisor (SI, FPI, Sr FWV) FWV basic training FWV refresher training on midwifery skill Clinical training (Basic practice and refresher) SBA training...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... been observed in some Parnassius populations (Scott 1974; S F Matter, personal observation) Both sets of analyses on P smintheus point to it being protandrous, and showing an increasing proportion ... Polyandry and protandry in butterflies Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 54, 957–976 Zonneveld, C (1996a) Being big or emerging early? Polyandry and the trade-off between size and emergence in male ... analyses In the C & F model, increasing protandry always increased q* However, this optimal amount of protandry decreases with increasing asynchrony (Fig 1d) The second difference is that q* declines...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... strains of in uenza A with adamantanes and neuraminidase inhibitors and for susceptible strains of in uenza B with neuraminidase inhibitors Because substantial genetic variation occurs in influenza ... serious infections Inducible resistance to clindamycin may be present in staphylococci (ie, they may be D-test positive); for these strains, clindamycin should not be used in high-inoculum infections ... regarding the efficacy of inhaled ribavirin for treatment of RSV CAP in infants Ribavirin has in vitro activity against RSV, but use of this drug for RSV infection is not routinely recommended in...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20

... Piles in Sand, SSGG, pp 1–6 springerlink.com © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 Introduction uncertainties in the behavior of the soil core (plug) during driving and subsequent loading, and ... Nicola and Randolph (1997) found that the plug length increased with increasing relative density of insitu sands during driving and decreased with increasing relative density during jacking Also, ... Plugging of Piles during Installation .26 3.2.2 Plugging of Piles during Static Loading 26 3.2.3 Plugging of Piles during Cyclic Loading 27 3.3 Buildup of Pore Pressures during Driving...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 16:20

... Boiling Point ͑e.g., % boiling point͒—The corrected temperature reading corresponding to when X % of the distillate has been recovered in the receiving flask End Point ͑EP͒ or Final Boiling Point ... D86-21 and the present D86 is that the results are given in terms of the volume recovered in the receiving cylinder at the next 10 ° C point after the initial boiling point and for every 10 ° C interval ... programming, and continuing through stable and sensitive detectors, automatic instrumental parameter controls, automatic injectors and samplers, electronic integration and data processing software,...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 11:24

... were included in our sample, the construct may vary For instance, people with cancer mostly suffer pain, fatigue, and insomnia [48,49] Previous studies indicated that cancer-related pain was linked ... participation, and only the data with the consent was included in this study Thus, each participant's self-determination to participate in the study and the anonymity of response were maintained This ... factorially valid and reliable instrument with a robust structure in terms of psychiatric as well as medical settings Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors'...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... and : A biregional survey and review of first-line treatment failure and second-line pediatric antiretroviral access and use in Asia and southern Africa Journal of the International AIDS Society ... first-line treatment failure and second-line paediatric antiretroviral access and use in Asia and southern Africa J Int AIDS Soc 2011, 14(1):7 doi:10.1186/1758-2652-14-17 Cite this article as: and ... nelfinavir in limited circumstances d4T - stavudine; AZT - zidovudine; 3TC - lamivudine; NVP - nevirapine; EFV - efavirenz; ABC - abacavir; ddI - didanosine; LPV/r - ritonavir-boosted lopinavir;...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... routine and sentinel surveillance with HIV surveillance for IDUs and FSWs associated with injecting drug to contribute making effective prevention and treatment for HIV, HBV, HCV infections To increase ... HBV/HCV co-infection was significantly upward tendency in duration of drug injecting - The rate of HIV/HBV co-infection also was increased in duration of drug injecting The highest rate of infection ... strains have identifed three distinct groups: Major (M), outlier (O) and new (N) groups More than 99% of the HIV-1 strains in this pandemic belong to group M and can be classified into nine subtypes...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 14:07

... others (having warm, satisfying, trusting relationships with others), (3) autonomy (self-determination and independence), (4) environmental mastery (a sense of mastery and competence in handling one's ... scores decreased with increasing participant age The above findings were virtually the same even after controlling for age and gender (one and two cases were missing for age and gender, respectively) ... (undergraduate student) and clinical populations We examined the factor structure of the inventory by both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses Its concurrent validity was examined by using the self-report...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:21

... happened in leaves of Phaseolus [14] but in agreement with results of Barraclough and Leigh [4] where Na was more efficient than Ca and Mg in replacing K and maintaining yield of ryegrass In response ... allmacronutrient deficiencies induced different responses in tap and lateral roots in terms of growth, solutes involved in K replacement and efficiency in maintenance of turgor and osmotic pressures This illustrates ... parts a) and c) contained the expanding tissues but also some mature tissues [23] The tissue samples were placed either in insulin-type syringes (for the inorganic ion analysis) or in 1.5 mL...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... healthy control individuals (316 women and 170 men), who were enrolled at the Center of Physical Examination All individuals included in the study were Han Chinese living in and around Nanjing None ... TXNDC3 SNPs and knee OA susceptibility, we conducted two case-control studies in Han Chinese and Japanese populations and a meta-analysis Materials and methods A population of 955 Chinese individuals ... dropped out during the study In addition, a population of 750 Japanese individuals were included; 376 patients (327 women and 49 men) and 374 healthy control individuals (116 women and 258 men)...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... at the investigated loci in D melanogaster populations collected in distilleries and in villages using baits is shown in Table Ila and lib, respectively At the Adh locus, almost all the populations ... that both species develop in villages in more diverse resources, in fermenting windfalls, in rotting vegetables, in rubbish, etc In distilleries, however, Drosophilids grow in a more uniform environment, ... 1975) that were mainly found in populations of region 111 Discussion We compared the level of polymorphism in populations originating from distilleries to those collected in villages in the case of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22

... first nine taken from wine-cellars ; sample 10 was taken near a wine-cellar site (outside the building where the wine is stored) Samples 11 and 12 were respectively captured in a city and in an ... within individuals F a ’2 ; Q ’],)/ (+ (2) correlation between genes of different individuals in the same subpopulation = aalazand (3) correlation between genes within individuals within subpopulations ... Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium in populations 10, 11 and 12 (due to an excess of homozygotes) and the disequilibrium found in these populations for the gametes Adhla-Gpdh and AdhlEst-6 may indicate...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:23

... (11:00 to 12:00 in the morning, 14:00 to 15:00 in the afternoon, and 17:00 to 21:00 in the evening) Bathing and measurement of body weight were conducted daily in the morning Medical examinations, ... multiple testing, circadian cycle (1440 minutes) was observed among 23.8% neonates in HR, 20% in PR, 27.8% in RR and 16% in SpO2 in Period Because many samples were excluded from HR analysis, and the ... observed in each period in PR; however, there was no consistent tendency in percentages of circadian cycle in RR and SpO2 Amplitudes and amplitude indexes of all detected cycles in PR in each...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:20