prevalence incidence and distribution of erosion in children and adolescents

... Arthur J Schmitt Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame CAMBRIDGE SERIES IN CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Series Editor: Arvind Varma, University of Notre Dame ... species in multiple reaction systems In the case of membrane reactors additional performance indexes (e.g product purity) become of interest In deactivating systems, other indexes incorporating the ... Liang-Shih Fan and Chao Zhu, Principles of Gas-Solid Flows Hasan Orbey and Stanley I Sandler, Modeling Vapor-Liquid Equilibria: Cubic Equations of State and Their Mixing Rules T Michael Duncan and Jeffrey...

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... lie in measuring QoL in children, including (1) lack of consensus on suitable instruments, (2) the need for different instruments in different age groups and (3) the need of proxy reporting by ... essential in order to meet basic needs, to fulfill usual roles, and to maintain health and wellbeing [5]Quality of life (QoL) is defined as an individual's perception of their position in life, in the ... mediator of this process is response shift Response shift means that the experience changes the internal standard of patients, resulting in changes in the meaning of self-evaluation and hence in a...

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... examined for distribution of responses, frequency of nonresponse, ceiling and floor effects Children and adolescents between and 16 years of age and their parents were asked to participate in ... opinion gained from the relevant consultants participating in the project, cognitive interview feedback from the children and adolescents, and the investigator's judgement of the quality of the ... added to a domain if it correlated with a domain, it loaded only on one domain, and it generally made sense to include the item in the domain [29] The reliability of the domain, including the added...

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... Measuring health-related quality of life in children with cancer living in mainland China: feasibility, reliability and validity of the Chinese mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales and ... The findings support the feasibility, reliability and validity of the Chinese Mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales and 3.0 Cancer Module in children with cancer living in mainland ... reliability, and validity of the Chinese mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales and 3.0 Cancer Module in children with cancer living in mainland China With regard to obtention of result,...

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... age and was found in similar locations to that in brains of other kinds of murine and rat TrkA immunoreactivities were observed in newborn rat piriform cortex sections These observations indicate ... Visualization of immunobinding was carried out with DAB solution (0.04% diaminobenzidine and 0.05% H2O2 in PBS) After staining the sections were mounted on silane-coated slides (3-amino propyltriethoxy ... dictates the biological activity of NGF The biological effects of NGF are mediated via high-affinity receptor gp140trk that binds NGF and has intrinsic tyrosine protein kinase activity [14] Taken together,...

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... knockdown line Chloroplasts in expanding leaf cells and the basal part of expanding leaf cells of the wild type (WT) and the AtYLMG1-1 knockdown line (AS#1) are shown Bars = 10 μm (E) Localization of ... seedlings of the wild type (WT) and the AtYLMG1-1 knockdown line (AS#1 and AS#2) Bars = 10 mm (B) Levels of AtYLMG11 protein in the wild type and the two AtYLMG1-1 knockdown lines Total proteins ... basal part of expanding leaf of the antisense line, chloroplasts were pale and smaller than those of the wild type (Figure 3D) We compared the localization of FtsZ in the antisense line and the...

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... is endemic in Guinea-Bissau, and the highest prevalence in the adult population was 5.2% in 1990 in Caió, the rural area studied in this paper [25] The trends of HTLV-1 prevalence and incidence, ... HTLV1 prevalence of approximately 5% and a stable incidence of approximately 1.7 per 1000 pyo in the adult population of Caió in rural Guinea-Bissau between 1990 and 2007 The prevalence increased ... status of mothers and their offspring (OR 4.6, CI 2.6-8.1), indicating that MTCT contributes to maintaining the HTLV-1 epidemic in this community Screening of blood transfusions for HIV since 1989...

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... King J, Soldin SJ: IMMULITE 2000 age and sex-specific reference intervals for alpha fetoprotein, homocysteine, insulin, insulin-like growth factor-1, insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3, ... resulting in a hypoinsulinemic response resulted in hyperglycemia Insulin resistance, caused by high levels of counter-regulatory hormones and cytokines, oxidative stress, and therapeutic interventions ... ovary syndrome J Clin Endocrinol Metab 1998, 83:2694-2698 Saberi F, Heyland D, Lam M, Rapson D, Jeejeebhoy K: Prevalence, incidence, and clinical resolution of insulin resistance in critically ill...

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... Department of Navy, Of ce of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia Belcher, C N., and C A Jennings 2010 Utility of mesohabitat features for determining habitat associations of subadult sharks in Georgia’s ... water basin classifying the bodies of water that feed into Cumberland Sound as class III surface waters (suitable for maintaining a healthy, well-balanced population of fish and wildlife) and those ... abundance and distribution of shark populations in the nearshore and estuarine waters of northeast Florida Eleven species were caught from 2009 to 2011, including species in both the small and large...

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... NON-HMT and HMT13) and stock of FDI in coastal provinces are much larger than those in interior provinces One of the interesting things is while in coastal provinces the mean of the number of NON-HMT ... i =0 In my thesis, coastal provinces in China include Beijing, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hebei, Jiangsu, Liaoning, Shandong, Shanghai, Tianjin and Zhejiang All others are interior or inland ... 1.1 Growth of FDI in China 1.2 Sources of FDI in China 1.3 Sectoral composition of FDI in China 1.4 Regional distribution of FDI in China ...

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... Pandan Changi International Airport Incinerator Petroleum Industries & Chemical Industries Sampling Point Figure 3.1 Location of incinerator, petroleum refineries and chemical industries in Singapore ... OCCURRENCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF PAHs IN RAINWATER AND URBAN RUNOFF ELISABETH RIANAWATI (B Eng., ITB) A THESIS SUMBITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ENGINEERING DIVISION OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ... levels of PAHs in rainwater and in stormwater in an urban area of Singapore for the first time The details of the sample collection and the characteristics of the sampling site are discussed in Chapter...

Ngày tải lên: 27/11/2015, 11:25

... estimate the incidence of poverty in each province The results show that rural poverty is concentrated in 10 provinces in the Northern Uplands, provinces in the Central Highlands, and provinces in the ... possible to further increase the accuracy of targeting by combining a few of the above variables into a composite targeting indicator Preliminary work on developing such an indicator using stepwise ... greatest in the border provinces of the Northern Uplands The Central Highlands provinces of Gia Lai and Kon Tum are among the ten poorest provinces in terms of rural poverty 24 Table Provincial...

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... Brouwer et al., 2000) In a randomized clinical trial, Corry and colleagues compared serial casting with injection of botulinum toxin in the management of dynamic equinus in children with cerebral ... muscular relaxation in the target area, providing a ‘window of opportunity’ for a focused programme of splinting, casting, gait training and strengthening of antagonist muscles Children with mild ... too small and lacking in co-operation for instrumented gait analysis using current techniques Managing spasticity in children In our preliminary open label study into the use of BoNT-A in the lower...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 10:20

... formulations and dosing of first- and second-line TB drugs in children DIAGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS IN CHILDREN The diagnosis of TB in children relies on careful and thorough assessment of all the evidence ... to diagnose TB in children Careful history (including history of TB contact and symptoms consistent with TB) Clinical examination (including growth assessment) Tuberculin skin testing (TST) Bacteriological ... standardised approaches need to be incorporated into existing guidelines and strategies that have been developed by NTPs Reducing the burden of TB in children will require changing and improving...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 03:20

... version in addition The findings of the current study underline the importance of combining self- and proxy rating, not only in Germany Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and ... different stages of life and in this way to explore the impact of CF in the course of a lifetime In comparison to other studies investigating HRQoL in children with CF, the number of patients in this ... advances in CF therapy and with regard to the recent increase in interest in PROs, the German CFQ-R, Child, and Parent versions are necessary tools for including schoolchildren in the analysis of HRQoL...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... coordination of the study, gathering and processing of data (questionnaires), performed the statistical analyses and drafting of manuscript RL: coordination of the study, gathering and processing of data ... monitoring and counselling of both child and family during the whole of treatment In HR children, reported scores on cognitive functioning were considerable lower than in NHR children, regardless of ... drafting and revising of manuscript JH: participated in the design of the study and helped to draft the manuscript MG: participated in the coordination of the study, acquisition of data and helped...

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... time index of the digital recording of the vibration signal Methods Representation of swallowing activity Based on the clinical appeal of cervical auscultation and the recent success of swallowing ... swallowing in determining the risk of aspiration in acute stroke patients Dysphagia 2001, 16:1-6 Sellars C, Dunnet C, Carter R: A preliminary comparison of videofluoroscopy of swallow and pulse ... Improving the accuracy of classifiers for the prediction of translation initiation sites in genomic sequences In Advances in Informatics, of Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 3746 Springer-Verlag;...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... the study and participated in the acquisition and interpretation of data HEG and FHS participated in the design of the study, the acquisition and interpretation of data All authors read and approved ... better quality of life with regard to cognitive and emotional domains Interestingly, treatment-related variables, such as intensity of therapy and presence of medical complications mainly influenced ... centralization of care, improved supportive care, and the development of large international clinical trials Traditionally, progress in pediatric oncology has been measured in terms of survival and rates of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... HRQoL of children with SCD While interpreting the results of this study, strengths and limitations should be taken into account Findings of this study are strengthened by the use of a well-standardized ... also underlie our finding of lower scores of adolescents with SCD on the autonomy domain, compared to healthy siblings This finding is congruent with results of a previous study in our hospital ... and need specific care in the hospital Therefore, we argue for routine monitoring of HRQoL in children with SCD Incorporating patient reported outcomes of HRQoL in daily clinical practice will...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... During dexamethasone treatment duration of sleep was increased and there was an increase in nighttime awakenings, restless sleep and nap time An association between poor quality of sleep and ... patient and family QoL is impaired in children during cancer treatment, and the results of this study suggest that impaired sleep might be one of the contributing factors Better counseling and treatment ... as a sleep screening tool for school-aged children and has been shown to be a useful screening tool in younger children as well [23,24] Both the original and the Dutch version of the CSHQ have...

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