... was defined clinically by changes of 28-joint-count Disease Activity Score (DAS28) determined at the beginning of the study (baseline) and months after the start of etanercept treatment and additionally ... controlling the levels of proinflammatory cytokines in acute inflammatory responses The particular role of IL-6 in inflammatory conditions such as RA is presently considered in therapeutic interventions ... further competing interests Figure Authors' contributions H-JT initiated and coordinated the project JK directed the study design and the patient recruitment and clinical assessment SD and DK played...
... marketing’s beginnings Social marketing and social change tools Concluding comments Questions Further reading Chapter Principlesof marketing Introduction Marketing basics Principlesand practices of marketing ... 1994) 28 PRINCIPLESOF MARKETING ● ● ● ● ● ● Marketing can be considered to incorporate two fundamental concepts, three principles that guide the planning and implementation of marketing in practice, ... considered unusual to think of a criminal behaviour involving marketing, as we see in the example below, the same principles apply in terms of attracting and satisfying customers In fact, it could...
... area in economics, for which Nobel Prizes have been awarded (e.g Aumann and Schelling in 2005) Bargaining is a main subject in game theory One of the fundamental bargaining models was Rubinstein’s ... all remaining entries Interpreting Exponential Tiling into Expressibility In this section we will describe the main (and most difficult) construction of this paper It takes as input an instance ... of CP methodology is rich, natural, and modular, with many types of constraints, therefore allowing the rapid development and maintenance of Applying Constraint Programming to Identification and...
... care Considering the particular nature of pain in developing principlesof managing pain When applying the above principles to pain we need to remember that pain is not a single entity but a ... pain management Considering the particular nature of pain in developing principlesof managing pain Summary Reflective activity References Further reading Introduction In this chapter we examine ... enhance our personal practice through the thoughtful exploration of real incidents in the light of our present understanding and other forms of evidence Decision-making in pain management All decisions...
... of a patient record, and its part in supporting patient care Patient-centred records At the beginning of the twentieth century most hospitals kept patients’ records in bound volumes Entries were ... development of effective tools for communicating information about risk is a fertile area of research in health informatics Collecting and analysing patient data The final class of criticisms of AAPHelp ... nature of diseases, the efficacy and appropriateness of interventions and the role of medical professionals They stem from variations within and between nations and cultures, differences in training...
... in emphasis are readily discerned An increasing concern with the well-being of individuals and life in general has led to initiatives for improvements in medicine and the world environment, and ... recurring theme throughout the discipline is the sustained impact of computers on both instrumentation and data handling where real-time processing within a Windows environment is becoming the ... presentation of data, especially of Echelle optics in plasma emission spectrometry Other new information in this chapter covers recent developments in counteracting polyatomic interferences in inductively-coupled...
... nasotracheal intubation Initial Management and Resuscitation 15 findings Patients with inhalation injury are then started in the inhalation injury protocol (see below) After definitive assessment in the ... (ICU) guidelines regarding line protocols should be used Care of the line should include daily inspection of entry point and daily dressing with dry compresses Occlusive dressings and antibiotic ... medications, pre-existing diseases, last meal, and events of the injury, including time, location, and insults In children the developmental status should be investigated and any suspicious injuries should...
... Following administration of intravenous contrast, patchy enhancement is seen in the disc space and spreads into the vertebral bodies Brain Tumors The brain and meninges are sites of benign and ... lumbar disc disease andin septicemia On MRI, findings of T1 hypointensity in adjacent vertebral bodies, T2 hyperintensity in the intervening disc space, and irregularity of the end plates are ... Hydrocephalus and Shunts in Children 313 Stephen Guertin, M.D., and Anthony Briningstool, M.D 32 Pediatric Infectionsof the Central Nervous System 325 Anthony Briningstool, M.D., and Jane Turner, M.D...
... nasotracheal intubation Initial Management and Resuscitation 15 findings Patients with inhalation injury are then started in the inhalation injury protocol (see below) After definitive assessment in the ... (ICU) guidelines regarding line protocols should be used Care of the line should include daily inspection of entry point and daily dressing with dry compresses Occlusive dressings and antibiotic ... medications, pre-existing diseases, last meal, and events of the injury, including time, location, and insults In children the developmental status should be investigated and any suspicious injuries should...
... transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical , including photocopying, microfilming, and recording or by any information storage and retrieved system without permission in writing ... molecule striking the boundary and entering one phase is the same as the probability of a solute molecule randomly acquiring sufficient kinetic energy to leave the stationary phase and enter the ... ass Plate Adsorbent Figure The Development of a Thin Layer Plate Finally, the remaining solvent (C) with the weakest interactions with the stationary phase continues to migrate and cover the surface...
... Monitoring and investigation of the patients, study coordination MR: Monitoring and investigation of the patients, study coordination JS: Investigator, writing of the manuscript JB: Idea, writing of ... within 12 weeks after discontinuation of infliximab infusions, 37 within 24 weeks, and 38 within 36 weeks By week 48, of the 42 patients had not needed retreatment and 41 were again receiving infliximab ... intervals) of retreatment after discontinuation of infliximab in patients treated for ankylosing spondylitis Retreatment depended on the duration of response to the initial treatment Of the 42 patients,...
... infections leading to hospitalisation - of 2.44 in the first months of GC treatment in a large GCA trial and increased infection-related mortality Rising awareness of GC complications, including infections, ... patient year andinfections caused to 33% of these deaths [4-11] In SVV this range was to 0.26 deaths per patient year andinfections were involved in to 100% of the fatal events [1,17-37] Interestingly, ... to infections than the maintenance phase Bacterial infections are the most frequently mentioned causes of death Types ofinfections are given as clinical conditions or causative agents as information...
... (Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumanii) In line with the IDSA and SIS guidelines considering broad-spectrum agents active against P aeruginosa, and methicillin-susceptible and amoxicillin-susceptible ... S, Chow AW, Bartlett J, Infectious Diseases Society of America: Guidelines for the selection of anti- infective agents for complicated intra-abdominal infections Clin Infect Dis 2003, 37:997-1005 ... could be the changing trends in patients’ characteristics, improvement of surgical techniques and intensive care management over the years The weight of antibiotic therapyin patient outcome may...
... user in different contexts Chapter Knowledges received Understand the key issues and concepts of engagement Understand the general principlesof good interactive systems design Understand the principles ... Design principles (4) main categories of design principles: Learnability: Helping people access, learn and remember the system: principles 1-4 Effectiveness: Giving them the sense of being in control, ... Engagement (4) Identity: A sense of authenticity is needed for identity and is often only noticed when it breaks down Identifying with something= key element of engagement 42 3.5 Engagement (5)...
... reorganized and expanded The objective of the book, however, remains the same as in the first edition, “to present the practiceof automatic process control along with the fundamental principlesof control ... with a presentation of integrating, inverse-response, and open-loop unstable processes Chapter presents the design and characteristics of the basic components of a control system: sensors and transmitters, ... manuscript and offered many useful suggestions from his industrial background In the preface to the first edition we said that “To serve as agents in the training and development of young minds is...
... Mineral Component of the Soil 11 Chapter The Mineral Component of the Soil Rock fragments and mineral particles in soil vary enormously in size from boulders and stones down to sand grains and ... weathering of chlorites Neoformation of clay minerals is a feature of intense weathering, or of diagenesis in sedimentary deposits (Section 5.2), 23 when minerals completely different from the original ... smectite, and chlorite and smectite However, interstratification of montmorillonite and kaolinite also occurs in acid environments, and may be a potential index for the intensity of soil weathering...