... cleanness of their buses, maintenance of its technical conditions, being consistent with the bus schedule, being inetrested in making as many scheduled and unscheduled runs as possibleand making ... who will monitor and assess the work of the drivers during, for example, a month Then the jury will sum it up and according to their decision some best drivers will be rewarded and, vice versa, ... effective and efficient strategy is to make a contract whick will determine the rights and obligations of both parties: the administration of the “Citibus”operating company and its drivers and which...
... Hollander and colleagues reported tissue regeneration when tissue engineered cartilage was implanted in injured and OA human knees [21] Ossendorf and colleagues performed a study on short-term and ... expression data processing, study design and coordination AL and MS conceived the study and participated in its design and coordination All authors read and approved the final manuscript Additional ... non-destructive detection assay to ensure cell and culture quality, identity and purity Increased expression of MMP1 and MMP3 [45] as well as type III and type V collagen expression [46] has been...
... 3) One possible counter to incommensurability, as we have seen above, is to suggest that as it must be possible to look at other societies and cultures and understand what is going on, and in ... views, and some criticisme of each, are discussed and I will attenpt to show that fallibility or uncertainty is the more defensible and more -9- challenging position, demanding imagination and creativity, ... distinctions between truth and falsity, norms and deviations etc "The function of epistemologists to make these things explicit and to study their Interrelations is both important and not directly sociological."...
... HCC and develop new diagnostic tools 1.1.4 Current Treatments of HCC Treatments of HCC can be conventionally divided into categories: i) surgical treatments, ii) locoregional treatments, and ... diagnoses andtreatments of HCC Current diagnoses andtreatments of HCC remain unsatisfactory It is thus crucial to develop new approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of HCC 1.2 HBV-the Virus and ... (Romano and Macino, 1992) At that time, it was thought that this bizarre phenomenon was strictly limited to plants and fungi, and did not occur in other organisms In 1998, Fire and Mello and their...
... CL, TP and KN conceived and designed the study CL collected the data CL and TP performed statistical analysis and drafted the manuscript All authors revised the manuscript critically and approved ... too difficult to manage in acute and long-term psychiatric settings Patients referred to Brøset are either sentenced to psychiatric care or referred from general psychiatric care units because ... is substantial [11] and risk for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after assaults against nurses is demonstrated high [12] Since psychiatric units and especially forensic psychiatric units...
... Acknowledgements Funding sources for this research were the HCF Health andMedical Research Foundation (external grant) and the National Health andMedical Research Council of Australia (Dora Lush Postgraduate ... older acute medical patient population Approximately 25% of patients scored the maximum possible score at hospital admission [27] Internal structure and dimensionality MacKnight and Rockwood ... person hands-on, person standby, independent with aid, independent BALANCE: impaired static sitting, stable static sitting, stable dynamic sitting, stable static standing, stable dynamic standing,...
... wellbeing of medical students andtheir awareness on substance misuse, capturing data from six medical colleges across all the provinces of Pakistan Materials and methods Final-year medical students ... British Medical Association (BMA) in survey of medical student's well-being in UK [11] Few studies have looked at stress related to medical education Studies conducted in medical schools in the US and ... the idea and also took part in collection and analysis of data and wrote the initial draft of the article SA took part in data analysis and manuscript writing ES: did literature search and reviewed...
... 2008 to August 1, 2008 to 562 psychiatric nurses working at eight psychiatricmedical institutions (two general and six psychiatric hospitals) located in City A and its environs in the northern ... to develop a better understanding of suicide and suicide prevention, and how much training there is Page of on suicide-related issues, such as psychiatric disorders and stress In addition, nurses ... profession and nurses’ perception of their own social role Expressing bitter feelings is often considered by nurses and other medical professionals to be giving in to one’s weaknesses and exposing...
... Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2008, 2:13 Co-morbidity of psychiatric disorders in children with nail biting andpsychiatric characteristic of their parents in a ... another psychiatric disorder such as ADHD and its consequences Affected patients are aware of their habit and admit their continual nail biting, but they seem unable to control it It is not possible ... banging, skin biting, and hair pulling behaviors The diagnoses were made by the child and adolescent psychiatrist http://www.capmh.com/content/2/1/13 The children and adolescents andtheir parents were...
... 3D volumetric model Parfitt and colleagues [23] have proposed a standard system of nomenclature andtheir abbreviations to quantify bone histomorphology and this standard is used by various bone ... from the SHAM group and three each from the OVX, PTH and IBAN groups were euthanized at week and 12 The experiment ended at the 12th week when the animals were sacrificed andtheir right tibias ... were investigated for PTH alone, ibandronate alone and a combination of PTH and ibandronate Chapter Methods 2.1 Overview Until recently, histological staining and microscope measurement methods...
... disinformation and propaganda – Deny service to legitimate computer users – Commit unauthorized intrusions into systems and networks that result in critical infrastructure outages and corruption ... malicious intent • Use their skills to expose security flaws Crackers • Person who violates system security with malicious intent • Have advanced knowledge of computers and networks and the skills to ... employees, and cyberterrorists • Password guessing is a basic attack that attempts to learn a user’s password by a variety of means • Cryptography uses an algorithm and keys to encrypt and decrypt...
... evaluate the predictors of clinical and pathological characteristics in these patients with steatosis andtheir diagnostic values in hepatic fibrosis Patients and methods Patients A total of 204 ... steatosis (83 men and 23 women, mean age: 41.08±10.23 years) and the remaining 98 patients were excluded from hepatic steatosis (79 men and 19 women, mean age 39.4±9.81 years) Their diagnoses were ... activity), and G3 (severe activity) All the sections were blindly and independently assessed by pathologists and the results were processed by the Kappa concordance test The inter- and intra-observer...
... Growth Performance and Sperm Quality of Stress Negative Piétrain Boars andTheir Hybrids with Duroc Kawecka et al (2008), Wysokinska et al (2009), Pokrywka and Tereszkiewicz (2011) and Luc et al (2011; ... Carcass composition and meat quality of crossbreds between F1(LandracexYorkshire) sows mated with LandracexDuroc (omega) and PietrainxDuroc (Pidu) Crossbred Boars Journal of Science and Developement ... 219 Growth Performance and Sperm Quality of Stress Negative Piétrain Boars andTheir Hybrids with Duroc Table Production performance, Least square means (LSMSE) of PiDu and Piétrain boars Variable...
... Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 6, No.1, 2008 absorbing and reflecting sunlight, which in turn interferes with photosynthesis and aquatic ecosystem and, (2) a wide range ... inhibitors, vancomycin, and 2-bromoethane sulfonic acid, supplemented with glucose and acetate as electron donors MATERIALS AND METHODS Chemicals Methyl Orange (MO, CI 13025) and Reactive Blue (RB4, ... 61205) represented azo and anthraquinone dye classes, respectively, and used in this study (Figure 1) Vancomycin and 2bromoethane sulfonic acid (BES) were used as acidogens and methanogens inhibitor,...
... River andtheir runoff characteristics (Ebise et al (2001, 2003, 2004 and 2006)) Here, pollutants contain organic matter, nutrients, SS and other measured substances Fig - Map of the Yodo River and ... every nine days, semimonthly or monthly We decided to take their observation times larger as possible in all data sets, and so treated their first observation time as the first observation data ... loads, Proc of Environmental and Sanitary Research, (JSCE), 20, 27-38 Ebise, S., Inoue, T and Numabe, A (1993) Runoff characteristics and observation methods of pesticides and nutrients in rural rivers,...
... seaweed and aquaculture Midori Press, Tokyo, pp 133 - 144 Turner, M G., Gardner, R H and ÓNeill R V (2004) Landscape ecology in theory and practice: Pattern and process, Nakagoshi, N and Hara, ... from the bottom and thus, allowing the recovery of U pinnatifida and other non-encrusting macroalgae Both buoyed reefs were made of wood andtheir length was 1.0 m with 1.0 m width and 16 cm height ... macrophyte flora and infauna in the outer and inner areas of the bay A total of 16 macrophyte species in 2003 and 15 species in 2004 were observed in Line (Table 1) U pinnatifida and crustose coralline...
... (3) where NHi and NOi represent NH4-N and NO2+3-N in the ith layer [g-N/m2], respectively, and Nrice is the rice nitrogen [g-N/m2] The terms radv,NH,i and radv,NO,i are the NH4-N and NO2+3-N inflow ... production and water treatment and a detailed understanding of the nitrogen dynamics in VF constructed wetlands CONCLUSIONS In the experimental pots replicating VF constructed wetlands, a variety ... with growth Assuming Monod-type nitrogen uptake kinetics (Selim and Iskandar, 1981) and ignoring the temperature effects, the NH4-N and NO2+3-N uptake by rice is described as rup , NH ,i = k N ,up...
... and Environment Technology, Vol 9, No.2, 2011 In this study, runoff characteristics of materials such as organics, nutrients and inorganic matters from a citrus grove were investigated, andtheir ... in detail and material balances around reservoirs were considered RESEARCH PROCEDURE Location: Matsuyama region and periphery of the Seto Inland Sea The location of the research area and the distribution ... growth chamber under dark condition, and the temperature was maintained constant between 10°C and 30°C RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Materials runoff characteristics and variation in the reservoir Fig...