... in district laboratories that process more than 30 smears per day2 or in regional laboratories where more than 100 smears are examined per day.42 Other difficulties are the need for a reliable electricity ... Banda HT, Boeree MJ, et al Management of pulmonary tuberculosis suspects with negative sputum smears and normal or minimally abnormal chest radiographs in resource-poor settings Int J Tuberc ... 2007 2043 Public Health sputum collection, storage, and staining, reading errors, or poor laboratory services In children, the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis is especially difficult because...
Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 12:20
... operational dynamic al- Qaeda s finances al- Qaeda s planning cycle al- Qaeda s relationship with groups within its ideological orbit, and the threat posed by these latter entities Violence is al- Qaeda s ... International Policy Institute for Counter -Terrorism (ICT), Herzeliya, Israel; the staff of the International Center for Political Violence and Terrorism xxxv xxxvi Beyond al- Qaeda: The Global Jihadist ... of the Terrorist Universe)2 deals with terrorist phenomena outside the al- Qaeda ideological orbit: Islamic and non-Islamic terrorist and insurgent groups with local agendas and the more diffuse...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20
Tài liệu Beyond al-Qaeda -Part 2 docx
... terrorist attacks and the U.S response—the global war on terrorism have changed the world, and the terrorist enterprise that we know as al- Qaeda has changed with it The current status of al- Qaeda s ... on terrorism Similarly, according to a well-informed Sri Lankan source, the global xxvi Beyond al- Qaeda: The Outer Rings of the Terrorist Universe war on terrorism has reduced international tolerance ... al- Qaeda Al- Qaeda s effort to hide assets and capitalize on trade in West African conflict diamonds appears to date from September 1998, following international efforts to freeze al- Qaeda and Taliban...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 01:20
Vision Rehabilitation for Elderly Individuals with Low Vision or Blindness pot
... subjects for visual impairment A thorough ophthalmic examination of all individuals who were found to have a visual impairment was performed, and those individuals with impairments that could be corrected ... educational program.(103) Social Workers Social workers evaluate the patient’s overall living situation, identify vocational and educational barriers, provide family and social support, and, ... providing help with financial arrangements, etc Most social workers have a Master of Social Work degree; after one or two years of supervised practice, social workers are eligible for licensure...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20
Countering Al Qaeda pdf
... the war against al Qaeda Dealing with terrorist events below the threshold of catastrophe falls within the realm of combating terrorism; events above that threshold provoke war For the foreseeable ... between war on terrorism and combating terrorism may also be useful in dealing with allies who attempt to enlist the United States in their wars As counterterrorism becomes a new basis for American ... operatives forced deeper underground and its financial supporters forced to be more circumspect, al Qaeda s balance sheet does not look so favorable However, we have not seen the last of al Qaeda Al Qaeda...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20
Countering al Qaeda pdf
... the war against al Qaeda Dealing with terrorist events below the threshold of catastrophe falls within the realm of combating terrorism; events above that threshold provoke war For the foreseeable ... between war on terrorism and combating terrorism may also be useful in dealing with allies who attempt to enlist the United States in their wars As counterterrorism becomes a new basis for American ... operatives forced deeper underground and its financial supporters forced to be more circumspect, al Qaeda s balance sheet does not look so favorable However, we have not seen the last of al Qaeda Al Qaeda...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20
university of california press the history of terrorism from antiquity to al qaeda aug 2007
... therefore, unequivocally immoral Walzer’s analysis leaves several principal problems with no satisfactory answer The most important one has to with the essence of moral judgment The fundamental ... its purely physical results.” Today’s terrorism is what specialists call group or bottom-up terrorism, but top-down (state) terrorism has been far more prevalent throughout history It enjoyed its ... Y / roristic behavior This essay treats terrorism as a mode of struggle rather than a social or political aberration, approaching the phenomenon technically rather than moralistically A WORKING...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 13:55
Báo cáo hóa học: " Comparison of three rapamycin dosing schedules in A/J Tsc2+/- mice and improved survival with angiogenesis inhibitor or asparaginase treatment in mice with subcutaneous tuberous sclerosis related tumors" docx
... evaluate optimal strategies for future clinical trials for TSC related tumors, we have reviewed all TSC tumor preclinical studies focusing on Woodrum et al Journal of Translational Medicine 2010, ... rational approach to improving medical therapy for TSC related tumors and other manifestations of TSC Additional file 1: Tumor Scoring Scale Table showing tumor scoring scale Click here for file ... of rapamycin Statistical analyses GraphPad Prism software (version 4.01) was used for all data analysis, with a p-value ≤ 0.05 indicating statistical significance All calculations were completed...
Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Health-related quality of life in parents of school-age children with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism" doc
... difficulties Seltzer et al [14], and Magana et al [15] also found more physical symptoms or increased rates of physical health problems among mothers of adult children with severe mental disorders Notably, ... children with AS/HFA report impaired physical well-being resembles previous findings on caregivers of children with intellectual disability [13] cerebral palsy [40] and mental disorders [14,15] For ... higher rates of physical health problems in mothers caring for their adult children with mental illness Notably, neither Seltzer et al nor Magana et al stated that individuals with PDDs were included...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
báo cáo hóa học:" Physician-estimated disease severity in patients with chronic heart or lung disease: a cross-sectional analysis" ppt
... support scale [23], transformed such that zero reflects the least support and 100 reflects the greatest support Stress was measured with the National Health Survey 2-item personal stress scale (alpha ... domains: physical functioning, mental health, social functioning, bodily pain, vitality, general health perceptions, and physical role and emotional role functioning [27] On each SF36 scale, zero ... group For continuous variables, such as age in years or scale scores, the odds ratio for a particular category, as well as for between-category changes, appear small in magnitude because the OR is...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
Báo cáo toán học: "On graphs with cyclic defect or excess" docx
... −1 if d > d−2 2k + if d = (2) Non-trivial Moore graphs (graphs whose order equals the Moore bound, with k and d 3) exist only for D = (or equivalently, for g = 5), in which case d = 2, 3, and ... matrix B is called the defect or excess matrix accordingly For Moore graphs, the matrix B is the null matrix and (x − d)Gd,D (x) is their minimal polynomial For graphs with defect or excess 1, ... is either 0, or φ(ℓ)/2 or φ(ℓ) Hence, corresponding to the factor fℓ (x) of the minimal polynomial of B, the polynomial Fℓ,d,D (x) has either factors of degree φ(ℓ)/2 or one factor of degree...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 12:22
Báo cáo y học: "Brain choline concentrations may not be altered in euthymic bipolar disorder patients chronically treated with either lithium or sodium valproate" pps
... patients chronically treated with valproate (Study #2) Choline (Cho) Frontal Temporal Healthy Controls 10 11 Mean Creatine (Cre) Frontal Temporal Cho/Cre Frontal Temporal Age Sex 50 45 43 39 37 ... psychiatric interview, with additional information being available in almost all cases from long-term psychiatric clinic records They also had to be taking a dose of either lithium or valproate which ... if there was any personal history, or immediate family history, of psychiatric disorder For patients, diagnoses were made using DSM-IV criteria for Bipolar Disorder Type I or Type II following...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23
Báo cáo khoa học: "Greenhouse production of nectarines for early harvest in France: a cultivation system with shallow rest or no rest" pps
... (Fig 1) For all considered treatments, the registered MTB values never reached the ’peak’ values generally recorded for peach 00! trees under normal cultivation conditions (>700 h) With the treatment, ... individual burst time lapse under normal conditions, using a sample of about 100 buds on 20 shoots, for each sampling date From 15 shoots about 100 flower buds were sampled, from which floral primordia ... (1982) with Redhaven peach trees, during the post-dormancy period Nevertheless, for many treatments, the a values corresponding to the early part of the growth curves were rather low, especially with...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:21
Báo cáo y học: "Osteogenic protein 1 in synovial fluid from patients with rheumatoid arthritis or osteoarthritis: relationship with disease and levels of hyaluronan and antigenic keratan sulfate" ppt
... 53 Male African-American 84 Male 85 Male 81 Male 81 Male 82 Male 84 Male 53 Female 58 Male 60 Female 10 54 Female 11 60 Female 12 75 Female 13 81 Female 14 41 Male 15 75 Female 16 67 Female 17 ... Female 10 66 Female 11 26 Female 12 26 Female 13 73 Female 14 42 Female 15 34 Female 16 49 Female 17 70 Male 18 53 Male 19 52 Male 20 40 Female 21 68 Female 22 49 Male 23 76 Male 24 22 Female ... Demographical representation of human subjects enrolled in the study 25 Female 51 Male 27 81 Male 28 83 Female 29 40 Female 47 Female 42 Female 73 Female 56 Female 26 Female 41 Male 62 Male 53 Female...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22
Báo cáo khoa học: "The effect of external beam radiotherapy volume on locoregional control in patients with locoregionally advanced or recurrent nonanaplastic thyroid cancer" ppsx
... pathologically by surgical resection, biopsy, or cytology, and /or radiological findings, which increased in size over time; locoregional recurrence was defined as tumor recurrence within a tumor bed or ... spinal cord For example, Chow et al reported that locoregional disease was the major contributing cause of death in patients with locally advanced nonanaplastic thyroid cancer[8] Therefore, locoregional ... Local control, disease-free survival, and overall survival probability were calculated using the Kaplan-Meier method The analysis for effect of EBRT volume on locoregional control was performed...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20
Báo cáo khoa học: " Accelerated high-dose radiotherapy alone or combined with either concomitant or sequential chemotherapy; treatments of choice in patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer" pps
... radiotherapy with or without chemotherActuarial overall survival of 131 patients treated with high Actuarial overall survival of 131 patients treated with high dose accelerated radiotherapy with or without ... http://www.ro-journal.com/content/2/1/27 Figure therapy accelerated high-dose interval for 131 patients treated with Local-recurrence free radiotherapy with or without chemoLocal-recurrence free interval for ... interval for 131 patients treated with Distant-metastasis free interval for 131 patients treated with accelerated high-dose radiotherapy with or without chemotherapy Figure with sequential chemotherapy...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21
Báo cáo y học: "Effect of methotrexate and anti-TNF on Epstein-Barr virus T-cell response and viral load in patients with rheumatoid arthritis or spondylarthropathies" ppt
... cross-sectional and longitudinal study showed no abnormality in EBV viral load or EBV-specific T-cell response in patients with RA or SpA at baseline or after treatment with MTX or anti-TNF drugs ... summed and analyzed as a whole, and were also analyzed separately tions The normalized value of the cell-associated EBV DNA load corresponding to the ratio EBV average copy number/ albumin average ... been described [3,4] Case reports of lymphoma associated or not with EBV, treated with anti-TNF drugs and regressing after withdrawal of therapy have also been reported [10,11] These cases may...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:21
báo cáo khoa học: "Geometric conservation laws for cells or vesicles with membrane nanotubes or singular points" pdf
... integral theorems lay A A the foundation for the conservation law for cells or vesicles with membrane nanotubes or singular points Figure A cell or vesicle with one membrane nanotube A cell or vesicle ... laws for a cell or vesicle with singular points Eq.(9) means that the integral of the mean curvature on the closed surface in Fig is always the vector zero Eq.(10) implies that the integral of ... explored in succeeding papers Conclusion In biology, many biostructures are constructed according to very simple geometrical regulations This seems to be also true for cells or vesicles with...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22
Báo cáo y học: "RANKL inhibition by osteoprotegerin prevents bone loss without affecting local or systemic inflammation parameters in two rat arthritis models: comparison with anti-TNFα or anti-IL-1 therapies" potx
... immersion in zinc formalin, decalcified in eight serial changes of a 1:4 mixture of N formic acid and N sodium formate for approximately week, trimmed along the longitudinal axis, and processed ... maturation factor for osteoclast precursors - is also chemotactic for the recruitment of circulating monocytes at bone remodeling sites [65] Prior work has also shown that RANKL is chemotactic for human ... in perisynovial and synovial tissues, and /or in bone marrow immediately beneath joints; occasional small clusters of inflammatory cells); = moderate (inflammatory cell infiltrate more intense...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:22
Báo cáo y học: "Effectiveness and safety of adalimumab in patients with ankylosing spondylitis or psoriatic arthritis and history of anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy" pdf
... used for all analyses of effectiveness Patients in both studies were stratified into two major subgroups: no prior TNF antagonist and one or more prior TNF antagonists (prior IFX or ETN or both) ... 50 responses were greatest for the 162 patients with AS with only prior IFX therapy compared with patients with only prior ETN therapy and those with prior treatment with both IFX and ETN In the ... ASAS40 responses after 12 weeks was smaller for patients with than for those without a history of anti-TNF therapy For patients with PsA, prior anti-TNF therapy also resulted in a lesser likelihood...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:22