... up in a stanchion barn In the period from weaning to breeding, the re- placement heifers in 68% of the herds were housed in insulated buildings, in 13% in uninsulated buildings andin 19% in ... originated in 39% of the herds from milk of the first milking occasion after calving, in 54% of the herds from the first two milkings, while in 7% of the herds also milk from later milkings than the second ... milk from the first milking of the cow in 39% of the herds, while 54% of the herds used milk from the first and second milkings According to Liberg & Carlsson (1998), milk from the second milking...
... Horizontal dotted lines indicate bottom quartile, median and top quartile from normative data in the ProQOL manual [16] above mentioned studies since 80% report being assaulted andin total 95.7% met ... perhaps career planning over time should include reduced exposure to work with severely violent patients and perhaps offer other tasks duties instead, such as e.g training and mentoring younger colleagues ... instrument derivation and psychometric testing Scand J Caring Sci 2005, 19(3):296-300 Whittington R, Wykes T: Staff strain and social support in a psychiatric hospital following assault by a patient...
... regarding blind extrapolation of these results to humans, and rather, emphasize that these findings need to be confirmed in a clinical setting Chiu et al [12], in a similar study involving limb ... primarily determined by local transplantable factors that are expressed prior to transplantation by interactions between the inducing factors and inherited genomes We can explain the increase in length ... rats to adult rats, indicating that age related alterations in the hormonal milieu in the adult rats resulted in inferior bone qualityin the transplanted limbs To our knowledge, measuring bone quality...
... mechanisms on the quality of financial reporting and auditing: perceptions of auditors and directors in Singapore Journal of Accounting and Finance, 42(3), 195-224 Hughes, R (1999) The rise and rise of ... one of the main monitoring mechanisms to regulate conflicts of interest and cut agency costs Therefore, assuming a contracting equilibrium in the monitoring policy, a change in the intensity of ... study linked their finding to either institutional investor demand for the purchase of high quality audit services as safeguard against fraudulent financial reporting or firms’ endeavour to purchase...
... with controls 22 Table 2: Muscle Qualityand Muscle Fiber Size Baseline Final Baseline Final Baseline Final Baseline Final Baseline Final Baseline Final Baseline Final ST Group CON Group N=31 Change ... adaptations in both diabetic and non-diabetic individuals in response to weeks of one-legged low-intensity strength training and reported possible mechanisms leading to a training effect including increased ... parameters and insulin resistance and regulation by physical training J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2006;91:2310-6 23 Fatouros IG, Tournis S, Leontsini D, et al Leptin and adiponectin responses in overweight...
... school Inter-ethnic relations Thinking skills Self-esteem Enjoyment Cooperative Learning and Thinking and Creativity Cooperative learning is believed to promote thinking and creativity in many ... Rocklin, 1988; Qin, Johnson, & Johnson, 1995; Webb, 1989), including: Compared to a whole class format, in cooperative learning, students have more opportunities to talk andto share ideas This interaction ... clarify and rethink their ideas, potentially leading to cognitive restructuring By working in groups, students enjoy more opportunity to see how their peers think and create new ideas Witnessing...
... help you understand how to find out about air qualityin your area and protect your health Air Quality Index Why is air quality important? Local air quality affects how you live and breathe Like ... day to day or even hour to hour The U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and your local air quality agency have been working to make information about outdoor air quality as easy to find and ... understand as weather Air quality directly affects our quality of life forecasts A key tool in this effort is the Air Quality Index, or AQI EPA and local officials use the AQI to provide simple information...
... previously helped to defray the costs of dewatering was a contributory factor in the decision to abandon the mine in March 1991 Since the abandoned workings of Wheal Jane flooded to river level ... historic mine tailings which line the channel (according to unpublished monitoring and modelling results of the Environment Agency) Given the infeasibility of removing these many millions of tonnes ... lot of effort was put into identifying what might be done in this regard at and around the Wheal Jane site, principally in relation to minimising water ingress to the old workings Most options considered...
... practice and capacity through learning, information exchange, support, training and monitoring; • To provide a forum and mechanisms for networking amongst NGOC members and other likeminded organisations ... out in the regional and international conventions, including optional protocols on the rights of children and when necessary to intervene in others to ensure member compliance; • To monitor the ... HIV/AIDS infection; offer a counselling and testing service to people infected with HIV and their families; andto address the emotional, physical and spiritual needs of HIV-infected persons and their...
... aliphatic side-chains of Leu125 and Val127 In L125F ⁄ V127F, the slight increase in KD and KM values suggests that replacing leucine and valine with phenylalanines cannot increase the binding affinity ... the invading water molecules to the b-sheet, ultimately leading to the acceleration of protein unfolding The hydrophobic interaction of the SEHC in KSI-PI seems to be partially maintained in the ... transcription factors together with their receptor proteins However, the mechanism that determines binding affinity or specificity is poorly understood in steroid-binding or steroid-converting proteins [18]...
... and complete information on relevant indicators to local and state programs, providers, andto consumers, including parents • Provide training and consultation to local provider groups in using ... Assist localities in designing surveys, compiling and analyzing data, and disseminating findings Allocate and advocate for funding for local and state efforts to collect information on community/constituents’perceptions ... role includes disseminating objective information to the public, assuring accountability and providing community-based preventive services such as health screening, home visiting, and tracking and...
... office capacity to expand into new areas, andto gain new skills in working with the UN OneHealth costing tool (12), abbreviated expenditure tracking methodologies, and monitoring and evaluation ... diversity, and a health landscape that is increasingly crowded in terms of actors and issues, have increased the challenge of maintaining the profile of SRH in sectoral and national planning processes, ... knowledge and interest These staff need to be able to strengthen links between development planning and health planning, healthfinancing systems, public finance management, and sex, and link these to...
... dumpling quality variability present in Chinese winter wheat germplasm andto understand the relationship between flour characteristicsand color, appearance, and eating quality of fresh dumpling ... Cultivar Line Line Line Line Line Line Line Line Line Line Line mixed and a 5-kg sample of each cultivar was cleaned, and tempered overnight Hard, medium, and soft wheats were tempered to around ... MATERIALS AND METHODS Wheat samples Thirty-nine winter wheat genotypes (Table 1) from Shandong Province, China, including leading cultivars from 1990 to the present and advanced lines, were used in...
... chromatographs, mass spectrometers, spectrophotometers, a soybean-mini refinery; and terminals in the stockroom and business office on line to an IBM 1800 (or upgrade) with conduits going to levels ... chemist, and for the chemist Secondly, we planned from the beginning to automate the whole laboratory as opposed to computerizing individual instruments The interesting epilogue to this story, however, ... in considering both IV and spectrophotometric data together and calculating oleic acid Thus, by the combined iodine value-alkali conjugation-spectrophotometric methods oleic, linoleic, and linolenic...
... dispensing practices Non-adherence to ART • Inadequate counseling • Inadequate monitoring and reporting • Build skills on appropriate counseling techniques • Training on monitoring and reporting Inadequate ... • Training on selection • Training on quantification methods • Training on inventory management Inappropriate prescribing • Inadequate training • Insufficient number of prescribers • Training ... prescribing • Training more prescribers • Review prescribing laws and regulations to allow more health care cadres to prescribe Inappropriate dispensing • Inadequate training • Training healthcare...
... to respiratory medicine using density-equalizing mapping and one-year steps The film sequence visualizes the total increase in respiratory medicine publications The color coding encodes the total ... Giacomini M, Lehoux P, Gauvin FP: Bringing 'the public' into health technology assessment and coverage policy decisions: from principles to practice Health Policy 2007, 82:37-50 Anderson A: Funding ... field respiratory medicine using video density-equalizing mapping in one-year steps (see additional file 1) and drafted and prepared the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript...
... one month Chemotherapeutic agents used included bleomycin, vinblastine, vincristine, etoposide, cyclophosamide, adriamyacin and prednisone There were no standard chemotherapeutic regimens; some ... determined using the AIDS Clinical Trials Group staging system that classifies tumour (T), immune (I) and systemic illness (S) status into good and poor risk [14] KS immune reconstitution inflammatory ... limited, KS mortality remains high [12] In this study, we describe disease characteristicsand risk factors for mortality in patients with AIDS-KS in a routine HIV programme in South Africa Study...
... potently and efficaciously inhibits ERK and mTOR signaling in sensory neurons in vitro The mTOR [39-42] and ERK pathways [43] have been linked to pathology in multiple preclinical pain models and ... indicative of inhibition of capdependent translation because 4EBP represses eIF4A and G binding to eIF4E [35] Resveratrol treatment for h led to a profound increase in 4EBP binding to eIF4E and ... been elucidated Interleukin (IL-6), a pro-inflammatory cytokine, is a significant mediator of nociceptive plasticity in pre-clinical pain models and is implicated in several human pain conditions...
... whose job is to plug each TV set into the mains and check that it works before packing it into its carton: a quality control (QC) inspector Very soon the complaints stop and customer satisfaction ... Human resources: Identifying and addressing needs, attracting and keeping the right people (including career development issues), creating and maintaining good working relationships as well as ... dependability with a quality suited to the market But in medicine we must expand our horizons and go beyond just applying concepts that relate to manufacturing industries In medicine, quality can also...