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... by the “Act for Maintenance of Sanitation in Buildings”; however, small buildings and individual residences are not included, andthe substances in indoor air and their concentrations fromthe ... issue fromthe 1960s to early 1970s in Japan On this basis, the committee on sick house syndrome (SHS) by the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of Japan announced the guideline value of formaldehyde ... habitation The cause ofthe disease onset relates to a house, symptoms occur within the house, symptoms are less serious or disappear when the patient is away fromthe house, and when the patient...
... have therefore measured the thermodynamic parameters of RNase-A in the presence of these amino acids and amino acid derivatives, and values of DGD°, measured in triplicate, are given in Table The ... reaction ofthe free enzyme and free substrate [29] We have therefore estimated kcat ⁄ Km values of all the reactions in the presence and absence of all classes of osmolytes It can be Fig Effect of ... little or no effect on the solvation properties ofthe substrate andthe enzyme active sites or on their thermodynamic activities Another explanation for these observations comes from our DGD° measurements...
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... on the basis ofthe work of a few outstanding directors but on the basis ofthe films of dozens of others, many of whom were talented and able people, but less ambitious and innovative that the ... Chapaev, We are from Kronstudt, The Baltic Deputy, andthe Maxim Trilogy: The Youth of Maxim, The Return of Maxim andThe Vyborg Side Most of these films simply used the background ofthe Civil War ... escape The cinemas showed what the regime wanted them to show Secondly, the leaders ofthe regime even at the time ofthe Revolution saw clearly the propaganda potential ofthe cinema and were...
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... (additional file 1) Therelationship between wheeze and breathlessness andthe HRQoL scores was similar, whether the subjects had asthma and/ or COPD or not, with the exception of breathlessness ... varying degrees of overlap between the three phenotypes The hallmark symptoms ofthe chronic bronchitis phenotype often are cough and phlegm The decreased PCS accompanying the cough and phlegm in ... with Kruskal Wallis and Wilcoxon rank-sum tests Nonparametric test were used due to skewed distributions ofthe SF-36 scores Therelationship between the SF-36 scores and each ofthe symptom variables...
... concentrations of Ca and Mg In the case of oak, a detailed comparison of concentration profiles is possible with the data from a podzolic soil in the Netherlands [11] andfromthe clayey soils ... Discs of about 10 cm in thickness were cut off fromthe top ofthe boles (i.e at a height of about 10–12 m) The samples were used for dendroecological and dendrochemical measurements The size ofthe ... content in the trunk [25] Helmisaari and Siltala [16] argue that increasing concentrations towards the pith are indicative of low mobility ofthe corresponding element In spite ofthe lack of a clearly...
... multiprofessional communities within the CLAHRCs The paper will start with a brief discussion ofthe structure and purposes ofthe CLAHRCs andthe main premises ofthe CoP approach It will then ... within the CLAHRCs using the CoP theory, identify potential problems that may arise in the process of healthcare collaboration, and reflect on the possibility ofthe development of new multiprofessional ... insightful and useful comments on the earlier version ofthe manuscript Authors’ contributions All authors contributed to the conception and design ofthe paper RK reviewed the literature and drafted the...
... Rotterdam, the Netherlands 8Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, LUMC, Leiden, the Netherlands Authors’ contributions OP, GH and HR were substantially involved in the conception ofthe study ... strongly disordered than at the other sites Detaining youth is much more common in the Netherlands (and Switzerland) than in the other INCANT countries [18] The dominant presence of justice-related authorities ... referred’ and ‘other treatment and care agency referred’ adolescent, we asked the local researcher who had done the baseline assessment andthe therapist who had given the treatment, to classify the...
... reviewing and contributed to the writing ofthe report HJM contributed to appraising the content andthe writing ofthe report CDS contributed to the supervision and conceptualisation ofthe project and ... the use of multilevel modelling appropriately adjusted the standard errors ofthe estimates for the non-independence of observations from children nested within households However, although there ... Nevertheless, given the clearly hierarchical nature ofthe data andthe risk of dependency amongst residuals from observations within each cluster we felt the use of multilevel, rather than single...
... over the sample period from 1999 to 2003 The second and third columns ofthe table show the correlations between each of these variables with our absolute governance scorecard and change ofthe ... available, and zero otherwise RISK: the standard deviation of idiosyncratic stock price risk, calculated as the stand error ofthe residuals from a CAPM model estimated using daily data for the period ... divide by the number of elements, and multiply this ratio by 20 Thus, each subindex has a value between and 20 We define the overall standardized score as the sum of all the five subindices As the...
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... Engineer and a member ofthe IBM Academy of Technology He assists clients in the design and implementation of IT management systems to maximize the value of their IT investment and improve the efficiency ... part ofthe ongoing research IBM conducts in the area of IT risk, andthe first in a series of research surveys that examine this subject The survey, which was conducted in May and June of 2010 ... revenue and profit What’s the risk if the service fails balanced against the benefit of getting the service up and running?” Mark Ernest, IBM Distinguished Engineer When asked to describe their...
... mentoring and usually exist in a healthy mentor-student relationship for all doctoral students: the quality ofthe relationship, the accessibility ofthe mentor, andthe mentor’s demeanor Because ofthe ... Appendix A of policies and practices andthe percent change in the number of Ph.Ds awarded to Hispanics from 2002-2008? Definition of Key Terms For the sake of clarity and conciseness of communication, ... expressed the importance ofthe social circle and its relationship to the larger social circle McPherson et al found in their 19 review ofthe literature on race and ethnicity that race and ethnicity...
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