... stakeholders andthe general public about the significance of cancer in the AYA population andthe unique needs and issues of AYA patients related to their age and stage of life Until now, the AYA ... acknowledge and extend special thanks to the following groups and individuals: • The many scientists, clinicians, advocates, and other professionals who generously gave of their time and knowledge ... from diverse disciplines across the research enterprise, the cancer control continuum, andthe advocacy and survivor communities Further, the PRG leadership sought the input of individuals whose...
... has termed the Matthew effect, with the better readers reading more and therefore increasing their exposure to print, and consequently their word recognition skills and their fluency and speed ... whom had received their research funding from the ARC, to discuss and review their work in the reading area As noted by Pratt and Coltheart7, the issues covered andthe emphases of the different ... administrators andthe public These concerns include the social factors related to the development of literacy, including the early development of literacy in the home and preschool environment, and the...
... as national standards for quality assurance The representative of ISO for the USA is the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) andthe ISO 9000 series is administered by the American Society ... model is the best choice of the strategy planning since the priority (0.4885) is the highest The second best model is a normal model (0.2621); the third choice (0.1477) is a slow model andthe last ... 197-208 Fig The logical modeling of Web-based DSS application 4.2 System architecture The recent development of the web generates further momentum to the design and implementation of a support system...
... here, the first term is the sum of the first terms in (A.13) and (A.14), the second and third incorporate the second and third terms in (A.13) andthe < m < p, resp the p < m < p + n portions of the ... E∞ THE STRONG MACDONALD CONJECTURE 185 The Laplacian on the Koszul complex In preparation for the proof of Theorem B, we now study the Koszul complex for the pair (g[z, s], g) and establish the ... To keep the statements straightforward, G will be simple and simply connected Dolbeault cohomology of theloop Grassmannian (5.1) Theloop Grassmannian By theloop group LG of G we mean the group...
... similar to thesupport afforded to AIDS, Malaria and TB And second, the realistic prong which recognizes the limitations on the ground and works despite them, through them and around them to reach ... sweet and loving to us and to all to those who knew her Together with my father and brother we lovingly cared for her day and night in the last few months After a long and painful struggle, my mother ... and that there was nothing they could to save my leg They had to amputate it When I heard what they said, I felt lost and confused I didn’t know what to say to them I screamed and yelled at them,...
... on average over the 1990s (this is not the case in Ireland andthe Netherlands for the former, and Finland for the latter) The picture is less clear in the case of mortgages and long-term loans ... Germany andthe Netherlands For the latter, it goes up in Spain, Ireland, Italy, down in Belgium and Germany However, it could be the case that the term CC captures a trend in the level of the bank ... bank prices and market interest rates, on the adjustment dynamics of the former, and finally has a say over their stochastic properties andthe equilibrium conditions between them The advantage...
... blue) The most notable reduction in egg production was in the Netherlands and Hungary in 2003 There was a further minor decline in Hungary between 2004 and 2005, but production in the Netherlands ... outbreak of the disease outside the EU (section 2.1) andthe outbreak within the EU (section 2.2) It then charts the process of the loss of consumer confidence (section 2.3) andthe subsequent ... late-2005 and early-2006 was exacerbated by the previous peak andthe presence of seasonality Egg production, on the other hand, declined by 1.8% between 2004 and 2005, but then declined by a further...
... patients and their advocates, and health service researchers The planning committee invited research and policy leaders to present plenary and track-specific state-of -the- science summary speakers, and ... from the plenary and state-of -the- science presentations followed by the track-specific research recommendations Measurementand methodology Patient assessment data are collected in of the PAC settings ... patients, taxpayers, and Medicare and other insurers The content developed for and derived from the symposium can be found in the November 2007 issue of Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation...
... artists are there in the room?” they all eagerly raise their hands If you ask a roomful of third graders, only a third of the class raises their hands MacKenzie laments, The higher the grade, the fewer ... words team up and hit the town together, fist pumping and drinking the night away, they become something entirely different They are not peanut butter and chocolate, together at last They are orange ... 11 months and 29 days without getting the mail, but then on Swimsuit Issue day, he flashed on the scene like a phantom, grabbed the thing, and threw it in the trash before my brothers and I knew...
... ring, one on the reaction wood side andthe other on the opposite side We collected four samples from the 19-year-old ring of the spruce tree, two from the reaction wood side and two from the opposite ... water with the immersion objective, andthe “deformed” image being that of the test pattern taken using the standard objective The “deformation” measured under these conditions on the pairs of ... values in directions x and y, respectively, and thus in directions R and T or T and R, depending on the orientation of the sub-unit The second method is based on Stokes’ theorem: A· dr = (∇ ×...
... respondents about their main professional roles, their roles in CE and QI, and their experience in QI research We then asked them to estimate the time spent browsing NorthStar and which sections they reviewed ... and how to select determinants of practice, and use them to tailor the intervention (Designing the Intervention) NorthStar assists the user in the choice of appropriate study design to test the ... are being translated into French and Italian Libraries: These can be accessed from the 'Libraries' menu at the top of the screen or from the bottom of the contents and include: checklists, an annotated...
... in Ireland These findings were then drawn on to produce a comparative synthesis across the seven countries also utilising a thematic analysis approach [45] The synthesis, which was led by the London ... internal validity of the synthesis The synthesis involved: Initial reading of all study reports and summaries of findings by the first analyst from the London team; The London and Dublin teams met ... structures identified in the literature in the seven country settings; additionally we identified and explored themes emerging from the country data The literature to date defines the effective functioning...
... The corresponding permissive hypercapnia can have hemodynamic effects [21,22] and can interfere with the results of both the thermodilution andthe metabolic methods A second reason is that the ... required before the measurements were taken The patients were recruited on a consecutive basis The study was a byproduct of another study, relying on the same methods, and that fulfilled the French ... (range –0.8 to –0.3 l/min), and QTTHERM never underestimated QTFICK In the study by Dhingra et al [31], looking at the data suggests that the thermodilution method andthe metabolic method were...
... values, and accuracy (defined as the sum of concordant cells divided by the sum of all cells in a × table) and their 95% CIs were calculated Comparisons of these diagnostic variables between PCT and ... performed using the CI method We assessed the associations between various variables, including the diagnosis suspected by the emergency physician, elevated PCT, andthe final diagnosis of the experts ... that minimized the distance to the ideal point (sensitivity = specificity = 1) on the ROC curve The discrimination ability of the final model was quantified by using the area under the ROC curve...
... Structural view and Western blot analysis of capsid mutants A close view of the structure of the cyclophilin A binding loop in the N-terminal (A) andthe position of E187 in the C-terminal (B) ... 4:19 We then examined the morphological structures of these virions and correlated the results to their relative infectivity (Fig 4) EM images of the three types of particles (NL43, E98A, and E187G) ... in both E98A and E187G mutants, as judged by the presence of the intermediate and fully processed Gag proteins [1,2] However, in contrast to the E187G and wild-type, we found that the E98A virions...
... to the parents and this strongly illustrated the impact of parental anxiety and perception of functional disability andthe subsequent rehabilitation of their child Thus, the more disabled they ... their child Thus, the more disabled they saw their child andthe greater their anxiety then the slower the rehabilitation of the young person Goubert and colleagues developed a Pain Catastrophising ... dealing with their child's pain so stressful is the obligation they feel to alleviate the suffering; therefore, it is their insecurity in dealing with the child's pain, rather than the pain itself...
... shows the results for the association between social supportand time spent on LTPA For the engagement group, the highest level of the material dimension andthe intermediate level of the emotional/information ... specify the source of support (e.g., whether from family, friends, community or others), and they measure perceived availability of functional support Originally designed in English, the MOS-SSS ... emotional and information support were grouped in the same dimension Accordingly, the present study used four dimensions: material support, affective support, emotional/information supportand positive...
... conceived of the study MLS, JSE, and CRR participated in the study design and coordination, performed the statistical analysis, and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final ... is most engaging and persuasive to the end user While other research has called for shifting the focus and promotion of exercise from body weight to health [65], these and other data suggest ... cholesterol” and “healthy lifestyle.” The difference between the Current Health category andthe Healthy Aging category is that the emphasis in Healthy Aging was on health and functioning in the future...
... conceived of the study MLS, JSE, and CRR participated in the study design and coordination, performed the statistical analysis, and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final ... is most engaging and persuasive to the end user While other research has called for shifting the focus and promotion of exercise from body weight to health [65], these and other data suggest ... cholesterol” and “healthy lifestyle.” The difference between the Current Health category andthe Healthy Aging category is that the emphasis in Healthy Aging was on health and functioning in the future...