special concerns on the frail elderly

... contributing components Non-vertical integration (D-Type) has only one primary component and only one or two contributing components 10 Africa/Indonesia Team Working Paper Table summarizes the different ... using other transport company) branches All other consist of one branch Throughput (birds per year) 1.85 millionston/year 1.2 million ton/year 1.6 million ton/year NA NA 120 ton/years 120 tons/years ... the NAQS contribution to the HPAI campaign should be conducted as soon as possible to ensure that this contribution is optimised o Vaccination of kampong chickens, magnitude and duration of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20

... Council by the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 7/36 In particular, the resolution requests ... responsible for the production and dissemination of child pornography, rather than on blocking measures alone Criminalization of legitimate expression 72 The Special Rapporteur remains concerned ... information technologies have had such a revolutionary effect as the creation of the Internet Unlike any other medium of communication, such as radio, television and printed publications based on one-way...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... summary of the 1992 Policy Synthesis literature review, including the origin of the literature review and a discussion of the policy concerns that make assisted living for the frail elderly an ... We discuss the conventional definition(s) of the term “assisted living” prior to the 1992 Policy Synthesis and the evolution of the term since that time This chapter also addresses the fundamental ... found that there was little agreement in the literature on eligibility conventions for assisted living residents or on the person or persons who should make those kinds of determinations The literature...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 17:20

... fundamental bounds on the potential gains due to coding for the PAPR problem The analysis of an alternative metric instead of PAPR is the topic of the paper On the EVM Computation of Arbitrary ... and Simon Litsyn The authors provide exact analytical results for computing the EVM metric circumventing the common Gaussian approximation The approach uses a novel Fourier representation and ... method to calculate the average distortion energy and it is general enough to capture other HPA models than the standard soft clipping model The EVM metric is used for evaluation in the paper “Power...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... Health: Expert Scientific Group on phase one clinical trials: a consultation [http://www.dh.gov.uk/Consultations/LiveConsultations/LiveConsultationsArticle/fs/en?CONTEN T_ID=4137501&chk=x%2BoJ/%2B] ... to the patient’s response to a drug A number of studies have been conducted in rheumatoid arthritis patients with the aim of predicting response to therapy on the basis of genetic variations ... indication or promote the development of more specific compounds Another advantage of testing sorted cell populations is the ability to determine the contribution of a single cell type to the overall...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... medicine, the meridian channels support and regulate the functions of visceral and other organs There is accumulative evidence that most, if not all, of the earth positions (the deepest position of the ... fluid flows along the meridian channels as demonstrated by radioactive tracing studies [59-62] On the other hand, other radioactive studies on animal and humans demonstrated that the tracks of ... (loose) connective tissues at the visceral hili and tunicae Dang et al [4]'s work indicated that out of 11 of the acupoints of the lung meridian were on the periosteum, one on the perineurium of the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... structure with the positions of the zonal wind component u, the meridional wind component v, the vertical wind component w and the scalar variables Ψ Extensive details on the used and optional parametrization ... equations has two drawbacks: The first being that the conservation of total mass is not guaranteed but depends on the accuracy of the numerical algorithm The second being the appearance of the ... of the staggered Arakawa-C-grid used in the COSMO-model Left: The horizontal grid structure with the positions of the U-Wind component, the V-Wind component and the scalar variables Ψ Right: The...

Ngày tải lên: 26/11/2015, 10:11

... toxoplasmosis • Usefulness of vitrectomy in the treatment of ocular toxoplasmosis • Update on the treatment of ocular toxoplasmosis We hope that this special issue will be interesting to readers ... readers and provides researchers with timely update on various topics in this important field Conflict of Interest The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists http://www.medsci.org ... American Journal of Ophthalmology: Delair E, Monnet D, Grabar S, Dupouy-Camet J, Yera H, Brézin AP Respective roles of acquired and congenital infections in presumed ocular toxoplasmosis Am J Ophthalmol...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:11

... Consonant Blends BOOK The Nice Mice in the Rice A Long Vowel Sounds Book BOOK The Frail Snail on the Trail A Long Vowel Sounds Book with Consonant Blends BOOK The Thing on the Wing Can Sing A Short ... of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cleary, Brian P., 1959–  The frail snail on the trail : a long vowel sounds book with consonant blends / by Brian P Cleary ; illustrations by Jason ... with Consonant Digraphs BOOK Whose Shoes Would You Choose? A Long Vowel Sounds Book with Consonant Digraphs BOOK The Peaches on the Beaches A Book about Inflectional Endings BOOK The Clown in the...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2014, 04:43

... not in the dictionary also counted When the participant corrected their response, this was not considered an error The final score only included correct answers The following items were considered ... (mean±SD=8.29±5.40 years) The mean score on the FAS for the whole sample was 28.28±11.53 Table shows the scores of the subjects on the MMSE, according to age and education Table depicts the FAS scores (mean ... of the different demographic variables The goals of the present study are to provide normative data for the Brazilian population on the verbal fluency test – phonemic tasks – FAS – in healthy elderly, ...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... tissue maps The 120 GM images were then non-linearly spatially normalized to the GM MNI template (7   non-linear basis functions in the three orthogonal directions) The normalization parameters ... was then non-linearly spatially normalized to the EVA GM template using   nonlinear basis functions in the three orthogonal directions Corresponding normalization parameters (deformation fields) ... voxel to belong to the considered tissue The location of the five axial slices is shown on a three-dimensional rendering of the average T1 volume (z = 49, 31, 15, À1, and À17 mm from the biÀcommissural...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

... formed the California Homecare Council to provide a unified front The unionization of these homecare workers means that one can generalize about their working conditions and their relationships ... destinations Most of the research on these burdens has focused on childcare rather on disabled or senior care.1 Some work has been done on the so-called “sandwich generation,” those caring for both their ... demographic data for the respondents conform to the data for the overall Contra Costa IHSS populations, suggesting that the survey respondents represent the overall Contra Costa IHSS population well enough...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... dehytion of the serous-producing salivary cells occurs dration), medications (both prescription and nonvia a process termed “apoptosis.” Within one week prescription), head and neck irradiation ... receptors located on the taste buds and delivers tastants directly to the taste buds Patients with chronic xerostomia secondary to SS, head and neck radiotherapy and other conditions experience ... food and fluid selection that may compromise nutritional status They also can lead to an increased susceptibility to aspiration pneumonia, with consequent colonization of the lungs with gram-negative...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... treatment for the condition The relationship does not exist for any other conditions (Table 12) Indicator 5: Evictions Proceedings Eviction is a health concern because it threatens the immediate ... both the treatment and control groups are very high-needs populations Depression is the most common condition among all residents, where 47 and 55 percent of residents in the treatment and control ... reported having the condition Heart disease, hypertension, or stroke (40% and 35%) and trouble seeing (34% and 38%) are the second most reported conditions among the treatment and control groups...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 17:20

... difficulty with defecation.4 In the elderly, chronic constipation can lead to fecal impaction and fecal incontinence Fecal impaction is the accumulation of hardened feces in the colon or rectum.18 Liquid ... medication side effects (Table 1) In the elderly, living in hospice with advanced cancer and pain, opioid-induced constipation is common Table Common causes of constipation in the elderly Medications ... definition of p c ­ onstipation compared to their ­ hysicians.6 Because of these p variable definitions of ­ onstipation, an ­nternational panel c i of experts proposed the Rome criteria for constipation...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... because of the supportive and therapeutic aspects They requested that they have lunch together at the end of the sessions During the dance classes, they were very helpful to one another Although ... Open-Ended Responses The tango group stated on the exit questionnaire what they liked best and least about the program They greatly appreciated the camaraderie and socialization engendered by the program ... Functional Reach and One Leg Stance while their scores declined on both the Falls Efficacy Scale and Activities Balance Confidence Scale The control exercise group experienced gains only in the One...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... (proportional to the strength squared) exceeds the thermal pressure by a factor of at least 100 One of the main reasons astronomers are confident that magnetic fields energize the corona is the clear ... altimeter on board the Global Surveyor indicate that the vast northern plains of Mars are exceptionally flat The only correspondingly smooth surfaces on Earth lie on the seafloor, far from the midocean ... For comparison, the range of elevation on Earth is only 20 kilometers The large blue circle in the southern hemisphere represents the Hellas impact basin, one of the biggest craters in the solar...

Ngày tải lên: 12/05/2014, 16:27

... strategies, the MAC protocols, and the network topology are strongly interrelated The coexistence issue with other networks also seems to be crucial, especially in the hospital environment This special ... superframe The article “Impact of the Environment and the Topology on the Performance of Hierarchical Body Area Networks” by J.-M Dricot et al addresses the throughput and energy consumption of various ... on- body propagation channels with dynamic body scattering” by L Liu et al presents an analytical model of the on- body scattering and propagation on the trunk of a walking person The results act...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... overlapping with the skills and goals of the other fields of endeavor and of the consumer [2] Such interdisciplinary interactions are demonstrated in the work presented in most of the papers contained ... of the papers contained in this special issue of the Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation One glance at the academic affiliations of the authors of these papers will reveal how important ... Future directions Another paper has focused on further developing the technology to make it more versatile Oddsson, Karlsson, Konrad, Ince, Williams, and Zemkova present the design of a new portable...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... strategies, the MAC protocols, and the network topology are strongly interrelated The coexistence issue with other networks also seems to be crucial, especially in the hospital environment This special ... superframe The article “Impact of the Environment and the Topology on the Performance of Hierarchical Body Area Networks” by J.-M Dricot et al addresses the throughput and energy consumption of various ... on- body propagation channels with dynamic body scattering” by L Liu et al presents an analytical model of the on- body scattering and propagation on the trunk of a walking person The results act...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20