... database and list of KT terms were developed independently The database and list were used in this study to determine which KT-related terms authors used in the titles and abstracts of articles and ... epidemiologists, and researchers met under the auspices of the World Health Organization to standardize definitions of drowning which are now used internationally [26] Advocating a small set oftermsto be used ... multiple termsto refer to their work making information retrieval and sharing of ideas and content difficult Authors used only one-half of the terms identified in this study in their titles and abstracts...
... need to develop and validate a specific instrument to measure the attitudes of medical students towards patients with physical disability The instrument has to cover aspects relevant to today’s ... relating to attitude toward physically disabled individuals Additional file 2: Characteristics of validated survey instruments to measure attitudes of healthcare students and professionals towards ... attitudes of healthcare students and professionals towards patients with physical disability Additional file 3: Non-validated survey instruments to measure attitudes of healthcare students and professionals...
... of product Another source of waste material is urban and rural runoff Urban runoff may consist of storm water runoff from the streets and gutters which is routed to the nearest waterway by storm ... exchange of gaseous constituents, and chemical and biological reactions Modeling of the relation of water quality and estuarine biota is not well advanced Models of phytoplankton production, of nitrogen ... values of j and integer values of k, and the velocity component V (y directed) is computed at integer values of j and half-integer values of k The set of finite different equations usedto approximate...
... work of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which published its review of the rules and practices of 29 countries and territories and its identification of 15 non-cooperative countries and ... review of this subject d Stolen Assets: International money laundering has often been used by government officials to assist the clandestine diversion of public assets The vulnerability of government ... programs and the integrity of the IFIs themselves Thus, we urge the IMF and the World Bank to continue to conduct an authoritative review of their financial procedures and controls and those of recipients,...
... to lymph nodes of the submandibular region (Level I) andto the upper and middle jugular chain lymph nodes (Levels II and III) Because of accessibility and the risk of involvement of bony structures, ... advent of IMRT, it is also very important for the clinician to be acutely aware of radiologic anatomy (levels of nodal disease, pathways of loco-regional spread of tumor, and delineation of postoperative ... anterior aspect of the oral cavity is the contact point of the skin with the vermilion of the lips extending posteriorly to the junction of the hard and soft palates, and with the anterior tonsillar...
... some of the contents of his book Understanding Emotions, and for his friendship over the years My thanks to Professor Jennifer Jenkins of Toronto University for allowing me to paraphrase some of ... support and introductions to traders during the years of research and writing of this book My gratitude to Dr Richard McCall, who tutored me in the way of trading discipline and for allowing me to ... theories of Richard D Wyckoff, who wrote regarding the subject of volume reading in the early 1930s Tom Williams suggests a number of patterns that occur over and over and can be applied to stocks and...
... space they wish and opt to inhabit The phenomenon of globalisation is rather a phenomenon of erasure of old limits and creation of new ones, and hence a phenomenon of de-limitation of culture; 3) ... understanding of the cognitive and linguistic abilities of humans and animals, and the possibility of artificial forms of intelligence (chapters 10, 11, 17, 18); to analyse inferential and computational ... communication and interaction; cyberphilosophy and internet culture; and digital art); mind and intelligence (philosophy of AI and its critique; and computationalism, connectionism and the philosophy of...
... also various definitions of these two terms, “mystical” is often usedto refer to experiences of unity with or without a sense of multiplicity and “numinous” to experiences of a felt presence whether ... goal of comparison? To understand more about religious or mystical things To understand how and why people deem things religious and allow researchers to explore the making and unmaking of religion ... “magical,” and so forth in the context of larger processes of meaning making and valuation, and specifically in relation to the process of singularization (Kopytoff 1986), by means of which people...
... burden of illness might be measured in termsof shortages and unbalanced distributions of health workers Thus, the results of needs assessments can be usedto identify health worker coverage and ... (GIS; burden of illness) can be usedto monitor progress through maps of HCW distribution, maps of population/HCW ratios and so forth For example, Worldmapper is an online tool (burden of illness) ... applicable to both the individual andto populations The existing toolkit focused on averages, but this ignored distributional issues and equity gradients such as the impact of interventions and policies...
... methods of randomization, allocation concealment, blinding status of patients and assessors, use of placebo, informed consent, a priori sample size estimations, use of intention -to- treat, and sources ... informed of their serostatus; and ARV-based prevention of mother -to- child transmission Prevention of mother -to- child transmission is the most cost-effective antiretroviral method and one of the ... Details for each of the trials can be found in table (additional file 1) with regards to: the intervention; standards of care for all participants; the number of mothers randomized and the gestational...
... = 1, else = 0) Length of educational meeting (minutes) Proportion of doctors declining installation of software Doctors' attitude toward using software* Doctors' attitude toward printing out patient-information* ... patient-information* Doctors' attitude toward receiving the guidelines* Doctors' attitude toward recommendation of cardiovascular risk-assessment* Doctors' interest in topic* Doctors' attitude toward pharmacist* ... lack of change A combination of organizational problems and lack of time and engagement is the most viable explanation for the lack of effect." level of use of the decision-aid system Hetlevik and...
... was most prevalent in wild land races of subsp verticilliflorum and in breeding lines of subsp bicolor Flow cytometry of leaf tissue was usedto determine the ploidy of the 11 genotypes that exhibited ... clustered into the more and most AI and AES formation groups In contrast, only about 10% of accessions and F2 clustered into the more and most groups The high percentage of RIL in the high AES and AI ... consisting of 300 F2, and a mapping population consisting of 119 recombinant inbred lines (RIL [30]) Correlations between AES and AI and between AES and LSC were higher among genotypes of the accessions...
... switching on these habits On the other hand, the wide variety of low-risk products offer many options, and people often find it much easier to become usedto a new ritual or habit than they think ... supported by an unrestricted (completely hands-off) grant to the University of Alberta from U.S Smokeless Tobacco Company The grantor is unaware of this study, and thus had no scientific input or other ... Smokers' attitudes towards pharmaceutical nicotine products and ST are described in Table Only 10% of those surveyed had considered switching to ST, and 40% had ever considered switching to pharmaceutical...
... College of Medicine, Houston, TX HIV-1 SX stock containing 69.681 ng/ml of HIV p24 with 65,325 TCID50/ml was usedto infect macrophages and U373 cells HIV-189.6 stock containing 49.977 ng/ml of HIV ... cDNA used for a standard curve This standard curve was usedto quantify the amplified DNA The sequences of the primers used are as follows: LTR forward, 5’-GCC TCA ATA AAG CTT GCC TTG A-3’; and ... 40 cycles of 95°C for 15 seconds and 60°C for 60 seconds GAPDH was used as an internal control to normalize total DNA Statistical analysis To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of this method,...
... J1+J2 = M, the total number of conditions in the study Each row corresponds to a gene and each column corresponds to a condition Note that I is usedto indicate both gene set and its cardinality, ... Jk ∑ Page of 12 b2 jk ∑ ∧ As Ek is an unbiased estimator of s k , B k − E k I is an ∧ unbiased estimator of βk Similarly T k − E k J k is an unbiased estimator of Γk In the above proof, c n (c) ... pjk in Gk; and, εijk, an iid random error or residual of gi in pjk Based on this model, Kostka and Spang's procedure obtains the mean of the squared residuals (Ek) to score a set of genes I on...
... estimation of size distribution, and relation of uptake to levels of specific antibodies Scandinavian Journal of Immunology 1985, 22:83-92 Husby S, Jensenius JC, Svehag SE: Passage of undegraded ... undegraded dietary antigen into the blood of healthy adults Further characterization of the kinetics of uptake and the size distribution of the antigen Scandinavian Journal of Immunology 1986, 24:447-455 ... Hatzos C, et al.: A multi-laboratory evaluation of a common in vitro pepsin digestion assay protocol used in assessing the safety of novel proteins Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology 2004, 39:87-98...
... fraction of the total number of loci, is a function of mutation rate (u) and effective population size (Ne) [20]: Scenarios were numbered from to 6, according to the number of QTL contributing 90% of ... intermediate and high number of QTL and using an unequal distribution of QTL variance to investigate the strong decrease of accuracies of BM from scenario to scenario (Table 3) Results of these additional ... approach was usedto assign the number of QTL contributing to the trait andto calculate the additive effect of each QTL contributing to the trait This approach was very different from the random approach...