the biology of dialysis

... became the dominant products of the area By 1950, when the government acquired the land, much of the site had been cut repeatedly and most of the uplands were in agricultural fields or bare ground The ... at the Savannah River Site because of the unique research environment the site offers Others are permanent residents working on site at Westinghouse, the U.S Forest Service, or the University of ... percent of bottomland and riparian forests and only 14 percent of longleaf forests remain in the Southeast and only percent of longleaf habitat survives as old growth Some of the unique species of the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20

... in the clinical exploration of these ARIs While the use of various ARIs almost always prevented or reversed the lens opacification in diabetic rats [94], whether they can reduce the risk of cataract ... neuropathy In the last chapter of section two, Dr Kan‐ bayashi and Dr Hosokawa reviewed the most recent advances in the pharmacotherapy of postherpetic neuralgia I dedicate this work to the memory of my ... scientist, and then describe how the manifestations of these pathophysiologic changes are observed in the clinic, as seen by a clinician It will then discuss a merger of the two points of view and...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 23:20

... involve the PSW 'weaning' the young person from the support of the PSW by encouraging the young person to be proactive in managing their mental health Unlike the initial phase, most contact in the ... be analysed at the cessation of the study to evaluate the intervention during each of the phases while the qualitative items will be used to direct the intervention throughout the study For example, ... staffed by the PSW supervisor and members of the research and clinical team All PSWs will be required to ensure that the on-call supervisor knows of the time and location of their visit The PSW...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... providers to implement the DMP is time-consuming on the part of the project leaders and the health care providers Training the GPs, overseeing the implementation of the DMP at the provider level, ... missing values with the mean of each DMP team as scored by the other professionals of the same DMP team, resulting in N = 218, or the total sample Internal consistency of the subscales was assessed ... of each professional participating in the DMPs The testing of theoretical associations between constructs can be analysed at the team level taking into account the hierarchical structure of the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:22

... TAI The Straits of Singapore The Straits of Singapore The Straits of Malacca The Straits of Singapore The Straits of Singapore The Straits of Malacca The South China Sea The South China Sea The ... Malaysia destruction of rainforests and water catchments, and the subsequent erosion of soils together with the heavily silted run-offs, pollutes the rivers These and other sources of land-based pollution ... is in the Andaman Sea at the northern tip of the Straits, while the shallowest is at the One Fathom Bank in the south The current predominantly flows in a northwest direction with rates of to...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21

... cooperatives GEMC supports training and other programs for the benefit of all of its members The CEO of GEMC is often included in discussions with the CEOs of the three Georgia G&T cooperatives to ... owned by the members they serve In turn, 39 EMCs in the State of Georgia own the Family of Companies and govern them through three boards of directors Energy Value Chain Similar to the value ... address each these issues in detail Significance of the Study Because of the lack of research that specifically targeted the impact of deregulation on management strategies in nonprofit electrical...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 01:02

... presented by the software as different tabs Each tab contains the corresponding job tasks The linkage between tasks and tabs is held up in the database preserving the flexibility of the system The acquired ... occurs, the implemented logic in the software operates the changes and saves the event Sophisticated software filters protect the software from false inputs (e.g simultaneous main tasks) The developed ... each other during the observation The text data file (in Microsoft Excel format) of each researcher's observation was imported into the programme file The programme analysed each line of the data,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... coding and writing of the manuscript They were also responsible for the clinical care of the first and second patients VP, SW and HF were responsible for the clinical care of the third patient ... repeated exposure of the oesophagus to the corrosive agent may inflict further damage on the mucosa Some authors recommend the use of activated charcoal (50grams dissolved in 200ml of water, administered ... amylase level during the acute illness We further recommend that restricting the availability of the pulverized powdered form of the compound in the open market might be an effective measure...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... at the healthcare delivery level Encouragingly, because the leadership of these often separate TB and HIV programs is usually situated within the structure of National Ministries of Health, there ... developed;[9,10] how and if these tests can be used, and whether their associated cost will be prohibitive in these settings is yet to be determined Likewise, the treatment of HIV in the setting of active TB ... between them to programs that partially or fully integrate the services they provide A variety of models of collaboration and integration will be necessary to suit the diverse characteristics of a...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... approval of the version to be published MS: Preparation of the paper; analyses and interpretation of data; final approval of the version to be published PV: Preparation of the paper; acquisition of ... was 0.955, near the cut-off value of 95, and SRMR was well below the cut-off value of 0.08 All indices indicated that the model not systematically linked to the five dimensions of well-being was ... analyses the first full version and final short version of the instrument were tested on the non-imputed dataset (N=204) Listwise deletion of missing data on the basis of the 18 items in the short...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... regardless of the scheme of privatization it had chosen, as a rule, received no benefits from the change of the form of ownership because the investors paid the state for the acquired stakes with either ... particular, these changes consisted of the liberalization of prices and foreign trade, privatization, the establishment of a tax system, the introduction of antimonopoly legislation, and the creation of ... that, at the time of their creation, all of them were oriented toward entirely different criteria of efficiency The transition to market principles resulted in the deterioration of the financial...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... the reasons for following this path is the illegitimacy of the results of privatization In the public opinion, the privatization of the 1990s is considered unjust (Denisova et al 2007), and the ... however, in the late 1950s, the product mix of Gosplan had more than 2,000 items, and, by the end of the 1970s, plans on the level of USSR ministries had about 60,000 items On the other hand, ... representatives of the business community themselves acknowledge the legality of revising its results (Frye 2006) This lowers the degree of protection of property rights and gives the state an additional...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... than another shareholder of the company or the company itself; on the other hand, a shareholder of a closed JSC must sell his/ her shares first to another shareholder of the company or the company ... characteristics of the company’s group membership The organizational size of the business group is represented by the natural logarithm of the total number of its member firms (GROSIZ) The impact of past ... demonstrated a similar structure of their boards Another control tool is the possibility of dismissal of the management staff (or threat of dismissal), which comes easy in the case of stock domination Personalities...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... directors (Art 66(3)) On the other hand, there is no statutory upper limit The term of office for directors is one year (defined as the date of appointment to the date of the next year’s shareholder ... *** : The difference of the means in comparison with open JSCs is significant at the 1% level according to the t-test (the Welch test was performed instead of the t-test when the null-hypothesis ... (2002) Notes: a The proportion of outsider directors is calculated by the author using the data of the percentage of executive directors b Board of auditors c The proportion of outsider directors...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... studies on CEO turnover from the viewpoint of the appointment date of the current president and the reason for the resignation of the predecessor in order to use the data in empirical studies ... number of observations of turnover events Another possibility is that top managers in Russia not play the same role in other countries, such as the United States In the US, the CEO is the bridge ... sales management There are four possible events to examine They are the turnover of both CEO and senior managers (Type I), the turnover of only the CEO (Type II), the turnover of only senior managers...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... description of the data and sampling procedure, see the Appendix of this book The question was asked on the interval scale with a spacing of 10 years; for the calculations, the medians of the of the ... scale of work in firm restructuring Hypothesis H5: Finally, the self-sufficiency of the majority of Russian enterprises in the local markets, still beyond the boundaries of the sphere of the interests ... economies The second section is an exploration of how the composition of the management team depends on the arrival of new company owners The third section contains the main hypothesis regarding the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... member of the group The key role in initiating the merger of an enterprise was played by the owners of the parent company by more than 40% of the respondents However, in a third of all cases, the ... but not the result of merger deals in the transition economy Therefore, the higher TFP of these companies does not reflect the superiority of BGs as new owners over other types of owners of Russian ... assessment of the role of a BG by directors of the affiliated enterprises In the following section, the impact of group membership on the restructuring activity of subsidiary enterprises is analyzed The...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... that the decisions on credit extension were mainly made on the basis of the sheer size of the enterprises concerned and/ or their connections with the government The asset structure of the bank ... With the reduction in the tax rate from 0.8% of the total value of the bond issue to 0.2%, the cost advantage is obvious According to the Interfax-100 index, the overdue accounts were 18% of the ... observed in the financial sector One is the increase in consumer loans, and the other is the buoyancy of the corporate bond market The former is attested by entry into the consumer loan market of VTB-24...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... variable At the same time, the goals of our study required consideration of the scope of the possible influence of the government on corporate behavior Therefore, in some modifications of our basic ... (2006), the Russian government conducted a sort of corporate takeover in the cases of the Russneft Oil Company in 2006–2007 and the conflict surrounding the TNK-BP in the spring of 2008 The years ... such as in China, they can be supportive of economic development Therefore, we can assume that, under the conditions of the Russian economy of the early 2000s, the improvement of state capacities...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20