the complex relationship between social and biologic determinants of health

... i.e DIMs and PGL-tb; and (b) to address the question of the function of the two related molecules DIM A and DIM B According to the accepted model of DIM and PGL biosynthesis [17], DIM A and PGL-tb ... bacteria of the PMM56 mutant strain were present in the spleen of these mice For the determination of the number of PMM56 bacteria present in the spleen of these four mice, we thus chose a value of ... roles of the various members of the DIM family, e.g DIM A and DIM B, in these functions have never been investigated The recent developments in our understanding of the biosynthetic pathway of DIMs...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 09:20

... for the validity of the positive relationship between TQM and innovation and the multidimensional view on the relationship between TQM and organizational performances The practice meaning of the ... innovation involves the discussion of the definition of innovation, the type of innovation, the generic implementation process of innovation, and the prerequisites of successful innovation The literature ... SEM models, the structural model of the general relationship between TQM and organizational performance, the measurement model of TQM multidimensionality and the structural model of the multidimensional...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2015, 22:04

... here: the jungle and the dining room These two contexts were among the main tropes of the late colonial imagination Between them the colonials negotiated part of their relationship with their Other, ... Tasting the durian has become a sort of rite of passage through which the newcomer approaches the colonial‟s Other But the risk of becoming the Other, the risk of hybridisation, is high And so the ... Certainly, officers and clerks could not feast on durians as coolies did The durian was diverted from the office, another central arena of the colonial social life But the officers, clerks, and other...

Ngày tải lên: 13/10/2015, 15:54

... unlike the IMF’s, is linked to the date of the liberalization Eichengreen forthcoming reviews the data and methodological differences among most of these and other studies (For discussions of the ... and liberalization, on the one hand, and growth and growth volatility, on the other, were tradeoffs in democracies We explore briefly both lines of inquiry as a guide to further research 13 The ... “clusters” of political economic policies and structures Of relevance to this study, the levels of Openness are, without question, part of a broader cluster of policies and processes, and are therefore...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 08:50

... Production and use of ICT may be affected by outcomes of global agreements and treaties The interest of a number of international organisations and consortia in the relationship between ICT and the ... the United Kingdom and the United States The Commission of the European Communities takes part in the work of the OECD ©OECD 2009 MEASURING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ICT AND THE ENVIRONMENT - FOREWORD ... ©OECD 2009 16 – MEASURING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ICT AND THE ENVIRONMENT these are relatively small In respect of the negative impact of the ICT sector, the report makes the point that massive...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 09:20

... health We therefore briefly discuss in section the main elements of the Social Security and pension system in the Netherlands Section presents a model for health and work decisions of the elderly ... introduce the latent variables representing the true value of general health, H* , and the true value of work W G W related health, H* Rather then one measure for each type of health, H* and H* ... on the history of health related decisions (the vector Z of section 3) We therefore have to assume that • encompasses elements of the initial stock of health and decisions made in the course of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 21:20

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20

... slow release of the cleavage products from the protein The amplitudes of the initial burst (2.78 and 2.83 nM) gave a ratio of DNA/protein of 0.94 : As will be discussed further, these data indicate ... valid and argues that RNA splicing does not occur as a result of rapid dissociation of the proteinÆDNA complex Furthermore, the fact that the protein was saturated with the same amount of either ... model assumes that the 50-fold excess of DNA nearly saturates the protein prior to the addition of pre-RNA It further assumes that either the dissociation of bound DNA is slow or the 400fold excess...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... amounts On October 2008, the ECB, the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada, the Bank of Sweden and the Swiss National Bank, with the support of the Bank of Japan, have carried ... banks to their customers, therefore they have effects on the behaviour of borrowers and consequently on the real economy On the other hand, prices set by banks influence their profitability and soundness ... one of the main drivers of the rates charged by banks on loans The interest rates set by Central Bank affect the interbank rates, which are the basis of the process of defining the cost of money...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 23:20

... genes of zebrafish S Karanth et al with other enzymes and transport systems, and the transcriptional regulation of specific genes [2–6] By functioning in the transport and metabolism of retinol and ... of FABP4, FABP5, FABP8 and FABP9 of mammals, and tetrapod FABP4, FABP5, FABP8 and FABP9, and the teleost fish fabp11 genes might have arisen from a common ancestral gene [12] On the basis of the ... Canadian Institutes of Health Research (to E Denovan-Wright), and the National Institutes of Health, the European Commission as part of the ZF-Models integrated project in the 6th Framework Programme...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 04:20

... background of the study, the statement of the problem, the purpose of the study, the rationale, research questions, significance of the study, definition of terms, assumptions, and limitations, and the ... Southeastern United States the wages per-capita are the lowest in the nation Florida is one of the largest states in the geography and it represents about 35% of the total workforce in the Southeast ... the what, the why, and the benefit to the community is the first step in a series of steps to broaden the development of the community Establishing trust is critical to the objectives of the program...

Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 02:17

... results of the APPROVE trial, which showed rofecoxib reduces the recurrence of adenomatous polyps as well as the risk of advanced adenomas at one and three years after randomization [5] Use of immune ... our understanding of malignancy in RA forward but raises many important questions for future research First, as much of the literature they cite (and most of the patients included in the meta-analysis) ... V: Anti-TNF antibody therapy in rheumatoid arthritis and the risk of serious infections and malignancies: systematic review and meta-analysis of rare harmful effects in randomized controlled...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... For the assessment of structural changes by conventional x-rays, complete sets of radiographs of the cervical and the lumbar spine in the lateral view at BL and 2yFU were taken Because of the ... conceive of the idea for the study, prepared the data and performed data analysis, and helped to write the manuscript JL analysed the data, performed the statistical evaluation, and helped to write the ... In this study, the primary outcome was based on the analysis of VEs because the patterns of spinal inflammation and the development of syndesmophytes are likely to differ in and between individuals...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:21

... which we return in the third and final article of the series A review of studies of the health effects of structural adjustment carried out for the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health [99] found ... statement by the Knowledge Network and not represent a position of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health, the WHO or Health Canada Funding agencies had no role in the study's design, the collection ... Security Council: Final Report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo 2003 [http://www.tcf.org/Publica...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 18:20

... aspects of the viral life cycle [7,8] The first details the latest findings on the role that the non-structural viral proteins Vpr and Vpx (the first conserved among all primate lentiviruses; the ... exclusively by members of the HIV-2/SIVSM lineage) play during the early phases of infection of macrophages, while the second provides a thorough description of the process of virion particle production ... described by the accompanying review of Gras and Kaul [11] Finally, the interplay between macrophage polarization and the effect that different viral proteins exert on the activation status of macrophages...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... reviewing and contributed to the writing of the report HJM contributed to appraising the content and the writing of the report CDS contributed to the supervision and conceptualisation of the project and ... dysphoric mood and low self-esteem that increases the risk of over-eating The reasons for the non-linearity of the relationship between BMI and psychological adjustment require further exploration ... the relationship between obesity and reported emotional or behavioural symptoms There was no evidence of a moderating effect of household income on the relationship between obesity and either...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:22

... understanding of the complex Page of interconnections between acute brain dysfunction, sedation, and sepsis However, we need further progress in our understanding of the complex pathophysiology of ... arousal, or is there a fundamental change in the pathophysiology of the acute brain dysfunction with this transition? These questions remain unanswered at present The paper by Pandharipande and colleagues ... mechanical ventilation of septic patients adds an additional layer of complexity to understanding acute brain dysfunction in these patients As noted by Pandharipande and colleagues [1], there is some...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

Ngày tải lên: 06/10/2014, 14:19

... validate the extent of practice usage and the approximate date that serious efforts began The sole source of detraction from their approach’s validity relates to the size of many of the companies ... position to know the extent of usage of a complex and subtle set of practices such as TQM across companies the size of Hewlett Packard, 3M, and Proctor and Gamble Hendricks and Singhal (1996) ... 2002) Huson and Nanda (1995) go one-step further and mail surveys to firms asking them to confirm the date of practice adoption Increasing the precision on adoption date is one of the recommended...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2014, 00:43