... with soiling Thetreatmentof DD consists of fiber rich diet, axatives, l timed toilet training and biofeedback therapy The urpose of p biofeedback is to restore the normal pattern of d fecation ... should assess the amount of fiber and water intake, and the number of meals and when they are consumed The history should also include the number, type and frequency of laxatives used In the elderly, ... in the rectum is dstended with 60 mL of air to provide the patient a ensation i s of rectal fullness or a desire to defecate Four RCTs that evaluated the efficacy of biofeedback therapy in the...
... should already be aware of this potential risk Treatmentof CHB Curative treatmentof CHB and prophylactic treatment to prevent the recurrence of CHB are two major issues Treatment is based on ... significantly improve the survival of fetuses with complete CHB [29] As discussed previously, thetreatmentof fetal incomplete CHB may change in the future, depending on the results ofthe PRIDE study ... reported EFE predominantly involving the left ventricle in 13 children with complete CHB The date of diagnosis was prenatal in half ofthe cases, and postnatal in the other half Severe ventricular dysfunction...
... network The function of these gateways is to packetize the voice signal on the originating end of a call so that it can be transported over an IP network At the terminating end ofthe call, another ... biggest problem with IPT, the quality ofthe voice, was seriously affected by the end user’s own ability to configure their system (the PC, the software settings, etc), and the reality is that non-hobbyist ... Probe's ongoing analysis of bandwidth to the home and small office, and all ofthe associated terminal equipment, standards, and other issues surrounding the take off of residential multimedia,...
... all were, in the words ofthe former vice chairman ofthe Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), Admiral William Owens, “either ruled out by the context ofthe battle or were ineffective in the confined littoral ... For its part, the F-14 involved in the incident was operating from the carrier USS Saratoga in the central Mediterranean Sea One goal ofthe exercise was to test the ability ofthe Air Force ... of forces in the region that preceded the war 13 14 Combat Pair: TheEvolutionof Air Force–Navy Integration in Strike Warfare and the six weeks of fighting that ensued thereafter, the Navy did...
... two ofthe rings face in the opposite direction in the membrane to the other two, forming the same pattern as in the AFM surface representation of Fig 2A By comparison with the 3D structure ofthe ... compensate the negative charge on the rotor The freed positive charge on the stator attracts the next negative charge on the rotor, thus leading to rotation ofthe ring As most ofthe c rings ... distributed along the horizontal axis ofthe rotor [8] A positive charge on the stator attracts one ofthe negative charges on the ring and thus keeps the ring in place [34–36] However, the system is...
... leading to the failure of 160 members ofthe New York Stock Exchange) Toward the end ofthe period, glimmers of deregulation and technology advances laid the groundwork for the beginning of financial ... notable at the end of 1998 was the creation ofthe financial behemoth, Citigroup, that challenged the separation of banking and insurance under the then-in-effect Glass-Steagall Act THE MASSIVE ... 107 or 108 ofthe 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission ofthe Publisher, or authorization through payment ofthe appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright...
... knowledge about their evolution is basic to understand theevolutionof aesthetic preference itself A comprehensive understanding oftheevolutionofthe human brain, as well as of certain specific ... number of reinterpretations ofthe archaeological record have recently questioned the place and time ofthe appearance of modern human cognition They have shown that the revolution hypothesis ... there is no way of determining which level of analysis is the most relevant to the study ofthe neural correlates of aesthetic preference Additionally, the evolutionary emergence of such a capacity...
... different regions ofthe eye The expression of cN in the central regions ofthe lens, fiber cells that were laid down before birth, is consistent with the familiar pattern of expression ofthe principally ... encoding the two motifs ofthe C-terminal domain The crygn gene is thus a hybrid of b and c crystallin gene structures, apparently an intermediate in theevolutionofthe c-crystallins from the b-crystallins ... polypeptide capable of completing the C-terminal domain ofthe protein Currently there is no evidence for expression of canonical cN in primates This leaves open the question of whether the gene for...
... effect on A) There is no significant effect ofthe age ofthe firm It is clear that the size ofthe firm in total assets is the key determinant ofthe amount of advertising Large firms have the financial ... extension ofthe familiar Gibrat process See also Davies and Geroski (1997, p 385) depending upon the extent ofthe persistence of market shares The sum ofthe effects on the future market shares (the ... 0.080 Note: The table presents the number of firms, the number of entrants (Ent), the number of firms which exited (Ext), the number of firms with market share (S) in excess of 5%, the Herfindahl...
... respectively [29] The overall analysis, examining the topology ofthe phylogenetic tree and the position of each gene inside the cluster, was informative regarding the orthology relationships ofthe distinct ... vertebrate enzymes The most significant difference between the amphioxus and the other retinal reductases was, nevertheless, their preference for the NADH cofactor To our knowledge, these are the first SDR ... on the cytosolic side ofthe membrane [38,39] Amphioxus RDH did not show positively charged amino acids at the N-terminus ofthe signaling sequence, but rather contained the L24ERGR motif at the...
... forsook the haunts of men The other equally important cause was the change wrought by Christianity The brotherhood of man, the care ofthe body, the gospel of practical virtues formed the essence of ... obstruction ofthe bowels the opening ofthe abdomen, removal ofthe obstructed portion and uniting the ends ofthe intestine by sutures After the death of Alexander, Egypt fell into the hands of his ... elaborated the view ofthe pneuma, one form of which he believed came from the inspired air, and passed to the left side ofthe heart and to the arteries ofthe body It was the cause ofthe heart-beat...
... consequence ofthe physical laws of our universe and the subatomic structure ofthe oxygen atom As we shall see in Chap 2, the existence of oxygen atoms is in turn a necessary result oftheevolutionof ... Thus, the higher the pH value, the lower the proton concentration and therefore the degree of dissociation of water This behavior of water depends strongly on the temperature, the higher the temperature ... copy of a particular part ofthe DNA from the cell nucleus to the cytosol This serves as a matrix for the synthesis of proteins, composed of amino acids Thus, proteins express the potential of the...
... ancestral host of Achryso- chroides Regarding the effect of taxa sampling on the reconstruction of reproductive strategies, although the biology of most species in other parts ofthe world is less ... (Fig 5) The two parthenogenetic species appear basal in the atys group, and we cannot yet identify their closest sexual relatives We also examined the pattern of sex allocation in one ofthe species ... comprise a third of known species of this genus Regarding the effect of taxa sampling on the reconstruction of ancestral host use, most of our species are European, reflecting the most detailed...
... 12/22/11 2:07 PM 12 THEEVOLUTIONOF CELLS IS THERE LIFE OUT THERE? The presence of life somewhere else in the universe is not just the stuff of science fiction Astrobiology is the branch of science that ... Note the base pairs of nucleotides that make up the “rungs” ofthe ladder in the structure of DNA CBBL_EvolCells_F2_IBT.indd 23 12/22/11 2:08 PM 24 THEEVOLUTIONOF CELLS (R) serves as the sugar ... thought of as two chains of nucleotides that are lined up to form a ladder The sugar-phosphate units ofthe chains form the sides ofthe ladder, while the projecting base pairs link in the middle...
... and the laws of thought Then you may verify the hypothesis of pauperism, the hypothesis of inequality of conditions, the hypothesis of universal association, the hypothesis of happiness, the ... OFTHE RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN AND OF GOD, UNDER THE LAW OF CONTRADICTION, OR A SOLUTION OFTHE PROBLEM OF PROVIDENCE % The Culpability of Man.—Exposition ofthe Myth ofthe Fall % Exposition of ... to the republic, when I am seeking for the meaning and content ofthe idea of God; and that the tradesmen ofthe university will impute to me the impiety of demonstrating the non-value of their...
... benefited from the comments and suggestions ofthe participants ofthe workshop ‘Economic Theory and the Practice of Consumption: Evolutionary and other Approaches’, organised by the University of Cassino ... analysing the shape ofthe growth pattern ofthe quantity of cinema consumed and expenditure on cinema The time ofthe take-off will be estimated quantitatively (and its timing compared with the qualitative ... combined with the idea that when this would be shown the audience would see the movement because ofthe persistence of vision, was important to cinema The notion ofthe persistence of vision is...
... schools met the geohelminth cut-off in both 1998 and 1999 Six of twenty-five treatment schools met the schistosomiasis cut-off in 1998 and sixteen of fifty treatment schools met the cut-off in 1999.14 ... on the number of pupils eligible for treatment rather than the total number of pupils, we use the number of girls less than 13 years old and all boys (the T pupils eligible for deworming in the ... is thetreatment assignment ofthe school in 1998 (t = 1), and this takes on a value of one for Group and zero for Group schools The first term on the right-hand side ofthe equation (β1 ) is the...
... economic In the years following the Civil War, a parade Guidance: A Product ofthe American Conscience of new states joined the Union Most of these were carved out ofthe great heartland ofthe continent ... During the closing years ofthe nineteenth century, the civilized world replied affirmatively to the age-old question, Am I my brother's keeper? Society had accepted the theory ofthe brotherhood of ... around the beginning ofthe 20th century These were the forces and events that energized the "spirit ofthe times" from whence came the ideas and ideals ofthe pioneers of what eventually became...
... likely, as the c ring is rather stable, and the use of Triton X100 should not lead to removal of c1 only The basic biochemical properties ofthe complete enzyme are similar to those ofthe enzyme ... depending on the batch This is in the same range as the one determined previously with the incomplete enzyme [25] Next, we compared the enzymatic properties ofthe complete enzyme with those ofthe preparations ... one assumes the same number of hairpins in V0 and F0, the rotor of V1V0ATPases has only half the number of ion-binding sites This is seen as the reason for the apparent inability of V1V0-ATPases...