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... the marketplace Shopper Marketing is the first book providing an extensive outlook into the various aspects of this new area of marketing Because of the emerging nature of the new practice, the ... contents of the book are compiled from 37 global practitioners and professionals of shopper marketing The extensive list of authors covers nearly all of the worldrenowned experts of the area The best ... runs his family’s boutique off the main square in Strasbourg He takes enormous pleasure in his windows They tell jokes They have political messages They relate history The clothes are part of the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/04/2014, 12:41

... 450 000 by 1995 The number of men grew only marginally from 425 000 to 480 000 over the same period In defence, the number of men declined from 225 000 to 200 000, while the number of women rose ... retail trade sector, where the number of women rose from about 550 000 in 1975 to almost 800 000 two decades later The number of men in this sector remained stable over the period, at around 700 ... women worked in the communications sector Twenty years later, though the number of men remained unchanged, the number of women rose to 550 000 A similar situation was seen in the wholesale and...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:02

... (NOFP), which is a measure of its short-term foreign currency exposure, has been reduced by nearly two-thirds since the currency crisis of 1998 Nevertheless, the NOFP and other indicators of ... (and thereby generating the expectation of a strengthening of the rand) or by raising interest rates Under either of these options, it would probably be both difficult and undesirable for the ... that a reduction of US$1 billion in the NOFP was typically associated with a decline in spreads of nearly 15 basis points.2 This means that the cut in the NOFP from its recent peak of US$23 billion...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:11

... hyperglycaemia, is a temporary disorder of glucose homeostasis, caused by failure of beta-cells to overcome insulin resistance created by the anti-insulin hormones secreted by the placenta [48] The same risk ... which is the cut-off value in the Recommendations of the American Heart Association [35] and the trigger for initiation of insulin treatment for ICU patients recommended by the American College of ... During the six inclusion years there were 2,207 ICU admissions, 1,822 with no history of hyperglycaemia or diabetes prior to the admission Of those, 1,548 (90.6%) were discharged from the hospital...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... this study, we sought to identify hospital facilities and resources available to treat victims of sexual violence in the area of Goma, which is the capital city of the North Kivu province in the ... assessment of the availability of key resources to treat victims of sexual violence in hospitals regularly caring for victims of sexual violence; and (3) assessment of the frequency of delivery of three ... Page of gynaecology, anaesthetist, psychiatrist or psychologist, post-discharge medical services, laboratory tests to diagnose pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases (hepatitis, HIV, syphilis),...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... and at the time of the crisis they tried to travel back to the home, the rural home He told us he forgot his medication at home Reaching half of the way, he had forgotten his medication There ... faced during the crisis period: ▪ There was one boy who was being taken care of by the uncle They stay in Langas Langas was, let me say, it was the heat of the violence there This boy is on second ... because of the perceived risk to members of their ethnicity in that community, and experiencing mistrust from patients because of the providers' ethnicity In the context of this conflict period, the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31

... was then constructed from the 2568 episodes of MET service review to illustrate the frequency of activation at various times over the 24-hour period Episodes of activation were related to the ... 1.00–2.04; P = 0.049) All other peaks of activity failed to achieve statistical significance Discussion We report, for the first time, a detailed analysis of the level of utilization of a MET service over ... activation of the MET service during these hours in the years following the introduction of the MET system When directly compared with the study conducted by Lee and coworkers [5], 46.2% of the 2568...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45

... MZ, which is estimated to occur in 25% of MZ12 It is a characteristic feature of MZ The mechanism of mirror imaging is poorly understood One explanation is that later fission of MZ makes them particularly ... both the familial occurrence of AC and the presence of AC in patients with genetically determined cystic diseases, such as ADPKD, have indicated a genetic component in the cystogenesis of AC18 The ... that the reported incidence rate of mirror-imaging of AC is probably underestimated To improve the diagnosis rate, we consider that it is essential to systematically monitor the counterpart of the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00

... ostium The size of the sinus and, therefore, its anatomic relationships also depend upon the extent of pneumatization [11] The extent of pneumatization results in the individual size and shape of the ... craniotomy because of the proximity of the sinus to the orbit and the anterior skull base [5] The frequency of bilateral absence of the frontal sinus has been reported in 3-4% to 10% of several populations ... that agenesis of the frontal sinus was more frequent in women Aydinlioğlu et al [1] reported that the incidence of a left unilateral agenesis of the frontal sinus was higher than that of a right...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:04

... help reverse what the SG concludes is a crisis in bone health Much of the evidence supporting the value of calcium supplementation is summarized in an exhaustive meta-analysis [5] of randomized trials ... none of the normal scores were abnormal by the end of the study Thus, it was our conclusion that the absence of changes in the unit- and multi-directional blood chemistries supports the safety of ... average age of 57.4 (41-89) which is consistent with the age-related decline of 1% to 2% cited above for women of menopausal age as well as with the data reported in the meta-analysis As for the estimate...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:10

... advantage of HIFU over other thermal ablation techniques is that there is no necessity for the transcutaneous insertion of probes into the target tissue, which is not achievable with other conventional ... leading the coagulation necrosis of the whole target regions During the therapeutic process, real-time estimation of the therapeutic effect was carried out by the computer system through the graphic ... length In the centre of the transducer, there is a 3.5- to 5.0-MHz diagnostic ultrasound (US) imaging probe which is used as the real-time imaging unit of the system, guiding the target tissue volume,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:18

... post-operative discomfort are reduced [17,18] The lasers normally adopted offer the enormous advantage of being conveyed in a fibre, which serves as the working tip at the end of the handpiece The use of ... intelligent machines" can replace "the brain and hand, skill and experience" of the specialist The aim of this study was to verify the reliability and efficacy of one of these compact portable diode ... chemical sclerosis [26,27] On the basis of the results obtained in the treatment of benign facial pigmented and vascular lesions, while recognising the physical limitations of the 980 nm wavelength...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... Discussion OA is the most common form of arthritis, and it is often associated with significant disability and an impaired quality of life Clinical and radiographic surveys have found that the ... addition, these amino acids are required for the synthesis and repair of connective tissue throughout the body These products reportedly aid in reducing the destruction of collagen within the body, ... within days of randomization Subject is unwilling to stop taking pain medication other than the study medication (for arthritis or other types of pain) or is unwilling to stop taking other medications...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 09:48

... 2006, 109 of 40-55 g Patient compliance was supervised by handing out a nutritional diary which was submitted at each of the further visits to the clinic After weeks the patients attended the clinic ... attended the clinic again and it is the lipid values and biometric data obtained at this visit which were used for statistical analysis in this study The presence of chd was assessed by medical ... primarily due to the influence of the +T294C SNP The C allele frequency of 0.24 in our high risk patient group was similar as the frequency of 0.21 reported by Chen et al in their study for chd...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 17:03

... between the patients group and the other two groups regarding the distribution of the TT genotype These results are close to the results of previous studies that evaluated the TT genotype distribution ... 192 Figure The effect of the T allele on the plasma homocysteine in the different studied groups Bar chart illustrating the effect of the T allele on the level of homocysteine in the different ... for the right and left common carotid arteries and the mean values of the two sites were used in the analysis There is an apparent increase in the degree of carotid intimal thickness in the examined...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:49

... consisted of omission of the primary or the secondary antibody or primary incubation in the presence of non-immunized rabbit serum instead of the primary antibody Cell quantification and Statistical ... ZEISS), which comprised almost all of the OLP epithelium The count was performed by two investigators without knowledge of whether the samples were control or experimental The total number of ... GTBP/hMSH6 are very important in distinguishing and repairing misparing and slippage errors in DNA synthesis The mismatch is detected by two complexes, the hMSH2-GTBP/hMSH6 and the hMSH2-hMSH3 heterodimers...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:54

... that active PKC may exist in the nucleus of melanoma cells, and the presence of active PKC isoforms in the nuclei of many cell types has been confirmed (10-12) Staining of the G361 cells with antibodies ... signal (CLDN1-NLS), there is increased expression of claudin-1 in the nucleus, but there are still large amounts of claudin-1 in the cytoplasm as well B) All of the claudin-1 in the nucleus can be ... expression of claudin-1 does Table Site-directed mutagenesis Putative sites of PKC and PKA phosphorylation on the claudin-1 protein, and the primers used to perform site-directed mutagenesis of these...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:17

... collaborators The fruit of that qualitative examination was the rejection of a total of controls and cases at the defining moment of the construction of the data package The fundamental cause was the lack ... piece of evidence for the control of the classification bias of this article (with regard to the selection of the controls) has been shown in the work Varol et al [27], where the normality of CA ... the application of the Mann-Whitney U-test to the continuous variables to study differences between the distributions between the cases and controls The adjustment of the non-conditional logistic...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:34

... a decisive role in 67 the regulation of proliferation, migration, and differentiation of the epithelial cells [2,12,18,19] Following the surgical treatment of adult periodontitis, the epithelial ... consistency of the active component that can act as a barrier to the spread of any bacteria penetrating the tissues including those of the periodontium It is conceivable that hyaluronan administration ... demonstrated a gingivitis grade of or Thanks to the bacteriostatic properties of the tested polymer, a more effective control of the surgical wound no bacterial contamination of the surgical site...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 11:35