... conception and design ofthe study, the conception and interpretation ofthe statistical analysis, and drafted the manuscript YWL contributed to the study design, drafted the paper and revised ofthe ... including their gender, age, education, marital status and household income Information gathered from patients and their parents included severity of malformation andthe age which an awareness ofthe ... perceived their deformity when they were 4, or years old Only a few patients recalled that their chest depression was not obvious when they were young, and they didn’t notice their deformity before the...
... risk factor forthe development of anal cancer is well known, no data about the influence of smoking during combined radiotherapy on the outcome after therapy exist as of now The exact role of ... http://www.ro-journal.com/content/2/1/30 the combination of one of these riskfactors with smoking [7-11] Combined radiochemotherapy is the gold-standard in treatment of anal cancer since Nigro et al reported their data [12] ... was stopped after first cycle of chemotherapy at a dose of 43 Gy because of toxicity and old age ofthe patient The intensity of chemotherapy was reduced in smoker and non-smokers due to hematologic...
... range 45–49, andthe latest abortion and fertility rates Fall 2007 75 entered, the 2006 TAR for Northern Ireland is 0.16, the latest TFR is 1.87, andthe forecast increase in the rate ofcancer is ... occupation The Scottish ratios of mortality to incidence forthe social classes were used to derive an approximate gradient of incidence for England The modeling for England forthe age groups 45–49 and ... abortions and a high level of fertility and breastfeeding In the Czech Republic, the forecast of an increase in breast cancer incidence is largely the result ofthe fallen birth rate In Finland and...
... factor for decreased risk Clearly, if the employees were active in the prevention of disease, theriskof seropositivity could be decreased Therisk could become even lower, for example, if the ... immunity and an increased opportunity for virus exposure via personnel and transportation, which were the main source forthe spread ofthe AIV [1] The analysis of retrospective data showed that the ... age, and flock size The inquiry included categories: 1) basic information regarding the owner; 2) habitation ofthe employees; 3) sanitary concept ofthe farm workers; and 4) activity ofthe employees...
... with all ofthe dimensions ofthe definition by Maslach, Schaufeli and Leiter [2] It is, therefore, the profile of exhausted, cynical and rather ineffective workers [15-17,20,27-30] The work ... analysis ofthe syndrome, and it can be placed within the framework ofthe social exchange theory, according to which the establishment of reciprocal social relations is essential forthe health and ... type, sociodemographic and occupational riskfactors Table shows the raw and adjusted ORs forthe “frenetic” burnout type Only the number of hours worked per week andthe type of working hours showed...
... at the ZCTA level, andfor this analysis we initially used all 1,527 ZCTA units for 1993, and all 1,707 ZCTA units forthe entire state of California in 1999 We geo-coded addresses by ZCTAs for ... forthe 1999 data and joined them with the U.S Census Bureau summary files (SF-3) for ZCTAs One ofthe benefits of using ZCTAs is that the SF-3 Census 2000 data contain detailed information for ... understanding ofthe dimensions of this disease, both in terms of costs and prevalence Motivated by this concern, this analysis will examine the geographic distribution of COPD in California for the...
... the binding and affinity for I-Au because of occupation ofthe P1 pocket Recent thermodynamic and kinetic studies ofthe binding of TCRs to peptide–MHC ligands suggested that the low affinity of ... characteristic ofthe structure ofthe native epitope in Me2SO is the presence of a large number of electrostatic interactions, especially in the central region ofthe peptide The side chain of Arg78 ... interactions ofthe side chain of Arg78 with the side chains of Asp81 and Glu82 [this is consistent with the observed long-range NOE cross-peak between the side chain of Arg78 (Hg) and Glu82 (Hc1) and the...
... other hand, smoking has been shown to have many effects which suggest an opposition ofthe effects of estrogen and could decrease breast cancerriskThe interplay between the effects ofthe cancer- causing ... breast cancerrisk Most ofthe studies that have examined the breast cancerriskof women who have quit smoking have reported an increase in breast cancerrisk In many of these studies, breast cancer ... with theriskof death from breast cancer Smokers may be at increased riskfor metastasis (the spread of cancer) Two studies have reported an increase in the spread of tumors from the breast to the...
... South and North To the south ofthe bay of Hangzhou, the coast is rocky and indented with many harbours and offshore islands To the north, except along the Shandong and Liaodong peninsulas, the ... °F (10 °C) in North China andthe southern part of Xinjiang, and to 41 °F (5 °C) in the southern area ofthe Northeast, the northern part of Xinjiang, and places near the Great Wall It drops below ... freezing forthe whole of China, with the exception of extreme northern Heilongjiang During that time the mean temperature forthe Northeast Plain is between 36 and 46 °F (2 and °C), andforthe extensive...
... assume the presence of egoistic units in their theory of international politics,20 the English School approach invites the theorization ofthe state by noting that the self-help logic of anarchy ... further supports the view that Chapter I stands apart from the rest ofthe Charter andthe rest of international law That Chapter I approximates a model constitution strengthens the case forits ... think well to do; and therefore it 11 13 10 Vattel, The Law of Nations, Vattel, The Law of Nations, 12 Vattel, The Law of Nations, 126 Vattel, The Law of Nations, Vattel, The Law of Nations, 114,...
... about thegeographyofthe Cold War andthe arms race, covered thegeographyof conflict since 1945, the geopolitics of deterrence between the United States andthe Soviet Union, thegeographyof ... Ireland.132 The effect of war and subsequent peace settlements has been studied forthe partition of Cyprus andits effects on the political landscape ofthe island,133 for divided cities,134 andforthe ... Geographyof History: Geographyof Peace and War on Land and on Sea in 1921 Thegeographyof history was for them a synonym for political geography. 28 The first part, titled The Relations between Geography...
... Contributions to the theory ofthe Riemann zeta function andthe theory ofthe distribution of primes Acta Math 1918, 41:119-196 Titchmarsh EC: The Theory ofthe Riemann Zeta Function Clarendon (Oxford University) ... zeros ofthe Riemann zeta function They are called the trivial zeros It is noted that the simple zero ofthe sine function on the RHS of (1.11) at s = is canceled by the simple pole ofthe zeta ... (1:9) and shows the extension ofthe variable x to the complex domain as described in (1.4) The Weyl transform representation ofthe functions (1.1) and (1.2) leads to new identities forthe family...
... method treated each risk allele/factor equally and combined them based on the counts ofrisk alleles /factors Another method assessed the effects ofthe SNPs andriskfactors using a risk score analysis ... prognosis and treatment [15] Forthe harvest of GWAS on breast cancer, many studies combined the genetic markers and other traditional riskfactors together to evaluate the risk- predicting model of ... breast cancer marker SNPs in this Chinese population Then, we grouped the marker SNPs, and modeled them with clinical risk factors, to see the usage of these factors in breast cancerrisk assessment...
... representation ofthe envelope, that is, the formant structure, of voiced speech Therefore, the aim ofthe mel-scale subband integration (and, additionally, the truncation ofthe sequence of cepstral ... improves the discriminability of FrFT-MFCC for vowels [o], [u], but not forthe other three vowels, especially for [i] The reason for this might be the frequencies ofthe first two formants of [o] and ... called the order ofthe FrFT, α = pπ/2 is the transform angle, F p [·] denotes the FrFT operator, and Kα (t, u) is the kernel ofthe FrFT: 4.1 Multiple of Pitch Rate Since the chirp rates for different...
... Bullen, Handbook of Means and Their Inequalities, vol 560 of Mathematics andIts Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2003 10 Journal of Inequalities and Applications ... Proof The proof follows from Theorem 3.1 and Lemma 2.9 together with 1.2 If taking r corollaries and r n in Theorem 4.1, respectively, then we have the following Journal of Inequalities and ... arbitrary point in the interior of A If Bi is the intersection point ofthe extension line of Ai P andthe n − -dimensional hyperplane opposite to the point A, and r ∈ {1, 2, , n 1}, then one has...
... P and give the e relation between T0 -periodic P C-mild solution andthe fixed point of P After showing the compactness ofthe Poincar´ operator P and obtaining the boundedness ofthe fixed point ... solution if and only if P has a fixed point Proof Suppose x · x · T0 , then x x T0 P x This implies that x is a x0 , x0 ∈ X, then forthe P C-mild solution fixed point of P On the other hand, if ... ∈ X In order to obtain the local existence of mild solution for system 4.14 , we only need to set up the framework for use ofthe contraction mapping theorem Consider the ball given by B x ∈...
... expression and production of IL-6 deserves special attention in the view of recent success ofthe neutralization of IL-6 for alleviation of RA [35] These observations support the regulatory role of survivin ... course of RA An ELISA was used forthe evaluation of antibodies against survivin of IgG and IgM isotypes in plasma and in synovial fluid of 129 patients with RA andof 34 healthy controls The absorbance ... untreated) Forthe simultaneous comparison ofthe survivin levels in more than two groups the equality of variance F test was employed The inter-relation between the survivin levels and duration of the...
... alignment and drafted the manuscript SS is an anesthesiologist and she gave the anesthesia all cases, participated in the design ofthe study and performed the statistical analysis ES and NK performed ... predictor forthe development of ARDS in our study Co-morbidity factorsofthe patients might have played a role in the development ofthe ARDS [7] The classification of physical status and co-morbidity ... American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score andthe indication for lung resection (benign or malign pathology) The Page of classification of physical status by American Society of Anesthesiology...
... day postoperative Therefore the typical white appearance of chylothorax was clearly observable at day postoperative Riskfactorsfor chylothorax Table lists the potential riskfactors which have ... we assessed the duration of drainage, the day of maximum loss of chylous andthe type and duration of treatment (fatty acidfree MCT-enriched diet, TPN, octreotide, recanalisation of thrombosed ... restricted number of patients, heterogeneous diagnoses and operations, andthe retrospective design Due to these limitations, we could not methodically analyze the impact ofthe loss of pro- and anti-coagulation...
... [11,30] The majority of patients who develop CVD have at least one of these riskfactors In the INTERHEART study [11], these nine riskfactors provided a PAR of 97.4% for myocardial infarction forthe ... what is the burden of CVD andits related riskfactors among populations of African descent in Europe? What are the possible reasons forthe increased burden? And what are the differences in the ... by the InterHeart study, which are widely recognised as the major riskfactorsfor CHD Collectively, these riskfactors accounted for 90% ofthe population-attributable risk (PAR) in men and...