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... important role in the trade off of different properties of a therapy but not all therapies may cover the patients’ preferences The obtained information is rather important as the consideration of patients’ ... diabetes Two ofthe four factors were related to the effects of treatment, i.e., the main treatment effect and the effect of treatment on body weight Two other factors were related to the mode of application ... initiated the study and developed the details ofthe study together with HJH MD and HJH completed the study All authors participated in the discussion and interpretation ofthe results as well as in the...
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... that the soil quality indices monitoring the intrinsic soil function are not going to be comprehensive for many ofthe soil contamination processes as they not account for the effects ofthe pollutants ... define the general soil degradation thresholds and then at the local scale we also need to address the specificity ofthe land management impacts, and define the threats associated ... only address the old threats to soils (erosion, salinisation, loss of organic matter, compaction …) These soil quality indicators hardly address the processes associated to thenew threats to...
... AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) via the ANOVA Health Institute The content is solely the responsibility ofthe authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of USAID or the United States Government ... are seen at the hospital There were large public sector ART clinics referring to GF Jooste Hospital at the start ofthe study period, but this increased to 11 clinics by the end ofthe study period ... with a median age of 35 (IQR 29 - 41.5) The 31 male patients had a median age of 42 (IQR 36.5 - 46) The first case presented in August 2003 During the study period the number of adult patients...
... comparison, the fuzzy synthetic extent values ofthe attributes were calculated in order to assess the priority weights ofthe main objectives The values ofthe fuzzy synthetic extent ofthe four ... respect to the goal of best location of ASCs, the global weights ofthe attributes were calculated Table 12 shows the prioritization ofthe four objectives and five attributes in terms ofthe global ... in their region If the managers prefer to stress some objectives, in other words the managers follows specific level of each objective function to improve the performance of their ASC, so they...
... negatively ofthe store that sent them the discount, as opposed to 24 percent who said that, even if they’re not interested in the promotion, they’d think positively ofthe store that sent them the ... and feel the product • 36 percent said they visited the store to compare several brands ofthe same product • 22 percent said they opted for the store because they needed to receive the product ... in the promotion being offered Some of those same consumers (and others) said that, even if they didn’t take advantage ofthe promotion, they would “think positively ofthe store” that had sent...
... aimed at changing the situation causing the distress and to relieve the perceived problem, whilethe second is aimed at changing the emotions caused by the stressful event We therefore suggest ... according to routine procedures The presence of CAD was defined as a stenosis of at least 50% ofthe vessel lumen diameter in any ofthe main coronary arteries or their major side branches "Level ... frequent in men The mean value ofthe LVEF was 64.6 (12.0), and 12% ofthe participants had LVEF below 50% A majority (82%) ofthe participants had angina pectoris and most of them were graded with CCS...
... numbers of HIV-positive individuals being enrolled onto HAART and increasing survival among these patients, there is a growing need to understand the impact of HAART use on the quality of lives of ... random sample of 15 participants, it was evident that whilethe bulk of participants experienced a gradual improvement in HRQoL, others experienced a worsening of HRQoL (Figure 2) Whilethe average ... describes the types of drug toxicities that occurred during the first year of HAART Efavirenz hypersensitivity reactions were the cause of drug toxicities within the first 16 weeks of HAART Between...
... highlighting the need for training of HCWs in the integrated management of HIV/AIDS, TB and other priority primary care diseases Attention to the quality of clinical care provided while increasing ... representatives from the Knowledge Translation Unit ofthe University of Cape Town Lung Institute, the developers ofthe original PALSA PLUS guideline and training program [19]; Malawi-based members of Dignitas ... Adaptation ofthe training program to Malawi focused on customization ofthe training materials, selection of outreach trainers, and adjustments to the TtTtT program Customization ofthe training...
... [SNRI])—on the basis of their efficacy, safety, and tolerability [9,10] While benzodiazepines were the mainstay of GAD treatment for many years because of their favorable tolerability and the rapid ... as the numbers of pharmacy claims for and associated therapy-days with each medication Duration of receipt of initial therapy was defined based on time between the index date and the date of ... of such therapy, where the latter was designated based on the first pharmacy claim that was followed by a ≥28-day “gap” between the final therapy-day associated with that claim and the date of...
... statistically significant changes in the domains ofthe SF-36 or to detect potential baseline predictors ofthe SF-36 at the follow-ups Nevertheless, the changes of each ofthe SAD symptomatology scores ... explanation ofthe objectives and procedures ofthe present study The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee ofthe Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences Treatment The ... conceived ofthe study, performed the clinical investigation (diagnosis, treatment and assessment), and drafted the manuscript TAF participated in the design ofthe study and performed the clinical...
... suicide, the general practitioner identified all individuals ofthe same gender who had a date of birth within three years ofthe case from the practice register They then contacted the control ... socio -economic circumstances On the basis of this study we are unable to determine whether these variables are causally related to suicide and therefore cannot be certain ofthe efficacy of society-wide ... and interpretation ofthe data, in the writing ofthe manuscript, or in the decision to submit the manuscript for publication We would like to thank all the participants for their time and cooperation...
... part of) the body of accounting theory, normative theory There is also a huge body of positive and inductive theories to be found in accounting literature Together they constitute the body of accounting ... accounting theory from which the techniques are derived.” The above discussion has sufficiently highlighted the value of accounting theoryThe following simple perspective on the usefulness oftheory ... is the overriding goal of science If the research objective in a study tests the plausibility of a new accounting theory and broadens the “body of accounting knowledge” with the assistance of the...
... from the technical point of view Of course Internet access and the appropriate software are critical But there are many more factors that influence the success of an online community Most of them ... belong to other organizations and communities, which can affect their online community They live in countries with laws They have their “ways of doing things” that may vary among the members These ... tools and technologies There are a variety of technological tools Some of them support certain types of online group interactions better than others Based on your assessment ofthe social/cultural...
... estimate the true motion of objects instead ofthe best correlation of 5The true motion does not necessarily equal the physical motion of objects, but it represents the projection ofthe physical ... Figure 2.5 From the uniqueness ofthe Fourier transform it is known that if the spectrum ofthe original signal can somehow be recovered from the spectrum ofthe sampled signal, then the continuous ... areas The region of highest visual acuity in the human retina is the fovea The fovea contains no rods, but has the highest concentrations of cones Due to the dense representation of these cones, the...
... the shape ofthe age dependency of meeting online is similar to the shape ofthe age dependency ofthe partnership rate for women (see the left side of Figure 2), with a somewhat later peak The ... because of displacement by the Internet Displacement of traditional ways of meeting by the Internet can only occur to the extent that the Internet reduces the necessity or the primacy of third ... 2009, the Internet was the third most likely way of meeting,6 after the intermediation of friends, and approximately tied with the bars, restaurants and other public places.7 With the rise of the...
... endpoints, and the network locations ofthe endpoints are irrelevant to the basic semantics of transport Only at the IP layer is the IP address naturally part ofthe protocol semantics of best-effort ... the EID to the current set of IP addresses to which the EID is attached A crucial property of this layering is that the resolution of a SID to the eventual set of IP addresses for the communication ... discussing the consequences of flat names to Section 4, and we incorporate the notion of sequences in our description of delegation In the process of describing the architecture, we note how it yields the...
... itself the task of articulating theroleof gender in PHN programming and of explicitly including gender in monitoring and evaluation activities The subcommittee members, drawing on their years of ... the core survey questionnaire and the gender module, provides data at the population level It is not the intention ofthe authors of this paper to provide a comprehensive or definitive list of ... and insufficient resources The gender literature offers a variety of definitions of gender that, at the most general level, highlight the different social and economic roles society assigns to...