... device from behind, to be followed by getting inthe snowshoes, fastening them, securing the patient lifter's belt to the harness, standing up with the assistance of the therapist, and a last check ... height, the toe off andthe initial contact inclination angles of the feet For a perfect match of the listed trajectory settings, the patient was fixed inthe snowshoe bindings in such a way that the ... position of the metatarsale V inthe binding corresponded to the patient's metatarsale V The therapist could further adapt the excursions of the CoM inthe vertical and horizontal directions and the...
... baseline against which to measure and monitor their well-being over time; and build capacity inand across the three nations to continue the important work of measuring and monitoring the well-being ... due to the widespread past uses of lead in gasoline, paint, plumbing and building products, and other consumer goods In Canada andthe United States, indoor lead sources include lead in dust, ... percent in Canada, and 6.5 percent in Mexico.61 The aging of the population and increased spending on pharmaceuticals are the major contributing factors.6 The public sector is the main source...
... interpreted the findings and wrote the manuscript OM was involved in developing the study proposal, supervising the data collection and reviewing the manuscript SGH was involved in developing the study ... proposal and reviewing the manuscript MMS was involved in supervising the data collection and reviewing the manuscript KMM was involved in developing the study proposal and reviewing the manuscript ... self-reported initiating/ingesting of the medications and bringing infants for six-week follow up Analyzing medication initiated by the mothers during pregnancy, we used abortion and death of a mother...
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... conceptualized and designed the study, and revised the manuscript for intellectual content All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have ... overcoming a deficit in GLT1 function It is interesting in this regard that palmitoylation, a process by which proteins are inserted into cellular membranes [20], is reduced in HD mice, including ... GLT1 levels begin to decline when these mice are 13 weeks of age and severely symptomatic Thus, it appears that the cellular machinery underlying the ceftriaxoneinduced increase in GLT1 expression...
... UO and KP participated inthe clinical care of the patients AJ gave overall support and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The ... treatments, including antiretroviral therapy, and treatment monitoring are provided free of charge andthe patients also receive reimbursement of their transport cost to and from the clinic at every clinic ... success In addition, there is the need to identify new service delivery models that will increase the uptake of HIV counselling and testing services thereby ensuring earlier diagnosis of HIV infection...
... describes the procedures, findings, and long-term outcome in a series of patients undergoing spinal accessory nerve decompression in combination with excision of tender points for chronic pain following ... points The dissection is continued anteriorly along the leading edge of the trapezius until the SAN was identified In most of the cases adhesions were identified between the nerve andthe underlying ... trauma, including falls and sports injuries Preoperative complaints and clinical findings Only "pain" was identified by all 30 patients as an independent preoperative reason for disability Each of the...
... competing interests Authors' contributions BE, CA, and LE conceived the follow -up interviews and invited JB and KS to participate in their design and coordination BE and CA collected the data and ... others Although we sought disconfirming evidence and deviant cases in eliciting and analyzing the interview data, our own status as developers of the intervention, and providers of the training ... The CP training workshops included lectures, structured role playing, and group discussion sessions The training handouts included templates, checklists, and reference materials summarizing lecture...
... competing interests Authors' contributions BE, CA, and LE conceived the follow -up interviews and invited JB and KS to participate in their design and coordination BE and CA collected the data and ... others Although we sought disconfirming evidence and deviant cases in eliciting and analyzing the interview data, our own status as developers of the intervention, and providers of the training ... The CP training workshops included lectures, structured role playing, and group discussion sessions The training handouts included templates, checklists, and reference materials summarizing lecture...
... HK supervised the data analysis and contributed to interpretation of the results and editing the manuscript All authors contributed the interpretation and discussion of the results They read and ... number of individuals inthe Komo-Ise cohort from 1993-2000 Subjects inthe Komo-Ise study were men and women aged 40-69 years living inthe village of Komochi andthe downtown area of the city ... high BMI in women and a low BMI in men [28] The “jolly fat” hypothesis [29] was substantiated only in men by another study [30], in which the authors speculated that the “jolly fat” hypothesis...
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... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, andthe scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies andthe Institute of Medicine ... facilities Inthe vitality category, new theory and modeling initiatives, notably the Coupling Complexity initiative (discussed inthe report of the Panel on Theory, Modeling, and Data Exploration) and ... wind and its solar source, and of its interactions with Earth, other planets, andthe ionized and neutral gases of the local interstellar medium The beginnings of this understanding reach farther...
... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, andthe scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies andthe Institute of Medicine ... facilities Inthe vitality category, new theory and modeling initiatives, notably the Coupling Complexity initiative (discussed inthe report of the Panel on Theory, Modeling, and Data Exploration) and ... wind and its solar source, and of its interactions with Earth, other planets, andthe ionized and neutral gases of the local interstellar medium The beginnings of this understanding reach farther...
... 'grandfather chair' and is made possible by using steel and leather The best use of the specific character of material and form of each element is used in order to obtain both minimal weight and ... its way to the top, there were other avenues of the International Style that were becoming very popular, and one of these was the furniture A principle of the Bauhaus was to cater to the development ... housing The Bauhaus designers were infatuated with metal Metal was cheaper, lighter, less bulky and more hygienic The furniture designed inthe International Style followed the same criteria as the...
... Yet, in 1961 when they were discovered on the Moon, multiring basins were unknown on theEarthandthe prospects of finding them seemed bleak The earliest and presumably the largest of Earth' s ... crossing the crust and upper mantle In fact, as Khain and Ryabukhin reveal, there was intense discussion at Moscow State University, with, in effect, two contradictory theories being taught inthe ... is interesting that the nineteenth century (Cuvierian) catastrophists were looking to some such event to explain the discontinuities inthe stratigraphic record; and it was discontinuities in the...
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... groups; most of them form an homodimer and each subunit binds a copper and zinc ion [12] In plants, Cu,ZnSODs are mainly located inthe cytosol andinthe chloroplast stroma, although other locations ... cDNA synthesis/Gigapack III Gold cloning kits (Stratagene) according to the manufacturer's instructions 2.5 Northern analysis Seedling samples were grinded to a fine powder in a mortar using liquid ... computation and unrooted tree plotting, respectively Analysis of the tree clearly established the P pinaster deduced protein within the chloroplastidic Cu,Zn-SODs, yet indicating the natural...
... was involved in 0.8%, the extremities in 62.7%, the thorax in 9.7%, the spine in 8.4%, andthe pelvis in 18.3% Table shows the course of disease concerning radiological lesions (means) inthe ... inthe normal range in initial and follow -up diagnostics Ferritin levels, however, were significantly higher inthe initial examination versus follow-ups (ANOVA,P < 0.05) C-reactive protein in ... clinically involved in 2.7%, the extremities in 53.3%, the thorax in 19.6%, the spine in 6.5% andthe pelvis in 17.9% of patients (Table 1) At the time of diagnosis, 22% of patients complained about...
... durable and could lead to some of the cardinal symptoms of PTSD Examining these processes in critically ill patients will require advances in brain imaging or non-invasive measures of brain injury ... predict that they are inthe brain [12] Exciting advances in neuroscience are linking fundamental psychological processes of likely relevance to PTSD such as fear, arousal, extinction, and reward ... neurotrophins, neurotransmitters, or their receptors, thereby altering memory consolidation and retrieval processes or creating an imbalance between excitatory and inhibitory brain circuits These...