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significant step forwards to assess the utility of these
questionnaires in another practice setting.
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assess the utility ofthe MYMOP2 and W-BQ12 health
outcomes ... latter setting, the W-BQ12 was not
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attributed the lack of responsiveness ofthe W-QB12 to
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... some ofthe most fundamental moral obligations
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tion and the happiness of others. The obligations ofthe morality system
are ... with
the historical facets of his position, some with the philosophical, and some
with both.
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ized cells in the wall ofthe afferent ar-
teriole ofthe renal glomerulus. These
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household, which is applied to the number of U.S. households
owning mutual funds. The average number of mutual fund
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another molecule’s RCL takes place [8]. Both of these
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spine and the anteroposterior diameter ofthe chest
increase with aging, thereby decreasing the curvature
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vital capacity to approximately 75% of best values.
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approaches is how therapeutically manipulating one
arm ofthe immune system affects the anticancer or
cancer-promoting properties ofthe other. For example,
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either because they are maintaining low-level chronic
inflammation as a consequence of defects in their natural
immune defence mechanisms, and/or because they fail
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