Management of chronic kidney disease
... urinalysis 1 What Is Chronic Kidney Disease? Before You Finish: Practice Pearls for the Clinician • CKD is a major public health problem that is common, harmful, and treatable • Detection of CKD is ... Green: low risk (if no other markers of kidney disease, no CKD); Yellow: moderately incresed risk; Orange: high risk; Red, very high risk Fig 1.3 Staging and prognosis of chronic kidney disease (CKD) ... this book, many special chapters were written by nonnephrologists but specialists of that particular field like radiologists, cardiologists, neurologists, surgeons, obstetricians, dermatologists,...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2016, 18:13
... auditor cannot be dismissed during this six-year period except under exceptional circumstances that require a court decision Resignation of the auditor during this period is likewise restricted The ... quality auditing (in this case one Big auditor versus no Big auditors) is associated with smaller income-increasing abnormal working capital accruals The t-statistic is -1.54 and is significant with ... (t-statistic is 2.10 and is significant with a onetail p-value of 05) This suggests earnings are less likely to be managed downwards when audited by large French accounting firms An explanation is...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 04:20
... seasonal variation, and we recognise that research is needed in different geographical regions Long-term monitoring of practices is also critical [7,8] Compliance in this study cannot be compared ... focuses on activities with a high risk of cross-transmission and was performed in a highworkload setting, both conditions being typically associated with an increased risk for lower compliance [2,6,7] ... the most stringent criteria for antimicrobial efficacy (EN 1500 standards) [7], must use recognised evaluation tools, and must monitor user compliance in daily clinical practice By comparing...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21
Are there lives not worth living. When is it morally wrong to reproduce
... compromised by disability (Harris, 2000b) It may be considered that this argument comparing existence to nonexistence is logically problematic Bonnie Steinbock (1992: p 117) explains this diYculty: ... non-existence Harris argues that if it is possible for a parent to have a child who is not disabled, and that parent chooses to bring to birth a disabled child, the parent is choosing to bring disability ... birth Harris (2000a: p 97) argues: [A] cure for this congenital deafness is discovered, it is risk-free and there are no side eVects Would the parents, in this case, be right to withhold this cure...
Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20
Do Some Business Models Perform Better than Others? A Study of the 1000 Largest US Firms doc
... Return on Investment is significant, and that is only at the 5% level.8 This result is quite consistent with an efficient markets hypothesis: If some business models consistently generated higher ... (BMAs) What rights are being sold? The four Basic Business Model Archetypes The heart of any business is what it sells And perhaps the most fundamental aspect of what a business sells is what kind ... and distinguish their different types We define a business model as consisting of two elements: (a) what the business does, and (b) how the business makes money doing these things To distinguish...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20
Is it a preposition is it a conjunction or is it an adverb
... this of course is the Champs Elysée, where I first met Sandra It was in August, when the Parisians leave Paris to the tourists As conjunctions in subordinate adverbial clauses This ... Peeve We all know what phrasal verbs are Students may not exactly love them, but they know what they are But apparently this term is not trendy enough sounding for the writers of English course books, ... been using a newish book recently Language Leader Advanced - which I quite like, but out of the blue there is a section on 'prepositional verbs' Now, as far as I am aware, this is not a term bandied...
Ngày tải lên: 25/08/2016, 20:08
Tài liệu Is It the Network? Solving VoIP Problems on a Wireless LAN ppt
... environment is clean, but for most areas where wireless VoIP is deployed, sticking with a conservative estimate is best Collisions and Retransmissions When you start looking at Wi-Fi collisions and ... 10% collisions • Anything over a 200-millisecond delay can compromise call quality; after a collision, Wi-Fi retransmissions are often sent at a lower speed The basic facts about collisions and ... worst-kept secret in networking is that the throughput of Wi-Fi networks never comes close to hitting the advertised 54 (Mbps) rate A far better-kept secret is why this is happening and exactly how...
Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 09:20
bankruptcy, is it the right solution to your debt problems 2nd (2004)
... this book is a checklist entitled “Should I File for Bankruptcy?” This checklist summarizes the issues discussed in each chapter, and helps you make decisions based on your own situation Now is ... Chapter filings This is true in parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah Neither of these trends is surprising Most people ... bankruptcy, unless you received a Chapter discharge within the previous six years (this is explained in Chapter 2), or • dismiss your Chapter 13 case This means you’ll owe your creditors the balances...
Ngày tải lên: 18/04/2014, 14:03
Báo cáo khoa học: "Why is early goal-directed therapy successful – is it the technology" ppt
... mortality in high-risk surgical patients JAMA 1993, 270:2699-2707 Wilson J, Woods I, Fawcett J, Whall R, Dibb W, Morris C, McManus E: Reducing the risk of major elective surgery: randomised controlled ... of preoperative optimisation of oxygen delivery BMJ 1999, 318:1099-1103 Hebert PC, Wells G, Blajchman MA, Marshall J, Martin C, Pagliarello G, Tweeddale M, Schweitzer I, Yetisir E, The Transfusion ... Marik PE, Sibbald WJ: Effect of stored-blood transfusion on oxygen delivery in patients with sepsis JAMA 1993, 269: 3024-3029 11 Rhodes A, Bennett ED: Early goal-directed therapy: an evidence-based...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22
is it the bus
... There is a bus, Jen Can we get on it? Is_ it_the_Bus.indd 1/25/07 8:44:06 AM It is a cab, Ed It is not for us Is_ it_the_Bus.indd 1/25/07 8:44:09 AM There is a bus, Jen Can we get on it? Is_ it_the_Bus.indd ... It is a van, Ed It is not for us Is_ it_the_Bus.indd 1/25/07 8:44:15 AM There is a bus, Jen Can we get on it? Is_ it_the_Bus.indd 1/25/07 8:44:18 AM Yes Ed, we can get on it Hop on the bus! Is_ it_the_Bus.indd ... sound-spelling introduced in this story Is_ it_the_Bus.indd 2/1/07 1:31:27 PM w w w.harcour tschool.com ISBN-13: 978-0-15-364075-9 ISBN-10: 0-15-364075-8 > Ë|xHSKBPDy640759zv*:+:!:+:! Is_ it_the_Bus.indd BC1...
Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2014, 13:53
My Botnet is Bigger than Yours (Maybe, Better than Yours) : why size estimates remain challenging pot
... complicate this issue even further What this means is that it is difficult to provide an accurate bot count in these cases, as distinguishing between actual bots and temporary clones or migrants is nontrivial ... DNS lookups for hosts listed in DNS-based blackhole lists The rationale behind this approach is that botmasters tend to query these lists to detect if their bots are blacklisted and thereby unusable ... clear the fog on this issue, we start by providing different definitions of botnet size and detail the context in which each definition is relevant In what follows, we draw the distinction between...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20
Why is their recovery better than ours? (Even though neither is good enough) pptx
... amount of QE.3 That is, our best guess is that the transmission of monetary policy stimulus is largely the same in the UK and the US during this recovery One way to see this is through Figure 4, ... (remember that date) This is because the UK economy has been largely stalled since then, while the US continued on its recovery trend At this point, the US GDP is back to its pre-crisis level, up over ... public discussion about economic policy through publishing rigorous but sensible non-partisan analysis by the NIESR staff I am grateful to him for gathering this crowd for our joint discussion...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20
Creativity Thinking Or the ability to connect to what is outside the box when you are inside it
... Focus on what is already known; • “Nothing” behind what is seen; • Limited possibilities • Shift of focus to the “Big Picture”; • There is “Something” behind it, even if we don’t see this right ... Creativity Thinking Today: What is Creativity; Why is it that important for Innovation Entrepreneurs; Why this is equal to “Design Thinking” © 2009 Russian Design Research ... and market boundaries exist only in managers’ minds, practitioners who hold this new view not let existing market structures limit their thinking To them, extra demand is out there, largely untapped...
Ngày tải lên: 03/06/2014, 16:38
Our life is better than it was for ourforefathers? potx
... forefathers? I doubt it In this mechanical age, life is all noise and bustle, hurry and racket, roar and rush There is a fever in our blood We are restless and unsatisfied, ever and ever seeking ... And the sense of security has gone There is fear in our hearts The machines of our science have given us a threat to destroy us Bombing aeroplanes and poison gases make war a terror And war may ... Of medical science there was little and public sanitation was unknown In consequence dirt and disease were rife in village and town There were no fully equipped hospitals, no trained nurses,...
Ngày tải lên: 22/07/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo y học: "Survival of TNF antagonists in spondylarthritis is better than in rheumatoid arthritis. Data from the Spanish registry BIOBADASER" docx
... respond to traditional drugs Because chronic therapy is necessary, continual review of this issue is necessary Competing interests JJGR is on Advisory Boards of Schering-Plough, Wyeth, and Roche ... monitoring of the registry and to Rocío Gonzalez for her help in the statistical analysis and data management BIOBADASER is supported by the Spanish Society of Rheumatology This study was funded, ... Characteristics of patients with spondylarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis in BIOBADASER and medications used by diagnosis Total treatments with biologics, n (percentage) by diagnosis n (percentage)...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22
Báo cáo y học: "Synovial fluid level of aggrecan ARGS fragments is a more sensitive marker of joint disease than glycosaminoglycan or aggrecan levels: a cross-sectional study" pps
... neoepitope-specific ELISA is clearly a more powerful tool to distinguish diseased and injured joints from healthy than quantification of aggrecan fragments either by 1-F21 ELISA or by measuring ... and KS capture ELISA plates, Maria Hansson for help in the modification of the ARGS ELISA and data acquisition, Jan-Åke Nilsson for useful comments on the statistical analysis and Ewa Roos for ... more sensitive in distinguishing diseased and injured joints from healthy ones than methods that not rely on the specific detection of this aggrecan neoepitope The ARGS ELISA could be used to...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:21
Báo cáo y học: "Pro/con clinical debate: High-frequency oscillatory ventilation is better than conventional ventilation for premature infants" pps
... support Thus, clinical teams often are less experienced with HFOV This may place individual infants at greater risk for inadvertent overdistention of the lungs, for impaired cardiac output, or for increased ... pressure that might lead to intracranial hemorrhage Second, the pathogenesis of BPD is complex, and mechanical injury is only one factor Other factors that contribute to lung injury, such as delivery ... benefit in infants at high risk for BPD [10] However, the majority of available evidence does not support this advantage For most preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome, appropri-...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22
Báo cáo khoa học: "Pro/con debate: In patients who are potential candidates for organ donation after cardiac death, starting medications and/or interventions for the sole purpose of making the organs more viable is an acceptable practice" doc
... [13-15] This is evident in the published literature, where the common justification for DCD is to increase the supply of organs Furthermore, the organ most likely to be recovered in DCD is the kidney, ... ‘double effect’ is suggested as an appropriate ethical framework to support antemortem interventions in DCD donors The requisite elements of this principle are not met, and this principle cannot ... double effect places this principle in jeopardy as a reasonable justification for many appropriate interventions in palliative care treatment; if this principle is brought into disrepute, it may be...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo y học: " Modeling the signaling endosome hypothesis: Why a drive to the nucleus is better than a (random) walk" ppt
... where k is Boltzmann's constant, T is absolute temperature in degrees Kelvin, γ is the radius of the molecule, and η is the viscosity of an isotropic medium The viscosity of axoplasm is approximately ... provide a noise-resistant mechanism for the vectorial transport of plasma membranederived signals to the nucleus Figure signal transmission The signaling endosome hypothesis of long-distance axonal ... Hypothesis posits that an active, directed process of signal transmission is required to overcome the physical constraints of axonal distances and volumes [7] Specifically, this hypothesis states...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:20