... tests PSA what is the difference between total PSA and free PSA? What is the normal range? In addition, how can it be that if there is ANY prostate specific antigen in the blood that there is no ... cancer. Source(s):http://cancer.about.com/od/prostatecance… http://www.harvardprostateknowledge.org/… http://www.psa-rising.com/med/info/psa.h… PSA is a protein produced by the cells of the prostate gland. The most frequently used PSA - prostate-specific antigen test - is the total PSA, which measures the sum of the free PSA and the ... with the ARCHITECT i2000 SR comparison method. Differences between test and comparison methods were estimated at 2.5, 4.0, and 10.0 ng/mL (2.5, 4.0, and 10.0 àg/L) for tPSA and 15%, 20%, and...
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What is the neutral real interest rate, and how can we use it? doc
... Zealand and those in Australia and the United States. The currency risk premium was then derived from actual interest rate differentials between New Zealand and Australia and New Zealand and the ... policy-maker would wish to return inflation to the target rate. There is no clear link between the length of the horizon that is relevant for the NRR, and the preferences of the inflation targeter over ... it is not a ‘long-run’ definition. Furthermore, we argue that there is a difference between thinking about what real interest rate is neutral over the medium run, and what real interest rate is neutral...
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What Is the Cognitive Neuroscience of Art… and Why Should We Care? ppt
... is there a role for touching in the aesthetic division of labour, which is indisputably domi- nated by the seeing and hearing that seem to safeguard the distance between the work of art and ... meaning, the link between music and text, the distinction between struc- ture and content, the controversy between representationalism and expressivism, etc.); (e) problems regarding the understanding ... explore aesthetic theory in the Enlighten- ment, the reception of British aesthetic theory in Germany, and the significance of these ideas for contemporary debates in aesthetics and other elds. Speakers...
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What explains the association between socioeconomic status and depression among vietnamese adults
... design and development; data collection, data management and analyses; interpretation of results and the preparation of this thesis. This PhD research program and the study presented in this thesis ... depression among adults in this community in central Vietnam? 2. What is the nature and extent of the association between SES and depression among Vietnamese adults? Is the socioeconomic-depression ... socioeconomic status and depression among Vietnamese adults? Contributions to Thesis The work presented in this thesis was conducted by the author under the supervision of Professor Gavin...
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What are the differences between British English and American English? pptx
... know what his sat nav system meant when it said "Take the ramp". Another huge difference that causes great confusion is writing the date. When you write the date in numbers British and ... better to write the date in full (7th September 2007 or September 7th 2007). It also looks nicer. ! - watch out! These words could prove embarrassing. !Note - *if the sink is in the kitchen - ... British and American English differ. To write the date 7th of September 2007 a Brit would write dd/mm/yy (07/09/07) and an American would write mm/dd/yy (09/07/07). This often causes great confusion....
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Báo cáo y học: " Young adult obese subjects with and without insulin resistance: what is the role of chronic inflammation and how to weigh it non-invasively" docx
... was defined as the distance between the anterior wall of the aorta and the internal face of the recto-abdominal muscle perpendicular to the aorta. When the aortic walls were not visualized as they were ... measure the SAAT using a 7.5 MHz probe and VAT using a 3.5 MHz probe, 1 cm above the umbilicus. The SAAT was defined as the thickness between the skin-fat interface and the linea alba, and the VAT ... CD and PF helped to draft the manuscript. TM and TG performed ultrasound. TG participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical analysis. All authors read and approved the...
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What is Health Literacy? Health literacy is the ability to read, understand, and act on health care information. pdf
... administer. It is available in Spanish and English. 6,7 ã These tests are most often used in research but the REALM and the S-TOFHLA, a 10-15 minute version of the TOFHLA, also can be useful in the ... none of these can document whether a particular patient understands the one form they need at the moment. This leaves it up to the person requesting the data, the provider conducting the procedure ... beliefs and values. ã The U.S. Office of Minority Health offers the following definition of cultural and linguistic competence in the provision of health care: 3 Cultural and linguistic competence is...
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WORKING PAPER SERIES NO. 548 / NOVEMBER 2005: THE LINK BETWEEN INTEREST RATES AND EXCHANGE RATES DO CONTRACTIONARY DEPRECIATIONS MAKE A DIFFERENCE? doc
... to the increase in aggregate demand, while also being instrumental to the strengthening of the exchange rate via the UIP schedule. The latter strengthening in turn helps ease excess demand and ... years, there has been a special interest in the link between exchange rates and interest rates in both advanced and developing countries. This is understandable, given the important role these ... raises export demand must be oÔset by a stronger ex- change rate. The result is the opposite here because the appreciation would exacerbate, rather than ease , the excess demand conditions in the...
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Free Movement of Goods and Their Use – What Is the Use of It? pptx
... On the other hand, the exceptional status of those measures which do satisfy the Keck criteria is more and more anomalous. Perhaps the truth is that the ECJ is not thinking in terms of grand ... Commission v. Italy was transferred to the Grand Chamber of the ECJ. 55 When the oral procedure was re-opened, the Grand Chamber asked the parties and all the other Member States to give their ... remember his various visits to Groningen, many hilarious meals together, and his wise counsel and encouragement. The dedication of this special issue of this Journal to him justly pays further...
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What qualities and skills are needed for the managers to manage people?• What is the importance of good human resources management
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Báo cáo y học: "What is the clinical and ethical importance of incidental abnormalities found by knee MRI" docx
... more precise prevalence estimate. However, this is the first study in this area. Our findings raise issues for the planning of studies and ethi- cal issues related to the obligation of the physician-researcher to ... design and drafted the manu- script. SS and RO were involved in study conception and man- uscript revision. SRD and PRE were involved in data acquisition and revised the manuscript. AEW conceived the study ... read the MRI scans: they are not usually trained in musculoskeletal radiology or MRI beyond the measurements they perform. The researcher is obliged to put the health of the participant above the...
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Báo cáo y học: "Difference between pre-operative and cardiopulmonary bypass mean arterial pressure is independently associated with early cardiac surgery-associated acute kidney injury" pps
... Currently, there is controversy regarding the superiority of CPB flow delivered as pulsatile or non- pulsatile [29]. Surprisi ngly, there is paucity in the litera- ture describing the effect ... from anesthesiol ogist’ s record prior to administration of anesthesia from the radial arterial line. Operation and CPB All surgeries were performed through a midline sternot- omywiththeuseofCPB.CPBwasinstitutedusing standard ... L/min/m 2 and the MAP was adjusted to keep the surgical field bloodless and to avoid severe hypotension <50 mmHg. In general the targeted MAP was 60 mmHg. To maintain the filling volume of the extracorporeal...
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báo cáo khoa học: "What is the value and impact of quality and safety teams? A scoping review" potx
... understanding of how these teams are established, the barriers and facilitators to establishing and imple- menting teams and team initiatives, as well as the strength of the evidence about the impact of ... and evidence base for qual- ity and safety. This will require improved conceptions of the nature of quality and safety issues, an understanding of the mechanisms by which various structures and ... critical appraisal of the intervention procedures, measurements, subject selection, analysis, and the con- text of the individual, group, organizat ion, and syst em characteristics in which the intervention...
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