a matter of life and death

... currentposition as an associate professor (senior lecturer) in applied mathematics at theUniversity of Bath.As an applied mathematician, I see mathematics as, first and foremost, a practicaltool to make ... The rate of decay can be characterized by the half-life of a material—thetime it takes for half of the unstable atoms to decay Because the decay isexponential, no matter how much of the radioactive ... region raged on, with Japan showinglittle sign of surrender despite significant military disadvantages Understandingthat a land invasion of Japan would significantly increase the Americans’ alreadyheavy

Ngày tải lên: 15/09/2020, 16:36

... interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript. Availability of data and materials The datasets during and/or analysed during the current study available from the corresponding author on reasonable ... Since ethical standards limit the num-ber of participant contacts, there was a maximum of two attempts to contact a participant Fig 1 Study procedure Trang 5Data analysisThe Statistical Package for ... variance in Table 1 Socio-demographic and medical characteristics participants and non-responders (Continued) Phase of care trajectory Abbreviations: M mean, SD standard deviation, n number of participants

Ngày tải lên: 20/09/2020, 17:52

... insurance, and pharmaceutical industries, has allowed health care costs to soar far above the costs for comparable products and services in Canada, Great Britain, and continental European countries ... real macho attitude, where the woman is supposed to stay at home and take care of the children and clean the house and cook the food And he’s going... to take the place of ... hopes of becoming a veterinarian, Loretta believed in the American dream Her father was securely employed in a setting that guaranteed good health care and other benefits for his family

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:37

... (age and sex), parental factors (parental marital status and father’s occupation), general health factors (self-esteem, anxiety and depression) and socio-environmental factors (quality of parental ... Medicine Hospital, Gamal Abdul Naser Road, P.O Box 4081, Safat, Kuwait Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © 2011 Al-Fayez and Ohaeri; licensee BioMed Central Ltd This ... support an association, not causality Moreover, the variables not measured, such as parental age, and monogamy/polygamy family setting could have contributed to the impact of quality of emo-tional

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... depression a a -0.44** a a a a a a -0.64** a a a a -0.46** a a a a a a -0.41* -0.61** a Table shows the standardized Beta coefficients, except for a row showing adjusted R-squares of the models Sex, age ... Labor and Welfare, Japan. Trang 9Author details1 Department of Psychiatry and Cognitive-Behavioral Medicine, Nagoya City University Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Nagoya, Japan.2Nagoya ... fear and social interaction anxiety Behaviour Research and Therapy 1998, 36(4):455-470. 32 Kanai Y, Sasakawa S, Chen J, Suzuki S, Shimada H, Sakano Y: Development and validation of the Japanese

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... of approxi-mately 140 standard care patients We anticipated an attrition rate of 20%, resulting in a final target sample size based of approximately 56 APC patients and 112 patients in the stand-ard ... messages and resource utilization compared with standard care are largely unknown patients (64 standard care and 36 APC) using the SF-36 as a measure of HRQoL showed that, compared with standard ... imbalance between APC and standard care patients from each site, each participating site enrolled in blocks of three APC and six stand-ard care patients Sites were not allowed to enrol more than

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 10:20

... to Maine, taking a large piece of land near Rangeley for his home and the headquarters of his research activities On this land; which he christened "Orgonon,” research and training laboratories ... proved totally fruitless All that I accomplished in my contacts with the highest officials of the Food and Drug Administration and of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare was to establish ... smear articles that continue to appear every few months The Pure Food and Drug Administration of the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare began an investigation of Reich based

Ngày tải lên: 22/04/2019, 14:24

... developed Aponogeton madagascariensis, also known as lace plant, is a freshwater monocot endemic to the streams of Madagascar Lace plant leaves possess a perforated lamina and are anchored to ... Trevor S Warner and Arunika HLAN Gunawardena* Abstract Background: Programmed cell death (PCD) is an important process for the development and maintenance of multicellular eukaryotes In animals, there ... disappearance was apparent immediately after treat-ment It is suspected by the authors, that a spike in ROS may have played a role in anthocyanin disappearance, al-though anthocyanin is also a heat

Ngày tải lên: 26/05/2020, 23:29

... Bai James1, Noel Nen ’man Wannang2 , Haja Ramatulai Wurie3, Sorie Conteh4, Abdulai Jawo Bah1and Mohamed Samai3 Abstract Background: Poor compliance to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) ... variable) of paediatric patients to HAART An independent t-test and analysis of variance tests were used to determine the association between participants’ characteristics and the average quality ... in Bahasa Malaysia Med J Malays 2003;58(1):79 –88. 19 Nedjat S, Naieni KH, Mohammad K, Majdzadeh R, Montazeri A Quality of life among an Iranian general population sample using the World Health

Ngày tải lên: 29/07/2020, 23:16

... (breast- and colorectal cancer), adjuvant radiotherapy (breast cancer) and/or ad-juvant endocrine therapy (breast- and prostate cancer) or radiotherapy with curative intent without add-itional ... neoadju-vant and/or adjuneoadju-vant therapy in Uppsala, Linköping and Malmö/Lund were asked to participate Inclusion started 15th of September 2014 and was terminated 28th of February 2015 A ... World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF UK) and Wereld Kanker Onderzoek Fonds (WKOF), as part of the World Cancer Research Fund International grant program (2016/1635). Availability of data and material

Ngày tải lên: 19/09/2020, 21:34

... information on the feasibility, safety and efficacy of EP as rehabilitation strategy, we have carried out a pilot study of a tailored EP in treated MM patients The aim was to assess feasibility and ... Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) anemia and fatigue scales J Pain Symptom Manage 2002, 24(6):547 –561. 23 Snaith RP: The Hospital Anxiety And Depression Scale Health Qual Life Outcomes ... the start of the programme Planned analyses were carried out on data at 3 and 6 months, in comparison with baseline Analyses included all participants who started the EP, regardless of adherence

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2020, 07:01

... named Jackie say “I heard you changed your name” and he said “I changed it to Latisha” and he said he snapped and he shot her You said “What was so turbing about that name change?” and he said ... identity that was visible, if rarely named Latisha, a black trans girl, was never named as such, was instead always named in court as Larry, a gay boy whose race was not speakable Latisha’s name, like ... 37effaced by a narrative of homosexuality, a narrative that gained traction and proliferated in media coverage and legal prosecution of her death In talking about Latisha and using feminine pronouns

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2021, 14:42

... Trang 1Amer DardağanSTANAK, Society for Research of Bosnian Medieval History adardagan @aubih.edu.ba Neoplatonic "Tree of Life" (Arbor Porphyriana: A diagram of logic and mystical theology) ... considered one of the last major mediators of the ancientknowledge to the Latin West His original idea was to re-educate medieval West by translatingall of Plato's and Aristotle's works, and also to ... curatorum; Kamber, Arbor amoris.Dr Minnebaum, Basel 1956. Trang 7salvation hangs".20 From the above it can be concluded that the mental image of the tree was animportant part of catechesis and religous

Ngày tải lên: 20/10/2022, 01:52

... Kolmogorov-Smirnov test Comparisons of the initial and final data will be analyzed via a two-way repeated-measures analysis of variance, and the categorical out-comes, via theχ2 test A partial correlation will ... applicable. Availability of data and materials Not applicable. Acknowledgements We gratefullyacknowledge Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa (CNPq) forfinancial support. ... the same tests as the baseline evaluation Trang 4assessed On day 2, asthma clinical control will beassessed via an asthma control questionnaire (ACQ), an asthma quality of life questionnaire (AQLQ),

Ngày tải lên: 23/10/2022, 16:26

... suggestion Akbar assigned the task of reconquering and governing the province of Mâlwâ Adham Chân was a passionate and violent man, as ambitious and avaricious as his mother, and behaved himself ... of India, and they appear as sharply outlined, even though generally unpleasing, personalities Islam has justly been characterized as the caricature of a religion Fanaticism and fatalism are two ... OF ILLUSTRATIONS Akbar Directing the Tying-up of a Wild Elephant (Frontispiece) Akbar, Emperor of India Mausoleum of Akbar's Father, Humâyun View of Fathpur Akbar's Grave Mausoleum of Akbar at...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:20

... is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.” Sun Tzu: The Art of War preface: This is a collection of ... almost three thousand problems from Encyclopedia of life and death by Cho Chikun The problems come without solution because of two particular reasons: first, I think we can learn more by actually ... dan players, kyu players will have to work really hard to solve them Dan player should spend on avarage a few minutes on one problem – there are some rather easy problems, but on the other hand...

Ngày tải lên: 22/08/2014, 08:22

... El-Amarna Akhenaten built a new capital city, called Akhetaten, at the site now known as El-Amarna The city once had palaces, a temple to the Aten, and houses for the nobles, but it was abandoned ... Scattered around the room were items including an alabaster boat, figures of a lion and a goat, a fan, a sandal, and even a glove 22 PASSING THINGS OUT The floor of the annexe was about m (3 ... to Cairo Workers pushed the wagons along the tracks Laying the tracks There was only a small amount of track, so it had to be taken up and laid again in front of the wagons Mace and Lucas at work...

Ngày tải lên: 14/11/2014, 08:59

... trainees and members of a Christian congregation Finally, Franziska Lamott, Natalie Sammet and Friedemann Pf äfflin report comparative attachment data from samples of women who have killed and ... ultimately an act of humanity (Abrahamsen 1973) We wish to avoid that which is potentially a part of all of us Both the glamorization and the demonization of violence, strategies which are familiar ... Attachment Representations and Attachment Styles in Traumatized Women Franziska Lamott, Natalie Sammet, psychotherapist in private practice, and Friedemann Pfäfflin 250 Conclusion: A Matter of...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 22:20

... Ultraviolet absorbance can also be used to check the purity of a DNA preparation With a pure sample of DNA, the ratio of the absorbances at 260 and 280 nm (A 260 /A 280) is 1.8 Ratios of less than ... interactions between the DNA molecules and the silica 3.2 Preparation of plasmid DNA Purification of plasmids from a culture of bacteria involves the same general strategy as preparation of total ... presence of the smallest amount of contaminating bacterial DNA in a gene cloning experiment can easily lead to undesirable results Fortunately several methods are available for removal of bacterial...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 22:20

... pathway, the PKB pathway and the Janus kinase ⁄ signal transducer and activator of transcription (JAK-STAT) pathway, to promote proliferation, survival and transformation [56,57] The importance ... discovery because of its role in promoting cell proliferation and survival [10] and as a result of the high frequency of rat sarcoma virus concogene (RAS) [33] and v-raf murine sarcoma viral oncogene ... loss of survival signals) and promote cell death in a manner dependent on the presence of BAX and BAK The precise mechanism by which this is achieved remains controversial, but a wealth of data...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 00:20