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... from the inclemency of the weather, and also in the case of the luxurious Greeks and Romans, who used skins in the adornment of their persons or homes In fact, the conversion of skins into leather ... of string, tying a knot in the centre and then joining the ends The head and body of the bird is thrust through, so that a loop catches it on each side and in front of the wings, the legs and tail ... of their own During the process they watched the bodies very carefully to prevent the ravens from devouring them, the relations of the deceased bringing them victuals and waiting on them during...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 13:20

... experience in involvement in life situations" and refers to the personal and societal consequences of health conditions [3] There is a growing interest in such consequences and the influence of ... were eligible and had consented to the follow -up and representing 51% of the original responding population at baseline Those lost to follow -up include 294 deaths, 12 departures and 24 exclusions ... within the home, mobility outside the home, self-care, looking after belongings, looking after the home, looking after dependents, interpersonal interaction, managing money, work, education, and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... for the occurrence of these events in the year prior to the baseline visit since they could reflect underlying predisposing conditions and thus have a confounding effect on the relationship investigated ... falls, nursing home placement and death for HRQOL Our findings lend support to the prognostic value of QOL measures in older people and grant further insight into the association between QOL and adverse ... and death occurring during the year after the baseline visit as well as nursing home placement and greater dependence in the BADLs at the time the phone call Bilotta et al Health and Quality of...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... of the Weyl chamber Such a random walk is reflectable [7] if the step set S is symmetric under the Weyl group W , and the steps and starting point are such that a step which starts in the interior ... pairing of walks, and since wαi has sign −1, these two walks cancel out in (3) The only walks which not cancel in these pairs are the walks which stay within the Weyl chamber, and since w(η) is inside ... under the Weyl group, and we will need to use the theorem in the form (4) later.) The step sets which give reflectable walks are enumerated in [7]; they turn out to be precisely the Weyl group images...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 08:22

... (SPSS Inc.,Chicago,Illinois,USA) Then the concordance and discordance between these two imaging modalities were investigated by checking the reliability As most of the patients included were in the ... CT The superiority of PET/CT, a metabolic imaging tool, over CT in the preoperative N staging is marked in this case In the literature, although PET/CT does not have a role in T staging in the ... patient and in the proximal jejunal segments of the intestine in another patient were not FDG avid So they were accepted as non malignant and no therapy indication was discussed clinically As per the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 02:20

... reference point in the target volume as described in ICRU reports 50, 62 and 83 Determination of the parotid gland doses The planning target volumes and both parotid glands, the mandible, and the larynx ... were outlined on the transversal slices of the planning CT-scans The planning goal was – while maintaining a homogeneous dose distribution in the target volumes – to minimize mean dose in the contra-lateral ... (RFSR) as a function of the mean parotid dose after 24 and 36 months was in group I 66% and 74%, in group II 56% and 49%, and in group III 31% and 24%, respectively Multiple linear regression analyses...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:21

... 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...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... UO and KP participated in the 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 and the 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...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:22

... the manuscript and reviewed it for publication URL, TL and MQ were involved in the literature review and helped draft parts of the manuscript MQ supervised the writing of the manuscript URL and ... HFH performed the operation HFH, URL and TL supervised the general management and follow -up of the patient All authors have read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors ... report and review of the literature Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 2010, 35:E152-E154 23 Boriani S, Weinstein JN, Biagini R: Primary bone tumors of the spine Terminology and surgical staging Spine 1997,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... of the study, performed the clinical investigation (diagnosis, treatment and assessment), and drafted the manuscript TAF participated in the design of the study and performed the clinical investigation ... domains throughout follow -up for up to 12 months The most striking finding of the current study may be that the social functioning domain, which is significantly impaired in patients with SAD in ... with the eight domain scores of the SF-36 at each time point as dependent variables and the baseline demographic and clinical variables as independent variables, controlling for the baseline SF-36...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... 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 ... writing the manuscript YS and SS established the concept and design of the Komo-Ise cohort study and carried out the data collection MN contributed statistical analysis and interpretation of the ... number of individuals in the Komo-Ise cohort from 1993-2000 Subjects in the Komo-Ise study were men and women aged 40-69 years living in the village of Komochi and the downtown area of the city...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:23

... sensitive methods In recent years, owing to an increase in the antiviral prophylaxis, there has been a decline in reduction in morbidity and mortality caused by this virus [5] Since unwanted exposure ... immediately for pp65, and real time PCR for HCMV (qRT-PCR) The study was approved by both the institute’s research and ethics committee and informed consent was obtained from the donors and the renal transplant ... Smears were fixed in methanol for 10 minutes Immunofluorescence staining was carried out on the smears using pp65 staining kit obtained from Argene SA, France The smears were stained with mouse...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 02:20

... to these clinically important interactions, participants were stratified according to gender and their drinking status at the entry of the study (Table 3) Girls in the early intoxication group ... “Having trouble concentrating in class” and “Can not manage to be calm in class” indicating attention problems, and “Arguing with the teacher”, “Having fistfights” and “Getting scolded by the ... between parental education and frequent drinking as well as drug use, was limited and did not alter the main findings in the article Conclusions This study supports the opinion that especially conduct...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... fascioliasis In 2007, Kabaalioğlu A and colleagues reported the results of sonographic and CT findings in 87 patients during the initial phase and long-term follow -up 3 In 2012, Dusak Abdurrahim and ... US and/ or CT, divided into groups: Group A includes 126 patients with fascioaliasis Group B consists of 89 patients uninfected fascioliasis 3.2.1 Value of US findings combined eosinophils in ... (93.3%) and AUC = 0.971 3.2.2 Value of CT findings combined eosinophils in diagnosing fascioliasis 3.2.2.1 Selecting a logistic regression model based variables: Eosinophils > 8% and CT findings...

Ngày tải lên: 01/07/2016, 11:15

... the concept of an extensible operating system is once again gaining acceptance this time as the solution to the unconstrained growth of UNIX During the last 20 years operating systems and their ... and the pager request port to which the data should be returned To clean dirty pages, the kernel performs a pager_data_write call specifying the location in the memory object, and including the ... Mach runs on the majority of workstations and mainframes within the Department of Computer Science, and supports projects in distributed computing and parallel processing such as the Camelot distributed...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05

... action and conservative propaganda, and with the break up of the radical associations and the consequent erosion of the links between these organisations and other intellectual currents and circles, ... literature in promoting the collision of mind with mind’, rather than simply communicating the epiphanies of inspired individuals – or what amounted to the same thing, unexamined ideas – to the reading ... In other words, I am interested in the ways that these poets mobilized existing cultural assumptions in order to highlight the importance of the poet rather than in exploring their changing relation...

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