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... path Blood from the body returns to the right side of the heart The heart then pumps it to the lungs The lungs take carbon dioxide out of the blood The blood gets oxygen from the lungs This oxygen-rich ... oxygen-rich blood goes to the left side of the heart The blood is then pumped to all body cells What path does blood follow from the body to the left side of the heart? from upper body The heart pumps ... When you put things in a sequence you put them in order Follow the sequence of blood as it moves through the body The Heart The heart is a muscular pump It carries blood to all parts of the body...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2014, 14:34

... tissue There are two kinds of vascular tissue Xylem carries water and nutrients up from the roots It brings them to other parts of a plant Phloem carries food from the leaves to other parts of a ... you put things in sequence, you put them in order As you read, follow the sequence of photosynthesis Photosynthesis Photosynthesis produces food for plants Photosynthesis uses water from the soil ... throughout the stem What is the function of xylem cells? The inner part of this tree is filled with xylem The inner part of a tree trunk, called heartwood, is filled with woody xylem cells These cells...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2014, 14:43

... assess the severity of lipodystrophy from the perspective of individuals living with HIV [40] Similar to the instruments included in our study, none of these instruments were developed to assess the ... Measuring quality of life from the point of view of HIV-positive subjects: the HIVQL31 Qual Life Res 1997, 6(6):585-594 33 Avis NE: Development of the MQoL-HIV: the multi-dimensional quality of life questionnaire ... is, they measured some part of all dimensions of disability [29-35] The number of items in these instruments ranged from 29 (HIV/AIDS Stress Scale) to 177 (HOPES) Authors classified six of the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... elderly, thus extending the period of physical autonomy, and retarding the onset of the effects of aging The fact that the majority of elderly people are currently living in their own home is in ... objective of adapting interventions to the risk profiles of the elderly person, the recommendations will be formulated with regards both to the type of intervention and to the content of the intervention ... sample size); –– the number of studies on the relation and their coherence To provide a summary of the scientific literature addressing the etiology* of falls in the elderly, the Guide provides...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... people The seed for the writers’ workshop as we now know it was planted at the end of the nineteenth century at the University of Iowa The result was the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, which is one of the ... founded as a kind of “friends of Kent Beck” organization,* but of cially we were aimed at the goal of promoting the ideas of the architect Christopher Alexander—especially the idea of patterns and ... If the others are strangers, then the results are unpredictable This is the crucial point in the early arc of improvement The wrong reaction can cause the fledgling maker to quit and then stop The...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

... developing profiles of assisted living residents and staff A DEFINITIONS OF ASSISTED LIVING AT THE TIME OF THE 1992 POLICY SYNTHESIS The 1992 Policy Synthesis found that the term “assisted living ... provides an overview of assisted living This chapter follows the evolution of the term assisted living from the time of the 1992 Policy Synthesis to the present It also focuses on the issues involved ... E The Organization of the Literature Review Update II AN OVERVIEW OF ASSISTED LIVING: WHAT IS ASSISTED LIVING? A Definitions of Assisted Living at the Time of the 1992 Policy Synthesis...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 17:20

... example of natural mapping The control is in the shape of the seat itself: the mapping is straightforward To move the front edge of the seat higher, lift up on the front part of the button To make the ... available from the appearance of the objects the psychology of everyday things And part comes from the ability of the designer to make the operation clear, to project a good image of the operation, ... when they are unable to use simple things, guilt that should be not theirs but rather the designers and manufacturers of the objects So it all came together These ideas, the respite of the sabbatical...

Ngày tải lên: 26/05/2014, 07:46

... parts 15 of the molecular structure of every enzyme and determine the specificity thereof Side-chains of one sort or another are probably attached to all sides of the protein portion of the enzyme ... between the the spiral and the —CO— groups at the end of —NH— groups of the newly formed The two hydrogen atoms of the newly formed diketopiperazine ring- diketopiperazine ring imide groups of the ... proximity with the cyanide group (on account of the angular relationships of the valencies) so as to assist in the hydrolysis of the latter In the sulphur-peptide spirals there will be rows of hydroxyl...

Ngày tải lên: 04/06/2014, 12:23

... predictive cut-off value was evaluated as the nearest point from the left upper edge of the ROC curve analysis graph Sensitivity was calculated as the mean confidence interval (CI) of the area Table ... refer to IL-6 mRNA, IL-6, mean of normal IL-6 level in plasma, and predictive cut-off level of IL-6 mRNA, respectively (c) SPSS software analysis of the AUC of the ROC curve was 0.809 and 0.453 ... with the onset of ARDS or SIRS and subsequent survival ARDS and SIRS seriously affect the prognosis of postoperative patients Anastomotic Page of 11 leak and pneumonia extend the length of ICU...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... incubation on ice μl of the reaction mixture, containing μl of the 10X Stratascript™ buffer, μl of 10 mM dNTPs, and μl of the Stratascript™ enzyme, was added to each sample The samples were then incubated ... not observed in the HP content of the tissues between ACL-X and control joints for any of the regions tested Error bars indicate standard error of the mean Values are μg of HP/mg of tissue wet ... expressed genes Further, the present study provides data regarding the potential hierarchy of expression of these three genes The CrLFC showed upregulation of both MMP 13 and COX-2, while the CaMTP showed...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... study if the number of subjects increased in each of the groups by years A simple linear regression was thus realized to compare the percentage of subjects by years with regard to the number of total ... increase The second findings of our study showed that the cohort of endometriosis women had an increased risk of ovarian cancer of 1.6 (95% CI 1.12-2.09) These data are consistent with other studies ... However, the hypothesis of an earlier development of the OC in women with ENDO cannot be ruled out The earlier manifestation of OC has serious consequences, since survival in cases of ovarian...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... quartile of the OPQOL score and the rest of the sample Results Out of the 239 participants enrolled at baseline, 29 were lost to the one-year follow-up: these missing cases were those in which either ... none of the criteria are present We also considered the occurrence of specific life events in the year prior to the visit, such as any fall and any admission to the emergency department (ED) The ... particular mention First, to the best of our knowledge, our study provides the first evidence of the predictive value of a poor HRQOL on the occurrence not only of death but also of nursing home Table...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... the study and the editing of the article BR contributed to shaping of the article and the editing of the article GEE contributed to the statistical analyses and the editing of the manuscripts ... physical health, the variables (gender, age, having children, clinical diagnosis of either LQTS or HCM, recent SCD in the family) entered at step of the model accounted for 24% of the variance in ... SCD of a relative) entered at step of the model accounted for 10% of the variance in general anxiety, with gender (p < 0.01) and recent SCD (p = 0.04) as significant predictors After entry of the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... 1: The percentage of UK and US respondents endorsing some impact of their muscle disease on each of the life domains Figure The percentage of the UK and the US samples endorsing the direction of ... (extent of impact, importance of impact and overall impact) for each of the life domains and the results of the significance tests between the UK and US samples The overall importance score of all the ... weakness of the skeletal muscle such as to cause varying degrees of disability The individual muscle diseases differ in their age of onset, their rate of progression and their pattern of weakness...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... from the regional cooperative office Although they had had a substantial amount of beans on their own, which represented the majority of the sales of coca in the whole society, they had to take their ... the community level However, in the case of “market failure”, such as the absence of markets or the presence of monopoly, it is normally first up to the government to correct the problem, either ... and column the number of households who responded to the variable in question Column then reports the "mean value" of such responses; and column the absolute variability in the form of the "standard...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 15:20

... feel they are losing their partner that they realize that they love them Then they cling on even tighter But the more they grasp, the more the other person escapes them, and the more fragile their ... "three authentics" must be present for the nature of mind to be introduced: the blessing of an authentic master, the devotion of an authentic student, and the authentic lineage of the method of introduction ... confidently the heart of the book: a comprehensive account, drawn from many different sources, of all of the four bardos and of all of the different stages of death and dying IN THE MIRROR OF DEATH...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 02:04

... prior to examination of the annual rings Graft sections were examined and the age of the graft, the area of the xylem across the graft and the circumference of the phloem across the graft were measured ... recorded Most of the xylem area of these roots was sapwood The grafted circumference of the phloem was assumed to be the length of the bark/phloem contact between the two roots, around the graft ... through the stump and the growing tips of more distal roots would be cut off from the living tree This theory of how roots die is further strengthened by the fact that there was little evidence of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... in binding to the MHC class II molecule Aq Thus, they recognize the same peptide but different densities of the peptide are presented depending on whether the CII is of mouse or of heterologous ... [12-14] From the panel of monoclonal antibodies generated, a combination of an IgG2b antibody of the clone M2139 binding to the J1 epitope (amino acids 551–564) and an IgG2a antibody of the clone ... significant These data show that neither T cells nor B cells are necessary for CAIA development Furthermore, the observed enhancement in the frequency of arthritis in the T cell-deficient mice and the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... potential therapeutic value of these species Table The categories of use comprising the complaints, their respective number of animals mentioned by the migrant PE2 Category of use Complaints (number of ... throughout the text and in Table The Herpetofauna of the Northeast Atlantic Forest [26] and The Herpetofauna of Caatingas and Altitudes Areas of the Brazilian Northeast [27] were used as identification ... complaint, so the total number of plants above (110) is higher than the ones indicated by the interviewees The parts of the plants most often used in the formulas were leaves (45.4%) and other aerial...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21