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... design that brings into focus the ongoing structures and processes within the participating organizations and the environment within which they function, and how these structures and processes evolve ... NCI-designated cancer centers and other community and national program resources These process assessments will be supplemented with information from patient and family member focus groups and a cross- site ... over time, with sequences of different activities and organizationbuilding Institutional theory focuses attention on assessing, understanding, and tracking both material-resource factors within each...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... links among the pH and other biochemical traits and strong positive links among physicochemical and biochemical parameters The second group included the connections (some positive and some negative) ... correlations were significant with a significance level of 0.05 In particular, three major correlation groups with a large number of internal links were observed The first group comprised the strong ... the dataset The first two factors explained about 38% of the variation in the data, with the first component alone (PC1) accounting for more than 23% of the variation and the second component...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... shall, with respect to the 14 health concerns of women— 15 ‘‘(1) establish short-range and long-range goals 16 and objectives and coordinate all activities within the 17 Department of Health and ... grants to, and enter into cooperative agree- 15 ments, contracts, and interagency agreements with 16 public and nonprofit private entities, agencies, and 17 organizations 18 ‘‘(2) EVALUATION AND DISSEMINATION.—The ... professionals, and other individuals •HR 1784 IH 11 and groups, as appropriate, on Agency policy with regard to women; and ‘‘(5) serve as a member of the Department of Health and Human Services...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 07:20

... public 16 and professional education, services, and treatment; 17 ‘‘(2) establish short-range and long-range goals 18 and objectives within the Centers for women’s health 19 and, as relevant and appropriate, ... grants to, and enter 16 into cooperative agreements, contracts, and inter- 17 agency agreements with, public and private entities, 18 agencies, and organizations 19 ‘‘(2) EVALUATION AND DISSEMINATION.—The ... 15 fice, with respect to the health concerns of women, shall— 16 ‘‘(1) establish short-range and long-range goals 17 and objectives within the Department of Health and 18 Human Services and, as...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 07:20

... public 13 and professional education, services, and treatment; 14 ‘‘(2) establish short-range and long-range goals 15 and objectives within the Centers for women’s health 16 and, as relevant and appropriate, ... grants to, and enter 21 into cooperative agreements, contracts, and inter- 22 agency agreements with, public and private entities, 23 agencies, and organizations 24 ‘‘(2) EVALUATION 25 AND DISSEMINATION.—The ... 19 fice, with respect to the health concerns of women, shall— 20 ‘‘(1) establish short-range and long-range goals 21 and objectives within the Department of Health and 22 Human Services and, as...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20

... number and greatest trabecular separation Generally vertebrae are less dense anteriorly and superiorly and more dense posteriorly and inferiorly with heterogeneity between symmetric sites within ... height, weight and BMD [28] Another study comparing women with and without vertebral fracture found that vertebral volume was significantly lower in the fracture group when matched with controls ... smaller vertebral CSA than individuals without osteoporosis In a study comparing osteoporotic women with and without vertebral fracture, it was found that those with fracture had a reduced vertebral...

Ngày tải lên: 03/11/2012, 09:49

... management and pollution controls Contamination of raw water source Implement and enforce water and land protection zones Water stress/ insufficient water allocation Study water yields; draft and conclude ... 2% of wastewater Wastes are separated and filtered by various processes such as aeration, trickling filter, sand filter, primary and secondary clarifier, and oxidation Figure illustrates the various ... include blower and oxidation ditch, pump and trickling filter, and clarifier Based on the literature review, specifications, operating time, and capacity, it was estimated that blower and oxidation...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... Cause, Sex, and Age in the East Asia and Pacific Region, 2001 Deaths by Cause, Sex, and Age in the Europe and Central Asia Region, 2001 Deaths by Cause, Sex, and Age in the Latin America and the ... through print and the Web A physician and health economist, Dr Murray’s early work focused on tuberculosis control and the development with Alan D Lopez of global burden of disease methods and applications ... Deaths and Burden of Disease by Cause—Low- and Middle-Income Countries, High-Income Countries, and World, 2001 Table 1.2 Deaths and Burden of Disease Attributable to Risk Factors—Low- and Middle-Income...

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... Oncological Association Aims and Scope Cancer is a complex problem The international effort to understand and control it involves clinicians trained in many branches of medicine and scientists from almost ... diagnostics, genetics and genomics and epidemiology BJC also publishes minireviews on current topics, some longer reviews, and book reviews, usually by editor’s invitation Editorials and letters to ... accurately, readers are advised that new methods and techniques involving drug usage, and described within this Journal, should only be followed in conjunction with the drug manufacturer’s own published...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

... This Handbook provides the reader with nearly 600 solved problems in the chemical and environmental engineering fields Of the eight parts, two are concerned with chemical engineering and six with ... Co py rig hte dM ate ria l To Barbara, Megan, and Marybeth for their unrelenting support, good-natured criticism, and putting up with their husband and father [J.P.R.] To my lovely wife Helen, ... environmental engineering graduate and undergraduate courses; problems and solutions drawn (with permission) from numerous Theodore Tutorials; and problems and solutions developed by faculty...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 11:45

... environmentally sound manner (Wandel and Bugge, 1997; Tiilikainen and Huddleston, 2000) Tiilikainen and Huddleston (2000) also found that those with a higher income and young to middleaged persons ... morality and ethics in the social context He also noted that the sign value leads the consumer to a series of complex choices and explains why particular commodities and brands become alluring and ... (Becker and Murphy, 1988) Researchers consider morality as a process of rational individual decision making, focusing on ‘right’ and ‘good’ consumption for society and individuals (Carrigan and Attalla,...

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... families and clones varied between 26 and 37, 22 and 47, and 17 and 139, respectively The distribution of parents across trials (No parents/ No trials) was 26/6, 5/5, 1/4, 5/3, 4/2 and 4/1 For ... individual genotypes, I1 and I2 are identity matrices (with orders ft and ct, respectively, where f, c and t are the numbers of full-sib families, clones and trials) and R is the residual variance ... ˆ2 ˆ with σei , and h tended to be positively associated with σai i Trial had the highest levels for the additive genetic variance and heritability, and the lowest levels for environmental and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:21

... cut into 2-mm-thick strips, and then they were dried and irradiated with soft X-rays at15 kV and mA for 240 s from a distance of 1.5 m The X-ray films were scanned with a microdensitometer (PDS-15; ... ring-width and maximum-density series of all cores that was due to climatic and regional nonclimatic factors was extracted by this standardization procedure Standardization of the ring-width and maximum-density ... ring-width and maximum-density series were standardized to eliminate individual growth trends, such as age-related declines and low-frequency variance due to natural disturbance The ring-width and max-...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:20

... (NTCP/V10) and the incidence of SARP for 94 patients; the incidences of SARP in the group with NTCP > 4.2% and NTCP ≤ 4.2% were 43.5% and 1.4%, respectively (p < 0.01); the incidences of SARP in the group ... 0.001) and V10 (p = 0.015) were found to be the significant factors associated with SARP statisti- cally; the incidences of SARP in the group with NTCP > 4.2% and NTCP ≤ 4.2% were 43.5% and 1.4%, ... associated with treatment-related pneumonitis; the 1-year actuarial incidences of SARP in the group with V5 42% were 3% and 38%, respectively (p = 0.001) Schallenkamp suggested V10 and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... significant factors Patients with fixed tumors had worse DFS, as well as those with positive postoperative lymph-nodes (Table 3), and those with postoperative stages III and IV (Table and figure 4) The ... local and distant failures Adding these patients with the five with distal rectal cancer who refused surgery and did not develop local failure, the sphincter preservation rate among patients with ... cancer and died; one had low grade non Hodgkin's lymphoma and is alive with no evidence of disease; one had bladder cancer and died of causes unrelated to cancer; one had kidney cancer and died...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... patients treated with and without low dose -IFRT was 98% and 99%, respectively [28] The German Pediatric Oncology and Hematology Group (GPOH) initiated a study to assess the effect on EFS and OS of ... year OS and EFS was 94.5% and 93%, respectively, for clinical stage I and II These data are compatible with other published results The GermanAustrian group carried out three studies with different ... spread and volume of disease [6-13] Most treatment programs for childhood HD consist of combined-modality therapy, with a focus on reducing the dose and field of radiation therapy (RT) and the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... fixed effects including age and herd-year-season of calving (natural trimester); s is as vector of random sire effects and e is a vector of random residuals, and X and Z are incidence matrices ... the hot and humid summer and a lower reproductive performance, and the relationship between the winter and the less humid period from January to April and the best results for CSi, CRi and SGi ... i Records ending with an abortion, as well as records outside of the range 300-730 days for CI and 20-450 days for DO were deleted The first three Cl and DO i i were analyzed With the logical...

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