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... smoking, and a smoker to quit and maintain quitted?” Main results: The influence of “all the others” is essential when starting to smoke In the process of stopping smoking, relapses and continued ... relax and come together via their habit of smoking (70) The attitude towards smoking has changed during the last 50 years Smoking in the sixties and seventies was very common and “in”, but the ... from inhalation till the nicotine molecules passes through the blood-brain barrier and affects the body The nicotine affects the peripheral autonomic nerve system and the brain Acetylcholine and

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... of 32.6 months OS was inferior in elderly CLL patients in any LOT group Given the predictably inferior OS in the elderly due to competing co-morbidities and deaths from other causes, we compared ... Sharman, and Mark Weiss. Funding The Connect CLL registry is sponsored and funded by Celgene Corporation The sponsor supported the authors in collecting and analyzing the data reported in this ... institution and/ or setting Rituximab use has increased in hospitals while declining in clinics, which could account for the imbal-ance in treatment between geographic locations [24] These data

Ngày tải lên: 19/09/2020, 21:31

... of pain relief Pain Trang 75 relief by intravenous morphine P CA, P CEA and 3-in-1 anesthesia In the study, the authors used 0.125% bupivacaine in combination with sulfet anin 1mcg/ml Maintenance ... abdominal surgery, spinal surgery, and surgery big joints such as hip joints, knee joints Easy method of prolonging pain relief time by placing catheter in the epidural space for continuous anesthetic ... Use the resistance test to determine the position of the needle inlet to the NMC cavity Using the pressure test pump, both insert the T uohy needle deep into the organization while keeping the

Ngày tải lên: 31/07/2021, 21:21

... Sampling and Analysis Grain and straw subsamples were dried at 70°C and finely ground to pass through a 0.5 mm sieve Nitrogen content in grain and straw was determined by digesting the samples in ... Karnal and Ludhiana Blanket recommendations for N management in wheat in northwestern India consisting of applying half of the total dose of 120 or 150 kg N ha-1 at planting and remaining half at the ... estimating the mean N content of the grain at harvest (1.85% N for spring wheat grown in Indo-Gangetic plains of South Asia; in Exp 1 a value of 1.6% was used) and multiplying this number by YPn and

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2022, 18:54

... of the coastline Winds acting on this sub-region are generated from strong typhoons directly approaching the coastline between Hai Phong and Ninh Binh, the coastline of Thanh Hoa and the southern ... at the level above the windows and door (to be replaced the lintel) in the brick wall and continuously run around the house ƒ The starting rebars should be arranged at the location where the ... reduce the possibility of lifting-up the roof b Using the A-bracing to prevent the house collapsed during typhoon A-bracing in combination with strong wires to tie the roof and the house to the

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2013, 22:47

... Trang 1 Nguyen The Thao MSc., PhD Student Food, Animal production and Human Comsumption in the Asian Region A review Trang 2– Land limited: agriculture, building, infrastructure, climate ... climate change…,  Food demands v.s Food production “ How the world will sufficiently accommodate and feed its human population with out destroying the enviroment and depleting natural resources???” ... agricultural economy poverty reduction and food security gains Trang 19 Also, many millions off-farm jobs created along the supply chain (trading, processing, retailing)  Between 4-17 off-farm jobs

Ngày tải lên: 08/04/2013, 10:35

... dissolved Al and Mn became lower The pH value further increased and it reached basic conditions in the reservoir, and dissolved Al and Mn were removed more from the water On the other hand, the removal ... 66m, and 60m, respectively Stream water samples were collected at the middle parts of the grove from 4 points Sampling points St.1 and St.2 are in the same stream, and sampling point St.3 is in the ... in the other stream The two streams flow together to be one stream and the sampling point St.4 is situated in the joined stream, which is the only stream that flows into the reservoir The reservoir

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:17

... compensation and firm performance in the U.S airline industry may aid those seeking to invest in the industry as well as forward looking investment decisions by various groups interested in the U.S airline ... that the inherent instability of the airline industry can be traced to the structure of the industry and its economics, including the highly cyclical demand for air travel, high fixed costs, and ... effective independent checks They are not the fox guarding the hen house They are the hens guarding the rooster And I think the time has come to say we need the shareholders to do this … We’re saying

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2013, 11:44

... optical fiber, the region on the right is the ferrule, and the thin section in the middle is the epoxy Notice how the fiber is lower than the ferrule in the right photo This is the phenomenon ... be the original position of the new apex We can then use these values of x 0 and y 0to calculate the new apex location, x and y, by inserting these values into (7) and (8) Now that we have the ... permanently withdraw into the ferrule if the epoxy holding the fibers creep If the initial fiber height is too recessed into the ferrule, the fiber may creep too far back into the ferrule causing loss of

Ngày tải lên: 22/10/2013, 18:15

... users The larger the coverage, the greater the value for customersand the bigger the future demand, leading more customers to invest in theexpansion of the network [15].Increasing returns explain ... applications and the resources invested in developing its potential (seeFigure 2.1) In the introduction phase, when the company invests heavily, the ings are slow and not very significant This is the ... of the electric motor Similarly, the transistor and, later, the integrated circuit were introducedinto computers years behind their invention to transform the computerindustry Ultimately, the integrated

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 07:20

... analyze a randomly chosen text in terms of expansion to see how the findings can help to understand some features of the text and the intention of the writer In this thesis, the text chosen is the short ... investigated in detail The findings will serve as the framework for the analysis in the next chapter, with the hope to discover the features hidden in the text 2.2 Expansion As discussed in the ... roles in exchange: giving and demanding He goes on to analyze the nature of the commodity being exchange into (a) goods and service and (b) information This analysis can be illustrated in the following

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 14:44

... day in the United States 2Quick stats for the United States 3 Infant and Maternal Mortality Infant Mortality in the United States 6Infant Mortality and Race/Ethnicity of Mother 8Leading Causes ... in preventing birth defects by maintaining birth defects monitoring programs These programs collect data for detecting birth defects trends and suggest areas for further research They also link ... policy makers and others seeking quick facts at their fingertips. Readers interested in more detail and regular updates of many of the data presented in this book should visit PeriStats, the March

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... outcome of the forecast, • Gathering and analyzing the data using a variety of methodologies, and • Interpreting the results and assembling the forecast from the available information Framing the problem ... become the principal operating agency of both the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering in providing services to the gov- ernment, the public, and the scientific and ... in structure In short, it entails a discontinuity “Emerging” means rising up, coming into sight, and becoming apparent, important, or prominent Something that is emerging can be just coming into

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine ... with otherprograms in the engineering directorate Finding The committee sees tremendous opportunities for advancing engineering through interaction with other disciplines, especially in theareas ... man-underground while minimizing the impact on the population living in the vicinity and the disruption in service to those using the existing Trang 33infrastructure One major reason for the successful

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... vaccines in the elderly The current pan-demic has caused a heightened interest in influenza vaccines and Trang 8their performance.How the intervention might work Vaccines work by simulating an infection ... 49) Inactivated influenza vaccines in community-dwelling elderly at risk of influenza complications In the third comparison, we assessed the effectiveness of inactivated influenza vaccines in elderly ... Efficacy of influenza vaccine in the elderly: reduction in risks of mortality and morbidity during an influenza A (H3N2) epidemic for the elderly in nursing homes International Journal of Clinical

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 18:20

... obtained 4 hours after isotope administration The subjects were then instructed to collect and freeze the second-void urine sample the following morning A final urine sample was collected from the ... extended to Andrew Gardner, PhD, Dianna Doppman, Billy Carpenter, and the nursing staff of the Clinical Research Center for their roles in coordinating and performing this study, and to the volunteers ... differ- ences in FFM (Fig 3) In fact, Vo;?max alone accounted for 79% of the variation in TEE in this group of healthy elderly subjects, This tinding can be interpreted in two ways: (1) the increased

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 07:20

... around 10% at the beginning of 2003 and 20% at thebeginning of 2009 Figure 1 plots Intel and AMD marketshare from the end of 2003 throughthe beginning of 2009 [Figure 1 about here.] Changing technical ... introducing it and not paying the sunk cost Similarly, if theydecide not to introduce a product, then it must have been the case that the firm wouldhave been worse off introducing the product and ... computed by ignoring theuncertainty (assuming demand and cost shocks are zero) Thus, in practice, I first solvethe problem as a constrained optimization problem without uncertainty by handing it off

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 07:20

... histidines in the C-terminus (box in Fig 1) at sites: 92, 75, 66 and 58 As histidine residues are central to copper binding in many proteins they probably form part of the copper binding sites in ... and no binding was observed In our hands, as others [54], the most reproducible data was obtained from injections of the metal into a solution of the protein Typically an initial injection of ... three human cystatins Further support for the premise that the C-terminus could be the copper binding domain comes from stud-ies of the P79S mutant, which differs from the copper binding forms of

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20

... that the increase in the prooxidant state caused by iron loading has an impact in protein integrity, as indicated by an increase in protein-bound acrolein adducts at the cell surface, which point ... consumption and to examine the possible role played by cells and mole-cules of the immunological system in hepatic injury and repair Understanding the interdependence between the metabolism of iron and ... changes in the expression of the transferrin receptor and ferritin; (b) developed iron accumulation and (c) increased the prooxidant state and the level of oxidatively modified proteins These results

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 16:20

... measured at the midline, and along the infraorbital vertical line and the zycomatic vertical line representing the sites of the first premolar and the first molar RRR was estimated by comparing the measured ... loss of viability and death of Candida albicans Rinsing the dentures in the evening and keeping them overnight in the open air can indeed be the easiest way to carry out "disinfection" (Stafford ... Aging Study (HAS), the oral and dental health and dental hygiene habits of 364 old elderly, born in 1904, 1909 and 1914 and living in Helsinki, was examined in 1990 and 1991 The main objective of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20