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... with the DAC aid norms (for example, over increasing the volume of grants and proportion of ODA), and the idea of reforming the current system to establish a single ODA agency under the (MOFAT-led) ... items addressed in the initiative have served as the backbone of the institutional structure of Korea-Africa relations (see Table 2): the pledge to treble ODA to Africa, upheld by the subsequent ... administration (see Figure 3); the initiation of two Korea-Africa forms in 2006 — the triennial Korea-Africa Forum led by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) and the biennial Korea Africa...

Ngày tải lên: 24/07/2014, 09:45

... clearance enables calculation of urinary excretion ratios, thereby eliminating the effect of these factors [4] Another observation from Chapman and colleagues’ study is the finding that gastric emptying ... clearance of substances [9,10] In septic patients, the volume of distribution of hydrophilic substances is often greater due to an increased capillary permeability resulting in fluid shifts from the ... mechanisms of this With this aim in view, further development and validation of tools Page of (page number not for citation purposes) enabling reliable assessment of nutrient absorption in the ICU...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... derecruitment In addition, in the context of extracorporeal gas exchange, the weakness of the concept of setting PEEP according to a table becomes evident, and in the present study, what is very ... achieve further ‘protectiveness’ during mechanical ventilation [8,9] There is some evidence and personal experience that the restriction of cannula sizes to 15 Fr or less minimizes the risk to ... Moerer volume reduction at the same level of PEEP led to a marked increase in shunt and low ventilation-perfusion (VA/Q) areas, indicating sustained derecruitment of the lungs This phenomenon...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:22

... in the large salaries of the players College players, however, see none of this money and can only watch from a distance and yearn for the day they too will get their share of the millions The ... common, as officials on every level seem to look the other way Their students are enticed further and further by the temptation of money, until the universities are investigated by the NCAA This ... part of the same exact "business" as the professionals, not share the same recognition They should receive money for their work, just as any other student does for any other job It is time for the...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 18:00

... largest theaters Also, the theater never shows a foreign film in the largest theater Theaters and must show the movies that are rated G and PG, so the movies that are there must stay there The most ... most logical choice is to put Mist in theater and Fly in theater 422 a “Honey” and “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” are either and or and The Rascals appear on the list right after Otis Redding, ... the hash browns and the cole slaw, so he must be in chair 3, which is where the soup was ordered 430 c If the potato salad is with the soup and the hash browns are with the fried eggs, then the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... alone is not responsible for the outcome of city council decisions—other members have say in the decisions and intentions of other members of the town council Furthermore, the information the ... telecommunication The relatively simple change to portable phones enabled us to roam around the house while chatting, unlimited by the length of the cord that attaches the receiver to the base of the telephone, ... than 140 years, the public library has endured a cycle of change We are in the middle of one of these cycles today as librarians try to be responsive to the trends of the times The Internet and...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... are the reflections of this point in the midpoints of the sides of ABC Therefore, the triangles ABC and A2 B2 C2 are centrosymmetric B2 A2 A1 C B1 C2 A B C1 Fig Note also that the center of perspective ... reflections of A1 , B1 , C1 in the midpoints of BC, CA, AB, respectively Then the lines AA2 , BB2 , CC2 are concurrent Proof The isogonal conjugate, Q, of P lies on the Jerabek hyperbola Let CQ meet the ... B Fig Proof It suffices to apply homothety of center the centroid of ABC and coefficient − to the configuration of the previous claim Statement Let O, I be the circumcenter and incenter of ABC An...

Ngày tải lên: 18/07/2014, 22:48

... of the complete graph K2n has 2n − one- factors, each of which has n edges For a survey of one- factorizations of the complete graph, the reader is referred to [10], [14] or [15] A one- factorization ... translates of any of these starters yields a sequentially uniform one- factorization of K10 of type (4, 6) However, there does exist a uniform one- factorization of type (4, 6) (it is one- factorization ... sequentially uniform one- factorization of K2n of type (4, 4, , 4) Let m ≤ n Then there is a sequentially uniform one- factorization of K4mn of type (4, 4, , 4) Proof: We use all the notation above,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 08:22

... study investigating the efficacy of sign recruitment in supine and prone positioning [13] They demonstrated the potential value of the combination of sigh ventilation and prone positioning in ... variables in clinical studies of the critically ill Resuscitation At the opposite end of the temporal spectrum, Wik and colleagues [7] reported on the effects of of cardiopulmonary resuscitation ... defibrillation in out-ofhospital cardiac arrest In the majority of patients, whose response time was more than min, this intervention significantly improved the chances of the individual surviving...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... mechanisms of pulmonary IR injury and sheds new light on other mechanisms Although these findings may not have immediate clinical implications, they certainly add another piece to a complex puzzle ... implications, they certainly add another piece to a complex puzzle Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests References 28 Van Putte, Kesecioglu J, Hendricks ... Twenty-four hour lung preservation by hypothermia and leukocyte depletion J Heart Transplant 1985, 4:325-329 Ferro TJ, Gertzberg N, Selden L, Neumann P, Johnson A: Endothelial barrier dysfunction and p42...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:21

... discriminate these patients Future studies will have to precisely identify the determinants of the secretion of natriuretic peptides during human sepsis as well as the confounding factors affecting their ... levels A limitation of the study by Mokart and coworkers is the lack of serial measurements of NT-proBNP over several days, which could help to confirm this tendency To date, the relationship observed ... Vol 11 No Roch Moreover, the role of anthracyclin treatment in the myocardial dysfunction deserves further investigation Mokart and coworkers also confirm the association of NT-proBNP level with...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... purposes) Retrovirology 2008, 5:49 and of the 3' portion of the pol [22] encoding the integrase (IN) The lack of envelope and integrase accounts for the defectiveness of AMV [reviewed in [23]] (figure ... respect to each other In spite of these published data, most companies still claim to provide RT isolated or cloned from pure strains of AMV This erroneous understanding of the source of RT has been ... to the env ORF that begins at nucleotide 5370 of MAV and overlaps the 3' end of the pol gene, encoding the integrase activity (IN) MAV infected cells contain the viral RNA genome, and both the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 05:20

... Unfortunately, most of these physiological variables were not presented, so the reasons for the above-mentioned striking findings remain a matter of speculation Not all patients staying in the intensive ... considered a major weakness of the study However, the intention was to investigate the immediate effects of early intubation in an emergency situation, and under these conditions haemodynamic ... ratio These two mechanisms should outweigh the potential disadvantages of mechanical ventilation in terms of cardiovascular homeostasis [8] Moreover, changes in acid-base status may affect the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... (3) the location of the impact and the occurrence of the tumor corresponded exactly one to the other; and (4) there was a more than one year interval between trauma and the appearance of the ... interval between trauma and the appearance of the tumor of at least year, a longer latent period increasing the likelihood of a causal relationship The presence of the tumor must be proved histologically ... documented the absence of tumor at the time of the brain injury We suggest that these conditions for the acceptance of a causal relationship between cranial trauma and brain tumor study are the following:...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:48

... refers to the consideration of meaning in an incongruent way at the level of the organization of the discourse The most congruent form of joining two ideas is An investigation into the role of metaphor ... and the results of the study were presented An investigation into the role of metaphor in description of emotion in poetic discourse • Part is the conclusion of the study which summarized the ... among the participants, including permanent and temporary relationships of one kind or another, both the types of speech role that they are taking on in the dialogue and the whole cluster of socially...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:44