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... the global public Canada, as the largest non-African investor in the DRC's mining industry and global leader in mineral exploration, has a wealth of knowledge about the mineral geography of the ... supported him in overthrowing Mobutu in 1997, the newly inaugurated President Kabila ordered the Rwandan and Ugandan forces that remained in the DRC after the first war to leave in 1998 He also incited ... defending local populations and exist solely to profit from mining.128 As long as certain FARDC commanders continue to profit from mining, it will not be in their interest to end the conflict in...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

Ngày tải lên: 12/07/2014, 06:00

... 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 ... 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 ... during the head and neck irradiation [29] This is known from studies in centers with the use of helical tomotherapy Due to weight loss and tumor shrinkage especially in head and neck patients the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:21

... additional margins were defined around the target volumes in the inverse treatment planning program In order to start the optimisation process in KonRad, the user needs to define maximum and minimum ... radiation therapy, patients were followed up in intervals of to months including clinical examination and MRI scans Depending on clinical and radiological findings the period between individual ... constraints on both the target volumes and the organs at risk Moreover, penalties defining the relative importance of the individual constraints have to be specified Based on these constraints...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... 23 of them have been found in humans [21-23] The members of the MMP family have many similarities in their structure All MMPs have a zinc-binding motif in the catalytic domain In addition, they ... vitronectin,decorin,plasminogen Gelatin,CollagenI,IV,V,VII,X,XI,XVII I,vitronectin,Elastin,laminin,fibro nectin, ProMMP-9 proMMP-2 MMP-3 Stromelysins-1 11q22.2-22.3 Laminin, aggregan gelatin, fibronectin ... an Nterminal domain called predomain, followed by the propeptide domain The majority of MMPs also have additional domains, e.g., Hemopexin domain These additional domains are important in substrate...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... by the weight of the abdominal content, and increases the pulmonary blood volume in the dependent parts of the lungs under the effect of both gravity and the increase in cardiac output [7] The ... deduce that the main factor responsible for the increase in PaO2 and SaO2 in all groups supplied with oxygen is the presence of the drapes completely covering the face In these patients, the only ... nonsignificant increase in PaO2 and SaO2 in groups A1 and B1, and a significant increase (P < 0.05) in PaO2 and SaO2 in group C After stopping the head- down position and removal of the drapes covering the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... Acknowledgements The research work presented in this thesis was primarily conducted in Optical Bioimaging Laboratory in the Department of Bioengineering of National University of Singapore during the period ... introduced into clinical practice in 22 1972 [12], CT scan has been considered as the standard imaging modality for 23 monitoring diseases in the head and neck in the past decades However, the diagnostic ... illumination during the inspection, which is typically guided via an optical fiber, a optical imaging system displaying the picture to the clinician via the eye-piece lens or monitor to the examiner...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 10:09

Ngày tải lên: 16/08/2013, 08:29

... between the side of the head and the center line Repeat for the other half of the face You now have three lines going down the face and one line going across Put the point of your tool at the intersection ... Do the same for the opposite side of the head Next, with the tip of your tool, draw a line dividing the side of the head into top and bottom halves Do the same for the opposite side of the head ... fine, but ordinary is boring Add something! Next we look at the bag Choosing the material for the bag confronts the problem of showing the tugging between Santa and the dog The solution will involve...

Ngày tải lên: 28/10/2013, 16:15

... Go to the Head of the Class 2 Capitalize religions and references to the Supreme Being, including the pronouns referring to the Supreme Being: Religions: Judaism, Catholicism References: the Creator, ... sentence: The child said, "Blood circulates through the body by flowing up one leg and down the other." But: "Blood," the child said, "circulates through the body by flowing up one leg and down the other." ... famous buildings: Organizations: The Girl Scouts of America Institutions: The United Nations Courses: French 101, Mathematics 203 (but not mathematics) Buildings: The Empire State Building • Capitalize...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 16:20

... lef t brain rationalizes stories in attempt to organize and categorize the sensory experiences of the right brain As Taylor explains, “My lef t brain is doing the best job it can with the inf ormation ... to reduce their emotions to numerical ratings and explain the causes of their f eelings in verbal accounts is like asking someone who only knows English to interpret Mandarin Describing joy or ... however, that there are enormous gaps between what I know and what I think I know.” T he lef t brain speaks in words and numbers, and the right brain communicates in f eelings and images So asking someone...

Ngày tải lên: 27/01/2014, 20:28

... begins in the gut of the sandfly, but the organism completes its life cycle in the host following the fly bite The sandfly inoculates the host with the organisms in the promastigote stage Once the ... Africa, with the overwhelming majority of cases originating in India and Sri Lanka.235 The disease is rare in the United States, but infection has been reported in Texas and the Southeast.235 R ... CDC/Edwin P Ewing, MD, via the Public Health Image Library E, Immunohistochemical stain for human herpesvirus in KS showing nuclear staining in the vascular endothelial cells (diaminobenzidine/hematoxylin...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 08:20

... specifically of the miniature book, coincided with the transition from one technology to another (with the invention of printing): On the interface between the manuscript and printing, the miniature ... itself for grasping them (indeed, just for recognizing individual images within the headlong rush of the montage) So, too, the Hollywood elite watching in the Academy Awards telecast theater congratulates ... older representational culture of the manufacturing society, the principle of causality predominates in the linking of objects and indeed subjects with one another In the technological culture such...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:20

... sinuses There is a comminuted displaced fracture involving the superior orbital wall and frontal sinus on the right with a tiny amount of pneumocephalus There are comminuted displaced fractures involving ... Psychiatry’s local inpatient rehabilitation facility Discussion In the ED it is not uncommon to see many different variations of suicide attempts, including self-inflicted gunshot wounds, the laceration ... may result in a markedly increased morbidity and substantial loss of function, as well as debilitating cosmesis rather than in a complete termination of life, as is the goal This is the sad case...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... dropping rate within the same range of the droplet 123 size (Fig 2a–b) To further investigate the effect of the feeding mode, the variation of the particle size of the precursor obtained after the ... ð5Þ The effect of the feeding mode, such as dropping rate or droplet size of the NaOH solution, on the morphology and size of the hydrothermal product was shown in Figs and 2, respectively, in ... product increased with the decrease of the dropping rate from 1.00 to 0.5 d s-1 The specific evolution trend of the average length and diameter of the hydrothermal product (Fig 2a–b) determined the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... Slootweg, are leading experts in the field of the pathology of the head and neck As such they are the main members of the Working Group on Pathology of the Head and Neck of the European Society ... of the mouth In the oropharynx, the most commonly involved sites are the base of the tongue and the tonsils In the larynx, there are geographic differences in the topographic distribution, the ... by the site of the index tumour In patients with an index tumour in the oral cavity, pharynx and oesophagus, the SPT tends to arise in the same location In patients with index tumours in the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 09:20

... (MIB-1 index, 50-80%) in the right ethmoid sinus with intracranial invasion The diameter of the primary tumor was 50 mm and there was no lymphadenopathy (cT4aN0M0, stage IVA) There was no indication ... one cycle of chemotherapy, including cisplatin, 5-FU and docetaxel, was performed in the previous hospital; however, the tumor did not show shrinkage He therefore came to our institution for C-ion ... contrastenhanced MRI The clinical target volume (CTV) had minimum margins of 5.0 mm added around the GTV The planning target volume (PTV) included margins of 3.0-5.0 mm around the CTV, and this...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... developed in the irradiated field after RT, we investigated the site and pathological diagnosis, the interval from the time of RT to the diagnosis of the second HNC, and the clinical course of the ... maxillary sinus cancer) died of the second cancer The remaining patients are still living at the time of writing, with neither recurrence of the second HNC nor relapse of the primary NHL, or indeed ... was metachronous in 16 cases and synchronous in cases (table 2) In patients, the second HNC occurred in the irradiated field The clinical outlines of these patients are shown in [table S1; Additional...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20