... Page of Table Key factors related to the pre-hospital medical services during the medical responseto the Bam earthquake Pre-hospital medical response Obstacles Facilitators Triage - Absence ... responseto the Bam earthquake with specific emphasis on the pre-hospital medical management during the first days Our aim was to identify obstacles and facilitators in pre-hospital medical response ... insignificant Obstacles to Transportation The transportation of casualties to medical centres is an essential function in disaster response The government decided to transfer all casualties to other cities...
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... investigated under dosage -response observations in multiple sets of laboratory reactors In case of simulated wastewater organic contaminations of 15 mg/L and 30 mg/L as TOC in the influent water ... The TOC removal efficiency was found to be less than 8% in the laboratory-scale AIRU (Table 3) Thus, two major phenomena would be related to the decrease in arsenic removal efficiency in response ... effluent waters of the laboratoryscale AIRU AIRU Influent Water HA (mg/L as TOC) SWW (mg/L as TOC) 15 15 30 30 AIRU Effluent Water HA (mg/L as TOC) SWW (mg/L as TOC) 13.7 13.9 28.1 28.5 HA: Humic...
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... with it anymore I couldn’t deal with it I stopped talking to all my friends I had a ton of friends from [my hometown], and I wasn’t allowed to talk to any of them.”13 Contraceptive Use and Birth ... also needs to be part of the faceto-face assessment between the provider and the client The client’s responses to these questions will help to inform the provider about the best way to proceed ... tried to get you pregnant when you didn’t want to be?” “Does your partner refuse to use condoms when you ask?” “Has he ever tried to force or pressure you to become pregnant when you didn’t want to...
... deposits from abroad Customer funding gap The customer funding gap is customer lending less customer funding, where customer refers to all non-bank borrowers and depositors Source: Bank of England, ... by many industry commentators as a means to reduce banking system risks and to cut the total costs of credit intermediation, with credit risk passed through to end investors, reducing the need ... 1.12: Trading book assets & capital 2007: examples Market risk capital requirement as % trading assets Trading assets as % of total assets Trading / market risk capital as % total capital requirements...
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... expression of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-alpha (PPARa) and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma coactivator-1 (PGC-1), pivotal nuclear regulators of numerous fatty acid ... metabolic gene switch from fatty acids to glucose in the murine female heart at baseline linked to enhanced mitochondrial respiratory capacity in responseto oxidative stress Moreover, we found ... mitochondrial respiratory function in female control mouse hearts in responseto oxygen lack (A) Percentage recovery of state respiration after 20 of oxygen deprivation (B) Total postanoxic mitochondrial...
... crisis protocols Too often, leaders are told to think outside the box during a massive crisis However, in an MCE, hospital personnel must first go into the box, be fully aware of the protocols, ... expectations, understanding, and responses of both individuals and communities to an MCE The management of the acute situation sets the tone for the community’s response The accurate description ... and Responseto a Mass Casualty Event Resulting from Terrorist Use of Explosives • Institute call-screening strategies to determine the level of urgency required to address calls, including preset...
... Lui stood up and went to the technician 8:30 am The technician asked Mrs Lui if she was Mrs Trueman; she said "yes." 8:35 am The technician took Mrs Lui to the dressing room and asked her to change ... have contributed to the error Root-cause analysis drills down through the system to examine why the mistake occurred, rather than who made it; the goal is not to point fingers but to learn from ... Lui nods At 8:35 am, the technician takes Mrs Lui to the dressing room and asks her to change into a gown Mrs Lui and her son are then taken into x-ray room The radiology nurse comes in and asks...
... 10 h in a Beckman SW28 rotor 1.2 mL fractions were collected from the top of the gradient and processed to analyze acid insoluble radioactivity DNA cytofluorometry For cytofluorometry of cellular ... incubations were stopped, cells were fixed with acetone/methanol and total DNA was stained with bisbenzimide Subsequently cells were photographed and counted The percentage of mitotic cells was ... seem to be sufficient to accumulate replicons ready to initiate immediately after O2 recovery Perhaps these cells already were in G0 at the time of medium exchange Yan et al [18] presented flow cytometric...
... great violence to it and to him. . . The Jew keeps the law out of gratitude, as the proper responseto grace—not, in other words, in order to get into the covenant people, but to stay in Being ... understand all of the glorious things that have happened to him in order to be saved But these things all have to happen to him And if he comes to the settled conviction, when he hears about them, that ... will give themselves totally to the delighted study of the text and allow themselves to be taken wherever it leads, to think new thoughts arising out of the text and to dare to try them out in...
... enhance its capacity to better respond to future disasters United States Government Accountability Office Mr Chairman and Members of the Committee: I am pleased to be here today to discuss the Small ... effort by GAO to assist Congress in assessing the response of federal, state, and local agencies to the Gulf Coast hurricanes and to identify steps that such organizations could take to improve ... We encourage SBA to actively pursue this and other initiatives that may further enhance its capacity to better respond to future disasters, and we will monitor SBA’s efforts to implement our...
... deprivation Autophagy is strongly upregulated in responseto nutrient deprivation [19,29] To examine the autophagic responseto starvation in HL-1 cells, GFP–LC3expressing cells were subjected to nutrient ... lysosomal activity to quantify autophagic flux During the initiation of autophagy, cytosolic LC3 (LC3-I) is cleaved and lipidated to form LC3-II [16,20] LC3-II is then recruited to the autophagosomal ... steady-state autophagy without a corresponding increase in cumulative autophagy would indicate a defect in autophagosome clearance (a failure to route autophagosome to lysosomes or to degrade them...
... vegetative hyphae In responseto nutritional stress and extracellular signaling, aerial hyphae develop, in which spores mature [7] As soil-dwelling organisms, streptomycetes need to respond to highly variable ... phase [21,22] The regulator PutR and the activator CRP from Vibrio vulnificus bind simultaneously to overlapping sites but probably to opposite faces This process leads to activation of the transcription ... Restricted fragments A and B (to delete site I), C and D (to delete site II), E and F (to delete site III), G and H (to delete the perfect inverted repeat) and I and F (to delete simultaneously sites...