... population, ranging from 8% of consulting patients in Norway to 36% of consultations in Greece Some 43% of patients were employed (including self-employed), ranging from 34% in Spain to 52% in Sweden ... working) Furthermore, patients also experienced a substantial reduction in pro- ductivity indailylife These findings, combined with the considerable impact on patients' HRQOL observed in the ... reductions ranging from 15% in the UK to 26% in Norway (Figure 1) Again, the data were subject to marked variability, indicating that dailylife was impaired by GERD to a greater extent in some...
... Experience Explorer: a Life- Logging Platform Based on Mobile Context Collection In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies: ... Sarin R, Robbins DC: Stuff I’ve Seen: A System for Personal Information Retrieval and Re-Use In Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information ... cues for recalling memories and exploring related information and events A summary contains several landmarks Of course, summaries and landmarks change depending on viewpoints and their scale...
... Experience Explorer: a Life- Logging Platform Based on Mobile Context Collection In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies: ... Sarin R, Robbins DC: Stuff I’ve Seen: A System for Personal Information Retrieval and Re-Use In Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information ... cues for recalling memories and exploring related information and events A summary contains several landmarks Of course, summaries and landmarks change depending on viewpoints and their scale...
... alkaline balance is really a reflection of your lifeand your inner world The life giving balance of acid and alkalinity in your body is determined by two things: • Your Diet o Alkaline In- Take ... dis-functional!”(If you’ve read anything I wrote, then you DEFINITLY shouldn’t believe this one! :o) ) “Don’t stay out in the sun too long or you’ll get a heat stroke” Andonand on, andon Most ... Stress and Negative Emotions: Do you have a lot of stress during the holidays? Definitely! All the added responsibilities, all your existing responsibilities, family members coming into town, in- laws”...
... In the end, those 100 W are released as heat: by radiation, conduction and evaporation Under normal conditions, sitting behind our desk in our usual clothing in an office at 20 °C, radiation and ... skin somewhat larger, the radiation and conduction terms cannot change much They are determined by the difference between the temperature of our skin and clothing on the one hand, and the ambient ... and conduction are the leading terms, while evaporation gives only a small contribution But when we start doing external work, on a home trainer, for example, the energy consumption goes up, and...
... Assessing communication skills Building the confidence of students in communication skills was seen in the practice review as a key element in teaching and learning for beginning and qualifying ... change in social work education began with this consultation paper and included the Teaching and learning communication skillsin social work education modernisation of qualifying training for ... sessions: ◗ professional relationships and communication skills ◗ core communication skillsin various social work contexts ◗ barriers to interpersonal and interprofessional communication in social...
... to interact with tools, invoking those tools in various execution environments, dealing with general and tool-specific dataset formats and conversions, and working with ‘metadata’ describing ... writing a tool Similar but not as flexible tool configuration file and including tool file in Galaxy configuration file; easy installation of configuration file selected tools via a web-based interface ... generation of online publication or publication supplement A Page, like a publication or supplement, includes a mix of text and graphs describing the experiment’s analyses In addition to standard content,...
... primitive conditions on a continually advancing frontier line‖ Along this frontier, which he also describes as "the meeting point between savagery and civilization", Americans again and again recapitulated ... Frontier Spirit reflected in the Little House series Part 3: Conclusion This part summarizes the main findings; then draws important conclusions and offers implications for culture teaching and ... emerging industrial order of the 1890's ―The frontier is the line of most rapid and effective Americanization American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier‖...
... viability was confirmed by the trypan blue exclusion test and annexin V-FITC/propidium iodide (PI) staining (Biosource International, USA) Measurement of cytokine production DCs were treated in ... Nagoshi M, von Bernstorff W, Eberlein TJ Expression and function of galectin-3, a β-galactoside-binding protein in activated T lymphocytes J Leukoc Biol 2001, 69, 555-564 Kim HJ, Kim MH, Byon YY, ... CD11c and MHC class II, whereas region R2 contained contaminating cells, mainly dead cells (Fig 1) In preliminary experiments, we confirmed that the viable DCs show higher FSC/SSC, which means bigger...
... primarily in vascular endothelium, nNOS in neurons, and iNOS in macrophages Both eNOS and nNOS are consitutively expressed and respond to Ca2+-calmodulin signaling iNOS is induced by inflammatory ... coding for proteins involved in inflammation, such as cytokines, leukocyte-endothelial adhesion molecules, and iNOS (Janssen-Heininger et al., 2000) Both activation (Kalra et al., 2000) and inhibition ... et al., 1999), to inhibit thromboxane synthase, and to affect prostacyclin synthase in a bimodal manner (i.e activation by low concentrations and inhibition by high Chapter 2: Biology of Nitric...
... disability and health (ICF),4 in which a person’s functioning or disability is conceived as a dynamic interaction between health conditions and environmental and personal factors These interactions ... occurring mutations are the deletion of exon 18 and the delT525 mutation in 12 Introduction exon among Caucasian patients,19,21 Asp645Glu in Chinese patients,22,23 and Arg854X among African and ... is the execution of a task or action by an individual and ‘participation’ is a person’s involvement inlife situations and indicates the social impact of a certain health condition.4 These are...
... between perception of importance and feasibility of the QoL methodology indaily routine clinical practice and clinical trials Another interesting finding of this study is that, comparing the characteristics ... Measuring quality of lifein routine oncology practice improves communication and patient well-being: a randomized controlled trial J Clin Oncol 2004, 22:714-724 Young T, Maher J: Collecting quality ... Skevington et al [12] approached 800 general practitioners in UK through the national postal system to find out if they used quality of life information in primary care, to explore their reasoning and...
... conducted according to the principles contained in the Declaration of Helsinki All patients gave an informed consent The patients’ inclusion was censored in May 2007 to allow a minimum of 12 months of ... Reina Sofía, Córdoba, Spain 10Sección de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital Universitario Infanta Cristina, Badajoz, Spain Authors’ contributions Conception, design, analysis, interpretation ... Boue F, Spiridon G, Valantin MA, Michelet C, Farinotti R, Yeni P: Once -daily dosing of saquinavir soft-gel capsules and ritonavir combination in HIV1-infected patients (IMEA015 study) Antivir Ther...
... contribution of other factors involved in speaking 1.3 Cultural factors in the teaching and learning of speaking skillsin classrooms 1.3.1 What cultural factors influence on the teaching and the ... speaker and listener, and which includes both verbal and nonverbal components.” (Rubin & Donald L: 1985 cited in Mead & Nancy A) Speaking is not spoken writing It is different from other skillsin ... put on the importance of speaking skills It is only when speaking skills are mastered that other skills like listening, writing, and reading can be - 10 - effectively achieved In sum, speaking skills, ...
... Greeting people and responding 21 Making and responding to instruct 25 Saying GOODBYE 26 Asking for information 28 Giving direction and instructions 29 Thanking ... Thanking people and responding to thanks 30 Making, accepting and declining invitation 32 Making and responding request 33 10 Apologizing and responding 34 11 Making excuses ... Complimenting and responding 36 13 Complaining 37 14 Express opinions, Agreeing or Disagreeing 38 15 Requesting and offering assistance 39 16 Attracting attention and Warning...
... (ibid., 40) and to focus on international institutions and strong defensive and peacekeeping forces (ibid., 63) Caring and responsibility equal caring about and acting responsibility for the worlds ... foot on campus in fashion andmusic magazines, free iPod downloads, MySpace campaigns, on television and hip-hop radio stations, and through concert and sporting even sponsorships (Allison and ... television machinery by fleshing out the concept of participation in interactive television and how this has transformed associations between producing and consuming By discussing three cases of interactive...
... autolytic inactivation of wild-type trypsin (Table 2) Finally it is of interest regarding the in vivo mechanism of inactivation, that chymotrypsin and trypsin, mixed in concentration ratios close ... trypsin and chymotrypsin in the human small intestine Gut 10, 477–483 Low, A.G (1982) The activity of pepsin, chymotrypsin and trypsin during 24 h periods in the small intestine of growing pigs ... serine proteinase protein inhibitors J Mol Biol 220, 507–530 31 Fontana, A., Zambonin, M., Polverino de Laureto, P., DeFilippis, V., Clementi, A & Scaramella, E (1997) Probing the conformational...
... domain The domain fold contains a pair of calcium binding sites While the bc-crystallins of lens (not shown) and lower organisms in Fig contain two domain folds, spherulin 3a and NKA48 contain only ... single domain fold The stability of these two proteins is highly dependent on calcium binding [25] The typical domain motives contain a ‘tyrosine corner’ in the domain centre as seen in proteins ... compilation ª 2006 FEBS N Pinchai et al in Protein S (7) or spherulin 3a (2) NKA48 (1) differs from all of these proteins by not containing a tyrosine in a corresponding position In contrast to...