... Forest and Landscape Research Institute.JENSEN F.S., 1993. Landscape Managers’ and Politicians’ Perception of the Forest and Landscape Preferences of the Population. Forest and Landscape Research, ... that natural resources are used more efficiently on a landscape scale.Multifunctional management of forests on a land-scape scale facilitates decision-making processes and provides a political ... it has integrated increasing societal de-mands into current management practices. To assess the present and future options in management of forests, one has to be aware of the historical context....
... such as hyaluronic acid (HA) and chondroitinsulfate (CS), to evaluate healing after cartilage repairprocedures. They randomly assigned dogs to treatment withautologous chondrocyte implantation ... a non-invasive method to evaluate healing after cartilage repairproceduresAndreas H GomollDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis Street, ... symptomsthat warrant surgical intervention. These patients undergovarious cartilage repair procedures to repair the damagedarticular surfaces, including microfracture, osteochondralautografting,...
... covariates (age, sex, martial status,educational level), the variable length of stay was not sta-tistically significant for any subscale. Adjusted R2 wasunchanged for mental health and vitality ... variablesSociodemographic data such as age, sex, marital status and educational level were collected. Comorbidityassessed using the Functional Comorbidity Index (FCI), a clinically based measure ... intellectualcontent. All authors commented on drafts of the manu-script and read and approved the final manuscript.Additional materialAcknowledgementsGrants from the Norwegian Health Association and...
... SørenKierkegaard and Jean-Paul Sartre) emphasized the univer-sal struggle to find meaning in life, to live by moral stand-ards, andto come to an understanding of suffering and death [31,32]. To them, ... P sub-scales, such as age, sex, marital status, edu-cational level, religious affiliation, SpR attitude, disease and duration of disease. Using the method of univariateanalyses of variance we ... spiritual, religious and philosophical practice. Finally the fact that the valida-tion was performed in a sample with at least two differenttypes of life-changing diseases (cancer and MS, and...
... intracellular domain and are activated, mainly through relocalization to theplasma membrane. When an activating mutation occursin the KRAS gene, the RAS G-protein activates themitogen-activated ... of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA and 2Bellaire High School, Bellaire, Texas, USAEmail: David Z Chang* - David.Chang@USOncology.com; Vikas Kumar - vkumar@mdanderson.org; ... chemo-refractorymetastatic CRC compared with best supportive care [4,5].KRAS is an important molecule in the EGFR signaling pathwayKRAS encodes a membrane-associated GTPase that is anearly player in many...
... PCR with Taq DNA polymerase(Promega, Madison, WT, USA) using the primers5Â-CACACTACACTGGGAAGCAGAG ACTCCAGC-3Â and 5Â-AGCTGGCCCAGCAGCCATACACAGTTAAAG-3Â. The cDNA was subcloned into the EcoRV ... using primers 5Â-CCTGCAGCAGCGGCAGGCAAGGTTATATAG-3Â and 5Â-GGGCCCAGAGGCCAGGCCGGGGCACACCAG-3Â, and primers 5Â-GGCATGCTGGCTCGCCTGGCTGTGGAAGCA-3Â and 5Â-GGATCCTGGGAAAGCGCCGCCGGATTTGGC-3Â, respec-tively. ... Skn, 5Â-CTGCGTGAGCACCATGTTCA-3Â and 5Â-TCTCCACAGTGACTCCCAGC-3Â; and Gup1, 5Â-GCACAATGGGCCCATGGTACCTGC-3Â and 5Â-GGATCCCTCCAGCTTCTCTCTGTCCTGC-3Â.These primer sets were designed based on the mouse...
... order to make the definition work it has to be elaborated in a way that garantses that the logical head of a phrase is uniquely determied too. Consider (~) John pe.rsuaded an american to win ... ftmctions and fonctional features is the principle of f~mctional locality: designators in lexical and grmm~tical schemata can specify no more than two iterated f~mction applications. Our claim ... IMPLEMENTATION OF LEXICAL FUNCTIONAL GRAMMAR AS A BASE FOR A NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEM Werner Frey and Uwe Reyle Department of Llngulstlcs University of Stuttgart W-Germany O. ABSIRACr...
... Dis-charge was assessed both after BMT and after technicaltraining school, the second level training after BMT, and before a participant's permanent duty assignment.Approach to statistical analysesIn ... health status were related to higherhealth needs after military deployment. Additional dataare needed so that military leaders can appropriately usedata regarding a military member's assessment ... questionnaires are used to providedata on the health and healthcare needs of all militaryhealthcare beneficiaries andto target specific healthissues. For instance, the Health Care Survey of...
... infrared analysis asa tool for rapid screening of some majorwood characteristics in a eucalyptus breeding programHenri Baillères a* , Fabrice Davrieux a and Frédérique Ham-Pichavantb a CIRAD-Forêt, ... biological compounds. NIRShas a substantial edge over other indicators because the spec-tra contain information about all chemical constituents of or-ganic material. This advantage eliminates ... felling to grading) and can damage the wood by causing end splits, warping and brokenboards (major problems for eucalyptus), as explained by [16]. Onthe other hand, shrinkage, generally related to...
... afterCABG in patients with an EF of ≤ 20%: a chief complaintof only pain, unstable angina, anda Canadian and NewYork Heart Association class lower than IV.Case selection has been shown to be an ... study was that preoperative EF is a statistically significant predictor for higher rates of early and late mortality after CABG. Patients with a low EF hadTable 3: Early and late mortality according ... governmental authorities.Early mortality was defined as death that occurred fromany cause within the first 30 postoperative days, and latemortality was defined as death that occurred more than30 days...
... practice and could notaccurately be attributed to individual primary caredoctors.Statistical analysisIn all statistical analyses, the three targeted tests arereported and analysed separately. ... planned behaviour as a process evaluation tool in randomised trials ofknowledge translation strategies: A case studyfrom UK primary careCraig R Ramsay1*, Ruth E Thomas1, Bernard L Croal2, ... formal mediational ana-lyses have been rarely used to investigate the causal fac-tors in KT randomised trials, and we suggestinvestigators should make more use of theory-basedprocess evaluations.Given...
... zoledronic acid may lead to bisphospho-nate-related ONJ and offers further insights into thepathomechanisms of ONJ.Case presentation A 65-year-old female Caucasian patient, suffering fromintraoral ... the jaw has notbeen linked to the annual administration of bisphosphonates.Case presentation: We report the case of a 65-year-old Caucasian woman suffering from osteoporosis whodeveloped early ... Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons: AmericanAssociation of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons position paper onbisphosphonate-related osteonecrosis of the jaws. J Oral Maxillofac Surg2007,...