... right In China business people spend time getting to know each other before doing business That means that you will spend a lot of time talking business over dinner and socializing with your Chinese ... ˇ ¯ ı ` ı In this area, there is a supermarket in addition to the department store I think the supermarket is the most convenient place to buy things When I want to buy things, I go there A: 那太好了。如果我要买东西,我也去那里。 ... and chat with friends in bars This is a new thing in China Inthe past young people weren’t willing to go to bars Now they are used to socializing in bars Key Vocabulary 年轻人 ´ ı ´ nianq¯ngren...
... of the keratinized gingiva on the crest of the ridge (H) Radiograph showing restoration of the bone inthe second molar area before placing the implant (I) An incision was made along the lingual ... useful The incision to access the thin ridge is made starting on the superior aspect of the crest running inferiorly in a vertical fashion (Fig 1) The incision can also be placed inferior to the ... too superficially and the esthetic restoration requires lengthening the tooth without moving the incisive edge, then the resultant problem is the result TECHNIQUES FOR GRAFTING THE EXTRACTION SITE...
... a points Likert scale Inthe subsequent analyses, we used the level of involvement as independent variable, obtained by calculating the median of the scores and splitting the sample accordingly ... 0,82 Inthe subsequent analyses, we used the level of involvement as independent variable, obtained by calculating the median of the mean scores on the two items and splitting the sample accordingly ... of Feminine Beauty A Stereotyping index The values of the index for the three national samples are: Italy: -0,64; - Spain: -0,78; - Romania: 0,76, showing higher degree of stereotyping inthe Italian’s...
... under the skin inthe back of nude mice Precultivated epithelial cells were suspended in a hydrogel and injected into the cartilage cylinders After removal of the stabilizing silicon tubes, the ... and bearing in mind the contraindications, more than 90% of the children can nowadays be extubated without problems In spite of the progress, in children undergoing single-step surgical therapy ... and invading connective tissue There are still very few studies applying the methods of tissue engineering to produce tracheal replacements and to examine these in vitro and in vivo Studies introduced...
... against the media and surely also against other people The future of the adapted mind is the creation of artificial people 401 XIII THE FUTURE OF THE ADAPTED MIND A feature of the adapted mind ... choosy individuals by preventing them from obtaining mates with contagious parasites that could spread both to themselves and their offspring, obtaining mates that are efficient parents, and obtaining ... where the Gestalt is a pointby-point representation in a multidimensional space Darwinian aesthetics (Valentine, 1991) The third hypothesis is the ‘template’ hypothesis, which suggests that the...
... were the performing surgeons, by noting information about the institution at which they did their internship as well as the number of years of practice each of them had after a completed internship ... eclampsia and clinical signs of uterine rupture had the highest rates at around % Total (100.0%) 2131 (100.0%) Table 3: Institution where the clinical officers did their internship against the Institution ... role inthe training of COs, much of the on -the- job practical experience is passed on from CO to CO, since the newly qualified COs often are sent straight to the district hospital for their internship...
... people in Austria suffer from UI, 850 000 of these are women There are different types of UI including stress urinary incontinence (SUI), urge incontinence, mixed incontinence, neurogenic incontinence, ... Parkkinen A, Karjalainen E, Vartiainen M, Penttinen J: Physiotherapy for Female Stress Urinary Incontinence: Individual Therapy at the Outpatient Clinic Versus Home-Based Pelvic Floor Training: ... bladder neck the increasing abdominal pressure cannot be transmitted to the urethra and it therefore bears on the bladder giving rise to involuntary leakage of urine [11,12] In addition the lack...
... plotted inthe inset of Figure 4, where s is indentation stress The mc can be determined by obtaining the slope of the curves The corresponding procedure is mentioned in our previous study [15] The ... that of grain interior The decreased E may be associated with the increased GB volume corresponding to decreasing d [21,22] In addition, as strain rate increases, E increase in Ta films The rate-sensitive ... including in XRD and TEM HYL performed nanoindentation testing MXK participated inthe design of the study and revised the manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing...
... placed inthe inflow catheter and inthe Douglas pouch The intraperitoneal temperature should reach 41–42°C leading to an inflow temperature of about 43°C Until today the cytostatic agents, combinations ... and avoid a tumor contamination of the abdominal wall (Fig 2) The extent of intraperitoneal tumor manifestation is determined using the peritoneal cancer index (PCI), a combined numerical score ... In our experience a leading reason for incomplete macroscopic cytoreduction is the intraoperative finding of disseminated tumor spots inthe small bowel region Thus, staging laparoscopy should...
... were placed inthe supine position and administered by inhaled general anesthesia through single or double lumen tracheal catheter intubation The defect malformations were verified by the TEE checks ... as the inner sheath) was pushed into the corresponding chamber of the heart along the guide wire through the defects under TEE surveillance The chosen Occluder with right size was rinsed within ... settled by themselves alone, because it can reduce the risk and trauma of surgery, avoiding X-ray and catheter damages of intervention, increasing the operating efficacy, and decreasing their respective...
... the goal of optimizing pulmonary function Physiotherapy, including incentive spirometry, should be continued inthe postoperative period Limitations of the study The present study should be interpreted ... and maintain the strain with their respiratory muscles for seconds Protocol All the subjects inthe CABG group had a preoperative evaluation and orientation in accordance to the physiotherapy ... supervised the study and contributed to the data analysis, manuscript writing and editing All of the authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they...
... and incentive spirometer in pre operatory groups a great value for clinical practice, mainly when these techniques can be applied in a practical way, in bed and at low cost In literature there ... the necessity of an inexpensive alternative method which can reflect in a reliable manner the VC The aim of this study was to evaluate the incentive spirometers as a method of assessment VC in ... capacities, therefore reducing the quantity of deep inspirations and cough effectiveness The lessening of deep inspiration and cough has been proposed to predispose respiratory complications in which...
... Snaring down the vena cavas, the right atrium was opened longitudinally A retrograde cardioplegic catheter was placed into the coronary sinus for intermittent cardioplegia administration The incision ... using the transseptal approach to the mitral valve through the minimally invasive partial sternotomy [7] They successfully did ablation using a combination of bipolar radiofrequency and cryothermy ... for minutes on each point in order to isolate the pulmonary veins Cryoablation was also applied on the left and right atrial isthmus The lesion set was created in 20 minutes The left atrial appendage...
... mentioned anything about the ventilator rate and tidal volume setting in their particular case in relation to capnogram recording Hypocarbia can result from several causes Most common of them is hyperventilation ... progressive reduction in ETCO2 level in subsequent capnogram tracings But they have not given any valid explanation to the cause of this occurrence Ventilator setting here is very important They have not ... bit inadequate in ruling out other possibilities of diaphragmatic contractions rather than elicited by electrical stimulation of phrenic nerve Thus before accepting this method as a new and innovative...
... They can be found near the edge of the leaflets along the line of closure; both on the atrial and ventricular sides of the leaflets They can even be found on the chordae and the endocardium In ... participated inthe design of the manuscript and they revised and critically reviewed the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors declare that they ... cerebral or renal involvement Laboratory findings are shown in Table His therapy for SLE required long-term prednisone, plaquenil and azathioprine On routine examination in 2006 the patient appeared...
... inform future planning of foot sur- http://www.jfootankleres.com/content/1/1/10 gery provision Before discussing the findings in detail, it is worth considering several limitations inherent in ... and the number steadily declined to 95 in 2006 It is possible that this change reflects either an increase inthe number of people seeking conservative treatment for heel pain, or a shift in surgical ... females) Although the underlying mechanism for the trauma requiring surgery cannot be ascertained from the database, it is likely that the first peak primarily represents sporting injuries and occupational...
... chemotherapy but this result must be confirmed in prospective randomized clinical trial including monoclonal antibody Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... confined within the stomach; in stage IIE1 the perigastric nodal involvement was positif; in stage IIE2 more distant nodal involvement was found up to the region below the diaphragm Grading of treatment ... biopsy The staging was determined according to the Musshoff modification of Ann Arbor system [6] which divided stage II disease into stage IIE1 and stage IIE2 In stage IE the tumor remains confined...
... with infections, making the diagnosis of infection more difficult Because timing is crucial in initiating therapy and determining the subsequent outcome of septic conditions [25], understanding the ... procedures, and to investigate the value of PCT levels in terms of diagnosing infection or predicting outcome in these patients Materials and methods We performed a search on MEDLINE using the keyword ... explained by non-specific cytokine liberation from the injured tissue [52] Endotoxin release has also been reported after procedures involving the heart-lung machine [53] The evolution of other...
... 3) In two populations of the case series included inthe metaanalysis, there is no information on the dose inthe subgroup of patients with interventions inthe abdominal region [11,13] Inthe ... allow the operation procedures to be assigned to the individual cases [8] Inthe other 10 case series, 50 out of 212 patients received rFVIIa inthe context of an intervention inthe abdominal ... Nowadays, with the budgeting inthe health care system, the considerable costs of rFVIIa are an important factor in treat- The use of rFVIIa in serious bleeding during or after operations inthe field...
... During the period when the study was carried out, no other procedures were changed inthe clinic All had attended the same specialised outpatient spine clinic in Denmark (Spine Centre of Southern ... and indirect costs Nevertheless, the direct costs relating to the MRI and the subsequent visits to the clinic could be identified A crude analysis was therefore performed comparing these costs in ... have the positive effect of stopping the continued search for an MRI, but on the other hand, if the patient gets an unsuitable explanation, where findings are not explained in relation to the...