... coordination, and drafting of the findings Aims Methods This report represents the findings of a two-year study on women’s healthand trafficking inthe European Union The study is an initial inquiry ... working against trafficking, law enforcement officials, and policymakers ! Summary findings Conceptualising healthand trafficking ! ! Duringthe travel and transit stage of the trafficking process ... member of the research team In Albania, the Netherlands and Ukraine, the support organisation was also the study partner In Thailand, the study partner was the sister organisation to the service...
... (including North of Africa, and main islands Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica) and 3) three inthe western Mediterranean (Continental Spain (2) and South France) The zones were well defined inthe ... where the oleaster or the olive was found sustains some other sites inthe west (Spain, see fig in [35]) andinthe east (Cyprus) Using the same methods (Wide sampling, Bayesian clustering, FCA and ... 500m in Spain [31] (Figure 2) The olive tree was introduced into the New World in South America by the Spanish (explorers and monks) at the beginning of the 1500’s (Colombia, Peru, but later on the...
... expenditures They can so by introducing generous pension and insurance schemes thereby enhancing the incomes of the elderly and influencing the social arrangements in which they live; by expanding public ... useful in assessing the importance of these links and other possible “indirect” influences of ageing, defined inthe sense of a changing age-distribution, on health spending One key source of information ... development, refinement, and diffusion of technology results in large increases in spending.” (p.2) In trying to explain the rapid increase in age-specific health spending among the elderly inthe United...
... self-assessment These steps include defining the objectives and scope of the assessment, identifying the assessment team, compiling and evaluating background information, and preparing the assessment plan ... Furnaces Part 279 Standards for the Management of Used Oil CWA Part 415 Inorganic Chemicals Part 417 Soaps and Detergents Part 428 Rubber Manufacturing Part 443 Paving and Roofing Materials Part ... roof and might escape if not properly collected and/ or treated Vent control systems will also be in flux during filling and draining and would be subject to upset during these periods Venting Part...
... on demand for labour and skills; and impact on production costs and consumer demand Thesecond part, investigating the business response to HIV/AIDS, contained the following indicators: the existence ... employed and trained Training was conducted at the HSRC in Pretoria from 31 May to June 2006 Twelve trainers took part, and they represented the HSRC, the laboratory and couriers The training content ... in 34 workplaces involved mainly in mining and manufacturing in Botswana, South Africa and Zambia during 2000–2001, found a national prevalence rate of 14.5% in South Africa and showed that the...
... environment in Britain The final part broadens the international scope of the volume by examining the relationship between health professions andthe state in a number of other countries in Europe—including ... between health professions andthe state in Britain and a number of other European countries—Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Scandinavia andthe Czech Republic Topical issues of international and ... pursuing the theme of transition in relation to thehealth professions in Europe, the book is divided into three main sections The first part of the book begins by highlighting some of the key...
... than those in real estate industry Considering the situation of real estate industry, currently, the real estate industry is facing with the difficulties in borrowing from banks since the excess ... particular, the following theories will be considered: (i) the ‘M&M theory’; (ii) the ‘Agency theory’, (iii) the ‘pecking order theory’ and (iiii) the ‘trade-off theory’ The decision on the capital ... its financial structure However, many theories have the converse argument with M&M such as pecking order theory andthe trade-off theory, the agency theory According to agency theory, the financial...
... reproductive health, and highlight the difficulties inherent in establishing the relationships between these disorders and EC exposures – in particular the enormous practical issues and costs involved in ... TGCT 13 incidence is increasing in Finland (where the incidence has been low) but appears to be plateauing or even declining in Denmark (Moller 2001; Jacobsen et al 2006) Therefore, although the ... the edge of the glans or to the top of the penile shaft In moderate cases the meatus is located lower down the shaft andin severe cases lower still and perhaps even inthe perineal region, the...
... Liability Turpin: British Government andthe Constitution: Text, Cases and Materials Twining: Globalisation and Legal Theory Twining & Anderson: Analysis of Evidence Twining & Miers: How to Do Things ... area, including Health Care Law: text and materials (with M Fox, 1997) and Framing the Clinical Body (with M Fox, forthcoming 2005) Recent research includes the legal regulation of clinical and ... on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the safeguarding of employees’ rights inthe event of transfers of undertakings, businesses or parts of undertakings or businesses,...
... paper, the term “Highland” is known as mountainous regions in Vietnam, including mountainous regions inthe North and Central highland The term “Lowland” is defined as deltas, hilly areas and coastal ... weather days in a year In other places, such as Co To Island, Tay Ninh, Ho Chi Minh City, there are about 200 good weather days per year For health resorts and some weather therapies in highland ... round Inthe Southern Region, e.g Vung Tau and Con Dao Island, the good weather period is around year, in other places the period can be interrupted by hot-dry weather Totally, in lowland of the...
... German Landesbanks lack a stable and self-sustaining business model and have neither a sustainable, robust income structure nor a resilient balance sheet In particular, the refinancing of Landesbanks ... Main, in BadenWürttemberg andin Braunschweig Accordingly, the restructuring of the Landesbanks sector is anything but an inherently solvable task Redistributing and/ or shrinking volumes and/ or ... client business, i.e in particular the mid- and large cap business 12 smaller and medium-sized enterprises, on the other hand, is performed on a regional level within the operating area of the integrated...
... Smoking andHealth All authors contributed substantially to the design of the study, the interpretation of the results, andthe editing of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final ... as the division of the indirect-effects (mediated by the life domains) andthe total effect (the sum of the direct- and indirect-effects for the associations between global QOL and physical and ... between healthand QOL in adults [15-22] Most of these models emphasize assessing QOL from the perspective of the individual, and are based on the general proposition that alterations in health...
... being seen in primary care settings Those who met the inclusion criteria and were willing to enroll inthe study were followed for depression, health, and QOL at baseline, weeks, months, and nine ... weeks, or by their CIDI at months To determine whether there were changes inthe other measures independent of the changes inthe CESD, the 6-week change in each measure was regressed on the 6-week ... task for the investigator is to examine the domains covered by the instruments, to ensure that they are likely to be affected by the intervention of interest Other important issues in instrument...
... agents, on the other hand, have gained attention only in recent years and mainly in Scandinavian countries Additionally, the systems that are in place for residue and zoonotic agent monitoring are ... on the quality of veterinary services andthe MO&SS in place in individual countries Sanson & Thornton (1997) demonstrated thein uence of the quality of surveillance on the time needed for the ... framework is being promoted inthe international trade andthe food safety arena by the World Trade Organisation (Campos 1998), the OIE, the Codex Alimentarius Commission andthe EU These organisations...
... Henry II andthe Angevin empire father, rather than transferring his allegiance to Richard inthe place of the Young King Being secondin line of succession was substantially different from being ... Boterel andthe twins Alan and Richard of Moulton, held lands inthe honour of Richmond which were taken into the king's hand in 1183.51 The fact that Henry II granted Richmond to Geoffrey inthe ... death in 1171 meant  that the remainder of Constance's inheritance, the barony of Treguier andthe honour of Richmond, fell into the king's hand The possession and enjoyment of the constituent parts...
... that thesecond metal-binding domain constitutes the preferred one for the uptake of the first metal ion by the ATPase from the chaperone, as a result of the specificity of protein–protein interactions ... that there is no detectable interaction between the tag andthe remainder of the protein and that the solution structure of MNK5 is not sensitive to the presence of the tag Recombinant protein ... on the context within which it is located Long-range interactions between different metal-binding domains should then reduce the affinity for copper(I) of the individual metal-binding domains...
... directly links the water losses, and tance of a therefore the stomatal aperture, to soil and leaf water deficits The greater the water flow, the greater the water tension developed inthe distal part ... duringthe growing seasons of the consecutive years Sap flow was continuously monitored by radial flow meters inserted in spring into the bole of the trees (Granier 1987) This device allows the ... from these xylem conduits In this study, we did not determine the theoretical point of runaway embolism inthe sense of Tyree and Sperry (1988) or Jones and Sutherland (1991), but we considered the...
... Knee instability is very likely to increase inappropriate mechanical loading in many parts of the joint and, in keeping with this, col II and YKL40 expression rose in all locations after ACLT in ... opens up the possibility of studying the early stages of disease progression andthe regional pattern of matrix degradation by comparing diseased and healthy joints inthe same individual The results ... difference between the lateral andthe medial compartments of the tibia or of the femur (48 weeks) and no progressive changes were obvious inthe control knees over time In summary, the ACLT-induced changes...
... luteinizing hormone, and epinephrine [adrenaline]), neurotransmitters (acetylcholine, dopamine, and serotonin) and chemokines (interleukin-8) Local mediators signal to the four main G protein ... interaction in these pathways We review the seemingly contradictory studies and some new information regarding the actions of vasopressin on the heart Finally, we summarize the clinical trials ... coupling of the V2R with the Gs signaling pathway, which activates cAMP [59] The increased intracellular cAMP inthe kidney [60,61] in turn triggers fusion of aquaporin-2-bearing vesicles with the...
... both healthand disease states Clinical application of vasopressin in shock In health, vasopressin’s role inthe maintenance of resting arteriolar tone and systemic blood pressure is minor Indeed, ... vasopressin had a significant (80%) reduction in vasopressor requirement Interestingly, patients inthe vasopressin arm experienced a doubling in urine output and a 75% increase in creatinine clearance ... catecholamines needed to maintain arterial pressure [27] Vasopressin may restore vascular tone in vasodilatory shock states by blunting the increase in cGMP that is induced by NO [28] and ANP [29], and...