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báo cáo hóa học: " Integration of immigrants into a new culture is related to poor sleep quality" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 18/06/2014, 19:20

... sleep disorders such as primary insomnia in women compared to men [1,2] The incidence of psycho-physiologic sleep disorders is known to be causally related to socio-economic and stress -related ... into Portuguese by professional translators and translated back into German by the accompanying translators The interview was identical to the one given to the Moroccan women Internal consistency ... [26]] but not always [27] been found to be elevated around middle age We can only speculate whether this finding is related to cultural or nutritional factors It is also possible that the generally...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Abnormal coactivation of knee and ankle extensors is related to changes in heteronymous spinal pathways after stroke" pot

Ngày tải lên : 19/06/2014, 08:20

... coactivation of leg extensors is often observed on the paretic side of stroke patients while they attempt to move The mechanisms underlying this coactivation are not well understood This study (1) compares ... hemiparesis consecutive to stroke [23,24] Moreover, incoordination of the paretic leg has been correlated to this increased heteronymous facilitation [23] The question then arises as to whether ... leg is related to the malfunction of intersegmental pathways linking quadriceps to soleus This study aims (1) to compare the level of coactivation of knee and ankle extensors during maximal isometric...

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báo cáo hóa học:" Health-related quality of life is related to COPD disease severity" doc

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 15:20

... important difference relevant to the patients (MID) is on a scale of to 100 [18,19] EQ-5D The EQ-5D is a generic, preference-based utility questionnaire and consists of two parts, the EQ-5D VAS ... Parkinson's disease and coronary heart disease, has been examined [22] It was concluded that in Parkinson's disease the relationship between disease severity and HRQL is linear, whereas in other diseases, ... gastrointestinal disease, questionnaires are rarely used as primary endpoints in randomised clinical studies of respiratory disease One possible reason may be the lack of information about the patients'...

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báo cáo hóa học:" Physical activity is related to quality of life in older adults" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 15:20

... and HRQL Measurements Demographic measures and medical history A detailed, medical history was obtained from each participant The medical history addressed all of the aforementioned exclusion criteria, ... [17] sistency of the MOS SF-36 is good, with Cronbach's alpha ranging from 0.76 to 0.90 for all domains of the questionnaire [21] Statistical analysis SPSS version 11.5 for Windows was used to analyze ... monitoring in patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease J Cardiolpulm Rehabil 1997, 17:43-47 Heil DP, Freedson PS, Ahlquist LE, Price J, Rippe JM: Nonexercise regression models to estimate...

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Báo cáo y học: "Mean glucose during ICU admission is related to mortality by a U-shaped curve in surgical and medical patients: a retrospective cohort study" docx

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 07:21

... [1.2 to 1.9] to 3.8 [2.7 to 5.4] mmol/L, P for trend < 0.001; MAG 0.5 [0.3 to 0.8] to 1.4 [0.9 to 2.0] mmol/L per hour, P for trend 0.007) Discussion The salient finding of this investigation is ... severity of disease is the use of the APACHE II score, because the use of APACHE II score to predict mortality is not validated for cardiac surgery patients However, this adjustment is the best ... investigators reported an absolute increase in deaths at 90 days with IIT (glucose target: 4.5 to 6.0 mmol/L versus 8.0 to 10.0 mmol/L) A recently published meta-analysis including this latter...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Does Size Matter – How Much Data is Required to Train a REG Algorithm?" potx

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 22:20

... participants who are asked to produce referring expressions for targets in controlled visual scenes for a given domain Since this is a time consuming exercise, it will not be surprising that such corpora ... frequencies For our current evaluation experiments, this would hamper comparison across data sets, because it is difﬁcult to it in a manner that is both consistent and meaningful Therefore we ﬁrst experiment ... algorithm assigns n points in a vector space to k clusters (S1 to Sk ) by assigning each point to the cluster with the nearest centroid The total intra-cluster variance V is minimized by the function...

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Báo cáo hóa học: " Deformed wing virus is not related to honey bees'''' aggressiveness" potx

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 01:20

... never allowed to distinguish different viral populations according to the standard error generated by the technique [16] In this paper, we showed that infection of A m cypria by DWV is common in ... infestation, that is by food secretions from nurses to larvae or from queen to workers [18] The mite, Varroa destructor, is responsible for the spreading of DWV in all bee tissues by haemolymph ... DWV display distinct biological patterns In order to explain such discrepancies, several hypotheses are proposed Small changes in the amino acid composition of DWV and KV might be sufficient to...

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Báo cáo y học: "Circulating RANKL is inversely related to RANKL mRNA levels in bone in osteoarthritic males" potx

Ngày tải lên : 09/08/2014, 10:22

... This may indicate that bone is a major contributor to serum OPG or that OPG is similarly regulated at the mRNA level in other OPG producing tissues To our knowledge, this is the first report to ... sample Statistical analysis Regression analysis was used to examine the relationship between the histomorphometric variables and female and male age -related changes Statistical analysis was performed ... impractical, to study a younger, premenopausal group of women in order to eliminate these confounding factors The second question raised by the data is what is the mechanism that gives rise to the...

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Báo cáo y học: "Intraoperative PaO2 is not related to the development of surgical site infections after major cardiac surgery" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 10/08/2014, 09:23

... us to question our policy to routinely administer a high inspired oxygen fraction to cardiac surgery patients in order to prevent SSIs In summary, the PaO2 in adult cardiac surgery patients is ... used to define SSIs The SPSS software package (version 15) was used for statistical analysis A p ≤ 0.05 was considered significant To assess risk factors for SSI, we used one-way analysis of ... Characteristics and preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative data for patients with and without surgical site infections (SSIs) Characteristics Patients Without SSI (n = 970) Patients...

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báo cáo khoa học: " Patient- and delivery-level factors related to acceptance of HIV counseling and testing services among tuberculosis patients in South Africa: a qualitative study with " pdf

Ngày tải lên : 10/08/2014, 10:23

... despite the existence of a variety of factors discouraging TB patients from going for HCT, there were also numerous positive factors that enabled patients to opt for this service The main factors viewed ... should be delivered and reinforced by doctors and nurses in order to be optimally effective: When patients have been seen by doctors, they go more willingly to the clinic to test More patients cooperate ... in this exercise The questions were found to be meaningful and valuable in answering the research question A total of 32 group discussions included to lay counselors (21 discussions) and to 12...

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Báo cáo khoa học: " Phylogenetic analysis of three genes of Penguinpox virus corresponding to Vaccinia virus G8R (VLTF-1), A3L (P4b) and H3L reveals that it is most closely related to Turkeypox virus, Ostrichpox virus and Pigeonpox virus" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 04:21

... AM050388 - though this is unconfirmed [25] Analysis of a PEPV IL-10 like protein (data not shown) shows this protein to be most closely related to turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) and chicken ... average of 90% nucleotide identity to the various FWPV isolates and 74% identity to the various CNPV isolates PEPV was found to belong to subclade A2 with 98% similarity to Falconpox virus (FLPV) and ... Chordopoxvirus genera were analysed at this locus The overall tree topologies are as previously reported [17] and this analysis shows PEPV to belong to the Avipoxvirus genus, grouping with FWPV,...

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Báo cáo y học: " Multi-symptom asthma is closely related to nasal blockage, rhinorrhea and symptoms of chronic rhinosinusitis-evidence from the West Sweden Asthma Study" doc

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 11:23

... nasal symptoms, several other factors appear to distinguish the multi-symptom and fewer symptom asthma populations A family history of allergy or both allergy and asthma increased the risk of having ... multisymptom asthma, however, the presence of allergic rhinitis alone is not a risk factor for multi-symptom asthma subjects with multi-symptom asthma, illustrating that the number of symptoms ... individual symptom was a significant risk factor for multi-symptom asthma *** P < 0.001 60 Number of symptoms of chronic rhinosinusitis Prevalence (%) 50 Four symptoms 40 Three symptoms Two symptoms 30...

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Báo cáo y học: "Airflow limitation or static hyperinflation: which is more closely related to dyspnea with activities of daily living in patients with COPD?" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 14:20

... is enough We want to emphasize that oxygen administration to alleviate dyspnea in COPD patients whose PaO2 is over 60 mmHg is the wrong treatment Since some researchers understand that COPD is ... of the issues are related to the study design First, this study is based just on correlation analysis, which is not the best way to detect the cause of a phenomenon Second, although stepwise multiple ... has been suggested to be a better measurement than peak dyspnea during exercise Furthermore, the inspiratory capacity (IC) has been shown to be more closely related to exercise tolerance and dyspnea...

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Báo cáo y học: "Ethics roundtable debate: A patient dies from an ICU-acquired infection related to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus – how do you defend your case and your team" pdf

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 20:21

... the risk for nosocomial infection, he would have refused treatment This is rather unlikely in view of the risks to the patient One last and difficult issue is the right of the children to be ... Mauricio Valencia and Antoni Torres We must address several key issues with respect to this clinical case First, did this patient need a central venous catheter? The patient s diagnosis was a subarachnoid ... ventilated patients), and all that is done to control and contain these infections (in accordance with published and local guidelines) is probably one way to avoid complaints In this regard, it is somewhat...

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Báo cáo khoa học: "Ethics roundtable debate: Is a physician–patient confidentiality relationship subservient to a greater good" doc

Ngày tải lên : 12/08/2014, 22:21

... caused, a motor vehicle crash is of no interest to a doctor, beyond the need to diagnose and treat the injuries sustained The doctor is certainly not expected to, nor obliged to, report this to any ... preserving the doctor– patient relationship while protecting third parties at risk If the patient is unwilling to disclose this information in an anonymous manner, then the duty to warn third parties ... circumstances, an example of which is when it is in the public interest to so Thus, I am legally protected if I choose to override patient doctor confidentiality On an unrelated issue, the Indian Contract...

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Báo cáo y học: " Endothelial Endotoxemia related to cardiopulmonary bypass is associated with increased risk of infection after cardiac surgery: a prospective observational stud" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 07:21

... period of endotoxemia represents the first “hit” in a two “hit” model of risk Faist et al first used this “two hit” hypothesis to describe the increased risk of development of sepsis in patients after ... antibodies to endotoxin in patient s blood prior to gynecologic surgery has been found to reduce the risk of post operative infections [29] Attempts to therapeutically target endotoxin in patients ... TNF-a [26] These patients have been found to have an increased risk of postoperative infections It has been hypothesized that this phenomenon may be linked to translocation of endotoxin [27] It...

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Isolation and characterization of an extracellular polymer closely related to flocculation of activated sludge

Ngày tải lên : 05/09/2013, 09:08

... Technology, Vol.3, No.2, 2005 viscous in solution, are mainly composed of polysaccharides, although proteins and nucleic acids from cell autolysis may be present (Stoveland and Lester, 1980; Lester, ... polymer Gas-liquid chromatographic (GLC) analysis of constituent neutral sugar monomers in the extracellular polymer was performed after conversion into their corresponding alditol acetates, using ... 8,500 rpm for 30 to collect deflocculated cells The deflocculated cells were washed times with distilled water The polymer solution was added to these suspensions prepared in distilled water or...

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Overcoming Common Problems Related to Communicative Methodology

Ngày tải lên : 06/09/2013, 10:10

... expected to In sum, it is useful to set small achievable goals on a daily basis and make learners aware of how they are to accomplish these goals Have Consistency in Teaching Style ... instance, it is not uncommon to be met with silent expressionless students It is possible for the novice instructor to interpret this negatively as a lack of interest This is a cultural interpretation ... latter Many students misinterpret this as tacit approval to pursue undesirable behavior such as cutting class or turning in late homework To avoid this, it is important to clearly express not...

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This questionnaire is designed to investigate teachers’ attitude towards the applicability of process approach in teaching writi

Ngày tải lên : 07/09/2013, 13:51

... The teacher needs to be stimulate students' creativity, to get them thinking how to approach a writing topic In this stage, the most important thing is the flow of ideas, and it is not always necessary ... emphasize that this higher order must be attended to for effective language use: "all texts conform to certain conventions, and that if a student is to be successful in joining a particular English-language ... It is found that there exist significant differences in strategy use between English major and non-English major writers; English major students hold a more positive attitude towards English...

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Words Related to the Calendar

Ngày tải lên : 25/10/2013, 16:20

... Late Latin scission, from scindere (to cut) This word is not related to the word scissors The two have entirely different roots Scissors ultimately came from Latin cisorium (cutting tool) though ... There is this urban legend about the foreign dignitary who was trying to explain to an American diplomat that his wife was unable to have children: “My wife is impregnable.” “That is, she is inconceivable.” ... root of this word ● “Suddenly, appetite is no longer quite part of me—or yes, it is, but a potential enemy, too A scission is taking place.” —Independent (London) oust (oust) verb tr To expel...

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