... emergency skills The two-day curriculum covered nine skills in the fundamentals of assisting in the operation room (OR), general surgical skills, anaesthesia skills and emergency obstetrical skills ... essential surgical skills programme [12] In order to address the gaps in surgical training of medical students at MUHAS, we created, implemented and evaluated a low- cost surgical skills curriculum ... skill for students to master Table 1: List of skills taught, with length of time and materials used for the surgical skills training course Surgical skills Objectives Time in curriculum Models...
... Increased interleukin-1β levels following low dose MDMA induces tolerance against the 5-HT neurotoxicity produced by challenge MDMA Andrea Mayado, Elisa Torres, Maria D Gutierrez-Lopez, ... h and 96 h after low dose MDMA sIL-1RI combined with low dose MDMA or IL-1β were given 96 h before neurotoxic MDMA and toxicity assessed days later Results Pretreatment with low dose MDMA attenuated ... demonstrated that low dose MDMA can provide long-lasting neuroprotection against a subsequent challenge of higher dose MDMA and that the preconditioning appears to involve low dose MDMA-induced...
... applications • Explain how IrDA, Bluetooth, and ZigBee work • Describe the security features of low- rate WPAN technology What is a WPAN? • Wireless personal area network (WPAN) – Group of technologies ... • Industry specification – Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) • Defines small-form-factor, low- cost wireless radio communications • IEEE licensed this wireless technology – To adapt and copy ... (continued) – Bluetooth power usage (continued) • Power-saving modes – Active – Sniff – Hold – Park 15 Low Rate WPAN Security • Security should be of little concern with WPANs • One of the most serious...
... remained low (for example, 4.8% of all daily routine CXRs would have resulted in a change to therapy) Sensitivity of the physicians in predicting changes on daily routine CXRs was extremely low in ... Displacement >5 cm or outside pleural space Abnormalities were scored by residents or clinical fellows if expected, and – separately – by radiologist if present In addition, both requesting physician ... reviewed by the team at 10:00 hours, when the radiologist communicated any positive findings The following definitions were used: a 'new expected finding' was any new finding that had been predicted...
... illustrates details of patient follow-up and intent-to-treat analysis http://www.medsci.org Int J Med Sc 2010, ci 128 Fig Schem matic presentation of patient f flow at 2-years follow-up s Missing Data Outco ... – an overall increase in the prevalence of low back pain of 162% with an annual increase of 11.6% The widely held belief that most of the episodes of low back pain will be short-lived, with 80% ... facet joints, and sacroiliac joints have been considered the major sources of pain in the low back and/or lower extremities Lumbar facet joints have been implicated as the source of chronic pain...
... medium The wraps cover a large surface area, thus reducing resistance and allowing an optimum number of electrons to flow freely into tissues Patients and treatments Case 1: The first patient was ... medications HbA1c was 7.8 before treatment which decreased to 6.9 and continued to be low during one year follow-up Case 5: A 67 year old female with hypertension and osteoarthritis was treated ... EPRT device is an electrical device that sends a pulsating stream of electrons in a relatively low concentration throughout the body The device is noninvasive and delivers electrical currents...
... This study represents an important advance in the characterization of the molecular mechanisms of low concentration of ethanol in HepG2 cells Moreover, it constitutes a necessary step in the understanding ... concentrations of 1x105/ml Six sets of experiments were performed Each set consist of two groups as follow: group 1, HepG2 treated cells with mM ethanol for h; and group 2, HepG2 cells without ethanol ... chosen based on the data obtained from previous studies [22-24] They demonstrated that ethanol at low concentrations selectively induces apoptosis in HepG2 cells without causing cell toxicity, which...
... (1.4-7.8) Lowest quintile of PEF (l/min) 0.6 (0.1-3.1) 2.5 (1.2-5.4) 6.9 (2.8-16.9) Lung function, 2000-2001 Lowest quintile of FEV1 (l) 1.1 (0.2-5.9) 4.6 (1.9-11.2) 6.4 (2.6-15.6) Lowest quintile ... (3.2-19.5) Exposure 1968-1969 Low socio-economic group Ex-smoker Current smoker Mental stress BMI >25 BMI >28 Lowest quintile of PEF Exposure 1968-1969 Ex-smoker Current smoker Lowest quintile of PEF ... Experienced nurses performed lung function tests A Wright peak-flow meter was used to measure PEF in 1968-1969 and a Miniwright peak-flow meter (Clement and Clarke) was used in 2000-2001 [2] Subjects...
... Each set consist of two groups as follow: HepG2 cells treated with mM ethanol and HepG2 cells without ethanol treatment as a control The rationale for using a low concentration of ethanol, namely ... Specifically, ethanol at low concentration induced a biphasic effect in HepG2 cells, characterized by a rapid transient effect on protein kinases, after 10 165 exposure, followed by increased expression ... ethanol-induced apoptosis in HepG2 cells exposed to low concentrations of ethanol The findings of the present study provide new evidence that ethanol at low concentration is not simply an activator...
... survived exposure to low temperature for extended durations Spontaneous differentiation of hESC after exposure to low temperature Following serial passage after exposure to low temperature, the ... hESC (data not shown) Chromosomal Analysis of hESC after exposure to low temperature Metaphase spreads of hESC following lowtemperature exposure were subjected to FISH with telomere and centromere-specific ... control group (37oC), while the low- temperature exposed groups were subjected to atmospheric levels of CO2 MTT assay to quantify hESC survival rate after exposure to low temperature The MTT assay...
... below 24.6 carriers of the rare C allele had a significantly higher BMI than T allele homocygotes (p=0.023) Whereas no effect was seen on total cholesterol and LDL, C allele carriers had a lower ... ns Int J Med Sci 2006, 110 Table 3: Clinical characteristics of patients above and below median BMI (24.6) Below median BMI n total n with chd n without chd Age (years) BMI (kg/m²) Cholesterol ... too small for analysis, allelic variants were dichotomized in TT and TC/CC A p-value of 0.05 or lower was considered statistically significant Data were adjusted for age, smoking, and BMI where...
... calculated and measured dose distributions along seven different dimensions as described below, essentially following the recommendations of Van Dyk et al [7] Note that each quantity represents a difference ... set per SSD, a total of 10 = 1350 simulations) using 5000000 Monte Carlo histories each, again following the recommendations in the NXEGS documentation Using the same processor as before, we find ... the measurements were made We neglect the greatest depth because the dose there is routinely very low To sum up, for each of nine beams, we use NXEGS to construct 10 beam models (We designate beam...
... obtain large variable gain ranges under low supply voltage II.2 Comparison of the commonly used VGA structures The design requirements impose challenges on low power consumption, very large bandwidth, ... input and output voltages These low distortion broadband features benefit from the large linear range of the differential pair with source degeneration and the low impedance internal nodes in ... gain stage with programmable current mirror, and resistor loads is designed for high frequency and low power communication applications, such as an Ultra Wideband (UWB) receiver system The gain can...
... transistor operating at 10mA Transistor and Component Models at Low and High Frequencies 1.5.2 23 Lower Current Device - 1mA If we now take a lower current device with the parameters fT = 5GHz, hfe = ... (Electronic) Contents Preface xiii Transistor and Component Models at Low and High Frequencies 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Transistor Models at Low Frequencies 1.2.1 ‘T’ Model 1.2.2 The π Transistor Model 1.3 ... component and intermediate block level At block level this includes low noise small signal amplifiers, both narrowband and broadband, low phase noise oscillators, mixers and power amplifiers The components...
... only a small volume of water could flow out in countries such as Yemen and the Middle East of the thermal collector when the valve is open This very low flow rate caused the water collection ... re-circulating the water until the low level switch is activated, then the pump will shut off When the storage tank starts to fill with hot water again, and the low level switch will be deactivated ... DEVELOPMENT into the storage tank to be very slow Larger diameter pipes and a pipe bending machine will be used for the 2nd prototype Figure shows the outflow of heated water from the thermal collector...
... friend, Minh She tells Minh about the plan for her class trip Read the letter and the tasks followed WHILE YOU READ * Task 1:Multiple choice ( 10 ) - Asks Ss to read the whole text in silence ... short talk about a picnic Some words: glorious, destination, spacious, left-over, Botanical Garden Skills: Listening for main ideas and listening for specific information * Methods: Integrated, mainly...
... Normally, LCCs provide basic air transport service with no frills and lower fares, and the average LCC fare is about 40–60% lower than a typical FSC fare (Lawron, 2002; Oliveira, 2008) However, ... Without question, the low fares of LCCs may be one of the major determinants for a passenger’s decision (Jou et al., 2008) Hidalgo, Manzur, Olavarrieta, and Farias (2008) offered a lower price to satisfy ... a more vital factor than is a low fare, since quality is the key attractant of passengers For instance, the attraction of LCCs may disappear if FSCs fares were lowered According to Chang and...
... m, and its separation section has an overflow rate of 20 m/hr Past struvite reactors in tank P P Japan had large separation sections whose top overflow rates were around 50 m/day The structure ... based on the following concepts: Table Pilot scale reactor a The large separation section holds the fine particles momentarily This is to prevent the fine struvite particles from flowTreated quantity ... was adopted as the standard The overflow rate in the separation section was set up to be half of that in the reaction section This was done to prevent seed outflow in the event of excessive expansion...
... feature of low residuality in its germicidal effects and therefore has a less impact on the ecosystem in the target watersheds Another advantage is that UV treatment gives relatively lower disinfection ... (ESS) assay An ESS assay allows the recognition of pyrimidine dimers in DNA at ESS by the treatment of DNA with a UV endonuclease, which incises a phosphodiester bond Low Pressure UV Lamp Shutter ... prepared by the method of Carrier and Setlow (19), at 37°C for 45 The reaction was stopped by the addition of an alkaline loading dye preparation containing following ingredients as a final concentration...