... research has demonstrated that 20-30% of all ED patients [39] and up to 48% ofpatients with respiratory illness [40] are smokers While ED patients in this and other studies have expressed interest ... absence and return to work among blue collar workers and office personnel Occupational and Environ Med 2001, 58:246-52 16 Osborne ML, Vollmer WM, Linton KLP, Buist AS: Characteristicsofpatients ... Associations of smoking with hospital-based care and quality of life in patients with obstructive airway disease Chest 1999, 115:691-6 18 Prochaska J, DiClimente C: Stages and processes of self-change...
... between levels of both anti-nucleosome and anti-α-actinin antibodies, levels of highavidity anti-dsDNA antibodies and markers of renal disease, including an assessment of whether the patients entered ... analysis, and signif- Characteristicsofpatientsand control subjects Sixteen patients were enrolled, and baseline details for all patients are given in Table There were 15 females and one male The ... (dsDNA), (b) nucleosomes and α-actinin and (c) dsDNA and αCorrelation between binding to (a) nucleosomes and double-stranded DNA (dsDNA), (b) nucleosomes and α-actinin and (c) dsDNA and αactinin Absorbance...
... different in patients with and without malignancy Second, sepsis remains one of the major causes of admission for cancer patients to the ICU and is an important cause of hospital mortality and morbidity ... epidemiology and prognosis of cancer patients admitted to general ICUs or the epidemiology and patterns of sepsis syndromes in these patients [17,18], the aim of this study was to assess the characteristics ... 60-day survival curves of the three groups ofpatientspatients Log Rank score = 20.78; p < 0.01 with sepsis Hospital mortality in the three groups ofpatients overall and in patients with sepsis...
... predictions with regard to futility of survival and quality of life between doctors and nurses in 21% of ICU patients Only to 15% of survivors of ICU stay where health care professionals had considered ... Sixty-one percent ofpatients with ICU LOS of less than 30 days were discharged home as compared with 8% ofpatients with ICU LOS of 30 days or more (P < 0.001; Table 6) The majority of the ILOS>30 ... centers (55%) and skilled nursing facilities (28%) period Distribution of length of stay of all trauma ICU patients in the study period X axis = length of stay (days); Y axis = percentage of all trauma...
... concerning the patients are presented in Table TABLE Characteristicsof the patients 2.2 Methods 2.2.1 Anaesthesia The patients were premedicated with a combination of pethidine and dixyrazine ... risk of stroke [6] and is elevated in diabetic patients [7] Monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-I) originates from endothelial, epithelial, and glial cells and mediates recruitment of monocytes ... production and concentrations of MCP-1, ICAM-1, MMP-9 and oxLDL, mean values for all the OXANO concentrations measured during clamping and reperfusion and for the markers sampled before, during and...
... of the resulting N2O concentration (Weiss and Price, 1980; Fogg and Gerrand, 1991) - 69 - Results Characteristicsof fungal denitrification in sediments and soils Figure shows the behaviors of ... Preparation of samples Chloramphenicol and cycloheximide were used as specific growth inhibitors of bacteria and fungi, respectively (Anderson and Domsch, 1975; Newell et al., 1983; Fuhrman and McManus, ... in the Table Potentials and contributions of bacterial and fungal denitrifications in tea soils, the submerged litter and sediment of an irrigation pond, and the sediment of a tidal river at in...
... Response and Terrorism (CERT) Robert H Hamm, MD, MPH Bureau of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention Eddie Hedrick Bureau of Immunization Assessment and Assurance Susan Kneeskern, RN Bureau of ... Genetics and Healthy Childhood Marge Cole, RN, MSN, FASHA Bureau of WIC and Nutrition Services Kathy Mertzlufft Section for Disease Control and Environmental Epidemiology Kristi Campbell Office of ... beyond the scope of this document Practitioners and users of this manual should not limit their judgment on the management and control of communicable disease to this publication and are well advised...
... prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases A Develop and implement a comprehensive policy and plan for the prevention and control of major noncommunicable diseases, and for the reduction of modifiable ... the world and 43% of the global burden ofdisease Based on current trends, by the year 2020 these diseases are expected to account for 73% of deaths and 60% of the disease burden Low - and middle ... involvement of existing regional and global initiatives in the implementation and monitoring of the global strategy for the prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases, andof related strategies...
... Immunology and Evolution of Infectious Disease STEVEN A FRANK Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford This is a full PDF copy of: Frank, S A 2002 Immunology and Evolution of Infectious Disease ... molecular basis of recognition between attackers and defenders sets the temporal and spatial scale of the battle Attack and defense occur between insects and the plants they eat, between fungi and the ... attacker and defender molecules bind or evade each other The biochemical details of binding and recognition set the rules of engagement that shape the pacing, scale, and pattern of diversity and the...
... corporation Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Office of Thrift Supervision savings and loans Securities and Exchange Commission Summary of Deposits Department of the Treasury This is a work of ... availability and allocation of credit, the stability of the financial system and the economy, and the safe and sound operations of such institutions To determine the number of certain types of financial ... other hand, accounted for about percent of credit card loans, but they accounted for less than percent of construction and land development loans and almost none of any other type of loan Grandfathered...
... the AHRQ report are all of adults, and identify a prevalence of coeliac disease by biopsy of 1.0% and by serology of 0.8 to 1.9% The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (a population-based ... (14,187 in patients with coeliac disease; 68,852 in patients without coeliac disease) and any fractures (13,724 in patients with coeliac disease; 65,627 in patients without coeliac disease) The ... identified Estimates of the utility of treated and untreated coeliac disease, andof the disutility of endoscopy, biopsy and gluten-free diet were derived from the literature and assumptions Costs...
... risking the transmission of diseases Screened walls and windows fishnet – in use in Thailand Prevent contact of poultry inside the chicken house with wild and domestic animals and birds from the outside ... technical knowledge and access to information What is Biosecurity Plan Biosecurity plan is a set of practices designed to prevent the entry and spread of infectious diseases into and from a poultry ... the end of this session all participants will be able to: Identify the threats to our poultry and how disease agents might enter a poultry farm h l f Identify the costs of diseases and their...
... burden of TB 5.1 Epidemiology The aim of epidemiology is the determination of natural history ofdiseaseand measurement of its frequency 5.1.1 Aims of epidemiology Describe the trends ofdisease ... detection of RIF resistance The test is based on the reverse hybridization method, and it consists of PCR amplification of a segment of the rpoB gene and denaturation and hybridization of the biotinylated ... 2009) Uganda is one of the world’s 22 highest burden countries with TB, with an estimated annual risk of tuberculosis infection of 3% and an annual incidenceof new smear positive TB cases of 9.2...
... malignant tissues offers the possibility of identifying new methods of diagnosing early stage incidenceand discovering new therapies for the treatment of OVCA With the advent of new miRNA technology, ... expression of miR-181a, miR-181b, and miR-213 in OVCA cell lines results in resistance to doxorubicin and gemcitabine and increased expression of miR-99b and miR-14 leads to docetaxel and paclitaxel ... Using data from miRNA profiling and knowledge of familial history of a certain diseases will help in developing miRNA-based personalized therapy Detailed understanding of the characteristic miRNA...
... mobility of mobile terminals may be fixed, walking speed, or slow vehicles limited within 10 m/s In this paper, two values of fD of 31 and 93 Hz, which correspond to two terminal’s velocities of 1.8 and ... autocorrelation, and Doppler spectrum of both SISO and MIMO cases Then, we evaluated the biterror rate (BER) performance of MIMO E-SDM systems in the environment The main contributions of the paper ... meeting room in a building of the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University, as shown in Figure The room has an area of about 95 m2 The walls of EURASIP Journal on...
... Status of research and production of mushrooms in the world 1.1.1.1 Research situation on multiplication of liquid spawns and cultivation of King Oyster and Yunzhi mushrooms As King oyster and ... biological characteristicsof King oyster and Yunzhi mushrooms Experiment 1: The growth and development of King oyster and Yunzhi mushrooms in pure culture Experiment : Evaluation of the growth and ... The genetic differences of Yunzhi strains The results of electrophoresis of PCR products of samples with 10 primers, each primer obtained similar number of DNA bands and band size This result is...
... relative values of net photosynthetic rates on d 32 tended to decrease as the sodium concentration in leaves increased The changes of sodium and chloride concentration in leaves andof osmotic potential ... aurantiacus, E japonicus, D racemosum, and C camphora Stem and main root concentrations tended to increase gradually in all species On the other hand, the changes of sodium concentration per whole ... It is known that the characteristicsof salt distribution differ in species (Grieve and Walker, 1983) Walker (1986) reported that the mechanism to avoid the accumulation of sodium in leaves in...
... directed against candidate antigens in cohorts of autoimmune and control patientsOf note, post-translational modifications of antigens are amenable to detection using our antigen arrays and other proteomics ... complexity of fluorescence-based bead and tag systems Microfluidics approaches Microfluidics utilizes microchannels for analysis of antigen–autoantibody interactions Small quantities of biomolecules ... quantitation of binding kinetics and detection of low-affinity interactions are among the important advantages of this system Arrays of living cells 292 Several groups have described arrays of living...