... fordetectionof C trachomatis was applied to clinical samples of SF (data submitted elsewhere) Materials and methods Ethical approval Before initiation ofthe study ethical approval was obtained ... described algorithm of sample analysis Statistical analysis Definition ofthe number of EB relative to IFU was conducted by standard regression analysis The number of C trachomatis EBs and C trachomatis ... persisting Chlamydia are showing an Altogether, alkaline lysis and Qiaex II gel extraction kit® + CTAB gave reproducibly the highest detection rates in the C trachomatis EB as well as in the C trachomatis...
... criteria than is typically seen in the randomized trials of therapeutic hypothermia All patients greater than 13 years of age, who have suffered a non-traumatic cardiac arrest, have a sustained ... for healthcare professionals from a Task Force ofthe American Heart Association, the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American College of Cardiology, the European Resuscitation ... R, Gray S, Stenstrom R, Easton D: Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Evidence fortheuseof hypothermia after cardiac arrest CJEM 2006, 8(2):109-15 The Hypothermia after Cardiac Arrest...
... Genomic organization of arrayed viruses Genomic organization of arrayed viruses Locations and direction of transcription of each open reading frame ofthe arrayed viral genomes are shown Red arrows ... on the array, the geometric mean ofthe measured fluorescence intensities was calculated for both the experimental and control and the ratio of these was used as a scaling factor to adjust the ... on the average ofthe intensity across thearray set was then obtained A ratio greater than indicates that there was hybridization to a specific gene 2-fold above the background intensity across...
... towards learning the second language will pave ways forthe desire to learn the language and the effort made to learn it The latter two components can easily be realised once the attitudes are ... that is answerable to the writer’s later classification of four main types of learners: the enthusiasts, the oracular, the participator and the rebel Generally speaking, a learner’s role is place ... which the learners’s community and the target language community view each other.” 1.6.2 Accommodation Theory Accommodation Theory provides an explanation of language-learner language variability...
... most available in the form of organic compounds, such as albuminous material Carbon in the form of carbohydrates, as sugar or starch, is most readily attacked by bacteria Inasmuch as the bacteria ... from another As far as these characters can be used, they are taken, but in addition, many characteristics ofa physiological nature are added The way that the organism grows in different kinds of ... impairs the quality ofthe milk The rapid determination of acidity may be made in an approximate manner so as to serve as a test at the weigh-can or intake The test is best made by theuseof the...
... questionnaire aims to evaluate the (satisfaction with) information received by cancer patients on different areas ofthe disease, diagnosis, treatment and care, and some qualitative aspects, for instance ... socioeconomic variables such as age, education, marital status, and employment status, and clinical variables such as cancer stage at diagnosis, time after diagnosis, and initial treatment All measures ... be blinded to the group assignment The participants on the other hand are unaware ofthe group assignment, as they are under the assumption that the hospital is providing usual care Intervention...
... islands, for instance, St Helena Nor must I pass over the discovery ofthe singular relations ofthe animals and plants inhabiting the several islands ofthe Galapagos archipelago, and of all of them ... fire at it with a cap on the nipple, and if the aim was accurate the little puff of air would blow out the candle The explosion ofthe cap caused a sharp crack, and I was told that the tutor ofthe ... that when a swallow snaps up a gnat that God designed that that particular swallow should snap up that particular gnat at that particular instant? I believe that the man and the gnat are in the...
... software on the computer that their child used at home, compared to only 5% ofthe parents in Romania and Bulgaria In Romania – and in Lithuania and Portugal – approximately six out of 10 parents ... Romania, on the other hand, were the least likely to be Internet users and also the least likely to use it at least daily (between 27% and 38%) although parents in Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, ... Romania and Malta thought that their child accessed the Internet from a public place In only two countries did at least one-fifth ofthe parents say that their child, as far as they were aware,...
... education and consultation and the social acceptability of biomass are also part ofthe programme First of all, the practical work ofthe first 36 projects includes the creation ofa reliable data ... gasification plants As more than half ofthe area ofthe Achental region is covered with forests, the fuel demand forthe wood gasification plant can be covered by the regional potentials of forest ... the analysis of climate impacts and the techno-economic analysis ofthe different straw providing pathways PD and CW analyse forthe first time, the potential of straw throughout Germany at a...
... is a chance of intra-articular pin placement, causing septic arthritis and a risk of damaging the growth plate An external fixator is also used forthe treatment of paediatric supracondylar fractures ... this article as: Lam et al.: Theuseof tibial Less Invasive Stabilization System (LISS) plate [AO-ASIF] forthe treatment of paediatric supracondylar fracture of femur: a case report Journal of ... the site, the pattern ofthe fracture and its associated injury When treating the displaced supracondylar fracture, the traditional method of traction may fail due to the unbalanced pull of the...
... Küçükdeveci AA, Sahin H, Ataman S, Griffiths B, Tennant A: Issues in cross-cultural validity: Example from the adaptation, reliability and validity testing ofa Turkish version ofthe Stanford Health Assessment ... individuals at the same ability level who can a particular task In the case of cognition, the probability ofa person passing a subtest, at a given level of cognition, should be the same for younger ... forthe MEAMS, a formal test ofthe validity ofthe cut point is the absence of DIF For example, if a cut point is set for passing a subtest and DIF is present for that subtest by age, then further...
... make-up) indicated that they washed the face with soap and water more often than female participants Another potential area of cultural difference was the mention of eating behaviors as a way of reducing ... study was part ofa larger project to develop and validate a new set of PROs that assess the symptomatic impact of oily skin on the face (and scalp) among patients in the US and Germany The concepts ... methods are used to validate conceptual meaning using phenomenological data (an inductive approach) and quantitative validation activities focus on measurement and operational activities associated...
... localizing symptoms The overarching goal oftheprotocol was to standardize the approach to such patients in a way that reduced unnecessary testing and inappropriate useof antibiotics Additional ... Protocolforthe management of adult patients with acute undifferentiated fever Page of patients were managed either by theprotocol or as deemed most appropriate by the evaluating physician Under the ... the protocol, if an eligible patient was stable and had had less than days of fever, all investigations and antimicrobial therapy were deferred, and the patient was prescribed antipyretics and asked...
... role forthe Vietnamese Animal Feed Association (VAFA) The VAFA could play a strong and useful role for SMEs in the sector The Association is already used by SMEs for feed ration recipes, and advice ... potentially have valuable input into policy for that sector The Thai Feed Mill Association was also mentioned as an enterprise association that had policy input in Thailand A further idea was that the ... batch normally has feeding production stages For broilers, stage lasts on average for about 29 days, stage is the next 48 days and stage is the last 40 days For layers, the respective length of...
... the calculation ofthe cost ofa path, based on the LQI values of all links Therefore, we chose to evaluate the performance of these LQI-based routing metrics for NST-AODV Note that the PATH-DR ... Standard deviation ofthe LQI against the average LQI values the LQI measured in each link The LQI is almost constant for high average LQI values For instance, the standard deviation is below for ... LQI of each received packet were obtained at each ofthe remaining motes The LDR was calculated for all the receivers The same procedure was repeated three times, and the sender was placed at each...
... resident place was available at the desired time, the patient had to wait in the acute ward for such a slot The aim ofthe study was thus to present a novel way of calculating the partial cost efficiency ... respectively forthe acute wards and the largest secondary facility The cheapest secondary facility had a cost per patient day of 168 Euro (219 $) Table gives the percentage of patients waiting at randomly ... cost of residency in the acute ward and the chosen secondary facility This cost was withdrawn from the cost ofthe acute ward stay for each patient The costs used in the calculations were taken...
... Currently, the infratentorial supracerebellar (Krause’s) approach, occipital transtentorial (Poppen’s) approach and the combination of both approaches are commonly used Krause’s approach is essentially ... Krause’s approach alone This alternative treatment is applicable to certain large and giant tumors ofthe pineal area As demonstrated in their study, the combined approach was successful in the ... while four had a KPS score
... that the method is robust against a variety of distributions ofthe trait examined and that it can also make useof multivariate data (Amos et al, 1989) G6tz and Ollivier (1992) found that in animal ... acceptable = or o/ -b is a biased estimator ofthe QTL variance Whether the bias on the size ofthe biasing factor not, it depends in the range of realistic values for O t shows the value ofk as a ... contrast to the estimation of QTL variance, this leads to an underestimation of recombination fractions for small values Table IV shows that fora QTL variance of 40 the estimators are heavily biased...