... compared to the β-TCP Also, at four weeks, thehealingof these defects was similar to that ofthe control group On the other hand, our ultrastructural investigation revealed that the CPCBB caused ... week of HBOT could not prevent the damages in the periosteum ofthe CPCBB group This electron micrograph shows the extent of degeneration in two periosteal cells The swollen membranes, the pyknotic ... findings of extensive degeneration in the periosteum of CPCBB + HBOT group at one week time point It is clear that thethe integrity ofthe cell membrane could not be maintained and there was...
... have the resources to support the market development for project Cook On the contrary, one ofthe objectives of project Cook was to strengthen the sales organisations in Asia, which is the other ... recognise the differences between the exploration of technological versus market knowledge and match the project’s autonomy to the degree of exploration of both types of knowledge (see Figure 1) The ... potential consumers, as they will ask everybody from their friends to their doctor what they think ofthe product.” A former business manager of Oral also stressed the exploration of market knowledge...
... Currently one ofthe standard methods for evaluating the quality of a SU is to run a user simulation on a real corpus and measure how often the action generated by the SU agrees with the action ... step further We measure the quality of user simulation models for both older and younger users, and show that these metrics are a good predictor ofthe behaviour of those two user types The structure ... acts, they also use a far richer variety of speech acts, on average 14 out of 28 as opposed to out of 28 The token/type ratio remains the same, however Although the absolute frequency of confirmation...
... NJ) was passed from the skin though this portion ofthe rotator cuff into the joint The bursal side ofthe tendon at the site ofthe suture was subsequently inspected during the subacromial evaluation ... acromioclavicular joint pain These examination included palpation ofthe AC joint, the "cross-arm test" and the O'Brien test If the patient had pain localized to the AC joint and had at least ofthe remaining ... the use ofthe SF-36 to assess overall patient function and satisfaction after rotator cuff repair [41] We are unaware of published reports evaluating the use ofthe SF-12 in comparison to other...
... damage The incidence of extended subvalvular chordae in the myxomatous group was higher than that in the other groups, and the incidence of valvular thickening combined with AV damage in the CRV ... higher than that in the other groups Infective endocarditis patients were younger than those in the other groups, and there was a higher incidence of abnormal echo than in the other groups (Table ... implantation of artificial chordae tendineae, the rate of replacement in complete RMCT has been greatly reduced [15,16] In the current study, on the basis of TTE and TEE evaluation, the majority of patients...
... for increasing the adoption of EBPs In the following sections, we describe the theoretical underpinnings ofthe model to be tested in the current study Provider attitudes toward EBP There is increasing ... fit [47,48] The assessment of model fit was used to evaluate the fit ofthe overall hypothesized model to the data We assessed Hypotheses five and six regarding partial mediation of organizational ... by the level of organizational support for EBP, and mediation of organizational support on EBP use by comparing fit ofthe full mediation versus partial mediation models The other study hypotheses...
... describe the integration of condoms in the project (Table Column E) For each year, we calculated the proportion ofthe projects with either one of these words by dividing column C (number of projects ... programming The need for protection also remains when introducing PMCT or PreP There is still much discussion on the assessment ofthe effectiveness ofthe various HIV prevention technologies The assessment ... as part of Official Development Aid [42,43] The following statement on HIV prevention ofthe Council ofthe European Union illustrates its position: We re-affirm our commitment to tackle the HIV...
... for increasing the adoption of EBPs In the following sections, we describe the theoretical underpinnings ofthe model to be tested in the current study Provider attitudes toward EBP There is increasing ... fit [47,48] The assessment of model fit was used to evaluate the fit ofthe overall hypothesized model to the data We assessed Hypotheses five and six regarding partial mediation of organizational ... by the level of organizational support for EBP, and mediation of organizational support on EBP use by comparing fit ofthe full mediation versus partial mediation models The other study hypotheses...
... copies available at the time of this study, the data suggests that a reduction ofthe number of T-regulatory cells within the environment was associated with the development of an effector immune ... interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions SBK, SEL and MJB were responsible for the design ofthe study SBK and MJB were responsible for the draft ofthe ... [2-8] We examined the role of vaginal exposure to heterologous cells on lentiviral infection by using the FIV model ofmucosal transmission We found that repeated exposure ofthe mucosa to heterologous...
... organization The universality ofthe survivor experience and the similarities between the feelings of layoff survivors and the feelings of survivors of other traumatic situations are the subjects of Part ... seduced back HEALINGTHEWOUNDS into complacency by the liquidity and economic boom ofthe early years ofthe new millennium The curtain abruptly rose for act two with the financial meltdown of 2008, ... in the past The key variable is the survivors’ sense of personal violation The greater their perception of violation, the greater their susceptibility is to survivor sickness The perception of...
... endothelial dysfunction associated with these diseases (1-6) Further, oxidative stress plays a major role in the pathogenesis of both types of diabetes mellitus High levels of free radicals and the ... 11.5 minutes, which then switched to the opposite polarity for another 11.5 minutes The device was designed to switch the direction of current flow halfway through the cycle The resulting cycle ... the 1980s suggest that microcurrent therapy is effective at relieving the side effects of radiation therapy (25) The investigators have found that direct electrical therapy was effective in healing...
... Frequency of Syntactic Features ofthe names of coffee shop in English Versus Vietnamese Summary of Syntactic Features ofthe names of coffee shop in English Versus Vietnamese Frequency of Semantic ... Pages Frequency of Morphological Features ofthe names 38 of coffee shop in English Versus Vietnamese Summary of structural features ofthe names of 61 coffee shop in English Versus Vietnamese ... reasons, we have decided on the thesis: “A Study of Linguistic Features ofthe Names of Coffee Shops in English Versus Vietnamese” as the topic of my MA thesis with the hope that language learners...
... derived from the interpretation ofthe speech ofthe product acts employed in the ads As regards the stylistic devices used in the advertisements of - The learners should be aware ofthe similarities ... the syntactic and semantic features of advertisement language The readers and the writers of these kinds 1.4 SCOPE OFTHE STUDY This study deals with discourse analysis ofthe syntactic and of ... 4.6 Modes of commitment to the benefit/value Customers’ Clearing Misconceptions ofthe product advertised As regard to the polarity ofthe proposition ofthe directive, apart from the affirmative...
... expression of these genes depends on the presence of nicotine in the growth medium and we have determined the enzyme activities ofthe proteins Our results demonstrate the presence of two pathways of ... representation ofthe pAO1 gene and ORF cluster flanked by Tn554 and DTn The cluster consists ofthe pmfR gene, encoding the regulator ofthe purU-mabO-folD operon, a permease-like ORF, the genes ofthe ... The results presented in Fig 2B confirmed the expectation that these genes are transcribed only in the presence of nicotine, as was the case for the mabO gene The mao-like gene encodes an AO The...
... worthwhile to offer them in terms of enhancing their profits In some parts ofthe world, the institutionalization and spread of Western biomedicine and veterinary controls came not in the face of economic ... markets The disease remained in the country until 1720 The epizootic of 1744 was the most severe one, causing the death of about one million animals in the course of twenty years Again, the disease ... States of Holland approached the medical faculty of Leiden University for advice In 1745, the municipality ofthe city of Utrecht asked medical professors at the local university to investigate the...
... D.JOHNSTON inhabit the margins ofthe political mainstream—should begin to suggest the critical significance ofthe politics ofhealing to the general politics of democracy.15 The Politics ofHealing contains ... States was the establishment ofthe Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) within the National Institutes of Health The two legislators with the greatest responsibility for the growth of this office, ... matter of politics These essays therefore represent a purposeful step beyond the traditional boundaries within the historical profession that have separated the study of medicine and the study of the...
... unrelated variety (UNRELVAR) Both of them are instrumented with their lagged values The model passes all the diagnostics tests for the validity ofthe instruments as none ofthe Hansen tests and Arellano ... one another technologically, and hence we assume that they can effectively learn from one another through knowledge spillovers And, the higher the degree of RELVAR is, the higher the number of technologically ... within all ofthe remaining industries Because ofthe decomposable ofthe entropy measure that is used to measure both types of related varieties, they not necessarily correlate with each other and...
... far better than the historical track record of official energy agencies on the one hand, and of advocates of pure versions ofthe geological view on the other hand We also use the model to identify ... both the advocates ofthe economic/technological view and the advocates ofthe geological view have had to significantly revise their projections over the last decade, the former downwards and the ... of oil See Simmons (2005) The units ofthe coefficients are affected by the fact that in our data qt and Qt are expressed in different units 9 The effect of β > and β > is to flatten the line of the...
... that the core essence ofthe discipline has been misplaced At the center of professional nursing lies the authentic presence ofthe nurse, the intent and commitment that brings the nurse to the ... of life We have come to realize that each of us is the earth, the air, the sun, and a deeply connected part of one another Thus, our emerging new worldview holds the promise ofthe birth ofthe ... Such is the nature ofthe realm of active receptivity, the sacred essence of nursing Chapter Nursing Unlike Western society, other cultures honor the place ofthe feminine function in their stories...
... Substitution ofthe H2AX Ser129 by Ala restored the ability ofthe pph3D strain to turn off checkpoint signalling in a timely manner and re-enter the cell cycle after DNA repair ofthe double-strand ... [9] One ofthe earliest events in the cellular response to many DNA-damaging agents is the phosphorylation of histone 2AX (H2AX) at Ser129 in its C-terminal tail and the accumulation ofthe phosphorylated ... amounts of cH2AX generated in the presence of increasing doses of MMS (Fig 3C) and even with the low levels of cH2AX that were sometimes present in yeast cell lysates in the absence of DNA-damaging...