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... erectile dysfunction remains poorly understood. In this minireview, wehaveattemptedto eval-uate theexistingliteraturepertainingtoobesityanderectiledysfunction to determinewhetheracommon ... flow-mediated dilation may have been a betterparameter to capture endothelial dysfunction. Employ-ing the latter approach together with ultrasonographywould have been a better clinical marker and ... discuss the relationships between obesity, endothelial dysfunc-tion and reduced plasma androgen levels (hypogona-dism), andlink these pathological states to ED. Obesity is a major risk factor...
... males and 5 females aged between 40 and 45 years), lipomas (n = 10; 5 males and 5 females aged between 40 and 45 years), and scar revision (n = 10; 5 males and 5 females aged between 40 and ... threads until the re-maining stain (if any) dried. Such photos were then analyzed to measure the surface stain area using an image analysis system (IAS). We chose the above tim-ing because we ... 10. Swanson NA, Tromovitch TA. Suture materials, 1980s: proper-ties, uses, and abuses. Int J Dermatol. 1982; 21: 373-378. 11. Langton JA and Gale TCE. Day-case anaesthesia. In: Aitkenhead AR,...
... different meaning attached to it; a brand can be defined as a name, logo, symbol and identity or a trademark. Prasad and Dev. (2000) also states that a brand can be seen to include all tangible and ... 22Brand equity Aaker (1991) stated that brand equity can be referred to as a set of brand assets and liabilities linked toa brand, its name and symbol that add to or subtract from the value ... customer based-brand equity (brand image, brand loyalty and perceived quality) appears tohavethe least brand equity rating?• Does customer based-brand equity differ between the two restaurants...
... including Afghanistan, Haiti, Liberia, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Southern Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, Family Care International, and International Budget ... in place a Governance and Accountability Action Plan. All grant-making foundations interviewed during the data-collection process have included a mandatory monitoring and evaluation framework ... health and human rights literacy and education, so that individuals and communities can havethe information they need to make decisions about their health, claim their rights, and demand accountability....
... Dublin,Ireland). To generate the pEP7–HFE-N11 0A HA vector we used the following primer set: sense, ATGGAAAATCACGCCCACAGCAAGGAG; antisense, CTCCTTGTCGTGGGCGTGATTTTCCAT. To generate the pEP7–HFE-N13 0A HA ... mutagenesis. The HFE NN110/130AA mutant was made by introducing the N13 0A muta-tion into the pEP7–HFE-N11 0A HA plasmid. The HFENN130/234AA mutant was made by introducing the N23 4A mutation into the ... class I molecules andthe protein is organizedinto a1 , a2 and a3 structural domains that resemblethose described for MHC class I and related proteins[4,16]. The N-terminal a1 and a2 domains...
... Learners can keep a talk diary for a week recording whom they have spoken to, for what reason and how they consciously adjusted their language and tone. Learners can plan and rehearse in their ... material that you have met before. Wehave written the material so that you can choose those parts that are most relevant to you. 1.4 How to read the standards The standards for functional ... happy or sad, from their expression and tone andthe way they walk, stand or sit. • Tone of voice. Research has shown that the tone of voice carries more meaning than the individual words themselves....
... ofAgrostis capillaris (Porter and Peterson, 1975) and H. lanatus (Meharg and Macnair, 199 1a) take up less As than non-tolerant plants. Meharg and Macnair (199 2a) showed that arsenate uptakein solution ... Deschampsia cespitosa andtoa lesserextent as well for A. capillaris (Meharg and Macnair, 1991b). In contrast, no down regulationof arsenate/phosphate transporters was found forAs-tolerant Calluna ... ricecultivars followed the order DMAA B/AsVB/MMAAB/AsIII, while Carbonell-Barachina et al.(1998) obtained the order of DMAAB/MMAA$/AsVB/AsIIIfor two typical wetland plant speciesof the...
... ”s¸ca”;5. no alternation; a t˘aia” (to cut), ends in ”ia” and has a vowel before;6. no alternation; a speria” (to scare), ends in”ia” and has a consonant before;7. no alternation; a dansa” ... (263pp.).Ana-Maria Barbu. Romanian lexical databases:Inflected and syllabic forms dictionaries. InSixth International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’08), 2008.Angelo Roth Costanzo. Romance ... alternation:˘ a a for all the forms except the 1st and 2nd person plural; a tres˘alta” (to start, to take fright);15. alternation:˘ a a in the 3rd person singular and plural,˘ a e in the 2nd...
... for the land constraint at the sector level and for the need for additionalresources to produce organic food. Model calibration and simulation allow insights into the qualitative and quantitative ... some parameters. The solution of the model—for baseline parameter valuesas well as other alternatives—allows us todeterminethe qualitative and quantitative economicimpacts of the possible large-scale ... specification is particularly useful here, because we can deduce the behaviour of the demand system from the value of a total elasticity that refers to aggregate food demand. To see this, define total...
... supervised the student chiropractors in the collection and analysis ofdata. MJW undertook a further overall statistical analysis of data and drafted the manuscript. All authors read and approved the ... profile(MYMOP2) and W-BQ12 (Well-Being) outcomesmeasures toevaluate chiropractic treatment:an observational studyBarbara I Polus†, Amanda J Kimpton†, Max J Walsh*†AbstractBackground: The objective ... of the MYMOP2questionnaire. The major strengths are considered as:patient-centred, applicable to any problem, quick and easy to complete and score, and very responsive to change. The main weakness...
... Finally,does the situation mandate humanitarian interventionbeyond the medical care and public health strategies cur-rently in place? The text below summarizes our approach to evaluating and ... related to violence, but rather to access and availability of health care, a lack of public healthinfrastructure andthe emergence of malnutrition and seri-ous diseases or exposure. Without access ... Database Program (a database that contains information on armed conflicts of the world since 1989) [5], andthe Database on the Human Impact of Complex Emergencies (CE-DAT) [6].Using the search...