what is the added value of functional mri in the surgical planning of patients with suspected brain neoplasm or focal brai
Báo cáo y học: "Atherogenic lipid profile is a feature characteristic of patients with early rheumatoid arthritis: effect of early treatment – a prospective, controlled study" pps
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09/08/2014, 08:22
... respectively) The most important observation of the present study is the increase of serum HDL-C levels induced by immuno-intervention in ERA patients In an effort to investigate the mechanism for the ... lipid profile of ERA patients and to investigate whether this could be influenced by treating RA in the early stages of disease According to our results, patients with early active RA before therapy ... (established or early), or to differences in the disease activity Patients in remission or with controlled disease show an increase in HDL-C levels and a reduction in the atherogenic index compared...
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Báo cáo y học: "Characteristics of patients with organic brain syndromes : A cross-sectional 2-year follow-up study in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia" pps
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08/08/2014, 21:20
... simply, the primary cause of the acute impairment is usually 'outside the brain' and that of the chronic syndrome normally 'within the brain' The distinction between these two organic conditions is ... syndrome of them had a past history of a mental disorder and all of them were on Chlorpromazine, Thioridazine, Sulpiride or Risperidone had been on Haloperidol and on Mianserin during the index admission ... Lecturer involved, the Second Investigator (author ST) Statistical analysis With the Consultant involved, the Third Investigator (author NZ), overseeing the progress, the data were analyzed using the...
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What is the price of a mousetrap? The assessment of value from cloud services pptx
Ngày tải lên :
09/03/2014, 02:20
... Processes The Five Dimensions of Sourcing Value The relationship between the five dimensions of sourcing value Connect with Me Online: My blog: strategicsourcingblog.blogspot.com For more information, ... starts with an assessment of value The assessment of value of cloud services can only include a comparison against other cloud providers The comparison of cost between traditional IT investment ... need to invest in these environments, that cost might be greater than the equivalent cloud based platform-as-a-service offering IT Infrastructure is a tumour of the modern corporation IT Infrastructure...
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Báo cáo y học: "What is the clinical and ethical importance of incidental abnormalities found by knee MRI" docx
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09/08/2014, 10:22
... management of incidental findings in research studies has not been raised in musculoskeletal imaging It is important given the increasing use of MRI in the investigation of OA by researchers trained for ... imaging is low, the onus is on the investigator to ensure that any abnormalities present are identified when imaging is performed for research purposes This is the first study to examine the ... an MRI radiologist or other suitably trained specialist review all the images or just the baseline images in a longitudinal study This will also add to the cost of the research study Despite the...
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Báo cáo y học: "Value of anti-infective chemoprophylaxis in primary systemic vasculitis: what is the evidence" pdf
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09/08/2014, 14:22
... [45]) For induction, more aggressive regimens, including Cyc and higher GC doses, are utilised Furthermore, in SVV the selection of drugs depends on the stage of the disease: in the localised and ... medication is a major risk factor for infections [38] A high GC dose (often defined as more than 30 mg per day prednisolone-equivalent), especially in the form of intravenous methylprednisolone, is a ... that is, with threatened vital organ function or organ failure, respectively Cyc is used In SVV the induction of the remission period is the most vulnerable phase concerning infections and mortality...
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báo cáo khoa học: "What is the value and impact of quality and safety teams? A scoping review" potx
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10/08/2014, 11:20
... power (n = 14) or the distribution and management of missing data (n = 10) Only one-half of the authors contextualized findings within existing literature The weakest section of reporting across ... strength of this review was the quality appraisal of reporting excellence using the newly established SQUIRE guidelines Ogrinc et al [17] have called for excellence in reporting as a means to share organizational ... used to enhance the critique and capture rigor within the variations in reporting across published studies Frequencies of the items and corresponding sections within SQUIRE checklist (see Additional...
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Tài liệu The Zen of BloggingHunter Nuttall© 2008 Hunter Nuttall . com1.What is the Sound of One Hand pptx
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14/02/2014, 04:20
... will find answers," the old man said "One is within yourself The other is in these blogs For now, you have no answers within yourself, so we must start by observing these blogs For the rest of the ... the old man said "This blogger is mainly reporting the news in her industry She's gotten good at quickly saying what needs to be said, and pointing her readers to where they can get more information." ... heavily influenced by The Zen of Juggling by Dave Finnigan Additional inspiration came from The Matrix by The Wachowski Brothers, The Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien, The Legend of Zelda by Nintendo,...
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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors? pot
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22/03/2014, 14:20
... indicator is ordinal and the others are continuous We list below the synthetic indicators, the observed variables used for each indicator and the interpretation we propose, based on the sign of the ... behaviors - measured by smoking, drinking, exercising and the body mass index - contribute to explaining the gradient The size of this contribution is larger when we consider the entire history of ... assumptions, optimal behavior is Bt = B(E, Xt , pt , ρ) Ignoring for the time being the price vector p, the discount factor and the vector X, a linear approximation of this behavior is Bt = λ0 − λ1 E...
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What is the impact of microfinance on poor people? a sysTemaTic review of evidence from sub-saharan africa pptx
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22/03/2014, 21:20
... symptom of the failure of micro-credit and not its success There is the potential for clients to remain in a cycle of borrowing or saving, investing in the future, increasing income, repaying loans ... of microfinance (Bateman 2010) Synthesise what these studies tell us about: a The impact of microfinance on the incomes of the poor b The impact of microfinance on wider poverty/ wealth of ... this study therefore retains its status as a high quality evaluation This decision is discussed further in section 5.4 what is the impact of microfinance on poor people? sy n thesis Synthesis...
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What Is the Cognitive Neuroscience of Art… and Why Should We Care? ppt
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23/03/2014, 13:20
... fields; raising the profile of aesthetics and the philosophy of art within the profession of philosophy; collaborating with academic societies of aesthetics in other countries; fostering common interests ... the history of philosophy to explore aesthetic theory in the Enlightenment, the reception of British aesthetic theory in Germany, and the significance of these ideas for contemporary debates in ... We ask: is there a role for touching in the aesthetic division of labour, which is indisputably dominated by the seeing and hearing that seem to safeguard the distance between the work of art...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "What is the Minimal Set of Fragments that Achieves Maximal Parse Accuracy?" potx
Ngày tải lên :
23/03/2014, 19:20
... who obtains 90.1% for both LP and LR Moreover, our scores also outperform the reranking technique of Collins (2000) who reranks the output of the parser of Collins (1999) using a boosting method ... accuracy.) 4.4 The impact of structural context Instead of investigating the impact of lexical context, we may also be interested in studying the importance of structural context We may raise the question ... subtree is a word which according to Magerman's scheme is not a headword of the subtree's root nonterminal (although such a nonheadword may of course be a headword of one of the subtree's internal...
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Free Movement of Goods and Their Use – What Is the Use of It? pptx
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30/03/2014, 06:20
... a firm rejection of siren calls in favor of the importance of the unity of the internal market within the European Union II PARADISE REGAINED? The first of the cases under discussion to come ... opinion that is a model of excellent analysis.46 This case dealt with a national rule prohibiting the attachment of colored foil to the windows of motor vehicles for the transport of persons or ... It is therefore, in my view, preferable to examine measures of that kind in the light of the Treaty rules rather than to remove them from the scope of the Treaty.79 In the light of these three...
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WHAT IS THE INFLUENCE OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE EDUCATION STANDARDS? ppt
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30/03/2014, 12:20
... organization of outstanding engineers It is autonomous in its administration and in the selection of its members, sharing with the National Academy of Sciences the responsibility for advising the federal ... Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their special competences and with regard for appropriate ... Wulf is president of the National Academy of Engineering The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate...
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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Research Open Access What is the relationship docx
Ngày tải lên :
20/06/2014, 15:20
... on what a clinically important difference is for the SF-36 scales They conclude that the MCID for the SF-36 is "typically in the range of 3–5 points", although they also recommend caution in interpreting ... to the MID In patients who reported a worsening of health (GRoC of or 2) the sign of the change in the SF-6D score was reversed (i.e multiplied by minus one) The MID was then taken as the mean ... is important, not the change in quality of life Therefore changes in the measure alone may not be of interest without also considering the cost of bringing about such changes [39] Our findings...
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Cutting Tool Materials What is the use of a book docx
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27/06/2014, 23:20
... This contained tooling within the reactor, is heated in an inert atmosphere until the coating temperature is reached and the coating cycle is initiated by the introduction of titanium tetrachloride ... the final product is the result of ‘wetting’ by the liquid present upon sintering The extent of this ‘wetting’ during liquid-phase sintering, being dependent upon molten binder metal dissolving ... hours, consisting of hours for heating up, hours for coating and hours for cooling The thickness of the CVD coating is a function of the reaction concentration, this being the subject of: various...
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What qualities and skills are needed for the managers to manage people? • What is the importance of good human resources management
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08/07/2014, 10:33
... reward for individual Good managers also know how to maintain working excellence atmosphere Because the performance of an individual in a large organization where the air is due to work or the work ... the order in which it needs to be completed • • Organisational skills are sequences of routines in every single area of everyday living or working Organisational skills are sequences of routines ... culture of the organization that brings Increase work efficiency Therefore the employee in the company can get very creative, work efficiently and bring enormous benefits to the enterprise ...
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Báo cáo y học: " Young adult obese subjects with and without insulin resistance: what is the role of chronic inflammation and how to weigh it non-invasively" docx
Ngày tải lên :
11/08/2014, 08:22
... insulin sensitive or insulin resistant according to a stringent homeostasis model assessment of IR (HOMA) cut-off ( >or = 1.95 as insulin resistant) [16] Exclusion criteria were a history of infectious ... and the linea alba, and the VAT was defined as the distance between the anterior wall of the aorta and the internal face of the recto-abdominal muscle perpendicular to the aorta When the aortic ... down the progression of IR and the worsening of fat deposition in organs in these obese young patients as for overweight subjects [22] Furthermore, although insulin sensitivity was negatively correlated...
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Báo cáo y học: "What is the role of surfactant and inhaled nitric oxide in lung transplantation" pps
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12/08/2014, 18:21
... following completion of surgery and is usually best 3–6 months after transplantation In the cases of graft failure, brain death and infection of the donor lung, reduced surfactant function is aggravated ... preservation of the graft, ischaemia and reperfusion Therefore, substitution of surfactant may bridge the patient to recovery of the graft The combination of iNO and surfactant proved to be successful in ... oxygenation or retransplantation are considered This interesting approach was successful in the experimental setting of acute lung injury and needs to be verified in clinical indications other than...
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Báo cáo khoa học: " Science review: Carnitine in the treatment of valproic acid-induced toxicity – what is the evidence" pot
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12/08/2014, 22:22
... increasing the risk for toxicity Less than 3% of VPA is excreted unchanged in the urine [10,14,15], much of which is in the form of valproylcarnitine [27,28] Elimination of VPA follows first-order ... effects of VPA in the CNS are independent of the formation of this metabolite [80] Development of cerebral oedema is not clearly correlated with the dose of VPA ingested [20] Role of carnitine Carnitine ... within days and treated with intravenous L-carnitine survived Although these observations are interesting, the comparison with historical control individuals is a serious limitation in the interpretation...
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Báo cáo y học: " Recombinant human activated protein C in acute lung injury: what is the role of bronchial circulation" docx
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13/08/2014, 11:23
... the effects of rhAPC in an ovine model when the bronchial artery is tied off to clear its mechanism in ALI Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Page of ... into the pulmonary microcirculation To test this hypothesis, several investigators have tied off the bronchial artery of sheep and then exposed the animals to smoke In these studies the hypothesis ... receptors for rhAPC and neutrophil chemotaxis is inhibited by exposure to rhAPC [12] When rhAPC binds to these receptors, before the cells are drained via the bronchial venous system into the pulmonary...
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