... principle of yin and yang An illness is defined by TCM as a disorder of yin and yang (Ngai, 1997) Achieving the balance of yin and yang isan essential aim for most TCM Yin means ‘shady’, andis associated ... added to the water and painted on the foreheads of both the birth attendant andthe pregnant 25 woman It is believed to help neutralise the fire and air of relevant spirits Then, the Malay woman lies ... Intrapartum The time from the onset of true labour until the birth ofthe fetus and placenta (Stedman, 2005) Labour This isthe process by which the fetus is born, andthe placenta, and membranes are...
... Profile P Equals the mean ofthe scores recorded mental) of a specific problem they need assistance with and consider the severity of these symptoms over the last week The third item asks the ... mean ofthe four item scores is calculated andis referred to as the MYMOP2 “profile score” The latest version ofthe MYMOP2 questionnaire (MYMOP2) was used in the present study and comprises another ... conceived the study, participated in its design and its coordination BP, AK and MW supervised the student chiropractors in the collection and analysis of data MJW undertook a further overall statistical...
... currently stands However, it isimportant to continue to synthesise and progress existing knowledge, not just from within the field of positive psychology but from a broad range of disciplines and perspectives ... feel the research climate and resources are now supportive of these types of challenges Well-being research has increased substantially over the past decade andthe demand to disseminate these important ... subjective and psychological well-being, meaning, flow and strengths and have developed a range of corresponding measures Based on the outstanding work of authors such as Alan Waterman, Corey...
... fyn isthe random effect ofthe nth flock-year class (1, , 15), io isthe random additive genetic effect ofthe oth animal and eijklmno isthe random residual term The pedigree file comprised a ... four months of age, the lambs were gathered and transferred from the rough grazing pasture to the farm Subsequently, the weaning weight ofthe lambs was measured andthe farmers selected the lambs ... variables; x1 isthe number of c.2360G>A alleles (0, 1, 2), x2 is if heterozygous in c.2360 and otherwise, x3 isthe number of c.960delG alleles (0, 1, 2), x4 is if heterozygous in c.960 and otherwise,...
... care isanimportant aspect of achieving good health outcomes Health insurance status and usual sourceof health care affect whether care is received andthe type of care provided The receipt of ... value of $11,057 for a family of four) This estimate isthe highest since 1994 About 20 percent of Black, non-Hispanic children, 15 percent of Hispanic children, and percent of White, non-Hispanic ... NOTE: The acronym NH refers to non-Hispanic origin The acronym NHPI refers to the Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander population Each group represents the non-Hispanic population, with the...
... development ofthe report included Laura Chadwick, Office ofthe Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation; Shelly Wilkie Martinez, Office of Management and Budget; Matthew Davis and Gregory ... Nutrition Policy and Promotion; and Laura Radel, Office ofthe Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Health and Human Services In addition to the report authors, active members ofthe Reporting ... race and ethnicity In 1997, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued revised standards for data on race and ethnicity (http://www.whitehouse.gov/ omb/fedreg/1997standards.html) These revised...
... on the island.³⁵) Off-islanders like my family who spent most ofthe year on the mainland could see the transformation into diminished members ofthe colony ourselves On returning to the island ... answer, the question of how one ought to live Many ethical philosophers since then have taken this as a summary statement of their mandate, and this is now a common understanding of ethical theory’s ... three ofthe major ethical theories: Kantian, consequentialist, and virtue ethics, at least in some of their most popular forms Kantians, for instance, demand a degree of rational governance of...
... positive voltage ranging from to 1,000 V and measured the emission current Results and discussion The progress of transformation ofthe tips and photoresist at different etching time is displayed in ... photolithography and reactive ion etching techniques The apex ofthe nanotip can reach to nm in radius The mechanism of nanotip formation is that the remained photoresist on top ofthe tip is gradually ... during the etching process, andthe exposed silicon substrate is etched away to form the nanotip The field emission property ofthe ultra-sharp nanotip is measured, andthe turn-on field and work...
... categories within the land vertebrates or within the fishes could not be observed, suggesting that land vertebrates on the one hand and fishes on the other show similar gene loss for the same functional ... genes belong to and whether this is correlated with the mode of duplication (small-scale versus largescale); and to speculate on the importance of these events for the evolution of vertebrates ... significantly different number of retained duplicates could be identified Interestingly, all ofthe significant differences were observed between fishes on the one hand and land vertebrates on the other...
... is, the paradigm ofthe person andthe paradigm of disease categories isan inadequate basis to understand the relations ofthe body andthe mind The psychosocial paradigm ofthe person has lacked ... powerful and rich andthe weak and poor Such disparity of opportunity and resources between the rich A Brief Philosophy of Well-Being 17 andthe poor has consistently lead to social instability and ... study and treatment ofthe psyche, and for an adequate understanding of human psychological health and illness To explore and investigate this new approach, I describe the steps in observation and...
... morbidity and mortality It will be important to develop and utilize novel, more sensitive and specific tests Considering the serious impact of missed or delayed diagnoses andthe risk of transmission ... mortality of tuberculosis isthesourceof major medical and social problems, especially in developing countries It is ranked as the seventh highest cause of morbidity worldwide, and ranks even ... diagnostic tests Early diagnosis of tuberculosis can reduce the health burden and mortality among an expanded stratum ofthe population As was seen in this study, late or missed diagnoses resulting...
... as Na and Ns , respectively Assume that the range of Na is Na , the range of Ns is Ns , andthe range of Na Ns is Nas For instance, if f (·) and g(·) are standard saturation functions, then Na ... plane (OLHP) representing the coloring filter with the 3dB bandwidth r , the plant, andthe controller, respectively, f (u) isthe actuator nonlinearity, and wr and r are standard white noise and ... in the problems of reference tracking and disturbance rejection Chapters and are devoted to analysis of quasilinear control systems from the point of view of reference tracking and disturbance...
... STAT5B is necessary for expression ofthe AGT gene [10], and Ang II activates JAK-STAT and AP-1 [23] To determine the relationship between the activation of STAT5B and c-Jun, and STAT5B and AP-1 ... activation the expression ofthe AGT gene in VSMCs stimulated with Ang II, the effect of Ang II on the phosphorylation of STAT5 and c-Jun was measured Ang II stimulated the phosphorylation of STAT5B and ... find out whether the increase in STAT5B and c-Jun phosphorylation induced by Ang II affects the binding of STAT5B and c-Jun to their cis-elements, the activity of STAT5B binding andof c-Jun binding...
... First, addition of CO2 reduces the viscosity of PEG [25], which is favorable to enhance the reaction rate On the other hand, CO2 can expand the liquid and too much CO2 can dilute the reaction species, ... system andthe role of functionalized-PEG as catalysts for CO2 conversion The use of PEG in the CO2 capture and subsequent conversion closes the list of topics in the book All together, the analysis ... analysis ofthe PEG/CO2 system presented by the author is complete, and very useful as it is accompanied by a quite exhaustive literature search Professor of Chemistry CIRCC and University of Bari...
... disc to the plane ofthe posterior skin is recorded This length is used for the lateral distance ofthe skin entry point from the posterior midline and this is usually about 12 to 14 cm from the ... through the spinal needle to reduce pain and discomfort The needle is then punctured into the disc andan intraoperative discogram is performed with a mixture of ml of contrast media and ml of indigo ... incision is made at the entry site ofthe guidewire and a tapered cannulated obturator is slid over the guide wire and introduced gently into the foramen and into the disc A beveled working cannula...
... designed and performed all the steps of proof in this research and also wrote the paper KL participated in the design ofthe study and helped to draft and revise manuscript All authors read and approved ... conditions and analysis technique The paper is organized as follows In Section 2, the new neural network model is formulated, andthe necessary knowledge is provided The existence and uniqueness of equilibrium ... xi(t) and yj(t) are the states ofthe ith neuron andthe jth neuron at time t, respectively; δi ≥ and θj ≥ denote the leakage delays, respectively; fi and gj denote the signal functions of the...
... destroy the correlation To this, we show that the key addition does not change the bitwise Hamming distance between X and Y and substitution does not change the bytewise Hamming distance and preserves ... encrypted and (b) the cost of computation to break the cipher is more than the value ofthe information [19] In AES, this is achieved via the round functions where each round consists of a sequence of ... ciphers like the AES, to spread the statistical characteristics ofthe cipher state as quickly as possible andis measured in terms ofthe branch number We establish the necessary and sufficient...
... qualitative analysis ofthe first energy function We now propose an analysis ofthe influence on the results of each ofthe four terms ofthe energy defined in (7) The weight of each of these terms is controlled ... until the driver starts turning it The most important result on this sequence isthe tracking ofthe hands In image 39, the masks ofthe two hands are merged: they have a few pixels in common The ... comparison between the distributions pt−1 A Bugeau and P P´ rez e ( j) ( j) and ρt (4) and between qt−1 and ρt must be performed through the computation of a distance measure A classical distance...
... culture systems Plant tissueandcell cultures provide model systems for the study of various molecular, physiological, organism and genetic problems These systems have been used in the study of herbicides ... herbicides The control of unwanted vegetation by means of chemical agents, i.e herbicides, isanimportant aspect of modern agriculture and land management’s While many chemicals that are useful for the ... observed that the accession of Landoltia from Lake County (Florida) had developed resistance to diquat andthe resistance mechanism was independent of photosynthetic electron transport 2.2 Patented...