endocrine disruption in fishes and invertebrates issues for saltwater ecological risk assessment
Coastal and Estuarine Risk Assessment - Chapter 11 ppt
... considerations affecting the foraging behavior of the exposed heron population, one for migration and one for local foraging use, two spatial functions had to be developed to control for the heron’s ... earliest and latest 10th and 90th percentiles for arrival and departure, respectively By solving for the residency time (departure date minus arrival date) using Monte Carlo techniques, the resulting ... in coastal Maine, Auk, 104, 38, 1987 Gibbs, J.P., Spatial relationships between nesting colonies and foraging areas of great blue herons, Auk, 108, 764, 1991 Dowd, E.M and Flake, L.D., Foraging...
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Báo cáo y học: "Prevalence of Overactive Bladder, its Under-Diagnosis, and Risk Factors in a Male Urologic Veterans Population"
... possible effective and fast screening tool Our study also examined the risk factors for OAB in men We found that OAB increased with age: 49% in men aged 40-49 years to 79% in men aged 70-79 years ... of OAB, LUTS and OAB subtypes DISCUSSION The prevalence of OAB in men has been reported to be 10.2-16.0% It is expected to be much higher in the urologic setting since urinary complaint is a common ... urinary frequency and 85% nocturia The increase in our study is consistent with Irwin et al.’s epidemiologic study Although a higher prevalence of OAB is expected in our study population, the increase...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Solvent exposure and malignant lymphoma: a population-based case-control study in Germany" pptx
... pairs were included in the analysis Data collection Intensively trained interviewers elicited detailed information about the medical history (including medication), lifestyle (including smoking, alcohol ... hydrocarbon investigated in our study, is widely used in lamination of reinforced plastics, in the production of – inter alia – rubber, plastic, insulation, and fibreglass The exposure prevalence in control ... and in drafting the manuscript JB participated in the coordination of the data collection and in the critical revision of the study BM and GE participated in the exposure assessment and in the...
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Báo cáo y học: "Association of MICA with rheumatoid arthritis independent of known HLA-DRB1 risk alleles in a family-based and a case control study" pps
... important for eliminating infected or tumorous cells [9] This interaction is also described to increase inflammatory cytokine production and proliferation of a certain subset of T cells In consequence, ... conditional logistic regression analyses including all parents informative for MICA-250A and controlling for LD with HLA-DRB1 risk alleles (Table 2c) We did not find any indication that the observed protective ... (transmitted/non-transmitted) within these parents under the null hypothesis of no effect of MICA-250A We now can combine information from all parents informative for MICA-250 by combining all four ORs of all four independent...
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Risk management in a car factoryQuản lý trong công ty sản xuất xe hơi
... explain the fact, influencing factors and the possible impact to the Company's future finance and responding proposal: Not Applicable • NT$66.0 billion net cash outflows from investing and financing ... Reduction in non-operating income: The reduction was primarily due to inclusion in 2001 of a non-recurring insurance claim In addition, interest income also decreased as the result of lowered interest ... Activities Net Cash Outflows from Investing and Financing Activities 33,403,706 • Increase in sales returns and allowances: The sales returns and allowances increased as a result of a more conservative...
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Báo cáo y học: "Low back pain risk factors in a large rural Australian Aboriginal community. An opportunity for managing co-morbiditie" ppt
... housework, washing, dressing, lifting, walking, driving, climbing stairs, getting in and out of bed or a chair, sleeping, working, social activities and sport)" • Self-reported modifiable risk factors ... findings reported in the screening questionnaire A positive pain finding in the clinical assessment was derived by practitioner-based examination, including the patient's history of involved site(s) ... 6907; 2000 Clifford A, Atkinson D: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Worker Training in Western Australia In Conference Proceeding Perth; 2000:31-39 Vindigni D, Perkins J, Blunden...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "THE REPRESENTATION OF INCONSISTENT INFORMATION IN A DYNAMIC MODEL-THEORETIC SEMANTICS" ppt
... image in the table using the ~-expression, and then finding the corresponding element in the model If the element in the model that was the denotation of the h-expression was not expanded in the ... not identified as being equivalent, the mechanism "thinks" that it is possible to expand their domain to include a distinguishing element Since the formulas are equivalent in all possible worlds, ... model and for providing procedural rather than declarative representations for the information in the model [Moran 1980] 17 "impossible" worlds approach: if two intensionally-equivalent formulas...
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Corporate Taxation in a Dynamic World pot
... set, an increase in the income tax rate stimulates the demand for risky assets if: 1) the risk- free interest rate is zero; 2) absolute risk aversion is constant or increasing; 3) absolute risk aversion ... marginal cost of losing business exibility The VMC and SPC allow us to calculate the trigger point and the unknown Substituting (2.3) and (2.5) into (2.6) and (2.7) we thus obtain the following ... Allowance for Corporate Equity Business Enterprise Tax Bad News Principle Comprehensive Income Tax Dual Income Tax Earning Before Interest and Taxes European Court of Justice Growth and Investment...
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Affordable-Accessible Housing In A Dynamic City potx
... building, forcing her to search for more affordable housing, while increasing urban traffic, rising fuel prices and aging may make driving more difficult, forcing her to search for more affordable ... changing demands and conditions Current demographic and economic trends are increasing demand for affordable-accessible housing, and increasing the benefits to society of accommodating this increased ... (walking, cycling and public transit), and help maintain services and jobs in older neighborhoods In economically growing cities, the demand for affordable housing often exceeds supply In such...
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stork - living in a dynamic tropical forest landscape (blackwell, 2008)
... in temperature and rainfall Changes as small as a 1°C increase in temperature and a 10% decline in rainfall result in a significant contraction of rainforest above 600 m in elevation, resulting ... within developing countries, these forests are heavily impacted by legal and illegal logging, destructive mining, clearing for agriculture and plantations and shifting cultivation A majority of Indigenous ... Benzaken, D (eds) (1991) Tropical Rainforest Research in Australia Present Status and Future Directions for the Institute for Tropical Rainforest Studies Institute for Rainforest Studies, Townsville 210...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Steinfield, H., Mooney, H.A., Schneider, F. and Neville, L. E. Livestock in a changing landscape: Drivers" pptx
... beef markets reduced the clearing of forest lands Demand for beef by European countries and demand for animal feeds are the main drivers behind efforts to clear forests for the cultivation of soya ... on grazing lands squeezed livestock into limited areas for grazing, with a resulting reduction in the biodiversity of the grazing lands While repeating views that ascribe land degradation and desertification ... greater demand for food is matched by an increase in incomes There is a close link between large-scale industrial processing of livestock feed and the increased production of livestock Intensification...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article Prerouted FPGA Cores for Rapid System Construction in a Dynamic Reconfigurable System" pot
... policy to provide tunneling bandwidth WT , for connecting nonneighboring cores The reservation is uniform across every wire channel in the core to maintain a uniform tunneling bandwidth It is proposed ... connected using a tunneling-link core overlaying the computing cores The computing and interface cores communicate over a single interface type indicated by the dark arrows Arrows indicate the port ... wire policy constraints, each node in the routing resource graph can be marked as internal, external, input, or output Before routing begins the wire use policy and the assigned interface definitions...
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A behaviour based algorithm for encirclement of a dynamic target using multiple mobile robots
... common phenomenon in nature, e.g wolves hunt in a pack to increase their success in capturing prey Animals can benefit from coordinated movement by combining individual sensing ability In the robotics ... performance index to represent the result All the recorded time steps and the corresponding non-dimensional performance index are included in Appendices The definition of the performance index ... behaviour can contribute in varying degrees to the robot’s overall response by setting different gain In [8], Balch and Arkin have shown that formation behaviour can be integrated into a motor-schema...
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Báo cáo y học: "Comparative study of control selection in a national population -based case-control study: Estimating risk of smoking on cancer deaths in Chinese men"
... studies were formed within the study base with one group of cases and two different control groups The information on smoking history was obtained by interviews We interviewed informants (spouses ... uncertain of the age when smoking began A validity study in Shanghai was conducted where the surviving spouse was the informant and both husband and wife had reported their smoking habits in the ... 1986–1988 in China † RR1 and RR2 denote relative risks calculated with study group1 and study group 2, respectively FIGURE Proportion of smoking by different smoking histories and relative risk for...
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Báo cáo y học: "Increased risk of peripheral arterial disease in polymyalgia rheumatica: a population-based cohort study" ppsx
... Individuals were included as subjects with PMR if they fulfilled the following three criteria: age ≥ 50 years; bilateral aching and morning stiffness (lasting 30 minutes or more) persisting for ... one of the following criteria were met: ankle-brachial index ≤ 0.90 in either leg; symptoms of intermittent claudication or ischemic pain at rest with examination findings including documented ... This study relies on complete and accurate recording of pertinent information in the medical record Several major cardiovascular risk factors have been incorporated into our analysis Other elements,...
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Vacuum assisted birth and risk for cerebral complications in term newborn infants a population based cohort study
... birth and increased risk for neonatal intracranial hemorrhages, and provides robust data on incidence and risk factors for this complication The finding that VE but not CS was associated with increased ... spontaneous vaginal delivery The rate increased with increasing maternal BMI in all types of delivery, and with decreasing maternal height, particularly in the VE-group In the VE-group, increasing infant ... however, in relation to year of birth Imaging of the brain was performed on clinical indications in all cases and there was no screening—general or selective, based on risk factors—of asymptomatic infants...
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Báo cáo y học: "The epidemiology of medical emergency contacts outside hospitals in Norway - a prospective population based study"
... project, including the procedures for data collection, and designed the paper EZ and RAB performed the analyses and drafted the first manuscript All authors took part in rewriting and approved the final ... hospitals, including triage and dispatch, and how to best deal with “everyday” emergency problems is needed in Norway The large variety of symptoms and conditions may for instance indicate a need for ... Nilsen, and Trond Kibsgaard in the area of Haugesund We want to thank Pål Renland for valuable help in data coding, Tone Morken for help in statistical challenges, Thomas Knarvik and Lars Myrmel for...
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Impact of chronic disease on quality of life among the elderly in the state of São Paulo, Brazil: a population-based study pptx
... having a disease The exceptions were the following scales: role-physical and role-emotional for those with diabetes; role-emotional for back-pain; social functioning for stroke; social functioning ... 60 years of age or more, a total of 958 individuals All the elderly individuals interviewed in the survey were included in this analysis Survey instrument and variables Data were collected by means ... administered directly to the sampled individuals by trained interviewers The questionnaire was organized into 19 subject areas including the scales of the SF-36® The variables analyzed pertained...
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Cancer survival in five continents: a worldwide population-based study (CONCORD) ppt
... survival for colon cancer in men ranged from 28·5% in Poland to 54–57% in Spain, Finland, Austria, and France In women, the lowest estimate was also for Poland (30·9%), while survival was in the ... survival in Ireland was 49·1% in men and 48·5% in women The estimates for Northern Ireland were 47·3% in men and 49·0% in women, slightly higher than the pooled estimate for the UK, 43·5% in men and ... Columbia), and from 57·8% to 62·8% in women In the USA, 5-year relative survival for all races combined was 56·9% in men and 59·8% in women, with a range from 46–67% in men and 52–66% in women (table and...
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