... parental history of asthma and 25.0% had a parental history of atopy at the time of interview 9.3% of participants had no siblings Premature birth occurred for 9.3% of children and 8.6% required ... incidence of asthma in children of smoking mothers Pediatrics 1992, 89:21-26 Rushton L, Courage C, Green E: Estimation of the impact on children’s health ofenvironmental tobacco smoke in England and ... cold (Table and Table 4) In our cohort, the number of current household cigarettes smoked and the percent of ETS exposure during lifetime also showed increasing trends for risksof respiratory...
... effluent and aquatic system for Vietnam could be found Environmental fate of pharmaceuticals in aquatic system The detection of antibiotics like FQs and TCs in Vietnamese agriculturaland hospital ... in Vietnam The published information and collected data on the usage and occurrence of antibiotics and synthetic hormone in effluents and aquatic systems of Vietnam is reported This is followed ... assessment of these pollutants The extensive use of antibiotics and synthetic hormones in Vietnam could cause the discharge and accumulation of these contaminants in the aquatic systems and potentially...
... WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY - Environmental History Of Air Pollution And Protection - Stephen Mosley monoxide, and it can be created indoors and outdoors Although some sources of atmospheric ... examples of air pollution and its effects, especially in northern Europe and the Mediterranean basin where archaeological records and a variety of written sources provide clear evidence ofenvironmental ... and Effectiveness of Change’, in Pretty, J et al (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Environment and Society, Sage, London [A useful survey of air pollution policy and legislation, and its effectiveness,...
... virulence of the virus is much less than that of them [6, 13] Along with severe disease of leukocyte and lymphocyte counts, each number of MHC class II, CD1+, CD2+, CD4+, CD8+, CD4+CD8+ and surface ... humoral immune responses of T-1 and T-2 were greater than those of T-3 or control group A report supports the result of our study, suggesting that in pigs the Ig-containing cells isotypes of the various ... supplied with a basic diet and tap water a ; significant difference against that of control(p
... and induces the expression of IFN-responsive genes in SOCS3- Regulation of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) signaling by STAT3 (signal transduction and activators of transcription 3) and suppressor of ... were abnormally accumulated in the thymus and spleen and produced high levels of BAFF/BLyS and APRIL, resulting in the aberrant expansion of B cells and autoreactive antibody production SOCS1-deficient ... activators of transcription 1) pathway SOCS1 is probably induced by STAT1 and NF-κB, and then suppresses both STAT1 and NF-κB One possible mechanism of NF-κB suppression is the induction of degradation...
... management of the patient PRB wrote the manuscript with support from TAM and PYD TAM and XM reviewed and interpreted the pathology slides and CT scan images, respectively All authors read and approved ... et al Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011, 5:110 http://www.jmedicalcasereports.com/content/5/1/110 Page of Figure CT of the abdomen before (A, B) and after (C, D) four months of treatment with ... publication of this case report and any accompanying images A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal Page of Author details Centre for Oncology,...
... selected each year out of 59 candidates, and 49 dams were selected out of 169 candidates until generation 16 For the control line, on average, 11 sires out of 46 males and 55 dams out of 159 females ... addition of al = the random animal effect (l = to m, m = the total number of records), dijk a random effect common to all the progeny of dam k, and eijl = the random error The expectation and variance ... to examine the effect of the combination of two major genes, DW and NA, on selection response The aim of the present study was to estimate heritability and direct selection response for average...
... molecular profiles underlying the beneficial effects of GCs on NP and the histopathological patterns of NP Identification of these genes and gene networks ultimately contributes to the knowledge of NP ... metaplasia of epithelium and intensive infiltration of lymphocytes, but lack of stromal edema and goblet cell hyperplasia The less common polyp presents with pronounced hyperplasia of seromucinous glands ... electrolyte transport, and epithelial rupture theory 1.4.1 Environmental factors Since nasal mucosa is exposed to a variety ofenvironmental allergen, pollutants, and microbes, the role of environmental...
... visits per year and represents 12% of primary care visits and 28% of referrals to gastroenterologists (Sandler et al, 1990) In Singapore, a study revealed that IBS makes up 17% of new referrals ... limited understanding of this disorder and lack of gold standard for diagnosis, irritable bowel syndrome is certainly an important research area Therefore it gains increasing attention and interests ... role of abnormal motility in the pathogenesis of IBS A number of motor abnormalities have been described in the colon and small intestine of IBS patients Patients with predominant symptom of diarrhea...
... self regulatory focus, which eliminates the moderating effect of assortment type on the market share of a brand iv LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES Fig 1: Three - Way Interaction of Consumers’ Self Regulatory ... D4, and D5 Let us take a nonalignable assortment of size 2, made out of variants of this energy drink brand The assortment contains the brand variants D1 and D2 The nonalignable features of the ... more of the brand variants make up an assortment, the assortment will be alignable The five brand variants are E1, E2, E3, E4 and E5 For an assortment of size 2, with brand variants E1 and E2,...
... induction of ArgII mRNA, protein and enzymatic activity in the context of virus infection in an IRF-3dependent and IFN-independent manner Moreover, expression of a constitutively active form of IRF-3 ... Activation of p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase and c-Jun NH(2)-terminal kinase by doublestranded RNA and encephalomyocarditis virus: involvement of RNase L, protein kinase R, and alternative ... Lipopolysaccharide stimulates the MyD88-independent pathway and results in activation of IFN -regulatory factor and the expression of a subset of lipopolysaccharide-inducible genes J Immunol 167, 5887–5894...
... projection pain and hemodynamic responses during spinal puncture Methods and Materials This randomized clinical trial was performed in Dr.Shariati Hospital of Tehran University of Medical Sciences ... mild pain, 2= moderate pain and 3= severe pain, and visual analog scale of 0–10, where 0=no pain and 10= worst imaginable pain Agrawal et al used both, 4-point scale and VAS, in which the first ... to the ethical guidelines of the 1989 Declaration of Helsinki Ethics Statement To evaluate the effect of valsalva maneuver on pain, first, we searched Medline, ISI, and other databases This intervention...
... ecotoxicity level ofagricultural drains when agricultural chemicals were applied GC/MS Analysis and Contribution of Specific Chemicals to Ecotoxicity The recovery rates for 68 kinds ofagricultural ... inhabitation of aquatic organisms The results of the measurement and the calculation of DVi, DIi and DI are shown in Table Three chemicals, terbucarb (MBPMC), bromobutide and tolclofos-methyl, ... urban area in Japan andagricultural drains when agricultural chemicals are applied In addition, analysis ofagricultural chemicals by GC/MS was simultaneously carried out and their ecotoxicity...
... laboratory, and determined the degradation rates and bacterial growth in each sample for the analysis of the growth of tetracycline-resistant or tetracycline-degrading bacteria and the mechanism of tetracycline ... Tahara M., Shimizu K and Nisimura T (2008) Monitoring of PPCPs in Aquatic Environments in Japan and Evaluation of Removal Efficiency on Assumption of Water Purification Process, J of Japan Society ... Characteristics of Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater Treatment, - 326 - Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol 8, No.4, 2010 J of Water and Waste, 50(7), 587-593 Wen X., Jia Y., and Li J., (2009)...
... contributes to escalation of flood risks Changes in land-use Results of IFA case-studies in the countries of Asia reconfirm that land-cover change and unsustainable land-use patterns, and especially deforestation ... resources”(ISDR 2004) In many parts of Asia a declaration of state of emergency signifies a state’s recognition of a disastrous event and often is based on loss of property and investments IFA indicates ... vulnerabilities of societies to floods It discusses a number of key issues and IFA research results related to ‘design and action’ of institutions and to implementation of flood risk reduction policies and...
... main purpose of this thesis is to raise the aware of culture gap It is done, focused on the comparison of the ways of giving compliment and responding to compliments between the English and the Vietnamese ... importance of study target language is emphasized more than ever We tend to direct our teaching and learning to modern way However, here and there still exists the traditional method of learning and ... cross-cultural study of giving and responding to compliments in English and Vietnamese equivalents Chapter III: Some suggestion for gving and responding to compliments in English and Vietnamese in...
... releases of produced water and petroleum and the improper disposal of produced water are national issues that concern managers of Federal, and State lands, as well as oil and gas producers and lessees, ... siltstone, and thin sandstone beds The geologic and climatic settings of the Lester and Branstetter leases resemble that of much of the major southern mid-continent oil- and gas-producing area of the ... part of the site is underlain by 1) a surface layer of eolian sand (20-70 cm thick); 2) colluvial apron and alluvial deposits of varying thickness comprised of sandstone pebbles, cobbles, and...
... structure of cN-II showing interfaces A and B and the Mg2+ site The inset shows the tertiary structure of each subunit Effector sites andand the active site are shown Table Effect of point mutations ... structural and functional features of cN-II, fundamental aspects of how the enzyme functions remain to be unravelled, in particular the number and location of the interaction sites for the activators and ... behaviour of recombinant wild-type enzyme in the presence of ATP and Mg2+ as an activator and Pi as an inhibitor Figure shows that the enzyme exists and functions as a tetramer irrespectively of the...
... the Bank of England, the Group of Thirty, the Of ce of the U.S Comptroller of the Currency, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and, most recently, the U.S Government Accounting Of ce (GAO) ... percent of the dealers’ $6.5 trillion of notional outstandings.18 Table NOTIONAL PRINCIPAL OF INTEREST RATE AND CURRENCY SWAPS WRITTEN ANNUALLY BY UNDERLYING AND OUTSTANDING Billions of U.S Dollars ... This kind of risk, however, is hardly new to banks Banks have always been exposed to such risks because of their holdings of fixed-rate, long-term loans and securities, and because of their foreign...