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... dose of drug delivered depends on the surface area of the patch and the length of time that the patch is worn,which allows for tailoring the duration of medicationeffect with reductions of first-pass ... psychiatric disorder of childhood, affecting an esti-mated 7-10% of school-aged children [1-3] and oftenpersists into adolescence and even adulthood [4-7].Beyond a greater risk for developing mental ... is properly cited. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2009, 3:39 http://www.capmh.com/content/3/1/39Page 3 of 12(page number not for citation purposes)The study consisted of...
... therapy for secondary prevention in ischemic stroke patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). We therefore compared single antiplatelet therapy and a combination of antiplatelet and anticoagulation ... recently re-ported the results of the first randomized, dou-ble-blind, controlled trial of two different intensities of warfarin treatment on the prevention of recurrent thrombotic events ... Research Paper Comparison between single antiplatelet therapy and combination of anti-platelet and anticoagulation therapy for secondary prevention in ischemic stroke patients with antiphospholipid...
... valuablecomments andfor his availability, Prof. Paul Embrechts for useful discussions and Jon Bardola whosupported me with the necessary time of work and also encouraged me in the selection of this ... sensitivities we could extract useful information for the modelization of the behaviour of the policyholders.28 Cost of Capital and Surrender Options for Guaranteed Return Life Insurance ContractsAlexis ... incompleteness of insurance markets and the limited access to equity capital, we introducethe notion of cost of capital. We analyse the impact of the cost of capital on the valuation of lifeinsurance...
... interval0:3;0:5]in step sizes of 0.1, and we examined vibrationamplitudes of 0.06 and 0.1 cm. Each experiment consisted of a suite of 500 trials for a fixed set of parameter values for each of the three initial ... the mid- and tall-sized cylinders have diameters of 3.0 cm, heights of 2.5 and 3.7 cm, and masses of 9 and 12.5 grams, respectively(see Figure 2). We measured the dimensions and masses of the ... even for the design of feeders that orient only one type of part. This paperdescribes the use of dynamic simulation to expedite thedesign and prototyping of parts feeders. We give proba-bilistic...
... requires water both for hand-washing and for preparation. Women provide most of the care for and instruction to children, with water again needed for cleaning and bathing. Women do most of the householdcleaning, ... Corporation, be responsible for Women and Water in CanadaThe Significance of Privatization and CommercializationTrends for Women’s HealthPrepared for Women and Health Care Reform and The National Network ... price of water reallyis based on supply and demand, and are heavily critical of subsidizing water prices for consumers who geta “free ride” and engage in excessive consumption atthe expense of...
... widely used part of the Internet. Searching for Health Information Online: An Internet Course for Older Adults Glossary of Computer and Internet Terms for Older AdultsThis glossary for older adults ... page of a website. It provides information about the site and directs you to other pages on the site. Glossary of Computer and Internet Terms for Older AdultsSearching for Health Information ... Searching for Health Information Online: An Internet Course for Older Adults Glossary of Computer and Internet Terms for Older AdultsThis glossary for older adults was prepared...
... a clear tradeoff betweenfault tolerance and performance, and parallel databases tend tochoose the performance extreme of these tradeoffs. For example,frequent check-pointing of completed sub-tasks ... failure, but result in degraded hardware performance be-come more common at scale. Individual node disk fragmentation and software configuration errors can also cause degraded perfor-mance on some ... theamount of work that has to be redone upon a failure. Of the desired properties of large scale data analysis workloads, HadoopDB: An Architectural Hybrid of MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical...
... RTE, and hopefully tolanguage understanding in general. Naturally, morestudies of this issue are warranted for validation.Many of the categories — has parts, member of, geography, cause and ... x is of type ‘person’.” Statedin this way, these kinds of knowledge look quite dif-ferent. If one reads our proofs from start to finish,the flow of the argument indicates which of theseforms ... combination that we discoveredis a combination of Functionality and Mutual Exclu-sivity (combined κ of 0.784, compared with 0.663 for Functionality and 0.640 for Mutual Exclusivity).This is a potentially...
... the Cr-stability of mixing, andof therate of mixing, for Axiom A and Anosov flows.There is a quite extensive literature on mixing and rates of mixing for certain classes of Anosov flows. In ... proofs of Propositions 4.8 and 4.9 are valid for f ∈ C1,1.Proof of Lemma 4.2. Let Ψ ∈Vbe sufficiently C2-close to Ψ0∈V∞ and let f ∈ Cr(Σ1). Statements (1) and (2) of Lemma 4.2, and ... rates for mixing basic sets could be arbi-trarily slow. On the other hand, exponential mixing is proved for the afore-mentioned restricted classes of Anosov flows and also for certain uniformlyhyperbolic...
... University of Manchester and a member of the Professional Conduct Committee of the BritishAssociation for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He is the author of Coun-selling, Psychotherapy and the ... Representation of official evidence-based practice 269 Teesside and a former lecturer in counselling psychology. She has worked for the NHS in the field of substance misuse and addictions andfor alesbian, ... perspectives of professional and ethical issues based on their experiences in clinicalpractice.4 Professional practice and ethical considerations Developing and monitoringprofessional ethics and goodpractice...
... Results and Discussionsã The result of interpretation of two images ETM+1999 and ETM+2004, it provided two land use maps of 1999 and 2004. In each map was classified into 11 categories of land ... types of land use areas were changed (decreased/increased) and fragmented (field crop, evergreen forest, fallow forest) as a result of both farmers who lost their lands and turned to clear-cut forest ... of land use systemã The forest area was destroyed by increasingly shifting cultivation and rubber plantation areasã Lack of an appropriate tool for decision support system in terms of land...
... The system of MYO-101 consists of blocks as follows: a detector with well scintillation crystal of Yap(Ce) having outer diameter of 60 mm, inner diameter of 15 mm, thickness of 1 mm, and aluminum ... VNU Journal of Science, Mathematics - Physics 26 (2010) 43-49 47 Proccessing of the measured results and drawing of graphs are done by software of Origin. The fitted equations and saturation ... Journal of Science, Mathematics - Physics 26 (2010) 43-49 43 Monte carlo simulation by code of MCNP and experimental check for measuring thickness of materials for the specializing system of MYO-101...
... from (3.21), that for every fixed γ ∈ (0, 1) and d>0, the left-handside of (3.21) tends to +∞ as Gd→∞. This concludes the proof of part (i) of Theorem 2.2.4. Discreteness of spectrum: sufficiencyIn ... 919–942Discreteness of spectrum and positivitycriteria for Schrăodinger operatorsBy Vladimir Mazya and Mikhail Shubin*AbstractWe provide a class of necessary and sufficient conditions for the dis-creteness of ... Discreteness of spectrum and positivity criteria for Schrăodinger operators By Vladimir Mazya and Mikhail Shubin DISCRETENESS OF SPECTRUM FOR SCHRăODINGER OPERATORS9416. Positivity of...
... School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and WEDC,Loughborough University, UK.PHLS (1959) Sewage contamination of coastal bathing waters in England and Wales: abacteriological and ... the third phase of theproject. The publication of these volumes was undertaken to inform policyanalysis, particularly assessment of priorities in terms of health research and development ... (Murray and Lopez 1999), and as 26 Water Quality: Guidelines, Standards and HealthFigure 2.1. Pathogen-host properties influencing the sequence of events between thepresence of a...