... SKINNING, PRESERVING, AND MOUNTING FISH, AND CASTING FISHES IN PLASTER, etc * Fig 34 — Diagram of pike, showing skin removed on one side from lower half of body * CHAPTER IX SKINNING, PRESERVING, ... lapwing is decoyed into nets by the twirling of looking glass I have seen exactly the same thing myself on the Continent applied to the taking of larks A cylinder of wood, inlaid with pieces of ... 1874-82, where, in many instances, the number of specimens of a certain order of birds contained in the Museum falls very little short of the ascertained number of species for the whole of the world.]...
... However, the effectiveness of regular use of inhaled glucocorticoids in the management ofpatients with CF remains uncertain based on the results of the various trials in which inhaled glucocorticoids ... sensitivity in a tissue-specific manner As the inflammatory process in CF is dominated by a neutrophil influx in the airways, our present findings reporting that CF patients carrying the BclI ... conception and design of the study and in acquisition and interpretation of data CC has been involved in the acquisition of the data KC, PLR and OT have been involved in the interpretation of the data...
... However, in Xuan Son National Park, walking at night in the forest and inspecting the trunk of a dying, still standing tree with a torch, we found a mating pair of one of the largest (male reaching ... found in a decaying piece of bamboo Species of this group are in fact specialized inhabitants of the water surface within bamboo internode cavities, and are found exclusively within these container ... park is situated in two provinces, Lao Cai and Lai Chau, and contains the largest range of mountains in the north of Vietnam, of varying altitudes The National Park was established in 2006 and covers...
... digoxin in Japanese patients The serum levels of Cys-C and Cr in the patients were higher than those in the healthy elderly subjects, but the increase of Cys-C was more predominant in the patients, ... Limitations of creatinine as a filtration marker in glomerulopathic patients Kidney Int 1985; 28(5):830–838 Perrone RD, Madias NE, Levey AS Serum creatinine as an index of renal function: new insights into ... Factors influencing the prediction of steady state concentrations of digoxin Biol Pharm Bull 2001; 24(4):403–408 22 Cockcroft DW, Gault MH Prediction of creatinine clearance from serum creatinine...
... sparing inyoung women with ovarian tumors Clin Exp Obstet Gynecol, 37, 290-4 Gotlieb WH, Beiner MR, Shalmon B, et al (2003) Outcome of fertility sparing treatment with progestin inyoungpatients ... 134-68 Fertility Sparing Treatments inYoungPatients with Gynecological Cancers Gallup DG, Stock RJ (1984) Adenocarcinoma of the endometrium in women 40 years of age or younger Obstet Gynecol, ... all youngpatients desiring future childbearing If these methods don’t work, the patient should be encouraged to consider a combination of several methods There are no contraindications to combine...
... potential of providing valuable outcomes to further support clinical decision-making [9] As suggested 'the main advantage of this line of research is that of potentially providing clinicians with ... that pain and appetite loss are independent determinants of overall survival One found that a 40-point increase in the pain subscale of the EORTC QLQ-C30 was associated with a 27% increase in the ... in many instances when one includes both physical functioning and performance status in the regression models, the likelihood of finding inconsistent results can be expected In other words, in...
... located in the centre of one's life than in the bottom right corner In addition, in our experience with the original PRISM, several patients put the illness disk in the center of the sheet, commenting ... amount of suffering These differences in distribution also argue in favour of measuring suffering with a visual and indirect method such as the PRISM-RII The PRISM has been proven useful in measuring ... representation of illness: A novel method of measuring patients' perception of the impact of illness Psychother Psychosom 1998, 67:222-5 Pincus T, Morley S: Cognitive-processing bias in chronic pain: a...
... found in these adults with persisting symptoms of childhood constipation may be explained by the high frequency of pain complaints, i.e painful defecation and abdominal pain This finding seems in ... consequences in adults with unsuccessful clinical outcome In the 43 adults with childhood constipation continuing into adulthood, self-reported complaints were constipation in 76.7% and fecal incontinence ... clinical outcome resulted in social consequences in one-fifth of adults with persistence of symptoms Adults still experiencing symptoms of constipation and/or fecal incontinence applied more often...
... and in response to changing circumstances [4] Individualised measures of QoL (IQoL) increase respondents' discretion in selecting the domains most important to their QoL and, in determining the ... change in the meaning of one's evaluation a construct as a result of a change in one's internal standards of measurement, a change in one's values, or a change in one's definition of the construct ... Schedule for Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life (SEIQoL) [7] may prove useful in determining the impact of response shift on the assessment of treatment effects in clinical trials The present...
... administration of PedsQL™ to children with different health issues including those children and adolescents experiencing acute health problems Regarding single item descriptives, it is interesting ... reliable instrument, replicating some of the earlier findings for the originally version The Norwegian PedsQL™ 4.0 version will be a valuable tool for assessing the HRQOL ofyoung adolescents in Norway ... in interpretation of different items [11], or may be due to the young adolescents becoming more independent from the parents As opposed to some previous research [25], our findings did not find...
... committees of centers contributing patients The patient interviews helped to pre-test item wording (e.g whether the items are confusing, intrusive, difficult, upsetting or annoying) and to find out ... operationalisation, pre-testing and field testing) resulting in an item bank for CAT A major focus of the EORTC strategy is guaranteeing cross-cultural applicability of the CAT from the very beginning The very ... years software development for electronic patient-reported outcome assessment including CAT administration has been given increasing attention within the EORTC Quality of Life group and software...
... located in the centre of one's life than in the bottom right corner In addition, in our experience with the original PRISM, several patients put the illness disk in the center of the sheet, commenting ... amount of suffering These differences in distribution also argue in favour of measuring suffering with a visual and indirect method such as the PRISM-RII The PRISM has been proven useful in measuring ... representation of illness: A novel method of measuring patients' perception of the impact of illness Psychother Psychosom 1998, 67:222-5 Pincus T, Morley S: Cognitive-processing bias in chronic pain: a...
... Scores on the Binge Eating Scale (BES) were in a range suggestive of binge eating in over one fourth of subjects, while over 10% ofpatients had BES scores indicative of binge eating disorder Mean ... [21] The Binge Eating Scale was used to detect binging [22]; values in the range 17-26 were considered suspect of binge eating, whereas values ≥ 27 were taken as predictive of Binge Eating Disorder ... according to previously-published cut-offs [14] One point was assigned for any value exceeding the 75° percentile in items reflecting weight history: a) number of dieting attempts (cut-off, 0.56/year);...
... random walks, taking each step randomly in one of the coordinate directions The probability that a walk of length N will reach a tableau of shape µ in k steps is f µ /nk , since each of the f µ tableaux ... chamber Since we need the same arguments from the proof of Lemma in our proof of Theorem 1, we will include the full proof of Lemma there As examples of these lemmas, for the symmetric group, which ... pairing of walks, and since wαi has sign −1, these two walks cancel out in (3) The only walks which not cancel in these pairs are the walks which stay within the Weyl chamber, and since w(η) is inside...
... al the beginning of the growing season, which temporarily involved a growth stop In Pinus pinaster [31] or in Pinus contorta [37], climatic conditions like as a year with dry summer increase polycyclism ... stems But the presence of a pseudo-whorl of small branches in the median part of an annual shoots helps in the identification of an intra-annual stop of growth In our case, the intra-annual limit ... result in increasing polycyclism, an increase in the number of growth units per annual shoot has been observed with increasing soil resource availability in Quercus petraea [13, 15], in Quercus...
... the detection of this antibody [14] In the present report we screened for anti-fibrillarin by ALBIA using purified recombinant fibrillarin protein, yielding an autoantibody frequency of 14% All ... Targoff IN, Trieu EP, Miller FW: Reaction of anti-OJ autoantibodies with components of the multi-enzyme complex of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases in addition to isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase J Clin Invest ... O'Brien CA, Frank MB, Targoff IN: Molecular analysis of a major antigenic region of the 240-kD protein of Mi-2 autoantigen J Clin Invest 1995, 96:1730-1737 Page 13 of 13 (page number not for...
... trends reported in the individual studies This pattern included a clear increase in risks of lung cancer and lymphoma, both Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin, and a potential decrease in risks of colorectal ... and breast cancer) inpatients with RA in the recent published literature In particular, this review focused on observational studies comparing the incidence of malignancy inpatients with RA versus ... identification of populations Other limitations include the possibility of misclassification and the wide variation in follow-up There may have been misclassification of the inclusion ofpatients into...
... CYP3A inhibitors or inducers within days before starting study drug All patients gave written informed consent before study entry according to the Good Clinical Practice guidelines of the International ... observed inofpatients with RCC in this study confirmed the efficacy of everolimus in Chinese patients with RCC, consistent with experience from the larger phase III study in RCC [11] At the time of ... A, Armand JP: Safety and pharmacokinetics of escalated doses of weekly intravenous infusion of CCI-779, a novel mTOR inhibitor, inpatients with cancer J Clin Oncol 2004, 22:2336-2347 26 Desai...
... hypocellularity; more than 30% blasts in bone marrow of all nucleated cells; and myeloid phenotypes of leukemic blasts by myeloperoxidase staining and/or immunophenotyping Both of our patients fulfilled the ... for the presence of 40% blasts in the peripheral smear in case In both of our patients, almost all of the cells could be identified as blast cells, which made up more than 50% of nucleated marrow ... populations inhibit myelopoiesis through a humoral mechanism [11] Alternatively, an increased susceptibility of myeloid precursors to the inhibitor in older patients might play a role in the genesis of...