... all the staff ofthe Tropical Marine Science Institute andthe Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore for facilitating the administrative aspects of ... distribution of heavy metals inthe seawater column inthe coastal environmentof Singapore; (ii) to determine the chemical speciation of heavy metals inthemarine sediments in order to understand their ... Chemical speciation of heavy metals inmarine sediments Increasing awareness ofthe important role of sediments inthe transport and storage of heavy metals inthemarineenvironment has led...
... patients involved have signed the Term of Free and Informed Consent and their clinical follow up information were kept in confidential records Geographic characteristics ofthe State of Espírito ... (stages III and IV), which accounted for 56.2% ofthe cases, while 43.8% ofthe tumors were inthe group of better prognosis disease (stages I and II), when only the cases containing information ... Contrasting to the observations of Aebi and Castiglione [35], we have not identified significant differences inthe patients’ OS rate or inthe DFS inthe group of women who have received platinum and...
... rubra and U americana, and Cercis canadensis An analysis ofthe historical records, including the original land survey in 1858 and aerial photographs taken in 1939 and 1978, indicated that the ... hills originating from ancient shorelines in portions ofthe Carolinas, Georgia, western Florida and southern Alabama and Mississippi Dominant species on the more xeric sites include Pinus elliotii, ... represents the western limit ofthe eastern deciduous forest, and oak species often grow along streams and ravines forming relatively thin bands of "gallery" forests A study ofthe forests in a Kansas...
... we assessed the proportion of patients receiving the service, the rate of use and rate of admissions, the time to first use ofthe service, andthe annual health care cost, in terms of total health ... antipsychotic within 14 days of discontinuation ofthe initial therapy Data on the occurrence of acute-care service use, the time to the use of such services, and total-care and acute-care service ... analysis Patients were defined as having switched medications if they discontinued the medication to which they were initially randomized at any time during the study and initiated therapy with a different...
... parts in our study patients were the front and back ofthe torso, the feet, hands, head and neck region, major joints, andthe genital region In tandir burns, the hands, feet, and head and neck ... cases in a 3-year period; 32 (47%) of these were due to tandir injuries In their series, most ofthe burn victims were children and, in most ofthe cases, burn injuries included the head and both ... and both hands These results were in agreement with the findings of our study The length of hospital stay andthe mortality increased with increases in extent ofthe burn Figure Image of a cauldrons...
... context; engaging inthe cultivation and testing of hypotheses throughout the research process, and being open to findings which may not intersect with them; acknowledging that theory formulation ... gun-related interviewees to reduce the possibility of school shootings The coda of this thesis will bring all its findings together in a concluding chapter numbered twelve; the limitations of this thesis ... photograph ofthe front page coverage inthe archives ofthe Newseum (a museum examining the history ofthe U.S media) in Washington, D.C Original credit goes to Rocky Mountain News for the photograph...
... is the receiver rank from closest to the mouth ofthe sound (1) to the farthest upriver (18) Receiver-days are the number of days within the monitoring period The number of fish detected during ... outside ofthe sound or (2) remained within the sound but out of range ofthe receiver array Furthermore, flooding andthe loss of core receivers (e.g., COS [channel outer sound] and CIS [channel inner ... maintenance ofthe receiver array We thank the staff oftheMarine Extension Service at the University of Georgia, especially Devin Dumont and Karin Paquin, for postsurgical care ofthe study fish...
... acknowledge the support of my entire family for believing in my potential and special thanks to my parents, my brother and my husband for their continuous support and understanding, without them this ... necrosis of older leaves, starting at the leaf-tips, continues to the margins and later to the petiole ofthe leaves Causing ionic stress, Na+ and Clalso inhibit metabolic processes including protein ... secretion and therefore the salt tolerance mechanism inthe mangrove Avicennia officinalis These results validate the previous findings that aquaporins play a critical role in salt secretion and water...
... (scalar), three components ofthe first moment of inertia of Link i, six components ofthe inertia tensor of Link i andthe moment inertia ofthe motor (scalar) • The (2 × 1) joint friction parameters ... robot inertial parameters (11 for each link) which are: one element ofthe link mass, three elements ofthe first moments (by product ofthe link mass times the coordinates ofthe center -of- mass), ... me the thinking style I am also thankful for having such a great parents, Jimmy Soewandito and Ina Christanti, a loving wife and son, Irene Sagita and Gallant Lovinggod Soewandito, for all support,...
... Control andPreventionThe role of BCG vaccine inthepreventionand control of tuberculosis inthe United States: a joint statement by the Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis andthe ... useful in determining a) the efficacy of BCG vaccine in HCWs or b) the effects on efficacy ofthe vaccine strain administered Vol 45 / No RR-4 MMWR andthe vaccinee’s age at the time of vaccination ... resurgence inthe incidence of TB occurred inthe United States and included increases inthe number of TB cases among adults and children and outbreaks of multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) involving...
... ofthe biological effects of lost and discarded plasticdebrisinthemarineenvironmentMarine Pollution Bulletin 18, 319–326 Laist, D.W., 1997 Impacts ofmarine debris: entanglement ofmarine ... pollution into themarineenvironment (Lentz, 1987) The Annex V of MARPOL is the key international authority for controlling ship sources ofmarinedebris (Ninaber, 1997), and came into effect in 1988 ... Convention on thePreventionofMarine Pollution by Dumping Wastes and Other Matter (the London Dumping Convention or LDC) The most important legislation addressing the increasing problem ofmarine pollution...
... presentations of this article The study was supported in part by the China NSF Grant No 10871097, the Qing Lan Project of Jiangsu Province, the Foundation for Young Talents in College of Anhui Province ... depending on the decay rate ofthe relaxation functions g(s) and h(s) For the problem (1.1) in ℝn, we mention the work of Kafini and Messaoudi [10] Motivated by the above research, we consider in ... state the local existence andthe uniqueness ofthe solution of problem (1.1), whose proof can be found in Han and Wang [19] (Theorem 2.1) with slight modification, so we will omit its proof In the...
... ofthe biological effects of lost and discarded plasticdebrisinthemarineenvironmentMarine Pollution Bulletin 18, 319–326 Laist, D.W., 1997 Impacts ofmarine debris: entanglement ofmarine ... pollution into themarineenvironment (Lentz, 1987) The Annex V of MARPOL is the key international authority for controlling ship sources ofmarinedebris (Ninaber, 1997), and came into effect in 1988 ... Convention on thePreventionofMarine Pollution by Dumping Wastes and Other Matter (the London Dumping Convention or LDC) The most important legislation addressing the increasing problem ofmarine pollution...
... simple cessation messages and cessation programs Quit rates were 30.6% inthe intervention group and 27.5% inthe control group The COMMIT interventions were not successful in heavy smokers (>25 ... inhalers) and bupropion Cigar smoking has increased inthe past decade The health risks of cigars are similar to those of cigarettes Smoking one or two cigars daily doubles the risk for oral and esophageal ... processes Prevention concerns the identification and manipulation ofthe genetic, biologic, and environmental factors inthe causal pathway of cancer Education and Healthful Habits...
... recurred in 9.8% of women inthe low-fat diet group compared to 12.4% of women on the standard diet In observational studies, dietary fiber lowers the risk of colonic polyps and invasive cancer ofthe ... effects of increasing fiber and lowering dietary fat have not been proven inthe context of a prospective clinical trial The putative protective mechanisms are complex and speculative Fiber binds ... dietary fat intake was significantly lower inthe diet intervention group, invasive breast cancers were not reduced over an 8-year follow -up period compared to the control group The difference in dietary...
... ofthe lung, nasal sinuses Phenacetin Cancer ofthe renal pelvis and bladder Polycyclic hydrocarbons Cancer ofthe lung, skin (especially squamous cell carcinoma of scrotal skin) Schistosomiasis ... Immunosuppressive (azathioprine, glucocorticoids) agents cyclosporine, Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma Nitrogen mustard gas Cancer ofthe lung, head and neck, nasal sinuses Nickel dust Cancer ofthe lung, ... Promoters include hormones such as androgens, linked to prostate cancer, and estrogen, linked to breast and endometrial cancer The distinction between an initiator and promoter is sometimes...
... when the therapy is withdrawn, suggesting the need for chronic administration More tolerable doses of isoretinoin have not proven beneficial inthepreventionof head and neck cancer Isoretinoin ... to retinol, α-tocopherol (vitamin E), and selenium Further study to define the activity of these drugs is ongoing Several large-scale trials have assessed agents inthe chemoprevention of lung ... occurred inthe hormone group and 72 inthe placebo group The positive effect on colon cancer is mitigated by the modest increase in cardiovascular and breast cancer risks associated with combined...
... preventing infection with any ofthe four component strains (6, 11, 16, 18) The vaccine is recommended for girls and women ages 9–26 years Reductionin these HPV types could prevent >70% ofthe ... Vaccines to protect against these agents may reduce the risk of their associated cancers The hepatitis B vaccine is effective in preventing hepatitis and hepatomas due to chronic hepatitis B infection ... 33% in men taking α-tocopherol (99 cases in those on the drug; 151 cases on placebo) A prospective randomized trial to assess these drugs is ongoing Vaccines and Cancer Prevention A number of infectious...
... specificity of a test are relatively independent ofthe underlying prevalence (or risk) ofthe disease inthe population screened, but the predictive values depend strongly on the prevalence ofthe disease ... rate, is the proportion of persons who not have the disease and test negative inthe screening test (i.e., the ability of a test to correctly identify that the disease is not present) The positive ... early intervention to prevent a cancer or limit its severity People at high risk may be ideal candidates for chemoprevention and screening; however, efficacy of these interventions inthe high-risk...