... with the instruction for the children to complete them alone and independently from other family members In case of severe visual impairment ofthe children and/ or parents, assistance was offered ... questionnaire, and checked the completeness of it We determined whether the children had completed the KIDSCREEN questionnaire themselves, by simply asking the children individually and their parents Measures ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007, 5:65 Background Retinoblastoma (RB) is a malignant tumor affecting the retina and is the most common intraocular malignancy in children Inthe Netherlands,...
... with the instruction for the children to complete them alone and independently from other family members In case of severe visual impairment ofthe children and/ or parents, assistance was offered ... questionnaire, and checked the completeness of it We determined whether the children had completed the KIDSCREEN questionnaire themselves, by simply asking the children individually and their parents Measures ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2007, 5:65 Background Retinoblastoma (RB) is a malignant tumor affecting the retina and is the most common intraocular malignancy in children Inthe Netherlands,...
... for the development of anal cancer is well known, no data about the influence of smoking during combined radiotherapy on the outcome after therapy exist asof now The exact role of smoking inthe ... radiochemotherapy was stopped after first cycle of chemotherapy at a dose of 43 Gy because of toxicity and old age ofthe patient The intensity of chemotherapy was reduced in smoker and non-smokers ... http://www.ro-journal.com/content/2/1/30 the combination of one of these risk factors with smoking [7-11] Combined radiochemotherapy is the gold-standard in treatment of anal cancer since Nigro et al reported their data [12]...
... study has examined or compared the determinants of research knowledge utilization for practitioners and administrators inchildandfamily services The development of a better understanding ofthe ... understanding ofthe role these factors play inthe translation of research knowledge In addition, the observations in this study were collected from practitioners and administrators working inthe ... basic understanding ofthefactors at play inthe equation, precise knowledge ofthe processes involved has yet to be developed This lack of knowledge is even more pronounced inchildandfamily welfare,...
... schizophrenia The mean score on interest in schizophrenia and mood disorders in children and adolescents was 6.01 ± 2.2, measuring slightly higher than that of interest in PDD Gaining experience inthechild ... PDD and schizophrenia, about interest inchildand adolescent cases with schizophrenia or mood disorders, about interest in working with children, and about their understanding of normal childhood ... following this and since then, the number of scientific papers on PDD has been increasing For these reasons, PDD is a disorder that has recently attracted the most intense interest in biological...
... before them They were pushing the waters out ofthe basin ofthe sea.‖ (The new Englander, 1921) The perception of air in terms of a sea makes an invisible thing (air) observable The repetition of ... difference inthe way the writers integrate their attitudes inthe descriptions of people and things Analysing the findings in this culturally and stylistically oriented fashion was really among the ... part of everyday linguistic use They are often creative and sometimes absurd if out of context, as a result of individual reasoning and experiencing This kind of metaphor dominates the art of literature,...
... Water and fire as metaphors in American and Vietnamese short stories ofthe 20th century 12 2.1 The popularity of water and fire as metaphors 12 2.2 The formation of metaphors ... UNIVERSITY OF LANGUAGES AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES FACULTY OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES PHÍ THỊ THU TRANG A STUDY OF WATER AND FIRE AS METAPHORS IN AMERICAN AND VIETNAMESE SHORT STORIES OFTHE 20TH CENTURY ... TABLE OF CONTENTS iv PART ONE: INTRODUCTION 1 Rationale for the study Scope ofthe study Objectives ofthe study Methods ofthe study...
... analyzed, synthesized and computed and finally documented The findings and conclusions ofthe paper are based on the facts and figures produced via these methods Design ofthe study This thesis paper ... four main objectives: To explore the use and formation ofthe metaphors of water and fire inthe linguistic perspective, basing on the data from American and Vietnamese short stories ofthe 20th ... with the popularity, the creation andthe functions of water and fire metaphors Part III is the conclusion ofthe study in which a summary ofthe findings, pedagocial implications for teaching and...
... loss of water from the soil, Fdrain can be expressed asthe product ofthe steady-state concentration of metal in soil water, andthe water drainage flux: Fdrain = [M]SW · wF (3.5) The key remaining ... The distribution ofthe mass input to the different compartments should be designed on the basis ofthe objective ofthe screening 3.5.5 PRECAUTIONARY APPROACH The UWM approach presented inthe ... used inthe evaluation 3.3.3 SOIL MODEL The soil model comprises a single mixed box, containing solids and solution, as shown on the left-hand side of Figure 3.1 The soil receives the metal of interest...
... during the second half ofthe move, with concomitant high jerk at the beginning, middle and end ofthe perturbation [13,14] While standing barefoot and blindfolded on the SLIPFALLS a subject was ... respectively For platform movements of mm and mm, the time interval was s and or the 16 mm platform movement, the time interval was s During the interval “One” or “Two”, the platform moved a fixed displacement ... value, andthe overall NCV score X was set to the minimum ofthe normalized velocities Subjects were classified as having peripheral neuropathy when X < = 0.98 andas being neurologically intact...
... article as: Arunchai and Plubtieng: On the Krasnoselskii-type fixed point theorems for the sum of continuous and asymptotically nonexpansive mappings in Banach spaces Journal of Inequalities and ... of C with Î U, F(U)bounded and F : U → C a condensing mapping Then, either F has a fixed point in U or there is a point u Î ∂U and l Î (0,1) with u = lF(u); here U and ∂U denote the closure of ... forms ofthe Krasnoselskii theorem on fixed points for the sum A + B of a weakly-strongly continuous mapping and an asymptotically nonexpansive mapping in Banach spaces These results encompass...
... containing e and a 1-factor avoiding e, then G has a k-factor containing e and a k-factor avoiding e for every k ∈ {1, 2, , r − 1} Proof Let F and Fe be two 1 -factors of G containing e and ... respectively Hence the statement is valid in this case Case 2: Assume that r = 2m is even In view of Theorem 1, G has all regular even factors containing e or avoiding e, respectively Since G has a 1-factor ... odd factors between and r − 1, and these are regular odd factorsof G avoiding e If F2k+1 is a (2k + 1)-factor of G avoiding e, then G − E(F2k+1 ) is a (2m − (2k + 1))factor containing e, and the...
... appeared to increase Degradation of caspase-3 and PARP was specific as indicated by the fact that the cell internal control, β-actin, remained intact To determine the effect of DCPIP and DCPIP ... assisted inthe design planning of all experiments PP participated inthe design of XTT, CAM and Western experiments, assisted in data analysis and interpretation andin writing and revising the manuscript ... CAM assay and GEM assay experiments, assisted in data analysis and interpretation andin writing and revising the manuscript SP and JG carried out the Western blot experiments CH and SA assisted...
... reviewing the scientific underpinnings ofthe use of persistence in hazard evaluation andof persistence measures as applied to metals, including the potential to use bioavailability measures in ... trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Adams, William J., 1946Assessing the hazard of metals and inorganic ... careers in these areas The publications provide information for keeping abreast of recent developments in familiar subject areas and for rapid introduction to principles and approaches in new subject...
... providing input to the UWM, and (3) providing an interim solution to the use of aquatic toxicity data in metal categorization, independent ofandin advance ofthe UWM 5.2 DATA ACCEPTABILITY The ... species, and (2) the toxicity of these species, rather than (3) the toxicity ofthe original metal substance There is no doubt that characteristics such as solubility and transformation (and their kinetics), ... 1996) 5.5.2 BIOTIC LIGAND MODEL (BLM) The BLM has been gaining increased interest inthe scientific and regulatory community for predicting and evaluating metal bioavailability and toxicity due to...
... bioavailability theory that can be integrated into models such asthe BLM to assist in hazard ranking of metals in soils and reduce the uncertainty produced by abiotic factors affecting metal exposure Finally, ... days following mixing ofthe test substance into the soil and incubation, with the same total transformation time as (2) A list of standard tests is provided in Fairbrother et al (2002) and Spurgeon ... changed, depending on the soil type and according to the end point chosen, with the overall ranking being Cd > Cu > Zn > Ni > Cr > Pb The variability in ranking casts doubt on the validity of a threshold-ranking...
... successful inthe experimental setting of acute lung injury and needs to be verified in clinical indications other than lung transplantation Competing interests None declared References There are case ... substitution of surfactant may bridge the patient to recovery ofthe graft The combination of iNO and surfactant proved to be successful in experimental severe reperfusion injury [15], strengthening Della ... extracorporeal circulation was instituted when right heart failure occurred after implantation ofthe left lung and clamping ofthe contralateral pulmonary artery, despite iNO and prostaglandin E1 treatment...
... class resistance' (FCR) was defined as no drug in that class that is fully active reflecting the loss of an entire class of drugs The incidence was defined asthe proportion ofthe number of ... bias the results were the time elapsed since a patient started therapy andthe genotyping, andthe fact that for some patients the date of therapy initiation was not exactly known Therefore, in ... parallels the more potent NRTIs being administrated and possibly the protective role ofthe other drugs inthe regimen (e.g., boosted protease inhibitors) The rising prescriptions of NNRTIs during the...
... results proved the change of brain resistance andthe improvement of brain compliance (by the increasing of velocity) The PI decreased collerately with the change of intracranial pressure The result ... caused the raise in plasma osmolality as well as serum sodium, the difference was significant before and after infusion The brain hemodynamics was also improved, shown by the increase of cerebral ... were increased significantly at T120 (p