the primary purpose of the north american free trade agreement nafta is to
the university of north carolina press opium war 1840-1842 barbarians in the celestial empire in the early part of the nineteenth century and the war by which they forced her gates mar 1998
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11/06/2014, 14:18
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Whatever his first reaction, however, with time the smoker (and the eater too) learns to expect the
sensations that the heroin user of today is accustomed to. The cares and distractions of daily ... Somniferum
On the banks of the Ganges some distance east of Benares, in the most wretched and neglected part of
the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, lies the little town of Ghazipur. It is not much of ... wait for the rains of the summer monsoon to sweep up
from the Bay of Bengal. But in fact there is activity here even at this time of the year. For Ghazipur is
one of the few places in the world...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Assessing the construct validity of the Italian version of the EQ-5D: preliminary results from a cross-sectional study in North Italy" docx
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20/06/2014, 15:20
... analysis. The most interest-
ing characteristic of this instrument is the availability of a
"utility index score" which for the decision makers follow-
ing the principles of utilitarism ... applicability.
The primary goal of our study was to assess the applicabil-
ity, internal consistency, and construct validity of the Ital-
ian version of the EQ-5D in a random sample of the
citizens of Bologna ... sample) from the Registry of the
North and South Health Authorities of the city of Bolo-
gna, Italy. The adopted exclusion criteria were: people
aged < 18 years, non residents of the two Health...
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Report of the Sub-Committee of the Central Board of Directors of Reserve Bank of India to Study Issues and Concerns in the MFI Sector doc
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15/03/2014, 14:20
... permitted to give loans to the microfinance
sector, which in the aggregate exceed 10% of its total assets.
6 Areas of Concern
The advent of MFIs in the Microfinance sector appears to have resulted ... NABARD is also a regulator.
If therefore, NABARD is to act as a regulator, it may be
required not to participate in the financing of the sector.
ii) If NABARD is to remain the regulator as ... entered the
sector. On the one hand, there was a huge unsatisfied demand for
microfinance credit and on the other, there was a limitation on the
capacity of not-for-profit entities to meet this...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Role of the N- and C-terminal regions of the PufX protein in the structural organization of the photosynthetic core complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides pptx
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31/03/2014, 09:20
... requires a second
photoexcitation of the RC and is coupled to the uptake of
two protons from the cytoplasmic space. The formed
ubiquinol dissociates from the RC and is released into the
membrane lipid ... ability f or photosynthetic growth, the
insertion of PufX in the core LH1–RC complex, the stability
of the dimers and the kinetics of flash-induced reduction of
cytochrome b
561
of the cytochrome bc
1
complex. ... irreversible dissociation of the
dimeric to the monomeric form of the complex from the
wild-type exists: the dimer dissociates gradually into
the monomer when the octyl-glucoside concentration is
increased...
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The Education Of The Negro Prior To 1861 - A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War pdf
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31/03/2014, 18:20
... that the inhabitants of the territory of Louisiana should be admitted to
all the rights and immunities of citizens of the United States, the State legislation, subsequent to the transfer of
jurisdiction, ... colonists, to the mutual aid resulting from the proximity of
the communities, and to the coöperation of the Canadians. The previous experience of most of these
adventurers as sojourners in the free ... southerners. Not a few of these reformers,
therefore, favored the extermination of the institution. Others advocated the expansion of slavery not to extend
the influence of the South, but to disperse...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Measuring health-related quality of life in Hungarian children with heart disease: psychometric properties of the Hungarian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales and the Cardiac Module" pptx
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18/06/2014, 19:20
... from the others, the pos-
sible peer discrimination because of the presence of a
scar o n the chest in the usual period of starting to go to
kindergarten or school may cause hidden distress.
Another ... computed as the sum of the items divided by the
number of items answered (this accounts for missing
data). If more than 50% of the items in the scale are
missing, the Scale Score is not computed ... selection from the general Hun-
garian population through the Population Register
Office of the Ministry of the Interior, with distributional
matching to the populatio n treated at the pediatric...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Evaluating the reliability, validity and minimally important difference of the Taiwanese version of the diabetes quality of life (DQOL) measurement" potx
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18/06/2014, 19:20
... that the combined use of
anchor-based and distribution-based approaches tend to
expand the range of MIDs compared to using either
approach. The MID derived from the distribution-based
approach is ... burden of diabe-
tes treatment and symptoms of glycemic control. We also
hypothesized that, compared to the RAND-12 the DQOL
and the D-39S would discriminate better between the
known groups of retinopathy, ... establish a range of MID is to demonstrate variability
among estimates.
The main purpose of this study was to validate and inter-
pret a Taiwanese version of the DQOL [24]. We evaluated
the psychometric...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Measurement properties of the Brazilian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL™) cancer module scale" pdf
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18/06/2014, 22:20
... deficiencies attributed to
the toxicity of chemotherapy or the isolation to which the
individual is subjected [9,15].
The analysis of the correlation between the scores the chil-
dren/adolescents ... question of the instrument to measure the degree of
agreement of each pair of observations. The criteria
described by Landis & Koch [12] were considered in the
interpretation of agreement: -1.0 to ... utilized for the analysis of this
hypothesis.
Construct validity was assessed by means of correlation
analysis between the subscale scores of the PedsQL™ 3.0
Cancer Module and the scores of the PedsQL™...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Validation of the Korean version of the pediatric quality of life inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL™) generic core scales in school children and adolescents using the rasch model" ppt
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18/06/2014, 22:20
... computed as the
sum of the items divided by the number of items
answered (this accounts for missing data). The physical
health summary score is the same as the physical func-
tioning subscale. To create ... Windows.
Factor structure of the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales
across age group was examined by a confirmatory factor
analysis (CFA) of items with missing data, using the soft-
ware Mplus [22]. The missing ... chi-square test sta-
tistic (WLSMV). WLSMV is one of the estimators that are
robust to non-normality and involves the analysis of a
matrix of polychoric correlations. The PedsQL™ four-fac-
tor model was...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Hypoxia silences the neural activities in the early phase of the phrenic neurogram of eupnea in the piglet" docx
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19/06/2014, 10:20
... completion of the
decerebration, anesthesia was removed. Piglets were
chemically paralyzed for the rest of the experiment. A
minimum of one hour was allowed to elapse between
removal of anesthesia ... showed that the time-frequency patterns at the
early and late phases of the phrenic neurogram were the
same for the 3–6 days old age group. As maturation pro-
ceeds, the early phase of the phrenic ... gasping for the first week of postnatal age in piglets. After the first week of postnatal
age, the duration of the phrenic neurogram burst significantly increases and the patterns during the
early...
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báo cáo hóa học: " Validation of the Japanese version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) Cancer Module" pdf
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20/06/2014, 15:20
... Accord-
ing to the pilot testing, the time required to complete
the questionnaires was estimated to be 5 to 10 minutes
Table 2 Multivariable analysis of the total score of the
PedsQL Cancer Module
Factor ... when waiting to see the
Table 7 Exploratory factor analysis of the PedsQL Cancer Module in parent proxy-reports
Subscale Item Factor 1 Factor 2 Factor 3 Factor 4 Factor 5 Factor 6 Factor 7
Pain ... For
fatal diseases, we have to balance the benefit and toxi-
city of anti-cancer treatment to maximize the quality of
life remaining for the patients. To achieve both mis-
sions, we need to be able to...
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báo cáo hóa học:" Validity and reliability of the Iranian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life InventoryTM 4.0 (PedsQLTM) Generic Core Scales in children" ppt
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20/06/2014, 15:20
... in the children report, the first factor consisted of items 1 to 4 and the second
factor consisted of items 5 to 8. Similarly, the school functioning scale was split into two factors;
in the ... loaded to
other factors. One possible explanation for the discrepancy between physical functioning factor
of children and their parents is their different perception of the construction of the ... different factor for both the child self-reports and the parent proxy-reports. In the
parent-report, the first factor consisted of items 1 to 6 and the second factor consisted of items 7
and...
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