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... to interpreting the laws of apartheid illuminated debates in philosophy of law about the relationship between law and morality My main focus was on the statutory regime put in place to maintain ... required to maintain it, South African judges by and large continued to think of themselves as part ofthe family ofthe common law, proudly sustaining its traditions, including that of an independent ... of my examples are drawn are the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia Together they present a fertile ground for testing my claims because, until quite recently, Canada and Australia had what...
... meet the needs ofthe members and the facilitators is the initial planning, organization, and setting up ofthe group This initial stage can easily be bypassed inthe interests of time and the ... logical relationship, and the feelings may come all at once in an inexplicable ball of raw emotion You may hear complaints of fatigue, exhaustion, lack of energy, pain, or inability to sleep All of ... Grief and the Sacred Art of Ritual Janet Shaw Rogers 129 Section III Alternative Art Forms, Programs, and Stories of Art and Healing Chapter 14 The Painters Deborah Koff-Chapin, Carol McIntyre, and...
... South Africa, there is an ongoing debate about whether or not the side-effect profile of HAART may adversely affect the HRQoL of HIVpositive individuals More data about the impact of HAART and HAARTrelated ... onto HAART and increasing survival among these patients, there is a growing need to understand the impact of HAART use on the quality of lives of HIVinfected individuals [4-8] There is a sizeable ... antiretroviral (ARV) therapy progressed to AIDS and died of their disease The rollout of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) through national and provincial programmes has dramatically altered...
... demonstrates that rapid scale- up of HAART using a public health approach in sub-Saharan Africa, essential to confronting the HIV/AIDS epidemic, can be accompanied by high quality care The analysis of ... of CD4 counts, viral loads, and hemoglobin from the National Health Laboratory Service database into the TherapyEdge-HIV database demonstrated high quality of data entry as 98.8% of values matched ... antiretroviral therapy (HAART) has increased dramatically, but the majority of those in need remain untreated, especially in sub-Saharan Africa With more than five million individuals living with HIV and...
... Diseases Institute (IDI) in Kampala, Uganda, is a centre of excellence for HIV clinical care inthe country, and maintains alarge observational clinic database and a nested research cohort database ... validation of key data items in these databases This evaluation is particularly timely and relevant with the expanding use of observational databases to assess the optimal timing of ART initiation, ... inthe research cohort database) There was also a higher incidence and 233% better reporting of genital herpes inthe routine clinic than inthe research cohort database Data audit Inthe audit...
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... to calculate the most likely ofthe four rot risk classes as a function, for each fixed basal area, ofthe age and the dominant height ofthe stand, obtaining for each value of basal area a graphic ... distribution ofthe age ofthe dominant strata and the site index within the forest area can be seen in Figure The classification ofthe forest area in function ofthe stand age and the site index is ... number of pairs of samples ua and ua + d which distance from each other is within the distance lag centred at d, and z(ua ) and z(ua +d) are the values that the variable z takes at samplesua and ua...
... 0, j The number of matchings ina tree In this section, we turn to the number of matchings ina graph This is also known as the Hosoya index, or the Z-index in mathematical chemistry For a rooted ... set as a matching as well Applying the previous technique, we will show the following the electronic journal of combinatorics 17 (2010), #N18 Theorem For m ∈ N, B(m) = Z2 m There are formulae ... the electronic journal of combinatorics 17 (2010), #N18 Consider (T, r) obtained from T1 by joining a new vertex r to r1 Then ϕ(T, r) = (b, b + a) Hence, µ (a, b) ∈ D Inductively adding a leaf...
... ofthe challenge for the Treasury and the Fed, meanwhile, was to talk scores ofthe world's largest banks into not calling in their Korea loans All these initiatives came to a head at the same ... reserves of dollars This sequence of events led to the so-called Asian contagion, a series of financial crises that began with the collapse ofthe Thai baht and Malaysian ringgit inthe summer of 1997 ... it off was the initial public offering of Netscape, a tiny two-year-old software maker in Silicon Valley that had al- most no revenues and not a penny of profits Netscape was actually giving...
... heavily invested in loans backed by real estate as collateral, as real estate prices soared When the turn came and prices cascaded downward, the collateral became inadequate But instead of calling ... which are already prominent in this book Australia and New Zealand are particularly interesting in how they developed after adopting market-opening reforms and gradually increasing ties with Asia, ... history and the culture it has spawned By culture, I mean the shared values of members ofa society that are inculcated at an early age and that pervade all aspects of living Some aspects ofa nation's...
... global trading partners, and that calls for a broader explanation ofthe causes of U.S income inequality Part ofthe explanation is the more elaborate welfare systems, especially in Europe, that ... But by then, they are all too visible The rapid pace of globalization of trade is being more than matched by an expanding degree of globalization of finance An effective global financial system ... stock, the fairly dramatic decline inthe average age ofthe stock, and the creation as a consequence ofa high degree of insecurity for those individuals inthe labor markets who have to deal with...
... central planning throughout the world, with China and India inthe vanguard The evidence of increasing property rights, and the rule of law more generally leading to increasing levels of material well-being ... implicit in one's current undertaking and pay a royalty to the originator of each one Rather than adopting that obviously unworkable approach, Americans have chosen instead to follow the lead of British ... decades ago was equal to that of China, but is now less than half of China's and still losing ground It is conceivable that India can undergo as radical a reform as China and become world-prominent...
... patient data and was a major contributor in writing the manuscript JR analyzed the patient data and contributed in writing the manuscript RP and BE analyzed and interpreted the patient data and were ... discharge, his bradycardia had reversed and his heart rate had increased to 85 beats/minute, which suggests that the initial bradycardia was likely related to the infusion of aminocaproic acid ... etiology of acquired hemophilia A remains unclear In approximately half of cases, factor VIII autoantibodies occur in patients without any identifiable cause, while the remaining cases may be associated...
... patient data and was a major contributor in writing the manuscript JR analyzed the patient data and contributed in writing the manuscript RP and BE analyzed and interpreted the patient data and were ... discharge, his bradycardia had reversed and his heart rate had increased to 85 beats/minute, which suggests that the initial bradycardia was likely related to the infusion of aminocaproic acid ... etiology of acquired hemophilia A remains unclear In approximately half of cases, factor VIII autoantibodies occur in patients without any identifiable cause, while the remaining cases may be associated...
... rs4578621 F : CAAGCTGGGTGCACTGGC 185 R : GAGAAATAGAGGAATTAACC rs6496589 F : CTGCCAACACTCG AGCTG 110 R : ACCTGACTCTTCCTTGTCT rs894160 F1 : GCTGAGACTGAGTCACATGC 403 R1 : GCTGAGACTGAGTCACATGC F2 : CTGTTTGTGGGGCTCCCTCG ... et al reported that theA allele was associated with enhanced basal and noradrenaline-induced lipolysis in human subcutaneous fat cells [7], it does not seem to have a major impact in human French ... Paris, France (available at http://gene canvas.ecgene.net/downloads.php) Statistical significance was defined at the 5% level Power calculation was done with the Epi Info 6.04 software available...