... males (2.3 years for ICH and years for ischemic stroke) and females (1 year for ICH and 1.3 years for ischemic stroke) Conversely, in the older age bands (> 65 years) for males the QALYs lost were ... stroke mortality estimates and paired AQoL utility values at 12 months and years All authors read and approved the final manuscript Authors' information All authors have a PhD DC is the Head of the ... for use in this study, formulated the lifetable model template used in this study and helped to draft the manuscript RC participated in the design of the study and interpretation of the data and...
... go into their current financial situation Theoretically, the first and foremost objective of any firms is theprofitand their ability to maintain the profitability in the long term The industrial ... since the introduction of market-oriented reform and opening of the economy in 1989 This reform, fromthe developmental view, helped Vietnam escape fromthe economic crisis in the mid-1980s and ... investigate how they really perceived the impact of environmental regulations on their economic performance i.e their short-term profits and their environmental performance For example, the interviews...
... Reports on the health of the navy, and find from them that among sailors the disorders of the chest occasion about 28 per cent, of the general death-rate ; while the Reports on the health of the ... muscle, and by learning from them what has been their personal experience, whether as years come round they feel themselves more and more exhausted and decrepit, in a word, prematurely used up; or ... contest; and that the young man who aspires for such laurels deliberately casts in his lot for death or victory, perhaps for both Such is the language of the censors of these pastimes To support their...
... change too much from one day to the next The only contamination is the day τ targeting error, andthe revision in the expectation of future targeting errors.5 The expected component of the change ... This has more of the flavor associated with the VAR literature mentioned earlier, and shifts the focus away fromthe precise timing of the policy actions.11 In addition, the assumption that the dates ... interest rates The behavior of the short end of the yield curve has been something of a puzzle for researchers Contrary to the implications of the expectations hypothesis, the slope of the yield curve...
... Thus the book is held in the hand, at the right distance fromthe eyes; the eyes are moved, from side to side, over the lines, and up and down the pages Further, the most delicately adjusted and ... of any theory as to the nature of matter, orthe nature of mind They are as true upon the theory that mind acts on matter—though separate and altogether different from it—as upon the theory of ... the sort of words andthe sort of thoughts they are used to—so, on a larger scale, the writers of an age, without thinking of it, give to the readers of the age the sort of words andthe sort...
... banking crisis The recession was then followed by a major boom, driven by the demand for U.S goods by the European belligerents and then the U.S as it prepared for BORDO AND HAUBRICH war The wartime ... pattern: the recovery fromthe Great Contraction in the 1930s; the recovery after the recession of the early 1990s andthe present recovery The present recovery is strikingly more tepid than the 1990s ... evidence and historical narratives on U.S business cycle recoveries from 1880 to the present Figure shows the quarterly path of GDP fromthe preceding peak to the trough of each business cycle and then...
... Care Worker.” Short profiles of current LTC workers who enjoyed their work were featured in various media, focusing on what they liked about the work andthe conditions, andthe importance of their ... support, and poor recognition for the value of LTC work If the employers and general public increase recognition and rewards for LTC workers, these rewards become a non-monetary component of the ... York, North Carolina, and Virginia) and two national organizations: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) andthe Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) The...
... for Germany andthe highest one was 23 bp points for Greece For the same period, the lowest average bond spread was bp for both France andThe Netherlands, andthe highest average was 25 bp for ... reflect the same information on the credit risk of a given reference entity and therefore should be equal In other words, the basis, defined as the difference between the CDS spread andthe corresponding ... report the results for the period ranging from January 2004 to September 2008 for CDS-bond negative and positive bases, respectively Panels C and D report the results for the period that spans from...
... nicotinic receptors, andthe stimulation of catecholamine release fromthe adrenal gland and subsequent activation of a-adrenoceptors involves in the hyperglycemic response to choline [41] The observed ... determine the dose–response relationship andthe time course of the serum insulin response to choline; (b) determine whether the blockade of peripheral muscarinic and/ or nicotinic cholinergic receptors ... 50.0 mM and NaCl concentration was reduced from 120 mM to 73.5 mM in the perfusion buffer) The perfusate representing the entire 2-h rest or stimulation period was collected and assayed for acetylcholine...
... photographers in their work, which took lonely Western outposts, vacuous suburban sprawl, and casual indoor scenes and made them fit to be seen on the walls of the great art museums of the world Then there ... platform on which the base sits was in the foreground You see the platform so that it is turned on its axis about 30 degrees The staircases on either side of the platform come together—one on the ... the left fromthe background to the foreground, andthe other remaining mostly in the foreground I took the image in Figure 4.2—a sculpture at Hearst Castle—so that the base upon which the sculpture...
... exposure to the war) and temporal (within a given region, the timing of whether a child was born during the war period) These variables are binary and indicate whether a child was born before the war ... war region and born before or during the war) have lower height-for-age Z-scores and are more likely to be stunted or severely stunted, andthe differences are statistically significant There is ... height-for-age Z-scores 12 before the war ended to the Z-scores of children born after the war ended in the war regions of Eritrea and Ethiopia, and we then compare this difference relative to the...
... sharing the correction workload with them For example, the teacher can let students the peer correction, which sensitizes students to the problems in their own paper, and gives them the sense ... is, therefore, necessary for language teachers to build a theory of writing at first and foremost As suggested by Grabe and Kaplan [5], current theories of writing need to represent a theory ... use Grabe and Kaplan [5] also emphasize that only teachers who understand theory and make a transition from theory to practice can make the most appropriate decisions for a successful and meaningful...
... carefully that they are not wormy, then cleanse them with a piece of flannel from sand or grit, then peel them and put them in the sun or a cool oven to dry; they require long, slow drying, and must ... walnut and roll them round Either put them on a tin close together, to be broken apart, or an inch or two from each other, in which case work in a little more flour, and cut a cleft on the top, and ... make the cover of a pie adhere to the under crust, lay the forefinger of your right hand lengthwise round the border, but as far fromthe edge as you can, thus forming a groove for the syrups, and...
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... impact on their ability to work and to participate in family and community activities The correlations between the corresponding Impact and Distress scales are shown on the diagonal in Table The Page ... strong correlations between the PIPP and WOMAC (see Table 3) The pain and physical function subscales of the WOMAC correlated strongly with the Mobility and Participation subscales of the PIPP These ... for assessment at both the group and individual levels Validity testing provided support for the use of the PIPP in this OA sample The scales showed strong and appropriate correlations with the...
... times, stop them seeing other men, expect to find them at home when they call, and to have them willing to free themselves from whatever they are engaged in and be ready for sex on demand [33] It ... move beyond the epidemiology andthe measurement of behaviours and associations and enable us to understand these empirical findings In so doing, we draw on theoretical resources fromthe area of ... [10,11] and 28% disclose rape of a woman or girl [10] These two epidemics have provided an important impetus for research into the nexus of gender and HIV, andthe country provides an important opportunity...
... expectations and horizon) and would they all follow the mean-variance criteria, they would all hold combinations of and M andthe tangent portfolio M would necessarily coincide with the market portfolio ... Remark 10 The proof follows the same lines when the portfolio contains a risk free asset with weight x0 Remark 11 and are the same for all assets or portfolios Remark 12 For the market portfolio: ... stated in the theorem Moreover cov (Ri , RX ) appears to be the relevant measure of risk for any asset i embedded in the portfolio X Chapter 1.B.ii Portfolio Choices Ecient portfolio and risk...
... because of differences in the cis-regulatory regions in the A and D genes Such a regulator could be novel to the hybrid, or be produced fromthe unaffected parental genome In the case illustrated ... either parent, and can be thought of as regulation in trans On the other hand, a downregulation or upregulation of only one parental allele of the pair in the new hybrid environment suggests the ... accumulated in the parental lines since their divergence from a common ancestor So, both favorable and unfavorable effects may derive from fundamentally similar mechanisms As early as the 1930s,...
... According to the standards set by Cape et al (1990), the content of calcium in the second year of needles in all the analyzed groups of stands is on the decrease for the growth of trees and, in the first ... the most important base of soil is the quartz-silicate series, consisting of conglomerates and coarse-grain types of sandstones (mainly the Magura and Istebna ones), which produce sandy or sand-clayey ... coarse-stony The water conditions, especially on tops and ridges and on steep southern slopes, are worse for demanding spruce and its saplings (Modrzyński 1998) than the conditions on the mantle...
... Authors' contributions BS contributed to the design of the study, andthe interpretation and writing of the manuscript HK performed a major part of the biostatistics work and contributed to the ... study was supported by grants fromthe Swedish Medical Research Council, fromthe Swedish Council for Working life and Social Research, fromthe King Gustaf V's 80-year foundation, fromthe Swedish ... aAdjusted for age and residential area bAdjusted for age, residential area and smoking The presence of HLA-DR SE genes is a risk factor for RF+ RA and anti-CP+ RA, but not for either RF- RA or anti-CP-...