... government incurred 66% of the total cost of treatinga patient with acute diarrhea (Table 3) The mean cost of treating diarrhea incurred by the patient and the ministry of health in the treatment and ... determined and the univariate and multivariate linear regression was used to determine the impact of the interventions, the pre and post randomization variables in predicting the total mean costs ... countries In India, there is little information on the costs associated with acute diarrhea In this study, the cost of treatingacute diarrhea was $14 per episode inchildren attending a government...
... examinations foracute rhinosinusitis in both adults [210] andchildren [211], and stated that MRI and CT are complementary studies for the investigation of suspected orbital and/ or intracranial ... Doxycycline #2 #2 NA NA NA NA NA 85 Clindamycin Moraxella catarrhalis Amox, standard #0.25 #0.25 16 85 NA NA #0.5 $16 85 n 62 (95% BLP) 5 NA Amox, high NA #2 $16 11 NA NA Amox-clav, standard NA #0.5/0.25 ... frequency, and most appropriate technique for nasal saline irrigation remain to be determined Table 13 Intranasal Corticosteroids Versus Placebo forAdultsandChildren With Acute Bacterial Rhinosinusitis...
... anda 3.40 µm widening in retinal venular calibre, respectively Each 1.0mm increase in axial length was associated with a 3.52µm decrease anda 5.55µm decrease in retinal arteriolar caliber and ... in vivo.4 A series of quantitative measurements of vascular characteristics such as retinal vascular caliber, retinal vascular tortuosity, retinal vascular branching angle and retinal vascular ... 3.4.2.1.4 Antenatal Mental Health Status as a Risk Factor for Changes in Retinal Vascular Parameters ………………212 3.4.2.1.5 Birth Parameters as Risk Factors for Changes in Retinal Vascular Parameters...
... season, and the flux was big and the pollutants concentration was low in the rain season (from May to October) The data from the local weather station showed that the average annual rainfall and evaporation ... Huang, X., Shi, H.C, Qian, Y and K Fujie (2003) Pilot constructed wetland systems fortreating rural domestic wastewater in Lake Dianchi Valley., Proceedings of Asian waterqual’2003, IWA Asia-Pacific ... pollutants containing in the stormwater runoff It has important significance to accumulate the design and maintaining experience for the promotion of constructed wetland technology in the Lake Dianchi...
... and at the end-of-medication phase (week 8) Information on adverse events and concomitant medication was collected at each visit Nicotine withdrawal and craving were assessed with a daily diary ... 10 minutes) by a trained study assistant was completed at each visit using the “Smoke Free and Living It” manual This manual, which allows for an individualized intervention, was designed by and ... target quit-date was the 15th day following the start of medication, separate analyses were performed using data from days 1-14 and 15-28 In all cases, the explanatory variables included in the models...
... possibility as “may”, “can” are more certain than directives (requesting, explaining and warning) are found to be used a lot “may” Meanwhile, its equivalent of “can” and “may” in Vietnamese in both languages ... and teaspoon another adverb Basing on the data analysis, we found that adverbs of vanilla essence manner, adverbs of time and adverbs of degree are three main kinds of adverbs used in EIUFs and ... phút [V-127] Fractions in English and Vietnamese that are considered in written and read aspects have a different point In English, we can make use of [E-37] cardinal and ordinal numbers with...
... countries (Botswana, Mauritius, Namibia, South Africa and Swaziland) and low-income countries (Angola, DRC, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe) (HDR, ... workforce in rural areas, using mainly allowances and salary top-ups, including a car allowance, hardship allowance, responsibility allowance and duty allowance These allowances may combine to ... Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe While some effort was made to obtain a core set of information, it is...
... PCR was performed on an egfp-containing plasmid (a gift from Dr K Apt, Martek Biosciences, Columbia, MD, USA) with sense primer SOE-3 (5¢-AAAAATCA ACGCTGAACAATGGTGAGCAAAGGGCGAG-3¢) and antisense ... (GenBank accession number X52869) was amplified from pZEOSV (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) by PCR using sense primer 5¢-ATCAAAACAACCAAAA TGGCCAAGTTGACCAGTGC-3¢ and antisense primer 5¢-GAATGCGGCCGCTCAGTCCTGCTCCTCGGCCAC-3¢, ... Clontech, Mountain View, CA, USA) was used and an antirabbit IgG–alkaline phosphatase conjugate (Sigma) as the secondary antibody Microscopy analysis Confocal imaging was performed using an inverted...
... neutral red, and fixed with 1% formaldehyde containing 1% CaCl2 for The dye incorporated into viable cells was extracted with 50% ethanol containing 1% acetic acid, and absorbance at 540 nm was measured ... disorders including Alzheimer’s, polyglutamine and Parkinson’s disease are though to be caused by an accumulation of protein aggregates in the brain [24], and Hsps such as Hsp70 and Hsp40 are shown ... lipofectAMINE reagent (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer’s instructions, and incubated for 48 h Cells were then maintained in DMEM containing 0.4 mgÆmL)1 G418 antibiotic reagent (Wako Pure...
... alternatives and their implications, perhaps over many years into the future For investment planning, such a tool can assist in “balancing” programs andin marginal analysis, i.e., assessing where ... is characterized as bad in providing capability for homeland defense PAT-MD can zoom to a level of detail that shows the factors and assumptions that led to that characterization, allowing the ... Philip Antón (by e-mail, Philip_Anton@rand.org, or by mail at RAND, 1776 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA, 90407-2138, telephone (310) 393-0411) More information on RAND is available at http://www.rand.org...
... training, and savings formation Vocational training courses Savings formation Follow-up counseling and assistance The counseling about vocational training and livelihoods provided information about ... with CARE India, conducted an operations research (OR) study in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh to examine the feasibility and impact of adding livelihood counseling and training, savings formation activities, ... Centre for Operations Research and Training Bella Patel Sandhya Barge CARE-India Y.P Gupta Lovleen Johri Gita Biswas Manohar Shenoy Integrating Adolescent Livelihood Activities within a Reproductive...
... form the mine and its transportation routes However, local activist and political interests in Sipacapa linked with national and international NGOs mounted a campaign against the Marlin project ... to stakeholders They invest in translating information about their project into languages and formats that make sense to the local population and so on an ongoing basis They make the effort to ... than in the past Taking a proactive approach means fighting the instinct to delay consultation because it is still early days and you don’t have all the answers yet or are worried about raising...
... probable, than that the king's own brothers should have dipped their hands in so foul an assassination? Richard, in particular, is allowed on all hands to have been a brave and martial prince: he had ... to wisdom was mean cunning; and has raised into a legislator, a sanguinary, sordid, and trembling usurper Henry was a tyrannic husband, and ungrateful master; he cheated as well as oppressed his ... nameless and uncertain authority; that it appears by dates and facts that his authorities were bad and false; that if Sir James Tirrel and Dighton had really committed the murder and confessed it, and...
... point is proved as in Theorem 2.7 Remark 3.3 A parallel result in the nonincreasing case cannot be obtained using a similar argument as in Theorem 2.3 because the proof that (xn) is a Cauchy sequence ... Nonlinear Anal 65, 1379–1393 (2006) doi:10.1016/j.na.2005.10.017 Harjani, J, Sadarangani, K: Fixed point theorems for weakly contractive mappings in partially ordered sets Nonlinear Anal 71, 3403–3410 ... 1) Page of Harjani et al Fixed Point Theory and Applications 2011, 2011:83 http://www.fixedpointtheoryandapplications.com/content/2011/1/83 Page of Obviously, T is a continuous and nondecreasing...
... a one-toone basis in an optimal way For this purpose, it has to be taken into account that there are exactly n! ways to assign n tasks to n candidates, and that in order to find the optimal allotment, ... and the one-by-one comparison is made once again between the remaining values An illustrative example detailing the incorporation of this strategy to the Hungarian method is shown in Figure In ... specifications fora typical urban area Medina-Acosta and Delgado-Penín EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011, 2011:71 http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2011/1/71 Page...
... IIIa Multimode AFM (Digital Instruments, Santa Barbara, CA, USA) operating in air at room temperature MTT Assay Experimental Section Reagents Daunorubicin was purchased from Nanjing Pharmacy Factory ... was deposited onto freshly cleaved mica (already glued on a steel disk) and incubated for After the sample dried under a nitrogen stream, imaging was performed in tapping mode, by using a Nanoscope ... change Ultrapure water was added in which the final volume was 100 mL and the diameter of Au nanoparticle was about 15 nm The other reagents were analytical grade For the following studies, all...
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... variational inequality problems, and variational inclusions have been intensively studied by many authors; for instance, see 8, 16–43 Motivated by Tada and Takahashi 13 and Peng et al , we introduce ... Banach spaces,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol 67, no 2, pp 274–276, 1979 K Nakajo and W Takahashi, “Strong convergence theorems for nonexpansive mappings and nonexpansive ... Point Theory and Applications 32 W Nilsrakoo and S Saejung, “Strong convergence theorems fora countable family of quasiLipschitzian mappings and its applications,” Journal of Mathematical Analysis...
... A, C / ∅, C3 Ay ≤ Ay − Au for all y ∈ C and u ∈ V I A, C Iiduka and Takahashi introduced the following algorithm for finding a solution of the variational inequality for an operator A that satisfies ... Point Theory and Its Applications, Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan, 2000 21 W Takahashi, Convex Analysis and Approximation of Fixed Points, vol of Mathematical Analysis Series, Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan, ... Takahashi and K Zembayashi, “Strong and weak convergence theorems for equilibrium problems and relatively nonexpansive mappings in Banach spaces,” Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications,...