... targets of intervention are the caspase cascade and intrarenal inflammatory pathways During the past decade, hemofiltration has evolved steadily from a pure treatment for AKI to an important adjunctive ... to start RRT is still a topic of debate The main reasons are the absence ofa clear and consensual definition of AKI to stratify patients according to the degree of renal impairment andthe difficulty ... 11 Devarajan P: Cellular and molecular derangements in acute tubular necrosis Curr Opin Pediatr 2005, 17:193-199 12 Rana A, Sathyanarayana P, Lieberthal W: Role of apoptosis of renal tubular cells...
... statistical analysis package SPSS for Windows Three analyses were undertaken: univariate analyses ofthe association of each variable with mortality, discriminant analysis for mortality classification and ... hypothesis that the continuous decompression ofthe urinary tract associated with catheter drainage accounts forthe asymptomatic nature of most CAUTIs and may also be the major reason that bacteremia ... catheterized with the novel silver hydrogel catheter A total of 850 evaluable newly-catheterized patients had complete data available for risk factor analysis A total of 158 (18.6%) ofthe patients developed...
... services and to assess outputs of rural health facilities The aim of this study was to evaluate and analyse the nature, performance and costs ofa sample of periurban and rural based CHW programs ... Zwarenstein, Aja, Wyk et al., 2005) (for example in India, AWARE in Andhra Pradesh, CINI in Kolkata, CRHP in Jamked, RUHSA in Tamil Nadu, and SEARCH in Maharashtra (Antia & Bhatia, 1993) Pakistan ... 15 Akramul Islam(Islam, Wakai, Ishikawa, Chowdhury, & Vaughan, 2002) Bangla desh 16 Joel D et al, (Joel, Sathyaseelan, Jayakaran, Vijayakumar, Muthurathnam & Jacob, 2003) RamosCrequeira (RamosCrequeira,...
... completeness and accuracy General themes and their associated codes were agreed upon by the data analysis team and thematic coding was used to analyze all qualitative data, according to assessment ... training, qualifications upgrading, and post graduate training as a way to motivate and retain health care workers Areviewof 16 countries in east and southern Africa found that most offer training ... skills andthe numbers of qualified health care workers capable of meeting the health care needs ofthe Tanzanian population Page of 10 Additional material Additional File 1: List of Programmes...
... 1990's in Canada [26] The HABAM was developed to evaluate balance and mobility for older patients admitted to hospital with a medical illness A summary ofthe characteristics ofthe HABAM are reported ... estimate the standard deviation and therefore the MDC90 may be greater than estimated The MDC90 estimated forthe HABAM represented approximately 20% ofthe scale width andforthe PPME the MDC90 ... greater than the MCID forthe EMS and original HABAM but not forthe PPME This is a limitation ofthe EMS and HABAM as important change and measure- Page 11 of 15 (page number not for citation purposes)...
... number of sessions subjects attended Others stated that "the majority" of subjects completed a certain number of classes or that there was a natural break in the data at a certain number of classes ... Dietary Guidelines for Americans Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) andthe Department of Agriculture (USDA) 2005 CDC Physical Activity of Everyone: Introduction Department of Health and ... coauthored the first draft ofthe table and co-wrote the findings and recommendations sections CSB critically reviewed and revised the original manuscript and co-wrote the findings and recommendations...
... rates comparable to other vigorous species such as Douglas fir and an apparent wide soil adaptability on Rational use ofthe parental populations and their evaluation through hybridization as ... resistance (e.g., larch canker) are the main selection criteria Wide soil adaptability and growth uniformity are also of importance A great deal of genetic variability exists for these traits in larch ... to a lesser degree than the F progenies and show a comparable variabi- lity The greater uniformity ofthe F genera1 tion progeny over the parental progenies has also been recognized as an advantage...
... Separate rates of depression in men and women not documented consequences of terrorist attacks on the population as a whole Galea et al [35] assessed a sample of residents of Manhattan between and ... other hand, the impact of terrorism in children and adolescents reveals that a substantial proportion of youth reports a wide array of clinical needs and functional impairments months after an ... Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Author details Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment, Psychology Faculty, University of Malaga, Campus de Teatinos s/n Malaga, 29071 Malaga,...
... guarantor IIS and IAB performed the literature search, identified the relevant studies to be included in the analysis, and extracted the data forthe study MEF and IAB wrote a first version of ... 31:690-697 Garnacho-Montero J, Ortiz-Leyba C, Fernandez-Hinojosa E, Aldabo-Pallas T, Cayuela A, Marquez-Vacaro JA, Garcia-Curiel A, Jimenez-Jimenez FJ: Acinetobacter baumannii ventilator-associated ... in support ofthe position that A baumannii bacteremias are as severe as other Gram-negative bacteremias and thus may result in considerable mortality Page of (page number not for citation purposes)...
... studies and abstracted data JPL validated the process and conducted data analysis All authors contributed to the writing and approved the final version ofthe manuscript Page of (page number not for ... study of green tea consumption and oral cancer incidence in Japan Ann Epidemiol 2007, 17:821-826 Hara N, Sakata K, Nagai M, Fujita Y, Hashimoto T, Yanagawa H: Statistical analyses on the pattern of ... quantity of green tea andthe quality of green tea products; and (3) study designs and trial settings This review shows that the overall evidence for protective effects of green tea against cancer...
... Author details Muhammad Asrar-ul-Haq1 E-mail: asrar@ciitsahiwal.edu.pk Sadia Anwar1 E-mail: sadiaanwar@ciitsahiwal.edu.pk Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, ... mechanism as a moderator of knowledge transfer barriers Europe, Asia, Australia andthe United States Ghobadi, and D’Ambra 2012 Competition and cooperation in cross-functional teams Antecedents and factors ... Sahiwal, Pakistan Citation information Cite this article as: A systematic reviewof knowledge management and knowledge sharing: Trends, issues, and challenges, Muhammad Asrar-ul-Haq & Sadia Anwar,...
... own behaviour, and that of colleagues and managers The Observer Assessment encourages feedback throughout the strata of an organisation and is intended to provide a universal language to address ... provide gap analysis and as a focal point for discussion In Management Teams: Why They Succeed or Fail, Jana Krajcarova’s case study describes how Belbin’s individual and job analysis was used ... the strengths and allowable weaknesses forthe particular role According to Belbin Team Role theory, as each Team Role makes an individual contribution to the team, so each Team Role has an allowable...
... study of translation edit rate with targeted human annotation In Proceeding of AMTA T Takezawa, E Sumita, F Sugaya, H Yamamoto, and S Yamamoto 2002 Toward a broad-coverage bilingual corpus for speech ... error rate training in statistical machine translation In Proceedings of ACL2003 Sapporo, Japan F J Och and H Ney 2003 A systematic comparison of various statistical alignment models Computational ... Zhang, A Aw and H Li 2008 Regenerating Hypotheses for Statistical Machine Translation In: Proceeding of COLING 2008 pp105-112 Manchester, UK Aug D Chiang 2007 Hierarchical phrase-based translation...
... means ofthe comparison ofthe RAPD marker frequencies ofa subsampling of these progenies andofthe adult population Analysis ofthe morphological characters MATERIALS AND METHODS Sampling The ... individuals and all the characters (DFAa) separated the seedlings into two groups along the first axis This axis explained 33% ofthe total variance andthe second, 6% The characters normally used ... In the family 97 remained classified in the space ofthe other species over the analyses Molecular analyses The allele frequencies ofthe RAPD loci in the adult trees ofthe stand, calculated according...
... ESHRE/English/Specialty-Groups/SIG /Safety- Quality-inART/Manual -for- ESHRE-Guideline-Development/page aspx/254 comparable to the manuals ofthe National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence [36] andthe American ... and CM appraised the guideline with eGLIA and participated in the telephone conference andthe revision ofthe manuscript RH participated in the design ofthe study andthe revision ofthe manuscript ... individual interviews of patients and professionals Fourth, both the appraisal ofthe guideline andthe evaluation ofthe eGLIA tool were involved Negative criticism ofthe eGLIA instrument may have...
... biological characterizations JN carried out the molecular characterizations of PVM isolates HX designed and coordinated the study and carried out the genetic analysis All authors read and approved the ... PVM3 and PVM4, a NcoI site was revealed in PVM isolates detected in Germany, Italy, Russia, Poland and China, but not found in the isolates detected in the US (Idaho strain) and Canada (data not ... RFLP analysis for confirmation ELISA Potato tubers and leaves as well as indicator plants were screened forthe presence of PVM by a standard double antibody sandwich ELISA using commercial coating...
... such as Giant Taro in forest (Alocasia macrorrhira), Swamp Taro (Cyrtosperma chamissonis), Tannia (Xantosoma agittifolium), Elephant Ear-Giant (Colocasia gigantea ), taro (Colocasia esculenta var ... time ago, the large area of unused land with mainly in single-crop Riceland (passived irrigation) and lowland, which have been the theory of taro planted area expansion 1.2 The origin, classification ... Bai, Ha Giang and Bac Kan In particular, there is almost no study of taro on a number of different types of land including: single-crop land and lowland in the river bank Therefore, the study of...
... contents of madecassoside and asiaticoside from sixty accessions of Centella asiatica of south India andthe Andaman Islands: for cultivation and utility in cosmetic and herbal drug application ... the hypothesis that the increasing application of N, P, or K from to 150% ofthe amount in a standard Hoagland solution favors herb and leaf yield of C asiatica but decreases saponin and sapogenin ... Aschaffenburg, Germany) Every sample was assayed in duplicate Asiaticoside, madecassoside, asiatic acid, and madecassic acid are the quality determining saponins and sapogenins of C asiatica (Stahl-Biskup,...
... background peak is about one anda half times that ofthe analyte Te peak The bandpass at half-height forthe Cd analyte and that for background peak are about the same Analyte emission is passed ... materials are prepared with each sample batch and are analyzed as samples on the ICP instrument A W R M is designated for each type of lead alloy The WRMs provide an additional check forthe accuracy ... lead ears and other cast lead shapes (such as chill-cast lead) were sampled in a similar fashion A detailed description ofthe sawing procedure anda discussion ofthe importance of obtaining a...