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Cancer Research UK’s strategy 2009–2014: Cancer Research UK’s aim is to reduce the number of deaths from cancer. Our future plans are ambitious, but they are in line with the challenge and the responsibility we face. docx
... huge steps forward in improving survival and in preventing thousands of new cases of the disease, both in the UK and across the world Cancer Research UK has been at the heart of this progress thanks ... leads to cancer, mechanisms of cellular DNA repair, immune system and inflammatory responses to cancer, invasion and metastasis and genetic pre-disposition to cancer Scientists at Cancer Research ... 4,500 scientists, doctors and nurses throughout the UK We fund research carried out in our own Institutes, as well as awarding grants to researchers based in universities and hospitals We are also...
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The health of Canada’s elderly population: current status and future implications pot
... visits to general practitioners, by age, sex and self-assessed health status [Source: NPHS] 14831 October 15/97 CMAJ /Page 1031 Health status of Canada s elderly population Moore and associates23 ... activities of daily living In the NPHS and other surveys examining aspects of health15–17 respondents were asked a series of questions about their ability to carry out ADLs and IADLs Questions about ... care systems will be prepared to deal with the health problems of the elderly population in the future Self-assessed health status It is customary in population health surveys to ask respondents...
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Báo cáo y học: " A Novel Variable Number of Tandem Repeat of the Natriuretic Peptide Precursor B gene’s 5’-Flanking Region is Associated with Essential Hypertension among Japanese Females"
... distributions of 148 the genotypes or alleles between EH patients and NT subjects were tested using a two-sided Fisher s exact test Multiple logistic regression analyses were done to assess the ... the mean ± SD The Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium was assessed by doing chi-square (χ2) analysis Differences in the clinical data between the EH and NT groups were assessed by analysis of variance ... This underscores the clinical relevance of the relationship of age, gender, and BNP In both studies that used different assays, the effect of gender on BNP was substantial and independent of...
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Some aspects of American culture and society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries through a number of selected short literary works
... understanding of the underlying ideas of the author as well as the cultural features and social aspects of the time Like other types of story, a short story consists of five elements: - Setting is ... as well as his or her feelings and point of view for it Literature is created as the result Among various genres of literature, literary works consisting of short stories, memoirs and essays, ... school-report to the prideful parents as well as activate the students in their study and their self-responsibilities by doing self-assessment The story reflects serious innermost conflicts of...
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A study of the english translational versions of tring cong son's songs in terms of semantic and syntactic features
... Strategy Structural-shifts Class-shifts Unit-shifts Intra-system-shifts In this part, each strategy with examples will be presented and discussed 4.3.1 Structural – shifts These are amongst the most ... as follows: + Class-shifts + Intra-system shifts + Structural shifts + Unit-shifts 21 In summary, the study has focused on the answers to the research questions as follows: (1) How were the semantic ... the semantic features of words and phrases in the 14 English translational versions of Trinh Cong Son s songs in contrast to the source texts in Vietnamese Besides, we also stand on the point of...
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Teaching speaking skill to non english major students of pre intermediate level at the people’s police academy some suggested techniques and activities
... ous classes No of Ts % 44.5 Use authentic materials (songs, games, films, etc.) 33 Carry out on-going assessments 11 Let them choose topics to discuss 22 Do nothing 33 Select and organize simple ... language skills into two groups The first group, which consists of listening and reading, is the group of receptive skills The second one – the group of productive skills – consists of speaking and ... listening is used twice as often as speaking However, speaking is used twice as much as reading and writing (Rivers, 1981) Inside ELT classrooms, speaking and listening are the most often used...
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Tài liệu The Role of Nutrition in Maintaining Health in the Nation’s Elderly: Evaluating Coverage of Nutrition Services for the Medicare Population ppt
... PROVIDERS AND COSTS OF NUTRITION SERVICES 13 PROVIDERS OF NUTRITION SERVICES Terms and Definitions, 257 Tiers of Nutrition Services, 258 Education and Skills Necessary for the Provision of Nutrition ... very stringent time line was commendable, and the basis of our success Many consultants also provided assistance and reviewed drafts of specific chapters In particular, appreciation and thanks are ... few years, increased attention still has to be drawn to developing and implementing standards related to the process of assessing the nutritional and functional status of elders as well as identifying...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Degradation of tropoelastin by matrix metalloproteinases – cleavage site specificities and release of matrikines pptx
... Ala, and Pro The protein consists of molecules of its soluble precursor tropoelastin that are cross-linked at Lys residues Owing to its hydrophobicity and extensive cross-linking, elastin is insoluble ... °C Before MS analysis, all samples were stored at )30 °C MALDI-TOF ⁄ TOF MS analysis Analysis of the digests was conducted by of ine nanoHPLC ⁄ MALDI-TOF ⁄ TOF MS, using a nanoHPLC system (Ultimate ... acids such as Lys, Tyr, and Phe (Tables and 2; Fig 2A) result from differences in the secondary structures and amino acid compositions of the active sites of the three MMPs (Fig 3) As described...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo Y học: The effects of ring-size analogs of the antimicrobial peptide gramicidin S on phospholipid bilayer model membranes and on the growth of Acholeplasma laidlawii B ppt
... GS itself, and by the three ring-sized analogs studied here, is GS14 > GS10 > GS > GS12 in Myr2Gro-PCho MLVs, GS14 @ GS10 > GS @ GS12 in Myr2Gro-PEtn MLVs, and GS > GS14 >GS10 > GS12 in MLVs of ... GS10 and GS14 both exist in aqueous solution as antiparallel b-sheet structures separated by type II¢ turns, as does GS itself, although GS14 has a somewhat less rigid structure as compared to GS10, ... phase behavior of Myr2Gro-PGro and other members of the homologous series of linear saturated PGs, see Zhang et al [24] The addition of mol percent of one of the three GS ring-size analogs of GS...
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Đề tài " The number of extensions of a number field with fixed degree and bounded discriminant " docx
... the number of extensions of a fixed number field of prescribed degree and discriminant ≤ X; these bounds improve on work of Schmidt We also prove various related results, such as lower bounds for ... preliminary remarks Firstly, as was discussed in the introduction, this question is often much easier if one is counting extensions for G a proper subgroup of Sn (see Malle [14] for some examples) On the ... = S3 or H = Z/2Z In the former case, the proposition follows from the theorem of Datskovsky and Wright [6] on the number of cubic extensions of number fields (More precisely, EXTENSIONS OF A NUMBER...
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From Investment funds and Asset Management Companies to questions about Africa’s farmers pptx
... various strategies Not all target the same assets, nor adopt the same management of these assets As such, certain funds specialize in land acquisition as, for example, Emvest and African/South African ... instruments Firstly, it uses agricultural futures markets (SAFEX as well as Chicago) to guarantee the sales price and covers production risks through natural risks insurances Secondly, besides ... the most risky segments are outsourced towards intermediaries who support the costs and the risks This dual process of – “financiarisation and corporisation” of the agricultural sector is leading...
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Improving the Reproductive Health of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Youth ppt
... Governments should establish and enforce laws and policies consistent with the international standard minimum age of marriage of 18 years, and educate parents about the risks of early marriage and ... Bureau of Statistics and ICF Macro, 2005) Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS), Zanzibar AIDS Commission (ZAC), National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), Office of the Chief Government Statistician ... standards is a first step to ending early marriage and its negative consequences; at the same time, investment in programs to change genderbiased social norms and raise the status of women is also critical...
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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF MEN’S HEALTH Glenn S. Rothfeld, M.D., M.Ac., and Deborah S. Romaine pdf
... DISEASE (CAD), which is atherosclerosis of the coronary arteries Symptoms Most often the only symptoms of atherosclerosis are the forms of heart disease it causes, such as ANGINA (chest pain often ... KERATOSIS and other skin lesions aggression An inappropriate expression of hostility and ANGER Sometimes aggressive tendencies arise from excessive levels of androgen hormones, as when a man is taking ... tip of his penis As the suppository dissolves, the alprostadil diffuses into the surrounding tissues and has a similar effect as when injected A burning sensation while the suppository is dissolving...
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{MICROFINANCE IN AFRICA } STATE-OF-THE-SECTOR REPORT BRINGING FINANCIAL SERVICES TO AFRICA’S POOR pptx
... mutualist organizations such as CVECAs, and FSAs.42 These also serve mostly women and have proliferated in Africa in recent years Many features of these institutions resemble those of ROSCAs and ASCAs ... to see that other members well Impact studies of ACSI clients Changes in the living standards of ACSI clients are measured and recorded on a regular basis “Successive impact assessment surveys ... products: Tontine savings is a system whereby WAGES staff members visit urban clients’ homes, shops or market stalls on a daily basis (usually by motor scooter) to collect their savings.53 These small...
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Báo cáo khoa học: Esculentin-1b(1–18) – a membrane-active antimicrobial peptide that synergizes with antibiotics and modifies the expression level of a limited number of proteins in Escherichia coli doc
... to investigate the size of membrane lesions induced by the peptide, we assessed the release of intracellular compounds, such as the cytoplasmic b-galactosidase, whose ˚ Stokes radius is equal ... proteome was analyzed by means of 2D-PAGE and MS This analysis revealed a similar pattern of responses to both sublethal and lethal peptide doses, consisting of only a few significant variations in ... expression levels of a number of OM proteins (OMPs), such as OMPc, nmpC, and OMP F, all of which form passive diffusion pores allowing the passage of small molecular weight hydrophilic materials...
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Evaluating Progress of the U.S. Climate Change Science Program: Methods and Preliminary Results pdf
... analyses of major rivers and streams • Studies of forecast-based operations for major reservoirs • Analysis of the costs and benefits of adjusting state water supply and flood control infrastructure ... produce the 21 syntheses and assessment reports was about the same as the cost of the last national assessment Therefore, a national assessment should be within the scope of existing agency funding ... forcing of the climate system, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions and enhancing greenhouse gas sinks Operations: Routine provision of science-based products and services developed to meet specialized...
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CONSTITUTING DEMOCRACY Law, Globalism and South Africa''''s Political Reconstruction pot
... this relationship in the context of struggles inspired by notions of rights, and to investigate the ambiguous relationship between the awareness of rights, or rights consciousness,30 and its institutionalization.31 ... isomorphism as different processes through which this transfer of ideas, practices and understandings takes place While direct coercion is not a significant aspect of die South African processes ... amendment and redesign of single-document written constitutions that the conscious reconstruction of states is most clearly visible In this sense a constitution is a primary symbol of modernism, embodying...
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The world’s most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses ppt
... Tables and Figures and complete citations to ensure consistent bibliographic standards This means fast, accurate search results ProQuest tools such as MyResearch and formatting Results Group results ... ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database provides your students with online access to discover nearly million doctoral dissertations and master s theses More than a thousand new dissertations ... scripts, data, images, PDFs, presentations, spreadsheets and text www.proquest.com P8186_revisedPQDT_Layout 8/27/12 9:17 AM Page Uses of ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Scholarly inquiry, scientific...
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South Africa''''s role in conflict resolution and peacemaking in Africa docx
... understanding present relations, he also suggests, is South Africa s strategic interest in the massive Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP) for the sale of water from Lesotho s highlands to ... rights of states; the need for a strengthening of international law for the purposes of stressing prevention of conflict by way of guidelines, instruments and standards; the attaching of sanctions ... fundamentally transformed, and still find expression in some of South Africa s business and civil society organisations operating regionally From a different angle, in his analysis of South Africa s ‘quiet...
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