... deal ofthe well-being of any nation will be determined by physical and mental health and existing QOL scales are being examined as potential well-being indicators The aim of incorporating well-being ... Challenges in comparing the quality of life of older people between ethnic groups, andthe implications for national well-being indicators: a secondary analysis of two cross-sectional ... others, so in none ofthe analyses can this mask a methodological difference betweenthe Omnibus and Ethnibus surveys Gender, first language, marital status andthe number of adults living inthe household...
... Aviation Administration and placed under the control ofthe U.S Department of Transportation (DOT) Beginning inthe 1970s, the inefficiency ofthe government regulated airline industry became of paramount ... that the inherent instability ofthe airline industry can be traced to the structure ofthe industry and its economics, including the highly cyclical demand for air travel, high fixed costs, and ... inefficient in explaining the relationship between CEO compensation and firm performance inthe U.S scheduled passenger airline industry The business press reports that inthe airline industry,...
... practice ofthe Courts[3] ofthe United States neither agrees with the doctrine ofthe former nor with the doctrine ofthe latter school of publicists, but takes a middle line between them Indeed ... branches! ofthe tree of Law The rules of International Law are never, therefore, per se part and parcel ofthe Municipal Law of a State, and a Municipal Court cannot apply the rules of International ... that the United States reserves the right inthe regulation and management ofthe Canal to discriminate in respect ofthe charges ofthe traffic in favour of vessels of her own citizens engaged in...
... efficiency inthe presence of this group of osmolytes Interestingly, there is a linear relationship between DDGD° and Dlog(kcat ⁄ Km) inthe presence of methylamines and sugar However, the slopes ofthe ... (a) the main driving force for the folding is the unfavourable interaction betweenthe osmolyte andthe peptide backbone, and (b) the total contribution of side chains to the stability ofthe ... [21–25], and DGD° values inthe presence of these osmolytes are given in Table However, DGD° values of RNase-A inthe presence of alanine, serine, lysine, b-alanine, taurine and dimethylglycine have...
... with the MOHE, ensure inclusion ofthe IMCI approach inthe pre-service training of MDs and mid-level health workers in all major training institutions; Decentralize the case management training ... supporting BPHS in which the women and child health care are the main component Relevant areas of collaboration with each of these are specified in Annex The main way of coordinating will be theNational ... standardizing and increasing the quality of clinical procedures for very ill children, including the development of appropriate wall charts in emergency rooms and childrens’ wards In- service training...
... Schematic diagram ofthe truncation mutants of CcCac1L (C) Interaction between CcCac1L and CcLim15 in a yeast two-hybrid assay The inserts inthe activation domain (AD) and DNA-binding domain (BK) are ... during meiosis Materials and methods Culture of C cinerea and collection of fruiting bodies B The basidiomycete Coprinopsis cinerea (Coprinus cinereus) (strain #56838) was purchased from the ... washing, the fractions were again collected with 20 mL of a linear gradient of 0–0.5 m NaCl in buffer B Fractions containing the recombinant proteins were verified by SDS-PAGE, pooled and then...
... assessment relying on the information involved inthe statistics 2.2.3 The role the innovation of management accounting Nowadays, modern corporations manage and maintain their prosperity inthe intensive ... progress in risk management Ongoing operating network expansion to meet the demands of everincreasing customer numbers In 2010, Techcombank continued reinforcing and investing in non-financial innovations, ... the research focuses on understanding the value ofthe corporate culture, in particular, understanding the relationship betweenthe corporate culture andthe innovation of management accounting...
... conception and design of data, analysis and interpretation of data, drafting the manuscript and revising it critically, SWS has contributed in conception and design of data, drafting the manuscript and ... were taken after obtaining an informed consent from patients and their parents and explaining them the purpose of our study Specific care was taken that in both groups the date of wrist radiogram, ... sign inthe management of scoliosis Clin Orthop 1958, 11:111-119 Hoppenfeld S, Lonner B, Murthy V, et al.: The rib epiphysis and other growth centers as indicators ofthe end of spinal growth Spine...
... background If mother and father respond to the questionnaire together then there is a lower change of underestimating the quality of life inthe sectors ‘Self-esteem’, ‘Friends’ andinthe ‘Total’ ... underestimate the quality of life of children with severe pain In some studies, associations were found betweenthe self-assessments ofthe quality of life andthe sex [7, 13] or the age ofthe children ... andbetween proxy assessments andthe age ofthe parents [12] or their level of education [11, 12] Intercultural differences were found in a Europe-wide study inthe extent ofthe agreement between...
... to maintain sustained growth In direct comparison the initial rate of growth ofthe trees inthe weedy control was lower However, the rate of decline was not as rapid once the maximum rate of growth ... age, thereby reducing the effect of intraspecific competition Acknowledgements: The Forestry Industry, andin particular the field staff ofthe Mtunzini Plantation for their assistance inthe ... allagatinnins, gallotannins, flavonoids and their polymers [10] An increase inthe presence of extractives tends to increase the consumption of chemicals during pulping, as well as reducing pulp...
... valuable in this study The rather loose relationship betweenthe distribution of damage andthe nature of parent rock and soil type could otherwise been have interpreted as a lack of effect ofthe ... with the intensity of both defoliation and yellowing (C = 0.36 and 0.30) The proportion of damaged fir which was relatively low between 200 and 600 m increased between 600 and 1000 m Stand age ... losses of cations, primarily at the expense ofthe exchange complex, thereby increasing the nutritional difficulties ofthe forest trees [9] – the Vosgian sandstone and conglomerate, very rich in...
... sinks for interception and sources in case ofthe emission of thermal infra red radiation Scattering processes at the surface ofthe organs depends on wavelength and redistribute a fraction of ... change These models mainly deal with instantaneous processes involved in resource acquisition and use (e.g transpiration and/ or photosynthesis) and study the interactions between these processes and ... distribution of rainfall either within the canopy or at the ground surface, although this would be of interest inthe context of tree structure-function models Simple computations of rainfall interception...
... nerves in inducing inflammation, andthe role of nerve fibres and their mediators New findings will continue to increase our understanding of mast cell–nerve associations and their function in health ... are mainly localized inand beneath the airway epithelium Tachykinins and CGRP are the predominant excitatory NANC neuropeptides inthe airways.126 Mast cells lining the mucosal layer ofthe respiratory ... Treating the skin with cyclosporin A increases the stable granule population and results inthe disappearance ofthe close interrelation of mast cells and cutaneous nerves These findings suggest...
... project andinthe analysis and interpretation of data and contributed substantially to the drafting ofthe manuscript VFP participated inthe acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data ... to the acquisition of data HRG contributed to the revision ofthe draft ofthe manuscript GDK contributed substantially to the conception and design ofthe project and to the revision ofthe ... means, including judicious usage of GCs Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions TET participated inthe conception and design of the...
... (patella groove ofthe right knee) The differences inthe L*, a* and b* values ofthe cartilage plugs at and 12 weeks after the operation andthe control cartilage are shown in Table There were no ... H revealed that the cartilage plugs were inserted flush with the surrounding articular surface and maintained the characteristics of hyaline cartilage The histological findings of group F Table ... underwent the following surgical procedure under anesthesia with ketamine (35 mg/kg intramuscularly) and xylazine (7 mg/kg intramuscularly) The rabbits were placed inthe supine position and surgery...
... project andinthe analysis and interpretation of data and contributed substantially to the drafting ofthe manuscript VFP participated inthe acquisition, analysis, and interpretation of data ... to the acquisition of data HRG contributed to the revision ofthe draft ofthe manuscript GDK contributed substantially to the conception and design ofthe project and to the revision ofthe ... means, including judicious usage of GCs Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions TET participated inthe conception and design of the...
... populations, indicating a major pattern of heterogeneity among loci (Tab I) The same tests done between pairs of populations belonging to the four groups of islands either within or among these groups ... differences from the other two The fact that MA2 does not appear close to the other two from the 680 A Brehm et al same island inthe plot of Figure 2, left, could indicate that some ofthe loci are ... makes the exchange of individuals between them extremely plausible Few studies have investigated intra-specific divergence of L dugesii Morphological variation ofthe individuals on Madeira Island...
... internal standard 50 μL of each sample was precipitated with acetonitrile containing the internal standard, centrifuged and μL ofthe supernatant injected onto the column Standard curves inthe ... interpretation ofthe data; in writing ofthe manuscript; andinthe decision to submit the manuscript for publication Author details Department of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, University of ... Page of 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 stavudine-containing first-line antiretroviral therapy regimens in Rwanda Transactions ofthe Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2007, 101:793-798 The...
... mutants Residue 1219 is the first amino acid ofthe second nucleotide-binding domain (NBD2) of CFTR Numerous investigators have examined the functionality of NBD2 mutants and C-terminal CFTR truncation ... Aleksandrov A, Aleksandrov L, Riordan JR: Functional analysis ofthe C-terminal boundary ofthe second nucleotide binding domain ofthe cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator and ... to publication of this case report and any accompanying images Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions HL analyzed and interpreted our...
... Professor and two PhD candidates majoring in Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry The SHSSC was administered to the participants person by person, beginning with a hypnotic introduction that instructed ... Hangzhou, China 3Department of Preventive Medicine, Jiaxing University School of Medicine, Jiaxing, China Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology of Chinese Ministry of Health, Hangzhou, China Authors’ ... JH, and PX conducted the hypnotic susceptibility tests on participants, WH, HC, JZ, and WY collected the inventory data in students, WW and LC participated inthe design and coordination of the...