... talking, dishes and utensils are clinking, and music is playing softly in the background Soft candlelight illuminates silk-covered furnishings while the aroma of dinner fills the air All of these impressions ... released into the synapse On the other side ofthe synapse is a dendrite of another cell that acts as the receiver for the signal neurotransmitter—a chemical released by the axon to send and store ... kindergarten This is why the quality ofthe interactions ofthe parents or caregivers with the child are extremely critical to the learning process andthe future success ofthe student If you have...
... All of us have a chronological age and a health age One ofthe hardest tasks we face in the workplace and in life is learning how to manage our health and performance so that the wear and tear of ... family— my wife, Sandy, my two sons, Scott and Spencer, my mother, Frances and to the spirit in the heart ofthe strongest and bravest man I’ve ever known in my life, my father, Cecil Contents ... part of their team The physicians, nurses, and staff at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation, for their continued support Jim Flarity, for his help with the “rate of perceived exertion.” And to all of...
... quickly and accurately the human face, as well as theface components based on the analysis offaceand location ofthe human face components in the image The human face model includes the limited ... states ofthe eye THE HUMAN FACE MODEL IN IMAGES A The human face in image The human face in the image is a region that shows the human face Finding it in the image is the final result ofthe human ... areas ofthefaceandtheface components To estimate the parameters ofthe model, we need to analyze in detail the location of human face images In the drowsiness detection problem of driver, there...
... a0n and a1n become the same when the total number of subcarriers in the OFDM is an even number For the MBOFDM system, cos(φ) and cos(π fc TFFT + φ) become the K Ohno and T Ikegami 100 The APD of ... sequence) and add “+1” to set the code length The OFDM signal used is a MB-OFDM PAN system The bandwidth ofthe MB-OFDM signal is wider than the gap that exists in the DS-UWB spectrum depending on the ... the signal is passed through the BPF in the OFDM receiver and does not depend on the pulse waveform under the assumption that UWB bandwidth is wider than the OFDM system The BER performance of...
... pathologically and reviewed within the multidisciplinary head -and- neck team As part ofthe study, the imaging ofthe all patients who experienced LRR was reviewed by a head andneck specialist ... of radiotherapy, andof these patients experienced in-field recurrences ofthe total of 20 cases of LRR occurred in the group of patients who had had a less than CR to nonsurgical treatment and ... patients Analysis of patterns of failure in relation to the dosimetry ofthe radiotherapy plan, demonstrated that 76% of LRR occurred within the PTV (12 of 14 local recurrences andof 11 regional...
... leave the upper part ofthe tube in the region ofthe diamond scratch empty (Fig 19, B) Heat the tube in the region ofthe diamond scratch in the blowpipe flame, and removing the tube from the ... small pellet of sealing wax into the barrel by the side ofthe capillary tube and then warm the tube at the gas flame until the wax becomes softened and makes an air-tight joint between the capillary ... extremity Cut off the capillary tube exactly at the upper level ofthe column of mercury, invert it and allow the mercury to run out Snap off the remainder ofthe capillary tube from the broad upper...
... 439.1 Table summarizes the sociodemographic and psychological characteristics ofthe sample at the time ofthe first interview The majority ofthe sample was White (83%; the remainder was African ... in the composition of social networks over time could alter the relative availability and efficiency of different types of support because of changes in the availability of certain types of ties ... they received the most emotional support from their children and from their friends and relatives, at both time points Both men and women received the highest levels of instrumental support and...
... ofthe same name, in the state of Minas Gerais, which is in the southeastern part of Brazil (20) The municipality of Bambuí has 20 573 inhabitants, with 73% of them living in the urban area of ... portion ofthe Bambuí Health andAging Study (BHAS) The BHAS is a population- 388 based cohort study of older adults carried out in the town of Bambuí The town of Bambuí is located in the municipality ... ofthe aged population in Brazil and other countries with great socioeconomic inequalities However, the effects of socioeconomic circumstances on the health ofthe elderly in Brazil and in other...
... to aging However, the medical relevance of such interventions merits their careful analysis, so they are the topic ofthe remainder of this section One possibility is selectively to inhibit the ... intact and elevation ofthe PMRS should not occur CONCLUSION Though it may at first seem unattractively elaborate, the reductive hotspot hypothesis of mammalian aging is an extension ofthe long-standing ... rate of reduction (and hence reoxidation) of NAD This may be possible only by reversing the usual direction ofthe malate/aspartate and glycerophosphate shuttles; the former operates close to thermodynamic...
... this share equals the rate of change of P L , which is the rate of population a care expenditures on the elderly is: aging, andthe rate of change of Ca y , which is the rate of health cost increase ... after the start of mortality decline, leading to a decline in the number of children and in the percentage of population in the child ages The large birth cohorts generated by the onset ofthe ... to be in the hands of their families Time use data would be needed to estimate and evaluate this care, and in the absence of such data and studies based on them, the strict money costs of publicly...
... selection and Watson and Crick’s discovery ofthe molecular structure of DNA The grand understanding ofthe logic of life would prove equally important for understanding its demise: the logic ofaging ... together, whereas the farther away they are from each other, the more chance of their INTRODUCTION being separated by the process of crossing over The Morgan is now the unit of measurement of ... mismatch at the third position of each triplet With the evolutionary synthesis andthe new understanding of its underlying molecular principles, the pursuit ofthe origin and perpetuation of life...
... and enhance the tensile property ofthe cartilage to wear and sharing stresses The correlation ofthe gradual disappearance ofthe interwoven collagen network to the progressive increase ofthe ... roughness ofthe AC surface shows the interwoven collagen network near the articular surface may play an important role in prevention ofthe initial lesion of AC surface and increase ofthe durability ... to rapid wear ofthe AC, and consequently reduction ofthe loading capacity of AC as a result of progressive release of proteoglycans from the cartilage [22] Therefore, study ofthe 3D collagen...
... dose areas) The higher the DR andthe lower the LV, the higher was the dose given to the PTV and OAR The D55 and D90 ofthe rectum differed by 0.2% – 3.7% and 0.3% – 3.9% relative to the mean over ... analyse the impact of different DR and LV on the "actual fluence maps" using the same "optimal fluence map" and thereby the impact on the number of monitor units andthe dose-volume-histogram ofthe ... whereas the OAR were mostly located outside the end position ofthe leafs In these cases the choice ofthe LV andthe DR is more important than for PC, because the influence on the NMU and transmission...
... help professionals understand their patients' risk, and patients to understand their own risk Broadly these can be aggregated under the headings of perception (influences on how individuals and ... an intervention [35] The difference between the presence andthe absence of serious illness changed attitudes of smokers towards quitting and therefore changed the effects of intervention to help ... set of data available for a single topic because the amount or extent of evidence is not available A notable exception is the case of NSAIDs and coxibs, andthe outcomes of gastrointestinal and...
... MRI ofthe brain shows tonsillar herniation to the level of C3 There is effacement ofthe fourth ventricle and Triventricular hydrocephalus In 1891, Hans Chiari was the first to describe the ... writing and editing ofthe manuscript AJ was a major contributor in the interpretation and analysis ofthe data from our patient, and contributed to the design, writing, and editing ofthe manuscript ... fontanel, and papilledema We hypothesize that the CF precipitated the Chiari malformation although the mechanism is unclear The extensive Chiari malformation then caused obstruction at the fourth...
... finding their way from the region ofthe future coccyx via the region ofthe future pelvic walls, to the region ofthe lower abdominal wall [2] In normal rib development, the posterior part of each ... Complete removal ofthe pelvic digit (c and d) restored the full range of motion within the patient's right hip joint together with complete relief of symptoms iliac spine with fusion ofthe proximal ... spine [4-6,9] However, these suggestions not reflect the sites of attachment in the pelvis, for example, at the coccyx, the pelvic walls, andthe inferior abdominal wall Therefore, it appears...
... article was to show the advantages ofthe piezoelectric-assisted surgical removal of a rare benign fibrous histiocytoma ofthe mandible and give a precise description ofthe experience with protecting ... frequency of Piezosurgery is optimal for mineralized tissue it does not cut soft tissue and therefore provides a technique for osteotomy to remove bony mass ofthe mandible and prevent anatomic soft ... AME and NCG conceived ofthe study and participated in its design and coordination MW and MR drafted the manuscript AME and NCG were involved in revising the manuscript All authors read and approved...
... child of Union punishes its mother from within and threatens its father, too, ‘‘across the water’’ () The ‘‘legacy’’ () of force and violence, the poem suggests, is more ofthe same: the crossing ... suspicious – not ofthe fact of conquest the poem describes, but ofthe sexualized and gendered binary it superimposes on the colonial relation, andof its attendant use of rape as a metaphor of imperial ... concerns of theorists and critics working in a wide variety of specific contexts – the creation of otherness as a material agent of imperial rule, the place of language as a site of both domination and...
... the food stocks, andthe mood ofthe garrison The tactics ofthe Daily Mail captured the attention ofthe nation; the newspaper dramatized the situation ofthe town by emphasizing the danger that ... examine both the role ofthe press in the formation of public opinion about imperialism andthe role ofthe press in the formation ofthe concept of public opinion itself Mafeking Night marks the powerful ... powerful beginning ofthe New Journalism at the same time as it marks the beginning ofthe end ofthe New Imperialism The coincidence of these occasions arises from the nature ofthe South African...