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Spatial distribution of spotted-wing drosophila (Diptera: Drosophilidae) and other insects in fruit of a sweet cherry (Rosaceae) orchard Abstract Spotted-wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae), is an invasive pest of many small and soft fruits. We present the first results concerning i...
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[Study on toxicity of halopredone acetate. (I) Acute toxicity study in mice and rats]. Since halopredone acetate (THS-201), a synthetic corticosteroid, is expected to be used clinically for intra-articular injections because of its long-lasting activity in the synovial bursa, its acute toxicity was compared with that o...
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Political Experience and the Success of Female Gubernatorial Candidates This research examines the effect that political experience has on the success of female gubernatorial candidates by analyzing the female vs. male gubernatorial elections from 1976–2014. The study questions whether prior statewide political office ...
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Examination of association with candidate genes for diabetic nephropathy in a Mexican American population. BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a multifactorial complication characterized by persistent proteinuria in susceptible individuals with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Disease burden in people of ...
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What Do These People Know that You Don't? On October 6, 2003, the Center for Hospitality Research (CHR) at Cornell University, the publisher of the Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, started requiring that users register to view its Web site content. On its Web site (at The Center For Hospitality Re...
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Review : Polymers for Absorbable Surgical Sutures—Part II f) oly(glycolic acid) (PGA) sutures are routinely used for general and surgical specialties. They are more predictable with regard to tissue response and absorption profile than catgut sutures [27,36]. PGA sutures are also significantly stronger for a longer per...
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Γ-Convergence through Young Measures We present a general framework to treat $\Gamma$-convergence of functionals through Young measures and through slicing decomposition. After dealing with a general situation where functionals are defined in Lebesgue spaces, we concentrate on the gradient case. Explicit computations a...
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Finding equivalent keys in openstreetmap: semantic similarity computation based on extensional definitions Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) projects, such as Open-StreetMap (OSM) enable the public to contribute to the collection of spatial data. In OSM, users may deviate from spatial feature annotation guidelin...
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Influence of the preparation method on the As-Se-AgI thin films behaviour Bulk glasses of the (As2Se3)1-x (AgI)x and (AsSe)1-x(AgI)x systems, where x = 5, 10, 15 up to 35 mol.% have been prepared by the melt-quenched technique. The thin films have been deposited by means of vacuum thermal evaporation (VTE) and pulsed l...
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1Alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 reduces c-Myc expression, inhibiting proliferation and causing G1 accumulation in C4-2 prostate cancer cells. There is an inverse correlation between exposure to sunlight (the major source of vitamin D) and the risk for prostate cancer, the most common noncutaneous cancer and second most c...
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stability to inhibit growth of prostate cancer cells.
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Educating North America: lessons learned. Delayed patient presentation to the emergency department plays a major role in the underuse of tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) for acute ischemic stroke, and multiple studies have been performed to examine factors that contribute to patient delay. Although many have hypothe...
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Terrain navigation in the magnetic landscape: Particle filtering for indoor positioning Variations in the ambient magnetic field can be used as features in indoor positioning and navigation. We describe a technique for map matching where the pedestrian movement is matched to a map of the magnetic landscape. The map mat...
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Controlling the Search in Bottom-Up Evaluation Bottom-up evaluation of queries on deductive databases has many advantages over an evaluation scheme such as Prolog. It is sound and complete with respect to the declarative semantics of least Herbrand models for positive Horn clause programs. In particular, it is able to ...
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Key considerations for clinical trials of dietary interventions for primary prevention of allergy and asthma in children Key considerations for clinical trials of dietary interventions for primary prevention of allergy and asthma in children Bright I. Nwaru, Suvi M. Virtanen & Aziz Sheikh* Allergy & Respiratory Researc...
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Satellite image interpretation using Genetically Optimized Hard C means This paper explains the task of interpreting any given satellite image by Genetically Optimized Hard C means(GOHCM). GOHCM has been used to segment the satellite image. Image segmentation is the process of dividing pixels into homogeneous classes o...
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Single–Follicular-Unit Hair Transplantation to Correct Cleft Lip Moustache Alopecia Objective: To present the case of an 18-year-old boy with a cleft lip scar and an obligatory need for facial hair who underwent single–follicular-unit graft hair transplantation that resulted in significant moustache hair restoration in...
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Self-Esteem, Problem Solving, and Family Coping Responses: Determinants and Consequences for Black Women. Stress is a significant contributor to disease and often worsens pre-existing conditions. Little research to date has focused on stress and coping in black families, particularly black women. The present study exam...
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2'-Fluoro-4'-thioarabino-modified oligonucleotides: conformational switches linked to siRNA activity. The synthesis of oligonucleotides containing 2'-deoxy-2'-fluoro-4'-thioarabinonucleotides is described. 2'-Deoxy-2'-fluoro-5-methyl-4'-thioarabinouridine (4'S-FMAU) was incorporated into 18-mer antisense oligonucleotid...
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Birth weight and anthropometric measurements of twins Abstract Background: Genetic and environmental influences on anthropometric measures can be investigated by comparing dizygotic (DZ) versus monozygotic (MZ) twins. Investigating cohorts living in different geographical areas across the globe can identify the variati...
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be different in the two cohorts. The best fitting model for birth weight and BMI was additive genetic and non-shared environment and for weight and height was additive genetic, non-shared environment (plus common Environment). Conclusions: Data suggests that the association between weight at birth and anthropometric me...
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Complex Disguises: Reason in Canadian Philosophy A recent aspect of Canadians' concern to discover their “national identity” has been the interest of some Canadians to discover the history of philosophy in their country. Several decades ago this interest scarcely existed. If any questions about the subject had been rai...
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A multi-agent concurrent neurosimulated annealing algorithm: A case study on intelligent sensing of manhole gases In this article, we proposed a multi-agent concurrent neorosimulated annealing (CNSA) algorithm, which was used for the supervised training of the neural networks (NN). The proposed CNSA is a population bas...
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N-glycans harboring the Lewis a epitope are expressed at the surface of plant cells. In plants, N-linked glycans are processed in the Golgi apparatus to complex-type N-glycans of limited size containing a beta(1,2)-xylose and/or an alpha(1,3)-fucose residue. Larger mono- and bi-antennary N-linked complex glycans have n...
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Economic changes and afforestation incentives in rural China This paper uses provincial macro-data from the mid 1980s onwards to investigate the determinants of land-use choice in rural China, by paying particular attention to the decision to plant trees as competing with agriculture. The evidence supports the importan...
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A dance/movement therapy group as a community outreach for intercultural women in Tokyo The paper describes a dance/movement therapy (DMT) based community outreach project for the women in the international community of Tokyo. The potential of DMT is explained through its impact on the core-self and body image. The int...
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A gene in human chromosome band Xq28 (GABRE) defines a putative new subunit class of the GABAA neurotransmitter receptor. We have isolated and sequenced a novel human gene (GABRE) of the GABAA neurotransmitter receptor family. A cDNA sequence of the gene coding for a 506 amino acid protein was identified, representing ...
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Heart rate monitoring of physical activity in children and adolescents: the Muscatine Study. To assess the usefulness of whole-day heart rate monitoring as a quantitative measure of physical activity in children, the activity of 76 children and adolescents (ages 6 to 17 years), randomly selected from a school populatio...
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Factors Affecting Earning Response Coefficient With Profitability as Moderating Variable in Manufacturing Companies The purpose of this study was to obtain empirical evidence about the effect of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Disclosure, Profitability, Leverage, and Sales Growth on Earning Response Coefficient (...
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EXPERT: Effective and flexible error protection by redundant multithreading Resiliency is a first-order design concern in modern microprocessor design. Compiler-level Redundant MultiThreading (RMT) schemes are promising because of their capability to detect the manifestation of hardware transient and permanent faults. ...
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General Architecture Design of Flight Simulator based on HLA This paper analyzes the technical characteristics and simulation application methods of high-level architecture. The basic composition of flight simulator is introduced. The design difference of simulator for engineering application field and flight training ...
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Pulmonary Emboli and Deep Vein Thromboses: Are They Always Part of the Same Disease Spectrum? BACKGROUND Pulmonary embolis (PEs) are thought to emanate from deep vein thromboses (DVTs). Government agencies now use thromboembolic events as a quality metric for reimbursement for care. Recent data suggest that PEs and DVT...
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Estimation of the probability of reinfection with COVID-19 coronavirus by the SEIRUS model With sensitivity of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test used to detect the presence of the virus in the human host, the global health community has been able to record a great number of recovered population. Therefore, in a ...
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Antiproliferative Effects of a Series of Cyclic Imides on Primary Endothelial Cells and a Leukemia Cell Line The present study describes the cytotoxic properties of a series of 15 cyclic imides observed against different endothelial cells and K562 leukemic cells. Initially, eight structurally unrelated compounds were e...
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Aspects of the Caribbean Single Market & Economy: How Integrated are Regional Stock Markets This study investigates the degree of integration among stock markets in the Caribbean Single Market area by analyzing the pricing of cross listed stocks within the region. The results show that the law of one price is generally...
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Intelligent multimedia tutoring systems e have used advanced technology, including intelligent modeling of the domain and the presumed knowledge of students, to build intelligent multimedia tutoring systems. Simulations, animations, sound, and video are also used to keep students learning and active. However, flashy gr...
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real-time comparisons between the student’s and expert’s actions. Because the system’s recommendations reflect the current context, they are often relevant and robust.
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[Nutrition and health--hypertension]. Hypertension, defined as a blood pressure > or = 140/90 mmHg upon repeated measurement or the use of antihypertensive medication, is present in 14% of Dutch adults. A healthy diet plays an important role in both the prevention and treatment of hypertension. Under controlled conditi...
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[High time resolution x-ray study of the dynamics of a single muscle contraction]. A method of the diffraction cinema which enables to study the time-course of structural changes during twitch contraction is described. The method is based on using synchrotron radiation, position-sensitive counter and small-angle focusi...
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Factor VIIa Modified in the 170 Loop Shows Enhanced Catalytic Activity but Does Not Change the Zymogen-like Property* Factor VIIa (VIIa) is an unusual trypsin-type serine proteinase that appears to exist in an equilibrium between minor active and dominant zymogen-like inactive conformational states. The binding of tiss...
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VIIa-31 as well as wild-type VIIa exist predominantly in the zymogen-like state. Therefore, the tested modifications in the loop region had adverse effects on affinity for tissue factor, disturbed the tissue factor-induced conformational transition, and changed the catalytic efficiency of VIIa, but they did not affect ...
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Sound localization of frequency-modulated sinusoids by Old World monkeys. Directional hearing acuity, as measured by the minimum audible angle (MAA), was determined in four Old World monkeys, Macaca radiata. The acoustic stimuli were linear changes in frequency (sweeps) for different frequency ranges and sweep rates. T...
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Factors affecting the supply of minority physicians in 2000. There was a substantial increase in the number of black and Hispanic physicians between 1970 and 1985. During the next 15 years, 1985 to 2000, the increase is projected to continue. The factors that will determine the size of the increase and the changes in p...
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[Cancer risk in pesticide exposed agricultural workers (author's transl)]. In a cohort study to assess the frequency of malignant neoplasms among persons exposed to pesticides, data were collected for 1791 pesticide-exposed agricultural technicians from all regions of the GDR with the exception of Berlin. A total of 16...
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Compensation and Conversion in Cello Playing problem which is pretty widespread among teachers with young students. I teach quite a few kids who are as young as 8 or 9 years. My main concern is the absence of a musical ear in most young people here in Miami. As a result of this deficiency, I find myself spending too mu...
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("do-re-mifa-sol-la-ti-do"). This can serve as a very suitable frame of reference for the very young student who probably has seen the movie, "Sound of Music". If he has not seen this movie, it has been my experience that the basic syllables are very quickly learned. The sounds of a major scale are transmitted to the s...
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Conceptual model for the use of aerial color infrared photography by mosquito control districts as a survey technique for Psorophora columbiae oviposition habitats in Texas ricelands. Two photographic missions per year are recommended to provide information on land-use and mosquito oviposition habitats. A winter missio...
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[Three-dimensional Anatomical Anastomosis in Total Arch Replacement]. The ascending aorta and the aortic arch curve 3-dimensionally from the right front of the heart to its left rear. If this curve is replaced or connected with a straight artificial graft, the curve will lose its natural shape. Here, we reconstructed t...
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Altered epigenetic clock in children exposed to maltreatment at 4.1 mg/dL from blood drawn at 06.00 hours on the second hospital day. Her hands and feet went numb for 30 min at approximately 20.00 hours, so we collected blood. We confirmed a significant decrease in her serum phosphorus concentration to 1.1 mg/dL. We be...
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the period from the decrease in serum phosphorus to the recovery thereof was short. There was no decrease in magnesium and potassium, which are seen with refeeding syndrome. The risk factors for refeeding hypophosphatemia developing in AN patients has been previously reported. In this patient, lower BMI (14.7 kg/m) app...
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Amniocentesis in the West Midlands: report on 1000 births Two laboratories in the West Midlands have monitored 1000 `at risk' pregnancies. Of these 57% were referred for chromosomal indications and 43% for possible neural tube defects. The largest at risk groups (both 37%) were those mothers who had already had a pregn...
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birth of her child.
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Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment In September 2007 we forwarded our review of available information on the toxicity and persistence of decamethylcyclopentasiloxane (D5), a proposed alternative for perchloroethylene in dry cleaning. The review was conducted to provide ARB with information on which to bas...
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Sensitivity Versus Accuracy in Multiclass Problems Using Memetic Pareto Evolutionary Neural Networks This paper proposes a multiclassification algorithm using multilayer perceptron neural network models. It tries to boost two conflicting main objectives of multiclassifiers: a high correct classification rate level and ...
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Accumulation of stress in constrained assemblies: novel Satoh test configuration Abstract A common test used to study the response of a transforming material to external constraint is due to Satoh and involves the cooling of a rigidly constrained tensile specimen while monitoring the stress that accumulates. Such tests...
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A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Garlic as an Anti‐Hyperlipidemic Agent Purpose To 1) conduct a thorough search of the literature for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) addressing the efficacy of garlic as an antihy‐perlipidemic agent, 2) critically appraise those studies, and 3) make a recommendation for p...
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A six-year retrospective analysis of the T-Screw bone fixation device. The authors present a retrospective study of the T-Screw bone fixation device and its use for rigid fixation of osteotomies, arthrodesis, and fractures in foot surgery. The following is a discussion of 395 procedures in which the T-Screw was used fo...
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BET 3: Observation is unnecessary following a normal CT brain in warfarinised head injuries: an update A short-cut review was carried out to determine whether patients on warfarin with a minor head injury can be discharged safely if they have a normal CT scan. 796 papers were found using the reported search, of which s...
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Secure D2D Communication Underlying Cellular Networks: Artificial Noise Assisted In this paper, we investigate D2D underlaying cellular networks in which both the D2D links and the cellular downlink links have secrecy requirement. We aim to enhance the secrecy sum rate of D2D pairs(DUs) and cellular users(CUs)by sharin...
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PCIS - a visual decision tool for construction and design management Demonstrates the potential of PCIS (Piece-based Construction Information System) as a visualization tool for technical cooperation, collaboration and communication by literally aligning the points of view of architectural, engineering and construction...
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The New Zealand cervical cancer study: could it happen again? The author is one of the medical advisers to the judge who led a government inquiry into allegations that an experimental research program at the National Women's Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, to study the natural course of cervical carcinoma in situ ha...
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A Theory of Poverty: Legal Immobility The puzzle of why the cycle of poverty persists and upward socioeconomic mobility is so difficult has long captivated scholars and the public alike. Yet with all of the attention that has been paid to poverty, the crucial role of the law, particularly state and local law, in perpet...
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PCR-based identification of Culex pipiens complex collected in Japan. The Culex pipiens complex consists of vector mosquitoes that transmit important human pathogens. In this study we established a simplified method to distinguish three members of the Cx. pipiens complex, Cx. p. pallens Coquillet, Cx. p. form molestus ...
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A knowledge, attitude and practices study of the issues of climate change/variability impacts and public health in Trinidad and Tobago, and St Kitts and Nevis. OBJECTIVE To determine the level of understanding of the issues of climate change (CC)/variability (CV) and public health by populations of St Kitts and Nevis (...
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only ranked 4th and 5th for SKN and T&T respondents respectively. There was in both countries a significant proportion of respondents (p < 0.001) who reported wet season-related increase of DF cases as a CC/CV link. Respondents identified use of environmental sanitation (ES) at appropriate times as a method of choice o...
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Prevalence of dental caries among children in a rural Tanzanian community. The age specific prevalences of mixed caries were determined in 346 children aged 1 to 15 years in a rural community in Morogoro Region, south-eastern Tanzania. In primary dentition 58.9% of children were caries free while dmf index averages 1.0...
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Perceived Risk for Sexually Transmitted Infections Aligns With Sexual Risk Behavior With the Exception of Condom Nonuse: Data From a Nonclinical Sample of Sexually Active Young Adult Women Background Research on the relationship between sexual risk behavior and perceived risk for contracting a sexually transmitted infe...
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Lysis characteristics and mechanism of excess sludge degraded by ozone and ultrasonic treatment ABSTRACT As a byproduct of activated sludge process, excess sludge has become one of the current problems in the field of environmental protection for its yield huge、high moisture content and easy to pollution. In this study...
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Preparation and Characterization of Porous Nanosized Hydroxyapatite/Collagen Composite as Bone Scaffold Inorganic-organic composites could mimic the composite nature of real bone and combine the toughness of a polymer with the strength of an inorganic one to generate bioactive materials with improved mechanical propert...
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P79: NEONATAL VITAMIN D AND ASSOCIATIONS WITH LONGITUDINAL ECZEMA AND FOOD ALLERGY FROM EARLY LIFE TO 25 YEARS OF AGE a secure W-drive and used by our nursing team for booking purposes. Multiple bookings for a single patient indicated a deviation in the required care of the patient requiring VIT induction; the standard...
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Risk factors of workplace violence at hospitals in Japan. BACKGROUND Patients and their relatives exposed to mental stress caused by hospitalization or illness might use violence against healthcare staff and interfere with quality healthcare. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate incidences of workplace vi...
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each type of workplace violence at those high-risk areas should be investigated.
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Hydrodynamic Forces Laboratory Study of Horizontal Cylinder with Masses near the Ocean Bottom The hydrodynamic forces on horizontal cylinder with masses near the bottom were studied with model test.The drag and in-line forces on horizontal cylinder with masses and mass were measured in the range of Re=3×10 3~2×10 4,K C...
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Implementing Frequency Selective Fading for OPNET's Wireless LAN Modules In OFDM-based IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs, adapting the modulation type per sub-carrier to the frequency selectivity of the wireless channel leads to significant performance improvements. To integrate adaptive modulation into IEEE 802.11a/g networks...
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Historical and cultural perspectives of oak trees in the American landscape ABSTRACT Over the course of history, oak trees have played a significant role in the natural landscape and built environment. While providing essential resources that sustain wildlife and even humans, they have aptly developed a legacy reflecti...
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p53 null mutations undetected by immunohistochemical staining predict a poor outcome with early-stage non-small cell lung carcinomas. The importance of p53 mutations in the pathogenesis of human lung carcinoma is well established, but it is still controversial whether the presence of p53 mutations or overexpression of ...
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(76%) with missense mutations were immunopositive, but those with null mutations with one exception (93%) were not, and the concordance between the mutations and immunohistochemical staining was rather low at 65%. These data suggest that the type of p53 mutation is important for prediction of outcome in early-stage non...
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Association of Community Health Nursing Educators 2020 Research Priorities and Research in Action Model. OBJECTIVE The Association of Community/Public Health Nurse Educators (ACHNE) Research Priorities Subcommittee presents a report on the state of the science of public health nursing education. DESIGN Whittemore and K...
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Hearing aid technology This paper reviews papers published in the past year that highlight advances in hearing aid technology and recently introduced devices to the hearing aid marketplace. In addition, there is a discussion of the mixed results found when attempting to verify the benefit of new advances. The barriers ...
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