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Driven by global population and standard of living increases, humanity co‐opts a growing share of the planet's natural resources resulting in many well‐known environmental trade‐offs. In this study, we explored the impact of agriculture on a resource fundamental to life on Earth: terrestrial vegetation growth (net prim... |
Abstract Humans are sexual creatures. Human preoccupation with sex and sexuality makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. In particular, Evolutionary Psychology (EP) has proven to be a valuable heuristic approach for generating and testing hypotheses about human sexuality. The main theme of this volume is the evol... |
Introduction This study concentrates on how a human cadaver becomes the students’ first patient. In a cultural anthropological study, the behaviour of Medical, Dental, Physician Assistant and Radiation Therapy students was analysed as they worked with human cadavers in a Clinical Human Anatomy course. Many studies have... |
Driving in the city during the commute time, the traffic congestion and the traffic lights make drivers to stop to drive frequently. This phenomenon causes boredom and fatigue, and makes time to be wasted. To help mitigate the problems of boredom and lack of engagement in the car during times of traffic congestion, we ... |
Selected chapters of the book will be useful as an early postgraduate text for students of the history of medicine or for postgraduate students of eighteenth-century literature. However, the overall lack of coherence makes it difficult to recommend the entire book for one specific audience. Each individual section is w... |
We examine the persistent random motion of self-propelled rods (SPR) as a function of the area fraction phi and study the effect of steric interactions on their diffusion properties. SPR of length l and width w are fabricated with a spherocylindrical head attached to a beaded chain tail, and show directed motion on a v... |
The effect of bacterial endotoxin (LPS) on lysosomal enzyme activities of fibroblasts from normals and mucolipidosis III patients was investigated. Exposure of normal fibroblasts to LPS for 24 hours resulted in enhanced intracellular activities of beta-glucuronidase, beta-galactosidase, alpha-L-iduronidase and beta-N-a... |
The constitutional complaint's subject matter includes exercise and non-exercise of governmental power. This paper examines the issue of exercising duty to act as the legal prerequisites to constitutional complaints regarding the non-exercise of governmental authority. |
In the paper, the issue regarding the exercise of the duty to act is divided into the issue of whether to exercise and the timing of exercise. Whether to exercise is not a subject of a mere factual judgment but a normative judgment. Since the judgment criteria of the Constitutional Court on the exercise of duty to act ... |
A greater interest in this paper lies in the issue of the timing of exercise. The kernel of the timing issue was how to judge when the duty to act was exercised after the omission had continued for a considerable period of time and the violation of fundamental rights had already occurred in reality. Firstly it can be s... |
From the point of view of the applicant, there is also the problem that the possibility of a ruling of unconstitutionality would be reduced. This issue can be treated similarly to the approach that, in a constitutional complaint against the exercise of governmental power, where the act is terminated, justiciable intere... |
Finally, from this standpoint, the 2012 Heonma 939 decision was reviewed. It dismissed the request for adjudication, as it was deemed that the prerequisite of the non-existence of governmental power was not met by acknowledging the exercise of the duty to act. However, in this case, the duty to act seems to have been e... |
The family unit is the primary source of transmission of basic social, cultural, genetic, and biological factors that may underlie individual differences in smoking. Existing information on the role of familial factors in tobacco use is characterized by two separate, but somewhat overlapping, lines of research: genetic... |
Most secondary school systems maintain a distinction between academic and vocational education. Scholars ascribing to human capital theory view vocational education as a safety net, which enhances students’ chances of nding gainful employment as skilled workers. Others view it as a mechanism of social reproduction, wh... |
A factor analysis of the data from 154 subjects answering Farmer and Sundberg's (1986) boredom proneness scale allowed estimates of reliability and construct validity and the identification of two independent factors, apathy and inattention. Correlations of these factors and the total test scores were made with measure... |
PROUST is a system which identifies the non-syntactic bugs in novices' programs and provides novices with help as to the misconceptions under which they were laboring that caused the bugs. In this paper we will discuss the methods which PROUST uses to identify and diagnose non-syntactic bugs. Key in this enterprise is ... |
Background: Oral mucositis is one of the primary toxicities of radiation in head-and-neck radiotherapy (RT). Oral fungal microflora changes have been studied to aggravate the inflammatory process leading to mucositis. The study evaluated the changes in oral fungal microflora during RT in head-and-neck cancer (HNC) usin... |
Multidrug-resistant (MDR) plasmids play an important role in disseminating antimicrobial resistance genes. To elucidate the antimicrobial resistance gene compositions in A/C incompatibility complex (IncA/C) plasmids carried by animal-derived MDR Salmonella Newport, and to investigate the spread mechanism of IncA/C plas... |
We carried out a cross sectional study at University Medical Unit (UMU), Teaching Hospital Anuradhapura (THA) from January to May 2014 to assess the distribution of SIC during DF and to assess the association between hypocalcaemia with TSFA and other organ involvement. Consecutive probable DF patients who were admitted... |
A simple analytical threshold voltage equation for modelling nonuniform MOSFET channel doping is derived, which takes the peak doping concentration and peak location as inputs with a single process-dependent fitting parameter. The model has been verified with extensive numerical simulation results and can be applied to... |
The susceptibility of postnatal day 15 and adult rat diaphragms (DIAs) to acute injury after repetitive isovelocity lengthening activations was examined in vitro. Forces were measured during two phases of each stimulation protocol: 1) isometric phase: during the first 300 ms of each 500-ms train, DIA length was not cha... |
Serpulina intermedia strain HB60, isolated from an Australian hen with diarrhoea, was used to infect 10 individually caged 14-week-old laying hens. Another 10 birds were sham inoculated with sterile broth. Birds were kept for 16 weeks, and faecal water content, egg production and body weights recorded. Strain HB60 was ... |
Before an organisation takes up a particular enterprise architecture design, there is need to consider and evaluate the possible design alternatives, and then select an appropriate one. This process requires a collaborative effort involving all key stakeholders in order to obtain an ‘acceptable’ solution. Therefore, in... |
Inhibition of thromboxane receptor radioligand binding to human platelet membranes has been employed as the basis for a radioreceptor assay designed to measure thromboxane receptor binding activity in samples of biological fluids. This method was used during phase 1 clinical evaluation of the thromboxane receptor antag... |
The author's investigations demonstrate that children with somatic diseases registered for follow-up in pediatric outpatient departments should be referred to risk groups by tuberculosis. Special attention should be paid to children with a combination of gastrointestinal lesions with respiratory diseases. Phthisiologic... |
This article presents the results of research on the value and target priorities in the quality management process in higher education. It is determined that the quality of education is a mean of development of the individual and society, a condition of trust in the educational sphere, it reflects the degree of conform... |
This work aims, through a study of Mohammed Iqbal's poetry, to arrive at an understanding of his personality and the relationship in which he stood to the life of his times. It provides a sympathetic yet critical picture of Iqbal's intellectual life and the contemporary political context as well as an expression of the... |
OBJECTIVE |
To study the success rate, predictors for success, and pregnancy outcomes after external cephalic version. |
DESIGN |
Historical cohort study. |
SETTING |
Regional hospital, Hong Kong. |
PATIENTS |
All women who had singleton term breech pregnancies at term and opted for external cephalic version during 2001 and 2009. Their demographic data, clinical and ultrasound findings, procedure details, complications, and delivery outcomes were analysed. |
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES |
Predictive factors for successful external cephalic version. |
RESULTS |
A total of 209 external cephalic versions were performed during the 9-year period. The success rate was 63% (75% for multiparous and 53% for nulliparous women). There was no significant complication. On univariate analysis, predictors of successful external cephalic version were: multiparity, unengaged presenting part,... |
CONCLUSION |
External cephalic version was effective in reducing breech presentations at term and corresponding caesarean section rates, but the uptake rate was low. Further work should address the barriers to the low acceptance of external cephalic version. The results of this study could encourage women to opt for external cephal... |
Higher education institutions (HEIs) in Armenia and Belarus have been conducted doctoral and postgraduate programs since Soviet Union times. In both countries consisted of two successive scientific (research) degrees: Candidate of Sciences and Doctor of Sciences.The main purpose of research education has been the creat... |
We present a joint theoretical–experimental study on electron scattering by ethane (C2H6) in the low- and intermediate-energy ranges. Calculated elastic differential, integral and momentum transfer as well as total (elastic + inelastic) and total absorption cross sections are reported for impact energies ranging from 1... |
In this paper, the q-generalization of the Higgs algebra is considered. The realization of this algebra is shown in an explicit form using a nonlinear transformation of the creation-annihilation operators of the q-harmonic oscillator. This transformation is the performance of two operations, namely, a “correction” usin... |
In many settings, with procurement a key example, one seller may be prefered, based on better reliability or quality, or may have lower costs. We study the performance of simple …rst and second price mechanisms in such setting, and how they relate to the optimal mechanism. Under a variety of conditions on cost distribu... |
Background: Residential proximity to highways is a potential proxy for exposure to traffic-related pollution that has been linked to adverse birth outcomes. We evaluated whether proximity to highway interacts with individual and neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES) to influence birth outcomes. Methods: The study po... |
Eustachian tube dysfunction is thought to be one of the most important factors in the development of middle ear effusions. Direct measurement of Eustachian tube opening is not widespread in clinical practice. Evaluation of a new, small and cheap sonotubometer was carried out on 50 volunteers. The results were compared ... |
An ionophorous compound that is one of the uremic middle molecules is able to inhibit the mitochondrial storage of calcium. Its active concentration is equivalent to that found in uremic plasma. This result can explain the diminution of phosphate calcium granules observed in mitochondria from uremic children. Moreover,... |
Smart Charging (SC) of Electric Vehicles (EVs) integrates them into the power system to support grid stability by power management. Large-scale adoption of SC requires a high level of EV user acceptance. Therefore, it is imperative to make the underlying charging scheme tangible for the user. We propose a web app for t... |
Classification of human activity is an increasingly popular topic, as it is employed in various fields from fitness to remote health monitoring. Current automated approaches based on wearable sensors typically use supervised learning methodologies, where a classifier is trained with experimental data. This paper propos... |
Chemokine and chemokine receptors (CCRs) play a significant role in tumor infiltration of immune cells, tumor angiogenesis and distant metastasis. In this study, we explored the importance of CCRs in gastric cancer (GC) by analyzing the datasets from TCGA database. First, we analyzed the characteristics of the CCRs mut... |
Throughout Africa indigenous and indigenised vegetables and fruit have sustained rural populations for many centuries. Through natural selection by survival under local environmental conditions, aided by collection of seeds from top-performing plants only by local farmers, these have become adapted to these conditions.... |
Following the implementation of citrate anticoagulation for continuous renal replacement therapy, we evaluate its first year of use and compare it to the previously used heparin, to assess whether our patients benefit from the recently reported advantages of citrate. We retrospectively analysed 2 years of data to compa... |
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