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Renewable Resources: The New Texas Energy Powerhouse: A Report on the Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy in Texas and How to Keep Them Growing (Part 1a) Summary Estimates the increase in the number of direct and indirect jobs, payroll value of direct jobs, amount of tax revenue, and amount of landowner royalty incom... | 1.661729 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
[Prev][Next][Index][Thread] Bolivian farmers demand a more useful dichotomy than Western vs. tribal
Archeological evidence seems to conclusively prove that Amerind tribes
extinguished several species including the mammoth, proto-horses, large
sloths and many others, as did the Maoris in New Zealand and any other
tribe ... | 1.969353 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
A Silver Lining? The Connection Between Gasoline Prices And Obesity
I find evidence of a negative association between gasoline prices and body weight using a fixed effects model with several robustness checks. I also show that increases in gas prices are associated with additional walking and a reduction in the frequen... | 0.941358 | 1,015 | 1,013 |
During the first session of our “Reporting China” class, part of our journalism master’s program curriculum at the University of Hong Kong, the classroom was full of expectant faces. We had students from all sorts of backgrounds — some only recent college graduates, others experienced journalists returning for further ... | 1.856102 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Headache
A headache is a pain in the head. A headache can be caused by some other physical disorder, or it may be a disorder in and of itself.
There are three major types of headaches: tension (or stress), migraine, and cluster. A tension headache is caused by the tightening of muscles in the neck and head. A migraine ... | 1.143626 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
preventing headaches, but it can also be used to treat them. If you suspect your headache might be caused by dehydration, then try drinking a glass or two of water and waiting.
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Herbal Remedies
Dandelion root and red clover are blo... | 1.718324 | 984 | 982 |
5 Safety Precautions to Take Before You Exercise
Continue reading Exercise is safeand highly recommendedfor most people with type 2 diabetes, including those with complications. It's an important tool that will help you lower blood sugar (along with diet and medication) and lose weight if you need to do so.However, che... | 1.497172 | 1,014 | 1,012 |
Introduction to How Electricity Works
Electricity lights up our world, but where does it come from? See more nuclear power pictures.
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Humans have an intimate relationship with electricity, to the point that it's virtually impossible to separate your life from it. Sure, yo... | 1.607991 | 1,021 | 1,018 |
Long-term Care Insurance
As life expectancies increase, so does the possibility that you'll require home health care, or face a costly stay in rehab or a nursing home — or that your parents will. With home health aides costing more than $32 an hour and nursing homes charging nearly $66,000 a year for a semi-private roo... | 1.351909 | 1,012 | 1,010 |
Mom is Trying to Kill Us with Organic Food by Julie Wheaton & Patrece Powers (Contributing Bloggers)
I (Julie) occasionally pretend to be a food fairy by sneaking healthy food into my kids’ meals. Industrial food processing has caused the path of food to fork in two directions: there’s food for health and food for prof... | 1.969019 | 1,016 | 1,014 |
IS IT POSSIBLE TO BEGIN 2017 with nothing more than a big goal, a bold ambitious idea and crush it in 100 days…by April 10th?
I’ve been studying that question for more than 20 years.
And the answer is unequivocal:
YES, IT IS!
I often say that there are basically two ways to achieve a goal:
1. Slowly through small, incr... | 1.775308 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
mind?
The four criteria for building, measuring and nurturing your fortress of beliefs are the following.
1. Your beliefs must…create positive, consistent and sustainable results.
To determine the strength and utilitarian value of your beliefs, simply look at your results as they serve as judge, jury and executioner o... | 1.727711 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Traditional importance
The significance of waka (canoes) for Māori has its roots in times past, when voyaging waka forged the links between the ancestral homeland of Hawaiki and New Zealand, the cradle of Māori culture. Māui, a god-like ancestor, travelled by waka into the southern ocean and fished up the North Island,... | 1.766789 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
By Michael Stillman
The latest catalogue from the
Lawbook Exchangeis not the typical one we review, as it does not truly contain antiquarian or rare books. Its books are both old and new. In other words, it contains reprints of many classic legal works. This is in keeping with the purposes of the bookseller. The older ... | 1.714454 | 1,006 | 1,004 |
Fluid used in hydraulic fracturing — better known simply as fracking — contain chemicals that can disrupt the functioning of human hormones and lead to a greater chance of infertility, cancer and other health problems, researchers said Monday.
Fracking has accelerated under the Obama administration, with supporters of ... | 1.357461 | 1,018 | 1,016 |
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Seattle’s Sound Transit authority is loudly touting the breaking of its one-day light rail ridership record on September 30th.
According to several celebratory blog posts and tweets from last Thursday, the agency’s Link line broke 100,000 trips in a single day for the first ti... | 1.639694 | 942 | 940 |
Isthmus Editor's note: In mid-2007, published an essay from Madison resident Madeline Uraneck about her work as a Peace Corps volunteer training teachers in Lesotho, in southern Africa ("Letter From Lesotho," 8/3/07). That essay was honored by the Milwaukee Press Club as the best long-form feature story published in Wi... | 1.825181 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
a group of nurses chatting, and demanded - politely, I thought, beneath my quiet rage - some care for Dintle, who I suspected was having a stroke. They seemed angry that I'd found their place, and angrier still that I was asking for something
now. Walking back, alone, with no knowledge of how to handle the situation, ... | 1.763101 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
will I feed my children?"
"My students will lose respect for me if it's known I'm HIV-positive. Parents and neighbors will shun me and my children."
"Even if I test, my husband still won't use a condom. He has sex with other women. I'll get it sooner or later, regardless."
In fact, HIV care is changing rapidly in Leso... | 2.100921 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
So it's a new year, and you resolve this will be the year of the "new you."
No more smoking. No more butter pecan ice cream with hot fudge sauce. No more fourth martini before dinner.
But, somehow, you know you will fail. Just like you failed last year in your resolution.
"People have to understand they can't impulsive... | 2.069234 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
| by Gajalakshmi Paramasivam ( January 27, 2013, Melbourne, Sri Lanka Guardian)January 26, is Australia Day and I do feel that this day is special. As usual, this morning I looked across Coogee Beach and prayed – just prayed. Today it felt good to be Australian. I feel that it was last year that I started feeling this ... | 2.219727 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Kent County youth takes unique approach to leadership 4-H proven to empower area youth through life skill development.
It’s no secret that today’s youth feel pressure. Pressure to excel in school, to go to college, to get a job, etc. How they overcome those pressures, is a true testament to their character. Take Lowell... | 1.714071 | 1,006 | 1,004 |
Think of YouTube Kids as digital training wheels for the little video viewers at your house – something a lot of parents have been wanting for a very long time. We all know how popular but not always appropriate YouTube is for kids. Problem solved. Designed for kids through age 8, YouTube Kids carefully screens videos ... | 1.852126 | 1,016 | 1,014 |
Germ cell transplantation was developed by Dr. Ralph Brinster and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania in 1994
1,2. These ground-breaking studies showed that microinjection of germ cells from fertile donor mice into the seminiferous tubules of infertile recipient mice results in donor-derived spermatogenesis an... | 0.706951 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
iniferous tubules, followed by plating of cells on feeders comprised of a testicular stromal cell line (JK1)
3
. Through serial passaging, strongly adherent, contaminating non-germ cells are depleted from the culture with concomitant enrichment of SSCs. Cultures produced in this manner contain a mixture of spermatogoni... | 0.575915 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
gene and the type of mutation.The
LacI
transgenic mouse model is well-established as an
in vivo
mutagenesis assay. Moreover, the mice and the reagents for the assay are commercially available. Here we describe in detail how this model can be adapted to measure the frequency of spontaneously occurring DNA mutants in st... | 0.438191 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
PSCs are critical issues in hPSC-based therapies. Conventionally, hPSCs are propagated as colonies on both feeder and feeder-free culture systems. However, these methods have several major limitations, including low cell yields and generation of heterogeneously differentiated cells. To improve current hPSC culture meth... | 0.608388 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
aster
embryos and larvae provide crucial insight into developmental processes such as cell fate specification and organogenesis. Immunostaining allows for the visualization of developing tissues and organs. However, a protective cuticle that forms at the end of embryogenesis prevents permeation of antibodies into late-... | 0.596811 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
and spermatogenic (spermatogonia, spermatocytes, round spermatids, condensing spermatids and spermatozoa) - studies of the biological mechanisms involved in spermatogenesis require the isolation and enrichment of these different cell types. The STA-PUT method allows for the separation of a heterogeneous population of ... | 0.39611 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
opic allografts from transformed astrocytes engineered to express luciferase was utilized to monitor
in vivo
tumor growth over time. Thus, astrocytoma models using astrocytes and NSC harvested from GEM with conditional oncogenic alleles provide an integrated system to study the genetics and cell biology of astrocytoma ... | 0.420923 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, modifications and adaptations have been made to conventional monolayer cultures.
The last generation of CellChips -- micro-thermoformed containers -- a specific technology was developed, which offers the additional possibility to modify the whole surface of the 3D formed containers. This allows a surface-patterning o... | 0.711299 | 957 | 956 |
Smokers news, articles and information:
10/25/2016 - Slowly but surely, the authoritarians are taking over countries that used to be democracies and republics, imposing their own set of behavior and rules on people who used to be free and able to make life choices of their own.
The United Kingdom is one such place, whe... | 1.843802 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ological reports confirm the...
1/22/2014 - A recent survey by the Co-operative Pharmacy may point to the fact that self-proclaimed social smokers may be delusional to the fact that they are actually frequent or common smokers, with many smoking up to 20 cigarettes a day. In the survey, one in three self-proclaimed smo... | 1.85987 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
2009 - A study conducted in Sweden spanning almost four decades has suggested that overweight persons, and not just those who were obese, may also be subjected to increased risk of premature death. It also suggested that the adverse effects of excess weight on mortality may be as significant as smoking cigarettes.
Deta... | 1.860277 | 1,010 | 1,008 |
Disaster risk financing and contingent credit : a dynamic analysis
This paper aims to assist policy makers interested in establishing or strengthening financial strategies to increase the financial response capacity of developing country governments in the aftermath of natural disasters, while protecting their long-ter... | 1.006385 | 1,003 | 1,001 |
Subcortical White Matter Infarcts Comparison of Superficial Perforating Artery and Internal Border-Zone Infarcts Using Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Jump to Abstract Because of difficulty in distinguishing between superficial perforator (SP) and internal border-zone (IB) infarcts, some studies lumped SP... | 0.981186 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
located in the territory of the white matter medullary artery, according to the templates of Bogousslavsky and Regli
2 (Figure 1A).
The outermost limit of SP infarcts was radiologically taken to be the cortical ribbon; the innermost limit was the corona radiata at the level of the DP. IB infarcts were defined as hyper... | 1.198102 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
arcts and IB infarcts, respectively. Three patients with SP infarcts and 1 patient with IB infarcts presented with clinical diagnosis of TIA.
Details of the clinical and demographic features are given in Table 1. Clinically, baseline NIHSS score was higher in the IB than the SP group (4.4±3.1 versus 2.4±2.1;
P=0.001). ... | 1.064896 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
1 patient (4.2%) with IB infarcts. One patient with SP infarcts presented with TIA; the remaining recurrent infarcts occurred in the same territories of previous strokes.
Discussion
Although the pathogenesis of SP infarcts was still in dispute, an important role of embolic mechanism has been suggested recently. In a p... | 1.418138 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to be in the condition of hemodynamic compromise rather than that of embolism, and this feature is supplemented by the fact that only about one fifth of patients with IB infarcts have an embolic signals. Caplan and Hennerici 7 postulated the coexistence of hypoperfusion and intra-arterial embolism in border-zone infar... | 1.286145 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
� ↵ Lyden P, Brott T, Tilley B, Welch KM, Mascha EJ, Levine S, Haley EC, Grotta J, Marler J. Improved reliability of the NIH Stroke Scale using video training: NINDS TPA Stroke Study Group. Stroke .1994; 25: 2220–2226. ↵ Samuels OB, Joseph GJ, Lynn MJ, Smith HA, Chimowitz MI. A standardized method for measuring intracr... | 1.158643 | 943 | 942 |
War Does the Bible support war?
There’s a lot in the Bible on the topic of both peace and conflict. They inform both sides of the debate.
Old Testament verses
The
Ten Commandments were given to the nation of Israel by God. They offer God’s word on living with others. Life is shown to be precious in the sixth commandmen... | 1.316822 | 1,005 | 1,003 |
Key points:
Official Development Assistance (ODA) is the main mechanism currently used by the international community for sharing financial resources globally, but it is severely compromised by the self-interest of donor countries and often fails to contribute to long-term development.
Although the quality of aid is in... | 1.3579 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to estimates from the UN, developing countries as a group provided a net transfer of $545bn to developed countries in 2009.[10] This net outflow is further exacerbated by illicit capital flows from developing countries to the rich world that totalled $903bn in the same year, which includes efforts to shelter wealth fr... | 1.405945 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
. Conditions designed to induce policy change can have a broad-ranging impact on the functioning of the state, particularly through policies associated with trade liberalisation, the elimination of subsidies and privatisation. Although there are now donor-led processes attempting to increase the ownership of government... | 1.678256 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD-DAC), eight of them surpassed a goal set in 2005 to allocate a minimum of 0.51% of their GNI to ODA by 2010.[35] Although serious doubts surround the effectiveness and relevance of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) framework for long-term poverty reduc... | 1.62491 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
interests, removing damaging conditions attached to its provision, and mitigating the negative impacts it can have on local communities and national development [see box].
Although governments have officially recognised the problems plaguing aid by signing up to the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness since 2005, t... | 1.557049 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Notes:
[1] Lester B. Pearson et al, Commission on International Development: Partners in development, New York, Praeger, 1969.
[2] DAC Journal, History of the 0.7% ODA Target, 2002, Vol 3 No 4, pp. III-9, III-11.
[3] ONE Campaign, The DATA Report 2011, May 2011, pp. 6-7.
[4] OECD, ‘Development: Aid to developing countr... | 1.236746 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
and Take: What's the Matter with Foreign Aid?, Zed Books, 2002.
[28] Alberto Alesina and David Dollar, ‘Who gives foreign aid to whom and why?', Journal of Economic Growth, 5 (1), 2000, pp. 33-63.
[29] Food and Agriculture Organisation, State of Food and Agriculture 2006 - Food Aid for Food Security?, Rome, 2006.
[30]... | 1.315758 | 1,010 | 1,008 |
In March 2016, City of Vancouver Sewer Operations embarked on a major trenchless crossing at the intersection of Burrard Street and Broadway in Vancouver, British Columbia. The trenchless crossing was a part of the Burrard South improvement project. The project consisted of major infrastructure improvements from the fo... | 1.707882 | 948 | 946 |
Wisconsin Legal Information
In 2014, Wisconsin passed AB 726, which creates a legal right for patients with seizure disorders to possess and use CBD-rich medicines if they have a written recommendation. The law allows medical practitioners to dispense CBD but provides no guidance on how they may obtain it, nor does the... | 1.545848 | 987 | 985 |
Seeing how Compassion works this week has been amazing. Every time I think of one thing they might have overlooked, one area they may not have thought to cover, I find that they’ve covered it and thought beyond to boot.
Today I’m sharing photos of our visit to a Compassion Center that teaches vocational skills. This is... | 1.777002 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Kim Musgrave’s iPad has opened up a whole new world for her son, Luke. At the special needs parent support group meeting at Akron Children’s Hospital in June, Kim made a compelling case for the electronic tablet for parents of children with special needs.
Luke, 14, has cerebral palsy and cortical vision impairment. Due... | 1.68152 | 1,020 | 1,018 |
Richard Kalasky was overwhelmed with emotion after his first Iron man triathlon 10 days ago, but it wasn’t just the achievement of swimming 2.4 miles, biking 112 miles and running a marathon that filled him with joy.
Members of the support group he created for gastric-bypass patients were there to cheer him on, and he ... | 1.459422 | 926 | 925 |
A “Follow the Breadcrumbs” Success Story “I enjoy reading your newsletter and wanted to reach out. You wrote one thing in a newsletter a while back and I wrote it on a post it at my desk “Follow the breadcrumbs”. I was a yoga teacher/social worker and not doing the mind/body work I set out to do, rather working in an e... | 1.908131 | 1,008 | 1,006 |
The word hacker is used in general terms these days; and even that general term is wrong.
When people hear the word hacker they automatically think of a cyber criminal but this is not what it is – a hacker is someone who wants to know how something works.
In the world of computers this can apply to a lot of things.
The... | 1.906455 | 1,014 | 1,012 |
Growth Counseling for Mid-Years Couples by Howard J. Clinebell, Jr.
Howard J. Clinebell, Jr. Is Professor of Pastoral Counseling at the School of Theology at Claremont, California (1977). He is a member of the American Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, and the American Association of Pastoral Counselors. H... | 1.834978 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to revitalize your relationship: (a) Do a careful evaluation of where you are and where you want to go in your marriage. (b) Rethink your guiding values and priorities. (c) Develop a more equalitarian relationship with equal opportunities for both to grow. (d) Renegotiate a more mutually fulfilling marriage covenant. ... | 1.723179 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
it in ways of your own choosing. It is crucial that each person's dissatisfactions and unmet needs be examined fully and that your plans for the future provide you both with equal opportunity for fulfilled lives.
Revising Your Covenant
In the process of evaluation just described the need for updating your marriage cov... | 1.846817 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
A way to detect fragments of broken brain cells that leak into the bloodstream may help doctors more quickly and precisely treat people with severe head injuries or brain diseases, say researchers at the University of Floridas McKnight Brain Institute. UF scientists have discovered they can use an approach similar to o... | 0.781835 | 1,014 | 1,012 |
Californians and Russians must think alike. The U.S. state recently considered reinstating a soda tax, and now
Russian government officials are thinking of adding soda, potato chips, and palm oil to a list of excisable goods. The measure would be part of a plan to promote a healthier diet for Russians as well as boost ... | 1.891606 | 1,022 | 1,019 |
Chemist recruitment agency listing
Working in drug discovery, chemists research the reasons why diseases develop and help to create new treatments.
The majority of chemists are graduates. In addition to possessing a relevant degree, a postgraduate qualification and relevant work experience are likely to be required for... | 1.833223 | 1,005 | 1,003 |
I've been asked by a representative from the infamous one per cent to deliver this letter to the 99 per cent and the Occupy movement protesters.
Dear 99 per cent,
On behalf of the one per cent, we just wanted to send you a sincere and heartfelt thank you for your recent efforts at the "Occupy" protests.
We, the wealthi... | 1.816584 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
The Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University (APAU) wasestablished on June 12, 1964 at Hyderabad.
The University was formally inaugurated on March 20, 1965 byLate Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then Hon'ble Prime Minister ofIndia. Another significant milestone was the inauguration of thebuilding programme of the Universit... | 1.11314 | 1,021 | 1,019 |
Post and Rail Fence Installation
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Overview
Post and rail fences are basic and adaptable. They were first fabricated during the "enclosures" of pre-industrial Britain. Today, they enclose humble pastures, surround historic sites and line the straight roads of horse country. They are variously ca... | 1.766808 | 1,010 | 1,007 |
Unit 1 How to Fight an Infection Bioinformatics • The collection, classification, storage, and analysis of biochemical and biological information using computers especially as applied in molecular genetics and genomics • Sue and the outbreak of Neiserria meningitidis – We collected information from individuals to try t... | 1.498909 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
IVF) – preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) Unit 3 How to Conquer Cancer 3.1 • Regulation in the cell cycle • Proto-oncognes become oncogenes through a disruption in the cell cycle. • Normally, cells will detect a mutation or that a certain point in the cell cycle has been disrupted and cause the cell to undergo apo... | 1.968755 | 996 | 993 |
Most writers start off as part-time writers. Rarely does your first work get instantly propelled into a full-time income that allows you to quit your job and focus solely on writing and publishing.
What that means for the average writer is that he or she needs to balance a workload of writing and a workload of their 9 ... | 1.816927 | 1,017 | 1,015 |
Democratic Rep. Pete Stark of California will introduce legislation to remedy a defect in last year's Balanced Budget Act that could cost the government $1 billion this year. The miscue, discovered by HCFA, is overpayments to HMOs resulting primarily from inaccurate projections of Medicare inflation. HMOs are likely to... | 1.832015 | 992 | 989 |
The Church of Uganda is a Jesus-loving, Bible-believing, Spirit-filled Anglican Church engaged in the mission of Jesus Christ in today’s world.
Church of Uganda Position Paper on Scripture, Authority, and Human Sexuality May 2005 Executive Summary
The occasion of this Position Paper is the current crisis in the Anglica... | 1.530609 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Ingham gave his permission for such blessings to proceed.
· In August 2003 the General Convention (the equivalent of our Provincial Assembly) of ECUSA – the Episcopal Church USA – voted to confirm the election as bishop of a divorced father of two children who had been living in a same-sex relationship with another ma... | 1.468181 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
intercourse is an experience of embracing the sexual “other”.
In Christ, however, people and their sexual desires are redeemed, and restored to God’s original intent. Through repentance and faith, relationships are restored to their original creation design.From Genesis to Revelation, in the sphere of human relationsh... | 1.882311 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to Biblical accountability.
8. It is the Church’s commitment to the Authority of Scripture and the Biblical values of abstinence before marriage and faithfulness within marriage that enabled the Church in Uganda to provide leadership in formulating a national response to the HIV/AIDS that has finally brought down the ... | 1.881395 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Two Connecticut real estate investors have quietly sought and won approval for the state's first EB-5 visa center, which works with federal authorities to offer green cards in exchange for foreign investment.
Zhifeng "Jack" Yang, a licensed real estate broker and managing partner of Richfield Real Estate Investment in ... | 1.535819 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
When To Buy Real Estate: Understanding Market Cycles How To Know If It's Time To Buy or Better To Rent?
Before buying any property, always ask yourself, “Why am I buying this?” This seems obvious, yet many buyers later regret not asking this simple question.
The best reason to invest in real estate today is for cash fl... | 1.42068 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
learned their lesson to never buy a home that costs more than 2-3 times the average salary of the area.
Others who bought at the right price but then refinanced to cash out the equity may also regret their purchase. They have hopefully learned not to treat their home like a piggy bank.
But I think you’ll be hard-press... | 1.589043 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
After graduating, taking your first step onto the career ladder can be overwhelming. Recruitment is an increasingly popular choice for graduates, as it is a highly rewarding industry with opportunities for rapid progression.
Graduate consultant, George Collier, joined Cast UK 6 months ago on our Logistics team, recruit... | 1.388065 | 944 | 943 |
The Positive Aspects of a Diabetic Pregnancy Pregnancy Tracker:18 weeks, 2 days Size of the Baby:About 6 inches long and 8.5 ounces Biggest Obstacle:The frustration of insulin resistance!
For many years women with type 1 diabetes were discouraged from having children and scared away from the possibility with films like... | 1.848514 | 1,004 | 1,002 |
Painless public service cuts await in energy use Inefficient heat and lighting in schools and hospitals waste €120m every year
Mr Plug with, from left, Robert Courtney, Aaron McLoughlin, Sarah Clarke and Valentyna Slyusarchuk from Guardian Angels National School, Blackrock, Co. Dublin celebrate winning the An Taisce Gr... | 1.678322 | 941 | 940 |
At some point in our lives, we all have encountered a situation in which either your trust has been broken by someone else or you have broken someone’s trust. This is just a factor of life and can stem from many sources, some of which are unintentional. With this in mind, it should come as no surprise that trust can be... | 1.646408 | 1,014 | 1,012 |
With the price of nursery plantings heading north of the Pole this year, there is every impetus in the world to grow your own annuals and vegetables from seed. (For a complete how-to on that process, click HERE) But now … Continue reading
Here’s a dirty little secret your landscaper would prefer you not to know: your a... | 2.091662 | 935 | 933 |
World View
When it comes to global investing, sometimes the longer you've been at it, the better the payoff.
Putnam's Global Growth Fund has been around forever. At least that's what a Gen Xer might think. Introduced in 1967, this fund, which invests its assets anywhere in the world its team of portfolio managers sees ... | 1.551174 | 1,011 | 1,009 |
The Boulder city manager now says she's proposing only to close city parks -- and not open space areas -- at night, but she also cited examples Thursday of incidents at the Occupy encampments that illustrate the need for such closures.
The City Council will have a public hearing on the proposed closure rule Tuesday eve... | 1.662332 | 1,010 | 1,008 |
Posted May 15, 2007 Bush orders cuts in oil use, greenhouse emissions! Harry Stoffer | Automotive News May 14, 2007 - 2:09 pm UPDATED: 5/14/07 4:27 P.M. WASHINGTON -- President Bush today issued an executive order for administration departments to prepare regulations by the end of 2008 that would cut petroleum use and ... | 1.413011 | 1,023 | 1,021 |
This is a series of posts about how software development and programmers have become increasingly reliant on developer communities like Stack Overflow and search engines to help them develop and ship code. We think this is a fundamental shift in the nature of software development that has wide ranging implications.
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Political Science | Empirical Theory & Methodology Y673 | 9910 | Bianco and Smyth
Topic: Responding to Institutional Change: Individual Decision-
Making in Uncertain Environments
This course meets at the Workshop, 513 N. Park Street, Room ZB 102
Traditionally, the Workshop focuses on how individuals build
institutions ... | 1.621622 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
If you have clients with cross-jurisdictional tax ties, there are a few ways to lower their obligations.
Avoid residency
If you don’t live in Canada, you don’t have to pay our taxes.
The practice is common among people from the Indian subcontinent living and working in the Middle East. Upon receiving permanent residenc... | 1.832941 | 1,013 | 1,011 |
Guidelines for the Control of Leprosy in the Northern Territory
Department of Health and Families is a smoke free workplace3
Preface
Third edition considerations
Declining incidence
In 1996 the Leprosy Unit was combined with the Tuberculosis (TB) Unit in order to maximise the
efficiency of use of staff and resources in... | 1.542439 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the Aboriginal population.
Early diagnosis
The average delay from the onset to the diagnosis of leprosy increases in settings where it is rare.
The hallmark of good leprosy control is early diagnosis that both reduces transmission to contacts
of the disease but also with multi-drug treatment that rapidly halts disease... | 1.23568 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
,000
Leprosy is now a rare diagnosis in the NT (Figure 2). Contact tracing and opportunistic diagnosis by
primary health workers has replaced community surveys as the main case-finding strategy.
Department of Health and Families is a smoke free workplace6
Guidelines for the Control of Leprosy in the Northern Territory
... | 1.286168 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Those who develop the disease demonstrate an impaired cell-mediated immune
response to
in the host.reproduces at a very slow rate and few cases are diagnosed in infants less than 1 year
M. leprae and there is evidence to suggest that there may be a genetic predisposition
Classification
In leprosy there is a continuous... | 1.196989 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ae, groins and lumbar skin tend to be spared and
hair growth and nerve function are unimpaired.
Figure 4. Early leprosy
Source CDC collection
Infection with
Mycobacterium leprae
No disease
(majority)
Indeterminate leprosy
TT LL
BT BB BL
RR ENL
Borderline
TH1 response TH2 response
PB MB
Figure 3: The Ridley-Jopling clas... | 1.534177 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
igmentation, and usually no sensory
loss in the lesions. In some cases the skin can be diffusely smooth and shiny (infiltration), with
no discrete lesions.
2. Nasal symptomsof congestion can occur resulting from infiltration of the mucous membranes
of the nose and mouth. Patients may complain of increased nasal dischar... | 1.418549 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ORSLPB PB MBOnly 1 lesion 2 to 5 lesions 6 or more lesions
Skin smearsNegative at all sites Negative at all sites Positive at any site
Distribution
distribution
More symmetrical
distribution- Asymmetrical
Sensation lossDefinite loss of
sensation
Definite loss of
sensation
Extensive
sensation loss
Nerve damage
(loss of... | 1.375294 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
components of the clinical assessment are:
1. History
2. Skin examination
Guidelines for the Control of Leprosy in the Northern Territory
Department of Health and Families is a smoke free workplace17
3. Nerve palpation
4. Nerve function impairment (NFI) assessment – voluntary motor test-sensory test (VMT-ST)
5. Eye ex... | 1.621587 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
tendon (medial to the flexor carpi radialis tendon).Feel at the wrist crease next to the palm just on the small finger side of a
Radial
cutaneous
Roll it over the lateral side of the radius near the wrist crease.
Common
peroneal
With the patient seated, find the fibular head - 2cm down (distally) and
1cm behind it (po... | 1.550334 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
. AFB are always present in the
LL or BL cases, but will not be found in the TT or indeterminate forms.
Indications
1. For diagnosis where there is clinical suspicion of disease.
2. To monitor treatment in lepromatous (MB) cases.
3. Suspicion of relapse after completion of MDT.
Preferred sites
1. Both ear lobes.
2. Sus... | 1.473924 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
routine practice due to problems with standardisation and reproducibility.>1000 bacilli in 1 hpf
Skin or nerve biopsy
Biopsy of affected nerve or skin is sometimes necessary in cases where the diagnosis may be
uncertain. When a skin biopsy is performed the incision should contain the whole depth of the
dermal layer so... | 1.643776 | 1,023 | 1,020 |
The day of the Nepal earthquake
By Mark and Deirdre Zimmerman
Global Ministries Missionaries Mark Zimmerman and his wife Deirdre Zimmerman serving in Kathmandu, Nepal, share the moments leading up to the April 25 Nepal earthquake and the reality of the quake’s aftermath.
Mark serves as a medical doctor in Kathmandu, Ne... | 1.79106 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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