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Risk Factors, Knowledge And Health Status In Diabetic Patients, Syed S. Habib, Mohammad Aslam Nov 2003

Risk Factors, Knowledge And Health Status In Diabetic Patients, Syed S. Habib, Mohammad Aslam

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to assess the prevalence of risk factors, knowledge and awareness in Pakistani patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). METHODS: We studied 120 DM patients at the Diabetes Center in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, from February 2001 to July 2001. Structured questionnaires, clinical and laboratory assessments were used to determine the prevalence of dyslipidemia, glycemic control, hypertension, self monitoring of blood glucose, treatment for hyperglycemia, smoking and modes of diagnosis. The patients knowledge was assessed as regards to the laboratory investigations and treatment of DM that they are receiving. Fasting blood samples were analyzed for serum total cholesterol, …

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The Outcome Of Pregnancy In Elderly Primigravidas, Haifa A. Al-Turki, Adel T. Abu-Heija, Mohammed H. Al-Sibai Nov 2003

The Outcome Of Pregnancy In Elderly Primigravidas, Haifa A. Al-Turki, Adel T. Abu-Heija, Mohammed H. Al-Sibai

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of advancing age of 35 years and more (elderly primigravida) on the outcome of pregnancy in nulliparous women and to compare the type of complications observed in this group of women to those in the age of 20-34 years. METHODS: This was a retrospective analysis of 2517 primigravidas delivered at King Fahd Hospital of the University, Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia between 1996-2000. All were consecutive patients. The data were collected from the records of the labor room and the medical records were screened for maternal age, antenatal complications, gestational age, birth-weight of the neonate, …

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Incidence Of Intraoperative Hypothermia, Ali S. Al-Qahtani, Farouk M. Messahel Nov 2003

Incidence Of Intraoperative Hypothermia, Ali S. Al-Qahtani, Farouk M. Messahel

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of hypothermia during surgical procedures when adequate methods of preserving normothermia are applied. METHODS: A prospective study in which patients ASA I-IV presented for surgery at the Armed Forces Hospital, Wadi Al-Dawasir, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the period from July 2000 until February 2003, in whom body core temperature was between 35-37 degree, were included. Ambient temperature of the operating room was thermostatically adjusted to record 26 degree and 24 degree if patients were less than 10 year-old or above. Depending on type of surgery; the patients were provided with space blankets and were …

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Prevalence Of Medically Compromised Patients Referred For Periodontal Treatment To A Teaching Hospital In Central Saudi Arabia, Khalid Almas, Fatin A. Awartani Nov 2003

Prevalence Of Medically Compromised Patients Referred For Periodontal Treatment To A Teaching Hospital In Central Saudi Arabia, Khalid Almas, Fatin A. Awartani

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: Many patients seeking dental care have a significant medical condition that may alter both the course of their oral disease and the treatment provided. The aim of this study was to assess the systemic diseases profile of patients with periodontal diseases for specialized periodontal treatment. METHODS: Seven hundred and forty-three patient9s medical records were screened from the Periodontal Clinics and referred to the College of Dentistry, King Saud University, a teaching hospital in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for a special care during the period from January 2002 to June 2002. RESULTS: One hundred and sixty-seven were males while …

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Successful Pregnancy In A Patient With Takayasus Arteritis, Aisha A. Al-Ghamdi Nov 2003

Successful Pregnancy In A Patient With Takayasus Arteritis, Aisha A. Al-Ghamdi

Saudi Medical Journal

This report describes a case of Takayasus arteritis in a 19-year-old Palestinian female. She conceived after diagnosis. Her pregnancy was complicated by uncontrolled hypertension, which was not associated with other markers of disease activity. Despite aggressive medical treatment, cesarean section had to be carried out at 34 weeks of pregnancy because of uncontrolled hypertension. A live fetus was borne, and her blood pressure was subsequently controlled with a single antihypertensive agent.

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Bilateral Simultaneous Hip Fractures Secondary To An Epileptic Seizure, Mustafiz M. Rahman, Adnan Awada Nov 2003

Bilateral Simultaneous Hip Fractures Secondary To An Epileptic Seizure, Mustafiz M. Rahman, Adnan Awada

Saudi Medical Journal

A 30-year-old man sustained bilateral simultaneous displaced subcapital fractures of neck of femur during an epileptic tonic-clonic seizure. After admission to the hospital approximately 18 hours later, internal fixation of the fractures with dynamic hip screw was undertaken. Post operatively, he was managed by early motion and weight bearing on the second day. Despite the severity of the fractures and delayed surgery, satisfactory union of the fractures was noted at 6 months when bone densitometry was normal. At 3 years follow up, there was no sign of avascular necrosis of the femoral heads.

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Erythrokeratoderma Variabilis, Iqbal A. Bukhari, Nawal A. Juma'a Nov 2003

Erythrokeratoderma Variabilis, Iqbal A. Bukhari, Nawal A. Juma'a

Saudi Medical Journal

Erythrokeratoderma variabilis is a rare autosomal dominant genodermatosis of variable expressivity. In this report, we describe the clinical features and microscopic findings in one of our patients born to unaffected parents. We also briefly review the literature on this disorder.

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Does Tuberculin Skin Test Predict Tuberculosis In Patients With End-Stage Liver Disease?, Mohamed S. Al-Moamary, Salah Al-Baz, Adel Alothman, Ziad Memish, Hamdan Al-Jahdali, Abdulmajeed Al-Abdulkareem Nov 2003

Does Tuberculin Skin Test Predict Tuberculosis In Patients With End-Stage Liver Disease?, Mohamed S. Al-Moamary, Salah Al-Baz, Adel Alothman, Ziad Memish, Hamdan Al-Jahdali, Abdulmajeed Al-Abdulkareem

Saudi Medical Journal

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Index, Vol. Xxxiii, 2003, Parameters Editors Nov 2003

Index, Vol. Xxxiii, 2003, Parameters Editors

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

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The Risk Of Optimism In The Conduct Ofwar, Donald Chisholm Nov 2003

The Risk Of Optimism In The Conduct Ofwar, Donald Chisholm

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Dragon Or Dinosaur? Nuclear Weapons In A Modernizing China, Thomas M. Kane Nov 2003

Dragon Or Dinosaur? Nuclear Weapons In A Modernizing China, Thomas M. Kane

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Carcass Of Dead Policies: The Irrelevance Of Nato, Steven E. Meyer Nov 2003

Carcass Of Dead Policies: The Irrelevance Of Nato, Steven E. Meyer

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

No abstract provided.

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Table Of Contents Nov 2003

Table Of Contents

University of Richmond Law Review

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The Challenges: Past Is Prologue, Elizabeth B. Lacy Nov 2003

The Challenges: Past Is Prologue, Elizabeth B. Lacy

University of Richmond Law Review

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Rethinking Theft Crimes In Virginia, John G. Douglass Nov 2003

Rethinking Theft Crimes In Virginia, John G. Douglass

University of Richmond Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Real Estate Law, Brian R. Marron, Christopher M. Gill Nov 2003

Real Estate Law, Brian R. Marron, Christopher M. Gill

University of Richmond Law Review

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Wills, Trusts, And Estates, J. Rodney Johnson Nov 2003

Wills, Trusts, And Estates, J. Rodney Johnson

University of Richmond Law Review

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Eagleville Times, Volume 1, Issue 4, Debbie Ryan Nov 2003

Eagleville Times, Volume 1, Issue 4, Debbie Ryan

Eagleville Times

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Preface And Dedication, Brent M. Timberlake Nov 2003

Preface And Dedication, Brent M. Timberlake

University of Richmond Law Review

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Comparative Pathogenicity Of Escherichia Coli O157 And Intimin-Negative Non-O157 Shiga Toxin-Producing E. Coli Strains In Neonatal Pigs, Evelyn A. Dean-Nystrom, Angela R. Melton-Celsa, Joachim F. L. Pohlenz, Harley W. Moon, Alison D. O’Brien Nov 2003

Comparative Pathogenicity Of Escherichia Coli O157 And Intimin-Negative Non-O157 Shiga Toxin-Producing E. Coli Strains In Neonatal Pigs, Evelyn A. Dean-Nystrom, Angela R. Melton-Celsa, Joachim F. L. Pohlenz, Harley W. Moon, Alison D. O’Brien

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

We compared the pathogenicity of intimin-negative non-O157:H7 Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O91:H21 and O104:H21 strains with the pathogenicity of intimin-positive O157:H7 and O157:H- strains in neonatal pigs. We also examined the role of Stx2d-activatable genes and the large hemolysinencoding plasmid of O91:H21 strain B2F1 in the pathogenesis of STEC disease in pigs. We found that all E. coli strains that made wild-type levels of Stx caused systemic illness and histological lesions in the brain and intestinal crypts, whereas none of the control Stx-negative E. coli strains evoked comparable central nervous system signs or intestinal lesions. By contrast, …

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Updating Bridge Reliability Based On Bridge Management Systems Visual Inspection Results, Allen C. Estes, Dan M. Frangopol Nov 2003

Updating Bridge Reliability Based On Bridge Management Systems Visual Inspection Results, Allen C. Estes, Dan M. Frangopol

Architectural Engineering

Bridge management systems have become increasingly sophisticated over the past decade and provide valuable information about the structural condition of all bridges in the national database. At the same time, reliability methods have gained increasing prominence and are used to forecast life-cycle performance over many decades of structural life. Such reliability analyses need to be updated based on the results of inspections. Specifically targeted nondestructive evaluations are the preferred solution, but are not always available for every bridge. This paper examines how the visual inspection data provided from bridge management systems already in place can be used to update the …

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Kalman Filtering For Fuzzy Discrete Time Dynamic Systems, Daniel J. Simon Nov 2003

Kalman Filtering For Fuzzy Discrete Time Dynamic Systems, Daniel J. Simon

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

This paper uses Kalman filter theory to design a state estimator for noisy discrete time Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) fuzzy models. One local filter is designed for each local linear model using standard Kalman filter theory. Steady state solutions can be found for each of the local filters. Then a linear combination of the local filters is used to derive a global filter. The local filters are time-invariant, which greatly reduces the computational complexity of the global filter. The global filter is shown to be unbiased and (under certain conditions) stable. In addition, under the approximation of uncorrelatedness among the local models, …

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Sec Enforcement Heuristics: An Empirical Inquiry, Randall Thomas, James D. Cox Nov 2003

Sec Enforcement Heuristics: An Empirical Inquiry, Randall Thomas, James D. Cox

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

This Article examines the overlap between SEC securities enforcement actions and private securities fraud class actions. We begin with an overview of data concerning all SEC enforcement actions from 1997 to 2002. We find that the volume of SEC enforcement proceedings is relatively modest. We next examine the scope of the recently enacted "Fair Fund" provision that authorizes the SEC to designate civil penalties it recovers from defendants to benefit defrauded private investors. We conclude that this provision offers only limited potential relief for private investors. We complete this Part of the Article with an analysis of the serious resource …

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It's Time To Make The Administrative Procedure Act Administrative, Edward L. Rubin Nov 2003

It's Time To Make The Administrative Procedure Act Administrative, Edward L. Rubin

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) has been out of date from the day it was written because it fails to address the administrative character of the modern state. The APA imposes procedural requirements on agency rulemaking and adjudication, two activities that are singled out because they resemble legislation and judicial decision making in the premodern state. The requirements for adjudication are based on the procedural rules that govern courts; the requirements for rulemaking would be based on the procedural rules that govern legislatures, but because very few such rules exist, they are also based on the rules that govern courts. …

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Prospect Theory, Risk Preference, And The Law, Chris Guthrie Nov 2003

Prospect Theory, Risk Preference, And The Law, Chris Guthrie

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

To understand how people behave in an uncertain world - and to make viable recommendations about how the law should try to shape that behavior - legal scholars must employ a model or theory of decision making. Only with an understanding of how people are likely to respond to legal rules can legal scholars, judges, legislators, and regulators craft rules that are likely to encourage desirable behavior and discourage undesirable behavior. Rather than rely on rational choice theory, behavioral law and economics scholars (or legal decision theorists) have turned to Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky's "prospect theory" to inform their …

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Lowering The Filed Tariff Shield: Judicial Enforcement For A Deregulatory Era, Jim A. Rossi Nov 2003

Lowering The Filed Tariff Shield: Judicial Enforcement For A Deregulatory Era, Jim A. Rossi

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

The filed tariff doctrine, fashioned by courts to protect consumers from rate discrimination, has strayed from its origins. Instead of protecting consumers, the doctrine has evolved into a shield for regulated firms against common law and antitrust claims that reinforce market norms. In the ideal world, Congress would expand the jurisdiction of regulatory agencies to allow them to penalize private misconduct. However, since that has not always happened, the filed tariff doctrine has encouraged private firms to expend resources in using the regulator as a strategy to immunize conduct from antitrust and common law antitrust claims. This Article assesses how …

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2001 Michigan Hospital Cqi/Tqm Study, Colleen L. Croxall Nov 2003

2001 Michigan Hospital Cqi/Tqm Study, Colleen L. Croxall

Wayne State University Dissertations

In recent years, there has been significant interest in the application of total quality management/continuous quality improvement (TQM/CQI) within health care organizations. The health care industry, in its quest to improve outcomes with fewer resources, began to look at CQI/TQM as a possible solution. To date, the most comprehensive and enthusiastic response to efforts to improve quality while containing or lowering costs is reflected in hospitals' commitment to continuous quality improvement/total quality management (CQI/TQM). The health care industry, particularly hospitals, has embraced the concepts of CQI/TQM with the belief that adoption will lead to an improvement in both the quality …

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Front Matter Nov 2003

Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.

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Effects Of Salts On Crystallization Kinetics And Rheological Behavior Of Concentrated , -Trehalose Solutions, Marina Cerdeira, M. C. Puppo, Silvana Martini, M. L. Herrera Nov 2003

Effects Of Salts On Crystallization Kinetics And Rheological Behavior Of Concentrated , -Trehalose Solutions, Marina Cerdeira, M. C. Puppo, Silvana Martini, M. L. Herrera

Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Sciences Faculty Publications

The effect of addition of CaCl2 2H2O and MgCl2 6H2O on crystallization kinetics and the rheological behavior of a 70% trehalose solution was studied by polarized light microscopy and dynamic oscillatory rheometry. Salts caused a delay on nucleation with induction times for crystallization longer for Mg2+ than for Ca2+. Divalent cations were incorporated into crystals, changing the growth of certain faces preferentially, which resulted in changes in morphology. Addition of CaCl2 2H2O in a high salt/trehalose molar ratio dramatically increased complex modulus (G*), indicating a stronger viscoelastic behavior. A gel-like structure was formed when Ca2+ was added to trehalose solution. …

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Newspaper Coverage Of Animal Abuse, Lara Jasmine Imbrock Nov 2003

Newspaper Coverage Of Animal Abuse, Lara Jasmine Imbrock

Student Work

The abuse of animals is an important social issue. Animals play a vital role in society, serving as companions and service animals for people. A qualitative content analysis was conducted to evaluate Midwest newspaper coverage of animal abuse in 1993, 1998, and 2002. The theories of social construction of reality, agenda setting, and priming were used to examine the effects of media coverage of animal abuse. Results showed that animal abuse has received increased coverage over the years.

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