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Luteal Phase Support In Ovarian Induction Cycles Using Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Or Oral Progestagens, Faheem F. Zayed, Mohammad F. El-Jallad, Haifa A. Al-Chalabi Jan 2003

Luteal Phase Support In Ovarian Induction Cycles Using Human Chorionic Gonadotropin Or Oral Progestagens, Faheem F. Zayed, Mohammad F. El-Jallad, Haifa A. Al-Chalabi

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the efficacy of luteal phase support with human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) or oral progesterone during human menopausal gonadotropin (hMG) ovulation induction. METHODS: Between September 1999 and March 2001, a total of 91 couples with infertility were recruited at Al-Hammadi Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Badeea Hospital, Jordan. In this prospective trial 46 couples were allocated to luteal phase support with hCG injections, while 45 couples were allocated to Duphaston (oral progestogens) as luteal support. RESULTS: In the group of hCG luteal support, 46 patients completed 46 cycles of hMG therapy, and 8 pregnancies (5 ongoing …

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Uterine Rupture Incidence, Risk Factors, And Outcome, Abdulrahim A. Rouzi, Asmaa A. Hawaswi, Mohammed Aboalazm, Fathia Hassanain, Othman Sindi Jan 2003

Uterine Rupture Incidence, Risk Factors, And Outcome, Abdulrahim A. Rouzi, Asmaa A. Hawaswi, Mohammed Aboalazm, Fathia Hassanain, Othman Sindi

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the incidence of uterine rupture and to analyze risk factors and outcome in a local hospital in Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, (KSA). METHODS: The hospital records of the Maternity and Children9s Hospital (MCH), in Makkah, KSA from April 1999 to December 2000 were retrospectively reviewed to identify women with ruptured uterus. The relevant data relating to the clinical features, risk factors, operative procedures, and maternal and fetal outcomes were assessed. RESULTS: During the study period, there were 23245 deliveries and 23 women were diagnosed to have uterine rupture giving an incidence of one in 1011 deliveries. …

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A Scoring System As A Tool For Antenatal Care Audit In Family Medicine, Rabaa K. Al-Momen, Izzeldin El-Jack, Noura A. Al-Nowaiser, Noura A. Al-Rowais Jan 2003

A Scoring System As A Tool For Antenatal Care Audit In Family Medicine, Rabaa K. Al-Momen, Izzeldin El-Jack, Noura A. Al-Nowaiser, Noura A. Al-Rowais

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To propose the antenatal assessment score (AAS) as a tool for auditing the process of antenatal care in family medicine, and to highlight its accessibility by applying it at 2 family health care centers. METHODS: A descriptive study of an audit process was conducted in 2 primary health care centers (non commissioned officers9 [NCO] and officers9 health centers [OC]) belonging to the Department of Family Medicine, Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from February 2001 to June 2002. A systematic random sample of patients registered at the maternal registers of both centers was selected. A score system …

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Prevalence And Correlates Of Nocturnal Enuresis In The United Arab Emirates, Valsamma Eapen, Abdulazim M. Mabrouk Jan 2003

Prevalence And Correlates Of Nocturnal Enuresis In The United Arab Emirates, Valsamma Eapen, Abdulazim M. Mabrouk

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence, socio-demographic correlates and associated psychopathology in children with enuresis. METHODS: A community survey of a stratified sample of 400 6-16 year old school children was carried out in the Al-Ain City, United Arab Emirates. Psychiatric disturbance, if any, was ascertained using the Rutter Parent Scale. RESULTS: Thirty-two out of the 400 children (8%) surveyed, reported wetting the bed at least once per week. More boys were affected than girls, and 90% of those with enuresis were aged 6-11 years. Presence of enuresis was found to be associated with psychosocial stress in the family; large family …

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Hearing Screening Of Neonates At Risk, Alwan M. Maisoun, Siraj M. Zakzouk Jan 2003

Hearing Screening Of Neonates At Risk, Alwan M. Maisoun, Siraj M. Zakzouk

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to screen infants admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for hearing loss. METHODS: One hundred and thirty newborns admitted to NICU were screened for hearing loss using otocaustic emission (OAE). Tympanometry was performed using Grason Stadler Incorporation (GSI) 37 and auditory brain response (ABR). RESULTS: Ninety-six of the infants had known risk factors such as prematurely, low birth weight, hyperbilirubinemia, asphyxia and congenital abnormalities. Out of 130 infants 80 passed the OAE test, 50 had to be rescreened, and 19 had ABR. Only 13 were found with moderate to severe hearing …

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Outcome Of Type-1 Tympanoplasty, Fadl A. Fadl Jan 2003

Outcome Of Type-1 Tympanoplasty, Fadl A. Fadl

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: The outcome of 97 patients who underwent tympanoplasty type-1 surgery by different ear, nose and throat surgeons was evaluated. METHODS: This retrospective study was carried out from the records pertaining to all patients who had tympanoplasty type-1 at King Fahd Specialist Hospital, Buraidah, Al-Qassim, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, during the years April 1995 through to April 2000. Specific criterias were setup for selecting all the patients involved and excluding others. Thus 97 ears were selected in this study. The factors presumed to influence the outcome included age, sex, nationality, affected ear, middle ear status at surgery, perforation size and …

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Otolaryngologic Manifestation Of Gastroesophageal Reflux In Children, Ahmed Y. Al-Ammar Jan 2003

Otolaryngologic Manifestation Of Gastroesophageal Reflux In Children, Ahmed Y. Al-Ammar

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: This study was performed to assess the role of gastroesophageal reflux (GER) in varieties of otolaryngologic dysfunction. METHODS: This study was carried out over a one year period, between January 1995 and January 1996, at Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal, Canada. Thirty-seven charts were examined for different variables including, symptoms, signs, dysfunction, investigations, treatment and outcome. RESULTS: In children with otolaryngologic manifestation of GER, apnea and regurgitation were common presenting symptoms. Gastroesophageal reflux was also found to be more commonly associated with ear infection, adenoid hypertrophy, bronchial asthma and recurrent pneumonia. CONCLUSION: Gastroesophageal reflux has complicated manifestations in otolaryngology that are …

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Congenital Acinar Dysplasia. Familial Cause Of A Fatal Respiratory Failure In A Neonate, Kefah A. Al-Senan, Abdulhakiem K. Kattan, Fouad H. Al-Dayel Jan 2003

Congenital Acinar Dysplasia. Familial Cause Of A Fatal Respiratory Failure In A Neonate, Kefah A. Al-Senan, Abdulhakiem K. Kattan, Fouad H. Al-Dayel

Saudi Medical Journal

Pulmonary hypoplasia is a rare cause of pulmonary insufficiency, and has a significant rate of morbidity and mortality among affected infants. In most cases, pulmonary hypoplasia is secondary to underlying abnormalities. These may include space occupying lesions, as in infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia; malformation of chest wall resulting in a small thoracic cavity; severe and prolonged oligohydramnios; and neuromuscular disorders, which prevent normal fetal chest expansion. All lead to poor lung development. Primary pulmonary hypoplasia as a result of congenital acinar dysplasia is exceedingly rare and is diagnosed by exclusion of all known etiologies of secondary pulmonary hypoplasia.

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Silicosis In A Housewife, Wassef F. Safa, Jose L. Machado Jan 2003

Silicosis In A Housewife, Wassef F. Safa, Jose L. Machado

Saudi Medical Journal

Silicosis is an occupational respiratory disease caused by inhaling respirable crystalline silica dust. We report the case of silicosis in a 50-year-old woman that presented with pulmonary fibrosis and later developed pulmonary tuberculosis. Her condition is believed to be due to inhalation of dust produced by scrubbing a silica rich surface during usual daily housework.

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Paradoxical Response In Tuberculosis And Reversal Reaction In Leprosy. Different Terminology For Same Immunology?, Sarosh Khan, Abdulrahman Bhat, Latif A. Khan Jan 2003

Paradoxical Response In Tuberculosis And Reversal Reaction In Leprosy. Different Terminology For Same Immunology?, Sarosh Khan, Abdulrahman Bhat, Latif A. Khan

Saudi Medical Journal

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Malaria Parasitemia During Delivery, Abdulmageed M. Imam Jan 2003

Malaria Parasitemia During Delivery, Abdulmageed M. Imam

Saudi Medical Journal

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Shareholder Value And Auditor Independence, William Wilson Bratton Jan 2003

Shareholder Value And Auditor Independence, William Wilson Bratton

Articles

This Article questions the practice of framing problems concerning auditors' professional responsibility inside a principal-agent paradigm. If professional independence is to be achieved, auditors cannot be enmeshed in agency relationships with the shareholders of their audit clients. As agents, the auditors by definition become subject to the principal's control and cannot act independently. For the same reason, auditors' duties should be neither articulated in the framework of corporate law fiduciary duty, nor conceived relationally at all. These assertions follow from an inquiry into the operative notion of the shareholder-beneficiary. The Article unpacks the notion of the shareholder and tells a …

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Supporting ‘Word-Of-Mouth’ Social Networks Through Collaborative Information Filtering, Mimi Recker, Andrew Walker Jan 2003

Supporting ‘Word-Of-Mouth’ Social Networks Through Collaborative Information Filtering, Mimi Recker, Andrew Walker

Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences Faculty Publications

Altered Vista is an instructional system that supports a form of ‘contextual’ collaborative learning. Its design incorporates an information filtering technique, called collaborative information filtering, which, through computational and statistical means, leverages the work of individuals to benefit a group of users. Altered Vista is designed to provide, upon request, personalized recommendations of Web sites. It can also provide recommendations of like-minded people, thus setting the stage for future collaboration and communication. An empirical study involving in-service and pre-service teachers was conducted using Altered Vista and presents results from an empirical study. The study examined the feasibility and utility of …

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Summit 2003: Career/Life In The Balance, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa) Jan 2003

Summit 2003: Career/Life In The Balance, American Institute Of Certified Public Accountants (Aicpa)

Guides, Handbooks and Manuals

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Recalibrating Federal Judicial Independence Symposium: Perspectives On Judicial Independence: Accountability And Separation Of Power Issues, James J. Brudney Jan 2003

Recalibrating Federal Judicial Independence Symposium: Perspectives On Judicial Independence: Accountability And Separation Of Power Issues, James J. Brudney

Faculty Scholarship

It is well settled that independent courts play a vital role in promoting rule-of-law and separation-of-powers norms. At the same time, judicial independence must be reconciled with other values that we also wish to recognize as foundational. Professor Brudney addresses two areas of controversy that are associated with the celebration of judicial autonomy in our legal culture. He first discusses the role of political and personal background factors in shaping judicial selection and influencing judicial outcomes. He explains why both the President and Congress have come to rely increasingly on such background factors when seeking to anticipate the broad contours …

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States And Internet Enforcement, Joel R. Reidenberg Jan 2003

States And Internet Enforcement, Joel R. Reidenberg

Faculty Scholarship

This essay addresses the enforcement of decisions through internet instruments. The starting point is a brief justification of internet enforcement as the obligation of democratic states. Next, the essay argues that the movement to re-engineer the internet infrastructure by public and private actions also facilitates state enforcement of legal and policy decisions. The essay maintains that states will increasingly try to use network intermediaries such as payment systems and Internet Service Providers as enforcement instruments. Finally, and most importantly, the essay focuses on ways that states may harness the power of technological instruments such as worms, filters and packet interceptors …

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Covert Violence In Nursing, Susette Bakker Jan 2003

Covert Violence In Nursing, Susette Bakker

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

There is no official avenue in nursing for the reporting of incidences of covert violence to staff and so they remain unrecorded and often stressful. This study sought to collect data from currently employed nurses concerning covert violence in their workplace, and to collate the information to obtain a valid assessment of this hidden problem. A qualitative methodology was used to report on the experiences of nurses in relation to covert violence directed at them by their peers, other health professionals, patients and patients' families. The participants were all registered nurses employed by a suburban health service. Each was given …

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Occupational Hazards And Radiation Safety In Veterinary Practice Including Zoo Veterinary Practice In Australia, Joseph S. Jeyaretnam Jan 2003

Occupational Hazards And Radiation Safety In Veterinary Practice Including Zoo Veterinary Practice In Australia, Joseph S. Jeyaretnam

Theses: Doctorates and Masters

This thesis contains reviews and research on the occupational hazards of zoo veterinary practitioners in Australia. Although occupational hazards have long been recognised in the veterinary profession, little information is available on the number and magnitude of injuries to veterinarians in Australia, the United Kingdom or the United States. Apart from anecdotal accounts and some limited data, most of the available information is on occupational zoonoses, generally well recognized by veterinarians. Other occupational hazards to which veterinarians are exposed have received scant attention. The veterinary practitioner in a zoo environment has to treat a range of captive wild species which …

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Impaired Differentiation Of Osteoclasts In Trem-2–Deficient Individuals, Marina Cella, Cecilia Buonsanti, Carey Strader, Takayuki Kondo, Andrea Salmaggi, Marco Colonna Jan 2003

Impaired Differentiation Of Osteoclasts In Trem-2–Deficient Individuals, Marina Cella, Cecilia Buonsanti, Carey Strader, Takayuki Kondo, Andrea Salmaggi, Marco Colonna

Open Access Publications

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Antiadhesive Role Of Apical Decay-Accelerating Factor (Cd55) In Human Neutrophil Transmigration Across Mucosal Epithelia, Donald W. Lawrence, Walter J. Bruyninckx, Nancy A. Louis, Douglas M. Lublin, Gregory L. Stahl, Charles A. Parkos, Sean P. Colgan Jan 2003

Antiadhesive Role Of Apical Decay-Accelerating Factor (Cd55) In Human Neutrophil Transmigration Across Mucosal Epithelia, Donald W. Lawrence, Walter J. Bruyninckx, Nancy A. Louis, Douglas M. Lublin, Gregory L. Stahl, Charles A. Parkos, Sean P. Colgan

Open Access Publications

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Comparative Studies Of Evolutionary Responses To Light Environments In Arabidopsis, Massimo Pigliucci, Heidi Pollard, Mitchell B. Cruzan Jan 2003

Comparative Studies Of Evolutionary Responses To Light Environments In Arabidopsis, Massimo Pigliucci, Heidi Pollard, Mitchell B. Cruzan

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

In this article, we compare the reaction norms to foliage shade (changes in light quality, spatially fine-grained environmental variation) and photoperiod (day length, spatially coarse-grained environmental variation) in several haplotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana from Scandinavia. We found that both across-environment means and phenotypic plasticities evolved continuously and very rapidly within this group. Both character means and trait plasticities were highly integrated, in part as predicted by the adaptive plasticity hypothesis for response to foliage shade (the so-called shade-avoidance syndrome). We found that a significant but small fraction of the variance in across-treatment trait means and plasticities in response to one …

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Avian Population Trends Within The Evolving Agricultural Landscape Of The Eastern And Central United States, Michael T. Murphy Jan 2003

Avian Population Trends Within The Evolving Agricultural Landscape Of The Eastern And Central United States, Michael T. Murphy

Biology Faculty Publications and Presentations

State-level Breeding Bird Survey (1980-1998) and U.S. Department of Agriculture statistics were used to test the hypothesis that changes in agricultural land use within the eastern and central U.S. have driven population trends of grassland and shrub habitat birds over the past two decades. The degree to which population trends differed between grassland and shrub habitats was evaluated with respect to migratory and nesting behavior. Grassland birds declined significantly between 1980 and 1999, but, on average, shrub habitat species did not. Grassland-breeding, long-distance migrants exhibited the strongest negative trends. Most species (78%; n = 63) exhibited at least one significant …

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Rit Dividends Winter 2003 Jan 2003

Rit Dividends Winter 2003

RIT Digital Archives

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Enginuity 2003, Kate Gleason College Of Engineering Jan 2003

Enginuity 2003, Kate Gleason College Of Engineering

RIT Digital Archives

Dean's Corner (p.1)||RIT launches microsystems engineering Ph.D. program (p.1)||Is this the Kate Gleason College of Engineering that you remember? (p.2)||I built my computer @ RIT. (p.3)||Robert O. Frasca selected as KGCOE distinguished alum for 2002 (p.4)||Transporting engineering students to the real world (p.5)||Brick city festival 2002 (p.6)||Introducing (p.6)

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Enginuity 2003, Kate Gleason College Of Engineering Jan 2003

Enginuity 2003, Kate Gleason College Of Engineering

RIT Digital Archives

Dean's Corner||Awesome Alumnus||Engineering Innovation for a Global Economy||Introducing||Multi-talented Students||Flights of Fancy||Robots Rule!||Fuel Cell and Microchannels Conferences Overwhelming Successes||A Genuine Renaissance Man||Good-bye to Student Status, Hello to Alumni Ranks||We're Looking for a Few Good Men and Women

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2003-2004 Graduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology Jan 2003

2003-2004 Graduate Bulletin, Rochester Institute Of Technology

RIT Digital Archives

No abstract provided.

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An Analysis Of The Majority Report “Responsible Parenthood” And Its Recommendations On Abortion, Sterilization And Contraception, Richard J. Fehring Jan 2003

An Analysis Of The Majority Report “Responsible Parenthood” And Its Recommendations On Abortion, Sterilization And Contraception, Richard J. Fehring

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

This paper will focus on the majority report (titled “Responsible Parenthood”) of the 1966 Papal Birth Control Commission and its recommendations on abortion, sterilization, and contraception.(1) The analysis is made with the hindsight and perspective of thirty-seven years of scientific data on fertility, family planning, and family life. The analysis presented here does not concern the whole document but rather focuses on what are called the “objective criteria” that were provided in the document to help married couples make decisions on the use of contraception. While acknowledging the intellectual abilities and expertise of those who wrote the majority report, the …

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Gay Science As Law: An Outline For A Nietzschean Jurisprudence, Jonathan Yovel Jan 2003

Gay Science As Law: An Outline For A Nietzschean Jurisprudence, Jonathan Yovel

Cardozo Law Review

The main question examined in this study is not merely how a Nietzschean critique of law would look had Nietzsche ever applied his genealogical method to the question of law, but also what positive function Nietzschean philosophy may ascribe to law - and how law must then be transformed. The methodological parable imagines a "post-genealogy" or "post-ressentiment" phase of the human condition, akin to the Marxist "post-revolutionary" phase: How would law look for the person of power - overman or otherwise - who needs to live among others? How is normativity possible - what are its forms and …

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From A Biopolitical Point Of View: Nietzsche's Philosophy Of Crime, Friedrich Balke Jan 2003

From A Biopolitical Point Of View: Nietzsche's Philosophy Of Crime, Friedrich Balke

Cardozo Law Review

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Legal Issues Under Wto Rules On The Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (Cepa) Between Mainland China And Hong Kong, Henry S. Gao Jan 2003

Legal Issues Under Wto Rules On The Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (Cepa) Between Mainland China And Hong Kong, Henry S. Gao

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

On 29 June 2003, the Central Government of the People's Republic of China (the Mainland) and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) signed the Mainland and Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA). As the first Regional Trade Agreement (RTA) for both sides, the CEPA provides a model for China to use the arrangements allowed under the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to further trade liberalisation and promote economic development. This is a commendable endeavour. However, due to the complexity of the relevant rules of the WTO, caution must be exercised in the formulation and implementation of …

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