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Prognostic Value Of Auto-Antibodies In The Serum Of Omani Patients With Gastric Cancer, Ahmed Al-Shukaili, Ali A. Al-Jabri, Mansour S. Al-Moundhri Dec 2006

Prognostic Value Of Auto-Antibodies In The Serum Of Omani Patients With Gastric Cancer, Ahmed Al-Shukaili, Ali A. Al-Jabri, Mansour S. Al-Moundhri

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the prevalence of a group of different autoantibodies, in Omani patients with gastric cancer, and to examine whether their presence correlates with clinical course of the disease. METHODS: Ninety-three Omani patients with gastric cancer, and 100 gender-matched blood donors were investigated for the presence of 15 different auto-antibodies against nuclear antigens (ANA), extractible nuclear antigens (ENA), Scleroderma antigen (Scl-70), Sjogren syndrome antigen A/B (SSA/B), Smith antigen (Sm), ribonucleoprotein (RNP), Jo-1 antigen, double stranded DNA (ds-DNA), parietal cell antibodies (APCA), reticulin antibodies (ARA), smooth muscle antibodies (ASMA), proteinase 3 (PR3), myeloperoxidase (MPO), and mitochondria antibody (AMA). Antinuclear antigen …

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Prevalence And Precipitating Factors Of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease In A Young Population Of Tabriz, Northwest Of Iran, Mohammad H. Somi, Sara Farhang, Kazem Mirinezhad, Emtis Jazayeri, Siavosh Nasseri-Moghaddam, Solmaz Moayeri, Sanaz Yasrebinia Dec 2006

Prevalence And Precipitating Factors Of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease In A Young Population Of Tabriz, Northwest Of Iran, Mohammad H. Somi, Sara Farhang, Kazem Mirinezhad, Emtis Jazayeri, Siavosh Nasseri-Moghaddam, Solmaz Moayeri, Sanaz Yasrebinia

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence and clinical spectrum of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in a young population and evaluate the risk factors. METHODS: This cross-sectional study using a reliable and valid questionnaire was performed during June and July 2005, on randomized selection of 620 students form Azad University of Tabriz. Gastroesophageal reflux disease was defined as at least weekly heartburn and/or acid regurgitation. RESULTS: Mean age (± SD) of the responders was 22.48 ± 1.98 years. The prevalence of heartburn and/or acid regurgitation experienced at least weekly was 6.3% and monthly was 13%. The severity of symptoms was mainly of …

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Attitude, Awareness And Practice Of Evidence Based Medicine Among Consultant Physicians In Western Region Of Saudi Arabia, Fahad K. Al-Omari, Saeed M. Al-Asmary Dec 2006

Attitude, Awareness And Practice Of Evidence Based Medicine Among Consultant Physicians In Western Region Of Saudi Arabia, Fahad K. Al-Omari, Saeed M. Al-Asmary

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To assess the awareness, attitude and practice of evidence base medicine (EBM) among Al-Taif Consultant Physicians and to define the perceived barriers for practicing EBM. METHODS: It is a cross-sectional study conducted during December, 2004, at all governmental hospitals in Western region of Saudi Arabia at Al-Taif Governorate. Two hundred and eight self administrated questionnaires had been distributed to all consultant physicians in different specialties who met the inclusions criteria for this study. RESULTS: The response rate was 85.5% of more than 16 different specialties involved in this study with different types of qualifications. The internal consistency reliability coefficient …

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Left Sided-Right Portal Joined Round Ligament With An Anomaly Of The Intrahepatic Portal Vein, Emine C. Sanli, Zeliha Kurtoglu, Alev Kara, Deniz Uzmansel Dec 2006

Left Sided-Right Portal Joined Round Ligament With An Anomaly Of The Intrahepatic Portal Vein, Emine C. Sanli, Zeliha Kurtoglu, Alev Kara, Deniz Uzmansel

Saudi Medical Journal

Anomalous branching of the intrahepatic portal veins and a round ligament variation were encountered in a 70-year-old male cadaver, with a positional variation of the liver. The liver was not extending to the left of the xiphoid process. The fissure for the round ligament was not present at the visceral surface, and the ligament was embedded inside the parenchyma. The round ligament was joining with the anterior branch of the right portal vein instead of the left. Portal blood supply of the quadrate lobe and most of the left lobe was provided by the variative branch of the right portal …

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Rapunzel Syndrome, Ali H. Al-Wadan, Mohamed Al-Absi, Azan S. Al-Saadi, Mohamed Abdoulgafour Dec 2006

Rapunzel Syndrome, Ali H. Al-Wadan, Mohamed Al-Absi, Azan S. Al-Saadi, Mohamed Abdoulgafour

Saudi Medical Journal

An 18-year-old single female patient, presented with non specific gastrointestinal symptoms of anorexia, abdominal pain, and change in bowel habit. Clinically she was anemic, cachectic, and depressed. Abdominal examination revealed mobile epigastric mass. The scalp alopecia and endoscopy coupled by computed tomography scan, confirmed the diagnoses of trichobezoar, but it was not diagnosed as Rapunzel syndrome except after laparotomy, gastrotomy, and enterotomy. There are less than 16 cases of Rapunzel syndrome described worldwide, and this is the first case to be described in the middle east.

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Bizarre Parosteal Osteochondromatous Proliferation Nora's Lesion Of The Phalanx, Ramachadaran Muthukrishnan, Venkataraman Sibramanian, Mohammed Fawzy, Arshad Aleem, Umadevi K. Ramachandran Dec 2006

Bizarre Parosteal Osteochondromatous Proliferation Nora's Lesion Of The Phalanx, Ramachadaran Muthukrishnan, Venkataraman Sibramanian, Mohammed Fawzy, Arshad Aleem, Umadevi K. Ramachandran

Saudi Medical Journal

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Performance Evaluation Of The Bd Phoenix Automated Microbiology System In Meropenem Susceptibility Testing Of Clinical Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Isolates, Gulcin Bayramoglu, Ibrahim C. Acuner, Melda Sinirtas, Suna Gedikoglu, Belma Durupinar Dec 2006

Performance Evaluation Of The Bd Phoenix Automated Microbiology System In Meropenem Susceptibility Testing Of Clinical Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Isolates, Gulcin Bayramoglu, Ibrahim C. Acuner, Melda Sinirtas, Suna Gedikoglu, Belma Durupinar

Saudi Medical Journal

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Prevalence Of Metabolic Syndrome In Oman Using The International Diabetes Federation's Criteria, Jawad A. Al-Lawati, Pekka Jousilahti Dec 2006

Prevalence Of Metabolic Syndrome In Oman Using The International Diabetes Federation's Criteria, Jawad A. Al-Lawati, Pekka Jousilahti

Saudi Medical Journal

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Mandatory Child Restraint Systems In The Arabian Gulf Countries. The Time Has Come, Raymond A. Smego Dec 2006

Mandatory Child Restraint Systems In The Arabian Gulf Countries. The Time Has Come, Raymond A. Smego

Saudi Medical Journal

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A Neonate With Lax Abdominal Wall And Defective Urogenital System Plus Dyspnoea Dec 2006

A Neonate With Lax Abdominal Wall And Defective Urogenital System Plus Dyspnoea

Saudi Medical Journal

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The Smith-Mundt Act's Ban On Domestic Propaganda: An Analysis Of The Cold War Statute Limiting Access To Public Diplomacy, Edward L. Carter, Allen W. Palmer Dec 2006

The Smith-Mundt Act's Ban On Domestic Propaganda: An Analysis Of The Cold War Statute Limiting Access To Public Diplomacy, Edward L. Carter, Allen W. Palmer

Faculty Publications

For more than fifty years, the U.S. Code has authorized the federal government to disseminate messages about America to international audiences. For at least thirty years, federal law has also prohibited those international propaganda messages from being disseminated within the United States. Given the realities of the acceleration and dispersion of information flow across international borders in the twenty-first century, a ban on dissemination of information that is tied to geographic boundaries raises both practical and policy issues. The domestic dissemination ban may have outlived its usefulness and relevance. Further, futile enforcement of the statute contradicts general U.S. policy promoting …

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Recognizing, Digitizing, Advertising: Gnarp Efforts With Unique German Studies Materials, Richard Hacken Dec 2006

Recognizing, Digitizing, Advertising: Gnarp Efforts With Unique German Studies Materials, Richard Hacken

Faculty Publications

Presented in the Winter 2005-2006 issue of the Global Resources Newsletter, the German-North American Resources Partnership issue. GNARP's Digital Libraries Working Group (DLWG) is tooling up to act as a sounding board and clearinghouse for collaborative projects that provide access, and add value, to materials sought by scholars. The spectrum of the group's activities can be summed up in the three verbs: recognizing, digitizing, advertising.

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The Distribution Of Lianas And Their Change In Abundance In Temperate Forests Over The Past 45 Years, Ronald A. Londre, Stefan A. Schnitzer Dec 2006

The Distribution Of Lianas And Their Change In Abundance In Temperate Forests Over The Past 45 Years, Ronald A. Londre, Stefan A. Schnitzer

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

Lianas (woody vines) are an important and dynamic component of many forests throughout the world, and increases in CO2, mean winter temperature, and forest fragmentation may promote their growth and proliferation in temperate forests. In this study, we used a 45‐year data set to test the hypothesis that lianas have increased in abundance and basal area in the interiors of 14 deciduous temperate forests in Wisconsin (USA) since 1959. We also censused woody plants along a gradient from the forest edge to the interior in seven of these forests to test the hypothesis that the abundance of lianas …

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Watch The Drinking Water Quality Of Calves Reared In Individual Hutches, R. D. Wiedmeier Dec 2006

Watch The Drinking Water Quality Of Calves Reared In Individual Hutches, R. D. Wiedmeier

All Current Publications

Those involved in livestock production have often observed the relationship between drinking water intake, dry matter intake and performance.

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Frigida Like 2 Is A Functional Allele In Landsberg Erecta And Compensates For A Nonsense Allele Of Frigida Like 1, Michael Schläppi Dec 2006

Frigida Like 2 Is A Functional Allele In Landsberg Erecta And Compensates For A Nonsense Allele Of Frigida Like 1, Michael Schläppi

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

The Landsberg erecta (Ler) accession of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) has a weak allele of the floral inhibitor FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC). FLC-Ler is weakly up-regulated by the active San Feliu-2 (Sf2) allele of FRIGIDA (FRI-Sf2), resulting in a moderately late-flowering phenotype. By contrast, the Columbia (Col) allele of FLC is strongly up-regulated by FRI-Sf2, resulting in a very late-flowering phenotype. In Col, the FRI-related gene FRI LIKE 1 (FRL1) is required for FRI-mediated upregulation of FLC. It is shown here that in Ler …

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Information Infrastructure For Integrated Ecohydraulic And Water Resources Modeling And Assessment, R. Wallace, K. Pathak, M. Fife, Norman L. Jones, J. P. Holland, D. Stuart, J. Harris, C. Butler, D. R. Richards Dec 2006

Information Infrastructure For Integrated Ecohydraulic And Water Resources Modeling And Assessment, R. Wallace, K. Pathak, M. Fife, Norman L. Jones, J. P. Holland, D. Stuart, J. Harris, C. Butler, D. R. Richards

Faculty Publications

Watershed management increasingly requires ecohydraulic modeling and assessment within a regional context, rather than on a project-by-project basis. Such holistic modeling and assessment require evaluation capabilities across multiple temporal and spatial scales. Thus, modeling and assessment tools must be integrated in a scientifically and computationally effective infrastructure. The US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, in concert with the Hydrologic Engineering Center and its academic partners, including Brigham Young University, is establishing a comprehensive set of hydroinformatics modeling and assessment tools for ecohydraulic and water resources management applications, all linked based on a common data and information infrastructure. This paper …

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The Integration Of Church And Home: A Strategic Partnership For Spiritual Formation, Michael B. Haynes Dec 2006

The Integration Of Church And Home: A Strategic Partnership For Spiritual Formation, Michael B. Haynes

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The American family is deteriorating according to current research. This deterioration stems from the church’s inability to develop Christians who practice life according to the principles of the Bible. In a culture characterized by an atomic worldview, the church and family must work together to develop Christians who live according to the relational worldview of Scripture. This project describes how one church developed and implemented a strategy partnering the church and family for the spiritual formation of the next generation. This project is designed as a model for churches seeking to impact the culture one home at a time.

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Professional Soccer Ministries: The Deconstruction Of Secularization Through The Globalization Of Soccer In Conjunction With The Biblical Worldview, Aaron Matsuo Tredway Dec 2006

Professional Soccer Ministries: The Deconstruction Of Secularization Through The Globalization Of Soccer In Conjunction With The Biblical Worldview, Aaron Matsuo Tredway

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

This project is an attempt to present the ministry of, conceptual/theological impetus for, and assessment of Professional Soccer Ministries as it pertains to the deconstruction of secularization. This will be accomplished by one presenting the inception of Professional Soccer Ministries. Secondly, a review of the cultural/societal shift from Christendom to Enlightenment thought and its implications for the church of the modern era will be discussed. Third, the methodology and pragmatic implementation of Professional Soccer Ministries will be reviewed and conclusions drawn based upon its effectiveness as an avenue of the church for the proactive deconstruction of secularization.

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The Power Of Collaboration With Patient Safety Programs: Building Safe Passage For Patients, Nurses, And Clinical Staff, Karlene M. Kerfoot, Kathryn Rapala, Patricia R. Ebright, Suzanne M. Rogers Dec 2006

The Power Of Collaboration With Patient Safety Programs: Building Safe Passage For Patients, Nurses, And Clinical Staff, Karlene M. Kerfoot, Kathryn Rapala, Patricia R. Ebright, Suzanne M. Rogers

College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications

Patient safety is a relatively new field, with many opinions and few effectively proven approaches. One factor is clear: optimal patient safety outcomes cannot be achieved in isolation. Although it is well recognized that multidisciplinary collaboration in the healthcare setting is necessary to effect patient safety, collaboration with resources external to healthcare-academia and industry in particular-will not only aid but also quicken the patient safety efforts. The authors outline a healthcare system's use of all available resources to build a patient safety program.

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Messages, No.42 2006 Dec 2006

Messages, No.42 2006

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

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Openness, Centralized Wage Bargaining, And Inflation, Joseph P. Daniels, Farrokh Nourzad, David D. Vanhoose Dec 2006

Openness, Centralized Wage Bargaining, And Inflation, Joseph P. Daniels, Farrokh Nourzad, David D. Vanhoose

Economics Faculty Research and Publications

This paper develops a model of an open economy containing both sectors in which wages are market-determined and sectors with wage-setting arrangements. A portion of the latter group of sectors coordinate their wages, taking into account that their collective actions influence the equilibrium inflation outcome in an environment in which the central bank engages in discretionary monetary policymaking. Key predictions forthcoming from this model are (1) increased centralization of wage setting initially causes inflation to increase at low degrees of wage centralization but then, as wage centralization increases, results in an inflation drop-off; (2) a greater degree of centralized wage …

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Andrea Pearson, Envisioning Gender In Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530: Experience, Authority, Resistance. Women And Gender In The Early Modern World. Ashgate, 2005, Harriet M. Sonne De Torrens Dec 2006

Andrea Pearson, Envisioning Gender In Burgundian Devotional Art, 1350-1530: Experience, Authority, Resistance. Women And Gender In The Early Modern World. Ashgate, 2005, Harriet M. Sonne De Torrens

Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality

No abstract provided.

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Remembering El Gates, David Gray Carlson Dec 2006

Remembering El Gates, David Gray Carlson

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Which Constitution? Who Decides?: The Problem Of Judicial Supremacy And The Interbranch Solution, Robert Justin Lipkin Dec 2006

Which Constitution? Who Decides?: The Problem Of Judicial Supremacy And The Interbranch Solution, Robert Justin Lipkin

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

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The Next Step In Interpreting Criminal Forfeiture, Avital Blanchard Dec 2006

The Next Step In Interpreting Criminal Forfeiture, Avital Blanchard

Cardozo Law Review

No abstract provided.

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Conceptual Framework For An Optimal Labour Market Information System: Final Report, James F. Woods, Christopher J. O'Leary Dec 2006

Conceptual Framework For An Optimal Labour Market Information System: Final Report, James F. Woods, Christopher J. O'Leary

Upjohn Institute Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

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Masyarakat Konsumen Sebagai Ciptaan Kapitalisme Global: Fenomena Budaya Dalam Realitas Sosial, Selu Margaretha Kushendrawati Dec 2006

Masyarakat Konsumen Sebagai Ciptaan Kapitalisme Global: Fenomena Budaya Dalam Realitas Sosial, Selu Margaretha Kushendrawati

Makara Human Behavior Studies in Asia

Global capitalism, which is born in the globalization process, has created consumption culture and consumer society— whose existence is seen just in the differences of their consumption commodities, and on and on consumes the signs and social status that marked on the commodities. In itself, global capitalism has the progressive-power which can help us in our daily live. However, the same progressiveness could bring the world in the unrecoverable and uncontrollable progressiveness. Progressive-power that inherent in the global capitalism has the tendency to lead the world into undetermined, injustice and hegemonic situation. This paper would discover this global capitalism phenomena, …

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Certainty As A Moderator Of Feedback Reactions? A Test Of The Strength Of The Self-Verification Motive, Frederik Anseel, Filip Lievens Dec 2006

Certainty As A Moderator Of Feedback Reactions? A Test Of The Strength Of The Self-Verification Motive, Frederik Anseel, Filip Lievens

Research Collection Lee Kong Chian School Of Business

The present study investigated whether employees are merely interested in hearing good news about themselves, as predicted by self-enhancement theory, or are more interested in feedback that confirms their self-concept, as predicted by self-verification theory. We examined in a field study whether self-view certainty serves as a moderator and strengthens the effect of congruence between individuals' self-views and the performance feedback they receive about these self-views on feedback reactions. Polynomial regression results revealed that people mainly reacted favourably to positive feedback. Prior self-views did not play a key role in explaining feedback reactions. As feedback scores were the main determinant …

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The Murray State News, December 1, 2006, The Murray State News Dec 2006

The Murray State News, December 1, 2006, The Murray State News

Murray State University Collection

No abstract provided.

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Rrh Library Newsletter, December 2006, Libraries At Rochester Regional Health Dec 2006

Rrh Library Newsletter, December 2006, Libraries At Rochester Regional Health

Rochester Regional Health authored publications and proceedings

Newsletter sections include: Top 10 Medical Innovations for 2007; Smoking Cessation

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