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Assessment Of Nasal Obstruction With Flexible Nasal Endoscopy, Kamaleldin A. Abou-Elhamd, Ramadan H. Sayed Dec 2006

Assessment Of Nasal Obstruction With Flexible Nasal Endoscopy, Kamaleldin A. Abou-Elhamd, Ramadan H. Sayed

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To report the value of nasal endoscopy as an outpatient procedure in the diagnosis of posterior nasal obstruction. METHODS: Over one year period, from March 2002 to March 2003, we evaluated 130 adult patients that attended the Ear, Nose and Throat Department of Sohag University Hospital in Egypt with persistent nasal obstruction via anterior rhinoscopy and flexible nasopharyngoscopy. We reported the cause and site of obstruction in relation to the choanae. We confirmed the diagnosis by CT scanning, rigid endoscopic examination under general anesthesia, and histopathological analysis of biopsies taken. RESULTS: Forty-six percent of our cases had posterior nasal …

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Predictors Of Long-Term Survival In Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Oznur A. Yildiz, Zeynep P. Onen, Elif Sen, Banu E. Gulbay, Kenan Kose, Sevgi Saryal, Gulseren Karabiyikoglu Dec 2006

Predictors Of Long-Term Survival In Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Oznur A. Yildiz, Zeynep P. Onen, Elif Sen, Banu E. Gulbay, Kenan Kose, Sevgi Saryal, Gulseren Karabiyikoglu

Saudi Medical Journal

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the factors affecting survival of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) during the follow-up period using a 4-year prospective study. METHODS: The study included 276 out-patients with COPD. The study took place in Ankara University, Cebeci Hospital, Ankara, Turkey between September 2000 and January 2005. We used cox proportional hazards model in investigating the effects of clinical variables on survival. Risk factors related with mortality were analyzed. RESULTS: Forty-nine patients (17.8%) died and the mean survival time was 43.40 ± 0.65 months. The survival rates were 97% at one year, 89% at 2 years, 84% at …

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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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Implementing A Progressive Consumption Tax: Advantages Of Adopting The Vat Credit-Method System, Itai Grinberg Dec 2006

Implementing A Progressive Consumption Tax: Advantages Of Adopting The Vat Credit-Method System, Itai Grinberg

Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works

A credit–method value–added tax, a payroll tax, and a business–level wage subsidy can approximate the economic and distributional consequences of a subtraction–method X–tax. Such a credit–method progressive consumption tax has administrative advantages as compared to a subtraction–method progressive consumption tax, once certain political factors are taken into account. Further, unlike a subtraction–method system, a credit– method progressive consumption tax could easily interact with other tax systems around the world and comply with World Trade Organization rules without sacrifi cing best practice VAT design features that allow for effective enforcement.

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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

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Ereview, Print Industry Center Dec 2006

Ereview, Print Industry Center

RIT Digital Archives

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Race-Conscious Student Assignment Plans: Balkanization, Integration, And Individualized Consideration, Neil S. Siegel Dec 2006

Race-Conscious Student Assignment Plans: Balkanization, Integration, And Individualized Consideration, Neil S. Siegel

Duke Law Journal

In deciding Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education and Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1, the Supreme Court of the United States will likely confront a critical issue to emerge from the lower court opinions on voluntary integration plans: whether school districts that use race as a factor in student assignment must comply with a legal requirement of individualized consideration. The Court has imposed such a requirement in other contexts, but it has not clearly explained what the concept of individualized consideration means and why particular forms of it matter.

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Against Individually Signed Judicial Opinions, James Markham Dec 2006

Against Individually Signed Judicial Opinions, James Markham

Duke Law Journal

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Journal Staff Dec 2006

Journal Staff

Duke Law Journal

No abstract provided.

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Disability, Disparate Impact, And Class Actions, Michael Ashley Stein, Michael E. Waterstone Dec 2006

Disability, Disparate Impact, And Class Actions, Michael Ashley Stein, Michael E. Waterstone

Duke Law Journal

Following Title VII's enactment, group-based employment discrimination actions flourished due to disparate impact theory and the class action device. Courts recognized that subordination that defined a group's social identity was also sufficient legally to bind members together, even when relief had to be issued individually. Woven through these cases was a notion of panethnicity that united inherently unrelated groups into a common identity, for example, Asian Americans. Stringent judicial interpretation subsequently eroded both legal frameworks and it has become increasingly difficult to assert collective employment actions, even against discriminatory practices affecting an entire group. This deconstruction has immensely disadvantaged persons …

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Working Toward Democracy: Thurgood Marshall And The Constitution Of Kenya, Mary L. Dudziak Dec 2006

Working Toward Democracy: Thurgood Marshall And The Constitution Of Kenya, Mary L. Dudziak

Duke Law Journal

This Article is a work of transnational legal history. Drawing upon new research in foreign archives, it sheds new light on the life of Thurgood Marshall, exploring for the first time an episode that he cared very deeply about. his work with African nationalists on an independence constitution for Kenya. The story is paradoxical, for Marshall, a civil rights legend in America, would seek to protect the rights of white landholders in Kenya who had gained their land through discriminatory land laws, but were soon to lose political power. In order to understand why Marshall would take pride in entrenching …

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Towards Effective Content-Based Music Retrieval With Multiple Acoustic Feature Composition, Jialie Shen, John Shepherd, Ngu Ahh Dec 2006

Towards Effective Content-Based Music Retrieval With Multiple Acoustic Feature Composition, Jialie Shen, John Shepherd, Ngu Ahh

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

In this paper, we present a new approach to constructing music descriptors to support efficient content-based music retrieval and classification. The system applies multiple musical properties combined with a hybrid architecture based on principal component analysis (PCA) and a multilayer perceptron neural network. This architecture enables straightforward incorporation of multiple musical feature vectors, based on properties such as timbral texture, pitch, and rhythm structure, into a single low-dimensioned vector that is more effective for classification than the larger individual feature vectors. The use of supervised training enables incorporation of human musical perception that further enhances the classification process. We compare …

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Reputation Stretching In Online Auctions, Jianqing Chen, Mei Lin, Andrew B. Whinston Dec 2006

Reputation Stretching In Online Auctions, Jianqing Chen, Mei Lin, Andrew B. Whinston

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Reputation systems are ubiquitously employed in the online marketplaces to provide information on users’ abilities and trustworthiness. We focus particularly on the problem of reputation stretching, the extension of an established reputation into a new market. By examining various factors—market size, the expected performance in the expanding market, and the risk of performance in the expanding market—we characterize conditions that affect bidder’s stretching decision in the expanding market. Moreover, we analyze both the short-term and the long-term expanding cases, and obtain contrasting results in the two settings.

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A Universal Copyright Fund: A New Way To Bridge The Copyright Divide, Kung-Chung Liu, Haochen Sun Dec 2006

A Universal Copyright Fund: A New Way To Bridge The Copyright Divide, Kung-Chung Liu, Haochen Sun

Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law

The ever-increasing digitization of works, along with the deployment of technical measures to protect such works and the expansive use of the Internet, further exacerbate the divide between the IP-rich and IP-poor countries in their ability to benefit from such works. It is suggested by this paper that to borrow from experiences on how the telecommunications world provides universal service to each and every household at affordable prices, and to endeavor to shed some new light on how the copyright divide can be narrowed. It is structured in three parts. The first part will examine the past and future failure …

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Missouri S&T Magazine Winter 2006, Missouri S&T Marketing And Communications Department, Miner Alumni Association Dec 2006

Missouri S&T Magazine Winter 2006, Missouri S&T Marketing And Communications Department, Miner Alumni Association

Missouri S&T Magazine

No abstract provided.

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Judith Merril: A Primary And Secondary Bibliography, Elizabeth Cummins Dec 2006

Judith Merril: A Primary And Secondary Bibliography, Elizabeth Cummins

English and Technical Communication Faculty Research & Creative Works

This Judith Merril bibliography includes both primary and secondary works, arranged in categories that are suitable for her career and that are, generally, common to the other bibliographies in the Center for Bibliographic Studies in Science Fiction. Works by Merril include a variety of types and modes—pieces she wrote at Morris High School in the Bronx, newsletters and fanzines she edited; sports, westerns, and detective fiction and non-fiction published in pulp magazines up to 1950; science fiction stories, novellas, and novels; book reviews; critical essays; edited anthologies; and both audio and video recordings of her fiction and non-fiction.

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Family Environment As A Contributor To Locus Of Control In Children And Adolescents, Christopher Michael Delap Dec 2006

Family Environment As A Contributor To Locus Of Control In Children And Adolescents, Christopher Michael Delap

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The purpose of the current study is to examine the relationship between family environment and locus of control among children and adolescents. The data examined consisted of 52 participants who were from a larger study that was comprised of 265 participants in a school setting. The measures used for this study were the Family Environment Scale (FES) and the Multidimensional Measure of Children's Perceptions of Control (MMCPC). An independent groups t test was used to examine whether there were significant differences in scores on the relationship and growth domains on the FES between internal, external, or unknown locus of control …

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Effects Of Live Music On Pain, Mood, And Exercise Adherence With Rehabilitation Patients, Victoria Storm Dec 2006

Effects Of Live Music On Pain, Mood, And Exercise Adherence With Rehabilitation Patients, Victoria Storm

Masters Theses

Incorporating music into treatment protocols is a non-pharmacological approach to pain management. Music can aid in mood and motivation, and assists in coordination of movement through rhythmic entrainment. Few studies have looked at the effectiveness of music on pain and mood while actively engaged in exercise. In this study, patients in an inpatient physical rehabilitation facility were provided with rhythmically synchronized music during upper extremities exercises. Self-reported ratings (McGill Pain Questionnaire - Short Form and Feeling Scale) of pain and mood were taken through a pretest post-test between subjects group design. Rate of Perceived Exertion (Borg's RPE) was taken post-test …

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"Who Will Cry For The Little Boy?:" An Autoethnographical Analysis Of The Lived Experiences Of An Adopted Person, Timothy R. Terrentine Dec 2006

"Who Will Cry For The Little Boy?:" An Autoethnographical Analysis Of The Lived Experiences Of An Adopted Person, Timothy R. Terrentine

Masters Theses

What becomes of the little boy who knows well abandonment and pain, yet simultaneously discovers predestinated purpose and unconditional love? This autoethnographical analysis examines the life of an adopted person who has spent his developmental years dealing with specific tensions associated with adoption and all that lie within. Using relational dialectics (Baxter, 1993,2004; Baxter & Montgomery, 1998) and existing adoption research (Carp, 2003; Herman, 2003), the author weaves his story of a history of tensions, a presence of negotiated relationships, and a future of hope with emerging tensions. Through a specific process of discovery and analysis; existing as well as …

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December 1, 2006, The Daily Mississippian Dec 2006

December 1, 2006, The Daily Mississippian

Daily Mississippian (all digitized issues)

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Clinical Registered Dietitians, Employers, And Educators Are Interested In Advanced Practice Education And Professional Doctorate Degrees In Clinical Nutrition, Annalynn Skipper, Nancy M. Lewis Dec 2006

Clinical Registered Dietitians, Employers, And Educators Are Interested In Advanced Practice Education And Professional Doctorate Degrees In Clinical Nutrition, Annalynn Skipper, Nancy M. Lewis

Department of Nutrition and Health Sciences: Faculty Publications

A subset of registered dietitians (RDs) is known to practice at an advanced level, but a clear educational pathway supporting advanced medical nutrition therapy practice has not been identified. Thus, an electronic survey was designed to investigate interest of clinical RDs, employers, and educators in advanced practice competencies and professional doctorate degree programs in clinical nutrition. Usable responses were obtained from 440 of 978 (45%) RDs, 61 of 107 (57%) employers, and 76 of 114 (67%) educators. Mean interest (5 = very interested, 1 = very uninterested) in obtaining advanced practice education was highest among RDs (3.93 ±1.01) and was …

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