Recurrent pancreatic cancer

Neither randomized clinical trials nor meta- analysis are available and evidence is based on a number of retrospective studies with multivariate for mortality risk factors or data from national cancer registries (Gilliland et al., 1997; Hundahl et al., 1998). Unfortunately, very remarkable differences in patient’s selection, staging systems, and clinical management affect the available studies. In particular, radioiodine treatment is not routinely carried out in a standard manner and outcome results of different studies are thus not comparable (Sciuto et al., 2009).

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Even incremental contributions to realizing improved health outcomes will deliver substantial social and economic benefits. When the funding request of $100 million for Canadian child health genomics research is compared to the short and long term benefits, it clearly delivers significant returns on investment. However, it must not be forgotten that it is fundamentally the lives of children that are at issue.

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This process of cohort succession is thus increasing the average literacy rate of the population 60 and older over time. In addition, Phnom Penh elderly represent a larger share of the SEC sample than of the national population of elderly and, as indicated above, since the literacy level of Phnom Penh elderly is above the national average, this also has the effect of raising the average literacy level compared to nationally representative census results. However when tabulations of SEC are limited to persons 66 and older to correspond to the cohorts who were 60 and older in 1998, the...

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Herein, we describe a novel method that addresses the above-mentioned problems, namely, a semi-intact cell assay coupled with green fluorescence protein (GFP)-visualization techniques. By using the semi-intact cell system, we can observe the morphological changes that occur in “preexisting” organelles during mitosis more easily, and, at the same time, can investigate the effects of exogenously added antibodies, drugs, and recombinant proteins on the process.

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Admission to veterinary programmes around the globe is a highly competitive process, with candidates typically required to attain top grades in science-based subjects to qualify for entry. Owing to the large number of applicants to veterinary schools, interviews often form part of the selection process. Although curricula will vary from provider to provider, veterinary programmes are extremely intensive courses of study and typically include pre- clinical, para-clinical and clinical components.

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In much of the developing world, health systems at the local level are fundamentally failing to sustain and improve the lives of women. In many cases women are the last to receive adequate health care and are dying because of it. Women are dying because they do not have access to emergency obstetric care when they require it. Women are at risk because their nation, province or village has not placed sufficient priority on ensuring that they are protected from the threat of contracting HIV/AIDS.

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This paper provides an overview of the main program of Bank diagnostic work in the field of private sector financial reporting: the Reports on the Observance of Standards and Codes (ROSC) accounting and auditing assessment. It summarizes some of the main findings of the 38 assessments that have been carried out to date, with specific reference to the challenges to the successful implementation of international accounting and auditing standards.

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The most radical example is beyond a doubt the apparently heretical confrontation of John Ford’s The Searchers (1956) with Clyfford Still’s large abstract paintings.

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I tiptoed through the sitting room, headed for my room and my soft and wondrous bed. I was nearly to my door when someone hissed at me from the sofa, making me jump so high I nearly fell over. I whirled and found my sister sitting there. Cora was two years younger than me, and, unlike me, she was brilliant at school, a right square. She brought home test papers covered in checkmarks and smiley-faces, and her teachers often asked her to work with thick students to help them get their grades up. I had shown her how to use my edit-suite when she was only...

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When someone arrives at a web site, you have a limited amount of attention available. How much time that equates to is unknown. It depends on the competition, visitor's expectations, and how badly they need what your site offers. And when you only have a limited amount of attention, there is a limit to the number of signals you can convey. So aim to make every signal relevant, significant, and helpful . The more efficiently you can communicate what you have to get across, the more likely you are to keep your visitor's attention, and the greater your success.

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The tendinous chords, as functional extensions of the papillary muscles, perform the dual function of maintaining valvular competence by preventing leaflet prolapse and maintaining ventricular geometry by providing cross-ventricular support. The chords originate from the apical portions of the papillary muscles or directly from the posterior ventricular wall. They insert either into the free edge of the leaflets or on their ventricular surface. Chords have been characterized a number of ways.

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Arts-related real estate markets have paradoxical entry barriers and advantages. There are barriers inherent in the uncertainty of demand, zoning issues and the costs of retrofitting old systems. At the same time, entry barriers are lowered because the space demand is flexible and often requires minimal high-end fixtures and adaptations. Art-making, performance, craft production and exhibition spaces attract users who want to adapt and re-create space in flexible ways.

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The study provides information on key reproductive and sexual health indicators in young women and men age 15-24 in 38 developing countries. The data come from Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and AIDS Indicator Surveys (AIS) conducted between 2001 and 2005. Indicators are selected for the following key areas: background characteristics; adolescent pregnancy; contraception; sexual activity; and HIV/AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. Additional analysis examines the association of various individual and household characteristics with the key indicators.

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To help ensure accurate measurements, Region 9 recommends that these guidelines be followed whenever VOCs in soil or other solid matrices are sampled and analyzed. These guidelines address methods for: (1) handling of samples as intact soil cores; (2) preserving samples; (3) storing samples in hermetically sealed containers; and (4) minimizing analyte losses due to direct volatilization (both in the field and the laboratory) and biodegradation.

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At the end of 1996 the first prepaid cards were issued in Germany by the German banking sector (ZKA-GeldKarte-System) and tested in a pilot project. Since the successful test phase the number of prepaid GeldKarte cards has increased to 67.3 million. There are cards linked to accounts, where the GeldKarte chip is integrated into an ec card, as well as cards not linked to an account (“white cards”), which have only an electronic purse function.

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The Federal Reserve is a key participant in the money market. The Federal Reserve controls the supply of reserves available to banks and other depository institutions primarily through the purchase and sale of Treasury bills, either outright in the bill market or on a temporary basis in the market for repurchase agreements. By controlling the supply of reserves, the Federal Reserve is able to influence the federal funds rate. Movements in this rate, in turn, can have pervasive effects on other money market rates.

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Fortunately, the incorporation of force feedback in a virtual sculpture system does not need to follow the same strict constraints of a physical or surgical simulator. Indeed, there is no strong need for tactile realism in virtual sculpture, since the aim is rather to enhance the artist’s ability to be creative. This freedom allows the use of new techniques, offering a more expressive haptic rendering, similar to the way non-photo-realistic rendering [11] enhances certain aspects of the models being displayed.

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So long as there is no international government; so long as there is anarchy between states; so long can there be no permanent local, municipal, domestic law in one state either. Just as there are frontieres sans medicins, so politics has few real frontiers. Many non- governmental organisations are financed by other countries’ governments for governmental purposes, not all of them benign. Things fall apart. Unannounced, and confused with the ordinary, war will fly in a window on a lazy September day.

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Over many years, the petrochemical industry has built up an effective infra- structure for processing and distributing hydrocarbon-based products. Due to reliance on imported crude oil, much of the U.S. infrastructure is geographically located around the coastline (Fig. 9). Thus, many current processing facilities are not well situated for the collection of large volumes of plant-derived material. Where plant materials are processed in lumber mills, oil crushers, or corn wet mills, these are situated adjacent to areas of supply.

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In a recent contribution, Gallmeyer and Holli…eld (2008) propose a model with heterogeneous beliefs and short sale constraints. They are able to show some e¤ects of heterogeneous beliefs and of short sales constraints on equilibrium volatility at a …xed point in time through extensive simulations. However, their constraints are imposed exogenously, while the rich dynamics obtained in this paper come from the endogenous solvency constraints and binding regimes which arise naturally from limited commitment....

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