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In some patients ankylosing spondylitis is restricted exclusively to an affection of the sacro- iliac articulation (sacroiliitis), best shown by MRI, as it causes bone marrow edema and cartilage changes. X-ray takes a long time to reveal this arthritis, because there only bone destruction and ankylosis are visible, these are not seen in the early stages of the disease. In the end sacroiliitis can lead to total destruction and ankylosis of the sacroiliacal joint, then of course it is clearly visible in x-ray (Figure 3).

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Heat transport limitation in larger tissue may also affect survival. Due to the macroscopic size of tissue-engineered products and its finite thermal conductivity, there may be large thermal gradients from the surface to the interior of the samples. The presence of a thermal gradient during cooling and warming phases makes it difficult to choose optimal temperature change protocols for both surface and interior cells. Moreover, osmotic effects (water movement from inside-unfrozen cells to outside-frozen cells) during cooling, reduces cell survival.

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The modern organic movement began in Europe around the 1920s, when a group of farmers and consumers sought an alternative to the industrialisation of agriculture. Of key importance to these farmers and consumers was caring for the soil and natural processes upon which agriculture depends, including not using inputs such as artificial fertilisers and synthetic chemicals. A leading figure at the time was the Austrian thinker, Rudolf Steiner, whose ideas led to a system of cultivation known as biodynamic.

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In under-sampling, instead of using all observations of the majority class to train the model, only a random subset of the majority class is used in addition to the minority class. Training samples of the majority class are randomly eliminated until the ratio of the majority and minority classes reach a preset value, usually close to 1. A disadvantage of under-sampling is that it reduces the data available for training.

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During the last decades, global organizations and women’s rights advocates have called on governments to recognise the multiple determinants of women’s health, and there has been a growing consensus about the need to integrate and widen health services to respond to a broad variety of problems affecting them.

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This edition of Instruments of the Money Market contains two chapters on subjects that were not included in the sixth edition: over-the-counter interest rate derivatives and clearing and settling in the money market. All of the other chapters have been either completely rewritten or thoroughly revised to reflect developments in recent years. All but three of the authors of the chapters in this edition were at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond when they wrote their chapters. Stephen A. Lumpkin is an economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve...

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Methylation was initially addressed as one of the most primitive mechanisms that organisms utilize to (a) protect genomic DNA and initiate the host resistance mechanism towards foreign DNA insertion and subsequently, (b) control gene expression, (Doerfler & Böhm, 2006). From an evolutionary point of view as well, the catalytic domain in the structure of the methylation enzymes across all organisms has been preserved to perform methyl group addition.

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The root causes of the alarming health indicators in Afghanistan are poverty and the two decades of warfare that stalled economic and social progress and led to destruction of livelihoods and high levels of disability.

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Broadly speaking, you can deduct from your turnover all the costs you incur for the sole purpose of earning business profits. But you cannot deduct costs which you incur for a non-business purpose, such as your own personal expenses or drawings. And you cannot deduct capital costs, that is, the cost of buying fixed assets or intangibles, such as goodwill, which last for several years (or losses you suffer when you sell them). But you may be able to claim capital allowances (see page 8) for these capital costs.

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At Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel (HUB) we have a student- centered culture. Our excellent student support, facilities, services and teaching methodology will help you obtain your goals. Our campus is located right in the centre of Brussels which is home to many international businesses as well as the NATO headquar- ters. It is also the capital of the European Union. Needless to say that the city is a multicultural and multilingual mix – full of surpris- ing contrasts.

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Green projects - particularly sustainable energy sources and clean technology - include multiple technologies, at different stages of maturity, and require different types of financing vehicle. Most pension funds are more interested in lower risk investments which provide a steady, inflation adjusted income stream - with green bonds consequently gaining interest as an asset class, particularly - though not only - with the SRI universe of institutional investors.

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The Lao People’s Democratic Republic National Growth and Poverty Eradication Strategy (the equivalent of its Poverty Reduction Strategy) marks population issues, including SRH and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), as national priorities, while acknowledging limited success in previous reproductive health initiatives. The current draft for 2011–2015 is targeted towards achieving the MDGs, and priority directions are less explicit in terms of reproductive health (see Box 3).

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With the automation of cashless payment transactions, the fact that a cheque is a payment instrument which is payable at sight has proved to be one of its key disadvantages. In other words, cheques must always be collected and presented in paper-based form. In 1985, the central associations of the German banking industry and the Deutsche Bundesbank agreed on a paperless cheque collection procedure (formerly called the BSE Agreement, now part of the Cheque Agreement), while deliberately waiving the statutory obligation to physically present cheques.

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Danny and Heather have asked -- not demanded, asked! -- that I consider publishing books under a NoDerivs license, so that I can consult with them before I authorize translations of my books. They want to be able to talk to potential foreign publishers about how this stuff works, to give me time to talk with them, to ease them into the idea, and to have the kind of extended conversation that helped me lead Tor into their decision all those years ago. And I agreed. Free/open culture is something publishers need to be led to, not forced into.

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Tham khảo sách 'toxicity and drug testing', y tế - sức khoẻ, y học thường thức phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả

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Providers should be aware of the relationship between infections that may be already present and the risk of iatrogenic infection. For example, clients should be checked for endogenous or sexually transmitted infections before insertions of the IUD to avoid bacteria being pushed into the uterus. Alternatively, women selecting the IUD should be encouraged to choose a different form of contraception if they consider themselves at risk of exposure to an STI.

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Whether you are soliciting competitive bids or negotiating a sole-source contract, you should describe your project and your expectations in writing. Use a request for proposals (RFP) to review the overall purpose of the project, including which sculptures are involved. State who will supervise the project, what the expected timetable is, and what the proposal deadline is. Outline the type and extent of insurance the conservator will be expected to carry, and spell hout any special circumstances the bidders should know about.

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But then another side of the issue comes to the fore. The landscapes that we ordinarily know are not pristine nature, but cultivated landscapes, rural or pastoral, with their towns and cities. Over the centuries, people have worked out their geography with multiple kinds of industry and perception, mixing nature and culture in diverse ways, no doubt some better, some worse. But who is to say that a science-based appreciation is the only right one? 9 Nature as seen by science is just the way we Westerners currently 'constitute' our world—so the phenomenologists may say.

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Drawing for animation is not just copying a model onto paper; you could do that better with a camera. Drawing for animation is translating an action into drawing form so an audience can retranslate those drawings back into an experience of that action. You don’t just want to show the audience an action for them to look at it. You want to visualize an action for them to see – that is, to experience. That way you have them in your grasp, your power, and then the story can go on and the audience goes on with it, because they...

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this document is the result of a collaborative process between the Health authorities in Somalia and the UN agencies – UNFPa, WHo and UNiceF, to define the way ahead for reproductive Health in Somalia. the process was assisted with finance and support by DFiD and the ec. We would like to acknowledge the contributions of the 2 key consultant authors Dr ingvil Sorbye and Dr Bailah leigh.

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