996 resultados para ABT-510


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Background: Tiotropium is a once-daily, long-acting anticholinergic bronchodilator with the potential to alleviate airway obstruction in cystic fibrosis. Our objective was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of 2.5 and 5 μg once-daily tiotropium delivered via the Respimat Soft Mist Inhaler vs. placebo in people with cystic fibrosis. Methods: This phase 2, 12-week, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled parallel-group study of tiotropium Respimat as add-on to usual cystic fibrosis maintenance therapy included people with cystic fibrosis with pre-bronchodilator forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) ≥25% predicted. Co-primary efficacy end points were change from baseline in percent-predicted FEV1area under the curve from 0 to 4 hours (FEV1AUC0-4h), and trough FEV1at the end of week 12. Findings: A total of 510 subjects with cystic fibrosis aged 5-69 years were randomized. Both doses of tiotropium resulted in significant improvement compared with placebo in the co-primary efficacy end points at the end of week 12 (change from baseline in percent-predicted FEV1AUC0-4h: 2.5 μg: 2.94%, 95% confidence interval 1.19-4.70, p = 0.001; 5 μg: 3.39%, 95% confidence interval 1.67-5.12, p = 0.0001; in percent-predicted trough FEV1:2.5 μg: 2.24%, p = 0.2; 5 μg: 2.22%, p = 0.02). There was a greater benefit with tiotropium 5 vs. 2.5 μg. No treatment-related adverse events or unexpected safety findings were observed in patients taking tiotropium. Conclusions: Tiotropium significantly improved lung function in people with cystic fibrosis. The improvement was greater with the higher dose than the lower dose, with no difference in adverse events.

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Organic soils are widespread in Ireland and vulnerable to degradation via drainage for agriculture. The soil-landuse combination of pasture on organic soils may play a disproportionate role in regional C dynamics but is yet to receive study. Fluvial C fluxes and labile organic fractions were determined for two such sites at nested field (c.4 ha) and subcatchment scales (>40 ha); one relatively dry and nutrient rich, the other wetter and nutrient poor. Field scale flux from the nutrient poor site over 2 years was 38.9 ± 6.6 g C m−2 yr−1 with DIC > DOC > POC at 57, 32 and 11 % respectively, and 72 % DIC was comprised of above equilibrium CO2. At the nutrient rich site, which overlies limestone geology, field scale export over an individual year was 90.4 g C m−2 with DIC > DOC > POC at 49, 42 and 9 %, but with 90 % DIC as bicarbonate. By comparison with the nutrient poor site, the magnitude and composition of inorganic C exports from the nutrient rich site implied considerable export of soil-respiratory C as bicarbonate, and lower evasion losses due to carbonate system buffering. Labile DOC determined using dark incubations indicated small fractions (5–10 %) available for remineralisation over typical downstream transit times of days to weeks. These fractions are probably conservative as photolysis in the environment can increase the proportion of labile compounds via photocleavage and directly remineralise organic matter. This study demonstrates that monitoring at soil–water interfaces can aid capture of total landscape fluvial fluxes by precluding the need to incorporate prior C evasion, although rapid runoff responses at field scales can necessitate high resolution flow proportional, and hydrograph sampling to constrain uncertainty of flux estimates.

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Cette étude qualitative vise à mieux comprendre la perception qu'ont des enseignantes et des enseignants québécois de leurs caractéristiques personnelles en jeu dans leur façon d'être en relation éducative. Tant dans le milieu pratique que dans les écrits scientifiques, on reconnaît l'incidence de ce que l'enseignant est personnellement sur la relation qu'il vit avec ses élèves. Or, les écrits sont peu éclairants quant à la perception que peuvent avoir les enseignants eux-mêmes du phénomène. Les résultats révèlent deux types de caractéristiques personnelles participant à leur façon d'être en relation éducative: celles qui sont individuelles ou de base, qui caractérisent les enseignants depuis toujours, et qui sont peu sujettes à changement; et celles qui sont liées au vécu professionnel, qui peuvent changer avec l'expérience professionnelle et personnelle. Selon le discours des enseignants, on assisterait à un phénomène d'intégration de ses dimensions personnelles et professionnelles, advenant avec l'âge et l'expérience.

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Dissertação de mest., Engenharia Biológica, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Univ. do Algarve, 2013

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Gemäß Beschluss der Kultusministerkonferenz (KMK) vom 28. 6. 2002 können Hochschulen außerhalb der Hochschule erworbene Kenntnisse und Fähigkeiten auf ein Studium anrechnen, wobei die außerhochschulisch erworbenen Qualifikationen maximal 50% eines Hochschulstudiums ersetzen können. Im Folgenden werden acht Module vorgestellt, die einerseits im Rahmen der jetzigen Alten-, Kranken- oder Kinderkrankenpflegeausbildung gemäß AltPflG/AltPflAPrV (2003) bzw. KrPflG/KrPflAPrV (2003) umgesetzt werden können, andererseits aber auch als curriculare Bausteine einer (novellierten) generalistischen oder integrativen Pflegeausbildung Verwendung finden können.

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In der vorliegenden Arbeit, deren erster Teil in Heft 2 dieser Zeitschrift veröffentlicht wurde, werden die Kosten der “Schnittkäserei” am Beispiel der Herstellung von Gouda-Käse modellhaft bestimmt, wobei die vor 17 Jahren durchgeführten Modellkalkulationen für Edamerkäse hinsichtlich der Funktionsinhalte der Abteilung ausgedehnt und dem neuesten Stand der Technik sowie heutigen Schnittkäsereiproduktionsstrukturen angepaßt wurden. Zudem sind die generell für alle Modellabteilungen geltenden methodischen Weiterentwicklungen in den Kalkulationen berücksichtigt worden. In den sechs Unterabteilungen Vorstapelung, Bruchbereitung und Pressen, Salzbad, Käsebehandlung und Reifungslager, Abpackung sowie Versandkühlraum und Expedition wird ein rindengereifter Gouda-Käse (12-kg-Laib) hergestellt und hinsichtlich seiner Kostenverursachung untersucht. Zur Bestimmung der Modellkosten wurden vier Modelle gebildet, deren Kapazitäten in der Kesselmilchverarbeitung zwischen 8.000 und 48.000 l/h liegen. In Abhängigkeit vom Beschäftigungsgrad, der für Werte zwischen 21 und 100% simuliert wurde, können so die Kosten für Käsemengen zwischen rd. 5.100 und 30.8001 Käse/Jahr bestimmt werden. Gemäß den vorgegebenen Kapazitäten müssen die technischen Voraussetzungen für die Ausgestaltung der einzelnen Unterabteilungen modellspezifisch festgelegt werden, wobei eine Anpassung der technischen Auslegung an eine verringerte Auslastung bei 33%iger Beschäftigung erfolgt. Die zu tätigenden Investitionen für die Grundversion betragen 10,6 Mio. DM in Modell 1 und 40,3 Mio. DM in Modell 4. Bezogen auf die jeweilige Rohstoffeinsatzmenge ergeben sich hieraus spezifische Investitionen, die mit zunehmender Modellgröße erheblich sinken: Machen sie im Modell 1 noch 215,6 Tsd. DM/1 Mio. kg jährlicher Rohstoffeinsatzmenge aus, so verringern sie sich im Modell 4 auf 135,3 Tsd. DM/1 Mio. kg. Produktspezifische Investitionen und Faktormengenverbräuche führen zu den Einzelkosten des Produktes Gouda, die je nach Modellgröße und Beschäftigungsgrad zwischen 510,8 und 538,5 Pf/kg Käse liegen. Die Gesamtkosten der “Schnittkäserei”, die sich aus den Einzelkosten des Produktes Gouda und den Einzelkosten der Abteilung zusammensetzen, betragen 530,9 bis 654,3 Pf/kg Käse. Den größten Anteil an den Gesamtkosten haben die Rohstoffkosten (73 bis 90%). Der Anteil der Anlagekosten schwankt je nach Beschäftigung zwischen 4 und 18%, während die Personal- und sonstige Betriebskosten im Vergleich zu den beiden vorgenannten Kostenartengruppen in allen Modellen nur eine geringere Bedeutung haben. Betrachtet man die Gesamtkosten (ohne Rohstoffkosten) hinsichtlich ihrer Entstehung in den Unterabteilungen, so ist festzustellen, daß die höchsten Kosten in der Unterabteilung Bruchbereitung und Pressen anfallen: Bei einer 100%igen Beschäftigung betragen sie z.B. in Modell 3 42% der Gesamtkosten (ohne Rohstoff). Die geringsten Kosten (2%) fallen dagegen in der Unterabteilung Versandkühlraum und Expedition an. Die Kostenanalyse zeigt deutlich, daß mit zunehmender Modellgröße und steigender Produktionsmenge erhebliche Stückkostendegressionen zu erzielen sind, wobei der Einfluß des Beschäftigungsgrades auf die Kostendegression deutlich höher ist als derjenige der Modellgröße.

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In dieser Arbeit werden Verfahren zur visuellen Beurteilung von Stabilitätseigenschaften nichtlinearer, zeitdiskreter Systeme und mögliche Anwendungen vorgestellt. Ausgehend von den erforderlichen Grundbegriffen der Chaostheorie werden verschiedene Maße zur Detektion, Beschreibung und Visualisierung chaotischen Systemverhaltens motiviert, mathematisch definiert, physikalisch interpretiert und gedeutet: der Lyapunov Exponent, die Entropie, das Fourierspektrum und die Korrelation. Als erste Anwendung basierend auf diesen Gütemaßen wird das Verhalten von linearen und nichtlinearen rekursiven Systemen visualisiert und verglichen. Es zeigt sich, dass bei rekursiven linearen Systemen der Übergang von einem stabilen in einen instabilen oder chaotischen Zustand kontinuierlich erfolgt, während dieser Übergang bei nicht linearen Systemen häufig abrupt auftritt. Unter Verwendung der vorgestellten Visualisierung lässt sich sehr genau nachvollziehen, welche Parameter und insbesondere welche Parameterübergänge dabei kritisch sind. Diese Kenntnis ist sehr wichtig für eine störfreie Systemparametrierung und eine erforderliche Arbeitspunktsuche. In einer zweiten Anwendung wird chaotisches Systemverhalten als Generator optimal orthogonaler Signalfunktionen eingesetzt. Dazu wird die Rekursionsfolge in einem chaotischen Arbeitspunkt eines nichtlinearen rekursiven Systems als Musterfunktion eines statistischen Zufallsprozesses interpretiert: Je chaotischer das Systemverhalten und je kleiner die Varianz des Korrelationsmaßes desto besser können orthogonale Signalfolgen modelliert werden. Solche Signalfolgen sind von großer Bedeutung, wenn digitale Nachrichten über einen gestörten Kanal mit minimalem Daten- und Energieaufwand übertragen werden sollen. Als abschließendes Beispiel wird die fraktale Bildcodierung vorgestellt. Sie beruht nicht wie die klassischen Verfahren der Bildcodierung (Prädiktion, Transformation) auf statistischen Eigenschaften des Bildsignals sondern ausschließlich auf Selbstähnlichkeit. Die Bildpunkte eines Bildblockes werden nicht durch deren Grauwerte sondern durch ein Fraktal beschrieben, wobei dieses Fraktal durch eine kontraktive, affine Abbildung der Grauwertinformation dargestellt wird. Dieses Fraktal, d.h. diese Abbildungsvorschrift oder Gesetzmäßigkeit beschreibt die vollständige Information des Bildes. Durch die Anwendung dieser fraktalen Darstellung wird das codierte Bild aus beliebigen Bildern gleicher Größe generiert.

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Tese de doutoramento, Cirurgia Geral (Medicina), Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Medicina, 2014

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Previous work on Betula spp. (birch) in the UK and at five sites in Europe has shown that pollen seasons for this taxon have tended to become earlier by about 5–10 days per decade in most regions investigated over the last 30 years. This pattern has been linked to the trend to warmer winters and springs in recent years. However, little work has been done to investigate the changes in the pollen seasons for the early flowering trees. Several of these, such as Alnus spp. and Corylus spp., have allergens, which cross-react with those of Betula spp., and so have a priming effect on allergic people. This paper investigates pollen seasons for Alnus spp. and Corylus spp. for the years 1996–2005 at Worcester, in the West Midlands, United Kingdom. Pollen data for daily average counts were collected using a Burkard volumetric trap sited on the exposed roof of a three-storey building. The climate is western maritime. Meteorological data for daily temperatures (maximum and minimum) and rainfall were obtained from the local monitoring sites. The local area up to approximately 10 km surrounding the site is mostly level terrain with some undulating hills and valleys. The local vegetation is mixed farmland and deciduous woodland. The pollen seasons for the two taxa investigated are typically late December or early January to late March. Various ways of defining the start and end of the pollen seasons were considered for these taxa, but the most useful was the 1% method whereby the season is deemed to have started when 1% of the total catch is achieved and to have ended when 99% is reached. The cumulative catches (in grains/m3) for Alnus spp. varied from 698 (2001) to 3,467 (2004). For Corylus spp., they varied from 65 (2001) to 4,933 (2004). The start dates for Alnus spp. showed 39 days difference in the 10 years (earliest 2000 day 21, latest 1996 day 60). The end dates differed by 26 days and the length of season differed by 15 days. The last 4 years in the set had notably higher cumulative counts than the first 2, but there was no trend towards earlier starts. For Corylus spp. start days also differed by 39 days (earliest 1999 day 5, latest 1996 day 44). The end date differed by 35 days and length of season by 26 days. Cumulative counts and lengths of season showed a distinct pattern of alternative high (long) and low (short) years. There is some evidence of a synchronous pattern for Alnus spp.. These patterns show some significant correlations with temperature and rainfall through the autumn, winter and early spring, and some relationships with growth degree 4s and chill units, but the series is too short to discern trends. The analysis has provided insight to the variation in the seasons for these early flowering trees and will form a basis for future work on building predictive models for these taxa.

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Objective: To investigate whether intakes of Ca, vitamin D, casein and whey are associated with periodontitis and to investigate the possibility of interactions between them. Design: Cross-sectional study. An Internet-based, 267-item FFQ was used to assess dietary intake. Intakes of casein (32·0 g/d), whey proteins (9·6 g/d) and vitamin D (5·8 μg/d) were classified as within v. above the 50th percentile. Ca intake was classified as within v. below age-specific recommendations. Severe periodontitis was defined as having ≥2 inter-proximal sites with clinical attachment loss ≥6 mm (not on the same tooth) and ≥1 inter-proximal site with pocket depth ≥5 mm. Since vitamin D influences Ca absorption, models were stratified by lower and higher (<5·8 v. ≥5·8 µg/d) vitamin D intake. Setting Danish Health Examination Survey (DANHES) 2007–2008. Subjects Adult participants (n 3287) in the oral health study of DANHES 2007–2008. Results Intakes of Ca within recommendations (OR=0·76; 95 % CI 0·58, 0·99), whey ≥9·6 g/d (OR=0·75; 95 % CI 0·58, 0·97) and casein ≥32 g/d (OR=0·75 95 % CI 0·58, 0·97) were associated with lower likelihood of severe periodontitis after adjustment for age, gender, education, smoking, sucrose intake, alcohol consumption, number of teeth, daily brushing, regular visits to the dentist and chronic illness, irrespective of vitamin D intake levels. Intake of vitamin D alone was not associated severe with periodontitis. Conclusions Intakes of Ca, casein and whey protein were inversely associated with periodontitis. Consumption of foods rich in Ca, casein and whey (e.g. dairy foods) should be promoted, as they may contribute to the prevention of periodontitis. Further longitudinal studies are required to confirm these associations.

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Of the many ways in which depth can be intimated in drawings, perspective has undoubtedly been one of the most frequently examined. But there is also an equally rich history associated with other forms of pictorial representation. Alternatives to perspective became particularly significant in the early twentieth century as artists and architects, intent on throwing off the conventions of their predecessors, looked to new ways of depicting depth. In architecture, this tendency was exemplified by Modernism’s preference for parallel projection – most notably axonometric and oblique. The use of these techniques gave architects the opportunity to convey a new and uniquely modern form of spatial expression. At once shallow and yet expansive, a key feature of these drawings was their ability to support perceptual ambiguity. This paper will consider the philosophy and science of vision, out of which these preoccupations emerged. In this context, the nineteenth-century discovery of stereopsis and the invention of the stereoscope will be used to illustrate the way in which attempts to test the limits of spatial perception led to an opening up of visual experience; and provided a definition of visual experience that could encompass the representational ambiguities later exploited by the early twentieth-century avant-garde.

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Aflowinjection squarewave cathodic stripping voltammetric method has been developed for the determination of sertraline in a pharmaceutical preparation. The method shows linearity between peak current intensity and sertraline concentration for the interval between 0.20×10−6 and 1.20×10−6 mol L−1. Limits of detection and quantification were found to be 1.5×10−7 and 5.0×10−7 mol L−1, respectively. Up to 70 samples per hour can be analysed with a good precision (R.S.D. = 2.5%). The proposed method was successfully applied to the determination of sertraline in a commercial product. In the voltammetric determination of sertraline in flow, a high sample rate is obtained at reduced costs, opening the possibility to compete with the chromatographic methods generally used for this analysis.

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Hospitals are considered as a special and important type of indoor public place where air quality has significant impacts on potential health outcomes. Information on indoor air quality of these environments, concerning exposures to particulate matter (PM) and related toxicity, is limited though. This work aims to evaluate risks associated with inhalation exposure to ten toxic metals and chlorine (As, Ni, Cr, Cd, Pb, Mn, Se, Ba, Al, Si, and Cl) in coarse (PM2.5–10) and fine (PM2.5) particles in a Portuguese hospital in comparison with studies representative of other countries. Samples were collected during 1 month in one urban hospital; elemental PM characterization was determined by proton-induced X-ray emission. Noncarcinogenic and carcinogenic risks were assessed according to the methodology provided by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA; Region III Risk-Based Concentration Table) for three different age categories of hospital personnel (adults, >20, and <65 years) and patients (considering nine different age groups, i.e., children of 1–3 years to seniors of >65 years). The estimated noncarcinogenic risks due to occupational inhalation exposure to PM2.5-bound metals ranged from 5.88×10−6 for Se (adults, 55–64 years) to 9.35×10−1 for As (adults, 20–24 years) with total noncarcinogenic risks (sum of all metals) above the safe level for all three age categories. As and Cl (the latter due to its high abundances) were the most important contributors (approximately 90 %) to noncarcinogenic risks. For PM2.5–10, noncarcinogenic risks of all metals were acceptable to all age groups. Concerning carcinogenic risks, for Ni and Pb, they were negligible (<1×10−6) in both PM fractions for all age groups of hospital personnel; potential risks were observed for As and Cr with values in PM2.5 exceeding (up to 62 and 5 times, respectively) USEPA guideline across all age groups; for PM2.5–10, increased excess risks of As and Cr were observed particularly for long-term exposures (adults, 55–64 years). Total carcinogenic risks highly (up to 67 times) exceeded the recommended level for all age groups, thus clearly showing that occupational exposure to metals in fine particles pose significant risks. If the extensive working hours of hospital medical staff were considered, the respective noncarcinogenic and carcinogenic risks were increased, the latter for PM2.5 exceeding the USEPA cumulative guideline of 10−4. For adult patients, the estimated noncarcinogenic and carcinogenic risks were approximately three times higher than for personnel, with particular concerns observed for children and adolescents.