Available online at www.sciencedirect.com Polyhydroxyalkanoates: bioplastics with a green agenda Tajalli Keshavarz and Ipsita Roy Production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) has been investigated for more than eighty years but recently a number of factors including increase in the price of crude oil and public awareness of the environmental issues have become a notable driving force for extended research on biopolymers. The versatility of PHAs has made them good candidates for the study
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NIH Public Access Author Manuscript Neuroscientist. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2012 April 26. NIH-PA Author Manuscript Published in final edited form as: Neuroscientist. 2011 June ; 17(3): 274–287. doi:10.1177/1073858410383336. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders and Abnormal Neuronal Plasticity Alexandre E. Medina1 1Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology‚ Virginia Commonwealth University‚ School of Medicine‚ Richmond‚ VA‚ USA Abstract NIH-PA Author Manuscript The ingestion
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Journal of Sustainable Development in Africa (Volume 14‚ No.4‚ 2012) ISSN: 1520-5509 Clarion University of Pennsylvania‚ Clarion‚ Pennsylvania CULTURAL PLURALISM AND THE QUEST FOR NATION BUILDING IN AFRICA: THE RATIONALE FOR MULTICULTURAL EDUCATION Francis Muchenje Department of Educational Foundations‚ University of Zimbabwe ABSTRACT This article seeks to show how multicultural education as a form of education for sustainable development can be used to accommodate the cultural diversity
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Introduction The aim of this assignment is to reflect on the management of a patient with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS). Reflective practice is associated with learning from experience‚ (Johns & Freshwater 1998) and viewed as an important strategy for health professionals who embrace life long learning (Department of Health 2000). Engaging in reflective practice is associated with the improvement of the quality of care‚ stimulating personal and professional growth and closing the
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Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH)‚ also known as benign prostatic hypertrophy‚ is a histologic diagnosis characterized by proliferation of the cellular elements of the prostate. Cellular accumulation and gland enlargement may result from epithelial and stromal proliferation‚ impaired preprogrammed cell death (apoptosis)‚ or both. BPH involves the stromal and epithelial elements of the prostate arising in the periurethral and transition zones of the gland. The hyperplasia
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9-804-065 REV: SEPTEMBER 15‚ 2004 RICHARD G. HAMERMESH DAVID KIRON Managing Segway’s Early Development It was a cold dreary morning on December 20‚ 1999 as Dean Kamen – inventor‚ founder and owner of DEKA‚ a Manchester‚ New Hampshire R&D company – began his annual speech to his employees. The entire staff had gathered “to hear him talk about the past year‚ the year ahead‚ and whatever else had been gnawing at him lately. The speech was usually equal parts lecture‚ oration‚ pep talk‚ and homily
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READING COMPREHENSION PRACTICE TEST PRACTICE QUESTIONS The front page of this booklet provides practice examples to show you what the questions on the real test are like. Your test administrator or teacher will now take you through these. Practice Example 1 The clown pulled silly faces to make the children laugh. The word silly in this sentence means: A: funny B: bad C: tricky D: scary E: None of these The sentence below does not have any punctuation. Choose the option with the correct punctuation
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Simon Thomson The construction of masculinity in Beowulf: hæleð under heofenum or selerædenne? As it opens‚ Beowulf appears to leap confidently‚ taking audience with narrator into the shared world of story with wit and certainty: Hwæt! We gardena in geardagum (l.1) Listen! We of the Spear Danes in the past days...1 Immediately‚ however‚ this certainty becomes qualified: we are not part of an admiring audience to the glittering past‚ and have not heard of the gardena themselves
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ARTICLE IN PRESS Biomaterials 24 (2003) 4273–4281 Poly(hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyhexanoate) promoted production of extracellular matrix of articular cartilage chondrocytes in vitro Ying Denga‚ Xing-Sun Linb‚ Zhong Zhenga‚ Jin-Guang Denga‚ Jin-Chun Chena‚ Hui Mab‚ Guo-Qiang Chena‚* a Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology‚ Tsinghua University‚ Beijing 100084‚ China b Department of Physics‚ Tsinghua University‚ Beijing 100084‚ China Received 25 November 2002; accepted 13 May
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REVIEW ARTICLE A New‚ Evidence-based Estimate of Patient Harms Associated with Hospital Care John T. James‚ PhD Objectives: Based on 1984 data developed from reviews of medical records of patients treated in New York hospitals‚ the Institute of Medicine estimated that up to 98‚000 Americans die each year from medical errors. The basis of this estimate is nearly 3 decades old; herein‚ an updated estimate is developed from modern studies published from 2008 to 2011. Methods: A literature
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