INTRODUCTION Johnson and Johnson have revolutionized the way people think about health care‚ and has easily become the pinnacle of success by doing so. Pioneers of the health care industry and overall human health and well being‚ Johnson and Johnson is guided by its “Our Credo” and founding principle that “doctors and nurses should use sterile sutures‚ dressings and bandages to treat peoples wounds” (Johnson and Johnson - Our History). Most of Johnson and Johnson’s success can be attributed to
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14 The Open Geriatric Medicine Journal‚ 2008‚ 1‚ 14-23 Open Access Sarcopenia: Current Clinical and Research Issues Matteo Cesari*‚1‚ Alessandro Ferrini2‚ Valentina Zamboni2 and Marco Pahor1 1 Department of Aging and Geriatric Research‚ University of Florida‚ Institute on Aging‚ Gainesville‚ FL‚ USA 2 Department of Gerontological‚ Geriatric and Physiatric Sciences‚ Catholic University of Sacred Heart‚ Rome‚ Italy Abstract: Sarcopenia is the age-related progressive decline of
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IEEE TRANSACTION ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS 1 Surface- and Contour-Preserving Origamic Architecture Paper Pop-Ups Sang N. Le‚ Su-Jun Leow‚ Tuong-Vu Le-Nguyen‚ Conrado Ruiz Jr.‚ and Kok-Lim Low Abstract—Origamic architecture (OA) is a form of papercraft that involves cutting and folding a single sheet of paper to produce a 3D pop-up‚ and is commonly used to depict architectural structures. Because of the strict geometric and physical constraints‚ OA design requires considerable
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~ Pergamon Engineering Fracture Mechanics Vol. 54‚ No. 2‚ pp. 263-300‚ 1996 Copyright © 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd. 0013-7944(95)00178-6 Printed in Great Britain. All rights reserved 0013-7944/96 $15.00+ 0.00 A HISTORY OF FATIGUEt WALTER SCHLITZ IABG‚ D-85521 Ottobrunn‚ Germany Abstract--The history of fatigue from 1838 to the present is described in detail‚ with special emphasis on the German contribution in the time period of 1920-1945. A number of distinguished scientists and engineers
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One of the most common problems identified in the ICU is VAP. According to Patricia‚ VAP is a hospital acquired infection occurs within 48-72 hours of post intubation. The microorganism enters the lower respiratory tract and lung parenchyma via the Endo Tracheal Tube (ETT) or tracheostomy tube and cause infiltration of the tissues which causes pneumonia (Arrolga et al‚ 2012). Studies proved that the introduction and use ventilator bundle significantly decreased the VAP rate. VAP accounts more than
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The Olympus Scandal and Corporate Governance Reform: Can Japan Find a Middle Ground between the Board Monitoring Model and Management Model? Bruce E. Aronson∗ I. Introduction II. The Olympus Scandal and Corporate Governance Issues III. Towards a Mixed Model? Considering Effective Monitoring of Management under the Japanese Corporate Governance System IV. Conclusion I. INTRODUCTION Japan has been in a corporate governance dilemma for the past 15 years. The country has
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CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION This chapter aims at presenting the rationale for the field-study‚ its aims and scope‚ the research questions‚ significance‚ methods‚ and design of the field-study. 1.1 Introduction It is a common assertion that materials in general play a crucial part in language learning (Robinson‚ 1991; Nunan‚ 1991). This accounts for the fact that discussions of the roles of materials appear in almost all books on course design. Materials not only provide learners with a wide range
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SPECIAL SECTION: MICROBIAL DIVERSITY Rumen microbial ecosystem D. N. Kamra Microbiology Section‚ Centre of Advanced Studies in Animal Nutrition‚ Indian Veterinary Research Institute‚ Izatnagar 243 122‚ India The inhabitants of the rumen microbial eco-system‚ a complex consortium of different microbial groups living in symbiotic relationship with the host‚ act synergistically for the bioconversion of lignocellulosic feeds into volatile fatty acids which serve as a source of energy for the
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Animals * Animals * Multicellular * Heterotrophic * Eukaryotic * Develop from embryonic layers * Nutritional mode * Eat/ingest other living things or non living things * Ingest food and use enzymes in the body to digest it * Cell Structure and Specialization * Eukaryotic and multicellular * Lack cell walls but held together by collagen * Muscle and nerve cells (only in animals) * Helps to move and conduct nerve
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CHAPTER 13 SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS Pamela L. Derry Luis Figueroa Chi-Shain Hong Boeing Defense & Space Group Seattle ‚ Washington 13.1 GLOSSARY A C c D Dc D d deff dG dg / dN E Ec Eg En E cn En E e Fc F fc fd fo fp Constant approximating the slope of gain versus current or carrier density Capacitance Speed of light Density of states for a transition Density of states for the conduction band Density of states for the valence band Active layer thickness Effective beam width in the transverse direction
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