totally implantable venous access devices (tivad) or implantable catheter ports are devices which can be implanted subcutaneously. they enable prolonged and repeated access to the vascular system, into the peritoneal cavity or intravertebral space. this device is particularly useful for repeated medical injection, for blood sampling or transfusion of blood and blood derivatives and for total pa...

totally implantable venous access devices (tivad) or implantable catheter ports are devices which can be implanted subcutaneously. they enable prolonged and repeated access to the vascular system, into the peritoneal cavity or intravertebral space. this device is particularly useful for repeated medical injection, for blood sampling or transfusion of blood and blood derivatives and for total pa...

Abstract In this article, we present a qualitative and quantitative comparative account of Final Vowel Loss ( fvl ) in the Bantu languages Lower Kasai region Democratic Republic Congo. We argue that diachronic sound shift rose relatively late language history as contact-induced change affected adjacent West-Coastal Central-Western belonging to different phylogenetic clusters. for its emergence ...

BACKGROUND In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the state system to remunerate health workers is poorly functional, encouraging diversification of income sources and corruption. Given the central role that health workers play in health systems, policy-makers need to ensure health workers are remunerated in a way which best incentivises them to provide effective and good quality services. ...

Graham C. R. Ellis-Davies,1 Masanori Matsuzaki,2,3 Martin Paukert,4 Haruo Kasai,2 and Dwight E. Bergles4 1Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, 2Division of Biophysics, Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan, 3Precursory Research for Emb...

V. Velazco, S. W. Wood, M. Sinnhuber, I. Kramer, N. B. Jones, Y. Kasai, J. Notholt, T. Warneke, T. Blumenstock, F. Hase, F. J. Murcray, and O. Schrems Institute of Environmental Physics University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd, Lauder New Zealand Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe and University of Kar...

Twenty-three children with Alagille's syndrome and end-stage liver disease underwent liver transplantation with cyclosporine and low-dose steroid immunosuppression. Two to 9 years (mean, 4.4 years) after surgery, 13 (57%) of the children were still alive, with normal liver function. Three of the fatalities were due to cardiovascular failure secondary to associated cardiopulmonary disease. Morta...

relativistic cosmology Hideki Asada∗ and Masumi Kasai† Faculty of Science and Technology, Hirosaki University, Hirosaki 036-8561, Japan (April 2, 1999) We develop the Lagrangian perturbation theory in the general relativistic cosmology, which enables us to take into account the vortical effect of the dust matter. Under the Lagrangian representation of the fluid flow, the propagation equation fo...