Type 2 diabetes mellitus is among the most powerful independent risk factors of the cardiovascular disease presence and is associated with a 3 to 5× higher cardiovascular event risk. This has long been recognized by the National Cholesterol Education Program report in the United States and European guidelines, both labeling type 2 diabetes mellitus a coronary artery disease (CAD) equivalent. Al...

The absence of introduced browsing animals from Bench Island, located 5 km east of Stewart Island, provides the opportunity to compare forest structure and regeneration in these two areas of similar vegetation with and without browsing animals. The population structures of the main canopy tree species, rata (Metrosideros umbellata), kamahi (Weinmannia racemosa), and rimu (Dacrydium cupressinum)...

Antara tahun 1985-1995 (10 tahun) telah dilakukan penelitian terhadap 30 anak dengan nefritis lupus yang dikumpulkan dari 7 pusat Nefrologi Anak di Indonesia. (Jmur rata-rata penderita ialah I I,7 tahun (berkisar antara 8 satnpai I8 tahun) dengan perbandingan anak perempuan terhadap taki-laki 5 berbandtng l. Gejala klinis yang terbanyak diremukan adalah panas tinggi 8loÀ, ruam muka 66,6ok dan a...

Warranty service providers usually provide homogeneous warranty to improve consumer satisfaction and market share. Considering the difference of consumers, some scholars have carried out studies on maintenance strategies, pricing, payment method, claim behaviour cost analysis in recent years. However, few focused differentiated coverage that considers usage rate option consumers. On basis previ...

Brushtail possums began colonising a rata/kamahi forest in the Taramakau catchment, Westland, about 1950 and by 1973 had caused widespread conspicuous canopy defoliation. They were poisoned in one block of this forest in 1970, at about the time they reached peak density, and again in 1974. In an adjacent block they were poisoned in 1974 only. A survey of forest canopy condition in 1985 showed t...

Ve od samog po etka Prvog svetskog rata u Rusiji, me u austrougarskim vojnicima slovenskih naroda koji su bili prebegli ili zarobljeni, pojavio se pokret za u eš e u borbama na savezni koj strani kako bi i li no doprineli osloboenju svojih naroda od viševekovne tu inske vlasti. Pokret je bio posebno snažan me u mla im, školovanim zarobljenicima koji su bili zadojeni slobodoumnim idejama nastali...