The CMB Planck satellite (ESA) will provide a catalogue of ≈ 30000 galaxy clusters (Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect) between redshift 0 and ≈ 2-3 (depending on the cosmological model). This hughe catalogue of clusters will allow detailed studies of the evolution of the cluster population with redshift which will constrain the cosmological model. The identification of the high redshift clusters should...

PURPOSE The outcome of patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has remained unsatisfactory. Patients with HCC suffer from chronic hepatitis or liver cirrhosis, and their reserve liver function is often limited. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN To develop new therapeutic agents that act specifically on HCC but interfere only minimally with residual liver function, we searched for genes that w...

At Statistics Canada, annual and monthly business surveys are using administrative data at an ever increasing rate. An important set of administrative data is received from the Canada Revenue Agency as a result of its collection of income tax reports and the Goods and Services Tax reports. These data are not only used to build and maintain a central frame, such as Statistics Canada’s Business R...

A pilot survey described the characteristics of anaphylactic events occurring in an initial set of participating U.S. schools during the 2013-2014 school year. This survey was subsequently readministered to large school districts, which were underrepresented in initial results. A cross-sectional survey was administered to the U.S. schools that were participating in the EPIPEN4SCHOOLS® program (...

Little is known about the numbers of disabled people employed in industry except for those registered with the Department of Employment and Productivity. A joint survey by six factory doctors covering 11,399 men aged 16 to 64 in seven companies is described. 1,233 men (10.8 per cent of the population) were identified as having chronic medical impairments which could affect working capacity. The...

patients with coagulation factor(s) deficiency who use coagulation therapy are susceptible to forming inhibitors against coagulation factor(s). in this survey we detected factor v and viii inhibitor in ten patients with combined deficiency of factors v and viii from north east of iran (khorassan province). it was revealed in our survey that eight patients had both factor v and factor viii inhib...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the motivators and barriers to the use of the combined oral contraceptive pill among Hong Kong women. METHODS The Family Planning Association of Hong Kong commissioned the ESDlife to launch an online survey and invited its female members aged 18 to 45 years who had used contraceptives in the past 12 months to participate in this survey. The online survey was posted on th...

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