The goal of this paper is to draw attention to the long lasting effect of education on economic outcomes. We use the relationship between education and two routes to early retirement – the receipt of Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) and the early claiming of Social Security retirement benefits – to illustrate the long-lasting influence of education. We find that for both men and women ...

Objective. The capillary gas chromatographic method was introduced for determining organochlorine pesticide residues (OCPs) in traditional Chinese medicines: Gastrodia Tuber, Fructus Corni and Spica Prunellae. Methods. The organochlorine pesticides were extracted from herbs with mixed solvents (petroleum ether), cleaned up by concentrated HzSO4, and separated by capillary column with electron c...

A new iridoid glucoside, 5-desoxysesamoside, was isolated from Phlomis tuberosa L. (Lamiaceae) together with three known iridoid glucosides sesamoside, shanziside methyl ester and lamalbid. Lamiide was found in P. herba-ventis ssp. pungens in high concentrations.

colleagues [1] presented a method for assessing elastic and resistive properties of the respiratory system in patients with respiratory failure. Th e method assumes a fi rst-order resistance-compliance (RC) model of breathing mechanics. Although the procedure for estimating expiratory time constant (τE) is correct and effi cient, some clarifi cations need to be made about the use of equations 3...

Methods Objective: Th e aim of this study was to compare the effi cacy and safety of a 50 mg/2 h rt-PA regimen with a 100 mg/2 h rt-PA regimen in patients with acute PTE. Design: A prospective, randomized, open label trial. Setting: A multicenter trial in China. Subjects: 118 patients with acute PTE and either hemodynamic instability or massive pulmonary artery obstruction. Intervention: Patien...

Venturi-assisted ENTrainment and Ionization (VENTI) was developed, demonstrating efficient entrainment, collection, and transport of remotely sampled vapors, aerosols, and dust particulate for real-time mass spectrometry (MS) detection. Integrating the Venturi and Coandă effects at multiple locations generated flow and analyte transport from non-proximate locations and more importantly enhanced...

In the last 20 years dictionaries and lexicographic resources such as WordNet have started to be enriched with multimodal content. Short videos depicting basic actions support the user’s need (especially in second language acquisition) to fully understand the range of applicability of verbs. The IMAGACT project has among its results a repository of action verbs ontologically organised around pr...

against good medical practice to continue to use a ‘standard cuff ed tube’ given the weight of evidence supporting the use of newer tube designs to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP). Th ere is strong evidence supporting the use of subglottic aspiration to prevent VAP [2]. However, other new tracheal tubes, such as polyurethane cuff ed, silver-coated, or low-volume low-pressure tubes...

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