BACKGROUND For 20 years, China has participated in 267 international cooperation projects against the HIV/AIDS epidemic and received ∼526 million USD from over 40 international organizations. These projects have played an important role by complementing national efforts in the fight against HIV/AIDS in China. METHODS The diverse characteristics of these projects followed three phases over 20 ...

1. Auriculotherapy was effective in relieving the symptoms of constipation and improving quality of life for elderly people. 2. Auriculotherapy had a significant time effect in relieving symptoms of constipation, a greater reduction in scores for symptoms of constipation and quality of life, and an increased number of bowel movements per week, compared with controls. 3. The methodology of this ...

Evaluation of a regional air-quality model with bi-directional NH3 exchange coupled to an agro-ecosystem model J. O. Bash, E. J. Cooter, R. L. Dennis, J. T. Walker, and J. E. Pleim National Exposure Research Laboratory, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC 27711, USA National Risk Management Research Laboratory, US Environmental Prot...

The SAGIR network is organized under the authority of the Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage (ONCFS National Hunting and Wildlife Office) and is primarily made of the regional hunting federations. Hunters and local network representatives are the keystone of the network. They are primarily responsible for the submission of wild animals found dead to a local veterinary diagnosti...

Good afternoon, Senator Brownback and Senator Feinstein. I am Julia Rowland, Ph. D., Director of the Office of Cancer Survivorship (OCS) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI). I am pleased to appear before you today to describe the history of the National Cancer Institute's Office of Cancer Survivorship and to share with you the breadth of activities currently supported by the NCI addressing t...

background physician directories are among the most important databases in health systems. objectives the aim of this study was to estimate the accuracy of physician directories in tehran, iran. materials and methods this was a cross-sectional study. tehran, the capital of iran, was selected for study. specialists', fellowships' and subspecialists' information were extracted from islamic republ...

A series of four lectures given at the Australian National University in December 2011 for the 2nd Asia-Pacific Summer School in Mathematical Physics/22nd Canberra International Physics Summer School. 1 Outline of the Lectures The goal of these lectures is to impart some of the ideas of the gauge/gravity duality and to help facilitate reading the fundmental papers [1, 2, 3]. The rough outline o...