... injury. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Keywords: angiotensin converting enzyme; small vessel disease; genetics Abbreviations: ACE, angiotensin converting enzyme; I/D, insertion/deletion; BMI, basal metabolic index Clinical and pathological evidence suggests that patients with lacunar syndromes arising from occlusion of single cerebral small vessels may be a heterogenous group. The basis of this hypothesis stems from the original pathological studies of Fisher,1-3 who reported that serial sections of ... ...

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... an hour under terrible conditions has made its economy expand much faster than any other national economy. As a result of China's rapid economic development, means for economic development, and conflicts arising from economic development, the United States must undertake a policy concerning China's economic growth. Presently, the Chinese economy boasts the fastest growing market in the world. This can be evidenced in ... ...

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... . Violations of health care fraud prohibitions are facilitated when a claims payment system is highly automated. Electronic data exchange has also opened the door to new kind of health care fraud, arising from the growing number of computer links to claims information and the addition of electronic fund transfer capabilities. Besides breach of patient confidentiality and security concerns during the process of ... ...

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... would assist Britain when military operations finally began.11 Britain's grand strategy in the Falklands was shaped by the prevailing domestic situation and its international alliances. The government faced humiliation arising from the initial invasion and stiff pressure from the parliamentary opposition to act and recover national prestige. The media and the population, swayed by the tide of nationalistic fervor, obliged ... ...

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... to enable distributed strategic management. Distributed problem solving is one of the major aims of the VSM where responsibility and authority are given to those who relate directly to the arising problems. It focuses on giving the primary tasks all what they need to attain viability, thus the problem solving capacity will be distributed to the autonomous primary tasks only. Hence ... ...

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... rested on shared beliefs and values, located primarily in the econscious collective. However, the advent of industrial society sees the emergence of a new form of eorganic solidarity, based on interdependence arising out of socialization and differentiation (1998: 618). Thus, the social order altered from collective, kinship related ideas to individualistic ideas, as well as social system did. For this transition from ... ...

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