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Supplemental Material - Effects of Health Coaching on Cardiometabolic Health in Middle-Aged Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
No full textSupplemental Material for Effects of Health Coaching on Cardiometabolic Health in Middle-Aged Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Zoe Ching-man Kwok, On Tao, Helen Yue-lai Chan in American Journal of Health Promotion</p
Marianne Chan: 47th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textMarianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. She is the author of All Heathens (Sarabande Books, 2020), which was the winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award. Her second collection, Leaving Biddle City, was published from Sarabande Books in July of this year. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Best American Poetry, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Old Dominion University and teaches poetry in the Warren Wilson College MFA program for Writers
Inauguración del XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan. Zonas Arqueológicas en Contextos Urbanos. <p>XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan.Zonas Arqueológicas en Contextos Urbanos<p>
No full textEl acto inaugural del XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan “Zonas arqueológicas en contextos urbanos”, tuvo lugar el 6 de noviembre de 2018, en la Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH). El Simposio fue inaugurado por el Antrop. Diego Prieto Hernández, Director General del Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, en compañía de otras autoridades del INAH así como investigadores, docentes, alumnos y público en general.</p
Anyuon Chan
No full textabstract: Anyuon left his village in 1989 during the middle of the night.
“Lost Boys Found” is an ongoing, interdisciplinary project that is collecting, recording and archiving the oral histories of the Lost Boys/Girls of Sudan. The collection is a work-in-progress, seeking to record the oral history of as many Lost Boys/Girls as are willing, and will be used in a future book.Age: 22Region: Bahr al GhazalThis picture and bio was donated to the Lost Boys Found project from The Arizona Lost Boys Cente
Marianne Chan, 46th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textMarianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. After she earned her B.A. in English from Michigan State University, she went on to study poetry at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she earned her MFA.
Marianne is the author of All Heathens, which was the winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award in Poetry, the 2021 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry, and the 2022 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Outstanding Achievement. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. Between 2017-2019, she served as poetry editor for Split Lip Magazine. She is a Kundiman fellow.
She lives in Norfolk, Virginia . She is married to the fiction writer Clancy McGilligan
Clausura del XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan. Zonas Arqueológicas en Contextos Urbanos. <p>XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan.Zonas Arqueológicas en Contextos Urbanos<p>
No full textDel 6 al 8 de noviembre de 2018, se llevó a cabo el XXIII Simposio Román Piña Chan “Zonas arqueológicas en contextos urbanos”. Durante su desarrollo se contó con un amplio programa de trabajo que incluyó 31 ponencias, cinco conferencias magistrales y nueve sesiones de carteles. Se trató de un evento en el que participaron reconocidos académicos a nivel nacional e internacional en el ámbito de la arqueología; además de que se logró debatir y aportar ideas en un mismo foro acerca de la construcción de soluciones para la problemática de las zonas arqueológicas en contextos urbanos. El acto de clausura se efectuó con la presencia de diversas autoridades del INAH en compañía de investigadores, docentes, alumnos y público en general.</p
Judicial deference at work: Some reflections on Chan Kin Sum and Kong Yun Ming
No full text"Due deference" - the giving of appropriate weight to the government's judgment in the court's reasoning - is a tool that courts use to maintain the separation of powers in constitutional rights review. This note aims to provide a theoretical framework for understanding the issue of deference, and to analyse the Court of First Instance (CFI)'s approach to deference in two recent cases, Chan Kin Sum and Kong Yun Ming. The author argues that the CFI has adopted a spatial approach that failed to specify the contested issues that called for deference, inappropriately considered democratic legitimacy as a factor for deference and made broad presumptions about the democratic character of primary decisions. This approach may lead to an over-deferential attitude that threatens the separation of powers, and the malleability of the approach may be subject to courts' manipulation. The author argues for a more context-sensitive approach based purely on institutional factors.published_or_final_versio
Interventions for melanoma in situ, including lentigo maligna
No full textBACKGROUND: Malignant melanoma is a form of skin cancer associated with significant mortality once it has spread beyond the skin. Melanoma in situ (MIS) is the earliest histologically recognisable stage of malignant melanoma and represents a precursor of invasive melanoma. Lentigo maligna (LM) represents a subtype of pre-invasive intraepidermal melanoma associated specifically with chronic exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation. Over the past two decades, the incidence of MIS has increased significantly, even more than the invasive counterpart. There are several treatment options for MIS, but no consensus exists on the best therapeutic management of this condition.
OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of all available interventions, surgical and non-surgical, for the treatment of melanoma in situ, including LM.
SEARCH METHODS: We searched the following databases up to November 2014: the Cochrane Skin Group Specialised Register, CENTRAL in The Cochrane Library (2014, Issue 10), MEDLINE (from 1946), Embase (from 1974), LILACS (from 1982), African Index Medicus (from inception), IndeMED of India (from inception), and Index Medicus for the South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR) (from inception). We scanned the references of included and excluded studies for further references to relevant trials and searched five trials registries. We checked the abstracts of major dermatology and oncology conference proceedings, and we shared our lists of included and excluded studies with industry contacts and other experts in the field of melanoma to try to identify further relevant trials.
SELECTION CRITERIA: We included randomised controlled trials (RCT) on the management of MIS, including LM, that compared any intervention to placebo or active treatment. We included individuals, irrespective of age and sex, diagnosed with MIS, including LM, based on histological examination.
DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS: Two authors independently evaluated possible studies for inclusion; extracted data from the included study using a standard data extraction form modified for our review; assessed risk of bias; and analysed data on efficacy, safety, and tolerability. They resolved any disagreements by discussion with a third author. We collected adverse effects information from included studies.
MAIN RESULTS: Our search identified only 1 study eligible for inclusion (and 1 ongoing study in active recruitment stage), which was a single centre, open label, parallel group, 2-arm RCT with 90 participants, who had 91 histologically proven LM lesions.Forty-four participants, with 44 LM lesions, were treated with imiquimod 5% cream 5 days per week plus tazarotene 0.1% gel 2 days/week for 3 months, and 46 participants, with 47 LM lesions, were treated with imiquimod 5% cream 5 days per week for 3 months. Two months after cessation of topical treatment, the initial tumour footprint was excised using 2 mm margins via a staged excision. This study was open label, and analysis was not intention-to-treat, leading to a high risk of incomplete outcome data.Our primary outcome 'Histological or clinical complete response' was measured at 5 months in 29/44 participants (66%) treated with imiquimod plus tazarotene (combination therapy) and 27/46 participants (59%) treated with imiquimod (monotherapy). The difference was not statistically significant (risk ratio (RR) 1.12, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.81 to 1.55, P value = 0.48).With regard to our secondary outcomes on recurrence and inflammation, after a mean follow up of 42 months, no local recurrences were observed among complete responders. Difference in overall inflammation score between the 2 groups was significant (mean difference (MD) 0.6, 95% CI 0.2 to 1, P value = 0.004), with the mean overall inflammation score being significantly higher in the combination group.The study authors did not clearly report on side-effects. Because of adverse effects, there was a dropout rate of 6/44 participants (13.7%) in the combination group compared with 1/46 (2.2%) in the imiquimod monotherapy group (due to excessive inflammation) before the cessation of topical treatment (first 3 months), but this was not statistically significant (RR 6.27, 95% CI 0.79 to 50.02, P value = 0.08).
AUTHORS' CONCLUSIONS: There is a lack of high-quality evidence for the treatment of MIS and LM.For the treatment of MIS, we found no RCTs of surgical interventions aiming to optimise margin control (square method, perimeter technique, 'slow Mohs', staged radial sections, staged "mapped" excisions, or Mohs micrographic surgery), which are the most widely used interventions recommended as first-line therapy. The use of non-surgical interventions in selected cases (patients with contraindications to surgical interventions) may be effective and may be considered preferable for experienced providers and under close and adequate follow up.For the treatment of LM, we found no RCTs of surgical interventions, which remain the most widely used and recommended available treatment. The use of non-surgical interventions, such as imiquimod, as monotherapy may be effective and may be considered in selected cases where surgical procedures are contraindicated and used preferentially by experienced providers under close and adequate follow up. The use of topical therapies, such as 5-fluorouracil and imiquimod, as neoadjuvant therapies warrants further investigation. There is insufficient evidence to support or refute the addition of tazarotene to imiquimod as adjuvant therapy; the current evidence suggests that it can increase topical inflammatory response and withdrawal of participants because of treatment-related side-effects
China Doll: A Conversation with Marjorie Chan
No full textAn interview with Canadian author Marjorie Chan on her 2004 play "China Doll", an adaptation of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" set in early-20th-century China
A comparative study on the relationship between product commonality and competitive response in Hong Kong primary residential property market.
No full textby Chan Ngai-Ming, Zoe, Chung Ting Ting.Thesis (M.B.A.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 56-57).ABSTRACT --- p.iiTABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iiiLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS --- p.vLIST OF TABLES --- p.viChapterChapter I. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1Chapter II. --- THE HONG KONG PRIMARY RESIDENTIAL INDUSTRY --- p.6Industry Overview --- p.6Developers for This Study --- p.6Chapter III. --- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK --- p.8Competitor Analysis --- p.8Market Commonality Vs Product Commonality --- p.8Suggested Attributes for Studying Product Commonality in this Industry --- p.9Location --- p.9Time of Sale --- p.9Flat Size --- p.10Other Factors --- p.10Resource Similarity --- p.12Competitive Actions and Responses --- p.12Product Commonality and Competitive Response --- p.14Competitive Response and Performance --- p.17Chapter IV. --- METHODOLOGY --- p.19Data --- p.19Identification of Actions and Responses --- p.19Measurement --- p.21Product Commonality --- p.21Likelihood of Response to Price Change --- p.24Response Magnitude --- p.24Performance --- p.25Comparative Approach --- p.25Chapter V. --- RESULTS --- p.27Product Commonality and Likelihood of Response to Price Change --- p.27Response Magnitude and Performance --- p.30Chapter VI. --- CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION --- p.34Implications --- p.34Limitation and Future Directions --- p.36APPENDIX I RECOMMENDATIONS FROM STUDY OF HONG KONG RESIDENTIAL MARKET BY THE CONSUMER COUNCIL IN 1996 --- p.41APPENDIX IIA SUMMARY OF 27 DATA UNDER STUDIED --- p.43APPENDIX IIB TIMELINES FOR 27 DATA UNDER STUDIED --- p.46APPENDIX III PRODUCT COMMONALITY BREAKDOWN --- p.52APPENDIX IV SUMMARY OF PRIMARY DATA --- p.54bibliography --- p.5
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