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Showing 1 to 20 of 270 for “"curative"”.
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Curative Measures in Law for Financially Distressed Municipalities
This search for curative measures was initiated by the need for a law that regulates how the national and provincial government levels intervene in municipalities that cannot or do not fulfil their executive obligations (section 139(8) of the Constitution of South Africa). However, informed by …
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An incremental curative learning approach for planning with incorrect domain theories
Incorrect domain theories, and the flawed plans derived from them, are an inescapable aspect of planning in the real world. Previous learning approaches to the incorrect domain theory problem have relied on diagnosing failures to determine fixes to the domain theory to prevent the failures in the …
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Single-molecule diagnostics to support curative interventions for tuberculosis and HIV
Tuberculosis (TB) and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are two of the leading causes of death worldwide. Tuberculosis is curable, but because of the difficulties of diagnosing it, many people with TB—and the majority of those killed by it—never begin treatment. HIV can be treated with …
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Brucella abortus RB51 vaccine: Testing its Spectrum of Protective and Curative Characteristics
… of already infected animals could have a curative effect. Mice acutely or chronically infected with virulent BA, rapidly cleared the RB51 vaccine organisms, but there was no significant decrease in the number of virulent BA. Brucella spp. have been developed as biological weapons, but …
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Expression of Survivin : Possible Predictor of Local Recurrence after Curative Resection for Rectal Cancer
Local recurrence has always been a challenging problem following rectal cancer surgery, desite of the advances in surgical technique(TME) as well as adjuvant therapy(preoperative CCRT). There is a need for better prognostic markers due to the varieties of treatment response within same …
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A study on the curative and preventative effectiveness of homoeopathic oscillococcinum on influenza type syndromes
Dissertation submitted in partial compliance with the requirements for the Masters Degree in Technology: Homoeopathy Technikon Natal, Durban, South Africa, 1995.
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Surveillance Imaging Following Curative-Intent Surgery for Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma: A Systematic Review
Following curative surgery for non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC), patients remain at risk for recurrence of lung cancer or for development of second primary lung cancer (SPLC). While periodic surveillance may detect early stage recurrence or SPLC, the effectiveness of surveillance has not been …
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The Collarborative Mural: An Art Intervention Offering Curative Experiences for the Individual, Group, and Community
… group mural process and its possible curative effects on the individual’s sense of mastery, the individual’s peer relationships, and the individual’s sense of community. Ten (10) Severely Emotionally Disturbed (SED) youth in two (2) separate groups, worked on two (2) murals in the same …
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conventional cytology is not beneficial for prediciting peritoneal recurrence after curative surgery for gastric cancer
Purpose: The role of peritoneal washing cytology in determining further treatment strategies after gastric cancer surgery is still unclear. One reason for this is that optimal procedures to increase the accuracy of predicting peritoneal metastasis have not been established. The aim of this study …
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Evaluating the functional effects, morbidity, recurrence, survival and quality of life after curative treatment for rectal cancer
… patients with and without a primary stoma after curative surgery for colorectal cancer and determines the impact of country of birth on the perception of a stoma. This thesis finally examines the long term morbidity, local recurrence and survival associated with radiotherapy and provides a …
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The curative bloom : an investigation of medicinal botanical imagery incorporating precious metals and enamel as body adornment
… report supports the creative thesis entitled The Curative Bloom. The historical exploration of the medicinal uses of plant life, along with a technical investigation of casting, forming and enameling processes, cumulates in a creative body of jewelry work focusing on healing herbs and their …
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Transitioning from Curative Care to End-of-Live Care in the Acute Care Hospital: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Study
… urban acute hospitals when transitioning from curative care to end-of-life care with a patient. With so many people continuing to die in acute care hospital wards (Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association, 2016; Cavaye & Watts, 2012; Grande, 2009), it is important to understand how the …
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An investigation of the systemic inflammatory response in the peri-operative period in patients undergoing potentially curative surgery for colorectal cancer
… of patients undergoing surgery for potentially curative disease will die within five years. Recent work has meant that it is now recognised that it is not only the tumour characteristics that are responsible for cancer specific survival but also the host immune response. Part of this host …
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The profile and outcomes of patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma treated with curative intent at Groote Schuur Hospital, a Tertiary Referral Centre in South Africa
… present survival data on patients treated with curative intent. Methodology: All patients who presented with HCC from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2020 were included in the study. Data was extracted from a faculty approved, prospectively maintained registry. Information collected included …
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Patterns of care and outcomes for women with locally advanced cervical cancer, treated with curative intent, between 2013-2017 at a tertiary centre in South Africa
… with LACC (Stage IB1 – IVA) treated with curative intent at a tertiary center in South Africa. Materials and Methods This is a retrospective study conducted at Groote Schuur Hospital (GSH) in Cape Town, South Africa between July 2013 – July 2017. Overall survival (OS) and disease free …
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"It really kind of like cuts my existence into two": an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the experience of adults with sickle cell disease receiving curative Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT)
Background: Sickle cell disease (SCD) is the most common single gene disorder in England. At present, Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) is the only cure, and as of 2020, these have been funded for adults with SCD by the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Rationale: The …
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Understanding Cancer Treatment Delay and Survival
… Ontario incident cervical cancer cases receiving curative surgery. Objective 3 applied the consensus recommendations to a cohort of incident cervical cancer cases in Botswana who were treated with curative radiotherapy. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression was used to evaluate the …
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Health-Related Quality of Life in Children with Cancer
… analyzed a large sample of children undergoing curative treatment for 5 different childhood cancer diagnoses. These diagnostic groups were Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL), Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML), Osteosarcoma (OS), and Melanoma. We analyzed a sample of 710 …
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The Impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 On the Evidence Based Practice of Distributive Justice Via Comfort Care In Elderly Burn Trauma Victims
… question is posed: 'Does the provision of curative care versus comfort care meet the ethical obligation of distributive justice in elderly patients who sustain greater than 60% total body surface area burns?' The elderly continue to see comparatively disproportionate mortality in these …
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