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Anadarko Announces Second-Quarter Results
WELT ONLINE, Germany -
A replay of the call will also be available on the Web site for approximately 30 days following the conference call. ANADARKO OPERATIONS REPORT For more ...APC - BOM:500312 - WAR:CFL
InvestSource, Inc.: NeoReader for Apple's iPhone Now Available for ...
Trading Markets (press release), CA -
According to preliminary calculations, the Dow fell 51.70, or 0.45 percent, to 11326.32. The Dow ended the week down 0.39 percent. ...UNM - CME - MHGC
NZ stocks: Sharemarket starts week flat
New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - Aug 3, 2008
... and web-based accounting software company Xero lifted 8c to 88. In the US, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 0.45 per cent at 11326.32. ...
Equity One Reports Second Quarter 2008 Operating Results
WELT ONLINE, Germany - Jul 29, 2008
CONFERENCE CALL/WEB CAST INFORMATION We will host a conference call on Wednesday, July 30, 2008, at 9:00 am EST to review the 2008 second quarter earnings ...EQY - COL:EQIT
InvestSource, Inc.: PureSpectrum, Inc. and WAC Lighting to Explore ...
Trading Markets (press release), CA -
According to preliminary calculations, the Dow fell 51.70, or 0.45 percent, to 11326.32. The Dow ended the week down 0.39 percent. ...NYX - KBR - SGP

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Watts Water Technologies Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
WELT ONLINE, Germany - Jul 29, 2008
Watts Water Technologies, Inc. will hold a live web cast of its conference call to discuss second quarter results for 2008 on Tuesday, July 29, 2008, ...
Southern Company Reports Second Quarter Earnings CNNMoney.com (press release)
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CPI Financial
Investor Relations Earnings Release
MarketWatch - Jul 31, 2008
0.24 $ 0.23 $ 0.47 $ 0.45 XCEL ENERGY INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES Notes to Investor Relations Release (Unaudited) Due to the seasonality of Xcel Energy's ...
ADP Reports Fiscal 2008 Results; Provides Fiscal 2009 Guidance Trading Markets (press release)
Chicopee Bancorp, Inc. Reports Second Quarter Results FOXBusiness
Peapack-Gladstone Financial Corporation Reports 27% Increase in ... MarketWatch
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Travelzoo Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
MarketWatch - Jul 24, 2008
In May 2008, Travelzoo began publishing its Web site and its weekly Top 20(R) list in Spain, after having operated a sales office in Barcelona since ...
VMware Reports Second-Quarter 2008 Results Trading Markets (press release)
Illumina Reports Financial Results for Second Quarter 2008 FOXBusiness
Kennametal Reports Record Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results for ... Earthtimes (press release)
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Littelfuse Reports Second Quarter Results
MarketWatch - Jul 30, 2008
The call will be broadcast live over the Internet and can be accessed through the company's Web site: www.littelfuse.com. Listeners should go to the Web ...LFUS
Kaboose Reports Record Second Quarter 2008 Results with Revenue ...
Canada NewsWire (press release), Canada - Jul 31, 2008
The webcast will be archived on the same web page for 30 days following the live call. The second quarter financial statements and related management's ...TSE:KAB - BOM:532354 - GIS
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Creating Adaptive Web Sites Through Usage-Based Clustering of URLs -
B Mobasher, R Cooley, J Srivastava - Proceedings of the 1999 Workshop on Knowledge and Data …, 1999 - doi.ieeecs.org
... 0.45 /grad-info/course-guide.html 0.45 ... 3] Buchner, A. and Mulvenna, MD, Discovering
internet marketing intelligence through online analytical Web usage mining. ...

Search Engines for the World Wide Web: A Comparative Study and Evaluation Methodology -
H Chu, M Rosenthal - ASIS 1996 Annual Conference Proceedings, 1996 - asis.org
... Alta Vista obtained the highest precision score (0.78) among the three Web search
engines while Lycos had 0.55 and Excite got the lowest one (0.45). ...
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Phosphorus Forms and Concentrations in Leachate under Four Grassland Soil Types -
BL Turner, PM Haygarth - Soil Science Society of America Journal, 2000 - Soil Sci Soc America
... Physically, most of the leachate P was dissolved (<0.45 ?m), although 21 to 46%
occurred in the particulate (>0.45 ?m) size fraction, most notably from the ...

[PS] Overview of the TREC-8 Web Track -
D Hawking, E Voorhees, N Craswell, P Bailey - Proc. of TREC-8 - research.microsoft.com
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Improving web search ranking by incorporating user behavior information -
E Agichtein, E Brill, S Dumais - Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR …, 2006 - portal.acm.org
... This demonstrates the complementary nature of implicit feedback with other features
available to a state of the art web search engine. 0.4 0.45 0.5 0.55 0.6 ...

Parmodel: a web server for automated comparative modeling of proteins -
HB Uch?a, GE Jorge, NJ Freitas Da Silveira, JC … - Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 2004 - Elsevier
... The modeling of 1F0N produced better results in Parmodel than in the other web servers,
but the quality of 0.45 IS still indicates a severely misfolded ...

Comment on HForaging Adaptation and the Relationship Between Food-Web Complexity and Stability? -
U Brose, RJ Williams, ND Martinez - Science, 2003 - sciencemag.org
... We analyzed food web stability among 10-species networks across connectance (C)
values from 0.10 to 0.45, where C = L/S 2 , L denotes the number of trophic ...

[PDF] Experimental demonstration of chaos in a microbial food web -
L Becks, FM Hilker, H Malchow, K Juergens, H Arndt - Nature, 2005 - math.ualberta.ca
... Such a defined microbial food web offers a new possibility for the experimental
study of ... were performed with dilution rates of 0.90, 0.75, 0.50 and 0.45 d 21 . ...
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A Meta-Analysis of Response Rates in Web-or Internet-Based Surveys -
C Cook, F Heath, RL Thompson - Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2000 - epm.sagepub.com
... For these populations, e-mail and Web surveys may have only minor coverage ... 0.27
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[PDF] The SPIRIT collection: an overview of a large web collection -
H Joho, M Sanderson - SIGIR Forum, 2004 - itri.brighton.ac.uk
... cn 0.32 fi 0.52 uiuc.edu 0.22 com.br 0.45 ... The European domains consist of over 9.6
million web pages which is approximately 10.24% of the entire collection. ...

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Antibiotics Unnecessarily Prescribed For Acute Bronchitis

Article Date: 20 Nov 2006 - 18:00pm (PST)
Antibiotics are routinely prescribed unnecessarily for acute bronchitis, according to Virginia Commonwealth University findings published in the 15-Nov-2006 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

Physicians for years have prescribed antibiotics for the treatment of acute bronchitis, a common condition caused by inflammation of the bronchi of the lungs that occurs in 5 percent of adults each year.

The VCU School of Medicine researchers concluded there is no evidence in current literature to support prescribing antibiotics for the treatment of short-term bronchitis as almost all the causes of such infections are viral and therefore don't respond to the therapy, according to the article.

Richard P. Wenzel, M.D., professor and chair in the Department of Internal Medicine at the VCU School of Medicine, and Alpha A. Fowler III, M.D., chair in the Division of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine, conducted a critical review of the world literature. They examined research studies and clinical trials regarding acute bronchitis as they related to individuals, pathology, diagnosis, treatment strategies and any data supporting the potential benefits of anti-bacterial agents.

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According to Wenzel, almost all the known causes of acute bronchitis are viral and are caused by organisms that have no known therapy and cannot be influenced by antibiotic treatment. Only a small percentage of acute bronchitis cases are caused by bacteria that physicians can treat, such as whooping cough. He said that approximately 70 percent to 80 percent of individuals are prescribed antibiotics for treatment lasting five to 10 days.

"As a community of medicine we have a habit of prescribing a lot of medication. There are many things we prescribe that are not based on evidence in the literature," Wenzel said. "Based on our review of the data in the literature, we are not practicing evidence-based medicine when it comes to the treatment of acute bronchitis."

In addition to little evidence supporting the effectiveness of antibiotics for the treatment of acute bronchitis, antibiotics can be expensive and may cause adverse side effects such as abdominal pain, diarrhea and rash that may require further treatment. Furthermore, induced resistance to antibiotics makes them less useful for treatment against other infections.

"There is a long history of patients receiving antibiotics for acute bronchitis and they have come to expect receiving a prescription for treatment. Physicians can help patients by not prescribing them antibiotics for acute bronchitis - saving them from potential side effects and unnecessary costs," Wenzel said.

"Physicians should inform their patients that there are no data in the literature to support the use of antibiotics for this condition," he said.

Wenzel and Fowler also examined the literature to determine what other medications patients are frequently prescribed. They found that although prescription cough medications are prescribed in almost 100 percent of acute bronchitis cases, the literature showed little evidence of any effect.
 
About VCU and the VCU Medical Center: Virginia Commonwealth University is the largest university in Virginia and ranks among the top 100 universities in the country in sponsored research. Located on two downtown campuses in Richmond, VCU enrolls more than 30,000 students in nearly 200 certificate and degree programs in the arts, sciences and humanities. Sixty-three of the programs are unique in Virginia, many of them crossing the disciplines of VCU's 15 schools and one college. MCV Hospitals and the health sciences schools of Virginia Commonwealth University compose the VCU Medical Center, one of the nation's leading academic medical centers. For more, see http://www.vcu.edu/.

Contact: Sathya Achia-Abraham
Virginia Commonwealth University
 
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