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	► Hemorrhagic stroke
		Stroke can also be caused by the accumulation of a protein called amyloid within the artery walls, particularly in the elderly.
		About 20% of strokes are hemorrhagic -- but the other 80% are caused by the opposite problem: too little blood reaching an area of the brain, which is usually due to a clot that has blocked a blood vessel.
		This is called "ischemic stroke." This type of stroke can sometimes lead to a brain hemorrhage because the affected brain tissue softens and this can lead to breaking down of small blood vessels.
	www.umm.edu /ency/article/000761.htm (708 words)

	NeuroScript MovAlyzeR Help - Experiment Settings
		A minimum relevant stroke length is estimated from the samples using the min stroke size relative to max stroke size (cm).
		If a first/last stroke begins/ends with a velocity out of this min/max relative vertical velocity, then the starting point is moved to the next value and ending segmentation point is dropped and is moved to the previous value.
		The duration of the initial part of the stroke that is used to estimate the initial direction of the stroke.
	www.neuroscript.net /help/experimentsettings.html (3436 words)

	PAS-01-092: SPECIALIZED PROGRAM OF TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH IN ACUTE STROKE
		Applicant institutions must be able to deliver rapid treatment for acute stroke and to conduct the highest quality translational research on the diagnosis and treatment of acute ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke.
		Dramatic improvements in stroke outcomes could be achieved by reducing the time necessary to respond to and diagnose stroke and by identifying new interventions that could be safely and expeditiously administered to a wider range of patients.
		This requirement is consistent with recommendations for organizing the rapid treatment of acute stroke patients that were published in the Proceedings of a National Symposium on Rapid Identification and Treatment of Acute Stroke December 12-13, 1996 (http://www.ninds.nih.gov/news_and_events/proceedings/stroke_proceedings/sayre.htm).
	grants.nih.gov /grants/guide/pa-files/PAS-01-092.html (4087 words)

	NIH Guide: SPECIALIZED NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH PROGRAMS AT MINORITY INSTITUTIONS
		These investigators are required to devote a minimum of 50 percent research effort to their respective projects; o Documentation of the nature and scope of the collaborative research projects with NIH grantees from research intensive institutions.
		Collaborating investigators must devote a minimum of 20 percent research effort to their respective projects; o Evidence that the senior leadership at the applicant institution has addressed issues such as tenure, promotion, research release time, and other personnel matters pertaining to the scientific success of the SNRP Director and applicant investigators.
		The Awardee Rights and Responsibilities: o The awardee has primary authority and responsibility to define the scientific objectives and approaches, to plan, conduct, analyze, and publish results, interpretations, and conclusions of the studies; o The awardee has the primary responsibility for establishing effective and substantial research collaborations with NIH and/or NSF grantees.
	grants.nih.gov /grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-NS-00-001.html (3159 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Stroke is this country's third leading killer and the primary cause of disability, resulting in paralysis; speech, memory and thinking problems, or coma.
		The Jefferson stroke team, under the direction of Rodney D. Bell, MD, professor of neurology, Jefferson Medical Center, includes the emergency department, neurology, neurosurgery, nursing service, radiology (including neuroradiology), rehabilitation medicine, and vascular surgery.
		If this effort proves successful, it may be possible for physicians to stop a stroke in its tracks, instead of having to deal only with its consequences.
	www.tju.edu /jeffnews/oldjeff/01May95/stroke.txt (543 words)

	[No title]
		In some very rare cases, the left stroke of the "o" also reverses at the foot, creating an entire right bow for the "b" as well as the left half of the "o." This glyph derives from the "bo" juncture of textura rotunda.
		The juncture of "g" and "o": the top lobe of the "g" is squashed to the left and the right stroke flattened so as also to become the left stroke of a conjoined "o"; the horizontal stroke that would normally extend from the top lobe of the "g" is omitted.
		The juncture of "p" and "o," consisting of the cruciform variety of "p" (see "andp;") and the scribe's "o," with the left stroke of the "o" deformed to form or suggest the bow of the "p." An additional short horizontal stroke sometimes joins the vertical of the "p" to this deformed stroke of the "o."
	www.ucalgary.ca /~scriptor/cotton/transcription/junctures.htm (775 words)

	SourceForge.net: File Release Notes and Changelog
		When it's off, scaling objects preserves their stroke widths unchanged; when it's on (the default), stroke widths are scaled by the same proportion.
		o The channel entry fields are switched from the 0..1 range to 0..255 range for increased precision (but you still can type in a value between 0 and 1 exclusive, and it will be converted to the 0..255 range when you press Enter).
		When several objects are selected, using the percent unit changes the stroke width of each one relative to its previous value (unlike absolute units which assign an average width to all objects).
	sourceforge.net /project/shownotes.php?group_id=93438&release_id=253470 (2280 words)

	Model Airplane News: O.S. FL-70
		The 60W carburetor/manifold is an updraft unit that is "hung" behind the cylinder in typical O.S. fashion.
		Though this is not unusual, O.S. nevertheless claims that the heavy-duty seal stops potential oil leaks from that location.
		The O.S. F glow plug is in the cylinder head, behind the rocker covers, and it's angled to the rearwell away from the rapidly rotating propeller.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3819/is_200503/ai_n11826737 (1417 words)

	Carly Fallbeck
		This is precisely why many choose to refer to a stroke as a “brain attack.” The third most common cause of death in the U.S. is stroke and also accounts for the leading cause of adult disability (Hines, 1999).
		Eighty percent of strokes are due to ischemia caused by either a thrombus or embolus (Bratina, 1997).
		A.H. suffered from a left frontal stroke, however at the time of my rotation it was not determined whether or not a thrombus or embolus caused the episode.
	learn.sdstate.edu /craigg/Fallbeck.html (3120 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		Related to streak and stroke, and perhaps influenced in sense development by cognate O.N. striuka.
		Sense of "to deal a blow" developed by 1325; meaning "to collide" is from c.1340; that of "to hit with a missile" is from 1377.
		Meaning "to cancel or expunge" (as with the stroke of a pen) is attested from c.1386.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=missile&searchmode=phrase (1089 words)

	Lane receiving oxygen therapy (printable version)
		One year ago today, Mills Lane suffered a stroke that left the former Washoe County district judge and internationally famous boxing referee limited speech and unable to use his right arm.
		The treatment is believed to enhance the body’s natural healing process and sometimes is used to treat people who have suffered strokes, head injuries, nonhealing diabetic wounds, spinal cord injuries and bone fractures.
		Mills Lane, now 65, was at home in Reno when he suffered a stroke on March 31, 2002, that damaged the area of his brain that controls speech and the right side of his body.
	www.rgj.com /news/printstory.php?id=38186 (942 words)

	Chapter 3: Practice with the Regions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The rule is to enter the key that the character lies on and then build the character from its strokes.
		The second stroke is a hook, so the third key is 51N.
		The last stroke of the character is Ø¼, so the last key is 41Y.
	www.people.fas.harvard.edu /~wicentow/wbx/chap3.html (974 words)

	Neonatal Brain Disorders Laboratory
		In vivo and in vitro experiments were performed to prove our hypothesis that hypoxia-inducible factor 1 a (HIF1a) induction after moderate focal ischemia leads to up-regulation of survival genes resulting in neuroprotection in the developing nervous system.
		To test this hypothesis, we first determined the effect of different degrees of ischemia on the expression of HIF1a using a neonatal stroke model by transiently occluding middle cerebral artery (MCA-O) followed by reperfusion in postnatal day 10 (P10) rats.
		We found the upregulation of HIF1a, VEGF and Epo is neuroprotective in P10 rats.
	www.ucsf.edu /neoneur/mu.html (233 words)

	Is it A Stroke O/T
		Hudson -> Is it A Stroke O/T (17 Jan. 2005 20:15:10)
		Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify.
		When I see some stroke victims and the life, or lack of it, that they lead, I am sometimes compelled to wonder if they were "lucky" to have survived the event.
	www.aboutbritain.com /forums/m_32163/printable.htm (231 words)

	Healthy Brain Project - Demographic and Social Factors
		o Data supporting the hypothesis that social integration is associated with stroke recovery is more compelling than data suggesting that social integration is associated with stroke onset.
		o Studies of the impact of social ties on the risk of depression and psychological distress show consistent protective effects associated with greater social integration, especially when the presence of more intimate ties with spouse, children, or supportive significant others is examined (Broadhead et al.
		o The generally weaker evidence linking social support (as opposed to social networks and integration) to health outcomes may reflect the greater variability of support over time, making it more difficult to predict disease outcomes that are themselves the results of developmental processes.
	trans.nih.gov /CEHP/HBPdemo-socialsupport.htm (9907 words)

	Tai Chi Productions - Your Health
		A stroke or 'brain attack' is caused by a blockage in the flow of blood to an area of the brain or bleeding from a blood vessel in the brain.
		Strokes can cause permanent disability such as paralysis, loss of speech and difficulties with movement or balance.
		In this trial, women who were taking a particular combination of oestrogen and progestogen (for 5.2 years on average), were found to have an increased risk of heart attack, breast cancer, stroke and blood clots on the lungs.
	www.taichiproductions.com /info/your_health.php (6069 words)

	Bar (diacritic) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The bar or stroke can be a diacritic mark, when used with some letters in the Latin or Cyrillic alphabets.
		When characters have a stroke variant for one case and another kind of variations for the other case, both variants are shown.
		Polish, Kashubian and Sorbian alphabets for a /w/ sound; Venetian language for a y or a e sounds; Navajo alphabet and Americanist linguistics usage for /ɬ/ (voiceless alveolar lateral fricative)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bar_(diacritic) (361 words)

	UK Karting - Notice Board (4-Stroke Karting) : Re: 4 Stroke 'O' plate - fuel & tyres
		Re: 4 Stroke 'O' plate - fuel & tyres by 'Paul ngk'
		Re: 4 Stroke 'O' plate - fuel & tyres by 'Steven Adams'
		Re: 4 Stroke 'O' plate - fuel & tyres by 'Wayne The Chunk'
	www.karting.co.uk /Notice/Message.asp?FID=3&MsgID=0000081871 (194 words)

	what does o gauge mean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		O diaeresis (enc.) O Du (enc.) O gauge (enc.) O grave (enc.) O Henry (enc.) O Level.
		O Du (enc.) O gauge (enc.) O grave (enc.) O Henry...
		enc.) O acute (enc.) O arise all you sons of...
	www.1-in-modeltrains.com /75/what-does-o-gauge-mean.html (652 words)

	Atkinsopht/Rowing/Modeling the Dynamics of Rowing
		The resulting iteration proceeds until initial velocity and period ratio agree to within less than one-tenth of one percent and until the residual shell work sum has been reduced to three m-N per stroke or less (the net work done on the shell must sum to zero since there is no net shell acceleration).
		I obtain the match by varying ("coaching") the stroke geometry, the time profiles of the seat and torso momentum exchanges, the hands/arms bending, and the oarhandle pull force regime.
		At the end of the stroke the blade's original trailing edge has become the leading edge.
	www.atkinsopht.com /row/rowabstr.htm (1874 words)

	News 14 Carolina \| 24 Hour Local News \| HEADLINES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		o Diseases of the aorta, the largest vessel carrying blood from the heart to all the vital organs.
		Transient ischemic attacks, also known as TIAs or“mini-strokes,” and strokes (or “brain attacks”) can cause fainting when there is loss of blood flow to a special part of the brain that typically keeps us awake, the medulla oblongata.
		Ana Felix, MD, is an assistant professor of neurology and co-director of the Stroke Treatment and Prevention Unit at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine.
	rdu.news14.com /content/headlines?ArID=41118&SecID=2 (656 words)

	Always Knackered » Diabetes mellitus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Risk of diabetes is higher with chronic use of several medications, including high dose glucocorticoids, some chemotherapy agents (especially L-asparaginase), and some of the antipsychotics and mood stabilizers (especially phenothiazines and some atypical antipsychotics).
		Diabetes is often detected when a person suffers a problem frequently caused by diabetes, such as a heart attack, stroke, neuropathy, poor wound healing or a foot ulcer, certain eye problems, certain fungal infections, or delivering a baby with macrosomia or hypoglycemia.
		o peripheral vascular disease which contributes to foot ulcers and the risk of amputation
	alwaysknackered.sideiron.com /details-and-articles/diabetes-mellitus (5686 words)

	► Stroke secondary to syphilis
		Stroke secondary to syphilis is a complication of syphilis infection resulting in a loss of specific brain functions because of destruction of the blood vessels that supply the brain.
		Stroke caused by syphilis occurs as a life-threatening complication of long-standing syphilis infection.
		The infection causes inflammation and blockage of the arteries which supply the brain.
	www.umm.edu /ency/article/000728.htm (164 words)

	BoaterEd Forums - Outboard or I/O? You make the call!!!
		BUT I think there is another factor, and that is the 2 stroke Direct Injected OBS have had a lot of teething problems in some models, OMC's Ficht, some models of Merc's Optimax and Yamaha's HPDI.
		It seems that 4 stroke OBs may be a safer bet from the point of view that they do not self destruct if you have a lean running cylinder, and the more conventional pressurized lube system appears less prone to failure.
		To me if you can deal with the service an outdrive requires, the 4 stroke car based engine is way simpler than a DI 2 stroke, or a 4 stroke OB which is much like a twin cam Japanese car engine.
	www.boatered.com /forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=70478 (4027 words)

	Type A/stroke-Type O/less pain from arthritus/weight loss.
		He is type A and had a mild stroke mid December.
		After the stroke his left arm was weak.
		One problem that bothers him is the feeling in his head that he will lose his balance.
	www.dadamo.com /forum/convert1/config.pl?read=515 (218 words)

	I N K S C A P E . Draw Freely (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Count how many times gr is used by the styles of o and its descendants.
		Sets item fill or stroke to the gradient of the specified type with given vector, creating new private gradient, if needed.
		Return the preferred vector for o, made from (in order of preference) its current vector, current fill or stroke color, or from desktop style if o is NULL or doesn't have style.
	www.inkscape.org /doc/doxygen/html/gradient-chemistry_8cpp.php (1525 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		O.E. strica "line of motion, stroke of a pen" (related to strican "pass over lightly," see strike), from P.Gmc.
		striks "stroke, line"), from PIE base *streig- (see strigil).
		Black quartz, used for testing the quality of gold and silver alloys by the color of the streak made by rubbing them on it.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=streak&searchmode=phrase (479 words)

	Bobby Jones - Stroke of Genius (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It was a charity screening of the upcoming film "Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius," which stars Jim Caviezel as the famed Georgia golfer.
		More than a golf film, "Stroke of Genius" tells the story of a remarkable man who displayed great love for the game that tested both his resolve and his character, and great courage in the face of incredible adversity, including a lifelong battle against the crippling disease Syringomyelia that eventually claimed his life.
		I still think of the film as Stroke and while no official word was given to the change I can only guess that by adding Bobby to the title they felt it would get more people to the theater and make it known the film was supposed to be about him instead of about golf.
	www.geocities.com /malcolmtribute/stroke.html (11745 words)

	Atkinsopht/Rowing/Modeling the Fixed-footboard Fanwheel Ergometer
		The velocity profile produced by ERGMOM emerges as a natural consequence of the instantaneous forces involved and their action upon the fanwheel.
		ERGMOM divides a single sweep stroke cycle into seventeen "regimes" (some overlapping, Figure 1-3) - twelve in its drive and eight in its free portions - in each of which forces of friction, propulsion, or momentum act.
		o Free acceleration of handle and upper body mass from the start to the catch and the corresponding deceleration from the release to the finish
	www.atkinsopht.com /row/erg/ergabstr.htm (846 words)

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