... in
morbidly obese patients. The aim of this study was to determine
the incidence and severity of complications associated with
open tracheostomy in critically ill morbidly obese patients during
hospitalization.
Methods ... postoperatively. In all of these instances, bleeding
was controlled with light packing. Cuff leak represented the
second most common com...
... the
volume of information included. Although the content
has not markedly changed, formatting changes have
reduced the total number of orders. The modified inter-
vention is informing a provincial ... felt
the orders were insulting and the overwhelming consen-
sus amongst this group was that the pa thway was ‘pain-
ful’ to use. The other focus group felt the delirium
str...
... some point in the study, whereas
43.7% of the male dogs were Cryptosporidium positive. For
Giardia, 22.1% of the female and 19.7% of the male dogs
were Giardia positive at some point in the study.
Multiple ... positive
if the actual parasite was identified in the dog during the
course of the study) , dogs living in Northern Norway had
the lowest prevale...
... probe and the original probe. The readings
were compared to test the stability and accuracy of the refitted
probe.
Fabrication of the measuring catheter, and intubation
After inflation of the left ... exe-
cution of the study, and finalized and revised the manuscript.
YZ participated in the animal experiments, performed the sta-
tistical analysis, and was involv...
... aggre-
gates the decisions of local linear models via a
dynamic program. In the CMM, the local linear
models are trained independently, while in the CRF
model, the local models are trained jointly. ... training
examples, while Andrew (2006) uses only features
that occur in some positive training example.
Second, we used the last 4K sentences of the
training data...
... conceptual necessity of the roles
in the frame to which it belongs.
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automatically in the training process.
6 Experiment and Discussion
We used the training set of the Semeval-2007
Shared task (Baker et al., 2007) i...
...
considering the posterior probabilities of words
in hypothesis lists. Therefore, like other voting
algorithms, its performance strongly depends on
the quality of the n-best hypotheses of each sin-
gle ... we
start from the intersection of the two word
alignments, and then continuously add new links
between backbone and hypothesis if and only if
both of the two wo...
... spo-
ken input to text using the Automatic Speech
Recognition (ASR) component and then tries to
infer the meaning using the Natural Language Un-
derstanding (NLU) component. At the core lies
the Dialogue ... satisfaction. An-
other benefit of RL is that it can be trained using
either real or simulated users and continue to learn
and adapt with each interaction (in the case of...
... dosing. Using this
methodology, we examined the effects of methylglyoxal
on an in vivo T. brucei infection. The maximum achiev-
able methylglyoxal concentration in blood following
oral dosing of ... med-
ium. In a previous study on the curative effect of
methylglyoxal in cancer-bearing mice [26], Ghosh et al.
established the pharmacokinetic properties of methyl-
glyo...
... Again one additional peak was
detected in the oxidized spectrum which was absent in
the reduced one and again the mass fitted to the sum
of the two peptides ()2H + 1) containing the same
cysteine ... mediates a blue-shift of
the emission maximum to 332 nm indicating a move-
ment of the tryptophan into a more hydrophobic envi-
ronment, probably into the interior of...