... of variation and bias in
relation to monitoring of animal disease incidence on
herd and national level, causal analysis on national level,
as well as estimation of validated treatment criteria.
Monitoring ... into potential errors (bias and
random error) related to data based on clinical examina-
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(page ... metritis' that relate to the quality of the
data that are produced. We analyse and build &apos ;a model of
understanding' based on DBL's observations and the indi-
vidual veterinarians'...
... international normalized ratio
(INR), and a liver panel. Although the serum
aminotransferase level correlates poorly with liver
histology, the ratio of aspartate aminotransferase (AST) to
alanine ... HCC, and mortality. In
addition, HCV infection has been linked toa variety of
extra-hepatic manifestations such as autoimmune
diseases, lymphoma, monoclonal gammopathies and
cryoglobulinemia. ... Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Evaluating for potential treatment candidacy is an important initial step in
the management of chronic HCV infection as not all individuals may need or qualify...
... normal transaminases.
ALT Levels
For many years, ALT has been used as a standard surrogate for the activity of CHB. Thus, ALT level in combination with
HBV DNA level and histological activity ... quantitation and three approved drugs for HBV
treatment, and presents an updated and practical clinical approachto
managing CHB. Highly sensitive PCR-based quantitation of HBV DNA
makes it ... treatment. Overall, LAM and ADV
are probably more favorable due to convenient administration, better tolerance, and less cost. When planning a LAM treatment,
medical adherence and regular follow-up...
... Feyn-
man soon learned that there was a great obstacle to this delayed
action-at -a- distance theory: namely, if a radiating electron, say in
an atom or an antenna, were not acted upon at all by ... is
determined by saying her whole space-time path has a certain
character. For the action [with advanced and retarded terms]
the equations are no longer at all easy to get back into Hamil-
tonian form. ... example, the transformation may be a rotation). The trans-
formation is to contain a parameter, a, and is to be a continuous
function of a. Fora equal to zero, the transformation should reduce
to the...
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Graduation paper
Declaration
Title: A new approachto semantic and syntactic
functions of English adjectives A contrastive–
analysis with their Vietnamese equivalents
(Graduation ... subject at most language universals.
According to C. James (1980;19), C .A is a form of inter-language study
and a central concern of applied linguistic. As a matter of fact, C .A has had
much to ... only to practical language but also to translation theory, the
description of particular language, language typology and the study of language
universals. In relation to bilingualism, C .A is...
... the team. The database analysts and the
programmers are unable to agree on the proper ways to pass information
back and forth between the interface and the database, and the require-
ments analysts ... packages),
• hardware and software implementation (implementing new computers or
software),
• database management and revision (ensuring proper data storage and
access),
• hardware and software upgrades ... by this approach. It will
also be useful to track organizations using this approach over a period of years,
and to compare their performance to those with different approaches. Orga-
nizations...
... that managers and administrators
face when attempting to impose a transformational change into their organizations
(Slavin and Woodard 2006, 23):
We close with a caution and a challenge. Transformation ... change initiatives,
and they serve as approaches to framing the planned change to fit into the technical
and human aspects of the change.
The Social and Behavioral Perspective in Transformation
is ... transformation actions.
e literature of organizational change clearly reveals that transformation ini-
tiatives are not always successful. When administrators fail to involve the entire
organization...
... can be mapped
across the entire organization. Accenture’s
approach to efficiency contains a portfolio
of tools and assets—the Accenture High
Performance Bank Framework—that can
help a bank achieve ... investment
capital to tackle structural cost
reduction initiatives that have
a longer payback
• Absolute executive buy-in of
clear financial objectives and
operating model
• An incontestable fact base and
cost ... simplification,
standardization and improvement. With
approximately 4 million procurement trans-
actions spread across nearly 200 different
business areas each year, the bank wanted
to gain greater...
... 2003,
p.
56).
In
fact, the model seems
to
include a decision phase only as an approach
to
laboratory settings, where participants are usually asked
to
state their
preferences or make decisions about a certain ... orderly
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Twenty
One
presented at
the
11
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annual meeting
of
Human Brain Mapping, Toronto,
ON, Canada.
Vartanian,
0.,
& Gael,
V.
(200 4a) . Emotion pathways
in
the brain mediate
aesthetic preference.
Bulletin ... than before,
again including the occipital, temporal, and the frontal lobes, but
in
particular
bilateral orbital frontal corlex.
What
do
the results
of
Kawabata and Zeki (2004) and Skov
ef
al....
... modest recall. As a
result, large quantities of NE instances are
automatically acquired. An automatically
annotated NE corpus can then be constructed by
extracting the tagged instances plus ... recall. Then, these
rules are applied toa large raw corpus to
automatically generate a tagged corpus. Finally, an
HMM-based NE tagger is trained using this
corpus. There is no iterative learning ...
containsDigitAndAlpha,
containsDigitAndDash,
containsDigitAndSlash,
containsDigitAndComma,
containsDigitAndPeriod, otherNum, allCaps,
capPeriod, initCap, lowerCase, other.
6 Benchmarking and...
... components that are key to
success
● HAZOP and FMEA approaches Hazard and Operability studies and Failure Modes Effects
Analysis are quantitative technical failure analysis techniques
● SWOT and PESTLE ... assurance available to the
Board and the audit committee. An evaluation of
the level of assurance that has been obtained is
also necessary. Often, a major source of risk
assurance for the Board ... risk indicators
◆ Critical controls and control weaknesses
◆ Sources of assurance available to the Board
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A structured approachto Enterprise Risk Management
Appendix A: Risk management checklist...
... Obtaln-Informatlon on the
discourse stack activates the rule DG-Obtaln-In/'o.
Pl an- analy sl s is activated to associate the
elliptical fragment with an aspect of I$'s task-
related ... underlying
a speaker's utterance. Allen views the speaker's
utterance as part of a plan which the speaker has
constructed and is executlug to accomplish his
overall task-related goals. To ...
in IS's fragment for the terms with which they are
associated in IS's plan.
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A PRAGMATIC~BASED APPROACHTO UNDERSTANDING INTERS~NTENTIAL ~LIPSI~
Sandra
Car berry
Department...
... should have intensions as arguments are unfor-
tunately specified separately. Examples that have
arisen in our applications involve changes in a reading
on a scale, e.g., USS Stark's readiness ... specification of descriptive constants
and axioms relating them. Remarkably, 99.9% of
7,000 vocabulary items in our natural language ap-
plications could be adequately axiomatlzed in the
taxonomic ... Knowledge Representation languages
and the Predicate Calculus: How to Have Your Cake
and Eat It Too. Proceedings of the Second National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI, August,
1982,...
... for instance, in fact is
labelled as a prepositio'~aT-~rase rather
than as an adverbial phrase. No attempt
is made to show any paraphrase
relationships. Putative deleted or
transposed ...
for hypertagging necessitate corresponding
amendments to the tree structures in the
tree databank.
The Case Law Manual.
The Case Law Manual (Sampson, 198~) is
a document that s,,mmarizes the ... previously opened
adjective phrase and continue an
already opened noun phrase or
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A PROBABILISTIC APPROACHTO GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS
OF WRITT!N ENGLISH BY COMPUTER.
Andrew David Beale,
Unit for...