... indicate that few veterinarians use data analysis in their daily practice and advice.High data qualityLow data qualityCOWPOPULATION(herd or national)FARMScoring + treatmentData analysisBothherd/general ... situa-tion?'Data AnalysisThe qualitative analysis is based on a phenomenographic approach; that is a qualitative method to use empiric data(e.g., interview) to describe the variation ... into potential errors (bias andrandom error) related to data based on clinical examina-Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 http://www.actavetscand.com/content/51/1/36Page 8 of 10(page...
... 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 delayedaction-at -a- distance theory: namely, if a radiating electron, say inan atom or an antenna, were not acted upon at all by ... isdetermined by saying her whole space-time path has a certaincharacter. 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 continuousfunction of a. Fora equal to zero, the transformation should reduce to the...
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... the team. The database analysts and theprogrammers are unable to agree on the proper ways to pass informationback and forth between the interface and the database, and the require-ments analysts ... packages),• hardware and software implementation (implementing new computers orsoftware),• database management and revision (ensuring proper data storage andaccess),• hardware and software upgrades ... by this approach. It willalso 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 ... has a BA from California State College at Fullerton, an MA from the University of Washington, and a PhD from Oregon State University. He has taught a variety of public and private administration ... 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 Transformationis...
... can be mappedacross the entire organization. Accenture’s approach to efficiency contains a portfolioof tools and assets—the Accenture HighPerformance Bank Framework—that can help a bank achieve ... investmentcapital to tackle structural costreduction initiatives that have a longer payback• Absolute executive buy-in ofclear financial objectives andoperating model• An incontestable fact base andcost ... simplification,standardization and improvement. Withapproximately 4 million procurement trans-actions spread across nearly 200 differentbusiness areas each year, the bank wanted to gain greater...
... orderly444ChapterTwentyOnepresented atthe11'hannual meetingofHuman Brain Mapping, Toronto,ON, Canada.Vartanian,0.,& Gael,V.(200 4a) . Emotion pathwaysinthe brain mediateaesthetic preference.Bulletin ... (Chatterjee, 2003,p.56).Infact, the model seems to include a decision phase only as an approach to laboratory settings, where participants are usually asked to state theirpreferences or make ... than before,again including the occipital, temporal, and the frontal lobes, butinparticularbilateral orbital frontal corlex.Whatdothe resultsofKawabata and Zeki (2004) and Skovefal....
... 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...
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... plex patterns of syntax and semantics arising from verbs, by providing examples of the verb's usage, Since IRACQ assumes that a large vocabulary is available for use in the training examples," ... instances of classes, such as Vinson and C3 are automatically inferred from instances; and knowledge about deploy and its derivatives would be acquired via IRACQ. To illustrate this acquistion ... 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...
... 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 ... prel~minary stage in developing computer programs and data files for providing a grammatical analysis of -n~estricted English text. From 1981-83, a suite of PASCAL programs was devised to automatically ... previously opened adjective phrase and continue an already opened noun phrase or 161 A PROBABILISTIC APPROACHTO GRAMMATICAL ANALYSIS OF WRITT!N ENGLISH BY COMPUTER. Andrew David Beale, Unit for...