... SEEA accounts can also be used to cal-culate environmental indicators, as illustrated laterin this report.In addition to adjustments to economic indica-tors, purely economic approaches have ... substances.Indicator: Global atmospheric concentrations ofCFC-U and CFC-12.Indicator: Stratospheric ozone levels over Canada.Further indicators may be introduced at a laterdate to measure ... environmental impacts onhuman health and welfare are key to sustainabil-ity—either as environmental indicators or as com-ponents of social indicators. Equally important aremeasures of the degree to...
... is to the real value. Systematic error - Values that are either all higher or all lower than the actual value.25Figure 1.16precise and accurateprecise but not accuratePrecision and accuracy ... values that are higher and some that are lower than the actual value.Precision -Refers to reproducibility or how close the measurements are to each other.Accuracy -Refers to how close a measurement ... Digits are Significant All digits are significantã Make sure that the measured quantity has a decimal point.ã Start at the left, move right until you reach the first nonzero digit.ã Count that...
... Due to practical, ethical and financialrationalizations, samples are rarely collected with a meth-odology that allows broad testing opportunities and at a time or anatomical site relevant to ... has been organizedunder the leadership of Lisa Butterfield, Nora Disis andKarolina Palucka to evaluate current approaches to thevalidation of known immune response biomarkers andthe standardization ... successfully vaccinated patients and/or patients who respond toa specific immu-notherapy. Particularly, the least costly assay which isstandardized and/or validated, with freely available refer-ence...
... environment. 6 EURASIP Journal on Embedded SystemsBlock 0 Block 1 ··· Block n − 1Data 0Data 1···Data k − 1Data 0Data 1···Data k − 1Data 0Data 1···Data k − 1Data 0Data 1···Data k − 1FullOp ... edgesare relaxed: partial releases are added to the typically ran-dom accessible data in the container of a token. These par-tial releases enable releasing only a part of the acquired tokes to ... number of tokens can changeperiodically resulting in a c yclo-static behavior.The data-driven operation of a CSDF graph allows for anautomatic synchronization between the actors: an actor can-not...
... CodesSichun Wang1and Francáois Patenaude21Defence Research and Development Canada – Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada K 1A 0Z42Communications Research Centre Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada K2H 8S2Received ... &D Canada – Ottawa (DRDC Ottawa). His more recent research hasfocused on FFT filter-bank-based constant false alarm rate (CFAR)detectors and forward error-correction codes.Francáois Patenaude ... September 1997, he hasbeen working in Ottawa, Canada. He was a Research Scientist atTelexis Corporation and Intrinsix Canada, and a Research Consul-tant for Calian Corporation. Currently, he...
... scan is nowadays mandatory and a normal portable chestX-ray may lead to an erroneous classification [2].The significance of a positive respiratory culture forAspergillus spp. in a non-immunodepressed ... without malignancy. Am J Resp Crit Care Med2004, 170:621-625.5. Garnacho-Montero J, Amaya-Villar R, Ortiz-Leyba C, León C,Álvarez-Lerma F, Nolla-Salas J, Iruretagoyena JR, Barcenilla F:Isolation ... W,Colardyn F, Vogelaers D: Clinical relevance of Aspergillus iso-lation from respiratory tract samples in criticallyill patients. Critical Care 2006, 10:R31.2. Denning DW: Invasive aspergillosis....
... Pertega S, Beceiro A, Llinares P,Canle D, Molina F, Villanueva R, Cisneros JM, Bou G: Hospitaloutbreak caused by a carbapenem-resistant strain of Acineto-bacter baumannii: patient prognosis and ... 2001,29:N114-N120.10. Fagon JY, Chastre J, Hance AJ, Montravers P, Novara A, Gibert C:Nosocomial pneumonia in ventilated patients: a cohort studyevaluating attributable mortality and hospital stay. Am J Med1993, ... Olona M, Martinez JA, Marco F, LopezMJ, Soriano A, Horcajada JP, Gatell JM, et al.: Bacteraemia inadults due to glucose non-fermentative Gram-negative bacilliother than P. aeruginosa. QJM 2003,...
... 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 ... disease. Hepatotoxic drugs should also be avoided, as patients with advanced fibrosis have little reserve for additional injury. Immunization against hepatitis A and B should be given if patients ... International Publisher. All rights reserved Review A Practical Approachto Managing Patients with HCV Infection Richard H. Huang, and Ke-Qin Hu Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology,...