... health information to create an overall health index of use as an indicator of sustainable development IX APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS This report spells out an approachto ... or primary data Indeed, indicators and highly aggregated indices top an information pyramid whose base is primary data derived from monitoring and data analysis (See Figure 1.) Indicators represent ... pressure and state indicators How existing economic and social indicators fit into such a framework also appears to be somewhat arbitrary A second approach, proposed by Peter Bartelmus of UNSTAT,...
... precise and accurate Accuracy Refers to how close a measurement is to the real value Systematic error Values that are either all higher or all lower than the actual value Random Error In the absence ... absence of systematic error, some values that are higher and some that are lower than the actual value 25 26 Precision and accuracy in the laboratory Figure 1.16 continued random error systematic error ... upon the measuring device All digits are significant • • • except zeros that are used only to position the decimal point Make sure that the measured quantity has a decimal point Start at the left,...
... Due to practical, ethical and financial rationalizations, samples are rarely collected with a methodology that allows broad testing opportunities and at a time or anatomical site relevant to the ... L, Allantaz F, Mejias A, Ardura M, Kaizer E, Monnet L, Allman W, Randall H, Johnson D, Lanier A, Punaro M, Wittkowski KM, White P, Fay J, Klintmalm G, Ramilo O, Palucka AK, Banchereau J, Pascual ... recommendations for assay parameters, coefficient of variation (CV) and data analysis to report in publications This should also include defining the analytical variation of the assay as well as determining...
... vector q for the EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems Full Op mode Addr Data in Data out Block Block ··· Block n − Data Data Data Data Data Data Data Data ··· ··· ··· ··· Data k − Data k − Data ... edges are relaxed: partial releases are added to the typically random accessible data in the container of a token These partial releases enable releasing only a part of the acquired tokes to support ... Yokohama, Japan, January 2006 F Haim, M Sen, D.-I Ko, S S Bhattacharyya, and W Wolf, “Mapping multimedia applications onto configurable hardware with parameterized cyclo-static dataflow graphs,”...
... Communications Research Laboratory of McMaster University as a Postdoctoral Fellow Since September 1997, he has been working in Ottawa, Canada He was a Research Scientist at Telexis Corporation and ... Intrinsix Canada, and a Research Consultant for Calian Corporation Currently, he works with Defence R & D Canada – Ottawa (DRDC Ottawa) His more recent research has focused on FFT filter-bank-based ... diagram of the systematic convolutional code from the DSBGT MAP algorithm while the PB MAP algorithm is obtained in a similar way from the SBGT MAP algorithm Using (19), (A. 2), (A. 4), and applying...
... patients, it may be beneficial to monitor peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) before and after hyperventilation episodes to make patients aware of their breathing, and to retrain their breathing pattern.5 ... physical or psychological trauma.9 Physician awareness and patient awareness are keys to successful treatment that involves speech and psychotherapy Poor Adherence Once the diagnosis of asthma is ... controlling the asthma as asthma and sudden exacerbations are likely to cause anxiety and panic-like symptoms in the first place Asthmatics with comorbid depression are especially difficult to treat For...
... treatment in 209 cases of relapse hemoptysis Angiology 1993, 44:295-299 Tanaka N, Yamakado K, Murashima S, Takeda K, Matsumura K, Nakagawa T, Takano K, Ono M, Hattori T: Superselective bronchial ... embolotherapy for control af acute hemoptysis Chest 1999, 115:912-915 Analysis and interpretation of data: Fartoukh, Parrot, Mayaud, Cadranel Drafting of the manuscript: Fartoukh, Parrot, Carette, Khalil ... data analysis 19 20 Study concept and design: Fartoukh, Cadranel Acquisition of data: Parrot, Louis, Fartoukh 21 Remy J, Arnaud A, Fardou H: Treatment of hemoptysis by embolization of bronchial...
... able to create meaningful data valid in large scale analyses (across herds and veterinary practices) Such veterinarians would generally want to focus on possibilities for across-herd data analyses ... scores as a 'diagnostic tool' related to each individual treatment decision rather than being part of a collaborative data collection For example, they could add rectal temperature and other parameters ... Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51:36 cal analyses in the future, and they are highly motivated to use, for instance, multi-factorial analysis...
... 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 aminotransferase ... linked toa variety of extra-hepatic manifestations such as autoimmune diseases, lymphoma, monoclonal gammopathies and cryoglobulinemia Some of these extra-hepatic complications could lead to severe ... regardless of treatment candidacy Alcohol abstinence should be recommended to all patients as this may accelerate the progression of liver disease Hepatotoxic drugs should also be avoided, as patients...
... 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 has been used as a determinant for HBV treatment ... normal transaminases have historically not been considered as candidates for HBV treatment based on the assumption that these patients usually have a slow progression and evidence that these patients ... predictors of response to LAM and ADV therapies are similar to those for IFN except that baseline HBV DNA may not be very important Individualization of HBV Treatment As summarized in Table and...
... However, Feynman 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 ... xn (a) and which leaves the action invariant (for example, the transformation may be a rotation) The transformation is to contain a parameter, a, and is to be a continuous function of a For a equal ... gives probably the most fundacorresponds to e mental quantum analogue for the classical Lagrangian function It is preferable for the sake of analogy to consider the classical Lagrangian as a function...
... time available/ in the available time.(1) We have to exploit all available potential/ all potential available in our country (2) As we know that when changing the position of adjective available ... should be washed everyday Nguyễn Thị Nga K 1 1A 19 Graduation paper 2.2.5 Exclamatory adjective sentence An adjective as head of an adjective phrase or as its sole realization can be an exclamation: ... up to now C .A plays an important role in learning a foreign language as a main subject at most language universals According to C James (1980;19), C .A is a form of inter-language study and a central...
... the American Nurses Association, the American Psychological Association, and Sigma Theta Tau International She is a board member of the International Council on Women's Health Issues and a charter ... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publkation Data Thomas, Sandra P, Listening to patients : a phenomenological approachto nursing / Sandra P Thomas, Howard R Pollio p cm Includes bibliographical ... the man as a nurse and Ginger as a physician, whereas still other reactions identify the man as a nurse and Ginger as a patient You don't have to be a philosopher of language or a communications...
... 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 requirements analysts and ... software packages), hardware and software implementation (implementing new computers or software), database management and revision (ensuring proper data storage and access), hardware and software ... Project managers usually employ a Responsibility Assignment Matrix (RAM) such as the sample in Table (PMI, 2000), and OD scholars have advocated similar approaches in teambuilding and organizational...
... into manageable size—say to make a presentation about the Vietnam War or locate the best marketing strategy for a hypothetical business venture—consider making a quick visual map to see what ... number of audiences equals the number of students in class Write one per slip of paper and place in a hat and let each student draw an audience out of a hat Each now write a paragraph to the audience ... makes a permanent record to be reread and studied in your absence And if you want to maintain a certain tone or coolness of demeanor, this can be accomplished more easily in writing than in face-toface...
... the Sandia National Laboratory study on enterprise transformation serves to bring the dangers that managers and administrators face when attempting to impose a transformational change into their ... Sandia National Laboratories approach, a four-level transformation model that focuses on identifying a transformation trigger, and an eight-factor public management model A Need for Transformation ... the earlier actions are integrated into the organization’s culture The Sandia Laboratories management team, for example, warned that a transformation initiative should not demand more than the...
... competitive advantage over its rival and is on the path to high performance The key is for banks to evaluate their business model now against scenarios ranging from best case to worst case, and to act ... program initiatives1 As Figure shows, a tactical cost-cutting approach will quickly yield substantial savings which rapidly level off after the first year A bank taking a more strategic, transformational ... Accenture’s approachto efficiency contains a portfolio of tools and assets—the Accenture High Performance Bank Framework—that can help a bank achieve high performance We believe there are significant...
... contrast, the studies by Kawabata and Zeki (2004) and Skov ef al (2005) attempted to isolate those cortical structures that are actIvated more when a stimulus is evaluated as beautiful Presumably, ... network than before, again including the occipital, temporal, and the frontal lobes, but in particular bilateral orbital frontal corlex What the results of Kawabata and Zeki (2004) and Skov ef al (2005) ... neural correlates of preference and beauty, two variables that have affective and cognitive components The areas activated by Vartanian and Goel (2004b) may have highlighted those cOrlical structures...
... unlimited raw corpus compensates for the modest recall As a result, large quantities of NE instances are automatically acquired An automatically annotated NE corpus can then be constructed by extracting ... fourDigitNum, containsDigitAndAlpha, containsDigitAndDash, containsDigitAndSlash, containsDigitAndComma, containsDigitAndPeriod, otherNum, allCaps, capPeriod, initCap, lowerCase, other Benchmarking and Discussion ... example: IsA(man) Æ PER IsA(city) Æ LOC IsA(company) Æ ORG IsA(software) Æ PRO Automatic Construction of Annotated NE Corpus In this step, we use the parsing-based first learner to tag a raw...
... identify critical components that are key to success G HAZOP and FMEA approaches Hazard and Operability studies and Failure Modes Effects Analysis are quantitative technical failure analysis techniques ... N 17 Risk appetite, tolerance and constraints Sources of assurance available to the Board A structured approachto Enterprise Risk Management Appendix B: Implementation summar y The table below ... they enable an organisation to identify accumulations of similar risks A risk classification system will also enable an organisation to identify which strategies, tactics and operations are most...