... wide and 1–2 cm deep The patient expressed the willing not to receive postoperative radiation or adjuvant chemotherapy which was justified based on the stage of the disease and the cardiovascular ... in the skin [12] The consistent positivity of the MCC for CD20 and the negativity for TTF-1 are important in the differential diagnosis from small cell neuroendocrine lung carcinoma [25-27] The ... article; NN helped in drafting the draft CG carried out the immunoassays; LL: participated in the design of the study and performed the statistical analysis; MK: conceived of the study, and participated...
... between the current tool and the next tool in the rack The functional task model generates a desired trajectory to simulate the dynamics of the selected task with the difficulty specified by the ... However, the design of ADAPT departs from that of most other current robotic systems In these systems, the task goal is generally prespecified, and the robot modulates the assistance provided to the ... the high-level controller The computed control current is then applied to the robot to simulate the task, and the patient feels the simulated dynamics by manipulating the selected tool (see [56]...
... identified in the patient with "CRPS I"? With the hypothesis that chronic pain input to the dorsal spinal columns can be the source of CRPS II, misdiagnosed as CRPS I, and with the hypothesis that ... the lower extremitythe results were excellent in 41% (7 of 17 patients), good in 35% (6 of 17 patients) and a failure in 24% (4 of 17 patients) Follow-up > 24 months In theupperextremitythe ... be achieved by resecting the anterior and the posterior interosseous nerves.[19,26] For the dorsolateral ankle, either the deep peroneal nerve above the ankle and/or the sural must be resected[31,32]...
... first evaluation, the left arm appeared cooler than the right arm, and there was a gross deformity and instability at the elbow joint with an ecchymotic area over the medial side of the elbow (Fig ... contrast flow at the level of the elbow, with collateral reconstitution of vascular flow in the forearm (Fig 5, arrow) The patient was taken emergently to the OR for exploration of the antecubital ... uninjured limb and the API is calculated by dividing the systolic pressure in the injured limb by the systolic pressure in the uninjured limb This tool has been validated in the setting of penetrating...
... will be there to explain the wording and to guide the application of the rules in the law Therefore, the rules set out in legal documents have to be clear, precise and unambiguous, on the one ... Unfamiliar pronouns like the same, the said, the aforementioned are used not to replace the nouns, but to supplement them, as in the said John Smith * Here-, there- and where- words and their derivatives ... identify: the intention of the text, the intention of the translator, text styles, the readership, stylistic scales, attitude, setting, the quality of the writing, connotations and denotations, and the...
... concentrates their definition of Cloud Computing on the services and interprocess communication that is possible using these applications and the underlying XML networks Inherent in their definition is the ... managing these costs and the tradeoffs for security IV Another significant factor in the adoption of the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA) Model (Brynko, et.al.) is the decision ... among all of these trends is the fact there is not a single unified security model that can in depth define each aspect of a cloud for security level validation The role of the CIO is then becoming...
... in parenthesis J-Stat denotes the p-value of the Jstatistic to test the null hypothesis that the overidentifying restrictions are satisfied Excess returns are expressed vis-à-vis the US The data ... both the domestic country and the US for bonds Standard errors are reported in parenthesis J-Stat denotes the p-value of the Jstatistic to test the null hypothesis that the overidentifying restrictions ... estimated on a country pair basis The US SDF on the vertical axis is estimated vis-à-vis the UK Theoretically, if all the points were on the 45-degree line, the SDF estimated on a country pair...
... epidermal glands on the leaves (especially theupper ones), stems, and the bracts that support the flowers of the marijuana plant Although the flower itself has no epidermal glands, it has the highest ... syndrome).9,12 When it was removed from the market shortly thereafter, there was little protest, despite the fact that it was safe for the vast majority of the population The 1,536 cases and 27 deaths ... guidance to the study team throughout the study—from helping to lay the intellectual framework to reviewing early drafts of the report The following people wrote invaluable background papers for the...
... local levels The methods in the series use the general framework for global assessments described in the World Health Report (WHO, 2002) The introductory volume in the series outlines the general ... to the annual mean concentration of PM2.5 A value of was added to the X terms in the formula to ensure that the log function is defined at X = The value of Xo is usually assumed to be either: the ... located throughout the metropolitan area of the study population, these monitors should be the basis of the extrapolation as well In principle, the monitoring data used to calculate the average annual...
... driving the ‘all-in’ fee lower Rather, the lower fee may be attributed to some other factors such as the age of the plan, the length of the time over which auto-enrollment has been in place or other ... III describes the characteristics of the plan sponsors that participated in the survey Section IV explains the mechanics of how fees are charged and the services that the plans and their participants ... geographic regions in the United States Among survey respondents, 35% were located in the Midwest, 19% in the South, 23% in the West, and 23% in the Northeast (Exhibit 8) The regional distribution...
... topic The relatedness of a post to the topic of the forum may influence post quality We capture this relatedness by the cosine between the posts unigram vector and the unigram vector of the forum ... proposed in the present paper Finding the most authoritative post could also be defined as a special case of the quality assessment However, it is definitely different from the task studied in the present ... outperform the baseline system The best performing single feature category are the Forum specific features As we seek to build an adaptable system, analyzing the performance without these features...
... blaming themselves, they have fun solving the problem Those who are hesitant They prefer to wait until a new technology is proven before they try it Even then, they may resist until they are ... bias they bring that may affect the way they responded to questions Maybe there is a sub-group of people who are less versed in use of the Internet and this had a major impact on the way they ... decide the best way for you to collect responses to the survey • Keep the questions and the design of the survey as simple as possible If possible, have at least one other person respond to the...
... blaming themselves, they have fun solving the problem Those who are hesitant They prefer to wait until a new technology is proven before they try it Even then, they may resist until they are ... bias they bring that may affect the way they responded to questions Maybe there is a sub-group of people who are less versed in use of the Internet and this had a major impact on the way they ... decide the best way for you to collect responses to the survey • Keep the questions and the design of the survey as simple as possible If possible, have at least one other person respond to the...
... subconsciously, much about the behaviour, desired or otherwise, of the tagger, it may well be that if the developers also annotate the benchmark corpus used for evaluating the tagger, some of the tagger's ... Jiirvinen concern the (i) typology of the differences and (ii) the reliability of their experiment Concerning the typology of the differences: in Voutilainen and J~irvinen's experiment the linguists ... consultation with the ENGCG expert, the trainee processed the fob lowing sample The training lasted about 30 hours It was concluded by familiarising the linguists with the routine used in the experiment...
... comes the equally important human setting (care) in which that science is applied The “human setting” pertains to the nature of the patient-provider relationship i.e whether the patient finds the ... the EFPA; and the remaining clinics belonged to the CSI project The study hrther selected women for interview both from local communities served by the clinics and from the clinics themselves A ... has developed their definitions further by adding management of the service facility as one component of the quality of care5" QUALITY IN THE CONTEXT OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH SERVICES The WHO definition...
... using the CTMaximum method influenced theupper temperature tolerance limits of fish pre-exposed to sublethal concentrations of the nominated chemicals The aims of the study were to determine (1) the ... estimated on the basis of the results obtained from acute tests, conducted simultaneously in glass vessels using the same stock solutions of these chemicals, with the fish species as part of the other ... affects the CTMaximum values of the four species of fish MATERIALS AND METHODS Three of the test fish species are native to Australia, these being the silver perch B bidyanus (Mitchell), the eastern...
... from relaxing the Mailbox Rule If access to the mailbox is opened up to deliveries other than U.S mail, the main risk to the public may be in terms of theft from the mailbox Mail theft plays a ... directly to the mailbox More specifically, the We use the name Mailbox Rule; the reader should not confuse this with either the Postal Monopoly (the USPS monopoly on delivering mail) or the contract ... characteristics of the incident, to whom the consumer reported the incident, who the responder was, and investigation costs Doing so would be important to quantify the hypothesized impact that relaxing the...
... other materials, in view of the comparative size of their flows, only iron, steel and aluminium enter the priority lists The studies not agree regarding the issue of construction materials They ... scarcity The Working Group on Biofuels focuses on the specific topic of biofuels, and their specific implications on land use and other pressures, and their contribution to the solution of the problem ... studies Note that the unit used in the global economy study of Goedkoop et al (2008) is also DALYs, the same as in the GBD studies performed by the WHO There is some overlap between the environmental...
... calculate the concentrations of the aqueous metal species, derive the removal fluxes in Equation 3.1 and, given Fweath, thereby obtain the critical load, Fin,tox The smaller Fin,tox, the more toxic the ... possible risk if the substance enters the environment, with the degree (probability) of risk related to the hazardous nature of the substance and the amount of exposure that occurs Therefore, substances ... concentration These tissue concentrations then serve as the exposure concentrations for upper trophic level predators Within the UWM framework, if the predicted tissue concentration in the prey organism...