... al., Criticalevaluationof diagnostic aids for the , Oral Oncol (2007), doi:10.1016/j.oraloncology.2007.06.011 ARTICLE IN PRESS Criticalevaluationof diagnostic aids for the detection of oral ... al., Criticalevaluationof diagnostic aids for the , Oral Oncol (2007), doi:10.1016/j.oraloncology.2007.06.011 ARTICLE IN PRESS Criticalevaluationof diagnostic aids for the detection of oral ... al., Criticalevaluationof diagnostic aids for the , Oral Oncol (2007), doi:10.1016/j.oraloncology.2007.06.011 ARTICLE IN PRESS Criticalevaluationof diagnostic aids for the detection of oral...
... scalability An inter-GOF temporal prediction is also used as an option in the above coding system The inter-GOF temporal prediction leads to GOFs of type intra and of type inter The inter-GOF temporal ... in most Scenarios are sorted by the number of delivered bits obtained with the standard mode selection mechanism Evaluation of Media-Oriented Rate Selection Algorithm Temporal analysis 765 Spatial ... Therefore, the loss of an I-frame has a more drastic impact on the quality of the video playback than the loss of other types of frames In this respect, the frame loss requirement of I-frames is more...
... increased scrutiny of the quality of guidelines in recent years This emphasis is in part related to the relatively recent work of the Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation (AGREE) collaboration, ... guideline was a partial update [7] of a previously published guideline [12], and both of these were combined for the evaluation Four of the guidelines were complete updates of previously published guidelines ... http://arthritis-research.com/content/9/6/R126 Table Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluationof the guidelines Appraisal of Guidelines Research and Evaluation criterion EULAR [6] Ottawa Panel [11]...
... restored in the event of a hardware failure (BackupBuddy VFS; Blue Nomad Software, Redwood City, CA, USA) The devices were also equipped with software capable of generating a log of the applications ... to use a 'think R416 Critical Care December 2004 Vol No Lapinsky et al Table Prospective tracking of the utilization of handheld applications Handheld application Number of accesses/month Median ... acceptance of this technology was not uniform, with just over half of the participants using their handheld devices to access information on a regular basis Nevertheless, the availability of point-ofcare...
... the inclusion of R577 Critical Care Vol No Delaney et al Table Source of publication of reports of meta-analyses that address critical care issues Source of publication Number of reports Percentage ... avoidance of bias in the selectionof studies and the assessment of the validity of all the included studies These are crucial elements in the conduct of a metaanalysis, without which the results of ... part of a thesis submitted to the faculty of graduate studies in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science, Department of Community Health Science, University of...
... mean duration of 4.0 days The medical ICU has 18 beds, 1,700 admissions and an average length of stay of 3.7 days In 2002 the medical ICU had a nosocomial MRSA acquisition rate of 2.5 new MRSA ... characteristics The diagnostic performance of the qMRSA test in critically ill patients was assessed during a pilot phase before the start of the present study Results of conventional MRSA culturing procedures, ... body washing of known MRSA carriers for at least five days); a computerized MRSA alert system; and regular feedback of surveillance results [13,15,20] Because of some earlier clusters of MRSA cross-transmission,...
... Table Comparison of the methodological issues to be considered in the evaluationof single and complex interventions in critical care Component of the evaluationEvaluationof a single intervention ... appropriate time The results of RCTs of complex critical care interventions must be examined closely so that an ongoing program of research aimed at improving the care of the critically ill can be sustained ... not impede rigorous initial evaluationof the impact of the overall protocol [9] The analogy to studies of single interventions is clear; for example, acceptance of streptomycin as a treatment...
... Software System) is a software tool developed by RIPED (Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration & Development, PetroChina), and its main application is evaluationof EOR potential The software ... comparison of certain properties of fluids and reservoir of a field under study with the criteria proposed by diverse authors through time, with the aim of determining which methods of improved ... identify from a data base of approximately 1000 projects of application of methods of improved recovery if a specific technology EOR has been implemented under properties of fluid and reservoir...
... observation of cyclic edema demonstrated the success of the treatment and the need for its control, but we had no idea of the high prevalence of edema in the more advanced grades of cellulite The lack of ... were excluded An evaluation for idiopathic cyclic edema is routinely made in the diagnosis of cellulite, in obesity and in other evident causes of clinical edema The diagnosis of idiopathic cyclic ... and with the combination of drugs control of edema was attained Discussion This study illustrates the association of idiopathic cyclic edema with more advanced cases of cellulite There are no...
... the prevalence of low back pain of 162% with an annual increase of 11.6% The widely held belief that most of the episodes of low back pain will be short-lived, with 80% to 90% of these attacks ... lumbar radiofrequency neurotomy.29-31 The exact mechanism of the therapeutic effect of lumbar facet joint nerve blocks is not known, whereas radiofrequency neurotomy causes denaturing of the nerves ... Classification of Chronic Pain; Descriptions of Chronic Pain Syndromes and Definition of Pain Terms, 2nd ed; Task Force on Taxonomy of the International Association for the Study of Pain Seattle:...
... consistent pattern of the effect of smoking on risk of cancer deaths TABLE Characteristics of cases and two control groups: Population-based case-control study of smoking on risk of cancer deaths ... between male living spouses of women who died of any cause and those spouses of women who died of some other causes other than smoking related causes The prevalence of smoking were 57.1% and 57.8%, ... which depends on the size of the trial and specified probabilities of error.13,18 In the methodological areas of control selection, it is widely accepted that the inclusion of multiple control groups...
... CI for the prevalence of infusion was also lower in the total group of cases with CAs It is worth focusing the second and third months of gestation, the critical period of most major CAs We did ... association was based on cases and two offspring had mothers with infusion after the third month of gestation (i.e the critical period of this CA-group) The lower prevalence of infusion in the mothers with ... infusion in the second month of gestation, i.e during the critical period of renal a/dysgenesis The type of drugs obviously has a greater impact for fetuses than the route of administration [17] Thus...
... activity of disease in sarcoidosis or HP In addition, finding of encapsulated exudates may suggest desquamation of early stage of Masson body which implies possible diagnosis in a limited number of ... Patients’ group showing the highest rate of lymphocytes Of the 2260 patients, 488 (21.6%) showed a lymphocyte rate of higher than 40% Clinical diagnoses of these patients included sarcoidosis (22.1%), ... infiltration of mast cells implies histological feature of organization of collagenous matrices or interstitial fibrosis 10 Basophilic leukocytes were never found in the normal control and most of the...
... in materials evaluation including definitions of materials evaluation, purposes for materials evaluation, types of materials evaluation, materials evaluators, models for materials evaluation, ... purposes of the course as well as the available facilities and constraints of a particular situation 1.2 Materials Evaluation 1.2.1 Definitions of Materials Evaluation There are many ways of defining ... research 1.2.3 Types of Materials Evaluation In materials evaluation literature different authors offer different ways of categorizing it Robinson (1991:59) classifies materials evaluation into three...
... evaluation, etc Teacher evaluation task evaluation, etc Learners evaluationevaluationof sequencing practice, ect evaluationof levels of participation etc Figure 3: Macro- and micro -evaluation in language ... purpose of the evaluation 1.2.2 Types of programme evaluation According to Stufflebeam (1971), there are four types of programme evaluation which are identified as: context evaluation, input evaluation, ... ESP (definition of ESP, classification of ESP and the development of ESP), evaluation (terminology definition, types of programme evaluation, purposes for evaluation, criteria for evaluation and...
... the discretization steps of Ds became different in the course of the test For the next steps of Dsn calculated as above, excess of the pore water pressure Evaluationof consolidation parameters ... changes of loading procedure Therefore selectionof the multinomial function should be done very carefully The results of theoretical analysis of the CL consolidation enable: — comparison of various ... used formulae and the Fig Comparison of different methods of cv estimation in the context of theoretical analysis of the CL consolidation process Evaluationof consolidation parameters in CL tests;...
... INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH UNIVERSITY OF PESHAWAR (2005) EVALUATIONOF INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS USED IN TEACHING OF ENGLISH IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF HARIPUR DISTRICT Submitted ... sphere of this mortal life APPROVAL SHEET The thesis entitled Evaluationof instructional method used in teaching of English In secondary schools of Haripur District Accepted by the faculty of ... 1-3 I 1.1 Background of the Study 1.2 Statement of the Problem 1.3 Objectives of the Study 1.4 Significance of the Study 1.5 Hypothesis 1.6 Delimitation of the Study II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE...
... works Evaluation is implemented in phases of investment process: Inception evaluation; Midterm evaluation; Completion evaluation; Impact evaluation or after project evaluation Monitoring and Evaluation ... implementation Evaluation - Internal evaluation - External evaluation - Implementation - Results - Impacts - Inception evaluation - Midterm evaluation - Completion evaluation - Impact evaluation ... Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism IS Information System IT Information Technology M&E Monitoring & Evaluation MPI Ministry of Planning and Investment MOF Ministry of Finance MBA Master of Business...