... surgery, with exclusion of the aneurysm and mitral valve annuloplasty Median sternotomy was performed with subsequent pericardiotomy The conduits (left internal mammary artery, left radial artery and ... aneurysms withand without rupture J Cardiovasc Surg 1994, 107(6):1532-1535 Eshtehardi P, Cook S, Moarof I, Triller HJ, Windecker S: Giant coronary artery aneurysm: imaging findings before and after ... aneurysm presenting with non- ST elevation myocardial infarction and severe mitral regurgitation: a case report Journal of Medical Case Reports 2011 5:442 Consent Written informed consent was obtained...
... the study at any time and still obtain clinical care Study procedures and efficacy measures Diagnoses were made by clinical examination and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis-I Disorders/Patient ... antidepressants and/ or augmentation therapies with antimanic agents [2], such a prescribing habit is a popular clinicalpractice also supported by pharmacodynamic considerationsWith regard to ... responders and non- responders at the end of the study is likely due to the fact that the non- responders’ scores substantially did not modify within week 12 (before zonisamide augmentation) and week...
... patients with radiography, in 20 with MRI, and in 20 with ultrasonography (15 simultaneously with MRI) Eleven patients with erosions on radiography were identified as having erosions with MRI and ... to none with ultrasonography and one with radiography Ultrasonography and radiography detected no erosions in PIP joints of the healthy persons examined; one quadrant with erosions was found with ... for signs of inflammation compared withclinical assessment, without loss of specificity The low sensitivity of clinical examination may account for the deterioration of RA patients despite clinically...
... simplicity and power, as judged by the medical user; with labeling and terminology appropriate for the medical user; andwith interface capabilities for importing and exporting information from ... for participating physicians and nurses to want to change their traditional clinical practices and adopt the xxv newer approaches? Will the limited reimbursements for performing “e-visits,” for ... system performance and its benefit to health care; and The absence of appropriate tools for medical experts to experiment with CBIR applications, which is again related to usability and performance...
... population between 30 and 90 years of age, with mild form in 22% and advanced form in 13% The severe forms of periodontitis affected more men than women, and more AfricanAmericans and Hispanics than ... Pediatric, Research, Epidemiology andClinical Practices 2.3.2 Caries prevalence of school children The percentage of children with DMFT=0 at the age of six was 13.3%, and as expected, this decreased with ... visit and suggest that “the dental community needs to step forward and encourage these early visits” (Regan 2002) 38 Oral Health Care – Pediatric, Research, Epidemiology andClinical Practices...
... relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use Product liability: The publishers cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information about dosage andapplication contained ... obese and nonobese human adipose tissue Fed Proc 1970;29(4):1516–1521 Salans, L.B., Cushman, S.W., Weismann, R.E Studies of human adipose tissue: adipose cell size and number of nonobese and ... B Group C Group D Fat alone Fat with dextran beads Fat with dextran beads soaked with cytochrome C (nonmitogenic control solution) Fat with dextran beads soaked with basic fibroblast growth factor...
... both pure and applied research, and the global scientific institution, with its discursive formations molding together the practices and language of medical education, medical research, and medical ... HISTORICAL AND CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVE TABLE 1.2 Demands That Finally Lead to Unhealthy Results Demands and Needs Thwarting of Demands and Needs Unhealthy Results Secondary Demands and Needs Unhealthy ... rational and irrational beliefs in human feelings, encompassing both subjective and psycho-physiological responses Part III (Clinical Applications) turns to clinical implications of understanding and...
... population between 30 and 90 years of age, with mild form in 22% and advanced form in 13% The severe forms of periodontitis affected more men than women, and more AfricanAmericans and Hispanics than ... Pediatric, Research, Epidemiology andClinical Practices 2.3.2 Caries prevalence of school children The percentage of children with DMFT=0 at the age of six was 13.3%, and as expected, this decreased with ... visit and suggest that “the dental community needs to step forward and encourage these early visits” (Regan 2002) 38 Oral Health Care – Pediatric, Research, Epidemiology andClinical Practices...
... companies, clinicalresearch organizations, and other organizations that have recruited and trained community healthcare providers forclinical trials andclinicalresearch networks and/ or have key information ... trials and/ or clinicalresearch networks We began with an environmental scan of academic and trade journals, the internet, and public- and private sector reports of clinicaland community-engaged research ... clinicians and proposes potential strategies for avoiding them Page of 11 We interviewed key informants who could provide information about the realities of clinicalresearchandclinical practice...
... clinicians to practice- based research could, in consultation with clinician and patient representatives, adopt and enforce a set of clinicalresearch principles emphasizing value for clinicians and patients ... articulate clinicalresearch principles that value clinicians and patients andwith a clear set of standards that clinicians and other research participants must adhere to Information- Clinicians ... viable clinicalpractice is of paramount concern As an informant from a clinicalresearch organization noted: ’People don’t this for the greater good They don’t have time, and they can’t afford...
... responsible for monitoring such efforts? a What role you see forclinicalpractice guideline use as a method for improving quality of care? b Do you believe clinicalpractice guidelines are effective for ... relationship can be inferred from related researchand theory Research indicates that clinicians want to access and interact with computerized clinical data more naturally and intuitively than is currently ... Background Methods Audit and feedback (A&F) has been used for decades as a strategy for changing the clinicalpractice behaviors of health care personnel In clinicalpractice guideline (CPG)...
... sepsis bundles as a performance improvement tool to standardize educational efforts and provide performance feedback on a monthly or quarterly basis to facilitate change with the eventual goal ... evaluating sepsis bundle performance at their hospitals and presented observational data that show an association between sepsis bundle performance and outcome in patients with severe sepsis This ... programme using the free software available from the SSC and IHI and to submit their anonymized data to the SCC for aggregate analysis in accordance with the instructions on the website The SSC sepsis...
... publication of IAH and ACS expert consensus definitions • 2007: Clinicalpractice guidelines • 2009: Recommendations forresearch • 2013 : Updated Consensus definitions andClinicalpractice guidelines ... muscle contractions are absent andwith the transducer zeroed at the level of the midaxillary line Pediatric specific definitions (cont’) • Reference standard for intermittent IAP measurement ... skin and fascia not being closed after laparotomy Pediatric specific definitions (cont’) Updated Clinicalpractice guidelines • Updated consensus management statements • GRADE recommendations for...
... from the measured stator voltages Vsα and Vsβ and currents i sα and isβ , then by using (1) and (4) qand d-axis flux linkage are drived Also, by usig (4) qand d-axis current are calculated Finally, ... Unlike those for motor with sinusoidal back-EMFs, optimal current references for a nonsinusoidal back-EMF motor (BLDC) in the synchronous reference frame are not constant, therefore current wave ... reference frame used for DTC of sinusoidal ac motors is no longer valid for BLDC motor, therefore a new torque estimation algorithm is derived in dq frame consisting of dq–axes fluxs and currents The...
... operands with N ordinary operands and N function operands, we first compute the full O(k N ) cross-product of the ordinary operands, then apply each of the N functions from the remaining operands ... structure with two operations ⊕ and ⊗, where ⊗ need not be associative and need not distribute over ⊕, and furthermore where ⊕ and ⊗ are Distributivity of combination over aggregation fails for related ... set R≥0 × L with element 0, and element 1, For two values u1 , U1 and u2 , U2 , the aggregation operator returns max(u1 , u2 ), Uargmaxi∈{1,2} ui where N is the nonterminal set and S ∈ N is...
... annotated with parse and named entity information Named entities correspond to nodes in the tree, and the parse label is augmented with the named entity information be the value of feature i for subtree ... named entity information) to the parse-only grammar, and we added all observed rules from the parse-only data to the grammar for the joint model, and augmented them with named entity information in ... common with the joint model, and then linked all of the different single-task and joint models via a hierarchical prior We performed experiments on joint parsing and named entity recognition, and...
... Blog entry Snippet and chunk basics Generating output Using a custom form for the Post a Blog! page HTML for the custom blog form Steps to create a chunk Using a chunk as a form template Checking ... in a template Theming MODx—chunks and placeholders Introducing tagging 99 100 101 103 105 XML formats Machine-readable formats and readers Readers Ditto and XML formats 107 107 108 108 Creating ... custom form template for the blog page, and a rich text editor for the blog Chapter 5, Authentication and Authorization: In this chapter, you will learn how MODx facilitates authentication and authorization...
... Sandesh Rao, for his continued support andfor continuing to employ me and letting me write this book Finally, of course, thanks to Angelo Pruscino for agreeing to let us write this book andfor ... ■■ Hardware and software failures ■■ Human errors ■■ Natural and man-made disasters ■■ Database performance and manageability Hardware and software failures, as well as the area of human errors, ... data, to solar flare forecast information, to marketing data for potential target customers, in addition to data used for internal accounting andhuman resources (HR) The lead DBA and architect, Maximus...
... KM and HK designed the research project; MS, MK, HT, YA, TI, CA, and NK performed the research; TI, MN, KK, and TA contributed the analytical tools; KM, MS, MK, and HK analyzed the data, and ... 1392 bp was amplified by PCR Forty amplification cycles were performed at 94°C for 30 s, at 55°C for 30 s, at 72°C for min, followed by a final extension at 72°C for 10 We analyzed the nucleotide ... strains, we estimated the rates of synonymous (dS) and non- synonymous (dN) changes at amino acid sites by conservative single likelihood ancestor counting (SLAC) and the fixed effects likelihood...