... exacerbations of COPD In these investigations the mean arterial pH of the study populations was close to normal and the benefit from NIV was limited In these studies the enrolment of patients ... between the NIV and the standard therapy group in the need for reintubation (48% in both groups; P = 0.99) The rate of ICU death in the NIV group was greater than that in the standard therapy group ... exacerbation [4], the rate of pneumonia was 17% in the group with conventional medical treatment and 5% in the NIV group In another randomized controlled study of the use of NIV in the treatment...
... credit file data The first category included only the number of inquiries from other creditors in the last six months(under U.S law, these result from an application for credit), and the worst credit ... only on retail experience but not theexperience of other financial institutions Tables and display the results of the retail-only simulations As in the previous discussion of the negative-only ... other things, that much of the predictive power in the full model derives from how customers acquire and handle their bank credit cards Given the deep penetration of the bank card product in the...
... was noticed in the 150 mg group at day (in keeping with the short half-life of IL-1ra), suggesting that IL-1 inhibition may be therapeutically relevant In the context of LBP, the use of IL-1 ... gene therapy study Arthritis Res Ther 2007, 9:R83 Le Maitre CL, Hoyland JA, Freemont AJ: The role of interleukin1 in the pathogenesis of human intervertebral disc degeneration Arthritis Res Ther ... use such therapy: what is the best route of administration, how many injections should be given, what types of IL-1 blockers should be used, and at what stage of the disease should therapy be...
... (rather than formal and rigid), and encourage dialogue up and down the corporate ladder The way to harness the power of these people is not to protect them…but to turn them loose, and get the ... for themselves If managers are managing less, then the rest of the company must a better job of managing themselves Welch felt that it was the organization’s responsibility to give workers the ... confident team, allow them to make decisions and think for themselves Set stretch goals, and if they don’t make them, don’t punish them for trying The key is helping people reach for the unreachable,...
... and mentioned "Big Bird" during the first debate, "Big Bird" began trending on Twitter Early on, the TV network bought a "sponsored tweet" that turned up high on the list when people clicked on ... engage your communit y Find out what people expect and want from your brand As an example, Steele said the Romney campaign posts behind -the- scenes campaign trail photos Show personalit y Have fun ... third-party conservative group tweeted about ABC's Dancing With the Stars during the show Move people t o act ion Steele says, like the political campaigns, you can use Twitter to trigger transactions...
... about sneaking snacks into theaters, and Taco Bell and Old Spice had an exchange about their “spicy” ingredients These conversations were both genuine and humorous and left the door open for consumers ... helped bring the correct information to light in the end Brands Can Talk t o Ot her Brands Shane Steele, Director of Sales Marketing at Twitter, shared examples of brands talking with each other, which, ... you can find my interviews with these SMWF speakers: Kip Wetzel (Comcast), Jay Epstein (Sprinklr), Nicole Bohorad (CapitalOne) and Morgan Baden (Scholastic) all on TheDrewBlog Connect: Aut hored...
... presentation the best approach is – you may have heard this – tell them what you’re going to tell them, tell them then tell them what you told them Well, ‘what’s good for the goose should be good for the ... able to carry the talk from there but the point being, if you’re a non-fee paid speaker, you don’t necessarily get the co-operation and the interest fromthe organizer or possibly from your audience ... humility ● Give the agenda ● Give the body ● Give the conclusion and then talk about your action steps and what’s in it for them if they those action steps ● Then offer them the more information...
... INTO THE AFTER HEALTH OF THE MEN WHO ROWED IN THEFROMTHE YEAR 1829 TO 1869, BASED ON THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF THE ROWERS THEMSELVES JOHN ED MORGAN, M.D., M.A OXON., F.R.C.P LATE CAPTAIN OF THE ... days—five of them from consumption, and one from heart disease How far they suffered from their labours on the river it is not very easy to decide, but it will be seen fromthe following extracts from ... a reference to the sixteen men actually engaged in the race, without taking into account the Crews which either preceded them or came after them In the other (i e the Tables in the Appendix) I...
... reason that the causality of any correlation between the health of the banking system and economic activity runs fromthe real sector to banks Still others link the importance of banks to the structure ... inside the event window For the results reported in the tables, we start the estimation 150 days prior to the start of the event window, include up to 40 days inside the window, and end the estimation ... errors with the index values If part of the next chronological event overlaps with the first, we use the index values fromthe first event plus or minus the distance in event time between the two...
... funded by the supervised institutions and around half of the members of the administrative council come fromthe industry To facilitate the co-operation between the Bundesbank and the BaFin, the Forum ... associations, as they remain owners of the assets The future losses of the PSV have to be paid out of net profits of the transferring bank and the owners if the earnings are insufficient The loss liability ... on the banks’ business models, thereby improving governance structures These fewer institutions may then be re-focussed on their traditional role as the central bank of the savings banks to the...
... communication by the auditor to the stakeholder but that the time gap between the year end and the issue of the audit opinion should not be reduced Reducing the time available for the auditor to gather and ... firm at the top end of the market There have been other players but they were acquired by the Big Four They also indicate that concentration is also lower in France at the next level of the market ... the clarity of certain messages, we have reproduced the text provided in the response The variation in the length of the various sections is a reflection of the number of questions posed in the...
... elements and factors that make up the swing, and even the frequency of the swing But then who is the customer? The answer is the ball! This particular customer is perhaps the most demanding, unpredictable, ... Sharing the golfing experience with others while trying to improve their own game is what the game is all about Why can’t some of the same factors that make golf so much fun be introduced in the ... rely heavily on the goods and services they provide to one another Golf also has its customers and suppliers, but not in the way you might imagine The golfer is the supplier of all the elements...
... presidencies—Ronald Reagan fromthe right, Bill Clinton fromthe left (until scandal knocked him off the tracks) The job is toughest when the problems are great and, as was the case for Bush, the leader faces ... trouble On the other end of the spectrum, Bush learned fromthe relatively smooth Reagan transition, in which the president kept staff struggles under control and far fromthe public eye The first ... action, and then by relying on the team to carry out the plan Most of all, the business school’s case method and the Socratic question-and-answer teaching style hammered home thelesson that there...
... after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Taking into account the characteristics of the evolution of real credit, the variable under analysis in the rest of this paper is defined as the change in the ... to the answers from a survey conducted by the World Bank using the Berth et al (2007) questionnaire The value of each variable for every country is the average of the assigned scores All the ... assess the relative importance of factors contributing to banks’ provision of credit during the crisis The information derived fromthe analysis at the country level is used here to help identify the...
... participation of the UK Before the end of the month, a strengthening sterling brought the Irish pound to the upper intervention limit of the EMS, and the sterling link had to be broken The following ... the banking system or to the government clearly protected the Irish system from obvious pitfalls The same can be said of the fact that the Government adopted the practice of only taking out the ... Admittedly there were episodes of high inflation: the first imported from sterling, the second, in the early 1980s, a hangover fromthe fiscal recklessness of the late 1970s But already by the late...
... making them more informative The French Commercial Code requires the auditors to publicly justify, together with their report on the annual accounts, their audit opinion This includes their appreciation ... services by the auditor to its clients as well as strong restrictions on the possibility for the members of the network of the auditor to provide services to the members of the group of the audited ... whether there is a need for a rethink Moreover, in view of the systemic risk represented by the large, global firms, the Commission would also welcome views on whether the consolidation of the...
... grandmothers as the appropriate source for the intervention The grandmothers who participated in formative research developed the chitterlings cleaning method for their peers Having the grandmothers ... Health Lessons fromthe Field A Guide to Social Marketing fromthe Social Marketing National Excellence Collaborative May 2003 Produced by the Turning Point National Program Office at the University ... build their own carts, vendors were to purchase them from manufacturers who would guarantee their health code compliance The county also helped locate sources for these code-compliant carts The...
... by banks in the European Union and the US The average size of the banks in the sample is largest in the United Kingdom, Belgium and Sweden and smallest in Finland At the same time, the average ... data fromthe United States, Cohen-Cole et al (2008) also argue in this direction According to their results, the fact that the amount of lending did not decline during the first quarters of the ... (C), which takes the value of fromthe third quarter of 2007 to the fourth quarter of 2009 and zero elsewhere, with the coefficients of the model allowing changes in value during the period of financial...
... have difficulty fulfilling their commitments The “right” number of suppliers will depend on the importance of the good or service to the firm and the risks inherent in the interruption of its provision ... once, the chosen strategy might be different fromthe approach used if the firm is a frequent purchaser For the Air Force (and other federal agencies), acquisition regulations, policies, and other ... discuss the role of certifications in the training of Harley-Davidson’s buyer/planner staff In making the conversion to the current buyer/planner system, the company chose certifications from the...