... gamification extrinsic motivators intrinsic motivators “extrinsic motivators may lead “People are best motivated to merely short-range activity FIGHT when they are working toward while actually reducing ... JEREMY JOHNSON @jeremyjohnson I can t wait for the next great gaming experience! GAMER How can I use gaming to make my product more engaging? DESIGNER I can t wait for the next great gaming experience! ... http://www.uxmag.com/design/why-persuasive-design-should -be- your-next-skill-set “Foursquare, Gowalla, and other services popularized the use of game mechanics to drive user engagement Unfortunately, many companies have strictly copied the obvious...
... at the completion of therapy allows evaluation of persisting radiographic abnormalities, particularly the mediastinum Knowing that the PET scan or gallium scan is abnormal before treatment can ... included in the evaluation Anatomic stage is assigned in the same manner as used for Hodgkin's disease However, the prognosis of patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is best assigned using the International ... In most cases, these studies will allow assignment of anatomic stage and the development of a therapeutic plan In patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, the same evaluation described for patients...
... in the study All of the volunteers were requested to report tothe clinic division of the Tuberculosis Research Centre, Chennai, India, in the morning after an overnight fast On the day of the ... was retained in the column, whereas the bulk of the urine constituents was eluted to waste The SCX column was then backflushed to a BDSHypersil-C18 column (Keystone Scientific, Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) ... particularly to monitor patient adherence to treatment, if found feasible Such a method would be noninvasive and simple to perform This method is applied in tuberculosis therapy, in which the detection...
... lead tothe overestimation of I typographus damage levels Other diagnosis criteria regularly used by the officers (Fig 1) proved tobe appropriate for thecorrect identification of infestations The ... estimate of their volume Each consignment of timber is recorded on a “timber-marking” form that gives the number of trees per circumference category and the estimated height of the trees Other information ... attacks by the bark beetle was extracted from timber sales for 1988 to 1996 In Belgium, timber is sold “standing” Before being felled, trees are individually marked and measured in order to have...
... units The choice of the specific combination of components tobe evaluated canbe informed by what is known from the wider infection control literature, from existing information on ways to improve ... our review to these studies as we wished to ascertain whether ideas were being tried out that required further testing We anticipated that infection control measures were likely tobe implemented ... team members as part of the educational process The teams identified causes of infection relevant to their own context and developed realistic solutions according tothe identified needs The study...
... intervention" relates to whether these studies canbe scaled-up in the community and whether they can have an impact on individual and, ultimately, on public health Table summarizes the different perspectives ... understood consistently over time and be culturally and socially appropriate tothe indication and tothe real-time needs of the patient This is a daunting challenge for whatever medium is used ... electronic systems are not beneficial to all patients, but should be restricted to those having high motivation to use them." For the second hepatitis A + B dose, compliance in the study group (Message...
... considered tobe significant and is usedto characterize responders This value takes into account error in measurements With thermodilution, this error is considered tobe close to 7% (it depends on the ... respiratory variations in aortic blood flow [7] Further studies should be performed to define the exact cutoff value that should be used; these studies should include an evaluation of the magnitude ... needs tobe defined, because without this information it is difficult to distinguish responders from non-responders In their study, Lafanechère and colleagues [1] arbitrarily used a 15% cutoff Because...
... PDPs in the GMS to achieve greater sustainability.4 The volume explains why the particular indicators were selected for the study, why they are important, how they canbe measured, and whatthe indicators ... volume describes the application of the SEA methodology tothe GMS regional PDP It shows how a set of indicators may be defined and usedto capture the wider impacts of power planning, and to analyze ... Cambodia, the Lao PDR, and CSG Exports from Viet Nam tothe Lao PDR represent flows into the southern part of the Lao PDR; at the same time, Viet Nam is importing from the northern part of the Lao...
... higher in these two regions combined than in any other part of the country Furthermore, according tothe NHPS (12), these regions are ranked the poorest among all the others in the country Therefore ... resort to using other means of transportation from one facility to another because the ambulance at the facility of contact is not available This may be due tothe ambulance is away on other errands, ... used in the analysis of the qualitative data canbe summarized into: Familiarization tothe data by listening tothe tapes and reading through the transcribed materials in order to list the key...
... khứ: Usedtothể tình trạng khứ không tồn thể động từ biểu trạng thái sau: have, believe, know like Ex: 1- I usedto Like The Beatles but now I never listen to them (Tôi thích nhóm The Beatles ... quen khứ: You usedto something, nghĩa bạn làm việc khoảng thời gian khứ, bạn không làm việc Ex: 1- We usedto live there when I as a child (Chúng sống đứa trẻ.) 2- I usedto walk to work when ... nữa.) 2- He usedto have long hair but nowadays this hair is very short (Anh ta để tóc dài dạo anh để tóc ngắn.) Dạng câu hỏi Used to: Did(n’t) + subject + use to Ex: Did he use to work in the office...
... number of both α- and β-adrenergic receptors This is either related to sepsis itself or tothe use of vasopressors for long periods of time Corticosteroids may help with the resensitization of these ... function the responses to noradrenaline move closer together, so that there are no longer statistical differences in the noradrenaline effects of increasing blood pressure [7] Shock reversal The prospective, ... reversed, then treatment was continued with half doses for days and quarter doses for another days and stopped There was significant shock reversal at days, and 28-day mortality showed a trend toward...
... representing the total power of the signal; and spectral edge frequency 95% (SEF95), representing the frequency below which 95% of the power in the EEG spectrum resides The investigators also addressed the ... Ningler M, Stockmanns G, Kochs E: Identification of EEG parameters that canbeusedto monitor the full range of anesthesia [abstract] Anesthesiology 2004, 101:A-329 Schneider G, Ningler M, Stockmanns ... stimuli [14] Serving as a reflection of the brain’s auditory change detection mechanism, the MMN corresponds to an automatic coding process into the sensori-auditory memory, and represents a relatively...
... insufficient based on total cortisol levels Levels in these patients appear tobe low due to hypoproteinemia Their free cortisol levels seem tobe preserved and may in fact be elevated There are several ... However, there is controversy about the best indicator of adrenal insufficiency in the critically ill patients Several criteria have been suggested, including, total cortisol ≤ 18µg/dL or change in total ... dysfunction; i.e., the patients most likely to benefit from corticosteroid administration were excluded Because of this omission, it is difficult to know how to apply the present findings to this clinically...
... allows the SGF reaction tobe stopped by neutralizing aliquots of the solution after different incubation periods These aliquots can then be analyzed to track the digestion of substrate proteins The ... mimic the passage of the food into the stomach and then into the gut The development of these digestion assays has demonstrated the importance of using physiologically relevant conditions to investigate ... pepsin in the stomach to reach the intestinal mucosa and be absorbed, while non-allergens would not [35] Astwood et al [34] found that the stability to digestion is significant in the selected...
... When the variables did not all contribute significantly, we report NS (not significant) For theother sets, the P values are for the addition of the least significant term tothe model The total ... cluster, and between the end of the cluster and the end of the protein We then took the minimum of these divided by the length of the protein tobethe position We computed the foldedness as If ... identified the optimal cluster using SBN as described above To compute the position of the cluster, we calculated the distance between the start of the protein and the start of the cluster, and between...