... on all patients who are transferred to a participating hospital following an OHCA Trained in- hospital data collectors will complete chart abstraction ofthe variables related to post-arrest care ... in an increase in post-cardiac arrest patients receiving appropriate therapeutic hypothermia Methods/design The setting Figure Chain of survival for out -of- hospital cardiac arrest The hospitals ... each ofthe hospitals The data dictionary, containing all variables, definitions, and ranges specific to the study and abstraction instructions will be programmed into a touch icon that displays...
... optical absorption or scattering and offer promising clinical application especially inthe area ofcancer imaging by increasingly proving themselves to offer alternative angles in examining the ... tyrosine kinase found in cellular surface The EGFR is a 170 kDa plasma membrane glycoprotein containing an extracellular ligand-binding domain, a single transmembrane region, a cytoplasmic domain ... surface functionalization of silica nanoparticles witha terminal amine group using APTES confers the surface a positive charge that favors the electrostatic attraction ofthe gold complex anion...
... interaction activities’ • Social Interaction Activities Social interaction activities add a further aspect to the functional activities, the activity therefore become a ‘social interaction activity’ ... about the goal of language teaching, how learners learn a language, the kind of classroom activities that best facilitate learning, and the role of teachers and learners inthe classroom The term ... teachers and students may have inthe process of teaching and learning with speaking activities Inhibition: Learners are often inhibition about trying to say things ina foreign language They are often...
... Packages instructions for use ofa tool and experiencewith it Management Packages reference information for project managers Data Packages data relevant for a software project or its activities ... examine what claims are made about knowledge managementin each of them, and describe in what organisational setting each ofthe case studies were performed We also place the studies ina category ... documents and other information Further claims are that the use of project management and software engineering methods has been easier via the Intranet, and document templates are especially appreciated...
... data interpretation As the research’s aim is to examine the impact of ‘Peer-teaching’ on ESP teaching and learning quality, the collected data ofthe study was analyzed both quantitatively and ... groups or individually, inthe classroom or inthe self-study centre; the arrangement of furniture inthe classroom, the use of time, the overall planning and managementofthe teaching-learning encounter ... ofthe teacher throughout all the phases ofthe task For example, before a pairwork is carried out, the ESP teacher has to explain the demands ofthe task, the task witha random student as a...
... lemmata and punctuation marks, in LPE, punctuation marks had a separate precidate Relations witha feature value of are omitted, reducing the size ofthe input considerably For these features, a ... achieved 100% precision and recall on any data set again In fact, results became much worse, and varied a tot depending mainly on the type of classifier and the task Again, if classes are very inhomogeneous, ... from the training data so as to maximise the accuracy ofa nearestneighbour classifier based on these vectors During learning, the prototypes are shifted gradually towards members ofthe class they...
... ::~ ai+l a~ and C - ~ a ~ + t a j In general, corresponding to a production One advantage that arises from viewing parsing as intersection with regular languages is that exactly the same algorithm ... we reach a state A by traversing a path 3' from the initial state then on the same string 3' a final state can be reached from the state A /,From the construction of Mew it is that case that for ... showing that parsing a string w according to a grammar G can be viewed as intersecting the language L(G) withthe regular language { w } Suppose we have an object contextfree grammar Go and some...
... here are: a nonrestrictive relative clause ("who resisted the assault"), an appositive ( "the remaining PLO stronghold inthe area"), and two main clauses ("Arafat's soldiers fell back " and "Nahr ... knowledge ofthe verb's semantic class is not necessary to identify the relative clause as supportive The mere fact that the verb is ina relative clause or the fact that the present perfect appears after ... Investigation Summary of Main Events: The Senate today approved by voice vote continued aid for covert operations in Nicaragua Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan told the Senate that the Administration...
... Grief and the Sacred Art of Ritual Janet Shaw Rogers 129 Section III Alternative Art Forms, Programs, and Stories of Art and Healing Chapter 14 The Painters Deborah Koff-Chapin, Carol McIntyre, and ... meet the needs ofthe members and the facilitators is the initial planning, organization, and setting up ofthe group This initial stage can easily be bypassed inthe interests of time and the ... logical relationship, and the feelings may come all at once in an inexplicable ball of raw emotion You may hear complaints of fatigue, exhaustion, lack of energy, pain, or inability to sleep All of...
... language teachers used a variety of teaching aids to make class room activities interesting and interactive Teaching aids are important inthe teaching-learning process In Vietnam, the importance ... or the speaking task 2.3.4 Rationale for the Use of Teaching Aids in Language Teaching Brinton (1991) emphasized functions and benefits of teaching media in making language learning and teaching ... information ina visual, animated way are some main features ofthe application of TAs Withthe 36 diversity of TAs, students can promote their creative, active and imaginative ability in their learning...
... is manifest attenuation and acidification as a result of hydrolysis ofthe agar Overall, the degree of hydrolysis of agar and the characteristics ofthe media after sterilization in an autoclave ... in comparison with risky manipulation with hot viscid agar solution A sloping wet surface for plantlets may be easily created within a flask by means of shaking withthe mixture of sand and a ... that a pH of 4.5 was achieved or exceeded to the edge of measurement At the same time, it was observed, that after autoclaving agar in flasks was at various degrees of liquidity This was apparently...
... hospital one of four acute wards inthe city of Oslo (ca 500.000 inhabitants) The acute wards are often the first step ina chain of facilities that the patient may need in order to regain his functional ... resident place was available at the desired time, the patient had to wait inthe acute ward for such a slot The aim ofthe study was thus to present a novel way of calculating the partial cost efficiency ... preceding the chosen day and the number of days of further treatment inthe acute ward Twenty-three patients had a total of 776 days, of which 425 (54.8 %) were waiting days as defined above Waiting...
... cause sedation without curing? Do they act therapeutically? Do you believe that they have a common mechanism of action as tranquilizers? Do you believe that they act on the brain correcting a biological ... they have a therapeutic effect or only act by chance, whether or not they act through a modification ofa biological abnormality inthe brain, whether they cause dependence or harmful physical effects, ... coincide withthe acceptance ofthe psychiatric diagnosis It is the final proof of what they fear They realize that their child is suffering from a serious mental illness that might accompany them...
... residual radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks in cultured fibroblasts and late radiation reactions: a comparison of training and validation cohorts of breast cancerpatients Radiotherapy ... In sharp contrast, in irradiated cell-plugs the initial DNA extraction was higher than in unirradiated cell-plugs indicating that radiation-induced DNA breakage occurred ina manner quantifiable ... and further supports the apoptotic aetiology of spontaneous degradation Furthermore, the fact that we did not detect caspase-3 activation in irradiated cells growing as a monolayer, and caspase-3...
... than selection for heterozygosity and that the advantage increased as molecular information increased The relative value of increasing the number of candidates was also greater with more markers ... than the inbreeding coefficient ofthe progeny It induced in all cases a delay inthe appearance of inbreeding Table II is equivalent to table I but with minimum coancestry mating (mCM) instead of ... as indicated before, the advantage ofinthe was very late (after more than 50 generations in all the situations On the other hand, the rate of marker homozygosity was lower for mCM in all cases...
... variance due to the ith QTL The factor y is due to the fact that an animal has a paternal and a maternal QTL allele, each of which contributes half ofthe total variance due to the QTL Effects ... such that the markers increase the accuracy of selection substantially and increase the intensity of selection; and 5) the assumption that the variance associated with marked QTL was known With ... typed within the marker haplotype as generations progressed to maintain the informativeness ofthe haplotype Within the first generation of marker haplotyping, the linkage phase between markers...
... Hippophae salicifolia forest, Caragana gerardiana forest, Caragana gerardiana and Lonicera spinosa forest, Juniperus forest) and grasslands with pure stocks of Poaceae [21] The area is characterized ... the Himalaya, so that the poison of that plant is inactivated without inactivating the other medicinal properties In Mustang, A. spicatum whole plant (mainly root) is used to make medicinal tablets ... Thakali, Rupa Thakali, Maina Devi Thakali, Sana Devi Thakali, Bhim Prasad Thakali, Suresh Sherchan, Lal Kumari Gauchen, Seram Gurung, Sonam Gurung, Maila Gurung, Chyaa Lama, Ram Chandra Thakali,...
... mysticism are attached to the use and origin of such practices and medicines Aboriginal Australians and CancerIn recent years there has been an increased priority given to Aboriginal cancerin mainstream ... world-wide may assist and support the improvement and sustainability of Aboriginal Traditional medicine and healing in Australia Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... cater to the spirituality of Aboriginal patients as part ofthe healing process Many participants generally argued for accepting and communicating about the use of bush medicine with Aboriginal...
... inpatientswitha fracture ofthe jaw for immobilisation ofthe jaw, inpatientswitha jaw luxation caused by a hyperactivity ofthe lateral pterygoid muscle and inpatientswitha lockjaw ... "opens" again and that is usually referring to the regeneration time ofthe paralysis In addition the esthetic outcome ofa paralysis ofthe marginal branch ofthe facial nerve can be improved by injecting ... found an acceptable decrease of complaints in treated patients [10,11] Another interesting indication is the intraoperative application of BTA during the surgical supply of fresh wounds ofthe face...
... The EXACTLE trial was designed to explore the use ofCT densitometry as an outcome measure for the assessment of plasma AAT augmentation therapy in individuals with AATD The analytical approach, ... Talecris and participated inthe design ofthe study, inthe collection, analysis and interpretation of data (CD was the statistician for the study), inthe writing ofthe manuscript and inthe ... outcome measure inthe setting ofa double-blind, placebo-controlled study ofthe effect of alpha 1-antitrypsin (AAT) augmentation therapy on the progression of emphysema in individuals with AATD (PiZ)...