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... ofthe Caribbean The LACNIC (Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre) for Latin America andthe Caribbean (2002) In 2005, AfriNIC became the RIR for the African region Allocating ... maintaining documentation on the allocation and use of IP space within its region and for maintaining a public database (the IP Whois) of unique allocations of these number resources, including ... equipment and build a deployment plan Step Identifying software and services and develop an upgrade plan Step Creating an IPv6 training strategy and plan Step Developing an addressing plan and corresponding...
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... deaths are reportable to the local medical examiner, the Harris County Medical Examiner investigated many ofthe deaths associated with the evacuation as well as the aftermath of both hurricanes ... data Table Ain Appendix provides a descriptive summary ofthe 72 individuals examined The data analysis occurred in two phases The first phase consisted of matching the database entries with the ... population, inthe future, they can help disaster management teams at the federal, state and local levels anticipate the needs of frail elders There is a shortage of geriatricians and other gerontologists...
... signal or the output of an actual switch Such signals can be used to label the brain signals and to evaluate the performance ofa BI The data analysis of individuals with motor disabilities was ... discard the least informative features based on the amount of information that each feature carries regarding the output classes presence of feature i anda value of "0" indicated its absence in ... process was as follows For each subject, IC and NC epochs were randomized and divided into training, validation and test sets The training set was used to train the classifier, andthe validation...
... to introduce an algorithm for the application of external fixation and to highlight the advantages ofthe Ilizarov device inthemanagementof intra-articular fractures ofthe distal tibia Materials ... Regarding torsional injuries ofthe ankle joint the classification by Lauge-Hansen correlates the type of fracture to the mechanism of injury andthe anatomical defects and offers a treatment algorithm ... half-pins into the tibial shaft andthe distal part with half-pins into the calcaneus and talus respectively, enabling at the same time motion ofthe ankle joint through a hinge which initially was...
... Moving a step further we show that the inverse MAI covariance matrix can be approximated by a diagonal matrix Indeed, by applying the matrix inversion lemma to (A. 4), and taking into account the ... Institute of Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, as a researcher on wireless communications His research interests are inthe areas of adaptive signal processing and ... points ofa grid andthe point attaining the maximum value is considered as the corresponding delay Since the desired user has been synchronized with the BS andthe delay spread ofthe physical...
... University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, the Institute of Accelerating Systems and Applications, the Technical Research Centre of Finland, andthe National Technical University of Athens REFERENCES ... often having an acceptable complexity and capable of incorporating the statistical properties ofthe channel parameters Inthe following the complete data vector C will be always structured as ... channel estimate, produces a good channel estimate anda good estimate ofthe data APPs since the beginning, that is, even inthe absence ofthe APRPs produced by the BCJR, despite Soft- In Soft- Output...
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... pain warrants further study Psychosocial approaches to managing arthritis pain Search strategy The EBSCOhost platform was used to search PsycInfo and CINAHL databases, andthe search was repeated ... repeated using the PubMed database Search terms included combinations of pain, pain management, psychosocial, and arthritis, andthe search was limited to studies of adults andthe English language ... appear to decrease pain Increasingly, clinical trials are being reported that examine various intervention protocols Clinical trials of psychosocial interventions and arthritis pain A systematic...
... received radiation [86] Radiation as well as CNS injury of any kind can cause release of these inflammation molecules For example TNF alpha, ICAM and Il1 all have been measured inthe plasma of patients ... of certain proteins or neurotransmitters inthe blood or urine may be indicators of CNS damage caused by invasion of brain metastases and/ or radiation induced damage Much ofthe work on biomarkers ... 94 Rosell A, Alvarez-Sabin J, Arenillas JF, Rovira A, Delgado P, Fernandez-Cadenas I, Penalba A, Molina CA, Montaner J: A matrix metalloproteinase protein array reveals a strong relation between...
... results, the median age of patients in these studies was 63 and 58 years, respectively, in contrast to a median age of 72 at first therapy inthe SEER database A phase II study of PCR in 64 previously ... survival (OS) remains the most meaningful endpoint of any therapeutic cancer trial Nonetheless, CR and PFS are important measures ofa treatment's efficacy, as patients who achieve CR and enjoy ... efficacy of these regimens outside academic centers Because ofthe ability ofthe anti-CD52 alemtuzumab (Campath-1H) to eradicate MRD and its activity in highrisk CLL patients, the MDACC added alemtuzumab...
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