... survey to study influences of organization of care and provider training on treatment of pain among diabetics (e.g., inadequate training in chronic pain management, treatment of pain conditions ... whether they are related to the physical plant (e.g., amount of clinical space); the functions of care incorporated into the physical plant (e.g., types of specialized units); the equipment they ... implementation Role of organizational factors inthe QUERI model of implementation research Evaluation ofthe influence of organizational characteristics on the quality of care has gained in its salience...
... survey to study influences of organization of care and provider training on treatment of pain among diabetics (e.g., inadequate training in chronic pain management, treatment of pain conditions ... whether they are related to the physical plant (e.g., amount of clinical space); the functions of care incorporated into the physical plant (e.g., types of specialized units); the equipment they ... implementation Role of organizational factors inthe QUERI model of implementation research Evaluation ofthe influence of organizational characteristics on the quality of care has gained in its salience...
... decision-making is defined in a way similar to the Convention of Human Rights and Biomedicine ofthe European Council: the will and the mind ofthe minor "shall be taken into consideration as an increasingly ... Sentence ofthe preface ofthe text ofthe EU Directive 2001/20: "Normally these persons should be included in clinical trials only when there are grounds for expecting that the administering ofthe ... be interested in funding multimodal interventional research as their primary interest lies inthe superiority of one pharmaceutical product over another Furthermore, inthe case of comparing...
... doubling the size ofthe grammar are multiplying the processing time by a factor of when no prosodic information is available (assuming (2n) = 8n time) consist ofthe most likely sequence of phonemes ... of Profs Mary P Harper and Leah H Jamieson References CurrentResearch Our currentresearch effort consists ofthe development of algorithms for extracting the prosodic information from the speech ... to incorporate the durational information from Bear and Price quite easily into our framework An advantage of our approach is that the prosodic information is added as constraints instead of incorporating...
... of animals in research: Research activities should take into account the Protocol on the Protection and Welfare of Animals, and the use of animals inresearch and testing14 The principle ofthe ... towards the goals ofthe International Initiative for Traumatic Brain Injury Research (InTBIR)27 In particular, the project is expected to identify the most effective clinical interventions taking into ... dynamics ofthe brain, and to study brain diseases including relevant age related illness and search for new therapies The overall aim is to gain a global understanding ofthe brain by exploring brain...
... of machine translation In Proceedings of HLT/NAACL Franz Josef Och and Hermann Ney 2002 Discriminative training and maximum entropy models for statistical machine translation In Proceedings of ... of a genuine improvement in translation quality This begs the question as to whether this is only a theoretical concern or whether Bleu’s inadequacies can come into play in practice Inthe next ... gives the interpretations ofthe scores When first evaluating fluency, the judges are shown only the hypothesis translation They are then shown a reference translation and are asked to judge the...
... president ofthe National Academy of Engineering The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions ... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine ... leadership in guiding the board from the earliest stages ofthe workshop planning through the drafting of this report; Alix Beatty, for her extensive contributions to the planning ofthe workshop and the...
... look forward to seeing relevant demonstration ofthe usefulness of this novel psychometric method in HRQOL research that fully encompasses the intent ofthe taxonomy, integrates the relevant properties ... addressed inthe Hankins' paper, and there is no explanation for how the use of Ferguson's Delta would enhance interpretability Although the use of Ferguson's Delta may someday improve our understanding ... reliability Yet in none ofthe Hankins examples is this type of reliability calculated or reported The first example uses an intraclass correlation between two different measures as the estimate of reliability,...
... Delta then indexes the degree to which the instrument makes valid discriminations Wyrwich suggests that the results of another study [6], in which the dichotomous scoring method ofthe GHQ-12 was ... 'Understanding the Role of Discriminative Instruments in HRQoL Research: Can Ferguson's Delta Help?' to which the answer is a definitive yes, subject to the constraints previously discussed Finally, ... were meaningful Recall that the value of Delta is derived from ordinal comparisons of persons that classify them as either the same or different Therefore, if a researcher doubts that an instrument...
... average pain score of ≥ points (pain intensity difference, PID, >/= 2) at week (day 28 from inclusion) over baseline As to the assessment ofthe quality of analgesic care, the adequacy of pain management ... enrolled inthe study and eligible will be included inthe statistical descriptive analyses To avoid and minimize the impact of missing data, a bias that may be present inthe case of using patient-reported ... To assess the quality of analgesic treatments in terms of congruence between patients' reported level of pain (intensity) and the potency ofthe prescribed analgesic drug (according to the WHO...
... regarding the terminology used inthe rest of this paper Let I be the total number of frames in Vc Let M be the total number of pixel rows in each frame of Vc , and let N be the total number of ... reported that the nature of dither is most important inthe flat regions ofthe image [12] This phenomenon is due to the spatial masking effects that hide the presence of noise in regions ofthe image ... technique which requires an initial halftone ofthe image as the initial guess (or the starting point) The initial halftone ofthe image is iteratively refined, via toggling the bits, until a convergence...
... Advances in Signal Processing line whereas dn is the length ofthe considered in- domain disturbed line To evaluate the impact ofthe out -of- domain crosstalk, we introduce the following two parameters: ... From the table we see that the sensitivity ofthe average bit rate on the parameters identifying the model is rather limited: the change inthe precoding gain, for example, is inthe order of 5% ... by adopting a smaller number of bits The organization ofthe paper is as follows In Section 2, we remind the structure ofthe considered precoding system In Section we face the problem of residual...
... speeds due to the unnecessary increase inthe route length Our findings in this paper shall help theresearch community in understanding better the behavior ofthe studied protocols and their implications ... the values of all parameters used inthe simulation The following metrics are computed to evaluate the impact of each mobility model on the performance ofthe Bypass-AODV as well as the original ... of introducing the new protocol (2) The goodput ofthe TCP is the number of sequenced bits that a TCP receiver receives per unit of time This measure will show the effectiveness ofthe routing...
... multiplying the input ofthe activation function by a, that, in a typical DSP requires, at least, the following instructions: (1) copying x into one ofthe input register ofthe MAC unit, (2) copying ... randomly, ensuring that the relative proportion of files of each category is preserved for each set The training set is used to determine the weights ofthe MLP inthe training process, the validation ... the constant value of a into the other input register, (3) copying the result of this multiplication into the accumulator, (4) a saturation operation As a consequence, the minimum number of instructions...
... downlink, uplink, and feedback such that the overall system performance in terms ofthe sum ofthe throughputs ofthe downlink and the uplink is maximized In this way, we can also maintain a ... the receive SNR inthe downlink Since the obtainable beamforming gain depends on the quantization resolution, RDL is a function ofthe number b of feedback bits per antenna The original optimization ... Advances in Signal Processing as unidirectional, namely, flowing inthe downlink from the multiantenna transmitter to the single-antenna receiver (the MISO-case) Furthermore, the asymptotic analysis in...
... relative to the rest ofthe population The higher the score, the more selective an individual will be Any individual has a probability p ofthe choice, where p is equal to the fitness ofthe individual ... be determined The input parameter for the proposed algorithm is listed in Table The maximum number of base stations depends on the width ofthe target area The wider the target area, the more ... arrangement of several chromosomes, which symbolize characteristics ofthe individual Population is the total amount of individuals Some of them can survive and others will die inthe next generation...
... for the mean and the variance ofthe number of occurrences of a coloured motif in a random graph It involves the computation of some probabilities of connectedness The generalisation to the number ... as, for example, inthe case of protein interaction networks, the topology ofthe network is not fully known Indeed, high-throughput experiments used to obtain large-scale protein interaction data ... and the cdf of ´ the normal or the Polya-Aeppli distribution The closer to the KS distance, the better the approximation (2) minus the empirical cdf calculated at the 99% and 99.9% quantiles ´ of...
... revenue increased, and both initial and return visits increased They compared similar measures collected during the same study period from an internal medicine outpatient clinic The inclusion ofthe ... improvements in care and ever increasing capacity for continuing improvement Improving evaluation and understanding ofthe implementation and outcomes of such changes are essential to sustaining ongoing ... attention, since it was the only one ofthe nine to include a control group Patients inthe treatment clinic had to wait 30 fewer days for an outpatient obstetrics visit, patient time inthe clinic...
... Changing the behavior of healthcare professionals: the use of theory in promoting the uptake ofresearch findings Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2005, 58:107-112 (ICEBeRG) The Improved Clinical ... answer the leader practices questions in a different frame of mind, conceiving of them in terms of projects in general rather than their estimate of leadership practices inthe project they were ... thresholds for the majority of subscales, indicating that the subscales intended to measure the individual components ofthe main elements ofthe framework (e.g., the six components ofthe context...
... changes in practice The recognition ofthe failure of this model has led to greater awareness ofthe role of other factors inthe practice environment influencing behaviour [1] and the importance of ... that individual behaviour can be strongly influenced by these factors They identified a number of strategies to facilitate the implementation ofresearch findings by using these social influences ... different opinion leaders for different issues (monomorphism) Thecurrent study aimed to: examine the feasibility of identifying opinion leaders in different professional groups within the United Kingdom...