... “Since the investigator can describe only to a limited extent the kinds of participants in whom an intervention was evaluated, a leap of faith is always required when applying any study findings ... positive findings would be expected with enough analyses in such a large sample The primary outcome of the study was a comparison of aspirin versus streptokinase for prevention of myocardial infarction, ... with a finding in favor of aspirin In subgroup analyses by astrological sign, the authors found that patients born under Gemini or Libra experienced “a slightly adverse effect of aspirin on mortality...
... confirm that the frequency of psychotropic prescribing in child psychiatry continues to increase Antipsychotics, in particular the atypical ones, have been used at an increasing rate over the past ... absorption, shorter duration of therapeutic blood levels) In some countries, including our own [5], the lack of research on the efficacy of psychotropic medication on mental disordersof childhood contributes ... the forming of homogeneous groups due to the difficulty in defining diagnostic criteria and the measurement of the changes that the treatment has caused [3] Additionally, they raise clinical,...
... of teaching speaking in foreign language such as the definitions of speaking, principles of teaching speaking, and the significance of teaching speaking Also, concepts related to CLT, types of ... part of second language learning and teaching There are many definitions of speaking Speaking is “the process of building and sharing meaning through the useof verbal and non-verbal symbols, in ... therefore, focuses on the studying the useof CAs in teaching speaking for students at upper secondary school 2.3 THE NATURE OF SPEAKING 2.3.1 Definitions of Speaking Speaking can be seen as the key...
... methods according to the subject of study; in software engineering it can be either a process to produce software or a software product In an article on research methods in software engineering [30] ... Knowledge management of software engineering lessons learned, in Proc 10th Int Conf on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE98, 1998 41 R Bergmann and M Găker, Developing industrial case-based ... management in software engineering projects, in Proc Int Conf on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE99, 1999, pp 2027 65 P Brăssler, Knowledge management at a software house: An...
... a way of moving beyond independent to interdependent learning This idea of interdependence is important since the alternative is a more instrumental peer teaching approach which often involves ... working out the effectiveness of peer teaching on ESP teaching and learning quality and giving some suggestions for improving the peer teaching process in ESP classes Methods of the study In order ... form of credit or payment for the person acting in a teaching capacity thus losing a sense of mutuality Peer teaching involves students learning from and with each other in both formal and informal...
... class of the majority of the items which reached it during training The trees were grown using recursive partitioning; the splitting criterion was reduction in deviance Using the Gini index led ... spaces and will be left to future work Semantic classes were not examined, because defining, building, fine-tuning, and maintaining such word lists can be an arduous task (cf e.g (Klavans and Kan, ... texts of argumentative types The frequency of infinitives of auxiliaries reflects both the useof passive voice, which is formed with the auxiliary "war- 145 den" in German, and the useof present...
... Vjv is a finite set of nonterminals symbols, VT is a finite set of terminal symbols, S E V/v is the start symbol, I is a finite set of initial trees, A is a finite set of auxiliary trees use sa(7, ... node in labeled A is formed by removing the subtree of rooted at this node, inserting/3 in its place, and substituting it at the foot node of/ 3 In general, if p is the address of a node in then ... string abcab as follows where Vlv is a finite set of nonterminals, VT is a finite set of terminals, VI is a finite set of indices (stack symbols), S • VN is the start symbol, and P is a finite...
... regarding useof lopinavir/ritonavir in neonates o Addition of new pharmacokinetic data on nevirapine in preterm infants • Initial Postnatal Management of the HIV-Exposed Neonate: o Because of the ... regarding PrEP in discordant couples who wish to conceive Discussion includes information on counseling, laboratory testing, and monitoring of individuals on PrEP and importance of reporting uninfected ... to elimination of perinatal transmission in the United States include the continued increase in HIV infection in women of childbearing age;12 absent or delayed prenatal care, particularly in women...
... treatment of minor wounds, skin irritations including burns, bruises and abrasions, and general inflammatory skin disorders. 4 It has anti-allergy and anti- 164 inflammatory properties because of glycoproteins ... glycoproteins and anthraquinones, which block the regeneration of thromboxanes and bradykinin, and also inhibit and break down bradykinin In rural areas, a mixture of A vera and engine oil (lubricant) ... the escalating costs of drugs and the focus on organic products in most developing countries In addition, with the development of resistance of pathogens to drugs, ethnoveterinary medicine might...
... depends on the kind of fragment Accordingly, a longer fragment gets higher priority in some cases, lower priority in other cases [i] Yiming Yang: A Study of a System for Analyzing Chinese Sentence, ... We use this kind of rule to reduce the range of possible predicates This knowledge can be used in turn to predict the partial structure in a sentence, because the verbal proposition begins with ... of possibilities, only remained a) Kind of fragment Some kinds of fragments, for example, compound verbs involving "~", occur more often than others and are accordingly given higher priority...
... be used to avoid the need for time programs which determine the relative timing of events by interpreting adverbials The following main clauses use the present perfect, but since they are non-initial, ... news corpus is characterized by a great deal of embedding of both types: finite clauses (relative clause~ adverbial clauses), and well as non-finites (infinitive complements, reduced relatives, participials) ... d clause is d e f i n e d Intonatlonally: it is bounded by pauses, has falling intonation at the end, or is p r e c e d e d by a clause with falling intonation (Thompson, 1983) This clause is...
... president of the 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 ... risk-averse industry that pursues fewer novel, innovative pathways In the arena of genomics-based diagnostic testing and therapeutic decision making, for instance, the intersection of diagnostic testing ... Urban Institute Appointed by the Institute of Medicine, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures...
... be used in cement kilns In comparison to dedicated waste to energy incineration, burning plastics in cement kilns eliminates the challenge of disposing of incineration ash since it can be incorporated ... 0.25% of fuel substitutes used in cement manufacturing in 2001 (Cement Sustainability Initiative 2005) The useof agricultural biomass residues in cement manufacturing is less common in industrialized ... Within the waste hierarchy, the useof biomass residues in paper making would supersede their usein cement manufacturing 34 Planning for the useof biomass residues in cement manufacturing entails...
... trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data The art of grief : the useof expressive arts in a grief ... bypassed in the interests of time and the desire to begin the group The time spent in planning, however, will pay off during group sessions and in the way the members receive what is being offered ... healing of ritual in different forms Rituals have therapeutic properties though the power of acting out, legitimizing of emotions, physical ventilation, and bringing limits to grief by having...
... ORIGINAL ARTICLES (kerosene), and a very small proportion (less than 3%) used gas for cooking and heating In 2001 almost 60% of households in Limpopo, a predominantly rural province, used wood ... divided into categories of people exposed or not exposed to indoor smoke from solid fuels on the basis of the energy source used for cooking and heating These two end-uses were combined, because in ... degree of ‘fuel switching’ in poor households which may use up to fuels for cooking and heating Hence, even if households reported ‘clean fuel’ as their main energy source for cooking, they may often...
... bring the most exciting lessons 4.1.4 Purposes of Using TAs in teaching English Regarding the purposes of using TAs in teaching English, the findings in Table 4.3 indicated that the majority of ... importance of using teaching aids in teaching English to children at primary schools, it is surprising that there is not much investigation into the reality of using teaching aids, kinds of teaching ... to investigate the reality of using teaching aids, kinds of teaching aids and how to use these aids effectively in teaching English It explores the benefits and the difficulties of using teaching...
... and there is a chance of intra-articular pin placement, causing septic arthritis and a risk of damaging the growth plate An external fixator is also used for the treatment of paediatric supracondylar ... consider locked intramedullary nails It is important to have enough space for two locking bolts in the distal fragment However, this cannot be used in growing children The design of flexible intramedullay ... and control the alignment in distal comminuted fractures At the same time, the nail may back out causing skin irritation Recently, Kanlic et al used the principle of bridging plate with Low Contact...
... security, an increase in living standards and a farming system that is not exploitative but which maintains the productivity of the soil resource by managing the soil within its inherent constraints ... district and provincial extensionists in Gia Lai , Ninh Thuan and Tay Ninh Provinces The workshops comprised in- field training, and field experiments in Gia Lai and Tay Ninh were used to demonstrate ... _ Institute Information Project Name Improving capability of provincial extensionists for assessing soil constraints to sustainable production through the useof the SCAMP decision support system...
... successful decision support tools Introduce SCAMP's usefulness as a decision support tool Analysis of local soil constraints to interest farmers Combination of training courses Transfer new technologies ... suggestion after training course Tutor worked hard Well organised Training course is very useful for extensionists and farmers Should have more training courses Improved knowledge of sustainable soil ... sustainable soil management Extend the length of the training course Training course has an important position in identifying and managing soil constraints Should have more material for farmers...