... administrative health care databases containing information on beneficiaries, health professionals, pharmaceutical services and medical services Study population The study targeted all ambulatory ... inhibitors as a class versus traditional nonselective NSAIDs, celecoxib versus traditional nonselective NSAIDs, and rofecoxib versus traditional nonselective NSAIDs All data were analyzed using the SAS ... date, but again the prevalence of use was greater for COX-2 inhibitors than for traditional nonselective NSAIDs Statistical analysis The strength of the association between each patient characteristic...
... optimal overall management of cases with a congenital primary lymphedema [14] Conclusions Assessing the impact of the duration and severity of the condition in relation to age, sex and occupational ... presented at the age of years from the left ankle progressing slowly up to the calf, thigh and inguinal area leading to disfigurement andfunctional impairment The patient had a negative family history ... cases of primary lower limb lymphedema, by discussing the overall physical and mental impact of primary lymphedema through the use of metric tools of health related quality of life domains and...
... computational materials engineering to address three broad areas: methods and tools, databases, and dissemination and infrastructure • Methods and tools A collaboration between academia and industry ... diffusion After small extensions of both a commercial thermodynamic database, Thermotech NiDATA, anda National Institute of Standards and Technology mobility database to include one additional alloying ... reduction ofsystemsand subsystems and leading to improved mobility, survivability, and lethality, while also offering significant capital and operating and maintenance cost savings Michael McGrath,...
... when Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) are available It is a completely mathematical operation to approximate the spatial derivatives in a weighted integral fashion regardless of its physical ... which result in a system of algebraic equations with a banded matrix of coefficients There are many numerical techniques available to obtain the solutions for a system of algebraic equations [14] ... most widely used and reliable numerical approach [2] with many commercial software packages available In the FEM, the physical domain is denoted by an assemblage of subdivisions called elements...
... People Management, Operations, and Support Staff Organizational structure Find and retain highly skilled staff Training Communication channels Redundancy Microsoft Operations Framework team model ... expected from change? Who made the change? Who approved the change? Microsoft® Operations Framework process model Technology Hardware Software Testing Appendix A: Checklist – Planning aDataCenter Environment ... Performance monitoring System tuning Appendix A: Checklist – Planning aDataCenter Environment Change Management Change management process Identify issue Justification for change Approval for change...
... People Management, Operations, and Support Staff Organizational structure Find and retain highly skilled staff Training Communication channels Redundancy Microsoft Operations Framework team model ... expected from change? Who made the change? Who approved the change? Microsoft® Operations Framework process model Technology Hardware Software Testing Appendix B: Job Aid – Planning aDataCenter Environment ... Performance monitoring System tuning Appendix B: Job Aid – Planning aDataCenter Environment Change Management Change management process Identify issue Justification for change Approval for change...
... that emphasizes quality hardware and software, standardized configuration, and testing Facilities Manageable, available, and secure facilities Why is adatacenter culture important? The datacenter ... that detail security, analysis, change management and documentation Technology that emphasizes quality hardware and software, standardized configuration, and testing Manageable, available, and ... downtime is that someone makes an untested change to a server and that change causes an issue Analysis ofaDataCenter Environment Change Management Process DataCenter Documentation DataCenter Security...
... Edge WAN Agg WAN Agg WAE Farm WAE Farm Edge CAS Core Layer Edge CAS Aggregation Layer Layer Tunnel DataCenter Hub Hub DataCenter Mailbox Mailbox Hub Hub Mailbox Mailbox 222766 Access Layer Integrating ... load balancing as well as geographical load balancing between sites In addition to being an ideal candidate for server and site load balancing, the CAS role can additionally take advantage of network ... Site Load-Balancing Internet Redundant External Firewalls Redundant Server Load-Balancers CAS CAS CAS CAS Redundant Internal Firewalls Standby CCR CMS Active CCR CMS DataCenter 3 Data Center...
... five stages: User journey URL and search URL capture Automated data capture Manual data capture Third party data capture Metric calculations completed For full details of each metric, the data points ... presentation of the market Training data [153] (primary axis) Validation data [104] (primary axis) All sites [257] (secondary axis) Figure 4-9: The ‘Within Sum Squares’ plot on the validation dataand ... they offer, and how large their user bases are The aim of this study is to provide quantitative data to inform debate around infringement and enforcement Although a large amount of quantitative and...
... unlabeled examples is effective The accuracies of with-EM, random and without-EM are gradually increasing according to the percentage of added hand labeled examples and catch up that of human and ... negative dataset ) 13 end Full text query for initial positive examples Wega Loft Wega AND TV Loft AND (Grocery ORStationery) Honda AND Keisuke Tsubaki AND Shiseido Honda Tsubaki Loft store name ... in table Human labeling, abbreviated as human, is an active learning approach starting with human labeled negative examples The number of hu- 63 man labeled negative examples in initial training...
... Illumina PE read dataand Illumina with Sanger PE read data (see Materials and methods: Assembling Illumina data) ; using Forge we assessed assemblies generated from 454 SE read data, 454 SE with Sanger ... current sequence assembly is approximately 32.5 Mb in length and has an N50 scaffold size of approximately 782 kb The assembly as well as the raw read data are available from National Center for Biotechnology ... scaffold, polymorphisms within a repeat family, or the combinationofa low probability overlap and read-pair data An important advance made with Forge during the course of our work was the ability...
... echocardiography (TEE) with the gold standards of surgical findings and pathological examination Materials and methods Patients and clinical characteristics Echocardiographic, pathological and ... phased-array transducer All patients underwent standard two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiographic examinations with detailed evaluation of heart function Imaging planes were standardized, and ... the parasternal left heart long-axis view, the aortic and MV short-axis view, and the apical four- and two-chamber views Page of Left atrial (LA) diameter was measured from the parasternal left...
... sustainability and comparability Accessibility Facilitation of both the deposit ofdataand secure access to data are the foundations ofdata sharing Curators of databases should promote sharing ... greater access to and use ofdata in ways that are (as proposed by the joint statement by funders of health research [6]): ‘Equitable: any approach to the sharing ofdata should recognize and balance ... management anticipated Capacity building and recognition of all the data generators contributes to best practices Security Trust and the promotion ofdata sharing rely on data management and security...
... Milliken et al (2007) age; percentage for all other variables c UK data weighted to take account of sampling weights d Demographic data are not separately available for those on active duty and those ... as the final response rate was 76% Analysis All statistical analyses were undertaken using the statistical software package STATA (version 10.0) [22] Weighted and unweighted (not shown) prevalence ... US data are limited in several ways First, although the data relate to the same Iraq deployment, they were collected in different ways The PDHRA data was collected cross-sectionally in 20056 and...
... The advantage of generalized estimating equation analysis (for instance, compared with a repeated-measures analysis of variance) is that each patient is part of the analysis, irrespective of the ... function and chest X-ray characteristics during CMV, patients are classified either as having DAD or SAD DAD patients primarily had oxygenation disturbances necessitating high plateau pressures anda ... oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) small airway disease alveolar disease (DAD) (●) ventilation (HFOV) in patients with diffuse alveolar disease (DAD) (●) and in patients with small airway disease (SAD) (■)...
... categorical dataand on one-way analysis of variance or the Kruskal-Wallis test for continuous data as appropriate The association of AKI with mortality was assessed according to the Fine and Gray ... To avoid selection bias and ensure external validity, a random sample of patients older than 16 years of age and staying in the ICU for >24 hours are entered into the database each year Participating ... committee of Clermont-Ferrand, France Because routine collection ofdata entered into the database did not modify patients management in any way, and because statistical analyses were processed anonymously,...