Báo cáo khoa học: "Oral decontamination with chlorhexidine reduces the incidence of nosocomial pneumonia" doc

... to account for the between-study variations with regard to an overall mean of the effects of all the studies[8]. There were variations among the studies in terms of the CHX dose, the clinical ... available –warranting an update of the analysis. With the addition of tworecent trials favoring the use of CHX [6,7] the sample sizeincreased by 21%, yet the results of the subgroup analysisshowed ... aspiratesrather than on quantitative cultures of the lower respiratorytract. Given the limitations of these diagnostic criteria, the proof of CHX efficacy in reducing the rate of ventilator-associated...

Báo cáo khoa học: " A Effect of oral decontamination with chlorhexidine on the incidence of nosocomial pneumonia: a meta-analysis" pot

... First, there weremajor differences between the studies conducted in the car-Figure 1Impact of oral decontamination with chlorhexidine on nosocomial pneumoniaImpact of oral decontamination with chlorhexidine ... out of 50) of the total isolates. The distribution of these isolates was comparable among the two groups (46%for the chlorhexidine- treated group and 54% for the controlgroup, p = 0.7). The ... Duration of mechanical ventilation andintensive care unit length of stay were comparable between the two groups. Overall, the use of oral decontamination with chlorhexidine did not affect the incidence...

Báo cáo khoa học: "A machine-learning approach to the identification of WH gaps" doc

... semantics,collocation frequency, etc. The contribution of this paper consists in the de-velopment of a machine-learning approach to the identification of WH gaps. This approach reduces the lexical prerequisites ... grammar, ourtheory of the syntax of natural language can be ac-cordingly simplified.2 Previous WorkIn theoretical linguistics, WH dependencies havetypically been dealt with as part of the syntax ... essentially all of the sentencesin the treebank which contain WH gaps. Figure 1shows a simplified example of WH-fronting from the Penn Treebank in which the WH word whyis associated with the matrix...

Báo cáo khoa học: " Neuropsychological testing and biomarkers in the management of brain metastases" doc

... generally is related to the size of the tumor ratherthan the number of metastases. Meyers et al. [58] foundthat the volume of the indicator lesion was highly corre-lated with each neurocognitive ... melanoma, orsarcoma found that there was a high degree of failureswithin the brain (approximately 50% of patients by 6months) with the omission of WBRT [29]. The role of WBRT after SRS remains unclear. ... the presence of S100B in the serum of 38 patients with lungcarcinoma, an elevated S100B level was either associated with brain metastases or with the presence of imagingchanges suggestive of chronic, diffuse...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Multilingual WSD with Just a Few Lines of Code: the BabelNet API" pdf

... identify the most suitablemeanings of the input words on the basis of the se-mantic connections found in the lexical knowledgebase, along the lines of Navigli and Lapata (2010).At its core, the ... for the input words (line 4). We then score the senses of the input words occurring within this graph(line 5–10). Finally, we output the sense distribu-tions of each word in lines 11–18. The ... senses of the input words,thus performing graph-based WSD on the basis of the structure of the underlying knowledge base.We show in Figure 3 a usage example of ourdisambiguation API. The method...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Convolution Kernels with Feature Selection for Natural Language Processing Tasks" docx

... that appeared in the negative sample ¯c, the number of u that did not ap-pear in c, and the number of u that did not appearin ¯c, respectively. Let y be the number of samples of positive class ... τ = 3.8415 (FSSK2)for the proposed methods; these values represent the 10% and 5% level of signiﬁcance in the χ2distribu-tion with one degree of freedom, which used the χ2signiﬁcant test.6.1 ... . sj of S (allowing the existence of gaps), the position of u in S is written as i = (i1: i|u|). The length of S[i] is l(i) = i|u|− i1+ 1. For example, ifu = ab and S = cacbd, then i...

Báo cáo khoa học: "Epithelioid sarcoma with muscle metastasis detected by positron emission tomography" docx

... case of epithelioid sarcoma with the symptom of Volkmann's contracture character-ized by a claw-like deformity of the hand and fingers asso-ciated with contracture of the muscles in the ... torelease the contracture, but also to obtain a biopsy speci-men to diagnose the cause of the contracture. The surgeryfindings showed that the tendons had adhered to eachother with cicatricial-like ... be the first symptom of widely disseminated disease rather than a purely regionalprocess [16].ConclusionIn conclusion, we have reported a case of epithelioid sar-coma with the symptom of...

báo cáo khoa học: " Threshold models with heterogeneous residual variance due to missing information" doc

... the offspring of these sires were recorded in the same testing environment. The responsewas binary and the 15 observations available are as shown below :Because of the ... relate to Y¡jk via the incidence vector xii,. Inpractical applications, the pedigree may be incomplete so the identification of the sireor of the maternal grandsire ... that the residuals of the model for the underlyingnormal variable have constant variance. This may not be true in general. Also, even if the assumption holds, there...

báo cáo khoa học: "Collaborative planning approach to inform the implementation of a healthcare manager intervention for hispanics with serious mental illness: a study protocol" pptx

... error is half the width of a confidenceinterval of an estimator. The smaller the margin of error,thetightertheconfidenceintervalandthemoreprecision we achieve for an estimator. We used the ori-ginal ... willcode the rest of the data. Additional analyses willinclude identification of subthemes and descriptions of the range and salience of themes. Established proceduresto enhance the trustworthiness ... notpermit us to test the efficacy of the modified healthcaremanager intervention or to identify mechanisms of change. We plan to use the results of the pilot study toinform the design of a more rigorous...

báo cáo khoa học: " A randomized trial to assess the impact of opinion leader endorsed evidence summaries on the use of secondary prevention strategies in patients with coronary artery disease: the ESP-CAD trial protocol" doc

... leaders in the out-patient setting, the generalizability of the intervention is of utmost concern. Thus, the focus must be on a practicalmeans of incorporating the influence of these individualsinto ... from the AmericanCollege of Physicians, the American Heart Association,and the American College of Cardiology recommend the use of beta-blockers as first-line therapy for angina inpatients without ... innovations within the local context. [68-70].Since they influence patterns of practice in the commu-nity, their participation in any program of qualityimprovement is essential. Yet, the use of local...

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