Báo cáo khoa học: "A comparative study of the complications of surgical tracheostomy in morbidly obese critically ill patients" pps

... in morbidly obese patients. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence and severity of complications associated withopen tracheostomy in critically ill morbidly obese patients duringhospitalization.Methods ... postoperatively. In all of these instances, bleedingwas controlled with light packing. Cuff leak represented the second most common complication in the study population(3% in the morbidly obese and 7% in the ... in the morbidly obese was 25% with an estimated mortality of 2%. The majority of these complications were minor in origin; how-ever, life-threatening complications were more common than in the...

báo cáo khoa học: " A pragmatic study exploring the prevention of delirium among hospitalized older hip fracture patients: Applying evidence to routine clinical practice using clinical decision support" potx

... the volume of information included. Although the contenthas not markedly changed, formatting changes havereduced the total number of orders. The modified inter-vention is informing a provincial ... felt the orders were insulting and the overwhelming consen-sus amongst this group was that the pa thway was ‘pain-ful’ to use. The other focus group felt the deliriumstrategies were useful reminders ... decline in their delirium rate, the delirium rate at the other hospital (hospital one) declined from 42% to 19%with the intervention (p = 0.076; Figure 2). There wereno significant changes in...

Báo cáo khoa học: "A longitudinal study on the occurrence of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in dogs during their first year of life" docx

... some point in the study, whereas43.7% of the male dogs were Cryptosporidium positive. ForGiardia, 22.1% of the female and 19.7% of the male dogswere Giardia positive at some point in the study. Multiple ... positiveif the actual parasite was identified in the dog during the course of the study) , dogs living in Northern Norway had the lowest prevalences of both parasites (Table 4). Therewas a significantly ... None of the bitches were positive for Giardia at this sampling.Individual dogsPrevalences of the two parasites in each age group, includ-ing the litters, are given in Table 1. Of the total of...

Báo cáo khoa học: "A preliminary study on the monitoring of mixed venous oxygen saturation through the left main bronchus" pdf

... probe and the original probe. The readingswere compared to test the stability and accuracy of the refittedprobe.Fabrication of the measuring catheter, and intubationAfter inflation of the left ... exe-cution of the study, and finalized and revised the manuscript.YZ participated in the animal experiments, performed the sta-tistical analysis, and was involved in drafting the manuscript. ... ceases when the intracuff pressure exceeds 50cmH2O, and there was no decrease in the accuracy of SpO2trachea with increasing intracuff pressure. The blood flow-ing through the left pulmonary...

Báo cáo khoa học: "A Comparative Study of Parameter Estimation Methods for Statistical Natural Language Processing" potx

... aggre-gates the decisions of local linear models via a dynamic program. In the CMM, the local linear models are trained independently, while in the CRF model, the local models are trained jointly. ... training examples, while Andrew (2006) uses only features that occur in some positive training example. Second, we used the last 4K sentences of the training data to select the weight of the ... Following pre-vious work (Ratnaparkhi, 1996), we assume that the tag of a word is independent of the tags of all pre-ceding words given the tags of the previous two words (i.e., =2 in the...

Báo cáo khoa học: "A Comparative Study on Generalization of Semantic Roles in FrameNet" ppt

... conceptual necessity of the roles in the frame to which it belongs.23Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP of the AFNLP, pages 19–27,Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August ... are determinedautomatically in the training process.6 Experiment and DiscussionWe used the training set of the Semeval-2007Shared task (Baker et al., 2007) in order to ascer-tain the contributions ... yi}. The hierarchical-relation groups in Figure 4 are the illustrations of Hdescyi.For the relation types Inchoative of andCausative of, we deﬁne role groups in the oppo-site direction of the...

Báo cáo khoa học: "A Comparative Study of Hypothesis Alignment and its Improvement for Machine Translation System Combination" pot

... considering the posterior probabilities of words in hypothesis lists. Therefore, like other voting algorithms, its performance strongly depends on the quality of the n-best hypotheses of each sin-gle ... we start from the intersection of the two word alignments, and then continuously add new links between backbone and hypothesis if and only if both of the two words of the new link are un-aligned ... of the backbone. The aligned words are reor-dered according to their alignment indices. To reorder the null-aligned words, we need to first insert the null words into the proper position in...

Báo cáo khoa học: "A Comparative Study of Reinforcement Learning Techniques on Dialogue Management" pdf

... spo-ken input to text using the Automatic SpeechRecognition (ASR) component and then tries toinfer the meaning using the Natural Language Un-derstanding (NLU) component. At the core lies the Dialogue ... satisfaction. An-other beneﬁt of RL is that it can be trained usingeither real or simulated users and continue to learnand adapt with each interaction (in the case of on-line learning). To use ... applying Reinforcement Learning (RL)techniques, so a comparative study of the related methods, such as this, is necessary. In this work we compare several standardand state of the art online...

Báo cáo khoa học: A comparative study of methylglyoxal metabolism in trypanosomatids potx

... dosing. Using thismethodology, we examined the effects of methylglyoxalon an in vivo T. brucei infection. The maximum achiev-able methylglyoxal concentration in blood followingoral dosing of ... med-ium. In a previous study on the curative effect of methylglyoxal in cancer-bearing mice [26], Ghosh et al.established the pharmacokinetic properties of methyl-glyoxal in blood following oral ... protein was detected in whole celllysates of T. brucei procyclics, despite overexposure of the blot. In combination with our enzymatic analysis of cell extracts, these data conﬁrm the absence of...

Báo cáo khoa học: A comparative study of type I and type II tryparedoxin peroxidases in Leishmania major pot

... Again one additional peak wasdetected in the oxidized spectrum which was absent in the reduced one and again the mass ﬁtted to the sum of the two peptides ()2H + 1) containing the samecysteine ... mediates a blue-shift of the emission maximum to 332 nm indicating a move-ment of the tryptophan into a more hydrophobic envi-ronment, probably into the interior of the protein. The reduced and oxidized ... oxidizedprotein one additional peak is apparent which cannotbe found in the spectrum of the reduced protein. The mass of this peak can be assigned to the sum of twopeptides containing two cysteine residues...

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