... The unit of analysis in this study will be patients adjusted for clustering within individual hospitals Hospitals participating in the SPARC Network will be randomized in groups of 6-8 and stratified ... delivered inconsistently, incompletely, and often with delay For example, in surveys of hospitals receiving resuscitated patients, only 26% of physicians [11,12] (USA and Canada) and 26% of hospitals ... customized intervention tools and education for frontline staff in EDs and ICUs on when, how, and Table Passive and active intervention phases Phase Passive • Identification of ED and ICU nurse and...
... absorption or scattering and offer promising clinical application especially in the area of cancer imaging by increasingly proving themselves to offer alternative angles in examining the same biological ... Exploiting the Optical Response of Metallodielectric core-shell particles for imaging and therapy of cancer In 4th Scientific Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society (Singapore), Singapore, ... accumulated in lesions e.g tumors as in the case of photodynamic diagnosis [6, 7] or it can also involve detectionof changes in the intrinsic autofluorescence of tissue in the presence of tissue...
... 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 CAs ... part of second language learning and teaching There are many definitions of speaking Speaking is “the process of building and sharing meaning through the use of verbal and non-verbal symbols, in ... something - Asking questioning - Confirming information - Justifying an opinion - Making suggestions - Clarifying understanding - Making comparisons - Agreeing and disagreeing c Talk as Performance...
... design and programming Fourth generation programming languages (4GL) Computer Aided Software Engineering tools to support software engineering, mainly in analysis and design Formal methods formal ... of Knowledge Management in Software Engineering 413 37 M Broom and P Runeson, Technical requirements for the implementation of an e experience base, in Proc Int Conf on Software Engineering and ... 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...
... some 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 ... peer teaching activity being undertaken These include: levels of formality and informality, emphasis on individual or group learning, and learning goals of individuals and the agendas set by others ... Suggested ways for improving the peer teaching process In light of the initial findings, the investigator introduces the following recommendations for improving the peer teaching process: • Do...
... size, incorporating information gain into the distance measure leads to a clear decrease in performance O v e r a l l p e r f o r m a n c e : Unsurprisingly, performance in terms of precision and ... instance based learning In Proc 13th Intl Conf Machine Learning, pages 122-130 R.I Forsyth and D Holmes 1996 Feature~ finding for text classification Literary and Linguistic Computing, 11:163-174 R ... complete set of documents, we constructed three pairs of training and test sets for training the feature classifiers The test sets are mutually disjunct; each of them contains positive and negative...
... 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 ... converted into the problem of extracting one of the derivations of Gw However, this is not entirely straightforward The presence of a state A in VN [.JVT indicates that for some in V[ and T1, T~ in...
... 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, the states and ... material andin their pref~ence for certain forms to convey grounding The literary style of a discourse will therefore influence the design of automatic text processing programs The style of news ... e for informing readers of an event This is a lucky fact, sSnce the syntactic forms used in quoted speech are usually much less constrained than those in non-quoted portions By Martin Tolchin...
... gradually introducing the different forms and using collage instead of drawing or painting Any medium can serve as a path for representation of loss and grief (Neimeyer, 2000) Different painting forms ... Thank you Dana, and all your staff, for seeing the merit in the concept of using art in a grief support group and supporting me through the process Final edits and preparation of the resource ... □ Setting Up the Group Often the most difficult part of running a group that will meet the needs of the members and the facilitators is the initial planning, organization, and setting upof the...
... 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 ... understandings and awareness about the importance of TAs in supporting English teaching 4.1.3 Teachers’ Frequency of Using TAs Taking a look at Figure 4.5 on the frequency of using TAs in teaching ... Guidelines for Using Teaching Aids in the Classroom 17 2.3.4 Rationale for the Use of Teaching Aids in Language Teaching 18 2.3.5 The Importance of Teaching Aids in Foreign Language Teaching...
... in sand andin agar A medium of ½ RM-1964 with a content of 0.4 mg BAP, pH 5.8, was manufactured This medium was used in part as liquid with sand (25 cm3 sand + 20 ml solution), in part reinforced ... Propagation of Sorbus sudetica in vitro using media differing in acidity J FOR SCI., 53, 2007 (2): 88–92 interesting results by cultures in vitro, especially in somatic embryogenesis of Abies hybrids and ... sloping wet surface for plantlets may be easily created within a flask by means of shaking with the mixture of sand and a liquid medium Plantlets can sink into sand partly and contact with medium...
... level of compulsion according to ACPC* by entry for 23 patients who all were inpatients on a random chosen day in 2003 in the acute wards of a psychiatric hospital, (Standard deviation) Waiting for ... http://www.annals-general-psychiatry.com/content/4/1/11 Waiting days 65 86days Figure a less costly facility, 11 number of waiting days after ward before a decision was made for further intramural treatment in 1of resident days forand out of 23 ... observed in patients with long and planned stays, sufficiently organised end of resident stay and follow- up visits The amount of followup by community centres did not improve outcome Lack of beds in...
... raise clinical, moral and legal dilemmas – and as a consequence controlled, double-blind studies and obliging child psychiatrists to draw information from them concerning the efficacy and safety of ... counselling or supportive intervention in the family, individual treatment for the child and psychosocial support Special treatment for learning disabilities, speech disorders and delays in mental ... remain few and far between in child psychiatry[4] The result of the aforementioned difficulties is the rarity of data concerning pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of psychotropic agents in...
... counted using the ImageJ program, public domain Java image processing software (http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/) Activation of apoptosis in cells growing in monolayer was examined using immunofluorescence ... the study and drafted the manuscript GP, LL and MB participated in PFGE andin immunofluorescence studies XS provided informatics and support with statistics for data analysis SM, OC, RM and GC ... method in cell-plugs (Figure 4) Since encapsulating cells before irradiation is particularly useful in a clinical setting with tumour biopsies, our aim was to investigate whether the inhibition of...
... calculation of inbreeding and coancestry coefficients are the most common tools for monitoring conservation schemes andfor designing strategies to minimize inbreeding [3, 4] The application of new ... value of the number of markers and the number of alleles per marker has been analysed only for the breeding structure of eight sires, 24 dams and two offspring of each sex per family using RM and ... effect followed the law of disminishing returns as shown in figure Finally, the relative advantage of higher number of alleles also increased as both the number of candidates and the number of markers...
... generation of selection This increased rates of gain by 64% in the first generation of selection Increased numbers of offspring per dam In the previous situations, the number of offspring per dam ... alleles = Information from commercial In previous studies on the use of = offspring MAS, elite sires (or grandsires) were assumed to have progeny test information on many commercial offspring in order ... shows rates of gain in the case of a marker bracket with a QTL in the middle (M a recombination rate between the markers of 0.4, and ), -M l -QTL I when accounting for double recombinants A realistic...
... pain near the side of heart Infections Infected wounds, skin wounds, wounds, infection, infection diseases Pain Headache, stomachache, rheumatism, body pain, leg pain, backbone pain, joint pain, ... storing herbal medicine in a bag created from the skin of M chrysogaster skin, which is tied twice with thread Tying the herbal medicine in M.chrysogaster skin allows it to remain effective for ... Species of Medicinal Plants in South Asia Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Program in Asia (MAPPA), IDRC/SARO, New Delhi, India 1999 Ghimire SK: Sustainable Harvesting and Management of Medicinal Plants...
... cancer treatment and their overall search for health and wellbeing, but recognizes and begins the journey of working with Indigenous epistemology and ways of doing It is also of value for practitioners ... may assist and support the improvement and sustainability of Aboriginal Traditional medicine and healing in Australia Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests ... participant: "Chinese have been practicing all this acupuncture, acupressure and all those sorts of things for thousands of years, and now it's all in vogue, so it's all right It's the same thing with...
... number and locations of points depend on the individual character of the disorder in each single patient An important, increasing field of application is the use of BTA in different pain syndromes, ... Depending of the kind of movement disorder, botulinun toxin injections into the floor of the mouth, the extrinsic tongue muscles and different jaw muscles have to be done to improve the clinical ... None of our patients suffered from a "dry eye" after BTA treatment of the lacrimal gland Intrinsic Rhinitis In the last few years, the application of Botulinum toxin type A in patients with intrinsic...
... the study was 67, and 10 patients (3 in the Prolastin group andin the placebo group) discontinued prematurely, resulting in a median of 127 weeks of exposure to Prolastin and 108 weeks to placebo ... Talecris who financed the randomised clinical trial of which the current study is a spin-off MW and CD are employees of Talecris RS has been in receipt of non-commercial funding from Talecris and lecture ... be a valid tool for monitoring emphysema inclinical studies of alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) [7,8] In recent years, there has been greater understanding and acceptance of this relatively...