decision research can increase the accuracy of clinical judgement and thereby improve patient care

Central Bank Transparency, the Accuracy of Professional Forecasts, and Interest Rate Volatility pot

Central Bank Transparency, the Accuracy of Professional Forecasts, and Interest Rate Volatility pot

Ngày tải lên : 29/03/2014, 13:20
... negative in all of the samples, but not signi…cant in the case of countries with lower per capita income and the Americas Insigni…cance there is the result of larger standard errors rather than a ... at t + months and t + 12 months forms a direct measure of the accuracy of the individual forecasts To measure the volatility of interest rates I calculate the standard deviation of interest rates ... for the ECB and Hayo and Neuenkirch (2009) for the FOMC transparency improves predictability Ra¤erty and Tomljanovich (2002) and Lange, Sack and Whitesell (2003) …nd better accuracy for the US...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article On the Integrability of Quasihomogeneous Systems and Quasidegenerate Infinity Systems" pot

Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article On the Integrability of Quasihomogeneous Systems and Quasidegenerate Infinity Systems" pot

Ngày tải lên : 22/06/2014, 19:20
... by the systems [5, 7, 8] and using by the invariant manifolds of the systems [6] As we know, the existence of inverse integrating factors gives a lot of information on dynamics, integrability of ... integrability of the systems and so on In [9], the relationship between the property of a Darboux first integral and the existence of a polynomial inverse integrating factor of a polynomial differential ... integrating factors of system (1.3) from the first integrals of the corresponding quasihomogeneous system (1.1) by using the Darboux’s theory of integrability Yanxia Hu On the integrability of quasihomogeneous...
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Báo cáo sinh học: " Effects of the number of markers per haplotype and clustering of haplotypes on the accuracy of QTL mapping and prediction of genomic breeding values" pot

Báo cáo sinh học: " Effects of the number of markers per haplotype and clustering of haplotypes on the accuracy of QTL mapping and prediction of genomic breeding values" pot

Ngày tải lên : 14/08/2014, 13:21
... analyses, and wrote the first draft of the paper RFV supervised the research and mentored MPLC THEM developed initial versions of the programs used for analysis THEM, JJW, EFK, CS and ALJV took ... haplotypes and counting the number of haplotypes per formed cluster Whenever one (or both) of the two haplotypes was already assigned to a cluster, the counts and sum of off-diagonal values of the clustered ... QTL, then reducing the number of haplotypes by clustering haplotypes that are strongly related to each other [7,6], might be another option to improve the accuracy of QTL detection The aim of this...
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Báo cáo y học: " Risk factors for the development of nosocomial pneumonia and mortality on intensive care units: application of competing risks models" ppt

Báo cáo y học: " Risk factors for the development of nosocomial pneumonia and mortality on intensive care units: application of competing risks models" ppt

Ngày tải lên : 13/08/2014, 08:21
... 158 (8.4%) of the included patients developed NP; 132 of these (83.5% of all NP) were ventilator-associated NP (incidence of 8.5 per 1,000 ventilator days) and 33 of these (20.9% of all NP cases) ... the ICU Overall, in 214 of the 1,876 admissions (11.4%) the patient died in the ICU More details of risk factors and outcomes are shown in Table Analysis of risk factors for the acquisition of ... can take the time-dependency of risk factors and competing events into account ticipated in collecting of the data MW, JB and MS participated in the statistical analysis of the data RPV, PG and...
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Accuracy of Clinical Signs in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Comparison of Three Reference Standards Using Data from a Tertiary Care Centre in Rwanda doc

Accuracy of Clinical Signs in the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Comparison of Three Reference Standards Using Data from a Tertiary Care Centre in Rwanda doc

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 18:20
... can deduce the probability of each test pattern for the hypothetical disease, the prevalence of the hypothetical disease, and the diagnostic sensitivity and specificity Different models can be tested ... probability with the therapeutical threshold LCA as such has no direct role in patient- by -patient clinical case management of TB, but it expands our toolbox in clinical research, as it is one of the few ... probabilities for these six patients; although clinicians would treat several of them, we can not consider them as “reference” TB cases The advantage of LCA compared to the composite reference standard...
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Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article A Two-Stage Approach for Improving the Convergence of Least-Mean-Square Adaptive Decision-Feedback Equalizers in the Presence of Severe " doc

Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article A Two-Stage Approach for Improving the Convergence of Least-Mean-Square Adaptive Decision-Feedback Equalizers in the Presence of Severe " doc

Ngày tải lên : 22/06/2014, 19:20
... It is also seen that the performance of the systems improves as the number of filter taps is increased, approaching the performance of QPSK The improvement results from the increased spectral resolution ... interested in the noise-free predictor weights, given by ⎡ where cl are the tap weights of the predictor The output of the PEF, yPEF,k , is defined as the subtraction of the estimate of the interference ... also reduces the complexity of the system; only M +1 of the total 2M + tap weights are adapted In the scenario where there is a phase and/ or gain error, the system requires the use of either training...
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báo cáo khoa học: " Health, human rights, and the conduct of clinical research within oppressed populations" doc

báo cáo khoa học: " Health, human rights, and the conduct of clinical research within oppressed populations" doc

Ngày tải lên : 11/08/2014, 18:20
... negatives of not conducting the research The central argument is the optimal balance between ensuring the safety of participants while advancing the needs of science The "intentionality" of the research ... the trial had been approved by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and US Army IRBs Burma (Myanmar) In the examples of Thailand and Nepal, we present cases of clinical research ... identified a number of limitations in the 1939 Act, including the lack of parliamentary scrutiny of secondary legislation made under the Act and the absence of any indication of the purposes for...
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RESEARCH ON THE CHANGE OF 2-AP AND OTHER VOLATILE COMPOUNDS IN PROCESSING BUN FROM RICE

RESEARCH ON THE CHANGE OF 2-AP AND OTHER VOLATILE COMPOUNDS IN PROCESSING BUN FROM RICE

Ngày tải lên : 28/08/2013, 16:28
... extraction of the 2-AP high concentration materials like Pandan leaf (Phan Phuoc Hien, 2011) Based on the two methods we studied for extraction and quantitative analysis of 2-AP in the pandan leaf and ... collidine as internal standard Duration of extraction was 30 minutes from apparition of the first drop of water in the bottom of the condensed tube Volatile compound extracts were then concentrated ... rate of 1.9 ml/min at 250C The injection was performed in splitless mode first (5 for SPME and for SDE), then in split mode to the end of the cycle (38.5 for SPME and 70 for SDE) After warming the...
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Factors influencing borrower’s behavior and decision making patterns in the success of a micro finance model

Factors influencing borrower’s behavior and decision making patterns in the success of a micro finance model

Ngày tải lên : 06/09/2013, 05:48
... that they are at the mercy of the MFIs and they not have any idea about the merits of the loan products They will have higher satisfaction and confidence if the said MFIs are supported and recognized ... financing On the other hand, the individual with low income and savings is more attracted towards debt financing The selection of income group and the means of income are very important The main ... for their increment at the end of each year On the other hand, lower income group running their own businesses are encouraged by MFIs to obtain loans as the capacity building of the enterprise and...
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Tài liệu A thesis submitted to The University of Birmingham for the degree of Clinical Psychology Doctorate docx

Tài liệu A thesis submitted to The University of Birmingham for the degree of Clinical Psychology Doctorate docx

Ngày tải lên : 12/02/2014, 12:20
... Country of origin Eight studies were conducted in the Netherlands, six in Italy, two in Sweden, two in Austria, and one each from Canada, Croatia, Israel, Northern Ireland, Finland, and England Recruitment ... dietician, for their help in the early stages of the project I also appreciate the time and support of both research supervisors, Dr Ruth Howard and Dr Gary Law, for putting up with my questions and tantrums, ... University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/ or third parties The intellectual property rights of the author...
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Tài liệu Guidelines for the appointment of General Practitioners with Special Interests in the Delivery of Clinical Services pdf

Tài liệu Guidelines for the appointment of General Practitioners with Special Interests in the Delivery of Clinical Services pdf

Ngày tải lên : 14/02/2014, 21:20
... the PCO Good understanding of roles, responsibility and structure of PCOs and how to influence them to bring about improvement in delivery of sexual health services Understanding of primary care ... activities of the GPwSI service depend on the needs of the Primary Care Organisation (PCO) and can include provision of: • • • • • • Enhanced Family Planning services Menopause care Infertility care ... secondary care specialists, Primary Care Trust managers, patients, the Department of Health and the PwSI team in the NHS Modernisation Agency The frameworks are intended to be advisory for the development...
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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Evaluating the Accuracy of an Unlexicalized Statistical Parser on the PARC DepBank" docx

Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Evaluating the Accuracy of an Unlexicalized Statistical Parser on the PARC DepBank" docx

Ngày tải lên : 20/02/2014, 12:20
... mation in the PoS tags and by the need to balance depth of analysis against the size of the derivation space On the Susanne corpus, the geometric mean of the number of analyses for a sentence of length ... Vasserman and R Crouch 2004 Speed and accuracy in shallow and deep stochastic parsing In Proceedings of the HLT Conference and the 4th Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the ACL (HLT-NAACL’04), ... undertaken with the extended DepBank and gives detailed results §5 discusses these results and proposes further lines of research Kaplan et al (2004) compare the accuracy and speed of the PARC XLE...
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Báo cáo " Assessment of the influence of interpolation techniques on the accuracy of digital elevation model " potx

Báo cáo " Assessment of the influence of interpolation techniques on the accuracy of digital elevation model " potx

Ngày tải lên : 05/03/2014, 16:20
... point of interest to the sample point i ; and the power p controls the significance of sample points to the interpolated values, based on their distance to the output point The higher the power, the ... interpolation techniques on the accuracy of DEM in the examples of four projects in Vietnam The projects have various areas, and are belonging to typical types of topography of Vietnam The research is limited ... constrained by the sample data range The main parameters of the spline interpolation are the number of sampled points used for interpolation, and the weight For the regularized spline, the higher the weight,...
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Marketing Research Association, Inc. THE CODE OF MARKETING RESEARCH STANDARDS docx

Marketing Research Association, Inc. THE CODE OF MARKETING RESEARCH STANDARDS docx

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 00:20
... know the name of the sponsor of the research project, that name can only be revealed with the client’s permission and only after the respondent has completed the data collection phase of the research ... A Purpose of the Code of Marketing Research Standards B Background of the Code of Marketing Research Standards C Using This Document D Definitions MRA CODE OF MARKETING RESEARCH STANDARDS (with ... the complaint and the materials received This is done to determine the validity and the severity of the complaint They then determine the next action steps 11 The Professional Standards Committee...
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Cloud Computing & Databases - How databases can meet the demands of cloud computing docx

Cloud Computing & Databases - How databases can meet the demands of cloud computing docx

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 14:20
... requires the coordinated involvement of both the DBA and the application programmer This significantly increases support costs Shared-disk databases cleanly separate the functions of the DBA and the ... shared-disk database can be upgraded individually, while the cluster remains online You can selectively take nodes out of service, upgrade them, and put them back in service while the other nodes continue ... support costs: One of the benefits of cloud databases is that they shift much of the low-level DBA functions to experts who are managing the databases in a centralized manner for all of the users However,...
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The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries potx

The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries potx

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 23:20
... overview of all relevant sources as they can achieve They want to see the shape of the elephant” of their topic the full extent of its different important parts and how the parts fit together Librarians ... disregard of the increased utility of precoordinated strings of subject terms, and catalog browse displays of them The problem with any discussion of such issues lies in the complexity of their interrelationships ... other, and different, search capabilities.) X) Although they are more cognizant of the need for diligence and persistence in research, and of the requirement to check multiples sources, and of...
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Coaching Standardized Patients For Use in the Assessment of Clinical Competence pot

Coaching Standardized Patients For Use in the Assessment of Clinical Competence pot

Ngày tải lên : 08/03/2014, 16:20
... Coach Standardized Patients Chapter Overview: The Art and Practice of Coaching Standardized Patients The Collaboration in Standardized Patient Work The Uniqueness of Standardized Patient Work The ... coaches, and SPs in creating and portraying the patient case and administering and scoring the CPX; described the uniqueness of standardized patient work both for the coach and the SPs, specifically the ... out in the training materials They will learn how to accurately and realistically “portray” the patient The “role” of the patient not only includes the part of the patient s life that the medical...
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