... the baseline Two areas (“Design a database in Access” and “Use Stata for data analysis”) were not included in the baseline, but were assessed in the end-of-project survey as work/training had ... statement This is a good result indicating that CAP staff are more positive about their knowledgeandskillsin this area, and capacity to influence policy, than they were two anda half years ... Design a survey to map/describe a supply chain; • Produce descriptive statistics from survey data; • Design a database in Access; and • Use Stata for data analysis In all other skill areas, those...
... implementation of the randomized trial, analysis and interpretation of the data, and manuscript preparation MS and DV conducted data analysis and participated in data interpretation and manuscript ... care of cervicogenic headache [11,13] Spinal manipulation had a clinically important advantage over light massage in headache pain, number, and disability; there was little effect of dose A path ... CGH pain today, worst CGH pain in the last four weeks, and average CGH pain in the last four weeks The disability scale (secondary outcome) is the average of three 11-point scales evaluating interference...
... Econometrics more advanced - understanding of mathematical and statistical methods and their use for analysing complex problems • Managing tasks and time: planning and organising tasks; setting priorities ... SOLVING/CREATIVITY) Setting Priorities: Assessing the relative importance and urgency of tasks to be done and planning action accordingly Logical Thinking: The ability to analyse and process knowledge, ... ideas and information in order to arrive at a rational conclusion ina clearly argued way Creative Thinking / Innovation: Creation of new concepts, thoughts and ideas which have the potential...
... B) are to initiate, encourage, and sponsor research in accounting, andto advance accounting instruction In addition, the AAA encourages qualified individuals to enter into careers in accounting ... encompasses two days of tests in areas of financial accounting, auditing, business law, and taxation, managerial, and government The CPA examination is the recognized standard for entrance of accountants ... accounting program culminates ina terminal degree The accounting program consists of courses in general education, business, and accounting related areas American Accounting Association (AAA)...
... remain unchanged Hence, the results below are useful to analyze the role that each operating parameters can play in the cell internal humidification management 3.2 Critical current analysis In ... to the fact that, in dead end mode, the water accumulates in steady state at the anode side up toa certain level which creates a diffusive flux allowing to balance the electro-osmotic flux Another ... multi-component gas transport in the gas diffusion layers andin the bipolar plate channels It also describes water transport in the membrane This model is used to analyze the role that each operating parameters...
... synthesis and acetyl-CoA conversion pathway 46 acetyl-CoA fi acetoac-CoA + CoA 47 Acetoac-CoA + NADPH fi 3HB-CoA + NADP 48 3HB-CoA fi PHB + CoA 49 PHB fi 3HB 50 Acetoac + NADH fi 3HB + NAD 51 Acetoac-CoA ... rapid selfreproduction, gaining a maximal biomass production at a given total flux is obviously equivalent to maintaining a given rate of biomass production at a minimum of the total flux Insofar, ... b-ketothiolase Acetoacetyl-CoA reductase (NADPH) PHB synthase PHB depolymerase b-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase Acetoacetate-succinyl-CoA transferase D-crotonase L-crotonase Acetoacetyl-CoA reductase...
... offline using WITAS’ natural language understanding component in order to get a gold-standard labeling of the data Each utterance was labeled as either in- grammar or out-ofgrammar (oog), depending ... utterances Randomly split the remaining data into an 80% training and 20% test set Run TiMBL with all possible parameter settings on the generated training and test sets and store the best performing ... subsidiary data-structures needed for interpreting and generating anaphoric expressions and definite NPs Finally, the ANL plays a crucial role in integrating new user utterances into the DMT Data Collection...
... the Association for Natural Language proceeding, pages 517–520 (in Japanese) Katsuya Takanashi, Takehiko Maruyama, Kiyotaka Uchimoto, and Hitoshi Isahara 2003 Identification of “Sentences” in Spontaneous ... or after quotations and inserted clauses Pause duration is normalized ina talk with its mean and variance (3) speaking rate Inside inserted clauses, speakers tend to speak fast The speaking rate ... Maruyama, Katsuya Takanashi, Tatsuya Kawahara, and Hitoshi Isahara 2006 Dependencystructure Annotation to Corpus of Spontaneous Japanese In Proceedings of the LREC2006, pages 635-638 Kazuya Shitaoka,...
... (1962) argued that in some cases to say something is to something The utterances in those cases are called performatives or performatories Some performatives have, according to Austin, “the grammatical ... 2009 34 Accents Asia Pairs of utterances such as greeting-greeting and apology-acceptance are called adjacency pairs, and are often mutually dependent (McCarthy, 1997) To examine the nature and function ... students’ interest; provide enjoyable tasks) ▪Maintaining and protecting motivation (making learning and tasks stimulating; setting learner specific goals; increasing their self-confidence; allowing...
... review and helped in manuscript preparation; BC and AT helped in data and literature collection; AB and EK contributed some cases for the study All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... metastatic tumours Ortop Traumatol Rehabil 2003, 5(2):172-9 Taneichi H, Kaneda K, Takeda N, Abumi K, Satoh S: Risk factors and probability of vertebral body collapse in metastases of thoracic and ... preoperative Karnofsky and modified Tokuhashi scores with the type of the surgical approach in 57 patients with spinal metastases treated surgically andto evaluate the value of these scores in aiding...
... survival by phosphorylating and inactivating proapoptotic factors, such as FKHR and GSK-3β [7] FKHR is a transcription factor that transactivates the expression of death-activating proteins, such as ... treated and untreated OvCa cells decrease CCL25 also induced a gradual increase in Akt phosphorylation and 10 minutes after treatment Wortmannin treatment abrogated this increase, but CCL25treated ... resistance to chemotherapy by means of inactivating apoptotic factors and enhancing survival pathways that antagonize apoptosis signals [2] However, the precise mechanisms of OvCa cell cisplatin-sensitivity...
... estimated for that sampling date 2.3 Data analysis Various linear and nonlinear regression models were fitted to the data to estimate stand-level LAI and foliage dynamics Foliage was sampled hierarchically ... crown base Annual foliage litterfall per unit of ground area Standing leaf area index (unit of leaf area per unit of ground area; total one-sided) Indicator variable for season of foliage sampling ... measurements A series of permanent plots was used in this study to scale tree leaf area to the stand-level andto relate stand attributes to LAI and foliage litterfall A total of 26 young plantations...
... 1988 Plants were rooted into compost Measurements of gas exchange (photosynthesis, transpiration and stomatal conductance) were made using a laboratory system (Taylor and Dobson, 1989) During July ... for financial support, A Willson, D.W.H Durrant and other staff at the Forestry Commission and P Hutchinson for technical assistance References Ling K .A & Ashmore M.R (1987) In: Acid Rain and ... Similar effects were also observed for photosynthesis and transpiration, suggesting that ambient concentrations of pollution in southern England may significantly reducarbon flux toand water...
... chemotherapy are all associated with local cytokine production [5,15] The addition of radiation on a background of subclinical damage may augment a cytokine cascade and increase the severity of acute ... For finally 34 evaluable patients, the histology was 14 squamous cell carcinomas, adenocarcinomas, 11 small cell carcinomas and others Twenty-five patients were male and nine patients were female ... SNL and HSJ performed evaluation of patients and read the manuscript All the authors read and approved the final manuscript 15 Acknowledgements 17 14 16 The authors wish to acknowledge the financial...
... wall, including the parietal pleura and intercostal muscles, led toa complete and well-made obliteration of the residual pleural space A chest tube anda subcutaneous drainage were placed and ... thoracic incision was sutured Finally, an abdominal aspirative drainage was inserted and the laparotomy was closed Figure bronchopleural fistula (white arrows) Axial CT scan (window setting) ... pleural space andto control the underlying inflammatory process In complex subset we believe that omentoplasty is a reliable approach when attempting to close bronchopleural fistula as also...
... sepsis and septic shock using standardized definitions ina non-Western country Materials and method King Fahad National Guard Hospital is a 550-bed tertiary care teaching centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ... increasing international travel and the trend toward globalization, an international perspective on the outcome following sepsis is becoming increasingly important The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ... Continuous variables were expressed as means ± standard deviation and were compared using standard t-test Categorical values were expressed in absolute and relative frequencies, and were analyzed...
... and nonresponder, †P < 0.05 between baseline and before INO Endotoxin also caused a rapid release of inflammatory mediators and vasoactive substances Prostanoids, LTB4, ET-1, nitrates and cytokines ... endotoxin Endotoxin exposure caused an increase in the MPAP and the pulmonary vascular resistance, whereas the cardiac output remained unaltered There was a mean decrease in the mean arterial ... biochemical events to try to elucidate the mechanisms of response and nonresponse to INO in an endotoxin-induced animal lung injury model Materials and methods Animals After approval of the local Animal...
... The Saskatchewan Health and Back Pain Survey The prevalence of neck pain and related disability in Saskatchewan adults Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 1998, 23(15):1689-1698 United States Bone and Joint ... these factors is incorporated by the primary spine care practitioner into the management of the somatic factors [63,64] An appreciation of minimalism in spine care: The primary spine care practitioner ... results can lead to unnecessary catastrophizing of benign spine pain that may result in prolonged disability [91] and unnecessary invasive procedures [92] Having a primary spine care practitioner...
... [32] Instead, the PCR microarray indicated two distinct domains of CENP -A chromatin: a major domain of about 80.3 kb in size anda minor domain of about 8.5 kb (Figure 2a) The major domain was ... Spotting Pin (Telechem International, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, USA) and Genemachine Omnigrid 100 (Genomics Solutions Inc Ann Arbor, MI, USA) BAC microarray information, and raw and processed data can be ... [32] actually consisted of an approximately 87.8 kb major domain and an approximately 13.2 kb minor domain, separated by about 158 kb Both domains contained co-localizing CENP -A, CENP-C, and CENP-H,...
... the manuscript AK gained access to the dataset, participated in preparing and editing data, discussions and helped revise the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements ... York: Springer; 2006:55-56 Wahba G, Lin Y, Lee Y, Zhang H: Optimal properties and adaptive tuning of standard and non-standard support vector machines In Nonlinear estimation and classification ... obtained for this study because the data were obtained from an existing database supplied by Aviagen Ltd (Newbridge, UK) Ina nutshell, a one-fold cross-validation with a training set anda testing...