... you think of this presentation? What differential diagnosis should be considered for this patient? Based on this presentation, what diagnostic tests should be considered? Is anything missing from ... craniotomy with excision of the brain abscess He was started on antibiotic therapy and was discharged in good condition days after admission Discussion Brain abscess is a rare diagnosis; there are ... anaerobic microorganisms, and should be later tailored to the specific organism that is identified [2,3] The duration of therapy is dependent upon the organism identified; longer therapy is indicated...
... commands generated by the CommandBuilder This is necessary when the object names contain special characters or reserved tokens; otherwise, the commands will fail when executed For example, in SQL Server ... logic is created automatically so no understanding is required of how to code the actual delete, insert, and update SQL statements The CommandBuilder drawbacks include slower performance because of ... to simple single-table scenarios, and a lack of support for stored procedures Because of these drawbacks, the CommandBuilder is seldom used in enterprise application development The example also...
... Mork-Ulnes, VP of Context Analytics “While this study focused on how the volume of media coverage relates to brand value, reputation in the media is often a greater predictor of brand value and ... undertaking this study was to demonstrate that the value of PR becomes much clearer when media metrics are tied to business value rather than soft metrics that are only understood by PR professionals,” ... findings of the “Media Prominence Study,” (pdf) which calculates brand value based on Interbrand’s 2008 Best Global Brands report, show that on average 27% of brand value is tied to how often the...
... hàng phân phối thời trang cao cấp Những nhãn hiệu biết phát huy mạnh chiến lược “càng đắt” (less is more) phải kể đến Harley Davidson Harley Davidson chưa công nhận thương hiệu sang trọng, song ... tượng địa vị thương hiệu Rolex vững Louis Vuitton ngoại lệ phá vỡ quy luật “càng đắt” nhãn hiệu cao cấp Dù sản xuất với số lượng lớn nhà máy toàn giới, Louis Vuitton giữ nét quyến rũ nhãn hiệu ... ngày nay, bạn sở hữu nói lên đẳng cấp bạn Nếu người xe hiệu BMW đời 7, sử dụng phục trang hãng Louis Vuitton, đeo đồng hồ Thụy Sỹ có mác Rolex, dù cố tình hay vô ý họ tự tách biệt khỏi đa số người...
... hàng phân phối thời trang cao cấp Những nhãn hiệu biết phát huy mạnh chiến lược “càng đắt” (less is more) phải kể đến Harley Davidson Harley Davidson chưa công nhận thương hiệu sang trọng, song ... tượng địa vị thương hiệu Rolex vững Louis Vuitton ngoại lệ phá vỡ quy luật “càng đắt” nhãn hiệu cao cấp Dù sản xuất với số lượng lớn nhà máy toàn giới, Louis Vuitton giữ nét quyến rũ nhãn hiệu ... đáng để người tiêu dùng phải thèm muốn Đâu bí mật hãng này? Câu trả lời khả kiểm soát sản phẩm Louis Vuitton tự tiến hành tất phân đoạn trình làm sản phẩm, từ khâu thiết phân phối Việc giữ cho chất...
... hàng phân phối thời trang cao cấp Những nhãn hiệu biết phát huy mạnh chiến lược “càng đắt” (less is more) phải kể đến Harley Davidson.Harley Davidson chưa công nhận thương hiệu sang trọng, song ... tượng địa vị thương hiệu Rolex vững Louis Vuitton ngoại lệ phá vỡ quy luật “càng đắt” nhãn hiệu cao cấp Dù sản xuất với số lượng lớn nhà máy toàn giới, Louis Vuitton giữ nét quyến rũ nhãn hiệu ... khách hàng không tiếp tục mua Bạn thử tưởng tượng, người đeo kính hiệu Gucci, dùng túi xách Christian Dior, mặc trang phục Dolce & Gabbana liệu thương hiệu có “làm mưa làm gió” nhờ tính chất...
... skirt ismore beautiful than yours Chúng ta quan sát câu sau Các bạn di chuột vào từ để biết thể loại từ từ câu: (Các bạn kích chuột lần vào từ để biết thêm chi tiết từ đó) My skirt ismore beautiful ... cụm câu: My skirt ismore beautiful than yours 3 Tại câu lại dịch vậy? - My skirt – Chiếc váy Trong “my” : có nghĩa tôi/ tớ/ mình…là tính từ sở hữu (possessive adjective) your/ his/ her/ our/ their ... nữ/ phần váy áo đầm - Is : Động từ “to be” – nghĩa thì/ là/ chia với chủ ngữ thứ số he/ she/ it - More … than : hình thức so sánh tính từ trạng từ dài Đặt tính từ/ trạng từ more than, ta có cấu...
... said that the President would not resign in disgrace Of course, more fine-grained distinctions of this type can only be made given sufficiently rich linguistic analyses as input Another compelling ... input natural language query is first submitted to the statistical search algorithm as a set of content words, resulting in a ranked set of documents This ranked set is then reranked by attempting ... set of linguistic terms stored for each of these documents and corresponding linguistic terms determined by processing the query in MEG Documents that contain linguistic matches are heuristically...
... thesis deals with the systematic method for analysis of performance loss whenusing simplified model predictive control formulations Aim of this thesis is to analyze and compare system response using ... with discrete time system models Because of this it is necessary to discretize the mathematical model For this reason the right choice of sampling time Ts is needed for discretization of our ... response of the system Because of this, it is very important to have model of the system that adequately describes its dynamic properties One of the greatest strength of the MPC is the possibility of...
... determine the site of origin of a metastatic carcinoma of unknown primary site, particularly because this may affect the choice of the treatment A more precise diagnosis leads to more effective treatment, ... site is a common clinical problem Determining the cytokeratin (CK) 7/CK20 pattern of tumors is one of the most helpful procedures for this purpose since the CK7−/CK20+ pattern is typical of colorectal ... Immunohistochemistry is the most common adjunctive method used in the analysis of the patient with cancer of unknown primary site [4,5] Cytokeratins (CKs) represent the epithelial class of intermediate-sized...
... hàng phân phối thời trang cao cấp Những nhãn hiệu biết phát huy mạnh chiến lược “càng đắt” (less is more) phải kể đến Harley Davidson Harley Davidson chưa công nhận thương hiệu sang trọng, song ... tượng địa vị thương hiệu Rolex vững Louis Vuitton ngoại lệ phá vỡ quy luật “càng đắt” nhãn hiệu cao cấp Dù sản xuất với số lượng lớn nhà máy toàn giới, Louis Vuitton giữ nét quyến rũ nhãn hiệu ... ngày nay, bạn sở hữu nói lên đẳng cấp bạn Nếu người xe hiệu BMW đời 7, sử dụng phục trang hãng Louis Vuitton, đeo đồng hồ Thụy Sỹ có mác Rolex, dù cố tình hay vô ý họ tự tách biệt khỏi đa số người...
... majority of plots in our data-set had little damage and our results can help to explain the occurrence of this kind of damage According to a Swiss study carried out after “Lothar”, more than half of ... low height Tall stands have a high risk but this risk does not increase with further increases in stand height This relationship is reflected in the proportion of damaged plots for the different ... 10.6 0.000 Soil texture DISCUSSION 4.1 Merits and drawbacks of our statistical approach Storm damage is the result of complex interactions between many factors [49] In this study, we used regression...
... tissue These changes correlated well with symptom improvement and amelioration of disease severity.19 These studies led to the discovery of IL- in the 1980s and identification of the range of ... significant remission of asthma symptoms After all, patients not uniformly p resent with the same clinical features of the disease or the same pathologic inflammatory profiles All of this confirms ... condition Instead, what is needed is a better and more accurate phenotyping of asthma and a greater appreciation of p atient- irected, rather than isease- irected, therapies It is d d d our firm...
... competing risks [7] However, cumulative incidence of mortality can be adjusted for competing risks [7] Our finding that the cumulative mortality risk is lowered after adjustment for competing risks is ... [http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/PDF/ prostate.pdf] Royal College of Radiologists Clinical Oncology Information Network & The British Association of Urological Surgeons: Royal College of Radiologists ... expectancy of their patients The current study is limited by reliance on administrative data not collected for answering the study question A potential bias may exist in the determination of cause of...
... Statistical analysis was performed using the Mann-Whitney test when comparing two groups and the Kruskal-Wallis test with Dunn’s post-test for multiple comparisons when comparing Discussion NPWT ... sternum is sufficiently stabilized during NPWT to withstand the forces to which the wound is exposed when the patient breathes, coughs or moves The protective disc The protective disc was made out of ... lateral distortion of the sternum wound edges Detailed results are shown in Figure Calculations and statistics Calculations were performed using GraphPad 5.0 software (San Diego, CA, USA) Statistical...
... tissue NPWT using gauze has proven to be successful in the treatment of other kinds of wounds [14] Conclusions This study was performed to compare the effects of NPWT of a sternotomy wound using ... decrease in heart rate whenusing foam is only slight (~20%) and the heart pumping function may only be affected when compensatory mechanisms are compromised as a result of advanced heart failure ... There is a greater reduction in the volume of the foam than the gauze, as the latter is a denser material The heart may therefore be drawn outwards to a greater extent whenusing foam than when using...
... instead of dyspnea Some limitations of the present study should be mentioned Most of the issues are related to the study design First, this study is based just on correlation analysis, which is not ... discussed the mechanism of correlation between the TLCO and exercise capacity, their cause-effect relationship is still unknown Similarly, the mechanism of correlation between the diffusing capacity ... measurements of COPD than dyspnea at the end of exercise, and that the former was more predictive of mortality [11] Therefore, dyspnea while performing the activities of daily living is considered...
... failure (SOFA score or 4) during the ICU stay Because of the small number of patients, no further subdivisions of ARF and selected organ failure were evaluated This left us with six groups of patients: ... definition of ARF was based on the SOFA score criteria, in which a score of or is defined as ‘severe’ organ failure [8] According to those criteria, the diagnosis of respiratory failure is based ... because of the small number of patients staying more than week in the ICU Likewise, we could not find any differences in outcome depending on the time of first occurrence of ARF Key messages • ARF is...
... incidence of bacteraemia between the low and high apoptosis groups but they not discuss any other parameters Although this group of 90 patients is as homogenous as one can except in a study of sepsis, ... patients assigned to the low group may at times have had more than 50% apoptosis and vice versa What is the significance of this? Timing of apoptosis is sure to be important (theoretically, too much ... survival was noted This is a critical issue if we hope to modulate this process to the advantage of patients Finally, there are a variety of technical considerations in measuring apoptosis in peripheral...
... expression by CD8+ T cells is increased during HIV infection [9-11] and have led to postulate that increased expression of the CD94/ NKG2A inhibitory receptors is one of the mechanisms rendering HIV-specific ... proliferative potential of CD8 T cells during persistent polyoma virus infection J Immunol 2006, 176:6121-6129 Publish with Bio Med Central and every scientist can read your work free of charge "BioMed ... the simultaneous expression of both subunits of the inhibitory receptor on CD8+ T cells has hardly been studied in HIV infection Costa et al using two-color FACS analysis to study CD3+ NKG2A+ T...