... R SSS R R S Proteus mirabilis w SSSSSSSS w R R R R R R R R bc /s/ w R R R I I R R R R R R S R SS E.coli (ESBL +) Proteus vulgaris Pseudomonas aeruginosa S aureaus (MRSA) bc/rt /s/ w Stenotrophomonas ... Psychoemotional responses further comprised distress about injuries sustained, dissociation, optical, acoustical and olfactory intrusions and, in some cases, agitation Discussion We report on our experiences ... Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bc/rt /s/ w R R R R R R R SSSSS I S R/I R R/I /S I I R SS I SS I S R R SSS R S R SS R I R R R SS R R R SS I Resistance patterns for isolates from blood cultures, respiratory...
... prognosis of subsequent CABG Authors’ contributions GS carried out the acquisition of the data and drafted the manuscript TS participated in the statistical analysis and interpretation of the ... article as: Sakaguchi et al.: Impact of repeated percutaneous coronary intervention on long- term survival after subsequent coronary artery bypass surgery Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2011 ... event rates including revascularization rate in CABG [9] With these backgrounds, one question may arise; why is it that longterm clinical outcome after CABG is not equivalent regardless of the subgroups...
... long- terminterestrates The standard view of the monetary transmission mechanism relies on a simple version of the expectations theory of the term structure ofinterestrates In this theory, longterm ... reserves than desired by depository institutions puts upward pressure on the price of reserves—the federal funds rate—while supplying more reserves than institutions desire puts downward pressure on ... increase in the desired level of the federal funds rate causes current short -term rates and expected future short -term rates to rise, which pushes up interestrates across all maturities Similarly,...
... uniqueness of long- terminterest rate rules may give to modellers, what s perhaps as significant is the support that the result gives to long- terminterestrates as candidate instruments ofmonetary ... Figure shows that these regions are also large Our analysis suggests that unique allocations are as feasible for long- terminterest rate rules as they are for Taylor rules The regions of uniqueness ... previous studies not contain a risk premium, or if there is one, it is exogenous This raises important theoretical issues about the use of long- terminterest rate rules In particular, can long- term...
... patients' deficits in response to destabilizing visual tilts [9,15-17] In some cases, assessment of quiet stance on a firm surface lacks the sensitivity to distinguish healthy subjects from patients ... postural control in Parkinson 's disease, whereas medication does not Mov Disord 2006, 21:1088-1097 Magnusson M, Johansson K, Johansson BB: Sensory stimulation promotes normalization of postural control ... spectrum In none of the previous posturographic studies that investigated the effect of STN stimulation [9,15-17] was vibratory stimulation used on the calf muscles [23,24] Persons with PD fall during...
... 7: Regressions of first-day returns 127 Table 8: Two-stage OLS regressions of first-day returns 129 Table 9: Regressions of Gross Spreads 131 Table 10: Probit regressions: ... issues, mutual conversion issues, best-efforts, and limited partnership issues are screened out This brings to a total of 1166 offerings (548 Foreign IPOs and 618 Foreign and Later SEOs) I further ... bias caused by self-selection of issuers from low ASD countries The main problem of this methodology is the choice of instrumental variables to use in the first-stage equation These instruments...
... the issue of learning styles, differentiated instructions and motivation Besides, another simultaneous consequence of this action research is to raise students‟ awareness of their learning style ... their study results This impulsive thought might then result in the students‟ failure because of the incompatibility of applied learning styles and their major ones Consequently, this unsuccessful ... material access and possibilities of success for all students in diverse classroom Basically, it offers students multiple options to absorb information, make sense of ideas and express what they...
... motivation in learning English of first-year students in Faculty of Accountancy were suggested Using the survey questionnaires from 286 students and semi-structured interviews with 20 students who ... the data and a discussion on the findings of this study Part C: Conclusion, offers a summary of the findings, recommendations, limitations, and future directions for further study 4 PART B: DEVELOPMENT ... Appendix Questionnaire for students This survey questionnaire is designed for my research into the effectsof teacher feedback on the students' motivation in speaking lessons Your assistance in...
... research sometimes may come across some obstacles such as teacher s objection to observation, teacher s unreal simulation or students’ discontent Selfobservation could happen quite naturally, ... quantity of testimonials and classroom examples were provided by the authors of several publications and web sites Tomlinson (2000) reports the promising results (improvements in classrooms) of ... number of students instead of some The second finding of this study shows that differentiated instructions of the teacher had tailored class activities to fit all kinds of learning styles A particular...
... these results substantially There is also a consensus among institutional economist that transaction cost saving could also be substantial.55 Thus, this and other studies generally underestimate ... as follows Section provides a qualitative analysis of the impact of WTO accession on East Asia Section discusses the methodology and simulation design and provides a quantitative assessment of ... impact of accession on individual country s output, exports, investment flows and welfare Section discusses the impact of accession induced productivity gains in China on the countries in East Asia...
... the simulator is 4.5 m long and 0.8 m wide with a slope of 3/100 Two simulators with the same configuration were used for this study These simulators are designed as a typical tidal flat ecosystem ... flat sediment (Cheong, 2000) The purpose of this study is to evalluate the effectsof stranded oil on tidal flat ecosystems with special emphasis on the relationship between seawater infiltration ... to spilled hydrocarbons, evaluating acute, chronic and residual toxicity to organisms, and assessment of subsistent food contamination The primary mechanisms by which petroleum hydrocarbons are...
... are subject to sources of nonsampling error These could include misunderstanding of questions on the part of the interviewer or respondent, nonuniformity in asking the questions, and possible ... status, the second of the two longstanding NSFG measures of fertility impairments As with fecundity status, this measure determines if women who are not surgically sterile should be classified as ... of nonintercourse (last years), method use each month (last years), method use with partners in past 12 months, wantedness and other circumstances surrounding each pregnancy, consistency of condom...
... respect the necessity of their services As absurd as it sounds, can you imagine a community without a physician? Their contribution to each community makes it essential that we offer solutions ... held several Sales and Operations positions with HBO & Company that subsequently merged with McKesson in 1999 He served under the Enterprise Group and was responsible for sales operations of the ... practices Greenway has also structured its offerings to physician practices into multi-year business plans mirroring President Bush s and former Secretary Thompson s own Framework for Strategic Action...
... earnings as measured by ROA, and worse liquidity as measured by Cash & Due to assets, Investment Securities to assets, and Brokered Deposits to assets These results closely follow the univariate results ... to failure Robustness Checks and Extensions In this section, we provide a set of robustness checks on our basic results, as well as extending them in interesting ways First, we exclude our technical ... components and likely seriously misclassifies “problem banks.” For all of these reasons, we not consider Torna s study to be a close substitute for ours The second point that we wish to make in this section...
... are possible in ve positions and three substitutions are possible in four positions) These positions include positions 10 and 64 Interestingly, the completely conserved positions and those exhibiting ... body of sequence and structural data on these well-studied enzymes affords an opportunity to evaluate the consequences of mutations In the case of TIM, only nine of the 220250 residues present ... barrel fold observed in TIMs is a robust structure that is incompletely denatured in urea solution Previous studies of PfTIM wild-type established that considerable secondary structure is maintained...
... acid residues 163–168 of VVA1 The products of this second PCR were sequenced and used to design the specific antisense primers GSP-1, corresponding to amino acid residues 40–47 of VVA1, and GSP-3, ... our results provide evidence that VVA1 interacts with VVA2 and regulates the cytotoxic pore-forming activity of VVA2 Results and Discussion Characteristics of VVA1 structure To study the structure ... GSP-3 was used along with the sense primer AP-2 to obtain the 5¢-end of the VVA1 cDNA The products of the second PCR were used to design GSP-2 and GSP-4 specific sense primers corresponding to...
... purchases of U. S securities as a type of subsidy that is transferred from Chinese savers to U. S consumers in the form of lower-cost Chinese products and lower U. Sinterestrates That subsidy helps to ... from long- term U. S securities could raise U. Sinterestrates by as much as 50 basis points.51 Higher interestrates would cause a decline in investment spending and other interest- sensitive spending ... boost U. S consumption of Chinese products, which supports China s export industries However, the subsidy is at the expense of Chinese consumers and non-export industries, largely because China’s...
... quantities of AA in phospholipid classes and subclasses were determined after base hydrolysis by NICI-GC/MS as described above SA in phospholipid classes and subclasses were calculated and expressed ... this possibility comes from studies showing that AA constitutes the bulk of the fatty acid at the sn-2 position of 1-alkyl-2-acyl-GPC under resting conditions [70] Upon cell activation, most of ... All data are expressed as the means ± SEM of separate experiments Statistics (P-values) were obtained from Student s t-test for paired samples Notations used on figures and legends are for P < 0.05...
... Association Bureau of Labor Statistics Bureau of Economic Analysis Bureau of Economic Analysis Administrative Office of the United States Courts; Bureau of Labor Statistics Quarterly Census of Employment ... include all commercial banks and savings institutions except institutions resolved by the Resolution Trust Corporation SOURCE: FDIC Historical Statistics on Banking and authors’ calculations than ... $11 million of assets and $5 million of deposits (as of June 2006), whereas the largest (Washington Mutual Bank) held $350 billion of assets and $211 billion of deposits Washington Mutual operated...
... Service, based on U. S Bureau of the Census, 1900–1992 Censuses of Agriculture; U. S Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics Service, 1997 Census of Agriculture INTRODUCTION ... Research Service, U. S Department of Agriculture; USDA, 2001f, based on U. S Bureau of the Census, 1900–1992 Censuses of Agriculture; U. S Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Statistics ... Producers, 14 xv xvi CONTENTS INTRODUCTION The Study Process, 22 Structural Changes in U. S Agriculture, 24 Publicly Funded Agricultural Research, 26 Sources of Public Resource Funds, 26 Institutions...