... symptoms. Overall, c on-
vergent validity was moderate to low, andthe highest
values were obtained for the heartburn and regurgitation
variables, these being the cardinal symptoms of GERD.
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change [18]. Both the effect sizes andthe s tandardized
response means of the QOLRAD questionnaire were
very high, ranging from 1.15 to 1.93, and from 1.17 to
1.86, respectively. The ... were approved in accor-
dancewiththeWMObyanIndependentEthics
Committee belonging tothe Maasland Hospital, Sittard,
the Netherlands.
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Investigators recorded patient demographics...
... the health sector. As
the Global Strategy emphasizes, there is both a
need and opportunity to engage other sectors to
provide resources andto address the structural
barriers andthe social ... of the right to life: the right
to health (which would include the right to
access and receive a minimum standard of
treatment and care in public health facilities)
and in particular the ... indicators proposed by the Commission on
Information and Accountability. These indicators,
and others related to women’s and children’s
health, are regularly monitored by the Countdown
to 2015,...
... as the right to education andthe right to take part in cultural lifeandto enjoy
the benefits of scientific progress and its applications, as well as civil and political rights,
such as the ...
facilitating the exercise of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. At the same time,
given the pressure exerted upon them by States, coupled with the fact that their primary
motive is to generate ... and ideas of all kinds through the Internet. The Special
Rapporteur underscores the unique and transformative nature of the Internet not only to
enable individuals to exercise their right to...
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ã the independence of the learner in identifying and selecting the skills they
will need, and ... from their
expression and tone andthe way they walk, stand or sit.
ã Tone of voice. Research has shown that the tone of voice carries more
meaning than the individual words themselves. Tone ...
confidently and convey their ideas and opinions clearly in a wide range of
contexts.
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... counts), andthe op-
tional appending of a terminator character. The
terminator character allows the classifier to iden-
tify and assign a different weight tothe n-grams
that overlap with the suffix ... turned into a vector using a
standard process. We have first built a dictionary
of all the n-grams from the whole dataset. These,
in order, encode the features. The verb (to) walk
is therefore encoded ... suffix of the string.
For example, consider the English infinitive to
walk. We will assume the following illustrative
values for the parameters: n-gram size of 3 and
appending the terminator character....
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other if any of them have a deficit at the end of the day.
The US Fed reduced the spread between the fed funds target rate andthe discount window in two steps from
100 to 50 and 25 ... remain to be transferred
to the deposit facility when the payment system closes for the day. The negative deposit rate
gives the banks an incentive to participate in the fine-tuning process or to ... facilities is stochastic andthe market effectively distributes liquidity across the banking system, the
overnight rate should be close tothe mid-point of the standing facilities corridor, i.e. the base...
... later.” There the message
atrophies for weeks and a month later, you’ve
never gotten back tothe sender, andthe task
still isn’t done. That’s the quickest route to
Irresponsibleville.
When asked to ... you’ve answered, and
requests. Then archive or delete it.
If it requires action that will take more
than one minute to complete, move it to
the Follow Up folder and add the task to your
to- do ... of the stuff that
fills up my inbox, because:
They have not been sent to a bunch of
people, but specifically to me.
They are therefore more likely to relate
to my area of responsibility.
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... the craft. For
gliding, the apparatus was dragged tothe top of a hill or sand dune and then run down, allowing a
combination of gravity and wind to provide the force to lift the glider off the ... lightweight motor
that would generate 50 horsepower, sat in the center, prepared to soar into history. Onlookers stood
on the banks of the river, waiting to throw their hats into the air and break into ... equal tothe weight of the operator and apparatus or nearly so. The wind will blow the machine out from the base of the
tower andthe weight will be sustained partly by the upward pull of the rope...
... prominence and
urgency. Furthermore, the question arises as to whether task shifting and increased community
participation can be more than a short-term solution to address the HIV/AIDS crisis and can
contribute ... FB and DS all contributed substantially to the
intellectual content, writing and finalization of the manu-
script. All authors read and approved the final manu-
script.
References
1. WHO: The ... governments to ensure
an enabling regulatory framework; drive the implementation of relevant policies; guide and support
training institutions and ensure adequate resources; and harness the support of the...
... the study design, statistical analysis and helped to
draft the manuscript; CMT participated in the study
design and data collection; KL helped to draft the manu-
script and took part in the theoretical ... samples and raises the question of whether these sim-
ilarities remain or not in other different cultures. The
demonstration of cultural invariance of the core attitudes
to aging could lead tothe ... and subscales correlations
and internal reliability analyses. Exploratory and Con-
firmatory Factor analysis were performed to assess
whether the Brazilian data fit the international pooled
model....
... the study design, statistical analysis and helped to
draft the manuscript; CMT participated in the study
design and data collection; KL helped to draft the manu-
script and took part in the theoretical ... samples and raises the question of whether these sim-
ilarities remain or not in other different cultures. The
demonstration of cultural invariance of the core attitudes
to aging could lead tothe ... analysis, item and subscales correlations
and internal reliability analyses. Exploratory and Con-
firmatory Factor analysis were performed to assess
whether the Brazilian data fit the international...
... within the network. The range
is then calculated as the radius of the circle around the
transmitter for which the probability to meet the CINR
requirement on the edge is, for example, equal to 95%,
hereby ... mm, thickness of 3.0 mm. The gain
of the system is
−5 dBi. The connector is of type MMCX.
The PCMCIA card is plugged into a laptop, which is used to
collect and process the measurements later.
Every ... wireless.
The outline of the paper is as follows: the transmitting
network, the measurement method, andthe parameters used
to calculate the range are described in Section 2. Also the
procedure to calculate...