... Furthermore, Casanova and colleagues proved that static lung hyperinflation estimated by the inspiratory capacity–to-total lung capacity (IC/TLC) ratio is a predictor of all-cause and respiratory mortality ... Nishimura2 , Toru Oga3 AFFILIATIONS: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Rakuwakai Otowa Hospital, Kyoto, Japan; Kyoto-Katsura Hospital, Kyoto, Japan; and Department of Respiratory Care and Sleep ... design, and prepared the manuscript MY and TN participated in the data collection and care for the participants TO performed the statistical analysis All authors read and approved the final manuscript...
... the status of existing efforts to train health workers using innovative methods, including distance learning and various forms of information technology? How will training by protocol differ from, ... the status of existing collaborations between developing countries aiming to improve health worker education? • How have modifications in healthcare management had an impact upon health workforce ... from, and complement, traditional community health worker training? • How can the health professional training be better aligned with local health needs and be more socially accountable? • What...
... principally from inadequate educational opportunities for health workers and a lack of relevance of their training to community health care practice Additional contributing factors include: inadequate ... compensation and working conditions, the deteriorating health of the workforce in many developing countries, urban/rural and workforce imbalance, and migration of the workforce from developing to ... workforce? • What is the status of existing efforts to train health workers using innovative methods, including distance learning and various forms of information technology? How will training by protocol...
... marginal effect corresponding to a one dollar change in incremental cost To calculate WTP for a program targeted at one age-group rather than another, we obtain the marginal effect corresponding ... life-expectancy averaging a further 42.3 yearsin the Australian population [38,39] is estimated at AUD469,443 Willingness to pay for saving the life ofa 70 year old with a life-expectancy averaging a ... ABS: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Census of Population and Housing 2001, Basic Community Profile (Catalogue No 2001.0) Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia; 2002 ABS: Australian Bureau of...
... similar to the uncertainty of preferred distance, the uncertainty of the preferred phrasal type of the phrase can be also used as a feature We consider this factor as a form ofa binary feature indicating ... feature values were indexed together for both syntactic and statistical phrases To maintain indexes ina manageable size, phrases Connexor FDG parser is a commercial parser; the demo is available at: ... language information retrieval: Trec-3 report In Proceedings of TREC-3, pages 39–54 Tao Tao and ChengXiang Zhai 2007 An exploration of proximity measures in information retrieval In Proceedings...
... Document Page 17 East Indiamen were impressive craft, ofa thousand tons burden or more, with the appearance and some of the armament ofa 74-gun man -of- war Each year in the winter or early spring a ... miles away Famous later as the site of the Kuomintang's military academy, Whampoa in the early nineteenth century was simply a large dirty village on a flat and unprepossessing island at a point in ... Penang, at Singapore, at Anjer where vessels negotiating the Straits of Sunda usually paused, and elsewhere on Java But the great majority of Indian chests were landed on the coast of China, from...
... plus an instance name The format is \ This format is used in the connection string to specify the Data Source attribute for a named instance Each instance operates independently ... every installed instance of SQL Server Client tools such as Enterprise Manager and Query Analyzer are also shared The System.Data.SqlClient class cannot automatically discover the port number ofa ... independently of the other instances installed on the same computer Each instance has its own set of system and user databases that are not shared between instances and it runs within its own security...
... fact that internet-banking is still gaining in importance, regional banks remain the key player in SMEs loan-financing The credit loan experts of the four saving banks pointed out, that savings ... requires qualitative analyses whichof course could not be done for all 463 savings banks Instead, the example of four savings banks and their areas have been investigated Each of these savings banks ... competition of banks ina region is, the smaller is the readiness of banks to invest in the acquisition of information Starting out froma banking system which is not neutral ina spatial sense,...
... try again by 1984 A six team Women’s American Basketball Association was organized Many great players were on its teams, including Lieberman, Bolin, and Pam and Paula McGee Once again, financial ... credit Rachael Sporn arrived in Detroit already a Hall of Famer, having been inducted into Australia’s Sporting Hall of Fame in 1996 She was also a member of both the 1996 Olympic team and the ... season would return for a second go-round in 1999 Nancy LiebermanCline remained as head coach, general manager, and all around hard working leader Greg Williams remained as an assistant coach,...
... lord chamberlain saw a man standingina corner of the cellar, who stated that he was Percy's servant, and that he was left by his master in charge of the house and cellar This individual was ... her of the kingdom.] The year 1588 is memorable in English history for the defeat of the Spanish Armada, impiously called the Invincible Armada Several years were occupied in its preparation; and ... Bancroft, intimated that some dark plot was concocting; but they were as ignorant of the particulars as the ministers All the information, which James and his ministers received from the Continent,...
... concerns the translation ofa words dictionary into a concept-relation dictionary Which words are concepts? Which are relations? Which, if any are redundant for meaning representation? In order to ... by the ending "'s", indicates a social relation (SOC_I,~F,|,) as in "the doctor of John" orin "the father of my friend", part -of (PART -OF) as in "John's arm", a real ,~r metaphorical possession ... between words The task of disambiguating word-senses and relating them to each other is automatic for a human being but is the hardest for a computer based natural language system The semantic knowledge...
... 10 For more information on the Bundesbank's banking data see Memmel and Stein (2008) talks with practitioners of the savings banks and cooperative banks sector, we know 11 From that the average ... quality of banking and regional growth Hasan, Koetter, Wedow 11 2007 Welfare effects of financial integration Fecht, Grüner, Hartmann 12 2007 The marketability of bank assets and managerial Falko ... sensitivity of real banks, we construct for each bank a portfolio with a similar composition of its assets and liabilities, called 'tracking bank' We evaluate the eect of 260 historical interest rate...
... North America, Europe, and Asia and Australasia ● Flexible Programmes may be ranked in many ways, producing, for example, tables of the top ten US or Asian and Australasian schools by GMAT score ... settle in the area after graduation In other parts of the world, students may be attracted across national borders because they have an interest in working ina particular country Students often have ... the Association of American Collegiate Schools of Business AMBA was set up in 1967, mainly as a UK organisation to accredit MBA programmes as a prerequisite for a soft loan programme for MBA students...
... following pages regarding the agricultural practices and customs of China, Korea and Japan It should be borne in mind that the great factors which today characterize, dominate and determine the agricultural ... remarkable and indicate a grasp of essentials and principles which may well cause western nations to pause and reflect Notwithstanding the large and favorable rainfall of these countries, each of ... be acquired ina better way? We left Moji in the early morning and late in the evening of the same day entered the beautiful harbor of Nagasaki, all on board waiting until morning for a launch...
... and classification of the genera of animals Isolated and social living plants and animals The character of flora and fauna is not determined so much by the predominance of separate families, in ... phenomenon of contact explained by the artificial imitation of minerals Effects of pressure and the various rapidity of cooling Origin of granular or saccharoidal marble, silicification of schist into ... ever-recurring changes of form, to recognize the invariability of natural laws, and has thus, by the force of mind, gradually subdued a great portion of the physical world to his dominion In interrogating...
... had happened in case of the first Bank; and the same which is liable and almost certain to happen in case of every bank which is regarded as a national or public institution, orwhich is or can ... trade has more than doubled; the banking capital, and the business of banking and of domestic exchanges has more than doubled; prices have doubled in many instances, and have greatly risen in all; ... circulating medium Their value was to remain ina state of fluctuation for a period of six months, during any moment ofwhich it was impossible to estimate their actual worth according to any satisfactory...
... data are for 1992 to 2000 Flows are classified by source as originating from individual investors orfrom institutional investors; we additionally calculate aggregate f lows (individual and institutional ... sum of the products of each of the four factor realizations and the corresponding factor loadings For each month, we then calculate the portfolio alpha, the factor loadings, and the average R2 as ... classified by source as originating from individual investors orfrom institutional investors; we additionally calculate aggregate f lows (individual and institutional f lows combined) Flows are...
... dephosphorylation of phosphorylase a [16], that inactivation of GSK-3 in the absence of phosphorylase inactivation is a small component of the mechanism by which insulin stimulates hepatocyte ... synthesis by insulin over a wide range of activities of phosphorylase a; (b) that suppression of GSK-3 activity, in the absence of inactiva- tion of phosphorylase, causes a large activation of glycogen ... additive activation of glycogen synthase by insulin and GSK-3 inhibitors indicates that insulin activates glycogen synthase by mechanisms additional to inactivation of GSK-3 This can be explained, at...
... were male gender, age above 26 years, rural/urban backgrounds, schooling ina rural area, having parents living ina rural area, motivation by an interest in medicine, intended specialization in ... goals Bulletin of the World Health Organisation 2005, 83:5-6 Dominick A, Kurowski C: Human resources for health: an appraisal of the status quo in Tanzania mainland Ifakara health research and development ... of Tanzania had the lowest ratio of qualified staff to population of all African countries [12] The intermediate medical cadres (clinical officers and assistant medical officers) locally trained...
... evaluate categorical data; t-tests and analyses of variance (ANOVA) were used to evaluate continuous data Scoring – including imputations for missing data if necessary – was performed according ... 6.5%) Time since transplant (mean, SD, in years) Type of transplant (n, % yes) Cadaver Living donor GI complications (n, % yes) Diarrhea Dyspepsia Nausea Vomiting Abdominal pain/bloating/fullness ... variables and using a chi-square test for categorical variables Not mutually exclusive sions of the GSRS and Spanish for Spain GIQLI in patients post renal transplant in South America These instruments...