... WhyDoWeNeed Fiber? (The need for more speed) A Study on Video Over IP and the Effects on PON Architectures ... best way to deploy IPTV? The answer, there is no single answer Today, the basic delivery mechanisms include Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Passive Optical Networks (PON) as in fiber -to- the-home ... Education, Outreach, and Consumer Education Allows "down-conversion" of digital signals to analog by cable operators seeking to serve their analog customers.Reinstates the FCC's 2000 rules requiring...
... one answer 4 DOWENEED MASS IMMIGRATION? It would be impossible for the Home Office to say anything other than that immigrants are net contributors to the public coffers (in the US, Sweden and ... likely to carry on doing so for about twenty years, and beyond that it is largely guesswork If the population does start declining in several decades, and we decide we don’t like it, we can quickly ... 15 Whywe should welcome an ageing society 52 16 Why Europe’s low fertility is set to bounce back up 56 17 Why there are no labour shortages in Europe or the UK 62 18 How immigration can lead to...
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... avNNet (an ensemble of small MLPs with up to hidden neurons whose weights are randomly initialized), compared to 3164 DoweNeed Hundreds of Classifiers to Solve Real World Classification Problems? ... calculated on the test set We used this methodology in order to keep low the computational cost of the experimental work However, we are aware of that this methodology may lead to poor bias and variance, ... http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka See http://www.mathworks.es/products/neural-network 3134 DoweNeed Hundreds of Classifiers to Solve Real World Classification Problems? is to select the classifier...
... meaning to include anybody that the person may have a professional relationship with In the case of a doctor-patient relationship, the patient is the doctor’s ‘neighbour’ and the doctor must ... duty owed to the patient who is now its ‘neighbour’ While there is no obligation for a doctor to provide professional service in every instance, those who choose to act must so carefully to avoid ... 2) [9] The purpose is to protect the public from doctors performing procedures they are not familiar with, and to avoid doctors from invoking ‘inexperience’ as a defence to an action for professional...
... enough power is being fed into the system If demand outstrips supply, the operators attempt to find extra power from outside plants attached to the grid If they cannot, they shut off power to some ... California Edison does not have to generate exactly enough power for its customers If it needs more, the company can buy extra power from another producer; if it has extra power, it can sell it ... much to buy power as they took in for selling it; by January 2001, they had lost a combined $12 billion TECHNICALLY SPEAKING Unable to pay their bills and unable to find creditors willing to lend...
... evidence for its continued monitoring and treatment [11] Current cognitive screening tools todetect dementia have not been validated todetect MCI and clinicians have to rely on special cognitive ... falls often, there is a needto move beyond treating injuries and improving workplace safety and towards a thorough assessment of the older worker to ascertain why a previously well worker is now ... suspected from history or examination More studies are needed to determine if the risk factors for falls among older workers are similar to older persons in the community However, until more...
... because to us, the answer is clear: You bet we re paranoid We know that they are out to get us Sometimes we think that there are millions of people out on the Internet who want to break into the ... secret: they are out there, and they are out to get us Often we don’t know who they are, but we know where possible intruders are and where we don’t want them to penetrate Hackers are roaming the wide ... computer to store stolen software When law enforcement personnel, who have partially traced the hacker’s tracks, come knocking on your door, you have some explaining to ߜ Reputation: Do you want to...
... provide So, what weneed the IMS for? Weneedto further clarify what we mean by merging the Internet and the cellular worlds and what the real advantages of doing so are To that, weneedto introduce ... business model to charge the user because the operator is not aware of the contents of those bytes: they could belong to a VoIP session, to an instant message, to a web page, or to an email On ... standard interfaces to be used by service developers This way, operators can take advantage of a powerful multi-vendor service creation industry, avoiding sticking to a single vendor to obtain new...
... these antibodies will be important indeed So, weneed more autoantibodies in lupus? The answer is a resounding yes, especially if a new autoantibody-autoantigen system can provide diagnostic or ... specifically associated with systemic lupus erythematosus Ann Rheum Dis 2009, 68:1791-1793 doi:10.1186/ar2998 Cite this article as: Scofield RH: Doweneed new autoantibodies in lupus? Arthritis Research ... acid and rheumatoid factor autoantibodies in lupus Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2009, 106:12061-12066 10 Pisetsky DS: The role of innate immunity in the induction of autoimmunity Autoimmun Rev 2008,...
... fact be due to memories of tracheal suction It is somewhat surprising that chest physiotherapy was not identified as a source of discomfort in postoperative surgical patients Weneedto explore ... better to use deeper sedation in ICU patients However, such sedative practice has been shown to increase the duration of mechanical ventilation and LOS in the ICU [7,8], which are known risk factors ... patients to complete a structured interview within days of ICU discharge Although this might be viewed as a weakness, it might in fact be a strength because such patients, when interviewed during...
... number needed to treat of approximately 30 to avoid one death [9] would be instituted Imagine if a similar treatment were available for acute ischaemic stroke but that the number needed to treat to ... how much further we have to go to improve stroke patient care in Europe Surprisingly, patients admitted to centres with stroke units did better even if they were not admitted to the specialist ... JAMA 2005, 293:2391-2402 North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial Collaborators: Beneficial effect of carotid endarterectomy in symptomatic patients with high-grade carotid stenosis...
... is certainly much more important to consider the DO2 -to- O2 consumption (VO2) relationship than to indicate a specific value of DO2 as a goal [10] To this end, Donati and colleagues [7] demonstrated ... increase in DO2 , or a decrease in DO2 and no change in O2 requirements, results in an increase in ERO2, rendering ScvO2 an interesting contributor to patient monitoring In critical illness, however, ... protocols, as has been done in critical illness such as severe sepsis [12,15], before being considered eligible tools for high-risk surgery In total, we believe it would be more rational to apply...
... neurological deficit.[7] Secondly, we turn to the question of whether cervical spine movement in an unstable injury will lead to neurological impairment It is well documented that neurological signs ... cervical spine injuries who were erroneously discharged from the ED However none came to subsequent harm.[22] Furthermore, a comparison between a country that operates a protocol of full immobilisation ... yet been fully assessed, and may need radiological imaging Indeed, were the concept of "position of comfort" to be universally adopted it would be important to find alternative ways of communicating...
... Question, WhyDoWeNeed a Marriage Contract?” Do Give Yourself Enough Time Do Use It as an Opportunity to Discuss the Need for Wills, Powers of Attorney, and Insurance Do Keep It Simple Do Be Fair ... things that we want to think about as we get married, yet they may be a part of your life together However, weneedto remember something that is important—in Canada, most marriages work We often ... answer The husband might say that the problem is We don’t earn enough money and I need a better paying job.” The wife, on the other hand, might say, We spend too much on things that we don’t need, ...