Báo cáo khoa học: "Oral decontamination with chlorhexidine reduces the incidence of nosocomial pneumonia" doc

... to account for the between-study variations with regard to an overall mean of the effects of all the studies [8]. There were variations among the studies in terms of the CHX dose, the clinical ... available – warranting an update of the analysis. With the addition of two recent trials favoring the use of CHX [6,7] the sample size increased by 21%, yet the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... First, there were major differences between the studies conducted in the car- Figure 1 Impact of oral decontamination with chlorhexidine on nosocomial pneumoniaImpact of oral decontamination with chlorhexidine ... out of 50) of the total isolates. The distribution of these isolates was comparable among the two groups (46% for the chlorhexidine- treated gro...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... semantics, collocation frequency, etc. The contribution of this paper consists in the de- velopment of a machine-learning approach to the identification of WH gaps. This approach reduces the lexical prerequisites ... grammar, our theory of the syntax of natural language can be ac- cordingly simplified. 2 Previous Work In theoretical linguistics, WH dependencies have typi...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:20

... generally is related to the size of the tumor rather than the number of metastases. Meyers et al. [58] found that the volume of the indicator lesion was highly corre- lated with each neurocognitive ... melanoma, or sarcoma found that there was a high degree of failures within the brain (approximately 50% of patients by 6 months) with the omission of WBRT [29]. T...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22

... identify the most suitable meanings of the input words on the basis of the se- mantic connections found in the lexical knowledge base, along the lines of Navigli and Lapata (2010). At its core, the ... for the input words (line 4). We then score the senses of the input words occurring within this graph (line 5–10). Finally, we output the sense distribu- tions of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 18:20

... that appeared in the negative sample ¯c, the number of u that did not ap- pear in c, and the number of u that did not appear in ¯c, respectively. Let y be the number of samples of positive class ... τ = 3.8415 (FSSK2) for the proposed methods; these values represent the 10% and 5% level of significance in the χ 2 distribu- tion with one degree of freedom, which used...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 19:20

... case of epithelioid sarcoma with the symptom of Volkmann's contracture character- ized by a claw-like deformity of the hand and fingers asso- ciated with contracture of the muscles in the ... to release the contracture, but also to obtain a biopsy speci- men to diagnose the cause of the contracture. The surgery findings showed that the tendons had adhered...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 07:21

... the offspring of these sires were recorded in the same testing environment. The response was binary and the 15 observations available are as shown below : Because of the ... relate to Y¡jk via the incidence vector x ii,. In practical applications, the pedigree may be incomplete so the identification of the sire or of the materna...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22

... error is half the width of a confidence interval of an estimator. The smaller the margin of error,thetightertheconfidenceintervalandthemore precision we achieve for an estimator. We used the ori- ginal ... will code the rest of the data. Additional analyses will include identification of subthemes and descriptions of the range and salience of themes. Established pr...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... leaders in the out- patient setting, the generalizability of the intervention is of utmost concern. Thus, the focus must be on a practical means of incorporating the influence of these individuals into ... from the American College of Physicians, the American Heart Association, and the American College of Cardiology recommend the use of beta-blockers as first-l...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22