... to the patient motivation, the care of patients with a hip fracture requires a team approach in which the co-ordination between the various aspects of care is important Integrated care pathways ... further research [17] The aim ofthe present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an ICP in patients with an acute fracture ofthe hip The main outcome measure was the length of hospital ... interviewing nurse assessed the patients' nutritional status and symptoms of other potential problematic areas At discharge, the patients' dependency on a walking aid and gait capacity was measured in...
... 0, j Thenumberof matchings in a tree In this section, we turn to thenumberof matchings in a graph This is also known as the Hosoya index, or the Z-index in mathematical chemistry For a rooted ... b) ⊙ (c, d) = (ad, ac + bd) ∈ B By 1, if (c, d) ∈ B, then (1, 1) ⊙ (c, d) = (d, c + d) ∈ B (Note that attaching a new vertex to the root has exactly the same effect as in the proof of Proposition ... An interesting paper of Wagner [5] looks at thenumberof independent sets modulo m Wagner showed that the proportion of trees on n vertices with thenumberof independent sets divisible by...
... et al Critical Care 1998, 2:79 http://ccforum.com numberof bacteria after hand-washing /the numberof bacteria before hand-washing)] Values are calculated from raw data and expressed as mean ... Hospital, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan 2Research Institute for Microbial Diseases, Osaka University, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565, Japan Published: 22 May 1998 References Doebbeling BN, Stanely ... Moreover the flow of water enhances the antiseptic effects of this system by washing away bacterial contamination and organic material, which would otherwise reduce the bactericidal effect In general,...
... justify the use ofthe Box-Cox transformation to increase the robustness ofthe segregation analyses Table I Numberof animals, mean and phenotypic standard deviation ofthe nine traits studied Trait ... per chain, so that a total of 300 samples were available per trait Monte Carlo standard errors were low for all trait × parameter combinations Independence ofthe samples was tested by an analysis -of- variance ... primarily acts on thenumberof false or thenumberof good teats Indeed, it may be argued that it either acts as a genetic defect by increasing thenumberof teats with irregular forms or as a...
... Tamiya, N (1974) Isolation, properties and amino acid sequences ofthe toxin Laticauda semifasciata III, a weak and reversibly acting neurotoxin from venom ofa sea snake, Laticauda semifasciata ... a7 -neuronal as well as muscular AChR [38] The results from mutational analysis of a- cobratoxin (a- CTX) indicate that replacement of at least eight residues (Arg33, Lys49, Asp27, Lys23, Phe29, Trp25, Arg36 ... for analysis, the structures were nearly stable and the RMSD along the trajectory was about ˚ A for the backbone atoms relative to the initial structure ˚ and reduced to A when only regular secondary...
... South Korea and Europe Britain, the United States and China also had many people traveling to Australia in these years In fact, thenumberof people visiting Australia grew in every one of these ... years The second table gives statistics showing the countries whose residents went to Australia between 1975 and 2005 In both years, the largest numberof visitors came from Japan, followed by South ... has steadily become more popular as a destination spot For example, there were 20 million more visitors to Australia in 2005 than in 1975 That's a jump from 10 million to 30 million in 20 years...
... Note that E(R) is the permanent of A( R), the biadjacency matrix of G(R) Hence the question of finding a maximising k × n Latin rectangle relates to maximising the permanent of (0, 1)-matrices of order ... meaning that the maximum (11) occurs above the greatest feasible value ofa In this case r(x, a) increases monotonically with aBy choice a ≤ n−1, and note that if a = n − then ρ(R, x) is negative ... circulant Since the complement ofa circulant is also a circulant, our main result will furnish another set of examples where the maximum is achieved bya circulant In Table below we identify maximising...
... that |a| = m, and write m for the multinomial coefficient a0 !···an ! a With this notation, we have the following lemma Lemma Let a in Nn+1 satisfy |a| = m Then thenumberof x in Nm such that a( x) ... is the vector of row sums of an m × n matrix with entries in {0, 1} if and only if xi ≤ n for all i Let aj be thenumberofrowsof R that have exactly j ones Write a = (a0 , , an ) = m! a( x) ... polynomial in x and y of degree ≤ deg f + By induction and (4) it follows that the coefficients of G are rational numbers This proves the lemma End ofthe proof Since G is a polynomial of degree...
... fields, International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences 16 (2005), 2631-2640 [3] L Carlitz, Some theorems on permutation polynomials, Bulletin ofthe American Mathematical Society ... Complete mappings of finite fields, Journal ofthe Australian Mathematical Society (Series A) 33 (1982), 197-212 [18] H G Park, On certain binomials over a finite field, Journal of Applied Mathematics and ... Q Wang, A generalized Lucas sequence and permutation binomials, Proceedings ofthe American Mathematical Society 134 (2006), no 1, 15-22 [2] A Akbary and Q Wang, On some permutation polynomials...
... invA be thenumberof inversions in AThe inversion enumerator Jn (y) is then defined as the generating function of spanning trees arranged bynumberof inversions, that is, y invA , Jn (y) = A ... functions and the Tutte polynomial Preprint [10] Stanley, R P.: Hyperplane arrangements, parking functions and tree inversions In: Sagan, B and Stanley, R (eds) Mathematical Essays in Honor of Gian-Carlo ... is an increasing tree where all the vertices have at most edges going out A remarkable result stated in [4] and proved in [5] (see also a bijective proof in [3]) is that an equals thenumber of...
... ∞, the Catalan numbers [St] The Main Result - Basketball Games Definition An [ij] walk is a walk that starts at the line y = i and ends at the line y = j Definition An irreducible [ij] walk is an ... for such a walk And Dw (z) be the generating function for an irreducible walk That is, one which does not touch the x-axis in the interior ofthe walk A general walk is either the null walk or ... leads the visitor by at most w points ending in a tie! ´ Etude - Soccer Games As a warm-up to the study of basketball games, let us consider soccer games with the same condition [BORW] These are...
... spectrophotometrically High-quality RNA for use in the microarray analysis was confirmed by analysis in the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer (Agilent Technologies, Palo Alto, CA, USA) Microarray analysis Total mRNA ... SMB and AL) from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research JSR is a recipient ofa PGS D scholarship from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council The authors thank David Carter at ... shift assay, quantitative real-time PCR and transfection studies, drafting and editing ofthe manuscript, and preparation ofthe figures SMB was involved with the design and coordination of the...
... to the child that they cannot keep The first aider should ensure that that they or another adult are available to take care ofthe child The first aider should tell the child that they or another ... with the traumatised person The first aider should speak clearly and avoid clinical and technical language The first aider should communicate with the person as an equal, rather than as a superior ... topic The professional panel had 37 experts, the consumer panel 13, and the carer panel The carers were also consumers themselves, and because ofthe small numbers, the consumer and carer panels...
... SUMMARIES 1 .The Ministry of Education and Training and the Vietnam Education builed the campaign to help pupils in disadvantaged areas The campaign attracted teacher and students’ participation by ... especially in flood-hit areas, the Ministry of Education and Training and the Vietnam Education Trade Union have called for all teacher s , educational workers , student in economically advantaged ... of Lao Cai, learn Vietnamese For the school year 2007-08, 40 rural provinces recorded low rates of learning the Vietnamese language after the first grade, according to a report released at a recent...
... reaction, ∆Η , due to a lack of data Therefore, the nutritional energy ofthe DF about 3500 kcal/kg-DF was assumed as the enthalpy ofthe reaction Table summarizes the estimated values ofthe ... 7-13 Nagasaki K., Akakura N and Atsumi K (199 8a) Degradation Patterns of Organic Material in Batch and Fed-batch composting operations, Waste Management & Research, 16 (5), 484-489 Nakasaki, K., ... between the temperature profiles Therefore, the composting rate may be estimated on the basis ofa simple heat balance The variation ofthe bed temperature under the steady state condition may be...
... range of browsers has appeared to compete for users, and this plethora of choice has led to a features arms race One beneficiary of that arms race has been CSS3 Each ofthe browsers wants to offer ... to the content, and the padding and border values are added on as usual A value of border-box means the stated width value is the total width ofthe content, the padding, and the border—in other ... the width ofthe screen that’s displaying the page rather than the width ofthe browser window As with width and height, the basic syntax requires a length value and can be prefixed in the same...
... our political prisoners detained at Yen Bai and Cao Bang”, the President can say “they fled and then massacred a great numberof our political prisoners detained at Yen Bai and Cao Bang” However, ... may study language by examining the way that words relate to each other or investigating what words mean by themselves These are the things syntax and semantics However, these not take into account ... Similarly, he may want to assert the French action of surrendering to the Japanese rather than the Japanese’s violation into Indochina It features the French crimes as they had been vocal about...
... than we know there are sources, then we can safely assume that some ofthe directions are the results of false alarms and may be ignored, thus decreasing the probability of false alarm for the ... that the eigenvalues ofa complex correlation matrix are real and that the eigenvectors are complex and orthonormal, thenumberof degrees of freedom in the parameters ofthe model is classically ... thenumberof sources and (2) isolating and analyzing the signal produced by each source We make this distinction because many ofthe algorithms for separating and processing array signals make...
... us what this way is The two essentials ofthe Way are Faith and a Personal Application ofthe Faith The people who touched the saint’s bones had faith, and so great was their faith that in the ... manner, the general result cannot be a failure In the attainment of health, the law is the same as in the attainment of riches: if you make each act a success in itself, the sum of all your acts ... that health is the natural state of humanity, and that a human being lives in the midst of Universal Health — that all the power of nature makes for health, and that health is possible to all,...