2 assessment of the neonate with bilious vomiting

... lower than 0.50 in 11 comparisons (out of the 16 comparisons versus the reference laboratory) with 5% of cases (21 out of the 384 comparisons) with a discordance of more than one fibro- sis stage ... compare the vari- ability of FibroTest and ActiTest in relation to the method of expressing enzymatic activity; in particular, in terms of absolute values or as multiples of the upper limit of nor- ... Page 2 of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Conclusions: The variability of FibroTest and ActiTest was acceptable without clinical consequences for the prediction of the stage of liver

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... inclusion of the papers in this manuscript Additionally the publishers of the relevant Journals have all provided approval for the incorporation of the articles used in this thesis Table of Contents ... together the findings of the program of research and to express the implications and application of those findings to clinical practice Accelerated diagnostic protocols for the assessment of patients ... literature provides the ground work for the design of the research and the methods used Chapter (Publication one) defines the current process of assessment and outcomes in the assessment of ED patients

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2017, 11:24

... APPROACH TO THE ASSESSMENT OF POST TSUNAMI STATUS OF THE FISHERIES WITH FURTHER REFERENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE: THE CASE OF THE SMALL- SCALE FISHERIES SECTOR OF SOUTHERN SRI LANKA MASTER THESIS Masters ... I undertake that the thesis entitled: “An integrated approach to the assessment of post tsunami status of the fisheries with further reference to climate change: the case of the small- scale ... implications on the resource status 77 4.4 Existing Level of resource management and implications of the results of the GS model 78 4.5 Limitation of the study and sensitivity of results

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2021, 12:19

... following: • The consideration of energy efficiency in the macro-economic aggregated perspective of the market-driven economy • The perspective of the efficiency of energy conversion in the range of energy ... to the MOIT These legal requirements together with the level of enforcement by the MOIT and any available incentives drive the level of large energy user compliance with LEEC When complying with ... are the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of Science and technology, the Ministry of Education and Training, Ministry of Culture and Information, Ministry of Planning

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2022, 10:20

... the well-worn cycle of ecclesiastical themes, he could not work out all the possibilities of his genius. Nevertheless, he infused into the old themes an altogether new spirit, the spirit of ... PREFACE To the general public the works of Correggio are much less familiar than those of other Italian painters. Parma lies outside the route of the ordinary tourist, and the treasures of its ... exceedingly important contributions to the criticism of Correggio's works. The author's repudiation of the authenticity of the Reading Magdalen of the Dresden Gallery has been accepted

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 13:20

... the state of the art of thermionics technology Assess the present state of the art of thermionic energy conversion systems Assess the technical challenges to the development of viable thermionic ... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the ... be the major funded effort of the entire DTRA thermionics program Thermal Control The conversion efficiency of individual converters is measured as the ratio of the electric output power to the

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

... Given the detailed analysis embodied in these projections, they were determined to be the most credible projections of future criteria emissions for the sector The two key factors are the rate of ... detailed forecast of regional air emissions for the year 2018 (see Appendix E references) Their projections were based on a projection of the growth of the oil and gas industry in the region (as ... on the growth of the oil and gas industry in Region were based on a variety of sources and are provided by county and type of emissions source The data for these growth rates are presented in the

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the ... related to the protection of the endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrow (CSSS) The request came at the suggestion of the Council on Environmental Quality in the Executive Office of the President The ... impacts of various CSOP alternatives (the agencies have jointly developed the scope of work, they have agreed to share the cost of development of the new model, and they will sit together as

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 18:21

... of the time they occur in the context of major instability events Since the turn of the last century, hundreds of thousands of civilians have lost their lives as a result of. ... or no role in the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa and, with the exception of AQAP, were not well positioned to take advantage of events. At the same time, the rise of new or transitional ... implications not just for the United States but also for the world economy The risk of an unmanaged breakup of the euro zone is lower this year because European... of the threat, and

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20

... informed of the services; described the system of how these services are supported and the flow of their delivery. The assessment by the 178 health workers focused on the adequacy of the budget ... availing of the health services, the highest response was lack of medicines and health facilities. This could be the wishes of the mothers who were not convinced of the adequacy of the MCH ... to go to the health centers. This may result to the lack of knowledge of the mothers of the potential dangers of not seeking professional health services during their pregnancy and the detrimental

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 11:20

... the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of ... Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. The Institute acts under the responsibility ... research, dedicated to the furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the general welfare. Upon the authority of the charter granted to it by the Congress in 1863, the Academy has

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20

... evaluation of the contributions of the patient safety. .. the initiative s approach and activities The principal investigators of the AHRQ- funded patient safety and other related ... Profile of the Health IT Projects Funded by AHRQ, by Group 36 Table 4.8 Number and Types of Partner... illustrates the sequence of the four types of evaluations included in the ... Chapter 8 summarizes the current status of the AHRQ. .. for an overall assessment of the initiative s activities and how they fit into the larger scope of national patient

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20

... factors such as the oil (and gas) intensity of output, the speed of reaction of the wage-price system, the role of expectations 2 , the response of the monetary authorities, the export exposure ... Analyses of issues related to the preparation process are addressed, plus the implications for the functioning of the enlarged Euro Area. Based on the analysis, a number of conclusions emerge. The ... topic” of this EUROFRAME – European Forecasting Network report considers some of the consequences of the Euro Area enlargement on both the entrants to EMU and the monetary union as a whole. The

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 06:20

... In support of this commitment, the Department of the Treasury, with the Council of Economic Advisers, has updated our analysis of the economic effects of infrastructure investment The new data ... conditions); the higher the TTI index, the larger the share of peak travel time that is subject to congestion The TTI is independent of the total amount of peak travel – it simply measures the fraction of ... costs as a result of BABs The National Association of State Treasurers, the U.S Conference of Mayors, the National League of Cities, the National Association of Counties, the Council of State Governments,

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20

... characteristic of the monoformazan, i.e the fully reduced product of INT [15,17] In the following aeration of the medium, the absorbance of the spectral bands decreased, but the shape of the spectrum ... inward The rates of oxygen uptake were deduced from the slopes of the tangents to the oxygraphic traces, and the contact points of the tangents with the curves were used to determine the O2 concentrations ... [13], either by measurement of the rate of production of O2– or the rate of O2 uptake INT diaphorase activity was assayed by the rate of reduction of INT into formazan in the presence of superoxide...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:21

... Proposition If the configuration of Figure 4b appears in a tiling of the sphere with the triangle T6 , centered on the (0, 5, 1) vertex O, then the tiling contains another copy of the same configuration ... vertex The next proposition eliminates one of these possibilities Proposition If the configuration of Figure 5b appears in a tiling of the sphere with triangle T6 , then E is a (0, 5, 1) vertex Proof: ... edges Proposition If the configuration of Figure 8c appears in a tiling of the sphere with the triangle T6 , the medium edge of triangle cannot be matched the electronic journal of combinatorics 13...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 13:21

... compared with the patients' preoperative status Evaluating the outcome measures according to the impact of the degree of osteoarthritic degeneration of the knee showed an improvement in the mean ... tissue with a gradual decrease of proteoglycans within the extracellular matrix (Figure 2h) There were no signs of abnormal calcification or formation of a fibrous connective tissue within the repair ... defects of the articular cartilage of the knee Patients gave their consent to participate From December 2001 to October 2002, 79 patients with chondral defects of the knee joint were treated with...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... re-exposure to the pathogens The biochemical nature of these antigens remains to be elucidated The efficacy of phytol and PHIS-01 as adjuvants is also evident in the quality of protection that the vaccines ... emulsified with standard IFA, or either of the two experimental phytol-based adjuvants The latter, unlike IFA, have been used without any emulsifying or surfaceactive agents In spite of these differences, ... PBS In the case of S aureus infection also, the challenges with higher than 106 CFU caused a considerable number of the bacteria to persist in the peritoneal fluids of mice treated with PBS, IFA...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... specificity of the primers and probe Real-time PCR was performed with the iCycler IQ ystem (Biorad, USA) µl of extracted DNA was analyzed with the PCR mixture in a total volume of 25 µl The PCR 184 ... PCR product of predicted size (194 bp) The TaqMan probe was labelled at the 5' end with 6-carboxyfluorescein as the reporter dye and at the 3' end with 6-carboxytetramethylrhodamine as the quencher ... low values of bacterial load On the other hand, serum contains many PCR inhibitors (29) which undermines the usage of quantitative PCR in direct testing of serum specimens Therefore, in the current...

Ngày tải lên: 26/10/2012, 08:57

... management of technology, then there is more to with the qualitative measurement rather than quantitative measures The qualitative aspects of the problem is to be resolved prior to the application of ... all are there Another type of decision is one in which people are unsure of the importance of their criteria In this case to sharpen their knowledge of the criteria a wide selection of alternatives ... dependence of the priority of elements on the priority and number of other elements The principle of comparative judgments is applied to construct pair-wise comparisons of the relative importance of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2013, 10:29