... plane for complete interrogation of all velocities, as opposed to the ‘ice-pick’ view employed by echocardiography 2D transthoracic and/or transesophageal echocardiography was also performed for ... was performed (5 ± days) prior to AVR, month and year and up to years post-AVR An independent comparison of AS degree assessed by each modality (CMR and echocardiography) was performed for future ... mapping to formally quantitate the mean and peak transvalvular gradients, they were 53 and 78 mmHg, respectively; severe AS Page of variance (ANOVA) and repeated-measures ANOVA was performed for comparisons...
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... Findings and Recommendations Extraordinary Rendition Findings and Recommendations Medical Findings and Recommendations Consequences Findings and Recommendations Recidivism Findings and Recommendations ... Cuba — by Task Force staff Task Force members were directly involved in some of the information-gathering phase of the investigation, traveling abroad to meet former detainees and foreign officials ... website, www.detaineetaskforce.org, provides electronic versions of this report and additional supporting information The Task Force makes a number of specific findings and recommendations Some seem...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 04:22
The Report of the Task Force on Financial Mechanisms for ICT for Development - A review of trends and an analysis of gaps and promising practices ppt
... available for ICT development, therefore, not necessarily amount to a trade-off with financing for more direct and urgent forms of support, such as for food, medicine, emergency relief, and so forth ... FRAMEWORK FOR FINANCING ICT FOR DEVELOPMENT 15 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 3.0 3.1 3.2 THE DEVELOPMENT RATIONALE FOR A FOCUS ON ICT 15 LEVERAGING ICT FOR DEVELOPMENT 16 FINANCING ICT FOR ... (knowledge) at every level is a central requirement for achieving Information Society objectives By their nature, ICTs depend upon, and reinforce, the knowledge and intellectual skills of those...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 19:20
A Checklist for Retrospective Database Studies—Report of the ISPOR Task Force on Retrospective Databases pot
... log-transformation, two-part models) For studies that combine data from several databases, the authors should describe what analyses have been performed to account for hierarchical or clustered data For ... Eligibility: are subjects eligible for the time period over which measurement is occurring? Databases only capture information for those patients who are “eligible” for coverage by the payer whose ... approach, cost sharing for office visits, drug exclusions, mental health carve-outs) For example, in an economic evaluation that compares two drugs, it would be important to know the formulary status...
Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20
American College of Gastroenterology Guidelines for Colorectal Cancer Screening 2008 pdf
... Quality in the technical performance of colonoscopy and the continuous quality improvement process for colonoscopy: recommendations of the U.S Multi -Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer Am ... colonoscopy: prepared by a Task Force from the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons (ASCRS), the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE), and the Society of American Gastrointestinal ... Screening and surveillance for the early detection of colorectal cancer and adenomatous polyps, 2008: a joint guideline from the American Cancer Society, the US Multi -Society Task Force on Colorectal...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20
THE AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL MONTHLY 5-2008
... of order for f at 0, and let R2 be the corresponding remainder Show that R2 (u) − R2 (v) lim = √ (u,v)→(0,0) (u − v) u + v u=v 11353 Proposed by Ernst Schulte-Geers, √ Bonn, Germany For s > 0, ... closed subsets A of the real line for which P(X ∈ A) = 1] is contained in the open interval (ρ, −ρ) Let λ = sup{|x| : x ∈ supp (X )} Note that λ < −ρ By Stirling’s formula, one sees that (kλ)k (nλ)n ... − C XC −1 Y ) = det(C D − XCC −1 Y ) = det(C D − X Y ) (If C is singular, we invoke the foregoing result for C + ε I and take limits as ε → 0.) 264 c THE MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA [Monthly...
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báo cáo khoa học: "First-in-class, first-in-human phase I results of targeted agents: Highlights of the 2008 American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting" pot
... are now recruiting for GDC-0449 vs placebo in combination with chemotherapy and bevacizumab for first-line treatment of metastatic colorectal cancer [17], and are being planned for use of GDC-0449 ... study in combination with chemotherapy, at a dose of 0.75 mg/kg delivered twice weekly, has opened for pancreatic cancer patients and another phase II study is planned for colorectal cancer patients ... characteristics were typical for phase I clinical trials-all patients had good performance status (ECOG or better), and most patients were heavily pre-treated with standard drug regimens before enrollment...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20
A JOINT PROJECT OF THE AMERICAN ACCOUNTING ASSOCIATION AND THE ACCOUNTING PROGRAMS LEADERSHIP GROUP pdf
... faculty members for Ph.D.-holding accounting faculty could directly affect the demand for accounting Ph.D.s • It would be useful for the AAA to develop a classification scheme for colleges and ... importance rating for teaching than for research Number (percent) who indicated the same importance ratings for teaching and research Number (percent) who indicated a greater importance rating for research ... Greater importance rating for teaching than for research Same importance ratings for teaching and research Greater importance rating for research than for teaching Total a b Expected Promotion...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20
Market Making and Reversal on the Stock Exchange (Journal of American Statistical Association 1966) pptx
Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 10:20
the american bar association family legal guide phần 5 potx
... provide you with information that will help you make informed choices and to provide references to other sources of information This information is current as of June 1, 2000 For more recent legal ... file for bankruptcy For example, you cannot be fired from your job solely because you filed for bankruptcy However, creditors may deny you credit in the future Remember, most unfavorable information ... full, for example, even if you gave them false financial information when you applied for the credit, or if you used some other fraudulent means to get credit The story is different if you file for...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 12:21
Medical Management of Diabetes and Heart Disease - part 5 pot
... Disease: Syndrome X Gerald M Reaven Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California I INTRODUCTION The goal of this chapter will be to provide evidence for the importance of insulin resistance ... clinically relevant information On the other hand, it is relatively simple and quite straightforward to simply determine what, if any, manifestations of syndrome X are present For this purpose, measurement ... are at increased risk for developing type diabetes mellitus (25) In addition to evaluating patients for their state of glucose homeostasis (see below), one should also look for the other manifestations...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:20
Techniques for improving listening skills FOR gifted students at Foreign Language Specializing School - College of Foreign Languages - VIETNAM National University, HANOI
... from 200 students of 10 th and 11th form at FLSS ( except for students of 12th form as there are no listening lessons for 12th form students ) - collecting data for the analysis - assessing the ... for the main ideas , for specific information or to react to instruction Therefore , listening is regarded to be among the most important educational goals It has a great influence on value formation ... to a short passage for detailed information or for full comprehension For example, listening to the announcement , listening to the instructions or listening to the weather forecast There may...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:26
Developing critical reading skills for first year students in English department, college of foreign languages, Vietnam national university, Hanoi
... reading comes before critical thinking as critical reading is a technique for discovering information and ideas within a text while critical thinking is a technique for evaluating information and ... information while in this step they judge the assumption to identify all sides of the argument before final judgments are made After ideas are critiqued, recommendations will be made Those recommendations ... other big cities such as Hai Phong, Thai Nguyen and Nam Dinh where conditions for foreign language learning and for the formation of other background knowledge are relatively good The rest is from...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:50
An action research on the use of continuous feedback to improve the first year students' pronunciation at the english department, college of foreign languages, vietnam national university, hanoi part 1
... book, p.60) VI PASSAGE 3: FOREST The Forest Service is responsible for the forests on public lands in the United States It supervises almost seventy-eight million hectares of forests, grasslands, ... at which the British are always the world champions Nobody can beat them at the noble art of queuing The British actually look forward to spending their weekends in a queue, waiting for a shop ... difficult for you? a There are sounds and phonetic rules that no exist in Vietnamese b My local dialect affects me badly c My phonetic ability is not good d Nobody corrects my pronunciation for me...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:58
An action research on the use of continuous feedback to improve the first year students' pronunciation at the english department, college of foreign languages, vietnam national university, hanoi part 2
... (two for listening, three for reading, three for writing, and four for speaking and pronunciation) The pronunciation lesson is incorporated into speaking lesson and lasts one period, accounting for ... country is a necessary factor for a foreigner to have good English pronunciation 4/ Phonetic ability Researches have shown that some people naturally have a “better ear” for foreign languages than others ... of English as a foreign language “who are not native speakers of English and who expect to serve as the major model and source of input in English for their students.” Therefore, for students at...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:58
Motivation in learning english speaking of the second year tourism major students at tourism and foreign language department, sao do college of industry
... de-motivation in foreign language teaching are discussed The main theories of foreign language speaking teaching are also presented in the chapter Chapter three presents the methodology performed in ... there is no real information being exchanged In a traditional, grammar oriented class, for example, teachers often spend a large proportion of class time asking questions for which they and the ... providing information such as asking for directions in a city and ordering meals in a restaurant Guessing games: Students can guessing games in pairs or groups There are many variations For example,...
Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 15:01