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... personnel, but only 59% (829/1,395) answered that they use it Of those who use LTP, 87% (719/829) answered that they had received training in the use of LTP Of these, 42% (303/719) stated that they ... (697/829) of those who use LTP answered a question regarding positioning of the lower extremities The majority reported flexing the upper leg (78%; 544/697), whereas flexion of the lower leg was ... back of an ambulance en route to hospital There are controversies about the optimal method of airway management [8,11,12] and the effect of endotracheal intubation (ETI), as well as a lack of consensus...

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... hand-over narrow-down close-down The first step in testing this hypothesis was to evaluate the current performance of PARTS in handling the phrasal verb construction To this a set of 94 pairs of Verb+Particle/Preposition ... box-in break-away call-back calm-down care-for cash-in change-into check-in clear-out close-down contract-in cool-off credit-with cry-out date-from deal-with demand -of double-up end-up fall-in feel-for ... explained below.) The average performance of PARTS for this task is 89%, which is lower than the general average performance of the tagger as claimed in Church 88 Yet we notice that simply assigning a...

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... this Correspondence, we picked breast cancer for in-depth discussion However, the points raised are likely to be valid for other types of tumors For all these, the addition of appropriate cancer-free ... 97:1330-1338 Liang G, Wolff EM, Chihara Y, Pan F, Weisenberger D, Laird PW, Jones PA: DNA methylation profile of 1501 loci in bladder cancer shows evidence of a field defect In Proc 99th Annual Meeting ... Lakey N, Doerge RW, Martienssen RA, Leon J, McPherson JD, Jeddeloh JA: Identifi cation of novel high-frequency DNA methylation changes in breast cancer PLoS ONE 2007, 2:e1314 Chung W, Kwabi-Addo B,...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 21:20

... problems of measuring the output gap Consequently, we are reluctant to base estimation of the NRR on any single estimation method, and we focus on a range of estimates, rather than trying to tie down ... measures of real interest rates Figure illustrates the sensitivity of our estimates of the real i What time period should be used? Ideally, we would average the real interest rate over a number of ... to 5.6 per cent The range of estimates of the New capital flows Zealand NRR based on the NRR for the United States is very The estimates of the risk premium that we use in this article are taken...

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... in our world When we don't know, we ask Here in the records of our club you will find answers to some of the questions you have wondered about For the past thirty years readers of Highlights for ... away from the inside corners of your eyes by little tubes that lead down to the back of your nose Of course, most of us think of tears as big watery drops that run down our cheeks from our eyes ... out of your lungs brings in oxygen and gets rid of carbon dioxide j E ach day your body uses up about 600 quarts of oxygen and gives off about 500 quarts of carbon dioxide About one-fifth of the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/01/2015, 22:42

... selected We used all the classifiers provided by Weka, running the command-line version of the java class for each classifier OpenML uses 93 Weka classifiers, from which we included 84 We could ... is 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 ... more adequate (because it does not depend 3156 Do we Need Hundreds of Classifiers to Solve Real World Classification Problems? 90 100 80 % of the maximum accuracy 90 Maximum accuracy / Majority...

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Ngày tải lên: 28/08/2016, 20:34

... comparison of the abilities of junior and senior radiologists to identify such lesions However, we believe that the range of experience of observers utilized here is representative of clinical ... observers were shown the spiral CT data for each of the four time points, for each of the three knees, using the same criteria as used previously A total of 12 independent observers were available ... = 0.05) in the identification of 'small' lesions Discussion The purpose of this study was to determine the accuracy of conventional spiral CT for identification of peri-prosthetic bony defect...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... the divergence between SOFS-R and administrative estimates of earnings changes.21 We attribute differences between the two sets of earnings change estimates to two sources: (1) SOFS-R respondents ... Difference Between the 2004 and 2005 SOFS-R Estimates of Military Earnings Although the 2004 SOFS-R estimates of military earnings lie below those recorded in administrative data, the 2005 SOFS-R estimates ... administrative and SOFS-R data sources produce such divergent estimates of the effect of activation on the earnings of reservists and will be of interest to manpower analysts, survey methodologists, and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20

... to use guidelines and possibly actual use [30] For example, in a systematic review of 256 studies, 41 of them found that lack of comprehensible structure and local applicability were barriers of ... a variety of conceptual perspectives In this case, we used a modified approach that focused on healthcare literature rather than other disciplines, but were inclusive of a variety of study designs ... one-quarter were available as downloadable digital or patient versions Many were very large documents with median pages of 72.5 (range 21.0 to 878.0), median number of references of 230.5 (range...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... total of 203 patients were treated An overview is presented of the clinical course of seven ICU patients with rare or so far unknown disease conditions each followed by a concise review of the ... parameters were normal The patient was fully conscious but complained of nausea and vertigo She was transferred to the ICU for neurologic monitoring and supportive therapy Because of the non-compressive ... gestational week 23 After curettage and initiation of antibiotic therapy (4 × g ampicillin/day because of E coli growing from an intrauterine swab), the patient was stable and free of organ dysfunctions...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 19:21

... healthy and happy on seven hours of sleep? Or does it take you nine hours of quality ZZZs to get you into high gear? Do you have health issues such as being overweight? Are you at risk for any ... hours to feel well-rested, but he has trouble "turning off" his mind at the end of the day to get the sleep he needs Ellen's aging father has Parkinson's disease and faces a number of unique challenges ... Departm ent of Health Studies, University of Chicago "There is laboratory evidence that short sleep durations of 4-5 hours have negative physiological and neurobehavioral consequences We need similar...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 14:38

... is the possible presence of endogeneity between bank characteristics and cyclical factors Performing the test, however, nothing changed, and the double interactions were almost always not significant ... standard approach used for interest rate equations (Cottarelli et al 1995; Lim, 2000; Weth 2002) From a statistical point of view, the error correction representation is adopted because the lending ... influences the level of bank interest rates Since the model is expressed in error correction form we have included this variable in first difference as well * * null hypothesis of absence of heterogeneity...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20

... agencies that often fight for increasing their share of power 22 Fragmented coordination is one of the main reasons for weak policy enforcement, as competing agencies and government offices may ... an overview of the importance of water for a country’s development will be followed by an introduction of China’s and Brazil’s water resources and pollution problems Chapter III will use a comparative ... to the point of threatening the pace of economic growth and weakening political stability (Gleick, 2008) International enterprises have started to cancel business ventures because of water concerns,...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20

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Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 21:49

... theme of the film is of cheap sexual thrills; a disgrace of the time which, in many peoples' eyes, should be kept well behind closed doors and not paraded on a large screen However, the theme of ... falling down some stairs more realistically - one of the more unsuccessful qualities of the film I think that if 'Psycho' was released now, the public would dismiss it beyond a shadow of a doubt ... shadow of a doubt firstly because it is filmed without colour Secondly because there is no amount of gore or a great extent of violence, neither does it have any swearing to, let's admit it, make...

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