... Quinupristin/dalfopristin Quinuprisitn/dalfoprisitin is a combination of two streptogramins, quinupristin and dalfopristin (in a ratio of 30:70 w/w), that inhibit different sites in protein synthesis Each individual ... for clinical use in the US Failed to demonstrate non-inferiority against linezolid for treatment of complicated skin and skin structure infection CPK, creatine phosphokinase However, increasing ... minocycline A modified side chain on tigecycline enhances binding to the 30s ribosomal subunit, inhibiting protein synthesis and bacterial growth against a broad spectrum of pathogens, including...
... collecting and spending cash, budgeting, payment cards, etc Business accounting and distributing income as the regulation of VietinBank; Examining, auditing internally; Building business plan suitable ... Business philosophy 19 Business philosophy is philosophic thoughts reflecting the business reality by experiencing, thinking and generalizing of business subjects and then used to instruct business ... country in VND and foreign currencies; issuing 31 certificate of deposit, bond, bill of exchange and performing other forms of mobilizing as the regulation of VietinBank; Lending in short...
... range of services, including system deployment and administration, training of faculty and administrators, assistance in content development, the design of learning pathways and programs, marketing ... methods of delivery characteristic of e-learning Potential areas for research include assessing contexts for effective use of e-learning in medical education, the differential use of e-learning in ... or learning enhancement Learning delivery is the most often cited advantage of e-learning and includes increased accessibility to information, ease in updating content, personalized instruction,...
... itching, pain, scaling, and cracking of skin Some symptoms (itch, soreness, pain, stinging) are included in the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI), a 10-item questionnaire commonly used in clinical ... Burning Stinging Sensitivity Inflammation Redness Stinging (secondary symptom) • • • • • • Itch Pain Scaling Cracking Dry skin Nail pain/ sensitivity • • • • • • Regular physical activity Work impacts ... included symptoms (skin cracking and dry skin), daily activities (choice of clothing, work impacts, household duties, and more laundry/replacing clothes/linens), sleep impact (difficulty waking...
... growing need to understand the impactof HAART use on the quality of lives of HIVinfected individuals [4-8] There is a sizeable body of research on the impactof HAART on health-related quality of ... counsellors were trained in the administration of the HRQoL instrument The quality of life questionnaire was administered at each of the following scheduled visits: screening, baseline, week 16, week ... safety of three non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI)-containing regimens (nevirapine, efavirenz, and nevirapine plus efavirenz in combination with stavudine and lamivudine) showed...
... Advances in Signal Processing line whereas dn is the length of the considered in- domain disturbed line To evaluate the impactof the out -of- domain crosstalk, we introduce the following two parameters: ... kth tone, on the jth out -of- domain line Including the out -of- domain crosstalk contribution in (19), we obtain the signal-to-noise ratio in the presence ⎧ ⎛ ⎪ ⎪ ⎨ ⎜ ⎢ = ⎢min log2 ⎜1 + ⎣ ⎝ ⎪ ⎪ ⎩ ... value of d, in a system with lines of equal length, for which DP outperforms the nonvectored scheme, as a function of the number of training symbols S nn where the dependence of Hk on the line...
... after a minimum 5-min rest, using a standard mercury sphygmomanometer The mean value of two consecutive blood pressure readings was taken into Table 4: Impactof the PLIN rs894160 SNP on clinical ... haplotype was associated with increased obesity risk in Malays and Indians, but not in Chinese [16] In this study, we examined the genetic variability of the perilipin gene and possible associations ... citation purposes) Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine 2006, 5:10 http://www.jnrbm.com/content/5/1/10 Table 3: Impactof the PLIN rs4578621 SNP on clinical variables in men and women separately...
... (timepoint unclear) After implementation of intervention (change in ICU organisation) Introduction of protocol (before-after study) 156 10% After implementation of intervention (introduction of protocols ... interest Summary of included studies Nineteen studies investigated the effect of introducing a sedation management protocol or guideline on patient safety or economic outcomes Of these studies, ... monitor [7], and an RCT of intermittent lorazepam compared with continuous propofol [8] were included Impactof sedation practice on duration of mechanical ventilation Interventions to improve...
... “Distraction Increase Yielding to Propaganda by Inhibiting Counterarguing”, they maintained that increasing level of distraction yielded a decrease in counter-argumentation and an increase in persuasion, ... number of subjects to discuss the topic of interest In- depth interviews also use the same principle but subjects are interviewed individually Researchers seldom involve asking a set of predetermined ... existing impacts , if any, of humor appeal used in TV advertising on consumer’s attitude toward beer brands More specifically, the case of Heineken beer TVC in Vietnam will be examined in more...
... respectively) Inspite of increased consumption of piperacillin-tazobactam after the NARP, the resistance rates of E.coli and Klebsiella spp against piperacillin-tazobactam did not increase significantly ... parts of world [21, 22] The shift toward unrestricted antibiotics changes the antimicrobial resistance patterns of certain pathogens Since parenteral forms of ciprofloxacin and levofloxacin were ... development of prescribing guidelines, monitoring resistance patterns, feedback activities, introduction of order forms, formulary replacement or institutional restrictions, and limitation of contacts...
... processing these signals Known as linear combiners they are selection diversity, maximal ratio combining, and equal gain combining Under a certain set of assumptions, the output of these combiners ... Response Continuous Wave Direction of Arrival Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum Equal Gain Combining Frequency Division Multiple Access Line -Of- Sight Maximal Ratio Combining Non-Line -Of- Sight Orthogonal ... angle of incidence and refraction for a wave impinging on an interface This relationship is given by n1 sin θ1 = n2 sin θ where n1 and are the refractive index of the first medium and angle of incidence...
... especially in the banking sector (United Nations, 1998) The high level of investment in financial institutions in 1998 was principally due to liberalization measures taken in late 1997, allowing foreigners ... majority of shares in Thai financial institutions for up to 10 years The following table shows FDI inflow by sector Source of Foreign Direct Investment in Thailand FDI in Thailand is predominantly ... relevant in the electronics and automobile sectors, two of the most important recipients of FDI The influx of new foreign investments has benefited the country in terms of industrial growth, including...
... Determining the Impactof Technology on a Windows DNA Design Exercise 1: Determining Technology Implications ! Determine technology implications Participate in small groups as assigned by the instructor ... with the class The instructor will write the class consensus on a flip chart Use the space below for brainstorming Activity 7.2: Determining the Impactof Technology on a Windows DNA Design 51 ... Identify the level ofimpact — high, medium, or low — that each technology type would have on the given layer of a Windows DNA design Write your answers in the grid provided After completing the above...
... give us a kind of “upper boundary” of what is possible to achieve using QRs They include almost anything that is found in the manual attributes and the named entities They also frequently include ... clusters of size >=3 Experiments In our experiments we consider each set of documents (cluster) related to one individual in the WePS corpus as a set of relevant documents for a person search For instance ... clusters of size >=3 son dataset in the WePS corpus contains a total of 100 documents, and 10 of them belong to a British politician named James Patterson The WePS-2 corpus contains a total of 552...
... ‘effective’ needs to be defined for chronic pain – it refers to minimising the impactof persisting pain on a person’s lifestyle (quality of life), and reducing use of health services • The cost ... both explaining and treating chronic pain Although rarely primary causes of chronic pain, psychological and environmental factors often play a critical role in the maintenance of chronic pain and ... this, including the significant global impactof chronic pain on every day functioning and quality of life, and repeated treatment that may result in the use of monotherapies of limited value • International...
... available on the costs of culling, diagnostic testing of samples, cleaning and disinfection, and other administrative costs (Obi, Oparinde, and Maina 2008) Regarding the impacts of HPAI on the poultry ... their role in poultry rearing, women should also be encouraged to be actively involved in training programs and in dissemination of information regarding biosecurity technologies Finally, our ... RESULTS Role of Poultry in Household Livelihoods Estimating the Determinants of Participation in Poultry Production As explained in Section 3, in order to understand the impactof HPAI on livelihoods,...
... citizens, offering them an increasing number and range of opportunities for accessing information, gaining and exchanging knowledge and realising personal learning goals The core indicators for Internet ... seeking health-related information (ranging from 10% in Bulgaria to 56% in Finland); and 31% use the Internet for reading online newspapers and magazines (ranging from 18% in Poland to 64% in ... to support learning in an informal way, formal Education and Training is lagging behind in reaping the benefits of ICT to increase and improve learning opportunities The Rise of Social Media...
... Thus, nearly two-thirds of the increase in demand resulting from an increase in advertising intensity is the indirect feedback effect whereby advertising increases sales, which in turn generate additional ... heterogeneity in estimation At the level of the demand curve facing a brand, we find that increased advertising increases the price elasticity of demand for 17 of the 18 brands we examine (spanning four ... strong proponents of the information view of advertising, and we will argue in the conclusion that it is perfectly capable of explaining shifts in the shape of the demand curve of the type suggested...