... requested ina random order [2] and the best attainable performance may not be obtained from database servers without elaborate flash-aware data structures and algorithms [14] In this paper, in contrast, ... processing A hash-based algorithm typically partitions an input data set by building a hash table in disk and processes each hash bucket in memory For example, a hash join algorithm processes a join ... ICDE, pages 35–44, Atlanta, GA, April 2006 David T McWherter, Bianca Schroeder, Anastassia Ailamaki, and Mor Harchol-Balter Priority Mechanisms for OLTP and Transactional Web Applications In Proceedings...
... diagnosis or assessment must work to agreed protocols forming part of a local qualityassurance (QA) manual, based on national or European documents containing accepted clinical standards and ... Qualityassurance guidelines for surgery 313 7a European guidelines forqualityassurancein the surgical management of mammographically detected lesions 7a. 1 Introduction 7a. 2 General performance ... of cases • Rate per 100,000 • World ASR* in the year NA NA NA NA Advanced breast cancer incidence* • Absolute number of cases • Rate per 100,000 • World ASR* in the year NA NA NA NA Breast cancer...
... and prioritize at this particular time in the process Again, these domains are as follows Leadership Information Patient and population engagement Regulation and standards Organizational capacity ... Mercer, Henock Alois Mayombo Ngonyani, Sue Page, Zinta Podniece, Sarah Prendergast, Osama Samawi, Maria Santos Ichaso, Tin Tin Sint, Sangay Thinley, Naruo Uehara, Mukund Uplekar, Orlando Urroz, ... on Quality of Health Care in America, Institute of Medicine Washington, DC, USA: National Academies Press; 2001 Background and assumptions As medical science and technology has advanced at a rapid...
... stakeholders inqualityassurance • Interface between the qualityassurance system and management/steering • Relevance of, and access to, qualityassurance information • Relevance of, and access to, quality ... that external evaluation should take this into account As a consequence it is natural that qualityassurance agencies should see institutional audit as a method of qualityassuranceA growing ... Strategy for implementation of qualityassurance processes • Academic leadership • Participation by all the staff inquality enhancement and assurance • Integration of quality work in all activities...
... farmers and villagers with minimal training Work in Australia using sterilised peat was not carried out because of a need to ensure safety in introducing Vietnamese strains of bacteria to Australian ... Centre for Nitrogen Fixation to participate in the project in Vietnam has been most fortunate His years of experience with national qualityassurancefor Rhizobium in Australia have also provided a ... difficulties in retaining essential staff in work in Australia The Vietnamese team of about six scientists at the Biofertilizer Laboratory (HUS) was more stable in composition The training activities including...
... any margins to GTV CTV also included a regional (elecitve) nodal area which consisted of ipsilateral hilum and bilateral mediastinal (pretracheal, paratracheal, tracheobroncheal, and subcarinal) ... this trial After parameter compliance was assessed, overall RT compliance was determined as PPoverall, no DA or VU in any parameter; VUoverall, at least one VU in any parameter; or DAoverall, neither ... Therapy Oncology Group Cancer 1982, 50:1091-1099 Atagi S, Kawahara M, Tamura , Noda K, Watanabe K, Yokoyama A, Sugiura T, Senba H, Ishikura S, Ikeda H, Ishizuka N, Saijo N: Standard thoracic radiotherapy...
... analyzed data of our patient and drafted the manuscript ADS examined our patient and was the major contributor in writing the manuscript JDH performed the intra-operative testing and was a major contributor ... Implantation of laminotomy electrodes for spinal cord stimulation in spinal anesthesia with intraoperative dorsal column activation Neurosurg 2003, 53:1150-1153 Garc a- Pérez ML, Badenes R, Garc a- March ... than usual, while using a lower voltage to obtain the best response Consent Written informed consent was obtained from our patient for publication of this case report and any accompanying images...
... prescribed naprosyn, diazepam and hydrocodone/acetaminofen for pain control, confined to quarters to rest and imaging was obtained The pain worsened, resulting in hospitalization later that day He was ... demonstrated a loss of normal height and signal involving the L4–L5 disc and a broad-based left paracentral disc bulge contacting the thecal sac and causing mild narrowing of the central spinal canal ... that the only provocative factor for minimal LBP at that time was flying the jet The physical examination was normal; he was released from care and encouraged to maintain his core stabilization...
... loads in aircraft; provides and arranges for safeguarding of all loads requiring special handling during loading, unloading Weight and balance service: SAGS is preparing, distributing and filing ... strategic market analysis and internal analysis Strategic market analysis involves customer management and analysis, market management and analysis, environmental scanning and future building ... provides handling baggage in the baggage sorting area; loading/unloading baggage, cargo, mail, documents between airport terminal or agreed points and aircraft Loading supervision service: SAGS provides...
... a control based on two-digit SIC codes (62 industries); and a control based on calendar year income-increasing accruals and/or inappropriate income-decreasing accruals Incomeincreasing accruals ... research that uses accounting accruals as a proxy for earnings quality, we test for an association between auditor tenure and earnings qualityfor those auditor-client combinations where the auditor-client ... data on the 2001 Compustat annual industrial and research files to estimate accruals In addition, we require at least the six years of prior data to ensure that any abnormal accruals behavior associated...
... and can be employed for animal-assisted therapy (AAT) and animal-assisted activities (AAA) instead of real animals [2] This can partly reduce working strength of the staff, activate learning interest ... because it is challenging to precisely localize and extract stable geometrical features such as landmarks in each facial image for geometry-based methods in many practical applications, especially ... by using only SVM Moreover, the authors evaluated its generalization ability on another two databases: 31 MMI database and JAFFE database The accuracy rates about basic expressions and neutral...
... five and a half months • Annual benefit per employee: $93 • Five-year ROI: 115% Financial Analysis Table on the following page contains the input data used in our analysis Table summarizes the value ... buying new PoEenabled switches, can have on your business Investment in ADC midspan PoE controllers yields immediate savings in purchase and installation costs, as well as permanent and ongoing ... collaborated with an independent research organization that specializes in ROI and cost benefit analysis to perform an objective analysis of the financial benefits generated by the deployment of ADC’s...
... defined as “ free-standing items of language that have meaning For example: the word “eating” is freestanding in itself, and that within it has another potentially freestanding element “eat”, independently ... coordinates, superordinates, and translation Besides these, there are other, perhaps looser, ways of associating meaning that are useful in teaching You can, for instance, relate parts to a whole ... listening I.5 Methodology in vocabulary teaching So far, Many methods have been used for foreign language teaching However, not all of them are equally advantageous to the vocabulary learning of target...
... H H H An EVA analysis demands that everything from initial cash outlays to maintenance and training— including any expenditure that is legitimately part of the initiative—is charged against profit ... described in Section 4.4 • performing internal audits and performance reviews • performing business impact analysis • performing scenario planning and analysis • using risk taxonomies for similar organizations ... danger” [McGraw 2006], or “anything that is capable of acting against an asset ina manner that can result in harm” [Jones 2005b] In other words, a threat is something that could adversely affect...
... initial capital, e.g laser, radar or sonar 5.4 Writing initialisms Initialisms are usually written in capitals, whatever their length, and take no points: EEA, EAGGF, EMCDDA, UNHCR, WTO, also AD for ... meant 2.41 Lakes Use the English names Lake Constance (for Bodensee), Lake Geneva (for Lac Léman), Lake Maggiore (for Lago Maggiore) and Lake Balaton (for Balaton) 2.42 Strait/straits The singular ... table Country/territory City/town (au) Gaza — the Gaza Strip (à) Gaza — Gaza (au) Guatemala — Guatemala (à) Guatemala — Guatemala City (au) Mexique — Mexico (à) Mexico — Mexico City and NB in...
... a relational query execution plan and apply a dataflow approach for designing highperformance, scalable systems In the GAMMA database machine project [De+90] each relational operator is assigned ... algorithms, and a fifth stage that includes the aggregate operators (min-max, average, etc.) The fscan and iscan stages are replicated and are separately attached to the database tables This way, queries ... parallelism (input data are partitioned among multiple nodes and operators are split into many independent ones working on a part of data) In extensible DBMS [CH90], the goal was to facilitate adding and...
... organisations established a formal system of measuring and evaluation of internal audit’s performance Data Analysis 27 Internal Quality Programme Is the internal audit function following the Standards ... enhance quality and ensure conformance with IIA standards Conduct aqualityassurance review: Schedule and undergo an external qualityassurance review with integrated benchmarking and strategic ... strategic performance Assess performance: Continuously evaluate internal audit’s compliance with IIA standards and the function’s overall strategic performance The Way Forward 37 Get Ready for...
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... the damage under the applicable national law In addition, the principle of joint and several liability was adopted for damage caused in the course of operations for the loading and unloading of ... remained a unique case (in this case, Canada had been considered to be responsible in regard to the United States for damage caused by toxic fumes emanating from industrial plants situated on Canadian ... to participate ina financial security scheme or to have and maintain a financial guarantee up to a certain limit, of such type and term as specified by internal law, to cover the liability under...