a comparison of ruleinvocation strategies

... ‘best case’ strategy based on the reca ll performance and the recall-to-yield ratio, i.e., a strategy that produced both a manageable yield and an acceptable recall rate. A low ratio indicates a disproportionately ... JAMA, Lancet, BMJ, Annals of Internal Medicine, Quality and Safety in Health Care, The Amer- ican Journal of Managed Care, Medical Care, Health Services Research,andtheJoint Commission on Quality ... OR (lean ADJ healthcare) OR (lean ADJ health adj care) OR (lean ADJ health ADJ service) OR (lean ADJ healthcare ADJ service) OR (lean ADJ health ADJ care ADJ service)).mp. OR ((inventive ADJ problem

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20

... ADJ Healthcare adj Improvement)).mp ((lean ADJ manufacturing) OR (lean ADJ production) OR (lean ADJ healthcare) OR (lean ADJ health adj care) OR (lean ADJ health ADJ service) OR (lean ADJ healthcare ... search strategies was part of a larger Page of 10 project aimed at the classification and critical appraisal of quality improvement publications We aim to facilitate literature syntheses, and expect ... simultaneously achieving a manageable total yield, as well as acceptable recall, recall-to-yield ratios, and precision Table Precision and rater agreement Search strategy ’quality’ AND ‘improv*’ AND ‘intervention*’(PubMed,

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2022, 11:37

... study Language is a specially social symptom and plays an important role in our life. Language is considered as a mean of communication. Human beings use it to transfer information, represent what ... Streamline Departures & Connections by B.Hartley & P.Viney 19 Chapter II: A realization of politeness strategies in requests in the course book “Streamline English DEPARTURES & ... Vinh, May, 2010 Student NguyÔn ThÞ Mai Hoa ABBREVIATIONS S.E.D: Streamline English Departures S.E.C: Streamline English Connections E.g.: For example FTA: Face Threatening Act S: Speaker H: Hearer

Ngày tải lên: 14/12/2013, 00:41

... empirical comparison of BP and DD also com- plements the theoretically-oriented comparison of marginal- and margin-based variational approxima- tions for parsing described by Martins et al. (2010). We ... classic in- side algorithm is that the recursive base case of a cat- egory spanning a single word has been replaced by a message from the supertag that contains both for- ward and backward factors, ... 2006. Learning accurate, compact, and interpretable tree an- notation. In Proc. of ACL. A. M. Rush, D. Sontag, M. Collins, and T. Jaakkola. 2010. On dual decomposition and linear program- ming relaxations

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:20

... final impact of Ageing on National Savings 2.3 Labour force implications of a rise in dependency ratios 2.4 Potential impact on Capital Accumulation and on Technical Progress 2.5 Interest Rate, Exchange ... its inherently partial nature in that the importance of international linkages and the role of systemic interactions and feedback mechanisms are inadequately catered for. These “general equilibrium” ... overall total reflect a broadly stabilising youth ratio and a sharp increase in the old age share of the total. As regard the latter old age ratio, in 1985, for example, the EU ratio of over 65s to

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 21:20

... program’s reputation. However, when analyzing the financial value of an MBA, the starting salary of the graduate is only part of the equation. The value added by the degree is the function of ... MBA program and graduated with a job offer of $75,000, then the MBA has produced no additional income. In fact, the student has been economically disadvantages due to the loss of annual raises. ... The incremental salary was calculated and used as the investment’s cash inflows. This study has several limitations. The salary data are from a single year, which may have been adversely effected

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 01:20

... desulfuricans [10] MATERIALS AND METHODS Preparation and estimation of ¯avodoxin and apo¯avodoxin Flavodoxin from D vulgaris was obtained as the recombinant protein that was puri®ed from extracts of ... unfolding/folding reactions of ¯avodoxin in urea apo, is folded apo¯avodoxin; urea-apo-FMN is a quasi-folded ¯avodoxin at low urea concentrations; apo-urea is quasi-folded apo¯avodoxin at low urea concentrations; ... apo¯avodoxin from Anabaena (using the data of Fig in [4]) The observation that the ®nal protein ¯uorescence of urea-treated ¯avodoxin is the same as that of apoprotein treated with the same concentration

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 15:20

... CASH FLOW, AND EARNINGS APPROACHES TO EQUITY VALUATION The calculation of equity value is typically characterized as a projection of future payoffs and a transformation of those payoffs into a ... intrinsic values from unbiased ex ante payoffs but, as forecasts are not observable for all payoffs, intrinsic values are 3 calculated from average ex post payoffs. 2 Firm realizations are averaged ... valuation errors for various... examine accrual accounting against the pure DCF analysis with the understanding that this can be stated as a comparison of the terminal value calculation

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2014, 16:06

... (particularly the Malawi data) and drafting of the article JS participated in data collection, data analysis (particularly the Zambia data) and drafting of the article PD participated in data analysis ... and drafting of the article VM participated in study design, data analysis (particularly the Malawi data) and drafting of the article) AW Page 12 of 13 participated in data collection, data analysis ... comparison of Malawi and Zambia Ruairí Brugha1,5*, John Kadzandira2, Joseph Simbaya3, Patrick Dicker1, Victor Mwapasa4, Aisling Walsh1 Abstract Background: Shortages of health workers are obstacles

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... MAR MAR MAVIS Baseline MCAR MCAR - - 6 months MCAR MAR MAR MAR 12 months - - MCAR/MAR MCAR/MAR RECORD 4 months MAR MAR - - 12 months MAR MAR MAR MAR 24 months - - MAR MAR KAT Baseline MCAR MCAR ... biphospho- nate therapy for the management of Paget's disease. QoL was assessed at baseline and then annually [8]. Each dataset contained a proportion of patients with com- plete data or a monotone, ... MCAR - - 3 months MAR MAR MAR MAR 12 months MAR MAR MAR MAR 24 months - - MAR MAR PRISM Baseline MAR MAR - - 12 months MAR MAR MAR MAR 24 months - - MAR MAR Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... resurfacing (HR), 20 patients had a Large Head Metal-on-metal (LHM) hip replacement and 20 patients had a conventional small head Total Hip Replacement (THR). The leg length and femoral offset of ... replacement was used for all patients. Prior to each surgical case the patients radiograph was templated using traumaCAD with the aim of accurately restoring both leg length and femoral offset ... criteria included patients with an abnormal unoperated hip e.g. decreased joint space, indefinable anatomical landmarks e.g. acetabular teardrop, or previous femoral fractures. The PACS-based

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... Epidemiology and Evaluation, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada Email: Amir Adel Rashidi - amiradel@interchange.ubc.ca; Aslam H Anis - aslam.anis@ubc.ca; Carlo A Marra* ... Health Utilities Index utilities? A comparison of patient and community preferences for health status in rheumatoid arthritis patients Amir Adel Rashidi 1 , Aslam H Anis 2 and Carlo A Marra* ... determine quality of life of an individual are captured and summa- rized as a global score. In VAS and SG valuation methods, however, the individual evaluates his or her own health state based on a holistic

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... measurements across time and estimates parameters of interest. However, a practical sensor may provide a data image, where each pixel corresponds to the received power in a particular spatial ... the false track count and the computation resource. For comparison, a probabilistic data association fil- ter with amplitude information (PDAF-AI) [28–30] was also run on the false track scenario. ... Colegrove, A. W. Davis, and J. K. Ayliffe, “Track ini- tiation and nearest neighbours incorporated into probabilis- tic data association,” Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engi- neers, Australia,

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... color images. SRC methods can also be tested on many other applica- tion areas. Satellite image databases, for example, often con- tain sets of images taken over the same geographical areas, and ... Ultrasound, X- Ray, and Angiography images); therefore, they contain large amounts of set redundancy. This paper attempts to evaluate the perfor mance of various SRC methods on sample datasets of ... i of all the images, and the image MAX provides the maximum value max i . These two values are the limits of the range of the possible values that a pixel at position i can have in each image

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... 61% of respondents self-categorizing as White/Caucasian, 23% as Asian/Pacific Islander, 10% as African American, 5% as Hispanic/Latino, and 1% as American Indian Participants were randomly assigned ... statistical information had a greater impact on organizational attractiveness when it came from a recruitment brochure, and anecdotal information had a greater impact on applicant attraction ... less of an impact on their organizational attraction than negative information. We expect that negative information about organizations will have a greater impact on job seekers’ organizational

Ngày tải lên: 07/07/2014, 10:38

... solar radiation and precipitation and was assumed to apply for each year from 1860 to 2100. The effect of changing air temperature was described using a version of the data of the analysis of HADCM2 ... influenced by three variables: temperature, soil moisture and cation exchange capacity of the soil. Wang and Polglase [21] assumed all areas of each biome had the same cli- mate, plant and soil conditions ... boreal, temperate and Mediterranean average annual temperature anomaly (relative to 1961 to 1990 average) and variation in atmospheric CO 2 concentration from EuroBiota input climate data. Legend text

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... yet are able to assess temporal and spatialrelativevariations. The relationship between a variable measured at the sampling point and the same variable measured with a small spatial displacement, ... was tested with Pearson’s correlation coefficient, whereas an analysis of variance was used to test the relationship between light variables and the qualitative stand variable DAM. An ANOVAwas ... “openness” variables, whereas the remaining 7 variables are “foliage” variables. Shaded areas indicate the couples of variables that are issued from a common device (and should not be taken into account).

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:21

... Castanea sativa and Quercus petraea woods Phytochemistry 30, 375-378 Puech JL (1984) Characteristics of oak wood and biochemical aspects of Armagnac aging Am J Enology... demonstrated ... were taken from measurements of single trees of Q petraea and Castanea sativa A high degree of variation in the soluble tannins is demonstrated... may not be due to variation ... rapid decline in vescalagin... annual growth equal to the mean ring widths for each forest (see table V) Using this estimate of mean heartwood age as a and the mean total ellagitannins

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... disk was inserted into the compartment of a leaf-disk O2 electrode (Hansatech, UK). A stream of water-vapor saturated air, maintained at 23°C, and with ambient CO 2, was ... example, a ψ wp of about -3 MPa was accompanied by a D for ≈ 0.26 in Q cerris and Q petraea, but of ≈ 0.30 in Q rubra. Osmotic potential at full ... Correspondence. Abbreviations: A: net CO 2 assimilation rate; gw: stomatal conductance to water vapour; ψ wp : pre- dawn leaf water potential; π 0: osmotic potential at

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 19:21

... Central Page 1 of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Annals of General Hospital Psychiatry Open Access Primary research A comparison of olanzapine and risperidone on the risk of psychiatric ... get an estimated value of the number of days hospitalized for each patient and for each treat- ment group. A nonparametric survival analysis with Kaplan-Meier esti- mates was used to obtain the ... measures of hospitalization and had zero days to re-hospitalization. The MRAF provided admission and discharge dates for each psychiatric hospital admission. Hospitalization cost measure SCAP

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23