... seen as the major mechanism ofa positive reference shift, which refers to the idea that patients not rate their health in reference to an absolute standard but in reference to a relative standard ... International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health and the position ofthe variables included in the study by Brionez and colleagues [1] AS, ankylosing spondylitis; BASFI, Bath Ankylosing ... With earlier and powerful treatments, a diagnosis (a stressful event!) may impact the patient in terms of mental and behavioral beliefs, and will probably influence the experience of health Existing...
... playground's safe EXAlt: 1 )The city is awful ~/I\4 2)First, no one cleans the parks 3)So the parks are ugly I \ 4)Then the roads are a mess 5)There's always garbage there Here, and contain the clues; and ... case at any rate after all in spite o f that meanwhile rather than I would rather say The alternative is [Note 77 and 78 are whole phrases] II Attitudinal expressions These adverbs indicate a degree ... to the specifications ofthe hybrid transmission There is an additional problem, due to the fact that evidence is treated as a transitive relation Sons are to be attached to their immediate father;...
... natural language query capability processing Natural for Language Updating and Maintaining a Database major problem arises in natural language ‘updates’ to databases Even though natural language ... “natural language” has certainly generated controversy in the database area taking aside the staunch supporters and opponents of natural language as an interface to databases, we have seen waves ... particular database For each predicate, the database schema generates a logic formula defining the predicate in terms of database relations For example, the predicate WORLDC-CAPITAL -OF has as...
... schema and related captured by a internal database an Examples of internal database operations pipelined join, semi—join, are a processing base relation and a tree non—leaf Internal data operation ... has to cope with the large volumes ofdata and to manage the complexity ofthe structures of these data objects BANE87J An important characteristic of many of these new applications is that there ... techniques, database architecture, database machines, intelligent front ends, mass storage for very large databases, distributed database systems and techniques, database software design and implementation,...
... ari.joffe@albertahealthservices.ca NRA: Natalie.anton@albertahealthservices.ca JPD: Jon.duff@albertahealthservices.ca AdC: allan.decaen@albertahealthservices.ca Abstract Background: Neurologists often ... in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity ofthedata and the accuracy ofthedata analysis Preliminary results of this study were presented as a poster at the American Thoracic ... A survey of American neurologists about brain death: understandingthe conceptual basis and diagnostic tests for brain death Ari R Joffe*1,2, Natalie R Anton1, Jonathan P Duff1 and Allan deCaen1...
... HBM and MFG conceived the study HBM extracted, analysed and interpreted the data, and drafted the manuscript MFG and KBL assisted with data interpretation All authors read and approved the final ... clubfoot and tarsal coalition/congenital vertical talus procedures, and a steady decrease in the number of heel procedures (data not shown) Of particular note, there was a marked reduction in the ... specifically pertain to the foot, the incidence of foot surgery reported here is an underestimate Finally, analysis ofthe database was restricted to descriptive statistics, as individual-level data...
... interpretation ofdata at the group level to interpretation at the individual level usually requires additional technical analysis as well as a body of evidence about the meaning and behavior of each ... interpretations and applications that are validated To maximize the likelihood of producing valid data in relation to a range of possible interpretations and applications ofa tool, there are development ... separated the patient and professional groups in order to facilitate frank discussion, and broad and rapid brainstorming To maximize the richness and depth ofthedata obtained, we used a nominal...
... 53) The sample of paediatric cases is comparatively small and may not be representative ofthe entire population because thedata were obtained from adult ICUs and not from paediatric ones Admissions ... retrospective analyses is in differentiating the diagnosis of asthma from that of COPD in admitted patients who are older than 45 years In these analyses, the diagnosis of asthma was based on the recorded ... prognosis of near-fatal asthma A 6-year follow-up study of 145 asthmatic patients who underwent mechanical ventilation for a nearfatal attack of asthma Am Rev Respir Dis 1992, 146:76-81 Evans R III:...
... Database The Case Mix Programme (CMP) is a national comparative audit of adult, general critical care units in England, Wales and Northern Ireland coordinated by the Intensive Care National Audit ... physiological data from the first 24 hours in the ICU The organ system failures assessed are cardiovascular failure, respiratory failure, renal failure, haematological failure and neurological failure ... ICU was calculated in fractions of days from the dates and times of admission and discharge from the CMP unit Length of stay in hospital was calculated in days from the dates of original admission...
... chi-squared test, with a significant result indicating lack of calibration Evaluation of APACHE II, SAPS II and ICNARC models in haematological malignancy admissions The SAPS II, the APACHE II ... tachypnoea, GCS, sedation, PaO2:FiO2, acidaemia, alkalaemia, oliguria, hyponatraemia, hypernatraemia, low haematocrit, and uraemia In contrast to previous studies, we did not find that leukopaenia was ... from the postcode, date of birth and sex ofthe patient, and were confirmed by the participating units Analyses A statistical analysis plan was agreed a priori The analyses performed were as follows...
... left-hand side ofthe diagram shows the maturation ofa phagosome containing a persisting pathogen The dotted line indicates that some ofthe compartments, most notably the late endosomes and lysosomes, ... Gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli and the Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus [1] The fact that 28% ofthe RNAs tested affected the process of uptake, either increasing or decreasing bacterial ... causing the initiation of intracellular signaling pathways, most prominently those leading to the membranedependent assembly of actin filaments and the exocytosis of various membrane compartments These...
... examining the costing plan for a two-layer jacket (Appendix 5, Table 2) After calculating manufacturing cost, 10% of profit rate is added then 10% of VAT (value-added tax) and another 10% retail ... sustain this advantage to maintain high profit rate over a number of years This definition uses profit rate as a measurement to rate the competitive advantage In other view, we can say that a product ... production capacity and company address Company participates frequently in trade fairs, which are organized frequently over the course ofa year, especially in fashion fair and new year fair Thaloga also...
... on vacation indicating low population hence the variation in the monthly sludge generation The estimation ofthe biogas potential ofthe sludge the quality ofthe sludge was analysed and the ... 2007 [7] Barelli D., Csambalik L., Mestas C and Santos D Economical and Environmental Analysis ofa Biogas Plant within the Context ofa Real Farm The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, ... and technology (KNUST) generates a colossal amount of waste (solid and liquid) The solid waste is dumped at a site far away from the inhabited part of campus and the liquid waste is sent to a...
... create the array, specifying the type and the number of elements in the constructor argument instead of using square brackets in the declaration The managed array is a reference type, so the array ... demonstrated the declaration and use of managed aggregate types, including ref classes, value classes, managed arrays, enum classes, and interface classes In the next section, you’ll learn about features ... seed) { array^ atoms = gcnew array(num_atoms); // Initialize the array // We cannot use a for each statement here because the for each // statement is not allowed...
... on a laptop and the X application (i.e., client) that you want to run is located on a remote system You can arrange to have the application output display on the laptop The following paragraphs ... instead of as it was earlier export DISPLAY=casper:14 Since the ssh server can have many tunneled X sessions attached at the same time, the display number increases with the number of sessions attached ... Machine C Now that authorization for Machine C to connect to the display on Machine A is in place, the last task is to set the DISPLAY variable for the X client on CHAPTER 21 ■ A BRIEF TOUR OF...
... teaching and learning concerning the syntactic and semantic As regard to the use of language in a pedagogical view, advertisements as a genre offer a great number of choices for the features of ... remind us ofthe existence of ones we already know about 3.2.3 Instruments Representatives in advertising a product also help a manufacturer 3.3 DATA ANALYSIS Thedata was analyzed qualitatively to ... of these kinds 1.4 SCOPE OFTHE STUDY This study deals with discourse analysis ofthe syntactic and of advertisements have pragmatic knowledge and a critical evaluation semantic features of the...
... learners a large of vocabulary and grammar There are many reading texts and basing on these reading texts, learners have the chance to know about the culture, the people of many countries in the ... female humans and animals Eg: Lion (Noun): a large powerful animal ofthe cat family that hunts in group and lives in parts of Africa and southern Asia Lioness (Noun): a female lion 15 g/ The ... morpheme may be defined as the minimal linguistics sign, a grammatical unit that is an arbitrary union ofa sound and a meaning and that cannot be further analyzed This definition may be too...