a method with an application in severe sepsis

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... output A large mean µi and a large standard deviation σi indicate a strong nonlinear effect or strong interaction with other inputs A large mean µi and small standard deviation σi indicate a strong ... 1.2.3 Integrated management and policy analysis Integrated management Rapid changes of objectives and methodological approaches towards the management of natural resources and environment can be ... like a river or an estuary to a complete water system such as a river basin or a coastal area These changes result in integrated coastal-zone management, integrated river basin management and/or...

Ngày tải lên: 06/11/2012, 10:35

... output A large mean µi and a large standard deviation σi indicate a strong nonlinear effect or strong interaction with other inputs A large mean µi and small standard deviation σi indicate a strong ... 1.2.3 Integrated management and policy analysis Integrated management Rapid changes of objectives and methodological approaches towards the management of natural resources and environment can be ... like a river or an estuary to a complete water system such as a river basin or a coastal area These changes result in integrated coastal-zone management, integrated river basin management and/or...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 01:22

... median values, analysis was based on median value PROWESS, Recombinant Human Activated Protein C Worldwide Evaluation in Severe Sepsis; SD, standard deviation; SOFA, Sequential Organ Failure Assessment ... placebo-controlled clinical trial of DrotAA (Xigris®; Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA) in adult patients with severe sepsis ENHANCE was an open-label, single-arm, clinical trial ... evaluations In the PROWESS trial, plasma samples were obtained at baseline (day of randomization) and daily through to study day A central laboratory (Covance Central Laboratory Services, Indianapolis,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... days A descriptive analysis comparing the Canadian and non-Canadian cohorts revealed that in the Canadian cohort, bleeding events were relatively few and less frequent compared with non-Canadian ... day of severe sepsis was associated with new organ failure and increased mortality at 28 days [18] Data from an integrated sepsis database also provides evidence that serum creatinine change within ... delays in initiating treatment with DrotAA in Canada are common – in a registry of 4087 Canadian intensive care patients (1269 with severe sepsis) , the average time to treatment with DrotAA after...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... contributions All authors have made substantial contribution on the conception, design and acquisition of data and/or analysis and interpretation of data, as well as in the drafting, revising and final approval ... Piedade Amaro (Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos, Hospital de São Sebastião, Santa Maria da Feira); Paula Castelões (Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos, Centro Hospitalar de Vila Nova de Gaia); Teresa ... Gonzalez-Diaz G, GarnachoMontero J, Ibanez J, Palencia E, Quintana M, de la Torre-Prados MV: Improvement in process of care and outcome after a multicenter severe sepsis educational program in Spain JAMA...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:22

... Zero -in ated models for count data in animal breeding have been discussed by Gianola [15] and used by Rodrigues-Motta and collaborators [27] in an analysis of the number of mastitis cases in dairy ... models involves fixing or adding a single parameter Preliminary analysis indicated that flock and year effects (and their interaction) had minor importance, so these factors were not included in the ... criteria for missing data models, Bayesian Anal (2006) 651–674 [5] Draper D., Tutorial 1: Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling, in: 6th World Meeting International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 28 May–1...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... JL, San Cristobal M, Gianola D, Im S (1992) Marginal likelihood and Bayesian approaches to the analysis of heterogeneous residual variances in mixed linear Gaussian models Comput Stat Data Anal ... using the noninformative Bayesian paradigm According to the definition of marginalization in Bayesian inference (Box and Tiao, 1973; Robert, 1992), nuisance parameters are eliminated by integrating ... dispersion parameters and follow an informative Bayesian approach One to can = = In linear Gaussian methodology, theoretical considerations regarding conjugate priors or fiducial arguments lead to...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 20:20

... shared-memory parallel machines Journal of Natural Language Processing, 8(1), January [Nurkkala and Kumar1994] Tom Nurkkala and Vipin Kumar 1994 A parallel parsing algorithm for natural language ... compilation Natural Language Engineering, 6(1):1–18 [Manousopoulou et al.1997] A. G Manousopoulou, G Manis, P Tsanakas, and G Papakonstantinou 1997 Automatic generation of portable parallel natural ... Parallel approaches to context-free language parsing In Adriaens and Hahn (1994) [Ninomiya et al.2001] Takashi Ninomiya, Kentaro Torisawa, and Jun’ichi Tsujii 2001 An agentbased parallel HPSG parser...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 04:20

... prosthesis With these results, we conclude that an ambulating patient with an above knee amputation and a subcapital fracture should be operated on after appropriate planning and preparation with satisfactory ... lever arm, and the patient was treated nonoperatively Two studies[4,6] have shown that this an appropriate strategy for most fractures after an amputation, except displaced intertrochanteric and ... with a normal gait and no pain (Figure 3) On examination he has a full range of motion, without any pain No leg length difference was noted The x-ray shows a normal bipolar hemiarthroplasty (Figure...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... coordination of study, manuscript drafting and approval SC data acquisition, manuscript drafting and approval BJ coordination of study, patient recruitment, manuscript drafting and approval AKA ... coordination of study, manuscript drafting and approval VL study design, data acquisition, analysis, manuscript drafting and approval Competing interests CP is a consultant to Algeta ASA Received: ... disease that is predominantly sclerotic at baseline, as can occur in a number of cancers and is particularly common in prostate cancer As an alternative to morphological imaging methods there has previously...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 02:20

... respectively, 1.2 and 99.2 cd/m2 , and an overall gamma of 2.3 Luminance measurements were made by using a Minolta LS-100 photometer (Minolta Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) The pixelvalue-to-luminance response ... content contained in local image patches and select the model parameters accordingly The utility of the patch-based structural masking approach was demonstrated via an application to image compression ... this nature are capable of representing quantized wavelet data in fine (per-bit-plane) layers [56, 57] If the coded data is truncated at any point during transmission, all the received information...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... N.-J Huang and Y.-P Fang, “Fixed points for multi-valued mixed increasing operators in ordered Banach spaces with applications to integral inclusions,” Journal for Analysis and Its Applications, ... 857–869, 2005 [10] Y.-P Fang and N.-J Huang, “Iterative algorithm for a system of variational inclusions involving H-accretive operators in Banach spaces,” Acta Mathematica Hungarica, vol 108, no 3, ... Nan-Jing Huang: Department of Mathematics, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610064, China Email address: nanjinghuang@hotmail.com Jen-Chih Yao: Department of Applied Mathematics, National...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... examine the association of early lactate clearance with the biomarker activity of inflammation, coagulation, and apoptosis and the subsequent relationship to organ failure and outcome in early ... culture status, and therapeutic interventions) among the lactate clearance quartiles Mortality outcomes were compared among the lactate clearance quartiles using Chi-square analysis, with Kaplan-Meier ... nuclear factor-B (NFB) and production of inflammatory cytokines The result is a production of pro-inflammatory cytokines that are balanced by an array of anti-inflammatory cytokines The coagulation...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:22

... operation (a and b) Giant retinal tear with shallow detached retina involving the macula in the right eye (c) Reattachment of retina after vitrectomy sis, but could not obtain these results as ... Perfluorodecaline may also have a role in the etiology of some changes, such as corneal oedema and deep corneal vascularization in the area of perfluorodecaline-endothelial contact It is known that corneal ... patient refused (4) After our attempt to remove the perfluorodecaline in the anterior chamber with a 27G needle failed, an anterior chamber wash was performed with balanced salt solution via...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 10:23

... of appetite, clinical findings of septal perforation and friable nasal mucosa as well as the radiological features of pulmonary infiltrates and cavitation suggested WG A serum cANCA titre was ... of WG involving the salivary glands [9] Disease of a major salivary gland almost always coincides with other head and neck or pulmonary signs and symptoms [10] Thus major salivary gland involvement ... York: The McGraw-Hill companies Inc; 2001:1937-1939 Saravanappa N, Bibas A, Singhal A, Davis JP: Unilateral parotid swelling as initial manifestation of Wegener's granulomatosis J Otolaryngol 2006:396-397...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 19:21

... human insulin (56 U/ml; normal value,

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... regulating the balance between oxygen demand and supply within an individual organ in an in vivo model of endothelial stripping in the dog hind limb [66] The hind limb vascular endothelium was ... shock In an experimental study in dogs, an ablated reactive hyperaemia was associated with endotoxaemia-induced impaired oxygen extraction at the level of the gastrointestinal tract [71] Nevière and ... Borchiellini A, Fijnvandraat K, ten Cate JW, Pajkrt D, van Deventer SJ, Pasterkamp G, Meijer-Huizinga F, Zwart-Huinink L, Voorberg J, van Mourik JA: Quantitative analysis of von Willebrand factor...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 19:22

... trials in an integrated database showed that increased time to treatment with drotrecogin alfa (activated) was associated with more organ dysfunction, greater need of mechanical ventilation, and ... time-to-treatment value of less than 0) APACHE, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; DrotAA, drotrecogin alfa (activated); INDEPTH, International Integrated Database for the Evaluation of Severe ... start of infusion (mean ± SD) APACHE, Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation; DrotAA, drotrecogin alfa (activated); INDEPTH, International Integrated Database for the Evaluation of Severe...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... JFD, JRR, and AFS have all participated in Eli Lilly and Company-sponsored clinical trials, and have all served as consultants for Eli Lilly and Company WLM, DRN, and DP are employees and stockholders ... coagulation analyzer using the STA®-Staclot® Protein S kit (Diagnostica Stago) The antithrombin III activity was quantitated using a chromogenic activity assay (Stachrome ATIII; Diagnostica Stago) ... protein C deficiency Materials and methods Patients The Recombinant Human Activated Protein C Worldwide Evaluation in Severe Sepsis (PROWESS) trial was conducted in accordance with ethical principles...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:24