... and face masks that can be manufactured The CDC and WHO are actively promulgating behavioral changes that can reduce the circulation of influenza [17] Further education and preparation of health ... care workers and first responders to deal with an influenza pandemic is critical Only a physician over 60 years of age was even in medical school when the last and mildest influenza pandemic took ... California, Texas andNew York Sporadic cases, also associated with travel to Mexico in large part, were found in several European countries as well The World Health Organization (WHO) began to declare...
... used to compute a combined state estimate and error covariance matrix for each target, andto predict, forward to the next scan, the collection of states for each target based on a fixed transition ... Finally, the parameter is defined as Δ O = (Φ; Π) (8) The assignment vector is treated as missing data and the observation vector as incomplete data, and these together form a complete data set ... validation gate of size 28 × 28, and so forth It is obvious that with such a large validation gate anda large number of targets, the data association problem is very crucial and needs an efficient...
... subjective and psychological well-being, meaning, flow and strengths and have developed a range of corresponding measures Based on the outstanding work of authors such as Alan Waterman, Corey ... work has been instrumental in understanding the factors that are associated with well-being For example, we now have considerable insight into the role of personality and sociodemographic factors ... journal but we feel the research climate and resources are now supportive of these types of challenges Well-being research has increased substantially over the past decade and the demand to disseminate...
... efficiency, and ECAPi is the ratio of equity capital to gross total assets The use of ECAPi as an inverse measure of leverage is standard in banking research in part because of the regulatory attention ... these additional banks are owner managed rather than professionally managed, and therefore not provide a good laboratory for testing the agency costs of the separation of ownership and management. 19 ... vector p; three fixed netputs z (off-balance-sheet activity, physical capital, financial equity capital); and an environmental variable STNPL (the ratio of total nonperforming loans to total loans...
... between all the authors of this manuscript The 'Ato G' approachto managing a MET call was subsequently developed to achieve these minimal standards Finally, the 'Ato G' approach was adapted to ... period Approachto the management of a MET call An approachto the management of a MET call was developed with the acronym 'Ato G' (Table in Additional file 1) The members of the MET are encouraged ... the management of MET calls and provides an educational framework for the management of acutely unwell ward patients Further evaluation and validation of the approach are required Key messages...
... patients has positive HBsAg anda low level of HBV load (i.e < x 105 copies/ml) Clinically, these patients have normal transaminases (i.e ALT and AST) and no symptoms related to HBV infection Histologically, ... years, ALT has been used as a standard surrogate for the activity of CHB Thus, ALT level in combination with HBV DNA level and histological activity has been used as a determinant for HBV treatment ... normal transaminases have historically not been considered as candidates for HBV treatment based on the assumption that these patients usually have a slow progression and evidence that these patients...
... SalazarGonzalez JF, Salazar MG, Kilby JM, Saag MS, Komarova NL, Nowak MA, Hahn BH, Kwong PD, Shaw GM: Antibody neutralization and escape by HIV-1 Nature 2003, 422(6929):307-312 Kimata JT Mozaffarian, ... intermediate and late variants also had no length variation, while others demonstrated extensive variation (up to 80% in one animal) Although animals infected with the late variants had more length variation ... intermediate, and late stages of infection, and these sequential variants were used to infect anew set of macaques [17] To evaluate the evolution of SIV variants upon transmission toanew host,...
... database but a 2.5D database, in a dat format similar to the one used by commercial RO software After calibration based on the approach detailed in Section 3.3, it was verified that it was suitable ... the 4th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP ’10), Barcelona, Spain, April 2010 [23] L Nagy, R Dady, andA Farkasvolgyi, “Algorithmic complexity of FDTD and ray tracing method ... rays from the transmitter Signal strength degenerates as the rays propagate and additional loss is added when rays reflect or diffract from walls; (ii) ray Tracing traces the rays backwards, that...
... Abreu, Eduarda Matos, Fernando Castro Poças, Rosa Rocha and Jorge Pinto Chapter Opportunistic Screening for Colorectal Cancer Xu An-gao Chapter Crohn’s Disease and Colorectal Cancer 29 Andrea ... MicroRNAs and Rectal Cancer 295 Miroslav Svoboda and Ilona Kocakova Chapter 17 Nonoperative Management of Distal Rectal Cancer After Chemoradiation: Experience with the “Watch & Wait” Protocol 317 Angelita ... “Multidisciplinary ApproachtoManagement encompasses this concept We have endeavored, with the help of an international group of contributors, to provide an up -to- date and authoritative account of the management...
... There are about 6,000 of land planted in plantains, and about 2,000 in bananas The annual potassium fertilizer requirement for plantains and bananas is estimated at about 500 kg/ha (Irizarry, et al., ... volantes son generadas anualmente por las plantas termoeléctricas de los Estados Unidos, de las cuales aproximadamente una tercera parte es utilizada en varios tipos de aplicaciones Las alternativas ... hundred and fifty tons of FBC fly ash was used to neutralize an acid lake and heavy and toxic metals concentrations all dropped, even though the ash was expected to leach toxic metals that would...
... Vietnam national University, Hanoi College of Foreign Languages Department of Postgraduate Studies A study oF An alternative approachto teaching essay writing to TOEFL learners (Nghiên ... learners (Nghiên cứu Đổi phơng pháp dạy viết Luận cho học viên chứng ToefL) By: Nguyen Thi Chung Mien Supervisor: Do Ba Quy, MA Hanoi, 2005 ...
... should take more care of this and created more exercises about coherence and unity within a paragraph or an essay Making outlines and drafts in class was necessary for both the teacher and the learners ... factors and activities affecting learners in writing a TOEFL essay (the teaching and learning method has been applied so far) Then, based on the data and findings from the questionnaire and the theory ... to write a good sentence, how to join good sentences into a good paragraph to how to connect paragraphs into a good essay, their last product Not all learners can write a good essay as soon as...
... have to some extent, a great affect on them They interact and play with each other and can give them advice immediately Moreover, they are at the same or around age so they can more easily to ... need to learn from other sources WRITING PAPER Name: Group A Paper: 02F6g Task: 02 AD Write: It’s said that parents are always the best teachers but we strongly disagree with the above statement ... parents are important teachers when children are small but they cannot be the best ones all the time There’s still a gap between children and parents in every family WRITING PAPER Name: Group A Paper:...
... shows that treating AA as a text classification problem is viable, but the feature types are all fairly shallow, and the approach doesn’t make efficient use of the training data as a separate classifier ... 133–142 ACM T.K Landauer and P.W Foltz 1998 An introduction to latent semantic analysis Discourse processes, pages 259–284 T.K Landauer, D Laham, and P.W Foltz 2003 Automated scoring and annotation ... increase, standardised and independent evaluation methods are important We make such a dataset of ESOL examination scripts available1 (see Section for more details), describe our novel approach to...
... the participant from Wallis and Futuna Islands at a late stage in the workshop planning, Papua New Guinea was granted the second participant (Luanah Yaman), and the Papua New Guinea National Fisheries ... has a strong capacity for implementation Fiji Fiji Cook Islands French Polynesia Kiribati Marshall Islands New Caledonia Palau Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Are there still areas ... Islands, and PROCFish/C covering Fiji, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tuvalu and Kiribati, and the French overseas countries and territories (OCTs) of New Caledonia,...
... converted a unique SspI site on the vector to an EcoRV site The mutagenesis oligonucleotides were 5¢-GTAACTGTAAGAGAACTGGTCAC-3¢ (Lys70 to Arg), 5¢-GTAACTGTAGCAGAACTGGTCA G-3¢ (Lys70 to Ala), and 5¢-GGTAACTGTATATGAA ... mutagenesis kit (Clontech, Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA) using the method of Deng and Nicloff [19], as directed by the manufacturer The selection oligonucleotide, 5¢-AAATGCTTCAATGATAT CGAAAAAGGAAG-3¢, ... sulfate was then added to the periplasmic extract to 75% saturation and stirred for 45 at °C before centrifugation at 15 000 g for 15 at °C The pellet was discarded, and the supernatant brought to...
... the new ratio that I am going to introduce I am making an attempt to help eliminating any kind of mistrust to the company due to reasons which are not related to the financial statements and have ... we make and that are made only because we want to create a better name and consequently to receive the benefits of that A good example is advertising In my opinion as long as we realize that a ... from a channel that hardly anyone knows and that is much weaker than NBC How is this going to sound to all these that on a daily base watch the actions that we take? Channel X reported operating...
... decades: Victoria Avetyan, Vyacheslav Kiyevskiy, Maya Yampolskaya, Valentina Mashkova, Galina Inyayeva, Elizaveta Vinogradova, Zhanna Bril, Boris Isayev, Alexander Shafir, and Oleg Karpilovskiy My ... visualization of trajectory location in the concentration space has great practical significance, as it allows the process designer to understand the main peculiarities of separation of each particular ... Equations of State and Their Mixing Rules T Michael Duncan and Jeffrey A Reimer, Chemical Engineering Design and Analysis: An Introduction John C Slattery, Advanced Transport Phenomena A Varma, M Morbidelli,...