... for editing their journal; and fees from the National Institutes of Health for participating in peer review CMS holds a patent on the use of interleukin-2 to monitor cyclosporine activity; the patent ... guidelines for therapeutic interventions in this patient population Further prospective studies are needed to examine the utility of the Framingham and the modified Framingham scores topredict hard ... single breath-holding period starting at the aortic arch and proceeding tothe level of the diaphragm Tomographic imaging was electrocardiographically triggered at 60% of the interval between...
... to be predictive of the total amount of fluid given tothe patient on day two inthe ICU The coefficients of the variables inthe fitted model, their standard errors and the corresponding p values ... recorded The distribution of the total fluid intake during the second day inthe ICU, the outcome variable, was skewed towards the lower values (Figure 1) The values were therefore log transformed to ... a better tool in assisting clinicians in making decisions for individual patients in specific clinical scenarios Conclusion There are very few interventions performed inthe ICU, whether for...
... Abbreviations GBS, Guillain-Barré syndrome; MV, mechanical ventilation; NIMV, non-invasive mechanical ventilation Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Page of ... Early tracheotomy: the end of the controversy Reanimation 2011, 20:25-30 Hsu CL, Chen KY, Chang CH, Jerng JS, Yu CJ, Yang PC: Timing of tracheostomy as a determinant of weaning success in critically ... ventilation in Guillain-Barré syndrome Crit Care Med 2003, 31:278-283 Ambrosino N, Gabbrielli L: The difficult -to- wean patient Expert Rev Respir Med 2010, 4:685-692 Durbin CG: Tracheotomy: why,...
... implicit inthe preceding sentence or sentences can be indicated by the following inferential linking words Meaning / function Sentence Connectors Coordinators Subordinators Whether…or… To introduce ... containing linking words and the total number of sentences in 15 texts The table below shows the proportion of sentences containing linking words over the total number of sentences to answer the ... divided into two sub-categories: discoursal and temporal linking words a Discoursal words Discoursal words serve to shift attention to another topic, a new incident inthe story, a new point in the...
... and for obtaining the requiring score inthe writing and speaking section of the IELTS Linking words are crucial in writing and speaking in that they help readers / listeners recognize the relationships ... semantic categories of linking words occurrences in IELTS writing task 1, IELTS writing Task and IELTS speaking task with a view to clarifying the typical categories for each task - to suggest some implications ... Linking wordsThe next step is to number the sentences in each sample answer and then read through the answers to find the link between sentences and work out the employment of linking wordsin terms...
... Because of this, they recommend using the PO model (4) In Equation 4, x is the vector containing the independent variables, αj is the intercept parameter for the jth level and β is the vector of regression ... and the average number of letters inthewords was −0.68 This suggests that there is some independent information inthe length of thewords that can be used for prediction Having considered the ... the number of tokens in a text Deciding what is the best linguistic unit to consider The equations introduced above use 21 the “mean number of words per sentence”, we decided to also take into...
... Theposterior point ofof the spinal canal (a) is measured from The sagittal diameter of the spinal canal (a) is measured from the posterior point of the corresponding spinal laminar line The sagittal ... corresponding axial T2-weighted MRI image showing deformation of the C5/6 by the compression C, no deformation of the cord at C4/5 Figure the sagittal diameter the corresponding spinal laminar line Theposterior ... for developing postoperative palsy A developmentally narrowed spinal canal made cord compression more likely On the other hand, there may be inherent factors associating with the narrowing which...
... the start of the cluster, and between the end of the cluster and the end of the protein We then took the minimum of these divided by the length of the protein to be the position We computed the ... compared the frequency of matches tothe cy motif inthe clb5 specific proteins with the frequency inthe rest of the proteins above the cutoff (Figure 8b) Although the frequency of cy motifs inthe ... each type using the binomial distribution, and combined these P values by multiplying them together by assigning a P value to their product using the Q-fast algorithm [19] We note that the subregion...
... popular in Vietnam also Chu Van An high school is the leader in applying this method since years ago -According to Ministry of Vietnamese Education Student evaluation of teacher will be applied in ... + But scores also depend on inherent student qualities, such as I.Q., which are independent of teacher influence (Darling-Hammond and others, 1983) Situation Inthe world: -student evaluation ... nowadays -The study of educational researchers in America has found that there are about 20% of universities inthe world use this method to understand quality of teachers Situation In Vietnam:...
... feature indicating the number of indefinite NPs that can be uniquely resolved inthe Information State (#uniqueIndefinites, e.g “a tower” where there is only one tower inthe domain) We include these ... “there” will cause the system toask “Where is that?”) Finally, the task features (TASK) reflect conflicting instructions inthe domain The feature taskConflict indicates a conflict if the current dialogue ... active task inthe AT #taskConstraintConflict counts the number of conflicts that arise between the currently active tasks inthe AT and the hypothesis For example, if the UAV is already fly- ing somewhere...
... transcribed phones • The length of the utterance in number of words • The position of the word inthe utterance The main purpose of this study is to better predict which wordsin a string of text receive ... immediately preceding and following the target are good predictors for the value of the target We also experimented with the effects of the surrounding values by varying the window size of the observation-label ... described in Section When the window size is 1, only values of the word that is labelled are incorporated inthe model When the window size is 3, the values of the previous and the following words...
... observations (≥5 is the standard cut off in S-Plus) The problem of creating a useful tree is to find suitable guidelines to prune the tree The general principle of pruning is that the tree of best ... clinical model topredict active TB in patients admitted to hospitals can become an important tool for improving infection control in resource constrained countries with high disease burden The ... are increased due tothe need for installing and maintaining IR [15-17] IR are still scarce and infection control measures in health care facilities are at an early stage of development in most...
... Bilingual case prediction task: simulating case prediction in MT Incorporating a case prediction model into MT requires taking additional factors into consideration, compared tothe monolingual ... discussed in Section Table shows the features used inthe monolingual and bilingual models, along with the examples (the value of the feature for the phrase [saabisu wa] in Figure 3); in addition to these, ... markers had the largest gains in accuracy due to this information: the top three cases were kara (0.28 to 0.65, a 57% gain), dewa (0.44 to 0.65, a 32% gain) and to (0.64 to 0.85, a 24% gain), all...
... the test instance and a training instance stored in memory When calculating the differences, the features are ranked according to their importance inthe classification task According tothe results ... Fragment-class instances from the remaining (i.e., selected neither for the training nor for the test set) portion of the original 90% training set Throughout the learning experiments we worked with the ... The test set for the iterative deepening experiments consisted of about 11,000 instances taken from elsewhere inthe 90% training set Due tothe sparse distribution of the Fragment class in the...
... predictors of progression inthe absence of information regarding how long the patient has been inthe hospital, whereas the total scores appear to be better predictors inthe presence of this information ... on total or component SOFA, it can also match on whether the patient's health is improving, worsening, or staying the same by comparing whether the SOFA scores are declining, rising, or remaining ... by whether the SOFA score is rising, declining, or remaining stable; and the duration of illness, represented by categories of length of stay inthe hospital The use of these three matching criteria...
... unaltered by swings in intrathoracic pressure Therefore, the degree of respiratory variations in LV stroke volume could be used to reveal the susceptibility of the heart to changes in preload induced ... VE) patients The central box represents the values from the lower to upper quartile (25th to 75th percentile) The middle line represents the median A line extends from the minimum tothe maximum ... (18 to 20) Total PEEP, cm H2O (4 to 6) FiO2, % 63 (50 to 80) SaO2, % 98.5 (95 to 99) Norepinephrine, n; dose (μ/kg/min) 17; 0.52 (0.38 to 0.9) Dobutamine, n; dose (μg/kg/min) 4; 7.11 (4.89 to...
... for predicting ICU mortality according tothe Mackinnon and Mulligan’s weighted sum rule [32] The differences between AUC (C-index) were tested by Hanley-McNeil methods in order to examine whether ... hemoglobin levels had been included in APACHE-II score, they did not enter into the analysis) When all the observed baseline variables (Table 2) were included in a stepwise multiple logistic model in ... Introduction N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is the inactive polypeptide of the pre-prohormone brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) It is synthesized inthe cardiac myocytes in...
... The central boxes represent the values from the lower tothe upper quartile (25th to 75th percentile) The middle line represents the median ΔRESPPP, respiratory changes in pulse pressure topredict ... confirm the hypothesis according to which, owing to ARDS-induced decrease in lung compliance, a small Vt (
... data: - Finding documents inthe Internet and magazine Overview previous researches which have the same topic Surveying in 100 studentsin National Economics University Overview of the outline: 1) ... song newer, brings the song back tothe listener with the whole new style and the performance is completely like remaining the life for the song The cover music in Vietnam is the kind of music, ... exposure to all types of studentsin other university, NEU students are the perfect entity to take the research The study illustrates the effects of music cover and NEU students behaviors towards the...