... University of Maryland School of Medicine Robert R Redfield, MD, Chair, Division of Infectious Diseases, Professor of Medicine and, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland School of ... Department of Epidemiology and Public Health and Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine John Vaz, MD, Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland ... Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine Ryan S Arnold, MD, Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine...
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... culture-positive cases of SA of the glenohumeral joint between 1986 and 2000, and 52% had a different primary site of infection identified, 70% of which were S aureuspositive and 17% of which were methicillin-resistant ... antibiotics Preparation of whole and fractionated bacterial culture supernatants and bacterial cell lysates To collect supernatants and bacterial cell pellets for experiments, bacterial strains (isogenic ... Blevins and colleagues [19] have also shown that mutation of Sar A and/ or Agr caused reduced capacity to induce both SA and osteomyelitis The exact mechanisms of reduced effectiveness of Sar/Agr...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23
A new approach to semantic and syntactic functions of English adjectives – A contrastive analysis with their Vietnamese equivalents
... He wore dirty, wet, old and worn shoes But, there are some fixed phrases of adjectives which are often linked by and : old and musty with, a long and winding road, hard and fast rules When the ... English and Vietnamese adjectives English and Vietnamese are two different languages and have their own features Moreover, because of different culture and communication habit, learners of English and ... and Vietnamese, generally, can function as predicative and attributive, they also can stand copular verbs, the adjective of type and type both in English and Vietnamese can function as head of...
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Partnering: A New Approach to Sexual and Reproductive Health doc
... three causes of death for men are accidents, homicides and cirrhosis of the liver.90 Finally, the existence of different rules for the home and the street, and the experience of harmful and humiliating ... abilities and behaviours in various situations; and they reflect and influence the different roles, health and social status, economic and political, of women and men in a society”32 The concept of ... nutrition and education; their suffering of violence; and laws that that keep land, money and other economic resources out of women’s hands (Greene 1999,36 Das Gupta, 1987,37 Leslie, Ciemins and Essama...
Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20
Strategic thinking: A nine step approach to strategy and leadership for managers and marketers
... grateful for the work of Professor Peter Checkland and Professor Susan Greenfield and the legion of neuroscientists who supported our work on the brain We are indebted to Professor Ram Charan, ... times of war In the shorter term, the US Dollar and the UK Pound will likely crash against the currencies of China, India and the Middle East, and maybe later against the currencies of Russia and ... ,lVa il Db lc to Richard S Fuld of Lelunan Brothers, Daniel Mudd of Fannie May, I'11"I1.1rU Syron of I' rcddic Mac and Fred Goodwin of the Royal Bank of Scotland, but IIII' r,li led to think...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:33
ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS: A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO MEASURING AND REPORTING ON ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY PERFORMANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT pot
... events and human activities; causes of change (both positive and negative); states of economic assets, natural and environmental resources, and social capital; measures of human well-being; and ... all years and includes estimates of the value of the net change in forest, and of the degradation of land, water, and unspecified "other" resources only for 1990 (25) The depreciation of subsoil ... change; depletion of the ozone layer; acidification of soils and lakes; eutrophication of water bodies; toxification of soils, water bodies, and ecosystems; and the accumulation of solid wastes...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 16:20
Research " AN ENGINEERING APPROACH TO LOGISTICS AND PRODUCT MARKET FLOW USING MODIFIED PROGESSIVE EVENT EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING " docx
Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Towards a Unified Approach to Memory- and Statistical-Based Machine Translation" pdf
... Christoph Tillmann, and Herman Ney 1999 Improved alignment models for statistical machine translation In Proceedings of the EMNLP and VLC, pages 20–28, University of Maryland, Maryland S Sato 1992 ... generates “aucun” and “ne”, and so on From this alignment we extracted the x s u eCdDs e Companies that specialize in producing highquality human translations of documentation and news rely often on translation ... Unable to judge 2.0% 1.5% Table 2: Accuracy of automatically constructed TMEMs words long This yielded a working FTMEM of 4.1 million and a PTMEM of 5.7 million phrase translation pairs aligned...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Semi-Supervised Maximum Entropy Based Approach to Acronym and Abbreviation Normalization in Medical Texts" doc
... different notion of bootstrapping from that of Hearst (1991) and Yarowski (1995) The bootstrapping portion of this approach consists of using a hand crafted table of abbreviations and their expansions ... modeling and present examples of training and testing data obtained from a medical sub-domain of rheumatology Finally, I will discuss the training and testing process and present the results of testing ... questions, sets of tests were conducted: Local Context Model and Set A Combo Model and Set A Local Context Model and Set B Combo Model and Set B 4.1 Results Table summarizes the results of training...
Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 08:20
INTERACTIONS OF POLYMERS WITH FIBRILLAR STRUCTURE OF CELLULOSE FIBRES: A NEW APPROACH TO BONDING AND STRENGTH IN PAPER docx
... interactions between strength additives and fibres and to understand the mechanisms of development of strength and the influence of the polymers applied This way of thinking emerged from the recent ... However, the fundamental understanding of paper as a material still lacks a consistent view of the underlying mechanisms of paper strength development and of the function of different strength additives ... heterogeneity of real paper stocks and the interdependence of adsorption, retention, and formation, the interactions of polymers with different pulp components are complicated and the true effect of an...
Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20
Esthetic Dentistry: A Clinical Approach to Techniques and Materials pdf
... DMD Professor of Oral, Maxillo-Facial Surgery and Otolaryngology Department of Dentistry Division of Oral, Maxillo-Facial Surgery Mount Sinai School of Medicine Head, Division of Oral, MaxilloFacial ... laboratory aspects of dental esthetics An additional thank you goes to Barry Mermelstein and Fred Gebert of Patterson, Inc., and Benco, Inc., and Cliff Marsh of J and B Dental Services and Supply for ... Department of Restorative Dentistry Medical College of Georgia School of Dentistry Augusta, Georgia Francis V Panno, BS, DDS, FACP, FICD, FACD Professor and Head Division of Restorative and Prosthodontic...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 22:20
A Cognitive Strategies Approach to Reading and Writing Instruction for English Language Learners in Secondary School pdf
... demographics and growing numbers of English language learners are placing increased demands on the resources of schools and the expertise of administrators and teachers in the SAUSD These demands are ... the STAR and CAHSEE rubrics, which include the following: quality and depth of the interpretation of text presented, clarity of thesis, organization of ideas, appropriateness and adequacy of textual ... comprehensiveness of the cognitive strategies intervention, the eight-year duration of the study, the scale of the study in terms of numbers of teachers and students served, and the density of the treatment...
Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 19:20
A FORMAL APPROACH TO SPECIFY AND DEPLOY A NETWORK SECURITY POLICY ppt
... that view and role denitions of OrBAC allow a ne grained specication of zones The hierarchy frameworks of extended Or-BAC [Cuppens et al., 2004] avoid the use of artices like open and closed ... and its equivalent set of rewall rules, say the code This lack of abstract concepts with a clear semantics prevent users in charge of administering the LAN security from properly specifying and ... policy and the network topology and makes use of the concept of roles to dene network capabilities In this approach there is some mixing between the net topology a particular concrete level and...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 22:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "A Uniform Approach to Underspecification and Parallelism" doc
... Hogger, and J.A Robinson, editors, Handbook of Logic in Artificial Intelligence and Logic Programming Oxford University Press On the other hand, their approach treats a large number of problems of ... literature), and Xcs and Xct to refer to the semantic values of the contrast pair The constraint set of the whole construction is the union of the constraint sets obtained by interpreting source and target ... solved form of the combined constraints (i.e (14) and (15) respectively) of the two sentences here, rather than to solved forms of (12) and (13) separately This reflects the dependency of the interpretation...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 21:20
báo cáo hóa học:" SPECT/CT-plethysmography – non-invasive quantitation of bone and soft tissue blood flow" ppt
... Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2008, 3:36 The limb (and thus the)virtual cylinder is composed of soft tissue (mainly muscles and skin) and "hard" tissue (bone and bone marrow) The soft ... "cylinder" and bone RUL-right upper limb, LUL-left upper limb, RLL-right lower limb, LLL-left lower limb VL and RL-entire "cylinder" volume and counts, respectively VS and RS, volume and counts of soft ... or soft tissue blood flows were measured between right and left limbs, both in the upper and the lower extremities Discussion Normal growth, remodeling and repair of bone require delivery of nutrients...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20
THE SYSTEMS APPROACH TO CONTROL AND INSTRUMENTATION pdf
... system and a subsystem, and how such systems function The means for characterizing the performance of any system will be explained so that the reader will understand some of the relative benefits and ... for new systems CONCEPT OF A SYSTEM Systems can often be broken down into subsystems The subsystems also consist of a number of individual parts A system is a collection of components that function ... similar in the sense that they consist of collections of electronic and electrical parts interconnected in such a way as to perform a specific function The components of an electronic system include...
Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 19:20
Calculus: An Integrated Approach to Functions and their Rates of Change, Preliminary Edition Part 116 pdf
... Law of Cooling (Newton), 326, 985–986, 1002–1004, 1025–1028 Law of Cosines explanation of, 658–659, 709 proof of, 660–661 use of, 661–662 Law of Sines explanation of, 659–660, 709 proof of, 664 ... Test for convergence of series, 1129–1131 explanation of, 965–968, 977 proof of, 968 use of, 968–969, 972 Integrands antiderivative of, 805–806 definition of, 783 explanation of, 729, 770 expressed ... explanation of, 903 infinite interval of integration and, 903–907 method of comparison and, 912–914 methods to approach, 908–912 unbounded and discontinuous integrands and, 907–908 use of, 903 Increasing...
Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 18:20
Calculus: An Integrated Approach to Functions and their Rates of Change, Preliminary Edition Part 1 pps
... structure of this text is intended to facilitate learning deductive and inductive reasoning, learning to use examples and counterexamples, and learning to understand the usefulness of a variety of perspectives ... an understanding of its conceptual underpinnings This text grew out of an integrated calculus and precalculus course Three general principles informed the creation of both the course and the text ... relationship between meaning and symbolic and graphic representations From the outset the study of functions and the study of calculus are intertwined For example, although the first set of exploratory problems...
Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 18:20
Calculus: An Integrated Approach to Functions and their Rates of Change, Preliminary Edition Part 2 ppsx
... Limits—Methods of Inquiry and a Definition 245 Left- and Right-Handed Limits; Sometimes the Approach Is Critical 7.3 7.4 N CHAPTER 226 A Streetwise Approach to Limits 265 Continuity and the Intermediate and ... summaries of the conclusions reached as a result of the investigations in it We, the author and your instructors, would like you to leave the course equipped with a toolbox of problem-solving skills and ... Basic Vocabulary and Notation 1.3 CHAPTER Functions Are Everywhere N 1.2 Representations of Functions 15 Characterizing Functions and Introducing Rates of Change 49 2.1 Features of a Function:...
Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 18:20
Calculus: An Integrated Approach to Functions and their Rates of Change, Preliminary Edition Part 3 ppsx
... temperature and the pressure of a gas, an environmental scientist in the relationship between use of pesticides and mortality rate of songbirds, a physician in the relationship between the radius of a ... to the input of the output of 16 We write Q(3) = 16 name of function input output We read this aloud as “Q of is 16.”5 You can think of the notation Q(3) = 16 using the mental model of a function ... received the input and spits out the output 16 To be anthropomorphic about it, think of the set of parentheses ( ) as a pair of hands cupped to receive the input The output spurts out of the equal...
Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2014, 18:20