beyond proof of concept

... value chains of NTFP’s Page 30 of 140 FINAL 06 August 2007 Forest-Backed Bonds Proof of Concept Study Forum for the Future & EnviroMarket 1.3.4 Fuelwood The collection of fuelwood is of huge importance ... quality of the buyers, and good contract structure/duration, provides an attractive target for use of structured commodity finance Page of 140 FINAL 06 August 2007 Forest-Backed Bonds Proof of Concept ... limit of 10% to 75% (FAO 2005) and a basal-area Page 15 of 140 FINAL 06 August 2007 Forest-Backed Bonds Proof of Concept Study Forum for the Future & EnviroMarket weighted mean vegetation height of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:20

... outcomes for the arm and hand post-stroke These concepts have led to the development of the Virtual Piano Trainer This paper will provide a proof of concept of whether such a system can train the upper ... lesioned cerebral hemisphere [2] Proof of concept testing methods We conducted a series of trials to establish the safety and viability of this system for the rehabilitation of hand and arm dysfunction ... amount of assistance from 36 to 38 degrees Proof of concept testing results As a group, the four subjects improved in both key press duration and accuracy Key press duration is a measure of the...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... et al Annals of Intensive Care 2011, 1:38 http://www.annalsofintensivecare.com/content/1/1/38 Page of 12 Number of patients with cTIB cutoff >= 0.80 Num patients 2 Days on STAR % of patients with ... doi:10.1186/2110-5820-1-38 Cite this article as: Evans et al.: Pilot proof of concept clinical trials of Stochastic Targeted (STAR) glycemic control Annals of Intensive Care 2011 1:38 Submit your manuscript to ... 0.0-6.0 U/h in increments of 0.5 U excluding 0.5 U/h +3U (dosing is per hour) reduce to U/h Nutrition 30-100% of ACCP/SCCM goal feed of 25 kcal/kg/h [40,41] in increments of 5%, using a low ± 20%...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... of human IL-1β, even when it is produced at high concentrations in vivo, and it does not significantly prolong IL-1 activity Results Proof- of- concept clinical trial in patients with RA A proof- of- concept ... counts (DAS28), evaluation of the pharmacokinetics of ACZ885 and examination of the potential immunogenicity of ACZ885 The initial dose escalation phase of the study consisted of four cohorts (Figure ... results of preclinical studies and a proof- ofconcept study in patients with RA, using a fully monoclonal antibody (ACZ885) directed against human IL-1β ACZ885 is expected to have the half-life of...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:23

... RW, Richman DD, Mellors JW, Coffin JM, Bosch RJ, Margolis DM: Depletion of latent HIV-1 infection in vivo: a proof- of- concept study Lancet 2005, 366:549-555 Page of (page number not for citation ... resting T-cells and decreased number of subjects with detectable residual plasma viremia However, it has to be emphasized that this was a small uncontrolled proof- of- concept study and the results need ... These events then contributed to the relatively long period of undetectable viral load after ART interruption The present proof- of- concept study was conducted to explore this hypothesis Materials...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:21

... implementation of SDM in clinical practice using a theory-based dyadic perspective will be In line with four of the eleven priority research themes of the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research of ... was proposed, most of the studies that had been conducted to improve our understanding of the implementation of SDM in clinical practice had no clear theoretical basis This is of some concern because ... adherence to medical advice, groups of patients and groups of health professionals have been studied separately as if living in separate worlds This is a source of concern because 'the right thing...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... implementation of SDM in clinical practice using a theory-based dyadic perspective will be In line with four of the eleven priority research themes of the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research of ... was proposed, most of the studies that had been conducted to improve our understanding of the implementation of SDM in clinical practice had no clear theoretical basis This is of some concern because ... adherence to medical advice, groups of patients and groups of health professionals have been studied separately as if living in separate worlds This is a source of concern because 'the right thing...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... Importance of cumulative exposure to elevated cholesterol and blood pressure in development of atherosclerotic coronary artery disease in systemic lupus erythematosus: a prospective proof- of- concept ... that the risk of future coronary events might be best quantified using strategies that take into account multiple measurements of risk factors over time In this prospective proof- of- concept cohort ... at the level of the heart Korotkoff phase V (disappearance) was recorded as DBP Calculation of ‘summary measures’ of TC, SBP and DBP For each of TC, SBP and DBP, an arithmetic mean of all available...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... requirement of the patient as the disease process evolves in response to treatment or as a result of healing The goal of this proof- of- concept study is to explore the feasibility of supplementing ... these clinical outcomes apart from fluid management (e.g choice of antibiotics and timeliness of surgery if required) For this proofof -concept study, we took a simple approach and focused on predicting ... noisy A point of contention is whether to include clinical outcomes (e.g resolution of acidosis, discontinuation of vasoactive agents, ICU length of stay or mortality) in the generation of the model...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... of the gas Thus, assuming complete uptake of H2S during ventilation of the ECML at a gas flow of l/min with 300 ppm H2S (at standard conditions for temperature and pressure), a total amount of ... Derwall et al.: Administration of hydrogen sulfide via extracorporeal membrane lung ventilation in sheep with partial cardiopulmonary bypass perfusion: a proof of concept study on metabolic and ... an infusion of 500 ml of 6% hetastarch (Hextend; Hospira, Lake Forest, IL, USA) and 500 ml of lactated Ringer’s solution (Baxter, Deerfield, IL, USA); thereafter, 16 ml∙kg-1∙h-1 of lactated Ringer’s...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... from thousands of genes could be a great challenge Here we performed a proof- of- concept study by selecting a handful of biomarker genes to develop a practical assay with the aid of RD computational ... expression of essentially all of the selected genes in the seven pathways while lindane up-regulated the expression of most of these genes Similarly, TCDD downregulated the expression of most of genes ... expression fold change of individual genes and the results are presented in Figure (see details in Table S3) for all of the 10 possible chemical/concentration pairs The ability of each of the 61 genes...

Ngày tải lên: 23/09/2015, 14:47

... established a key reduction in the proof of one of the global theorems In this paper, we shall complete the proof of the theorems We shall combine the global reduction of [II] with the expansions that ... With the proof of Local Theorem in hand, we will see that the expansions of Sections 2–5 reduce immediately to two pairs of simple identities The first pair leads directly to a proof of Global ... the relevant part of the proof of Lemma 6.3 of [A2] tells us that the spectral expansion of I M εM (f )α satisfies the global multiplier estimate But the spectral expansion of I M εM (f )α is...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 23:20

... and differentials leads to the proof of the Lov´sz conjecture for the case of even k as well a The results of this paper were announced in [1], where no complete proofs were given The reader is ... and all n 2.3 Completion of the sketch of the proof of the Lov´sz conjecture Cona sider one of the two maps ι : K2 → C2r+1 mapping the edge to the Z2 -invariant edge of C2r+1 Clearly, ι is Z2 ... t-tuples of d-symbols We let dim ∗ = d, dim ∞ = 0, and we set the dimension of a tuple of d-symbols as the sum of the dimensions of the constituting symbols 5.1 Cohomology groups of Z2 -quotients of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 08:21

... dictionaries 176 pendently of contexts Our primary target is not translation of given words, but the discovery and extension of a concept in a target language when the concept definition is given ... 177 we select a translation of a term co-appearing most frequently with some translation of a different term of the same concept We estimate how well translations of different terms are connected ... absence of exhaustive term lists makes recall estimation problematic In all cases we assess the quality of the discovered lists in terms of precision (P ) and length of retrieved lists (T ) For 19 of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 21:20

... from the structures of natural language, on the justification that a database comprises a set of sentences and the purpose of the conceptual darn model is to specify a grammar of the sentences allowed ... product of the two related object types On the line are two rectangular boxes bearing the name of the role each object plays in the relationship The concept of a role is similar to that of a case ... the architecture of the software outlined Finally, the relative place of syntactic, semantic and realworld knowledge in conceptual modellingwas discussed, and the adaptation of a database interface...

Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 01:20

... Beyond borders Biotechnology Industry Report 2013 Point of view Matters of evidence Matters of efficiency For the last three years, our Point of view articles have focused heavily on matters of ... significance of the “gap” between the views of VCs and BD executives Any gap we observed is based on a very small sample of interviews We may have had the good Point of view Matters of evidence ... unpersuasive — all the more so at a time of limited resources Point of view Matters of evidence Why, despite near-universal recognition of the importance of demonstrating value, are many biotech...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 21:47

... defined as the stock of all individuals engaged in improvement of health of population They include professionals (doctors, nurses, pharmacists, lab technicians etc), nonprofessionals (auxiliary ... overall work-load (in term of population coverage, and services offered and the degree of follow up required by the CHWs) (Ofosu-Amaah, 1983) In this process, the degree of voluntarism that prevails ... degree of trust and confidence of the community members that CHWs have gained over a period of time Table summarizes our version of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the concept...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 20:20

... contain thousands of types We use binary constraints between every pair of types, for a total of millions of constraints—and these are variables and constraints over a domain of sets, not integers ... total number of bits, we must find a choice of λ + of the bits already assigned to y, sharing at most λ bits with any of y’s other successors Those successors are in general sets of arbitrary ... intersection of the sets that formed the input So it seems natural to embed a partial order of types X, into a partial order (in fact, a lattice) of sets Y, , where Y is the power set of some set...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 00:20

... development of a significant set of canonical conceptual graphs Further conceptual work, besides study of complex plurals, will concern integration o f time to mental representations, as well as point of ... and the other REs in the MR.list -of- REs One of the simplest heuristics is: • (HI) [MRa can be the referent of REi] iff [RE1 being the first element of MRa.list-ofREs, REi and RE1 can be coreferent] ... structure gathering the properties of the object from the conceptual dictionary (concept lattice) of the system These properties reflect a priori knowledge about the conceptual categories the MR belongs...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... evaluations configurations of objects and so on new example The conlplex phenomena of to the notion of a set of reasoning the manipulation of to of of of In terms of SI-Nots this process can ... WIIAT TYPE OF CONCEPTUAL OPERATIONS ? The conceptual operations of NL we intend interpret are, for instance, Indlvldustions objects, evaluations of objects, evaluations properties of objects, ... these types of operations to a set of functions of a formal language each of which covers a well defined process which corresponds to a well defined set of operations on SI-Nets - to a set of KL-Magma...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 02:20