... currently available for bedside assessment of alveolar recruitment Physiological meaning of alveolar recruitment Recruitment is a physiological process that refers to the reaeration of a previously gasless ... physiological principle of the multiple pressure–volume method initially proposed by Ranieri and colleagues seems to allow a reliable assessment of alveolar Mathematical model of the pressure–volume ... distribution of lung densities In fact, in this situation the probability of alveolar recruitment largely predominates the risk of overdistension In contrast, an uneven distribution of lung consolidations...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20
... history and context of five key areas of inquiry of this study: the place, product, people, politics, and programs (the 5P‟s); followed by a brief summary of previous allegations of human and labor ... Liberia: An Exploratory Assessment of Living and Working Conditions, with Special Attention to Forced Labor A Profile of Major Plantations in the Sector The production and processing of rubber is an ... presence or absence of forced labor conditions on the plantations was not a focus of the Verité study A brief summary of the nature of relations between the union and the workers is offered here, as...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 09:21
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Research Open Access Brief assessment of docx
... symptom focused assessment could lend support to the use of more targeted claims, such as "symptomatic relief" or "delay of onset of tumor-related symptoms." The use of brief assessment tools ... start in working toward a goal of more focused assessment of QOL domains [23] Most recently validated measures of cancer-specific QOL incorporate an assessment of certain prevalent symptoms, ... effectiveness from multidimensional assessment of QOL [22] The FDA Oncology Drug Advisory Committee subcommittee on Quality of Life has suggested that assessment of symptoms might represent a reasonable...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20
Assessment of neuropsychological function of attention in drop out students returning for diploma completion
... Exploring the etiology of socio- 18 behavioral traits of attentional problems would prove to be a more pragmatic approach 2.3 The Neuropsychology of Attention The neuropsychology of attention is a complex ... misuse of an ambiguous definition when discussing attention, and the shortcomings of an "easier" unitary conceptualization of attention and its disorders Given the over-diagnostic trend of ADHD ... concept of attention has been all over the place in psychology, especially depending on the context of the empirical question posed Initially, the idea of attention as a measurable variable was often...
Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 13:42
Báo cáo y học: " A retrospective quality assessment of pre-hospital emergency medical documentation in motor vehicle accidents in south-eastern Norway"
... in three out of four ambulance records and in nine out of ten air ambulance records Similarly, the Office of the Auditor General of Norway reviewed 14 EMCCs and found documentation of patient encounter ... terms of its usefulness for trauma research, we assessed the documentation rate of exact values and of RTS categories (0 - 4) of GCS score, RR, and SBP We found that a considerable fraction of ambulance ... precise documentation of physiologic data and more frequent documentation of repeated assessments Mechanistic descriptions of the motor vehicle accident were documented in 80 - 92% of ambulance records,...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 09:56
USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS APPROACH FOR ASSESSMENT OF THE STRENGTH OF UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY-GRI COOPERATION IN VIETNAM
... different group from others iii Table of Contents Chapter Title Page i Acknowledgement Abstract Table of Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Acronyms List of Appendix ii iii iv viii ix x ... aware of all are there Another type of decision is one in which people are unsure of the importance of their criteria In this case to sharpen their knowledge of the criteria a wide selection of ... dependence of the priority of elements on the priority and number of other elements The principle of comparative judgments is applied to construct pair-wise comparisons of the relative importance of...
Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2013, 10:29
ASSESSMENT OF LISTENING
... is the assessment of listening different from the assessment of reading?? How is it similar?? Micro-skills for Listening • • • • • • • • • • • discriminate among the distinctive sounds of English ... Speech types (dialogues, monologues) • Mode of listening: audio, video, reader • Varieties of English • Scripted or unscripted • Length of listening, number of exchanges in dialogues Paraphrase Recognition ... questions Don’t expect full comprehension Consider integrating skills in the types of questions: discrimination of phonemes, paraphrase recognition, short answers, cloze, dictation, information...
Ngày tải lên: 18/08/2013, 17:10
Assessment of Mercury Contamination in the Kahayan River, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
... contributes 19.4% to 29.1% of the annual revenue of Palangkaraya reported by Meguri, et al., 2006, however it is a major source of water pollution The primary pollution of the river associated with ... Kalimantan It has four tributaries, one of which is the Rungan (about 82 km of long) (Statistic of Gunung Mas Regency, 2005) The Kahayan drains through the city of Palangkaraya to the Java Sea It ... Health Minister of Indonesia, 2002) The highest of mercury concentrations at st 403 is related to the location of the sampling point, where is located close to high activity of gold mining Total...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38
Risk Assessment of Fenthion Oxide Derivatives in Aqueous Environment
... Consequently, human risk assessment for MPP must be done on the basis of the contributions of its oxides The stability of MPP oxon sulfone with CYP3A4 was examined next The concentration of MPP oxon sulfone ... 50 60 Incubation time (min) Fig - Formation of MPP metabolites by CYP3A4 up to an incubation time of 60 The molarity of MPP (10 M) at the beginning of the reaction was defined as 100% - 218 - ... for 10 Among the metabolites of MPP, we focused on the formation of oxon metabolites, which are known inhibitors of cholinesterase activity The conversion rates of MPP to MPP oxon, MPP oxon sulfoxide...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15
Ecological Assessment of Water Quality by Three-species Acute Toxicity Test and GC/MS Analysis - A Case Study of Agricultural Drains
... i DI: detection index of water sample DIi: detection index of compound i DVi: detected concentration value of compound i [mg/L] GVi: goal value of water quality control of compound i [mg/L] In ... inhabitation of aquatic organisms The results of the measurement and the calculation of DVi, DIi and DI are shown in Table Three chemicals, terbucarb (MBPMC), bromobutide and tolclofos-methyl, ... registration of the Agricultural Chemicals Regulation Law, and only a maximum concentration of 0.1 µg/L was detected Tolclofos-methyl was also detected at only a maximum concentration of 0.11 -...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15
Assessment of the Use of Hand Warmer for Nitrate Retardation in Porous Media
... compare the change of BTCs in the same flow condition of Reynolds number, the variation of first and second temporal moments as a function of the mixture ratio of - 358 - Journal of Water and Environment ... retardation of peak time with the increase of the amount of HWCs while there is a slight change of the peak concentration in Andisol (Fig (b)) except for the more pronounced tailing of the BTCs ... reservoir became negligible A volume of 80 cm3 of KNO3 solution was applied to the top of the column to produce a pulse input with an initial concentration of 300 g/m3 of NO3-N Prescribed solute source...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15
Life cycle assessment of 50 kWp grid connected solar photovoltaic (SPV) system in India
... review, Ministry of Power, Government of India, New Delhi, 2008, (www.cea.nic.in) [10] Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India, Annual Report (2005-06) [11] Ministry of New and Renewable ... as an Assistant Professor in Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Hamirpur, India His area of interest is solar air heater, life cycle assessment and heat ... amount of primary energy used is consumed by PV modules which are 53.8% The component wise distribution of primary energy of Bazak SPV plant is shown in Figure Table Component wise distribution of...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28
An assessment of the availability of household biogas resources in rural China
... Calculation of evaluation index weight We calculated the weighing of each index with Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method AHP arrays the factors into several levels in decreasing order in terms of ... terms of their subordinate relationship, establishes the relationship of the factors of different levels, compares the importance of the factors at the same level and then decides the order (see [7,8] ... temperature In rural China, the majority of biogas plants are constructed underground at a depth of m The most influential factor affecting both the quantity and duration of biogas production is ground...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28
Assessment of pretreatments and enzymatic hydrolysis of wheat straw as a sugar source for bioprocess industry
... for lack of toxicity of the resultant liquor, and seems to be a feasible way of utilizing lignin as a source of these chemicals The optimum pH for delignification is 11.5 and the loading of hydrogen ... lignin as renewable source of biochemicals could bring greater surpluses to the profits of a biorefinery The use of oxidative pretreatments that rely on degradation of this component would not ... Enzymatic saccharification of cellulose takes place at optimum temperature of 45-50ºC and pH of 5.0 Cellulase loading range of 10-15 FPU/g dry substrate and b-glucosidase loading of 10-15 IU/g substrate...
Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28
A TRANSLATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF THE VIETNAMESE VERSION OF US FINANCIAL & ACCOUNTING APPLICATION SOFTWARE
... editors/reviewers in general and software translation editors/reviewers in particular SCOPE OF STUDY The object of the study is Translation Quality Assessment of the US F&A application software conducted mainly ... technical texts This type of terms may appear in different components of the F&A application software This group of terms can be viewed easily from different modules of the software They have meanings ... study investigates translation quality assessment of the Vietnamese version of US Financial and Accounting application software translated by the pool of 20 translators coming from VNLocalize,...
Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:06
Assessment of source of air, water, and land pollution - Preface
Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 15:20
Tài liệu Environmental assessment of passenger docx
... and A Horvath of the end -of- life fate of vehicles [32], motor oil [33] and infrastructure [34] should also be factored into decisions Through the use of life-cycle environmental assessments, energy ... consider the effects of biofuels and other non-conventional energy inputs on life-cycle results LCAs of biofuels are starting to be developed and will provide the environmental assessments necessary ... about 3% and 28% of total automobile and bus emissions due mainly to truck transport of materials and parts The production of cement for concrete in stations and truck transport of supplies for...
Ngày tải lên: 12/12/2013, 22:15
A reliability assessment of the western canada grid
... this total sale of 1500 MW The generating capacities of Saskatchewan and Alberta systems were reduced by the amount of purchase from the Manitoba Hydro system A schematic diagram of the proposed ... VALVE GROUPS FIGURE6 A number of cases were studied in order to assess the impact of the grid on the LCC's of the three systems Approximate results for the LCC values of the Saskatchewan and Alberta ... allocating 10 units of Limestone generating station (each of 108 MW) and units of Conawapa station (each 127.4 MW) for a total installed Northern Manitoba system capacity of 1844.4 MW to meet...
Ngày tải lên: 03/01/2014, 19:36