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... way—through doing it That means flying through the thunderstorm; embracing turbulence, not avoiding it; taking risks; trusting (but also testing) your intuitions; doing the unexpected This is not ... are too many contingencies to take into account, too much uncertainty By definition, it can t be done “by the book.” This is due in part to the inevitable gap between theory and practice I believe ... preconceptions In Chapter Two, I describe how I acted against the current to make Intel Israel into a distinctive counterculture within Intel Corporation and how, paradoxically, our counterintuitive...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 21:03

... with that uncertainty Sometimes, individuals presume they can t be successful in multicultural situations because they’ve grown up in a very monocultural context or because they’re too “old.” That’s ... around the world This chapter will provide a brief introduction to the research underlying the cultural intelligence difference IN THE BEGINNING The driving question behind the cultural intelligence ... approach but then go off and code things differently The company pulled together their brightest and best IT talent, but far too little was getting accomplished, and the clock was ticking literally!...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 18:20

... sphyncterectomy In the present study, we evaluated the success intraoperative suturing of the bile duct statistically and find out that intra-cystic sutures cannot prevent the development of fistulas ... these patients The fistulas of three patients were stopped after the procedure In one patient fistula was continued The fistula was treated by fistuloenterostomy after weeks in this patient The ... duct cannot be noted in a patient with suspected occult CBC during surgery, cysts can be filled with saline, and air can be given through the cystic channel The other method is to inject methylene...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00

... Listing 9.47 The MustInherit keyword means that the CNumberString class cannot be instantiated directly Instead, the class must be inherited by another class for its members to be accessed Listing ... pointer to an object If the called function changes the pointer to a new object, the calling function will now point at the new object instead of the original object The point(er) here is in the ... PhoneDatatypes.vb: Declaration of the CNumberString Abstract Class Public MustInherit Class CNumberString Public MustInherit Class InvalidNumberStringException Inherits System.ApplicationException...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 06:17

... Hebb training was used to strengthen the following connections Input units were trained to activate unique semantic units Semantic units were trained to activate unique output units Twenty semantic ... identification task at the beginning of the trial To simulate the pretrial interval the network’s input was set to a mask of noise To simulate the presentation of a stimulus, input was set to a single ... overtraining, but did not change the fact that overtraining led to sustained processing ANALYTIC STRATEGY TRANSLATING NETWORK BE- Based on the network’s performance, the following analytic strategy...

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Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2014, 12:21

... settings or between the same setting in different countries might not be possible The US approach to prescribing in nursing homes will not necessarily work within other countries and indeed, other ... developed to assess the quality of laboratory monitoring of drug therapy.50 Drug interaction criteria will be examined in more detail in the second paper in this series Initiatives have attempted to ... long-acting benzodiazepine indicates that the benzodiazepine prescription is inappropriate.26–28 (Measure that includes an adverse outcome component—ie, fall) Implicit If patient admitted to hospital...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... need to look after their own interests and maintain the integrity of their family unit, whatever the cost Discussion Onward migration The main finding to emerge from interviews with migrant nurses ... start and start and start again, you know' (Clara, Philippines, 30 s) Frustration stemmed from the fact that there was still a nursing shortage in Ireland, but that the procedures that might ... permanent posts within the health system and that provided them with stability of employment, this was not matched in terms of the availability of a long-term, secure immigration status for migrant...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... QuantiFERON-TB Gold In- Tube Test and Tuberculin Skin Test for Identification of Latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in Healthcare Staff and Association Between Positive Test Results and Known ... TST conversion in HCW was about onefourth of the total tested subjects A history of tuberculosis exposure in the past year and working in either the inpatient or outpatient units were predictive ... reported An induration of 10 or more millimeters was considered a positive reaction If the TST was negative, the TST was repeated within the next three weeks to eliminate the boosting effect This...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... Available online http://arthritis-research.com/content/5/2/R106 preventing autoimmunity but also in controlling tumor immunity and transplantation tolerance [2,11] Proteoglycan-induced arthritis (PGIA) ... stimulation index (SI; a ratio of incorporated [3H]thymidine [counts per minute] in antigen-stimulated cultures relative to counts per minute in nonstimulated cultures) PG-specific interferon-γ, ... to PGIA It has been shown that CD28–B7 interaction is essential for the homeostasis of the CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells that control autoimmune diabetes [6] Consistent with that report, the expression...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:21

... considering another method in this group of patients seems necessary Although neoadjuvant chemotherapy and interval cytoreduction sounds to be good management but its indications have not yet determined ... critical point in order to define indications of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for advanced ovarian cancer is determination of uniform selection criteria that can consistently identify patients with ... levels and ascites in patients with optimal cytoreduction compared to those who underwent suboptimal debulking Table Clinical Data and Tumor Characteristic Study Characteristic Patients No % 27 65.9...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 03:21

... system The incorporated Dacron graft was pulled back, cut to a minimum and sutured to the transected distal arch with interrupted horizontal mattress 3-0 polypropylene sutures with external Teflon ... correct opening of the stent-graft was controlled with TEE The patient stayed in the intensive care unit for days He was extubated 18 h after the operation and remained haemodynamically stable ... right axillary artery through an interposed mm Dacron graft and with a venous single two-stage cannula introduced into the right atrium The arterial line of Kokotsakis et al Journal of Cardiothoracic...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... patients in Foxp3+ cells This indicates that the Treg population was not diminished in IBD patients, a finding in direct contrast to Clarke et al We are currently investigating this further to examine ... believed to be the primary priming site for the antitumour immune response, however data exists to indicate that there is often more than one sentinel node and it’s spatial relationship to the tumour ... expected that the regulatory T cell infiltration into the tumour would be negatively associated with patient outcome; however, regulatory (FoxP3+) T cells have been shown to have a protective...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:21

... met the aims of the study Following the initial interview, the interview schedule was further refined (Additional file 1) Generation of data Each interview took place within the out-patient clinic ... shoes, the need to accommodate insoles to provide therapeutic benefit and overall comfort “ the problem with having these sort of inserts [orthoses] is that I can t get them into any other shoes other ... final year podiatry students who had participated in the same training in interview techniques More than one interviewer was involved in generating data This modified approach to IPA limited the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... manufacturers' instructions Testing of decontamination equipment takes place at the correct intervals Decontamination activities take place in a dirty to clean workflow The correct detergent is used for the ... split between dentists who were completely unmotivated to implement best decontamination practice or else highly motivated This result suggests that targeting TPB components would only be the best ... implementation of the guidance by dentists who were already motivated to so, yet were not translating their intention into their practice The results of the preliminary interviews suggested that it...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... balancerelated illness did not relate to fall incidence, but it did relate significantly to the test battery score (figure 4) This indicated the test battery did in fact reflect the physiological status ... number Figure Test scores from the nine tests in the test battery Test scores from the nine tests in the test battery Mean scores and standard deviations are presented in normalized units on a 0–10 ... operating curve A ROC curve is a plot of the true positive rate against the false positive rate for the different possible cutoff points of the test battery In this way the trade off between...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:20

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Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 14:21

... moderate level of agreement between observers, the use of the semiquantitative technique gives similar results to the quantitative technique Although the quantitative technique might appear to be the ... expiratory volume in second Quantitative score The quantitative scoring system was based on that previously used in adult studies that have assessed BWT in HRCTs from asthmatics [7] HRCT scans ... the CT score for that lobe alone was used in the analysis It may be proposed that quantitative methods are more accurate than semi-quantitative scoring However, we have demonstrated that with a...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 16:20

... lymphocytes mediate intrinsic AHR [38] However, Hadeiba et al later reported that transfer of CD4+ T cells that are not stimulated with antigen does not alter the intrinsic AHR [39] The latter finding ... OVA stimulation potentiates the intensity of transfer-mediated AHR In another experiment, OVA-sensitized spleen cells were stimulated with OVA in vitro and then transferred This treatment increased ... response, but not Th1 type Antigens that elicit Th2 type response, but not Th1 type response, induce transfer-mediated AHR (A) Antigens that elicit Th2 type response induce transfer-mediated AHR...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... respiratory tract cultures in such patients can be used to justify stopping antibiotic therapy 426 We believe that the take-home message of the study is that a negative qualitative culture from tracheal ... hospitalized patients in general, and even more so in patients requiring endotracheal intubation [6] It may be inappropriate to base a decision to begin or to continue antibiotic treatment for ... qualitative culture findings may lead to unnecessary antibiotic use, leading to higher costs and encouraging bacterial resistance To qualitative cultures is better than not to cultures, and if they...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20