... one site of ReadMostly A small number of web front-ends direct requests to the appropriate back-end storage servers Persistent state is stored on commodity PC-based storage servers and is accessed ... PC-based storage servers and is accessed via a custom protocol over UDP Each cluster is connected toits twin site via the Internet Appears in 4th Usenix Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems ... implementing failure mitigation techniques described in this section Appears in 4th Usenix Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS ‘03), 2003 mand issued separately to three of the six servers...
... economic and social status of women and lack of access toand use of essential obstetric services are strong determinants of maternal mortality (19) Low social status of women limits their access to ... actions to address those avoidable factors so as to prevent future maternal deaths This present study was to identify, and describe the events and circumstances surrounding maternal deaths that ... administer Through this the acceptability of the tool was assessed Rehearsals on interviews with health care providers was doneto assess how it would be like so as to prepare for surprises that may occur...
... practitioners say that IRS s standards are stricter than Congress intended andwhat has been allowed in recent court cases IRS disagrees and says its administrative practices are consistent with ... businesses and consumers throughout the economy Although most economists agree that research spending can generate social benefits, the effects of the research on other businesses and consumers ... contentious, with disputes between IRS and taxpayers over what qualifies as research expenses and how to document expenses Insufficient guidance has led to disputes over the definitions of internal use...
... has been well tried in clinical linguistics,36 these tasks canbe grouped into three broad types: those to with diagnosis and assessment; those to with description and analysis; and those to ... linguistic skills required – insofar as there are possible candidates available Not only must the work be ‘on a language, for its speakers and with its speakers’,52 it also needs tobe ‘by its speakers’ ... community to something about it, and that something canbedoneabout it; the local situation is given a general assessment, taking into account the sociopolitical or religious sensitivities tobe respected,...
... reputational thesis that is pursued in this book is that the benefits will (and possibly already do) accrue to Western Muslims just as much as they accrue to non-Muslims This is quite simply because the ... willingness to pay costs for generalized gains is itself a very real benefit to Muslims This willingness is itself voluntary, it is perceived from within tobe against the grain, and it has faced ... calculus as successful attacks increase; however, even this is subject toits own tipping point that reacts to greater intrusion and cost in sceptical terms if only because the benefits of higher costs...
... been transmitted between humans What determines whether new animal virus variants that can pass from animals to humans can also be transmitted from human to human? The primary factor is the sialic ... to an effector/cytotoxic state on reexposure to the virus The net consequence in mice is more rapid virus clearance and less severe disease Many practical and regulatory issues arise, however, ... batches of different viruses that go into the standard trivalent vaccine If the new ‘swine’ H1N1 virus continues to spread and evolve, and is as different as it seems tobefrom the long-circulating...
... distant from the heating source These ellipses are apparently distorted along the axis of sap flow The reason may be understood: The tree tissue has a heat storage capacity and increases its temperature ... dynamics of ellipses of isotherms can give access to sap flow monitoring, ways should be found to determine the parameters of these ellipses For long-term sap flow monitoring the challenge obviously ... thus two measured distances and two variables, a and b This means, the ellipse is thus fully determined as well as all other ellipses describing isothermal lines with different temperatures From...
... Cambridge, Eng land, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, to ask, Who gains and who loses? from an economic change or policy This is a question that is often missing from todays media discussion and policy ... which economists assess the feasibility of policy proposals, illustrated by whatcanbedone today in the UK For some of the proposals, it is not possible to carry out such calculations, but I have ... employers, consumers, and savers, as well as taxpayers Inequality is embedded in our social and econifi nomic structure, and a sig cant reduction requires us to examine all aspects of our society...
... reasonable basis In these cases, adjustment for all costs, including duties and taxes, incurred between importation and resale, and for profits accruing, shall be made so as to establish a reliable export ... appropriate amounts in each case, on a non-discriminatory basis on imports of such product from all sources found tobe dumped and causing injury, except imports from those sources from which price ... understanding to defend oneself from implicit risks Although dumping and anti-dumping suits are not something new to Vietnam as it was several years ago, and Vietnam has been moving on a very steep...
... Business decisions Business decisions are decisions of firms regarding prices, costs, and inputs, including for instance raw materials, cost of technology and labor, output, sales, and investment, ... decision shall be summarized in written form and sent to Member States The decision shall be discussed at the Advisory Committee Provisional duties shall be imposed in case the Commission defines that ... Commission services to revise their conclusions The claims were rejected 2.3.1.3 Assets and 'carry over' The production costs and financial situation of firms are not subject to significant distortions...
... buildings and other structures Recognizing the difficulties associated with assigning dollar values to benefits, EPA s guidelines state that cost-effectiveness analyses can assist decisionmakers in ... value to both agency decisionmakers and the Congress in assessing the benefits and costs of proposed regulations EPA s guidelines state that the goal of RIAs is to provide decisionmakers with ... recognizes that assigning reliable monetary values to some benefits may be difficult, if not impossible When benefits and costs cannot be described in monetary terms, the guidance recommends that RIAs...
... transmission in labour and delivery units and whether interventions described were likely to overcome problems and challenges relevant to health systems in low resource settings Websites were searched ... Unnecessary or wasteful components need tobe weeded out [21,50,51] Measurement challenges remain and ways to standardise metrics across different settings, case mixes or facilities will allow better ... how specific characteristics or contexts affect behaviour is inadequate - for example, it is unclear why physicians and nursing assistants have been found tobe poorer hand washers than nurses,...
... not to their homes To increase the collaboration between intensivists and GPs, the present study aimed at assessing the opinions of GPs about their relationships with intensivists Page of and ... of posttraumatic stress disorder in family members because GPs remain close to them after patient discharge and/ or death In this sense, GPs could also act as diagnostic screeners for this syndrome ... University Hospital, Nîmes, France Statistical analysis was performed by using SAS/STAT 8.1 software (SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA) Quantitative variables were expressed as means (± standard...
... oversight, monitoring, and reporting of programs to allow accountability between rights-holders and the state, as well as between the state and donors This is essential to assess whether responses on the ... November 1994 and June 1999, there were 500 registered cases of sexual harassment, 900 cases of sexual abuseand aggression against adult women, and 1,500 cases of sexual violence against girls between ... fulfillment of rights from all of the aid As a result, it must rely on NGOs to provide it with information about their activities in order to assess what progress has been made towards its recovery plan...
... brain protection during aortic arch surgery and in these challenging and time-consuming operations, as in our case, its use is essential An increased risk of spinal cord injury (SCI) after FET has ... are the necessity to identify true and false lumens andto know if there are visceral vessels arising from the false lumen Visceral ischaemia after the complete sealing of the false lumen could ... the abdominal arteries arise from the false lumen itself and no re-entry is present in the distal aorta This is a rare possibility because there is always re-entry in the descending, abdominal...
... death, to cause discomfort, to increase emotional distress andto consume enormous resources Despite the ardent desire to sustain life, medical professionals can withstand the temptation to intervene ... Choices of seriously ill patients about cardiopulmonary resuscitation: correlates and outcomes SUPPORT Investigators Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments ... arrests should be witnessed, and therefore survival rates should be higher [15] As a result it canbe argued that these arrests differ greatly from the typical unwitnessed arrest, and therefore so...
... death, to cause discomfort, to increase emotional distress andto consume enormous resources Despite the ardent desire to sustain life, medical professionals can withstand the temptation to intervene ... Choices of seriously ill patients about cardiopulmonary resuscitation: correlates and outcomes SUPPORT Investigators Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments ... arrests should be witnessed, and therefore survival rates should be higher [15] As a result it canbe argued that these arrests differ greatly from the typical unwitnessed arrest, and therefore so...
... years = versus all else = 0), PATIENT CONTRIBUTION TO COSTS (yes = versus no = 0) and Q-SENSITIVITY (sensitivity analysis performed = versus not = 0) were significant predictors but explained just ... pattern of cost-effectiveness results across the 245 interventions was explored through a combination of descriptive and regression analyses Ordinary least squares regression was undertaken to identify ... Circulatory system Musculoskeletal Mental disease and disorders Alcohol and drug use Metabolic disease and endocrine Infection and parasites Figure diagnostic groups (A$) Distribution of cost per...
... 12 13 This analysis shows that the failure on the detection of the G1 strains could be due to the diversification of rotavirus strains in phylogenetic lineages, as it was showed by Santos et al ... characterization of serotype G2 human rotavirus strains from South Africa from 1984 to 1998 J Med Virol 2004, 72:320-327 Santos N, Hoshino Y: Global distribution of rotavirus serotypes/genotypes andits implication ... Knowlton DR, Gabbay YB, Linhares AC, Rappaport R, Woods PA, Glass RI, Gentsch JR: Divergence of VP7 genes of G1 rotaviruses isolated from infants vaccinated with reassortant rhesus rotaviruses Arch...
... assessed using regression models and a Pearson χ2 test The association between age and mean T2 was assessed using regression models and partial correlations adjusting for group, gender and BMI The primary ... both MRI and radiographic images of subjects scanned annually over years MR images that canbe used to assess joint morphology and cartilage T2 are available This database provides a means to longitudinally ... OA and healthy controls vs subjects[53] with symptomatic and radiographic OA), and assessed joint morphology in addition to cartilage T2 Thus, the current study is unique in assessing the spatial...