choosing the right ­oncologist and the value of a second opinion

... interpretation, and modification of the initial version of this study Author details Department of Differential Equation, Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics-Azerbaijan National Academy of Science, ... formula for eigenvalue distribution of L0 Suppose that the eigenvalues of A are gn ~ ana (n ® ∞, a >0, a >0) Then, by virtue of the spectral expansion of the self-adjoint operator A, we get the ... regularized trace of the considered problem will be studied It is clear that because of the appearance of an eigenvalue parameter in the boundary condition at the end point, the operator associated...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 02:20

... for the value of a life and LY saved are at the lower limit of published estimates [12,13] and that some of the marginal effect of incremental effectiveness may have been picked up by the age ... interpretation of results, and drafted the manuscript LS participated in the design of the study and suggested edits and revisions to the manuscript Both authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements ... 3201.0) Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia; 2005 ABS: Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Life Tables, Victoria 2002–2004 (Catalogue No 3302.2.55.001) Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia; 2005...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... have a profound impact on early therapy and intervention in these cases The role of early appropriate therapy has become important as inappropriate or delayed therapy leads to higher mortality [8-10] ... candidemia, studies have show that delayed therapy can lead to a higher mortality in hospitalized patients with late candidemia [11] Early identification of these patients therefore becomes paramount ... Molina FJ, BlascoNavalproto MA, López MJ, Charles PE, Martín E, Hernández-Viera MA: Usefulness of the ‘Candida score’ for discriminating between Candida colonization and invasive candidiasis...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... CTCTCCTGAGCACACTCACAGCTGTTAACGCTG ACATCA-3¢ and Back EGT 5¢-GATCTGATGTCAGCG TTAACAGCTGTGAGTGTGCTCAGGAGAGCGAG CCAACATAAGATGGTCATGGTGGCG-3¢ (In order to avoid homologous recombination between the two ... data), as the template and two specific primers For 6I 5¢-CGATGAATTC GTTAACGCTCATCACCATCACCATCACGGGAAA TTGGCCATGGGGT-3¢ containing a HpaI site and Back 6I 5¢-CGATGGTACCGTACTTGTTCATGCTTAGG-3¢ and ... hippocampus, and fetal tissues (brain, kidney, thymus, liver), and rather weakly in placenta, lung, aorta, amygdala, occipital and parietal lobe and salivary gland Almost no expression was observed...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 08:20

... or decrease the ffects of the tax rate increase on the quantity of labour supplied and he quantity of leisure demanded Estimates of the marginal cost of public funds: In Australia and other OECD ... cost of outflows and increases the benefits of inflows of funds as a result of a project The Value of Information Suppose that you have undertaken a social benefit-cost analysis and find that ... be argued that eventually all these taxes are borne by households We can consolidate all these taxes into a single tax which can be regarded as a tax on the labour supply of households When the...

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... Risk: The Next Great Financial Challenge, John Caouette, Edward Altman, and Paul Narayanan Managing Derivative Risks: The Use and Abuse of Leverage, Lilian Chew Measuring Market Risk with Value at ... share price relative to comparable companies and the market around the date of each acquisition In fact, when the team calculated the impact of these declines on the total value of EG, they realized ... rewritten and updated core chapters, adding more detail on practical issues that managers and analysts face We have updated most of the examples and empirical analysis We have also added six new chapters...

Ngày tải lên: 08/05/2014, 10:11

... reported cases of adenocarcinomas stained with CK20 and CK7 This review stated that metastatic colorectal, gastric and pancreatic adenocarcinomas have similar CK7 and CK20 staining ratios as their ... interpretation, drafting and wrote the final manuscript; SY and HH participated in pathological and immunohistochemical evaluation and interpretation All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... colorectal adenocarcinomas and adenocarcinomas arising elsewhere in the GI tract, particularly pancreatobiliary and gastric adenocarcinomas, although the sensitivityof CDX2 for colorectal cancer...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... Risk: The Next Great Financial Challenge, John Caouette, Edward Altman, and Paul Narayanan Managing Derivative Risks: The Use and Abuse of Leverage, Lilian Chew Measuring Market Risk with Value at ... share price relative to comparable companies and the market around the date of each acquisition In fact, when the team calculated the impact of these declines on the total value of EG, they realized ... rewritten and updated core chapters, adding more detail on practical issues that managers and analysts face We have updated most of the examples and empirical analysis We have also added six new chapters...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 22:20

... research at the then annual Herpesvirus meeting held at Cold Spring Harbor Later, in 1990, a patent for the use of the CMV IE promoter was filed by a competitor's group Many years passed, until approximately ... Dickersin K, Langenberg P: Full publication of results initially presented in abstracts: a meta-analysis JAMA 1994, 272:158-162 Kelly JA: Scientific meeting abstracts: significance, access, and trends ... confronted to recall accurately minute historical details critical to a legal contest, I wished fervently for the existence of an open access, easily searchable, repository of meeting abstracts Retrovirology...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 09:21

... group the median value was 5.9% and the median rank 84.15, while this was 1.8% with a median rank of 41.1 in the non-septic group, and the median value in the control group was 1.09% with a median ... related parts MMM participated in the laboratory results, writing the related parts and interpretation of the results All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors ... significant variation of the median values among the studied groups regarding the percentage of apoptotic lymphocytes: the median value for the sepsis group was 11.75%, the median value for the non-sepsis...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... brain and lie in the subarachnoid space They pierce the arachnoid mater and the meningeal layer of the dura and drain into the cranial venous sinuses Blood from both brain is drained by cerebral ... non-invasive technique for the diagnosis of CVT which is considered as a gold standard and can replace invasive conventional cerebral angiography and is used as a leading mean of diagnosis in case ... subacute onset was 35% and chronic onset was 21% In general, the onset characteristics of CVT are varied, but the majority of patients have cubacute onset and our study data was equivalent to the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/10/2014, 21:52

... individual option, determined by the characteristics or correlations of underlying assets, uncertainty types, and organizational constraints (Vassalo, Anand, and Folta, 2004; Anand, Oriani, and Vassola, ... example, in order to measure the value of multinational flexibility, Allen and Pantzalis (1996) and Thomas and Eden (2004) assessed the firm’s excess market value (EMV), the ratio of market value ... therefore a particularly appropriate measure for assessing real options value Since the market value of the firm depends on the growth potential of the firm, as well as the efficiency of management...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2014, 00:48

... cultural characteristics and functions of each building The thesis also discovered and added a number of buildings that have architectural values in and adjacent to the French quarter to the list of ... by the Cam River, Tam Bac River, Tam Bac Lake (Lap River) and the center garden strip The scope of research can expand to integrate the architectural heritage of that period but located in/adjacent ... the moral values of the community This is the loss of the country, and of the part of humanity In the French colonial period, Hai Phong is the third largest city of Vietnam after Hanoi and Saigon...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2015, 09:02

... dirty pages • Data manager floods the cache This is rather similar in nature to a data manager which fails to free data, but is easier to detect and prevent • Data manager changes data A malicious ... read, write) are defined The data manager is entirely responsible for the initial values of this data and the permanent storage of the data if necessary The Mach kernel makes no assumptions about ... for another thread in that task • Server tasks which cannot tolerate changing data, or which must ensure that all of the necessary data is available, may use a separate thread to copy that data...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 15:05

... non-parametric correlations A P value of less than 0.05 was regarded as significant Software package STATA 9.0 (USA) was used for the analysis Materials and Methods Results Hospital setting and antibiotic ... financial cost and resistance patterns of leading nosocomial pathogens (gram) and number of boxes were calculated from two databases, 1) Hospital pharmacy computer databases, and 2) International ... G, Markogiannakis A, Papaparaskevas J, Daikos GL, Stefanakos G, Zissis NP, Avlamis A Differences in the changes in resistance patterns to third- and fourth-generation cephalosporins and piperacillin/tazobactam...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:00

... software capable of analyzing univariate statistical analysis (ProteinChip Data Manager Software) Mass calibrations of all spectra were performed internally and peak intensities were normalized according ... correlated by FISH method Ki 67 was calculated by counting the areas where the nuclear staining was the highest Statistical Analysis Spectra data were transferred to a data processor and software ... response rather than malignancy Another study by Mathelin et al included a total of 89 patients Bc 1a and Bc1b defined by the authors corresponded to the Bc1 and Bc 3a and Bc3b corresponded to Bc3 of...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:15

... populations The data was tabulated and analyzed through qualitative analysis of the gathered data, which reveal the behaviors and decision making patterns in lower income populations towards ... behavioral and attitudinal aspects of individuals An in-depth analysis in each of the broad parameters revealed the following: Educational Facet Education plays a vital role in shaping up a personality ... initiatives can also encourage small and medium sized profitable business establishments in the rural and remote areas of Pakistan The phenomenon of micro finance is yet to attract the attention...

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Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 06:20

... copy of Professor Fumihiko Iida’s article, The Dawn of Meaning.”[1] I read it immediately and was amazed that a traditional academic journal at a major public university in Japan had published a ... world-shaking paradigms (views of the world, of the universe, of nature, of humanity and of the corporation) have at last started to make inroads in Japan On the one hand, I was speechless with admiration ... Now Japan is starting to search for real wealth and seeking to find the meaning of life and the meaning of work Professor Iida grapples head on with these problems as a scholar of management The...

Ngày tải lên: 24/12/2013, 13:15

... permanent magnets of the rotor : where L, and M, are the self-inductance and the mutualinductance of the stator coils Since we assume a constant airgap and no saturation, L, and M, are constant ara arb ... The airgap length is constant and large since the magnets are surface mounted and have the same permeability as air As a result, the armature reaction is negligible The magnetic circuit has an ... this paper a new transformation which preserves the same advantages as the Park transformation A Mathematical Model of the BDCM We suppose that the motor has the following typical features : - The...

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