... Essentials ofClinical Infectious Diseases Essentials ofClinical Infectious Diseases William F Wright, DO, MPH Assistant Professor Division of Infectious Diseases Department of Medicine University of ... University of Maryland School of Medicine Robert R Redfield, MD, Chair, Division of Infectious Diseases, Professor of Medicine and, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Maryland ... Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine Eric Cox, MD, Fellow, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine,...
... culture-positive cases of SA of the glenohumeral joint between 1986 and 2000, and 52% had a different primary site of infection identified, 70% of which were S aureuspositive and 17% of which were methicillin-resistant ... Semiquantitative profiling of mRNAs of MAPK family A human MAPK gene family multigene-12 RT-PCR profiling kit (Superarray Bioscience Corporation) was used for the qualitative assessment of extracellular ... demonstrates the detrimental role of TNF-α/LT-α as mediators of the inflammatory response in S aureus arthritis TNF-α is a potent inducer of several types of MMPs Page of 14 (page number not for citation...
... matter of semantic and syntactic function of English adjectives will be clearer and more well-provided than those presented in the graduation paper 1.2 Aims of the study In the frame of the graduation ... scope, methods and design of the study Chapter II introduces an overview of English adjectives with the definitions of adjectives and their semantic and syntactic functions of English adjectives ... 2.3.3 Adjectives function as head of a noun phrase Adjective can function as head of noun phrase and can be subject, of the sentence, object, complement or complement of a preposition As a result,...
... product of experiences of people living and working together, of mutual expectations and of sharing common values and commitment “Respect has something to with the acknowledgement of something of ... appropriate treatment of infertility; abortion as specified in paragraph 8.25, including prevention of abortion and the management of the consequences of abortion; treatment of reproductive tract ... for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action of the ICPD”, I July 1999, chapter IV, 52(g) 10 United Nations, Division of Women, “Preliminary Analysis of the Beijing+5 Outcome Document”,...
... grateful for the work of Professor Peter Checkland and Professor Susan Greenfield and the legion of neuroscientists who supported our work on the brain We are indebted to Professor Ram Charan, ... for your brainBrain scans of people doing simple arithmetic show activity not only in the left parietal lobe, but also in the visual, auditory and motor areas of the brain As a member of a criminal ... shift their brain activity from their rear brain parietal sensory cortex to the front brain lobes of their cerebral cortex Although it was true that the right-hand sides of their brains were...
... CALCULATIONS OF INDICATORS AND OF A COMPOSITE INDEX FOR THE NETHERLANDS Climate Change Depletion of the Ozone Layer Acidification of the Environment Eutrophication of the Environment Dispersion of Toxic ... Emissions of CO2 Acidification Eutrophication Toxification Energy Efficiency of NNP Use of Phosphates(P), Nitrates(N) Generation of hazardous waste/load % Coverage of Int'l Protocols/Conv Concentr of ... "state" of the environment, particularly declines attributable to human activities Examples include measures of stratospheric ozone concentrations, of urban air quality, or of stocks of fish...
... Viterbi alignment of each sentence, i.e., the alignment of highest probability, to extract tuples of the form Building a statistical translation memory The rest of the factors ... framework to often find translations of higher probability than those found using solely ¢ Figure 1: The noisy channel model For the work described in this paper we used a modified version of the statistical ... of French words into which e is going to be translated e Each English word e is then translated with probability t e into a French word , ranges from to the number of where words (fertility of...
... uses a different notion of bootstrapping from that of Hearst (1991) and Yarowski (1995) The bootstrapping portion of this approach consists of using a hand crafted table of abbreviations and their ... held-out data 2 Clinical Data The data that was used for this study consists of a corpus of ~10,000 clinical notes (medical dictations) extracted at random from a larger corpus of 171,000 notes ... small set of hand labeled data used to bootstrap a larger corpus of training data (Hearst 1991, Yarowski 1995) Regardless of the technique that is used for WSD, the most important part of the process...
... mechanical properties of paper The development of papermaking additives and the accumulation of practical experience of their use, combined with profound understanding of their action mechanisms, ... Number of pages 81 p + app 84 p Publisher Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Forest Products Technology Print distribution Helsinki University of Technology, Department of Forest ... Faculty of Chemistry and Materials Sciences Department Department of Forest Products Technology Field of research Forest Products Chemistry Opponent(s) Professor Robert Pelton Supervisor Professor...
... DMD Professor of Oral, Maxillo-Facial Surgery and Otolaryngology Department of Dentistry Division of Oral, Maxillo-Facial Surgery Mount Sinai School of Medicine Head, Division of Oral, MaxilloFacial ... MScD Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Fixed Prosthodontics University of Texas School of Dentistry Houston, Texas Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor Department of Restorative Dental Sciences ... Associate Clinical Professor Division of Restorative and Prosthodontic Sciences New York University College of Dentistry New York, New York Attending Staff Department of Surgery-Section of Oral...
... comprehensiveness of the cognitive strategies intervention, the eight-year duration of the study, the scale of the study in terms of numbers of teachers and students served, and the density of the treatment ... state-wide in terms of standardized test scores Based on the SAUSD’s state Academic Performance Index (API) scores, the University of California Office of the President has designated 40 of the SAUSD’s ... emphasis of the Pathway Project Throughout the eight years of the Pathway Project, Olson served as the principal investigator, the professional-development trainer, and the designer of many of the...
... denitions of OrBAC allow a ne grained specication of zones The hierarchy frameworks of extended Or-BAC [Cuppens et al., 2004] avoid the use of artices like open and closed groups a specialization of ... automatic generation of the target rewall rules from the formal specication of a network security policy The remainder of this paper is organized as follows Section states motivation of our work Section ... hierarchy of groups to derive automatically permissions They also make use of artices to avoid permission leakage Hence, they introduce notions of open group to authorize inheritance of permissions...
... pairs consisting of a constraint and a set of variable bindings At the beginning the set of variable bindings is empty In case of termination with an e m p t y constraint, the set of variable bindings ... use of context unification for treating underspecification and parallelism by some concrete examples The set of solutions of a context constraint represents the set of possible readings of a ... semantics of X~ is filled in The latter is a byproduct of the applications of rule (iii) to the two NPs 3.2 Ellipsis We now look into the interpretation of examples (1) to (4), which exhibit forms of...
... scan using an in-house software that performs segmentation of the bone and soft tissue for each CT slice, subsequently creating corresponding regions of interest The regions of interest are copied ... height of the virtual cylinder on which measurements were performed was of approximately 1.4 – 2.1 cm Precise calculation of the entire cylinder volume (VL) is provided by the CT component of the ... limb (green) Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2008, 3:36 The limb (and thus the)virtual cylinder is composed of soft tissue (mainly...
... for new systems CONCEPT OF A SYSTEM Systems can often be broken down into subsystems The subsystems also consist of a number of individual parts A system is a collection of components that function ... BLOCK DIAGRAM REPRESENTATION OF A SYSTEM The designer of a system often begins with a block diagram, in which major components are represented as blocks At the level of abstraction appropriate ... amplified version of the input: Po = GPi where G is the power gain of the amplifier That is, the input power is continuously amplified by the amplifier by a factor of G CHARACTERISTICS OF A DIGITAL ELECTRONIC...
... years of working with a sequential college system Few students regard the prospect of taking a precalculus course as inspiring In the eyes of many students it lacks the glamour and prestige of calculus ... developing the students’ notion of a function, increasing the students’ facility in working with different types of functions, facilitating the accumulation of a robust set of problem-solving skills, ... notion of relative rates of change Similarly, in extracting information about velocity from a graph of position versus time, or extracting information about relative position from a graph of velocity...
... from pushing out the boundaries of what is known Questioning leads to the expansion of knowledge; it is the heart of academic pursuit From one question springs a host of other questions Like a branching ... in the context of another discipline: biology, medicine, environmental science, physics, chemistry, economics, or one of the social sciences Therefore, the text offers quite a bit of mathematical ... concise summaries of the conclusions reached as a result of the investigations in it We, the author and your instructors, would like you to leave the course equipped with a toolbox of problem-solving...
... the pressure of a gas, an environmental scientist in the relationship between use of pesticides and mortality rate of songbirds, a physician in the relationship between the radius of a blood vessel ... Calibration of conical flask The concept of a function is important and versatile We can attach many different mental pictures and representations to it; our choice of representation will often depend ... variable is called the dependent variable.2 The domain of a function is the set of all acceptable inputs The range of a function is the set of all possible outputs Functions are typically given...