comparison of technical considerations and patient selection

... Brucellacapt and Coombs tests in terms of sensitivity and specificity in the diagnosis and follow-up of brucellosis and it was concluded that the results were similar in the follow-up of patients ... samples from 82 patients diagnosed with brucellosis, 157 patients presumed to have brucellosis and 412 control patients, 82 patients were found to be positive with brucellacapt test and Coombs test ... Memish et al., which included 68 patients with brucellosis and 70 control group, sensitivity and specificity were found to be 45.5 % and 97.1 % for Ig M and 79 % and 100 % for Ig G respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:56

... investigation and choice of dialects are presented Part II provides an overview of the tones and intonation of the Vietnamese language This lays the basis for comparing aspects of Vietnamese ... Through a comparison of the intonation of Vietnamese with that of English, an EFL instructor can anticipate potential problems for Vietnamese learners of English while learning this aspect of pronunciation ... Yuen Ren, The Non-Uniqueness of phonemic solutions of phonetic systems, Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica 4/4, 363-397, 1942 [4] A Rygaloff, Grammaire élémentaire...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 12:20

... profession and acts on behalf of its members Some 80-90% of accountants are also members of the Institute (Wagenhofer, 1996) which is responsible for technical matters The period of training and ... sheet and profit and loss account; the valuation rules and notably the limited possibility to depart from the historical cost principle; the minimum content of the notes and the annual report; and ... European business, and the work of two bodies, the EU and IASC, pursuing this objective: Compare the rules of the government and the accounting profession in accounting regulation in each of the three...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 21:20

... similarities and differences This comparison reflects a previous analysis comprising a random sample of 193 words from a 50 million word corpus of 85,432 news articles (Church and Gale 1999) Church and ... the vocabulary size and the number of documents, the average number of terms per document has increased from 7.9, 12.2 and 32 in Sparck Jones (1972), to 20 and 32 in Salton and Buckley (1988), ... and term spaces We expect that all event spaces will conform to Zipf’s Law (3) Direct IDF, ISF, and ITF comparison The log2(N) and log2(ni) should allow a direct comparison between IDF, ISF and...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 04:20

... the sides and sculptures generally in the central area of the rooms There is an impression of class, symmetry and grandeur given by the Great Hall, viewing rooms and the architecture of the Met ... Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of New York are both masterpieces of architecture that communicate their form and function in contrasting styles The Met gives the viewer a sense of grandeur and ... up to the entrance is reminiscent of the Parthenon and gives the building a sense of grandeur (picture 15) This façade has three grand arches defined by pairs of Corinthian columns There is a...

Ngày tải lên: 21/03/2014, 22:00

... of Medicine Sleep Disorders and Research Center Henry Ford Hospital Detroit, Michigan Mark H Sanders, MD Retired Professor of Medicine University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine University of ... controversy of sleep xi xii PREFACE duration and diseases and the causes and consequences of excessive daytime sleepiness In Chapter Walker and Stickgold discuss the question of sleep and memory ... genetics of sleep and sleep disorders Morin and Benca replaced Spielman and Anderson for the insomnia chapter (26), shedding light on recent understanding about the role of non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 21:20

... involves the actions: Selection of a pair of words wo E V1 and vo E V2, and a head transducer 3,10 to start the entire derivation ' Selection of a pair of dependent words w I and v~ and transducer M ... words w and v and source and target dependency relations el and r2 ( w , w ' E V1; v,v' e V2.) Figure 1: Head transducer M converts the sequences of left and right relations (r~ r~) and ( r ... time, and space comparison Effectiveness Comparison English-Chinese ATIS Models Both the transfer and transducer systems were trained and evaluated on English-to-Mandarin Chinese translation of...

Ngày tải lên: 24/03/2014, 03:21

... 5.3  Study quality 15  5.4  Comparison of content of nutrients and other substances in crops 16  5.5  Comparison of content of nutrients and other substances in livestock products ... Examination of full texts resulted in the exclusion of 145 studies for a variety of reasons including absence of peer review, no relevant outcome measure and lack of direct comparison of organic ... 2000 2007 No direct comparison of organic vs conventional No direct comparison of organic vs conventional No direct comparison of organic vs conventional No direct comparison of organic vs conventional...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:20

... leaflet of the membrane, the differences observed Comparison of open and closed models of human P-gp above also suggest differences in their role for the function of protein and ligand binding TM4 and ... Pajeva et al Comparison of open and closed models of human P-gp A C B D Fig The interaction panel of the ligand QZ59-SSS in the X-ray structure of mouse P-gp (PDB ID code 3G61): (A) ligand 1, molecule ... (human Tyr307) Ligand (molecule A) and ligand (molecule B) were not fully resolved and the analyses of the ligand interactions thus involved only parts of the structures For ligand (Fig 5B), arene–arene...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 22:21

... CER describes the ratio of the sum of deleted, inserted, and substituted concepts w.r.t a Levenshtein-alignment for a given reference concept-string, and the total number of concepts in all reference ... the number of falsely translated sentences and the total number of sentences w.r.t the concept-level The concept-alignment error rate (C-AER), which is defined as the ratio of the sum of falsely ... Communication and Technology, pages 2205-2208, Aalborg, Denmark, September S Miller, R Bobrow, R Ingria, and R Schwartz 1994 Hidden understanding models of natural language In Proceedings of the Association...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 20:20

... http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/8/1/104 Page 11 of 15 Figure Evaluation of the interrelationship between the type and timing of the second stimulus and expansion of restimulated CD4 (A and B) and CD8 (C and D) T cells To ... cases, Li and Kurlander Journal of Translational Medicine 2010, 8:104 http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/8/1/104 Page of 15 Figure Comparison of the impact of anti-CD3/CD28 beads and soluble ... in medium Li and Kurlander Journal of Translational Medicine 2010, 8:104 http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/8/1/104 Page of 15 Figure Comparison of T cell phenotype 14 and 21 days after...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... effects of PT on quality of life Therefore, the purpose of this study was to compare the effects of ST and PT to one another and to a wait list control group with respect to changes in quality of ... Stewart and King's [16] conceptual framework of quality of life (QOL), we view QOL as consisting of both function and well-being Furthermore, well-being consists of both proximal outcomes of physical ... terms of age, BMI, education, and distribution of men and women at baseline In total, 15 participants were randomized to each of the three groups At the 12-wk assessment, 12 PT, 11 ST, and 13...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... available However, there is often a trade-off between scale reliability and ease of administration [11] One study using the NHP indicated that the psychometric performance and patient acceptability ... planned and designed the study, performed some of the statistical analysis, drafted the manuscript and coordinated the study PG participated in the planning and design of the study, interpretation of ... [27], who compared feasibility of health measurement response scales using four, five and seven categories and a visual analog scale The level of missing data was least and the responder preference...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... [11] Use of incorrect patterns may limit the ability of patients to achieve higher levels of movement ability, and may in some cases lead to repetitive use injuries Manual guidance of a patient' s ... with their dominant hand (19 right handed subjects and left handed subject) The protocol was approved by the University of California at Irvine Institutional Review Board, and was in compliance ... is the center of the sphere, ρ is the radius, and Φ and θ are pitch and yaw angles We set θ and Φ to be linearly related to generate a curve on the sphere: Φ = c1·θ + c2 where c1 and c2 are constants...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... component of the tumor and spinal stabilization did not required On the other hand, posterior approaches were performed in 33.3% of patients with a Karnofsky score of 50–70 and in 43.8% of patients ... anterolateral and combined approaches were performed in 33.3% of patients (19/57)with Karnofsky scores of 80–100 and in 26.3% of patients (15/57) with modified Tokuhashi scores of 0–1 Posterior ... approach was performed in 22.8% of patients (13/57) with Karnofsky scores 80–100 and in 17.5% of patients (10/57) with modified Tokuhashi scores of 0–1 In these patients, posterior spinal cord...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2010, 5:23 http://www.josr-online.com/content/5/1/23 Page of 1 )Comparison of axial and torsional stiffness characteristics of TSF with half pins and transverse ... genesis and growth of tissues Part I The influence of stability of fixation and soft-tissue preservation Clin Orthop Relat Res 1989, 238:249-81 17 Hillard PJ, Harrison AJ, Atkins RM: The yielding of ... Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2010, 5:23 http://www.josr-online.com/content/5/1/23 Page of Half pins not need tensioning and with decreasing incidence of infection with surgical care and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... leg length and femoral offset restoration is the leading cause of patient dissatisfaction in hip replacement surgery and has profound implications on patient quality of life The aim of this study ... difference in leg length (19/20 patients) and ≤4.62mm difference in femoral offset (10/20 patients) Hip resurfacing had the highest percentage of patients meeting these standards and the lowest average ... away and releasing cobalt and chromium ions into the bloodstream of some patients This has been linked to pain, inflammation, bone and soft tissue damage [21] Currently these groups of patients...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 07:20

... temperature dependence of both μ and the fitted values of lj, and can be seen to be independent of the choice of contact metallization The obtained values are Figure Temperature dependence of the two-terminal ... Intrinsic properties of NiSi Journal of Alloys amd Compounds 1997, 262:235 doi:10.1186/1556-276X-6-538 Cite this article as: Polley et al.: Comparison of nickel silicide and aluminium ohmic contact ... Research Council in the form of an Australian Post-Doctoral Fellowship Authors’ contributions CMP fabricated and measured the samples and wrote the manuscript WRC and MYS assisted in experimental...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... regulation and usage between Canada and Vietnam This was definitely the case for tetracycline, ampicillin, and sulfa drug use in both countries, and ceftiofur and apramycin use in Canada, and enrofloxacin ... PCR for the presence of defining genes of ETEC and STEC pathotypes They were then virotyped by colony hybridisation (Ngeleka et al., 2002) for detection of the presence of 20 virulence genes ... 46:143-152 COMPARISON OF THE ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE OF PATHOGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI IN DISEASED PIGS IN VIETNAM AND QUEBEC, CANADA Thuy, N Do1; Darren J Trott2, Éric Nadeau3, Clarisse Desautels4, and...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... culture technical training, quality and rate of applying in the study area 11 Table 7: Type and area of land holding of farmers in the study region 12 Table 8: Land used in clam aquaculture and ... represented 3.3% of the total costs Cost of land area repair of tidal culture and pond culture groups was 2.9% and 5.1% or 2.3 and 2.9 million VND per ha, respectively Average costs of fencing and watch ... 14, average land taxes and fees for land rent were 2.9 million VND per ha, and ranged from 1.2 to million VND per and accounted for 3.7% of the total cost Land taxes or fees of tidal and pond culture...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20