comparisons with other methods for assessing lung inflammation

... below shows an example of a word with and without tatweel Tatweel is represented in Buckwalter transliteration with an underscore Without Tatweel Buckwalter ktAb With Tatweel k_tAb Arabic Table ... [23] While BAMA operates on the surface form of words, ALMOR adds another layer that deals with the lexeme and feature form, so BAMA entries are extended with two more keys, lexeme and feature ... going forward in one direction from one set of states to another, and another set of probabilities while going backward To refer to the forward-backward inference used by CRFs, refer to [27] With...

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... of the field (1000 m2); this was mainly for practical reasons (availability of labour and time saving) In both cases, counting was performed shortly before harvest Results in Table show a difference ... most suitable for artificially infesting stems in the field All the methods used (cane infestation in the field or in the laboratory by eggs or larvae of various ages) have shown that for the criteria ... No significant difference was observed for this criterion in an experiment comparing R570 and R579 Trials were conducted with 10 replicates of 20 plants with 30 mated females (Table 7) Table Oviposition...

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... patients for the protein content (8 patients with ALI/ARDS without thick secretions and patients with ACLE) and in 15 patients for PMN percentage determination (9 patients with ALI/ARDS without ... mini-BAL with s-Cath have not been performed We therefore designed a prospective study in two groups of patients with acute hypoxaemic respiratory failure, those with ALI/ARDS and those with ACLE, ... sampling with midazolam and/or propofol Ventilatory support in patients with ALI/ARDS was carried out in accordance with the ARDS Network criteria for a protective lung strategy [13] Patients with...

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... gathering information relevant to the problem and making deductions based on that information In some cases, that information is gathered from a system environment, while in others, the information ... information Even if this information is not strictly necessary for the problem-solving activity, it provides information about the user's plans and concerns and allows the system to select information ... plausible goal (for example, a likely diagnosis) supporting it with several justifications The system could use this information to decide which goal to pursue first and to fill in information which...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 20:20

... price For example, IBM might be trading near 150 Then J would stand for 150, L for 160, and so forth Or the $OEX Index might be trading near 650, so in that case J would stand for 650, L for 660, ... used for LEAPS options Thus, for IBM, the symbol VIB is used to designate IBM options expiring in the year 2003 with LIB for IBM options expiring in the year 2004 So, the IBM Jan 2003 LEAPS with ... are paying for quotes, there may be some differences on various quote systems regarding futures options For example, the “c” for call or “p” for put may be required to be placed before the strike...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2014, 15:58

... performance on real ATMs in persons with ABI, while the second compared the effects of using the VR-ATM program with those of using CAI when training persons with ABI to operate ATMs for cash withdrawals ... only interact with the environment displayed on the computer screen with or without interface or haptic devices [5] VR offers the chance for intensive repetition of meaningful tasks with augmented ... compared for each step Two behavioral checklists were developed based on activity analysis, a 14-item one for cash withdrawals and a 17-item one for money transfers, to assess the participants' performance...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... blending in with the inferior acromioclavicular ligaments, may exert an inferior restraining force No distal clavicle end resection was performed The specimens were stored at -20 deg Before the ... the clavicle and sternum acted as one unit) The values for loads to failure, obtained for this study, were thus the least forces required for ACJ dislocation in the particular direction of interest ... augmentation were performed without removing the specimens from the testing apparatus [18,19] Thirdly, the methods used to measure failure load and failure displacement for each group were precise,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 01:20

... cost-sid.org/wiki/HolonWorkshop [11] R Guski, “Psychological methods for evaluating sound quality and assessing acoustic information,” Acta Acustica United with Acustica, vol 83, no 5, pp 765–774, 1997 [12] ... impressions for environmental sounds) [7] Each SD scale had Likert-type scale categories (1 to 7), and the participants selected a number from to for each scale for each onomatopoeic stimulus For example, ... According to Table 3, for the emotion factor, the factor scores for the real sound stimuli were closer to those for the major onomatopoeic representations than to those for the minor onomatopoeic...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... one of these methods yields the existence, whereas the other one does not Bicharacteristics First, for a given function z ∈ C([−τ ,a], R+ ), consider the bicharacteristic equations for problem ... (s) = for s ∈ [−τ ,0], and ᐆ= z∈C Consider the operator ᐀ : ᐆ→ᐆ given by the formula ᐀[z](t) = Rn u[z](t,x) dx for t ≥ 0, (2.15) where u = u[z] ∈ C (E,R+ ) is the solution of (2.2) and (2.3) with ... condition with a function L ∈ L1 ([0,a], R+ ) or with a positive Lipschitz constant L We also discuss another case which leads to global convergence results, that is, the monotone iterations with...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 11:20

... obtained with the SCM HRC method, for two BOC-modulation orders, are presented in Figure 13 The MEEs performances, for both the HRC and SCM HRC methods, are illustrated in Figure 14, for SinBOC(1, ... than the other SCM methods (as illustrated in Figure 15) The MEDLL technique is still outperformed by all the other methods In terms of MTLL (Figure 24, lower and plot and Figure 25), for both ... are out of phase (lower MEE) Comparisons of MEEs plots, for both NEML and SCM NEML methods, are shown in Figure 12, for two BOC-modulated signals A static channel with two paths of equal amplitudes...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... that for a patient with HCC and pulmonary metastases, surgical resection for lung metastases can be effective if the number of lung metastases is less than two Page of (page number not for citation ... computed tomography showing lung metastasis with Chest computed tomography showing lung metastasis with pleural seeding 80 months after hepatectomy The patient presented with mild hemoptysis 30 months ... in the right upper lobe of the lung without any sign of liver recurrence 52 months after hepatectomy A wedge resection of the right upper lobe of the lung was performed through a thoracotomy and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 21:22

... acceptable for type and type participants (alphas = 86/.90 for Overall, 81/.84 for Device, 86/.88 for Cartridge, 73/.79 for Dosing) Testretest reliability was not assessed for the device performance ... acceptable for type and type participants (.81/.77 for Diabetes Worries, 90/.85 for Perceptions of Insulin Therapy, 83/ 85 for Treatment Satisfaction, 73/.67 for Treatment Preference) For the three ... acceptable for the ITQ scales from the initial administration for type and type participants (alphas = 71/.68 for Diabetes Worries, 85/.84 for Perceptions of Insulin Therapy, 83/.81 for Treatment...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... patients were found with an HRCT abnormality of 10% of each lung field (a mean of 37.5 ± 7.9% involvement of total lung field) (Table 1) The most prominent ... ribavirin (1 g twice a day for 5–7 days), or intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG, g/kg body weight/day for days), pulse steroid therapy (methylprednisolone 500 mg twice a day for days and then prednisolone...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... drops further with distance, with only a few cases of known mRNA starts 1,000 bp away from a TSC For 37.7% of all TSCs there is no known mRNA start within 1,000 bp of the TSC, and for 27% there ... is within kb of the TSR For both known and novel TSRs the classification into high-CpG and low-CpG is ambiguous for about 8% of the TSRs However, whereas for known TSRs 56% are associated with ... 1 2 + + n m (6) with m' the normalized expression at hour and n' at zero hours, should be Gaussian distributed with standard deviation (Materials and methods) We tested this for the three biological...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 21:20

... The flow with a sink with initial regime (2.37) for Re = 100 and α = 30◦ 51 2.23 The flow with a sink with initial regime (2.37) for Re = 100 and α = 90◦ 52 2.24 The flow with a sink with initial ... 47 2.19 The flow with conditions (2.40) for Re = and α = 135◦ 47 2.20 The flow with a source with conditions (2.40) for Re = and α = 30◦ 49 2.21 The flow with a source for Re = 9.5 and ... 2.10 The flow with initial regime (2.38) for Re = and α = 115◦ 44 2.11 The flow with initial regime (2.38) for Re = and α = 135◦ 44 2.12 The flow with conditions (2.39) for Re = and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:05

... machines on each other should be incorporated in the model Therefore, the author formulates an analytical model for performance evaluation of multistage manufacturing systems with preventive maintenance, ... analysis for investigating the influence of production reliability and quality on system performance Based on the proposed models, methods for enhancing the quantitative and qualitative performance ... Chapter 3, multistage manufacturing systems with machine deterioration and preventive maintenance are investigated An analytical model is formulated for performance evaluation of such systems and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:16

... estimation method 128 5.4.3 Comparison with other measurement methods for facial fat change over time 5.5 Summary 129 131 viii CHAPTER VALIDATION OF LASER SCANNING FOR DETECTING FACIAL FAT CHANGES ... fat change over time 164 166 7.4.1 LS as methods for measurement of facial fat loss 166 7.4.2 Comparison between CSV and CPD 167 7.4.3 Comparison with other study results 168 7.4.4 7.5 Discussion ... defined and there is no established method for measuring these changes for use in clinical research The aim of this research was to evaluate methods for measuring facial and whole body fat changes,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:58

... [LLL00]: “Mather” ≈ “Mother” and “Mather” ≈ “Father”, but “Mother” ≈ “Father” does not hold 2.3.1.2 Accuracy-driven methods Instead of reducing the complexity of pair-wise comparisons, other duplicate ... needed to transform from one string to another [Lev66] For example, the edit distance between “Judice” and “Judy” is because edits - substitution and deletions are required for the transformation ... rise to context information lacking in the relational data model For instance, an XML document contains information about the relationships of entities to one another in the form of the hierarchy;...

Ngày tải lên: 14/09/2015, 10:54

... [27] We define the parameter-uniform or ε-uniform methods as methods generated numerical solutions that converge uniformly for all values of the parameter ε, instead of for a given single value of ... different and finite element methods are not parameter-uniform [57] So methods with new attributes are required Recently, some asymptotic and numerical methods were designed for the singularly perturbed ... equations Generally, analytical methods and numerical methods are used to solve a PDE Analytical methods are concerned with obtaining exact or approximate solutions or with establishing their qualitative...

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