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... affiliation and practice; migration history Social capital was assessed through the Short Social Capital Assessment Tool (SASCAT) The SASCAT is a shortened version of the Adapted Social Capital Assessment ... post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); b) phobic and anxiety disorders; c) depressive disorders; d) alcohol hazardous use and dependence All diagnostics were assessed through the version 2.1 of Composite ... frequency, and quantity; illicit psychoactive substances use was assessed through questions about use (more than five times) during the last 12 months (no/yes), drugs' names, and use during the last...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... companies that develop and sell drugs Fewer resources are available to support trials of CTs Governments, universities, independent institutions and professional associations must join resources to solve ... herbal-conventional-food-interactions and other adverse events Standards and regulatory processes that aim to improve safety and reducing risk Standards and regulatory processes are important to risk management strategies They ... possible future of CTs Besides the here listed strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats, there must be many others STRENGTHS are characteristics that give to the issue an advantage This...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 22:20

... companies that develop and sell drugs Fewer resources are available to support trials of CTs Governments, universities, independent institutions and professional associations must join resources to solve ... herbal-conventional-food-interactions and other adverse events Standards and regulatory processes that aim to improve safety and reducing risk Standards and regulatory processes are important to risk management strategies They ... possible future of CTs Besides the here listed strengths, opportunities, weaknesses and threats, there must be many others STRENGTHS are characteristics that give to the issue an advantage This...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 21:20

... these issues of fairness [8-11] The standard does not address these issues as it mainly deals with HP traffic, for which it allocates a major share of its resources This motivates us to propose ... throughput and delay expressions for the MAC along with MATLAB simulation results In Section 3, we present and discuss our proposed MAC scheme In Section 4, we present QualNet simulation results and ... system throughput is a dimensionless multivariable function S of N, M, p, and a, S = S( N, M, p, α) (1) where p is the probability of a successful frame transmission and a is a value between and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... protocol has the more modest goals of reducing costs, avoiding unnecessary testing and inappropriate therapies, and reducing antibiotic resistance and rates of misdiagnosis We have described a ... measures such as time to fever resolution, hospital admission rate, and mortality rate Conclusion Implementation of a rational, standardized protocol for the assessment of stable adult patients ... a controlled fashion in order to confirm these findings as well as to assess its safety Author s information TS is a Resident Physician in Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 00:20

... Initial assessments and outcome measures At baseline all participants will be assessed to ensure they satisfy the inclusion criteria Demographic and disease characteristic data such as age, gender, ... vessel signals 2- Confluent vessel signals in less that half of the synovium 3- Vessel signals in more than half of the area Interventions Usual care Participants randomised to usual care (standard ... lesions (synovitis/tenosynovitis/enthesitis/erosions) and functional deficits (antalgia/ asymmetry) may be detected and targeted with appropriate interventions such as ICIs, customised orthoses...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... consists of seven assessment modules and tracking forms, including an initial or admission assessment, annual assessment, quarterly assessments, assessments for major health-related events, as ... team responsible for recruitment and data collection This team is led by a site investigator (s) and includes a research manager, research associate, research assistant (s) , and in some cases graduate ... we are computing response rates and distributions (means, medians, standard deviations) for the knowledge translation measures and all of the constructs assessed in the TREC survey by provider...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... comprehensive case study Student Physicians not currently seeing residents Residents or Medical students Academic staff Clinical instructors whose primary role is supervising students Page of ... context is subject to analysis Our team has thought carefully and critically about these issues, and has designed our approach as follows Approach Case study research involves drawing on multiple sources ... governance and resources, such as budgetary issues including pay and incentives, access to training opportunities for frontline staff, the status of information and knowledge management systems in...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... comprehensive case study Student Physicians not currently seeing residents Residents or Medical students Academic staff Clinical instructors whose primary role is supervising students Page of ... context is subject to analysis Our team has thought carefully and critically about these issues, and has designed our approach as follows Approach Case study research involves drawing on multiple sources ... governance and resources, such as budgetary issues including pay and incentives, access to training opportunities for frontline staff, the status of information and knowledge management systems in...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... Foundation 's decision to invest in projects run by professional bodies or specialist societies reflected Leatherman and Sutherland 's findings that clinicians listen and learn best from their peers, and ... these bodies have a legitimacy and authority that commands clinicians' respect This decision recognised a potential role for these bodies notwithstanding Leatherman and Sutherland 's reservations ... findings and clinical feedback in reports, access to methodological and analytical expertise • proposed arrangements for ownership and disclosure of data and results • strength of proposed strategies...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... ratings measured "Strong consensus" is defined as 100% of participants being within one point of the median score, and "consensus" as 80% Consensus across partners is also analysed Analysis of reliability ... ative, useful and easy to use The toolkit will assess aspects of care that are important across countries with very different resources and at different stages of deinstitutionalisation and that ... arise in interviewing this service user group (secondary to their mental health problems) Having said this, assessors of institutions may, of course, wish to include interviews with service users...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 17:20

... namely, RTS and CTS control packets We have executed simulations with both the basic access and RTS/CTS schemes, however, we have also observed that the usefulness of the RTS/CTS exchange (especially ... node starts its transmission If during back-off the medium is sensed busy, the back-off counter is frozen during the ongoing transmission and decrements again as soon as the medium is sensed idle ... packet is not transmitted successfully after a maximum number of retransmissions, the packet is dropped Upon a successful transmission or when a packet has been dropped, the CW is reset to the static...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... RAU request message which contains the SSID and MAC address of the AP selected for the mobile node to the corresponding SGSN Step Once the SGSN receives the RAU request message, it responds to the ... 10 s 20 s 30 s 10 s 20 s 30 s 10 s 20 s 30 s 10 s 20 s 30 s 100 200 300 Mean off period (s) ton ton ton ton = 120 s; R = 40 Kbps = 360 s; R = 40 Kbps = 120 s; R = 50 Kbps = 360 s; R = 50 Kbps (a) ... original NS2 components [33], the UMTS terrestrial radio-access 10 EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking lu-ps 100 Mbps lub 40 Kbps BS RNC Uu 384 Kbps Traffic WWAN sessions Gn Gn...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... coefficients were calculated For both the t-tests and correlation coefficients, the level of significance was set at 0.05 All statistical tests were conducted using SPSS version 13 for Windows (SPSS Inc, ... participants' clinical and radiological measurements are shown in Figure and Statistical analysis To satisfy the assumption of independence with statistical analysis, only measurements from a single ... show scatter plots and associations between clinical and radiographic measures for each foot posture group Discussion The purpose of developing this screening protocol was to assist with the recruitment...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... large prospective study to suggest a long-term survival benefit associated with early and aggressive resuscitative care for sepsis Key messages • Early resuscitation of severe sepsis in the ED ... Definitions for sepsis and organ failure and guidelines for the use of innovative therapies in sepsis The ACCP/ SCCM Consensus Conference Committee American College of Chest Physicians/Society ... of severe sepsis in ICU-treated adults in Finland: the Finnsepsis study Intensive Care Med 2007, 33:435-443 Sarnak MJ, Jaber BL: Mortality caused by sepsis in patients with end-stage renal disease...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... depression will be assessed using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) [28] The HADS has 14-items, with items each for anxiety and depression Each item is scored from to 3, where a score ... patient and tumor characteristics will allow for the comparison of respondents, non-respondents and patients with unverifiable addresses, using t-tests for continuous variables and Chi-square analyses ... patients who receive the SCP will report less anxiety, less depression or psychosocial stress and better HRQoL However, there may be subgroups (dependent on patient characteristics, such as age,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 15:20

... required inspections and test of corrosion protection systems Records of repairs or upgrades to UST systems Site assessment results of closed USTs Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) ... assets that remain after deducting liabilities; such assets not include intangibles such as goodwill and rights to patents or royalties For purposes of this definition, “assets” means all existing ... standards which are applicable to TSDFs fall into two classes: general standards which apply to all TSDFs, and specific standards which apply to various types of facilities (e.g., container storage...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 23:20

... activities when contact of clothing and/ or exposed skin with blood, body fluids, secretions, or excretions is anticipated Aprons are sometimes used as PPE over scrubs, such as in hemodialysis centers ... also should not tear or damage easily Gloves are sometimes worn for several hours and need to stand up to the task Who uses the other glove options? Sterile surgical gloves are worn by surgeons ... contact This will be discussed later Masks should fully cover the nose and mouth and prevent fluid penetration Masks should fit snuggly over the nose and mouth For this reason, masks that have...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 13:20