... evaluation and creation of a valid, useful knowledge and evidence base for quality and safety This will require improved conceptions ofthe nature of quality and safety issues, an understanding ofthe ... providers and the broader health system [12] If health organizations are to improve the quality of care and enhance patient safety, it is essential that there is a more indepth understanding of how these ... DEW and JMN synthesized the results, analysed the findings, and drafted the manuscript All authors made critical revisions ofthe manuscript for intellectual content and approved the final version...
... product ofthe inside probability ofthe item and its prior probability Any item with a score less than 10 −5 times of that ofthe best item is pruned from the chart Whatisthe Minimal Subtree Set ... the effects of these restrictions for the test set these restrictions to test our model on all sentences ≤ 100 words from the WSJ test set This resulted in an LP of 89.7% and an LR of 89.7% These ... 11th Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco K Sima 'an, 1999 Learning Efficient Disambiguation PhD thesis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands K...
... domain name," the old man said "While the words don't make sense, they have a nice ring to them They roll off the tongue and flow with the blog." "I see And what about this one? This one is long, ... offers relevant to the blog topic." "I see And what about this one? This blog is completely plastered with ads I can't even find where the content is on this page Oh, here it isIs this bad monetization?" ... Up the Mountain They say that when the student is ready, the master will appear One day I felt ready, and I began the long climb to the top of Mount Blogmore Was the legend true? Did the old man...
... Augmented Managed Services (AMS) This is yet another approach businesses should use when assessing cloud value AMS isthe paradigm where a predefined level of demand is managed internally and the remainder ... services The apothegm is ‘Own the base and rent the peak’ Conclusion The customer’s overall cloud health starts with an assessment of value The assessment of value of cloud services can only include ... environments and in the Australian IT Services community Other titles by Ernie Zibert: Discover other titles by Ernie Zibert at Smashwords.com The Science of Sourcing Governance What s the difference...
... Outcomes’, The Review of Economics and Statistics 91(3), 478–489 Stowasser, Till, Florian Heiss, Daniel McFadden and Joachim Winter (2011), ”healthy, wealthy and wise?” revisited: An analysis ofthe ... whether the mother died early, whether the father died early and whether the mother and the father where present when the individual was aged 10 The extracted principal component increases if any ... RBFR089QQC-003-J31J10000060001 and the Austrian Science Funds ( The Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis ofthe Welfare State”) The SHARE data collection has been primarily funded by the European Commission...
... of microfinance (Bateman 2010) Synthesise what these studies tell us about: a The impact of microfinance on the incomes ofthe poor b The impact of microfinance on wider poverty/ wealth of ... to understand the impact of microfinances on the poor people they seek to serve, there isan urgent need to map out the literature assessing microfinance across SSA, and to synthesise the available ... review ofthe evidence ofthe impact of microfinance timely And in the latter half of 2010 the microfinance industry made news for negative reasons.7 By October of that year regulation ofthe microfinance...
... between aesthetic and moral value, the embodiment of cognition, the futility and absurdity of looking for the meaning of life, the thin line between sanity and insanity, and the importance and limitations ... safeguard the distance between the work of art and us? How would this change thesetof metaphors that still guide our understanding of artistic creation and reception? And then a question of unexpected ... neuroaesthetics This new branch of empirical aesthetics is often defined as the study ofthe neural processes underlying aesthetic experience In other words, the job of neuroaestheticians is to discover...
... Movement of Goods and Their Use – WhatIsthe Use of It? Laurence W Gormley Abstract Shortly before the disappearance ofthe European Community, the European Court of Justice (”ECJ”) handed down ... acceptance ofthe justification advanced by the Italian authorities.133 As so often happens when the ECJ takes a stand on principle, the price isthe acceptance ofthe measure in the instant case,134 ... On the other hand, the exceptional status of those measures which satisfy the Keck criteria is more and more anomalous Perhaps the truth is that the ECJ is not thinking in terms of grand theory,...
... that the NSES are more of a wish list ofwhat experts think should be taught rather than a setof standards based on the research ofwhat we know students can His second point referred to the ... takes time, and that the grabbing at features and the blending in ofthe new and the traditional may be on the road to a healthier Hegelian synthesis type of thing.” On the other hand, she added, ... S ? there really is no evidence that standards-based investment and standards-based practice is affecting the achievement gap between African American and/or Hispanic and European American students...
... statistic relates change over time to the standard deviation of baseline scores The standardised response mean compares change to the standard deviation of change The responsiveness statistic ... some ofthe studies and the low power to detect anything other than large differences in the mean changes Thus the small sample sizes can explain the lack of statistical significance Page of (page ... used the SF-36 (Table 1) Since the SF-6D is a continuous measure of effect we used meta-analytic methods to estimate the weighted grand mean ofthe MID and to test the hypothesis of homogeneity of...
... type and its tooling manufacturer, quantity of tools in use and the current levels of stock in the tool store, their current location(s), feeds and speeds utilised, together with any other relevant ... pay-back), isthe most advantageous way forward This strategy can create ‘bottlenecks’ and disrupt the harmonious flow of production at later stages within the manufacturing environment Another approach ... consistency of machined product and value-added activities are realised Often companies feel that to increase productivity – to offset the high capital investment in the plant and to amortise...
... in the success ofthe company and help recruit the right people for the company, human capital is guaranteed, saving time and recruitment costs 1 Recruitment and training Staff training is ... performance ofan individual in a large organization where the air is due to work or the work culture ofthe organization that brings Increase work efficiency Therefore the employee in the company can ... working Good organization • • A manager must be able to plan, direct, coordinate, and organize through out the day 1 Good organization Summary, organization isan important management quality...
... design and drafted the manuscript SS and RO were involved in study conception and manuscript revision SRD and PRE were involved in data acquisition and revised the manuscript AEW conceived the study ... beyond the measurements they perform The researcher is obliged to put the health ofthe participant above the study, so that any potential abnormality is fully investigated [5] The implications of ... in the eye, and claustrophobia), hemiparesis of either lower limb, or significant knee pain Each subject had an MRI scan performed on their dominant knee (defined as the lower limb they step off...
... role in the aetiology ofthe disease itself [44] Disease stage and phase of therapy In PSV, and especially in SVV, the therapeutic approach usually consists ofan induction of remission and a maintenance ... whereas in generalised and severe disease - that is, with threatened vital organ function or organ failure, respectively Cyc is used In SVV the induction ofthe remission period isthe most vulnerable ... Whereas age isthe most important risk factor for the development of HZ [66], autoimmune diseases and especially immunosuppressive therapy with Cyc and GCs further increases the probability of reactivation...
... interface and the linea alba, and the VAT was defined as the distance between the anterior wall ofthe aorta and the internal face ofthe recto-abdominal muscle perpendicular to the aorta When the ... insulin resistance (IR) [3] The pattern of adipose tissue distribution, i.e., visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue (SAAT), isan important predictive factor of metabolic ... measures of obesity (BMI and WC, [21]) A second point ofthe problem to stress is whether the weight control can slow down the progression of IR and the worsening of fat deposition in organs in these...
... trials, so what justification is there for the use of these approaches in lung transplantation? A body of evidence has been established that indicates that surfactant function after lung transplantation ... transplantation In the cases of graft failure, brain death and infection ofthe donor lung, reduced surfactant function is aggravated by preservation ofthe graft, ischaemia and reperfusion Therefore, ... Veldhuizen RAW, Menkis AH, McKenzie FN: Surfactant analysis and replacement therapy: a future tool ofthe lung transplant surgeon? Ann Thorac Surg 1991, 52: 1194-1200 Veldhuizen RA, Lee J, Sandler D, Hull...
... However, because of their low plasma and brain concentrations, it is unlikely that they contribute significantly to the anticonvulsant effects of VPA [10] Nevertheless, some of them may be involved ... membrane) Valproyl-CoA then crosses the outer mitochondrial membrane Under the effect ofthe palmityl carnitine transferase (PCT)1, valproylcarnitine is formed; this step is needed because the ... deficiency is rare and is caused by a genetic defect in membrane carnitine transporter in muscle and/or other organs Both the myopathic and systemic forms are inherited autosomal and recessive Transport...
... into the pulmonary microcirculation To test this hypothesis, several investigators have tied off the bronchial artery of sheep and then exposed the animals to smoke In these studies the hypothesis ... capillaries The activated neutrophils release reactive oxygen species and proteases that damage the parenchyma [15] The final proof of this hypothesis was to deplete the animals of their neutrophils and ... activated in the bronchial areas – their F-actin is activated and the cells are stiff and cannot deform These stiff cells are carried to the pulmonary microvasculature, where they are impaled by the narrow...
... pathogenesis and pathogen time-courses The number of components [7,36] that can be modeled is smaller than in discrete models because ofthe increase in the number of parameters The state ofthe variables ... This opinion isan outcome ofthe discussions at the workshop organized in June 2008 at the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics We want to thank all the speakers for their contributions; the ... acute infections The simulated dynamics are validated by nonhuman primate data consisting of necropsies of Mtb infected animals [22] In the absence of quantitative and mechanistic information,...