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... group, respectively Yet azacitidine led to prolonged overall survival inthe high-risk MDS patients CAG gained popularity in China and Japan inthe past decade because, based solely on small phase ... (range 4-40% according to age) [5] The ED rate was 10% for intensive chemotherapy group, and 34% for palliative group The data clearly supported chemotherapy for all age groups In a phase III randomized ... Several reports had duplicate or overlapping information Only the latest updated reports were included for meta-analysis For two studies by Qian’s group [19, 20], it was impossible to decipher whether...
... chemotherapy of homoharringtonine Probability of overall survival in elderly patientswith AML Probability of overall survival in elderly patientswith AML undergoing induction chemotherapy of ... time, ALT, AST, bilirubin, blood glucose, alkaline phosphatase, and creatinine levels were determined before each course of chemotherapy Electrocardiograms were performed on all patients before ... while the ED rate within the first month of induction therapy inpatients JW designed the research, supervised the research, analyzed the data, wrote and revised the paper SL analyzed the data...
... compared withthe control group, while OR > indicates an increase inmortalitywith surfactant therapy Areas of boxes are proportional to the respective study weight within the corresponding pooled ... P, Fumagalli R, Pelosi P, forthe Prone–Supine Study Group, et al. : Effect of prone positioning on the survival of patientswithacute respiratory failure N Engl J Med 2001, 345:568-573 Cordingley ... patientswith direct lung injury In a recent study of pediatric patientswithacute lung injury, treatment with surfactant significantly improved oxygenation and survival inthe subgroup of patients...
... failure and mortalityin critically ill patients [11] The aim of the present study was therefore to assess, in a cohort of severely burned pediatric patientswith inhalation injury, whether those ... in burn injury patientswith smoke inhala- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) tion Severe pulmonary dysfunction resulting from smoke inhalation therefore remains one of the leading ... immunomodulatory properties of IL-6 result in increased polymorphonuclear neutrophil (PMN)-mediated hyperinflammation, enhancing PMN cytotoxic potential and influencing host immunosuppression [11] The proinflammatory...
... emergency physician CCL activation forpatientswith suspected STEMI A variety of definitions of false positive cases were used to evaluate this appropriateness Methods Settings and patients This retrospective ... spontaneously before the development of myocardial cell necrosis Therefore, it is difficult to determine the appropriateness of emergency physician CCL activation with angiographic findings Patient ... physician forpatientswith suspected ST-segment elevation myocardialinfarction CCL: cardiac catheterization laboratory, EP: emergency physician, STEMI: ST-elevation myocardial infarction, PCI: percutaneous...
... the culprit coronary artery in infero posterior wall infarction As pointed out before, both vessels perfuse the inferior part of the left ventricle, but the RCA more specifically the medial part ... mortality from acutemyocardialinfarction Several factors play a role inthe amount of myocardial tissue that can be salvaged by reperfusion therapy, such as the time interval between onset of ... elevation with positive T wave in lead Distal RCA Iso electric ST with positive T wave in lead Posterior wall involvement? ST depression in precordial leads THE ECG INACUTEMYOCARDIAL INFARCTION...
... per cent of issued capital in 77 per cent of the companies, and more than 25 per cent of issued capital in 88 per cent of the companies 15 Ninety-one firms inthe sample have ADRs trading inthe ... compile the transparency index, the remaining questions constituting the non-transparency index We then examine the impact of corporate disclosure and transparency on market valuation Accounting ... Connelly, P Limpaphayom and L Zhou to consider incremental increases in CGI and the change in market value of the firm Notes For example, for almost one-third of the 168 companies in our sample, the...
... monitoring expenditures by the principal, bonding expenditures by the agent, and loss in welfare experienced by the principal due to the agent not acting inthe principal’s best interest Auditing ... accruals They interpret their findings as being inconsistent with mandatory auditor rotation improving financial reporting The forced change for AA clients has the potential to be incrementally informative ... trade-off analysis by examining whether AA’s collapse led to a change inthe financial reporting quality of sample companies Using our forced change setting, we investigate whether the performance-matched...
... Endnotes We define financial reporting quality as the extent to which reported income is measured in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Financial reporting quality is a function ... (negative) discretionary accruals over the pre-SOX period Because they only include ordinal tenure in their model, they interpret their results as consistent with audit quality improving with auditor ... relation inthe post-SOX period This latter finding is consistent with regulatory reforms and heightened scrutiny of financial reporting inthe post-SOX period resulting in less aggressive efforts...
... per cent of issued capital in 77 per cent of the companies, and more than 25 per cent of issued capital in 88 per cent of the companies 15 Ninety-one firms inthe sample have ADRs trading inthe ... compile the transparency index, the remaining questions constituting the non-transparency index We then examine the impact of corporate disclosure and transparency on market valuation Accounting ... Connelly, P Limpaphayom and L Zhou to consider incremental increases in CGI and the change in market value of the firm Notes For example, for almost one-third of the 168 companies in our sample, the...
... driving the returns of the good governance portfolios (at a 15% cut-off point these stocks accountfor about 35% of the return of the portfolio) These firms had poor performances inthe latter part ... achieved forthe value weighted portfolios Therefore, we not continue to evaluate the performance of the value weighted portfolios The addition of market returns does not affect the performance ... outperform poorly governed firms at the 5% level, with a monthly outperformance (α) of 0.86%, or 10.32% a year These findings are in line withthe findings of Gompers etal (2003) and Drobetz et...
... of proposals for implementing the ring fence between retail and investment banking, particularly in relation to economic links withthe rest of the group; a disappointingly weak report from the ... perspective of some sort is essential to grappling withthe capitalist present in its proliferating monetary and financial incarnations We hope, as such, that the chapters can serve as something ... responsible forthe imposition of austerity upon many polities since the beginning of the crisis, their energetic promotion of the paper and its austere implications definitely helped it along Inthe Greek...
... practical approach This paper brings these two problems together The generalisation gives a convenient formulation for illustrating the relationships between several methods of dealing with selected ... that the appropriate genetic groups were defined The alternative formulation of the MME derived by Quaas and Pollak [12] for a model with genetic groups was exploited in Graser etal [4] and in ... estimated between groups can be explained by the higher proportionate contribution of the group of females to the records made inthe second time period Forthe usual genetic group model, assuming that...
... spinal manipulative therapy J Manipulative Physiol Ther 2002, 25(8):504-10 28 Carstensen M: Internal forces by the vertebral artery during spinal manipulative therapy J Manipulative Physiol Ther ... this topic may provide the impetus for members of the chiropractic profession to recognize the importance of involvement in public health efforts in general There are a number of important points ... Piva SR, Whitman JM, Wainner RS, Greenman PE: Screening for vertebrobasilar insufficiency inpatientswith neck pain: manual therapy decision-making inthe presence of uncertainty J Orthop Sports...
... Chapter The Political Bubble of the Crisis of 2008 117 Part II: Pops Why Washington Delays in Solving Financial Crises Chapter Historical Lessons of the Responses to Pops 153 Chapter The Pop ... of U.S political institutions makes it difficult for policy makers to keep up with financial innovation and to reform the financial sector inthe bust.8 Groups and interests are the final ingredient ... are inhabited by fallible people The central goal of financial reform should not be efficiency but increasing the accountability of the financial system to the American public Pa r t I The Political...
... time, the market developed gradually through privatization and the initial public offerings (IPOs) of former state-owned companies The number of public companies with large market capitalization increased ... who splits the general index of TDI into several sub-indices and constructs the TDI using public information on 65 non-financial public Argentinean companies, reflecting their norms of transparency ... results forthe remaining potential dividend determinants are in line withthe corporate finance literature and expectations We find that larger companies by asset size and more profitable firms without...
... and calculation 3.2.1 Appraisal of the quality of financial reporting In this paper, we used items of earnings management to appraise the quality of accounting earnings information In empirical ... quality of financial reporting Hypothesis 1a The higher percentage of independent directors on board, the more reliable the company’s financial reporting The Guidelines for Introducing Independent ... Hypothesis 3b The board’s share ratio is significantly positively related to the quality of financial reporting The difference between capital market in China and developed capital markets in...
... elapsed since the date of their replacement” (EU, 2002) Inthe Congress and Senate political parties are categorised by parliamentary groups The Partido Popular (PP) forms the “Grupo Popular” (Popular ... the spirit of the ECOFIN recommendations[16] (proposed after the ECOFIN meeting in Oviedo, Spain, April 2002) and the on-going debate inthe USA after the Enron scandal: We share with other political ... regulatory policy in Spain highlights the political nature of audit regulatory processes in Spain and also casts additional light on the professional status of auditors in Spain Finally, the case allows...
... compromised independence, we need to isolate the total marginal impact of new financing For a given value of TENURE, the total marginal impact is the sum of the coefficient of FINANCE and the product ... misstated, including increased legal exposure and client frictions From the perspective of the auditing firm (the national office), the costs of legal exposure may be paramount The overall firm may prefer ... willingly turning a blind eye to clients’ questionable accounting tactics (leading to inflated asset values) The PCAOB also has gathered data through its inspection process, with inspection reports often...