... eighty-five adult patients were initiated on empirical antibiotic sepsis treatment and were included in our study One hundred and fifty-four of the patients fulfilled our definitions for infection ... aetiology, different severity and comorbidity A drawback of the study design was the risk of an imperfect gold standard bias Before inclusion of patients was begun, the criteria for infection and ... abilities to identify patients with bacteraemia, PCT performed best with an AUC of 0.79 (95% confidence interval: 0.730.88) (Figure 2) HMGB1 performed with an AUC of 0.62 (95% confidence interval:...
... a) Specifying different return c) specifying different types number of parameters b) Specifying different names for d) specifying different types the methods of parameters Which of the following ... Console.WriteLine("Init B"); } public static void F( ) { Console.WriteLine("B .F" ); } } a) Init A A .F Init B B .F b) Init A Init B A .F B .F c) d) A .F Init B Init A A .F A .F B .F Init B Init A 89 //.Inconsistent accessibility: ... store references to objects What would be the output of the following code fragment? int x=0,y=4,z=5; if(x
... d) The Reflection API other objects on the NET platform uses the System.Reflection namespace, with the Reflection class to identify the type of the Class being reflected, Which of the following ... output of above code will be: d) The output of above No of members : 11 code will be: No of fields: No of members : 12 No of fields: 194 Delegates help to call a method at runtime? b) False a) ... “myAssembly” from the files “file1.cs and file2.cs”? a) csc /out:myAssembly /target:library c) csc file1.cs file2.cs /out:myAssembly.dll /target:library file1.cs /target:library file2.cs d) csc...
... [0,1) */ /* Read the file ignore errors */ fs_read_file("filename", &file_data, file_size); /* Randomly change contents */ for (i = 0; i < file_size; i++) file_data[(int)(file_size*rand())]++; ... ignore errors */ fs_write_file("filename", file_data, file_size/2); /* Throw away working copy */ vm_deallocate(task_self(), file_data, file_size); Note that the fs_read_file call returns new ... number of new and different mechanisms for managing objects and resources UNIX has become a dumping ground for new features and facilities because key requirements for many of these new facilities...
... generalized address, formed as explained above for data references, is used to fetch a pair of 36- bit words which is interpreted as shown in Figure If the address mode field of the first word contains ... register coupled with an effective word number computed as before This mechanism is used for interna! reference b y a procedure to fetch constants or for transfer of control generalized address ... in this paper represents the efforts of many members of the MULTICS programming staff However, the authors wish to express particular appreciation of the work of F J Corbato and R M Graham in...
... Friend Declaration Syntax The syntax for declaring friend function is class class_name { public: friend Declaration_for_Friend_Function_1 friend Declaration_for_Friend_Function_2 … Member_Function_Declarations ... Using A Friend Function A friend function is declared as a friend in the class definition A friend function is defined as a nonmember function without using the "::" operator A friend function ... member function A friend function is an ordinary function A friend function has extraordinary access to data members of the class As a friend function, the more efficient version of equal is legal...
... 1960-1998 After that calculate correlation coefficient between differences of rice yields with differences of climate elements in growing period (see table 8, 9) Rice yield can find in following ... series of rice yield of winter – spring and summer crop season As well as calculate differences of rice yield and differences of climate element between this year with the year before from 1960-1998 ... the change of rainfall is not clear for every regions The effect of climate change and variability on agriculture are not similar in difference agro-ecological region of Vietnam For sustainable...
... has 51% males and 49% females, is that enough of a difference to be a confounding effect? What if it is 52% males, 48% females? 53% vs 47%? 55% vs 45%? Where is the cutoff where we should be concerned ... difference that could lead to potential confounding effects) However, two subgroups in a sample may have a moderate or even small difference on some factor, but if that factor has a major effect ... say that a 10% difference between groups is the cutoff for a potential confounding effect Thus, since 10% of 50 is 5%, we would be 25 Section 2: Bias concerned about a gender difference that is...
... finance and banking institutions in 1975, the number increased to 450 000 by 1995 The number of men grew only marginally from 425 000 to 480 000 over the same period In defence, the number of ... decades between 1975 and 1995 brought significant changes in the representation of women in Freedonia's work force, according to the graphs In 1975, for example, some 300 000 men and 250 000 women ... men declined from 225 000 to 200 000, while the number of women rose from 25 000 to over 100 000 Two sectors that retained stable employment numbers for both men and women were manufacturing, which...
... waiting for evacuation.” Facilitators of Transportation The evacuation of thousands of victims from Bam in two days was one of largest rescue operations ever performed in the history of Iran Ground ... http://www.sjtrem.com/content/19/1/30 for coordinating the rescue efforts and sufficient resource “The presence of medically trained volunteers helped the medical system to care for thousands of casualties on scene, ... protocols Unfortunately many casualties were left on the floor of the airplanes without proper fixation or a plan for medical care during the flight.” as mentioned by another interviewee Furthermore,...
... warehouse For analysis purposes, the value that deviated the furthest from the median of the reference range was taken Where there was no difference between the minimum and maximum value from the ... the first day of ICU admission (CLS reference range less than 100 μmol/L for adult females) A normal core body temperature was defined as 35.0 to 37.3°C [17] A normal serum concentration of potassium ... HTS and FK had full access to all the study data and assume responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the analysis References Maximum deviation serum sodium level from mortality...
... Sci 2002, 85:2223-2 236 LeBlanc SJ, Duffield TF, Leslie KE, Bateman KG, Keefe GP, Walton JS, Johnson WH: The effect of treatment of clinical endometritis on reproductive performance in dairy cows ... primarily followed their own definitions of different scoring values, such as excluding certain scores (see examples in table 1) They find the definitions incorrect If the veterinarian strictly follows ... http://www.actavetscand.com/content/51/1 /36 case definitions in field data and the use of different opinions on when to treat, also in cases where different observers might agree on the metritis score they use (case versus case - fixed...
... sleep laboratory staff for their contributions to the study 375 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Conflict of Interest The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists 18 References Peppard PE, ... tests were used for comparing medians of continuous variables among quartiles of arousal When statistically significant differences occurred, single posttest comparisons were performed by using ... Bonferroni correction for multiple comparisons Differences in prevalence were tested by the nonparametric 371 chi-square test p value of < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant for...
... cases of severe viral pneumonia affecting patients younger than the expected age of patients affected during a normal influenza season (11) The low mean age is different from seasonal influenza, ... picture in severe cases of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza is markedly different from the disease pattern seen during epidemics of seasonal influenza, in that many of those affected were previously ... were available for all patients Non-invasive mechanic ventilation was performed in 42 patients Fifteen of these patients were endotracheally intubated after a mean of 3.4 ± 1.7 days Fourteen patients...
... encapsulation efficiency During the process of preservation of liposomes, the encapsulation efficiency also decreased due to the release of water-soluble drugs Although the size of liposomes after freeze-drying ... RGD-LCL of different concentrations (0.3125 mg/mL, 0.625 mg/mL, 1.25 mg/mL, and 2.5 mg/mL), and RGD-M-LCL of different concentrations equivalent to these RGD-LCL concentrations After exposure for 48h, ... significant peak for the free RGD around 20 minutes (Figure 2), indicating successful coupling of the RGD to the surface of the liposomes Assay of particle sizes and morphological observation of RGD-M-LCL...
... activity was significantly increased and that may be responsible to curtail the supply of arginine for NO production in reperfusion Figure 1: Activity of NOS in different regions of rat brain in ... activities of NOS, AS, and AL in cerebellum suggests a higher flux of the citrulline-NO cycle in cerebellum The functional significance of such a high flux of citrulline-NO cycle in cerebellum needs further ... Figure 2: Activities of AS, AL and Arginase in different regions of rat brain in anoxia and reperfusion Statistical analysis was done by one-way ANOVA followed by post hoc analysis using Bonferroni’s...
... denaturation for followed by 45 cycles of 95°C/10 seconds, 57°C/30 seconds; with final extension of 72°C/2 We used non-HIV-1 infected genomic DNA for a negative control and DNA from three HIV-1 infected ... antiretroviral therapy for HIV-1 focuses on eradication of the virus from plasma In contrast to the cytotoxic effects of HIV-1 on lymphocytes, HIV-1-infection usually leads to chronic infection in M/MΦ ... contribution of monocyte infection and trafficking to viral persistence, and maintenance of the viral reservoir in HIV infection J Leukoc Biol 2003; 74: 635-641 Siliciano RF Scientific rationale for antiretroviral...
... leukemia EGF: epidermal growth factor FGF: fibroblast growth factor FGFR: fibroblast growth factor receptor GIST: gastrointestinal stromal tumor IGF: insulin like growth factor IGFR: insulin ... advantage of the minor difference in the kinase domain The minor difference leads to changes in hydrogen bonding and hydrophobic interactions resulting in differences of affinity [38] Of all the ... promising immunotoxin is the EGF fusion protein DAB389EGF, which is a fused EGF specific sequence and diphtheria toxin and have been found to be effective in EGFR over expressing breast tumor...
... Discussion……………………………………….………………19 IV.1 Students’ attitude towards literary texts……………………………….………………19 IV.2.The effects of short story and poem in teaching reading comprehension….………22 Chapter V Conclusion and Recommendation………………………………… ... V.3 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………….… 43 V.4 Limitations of the study…………………………………………………………….……43 V.5 Suggestions for further research………………………………………………….…… 44 ... evaluating the texts……………………………………………… ……30 V.2.2 Suggested techniques for integrating short stories and poems in the teaching of reading comprehension skills………………………………………………………… ……31 V.2.2.1 Reading...