... The results of this study are similar to those of the studies of Wenzel and colleagues [4] and Guyette and colleagues [5] and show higher rates of ROSC and survival at 24 hours in the group of ... with the final petCO2 value at admission to the hospital The initial MAP was the first measurement of MAP after ROSC, and the final MAP was recorded at admission to the hospital Measurements of ... demonstrate the correlation between mean arterial blood pressure (MAP) and survival as well as the neurological outcome after CPR [14,15] The aim of this prehospital study was to compare the values of...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20
... (approximately 200,000 inhabitants) The study was approved by the Ethics Board of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Slovenia (59/05/00), which granted a waiver of the need for informed consent ... acceptable specificity and PPV, and an AUROC of (Tables and 8) At 20 minutes of CPR, a cut-off point for PetCO2 values of 1.5 kPa (13.5 mmHg) yielded sensitivity and NPV of 100% in terms of predicting ... ROSC, restoration of spontaneous circulation; SD, standard deviation tion of the patient in the setting of nontraumatic normothermic cardiac arrest, and to optimize the reliability of PetCO2 in predicting...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22
Báo cáo y học: "Partial pressure of end-tidal carbon dioxide predicts successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the field" docx
... Sorkine M, Bertrand C, Duvaldestin P: Effect of epinephrine on end-tidal carbon dioxide during prehospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation Am J Emerg Med 1994, 12:267-270 Page of (page number not...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23
a thesis submitted to the faculty of graduate studies and research in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy in agriculture and resource economics
... much of the literature and is the focus of this thesis Therefore, we focus on the Haab and Hicks and IAL approach and not examine the von Haefen model We choose the IAL model to analyze the two-stage ... One of the key components of the RUM approach is the definition of the choice set, the set from which the consumer chooses a preferred option The choice set is often defined exogenously by the ... Klein and Bither, 1987) Therefore, there is a need for a model that can test for the existence of cutoffs as well as estimate the cutoff levels without prior information about the cutoffs The second...
Ngày tải lên: 22/05/2016, 11:25
Tài liệu Health of Children Living in Urban Slums in Asia and the Near East: Review of Existing Literature and Data pdf
... educational, and other municipal services and infrastructure The programming approach to city officials will require strong advocacy based on an understanding of the system of land tenure in vigor and of ... to improve the health of these children The report tries to deal with the questions of what is different about the living situations and life chances of these children (compared with the “average” ... children and 11% of rural children), and 7% suffered from diarrheal disease (6.1% of urban children and 7.8% of rural children) in the two weeks preceding the survey • The Manshiet Nasser survey of the...
Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20
Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Second messenger function and the structure–activity relationship of cyclic adenosine diphosphoribose (cADPR) doc
... diphospho-bridge, as they can be replaced by much simpler ether strands These ether strands mimic the distance between the nucleobase and the diphospho-bridge, but on the other hand likely are involved ... In terms of structure–activity relationship these data indicate that the northern and southern riboses are primarily necessary as linkers between the base adenine (or hypoxanthine) and the diphospho-bridge, ... (Fig 4; [46]) An even stronger modification of the original molecule cADPR was achieved by substitution of both the northern and southern ribose by ether strands, resulting in N1-[(phosphoryl-O-ethoxy)-methyl]-N9-[(phosphorylO-ethoxy)-methyl]-hypoxanthine-cyclic...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 01:20
Recommendations from the American Thoracic Society, CDC, and the Infectious Diseases Society of America docx
... collection and analysis of epidemiologic and other data • Development of policies and procedures and of a plan for controlling TB, on the basis of the assessment of the problem • Assurance of diagnostic, ... The epidemiologic profile should include an assessment of the risk for TB in the population or at the site, the ease of access to the population or site, and the likelihood of acceptance of and ... depending on the history of signs and symptoms, particularly cough and the extent of disease The end of the period is defined as the time when contact with the index case is broken or when all of the...
Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Computational Lexical Semantics, Incrementality, and the So-called Punctuality of Events" potx
... terms of durativity, and not of atomicity 498 John drank a glass of beer In (9), the development of the drinking event can be measured along the subparts of the glass of beer Each subpart of the ... structure of one of their arguments (which he calls incremental theme) • *The soldierfinished crossing the border The soldiers finished crossing the border *John finished slamming the door open ... associate with the CONST qualia role of chambre such a collection of instances of the movable_phys obj type, the CONST role describing the meronymic constitution of a type In fact, the ability...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20
the gambia and the world a history of the foreign policy ppt
Ngày tải lên: 09/03/2014, 14:20
JOHN MARSHALL AND THE CONSTITUTION, A CHRONICLE OF THE SUPREME COURT doc
... tenure of their posts; and it is "armed with the tremendous weapons" which slay legislation And if the voice of the Church was the voice of God, so the voice of the Court is the voice of the American ... voice and, with some slight changes, became Article VIII of the report of the Committee of Detail of the 7th of August, which in turn became "the linch-pin of the Constitution." * Then, on the ... by the substitution of the phrase "judicial power of the United States" for the phrase "jurisdiction of the Supreme Court," and also by the insertion of the words "this Constitution" and "the" ...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:20
WORKING PAPER NO. 40 FINANCIAL STRUCTURE AND THE INTEREST RATE CHANNEL OF ECB MONETARY POLICY pptx
... of euro area retail markets 2.3.2 Determinants of the pass-through 2.3.3 Results of the estimations 2.3.4 The impact of EMU on the determinants of the pass-through Income and wealth effects of ... households in the four largest countries in the euro area The response of the value of a bond portfolio to horizontal shifts in the yield curve depends on the maturity of the portfolio The longer the average ... computation of the present value is, again, the long-term interest rate The lower the level of long-term interest rates, the higher the impact of a change in the long-term rate on the underlying value of...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 14:20
Strategic Marketing and the Resource Based View of the Firm pptx
... Fahy, Smithee / Strategic Marketing and the Resource Based View of the Firm Strategic Marketing and the Resource Based View of the Firm Discourse in the field of strategic marketing ... growing body of literature, there is some ambiguity and inconsistency in the use of terminology and this is highlighted in a discussion on the principal insights of the RBV into the nature of competitive ... Over the past decade or so, there have been a large and diverse collection of contributions in the areas of economics and strategic management that seek to either refine the concept of the RBV...
Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 22:20
Health Expenditures and the Elderly: A Survey of Issues in Forecasting, Methods Used, and Relevance for Developing Countries doc
... is the rate of growth of total population, ru is the rate of growth of utilization per capita, rp is the rate of growth of the general price level, rr is the rate of growth of the ratio of the ... level to the general price level, and rφ is the rate of growth of the “residual” term In sum, the rate of growth of health care spending is the addition of the individual growth rates of population, ... L(t) is the ratio of long-term care expenses to GDP in year ‘t’, rw is the rate of growth of earners and rd the rate of growth of the disabled The derivation of this equation assumes that there...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 13:20
Global Imbalances and the Financial Crisis: Products of Common Causes pdf
... innovation created the toxic mix of conditions making the U.S the epicenter of the global financial crisis Given the regulatory weaknesses outside the U.S and competitive pressures in the banking industry, ... March 2000 nor the timing of their subsequent fall is easily rationalizable in terms of standard economic theory.) In any case, the data not support a claim that the proximate cause of the fall in ... steadily in the U.S since the middle 1990s; they began to rise more rapidly.16 Given the wide extent of homeownership in the U.S and the relative ease, compared to other countries, of borrowing...
Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 02:20
The Management of Community-Acquired Pneumonia in Infants and Children Older Than 3 Months of Age: Clinical Practice Guidelines by the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the Infectious Diseases Society of America pot
... weighting of the quality of the evidence and the grade of the recommendation [3] (Table 1) A detailed description of the methods, background, and evidence summaries that support each of the recommendations ... living in the United States, with reasonable access to healthcare The history, presentation, and examination of the child are the major determinants of the severity of the illness and the appropriate ... the need for ICU-level care The arterial oxygen pressure PaO2 /FiO2 ratio provides an indication of the degree of respiratory insufficiency and impaired oxygen diffusion and, in conjunction with clinical...
Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 09:20
Governance and the Success of U.S. Community Banks, 1790-2010: Mutual Savings Banks, Local Commercial Banks, and the Merchants (National) Bank of New Bedford, Massachusetts doc
... under the control of Andrew Dexter.7 Other failures followed in the wake of the Panic of 1819, the Panic of 1837, and almost every other financial calamity to strike the nation since, including the ... Citizen, An Appeal to the Public on the Conduct of the Banks in the City of New York (New York, 1815), 5-7; An Inquiry Into the Causes of the Present State of the Circulating Medium of the United States ... as well as into the manner in which the books of the Branch are kept; and into the manner in which the Cashier and other Officers perform their respective duties; and report the result to this...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:20
The Internet of Things: A critique of ambient technology and the all-seeing network of RFID potx
... disappearance of the author and style; in link through the disappearance of the image in the icon; in network through the disappearance of cable in mobile and satellite - towards the disappearance of the ... wax image of the prototype” In Gell’s theory the index is located in the region where the sphere of agency (the primary agent) overlaps with the vulnerability of the causal milieu of the recipient ... interaction and communication topologies, the act of theft is where the people is deprived of their rights to re-use and re-create their own schemes of interaction with the devices they share...
Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 20:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Dependency trees and the strong generative capacity of CCG" pot
... tree structure and the linear order of its nodes separately The tree structure encodes the valency structure of the sentence (immediate dominance), whereas the linear precedence of the words is ... ε, 2]) and (f (g(a)), [1 · 1, ε, 1]) These expressions represent the dependency trees d1 = and a f b d2 = a f g Notice that it is because of the separate specification of the tree and the order ... list s of nodes of t either before or after the list s of nodes of t Using these two operations, the dependency trees d1 and d2 from above can be written as follows Let da = (a, [ε]) and db =...
Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 20:20
university of texas press heraldry for the dead memory identity and the engraved stone plaques of neolithic iberia sep 2008
... transformations occurredin the reuse of sacred objects, the circulation of the remains of the dead, the mimesis of ancestral landscapes, and the rituals that brought the living and dead together in liminal ... origin of the plaques Plaque studiesand indeed the study of the Late Neolithic of the Iberian Peninsulamade their greatest advance with the prodigious eorts of the German prehistorians Georg and ... this, another tholos (OP2d) was added to the other side of the passage of OP2, and a microtholos (OP2e) was annexed to OP2d The nal funerary deposit (OP2c) was annexed to the southern end of the complex...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 15:53
Báo cáo toán học: " Weak compactness and the Eisenfeld-Lakshmikantham measure of nonconvexity" potx
... sequence {Cn }∞ of n=1 nonempty, closed, and convex subsets of the bounded and convex set coC, then µ(Cn ) = (n ∈ N), and therefore C∞ = ∅ Appealing again to the ˇ Smulian theorem [6, Theorem V.6.2] ... of B The following is a version of Kirk’s seminal theorem (cf [4, Theorem 4.1]) which does not require the convexity of the domain Theorem 3.6 Let Y be a nonempty and weakly compact subset of ... of the Cantor property for the E-L measure of nonconvexity As an application of this characterization, we show that the convexity requirements can be dropped from the hypotheses of a number of...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20