history of public funding of medical research through appropriations process

... emergence of psychology under the impetus of the First World War Through the biographies of early medical sociologists and some of their medical sponsors the influences of contacts and experiences of ... of promoting the Amendment of Laws, the Ad­ vancement of Education, the Prevention and Repression of Crime, the Ref­ ormation of Criminals, and the Progress of Public Morality, the adoption of ... Institute of Mental Health Chloe E Bird, Peter Conrad, and Allen M Fremont, editors of the fifth edition of The Handbook of Medical Sociology, commissioned my article, “The Institu­ tionalization of Medical...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:27

... several research groups throughout the world.[22-24] All of these methods made use of the oxidative and reductive chemistries developed decades earlier New companies also formed and offered some of ... period.[32] Due to the fundamental research of scientists all over the world, and more importantly the publication of their experimental results, the field of keratin research has continued to grow ... and function of the hair fiber It was during the years of World War II and immediately after that one of the most comprehensive research projects on the structure and chemistry of hair fibers...

Ngày tải lên: 02/10/2014, 14:44

... Museum of History and Technology: Paper 43 HISTORY OF THE DIVISION OF MEDICAL SCIENCES by SAMI HAMARNEH SECTION OF MATERIA MEDICA (1881-1898) 272 DIVISION OF MEDICINE (1898-1939) 276 DIVISION OF ... the fields of natural history and anthropology were transferred to the then new Natural History building.] Sami Hamarneh HISTORY of the DIVISION of MEDICAL SCIENCES In The Museum of History and ... of medical exhibition He felt the need for a program of exhibits on the practice and the historical development of the healing arts A change of the Section's name History of the Division of Medical...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... interested in the history of the Spanish language.’ Ralph Penny, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London A History of the Spanish Language through Texts examines the evolution of the Spanish ... 30111 40111 44 45111 A History of the Spanish Language through Texts ‘A meticulous and enlightening examination of a broad selection of texts, which are representative of Spanish during the last ... neither of these formats Textual references to individual examples are of course frequently given, but continuous texts are cited less often, and usually in the form of an appendix A History of the...

Ngày tải lên: 04/05/2014, 13:16

... small number of principal modal components in [25] In spite of the potential advantage of computational speed in [25], the effect of infarction might not be reflected by a small number of principal ... tissue highlighted some errors of initialization can be accumulated and amplified through the model dynamics because of the deterministic nature of these models The purpose of this paper is to build ... inside input forces because of unobservable loading condition of the heart, which is a better description of clinical situation from the stochastic control theory point of view To achieve optimal...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 19:20

... generation of voiced sounds These phonationrelated features of segments of harmonic voice can be characterized following any of a number of conventional approaches that use a set of individual ... posterior migration of the tongue into the pharynx and descent of the larynx, and shortening of the soft palate with loss of the epiglottic-soft palate lock-up The adaptations came about, it is believed, ... discriminative power of this approach to automatic diagnosis of severe apnoea cases In this paper we have presented pioneering research in the field of automatic assessment of severe obstructive...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... detected, seconds of data around the event are stored The software is arranged to manage several hours of continuous monitoring After the end of the session, recorded data is processed through a neural ... (K) of lower amplitude is also present The user can program the sequencer either directly or through a software that helps synthesising the TX waveforms through a graphical interface A library of ... PRIs, the DSP has to transpose a matrix of 256 × 128 elements through 256 CTs of 128 elements each The CT is performed by exploiting the sorting capabilities of the DMA channels, with no load for...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 01:20

... packets In the tests of Section 5, an AWGN channel is modeled, with a bit error rate (BER) of 10−5 at the higher rate of Mbps, corresponding to an Eb /N0 of 16 dB This value of SNR is convenient ... or the congestion level of the network, whereas this paper’s scheme accounts for both through the trizone buffer Figure plots the throughput of the Bluetooth packet types of Table for an AWGN channel ... frequency of frame types is in the ratio of : : Therefore, by simple multiplication of the three ratios, the buffer zone sizes would be in the ratio of : : 16 For a total buffer capacity of 50 packets...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 06:20

... joint research and demonstration project Outputs of this research will include the creation of hydroponic systems for tropical areas, determination of suitable nutrient solutions and evaluation of ... production and safety of quality vegetables to the benefit of all consumers Establishment a link of researchers/traders/producers/growers to increase the productivity and competitiveness of Vietnamese ... Facilitate the wider implementation and adoption of protected cropping systems of low to medium technology that require fewer chemical inputs through targeted research and extension activities 2) Examine...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 12:20

... farmers will be fostered throughout the life of the project to facilitate rapid adoption of project outputs 5.3 Capacity Building Capacity building has been the focus of much of the project activities ... Administrative officer Fax: NSW Department of Email: Primary Industries graham.denney@dpi.nsw.gov.au In Vietnam Name: Position: Associate Prof Dr Tran Khac Thi Deputy Director Organisation Research ... Facilitate the wider implementation and adoption of protected cropping systems of low to medium technology that require fewer chemical inputs through targeted research and extension activities 2) Examine...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 12:20

... farmers will be fostered throughout the life of the project to facilitate rapid adoption of project outputs 4.3 Capacity Building Capacity building has been the focus of much of the project activities ... One of the focuses of the current set of trials is to compare field and greenhouse/nethouse production A number of the demonstration trials will take place on farm, facilitating greater uptake of ... Informal training of farmers in crop management and Good Agricultural Practice • Finalisation of trial results from each region and the preparation of publications • Developing of resource and...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 12:20

... this joint research and demonstration project Outputs of this research will include the creation of hydroponic systems for tropical areas, determination of suitable nutrient solutions Research ... Table 1: Heavy metal analysis of eight samples of compressed coir bricks of different origin * - limits of detection) The Mekong company currently produces a range of coir finished products for ... focus of this project and has been detailed in earlier sections of this report and more specifically in Milestones and 13 5.4 Publicity A number of articles have been produced during the life of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 13:20

... 0.2 0.1 20 40 60 N 100% of deaths required 70% of deaths required 80 100 50% of deaths required 20% of deaths required Figure 16: Throughput, as a function of the number of sensors N, in a ZigBee ... 0.016 20 40 60 N 100% of deaths required 70% of deaths required 80 100 50% of deaths required 20% of deaths required Figure 17: Average MAC delay D, as a function of the number of sensors N, in a ... simulation results of realistic IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor networks, in terms of throughput and delay, are presented to validate the theoretical results of our framework The structure of this paper...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... developed and used for the coding of still medical images, whereas in the case of video, an implementation of scalable H.264 [15] coding has been adopted The rest of the paper is organized as follows ... case of medical video images) This fact proves the efficiency of the proposed algorithm In this point, it should be noted that concerning lossy compression, DLWIC performs better in case of medical ... refers to the creation of a bitstream containing different subsets of the same media (image or video) These subsets consist of a basic layer that provides a basic approximation of the media using...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... cs.unc.edu/∼walk/ created by Walkthrough Laboratory of Department of Computer Science of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The power plant model is a complete model of an actual coal fired power ... sequences of sets of items A number of algorithms and techniques have been proposed to deal with the problem of sequential pattern mining Many studies have contributed to the efficient mining of sequential ... huge set of candidate sequences during the permutations of elements and repetition of items in a sequence Second is that multiple scans of databases are needed for deciding the support of these...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... improvement in terms of SNR over single antenna On the other hand, the gain of the antenna array can be described by the product of the directivity of the array with the efficiency of the antenna array ... for a slight pointing error of the main lobe of the antenna off the direction of arrival of the signal [46, 47] In addition, measurements also demonstrated the effects of multipath suppression using ... contributions which measured the angle of arrival of the received signal using antenna array [42] and rotational of directive antenna [43] show that an angle spread of approximately 14Æ in corridor...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... normal side through full range Able to lift 30–60% weight of the normal side through full range Able to lift more than 60% weight of the normal side through full range Normal strength weight of the ... work free of charge "BioMed Central will be the most significant development for disseminating the results of biomedical researc h in our lifetime." Sir Paul Nurse, Cancer Research UK Your research ... more than 60% weight of the normal side Grade will mean normal strength i.e able to lift the same amount of weight as the normal side jective estimate of strength as percentage of the normal side...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... to explore the relevance of communities of practice to the implementation of research, what mechanisms and processes may be at work, and the role that patients and the public may play in this ... in research of this nature, there is always scope for exposing issues of concern, for example, poor quality of practice or service failings Should issues of this nature occur in the course of ... Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 8Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK 9Institute of Nursing Research, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Co...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 11:20