... A, et al: North of England and Scotland Study of Tonsillectomy and Adeno-tonsillectomy in Children (NESSTAC): a pragmatic randomisedcontrolled trial with a parallel nonrandomised preference study ... adult onset show complete adaptation in all domains of life and that respondents with a severe disability of adult onset showed incomplete adaptation in only the health and income domains [8] ... schools Although they reported more problems in the “Mobility” and “Looking after myself” domains, as would be expected, the number reporting problemswith pain or with anxiety was no greater than...
... policies for prevention have changed over the years, and even with the use of private rooms, gowns, gloves, masks and hand washing (after removing gloves and leaving the room), which became a formal ... occur (especially in long-term ventilated patients), and all that is done to control and contain these infections (in accordance with published and local guidelines) is probably one way to avoid ... previous medications and comorbid diseases, among others There are still many unanswered questions, partly because of inadequate surveillance and reporting in the past and the poor methodological quality...
... initial tests and experiments, and then for our final results the training and development sets were combined into one set for final system training For SVM reranking, during both development and testing ... referred to as A LINE +BASE and M2M+BASE For these experiments, our training and testing sets are obtained by intersecting our G2P training and testing sets respectively with the Hindi transliteration ... (26.7%) and S EQUITUR (20.7%) and a smaller but still significant (p < 0.01 with the McNemar test) error reduction over D IREC TL+ (12.1%) When we consider our results using only the score and n-gram...
... uses the term sexual desire, and other terms include sexual drive andsexual interest, but “libido” is no longer favoured Sexual fantasies, the desire for sexual activity, and distress about the ... Comorbidity of sexual dysfunctions is common For example, nearly half of men with low sexual desire have another sexual dysfunction, and 20% of men with erectile dysfunction have low sexual desire ... review Downloaded from bmj.com on 17 May 2009 ABC of sexual health Assessing and managing male sexualproblems Alain Gregoire Assessing problems Men are more likely than women to present with and...
... understand how these two emerging countries dealwith the issue First, the role of industrialisation in polluting freshwater of China and Brazil will be studied and compared In order to assess how ... to further research issues like water pollution within an intercontinental comparative analysis framework Methodology How China and Brazil dealwith water pollution challenges? Emerging countries’ ... dissertation will analyse and compare these two emerging countries’ approaches to freshwater pollution prevention and control In order to analyse and compare the ways China and Brazil dealwith water pollution...
... GE, and TW designed the study; SF, GE, and PKH reviewed the literature; SF and GE collected and analyzed the data; and SF, GF, PKH, and TW wrote the manuscript All of the authors revised and ... stretcher Scandinavian recommendations [13] However, this implementation was never systematized [19], and nor are there clear national guidelines abouthow LTP is performed; e.g., with respect ... training and written protocols, and this seems to increase confidence How the patient is positioned in LTP differs, and the consequence of this is unknown More research on the utilization and consequences...
... quality and price to be able to maximize market share for their products on the system agents, joint venture, opening branches and representative offices in areas where demand 2.3 How companies and ... quality, brand and price There is a team of highly skilled labor, talent Improving labor productivity and employee creativity Enhancing the competitiveness of the enterprise products with competitors ... terms of quality, brand and price There is a team of high skilled labor and talents to improve productivity Improving the competitiveness of the enterprise’s products comparing with competitors...
... discoverable purpose, and a show of relevancy, and remain in the neighborhood of the subject in hand, and be interesting to the reader, and help out the tale, and stop when the people cannot think of anything ... for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and orphan—to all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, andwith all nations." —Abraham Lincoln, Second ... letters and prospectuses And who among us doesn't write resumes, cover letters, memos, faxes, and business letters? We all need to develop good writing style Chapter : What Is Style, andHowDo I...
... moments In describing how they came up with a product or business idea, they would use phrases like "I saw someone doing this, or I overheard someone say that, and that's when it hit me." ... hit me." Fryer: But since most executives are very smart, why you think they can't, or don't, think inquisitively? Dyer: We think there are far more discovery driven people in companies than ... answers more than provocative questions High school students rarely show inquisitiveness And by the time they're grown up and are in corporate settings, they have already had the curiosity drummed...
... 2006-2007 Trade: Institutions and impact Lecture Problemswith strategic trade policy • • • • • Will hurt other industries Not consistent with WTO: trade partners may retaliate Domestic interest groups ... market and support to exporters may influence the location decisions of firms • FDI of central importance Ari Kokko Instruments of active trade policy • • • Tariffs and quotas Domestic product standards, ... Program 2006-2007 Trade: Institutions and impact Lecture Course outline • First part: WTO and “traditional” trade policy Global trade institutions GATT and WTO WTO and developing countries Trade policy...
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... in London – and I decided that it would be cool to the interview in a pair of shorts, as this was still the dressed-down world of dotcom I’m not sure what Bezos really thought about this, and he ... (lesson – don’t take on Google) But the big difference between Amazon and so many dotbombs is that with Amazon the fundamentals always felt right There was a clear vision and a 35 36 28 Business Thinkers ... birth mother was single and he was given up for adoption The couple who adopted him were Paul and Clara Jobs who lived in Mountain View, California During his 10 28 Business Thinkers Who Changed...
... merged with the assistance of DMDC and SSA RAND supplied DMDC and SSA with programs that analyzed the matched data and generated grouplevel statistics that could be further processed at RAND without ... research documenting substantive discrepancies between survey and administrative data include Goldman and Smith (2001), Denmead and Turek (2005), Hurd and Rohwedder (2006), Kapteyn and Ypma (2007), and ... component members and DoD civilian employees They are designed to track the opinions, attitudes, and experiences of DoD military and civilian personnel The SOFS-R is conducted online and is designed...
... Flow Algorithm 342 21 Randomized Algorithms 346 21.1 Using Randomness to Hide the Worst Cases 347 21.2 Solutions of Optimization Problemswith a Random Structure 350 x ... themselves and their proofs of correctness, the concepts are hidden within optimized code and slick proofs One goal of this book is to present a uniform and clean way of thinking about algorithms ... focusing on the structure and proof of correctness of iterative and recursive meta-algorithms, and within these the greedy and dynamic programming meta-algorithms By learning these and their proofs of...
... receives it with a platform of generic skills that will prove useful in engaging withand adapting to the changing circumstances that will doubtless pertain within and across industries and firms ... retrained and at what costs?) will be dealt with in Chapter 27 Other related and by now ‘classic’ studies are Kennedy’s (1964), Drandakis and Phelps’ (1966), Griliches (1969), Fellner’s (1971) and ... economy has enjoyed a decade of relatively strong and stable growth in GDP, with stable and low inflation, and falling unemployment.5 With inflation and unemployment under control, the chief concern...
... the United Kingdom and Great Britain As many as 30% of its doctors have been trained outside the Europe [1] In some regions, overseas doctors comprise up to 50% of all junior doctors [2] General ... [2] General Medical Council (GMC), the United Kingdom's regulatory and licensing body for doctors, had a total of 239 661 doctors registered with it on June 2006, 22.8% (n = 54 656) obtained ... may result non European doctors being unable to compete for NHS jobs The number of doctors affected by this is estimated to be between ten thousand [4] and sixteen thousand [5] It is in this context...
... symptoms and aspects of life [24,25] The SF-36 was used as it is both reliable and valid in these populations, and allowed for comparisons between groups withand without type diabetes However, ... participants withand 119 participants without type diabetes People with type diabetes were younger (p < 0.001), more likely to be male (p = 0.012) and non-white (p < 0.001) Participants with type ... participants withand without type diabetes Participants with type diabetes also had lower levels of VO2peak despite being younger (Table 1) Fatness and fitness were negatively correlated, with the...
... We agree with Tokish et al who found the subscapular muscle and tendon can be well tested with the press belly test [28] andwith Walch et al who stated the teres minor muscle and tendon can be ... for comparison: one with good to acceptable tendon quality (without rupture) and one group with bad tendon quality (partial or complete rupture) The clinical evaluation is done according to ConstantMurley ... for comparison: one with good to acceptable muscular quality (stade 0, and according to Goutallier and normal or hypertrophic) and one with bad muscular quality (stade andand absent or hypotrophic)...
... We agree with Tokish et al who found the subscapular muscle and tendon can be well tested with the press belly test [28] andwith Walch et al who stated the teres minor muscle and tendon can be ... for comparison: one with good to acceptable tendon quality (without rupture) and one group with bad tendon quality (partial or complete rupture) The clinical evaluation is done according to ConstantMurley ... for comparison: one with good to acceptable muscular quality (stade 0, and according to Goutallier and normal or hypertrophic) and one with bad muscular quality (stade andand absent or hypotrophic)...