... of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and Department of Physical Medicineand Rehabilitation, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore USA 4Division of Cardiology, St Page of ... target the care of these patients There have been few studies examining the effectiveness of system-wide interventions to improve the care of patients after OHCA Herlitz et al [26] showed that the ... the participating hospitals receive the intervention (i.e., enter the ‘active’ phase) will be determined at random and, by the end ofthe random allocation, all hospitals will have received the...
... this study: the chain length ofthe PEG used andthe size ofthe gold nanoshells……………………………….……158 Table 7.1 The mean histogram value and standard deviation ofthe 8-bit OCT Mscan images of different ... reconstructed at the sides ofthe main image based on a series of optical sections to show the transverse side profile ofthe cells The transverse section ofthe cells shows that the naked gold ... respectively The reconstructed z-stacks of a series of confocal optical sectioning of CNE2 cells shown on the top and right side ofthe en face image show the staining on the cross section side profile of...
... learner’s role in CLT as “negotiator – between the self and learning process andthe object of learning – emerges from and interacts with theroleof joint negotiator within the group and within the ... the content of what they are saying rather than on a particular language form They should use variety of language andthe teacher will not intervene to stop the activities; andthe material the ... creative and to contribute their ideas • They focus on the message andthe students concentrate on “what” they are saying rather than “how” they are saying it • The students work independently of the...
... context, and then present and discuss eight casestudies found in the literature 1.1 Software development; problems and remedies To develop and maintain software is often referred to as software ... productivity and quality ofthe developed software The outcome of several of these improvement initiatives was summed up in an article in Communications ofthe ACM [10] Claims of order of magnitude ... eight case studies, and examine what claims are made about knowledge management in each of them, and describe in what organisational setting each ofthecasestudies were performed We also place the...
... Due to the limited scope ofthe study, the biggest aim ofthe research is only to obtain a snapshot ofthe current practice of peer teaching in ESP classes at the College of Science, andofthe ... task andthe rest ofthe programme, the choice of doing the task in groups or individually, in the classroom or in the self-study centre; the arrangement of furniture in the classroom, the use of ... able to play an extended set of roles: explorer of how the learners view the task, how they get ready for it, handle it and how their outcomes satisfy the demands ofthe task, indicate progress,...
... grave for the LPE experiments because ofthe ceiling effect andthe small size ofthe complete data set, therefore, we did not rerun the corresponding experiments Furthermore, the number of codebook ... feature selection and evaluation and give a brief description ofthe algorithms used We then report on the results ofthe two suites of experiments 5.1 Feature S e l e c t i o n The set of all potential ... text The frequencies were standardised using z-scores, so that the resulting random variables have a mean ofand a variance ofThe z-scores were rounded Proceedings of EACL '99 down to the next...
... side ofthe derivation andthe stack j3cJ associated with one ofthe objects in the right-hand side have the initial part fl in common In the derivation above, we say that the object BLSa'] is the ... using the rewriting rules ofthe grammar A d e r i v a t i o n tree ofthe grammar, on the other hand, is a tree that encodes the sequence of rewritings used in deriving a derived tree In thecase ... ofthe stack is popped and we find the node at which was adjoined at the top ofthe stack Note that since the state set of Mw is { , , n}, the number of nonterminals in Go is O(n4) Since there...
... Last summer, and was not supporting the insurgents seeking to overthrow the Sandinista g o v e r n m e n t If it were thecase that the correspondence between a syntactic form andthe information ... material and in their pref~ence for certain forms to convey grounding The literary style of a discourse will therefore influence the design of automatic text processing programs The style of news ... (Francis and Kucera, 1982) The term predication refers co both the flniCe and non-flnlCe types, and therefore the 2.88 figure indicates that the news corpus is characterized by a great deal of embedding...
... Kathleen for sharing their story ofthe loss of their daughter andthe wonderful photographs ofthe rituals they used to help in the healing process Many ofthe contributors belong to the Society for ... to understand their roles, how the other leader works, and how they will work and interact together during the group RT55351.indb 11 4/30/07 7:06:30 AM 12 The Art of Grief □ Duties ofthe Facilitators ... 2005) Some ofthe characteristics and meanings ofthe lost relationship might be: • • • • • • The quality ofthe relationship The type of relationship Therolethe deceased played in the bereaved’s...
... totality The learners can see the people andthe situation (the setting where the interaction is occurring) They can see and hear the attitude ofthe persons involved (the interlocutors) They can ... also increase the validity ofthe data collected and provide greater confidence in the generalization ofthe results The purpose ofthe interview session tend to further understand the teachers’ ... clarifying the issues relating directly to the content ofthe study Besides, a review ofthe previous studies are also mentioned and discussed in order to point out the new andthe different things of...
... against the standard pH of 5.6 does not differ from the average for cultures with a pH of 5.6 By the same method, the zero hypothesis was tested for conformity of averages for pH 5.6 and pH 4.5 ... manifest attenuation and acidification as a result of hydrolysis ofthe agar Overall, the degree of hydrolysis of agar andthe characteristics ofthe media after sterilization in an autoclave cannot ... hypotheses for the conformity of selection averages for liquid and reinforced media (t-test from Excel computer program tools) Findings ofthe pH impact of nutrient media These advantages were the...
... psychiatrist in training at the time ofthe study, was aware ofthe registration of time from the senior psychiatrists decision to the actual day of referral to the next step in the treatment chain, ... illness, whereas of 12 not waiting had a psychotic illness Duration of stay was composed ofthe days preceding the chosen day andthe number of days of further treatment in the acute ward Twenty-three ... Dorothy Rice found that the direct costs of schizophrenia and affective disorders were twice the indirect costs The share ofthe costs of these two illnesses was higher than the prevalence would...
... children and adolescents under 18 years of age All were residents ofthe Byron-Kesariani area ofthe city of Athens, Greece Methodology The Service for the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents ... 2, Table shows the general views and beliefs ofthe respondents, and Table shows the results concerning the opinion ofthe respondents about the efficacy of different modalities of treatment Finally, ... parents is whether they themselves would accept medication [13,14] In the literature there are only a few reports regarding the attitudes and opinions ofthe general public andthe medical community...
... agarose-encapsulated cells The range of DNA quantification, beginning just before the compression zone (CZ) and ending at the bottom ofthe smears, is shown (B) The amount of released DNA (optical ... treatment of these cell-plugs with the anti-apoptotic agent inhibited progressive spontaneous DNA degradation, confirming the crucial roleof apoptosis and corroborating the mechanistic explanation of ... without the interference of apoptosis On the other hand, the intensity of apoptosis could be easily estimated by subtracting the total DNA released in unirradiated zvd-treated cell-plugs from the...
... selection (including the situation of no selection due to the lack ofmolecular information) and random mating, the average homozygosity by descent ofthe population andthe inbreeding coefficient ... number of markers and alleles per marker The relative value ofthe number of markers andthe number of alleles per marker has been analysed only for the breeding structure of eight sires, 24 dams and ... generations of random individual selection As an example, with four markers and six alleles per marker and frequency-dependent selection, the rates of 1.02 and homozygosity (%) ofthe genome andof the...
... predictions of rate of gain from the many alleles model are reasonably accurate, but the longer term rates of gain depend on the number of alleles, the distribution of allele effects, andthe initial ... one ofthe haplotypes is arbitrarily denoted as maternal) and a recombined marker hapsm lotype of its dam d Hence, the paternal QTL allele of o is a copy of q andthe maternal allele is either ... within the bracket, even when this does not increase the precision ofthe estimate ofthe QTL site A simulation was also conducted, where the markers ofthe bracket were so far apart that the recombination...
... created by the grinder may degrade the active chemical constituents of plant powder and thus reduce the quality ofthemedicineThe powder is then mixed with water and a sufficient amount of additives ... according to the need ofthe specific plant powder to aid with the shape ofthe prepared pills (rounded, rectangular, etc) The process of boiling continues and complete evaporation ofthe water ... people due to the lack of sufficient and reliable government health facilities and modern Western medicines Therefore, local plant resources are the principal source of medicine, and are prescribed...
... chose the bush medicine once they read up about chemotherapy andthe two per cent of people that chemo cured, they took their chances with the bush medicine, and they are still going It's either the ... focus ofthe study a number of participants raised the issue of using traditional healers and bush medicine for cancer during their interviews This paper provides an overview ofthe use of bush medicine ... alert to the possibility of use of bioactive agents that are not prescribed Recognition and understanding ofthe use of traditional medicineand healing system can boost the confidence of Aboriginal...
... other patients the sensory control ofthe entrance ofthe larynx is reduced and therefore saliva may pass the larynx and reach the trachea andthe bronchus That leads to permanent aspiration and ... myoepithelial carcinomaofthe right maxillary sinus Patient suffering from a myoepithelial carcinomaofthe right maxillary sinus After resection ofthe tumor the transport of tears into the nasal ... ofthe paralysis In addition the esthetic outcome of a paralysis ofthe marginal branch ofthe facial nerve can be improved by injecting 2.5–5 units Botox® into the depressor labii muscle of the...
... USA) and was conducted between November 2003 and January 2007 Two ofthe authors ofthe manuscript (MW and CD) are employees of Talecris and participated in the design ofthe study, in the collection, ... arm of EXACTLE and reviewing/contributing to writing the manuscript EP was responsible for the Swedish arm of EXACTLE and reviewing the manuscript MW and CD participated in the design ofthe ... Baxter and Kamada 10 Authors' contributions DP contributed to the design ofthe study, in the analysis and interpretation of data, and drafting ofthe manuscript AD was responsible for the Danish...