improving modelling and assessment of clinical processes

... Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes Peter Heisig · P John Clarkson · Sandor Vajna Editors Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes 123 Dr Peter Heisig University of ... the Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes is to showcase recent trends in the modelling and management of engineering processes, explore potential synergies between different modelling ... modifying and improving sociotechnical systems, soft systems methodology (Checkland, 1981), starts from the premise that the consequence of the subjectivity of individual understanding of social processes...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 15:50

... vertical side of still was kept as 0.30 m, whereas the height of higher vertical side was kept 0.85 m The effective basin area of meter x meter made of GRP of m thickness Condensing cover made of toughed ... cover made of toughed glass of mm is fixed to the top of vertical walls of the stills using a rubber gasket on both sides of glass and clamp fixed iron frames made of angles A plastic pipe is ... Simulation result and experimental data In solar still, after evaporation, condensation process starts, and condensation produced by inner glass cover, and difference of temperature of water and glass...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... Professor of Medicine and Director of Curricular Resources and Clinical Evaluation at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, where she is responsible for the teaching, assessment, ... published a history of the use of standardized patients in medical education entitled Following the Threads of an Innovation Coaching Standardized Patients For Use in the Assessment of Clinical Competence ... Consortium for the Assessment of Clinical Competence (CCACC) THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK Because the purpose of this book is to describe and codify some of the best practices and most skillful methods...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20

... daylight in lowland area in term of assessment for development of tourism activities as well as existence of fog during the daylight in highland in term of assessment for health resort and some weather ... conditions and these are the best places for human health in general and for tourism, excursion and sea vacation in particular Results and discussions The results of classification and assessment of ... analysis and quantitative method, this paper presents the results of classification and assessment of bioclimatic conditions for two ultimate purposes: (i) for the development of tourism, excursion and...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 15:20

... plantations, and already many of the smallholders rely on prospects of future sales of latex and thus depend on the dynamics of the global market The success story of Yunnan and the high demand of China ... First of all it should give the author an impression of the landscape and land cover, land use practices, distribution of settlements, etc With the collection of GPS points the classification of ... cover The land cover data was provided by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) and represents the land cover in 2002 The dataset is part of a forest cover and land use changes assessment...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... NICE clinical guideline 86 Coeliac disease Patient-centred care This guideline offers best practice advice on the recognition and assessment of coeliac disease and the care of children and adults ... the AHRQ report are all of adults, and identify a prevalence of coeliac disease by biopsy of 1.0% and by serology of 0.8 to 1.9% The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (a population-based ... – signs and symptoms Recognition and assessment of coeliac disease can be difficult because of the variety of presenting signs and symptoms The AHRQ report considered the prevalence of coeliac...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 09:20

... types of vehicle classes The calculation of the O/D matrices consists of a four step analysis: 1st step Tour and stop generation: calculation and/ or description of the number of tours; number of ... average number of truck movements (deliveries/pick-ups) is a function of 45 industry types a, the nature p of the premises (store, warehouse, office, headquarter) and the number o of jobs of the establishment ... employees of zones i and j) and on the road performance between i and j A typology of routes is performed (25 types) in order to match the delivery stops of each zone, according to the type of vehicle,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 10:20

... metals and oxoanions, natural organic matter ( OM) surrogate compounds) by conventional and advanced N processes to the physical and chemical properties of compounds like EDCs and PPCPs, and other ... examples of AwwaRF studies that have provided important information on the treatment of organic chemicals: • • • • Project #2897 - Impact of UV and UV - Advanced Oxidation Processes on Toxicity of ... Evaluation of Triclosan Reactivity in Chlorinated and Monochloraminated Waters Project #2758 - Evaluation of Conventional and Advanced Treatment Processes to Remove Endocrine Disruptors and Pharmaceutically...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 19:20

... debottlenecking and retrofit projects The methods and tools of IPD can be applied to any type of process industries We stress again the importance of developing alternatives and of setting targets ... characterisation of processes A systematic approach based on flowsheeting, steady state and dynamic, can be applied in view of eco-balances of impurities and hazards substances, both at the level of plants and ... consisted of sketching a simple but inspired flowsheet, and improving it by successive layers of refinements, up to final optimisation The experience of the designer, the expertise of the company, and...

Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 15:49

... Analysis and Stochastics of Growth Processes and Interface Models This page intentionally left blank Analysis and Stochastics of Growth Processes and Interface Models Edited ... birth -and- death Markov chain model for the size of a metastable droplet, and uses the large deviations theory of Freidlin and Wentzell to give a variational analysis of the path properties of the ... (Spitzer 1970) is one of the seminal papers of this subject Here is a selection of books and lecture notes on the topic: De Masi and Presutti (1991), Durrett (1988), Kipnis and Landim (1999), Liggett...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 07:05

... capacity and objective assessment of patients with diseases of the heart classification systems The table outlines the definitions of the different classification levels of the CCS and NYHA classifications ... Boxplots of the EQ-5D index and other patient characteristics pretreatment and after treatment by study The figure shows boxplots of the raw baseline and post-treatment values of EQ-5D, SF-6D and ... Sharples L: A review of the evidence on the effects and costs of implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy in different patient groups, and modelling of cost-effectiveness and cost- http://www.hqlo.com/content/7/1/96...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... represented 3.3% of the total costs Cost of land area repair of tidal culture and pond culture groups was 2.9% and 5.1% or 2.3 and 2.9 million VND per ha, respectively Average costs of fencing and watch ... 14, average land taxes and fees for land rent were 2.9 million VND per ha, and ranged from 1.2 to million VND per and accounted for 3.7% of the total cost Land taxes or fees of tidal and pond culture ... training, quality and rate of applying in the study area 11 Table 7: Type and area of land holding of farmers in the study region 12 Table 8: Land used in clam aquaculture and water sources...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... robustness of our model and expand the initial work done in [22] on several performance parameters These include the assessment of the tradeoff between delay and reliability constraints and the impact of ... laboratory of the department of computer science of the University of Cape Town for proofreading and reviewing an initial version of this paper He is grateful to Muthoni, Ashish, and Pheeha for ... impact of reliability on TE parameters (iv) Quality of Paths The quality of paths used by MCMP and ECMP schemes indicates the path length (number of hops of paths used), path usage (frequency of...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 17:20

... distribution results, and the position of the distance to the edge of slab is 650mm and 1100mm (position of A and B as shown in Fig.21) The ex‐ periment proves the validity of the theoretical analysis ... research of plan‐ ning and scheduling in steel plants Author details Qing Liu, Xiaofeng Zhang, Bin Wang and Bao Wang State Key Laboratory of Advanced Metallurgy (University of Science and Technology ... corresponding reference and guidance for different kinds of steels and set suitable target surface temperatures by means of querying data from the database Figure The software interface of the database...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 09:20

... cluster, ease of assembly, handling strength, ease of dipping or mold forming and drying, wax removal, shell removal, ease of cut off and finishing, and available equipment and processes at all stages ... effect of λ on the variation of pressure ˙ Pb(t) becomes larger with the increase of liquid level eh[m] and flow velocity e h [m/s] Thus, Science and Technology of Casting Processes ˙ exact value of ... Molding of Cast Irons – Present Status and Scope 117 M S Ramaprasad and Malur N Srinivasan Chapter Control Technology of Solidification and Cooling in the Process of Continuous Casting of Steel...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 09:20

... some of 22 Developments in Snake Robot Modelling and Locomotion the notation utilized below, then we give a brief overview of a selection of the results reported on the modelling of dynamics of ... 1) Type of joints, 2) number of degrees of freedom (DOF) and 3) with or without passive caster wheels Most snake robots consist of links connected by revolute joints with one or two DOF On some ... variables and g SE (2) gives the overall position and orientation of the snake robot (Ostrowski and Burdick, 1996) The connection provides understanding of how shape changes can generate locomotion and...

Ngày tải lên: 04/08/2014, 09:37

... contents of less than 3% Considering the importance of the follicular and in vitro milieu and its close relationship to the health of the gamete, it is not surprising that up to 38% of analyzed ... status of the oocyte is not reflected by the morphology of the first polar body as suggested from data of polar body biopsy Regardless of the grade of the first polar body, more than two-thirds of the ... impair viability of the resultant embryo (29,31,33) On the one hand, aggregation of the smooth endoplasmic reticulum (sER) was shown to significantly reduce rates of implantation and clinical pregnancy...

Ngày tải lên: 05/08/2014, 16:20

... compare with these of Gibbs and Inman, they not seem to support the results of Gibbs and Inman [6] because the samples were taken from older galleries of T piniperda at all locations, and nevertheless, ... pine in Poland [16] Hylurgops palliatus often breeds in the neighbourhood of T piniperda [41] The data from Poland suggest that L lundbergii and L procerum may be a closer associates of T piniperda ... anamorphs of Ophiostoma species and similar anamorphs of other ascomycetes, in: [55] Wingfield M.J., Pathogenicity of Leptographium procerum and L terebrantis on Pinus strobus seedlings and established...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:20

... the standardized truncation threshold at t for candidates of sex s in cohort j Let N be the number of females measured on reproductive Q ability, and N and Non be the initial numbers of male and ... combination of traits Q is given and represents the overall fraction of candidates selected Because of successive truncations, the distribution of H is P not normal Tallis (1961) and Jain and Amble ... intervals and the proportions of different types of parents (James, 1987) Similarly, let Q and Q be the overall fractions of selected candidates at 3u 3Q stage Let be the correlation matrices of predictors...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... Telfer and Woodburn: The use of 3D surface scanning for the measurement and assessment of the human foot Journal of Foot and Ankle Research 2010 3:19 Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and ... deformation of 16 subjects whilst standing on foot supports made out of different materials Markers were attached to the foot on several bony landmarks Telfer and Woodburn Journal of Foot and Ankle ... number of companies now take a 3D scan directly from the impression box and use this to Page of guide the machining of the orthotic This is a fast and inexpensive method of obtaining the shape of...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24