... for carriage of radiocommunications equipment. The Chapter is closely linked to the Radio Regulations of the International Telecommunication Union.2-18 Chapter V - Safetyof navigation Chapter ... 2-19 Chapter V - Safetyof navigationThe subjects covered include the maintenance of meteorological services for ships; the ice patrol service; routeing of ships; and the maintenance of search ... services.2-20 Chapter V - Safetyof navigationThis Chapter also includes a general obligation for masters to proceed to the assistance of those in distress and for Contracting Governments to ensure that...
... 2-1 Safety Of Life At Sea 2-2Introduction and historyThe SOLAS Convention in its successive forms is generally regarded as the most important of all international treaties concerning the safety ... objective of the SOLAS Convention is to specify minimum standards for the construction, equipment and operation of ships, compatible with their safety. Flag States are responsible for ensuring ... historyInstead of requiring that an amendment shall enter into force after being accepted by, for example, two thirds of the Parties, the tacit acceptance procedure provides that an amendment...
... the Destruction of Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel, National Research Council viii PREFACE of the NRC staff. In view of the international nature of the necessary information gathering, committee ... from:http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11777.htmlReview ofInternational Technologies for Destruction of Recovered Chemical Warfare Materiel Committee on Review and Evaluation ofInternational Technologies for the ... States; staff in the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons; and representatives of vendors of inter-national treatment technologies for the destruction of CWM. These communications...
... central venous catheters. Heparin-bonded catheters may decrease the risk of catheter-associated DVT. No data exist on the efficacy of UFH or LMWH prophylaxis to prevent catheter-related DVT in ... ventilator-free days (days alive and off the ventilator). The rates of death before discharge were 23.0% in the albuterol group vs. 17.7% in placebo-treated patients. More than half of the patients ... ventilation, lengths of stay, and tracheostomy rates (305). Avoidance of sedation is another strategy. A recent observational study of 250 critically ill patients suggests that deep sedation...
... S, Aaronson N: Patient-reported outcomes: The example of health-related quality of life A European guideline document for the improvedintegration of health-related quality oflife assessment ... that some possess inappropriate reliability asan indicator of low discriminatory ability [3]. These datarequires more explorations, whereas the recent researches of the Taiwanese version of ... terms of using non-continuousdata and there is evidence of robustness in the terms of theviolation of multivariate normality assumption [17,18].However, Bollen-Stine bootstrap and associated...
... Moredetailed information has been published elsewhere [11].The quality of therapeutic practices was then esti-mated for each patient in terms of the number of aspects (out of the five above) ... use of multiple definitions of ‘early’ and ‘late’.Another way of assessing pre-ESRD nephrological careis to consider the frequency of nephrology consultationsbefore RRT rather than timing of ... found no association between the number of nephrology consultations during the year preceding RRTand HRQoL at initiation of dialysis. Studies published todate have investigated the relationship...
... S, Aaronson N: Patient-reported outcomes: The example of health-related quality of life A European guideline document for the improvedintegration of health-related quality oflife assessment ... that some possess inappropriate reliability asan indicator of low discriminatory ability [3]. These datarequires more explorations, whereas the recent researches of the Taiwanese version of ... terms of using non-continuousdata and there is evidence of robustness in the terms of theviolation of multivariate normality assumption [17,18].However, Bollen-Stine bootstrap and associated...
... con-struction of a waste treatment platform in El Gara.In Morocco, this operation is unique: The platformensures the proper separation and disposal of waste.Where appropriate, waste materials are co-processedin ... system of recycled water is used.Canada’s forests are vast. Despite this, each tree that hasfallen, can mean a loss of biodiversity for the country. HolcimCanada therefore attaches great importance ... hun-dreds of conservation programs and exert influenceon the formulation ofinternational conventions andnational laws. IUCN also shows its commitment tosustainability at a very practical...
... tothat state, and duration is incorporated into the QALYcalculation through a multiplication of time (duration)and utility.It may be, however, that individuals’ utility for a cer-tain state ... the valuation technique used [8]. This researchexplored one specific element of the health state descrip-tion for the valuation of hypothetical states, how the tim-ing of the health state’ s ... to thepremise of the valuation task and therefore refuses totrade any risk of death for improved health, or areexpressions of extreme risk aversion or a lack of sensi-tivity of the instrument...
... x1 vector of means of the observed varia-bles for pattern p, is the maximum likelihood (ML)estimate of the mean of Yi and is the maximum likeli-hood estimate of the covariance of Yi. The ... 1 of 9(page number not for citation purposes)Health and Quality ofLife OutcomesOpen AccessResearchSimple imputation methods were inadequate for missing not at random (MNAR) quality oflife ... opportunity to investigate the perform-ance of tests for identifying missing data mechanisms andmethods of imputation, because the results could be eval-uated against the data that was later recovered.MethodsThe...
... "somewhat disagree".The safety population was defined as all subjects whoreceived at least 1 MTS patch application. Safety- relatedinformation was evaluated using descriptive statistics.Adverse ... surface area of the patch and the length of time that the patch is worn,which allows for tailoring the duration of medicationeffect with reductions of first-pass metabolism and fluctu-ating plasma ... the majority of caregiv-ers agreed that the medication caused their child to wantto eat less, and approximately one-third of caregiversagreed that the medication made it hard for their child...
... operation at 6pm but Hanoi Branch of Eximbank often stops transacting with its clients at 4.30pm. It is clear that the usual official working time here has limited the amount ofinternational ... Annual report of Vietnam Eximbank Hanoi Branch)This comparison indicates that Import L/C is always the main mode of international settlement at Hanoi Branch of Eximbank. The total volume of import ... other foreign companies through Hanoi Branch of Eximbank’s services. Being aware of the importance ofinternational settlement in international business, I have decided to choose topic “International...