learning from the past to foresee the future

... However, many factors impair the ability of treatment professionals to recognize the acute risk of suicide in their patients These factors are related to the suicide phenomenon itself, to problems ... personality disorders Another factor influencing the suicide rate could be the introduction of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI) in the 1980s because they are less toxic in overdose ... psychotherapy may decrease suicidality and may further contribute to compliance, which is a factor that protects the patients from relapses and recurrences In turn, the benefit from adhering to...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... but the principal concept is almost the same Based on the findings of Williams and colleagues, respiratory failure accounted for 29% of all deaths – 83% of these were due to acute respiratory ... [1] Although the methods used for the management of acute respiratory distress syndrome have changed dramatically over the past 20 years, mortality has remained almost the same [1,11] These observations ... urinary output and other measurements, so the trend in burn resuscitation is shifting the focus from fluid formulas to adequate endpoint monitoring, edema control and adjuvant therapies [12,15,16]...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... manager was asked to run a workshop for senior staff to help them to decide how to make use of the lessons she had identified In the workshop they considered the conditions from which the lessons had ... that the project and its aims have nothing to with them and that their ideas have not been wanted Learning from the project 201 Example 17.1 Lessons for the organization from a project The project ... for the duration of the project but lengthening the timescale of the project to enable it to be completed by a part-time project team Another solution might be to employ staff purely for the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 08:20

... leads to the discovery of other words Together, these two measures capture not only frequency of occurrence, but also crosschecking that the word occurs both near the class name and near other ... query to generate new candidate instances, and adding these new instances to the graph A score is then assigned to every node in the graph, using one of several different metrics defined below The ... productivity and popularity The Total-degree (totD) score for vertex v is the weighted sum of both incoming and outgoing edges, normalized by the number of other nodes in the graph The Betweenness (BT)...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 02:20

... researchers to make use of these frameworks, methods, and tools Other papers in the QUERI Series describe implementation intervention projects and their effectiveness These papers are contributing to the ... extent of the transferability of the overall QUERI approach to other health systems and jurisdictions, QUERI makes important and useful contributions to the global implementation toolkit These include: ... developing methods and tools to help all the participants reorient to the new way of doing quality improvement and to embrace implementation research in doing so Much can be learned from this comprehensive...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... researchers to make use of these frameworks, methods, and tools Other papers in the QUERI Series describe implementation intervention projects and their effectiveness These papers are contributing to the ... extent of the transferability of the overall QUERI approach to other health systems and jurisdictions, QUERI makes important and useful contributions to the global implementation toolkit These include: ... developing methods and tools to help all the participants reorient to the new way of doing quality improvement and to embrace implementation research in doing so Much can be learned from this comprehensive...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... presumably due to an excess of the satiety factor from the db/db mouse Leptin It is now established that the primary product of the ob gene is the satiety factor termed leptin, and the mice with the ob ... discussion dating back to 1783, and the quest to understand the weight regulation mechanism started with the search for the satiety factor The body’s energy balance was postulated then to be controlled ... leptin receptors and therefore not contributory to the hyperleptinemia observed (Considine et al., 1996a; Gotoda et al., 1997), the relative insensitivity of the hypothalamic satiety centre to leptin...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:02

... computed as the product of the weights of all the tokens in the sequence The aim of this new weighting scheme, as detailed in the next section, is to eliminate the bias caused by the special ... elements: the Means element (e.g “in a stock-for-stock transaction”) and the Time element (e.g “on October 9, 2006”) Words from these elements, like “stock”, or “October”, are likely to occur ... straightforward to update the recursive computation of the subsequence kernel so that it reflects the new weighting scheme If all the word weights are set to 1, then the new kernel is equivalent to the old...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 18:20

... Courts and Tribunals The result was the series of five public lectures held in London from April to June 2002, organised around the theme From Nuremberg to The Hague: The Future of International ... were invited to address their topics in a manner which would be accessible to the public, and which would trace developments from the Nuremberg proceedings to the establishment of the International ... arrived very late on the scene During the war, the Allied powers expected to prosecute conventional war crimes, from the machine-gunning of the survivors of sunken ships to the torture of prisoners-of-war...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... in the bunker; Benito Mussolini was executed by partisans shortly before the end of the war This last death accelerated the decision to abandon altogether the idea of putting Axis leaders in the ... nonetheless alongside the twenty-two defendants at Nuremberg stood metaphorically the SS, the SA, the Gestapo and the rest of the German cabinet and military high command.15 The framing of the ... in which everything from the indoctrination of German youth to the muzzling of the trade unions had served the central grotesque ambition to wage criminal war on the world.19 The conspiracy charge...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... the first lecture in this series, the Prosecutor selected the individuals according to their connections to the organisations which were also targeted in the trial The organisations even had their ... to simple commands such as ‘turn your head from left to right’, the Tribunal refused to drop him from the indictment The British Prosecutor strongly objected to any change or delay, citing the ... raised at the sentencing stage included the fact that he took no steps to prevent the participation of the tea factory employees or the use of its vehicles in the attacks 898 With respect to the Prosecutor’s...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... power, whether in the public or the private sector, have a duty to react to human rights violations where these fall within their ‘sphere of influence’.30 In this context, to nothing is to be complicit ... pre-trial to authorise the investigation The new Court will not therefore operate like the other international courts I have mentioned Nuremberg and Tokyo made few concessions to any demands from the ... and these obligations can vary from state to state, even with regard to the laws of war Secondly, where someone assists a perpetrator to commit an act which is not criminal in the state where the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... states to become parties to the ICC Statute, reassured in the knowledge that they have it within their own power to determine whether or not the ICC will exercise jurisdiction In contrast to other ... territory under their jurisdiction.34 These instruments did not merely criminalise the acts which they addressed They committed their parties to take judicial measures to prevent and to punish these ... never be a panacea for the ills of the world And there are other means for dealing with the gravest crimes: they can be ignored; they can be the subject of national amnesties; they can be addressed...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... of the Congo In October 2000, the Congo brought proceedings before the ICJ in The Hague, calling on the Court to take steps to require Belgium to annul the arrest warrant In its application, the ... that the loss of immunity arose not under customary international law, but rather from the coming into force in late 1988 of the 1984 Convention Against Torture,48 to which Chile, Spain and the ... of state or other officials The World Court steps in Our story now turns away from a national court to another international court in The Hague, the International Court of Justice (the ICJ, sometimes...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... processes, the position is much more difficult Indeed, some would say the chasm still exists: ‘you can’t get there from here’, as the Punch cartoon has the country yokel telling the city motorist who stops ... Politics and Law: The Achille Lauro Affair (Polity Press, Cambridge, 1989) The drafting of the Rome Statute 121 On the whole, these developments took us further away from, not closer to, an international ... it is not too much to say that the development of international criminal law from the 1950s until the early 1990s was a development away from international to national jurisdiction The original...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:20

... criminal justice system The drafting of the Rome Statute is the history of the move from the first to the second model The ILC’s procedural model The ILC’s approach was to create an international ... necessary to compel them to so Their consent to an international trial (and also the consent of the state where the crime was committed, i.e the territorial state) was required This powerfully met the ... dealt with at the national level, would come to the ICC One of the major criticisms made of the ILC’s model was that it gave no independent investigatory role to the Prosecutor, prior to the referral...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:21

... negotiations Furthermore, by the time the delegates convened in Rome to draft the Statute, they had the benefit of drawing on the jurisprudence that the ICTY and the ICTR had developed as regards the substantive ... issues for the International Criminal Court 161 of the ICTY and the ICTR, I should like to address the prospects of the ICC in relation to three issues: first, the prospects in relation to the legitimacy ... genocide The same is likely to happen for other crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court It remains to be seen whether the Elements of Crimes will provide the intended stability of the definitions...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:21

... political factors’.28 In the twentieth century, such a constellation of factors led only to the trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo after the Second World War, and, in the 1990s, to the creation of The Hague ... to end by returning to the overall theme of these lectures Under the rubric of ‘international criminal justice’ I have had the opportunity of discussing the prospects that the ICC holds for the ... orders, to name but a few.41 Participation in the ICC would mean that the US would have a major role in shaping the evolution of the Court in ways that further this vision of the future of the international...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 11:21

... which lead to a consolidation of the memory process The epigenetic mechanisms that read the dauer signature, rewrite local histone marks and control transcriptional factors that together induce ... seem to be at work In a nutshell, the dauer-induced chromatin modeling did not lead per se to changes in gene expression but paved the way for these changes on a site-specific scale To test the ... stimuli Although these chromatin marks seem to be central to the formation of a kind of rudimentary memory, they not suffice to control the overall transcriptome However, Murgatroyd and Spengler Genome...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 20:21

... dominance, but the search for synergies in order to achieve excellence Maximizing the best of the human and the technology is the real victory Hopefully the patient will be the ultimate victor Other lessons ... ‘reinvent the wheel’ However, the question, yet to be answered, is whether as a profession we have the insight, the will, or the humility So far, no other high-risk industry has waited, or expected the ... KR: The history of medical simulation J Crit Care 2008, 23:157–166 Proctor RN: Agnotology: A missing term to describe the cultural production of ignorance (and its study) In Agnotology: The Making...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21