patients selection indications for surgery

... Whereas for example patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis of colonic origin with a PCI ≤ 20 qualify for CRS and HIPEC, the PCI in patients with gastric cancer should be < 10 or ≤15 [20,21] In patients ... most patients during the first moths after surgery In selected patients QoL may even be improved one year or later after surgery http://www.wjso.com/content/7/1/5 10 11 12 13 14 However, for most ... significant number of patients show depressive symptoms at the time of surgery (32%) as well as one year after surgery (24%) [52] Schmidt et al evaluated QoL after CRS and HIPEC in 67 patients with peritoneal...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... role of ectopically formed lymphoid tissue, including GC-like structures, in B-cell disturbances and autoimmune response in patients with pSS Lymphocytic sialadenitis and formation of ectopic ... role of ectopically formed lymphoid structures within inflamed tissues remain unclear For example, in pSS, the following open questions remain about the role of ectopically formed lymphoid tissue ... and/or immunosuppressive therapy [75,76] In contrast to patients with pSS or RA, patients with SLE are frequently B-cell lymphopenic [69] Patients with RA show a similar distribution of peripheral...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... to the indications for the use of MC For example, within this definition, it was considered unsuitable to offer MC to patients with no previous history of back problems at all, whereas patients ... MC patients (n = 195) The second group reported that 26% -42% of their patients were MC patients (n = 46), and the third group reported their proportion of MC patients to be 43%100% (n = 40) For ... scenario 2), the information provided was not sufficiently succinct for a clear cut decision, and therefore"mainstream” answers were based on the remaining questions Page of and for the last working...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... methods for this selection process are interview and group selection methods Interview is the most popular method for companies The team can use it to find the most suitable candidates for tasks ... selection which are used for candidates from external resources, such as application forms, CVs and covering letters, test, references and so on (BPP Professional Education, 2004, p22) Therefore, ... has influence not only for themselves, but also for their family Rewards are motive power for them to fulfill their responsibility with family “Team Dynamics are the unseen forces that operate in...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2013, 12:11

... methods for this selection process are interview and group selection methods Interview is the most popular method for companies The team can use it to find the most suitable candidates for tasks ... selection which are used for candidates from external resources, such as application forms, CVs and covering letters, test, references and so on (BPP Professional Education, 2004, p22) Therefore, ... has influence not only for themselves, but also for their family Rewards are motive power for them to fulfill their responsibility with family “Team Dynamics are the unseen forces that operate in...

Ngày tải lên: 15/04/2013, 14:58

... bradycardia Almost all of these patients also meet criteria for placement of a prophylactic ICD The majority of patients will improve clinically with this approach, but some patients not Some programmable ... have unfortunately been somewhat disappointing The main indication for a pacemaker would be for sinus node dysfunction or AV block, as noted earlier, and this is uncommon Some therapies for hypertrophic ... routinely in many other settings After cardiac surgery, patients often have temporary pacemakers for both control of bradycardias and suppression of tachycardias Patients with asystole or profound and...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 17:20

... following list of book formats These are the book formats most frequently presented for coverage in the Book Citation Index • Dissertations –– Dissertations are considered for coverage if they ... subjects, are often considered for coverage with the understanding that older books in these areas are often of relatively greater value Full address information for all authors is highly desirable, ... bibliographic information for all cited references is essential English language full text is highly desirable, but books with full text in a language other than English are also considered for coverage...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 21:20

... to each other A model Request for Proposal is annexed to this note Good Practice Note – Selection Criteria for External Auditors Annex MODEL REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL FOR EXTERNAL AUDIT SERVICES Office ... Good Practice Note – Selection Criteria for External Auditors encourage responsive bids and promote transparency in the selection process Technical criteria should be assessed before price is considered ... in the selection process Good practice Adopt a comprehensive Request for Proposal format to elicit effective and competitive proposals from prospective firms Using a comprehensive Request for Proposal...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 23:48

... are performed mainly on the feature-to-instance mapping tables This is a key step that leads to this very efficient PFS algorithm At the beginning of each round for feature selection, a uniform ... split(F(0)) for k=1 to m-1 //2.1 Feature selection for each feature space Fi(k) FSi(k) = SGC(Fi(k), s) //2.2 Combine selected features {F1(k+1), …, FNk+1(k+1)} = merge(FS1(k), …, FSNk(k)) ) for (x, ... feature selection & optimization F(m) = merge(FS1(m-1), …, FSNm-1(m-1)) FS(m) = SGC(F(m), s) Mfinal = Opt(FS(m)) Progressive Feature Selection Algorithm In general, the more contextual information...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 04:20

... based on the Bayes formulation, where the first sub-model is source-side rule selection model and the second one is the target-side rule selection model For the source-side rule selection model, ... based Rule Selection Model for Syntax-based Statistical Machine Translation In Proc EMNLP, pages 89-97 Conclusion Hierarchical rule selection is an important and complicated task for hierarchical ... features, the performance is improved compared to the baseline, which shows that each of the sub-models can improve the hierarchical rule selection It is noticeable that the performance of the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:20

... following formula (Yang and Pedersen, 1997) I (t , ci ) = log( P (t | ci )) − log( P(t )) = − log(1 + 694 Therefore, this method might perform badly when common terms are informative for classification ... strongly prefer frequency information, e.g., DF 4.3 Performances of Different FS Methods It is worth noting that learning parameters in WFO is very important for its good performance We use 9-fold ... In general, this simple method performs very well in some topic-based classification tasks (Yang and Pedersen, 1997) 3.2 Mutual Information (MI) The mutual information between term t and class...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 23:20

... torque and forces Concrete bases (type C) should be designed for a thickness of one-tenth the longest dimension with minimum thickness as follows: (1) for up to 20 kW, 150 mm; (2) for 30 to 55 ... requires large roof openings for supply and return air The table shows type D vibration isolator selections for all spans up top m, but extreme care must be taken for equipment located on spans ... specifications for the project Then, for each piece of mechanical equipment, base type, isolator type, and minimum deflection are entered, as tabulated in the Selection Guide The Kinetics Selection...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 18:20

... be responsible for poorer HRQoL in patients who consult medical practitioners for their symptoms [22] In this study, the SF-NDI total score were shown to be lower in Malaysian patients with functional ... demonstrated the validity and reliability of the SF-NDI in its original English form for measuring HRQoL in patients who consult for dyspepsia Although found to be reliable in this study, the Malay version ... cognitive debriefing performed until a conceptually and semantically acceptable English version of the SFNDI was developed for this population Translation of the Short Form Nepean Dyspepsia Index...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... however, that a closed-form BER approximation for either the ML or PL scheme in [25] is not readily available for networks with more than two relays Furthermore, the BER performance with either ... in [26] can significantly improve the error performance over the schemes in [25] Unfortunately, closed-form BER expressions are only available for the single-relay and two-relay networks in [26] ... is needed and selection combining is performed at the destination This simpler protocol (as compared to the protocol in [26]) also allows one to obtain a closed-form BER expression for a general...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... management tracks the mobile station (MS) for successful information delivery For this purpose, Mobile IP (MIP), which enables seamless roaming, is the main engine for location management Handoff management ... and several design problems are formulated including the core part of the algorithmic decision procedure for the optimal velocity threshold for the WLAN and CDMA selection schemes Jang-Sub Kim ... Network selection method As network selection method, we propose a context-based network selection process between WLAN and the CDMA network, based on the wireless channel assignment information...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... (6), the risk of error mode selection is very small in this case Therefore, the performance of multithreshold fast macroblock mode selection method is more effective for Race1 Additionally, the ... best RD performance Unfortunately, it consumes too much computational time Based on the analysis of the macroblock mode selection process of the JMVM, a hybrid fast macroblock mode selection algorithm ... M1 for current macroblock and calculate its RD cost Rd MULTITHRESHOLD FAST MACROBLOCK MODE SELECTION METHOD Rd < P(M1 ) No Rd < P(M2 ) No Rd < P(M3 ) Before designing the fast macroblock mode selection...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... constraints Therefore, the selection of the optimal subset of multipath components is important for the performance of the receiver We have shown that the optimal solution to this finger selection problem ... approaches, we provide a complete optimization theoretical framework for the finger selection problem for MMSE SRake receivers First, we formulate the optimal MMSE SRake as a nonconvex, integerconstrained ... multipath component at that branch and sampled once for each symbol Then, the discrete signal for the lth path can be expressed, for the ith information symbol, (5) where the kth elements can be...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 22:20

... of nodes (m/s) Media-oriented mode selection (MORSA)(0.1% LT) Hybrid mode selection (H-MORSA) Standard mode selection (RBAR) Figure 11: Performance comparison for a single CBR connection in a multihop ... evaluate the performance of RBAR under different mode selection mechanisms, we need to calculate arrays of thresholds for each mechanism (see Section 4) Table shows these threshold values for RBAR and ... scenario Figure 8: RBAR performance for standard and media-oriented protocols (MORSA) we have defined a new media-oriented mode selection mechanism called hybrid transmission mode selection or HMORSA,...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 00:20

... more than with 5.21 ± kgr for the olanzapine treated patients over the study period vs 0.40 ± 0.02 kgr for the placebo group The authors report no efficacy of olanzapine for the treatment of PTSD, ... identical for all groups At endpoint, the mean fluoxetine dose was 52 mg per day for both groups and the mean olanzapine dose was 12.5 mg/day for the monotherapy group and 13.5 mg/day for the combination ... observed Thus, it is given a Jadad score of The study included 21 patients suffering from a developmental form of stuttering (onset before the age of 6; 16 men and women) with mild to very severe...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 20:23