... Procedure p Figure 5.1 ProjectedAnnual Premature Deaths by Age Group p 33 Figure 5.2 ProjectedAnnual Hospital Admissions byIllnessCategory p.34 Figure 5.3 ProjectedAnnual Hospital Admissions ... Failure by Age Group p 35 Figure 5.4 ProjectedAnnual Hospital Admissions for Asthma by Age Group p 35 Figure 5.5 ProjectedAnnual Emergency Room Visits byIllnessCategory p 36 Figure 5.6 Projected ... visits and minor illnesses Each broad illnesscategory is further broken down into specific illness types for a total of 19 specific cardio-respiratory illnesses For each illness type, the illness...
... 1171 deletion of observations in cases where information for some of the variables required by the model is missing The goodness-of-fit of the model was tested by various regression diagnostic ... residuals in log space are denoted by ri, and b is the base of logarithm used, the smearing correction factor, Cbias , for the logarithmic transformation is given by: Equation Cbias = n ri ∑b n i ... price-level differences by using unit costs adjusted for purchasing-power parity, namely in international dollars; and for differences in quantity and complexity of resource use by using macro-level...
... reported by their calibration source and convert them, if necessary, to the form specified in the ISO Guide In some cases the higher echelon laboratory is accredited for the calibration by the ... The force exerted by the micrometer on the wire is variable, from less than N to 10 N The force gage, checked by loading with small calibrated masses, has never been incorrect by more than a few ... center the wires by eye on our equipment We calibrate nearly all customer gage blocks by mechanical comparison to our master gage blocks The length of a master gage block is determined by interferometric...
... early in the course of acute stroke [1,11] MRI would offer good accuracy and sensitivity in such cases [12] However, it is often not utilized because of its decreased availability in contrast to ... with a sensitivity of 78% [15] In this case, cortical hyperperfusion was observed as reflected by a decrease in mean transient time (MTT) and a concomitant increase in cerebral blood volume (CBV) ... this case report and any accompanying images A copy of the written consent is available for review by the Editor-in-Chief of this journal Abbreviations NCCT: non-contrast CT head, MTT: mean transit...
... directions to be estimated By comparing the amplitude in x and amplitude of the resolved signals defined by the space spanned by the columns of D, which have already been chosen by the algorithm, it ... resolution property By increasing the search depth, a closer solution to ML can be achieved, by decreasing the search depth algorithm running time can be decreased But for both cases, it is computationally ... a generalization of both OMP and TB-OMP algorithms By choosing ξ = 1, we require full alignment so that only k(1) is kept, reproducing OMP p By choosing ξ = 0, and d = 1, we place no restriction...
... different OH groups in polyphenolic compounds is largely influenced by the neighboring groups and by the geometry, which are performed by the conjugation systems and electron delocalization That could ... (ROO•) by two different and nonexclusive mechanisms, H-atom transfer and SPLET SPLET is not uncommon for ArOH/ DPPH• reactions in solvents that support ionization SPLET can be described by these ... were formed by flavonoids satisfy all the above mentioned determinants obtained the small HSDs For example, fisetin, quercetin and myricetin satisfy three mentioned criteria, thereby their radicals...
... sets contained HYS levels with the so-called extreme category problem (ECP) (Misztal and Gianola, 1989) Extreme categories are the first and last category, hence for a binary trait both categories ... II-F-f under the sire model The upward bias was largest for MCMPM, followed by MCMML and AMML The designs were characterized by a small number of sires with average progeny group size of 40, a large ... HYS with the ECP and data set had none Data sets and were obtained by reducing the incidence of the trait from 0.9 to 0.5 and by reducing the size of the differences among HYS differences Data...
... conducted according to the Declaration of Helsinki guidelines and approved by the regulatory authorities of Spain and by each centre’s ethics committees Assessments Demographic and admission data ... procedure is performed This test-retest comparison can be done by using a paired t-test to compare the mean response in both moments, or by using a Wilcoxon test to compare the medians Due to the ... administered at the same three described time points The improvement of agitation was also assessed by CGI-I before the first reintervention (if any) and at discharge to document the clinical changes...
... database was provided by the annual public cancer centres treating patients with breast cancer In this case, the total number of women suffering from breast cancer is obtained by adding the numbers ... the overall survival by 4% For 25 women treated, one is cured by this addition [6] Consequently, the cost for one life saved is the cost of treatment of 25 women treated by chemotherapy plus ... figures released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer [11], breast cancer is the most frequent among all kinds of cancer in Morocco either by incidence (36.5%) or by mortality (19.7%)...
... positive cases [6,7] The aim of this study was to investigate the appropriateness of emergency physician CCL activation for patients with suspected STEMI A variety of definitions of false positive cases ... patient’s history and initial ECG, were encouraged to activate the CCL by a single page via the electronic medical record system in cases of suspected STEMI After this single page, the on-call interventional ... April 2011, emergency department (ED) activation of the CCL by the STEMI page occurred 117 times During the study period, there were no cases of STEMI in which the emergency physician did not alert...
... sensitivity or (2) ignore re-ranking by correcting only for heterogeneity of variances [9] In international breeding value estimation, where G × E is included in the model by regarding records of animals ... and estimated genetic variance across the range of EP in one population by stochastic simulation Data structures were varied by changing the number of daughters per sire and average number of animals ... effects (herd) got positive simulated values by sampling from a normal distribution N(1, 1/9) The residual was simulated homogeneously across environments by sampling from a normal distribution N(0,...
... original variables This transformation was first suggested for animal breeding problems by Thompson (1976, cited by Jensen and Mao, 1988) The transformation matrix Q, is chosen such that (Quaas et ... the pth trait, with RAM, the vector Y was divided , c into parents (denoted by subscript p) and nonparents (denoted by subscript n) as follows (subscript 1L is dropped for clarity): with e:t e!!-!!nc(‘!nc ... the number of parents This burden was reduced by tridiagonalizing the coefficient matrix through a series of orthogonal transformations, as proposed by Smith and Graser (1986) This transformation,...
... magnetic moments that mediated by carriers [59] This mechanism can be divided to three cases: (1) The mean-field Zener model The mean-field Zener model proposed by Dietl et al [22] has been successful ... is widened by the hybridization between the up-spin states Therefore, in the ferromagnetic configuration the band energy can be lowered by introducing carriers in the d band In these cases, the ... the rotating target holder which is driven by a small DC motor By mounting at most six targets on the holder, multilayer structures can be achieved by sequential ablation of targets without breaking...
... Namasivayam, and C and Technol., byby solutions K of waste congo slurry red J 53 : 153 - 157 (1992) N Removal waste : 32 - 42 N Removal celluosic Removal biogas by Technol Muniasamy, (1996) T ... can characteristics essential expressed be equilibrium by parameter, a of dimensionless RL, which This work Langmuir constant, is defined by, l SC + bco where b is the concentration and Langmuir ... was 140 carried pH (7.3) with rpm machine out at The room dye by centrifugation estimated spectro- 404 photometrically wavelength by monitoring of maximum spectrophotometer the studies on initial...
... This study was approved by the animal experiments committee of Mukogawa Women’s University Drugs Navelbine® Injection (VNR) and Adriacin® Injection (DXR) were kindly provided by Kyowa Hakko Kirin ... phlebitis caused by the infusion of VNR In addition, our data suggested that the pre-treatment with DEX was more effective than post-treatment Although the underlying mechanism by which DEX prevents ... anti-inflammatory action [8-11] Tononi et al reported that post-treatment with DEX reduced phlebitis caused by VNR [12], although they did not show the actual data Thus, to demonstrate that corticosteroids...
... undisturbed samples obtained in-situ by using both ILC test equipment and CRSC test equipment The CRSC test was performed with strain rates that determined by various estimate methods The soil ... is estimated using empirical equations And the maximum pore pressure ratio is used 30% that set by ASTM D4186 Verify the reliance of the ANN Fig Flow chart for programming of the artificial neural ... currently no rule for determining the optimal number of neurons in the hidden layer other than by experiment In this study, the structure of neural network with one input layer – two hidden layer...
... - HOANG MINH HUONG Title: ENHANCING THE EFFICIENCY OF THE QUALITY MANAGAMENT SYSTEM BY IMPROVING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITY AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AT VIET A PLASTIC AND COMPOSITE ... system, innovating the working way of top managers and employees, producing better products, raising annual revenue, etc Thus, I decided to analyze some restrictions in company quality management system ... applying ISO 9001:2000 for its quality management system Despite being received the certified success by the third organization, the company still has inadequate knowledge in operating system Two mains...
... above findings revealed the pulse lamps to be superior in their ability to inactivate C parvum by growth vitality assays UV dose [mJ/cm ] UV dose[mJ/cm2 ] 50 100 150 200 log10(N/N0) log10 (N/No) ... 6) show that the sensitivity to UV was highest when the cell culture method was used, followed by the mouse infection method The excystation method was found to be extremely lacking in sensitivity...
... low arsenic removal capacity The percentage removal of As[III] by AC is just 50% (Prasenjit et al., 2007) However, it can be improved by its surface modification with metals such as iron, manganese, ... flow rate, the smaller the film resistance, implying that arsenic adsorption by LA or/and ACFe may be controlled by intra-particle diffusion 0.2 F = 5mL/min F= 30mL/min C/Co 0.15 F = 15mL/min ... being modified with iron The preparation of iron-modified activated carbon (AC-Fe) was conducted by impregnation with 5% of iron onto AC (theoretical calculation based on weight) The impregnation...
... non-cropping periods, which are usually induced by rainfalls Only two studies, however, estimated the annual loads on the base of the data obtained by the year-round monitoring (Takeda et al., 1991; ... - UV absorbance (260 nm) method; nitrite nitrogen by the diazonation method; ammonium nitrogen by the indophenol blue method; nitrate nitrogen by suppressed ion chromatographic method (HPLC) using ... TN was significantly affected by plowing of paddy soils L(R) method L(R) method was developed in order to evaluate storm-runoff loads by using precipitations in cases of limited data of concentrations...