rationale and overview of the thesis research

... practiceoriented research activities and approaches for QUERI researchers and other stakeholders ▪ The need for many QUERI researchers to obtain grounding in the field of implementation science and related ... of a full portfolio of implementation-related research for each QUERI Center has taken time, given the following: ▪ The need for the QUERI Program to develop an understanding of its mission and ... implementation and related research Overall, this content offers insights for other health systems and researchers seeking to effectively apply research to improve the care of patients The QUERI program...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:22

... practiceoriented research activities and approaches for QUERI researchers and other stakeholders ▪ The need for many QUERI researchers to obtain grounding in the field of implementation science and related ... of a full portfolio of implementation-related research for each QUERI Center has taken time, given the following: ▪ The need for the QUERI Program to develop an understanding of its mission and ... implementation and related research Overall, this content offers insights for other health systems and researchers seeking to effectively apply research to improve the care of patients The QUERI program...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... through the flow of the call: I pick up the phone and send an off-hook indication to the end office switch The switch sends back a dial tone I dial the digits to call Grandma's house (they are ... with the SS7 network and the IN and can tell the gateways or endpoints how and when to set up the call To understand Figure 1-14 in greater detail, all the various components must be described The ... park on her line and have the PSTN call me back after she got off the phone Now that you have a basic understanding of how the PSTN functions, the next section discusses services and applications...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2013, 05:20

... accountants and lawyers in Vietnam in May 2005; and, Discussions with and reviews by officials of the World Bank and the IMF who were well versed in the subjects and/ or the region 1.3 The Structure of the ... Chairman of the SSC, and Mr Pham Phan Dzung, Director of Banking and Financial Institutions Department of the MOF for their guidance and support Mr Nguyen Doan Hung, Vice Chairman of the SSC, ... reinforcement of the SSC's duties and powers Nov-03 Decree No 144 on securities and securities markets Feb-04 Sep-04 The transfer of the SSC into the Ministry of Finance The reorganization of the SSC...

Ngày tải lên: 21/01/2014, 12:59

... the aging of the baby boomer population; commercialization of new techniques/procedures and the associated devices; and ability and the willingness of local healthcare systems to pay for these treatments ... for the treatment of organ-confined prostate cancer (cont’d.) – As of December 31, 2007, the HIFU division had 61 patents consisting of 27 in the U.S., 25 in the EU and Japan and in Israel and RoW ... (Irvine, CA) – As of December 31, 2007, the UDS division had 16 patents consisting of in the U.S., in the EU and Japan and in Israel and RoW • Incorporated in 1994, Endocare is engaged in the development,...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... OF SPECIFIC THEMES The following summarizes the assessment of the proposed research for each of the six themes In its review, the committee considered the clarity and appropriateness of the thematic ... from the councils of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine The members of the committee responsible for the report were chosen for their ... approaches, and collaboration in the conduct of research and the gathering of data However, the identification of important linkages among the six major themes and multidisciplinary needs within research...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 11:20

... data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analyses Study concept and design: CA and OB Acquisition of data: CA and OB Analysis and interpretation ... [35] Selection of these strategies depends, apart from the nature of the disturbance, on the subject’s state of attention and previous experience [31,36] Maintenance of posture and balance during ... revealed that the genomic pathway of vitamin D action in muscle involves activation of 1,25(OH)D nuclear receptors that triggers the production of messenger RNA and the synthesis of proteins responsible...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... books of Bernfeld and Lakshmikantham and Ladde et al the classical theory of the method of lower and upper solutions and the monotone iterative technique are given This gives the solution as the ... boundary conditions, we make use of the fixed point theory So, in the case of a Dirichlet problem, the set of solutions of 1.1 coincide with the set of the fixed points of the operator T : C1 I → C1 ... solutions in the sector α, β of the considered problem By extremal solutions we mean the greatest and the smallest solutions in the set of all the solutions in α, β The deduction of such a property...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... 2.2 k then T has a fixed point in C This result generalizes Lifshitz’s Theorem in case of a Hilbert space and shows that the theorem admits certain perturbations in the behavior of the norm of successive ... 1.2 F and the Lipschitz constant of T tends to if ε ↓ For more information on the structure of fixed point sets see 4, and references therein In 1973, Goebel and Kirk introduced the class of uniformly ... nonexpansive mappings,” in Handbook of Metric Fixed Point Theory, W A Kirk and B Sims, Eds., pp 49–91, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2001 12 Fixed Point Theory and Applications...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... which implies the inequality d f, H ≤ L , − 2L 2.37 which implies that the inequality 2.30 holds The rest of the proof is similar to the proof of Theorem 2.1 Corollary 2.4 Let r > and θ be nonnegative ... “On the stability of the linear functional equation,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol 27, no 4, pp 222–224, 1941 T Aoki, “On the stability of ... similar to the proofs of Theorems 2.3 and 4.2 Choonkil Park 11 Corollary 4.5 Let r > and θ be nonnegative real numbers, and let f : A → B be a mapping satisfying 2.25 and 4.5 Then there exists...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 11:20

... 30.11 Table 5: The ten best results of the BOWS hall of fame, at the end of the two phases of the contest The attacks carried out in the second phase of the contest are the ones with the dates in ... use of the sensitivity attack during the contest, with particular reference to the second phase In Table 5, the ten best results of the BOWS hall of fame, at the end of the six months of the ... with the following results: PSNR of the image Strawberry = 39.67 dB, PSNR of the image Wood Path = 39.65 dB, and the PSNR of the image Church = 38.45 dB By analyzing the hall of fame at the end of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... simple and correct view of the defining characteristics of both types of cell, were then persuaded of the truth of the sophisticated, tortuous theories of the analysts who had been given entirely random ... these, the test has failed and the null hypothesis – that the theory is wrong – is affirmed If the observation passes the test, the null hypothesis is rejected and the theory is validated • Bayesian ... hypothesis – and then this must be tested by observations (in the way that the inductive conclusion exposes itself to falsification) If observations not confirm the hypothesis, then the hypothesis...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:30

... simple and correct view of the defining characteristics of both types of cell, were then persuaded of the truth of the sophisticated, tortuous theories of the analysts who had been given entirely random ... these, the test has failed and the null hypothesis – that the theory is wrong – is affirmed If the observation passes the test, the null hypothesis is rejected and the theory is validated • Bayesian ... hypothesis – and then this must be tested by observations (in the way that the inductive conclusion exposes itself to falsification) If observations not confirm the hypothesis, then the hypothesis...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 15:33

... to the improvement of quality and efficiency of such cooperation in the future  Outcomes of the thesis shall contribute to the research and teaching of the history of the Communist Party of ... bilateral (except Brunei) 4 The rationale and research methodology 4.1 Rationale and Practice: The rationale of this thesis is based on the theory of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh ideology on ... cooperation on education and training between Vietnam and ASEAN Structure of the thesis Besides introduction, overview of the research, conclusions, list of references and appendices, the thesis is divided...

Ngày tải lên: 14/07/2014, 13:23

... transferred into CIA mice to ameliorate the autoimmune process On the basis of the previous finding of a differential impact of Th1 and Th2 cells on the function of bone marrow-derived DCs (BMDCs), ... in the regulation of Th cell polarization and the shaping of the immune response Dr Harald Illges (Biotechnology Institute Thurgau, Switzerland) described studies on the K/BxN murine model of ... activation, as well as expression of antiapoptotic proteins Bcl-2 and members of the inhibitor of apoptosis family (cIAP-1, XIAP and survivin, which directly bind to and inhibit caspases), was strikingly...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... measure of physical and mental health It is the short form of the most popular SF-36 and consists of the 12 items that were found to be the best predictors of the two SF-36 physical and mental ... [29] and a body of research has shown that awareness of the benefits of adverse events and circumstances is an important predictor of successful adjustment [30-32] Further empirical support to the ... replicated nor expanded in the subsequent years In their paper, McGuire, Greenberg and Gevirtz argued that, given the high costs and potential risks of elevated blood pressure and the lack of demonstrated...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 23:23

... physician to be found guilty of the offence of ‘Battery’ if they not comply The SUPPORT study and the HELP study of elderly and acutely ill inpatients found that, of 1,041 patients who had expressed ... by the patient, but questions their accuracy and detracts from the value of the AD in the first place There are other significant practical problems regarding how the LPA will be involved in the ... patients in the ICU The potential benefit of an AD in the ICU includes that it will probably reduce the cost of ICU care, and this will not be secondary to a restriction of therapy offered The review...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... VR, and YB participated in the coordination of the study, and drafted the manuscript AM participated in the design and coordination of assays in the control group All authors read and approved the ... for the intermediate stages of fibrosis Contrary to the initial hypothesis, the diagnostic values of FT-AT for consecutive stages of fibrosis and grades of necroinflammatory activity were the ... classes of genotype (1, 2, and the rarer genotypes 4, 5, grouped together) There was also no difference between the AUROC of FT-AT of patients with high or low viral loads for the diagnosis of significant...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... contributed to analysis and interpretation of data, and to drafting of Page of 10 the manuscript and critical revision for important intellectual content All authors read and approved the final manuscript ... with suspected nosocomial pneumonia (on the basis of the recognition of the presenting signs and symptoms) were stratified by the presence or absence of risk factors for MDROs Patients without ... or amikacin The intent of the IMPACT-HAP pathway (Figure 1) was to assist clinicians at the participating ICUs in recognizing the signs and symptoms of suspected nosocomial pneumonia and subsequently...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21