selection and indications for intrathecal pump placement

... and ω the rotational speed Suter parameters give information for both the turbine and the pump mode for few available pumps, and the Derakhshan model predicts information for the turbine performance ... results of Suter parameters [6] and Derakhshan [5] with one experimental performance curve for a real PAT operating as a pump and turbine mode The variation of head, power and efficiency with the discharge ... Journal of Energy and Environment (IJEE), Volume 2, Issue 1, 2011, pp.39-48 41 Figure Characteristic curves for pump and turbine mode These results are quite reliable for the pump mode, but in...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... lymphoid sialadenitis/formation of ectopic GC-like structures and, eventually, the destruction and replacement of the affected glandular tissue [8,27-35] Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) ... organ-specific and organ nonspecific autoantibodies (for example those against the Ro-SSA and/ or La-SSB autoantigens and rheumatoid factors), characteristic disturbances of peripheral B-cell subsets, formation ... tissues, for example between different types of exocrine gland [66] In patients with pSS and recurrent or persistent swelling of the major salivary glands, the lymphocytic lesions of the involved glands...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:20

... mesmerizing business for sure, and the way to break that spell and learn to be patient and wait for the high-probability setup and trigger is to maintain control of a positive thought process and keep your ... thinking before doing It’s extremely important that you be able to follow orders and stick to your plan, and more often than not, those orders and that plan will tell you to nothing now and wait for ... foundation for learning the art of discretionary trading, and it should be a prerequisite for this book Mastering Trade Selection and Management focuses on helping you to collate and balance...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 22:20

... party and shelter) in the S ENSEVAL-3 dataset, and line (Leacock et al., 1993) and interest (Bruce and Wiebe, Task Method MAP AUC R-Precision P@30 P@50 P@100 arm Random HITS Random HITS Random ... by the proposed HITS-based seed selection method (HITS), and with the seed sets randomly chosen from the gold standard sets (Random; baseline) The results for Random were averaged over 1000 runs ... list is set to nstop = 10, and the number of seeds nseed = 10 and iterations τ = 20 For both HITS and NoStop, the seeds are selected at random from the gold standard data, and the reported results...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

... standard Sentences should first be selected as the testing collection, and then the corresponding gold standard can be generated Our aim is to generate testing collections and their gold standards ... Therefore, we analyze the kappa value not between annotators, but between the annotator and the gold standard The methodologies are introduced in the next section Testing Collections and Gold Standards ... themselves, the strict and the lenient testing collections and their corresponding gold standard are generated Considering the Kappa values of each annotator and the gold standard, topics with high...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21

... adding 25mm for men and 45mm for women Figure Some critical dimensions for chair design Since footrests are not generally available for visitor's chairs, and it is most undesirable for the weight ... relevant overseas strength standards, for example, British Standard BS 5459, Specification for performance requirements and tests for office furniture 21 References GRANDJEAN, E., 1988, Fitting the ... seat cushion and the fore -and- aft centre of the armrests The use and dimensions of armrests are controversial and no hard and fast rules apply However, they are not recommended for people who...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 13:20

... personnel and visitors and is required for both Standard and Expanded Precautions Hand hygiene should be performed immediately after removing PPE, even during PPE changes and removal if necessary, and ... the two bands, hold the mask in one hand and the bands in the other Place and hold the mask over your nose, mouth, and chin, then stretch the bands over your head and secure them comfortably ... use of a surgical mask, and Airborne Infection Isolation requires that only a respirator be worn 47 Hand Hygiene • Required for Standard and Expanded Precautions • Perform… – Immediately after...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 13:20

... b Recording of performance and pedigree data is essential for the implementation of selection and genetic improvement in the CNBS and this will make way for progeny testing and unbiased prediction ... suitable criteria for the selection and breeding of cattle and buffalo in Asia Most of the South Asian and Pacific countries have similarities in setting the policy and execution of dairy and beef cattle ... coordinated systems for data collection and record-keeping and the maintenance of databases for the livestock sector, including a mechanism for feedback and exchange among the stakeholders for development...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 23:20

... spanning p and all the features are of the form s−k ps+m , where s−k and s+m denote k words before and m words after p; we show two 3-gram features for illustration: a passion p passion p what ... correction candidate, for example to, is equally likely given that the author’s preposition is for or from, which is clearly incorrect and disagrees with the notion that errors are regular and language-dependent ... probability of the candidate in the standard model and is based on the relative frequency of the candidate in native training data Adapted priors are dependent on the author’s preposition and the author’s...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:20

... Felice and Pulman, 2008; De Felice and Pulman, 2009; De Felice, 2009) uses a parser, the C&C parser (Clark and Curran, 2007)), to determine the head and complement of the preposition De Felice and ... between arguments and adjuncts is useful for generating the correct preposition Baseline System The work of Chodorow et al (2007) and T&C08 treat the tasks of preposition selection and error detection ... preposition selection on well-formed texts written by native speakers For every preposition in the test set, we compare the system’s top preposition for that context to the writer’s preposition, and...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 21:20

... 1988) It provides a system for analyzing discourse and formulating hypotheses about cue selection and placement The corpus study results in rules for cue selection and placement that will then ... intentional and informational relations in that structure, givenness of information in the discourse, and syntactic form of discourse constituents In order to devise an algorithm for cue selection and placement, ... coherence and structure of discourse Technical Report CSLI-85-37, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, California, October William C M a n n and...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 06:20

... grouping algorithms and introduce mode selection criteria in Sections and The proposed antenna grouping algorithm and the mode selection criterion are presented in Sections 3.5 and 4.5, respectively ... transmission methods, and one data stream of 16-QAM for the beamforming mode The proposed mode selection performs better Kim et al EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011, ... mode selection algorithm performs better than the antenna grouping and the transmit beamforming methods in various channel conditions Page of RW Heath, DJ Love, Multimode antenna selection for...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 22:20

... inform the transmitter about the updated transmit beamformer In the next two sections, we discuss the detailed algorithms for antenna selection and beamformer adaptation, respectively Antenna selection ... stochastic gradient method for updating the beamformers 4.1 Stochastic gradient algorithm for beamformer update The algorithm for the beamformer update is a generalization of [14] and is described as ... best transmit and receive beamformers from the previous iteration and generates Kt -1 new transmitand K r -1 new receive beamformers for the current iteration With a fixed step size and a single...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 01:20

... medium vine and leaves, deeply lobed leaves It is able to grow strongly and regenerate quickly and is suitable for trimming vines and leaves periodically The vines and leaves are soft and sweet ... Hoa and Quang Tri in 2008-2009 - Evaluate and and select new potato varieties in Bac Giang based on quality and yield - Evaluate and select new potato varieties in Thanh Hoa based on quality and ... seed and plant breeding, technologies of crop preservation and processing and quality inspection methods of finished products 5) Improve understanding of farmers to expand the technology for plant...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... not been evaluated for yield and dry matter production and performance in processing The central region and some northern provinces of Vietnam have suitable growing seasons for tuber crops The ... Evaluate and select new potato varieties in Bac Giang and Thanh Hoa based on quality and yield - Evaluate and select new potato varieties at FCRI based on quality and yield - Evaluate and select ... textiles The demand of starch for industry in Vietnam annually is about one million tons, much of which is imported The lack of good cultivars and relevant technology for cultivation and processing...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 13:20

... fitting candidates Keeping Meuwissen’s basic idea, these formulae extended Owen and Steck’s formulae to simulated data are derived by an PREDICTION FORMULAE General form Selection differential formula ... using Owen and Steck’s (1962) exact formula for selection differential when population is split into independent and uniform families: Rawlings’ (1976) ! ! ,! , u o I is the standardized selection ... when selecting replacement females (p 46/93) and males (p 3/93) and for both heritabilities Candidates for selection can be unrelated, half-sibs (same sire), cousin (same maternal grand-sire) or...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... 1985) The selection index in the I line was, in females : md, in males : where X and x stand for the mean of full-sib families for egg laying and the individual l phenotypic value for adult weight, ... weight is, in females : family mean for egg laying genetic and the and, in males : where r stands for the phenotypic correlation coefficient The selection intensities for 12 EILER each trait (i&dquo; ... population for each trait The coefficients of variation of these mean values were about p 100 and 12 p 100 for adult weight and egg laying, respectively The selection intensities for egg laying and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 22:22

... Meier and Mr T Riehl for performing and evaluating a large number of investigations and testings, Mr W Thomala for valuable discussions, Dr G E Totten, Dr K Funatani, Dr L Xie, and Mr R Johnson for ... Organization for Standardization: ISO 4757: Cross recesses for screws www.iso.ch International Organization for Standardization: ISO 4759: Tolerances for fasteners www.iso.ch International Organization for ... Schwabach for support with photographs and experimental results and finally my family for support with plenty of time during preparing the manuscript REFERENCES Askeland, D.R The Science and Engineering...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 12:21

... Fundamentals and Testing: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, Raymond G Bayer Engineering Design for Wear: Second Edition, Revised and Expanded, Raymond G Bayer Clutches and Brakes: Design and Selection, ... Preston, George W Crawford, and Mark E Coticchia 44 Machinery Adhesives for Locking, Retaining, and Sealing, Girard S Haviland 45 Couplings and Joints: Design, Selection, and Application, Jon ... Understanding Gear Noise, J Derek Smith 18 Chains for Power Transmission and Material Handling: Design and Applications Handbook,American Chain Association 19 Corrosion and Corrosion Protection Handbook,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 12:21

... very useful for designing cooling facilities and determining cooling conditions for obtaining a more uniform quality product VIII CONCLUSION In this chapter, mathematical models for predicting ... mechanisms for substitial and interstitial impurities are different The reason for this is that the adsorption centers on interface are different for these two kinds of impurities Therefore, the ... related to the cooling rate before and during transformation The faster the traveling speed, the longer the water-cooling time, in the case where the intensity for water cooling is constant regardless...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 12:21