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... necrosis and sepsis or septic shock Discussion This study describes the incidence and long- term mortality rates for critically ill patients with a diagnosis of sARF and the prognosis for long- term ... risk factors for developing sARF, and to establish the long- term outcome and its determinants in a large well-defined population Materials and methods R701 Available online http://ccforum.com/content/9/6/R700 ... which was determined by United States survey data [30] Long- term renal outcome and RRT dependence status was determined from the Southern Alberta Renal Program database that maintains information...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:20

... PROVIDING AND PAYING FOR LONG- TERM CARE © OECD 2011 17 Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long- Term Care © OECD 2011 Summary and Conclusions Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long- Term Care ... PROVIDING AND PAYING FOR LONG- TERM CARE © OECD 2011 Help Wanted? Providing and Paying for Long- Term Care © OECD 2011 Executive Summary What will be the effects of growing need for long- term care? ... better value for money in long- term care is a priority Growth in demand for more and better care will put pressure on governments to improve value for money in long- term care While long- term care...

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Ngày tải lên: 13/11/2014, 10:16

... investors and portfolio managers who are interested in securitized real estate investments and need to understand the long- term and short -term behavior of property stock prices for forecast and ... LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP and SHORT TERM DYNAMICS BETWEEN PROPERTY STOCK PRICES AND NET ASSET VALUES IN ASIAN-PACIFIC REGION LI YING (B.Econ (Nankai University) 1999) A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR ... on the nature and extent of the relationship between property company stock prices and NAVs both in the long run and short run 2.4 The Long- term Relationship between Stock Prices and Fundamental...

Ngày tải lên: 10/11/2015, 11:07

... constant at about 2,200 mg/L for T-N and 2,000 mg/L for NH4+-N Effluent T-N under steady state condition was about 400 mg/L for the recycle ratio 400% and 330 mg/L for 600 % and declined to about 260 ... rate for obtaining removal efficiency of 80% for T-N and about 99% for NH4+-N, at the recycle ratio of 600% and C/N ratio of about was about m3/day, which means that about 2.3 days is proper for ... Journal of Water and Environment Technology, Vol.1, No.2, 2003 for denitrification tank and about 5.7 days at about nitrification tank at about m3/day 2) Maximum removal rates for T-N and NH4+-N were...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 08:40

... bands in PCR-DGGE banding patterns of test systems A and B in Fig were selected for analysis The lower limit for band detection was set by a relative intensity per lean of 0.5% of the total band ... labels a, b, and c are PCR-DGGE banding patterns of 16S rRNA gene in test systems A, B, and C, respectively; d, e, and f are PCR-DGGE banding patterns of C12O gene in test systems A, B, and C, respectively; ... banding pattern of 16S rRNA gene (a), C12O gene (b) and C23O gene (c) of the S polyrrhiza-associated bacterial communities in test systems A and B The label A is for test system A and B is for...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... Blue and Red concepts of operation, forces, and their likely deployment chains—including APOEs/SPOEs and APODs/SPODs and likely flightpaths or sea routes for U.S forces and other forces and notional ... with forts, fort-to-port movements, APOEs and SPOEs, air and sea movements, en-route bases, APODs and SPODs, and onward movement 14 Assuring Access in Key Strategic Regions: Toward a Long- Term ... of land forces and on campaign outcomes and measures of effectiveness • Most adversaries presently lack strategic reach except through special operations forces or terrorist proxies and therefore...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 20:20

... This guidance note provides information for the creators and managers of electronic records about the selection of physical storage media in the context of long- term preservation The scope of ... media for long- term preservation Introduction This document is one of a series of guidance notes produced by The National Archives, giving general advice on issues relating to the preservation and ... records It is intended for use by anyone involved in the creation of electronic records that may need to be preserved over the long term, as well as by those responsible for preservation This...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 18:20

... to its performance at a psychological level, immediately after its performance at a functioning-physical level and entails long- term effects associated with pain Mastalgia, older age and lower ... generating substantial short- and long- term effects upon subjects’ HRQoL At the early measurement, a limitation of the capability to perform usual activities (EQ-5D) and deterioration of the SF-36 ... sections may be accustomed to temporary or short -term pain Commenting on late effects, a striking finding is that long- term pain (EQ-5D pain/discomfort and SF-36 Bodily Pain dimensions) seemed rather...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... amplification were performed with the following temperature profiles: 94°C for min, 55°C for min, and 72°C for for the outer primer set and 94°C for min, 60°C for min, and 72°C for for the inner primer ... HCV 5'-UTR was utilized as the standard Forty cycles of amplification were performed with the following temperature profile: 94°C for min, 55°C for min, and 72°C for Detection of HCV-RNA by in ... isolation and long term replication were carried out in several phases: short term cultures (positive for HCV up to 10 weeks), medium term cultures (positive for 10–23 weeks), or extended term cultures...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... between UEs and BS for the Ec /Ior = 90%, with and without macrodiversity for the same cell radius of 750 m For the chosen Ec /Ior , macrodiversity (2RL) assure almost the maximum throughput for 256 ... results for the standard MBMS normalized in Release and as presented in [25] for the same scenario with macrodiversity of two radio links The comparison between Tables and is not straightforward ... Communications and Networking Table 1: Link and system level simulation parameters for urban macrocellular scenario Transmission bandwidth Cyclic prefix size FFT Size Carriers space (kHz) Available bandwidth...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 23:20

... reason that even though RBS and FTSP estimate the clock skew alongside clock offset using linear regression, they are insufficient in practice for longterm synchronization, for example, the shooter ... is evident that the MLE performs well even for small N and hence suitable for the power limited regime of WSNs CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE WORK Using a quadratic model for the relationship between ... energy through estimating the long- term drift as well as the offset and the skew between clocks of two nodes is highly desirable actual recorded time and T1,1 Therefore, this model can be represented...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... radiochemotherapy between 1992 and 2005 for primarily inoperable advanced oro -and hypopharyngeal squamous Long- term side effects Most common long- term side effects documented were xerostomia and alterations ... chemotherapy is an effective treatment option and offers a chance for long- term survival for patients with primarily inoperable, advanced HNSCC, which is still rare New and optimized treatment methods increase ... 3-, 5- and 10-year-OS was 42%, 28% and 15%, respectively) a borderline significantly longer OS compared to patients with N3 disease (median 11 months, 3-, 5- and 10-year-OS was 29%, 22% and 11%,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... Romy Marx and Vanessa Niederkinkhaus for help with the cell culture, Maren D Lange for performing some SICM measurements, Stefan A Mann for helpful discussions, Rolf Heumann, Jan Meijer and the ... part of a nerve cell process Long term observation of the terminal part of a nerve cell process Eleven successive scans of the terminal part of a nerve cell process performed within 520 minutes ... blue and green arrows Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Journal of Nanobiotechnology 2009, 7:7 http://www.jnanobiotechnology.com/content/7/1/7 Figure Long term observation of the terminal...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... Long- term survival and functional capacity in cardiac surgery patients after prolonged intensive care Crit Care Med 2000, 28:3847-3853 Engoren M, Buderer NF, Zacharias A: Long- term survival and ... need for informed consent Statistical analyses Agreement for recorded data between two investigators was evaluated using the kappa statistic for categorical variables, and Pearson correlation and ... discharged to long- term care institutions with the expectation that these patients would require care in these long- term care institutions indefinitely Of the 14% discharged to long- term care institutions,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... stayed longer on the general ward (35 ± 44 days versus 17 ± 24 days; P < 0.001) Mortality analysis was separated into short -term mortality (surgical ICU and in-hospital mortality) and long- term ... after major abdominal surgery and had abdominal sepsis Haraldsen and Andersson [22] retrospectively evaluated long- term outcomes in patients treated in a surgical ICU for abdominal sepsis They reported ... First, patients with sepsis treated in the surgical ICU have higher short -term (surgical ICU and in-hospital) and long- term (posthospital) mortality than trauma patients Not surprisingly, cumulative...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20

... Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests, and oneway ANOVA The relationship between organ failure and longterm survival was analysed univariately by Kaplan-Meier survival statistics, using log rank tests for ... characteristics and selected ICU treatments for the three groups according to degree of organ failure are presented in Table Patients with MOF were older and had a higher SAPS II and ISS, and a longer ... therefore, that the simple usage of the SOFA score to categorise trauma patients into MOF or not enables us to identify patients at risk of both impaired longterm survival and impaired long- term...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:20

... survivor, costs per long- term (5 years) survivor, costs per life year gained, and costs per QALY gained To obtain costs per survivor and costs per long- term survivor, total ICU, hospital, and post-hospital ... of stay are often protracted and incurred health care costs are high Despite high short -term mortality and significant morbidity [7], long- term functional capacity for those surviving the initial ... hospital, in hospital, or both and thus qualified for study entry pital discharge survivors) For the 110 patients surviving years, initial ICU and hospital costs per long- term survivor were 68,116...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... German: [26]] Co-morbidity rates varied between 12% and 38% Anxiety and depressive disorders were diagnosed most frequently Thus middle -term and long- term course seems to be less positive in comparison ... corresponding judgements and all judgements given by two investigators varied between 0.86 and 0.96 for symptoms and for the applied therapeutic interventions; corrected for inter-judge agreement ... manuscript SS–S and TW participated in the design, organization and data collection of the study and performed the statistical analysis AW, CW, HE, and WS participated in the design and coordination...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21