... symptoms. Overall, c on-vergent validity was moderate to low, andthe highestvalues were obtained for the heartburn and regurgitationvariables, these being the cardinal symptoms of GERD. The ... responsiveness to change [18]. Both the effect sizes andthe s tandardizedresponse means of the QOLRAD questionnaire werevery high, ranging from 1.15 to 1.93, and from 1.17 to 1.86, respectively. The ... were approved in accor-dancewiththeWMObyanIndependentEthicsCommittee belonging tothe Maasland Hospital, Sittard, the Netherlands.Symptom assessmentInvestigators recorded patient demographics...
... the health sector. As the Global Strategy emphasizes, there is both a need and opportunity to engage other sectors to provide resources andto address the structural barriers andthe social ... of the right to life: the right to health (which would include the right to access and receive a minimum standard of treatment and care in public health facilities) and in particular the ... indicators proposed by the Commission on Information and Accountability. These indicators, and others related to women’s and children’s health, are regularly monitored by the Countdown to 2015,...
... as the right to education andthe right to take part in cultural lifeandto enjoy the benefits of scientific progress and its applications, as well as civil and political rights, such as the ... facilitating the exercise of the right to freedom of opinion and expression. At the same time, given the pressure exerted upon them by States, coupled with the fact that their primary motive is to generate ... and ideas of all kinds through the Internet. The Special Rapporteur underscores the unique and transformative nature of the Internet not only to enable individuals to exercise their right to...
... ã the familiarity tothe learner of the situation ã the technical demand of the skill required ã the independence of the learner in identifying and selecting the skills they will need, and ... from their expression and tone andthe way they walk, stand or sit. ã Tone of voice. Research has shown that the tone of voice carries more meaning than the individual words themselves. Tone ... confidently and convey their ideas and opinions clearly in a wide range of contexts. The aim of the English standards is to encourage learners to demonstrate their speaking and listening, reading and...
... NATION TO ELIMINATE THE SUFFERING AND DEATH DUE TO CANCER 31 National Cancer InstituteLeading the Nation THE FRAMEWORK TO ELIMINATE THE SUFFERING AND DEATH DUE TO CANCER BY 2015 To Preempt ... costly, and most likely to benefit patients. THE NCI STRATEGIC PLAN FOR LEADING THE NATION TO ELIMINATE THE SUFFERING AND DEATH DUE TO CANCER 41 NCI will continue scientific discovery into the ... LEADING THE NATION TO ELIMINATE THE SUFFERING AND DEATH DUE TO CANCER 17 STRATEGY 1.4 — Identify and characterize the influence of the microenvironment on the chain of events that leads to cancer...
... counts), andthe op-tional appending of a terminator character. The terminator character allows the classifier to iden-tify and assign a different weight tothe n-gramsthat overlap with the suffix ... turned into a vector using astandard process. We have first built a dictionaryof all the n-grams from the whole dataset. These,in order, encode the features. The verb (to) walkis therefore encoded ... suffix of the string.For example, consider the English infinitive to walk. We will assume the following illustrativevalues for the parameters: n-gram size of 3 and appending the terminator character....
... money to eachother if any of them have a deficit at the end of the day. The US Fed reduced the spread between the fed funds target rate andthe discount window in two steps from100 to 50 and 25 ... remain to be transferred to the deposit facility when the payment system closes for the day. The negative deposit rategives the banks an incentive to participate in the fine-tuning process or to ... facilities is stochastic andthe market effectively distributes liquidity across the banking system, the overnight rate should be close tothe mid-point of the standing facilities corridor, i.e. the base...
... later.” There the messageatrophies for weeks and a month later, you’venever gotten back tothe sender, andthe taskstill isn’t done. That’s the quickest route to Irresponsibleville.When asked to ... you’ve answered, and requests. Then archive or delete it.If it requires action that will take morethan one minute to complete, move it to the Follow Up folder and add the task to your to- do ... of the stuff thatfills up my inbox, because:They have not been sent to a bunch ofpeople, but specifically to me.They are therefore more likely to relate to my area of responsibility.They...
... the craft. Forgliding, the apparatus was dragged tothe top of a hill or sand dune and then run down, allowing acombination of gravity and wind to provide the force to lift the glider off the ... lightweight motorthat would generate 50 horsepower, sat in the center, prepared to soar into history. Onlookers stoodon the banks of the river, waiting to throw their hats into the air and break into ... equal tothe weight of the operator and apparatus or nearly so. The wind will blow the machine out from the base of the tower andthe weight will be sustained partly by the upward pull of the rope...
... prominence and urgency. Furthermore, the question arises as to whether task shifting and increased communityparticipation can be more than a short-term solution to address the HIV/AIDS crisis and cancontribute ... FB and DS all contributed substantially to the intellectual content, writing and finalization of the manu-script. All authors read and approved the final manu-script.References1. WHO: The ... governments to ensurean enabling regulatory framework; drive the implementation of relevant policies; guide and supporttraining institutions and ensure adequate resources; and harness the support of the...
... the study design, statistical analysis and helped to draft the manuscript; CMT participated in the studydesign and data collection; KL helped to draft the manu-script and took part in the theoretical ... samples and raises the question of whether these sim-ilarities remain or not in other different cultures. The demonstration of cultural invariance of the core attitudes to aging could lead tothe ... and subscales correlations and internal reliability analyses. Exploratory and Con-firmatory Factor analysis were performed to assesswhether the Brazilian data fit the international pooledmodel....
... the study design, statistical analysis and helped to draft the manuscript; CMT participated in the studydesign and data collection; KL helped to draft the manu-script and took part in the theoretical ... samples and raises the question of whether these sim-ilarities remain or not in other different cultures. The demonstration of cultural invariance of the core attitudes to aging could lead tothe ... analysis, item and subscales correlations and internal reliability analyses. Exploratory and Con-firmatory Factor analysis were performed to assesswhether the Brazilian data fit the international...
... within the network. The rangeis then calculated as the radius of the circle around the transmitter for which the probability to meet the CINRrequirement on the edge is, for example, equal to 95%,hereby ... mm, thickness of 3.0 mm. The gainof the system is−5 dBi. The connector is of type MMCX. The PCMCIA card is plugged into a laptop, which is used to collect and process the measurements later.Every ... wireless. The outline of the paper is as follows: the transmittingnetwork, the measurement method, andthe parameters used to calculate the range are described in Section 2. Also the procedure to calculate...