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... source of protein for many people living in the sampling watershed However, at the same time, levels of contaminants in fish are of considerable interest because of the potential effects on the ... than the Indonesian drinking water standard (1000 ng/l) (Public Health Minister of Indonesia, 2002) The highest of mercury concentrations at st 403 is related to the location of the sampling point, ... source of water pollution The primary pollution of the river associated with gold mining is mercury using in the gold extraction process However, the impacts of mercury on river environments in the...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... estimate of the benchmark’s PD The true PD of the benchmark is unknown We should therefore combine the variance of the ex-ante estimated probability of default of the rating source and that of the ... 99% confidence interval The column “average DF” is an estimated average using in occurrences at the midpoint of the first interval and in occurrences at the midpoint of the second These averages ... the same rating grade at the beginning of a year Y In our case N Y denotes the number of entities rated “A” at the beginning of year Y The cohort method simply records the number of entities...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 20:20

... Lind are AstraZeneca employees, and Ingela Wiklund was an employee at the time of the study 15 16 Authors' contributions FJ was the principal investigator in the study, and was involved in the ... treatment of selected RDQ scales; 2) assessment of the concordance between RDQand physician-generated ratings of disease severity; and 3) assessment of the internal consistency reliability of the translated ... adaptation The RDQ was translated into Norwegian and Swedish according to international principles [10] The translators met with members of the RDQ survey team to maintain content and clarity of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... training for the athletes was defined as the total number of hours training per week For the control population, amount of physical activity was defined as the total number of hours per week including ... an eating disorder ii) Risk for menstrual dysfunction was assessed using an adaptation of the screening questions routinely used in the 'Eating, Sports and Health in Females' project of the Better ... coming year, and iii) training for ≥ hr/wk-1, considered frequent training [17] As previous research showed that participation in certain sports (e.g gymastics, running) increases the risk of the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20

... regarding the terminology used in the rest of this paper Let I be the total number of frames in Vc Let M be the total number of pixel rows in each frame of Vc , and let N be the total number of ... reported that the nature of dither is most important in the flat regions of the image [12] This phenomenon is due to the spatial masking effects that hide the presence of noise in regions of the image ... technique which requires an initial halftone of the image as the initial guess (or the starting point) The initial halftone of the image is iteratively refined, via toggling the bits, until a convergence...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... early in the dendrogram The degree of similarity is illustrated by the length of the horizontal line that joins the pair After joining, the mean value for the pair is again compared with the other ... government of the Yunnan Province in the People's Republic of China, located immediately upstream of the Chinese/Lao border, is reported to have inspected 1042 industrial enterprises in the basin in ... the entire lake During the dry season, water drains out of the Great Lake back into the Mekong system and then into the Delta, thereby adding to low flow discharges in the region downstream of...

Ngày tải lên: 06/07/2014, 22:20

... was the principal investigator of the OASIS study and is the principal investigator who assisted in designing the ATLAS study WPM is the principal investigator and assisted in designing the Canadian ... endpoints to evaluate the effect of adalimumab on the reduction of signs and symptoms and to assess the inhibition of progression of structural damage in the spine as measured by the mean change in ... D, Goldstein N, Braun J, Ankylosing Spondylitis Study for the Evaluation of Recombinant Infliximab Therapy Study Group: Radiographic findings following two years of infliximab therapy in patients...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22

... RLAT in the injection log within 28 days prior to the visit Because RLAT steady -state plasma concentrations are maintained at a minimum of weeks after the last injection [14], the 28-day interval ... [31], Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF) [32], and Strauss-Carpenter Levels of Functioning (LOF) [33] The PSP rates the patient’s level of functioning during the past month in four areas: ... that these data be interpreted cautiously and not be overly generalized Initiation of RLAT at the beginning of the study was the only clinical mandate, and treatments for schizophrenia including...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... score in severely septic patients with serum creatinine

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 02:24

... questions of any of the villagers The reason for the pictures of the front view is because they the walls correctly in the front, but on the sides and the back, as well as the roof, they leave ... during the trainings The qualitative interview format for the relief worker interviews was developed for the assessment based on initial key informant interviews with relief workers during the ... and then sold the Page of 14 remaining to other villages to make money the village leaders are not chosen by the people in this area, they are appointed by the government and are part of the...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 14:20

... fluoroquinolone or aminoglycoside), most centers chose tobramycin or amikacin The intent of the IMPACT-HAP pathway (Figure 1) was to assist clinicians at the participating ICUs in recognizing the signs ... Patient inclusion criteria and assessment Adults in participating ICUs were eligible for inclusion in the database if they met ATS/IDSA definitions for HAP, VAP, or HCAP [1], including clinical ... reasons for the inability to show changes in clinical outcomes despite improvement in compliance with empiric therapy include early adoption of the protocol during the implementation phase and the decision...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... helps bring more insightful information, thus increasing the reliability of the study findings Since the study focused on evaluating students‘ real reflection of critical thinking ability in their ... composing their own writings on one of them in the test The essay tests were carried out at the end of the course, with the time allowed of 60 minutes and under the strictly observation of the instructor ... bad points as well as the reasoning errors they make to help them better their thinking and writing skills in English Thanks to the mention of weak points in thinking, the students are then more...

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2015, 14:30

... for further studies in Singapore in 2008 I would say, however, that the experience of being a participant in the devotional activities in the shrine contributed to my interest in engaging in a ... he P hilippines a nd S ingapore who kindly gave their time for the interviews; To all the professors and friends I met during my stint in Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI) as a Visiting Fellow, ... between maximizing the distinctness of pe rsonal stories a nd the ge neralities of the s ocial s tructures tha t bi nd them into a specific milieu The point of analytical inquiry, then, is to engage...

Ngày tải lên: 08/09/2015, 18:26

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20

... received training in planting, maintaining and tapping the trees, which they could adopt later when planting rubber on their own On national level there was the determination to increase domestic ... governmental promotion of rubber already occurred in the Chinese province Yunnan bordering with Laos Beginning in the late 1950s and in a second step in the late 1970s the expansion of rubber was fostered, ... result in a high dynamic regarding the current market price of rubber However, increasing the area of rubber plantations means increasing the dependence on the demand of China and on the rubber...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 11:20

... understanding and a comprehensive overview of the issues affecting Beer Promoters in Phnom Penh The results contextualize some of the issues raised in the KAP questionnaire The purpose of the in- depth ... Marketing the Product A shift in customer focus to the product being sold rather than the woman selling it may go some way to reducing the maltreatment of beer promoters in the workplace CARE International ... promoter who has had an abortion indicating the practice of abortion is widespread amongst the target population This is an interesting finding in light of the fact over 92% of beer promoters are able...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... represents a first step in the complex task of assessing the quality of intelligence reports In this paper we focused on coverage perhaps the most important aspect in determining which single report to ... the writers of the documents, and the workshop report (Morse et al., 2004) identified a bias of the individual judges when evaluating their own reports, we did not include the score given by the ... rank This simple baseline is surprisingly effective, outperforming the worst human judge in seven out of eight scenarios, and doing better than the average individual in two of them System Performance...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 16:20

... task-specific Training and education Method of training Amount of training The closed-loop methodology of planning, measuring, executing, assessing, and adjusting is central to the TO-BE operational ... spreadsheets, improving their ability to monitor and direct the sustainment of forces flowing into the joint operating area As base loading became critical during the second phase of operations, they would ... However, because of limitations in the TF04 exercise design, the assessment The tacit information is internal to the group of personnel performing the manual processes During TF04, the AOC was not...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 14:20

... extension the variability index, the mean index and the variability index did not correlate significantly None of the components of the fatigue index correlated with the distance walked during the ... treadmill walking at the beginning and at the end of the physical exertion test, respectively * indicates significant differences between mean values at the beginning and end of the test; † indicates ... the standard deviations at the beginning and end of the test (P < 005) The significant correlations of the fatigue index with its subcategories mean index and variability index and the lack of...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

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