the comprehensive assessment of risk

... Dellinger use of rhAPC in patients at high risk of death and required a repeat trial in patients at low risk of death The specified intent of the ADDRESS trial was to enroll patients at low risk of death, ... assignment of clinical assessment of risk of death in the PROWESS trial, the effect of rhAPC in these patients would have been enhanced So the key to patient selection for administration of rhAPC might ... patients with a clinical assessment of a low risk of death, the mortality was 25% in the APACHE II ≥ 25 group [4,6] This suggests that the key is clinical assessment of death and not APACHE II...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... 1.3.1 Assessment of risk in the overall framework In this framework, the assessment of risk is not a goal in its own right but rather a basis for decision-making and in the first iteration of the ... microbiological hazards, the health risk is the risk of disease, which in turn translates into the risk of infection The group recommended that the guidelines utilise a best estimate of risk and not overlay ... exposure assessment Environmental exposure assessment is an important input to both the assessment of risk and to risk management Exposure assessment is a formal component of the risk assessment...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... postulates of the modern quantum theory The most controversial aspect of the Copenhagen interpretation involves the collapse of the wave function postulate so named because of the strong influence of ... occurs, even in the presence of the fields This is possible because of appropriate choice of the Rabi frequencies and phases of the fields The superposition of the two states is called the dark state, ... independent, then each represents a degree of freedom of the distribution (2) The number of independent coordinates needed for the description of the microscopic state of a system is called the number of...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 23:20

... Euclid came along Even the famous theorem of Pythagoras -the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the square of the other two sides-was in use in the Tigris-Euphrates ... across the seas, at home the accumulation of wealth was open to the many rather than the few The newly rich were now the smart, the adventuresome, the innovators-most of them businessmen-instead of ... size of the first two, then to a square three times the size of the first two, then to five times, and so on Note that the sequence produces a series of rectangles with the proportions of the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2014, 22:17

... Validity There are numerous studies that have investigated the validity of the use of OSCEs in clinical examinations of medical students and a full review of all of these is outside the scope of the ... others less clearly helpful These impacts can be at the level of learners and at the level of the profession, with effects at the latter level potentially affecting patient care One example of ... whilst respecting the needs to deliver a fair and reliable assessment, reject the absolute primacy of the needs of those being assessed Alternatives to the CASC in the context of the MRCPsych should...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... informed of the purpose of the study by the research technician The subjects were told that the data collected for the study would be used for research purposes, and at the same time be used for their ... both the SAPAS and the full personality disorder assessment, we estimated the agreement between the SAPAS with the cutoff of or more based on the original article [4] We also correlated the Spearman ... After assessment, subjects were first given an individual feedback about the results of the assessment, and then, if they expressed their interest in this, this feedback was passed on to their...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... it requires that at the start of the trial there exist a state of honest, professional disagreement in the community of expert practitioners as to the preferred treatment The IRB ensures that ... approach, the focus is shifted away from the life-threatening complications of the patient’s illness, which are present regardless of whether the patient participates in research, to the incremental risks ... routine clinical interventions The second standard requires that the IRB judge the scientific and social value of the study to be sufficient to merit the nontherapeutic risks posed to participants...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 20:20

... treatment on the heterozygous mutants Analysis of the global effects of Cr treatment on the heterozygous mutants The plot shows the distribution of the sizes of the growth effects caused by Cr for all ... from the Cr-treated cells Therefore, aggregated protein formed in the presence of Cr can exert a toxic effect (In the latter case, there was a decrease in the proportion of labeled protein in the ... selective advantage [22] Armed with these convincing proofs of principle, the present study extends the use of competition analyses, beyond the identification of drug targets, to a natural stressor...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20

... between the relative size of the Risk Factors section and the level of initial underpricing Arnold et al (2007) use both counts of the number of Risk Factors and the length of the 13 Risk Factors ... negative future outcomes prior to the filing of the 10-Q, the market reaction at the time of the disclosure should be dampened The disclosure of material risk factors in the 10-Q should also be associated ... total of the number of times any of these words is mentioned in the Risk Factor section.8 This word set was developed to capture words relating to the economic fundamentals of the firm The word...

Ngày tải lên: 30/09/2015, 16:44

... any other degree or diploma Steven Wright margin of 25 mm margin of 38 mm Signature i margin of 25 mm The author's full names and degrees, the title of the thesis, the degree for which the thesis ... is assembled, and the models of learning and assessment it enacts The historical construction of the contemporary language of sensory assessment supports the construction of the style guides Once ... for which the thesis is submitted and the month and year of submission shall appear on the first leaf of the thesis and at the top of the abstract Each thesis shall be preceded by an abstract...

Ngày tải lên: 10/12/2016, 13:41

... analysis of variance, using the general linear model procedure The model included the effects of the animal, the quarter, the stage of lactation (1-12 months), the bacteriological findings and the ... on the proportions of positives at set cut off limits The null hypothesis was that the true mastitis rates are the same for the three indicators with the alternative hypothesis being that they ... and the test was carried out using the method described by [17] The reaction was then visually scored as 1, 2, 3, or according to the Scandinavian recommendations [7] depending upon the amount of...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 17:22

... uncertainty factor The quality of the audit data used in the assessment was also difficult to assess For the purpose of the risk assessment we assumed that the quality of the data recorded in the patient ... unsecured airway when the indication to secure it was given pre-hospital", hereafter referred to as the "top event" The focus of the risk assessment was to determine the probability of the event and ... especially the use of tracheal intubation - Uses trained assistant (that is integrated in the crew) during airway procedures Page of 10 Table 1: The definitions of the possible states of the risk influencing...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:21

... 247), or for the discovery of ‘mismatches’ between the TT and the ST on the same three levels 2.1.2 Operation of the model A key concept in the operation of House’s model is the context of situation ... addressees - Position role of addresser: the National Assembly of Vietnam, the highest representative office of the people and the sole law-making body of the country, where the addressees are carrying ... the TT Overview of the study The study contains three chapters: Chapter – Review of Literature The first part of this chapter will first introduce the main legal traditions in the world and then...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:36

... 4.3.1 The Goal The primary purpose of the overall problem is to determine the relative importance of different linkages The goal of the problem for overall linkage judgment is at the top of the ... dependence of the priority of elements on the priority and number of other elements The principle of comparative judgments is applied to construct pair-wise comparisons of the relative importance of ... preparation of questionnaire, pre-testing of questionnaire for the confirmation and interpretation of the factors and then processing of the completed questionnaire and reporting The second part of the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/04/2013, 10:29

... 116oE It is bounded to the northwest by the province of West Kalimantan, to the northeast by East Kalimantan, to the southeast by South Kalimantan, and to the southwest by the Java Sea (Fig 1) ... 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 fish themselves or the organisms ... rate of fish consumption in Central Kalimantan is the highest of all the provinces in Indonesia Hence there is a real risk of human mercury exposure from the diet People who eat large amounts of...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... the most pronounced adverse effect followed by MPP oxon sulfoxide, and then MPP oxon Consequently, human risk assessment for MPP must be done on the basis of the contributions of its oxides The ... measured MPP and its oxides in river water On the basis of the metabolic profile and from the knowledge of environmental exposure routes, we further discussed the possible acute toxicity from exposure ... 219 - Moreover, the behavior of MPP oxon sulfone using CYP3A4 was examined because it is the product of the chlorination of MPP in the water purification process and it displays the strongest acute...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... column to keep the moisture content inside the column uniform while water was sprinkled over the top of the medium until the outflow from the bottom of the column equaled the volume of the water input ... differences in the values of the distribution coefficient of two soils Given the fact that the distribution coefficient depends on the specific surface of the medium, Andisols provide the diversity of transport ... To compare the change of BTCs in the same flow condition of Reynolds number, the variation of first and second temporal moments as a function of the mixture ratio of - 358 - Journal of Water and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

... arrays the factors into several levels in decreasing order in terms of their subordinate relationship, establishes the relationship of the factors of different levels, compares the importance of the ... increase the temperature of the biogas digester due to the presence of abundant solar energy in these two areas But the construction of a solar greenhouse enlarges the capital input Therefore, ... Table We applied the index system, index weight and the evaluation formula proposed above to evaluate the household biogas resources of each of the six areas The evaluation value of the indices was...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 15:28

... parameters The value of the shape factor, k, has been found to be slightly dependent on the location of station while The values of parameter scale, c, vary with the station, and are near to the average ... analysis July gives the maximum average value of wind speed in the North zone of Iraq during any calendar year A histogram of the wind direction measurements for the site of Tuz during this windy ... figure we see that The prevailing direction of wind fall is from the north-west (NW) i.e (315°-00) which is more than 70 % of all the time The frequencies of wind coming from the remaining sectors...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... high density of terminology Therefore, the focus of the comparison will be on (1) the translation of the topic and (2) how the translators handle the translation of different groups of terminology ... consists of transferring the meaning of the source language into the receptor language This is done by going from the form of the first language to the form of a second language by way of semantic ... II analyzes the source language text with focus on the pragmatic accuracy, or in other word the accuracy of meaning in context, of the US F& A application software The emphasis of the analysis...

Ngày tải lên: 07/09/2013, 13:06