the dynamics of morbidity disability and mortality

... 158 (8.4%) of the included patients developed NP; 132 of these (83.5% of all NP) were ventilator-associated NP (incidence of 8.5 per 1,000 ventilator days) and 33 of these (20.9% of all NP cases) ... the ICU Overall, in 214 of the 1,876 admissions (11.4%) the patient died in the ICU More details of risk factors and outcomes are shown in Table Analysis of risk factors for the acquisition of ... Analysis of risk factors for mortality (model 2) Detailed information on the CSHRs of baseline and timedependent risk factors of model are shown in Table The baseline variables of age, SAPS II and other...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 08:21

... concentration The vision of the candles, oil lamps, the hordes of monks, the cold granite floor, the huge images of Buddhas, the ringing bells, the clash of cymbals, and the reverberations of the gongs, ... told?’ said the midwife, meaning the father (3 – 4) 24 After this, the point of view changes to the father of the child The switch from the narrator to other points of view is rather rapid and confusing ... transcriptions and the use of different levels of Singapore-Malayan English The introduction provides the rationale for the selecting of novels and the theoretical basis for the discussion of the text...

Ngày tải lên: 16/09/2015, 08:30

... contribution of the systematic factor and the regulation to the total timely variation of the exposure is 17.24% and, therefore, 82.76% of the variation is due to idiosyncratic effects These effects ... disentangle the contributions of the systematic factor and of the regulation One can expect some correlation between the regulatory variables outi (t) and out2i (t) on the one hand, and the variables ... instance, the duration, and the weighted sum of the positions’ duration is a measure of the bank’s exposure to interest rate risk (See, for instance, Sierra and Yeager (2004)) The main problem of these...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 06:20

... +1 ], (12) 0, otherwise, and where x is the value of the explanatory variable (the time distance to the merger, in our case) The values xi denote the “knots” of the spline, and the coefficients, ... of the time horizon after the merger Both the inclusion of control variables and the choice of the dependent variable might also affect the results In order to better understand what drives the ... individual bank and local market characteristics and the complete list of bank mergers in the US The data allow us to track the dynamics of bank mergers while controlling for the rigidity of the deposit...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 03:20

... concepts in the IPA which could not be linked to the ICF The instructions in the IPA ask the respondent to consider all the questions in the context of their 'health' or 'disability' and both of these ... respectively The instructions in the KAP tell the respondent to consider the 'use of assistance' or the 'use of products and technology' and e-categories for these mean- ingful concepts were identified and ... have the most coverage, with 22% of questions (n = questions) covering each domain In the IPA many questions ask the respondent to consider the use of assistance or the use of aids and these...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... supports the differentiation of the Activity and Participation components of the ICF in the clinical context of this study To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of this nature The ... then linked to the components of the ICF [15] Seven of these concerns were linked to the Body Function component of the ICF while 15, and concerns were linked to the Activity, Participation and ... in these KOOS subscale scores therefore, supports the validity of these concerns and their importance to patients because they mirror the surgical and early rehabilitation focus Just like the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... affecting the VTA DA neurons These two methods took into account the dynamics of AMPA and NMDA signals of the complete response and not just the maximum, making them more suitable in understanding the ... performed analysis of the synaptic response by estimating the areas under the AMPA and NMDA EPSC curves This allows us to better understand the dynamics of the synaptic charge transfer and provides ... understand the dynamics of AMPA and NMDA signals since they took into consideration the whole current response rather than just the peak response With these two methods, we found that there is...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... overview of the number of the identified meaningful concepts and their distribution across the major components of the ICF/ICF-CY Out of the 365 concepts identified, 283 could be linked to the ICF/ICF-CY ... Recommendation of the scientific subcommittee on factor VIII and factor IX of the scientific and standardization committee of the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis Journal of Thrombosis and ... the study and participated in writing of the paper AE participated in the linking procedure vMS participated in the development of the design and the coordination the study, carried out the linking...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... recorded in stand No The June and July precipitation of the actual year is most significant for 100% of trees and for almost 80% of trees in this stand, and only for 10% or 5% of trees the precipitation ... precipitation in August of the previous year and July of the actual year is significant for all stands In other cases precipitation in July of the previous year and June of the actual year as well ... stands In other cases precipitation in August of the previous year and in the period of June–July of the actual year have a positive effect on increments as well as temperatures in March of the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:21

... technical aspects) At the beginning of each focus group, the procedure of the session was explained, and the concept of the ICF was presented in lay terms to all participants Then one of the two different ... drafted the manuscript TS participated in the development of the focus group guidelines, the drafting of the manuscript and was involved in the peer review AC participated in the development of the ... 4th level category of which they were a member had been named by the patients Accuracy of the analysis To audit the accuracy of the analysis, 15% of the transcribed text was randomly selected,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... performance of the focus groups and the data analysis and was involved in the peer review GS was responsible for the overall design of the development and the validation of ICF Core Sets AW guided the ... such as the OMERACT address the challenge of standardizing and improving the quality of outcomes research by finding a common terminology and a common model of functioning and disability The OMERACT ... categories of Body Functions, the one category of Body Structures, 25 out of the 27 categories of Activities and Participation and 13 out of the 16 categories of Environmental Factors (Tables 4, and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:20

... Algorithm n can be estimated by treating the position is fixed Using a grid search, we can obtain the MLE of the QTL position from the peak of the profile of the log-likelihood ratio test statistics ... effects (a1 and a2 from parent P1 and b3 and b4 from parent P2 and four dominant effects (g13, g14, g23 and g34) But these additive and dominant effects are not independent and, therefore, are ... at the first and second QTLs; (12) J ag is the additive × dominant epistatic effect due to the interaction between the substitutions from allele to at the first QTL and the dominant effect at the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... analysis of the transcriptome and metabolome during ripening of Trincadeira grapes The combined analysis of transcripts and metabolites contributed to the elucidation of many aspects of carbohydrate, ... American Journal of Enology and Viticulture 1992, 129-133 37 Dartiguenave C, Jeandet P, Maujean A: Study of the Contribution of the Major Organic Acids of Wine to the Buffering Capacity of Wine in ... analysis and functional categorization of Unigenes The mRNA expression profiles of four time points (EL 32, EL 34, EL 35 and EL 36) and two seasons (2007 and 2008) were compared using the Affymetrix...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... introduce yet another large-scale purchaser that will further consolidate the number of buyers Whereas the original design of the GFATM placed medicine procurement in the hands of national principal ... and coordinated the study, participated in data cleaning and data analysis, and was the lead author on this paper ED, LS and SM contributed to data analysis and writing of the manuscript MK and ... contributed to the writing of the manuscript and edited it for important content JH conducted data analysis and contributed to the writing of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... inhaled and deposited in the terminal alveoli of another person The likelihood of this is a function of the concentration of droplet nuclei containing viable bacilli and the quantity of infected ... dealing with the case where the infected individuals remain in the exposed class until they either catch multiple infections or die In the steady state of the system of equations (2), we have the trivial ... governed by the threshold b0 When g = 0, we have the turning value  cq and the ‘break-point’ P- governing the dynamics, originating the hysteresis-like effect [19] The dynamics of MTB transmission...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... coincidence of this point with the rest of the curve provides further support for the plausibility of VNET as a measure of market depth The rest of the points depict the average, unconditional levels of ... anonymity of these `insidersa, the price impact of a trade, and thus the depth of the market, is determined by the assumed probability of confronting an informed agent In the extreme case of a public ... tested in the various formulations for VNET are: SPREAD"log(ASK/BID) at the "nal trade of the price-duration NUMBER "the log of the number of trades during the price-duration VOLUME "the log of the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2014, 12:07

... importance of delayed activities and the fluctuating nature of overhead levels The effects of the context of a delay in terms of the timing of the delay and degree of suspension should be therefore ... about the project such as the shortest duration, the critical path(s), and the float (Kim and de la Garza, 2003) The application of CPM has been more widespread with the aids of scheduling software ... rests on whether the delay event was foreseeable at the time of bidding and was beyond the control of both the owner and contractor (Zack, 2000) As such, they are those for which the contractor...

Ngày tải lên: 13/11/2014, 06:07

Ngày tải lên: 14/11/2014, 08:23

... 30m, the same resolution as the Landsat images The thermal band of the TM image was resampled to 60m, the same as the ETM+ image 33 4.2.3 Land use classification system The selection of the land ... a sound understanding of the distribution of urban landscape pattern can be attained (Forman & Godron, 1986) One of the milestones of landscape ecology was the extensive use of landscape metrics ... represent the general change tendency of surface thermal environment from the beginning of the 1990s to the end of the 2000s 30 For green biomass analysis, Landsat TM/ETM+ images in 2000 and 2006 and...

Ngày tải lên: 16/10/2015, 11:58

... the amount consumed in lians (50g/lian) per unit of time A lian is the unit of weight in China equivalent to 50 g The reproducibility and validity of the FFQ was assessed in a random sample of ... For other participants the average of the baseline and follow-up FFQ data were used in the analyses The average daily intake of individual food items (g/day) was combined to compute intake of red ... knowledge there are no other reports of a direct link between poultry consumption and risk of diabetes or of interactions between poultry consumption and BMI and the risk of type DM Red meat consumption...

Ngày tải lên: 31/10/2012, 16:49