... antimicrobial therapy in case of unexpected infiltrates on the CXR; repositioning of tubes in case of malposition of orotracheal tubes (ignoring planned extubations); ultrasound of the thorax in case of ... as removal of intravenous lines) The observers were not involved in the daily care of the patients, and ICU physicians were not aware of this part of the observation As a consequence, the clinical ... look for other infections, and the absence of radiological signs of pulmonary congestion might have resulted in another fluid therapy regimen We did not score for the clinical relevance of the unexpected...
Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:39
... estimate We have Main result Main Theorem Let µ be the 5−fold convolution of the standard Cantor measure, then the lower extreme value of the local dimension of µ is α5 = | log 3.25 √ arccos 145 ... Thanh et al / VNU Journal of Science, Mathematics - Physics 25 (2009) 57-68 65 From (13), (14) and (15), the assertion of the corollary follows 2.2 The proof of the main theorem Lemma Let x = (x1 ... are the values in Corollary From Lemma 2, Corollary and Proposition 2, we have Theorem Let µ is the 5−fold convolution of the standard Cantor measure, then the lower extreme value of the local...
Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 03:20
Tài liệu The Riel Value of Money: How the World’s Only Attempt to Abolish Money Has Hindered Cambodia’s Economic Development doc
... Cambodian government of cials will be able to build enough confidence in the riel to suppress the use of the U.S dollar and of gold as the prevailing means of exchange and stores of value Cambodia’s ... unfairness of the terms and the cycle of debt they produced created animosity Farmers kept only small sums of money to purchase essentials at village markets There was some fear of theft, but for the ... nations in the world After all, in the last two decades the country has endured bombing, foreign occupation, famine, the most radical revolution of the twentieth century, and the death of more than...
Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 11:20
Tài liệu The Economic Value of Higher Teacher Quality pdf
... present value of $10,600 over a lifetime of work for the average worker But this is not yet the full impact of the above average teacher The impact on one student is replicated across all of the other ... skill have risen If these trends continue, the estimates may understate the lifetime value of skills to individuals On the other hand, the trends themselves could change in the opposite direction ... relation to the rest of the economy The changing position of teachers is clear in salary trends since the beginning of World War II Compared to the earnings of male college graduates, the average...
Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 16:20
Báo cáo khoa học: The natural mutation by deletion of Lys9 in the thrombin A-chain affects the pKa value of catalytic residues, the overall enzyme’s stability and conformational transitions linked to Na+ binding pdf
... affect the intrinsic fluorescence of the DK9 variant, the higher the surface exposure and flexibility of their side-chains to the solvent the smaller the intrinsic fluorescence of the enzyme The smaller ... expresses the acylation rate By contrast, the decrease in the DK9 Km value is consistent with better accommodation of the substrate into the catalytic pocket of the unprotonated form of the mutant, ... decreasing order of the corresponding eigenvalue, and the first few eigenvectors capture most of the essential motions of the proteins The cross-correlation function between the projection of protein...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 12:20
SCHOPENHAUER ON THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL VALUE OF ART pot
... wind, this is their nature, this is the essence of the forces objectified in them, this is the Idea.” (WWR1: 182) The genius's aesthetic knowledge, then, consists of direct perception of the essential ... contemplation of such works of art that perception of Ideas is more readily available even to lesser minds Therefore, the epistemic value of a work of art is that it smoothens the contemplation of the ... account for the nature of aesthetic knowledge in a different way; the special epistemic value of art arises from the fact that both the work of art and its beholder are manifestations of the World...
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 17:20
Changes in the Economic Value of Variable Generation at High Penetration Levels: A Pilot Case Study of California pot
... capacity value The magnitude of the capacity value of solar resources depends on the coincidence of solar generation with times of high system need, the cost of generation resources that would otherwise ... This is due to the energy value of PV and CSP0 falling faster than the energy value of wind while the capacity value of wind remains slightly higher than the capacity value of PV and CSP0 at ... resources In the end, the short-run profit of the CCGT generation in the final candidate set of generation with 15% PV is the same as the short-run profit of the new CCGT in the final candidate set of generation...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20
The economic Value of citizenship for immigrants in The united states ppt
... www.migrationpolicy.org/integration The Economic Value of Citizenship for Immigrants in the United States 19 The Migration Policy Institute is a nonprofit , nonpar tisan think tank dedicated to the study of the movement of people ... transportation and the value of the time spent preparing their application and studying for the language and civics tests.24 In a survey of Latino immigrants who had attended one of a series of citizenship ... English language proficiency, lack of knowledge about the application process, and the cost of applying, which at $680 is higher than in most other OECD countries The Economic Value of Citizenship...
Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 06:20
Measuring the Economic Value of a City Park System docx
... property tax because of parks in 2006 The Hedonic (Property) Value of Washington, D.C.’s Parks Value of properties within 500 feet of parks Assumed average value of a park Value of properties attributed ... entering the atmosphere For instance, the externality value of a short ton of carbon monoxide is $870; the externality value of the same amount of sulfur dioxide is $1,500.) 13 PARK VALUE IN ... gracing the Reflecting Pool, and massive oaks of Lafayette Park, there are 4,839 acres of general tree cover in the city’s 7,999 acres of parkland Their aesthetic value is not countable, but the value...
Ngày tải lên: 02/04/2014, 08:20
familicidal hearts the emotional styles of 211 killers feb 2010
... more peaceful However, with the rise of the cult of the self, the lessening of community ties, the increasing insularity of the nuclear family, and the weakening of the collective conscience, ... talked of decedents’ experiences, of hurt, of pain, of abuse and emotional scars These links to the emotional lives of victims and perpetrators augmented related evidence present in the documents The ... before the eighteenth century but never assumed the pride of place it did from the beginnings of the nineteenth century The commencement of the factory manufacture of commodities changed ways of...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:03
the emotional construction of morals jan 2008
... makes them feel mad because they imagine the anger of others There is evidence that children begin to appreciate the emotional consequences of bad behavior considerably earlier By the time they ... structure, and the culminating moral theory can be read as the resolution of an apparent counter-example to his theory of concepts, or as the payoff for those who take the time to understand how the mind ... describe the nature of the concepts that people deploy when they make moral judgments One can say something descriptive about the nature of moral facts and how they relate to other kinds of facts These...
Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 02:11
Báo cáo khoa học: "The prognostic value of the nodal ratio in N1 breast cancer" pps
... low Because the number of positive nodes is inevitably limited in the N1 category, however, the distribution of the NR is strongly affected by the number of nodes sampled While other studies ... for the appropriate criteria to discriminate between low- and high-risk groups of NR for breast cancer with 1-3 positive nodes In the current study, we evaluated the prognostic value of the NR ... chemotherapy showed a tendency of increased distant metastasis -8- Discussion The prognostic value of NR is supported by several studies [4-13] Vinh-Hung et al reported the superiority of NR...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:21
Báo cáo khoa học: " The prognostic value of nestin expression in newly diagnosed glioblastoma: Report from the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group" potx
... within the evaluated area of the specimen This allowed the software to automatically quantitate not only the average intensity of each category, but also the relative area of these stains The products ... significant Discussion Results The original RTOG TMA consisted of 156 GBM patients, of which, 153 were evaluable Of these, the total number of patients that comprised the low, intermediate, and high ... lastly, and perhaps the most important, these findings are only relevant to the pretemozolomide era As the standard of care has since shifted, it would be of value to revisit these studies in this...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22
Báo cáo y học: "The changing landscape of the clinical value of the PM/Scl autoantibody system" pdf
... Arthritis Research & Therapy Vol 11 No Mahler and Fritzler Comments on the report of Hanke and colleagues Hanke and colleagues are the first to report the use of a novel LIA for the simultaneous ... incremental clinical value to the diagnosis and management of SSc patients Comparison with other methods: quality of PM/Scl-100 For reasons described above and in the closing below, the authors’ conclusion ... multiple clinical associations (especially the presence or absence of myositis) are needed for a consensus of the clinical value of PM/Scl, and especially of PM/Scl-75c, aabs Competing interests...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22
Báo cáo y học: "The prognostic value of baseline erosions in undifferentiated arthritis" docx
... could not be concluded that the PPV of one of these cut-off values is statistically superior to the others The specificity was significantly different between the cut-off of two or more erosive joints ... includes erosions in the hands and not in the feet [6] Considering the lack of knowledge on the prognostic value of erosions in UA, the present study aims to: study the predictive value of erosive joints ... (because the presence of hand erosions are part of the ACR criteria), we also tested the ability of the presence of erosive joints to predict disease persistency, defined as the absence of sustained...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 14:22
Báo cáo y học: "Investigating the complementary value of discrete choice experiments for the evaluation of barriers and facilitators in implementation research: a questionnaire survey" pptx
... and the strategies will be tailored to the preferences of those concerned with the actual implementation The objective of our study was to investigate the complementary value of DCE for the evaluation ... insight into the relative importance of barriers to the implementation of change, and the trade-offs people make between barriers on the one hand and facilitators on the other hand DCE therefore ... tasks, and the mean score on the difficulty scale The answers to the open question about the appropriateness of DCE were classified The questionnaire was pilot-tested beforehand The aim of the pilot...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21
báo cáo khoa học: " Investigating the complementary value of discrete choice experiments for the evaluation of barriers and facilitators in implementation research: a questionnaire survey" pot
... and the strategies will be tailored to the preferences of those concerned with the actual implementation The objective of our study was to investigate the complementary value of DCE for the evaluation ... insight into the relative importance of barriers to the implementation of change, and the trade-offs people make between barriers on the one hand and facilitators on the other hand DCE therefore ... tasks, and the mean score on the difficulty scale The answers to the open question about the appropriateness of DCE were classified The questionnaire was pilot-tested beforehand The aim of the pilot...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21
Báo cáo y học: "The prognostic value of blood lactate levels relative to that of vital signs in the pre-hospital setting: a pilot study" docx
... repeated the analyses in the subgroup of patients without cardiac arrest In addition, this would correct for possible negation of the association of tachycardia with mortality because of the coding of ... or PPV) Furthermore, the NPV of 88% demonstrated that low lactate levels identified patients with a low risk of dying Our study found that a cut-off value of 3.5 mmol/L for the out -of- hospital ... belowabove the cut-off off threshold of 3.5 mmol/L 0.015) at T1 and 0.69 (95% CI = 0.55 to 0.82, p = 0.007) at T2 A lactate level of 3.5 mmol/L remained the most appropriate cut-off value at both...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23
Báo cáo y học: "Overview of the diagnostic value of biochemical markers of liver fibrosis (FibroTest, HCV FibroSure) and necrosis (ActiTest) in patients with chronic hepatitis C" doc
... for the 0.31 cutoff (91%), as was the negative predictive value for excluding significant activity at the 0.36 cutoff of AT (85% negative predictive value) The positive predictive value of the ... for the intermediate stages of fibrosis Contrary to the initial hypothesis, the diagnostic values of FT-AT for consecutive stages of fibrosis and grades of necroinflammatory activity were the ... systems (lower panel) the diagnostic values of FT-AT was summarized using the cutoffs of the distribution by stages and grades (Tables and 4) The negative predictive value of FT for excluding significant...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20