the landscape of current research in glycoscience

... survey to study influences of organization of care and provider training on treatment of pain among diabetics (e.g., inadequate training in chronic pain management, treatment of pain conditions ... whether they are related to the physical plant (e.g., amount of clinical space); the functions of care incorporated into the physical plant (e.g., types of specialized units); the equipment they ... implementation Role of organizational factors in the QUERI model of implementation research Evaluation of the influence of organizational characteristics on the quality of care has gained in its salience...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... survey to study influences of organization of care and provider training on treatment of pain among diabetics (e.g., inadequate training in chronic pain management, treatment of pain conditions ... whether they are related to the physical plant (e.g., amount of clinical space); the functions of care incorporated into the physical plant (e.g., types of specialized units); the equipment they ... implementation Role of organizational factors in the QUERI model of implementation research Evaluation of the influence of organizational characteristics on the quality of care has gained in its salience...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:21

... decision-making is defined in a way similar to the Convention of Human Rights and Biomedicine of the European Council: the will and the mind of the minor "shall be taken into consideration as an increasingly ... Sentence of the preface of the text of the EU Directive 2001/20: "Normally these persons should be included in clinical trials only when there are grounds for expecting that the administering of the ... be interested in funding multimodal interventional research as their primary interest lies in the superiority of one pharmaceutical product over another Furthermore, in the case of comparing...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... doubling the size of the grammar are multiplying the processing time by a factor of when no prosodic information is available (assuming (2n) = 8n time) consist of the most likely sequence of phonemes ... of Profs Mary P Harper and Leah H Jamieson References Current Research Our current research effort consists of the development of algorithms for extracting the prosodic information from the speech ... to incorporate the durational information from Bear and Price quite easily into our framework An advantage of our approach is that the prosodic information is added as constraints instead of incorporating...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... of animals in research: Research activities should take into account the Protocol on the Protection and Welfare of Animals, and the use of animals in research and testing14 The principle of the ... towards the goals of the International Initiative for Traumatic Brain Injury Research (InTBIR)27 In particular, the project is expected to identify the most effective clinical interventions taking into ... dynamics of the brain, and to study brain diseases including relevant age related illness and search for new therapies The overall aim is to gain a global understanding of the brain by exploring brain...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 04:20

... of machine translation In Proceedings of HLT/NAACL Franz Josef Och and Hermann Ney 2002 Discriminative training and maximum entropy models for statistical machine translation In Proceedings of ... of a genuine improvement in translation quality This begs the question as to whether this is only a theoretical concern or whether Bleu’s inadequacies can come into play in practice In the next ... gives the interpretations of the scores When first evaluating fluency, the judges are shown only the hypothesis translation They are then shown a reference translation and are asked to judge the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20

... president of the National Academy of Engineering The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions ... Engineering in providing services to the government, the public, and the scientific and engineering communities The Council is administered jointly by both Academies and the Institute of Medicine ... leadership in guiding the board from the earliest stages of the workshop planning through the drafting of this report; Alix Beatty, for her extensive contributions to the planning of the workshop and the...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 13:20

... look forward to seeing relevant demonstration of the usefulness of this novel psychometric method in HRQOL research that fully encompasses the intent of the taxonomy, integrates the relevant properties ... addressed in the Hankins' paper, and there is no explanation for how the use of Ferguson's Delta would enhance interpretability Although the use of Ferguson's Delta may someday improve our understanding ... reliability Yet in none of the Hankins examples is this type of reliability calculated or reported The first example uses an intraclass correlation between two different measures as the estimate of reliability,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Delta then indexes the degree to which the instrument makes valid discriminations Wyrwich suggests that the results of another study [6], in which the dichotomous scoring method of the GHQ-12 was ... 'Understanding the Role of Discriminative Instruments in HRQoL Research: Can Ferguson's Delta Help?' to which the answer is a definitive yes, subject to the constraints previously discussed Finally, ... were meaningful Recall that the value of Delta is derived from ordinal comparisons of persons that classify them as either the same or different Therefore, if a researcher doubts that an instrument...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... average pain score of ≥ points (pain intensity difference, PID, >/= 2) at week (day 28 from inclusion) over baseline As to the assessment of the quality of analgesic care, the adequacy of pain management ... enrolled in the study and eligible will be included in the statistical descriptive analyses To avoid and minimize the impact of missing data, a bias that may be present in the case of using patient-reported ... To assess the quality of analgesic treatments in terms of congruence between patients' reported level of pain (intensity) and the potency of the prescribed analgesic drug (according to the WHO...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... 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

... Advances in Signal Processing line whereas dn is the length of the considered in- domain disturbed line To evaluate the impact of the out -of- domain crosstalk, we introduce the following two parameters: ... From the table we see that the sensitivity of the average bit rate on the parameters identifying the model is rather limited: the change in the precoding gain, for example, is in the order of 5% ... by adopting a smaller number of bits The organization of the paper is as follows In Section 2, we remind the structure of the considered precoding system In Section we face the problem of residual...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... speeds due to the unnecessary increase in the route length Our findings in this paper shall help the research community in understanding better the behavior of the studied protocols and their implications ... the values of all parameters used in the simulation The following metrics are computed to evaluate the impact of each mobility model on the performance of the Bypass-AODV as well as the original ... of introducing the new protocol (2) The goodput of the TCP is the number of sequenced bits that a TCP receiver receives per unit of time This measure will show the effectiveness of the routing...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... multiplying the input of the activation function by a, that, in a typical DSP requires, at least, the following instructions: (1) copying x into one of the input register of the MAC unit, (2) copying ... randomly, ensuring that the relative proportion of files of each category is preserved for each set The training set is used to determine the weights of the MLP in the training process, the validation ... the constant value of a into the other input register, (3) copying the result of this multiplication into the accumulator, (4) a saturation operation As a consequence, the minimum number of instructions...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... downlink, uplink, and feedback such that the overall system performance in terms of the sum of the throughputs of the downlink and the uplink is maximized In this way, we can also maintain a ... the receive SNR in the downlink Since the obtainable beamforming gain depends on the quantization resolution, RDL is a function of the number b of feedback bits per antenna The original optimization ... Advances in Signal Processing as unidirectional, namely, flowing in the downlink from the multiantenna transmitter to the single-antenna receiver (the MISO-case) Furthermore, the asymptotic analysis in...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... relative to the rest of the population The higher the score, the more selective an individual will be Any individual has a probability p of the choice, where p is equal to the fitness of the individual ... be determined The input parameter for the proposed algorithm is listed in Table The maximum number of base stations depends on the width of the target area The wider the target area, the more ... arrangement of several chromosomes, which symbolize characteristics of the individual Population is the total amount of individuals Some of them can survive and others will die in the next generation...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 22:20

... for the mean and the variance of the number of occurrences of a coloured motif in a random graph It involves the computation of some probabilities of connectedness The generalisation to the number ... as, for example, in the case of protein interaction networks, the topology of the network is not fully known Indeed, high-throughput experiments used to obtain large-scale protein interaction data ... and the cdf of ´ the normal or the Polya-Aeppli distribution The closer to the KS distance, the better the approximation (2) minus the empirical cdf calculated at the 99% and 99.9% quantiles ´ of...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 00:20

... revenue increased, and both initial and return visits increased They compared similar measures collected during the same study period from an internal medicine outpatient clinic The inclusion of the ... improvements in care and ever increasing capacity for continuing improvement Improving evaluation and understanding of the implementation and outcomes of such changes are essential to sustaining ongoing ... attention, since it was the only one of the nine to include a control group Patients in the treatment clinic had to wait 30 fewer days for an outpatient obstetrics visit, patient time in the clinic...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... Changing the behavior of healthcare professionals: the use of theory in promoting the uptake of research findings Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2005, 58:107-112 (ICEBeRG) The Improved Clinical ... answer the leader practices questions in a different frame of mind, conceiving of them in terms of projects in general rather than their estimate of leadership practices in the project they were ... thresholds for the majority of subscales, indicating that the subscales intended to measure the individual components of the main elements of the framework (e.g., the six components of the context...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... changes in practice The recognition of the failure of this model has led to greater awareness of the role of other factors in the practice environment influencing behaviour [1] and the importance of ... that individual behaviour can be strongly influenced by these factors They identified a number of strategies to facilitate the implementation of research findings by using these social influences ... different opinion leaders for different issues (monomorphism) The current study aimed to: examine the feasibility of identifying opinion leaders in different professional groups within the United Kingdom...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21