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... intervention tools and education for frontline staff in EDs and ICUs on when, how, and Table Passive and active intervention phases Phase Passive • Identification of ED and ICU nurse and physician ... that can share resources and experiences for the purpose of learning and improving (website, annual meetings, newsletters, blogs, et al.) Reminders and Protocols: A standardized, evidence-based ... we will conduct a site visit and provide a didactic presentation to participating hospitals’ ED and ICU to introduce the SPARC collaborative goals and objectives, and to outline the rationale...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:23

... tumor and the tumor-skin interface to be imaged…………………… 230 Figure 8.3 OCT images of the interface between normal peripheral skin and tumor tissue of mouse model prior to and after i.v and intratumoral ... sincere appreciation to First and foremost, I would like to thank my two PhD supervisors Prof Colin Sheppard and Prof Malini Olivo for their invaluable guidance and advice Through the many discussions ... Mhaisalkar and Prof Tim White as well as the staff members from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), in particular Dr Nopphawan Phonthammachai and...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 09:02

... focuses to help comprehension and allows the learners to concentrate on the task and understand why they are doing it 17 b For the intermediate and advanced levels - Focus on and work toward real, spontaneous ... situations or tasks Simulation and role-play Role-play activities increase the learners’ motivation and provide them opportunities to use language in a new context and for new topics Small groups, ... building) - Social and cultural rules and norms involves turn-taking, rate of speech, length of pauses between speakers and relative roles of participants which shows the ability of understanding how...

Ngày tải lên: 18/12/2013, 10:08

... managers and developers about what they meant by knowledge management and got answers like manage, plan, deploy, collect and spread knowledge in an organisation, and it in a planned manner, and to ... information and information on tools and technology used, as well as product data such as change and error information and results on static analysis on delivered code was collected, and used to ... information and research reports Informal internal knowledge: includes electronic discussion forums, news and project folders The project folders contain overviews of the projects, news and important...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 16:33

... course contexts and to foster different learning outcomes Trying new types of peer teaching may increase students’ participation and interest levels, and motivate them to spend more time and energy ... consolidating existing knowledge and material; understanding its basic structure; filling in the gaps; finding additional meanings; and reformulating knowledge into new conceptual frameworks (Dueck, ... explain the demands of the task, the task with a random student as a model; and after the task, the feedback from the teacher is a must so that the students can acquire their strengths and weaknesses...

Ngày tải lên: 29/01/2014, 10:49

... g e n r e only On one hand, we have press texts (N), and more specifically NH, press texts from high quality broadsheets and magazines, on the other hand, fiction (F) and FL, a low-quality subset ... descriptions and comparisons Computers and the Humanities, 28:1-11 G Salton and M.J McGill 1983 Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval McGrawHill, New York A Schiller, S Teufel, and C Thielen ... feature sets: CW, CWPOS, CWPP, WS, WSPOS, and WSPP, where CW stands for content word lemmata, WS for all lemmata, POS for POS information, and PP for POS and punctuation information In the CL-experiments,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 03:20

... and Weir, in pressb] C a s e 4a: If there is some production p = Ax[oo 71] ~ B[oo y21']inP such that C • 6(B, l ~) for some C • VN and A2 • 6(C, th) and either n > and T~ = (A2, t/z) or n = and ... framework that can be used to study and compare existing tag parsing algorithms (for example [Vijay-Shanker and Joshi, 1985; Vijay-Shanker and Weir, in pressb; Schabes and Joshi, 1988]) If we factor ... with O~n ) space and the extraction of a parse has O(n ~) time complexity such that 6(0, l") = b for some b • VT and either n > and A2 • 6(S,l') (where T2 = (A2,t/2)) or n = and a • 6(B, i')...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 10:20

... e m a n t i c Domains New York: W a l t e r de G r u y t e r Hopper, Paul 1979 Aspect and foregrounding in discourse In T Glvon (Ed.), Syntax and and Semantics, rot 12 New York: Academic Press ... e n s y n t a c t i c form and £ n f o r m a t i o n t y p e i n non-news g e n r e s i s a matter for further investigation and Thompson, Sandra 1980 i n grammar and discourse Language 56: M ... e r 1981 E v e n t s , processes and states In P Tedesch£ and A Zaenen (Eds.), Syntax and Semantics, vol Z4 New York: Academic Press Ota, Akira 1963 Tense and Aspect of PresentDay American English...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 18:20

... Teens and Children Sandra Baughman and Laura Kiser 227 Chapter 18 Alternative Art Forms J Earl Rogers and Janet Feldman 239 Chapter 19 Stories of Art, Grief, and Healing Thomas D Moore, Sandra ... 7: Drama and Theater Lauren B Chandler 115 Chapter 13 Session 8: Grief and the Sacred Art of Ritual Janet Shaw Rogers 129 Section III Alternative Art Forms, Programs, and Stories of Art and Healing ... support, editing, and proofreading, and her wonderful chapter on “Grief and the Sacred Art of Ritual.” My children, Joseph and Devora, busy in their own careers, who listened and urged me on when...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 04:20

... outstanding differences: 2.2.3.1 Adults’ Greater Capacity for Understanding and Logical Thought According to Ur (1996), adults’ capacity for understanding and logical thought is greater, and they ... (1990) described children’s understanding came through hands and eyes and ears, so the physical world is dominant at all times 2.2.2.2 Enormous Capacity for Finding and Making Fun Children have an ... own understandings and meanings, it is important that activities should be designed and sequenced to support and foster growing independence  Creating a supportive, non-threatening and enjoyable...

Ngày tải lên: 03/04/2014, 19:32

... shaking with the mixture of sand and a liquid medium Plantlets can sink into sand partly and contact with medium is ideal Acidity stays at the same pH after autoclaving and no poisonous sulphuric ... Liberec and later also of the Botanic Gardens in Liberec I consider the following properties as the principal advantages of the described solution: It is very easy and safe to pour sand and cold ... special case, being chemically inert, adequately solid and perfect for diffusion of soluble substances White silica sand marked PR 21 from the sandpit Provodín near Česká Lípa (http://www.pisky.cz)...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22

... impact of social and clinical characteristics on the costs of schizophrenia treatment Acta Psychiatr Scand 2003, 107:351-60 Shepherd J: Violence in health care Understanding, preventing and surviving ... Socioeconomic data and level of compulsion according to ACPC* by entry for 23 patients who all were inpatients on a random chosen day in 2003 in the acute wards of a psychiatric hospital, (Standard deviation) ... days were, respectively, 7919 and 14187 during 2001 Mean cost per day of treatment was 884 Euro (1156 $) and 570 Euro (746 $), respectively for the acute wards and the largest secondary facility...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... efficacy and safety of treatment, and then take into consideration the opinions and attitudes of the family Only by paying attention to the desires, fears and beliefs of both parents and children ... nearly doubled between 1996 and 2001 in patients aged 2–18 years, with an increase of 61% for preschool ages, 93% for the ages between and 12, and 116% between 13 and 18 years of age [7] More ... were created and the chi-square test and Fisher's exact test were used for comparison of the participants' responses according to sex, educational level, age and gender of the child and use of...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:20

... the study and drafted the manuscript GP, LL and MB participated in PFGE and in immunofluorescence studies XS provided informatics and support with statistics for data analysis SM, OC, RM and GC ... (Fluka Chemie, Buchs, Switzerland), and 0.5 mg/mL proteinase-K (Sigma) in 0.5 M ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) (Sigma) Lysis was performed on ice for h and then at 37°C for 24 h At this ... washed and transilluminated at 302 nm Fluorescence intensity of the DNA was acquired, and transformed to arbitrary units of optical density using a digital imaging analysis system (GelDoc 2000 and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... selection and more recently analysed by Woolliams et al [22] and Santiago and Caballero [17] Within-family selection involves a restriction on the family size and, with this type of selection and for ... nucleus of eight sires and 24 dams, the values of homozygosity in generation 50 were Ho ° 61.64 (RM) and 59.30 (mCM), for individual random choice, and Ho 50 49.15 (RM) and 48.20 (mCM) for within-family ... genome and at the marker loci in a breeding population of eight sires and 24 dams chosen from 48 candidates of each sex, using within-family selection with two selection criteria (HET and FD) and...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:21

... parents and grandparents, the extra genetic gains due to MAS are only 2.8 and 6% in the first generations of selection, with recording before and after selection respectively (compare tables II and ... Q has two elements equal to and the remaining i elements are 0), and e vector of environmental effects As an example, consider two base generation animals, s and d, and one offspring, o The alleles ... 0.1, 0.2, and 0.4, and Y was 0.125, first generation extra genetic gains due to MAS QTLI were 38, 38, 28 and 22% respectively With QTLI TI 0.031 25, these figures are 6.3, 6.3, 6.3 and 2.8% respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... collected by direct and participant-observation of study participants in fields and forests and through semi-structured interviews Interview protocols and field observations all followed standard ethnobotanical ... different species cited and is included in Additional File Results and Discussion A total of 121 species belonging to 49 vascular plant and fungal families and 92 genera were reported and are indicative ... areas and surrounding regions WWF Nepal 2008 15 Manandhar NP: Plants and People of Nepal Timber Press, Inc Portland, Oregon, USA 2002 16 Thapa BK: Geographic origin of Nepali doctors Kathmandu...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... connections and beliefs on culture, ancestors and spirituality The practice of bush medicines confirmed and supported participant's cultural beliefs and attitudes that conformed to Aboriginal understandings ... identity and connection is embedded in their relationship to the land The relationship that Aboriginal people have with the land is sacred and related to their concept of health, wellbeing and healing[27] ... practice and prescribe bush medicine As one participant described: "The 'ok' to use it You just can't go and use it He told me that I could go ahead and get the medicine, and prepare them, and use...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... on our expanded experiences literature, we prefer in our patients the ultra-sound-guided injection into the parotid and submandibular gland on each side We inject into the parotid gland 22.5 units ... the entrance of the larynx is reduced and therefore saliva may pass the larynx and reach the trachea and the bronchus That leads to permanent aspiration and aspiration pneumonia In a third group ... Authors' contributions The author issued the whole manuscript New developments and aspects Some new developments in the use of BTA in head and face medicine are to mention here (see [35]) BTA application...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 00:20