... used The first one takes the uncertainty of the estimates of risk for serious NSAID ulcer complications into account (95% CI of the OR) as well as the uncertainty for the estimate of the cost of ... lower in the controls than in the cases because insufficient numbers of controls could be found for some of the more senior patients Concomitant use of PPIs was significantly higher in the controls ... favourable economic profile of concomitant PPI use Using the OR as an approximation of the RR may overestimate the favourable economic profile of concomitant PPI use in NSAID users, if the risk of serious...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22
... used The first one takes the uncertainty of the estimates of risk for serious NSAID ulcer complications into account (95% CI of the OR) as well as the uncertainty for the estimate of the cost of ... lower in the controls than in the cases because insufficient numbers of controls could be found for some of the more senior patients Concomitant use of PPIs was significantly higher in the controls ... favourable economic profile of concomitant PPI use Using the OR as an approximation of the RR may overestimate the favourable economic profile of concomitant PPI use in NSAID users, if the risk of serious...
Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 13:22
Tài liệu "Promoting healthy diets and physical activity: a European dimension for the prevention of overweight, obesity and chronic diseases" doc
... summarizing the contributions will be published on the Commission’s website by June 2006 VI.2 EN NEXT STEPS In the light of the results of the consultation process, the Commission will reflect upon the ... information on the scope of the Public Health Action Programme, the conditions for participation in the calls launched under the Programme, and on projects financed so far can be found at the ... International Agency for Research on Cancer, 2002 (IARC Handbooks of Cancer Prevention, Vol 6); quoted from: Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases, op cit Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention...
Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 13:20
Tài liệu Closing the gap between research and practice: Foundations for the acquisition of literacy pptx
... body, the content of the report clearly reflected the views of the joint authors The Snow et al report was undertaken under the auspices of the National Research Council of the National Academy of ... per cent in the control group) The second of the two literacy questions asked teachers about their approach to the teaching of phonics In response to this question, 51 per cent of the teachers ... a group of advisors The Anderson et al report, published in 1985, was funded by the Commission on Reading of the National Academy of Education, and while conducted under the aegis of the funding...
Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 06:20
Tài liệu Guideline on Best Practice for the Audit of Risk in Public/Private Partnership (PPP) docx
... make major acquisitions The data include information on the price paid, the profits attributable to the net assets being bought and the effect of the transaction on the profit and loss account ... hold only 5% of the shares • • • • E In their 1999 report on the acquisition of German Parcel by the state owned company Consignia (formerly the Post Office) the United Kingdom SAI drew attention ... gain control of the partnership 19) The state may lose the value of its investment • Obtain regular information on performance and whether the partnership is meeting its obligations to the public...
Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 05:20
Research " On Fiscal Discipline and the Choice of Exchange Rate Regine " pptx
Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 02:20
Biosecurity protocols for the prevention of spread of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus ppt
... (Dee et al, manuscript in preparation). Therefore, as isolates adapt, so must the biosecurity protocols if there is any chance of providing sustainable disease control. v To reduce the risk of airborne spread of PRRSV, the adaptation of ... Installation of an air filtration system depends upon the individual producer’s budget, the location of the site (high swine density vs. low density), the level of acceptable risk and type of production ... disinfection. As with facilities, this is the most important step in the sanitation protocol to completely inactivate the virus. The use of highvolume warm air can decrease the amount of time needed for drying. The thermoassisted drying and decontamination...
Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20
báo cáo hóa học:" A decade of modelling research yields considerable evidence for the importance of concurrency: a response to Sawers and Stillwaggon" potx
... among relationships That is, whether or not person i forms a relationship with j depends on whether each is in other relationships; but whether those other relationships end depends on whether ... (or terms) for probability of transmission per contact In the second approach, equations encode expressions for the number of relationships between individuals in each combination of compartments ... represented, neither are their pair-wise relationships or contacts The classic versions of these models fall into one of two classes In the first, relationships are not considered at all; equations simply...
Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo hóa học: " Research Article A Framework for the Assessment of Temporal Artifacts in Medium Frame-Rate Binary Video Halftones" pot
... halftones We assume that each frame of the halftone video is a good halftone representation of the corresponding continuous-tone frame This is, for example, the case when each continuous-tone ... the second, successive, continuous-tone frame, but the corresponding halftone frames not “sufficiently” change in their halftone patterns at the spatial locations where the continuous-tone frames ... 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 criterion is met The technique...
Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20
Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Research on individual parameters for cutting power of woodcutting process by circular saws" docx
... dimension of cutting work Ac on condition fer in the tooth profile and in the way of sharpening that the cutting resistance is constant in all phases of The tooth profile and the way of sharpening ... very important and it is the factor of power consumption Along with other cutting conditions the cutting angle is decisive for the performance of tools, machines, economics of all machining types, ... per one second The unit forces necessary cut fibres (°), of – max thickness amount of work pression of chip friction against the leading edge of power is W (W = N.m.s–1) of the tooth, Ac – forces...
Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 03:22
Báo cáo toán hoc:"On Suborbital Graphs for the Normalizer of Γ0(N )" pot
... If the circuit is a triangle, a rectangle, and a hexagon, then q = 1, 2, and respectively The proof the electronic journal of combinatorics 16 (2009), #R116 15 then follows For the other part of ... vertices of the circuit C Then by the above theorem, C ∗ is a circuit in the suborbital graph G(∞, hu/n) for N (Γ0 (m)) Since the reduced form of hu/n is hu/(h, n) , n/(h, n) we see that n/(h, n) > Then, ... Proof If n = 1, then the proof is easy Assume that G(∞, u/n) contains a circuit when n > Then, by Theorem3.1, this circuit must be of the form v → T (v) → T (v) → T (v) → · · · → T k−1 (v) → v for...
Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 01:20
Báo cáo y học: "Barriers to the implementation of programs for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: A cross-sectional survey in rural and urban Uganda" pptx
... Kyomuhendo for reviewing the manuscript The survey was funded Page of (page number not for citation purposes) AIDS Research and Therapy 2005, 2:10 as part of the Program for the Prevention of Mother-to-Child ... addition, mothers in both regions were equally likely to accept medications for the reduction of MTCT if offered, and acceptance rates for these medications were high Role of male partner For the ... for HIV was the strongest predictor of whether the mother had the intention of testing or not This finding highlights the importance of the male partner in the success of uptake of HIV testing within...
Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 05:20
Báo cáo y học: " A double shunt technique for the prevention of ischaemia of a congenital, solitary, pelvic kidn" pps
... composition of the renal vasculature One renal artery originated from the aortic bifurcation and the other from the proximal portion of the right common iliac artery (yellow arrows) Page of Figure The ... situ hypothermic perfusion should prevent renal ischaemia for more than an hour [9], we felt that shunting offered the best protection for our patient Conclusion In conclusion, the presence of CSPK ... administration of antibiotics, allowing discharge on the ninth postoperative day There was no rise in renal retention values and no deterioration of the existing hypertension during 24 months of follow-up...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22
Báo cáo y học: " Protocol for a randomised controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of an online e health application for the prevention of Generalised Anxiety Disorder" pptx
... through the clinic at the Brain & Mind Research Institute Components of the Five Trial Arms The Prevention arm of the WebGAD study consists of five experimental conditions Three of these involve the ... above, the effectiveness of these applications for the prevention of GAD has not been evaluated Attrition An important challenge for web-based interventions is the high rate of attrition Evidence ... conjunction with weekly telephone calls A comparison of outcomes under conditions (a) and (d) will establish the basic effectiveness of the intervention The remaining conditions will test whether...
Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22
Báo cáo y học: "Pulsed moxifloxacin for the prevention of exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a randomized controlled trial" pps
... illustrate the distribution of the number of exacerbations for the PP EOT and the ITT populations, respectively In the PP EOT population, moxifloxacin reduced the likelihood of having an exacerbation ... of chronic bronchitis (AECB) or unconfirmed pneumonia or any other lower respiratory tract infection (LRTI) with the exception of confirmed pneumonia, all requiring intervention (start of systemic ... and/or start of systemic steroid and/or hospitalization within days of the start date of exacerbation) and with a minimum of weeks between the start of two consecutive exacerbations The secondary definition...
Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 11:20
Báo cáo khoa học: "Administration of antibiotics via the respiratory tract for the prevention of ICU-acquired pneumonia: a meta-analysis of comparative trials" ppsx
... supporting data for the local administration of antibiotics for the prevention of development of colonization and infection of the respiratory tract Specifically, prevention of colonization of the respiratory ... randomization, generation of random numbers, details of double-blinding procedure, information on withdrawals, and concealment of allocation [5] One point was awarded for the specification of each of the ... to the reported methodology Recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention strongly discourage the administration of antibiotics via the respiratory tract for the prevention...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:20
Báo cáo y học: "A health economic model for evaluating a vaccine for the prevention of herpes zoster and post-herpetic neuralgia in the UK" ppsx
... decisions concerning vaccination, as this is done at the population-level In addition, the model takes into account the ageing of the population over the duration of the model, adjusting for their ... the model Continued validation of the duration of efficacy of the vaccine, as mentioned above, remains one of the key areas for research Conclusions The main results of this cost-effectiveness ... thresholds Therefore, it confirms the robustness of the methods used in this analysis There are a number of areas where additional research could further improve the accuracy of the model Continued...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22
Báo cáo y học: "Inhaled activated protein C: a new therapy for the prevention of ventilator-induced lung injury" docx
... prevent the development of lung injury when used as the initial mode of ventilation [11-14] Therefore, the clinically relevant questions now become whether inhaled APC can diminish the severity of ... diminishing the enhanced apoptosis of epithelial and other cell populations which accompanies acute lung injury In the present experiments, treatment with APC was started before the initiation of injurious ... http://ccforum.com/content/14/2/144 Page of cytokines did not appear to be reduced after APC treatment In contrast, in at least one study, inhaled APC did reduce the severity of coagulation abnormalities...
Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21
Báo cáo y học: "Using the intervention mapping protocol to develop a community-based intervention for the prevention of childhood obesity in a multi-centre European project: the IDEFICS intervention" pptx
... step of the IMP, the information from all previous steps was combined with the intervention program as the final result [13] A proposal for the content of the IDEFICS intervention was made by the ... local training(s) for the research staff being responsible for the adoption of the IDEFICS intervention in the local community Step 6: Evaluation design In the last step of the IMP, program planners ... levels of the intervention However, it has to be noted that the cultural adaptation of the IDEFICS intervention was only allowed at the level of the strategies For example, the community platform...
Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 08:20